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This ancient and honorable cognomen
CADY was borne by early settlers in Massa- chusetts. The Cadys of this article are thought to have sprung from Nicholas Cady, of Watertown, Massachusetts, who married Judith, the daughter of William Knapp. Sr., and afterwards moved to Groton. Their children were: John. Judith, James, Nicholas (died young), Daniel, Ezekiel, Nicholas, and Joseph.
(I) Elisha Cadv resided in Stowe, Lamoille county. Vermont, where he married Elizabeth
(II) Oral, son of Elisha and Elizabeth Cady, was born in Stowe, December 22, 1822, and died in Morrisville. 1898. At nineteen years of age he started in business at Cady's Falls, and followed
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merchandising for years. He finally became a man- ufacturer of starch and of lumber, a contractor and a speculator in general produce. In political cir- cles he was prominent. He was a member of the general court in 1868, high sheriff of Lamoille county for a number of years, and trial justice thirty years. He was not a member of any church, but worshipped with the Universalists. He mar- ried Ellen L. Smith, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Vermont. They had two children: Elisha H., and Plenny, who married T. Spalding, of Morristown. (III) Elisha Healy, only son of Oral and Ellen L. ( Smith) Cady, was born in Morristown, Ver- mont. April 30, 1865. He attended the public schools, and then became a clerk in a drug store in Morristown. In 1887 he went to Gorham, New Hampshire, and was in the employ of Fred W. Noyes as a clerk for three years, then in the gro- cery trade for himself in Morristown, until 1894. He next re-entered the employ of Mr. Noyes at Gorham, and there spent the following nine years, then two years in the employ of Bennett Brothers, druggists; and in December, 1905, he was made treasurer of the Gorham Savings Bank, and has since filled that position. In politics he is a Dem- ocrat, and is now serving as a member of the board of selectmen. He is a member of the Universalist Church, of which he is a trustee. He married Es- tie S. Hayes, daughter of Oran Hayes, of Stowell, Vermont. She died February, 1907. Three chil- dren were born of this union: Bessie, who married H. A. Hall, of Nashua; Harold Oral, who is in the Berlin National Bank ; and Agnes E.
MERRIAM This name was originally spelled Meryham, Merryham, Meriham, and Mirriam. Ham means home or house, and the word in its literal signification meant merry house, or happy house, in modern phrase. The family is an ancient one, for there is record that in the year 1295-6 Laurence de Mery- ham paid taxes to Edward I at Isenhurst in Sussex. In the sixteenth century there was a manor of Meri- ham in Pembrokshire. the southwest corner of Wales. It is somewhat singular that the name, though fairly numerous in America, is now practi- cally extinct in England.
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(I) William Merriam, the first fully authenti- cated ancestor of this family, was a resident of the county of Kent, England, during the latter part of the sixteenth century. He was a clothier, which meant in those days that he made cloth and han- dled the manufactured goods. The business re- quired more than ordinary intelligence, and was usually very profitable. His wife's name was Sara, and eight children are recorded, though the order of their births is not known: Susan, Margaret, a daughter, who married Thomas Howe; Joseph, whose sketch follows: George, born about 1603; Joane : Sara and Robert, born about 1613. The will of William Merriam of Harlow in Kent. was proved November 27, 1635.
(II) Joseph, son of William and Sara Merriam, and the eldest as mentioned in the father's will, was probably born in the county of Kent about the year 1600. Like his father he was a clothier or cloth maker and merchant, and there is reason to suppose that he was possessed of considerable property when he set out for the new world. He settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in June, 1638, and soon after was admitted to the church, and was made a freeman of the Colony of Massachu- setts Bay. Joseph Merriam married in England. about the year 1623, Sara, daughter of John and
(probably) Frances (Jefferie) Goldsione of the county of Kent. They had seven children, all of them born in England except the youngest, who was a posthumous child, born at Concord, Massa- chusetts, six months after the death of his father. The children were: William, Sarah, Joseph, men- tioned below; Thomas, Elizabeth, Hannah and John. Joseph Merriam died at Concord, Massa- chusetts, January 1, 1640-1, after a residence of less than three years in America. His widow after- wards married Lieutenant Joseph Wheeler, and died March 12, 1670-1.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Sara (Goldstone) Merriam, was born in England about the year 1629. He migrated with his people to Concord, Massachusetts, but removed when adult to Cambridge, living in the part called "The Farms," which afterwards became the parish and town of Lexington. He was admitted to the church, and was made a freeman, May 22, 1650. He ac- cumulated something of an estate and, like his father, died in early middle life. Joseph Merriam married at Concord, July 12. 1053, Sarah, daughter of Deacon Gregory Stone. There were nine chil- dren: Sarah, Lydia, Joseph, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Robert, Ruth and Thomas, the subject of the suc- ceeding paragraph. Joseph (2) Merriam died April 20, 1677, and his grave-stone is the oldest now standing in the ancient "Hill Burying Ground" at Concord, Massachusetts. His widow died April 5, 1704.
(IV) Thomas, fourth son and ninth and young- est child of Joseph (2) and Sarah (Stone) Mer- riam, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, about 1672. He removed to Cambridge Farms (Lexing- ton), and was one of the original members of the church there. In 1698 his wife was dismissed from the church at Concord to join the one at Lexington, and on March 6 of that year Thomas Merriam, his brother Robert, and others were permitted to "build a seat for their wives on the within back side of the meeting-house, from Goodwife Reed's seat to the woman's stayers" (stairs). Thomas Merriam was selectman from 1718 to 1725, and a constable in 1716. On December 23, 1696, Thomas Merriam married Mary Harwood of Concord, Mas- sachusetts, and there were seven children: Mary, Thomas, Lydia, Nathaniel, Simon, David and Isaac, whose sketch follows. Thomas Merriam died Au- gust 16, 1738, aged sixty-six, and his widow died September 29, 1756, aged eighty-one.
(V) Isaac, fifth son and seventh and youngest child of Thomas and Mary (Harwood) Merriam, was born at Lexington. Massachusetts, July 5, 1714. He lived in the neighboring town of Bedford, and owned a tract of land in Townsend among other properties. On September 1, 1736, Isaac Merriam married Sarah Davis, and there were three chil- dren: Isaac (2), Sarah and Eleazer. Isaac Mer- riam died April 19, 1741, at the early age of twenty- seven, and his widow on September 10, 1746, mar- ried Nathaniel Ball of Concord. Massachusetts. She died at Groton, New Hampshire, May 25. 1799, in her eighty-ninth year.
(VII) Isaac (2), eldest child and only son of Isaac (1) and Sarah (Davis) Merriam, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, September 2, 1736. He was a felt-maker and hatter; but on December 4, 1771, he sold his land and shop in Concord and removed to Ashburnham, where he was prominent in town affairs, serving as selectman and in other capacities. In 1790 he was living in Concord again, and in 1793 removed to Groton, New Hampshire. and in his old age to Brandon, Vermont, where he
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died. Isaac (2) Merriam was twice married. His first wife was Eleanor Munroe of Lexington, Mas- sachusetts, whom he wedded April 10, 1759. She died at Concord, July 19, 1768, leaving four chil. dren: David, Isaac (3), Jonathan and Benjamin. On December 2, 1768, Isaac (2) Merriam married his second wife Rebecca, daughter of Gershom Davis, of Acton, Massachusetts. She died at Bran- don, Vermont, April 20, 1812, leaving two children : Joshua and Jonas Davis. Isaac (2) Merriam died at Brandon, Vermont, December 1, 1825, at the age of eighty-nine, being the first of his family to at- tain great length of years.
(VII) Isaac (3), second son and child of Isaac (2) and his first wife, Sarah (Davis) Merriam. was born at Concord, Massachusetts, January 29, 1762. He lived in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, in early life, removing thence to Northumberland, New Hampshire, and finally to Jackson, New York, where he died. He was a hatter and a soldier in the Revolution. In 1789 he married Betsey Waite, daughter of William Waite, who was born April 8, 1765. They had eight children: David, Isaac, Bet- sey, William, Jonas, whose sketch follows; Benja- min, Joseph Waite, and Sarah. The third son, Wil- liam, was born March 21, 1796, and died July 5, 1814. at the battle of Chippewa. Isaac (3) Merriam died at Jackson, New York, February I, 1853, at the advanced age of ninety-one years.
(VIII) Jonas, fourth son and fifth child of Isaac (3) and Betsey (Waite) Merriam, was born at Northumberland, New Hampshire, May 23, 1798. He lived at Stratford, New Hampshire, and was a farmer all his life. He attended the Methodist Church, and held all the town offices. His first wife and the mother of his children was Mrs. Lu- cinda B. (Gramsby) Day, daughter of George Gramsby. She was born August 27. 1811, and died August 25, 1866, leaving three children : Harvey Rice, Edward Benjamin and Charles Henry, whose sketch follows. Harvey Rice, the eldest son, was born July 6, 1841, enlisted in the Fourth Iowa Cav- alry during the Civil war, and was killed at the battle of Red River, Louisiana. In 1868 Jonas Merriam married his second wife, Mrs. Ann Maria ( Bond) Wilson, who died in May, 1883. There were no children by the second marriage. Jonas Merriam died at Stratford, January 25, 1889, in his ninetieth year, almost equalling his father and ex- ceeding his grandfather in length of days.
(IX) Charles Henry, youngest of the three sons of Jonas and Lucinda (Gramsby) (Day) Merriam, was born at Stratford, New Hampshire. May I, 1850, and now lives on the same farm where he first saw the light. He was educated in the com- mon schools, and began farming at an early age. He has about hundred and twenty acres under cul- tivation. On October 24. 1872, Charles Henry Mer- riam married Emma A. Gardner, daughter of Eze- kiel and Gardner of Stratford, who was born September 29, 1853. There are four children : Marion Eames, born March 12, 1874, married John Carl Burbank. December 28, 1904, and lives in Brunswick, Vermont; Thomas Oakley, born No- vember 22, 1878. married Agnes St. John on No- vember 24, 1903. and is a farmer at Stratford: Car- rie Belle, born December 1, 1882, lives at home, and Henry Albert, born December 31, 1886, is employed by the Telephone Company at Stratford.
Patrick Harrington, who lately H.ARRINGTON passed away in Manchester, was among the industrious and successful business men of that city. He was
a native of Mitchelstown, Ireland, born in 1838, & son of Daniel and Margaret (Carey) Harrington. When the son was about two years of age the par- ents started for Quebec. The father died in Liver- pool before they had embarked, and was buried there. The mother with her children proceeded on the voyage, and very soon found their way from Quebec to Manchester, New Hampshire. Here the son was educated in the public and parochial schools, and at the age of fourteen years set out to maintain himself by taking employment in the print works. He was subsequently employed in Aretus Blood's locomotive works as a watchman, and subsequently drove a team about the city. Having saved his wages, after a time he became proprietor of a team, and continued as a teaming contractor until 1890. His earnings were invested in real estate which soon came to be valuable, and through the improvements which he made made him a comparatively wealthy man. He first pur- chased property at 43 Lake Avenue, and engaged in the bottling business, to which he subsequently added wholesale trade in liquors. In 1895 he bought property at 17 Lake Avenue, and the next year built a large brick building in which are thirty-two tenements, and on the ground floor continued his business there until his death, which occurred June 26. 1905, at the age of sixty-seven years. He was one of the originators of the Portsmouth Brewing Company at Manchester, of which he continued to be a director during his life, and was also a stock- holder in various local interests. Having been reared in the Roman Catholic Church, he allied himself with the Cathedral Parish of Manchester, to which he gave faithful and liberal support. In political affairs he had acted with the Democratic party until its national platform was dominated by the free silver idea, after which he abandoned it. He served at one time as a member of the common council of Manchester, but as a rule declined to ac- cept any official station. He was married to Mar- garet Carey, who was born in Limerick, Ireland, daughter of James and Ann Carey, and came when three years old to America with her parents, who lived in Manchester. James Carey was for many years engaged in teaming for the Amoskeag Mills, and subsequently engaged in the wood business in Manchester, and has been many years deceased. Five of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Harring- ton are now living. The eldest. James P., died in 1900. William F., the second, is the subject of the succeeding paragraph. Ellen is the wife of Patrick H. Sullivan, residing in Manchester. Lawrence J., the fourth, is engaged in continuing the business of his father in conjunction with his elder brother. Annie F. (Mrs. Thomas Collins) resides in Bos- ton. Mary C., the youngest, resides with her wid- owed mother in Manchester.
William Francis Harrington, eldest surviving son of Patrick and Margaret (Carey) Harrington, was born September 1I, 1871, in Manchester, and was educated in the public schools of the city, graduating from the high school in 1891, in his twentieth year. He was early accustomed to assist his father in the conduct of his business, and be- came bookkeeper of the establishment and was later employed in the same capacity by the Ports- mouth Brewing Company, of which he is now the treasurer. Upon the death of his father he became the active manager of the business established by the latter, which still occupies the major portion of his time. He is a director of the Merchants' Na- tional Bank, and in some other interests of the city, having succeeded his father in these latter
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positions. He is identified with numerous social organizations and fraternal bodies of the city, be- ing affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Columbus, Amoskeag Veterans, and the Derryfield Club. He is a member of the Cathedral Parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Manchester, and gives his po- litical allegiance to the Republican party. Mr. Har- rington is an active and successful business man. having extensive real estate interests to care for in connection with the business inherited from his father. He is genial, affable and intelligent, and a pleasant person to meet in either a business or a social way.
TASKER One of the earliest settlers of this name in New Hampshire was Wil- liam Tasker (or Tasket), who was of Dover from 1675 to 1689. Samuel Tasker, prob- ably his son, was of Dover. and was mortally wounded by the Indians in June, 1704. The sub- jects of the following sketches are probably de- scended from William Tasker, the settler.
(I) Moses S. Tasker was born in Strafford, New Hampshire, and died in 1894. When a young man he located at Centre Ossipee and by dili- gence. economy and good management, became one of the prosperous farmers of Carroll county. He married Salome Nichols, a daughter of James and Nichols. Her father was a soldier in the was of 1812. Six children were born to them: Amanda (died young), Doxan (died young) ; Amanda, the second of that name, married Frank Heath; Lydia, married Frank Foss; one child died young, unnamed; George F. is the subject of the next paragraph.
(II) George F., only son and youngest child of Moses S. and Salome (Nichols) Tasker, was born in Moultonville. December 9, 1866. and was edu- cated in the common schools. He grew up on his father's farm and followed farming, and then went into the butcher business until 1907. having a suc- cessful trade. He then sold out and has again turned his attention to that ancient and independent . employment-the cultivation of the earth. He is a member of Ossipee Tribe, No. 19, Improved Or- der of Red Men.
ATKINSON The immigrant ancestor of the Atkinsons of this sketch was one of that vast army of ambitious citizens who leave their early homes in Europe to make their homes in America, and find here in the newer parts of the country the success that cir- cumstances denied in the crowded centers of a thicklý populated country.
(I) Thomas Atkinson was born in England. He settled in Melbourne, Province of Quebec, Can- ada, where he was a brick and stone mason. In the latter part of his life he was a contractor at Compton, where he died in 1865. He married Me- lissa Nott, daughter of George Nott, of New Hamp- shire. Three children were born of this marriage : Louisa Ann. Christopher George, and Thomas C., whose sketch follows. 'All live in Coos.
(II) Thomas C .. youngest child of Thomas and Melissa (Nott) Atkinson, was born in Melbourne, April 13, 1846. He was educated in the common schools and began to work at lumbering. In 1859 he went to Orono. Maine, where he was employed for twenty years. In the fall of 1879 he removed to Coos, in the town of Strafford, New Hampshire, and became the proprietor of a hotel, which he con-
ducted for some time, and then took the Mill Hotel. He carried that on until 1898, and then built the Hotel Atkinson, which he has ever since managed, doing a prosperous business. In 1904 he was elected selectinan, and in 1906 was elected to the lower house of the legislature; and received in each case at the end of his term the approbation of his fellow citizens for the manner in which he had discharged his duties. He has a decided liking for fraternal organizations. and is a member of several of then. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity-lodge, chapter and commandery; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor. Ile married (first), Louise Stafford, who was born at Oldtown, Maine. He married (second), Annie Hartwell. The children of this marriage are: Harold Hartwell and Frances Geor- giana.
This surname is probably derived from
LODGE the place of abode of its first possessor. Only three generations of the Lodges of this article have resided in America.
(I) Berington Lodge, a native of England, came to America and settled in Kingsley, Province of Que- bec, Canada, where he lived on a farm.
(II) George Henry, son of Berington Lodge, was born in Kingsley, Province of Quebec, April 30. 1831. He was a lifelong and prosperous farmer, owning a place of three hundred acres. He mar- ried Sarah Jane Burbank, who was born in Slat- ington, Province of Quebec, December 9, 1833. Their children, all born in Slatington, were: Wil- liam, born February 23, 1858, married Frances Wil- lows: Clara. October 21, 1860, married Clarence Matthews : Hollis H., December 9, 1861; Etta Sa- rah. May 13. 1862, married Wallace Stevens, and resides in Manchester ; Thomas Elson, November 24, 1863: and Ernest Linsey, the subject of the next paragraph.
(III) Ernest Linsey, sixth and youngest child of George H. and. Sarah Jane (Burbank) Lodge, was born in Slatington, Province of Quebec, Jan- 11a1y 22, 1866, and educated in the common schools. He worked at agricultural pursuits and in the slate factory until about twenty-one years of age, and then went to Bangor. Pennsylvania. He after- ward settled in Manchester, New Hampshire. He worked at carpentry for a time, and later took small contracts on his own account for a few years. Since 1894 he has been successfully engaged as a carpenter and builder, and has erected a large nu1111- ber of buildings in Manchester. principally dwell- ings. Mr. Lodge is a member of the Congregational Church, and in politics is a Republican. He mar- ried Etta M. Willie, who was born in Nicolet Falls, Province of Quebec, May 9, 1863, daughter of Nor- ris M. and Mehilla Willie. They are the parents of Alberta Maud, Beatrice, Harold. James, Prim- rose, and George Frederick. Primrose, born June 3. 1868, married W. J. Moyles, and lives in Man- chester. George Frederick, born Jannary 3, 1870, married Ida Moyles, and lives in Slatington. They have three children : Hildah, Edith and Elvira.
From the land of O'Connell and Gold-
WIER sinith have come many of the families of Canada: and from Canada many of the descendants of those families have found their way to the United States, and are today among those whose labors are increasing the wealth of the nation. Of these are the Wiers of this article.
(I) Alexander Wier was born in Cork. Ireland,
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and came to America with his parents at the age of seven, and settled near Sherbrooke, Province of Que- bec, Canada. He grew up on a farm, and when of age owned one himself, and carried on a lumbering business, that country at that time bearing a large amount of first class timber. He got a good deal of ship timber, including mostly masts, knees, etc. He was successful as a business man, and accumu- lated what was there and then considered a hand- some property.
(II) Joseph Alexander, son of Alexander Wier, died in California. He learned the carpen- ter's trade, at which he worked in Sherbrooke, and then removed to Auburn, Maine, where he resided and followed his calling until about 1879. In that year he went to California and engaged in trade which he carried on until his death. He married in St. Francis, Canada, Amelia Barney. Of this marriage were born two children: William C. and Ada Barney.
(III) William C. Wier was born in Auburn, Maine. March 26, 1872. He was educated in the common schools and worked on a farm and in a mill in Sherbrooke until he was sixteen years old. In 1888 he went to Stewartstown, New Hampshire. where he has since resided and has followed lum- bering. Ile is a very enterprising man and a good citizen. He owns and operates a steam saw mill and does a thriving business. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of For- esters, and Improved Order of Red Men: in each of which he has passed the chairs. He and his wife Lillian have one child, Harry.
Irish history teaches that the Three CASSIDY Collas, the sons of Eochy Dublilen, who was the son of Carbry Liffe- char, the 117th monarch of Ireland, conquered Uls- ter in the fourth century and there founded for themselves and their posterity the Kingdom of Or- giall, sometimes called Oriel and Uriel. From the Three Collas descended many noble families of Ulster, Connaught, Meath, and Scotland. One of the principal families of the chiefs and tribes of the race is that of the Cassidys. whose ancestor was Muireadach, or Colla de Chrioch (or Facrioch), meaning "Colla of the Two Countries." ( Ireland and Alba).
(I) Patrick Cassidy was born in the northern part of Ireland. In 1849 he removed to America and settled in Methuen, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died there in October, 1877. He was an industrious cit- izen, and he and his family were consistent mem- bers of the Catholic Church. He married in Methuen, Elizabeth Boyd, who died in Methuen, in Jan- uary, 1878. The children of this union were: Pe- ter, who married (first), Bridget Colbert: and ( second) Rosanna Henry ; Mary, now the wife of Joseph Martin, of Everett. Massachusetts ; Jane who married J. F. Merrill of Methuen : John. whose sketch is found below ; and a child which died young.
(II) John Francis, fourth child and second son of Patrick and Elizabeth (Boyd) Cassidy, was born in Methuen, 1851, and was educated in the public and parochial schools. When a young man he worked in the shoe factories in Methuen. Haver- hill and Marlborough, and in Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1871 he was appointed to a place on the police force of Manchester. where he has since served continuously and faithfully. His effi- ciency has been noted by his superiors, and since May 11, 1891, he has been deputy chief of the de-
partment. In politics he is a Republican. He was married, March 30, 1875, to Clara E. Colby, daugh- ter of Emerson and Mary (Greeley) Colby, of Londonderry, the latter being a first cousin of the late distinguished Horace Greeley. Mrs. Cassidy was born in Londonderry, and died in Manchester, February 9, 1906. The children of this union are : Florence E., born April 4, 1876. who died Septem- ber 14. 1878; John W., born May 2, 1879, now a clerk in the employ of the Boston & Maine rail- road at Concord, New Hampshire.
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