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No. 71, Free and Accepted Masons, of Farmington ; of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 28, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also the Encampment, both of South Berwick, Maine. He is prelate of Harmony Lodge, No. II, Knights of Pythias, of Farmington, and is a member and warden of the Free Baptist Church of Farmington. He married, February 10, 1893, at Lyman, Maine, Lucy A. Goodwin, of that place, daughter of Jacob and Rhoda (Smith) Good- win.
(Second Family.)
Captain Joseph Hussey, a brother of HUSSEY Christopher, was of Hampton, which he represented in the legislature in 1672. Robert Hussey was taxed in Dover in 1659. Other settlers of this name were in New England at an early date. Some of the above named were of kin, but the records fail to show what if any relation any of them bore to Richard Hussey, the first known ancestor of the following line.
(I) Richard Hussey, with his wife Jane, settled in Dover, New Hampshire, about 1690. June 20, 1696, he sells for a consideration of fifty pounds to Leonard Weeks, of Portsmouth, his interest in thirty acres of upland adjoining the Great Bay in Dover. He is called in the deed "a weaver." February 25, 1710, he sells to Benjamin Weymouth for thirteen pounds a tract of land situated at a garrison called Sligoe (now Somersworth), containing thirty acres, bounded by land of said Weymouth, by land of Joseph Roberts, and southward by the lot called Cowell's. He had a grant of land in the Great Bay below the present city of Dover. He died previous to August 21, 1733, at which time his son Richard was appointed administrator of Jane Hussey's estate. The children of Richard and Jane Hussey were: Richard, Job, Robert, Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Abigail, Jane, William, Margaret and Ben- jamin.
(II) William, tenth child and fifth son of Rich- ard and Jane Hussey, was born March 24, 1711. He was a "Friend," and in a deed is called "a taylor," but in his will he describes himself as "a husband- man." He died January 22, 1778. His will dated "27th of 7th Month of 1777," was probated the second Wednesday of February, 1778. He mentions his wife, Hannah, sons Paul, William, Timothy, and Stephen, and daughters Mercy Hussey, Mary Fry and Abigail Varney. He married, near 1730, Han- nah Robinson, who was born November 21, 1707, and died April 20, 1793, daughter of Timothy and Mary (Roberts) Robinson. Mary Robinson was the daughter of John and Abigail (Nutter) Roberts, and Abigail Nutter was the daughter of Hatevil and Anne Nutter. (See Nutter).
(III) Paul, son of William and Hannah (Robin- son) Hussey, was born in 1730, and died November 22, 1796. He married as early as 1760, Mary, daughter of Joseph and Peniel (Bean) Hall. Joseph Hall and Peniel Bean were married in Dover, De- cember 19, 1731. He was the son of Ralph and Mary ( Chesley ) Hall. Ralph Hall and Mary Ches- ley were married in Dover, May 26, 1701. Mary (Hall) Hussey died in 1813. The children of Paul Hussey were: Huldah, Daniel, Elijah and Micajah.
(IV) Daniel, eldest son and second child of Paul and Mary (Hall) Hussey, was born September 22, 1750. He married Margaret Garland, of Lebanon. Maine, who was born September 3, 1768. Their chil- dren were: Ezekiel, Hannah, Mary, Jonathan, David, Huldah, Olive, Elijah, Paul and Joan or Johanna. Ezekiel, born 1787, married, December 7, 1815. Mercy Horn, of Rochester, and they had : Jane, Daniel and Oliver P.' Jonathan, born April 20, 1793,
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married (first), November 1, 1819, Polly Hayes, who was born August 23, 1787, and died January 15, 1849; (second) August 29, 1849, Joan Flagg. He died January 25, 1863. His children were: Mary, Charles, Elijah M., Rosina and Jonathan Jackson. Huldah, born April 25, 1797, married, March 21, 1824, Benjamin E. Page, of Rochester, and died Au- gust 20, 1879. Olive, born November 5, 1799, mar- ried, March 27, 1831, Benjamin, son of William and Alice Coleman Furber. She died at Somersworth, October 4, 1871. Elijah, born April 28, 1801, mar- ried a Miss Moore, and had Charles, Luther, Au- gustina and Elvira.
(V) Paul, ninth child and fifth son of Daniel and Margaret ( Garland) Hussey, was born in Rochester, May 2, 1803, and (lied October 28, 1871. He was a farmer and resided in Rochester. He married, March 5, 1828, Nancy Colbath, who was born No- vember 6, 1800, and died February 9, 1872. Their children were: Joanna, George Dame, Hannah, Daniel, Martha Frances, Paul Freeman, Louis Mc- Duffee, Walter Scott and Charles Burney. Joanna was born December 17, 1828, and died October, 1876. George Dame, born May 14, 1831, married, March 8, 1859, Mary Jane Foss, who was born September 6, 1839, and died September 18, 1886. They had eight children : Clara, Laura Frances, Mabel Eldorado, George, Charles Lincoln, Annie Mary, Albert War- ren and Frank. Hannah, born April 30, 1832, mar- ried, November 15, 1848, George Allison, of Grut- land, Yorkshire, England. Daniel, born May 23, 1833 married, April 22, 1855, Mary Frances Evans, of Rochester, born March 23, 1833. They had two children: Edward H. and Frank Evans. Martha Frances, born January 20, 1835, married, February 12, 1862, Joseph Warren Colbath, of Exeter. She died December 10, 1906. Paul Freeman, born in Rochester, April 6, 1836, married, January 1, 1878, Mary Elizabeth Kimball. He died December 1, 1893, leaving one child, Freeman Garfield. Louis Mc- Duffee is mentioned below. Walter Scott, born April 6, 1840, married (first), January 23, 1864, Emily Pinkham, who died May 13, 1891; and (sec- ond), November 27, 1893, Addie F. Morrill, born April 19, 1869. They had three children : Cora Edith, Maud E., and Walter Lewis. Charles Burney, born November 19, 1844, was a member of Company H. Ninth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Spottsylvania Court house and died in a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, May 31, 1861.
(VI) Captain Louis McDuffee, seventh child and fourth son of Paul and Nancy (Colbath ) Hussey, was born in Rochester, November 6, 1837. He en- listed in Company B, First Regiment, New Hamp- shire Volunteer Infantry, at the beginning of the Civil war, being the second soldier enlisted from the town of Rochester. He was mustered in May 2, 1861, and served until August 9, 1861, when he was mustered out. He re-enlisted in Company A, Fourth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and was made sergeant. He was mustered in September 18, 1861, re-enlisted January 1, 1864, and was mustered out August 23, 1865. Battles engaged in were: Poca- taligo, Morris Island, Seige of Wayne, Seige of Sumter, Bermuda Hundred, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Hatcher's Run, Seige of Petersburg, "The Mine," New Market Heights, Fort Fisher. He was promoted to first lieutenant of Company A, No- vember 9, 1864, and captain of Company C, Fourth Regiment, February 17, 1865. Ile was employed in the shoe factories of Rochester from the time of his return from the army until he retired. He was
the first marshall of Rochester after it became a city, and served in that important office one year. He is a member of Humane Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Temple Chapter, Royal Arch Mason. He married, October 22, 1896, Harriet E. Dame, who was born in Rochester, 1843, and died January 4, 1902. She was a daughter of Levi and Olive (Garland) Dame, of Rochester.
(I) John Hussey lived and died in Lebanon, Maine. He married Joyce Clark, by whom he had seven children : John, Richard, Reuben, Stephen, Eliza, Mary and Lottie.
(II) Richard, second son of John and Joyce (Clark) Hussey, was born February 16, 1783, and died February 1, 1868, aged eighty-five years. He was a farmer in Acton, Maine, and died in that town. He married Alice Thompson, who was born January 30, 1792, in Shapleigh, Maine, and died January 9, 1861. Seven children were born of this union: John, Miles, Harriet, Joyce, Miriam, Ann M. and Alexander T.
(III) John, eldest child of Richard and Alice (Thompson) Hussey, was born in Acton, May 18, 1810, and died September 30, 1892. When a young man he removed to Somersworth, New Hampshire, learned the carpenter's trade, and was a lifelong carpenter and builder. He married Mary Locke, who was born August 31, 1812, and died March 31, 1901, daughter of Simon and Oliver (Chadbourne) Locke, of Barrington, New Hampshire. Nine chil- dren were born to them: Olive, Howard E., Mary E., John S., Ann M., Harriet, Charles M., Freeman F. and Etta G. Olive was born in 1836, and died at the age of twenty-one. Howard E., resided in Somersworth. Mary E., married Gilman C. Robin- son, and resided in South Exeter, Maine. John lived in Somersworth. Ann M. married Perkins F. Mott. Harriet G., died in infancy. Charles MI., of Somersworth. Freeman is mentioned below. Etta G., married Charles Hodgdon, and lives in Somers- worth.
(IV) Freeman Alexander, eighth child and fourth son of John and Mary ( Locke) Hussey, was born in Somersworth, January 23, 1852. When about nineteen years old he began to learn the baker's trade with James A. Locke, with whom he remained until May 1879. and then bought out his employer and carried on the business until 1902, when he retired. This was one of the largest and best equipped bakeries in Strafford county, and employed four or five men the greater part of the time. Hay- ing a thorough practical knowledge of the business, Mr. Hussey carried it on with success and made money which he invested in other paying enter- prises. He has been a director in the Somersworth National Bank, and a trustee in the Somersworth Savings Bank for some years. His political faith is staunchly Republican, and his party has placed him in various offices, the duties of 1887 and which he has acceptably discharged. In
1888 he was a member of the board of selectmen. After the incorporation of the city he was elected alderman and served three terms as a member from Ward Three. In 1900 he was elected representative to the general court, and served at the following session. He is a member of Libanus Lodge, No. 49, Free and Accepted Masons ; Edwards Royal Arch Chapter, No. 21; and St. Paul Com- mandery, Knights Templar; also of Washington Lodge, No. 4, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand; and of Great Falls Encampment, No. 15. He and Mrs. Hussey are members of the Free Baptist Church, in which he is a chief warden.
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He married, October 23, 1878. Celia A. E. Fall, of Somersworth, who was born July 17, 1855, daugh- ter of Noalı L. and Amanda (James ) Fall. Three children have been born to them: Leona E., born May 5, 1880, married, May 25, 1903. Jordan S. Savithes, of Lowell, Massachusetts, and has one child, Edith Dorothea, born June 17, 1904; Edith Amanda, born July 17, 1882; Kirke Herbert, born March 28, 1884, died young.
The Husseys of the following sketch
HUSSEY are probably of the descendants of John Hussey, of Dorking, England, and of his son, Christopher Hussey, deacon and captain, who is supposed to have landed in Charles- town, Massachusetts, July 23, 1630.
(I) Micajah Hussey was a resident of Farming- ton in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He inarried Olive Hanson.
(II) Silas Hussey, son of Micajah Hussey, was born in Farmington, in 1795, and died in 1869 in Rochester, where his entire life had been spent in tilling the soil successfully. He married Lucy Varney, and their children were: Maria, Stephen, George, John. Silas, Sarah E., Daniel and James, twins : Hannah A., James, Oliver W.
(III) Silas (2), fifth child of Silas (1) and Lucy ( Varney) Hussey, was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, January 24, 1828. He grew up on his father's farm, and was educated in the common schools. When a young man he went to Rockport, Massachusetts, and learned the art of cutting granite. In 1849 he heard of Marshall's discovery of gold in Sutton's Millrace in California, and at once de- cided to go to the newly discovered Eldorado. So he made his way by the Cape Horn route to the land of gold, starting November. 1849, and reaching San Francisco, May, 1850 after spending one hundred and seventy-seven days on the route. He at once went to the mines at Middle Fork, American river, and there until 1853 was working at placer mining. In 1863 he returned to California via the Isthmus route, and was fifteen months engaged in contracting on the Central Pacific railroad. In these four years he made more money than he could have made in New Hampshire, but saved only enough to amount to fair wages. Soon after his return to Rochester he engaged in mercantile business for a short time, and then returned to the granite business and contracting which he has followed most of his life. Previous to 1895 he had put in the foundations for the prin- cipal business blocks in Rochester. In 1881 he built a twin arch bridge across the Cocheco, in the main street of Rochester, and in 1883 erected the monu- ment to the soldiers of the Civil war in the park of that place. For the first of these contracts lie re- ceived $13.800, and for the other $2.500. In 1869 he represented Rochester in the legislature, being elected on the Republican ticket. He has also served as police judge and deputy sheriff. For some years he was chairman of the town and county Deco- cratic committee and a member of the state Demo- cratic committee. For forty-six years justice of the peace, and for ten years state justice. Since 1896 he has been independent in policics. He married April 18, 1854, Rosanna A. Hussey, who was born in Rochester, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Hayes) Hussey. Seven children were born to them: Mary, 1856, died 1866. Lucy, 1858, died young. Frank, mentioned below. George. . 1862, died young. Grace, died young. Angie, 1870, mar- ried Edward Leighton, and died in 1891. Mabel, 1871. married A. L. Marshall, of Newport. Rhode Island.
(IV) Frank, only living son of Silas (2) and Rosanna A. (Hussey ) Hussey, was born in Roches- ter, in 1860, and educated in the common schools of that town. For some years he was engaged by his father as overseer in his business. In 1894 he entered the employ of the Swift Packing Company, and in 1897 was made manager of that company's bitsiness at Rochester, and still holds the place. In politics he is an independent. During the year of 1898 and 1899 he was a member of the Rochester police force. In 1906 he was elected to a seat in the common council on the Republican ticket. He is a member of Dover Lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of Rochester. He married (first), Luella Wellman; one child was born of this union, Mildred, born 1881, now the wife of Frank Gleason, of Haver- hill, Massachusetts. He was married (second), October 16, 1892, Teresa Burger, who was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1864, daughter of Anton and Elizabeth (Bowen) Burger, of Roxbury. They had two children: Ruth, born 1895, and Silas F., born 1899.
(I) Burleigh Hussey was born, lived and died in Dover, where he was a farmer. He married a Miss Watson, and they had five children: Charles Paul, Hoag, Burleigh, John and George.
(II) Charles Paul, eldest son of Burleeigh Hus- sey, was born in Dover, November 14, 1830, and died in Rochester, August 13, 1894. About 1848 he settled in Rochester, where he was foreman in the woolen mills for some years. He was also foreman in a shoe factory in Haverhill for some time. In 1878 he bought a farm of Silas Hussey, of Rochester, and lived upon it till his death. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of Montolina Lodge. No. 18, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married, 1848, Caroline Watson, who was born Sep- tember 16, 1828. They had five children : Burleigh, Charles P., Carrie, Minnie, and Jay D., whose sketch next follows.
(III) Jay Dow, youngest child and third son of Charles P. and Caroline ( Watson) Hussey, was born in Rochester, August 15, 1868. He graduated from the Rochester high school in the class of 1881, and then entered the employ of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company as a telegraph operator at Roches- ter. After a year service in that capacity he was sent to Portsmouth, where he was cashier in the freight department of the road for eight years. From that time till the present he has been ticket agent of the . union depot of this road at Rochester. In politics he is a Republican. In 1897-98-99, he was a member of the city council of Rochester. He has been active in this party, and has been a delegate to three state conventions and chairman of his ward committee for a number of years. He was the first chief telegrapher of the Order of Railway Telegra- phers in Council No. 65, and a member of the Boston & Maine Agents Association, Council No. 8 of the Boston & Maine Relief Association, the Order of United American Mechanics of Ports- mouth, and Lodge No. 184. Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of Dover. He married, January 4. 1887. Maud Cushman, who was born September 15, 1872, daughter of Zebediah and Augusta L. (Her- rick) Cushman, of Kennebunk, Maine. They have two children : Maud Frances and Minnie Caroline.
In the tide of immigration that set WASON into the colony of New Hampshire from Ireland about two centuries ago. came the ancestor of the Wasons. Like the great majority of settlers from that island, the immigrant
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Wason came to the wilderness of a new country to bear the hardships and privations and enjoy the free- dom and advantages of a land in a state of almost primitive nature. He proved his good qualities as a pioneer, was an enterprising and respected citizen, and became the ancestor of men who today are among the leading citizens of the state.
(I) James Wason, a native of the parish of Ballymena, county Antrim, Ireland, was born in 171I. When a young man he removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and subsequently to Nottingham, now Hudson, where he lived until his death, August 22, 1799, aged eighty-eight. He married at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 30, 1736, Hannah Cald- well, also a native of Ballymena. She died April 6. 1786, at the age of eighty years.
(II) Lieutenant Thomas, son of James and Hannah (Caldwell) Wason, born in Hudson, De- cember 26, 1748, died November 18, 1832. He mar- ried at Londonderry, December 1, 1772, Mary Boyd, born May 27, 1749, died October 20, 1832, daughter of Robert Boyd, of Londonderry. She was a grand- daughter of Robert Boyd, Sr., who with his wife, whose maiden name was Morrison, emigrated from Ireland to New England about the year 1720 and set- tled in Londonderry.
(III) Robert, son of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary (Boyd) Wason, was born in Nottingham West, now Hudson, June 14, 1781. He went to New Bos- ton, April, 1803, to live with Robert Boyd, his uncle, who settled on lot No. 30, near Joe English hill, "being advanced in years." Robert Wason inherited his uncle's farm and resided upon it for the re- mainder of his life. He took an active part in public affairs and served in various offices: He united with the Presbyterian Church in 1815, and a few years afterwards was elected elder, which office he held until his death. Deacon Wason was a man of great energy, and entered with zeal upon every enterprise adopted to benefit the church or the community, so that he was a "doer of the word" as well as a hearer, and his death, August 7, 1844, aged sixty-three, was greatly lamented and the loss of his influence seriously felt. He was married, De- cember 2, 1808, by Rev. Mr. Bruce, to Nancy, daugh- ter of John Batchelder, of Mount Vernon. She was born October 13, 1789, died July 28, 1863, aged sev- enty-four, having survived her husband nineteen years. She was a faithful mother, and a woman of many christian virtues. Children of Robert and Nancy Wason were: I. Elbridge, see forward. 2. Louisa. 3. Hiram W., born December 18, 1814, grad- uated at Amherst, 1838, and later from Andover Theological Seminary. and then settled at Vevay, In- diana. 4. Nancy. 5. Mary. 6. Robert Boyd, see for- ward. 7. Adeline. 8. Caroline. 9. George Austin, see forward
(IV) Elbridge, eldest son of Deacon Robert and Nancy ( Batchelder) Wason, was born in New Boston, September 26, 1809, reared in that village and educated in New Boston and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire. He came to Bos- ton, Massachusetts, March 5, 1832, and entered the employ of Pierce & Gardner, where he remained in the position of clerk until September 1, 1837, when hie formed a partnership with Henry Pierce, which continued uninterruptedly until his death, August 19, 1887. a period of fifty years. He was one of the oldest and best known business men of Boston, upright and honorable in all his dealings, respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the Masons, in which organization he held office at dif- ferent times. He married (first), April 24, 1851, Mary Stickney, born June 30, 1809, died August 15,
1863. Married (second), May 17, 1865, Mary Isa- bella Chase, born March 30, 1835, daughter of the Hon. Leonard Chase, of Milford, New Hampshire. Two children were born of this marriage: Mary Isabella, born January II, 1867, married, June 4, 1890, Jesse S. Wiley, of Brookline, Massachusetts. Leonard Chase, born August 5, 1868, married, Oc- tober 8, 1896, Harriet C. Willis, of Boston.
(IV) Robert Boyd, sixth child and third son of Robert and Nancy (Batchelder) Wason, was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, July 13, 1820. He was educated in the common schools and fitted for college in the New Ipswich and Pembroke acade- mies, and taught school two winter terms, 1840 and 1841, in Amherst and Merrimack, New Hampshire. In June, 1841, he went to Boston and entered the employ of Wason, Pierce & Company, wholesale grocers and West India importers, a firm of which his brother, Elbridge Wason, one of the partners, had organized in September, 1837. After a term of service of about seven years as an employe, Robert B. Wason was admitted as a member of the firm, which on the death of Mr. Pierce became Wason & Company. The business has been prosperous, and now Mr. Wason, at the age of eighty-seven, after sixty-six years of mercantile life, fifty-nine of which he has been an active member of the firm, finds himself senior member of the concern, and in the enjoyment of good health, vigorous and vivacious for one of his age, and still able to look after busi- ness affairs with an alertness not possessed by many of his juniors by a quarter of a century. He is a Republican, and a member of the General Theologi- cal Library for many years.
(IV) George Austin Wason, youngest of the nine children of Deacon Robert and Nancy (Batch- elder) Wason, was born in New Boston, Septem- ber 17, 1831. His education was obtained in the common schools. He inherited the ancestral es- tate which now contains four hundred and seventy- five acres, and devoted his life to the pursuit of agriculture. He was engaged in general farming, but made a specialty of raising thoroughbred De- von cattle, in which he attained gratifying success. He lived on the farm until 1885, when he removed to Nashua and resided there until his death, June 21, 1906, aged seventy-one. He kept the farm and managed it until 1903. He was a member of that class of New England farmers who have elevated agriculture to the dignity of a science. His inter- est in this industry was a more than ordinary depth, and his efforts for the improvement of stock resulted in much gain not only for himself but to farmers all over New England. He was a mem- ber of all the leading agricultural societies of his vicinity and of the state. He became interested in the grange during the early years of the organiza- tion in this state, and was a charter member of Joe English Grange of New Boston. and served for years as its master. For four years he was master of the state grange, and at the time of his death was the oldest living past master of that institution. To his work the present standing of the order in this state is due to a considerable extent. He filled the office of president of the Hillsborough Agricultural Society, and president of the Piscataqua Valley Fair Association. For over twenty years he was trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Hanover and Durham, and served as president of the board for over seven years, be- ing forced to resign owing to ill health in 1904. He was the first Republican moderator in the town of New Boston, in which town he maintained his legal residence and voted itp to the time of his death.
Hubert Band Hasan
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Few men were better known than he throughout the county and state. He was county commissioner of Hillsborough county six years, was representative from New Boston in 1883-95, and state senator in 1891-93. Ile was instrumental in securing the char- ter of the New Boston railroad, and was its first president, serving until his death. He was a man of upright character, honest in all his dealings, prompt to keep his word, kind and sympathetic by nature, a member of the best class of manhood this or any other state may produce. His interest in public affairs was such that he was many times placed by his fellow citizens in positions of trust and honor, and always sustained with credit the duties they entailed, hiwever great their magnitude. George A. Wason married, September 17, 1863, Clara Louisa Hills, born in New Boston, October 15, 1843, daughter of Sidney and Louisa (Trull) Hills. Three children were born to them: Edward Hills, see forward; George B. and Robert S., of Boston.
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