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 95

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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TRUSSELL (I) William. son of Moses Trus- sell, was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, February II, ISII. He was educated in the public schools of Boscawen. He was a general farmer all his life, meeting with good success. In politics he was a Democrat. He married Louisa Currier, daughter of William Cur- rier, of Warner, New Hampshire. They had two children: Moses, born November 28. 1837, and Martha. born November 24, 1843. Mrs. Louisa (Currier) Trussell died in April, 1846, and her husband survived her forty-one years, dying in February. 1887.

(II) Moses, elder child and only son of William and Louisa (Currier) Trussell, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, November 28, 1837. He was edu- cated in the common schools of Webster. He was a farmer 'until 1859. when he learned the axe trade and worked at that for several years. He then went into a saw mill, where he remained ten years. In 1875 he started a general store at Davisville. in Warner, and was appointed postmaster. He has a well equipped store, carrying a full line of gro- ceries, hardware and miscellaneous articles. In politics he is a Republican. He is a Mason. belong- ing to Harris Lodge, of Warner, and Woods Chap- ter. Royal Arch Mason, of Henniker. He was treas- urer of the chapter five years. and also held several other offices. He is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Kearsarge Lodge, and he attends the Methodist Church. He was first married to Mary Ann Stevene, of Salisbury. His second wife was Susan E. Arey. daughter of Jonathan and Charlotte H. Arey, of Salisbury, New Hampshire. There are no children. Mrs. Trussell assists her husband in the store and postoffice.

James Jepson was a native of Ver- JEPSON mont, and was educated in the com- mon schools of that state and began life as farmer. When the Civil war broke out he en- listed, and after the expiration of his first term again enlisted and saw much severe service in which he re- iv-8

ceived a wound. He was a Republican in politics, and supported and attended the Congregational Church. He married Naomi B. Sargent. daughter of Nathan Sargent, of Warner (see Sargent, VHI), and they have had five children. namely: Nathan, Sally, Alvin A., David and Eugene. The last named died young. Alvin Adams, second son and third child of James and Naomi B. (Sargent) Jepson, was born July 26, 1871, in Warner, and was educated in the common schools of that town and Webster. His hours out of school were employed upon his father's farm, and upon attaining manhood he en- gaged in farming upon his own account. He pur- chased one hundred and sixty-five acres of land in Sutton, and carried on a successful milk business- for some time. He sold his farm and engaged in the lumber business and purchased land in Warner on which he has crected one of the best equipped steam saw mills in New Hampshire, and is now actively engaged in the production of lumber. He is a prominent member of the Grange, and is. identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fell- lows. belonging to both the subordinate and the Rebekah lodges. He is a past grand of Central Lodge. No. 167, of Warner. In religion he is a Congregationalist, and in politics is a stanch Re- publican. In 1902, he served his town as road mas- ter and in 1903-4 was selectman. He was married, May 26. 1894. to Hattie May Adams. daughter of Jacob K. and Hattie H. Adams, of Sutton. They have one child, Kitty, born October 14, 1900. Mrs. Adams is very active in church work, and is an officer of the Rebekah lodge.

The family of this name has been resi-

BRYER dent of New Hampshire a little over a century. Its members have de- voted their energies principally to agricultural and mechanical employments.

(I) Benjamin Bryer, the immigrant ancestor ot the family of this article, came from Scotland to America. and settled in Massachusetts. Subse- quently he removed to Loudon, New Hampshire .. where he raised a family and died.

(II) David. son of Benjamin Bryer, was born in Loudon. He married Betsey Bryer, a granddaugh- ter of a brother of Benjamin, the immigrant, who settled in Maine. Their children were: Clark. Martha, Joseph Thing, Julia, Jonathan K., Mary, Stephen P., and Albert. All but the two youngest were born in Loudon: they were born in Groton .. Joseph lived at Lakeport: Julia married Smith Mor- rill of Rumney: Jonathan K. is mentioned below : Mary married George Hackett, superintendent of the shops of the New Jersey Railroad. at Elizabeth, New Jersey: Stephen P .. one of the first engineers in New England, who died in 1856. married Julia Twombley: Albert married Lucy Hardy, of Groton. . (IHI) Jonathan Kittredge, third son of David and Betsey ( Bryer) Bryer, was born in Loudon. New Hampshire, and died aged seventy-two years. He was a farmer and blacksmith, doing a good bus iness in the latter line. He married first. Maria Annis. of Orford: and second. Lydia Fellows, of New Hampton The children by the first wife were : Clarence L .. John A., David Parker, Herbert K. Charles A. ; and by the second wife: Annie, George and Leon.

(IV) David Parker, third son and child of Jon- athan K. and Maria (Annis) Bryer, was born in Groton. New Hampshire. December 20 1850. He attended the common schools and Hebron Acad

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emy. At the age of seventeen, he went to Ludlow, Vermont, where he learned the blacksmith's trade under the suprvision of James George. He was one year at Tom's River, New Jersey, and then re- turned to New Hampshire and established a black- smith shop for himself at Branch Village, in 1870. He remained there until 1893, and then bought the shop of Charles B. Smith of Antrim village. and removed to that place, where he has since resided. Mr. Bryer is a skillful mechanic, and a well to do and respected citizen, whose genial disposition makes every one his friend. He is a Republican, buit cares more for good horses than for all the pol- ities in the world. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 38, Hillsborough, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of Waverly Lodge, No. 50. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Waverly. He married, June 20, 1871 at Antrim, Mary Frances Sawyer, born June 18, 1846, daughter of Edmund and Nancy Jane ( Stecle) Sawyer, of Antrim. They have two children: Myrta May, born December 5. 1874, who was educated in the schools of Antrim and Cushing Academy, and now resides at home ; and Walter Annis, born October 20, 1877, who was educated in the Antrim schools, and at Burdett Business College, of Boston. Ile married Bertha H. Nichols, of Peterboro, and is now engaged in the grocery business in that place.

(IV) Herbert Kittredge, fourth son and child of Jonathan K. and Maria ( Annis) Bryer, was born in Groton, New Hampshire, February 4. 1857. He spent his youth on his father's farm, rendering such assistance as he could, and attending the common schools. In ISsi he entered the employ of the Goodell Company, of Antrim, where he remained about two years, when he took a place on the Hillsboro county farm. which he gave up some years later to accept the management of the stock farm of .A. T. Batchelder, of Keene, where he remained tintil 1880. He then purchased the well known Stacy stock farm, situated about two miles south of Antrim Village, to which in 1903 he added by purchase the adjoining place known as the Eaton farm, thus making one of the largest stock farms in that region. He has enlarged the buildings and made other improvements on the farm, and keeps a large stock of well selected cattle and valuable horses. Mr. Bryer is a Republican. He inherits the mild disposition of his ancestors, and is an agree- able companion, a good neighbor, and a prosperous farmer. He married, September 27. 1885, Lizzie Stacy, daughter of William and Mary (Taylor) Stacy, of the Branch Village. They have five chil- elren: Alice Bertha, married Kennett McLeod, and lives at Hookshead; Albert S., Grace M., Mary A., and John W. H.

HEFLI The appearance of new and strange names, and the fact that the owners of those names settle among the descend- ants of the colonial families and succeed, suggests that America is still the land of opportunities, and that they are not all taken by citizens with long pedigrees. Haefli is one of the newest names on New Hampshire tax rolls.

Casimer Haeffi, son of Kasimer and Mary E. ( Menth) Hlaefli, was born in Mumisville, Canton Saladon, Switzerland. January 4, 1866. Ile was a iarmer and followed his vocation there until 1892. when he left his native land and with his wife and two children sailed for America, and landed in New York in December, 1802. lle went direct to

Antrim, New Hampshire, where he arrived with thirty-five cents in his pocket, his entire cash capital. He immediately went to work for the Goodell Man- ufacturing Company as a packer in the shipping room, where he labored industriously for thirteen years. In 1905 he bought a farm now known as Hazel- hurst. at East Antrim, which he immediately oc- cupied and began to cultivate. Since then he has purchased the place adjoining, called the Robb farm. and has a small herd of cattle, some excellent horses : and has made numerous improvements on the property. He married. April 9, 1888, Amelia Stebler, who was born in Switzerland, February 28. 1867, daughter of Ors Mungen, of Nunengers, Switz- erland, and they are the parents of the following children : Amelia, Martin, Mary and Ferdinand.

One of the less numerous families of TRASK New England, whose members reside principally in the state of Maine.

(1) Jason Trask, a native of Edgecomb, Maine, died in North Jay, Maine, in 1898, aged eighty-six. He was a farmer much esteemed by his neighbors, and was for years a captain of the militia. He married Sallie Lawrence, born in Boston. Massa- chusetts, died in Wilton, Maine. They were the par- ents of ten children: Joseph O., Daniel, Cynthia, Julia, David, Augustus. Martha, Elizabeth, Ethelyn, and Henry.

( IT) Joseph Osburne, oldest child of Jason and Sallie (Lawrence) Trask, was born in Wilton, Maine, July 20, 1831, and died in Concord July 24. 1884. He was educated in the common schools of Wilton, and at the age of twenty removed to Con- cord, New Hampshire, where he was employed in a plowshop for a year, and then went into the employ of the Abbot & Downing Company, remain- ing there until about 1861 or later. meantime also serving as a police officer. He then went into the business of furnishing substitutes for men drafted to serve in the War of the Rebellion. He carried on this business until the close of the hostilities, with considerable profit to himself. He then took employment with the Northern railroad, where he operated a machine in the woodworking department. The last six years of his life he spent in the manu- facture of soap, with a partner under the firm name of Barker & Trask. Mr. Trask was an indus- trious, hardworking man, and left a comfortable home and other property at his death. He was a man of humorous turn of mind and saw many funny things that others missed. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of White Mountain Lodge. No. 5. Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Con- cord. He married, February 5. 1853. Lois Lamprey, a native of Jackson Plantation, in the Dead River region, Maine, born December 17. 1839. died in Concord. June 8, 1001, aged sixty-two years, daugh- ter of Abel and Susan ( Peasley) Lamprey. They were the parents of one child, Susie M. Trask. born in Concord, November 25, 1854, who lives comfort- ably on the property her father left.

WATTLES This family is well known in Con- necticut from the prominent part taken by some of its members in the naval service of the United States in the Revolution. Most of the sons of Joseph Wattles have been connected with the manufacture of cot- ton goods, where they have made enviable records. (I) joseph Wattles was a book binder of Nor- wich. Connecucut, and was distinguished as the

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inventor of the process of marbling books, and for cther useful inventions. He married Margery Ster- ry of Norwich, and they had seven children: Oli- ver, Joseph and Benjamin (twins), Luther, John, Louise and Thomas B., the subject of the next par- agraph.

(II) Thomas Benton, youngest child of Josephi and Margery ( Sterry) Wattles, was born in Nor- wich, Connectient, November 15, 1835, and died in Suncook, March 6, 1808, At nine years of age he began work in a cotton mill and received no school- ing after he was fourteen years old. The greater part of his life was spent in connection with the textile industries, and for many years he held re- sponsible positions. He was manager of the mills at Ilooksett five years : overseer of the mills at Can- ton, Massachusetts, six years, agent of the Chico- pee Manufacturing Company at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, where he had charge of the construc- tion of a mill, and six years agent of the Boscawen Mills at Penacook, New Hampshire. He was a man peculiarly adapted to successful management of the kind of work he was engaged in. In poli- tics he was a Republican, and in religious faith a Congregationalist. He was also a member of the Masonic order and of the Amsokeag Veterans. He married, November 26, 1860, Nancy J. Osgood, who was born in Pembroke, February 28, 1843. She was the daughter of Jobn II. and Cynthia (Stewart) Osgood, the former born in Pembroke in 1800, died in 1868; and the latter born in Billerica, Massachu- setts, in ISOS, died in Pembroke in 1891. (See Os- gord. VIII.) Two children were born of this tin- ion: Bert Osgood, who died young, and Fred. E., the subject of the next sketch.

(III) Fred Ernest, only surviving child of Thom- as B. and Nancy J. ( Osgood) Wattles, was born in Canton, Massachusetts, December 16, 1871. He was educated in the common schools of Suncook and the Manchester high school. At the age of twenty-one he began work in the office of the Boscawen Mills at Penacook, where his father was agent. He rap- idly learned the business, and at the death of his father succeeded to his place as agent for the mills, which he has since filled with satisfaction to his employers. He married, December, 1900, Edith Stearns, daughter of Harvey and Etta (Dennison) Stearns. of Allenstown, New Hampshire. They have one child, Catherine Stearns.

This family, which is of German origin, MASH now has representatives of the fifth gen- eration in New England. A grandson of the founder of the family resides in Suncook.

Peter Mash was born in Germany, in 1783, and died in Canton, Massachusetts, in 1855, aged seventy- two. At the age of fifteen he left the fatherland and came to America to live and enjoy its free in- stitutions. For years he kept a sailor's boarding house on or near Haymarket Square, and after- ward built and occupied a house on North street. He was also a member of the police force and kept a grocery store. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Episcopal Church. His residence in and about Boston extended over a period of more than fifty-five years. He married Margaret D. Wattles, who was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1787. and died in Canton, Massachusetts, in 1861, aged seventy-four years. They had children: John, Peter. Mary and Martha.

(II) Peter (2). second son of Peter (1) and Margaret D. (Wattles) Mash, was born in Boston

in 1818, and died in California in 1851, aged thirty- three. He went to California in 1849 at the time of the great excitement over the discovery of gold there, and two years later was drowned in attempting to cross the Uba river in a boat which capsized. He married, in 1839. Louisa Wattles, of Norwich, Connecticut, who died in Canton, Massachusetts, March 27, 1885. They had two children: Ellen, who was born at Bozrahville, Connecticut, and mar- „ried Larry Winthrop; and Nelson F., the subject of the next sketch.

(III) Nel-on F., only son of Peter (2) and Louisa ( Wattles ) Mash, was born at Bozrahville, Connecticut, November 3, 1840. He was a merchant and kept a variety store for fifteen years, and was engaged in manufacturing for about thirty years, twelve years of which time he was at Chicopee, Massachusetts, and one year at Fall River. He final- lv settled in Suncock, New Hampshire, and was an overseer in the cotton mills for five years and a member of the police force for one year. He has lived retired for several years. In politics he is a Republican. He joined the Methodist Church in Lawrence in 1861. and for forty-five years has been a worthy member of that church. He is also a member of the Masonic Order. He married, in Hooksett, January 16, 1864, Sarah J. Stanyan, who was born in Chichester, March Io, 1844. She is the daughter of Dudley and Julia A. (Hillard) Stanyan, the former a farmer by occupation, and the latter a native of Pittsfield. They have one child, Ellen, born in Perkinsville. March 10, 1867, who married Elmer Pierce, and resides in Epsom.

The present branch of the San-

SANSTERRE sterre family is an offshoot of the Sansterres of Canada, whose ancestor migrated from France. The meaning of the name in English is Lackland or Landless.

(I) Jean Sansterre is said to have come from France and settled in the Province of Quebec, where he raised a family and died.

(II) Jean, son of Jean Sansterre, was born in Bolton, Province of Quebec, in 1821, and died there in 1876. He was a farmer, but being handy with tools and having a liking for machinery he preferred to work about cotton mills, where he was employed a dozen years or more. He removed with his family to the United States in 1861, and resided at Greenville, New Hampshire, the remain- der of his life. His death occurred while on a visit to Canada. He married Matilde Dupré. who was born in Contrecoeur, Province of Quebec, in 1825, and died in Greenville, New Hampshire, in 1903, aged seventy-cight The names of their eleven chil- dren are: John, Peter. Frank, Doler. Joseph, Elsie, Delia, Matilda, Annie, Josephine and Rosie.

(III) Joseph, fifth son and child of Jean and Matilde (Dupré) Santerre, was born in Bolton, Province of Quebec, April 17, 1860, and came to New Hampshire with his parents when one year old. At the age of seven he was put to work in a cotton mill, and between work and a severe and prolonged eye trouble he had but little opportunity for edu- cation. His employment in the mills at Greenville lasted until he was twenty seven years old, with the exception of two years when he was a brakeman on the Fitchburg Railroad, between Greenville and Boston. In 1885 he settled in Suncook, and was employed in the mills until 1888. since then has been engaged in the wholesale and retail liquor business, doing considerable bottling and supplying

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various light liquors to local consumers. For a few years past he has been engaged in the lumber business. He is a member of the Democratic party, of the Canada-America Society, and of the Foresters of America. He married, April 15, ISS2, Anastasie Clement, who was born in Kateville, Province of Quebec, November 14, 1866, daughter of Charles and Anastasie (Gatameau) Clement, and they had two children: Doler, born in Suncook, May 31, 1885, and Aurore, February 24, 1889.

This is an ancient and distinguished

MAGUIRE family name in Ireland. The Ma- guires supplied chiefs or princes to Fermanagh from about A. D. 1264, when they sup- planted the former chieftains and continued in power till the reign of King James II, of England. They possessed the tenure of Fermanagh; hence called "Maguire's Country." Several of the Maguires were earls of Enniskillen. The ancestor of the clan was Mac Uidhir, anglicized MacGwyre, and Ma- guire.

(I) John Maguire was born near Ennniskillen, county Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1836. and died in Suncook, New Hampshire, in 1898, aged sixty-two years. At the age of fourteen he went to England with his father's family, and lived at Blackburn, where he worked in the cotton mills until 1864. He then came to America and was similarly employed until 1867, when he removed to Suncook, New Hampshire, where he passed the remainder of his life. He worked in the mills of Suncook from 1867 to 18So. He began in England as a spinner, then became second hand and was overseer of the spin- ning room a short time before he quit the mills. For fifteen years. 1880 to 1895, he was in the whole- sale and retail liquor business in Suncook. He sold out in the latter year, and was not actively em- ployed after that time. He was a typical Irish- man, full of life and wit, and his jolly face and well rounded figure were well known about Suncook. He married, in Blackburn, in January, 1860, Maria Flynn, who was born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1843, daughter of John and Mary Gollaher, of Sligo, who settled in Blackburn in 1853. She came to America in 1865, with her children aiter Mr. Maguire pre- pared a home for them in Lawrence. In her early life she was a weaver in the cotton factories. The children of this union were: Thomas, Mary A., Margaret, Saralı E., John A., and Elizabeth.

Thomas, born in Blackburn, England, in 1861, died in Suncook, June, 1904. He was a merchant in Suncook for twenty years. He married, in 1895, Alice St. Germain, who was born in Hooksett, Au- gust 25. 1865. She is the daughter of Joseph and Ellen (Sullivan) St. Germain. Joseph St. Germain was born in Mallow, Ireland, 1835. and came to Sun- cook in 1854. His occupation is bricklaying. His wife, Ellen, was born in Mallow. Ireland, in 1839, and came in 1854 to Suncook, where she has since resided. Alice St. Germain received a practical education in the town schools and Pembroke Acad- emy, and taught in the Chichester and Pembroke schools from 1884 to 1890. From the latter date to 1895 she was a bookkeeper in the mills, which po- sition she has since resumed. Thomas and Alice Maguire had one child, John Joseph, born in Sun- cook, June 8, 1896. Mary A., the second child of John and Maria F. McGuire, lives with her mother. Sarah E .. married in Suncook, November 13. 1905, Alphonse Tetrault, and resides in Suncook. John A. and Elizabeth died young.

In the chapter of Doomsday

HARTWELL Book, assigned to a description of military tenures of lands allotted in Nottinghamshire, England, by William of Nor- mandy, to his followers, appears the designation of an allotment bearing the name of "Hertewelle." Similar records are found in the description of lands in Bucks and Wilts. Several branches of these early families, including three or four baronies and with the name transmuted amid the multi- farious changes of orthography incident to the growth and changes of the English language. to plain Hartwell, have spread over England, more than one offshoot having found their way to those counties in Ireland within the pale, notably about the time of the wholesale transplanting of Colonists to that island by Cromwell.

(I) From some one of these English families came John Hartwell, who came from England and settled in Hillsborough nearly one hundred and forty years ago. He was a farmer and one of the early members of the Congregational Church of that town. In political sentiment he was a Democrat. He married a Miss Curtis, who is said to have been a native of Irasburg, Vermont. She died in Hills- borough, about 1852.

( II) William, son of John and (Curtis) HIartwell, was born in Hillsborough in 1796, and died there in 1862, aged sixty-six. He was a farmer and carpenter. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and a Democrat. He married Betsy Wil- kins, who was born in Irasburg, Vermont, and died at the residence of her son Henry in Suncook, in 1884, at the age of eighty-four. They were the parents of nine sons and two daughters, among whom are Henry H., James M., William, Charles I _. , and Elizabeth.

(III) Rev. Henry Harrison Hartwell, son of William and Betsey (Wilkins) Hartwell, was born in Hillsborough, October 18, 1819. He acquired his early education in the common schools of Hills- borough, and at the Henniker Academy, and studied for the ministry at the seminary at Newbury, Ver- mont. He was admitted on trial to the New Hamp- shire conference in 1840, ordained deacon by Bishop Hamline, at Portsmouth, July 14. 1844, and elder by Bishop Waugh, at Lebanon, May 24, 1846. He be- gan to preach when the rules of the Methodist Church allowed a pastor to stay but one year at a place, and the number of stations filled by him are minerous and widely scattered. The list is as follows: Wilmot circuit and Northfield, IS40 ; Bristol circuit, 1811 ; Woodstock circuit, including Thornton, Waterville, Campton and Lincoln, 1842: Sandwich circuit, including Holderness, Centre Harbor and Moultonborough, 1843: North Haverhill, 1844-45 ; Lancaster and towns of Upper Coos, I846-47: Ca- naan, 1848-49; Newmarket, 1850-51; Rochester circuit, including Milton, Wakefield, Farmington, Strafford and Barrington, 1852-53: I-ligh street. Great Falls, 1854: Elm street, Manchester, 1855-56; Chestnut street, Nashua. 1857-58: Gorden street. Lawrence, Massachusetts. 1859-60 : Broadhead

Hooksett. December. Church, Portsmouth, 1861 : 1861-62; Claremont. 1862-63; Grass Valley, Cali- fornia, 1864-65: Oakland, California, fall of 1865; Kingston, briefly, and White Pine district, Novem- ber, 1866-67. He was located in 1867, and took up his residence in Suncook, where he has since lived. his residence being on the Allenstown side of the river. Ile was a strong anti-slavery advocate and a successful revivalist. His salary the first year was

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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 95

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