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. IV, Part 109

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: 878


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(I) Thomas (1) Burnham was selectman in 1647, and on town committees; in 1664 was made sergeant of Ipswich county; in 1665 made ensign ; 1683 appointed lieutenant; deputy to the general court 1683-84-85. In 1667 "Thomas Burnham is granted the privilege of erecting a sawmill on the Chebacco river, near the falls"; in 1657 "a road or way to be laid out through Thomas Burnham's land, across the swamp"; in 1678 "Ensign Thomas Burnham of Ipswich has right of commonage ac- cording to law." He owned much real estate in Ipswich and also in Chebacco. His houses and farms were divided between his sons Thomas and James. He was born in England 1623; married 1645, Mary, daughter of John Tuttle; died June, 1694. (II) James (4), third son of Thomas (I) Burnham, born 1650; resident of Chebacco, Mas- sachusetts ; married; died June 30, 1729.


(III) Thomas, son of James (4) Burnham; married September 30, 1703, Margaret Boarman.


(IV) Offin, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, July 10, 1712. "Descended from Robert and his wife, Mary (Andrews) Burnham, of Ipswich, Nor- folk county, England, an old Norman family."


(V) Deacon William Burnham, son of Offin, was born November 21, 1759; married Sarah Thomas June 5, 1780. He died October 11, 1818.


(VI) Sally Burnham, daughter of Deacon Wil- liam and Sally (Thomas) Burnham, was born Sep- tember 8, 1789; married November 17, 1806, Hezi- kiah Horton; she died November 27, 1839.


Emerancy Horton, daughter of Hezikiah and Sally (Burnham) Horton, was born October 19, ISO7; married Lemuel (2nd) Liscom, September 20, 1831.


Sally Thomas, wife of Deacon William Burn- ham. was a daughter of Nathan Thomas, of Chester- field, New Hampshire, and Hephziba Farr. Nathan Thomas was from Hardwick, Massachusetts, and a descendant of Evan Thomas, who emigrated from


Wales to Newton, Massachusetts, 1640; of ancient Welsh family.


William Thomas, Sr., of Newton, son of Evan, was born in 1656. Died December 1697.


William Thomas, Jr., was born August 31, 1687; settled in Hardwick, Massachusetts, some time pre- vious to 1732; he is considered by good authority as one of the earliest, if not the very earliest, white inhabitant of Hardwick, Massachusetts.


Nathan Thomas, son of William Thomas, Jr., was born November 12, 1745; married, 1741, Hephziba Farr. He died June 27, 1790.


Sally, daughter of Nathan and Hephziba (Farr) Thomas, born March 18, 1760; married Deacon William Burnham, June 5, 1780; died March 28, 1842.


Sally Burnham, daughter of Deacon William and Sally (Thomas) Burnham (as above stated) was born September 8, 1789; married Hezikiah Hor- ton, November 17, 1806; died November 27, 1839.


Emerancy Horton, daughter of Hezikiah and Sally (Burnham) Horton (as above stated), was born October 19, 1807; married Lemuel (2nd) Lis- com, September 20, 1831; she died November 11, 1887. Mrs. Liscom was a devout Christian char- acter, a woman of sterling worth.


To Mr. and Mrs. Liscom were born ten chil- dren. Sarah (1) born March 12, 1834; married Pardon D. Smith, December 12, 1854; lives in Hins- dale, New Hampshire. Charles Horton (2) born January 2, 1836; was a coal and real estate dealer at Clinton, Iowa. He enlisted in the Twenty-sixth lowa Volunteer Infantry, and died at Helena, Ar- kansas, February 24, 1863, of wounds received at the battle of Vicksburg. Samuel Elliot (3) born May 24, 1837; enlisted from Hinsdale in Company A, Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry ; participated in eight battles and was seriously wounded in the head and leg at Opequan Creek. He was transferred to Company C, Twenty-first Regi- ment Veteran Reserve Corps, January 24, 1865, and was discharged July 10, 1865, at Trenton, New Jersey; married Maria Thomas. Julia Elizabeth (4) born September 28, 1838; married Allan Cox, Esq., and resides in Conneaut, Ohio. Lemuel Franklin (5) born February 17, 1841 ; married Dollie Amelia Mason, February 21, 1872; resides in Hins- dale, New Hampshire. Emerancy Ann (6) born May 28, 1842; was drowned April 14, 1844. Lucy Rebecca and Lucius Gray, twins, (7 and 8), born August 28, 1843. Lucy Rebecca married Julius Ma- son, May 13. 1869; lived in Granville, New York, also in New York City and in Brattleboro, Ver- mont. Died in Brattleboro, December 8, 1907. Lucius Gray married Susie Clark; lives in Port Huron, Michigan. Is superintendent of the Macca- bees Temple in that city. Henry Cabot (9) born May 4, 1846; married Keziah Dickerman Putnam December 20, 1870; resides in Brattleboro, Vermont ; dealer in lumber and real estate. Emma Isabella (10) born May 18, 1850; married Scott A. Thrower; resides in Gardner, Massachusetts.


The Barron family, long resident in


BARRON Massachusetts, sent pioneers into the towns of Bradford and Hartford, Ver- mont, where they were citizens of prominence. From the Vermont ancestry have descended the Barrons of this sketch, men of much prominence in New Hampshire.


(I) Abel Barron secured a good education, and for a time taught school. Subsequently he bought and cultivated a farm, but still taught in the winter


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seasons for some years. He was an industrious man and a good manager, accumulated a large property and became one of the leading citizens in the lo- cality where he lived. He married and was the father of four sons: Clinton, Asa T., Oscar F., Orlando, drowned when young; and one daughter, Amanda.


(II) Asa Taylor Barron, son of Abel Barron, was born at Quechee, in the town of Hartford, Ver- mont, December 16, 1814, and died in August, 1887. He engaged in commercial business, having several stores in Hartford. In 1868, perceiving the necessity for a good hotel to accommodate travelers, he built the Junction House at White River Junction, in partnership with his brother, Oscar F., the firm being known as A. T. & O. F. Barron, and con- ducting the hotel under that style until Oscar F. died in 1879. This business was conducted for two years by Asa T. alone, when he was taken ill and took into partnership Mr. C. H. Merrill and O. G. Barron, the firm being Barron, Merrill & Barron. This continued till 1886, when the prop- erty was leased to O. G. Barron and Mr. Merrill and Asa T. Barron retired, living retired till his death in 1887. The properties were conducted a few years by O. G. Barron and Mr. Merrill. Later Mr. William A. Barron became associated with O. G. Barron, and Mr. Merrill, the firm being Barron, Merrill & Barron, which continued till 1899, when the partnership was turned into a cor- poration, and this corporation has operated the properties up to the present time. The ownership was the estate of Asa T. Barron and this was settled in 1896 by the organization of the Barron Hotel Company. This is at present the holding company and leases its properties to the Barron, Merrill & Barron Company, which company in addition to this leases and operates the Fabyan House and the Summit House for the Boston & Maine railroad. Mr. Barron soon discovered that he was peculiarly qualified to be a hotel keeper and began to look about for a new location. This he found at Twin Mountain, Coos county, New Hampshire, where he bought a cottage which he rebuilt and converted into a commodious and attractive hostilery for tourists and other travelers. The demand for ac- commodations grew as the reputation of the hotel spread, the wealth of the country increased, and the number of guests multiplied, and it was enlarged until now it has a capacity to house and feed two hundred guests. Improved facilities for getting to Mount Washington were required and Mr. Barron was quick to see that, and bought the stage line to that mecca of many modern pilgrims, and put on first class service and made it a popular and profitable line. From this time on, knowing his ability and responding to or forestalling demands for first class hotel accommodations, Mr. Barron and those inter- ested with him built or leased various hotels at popular resorts. In 1871 he bought the Crawford House to which he built additions, then erected a new house which now accommodates three hundred and fifty guests. In the early eighties he leased the Fabyan Hotel from the Concord & Montreal railroad, and at the same time he also leased the Summit House on Mt. Washington. These hotels now accommodate comfortably three hundred and fifty and one hundred and fifty persons respectively. Asa T. Barron was a man of splendid judgment, quick perception, unusual executive ability, and un- surpassed as a popular and successful hotel keeper.


He married (first) Clarissa Demmon. There were born of this marriage three children: Mary B., married W. C. Bradley, of Lyndon Center, Ver-


mont. Abel, who resides at White River Junction, Vermont. Oscar G., who is the subject of a suc- ceeding paragraph. Ile married (second) Lydia Maria Andros, who was born in Derby, Vermont, 1833, daughter of Major William Andros, a custom house officer of Derby Line, Vermont. Three chil- dren were born of this union: Josie L., married Frederick E. Thompson, of Boston. William A., who is mentioned below. Harry B., manager of the Twin Mountain House.


(III) Oscar G., second son and third child of Asa T. and Clarissa ( Demmon) Barron, was born in Quechee, in Hartford, Vermont, October 17, 1851, and was educated in the common schools of Que- chee, Springfield, White River Junction, Williston, Fairfax and Poultney, Vermont. When he was but a lad his father began has career as a hotel keeper, and with every feature of the business the boy soon became familiar, and at an early age showed his ability to manage a hostelry with skill and success. He began to act as an independent manager in 1868, when he took charge of the Twin Mountain House. Since then he has managed the United States senate restaurant at Washington, D. C., (being appointed to that position by Vice- President Wheeler in 1877, and retaining the man- agement five years) ; the Putnam House, Palatka, Florida; the Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ar- kansas; the Raymond and Whitcomb Grand, Bar- ron's Suburban Hotel and the Harvard Hotel, Chi- cago; the Twin Mountain House, the Fabyan House, and the Mt. Pleasant House, in the White Moun- tains : the Senter House, Center Harbor, New Hampshire; and the Quincy House, Boston. From an early age he was financially interested in the business of hotel keeping with his father, and con- tributed largely by his skillful management to the success of their various enterprises. The Barron Hotel Company was organized and O. G. Barron was made its president. For many years he has had personal supervison of the Fabyan House during the tourist season. Mr. Barron has devoted his life to one occupation, and in the pursuit of that vo- cation has made a success in which he has few equals and still fewer superiors. He is widely known and deservedly popular. Besides attending to the great interests under his care he has devoted much time to public affairs. In politics he is a Re- publican. He has served the town of Carroll as se- lectman for twenty-five years, and in 1888-90-95-96, as representative in the legislature. By appoint- ment of Governor Sawyer he was made aide-de- camp with the rank of colonel and served as such during the governor's term of office. He was made postmaster at Twin Mountain in 1872 and held the office until 1892. He has been a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos- ton. He is a member of White Mountain Lodge, No. 86, of Whitefield; North Star Royal Arch Chap- ter, of Lancaster; St. Gerard Commandery, Knights Temple, of Littleton; Edward A. Raymond Con- sistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. of Nashua, in which he took the thirty-second degree; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. -


He married, at Montpelier, Vermont, May 16, 1872, Jennie Lane, who was born in Montpelier. Vermont, daughter of Dennis Lanc. They have one daughter, Maude Lane.


(III) William Andros, second child of Asa T. and Lydia Maria (Andros) Barron. was born at White River Junction, Vermont, April 18, 1868. He was educated in the common schools, and at the high schools of Newburyport, Massachusetts, from which


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he graduated in 1884, and Phillips Exeter Academy, from which he graduated in 1887. Like his older brothers he has grown up in the hotel business, and was familiar with every detail of it. Im- mediately after leaving school he began his course as a hotel manager, and has since attended solely to the one business continuously. He has been manager of hotels as follows: Summit House at Mount Washington, three summers; Twin Mountain House, eight summers ; Hotel Belleview at Belclair, Florida, four years; The Ericson, Commonwealth avenue, Boston, two years; and associated in man- agement of The Crawford House at White Moun- tains, New Hampshire; proprietor and manager of Westminster Hotel, Boston, six years. He 15 treasurer of the Barron Hotel Company ; the number of persons employed by the Barron Hotel Company is about five hundred, and the number of guests their hotels will accommodate is eleven hundred. The Barrons of Vermont are as much born to successful hotel keeping as are the Lelands of New York, and William A. Barron's success shows him to be a worthy member of the family. In politics he is a Republican. His interest public affairs is never lukewarm, and although not an office secker he has filled public offices. He was the representative from the town of Carroll in the general court in 1896, an aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on Governor Ramsdell's staff, and commissary general with the rank of brigadier-gen- eral on Governor Batchelder's staff. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian. He is a highly esteemed member of White Mountain Lodge, No. 86, Free and Accepted Masons, of Whitefield; North Star Royal Arch Chapter, of Lancaster; St. Gerard Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Littleton; and Ed- ward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua.


He married, at Newburyport, Massachusetts, Oc- tober 16, 1890, Mary Lawrence Todd, who was born May 15, 1869, daughter of T. Gillis Todd, of New- buryport, Massachusetts. They have one son, Wil- liam A., Jr., who is in Middlesex School, at Concord, Massachusetts.


DUNBAR


Dunbar as a surname was taken first from the seaport of that name in the county of Haddington, near Edin-


burgh, Scotland. William Dunbar, born in 1460, was one of the most distinguished of the early poets of Scotland.


(I) Caleb Dunbar, the son of Dustin Dunbar, a native of Scotland, was born in Grantham, New Hampshire, 1808, and died in Manchester, aged seventy-seven. He was a carriage maker, and manufactured carriages at Newport for a number of years. About 1850 he removed to Manchester, where he continued the business until about three or four years before his death. He was a man of integrity, and a constant attendant of the Baptist Church. He married Elizabeth Young, who was born April 14, 1810, and died aged seventy-seven. She was the daughter of William Young, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. They had ten children: Augusta, married a Cunningham; Charles D; Eveline, married Alanson P. Marshall; George H .; William E .; Frances ; Sidney A .; Eugene B .; and Edward and Eugene, who died young. Four of these now live in Manchester ; Charles D., George H., William E. and Eugene B., are subjects of the next para- grapla


(II) Dr. Eugene Buchanan Dunbar, eighth child and fifth son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Young) Dun- bar, was born in Manchester, September 5, 1857.


He attended the public schools of Manchester, from which he graduated in 1875. He read medicine in the office of Dr. George Hoyt one year, and then pursued his studies in the office of Dr. Flanders until he finished his course. He graduated in medi- cine at Dartmouth with the class of 1887, and re- turned to Manchester, where he has since had a suc- cessful practice in general medicine. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the New Hampshire Medical Association, and the Hills- borough County Medical Society. He is much inter- ested in the efficiency and progress of the public schools, and has been a member of the school board for eight years. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men; the New England Order of Protection ; and the Ancient Order of United Work- men, for the last two of which he is medical ex- aminer. He is also a member of the Derryfield Grange. He married (first) Lizzie Blodgett, died 1895. She was the daughter of William C. and Susan (Lord) Blodgett, of Manchester. He mar- ried (second) Rose Milton, who was born in War- ner, and was the daughter of Daniel and Hannah ( Danforth) Milton. She died 1900, and he mar- ried (third) Edith E. Little, who was born in Newport, Vermont, daughter of Charles and Mary M. Little. Two children were born of the first wife; Clarence E. and Victor Y. The former graduated from the Manchester high school in 1904, and is now a member of the class of 1909 of Dartmouth College, where he matriculated in 1905.


This family in Pennsylvania is prob-


DUNBAR ably descended from progenitors who settled there at the time of the exodus of Scotch to that state before the American Revolution.


(I) John Dunbar was a resident of Centre- ville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and engaged in farming. He married Margaret Hilliard, and they were the parents of six children: Elisha, Wil- liam, John, Enos, Maria and Sarah.


(II) Elisha, son of John and Margaret (Hil- liard) Dunbar, was born in Centreville, Pennsyl- vania, 1843, and died at Mountain Home, Pennsyl- vania, 1900. He was a farmer and blacksmith for some years, but finally gave up agriculture to devote all his time to manufactures. He moved to Doyles- town and engaged in the manufacture of rake handles, and carried on that industry for several years, until an opportunity offered to engage in the manufacture of pegs. He was in the latter busi- ness some time and made it a paying investment. He was a good business man; in politics a Demo- crat, and popular with his townsmen, who elected him to the principal town offices in Doylestown. In religious belief he was a Lutheran. He was fra. ternal, and was a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows organizations. He married Harriet Hester, who was born in Richmond, Pennsylvania, daughter of Henry Hester. Three children were born of this union : Luther A., Annie and Laura.


(III) Luther Albertus, eldest child of Elisha and Harriet (Hester) Dunbar, was born in Centre- ville, Pennsylvania, December 7, I861. He was educated in the public schools, and then went into business with his father. After a short time he pre- ferred to go west, and in 1880 took the position of timekeeper for a contractor who was constructing the railroad between Point St. Ignace and Mar- quette, Michigan. In 1884 the Kearsarge Peg Com- pany having dealings with the elder Dunbar, made arrangements to have the son take charge of their plant in Bartlett. He took the place the same


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year, and has ever since been the company's superin- tendent. He takes an interest in public affairs, and has filled several public positions. He was modera- tor for a period of six years some time previous to 1907, when he was re-elected to that place. He has been a member of the school board, and a trustee of the Bartlett Public Library. In politics he is unfettered by party ties, and acts independently and upon his own judgment. For some years he has been president of the Congregational Society of Bartlett. He is a member of Mt. Washington Lodge, No. 87, Free and Accepted Masons, of North Conway; Signet Royal Arch Chapter, of Littleton, New Hampshire; St. Gerard Commandery, Knights Templar; and Mt. Sinai Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Montpelier, Ver- mont. He married, at Canadensis, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1892, Grace Lewis, daughter of Laban and Margaret (Sutherland ) Lewis. They have two children : Leon and Kenneth.


PAUL The name of Paul is one of the most ancient in this country. In the early rec- ords the name is sometimes spelled with two "I's"; but the single "1" seems the older form. William Paul is usually considered the first Ameri- can ancestor, but there are other Pauls in other states, apparently unrelated, who are contemporane- ous with William. William Paul, born in Scotland in 1624, left Gravesend, England, for the Bermuda Islands on the ship "True Love de London," and settled at Dighton, since a part of Taunton, Massa- chusetts, in 1637. He was one of the pioneers of Taunton, where he was a large landowner; he was also a weaver and a mariner. He married Mary, daughter of John Richmond, and they had six children. He died at Taunton, November 9, 1704, aged eighty years; his widow died in 1715. The Pauls of Vermont are descended from this ancestry. Another early Paul was Joseph, who died at Abing- ton, Pennsylvania, in 1717. He was a member of the Society of Friends, owned hundreds of acres about Abington, and was a member of the As- sembly of the colony. There is nothing to show that he was kin to William, and he probably came direct from England in the seventeenth century. The state of Connecticut numbers two other Pauls among her early settlers. Benjamin Paul was at New Haven in 1639, and Daniel at New Haven in 1643; they may have been brothers. It is probable that Daniel Paul, whose descent follows, may have been derived from the Connecticut Benjamin, or Daniel, but direct proof is lacking.


(I) Daniel Paul came from Woodstock, Con- nccticut, in 1798, and bought the farm at Newport, New Hampshire, afterwards owned by his grand- son, Doddridge Paul. He married Lovisa Ans- worth, of Woodstock, and they had ten children : Charlotte, born February 3, 1784, married Azor Perry, and went west. Lovisa, October 7, 1785, married John Ryder, of Croydon. Luke, see for- ward. Loren, December 25, 1788, married Susan Walton. Alexis, November 30, 1790, married An- drew Perry, of Vermont. Doddridge, September 19, 1794, married Roxana Whiting. Ira, January 25. 1799, died in 1875. Daniel, May 31, 1801. An- drew, September 21, 1803, married Clarissa Lamb, went to New York. Alvah, July 14, 1805, became a physician at Royalton, Ohio, married Nancy Bige- low. of Middletown, Vermont.


(II) Luke, eldest son and third child of Daniel and Lovisa (Answorth) Paul, was born June 28, 1787, at Croydon, New Hampshire. He was edu- cated in the district schools. He taught school in


the winters and farmed in the summers. He cleared his farm out of the wilderness, and was enterprising and prosperous. He married Sarah Cooper, daugh- ter of Samuel Cooper, of Croydon, and they settled on the old Gibson farm at Baltimore Hill. They had one child, Azor. Luke Paul and his wife are buried in Croydon.


(III) Azor, son of Luke and Sarah ( Cooper) Paul, was born April 12, 1812, in Croydon, New Hampshire. He was educated in the district schools and became a successful farmer. He moved from Croydon to the eastern part of Newport. His first home was where Reed's saw mill is now located. After a time he moved back to Croydon, where he remained two and one-half years, and then pur- chased the old homestead. Later he moved on the direct road to Newport, where he continued farming and lived there till his death. Azor Paul was twice married. His first wife was Roena, daugh- ter of Stephen and Lovina (Wakefield) Reed, of Newport. They had two children: Roena, born in 1840, married Thomas C. Rider. Eugene A., born February 17, 1847, married, December 12, 1876, Jennie H. Hurd; they had one child, Eugene Ralph, born January 9, 1878. Mrs. Roena (Reed) Paul died in October, 1843, and Azor Paul married her sister, Rosella Reed. There were four children by the second marriage who lived to man and womanhood : George E., born August 17, 1845, married Susan Cole. Sidney, who died at the age of nine years. Anna R., June 15, 1855. Fred. A., March 23, 1859. McClellan, December 20, 1864. Azor Paul died in January, 1890, and his wife, Mrs. Rosella (Reed) Paul, died in August, 1892. Both are buried in the Maple Street cemetery at Newport. The ancestry of the wives of Azor Paul is interesting. They were the granddaughters of Peter Wakefield (see Wakefild, V).


(IV) George E., eldest son and child of Azor and Rosella (Reed) Paul, was born August 17, 1845, at Newport, New Hampshire. He was edu- cated in the public schools and remained on the home farm till the age of twenty-one. The farm where he lives now is on the main road to New- port, Sunapee, Newbury and Bradford. It is the site where John Trask, Senior, and Zachariah Batchelder first lived while they were clearing their farms. Mr. Paul has worked early and late, re- moving the stones from his land, and to-day it is one of the most productive farms in Sullivan county. There are two hundred and sixty acres, well drained. Mr. Paul is considered one of the most substantial farmers in this part of the state. Since he first owned the place he has put up a complete set of new buildings, which present an attractive appearance from the roadside. He takes great pride in keep- ing things in good shape, and his buildings are painted annually. The farm itself yields a handsome profit, the maple sugar alone furnishing a good revenue, as hundreds of gallons of superior syrup are made every spring. Mr. Paul winters from thirty to thirty-five head of cattle in his modern barns, besides keeping four horses. He milks twenty cows on an average, and ships the product direct to Boston. His hay crop amounts to seventy-five tons or more. George E. Paul was married to Susan Cole, daughter of Benjamin and Lucy (Hatch) Cole, Plainfield. New Hampshire. They




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