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(IV) Ephraim, sixth child of John Lane and eldest child of his second wife, Sarah, was born June 24, 1694, in Rehoboth. He was admitted to full communion with the church in Norton, in 1715, and was tithingman in 1719. He was married, Jan- uary 10, 1717, to Ruth "Shepperson," who united with the church in Norton, in 1718. She was a daughter of John and Eliza Shepherdson, of At- tleboro, Massachusetts. They have many descend- ants in Norton and vicinity. Their children were : Ephraim, Elkanah, Ruth (died in infancy), Ruth, Jonathan, Abigail and Samuel.
(V) Elkanah, second son and child of Ephraim and Ruth ( Shepherdson) Lane, was born April I, 1719, in Norton, and was baptized on the thirtieth of the November following. He removed with his two sons and daughter to Swanzey, New Hamp- shire, previous to the Revolution. There he joined the Minute Men under Captain Joseph Hammond, April 21, 1775, and marched at sunrise. April 25, for Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts. The town paid him for fifteen days' service at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, and for five days in the militia at another time, one pound, nine shillings and three pence. He was a member of the commit- tec of correspondence and inspection for Swanzey, under the Continental Congress. He was selectman
of Swanzcy in 1785, and as such certified on June If that James Green was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill and was worthy of attention from the general court. Mr. Lane died in Swanzey, Decem- ber 6, 1811, in his ninety-third year. Ile was mar- ried June 10, 1742, by Rev. Joseph Avery, to Han- nah Tingley, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, who died September 15, 1772, aged fifty-two years. Their children were born in Norton, namely : Hannah, Elkanah, Luke, Ruth, Samuel and Abigail.
(VI) Samuel, third son and fifth child of El- kanah and Hannah (Tingley) Lane, was born Jan- uary 9, 1759, in Norton, Massachusetts, and re- moved with his father to Swanzey, New Hampshire. He was a Revolutionary soldier and marched to Ticonderoga, October 21, 1776, and served until No- vember 16, a period of twenty-six days. He was then about seventeen years old. He was among those mustered at Walpole, New Hampshire, in May, 1777, being then eighteen years old, and en- listed in June in Grigg's company, Alexander Scam- mel's regiment, Continental troops, June 4, 1777. After this service he received the town's bounty of ten pounds, sixteen shillings and eight pence. He was selectman of Swanzey in 1792. He was married. June 15, 1785, to Eunice, daughter of Elisha Scott. She was born June 15, 1766, and died November 28, 1825. Mr. Lane lived for a time in Winchendon, Massachusetts, and removed thence to Northfield in that state in 1807. He died Jan- mary 26, 1845. His children were: Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Ezekiel, Luther and Lucy. (Ezekiel and children are mentioned in this article).
(VII) Elijah, second son and child of Samuel and Eunice (Scott) Lane, was born October 2, 1788, in Swanzey, twin of Elisha. Both lived and reared families. He was a member of the Congregational Society of Swanzey from December 26, 1809, and resided in that town. He died there May 16, 1851. He was married, January 29, 1815, to Fanny Scott, of Winchester, who died March 14, 1871. Their children were: Maria P., Luther Scott, Elliott W., Fanny F., Ebenezer F. and Eunice F.
(VIII) Ebenezer Frink, third son and fifth child of Elijah and Fanny (Scott) Lane, was born No- vember 20, 1824, in Swanzey, and lived on the same farm in that town for thirty-five years. He was married August 14, 1850, to Hannah Porter, daugh- ter of Chester Lyman, who was commissioned cap- tain in the war of 1812 by James Madison. presi- clent. She was born May 21, 1829, and died May 22, 1886. Their children were: Henry C., Edgar W., Hattie M., Chester L. and Maria F.
(IX) Chester Lyman, third son and fourth child of Ebenezer F. and Hannah Porter (Lyman) Lane, was born April 9, 1857, in the family homestead in West Swanzey. He was educated in the public schools of the town and carly took employment in the pail factory of George F. Lane & Son, where lie continued for ten or twelve years. He purchased a farm on the border of East Swanzey village. where he now resides, and is numbered among the successful farmers of the town. He also engaged in the lumber business, and in 1900 with George Whitcomb and Levi Fuller purchased the pail and bucket factory in East Swanzey, in which he had been employed as a boy and young man. He has been active in conducting the town affairs and served for several years efficiently as road agent. He has served as selectman and was representative in the state legislature in 1903-04, serving on the insurance committec. He is a member of the Grange, of the Knights of the Golden Cross, is a member of Monadnock Lodge, No. 8, Free and Ac-
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cepted Masons; Cheshire Chapter, Royal and Se- lect Masters; and Hugh DePayen Commandery, Knights Templar. He was married, September 27, 1879, to Emma Florence, daughter of Nathan and Emily B. (Harris) Newell. She was born January 30, 1862, in Bloomington, Illinois, and is the mother of the following children: Ralph Waldo, Flor- ence S. (deceased), Zora Alice, Lora Agnes, Ches- ter E., Earl N., Raymond L. and Kenneth P.
(VII) Ezekiel, fourth son and child of Samuel and Eunice (Scott) Lane, was born September 28, 1790, in Swanzey. He was one of the most pros- perous agriculturists of Swanzey, and his farm of three hundred and fifty acres was located some three miles east of Swanzey Centre. His interest in local public affairs, as well as in all other matters relative to the general welfare of the town, was frequently emphasized, and his citizenship was of a character well worthy of emulation. In politics he was a whig. He died May 16, 1851. On Feb- ruary 3, 1814, he married Rachel Thayer Fish, who was born in Swanzey, July 27, 1796, daughter of Farnham Fish. They were the parents of Farnham Fish, born March 15, 1816; George Farrington, Feb- ruary 21, 1818; Alonzo Franklin. December 28, 1819; Ezekiel Francis, April 27, 1823; Elisha Fred- erick, who will receive further mention presently ; Alpheus Ferdinand, July 3, 1828; Ezra Fish, De- cember 14, 1830; Rachel Caroline, April 1, 1833, married (first), Alonzo Mason, and (second). J. Woodward; Nathaniel Fayette, February 21, 1839, was killed in the Civil war; and Sarah Josephine, January 8, 1842, became the wife of Adoniram Jud- son Van Armun, of Hartford, Vermont, June 8. 1862. The two first born of this family died in in- fancy, and the mother of these children died in Keene, May 17, 1880.
( VIII) Elisha Frederick, seventh son and child of Ezekiel and Rachel Thayer (Fish) Lane, was born in Swanzey, April 29, 1826. Having acquired a good education, which was concluded in Hancock, New Hampshire, he was for some time engaged in educational pursuits, teaching schools in War- wick. Massachusetts, Swanzey Factory and East Swanzey. In 1849 he became associated with his brothers Alpheus F. and Ezra F. in purchasing and operating a mill privilege in Marlboro, this state, and for a period of seven years was engaged in the manufacture of wooden-ware. In 1857 he was ap- pointed deputy sheriff, and two years later estab- lished his residence in Keene. In 1861 he was named by the secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, as United States assessor, retaining that office for two years, when he was advanced to the responsible post of deputy collector for Cheshire county and continued as such until the war taxes were abolished. In 1870 he was elected sheriff of Cheshire county, in which capacity he served with unquestionable energy and fidelity for three years, or until the successful predominance at the polls of the opposing political party. He then be- came interested in railway enterprises, manufac- turing industries and the development of real es- tate. He was one of the promoters of the Ashuelot railroad, after it had passed into the hands of a trustee, retaining his shares in that corporation long after its sale to the Connecticut River Railroad Company, and was a director and treasurer of the first-named company, the Connecticut River. Ver- mont Valley and Sullivan County railways. When the Connecticut River road was absorbed by the Boston and Maine system he disposed of his inter- ests in railway enterprises. He has erected two large business blocks in Keene, which bear his
name, and has a third building of a similar charac- ter in process of construction. He is president of and principal stockholder in the Lancaster Shoe Company (incorporated), has been a director of the Keene National Bank for the past forty years, of which he served as president, and in various other ways has actively participated in forwarding the busi- ness interests of Keene. Mr. Lane's contributions to the substantial growth and development of Keene have not been confined to his numerous personal building operations. He was an especially active factor in causing the erection of the Young Men's Christian Association building (and the payment of its debt) ; the museum, and indeed the best part of the business portion of Keene was built under the impetus of his wise judgment and knowledge. Politically he is a Republican. He is an advanced Mason, being a member of the Blue Lodge, Chap- ter, Council and Commandery. As a member of the First Congregational Church he is prominently identified with religious work, and was largely in- strumental in organizing the local Young Men's Christian Association. In concluding this brief out- line of Mr. Lane's busy and successful life it is both just and proper to add that his high personal character, public-spirited generosity and long con- tinued interest in behalf of the welfare and pros- perity of Keene, have won the genuine admiration and estecm of his fellow citizens, and although he has reached the venerable period of an octogenarian. it is their sincere hope that his removal from their midst inay prove to be an occurrence far remote from the present.
On March 15, 1849, Mr. Lane married Susan M. Fish, who died March 31, 1867, and September 15 of the following year he married for his second wife Harriet P. Wilder, whose birth took place in Keene, April 4, 1836. Hubert E., the only child of his first union, was born March 19, 1854. The chil- dren of his second marriage are: Henry W., born April 2, 1871: Susanna Grace, born September 15. 1876: and Harriet M., born July 6, 1879. The family homestead, which occupies a most desirable location on lower Main street, possesses consider- able historic interest, as it is the original site of the first meeting house ever 'erected in Cheshire county.
(Second Family.)
(I) William Lane, above referred to as LANE of Boston, the earliest of this line of whom we have record, was a cordwainer of Boston in 1650. His first wife was Mary, who had four children : Samuel (died young), Samuel,
John and Mary. His second wife was Mary Brewer, and she had four children: Sarah, Wil- liam, Elizabeth and Ebenezer. (William and de- scendants are noticed in this article).
(II) Captain John. son of William and Mary Lane, was born in Boston, February 5, 1654. In 1674 John Lane was a cordwainer in Boston. In March, 1675, when twenty-two years old, he was a soldier in King Philip's war, in the same company where his brother Samuel served under Captain Poole. There is no further trace of this John Lane, unless he is the John Lane who lived a while in Hampton and then became Captain John Lane, of York county, Maine. In November, 1692, when he married in Newbury, Massachusetts, he was Mr. John Lane. Ten years later he is called Captain John Lane. and so afterwards. In 1699, December 10, John Lane of Newbury, gave a deed of land to John Frost, of the Isle of Shoals. About 1708 "Captain Lane is mentioned among the brave men of the garrison." He afterwards. served as captain
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in the province of Maine, and in 1717 was com- mander at Fort Mary, Winter Harbor, near Bid- deford, at the mouth of Saco river, where he died and was buried about 1720. John Lane married, November, 1693, Johannah Davinson, and by her had: Abigail, John and Mary, and probably Jabez and other children.
(III) Captain Jolin (2). son of Captain John (I) and Joanna (Davinson) Lane, was born in Hampton, March 1, 1702. He entered the military service early under his father, was a lieutenant, and at the death of his father became captain. He served in various places in Maine, and became fa- mous in fighting the Indians. In a report to Lieu- tenant Governor Dummer; dated York, 21 April, 1724, Colonel Thomas Westbrook says with regret, that "Lieutenant John Lane has been so imprudent as to suffer his men to kill sundry creatures be- longing to the people of the County of York. He did not deny the fact, and made satisfaction to the people." He lived at York, Biddeford, Broad Bay, St. George, etc. In the French war. which com- menced in 1744, the Indians burned his house, and "he enlisted a company under Colonel Harmon and met them in battle at Norridgewock." "When the province granted bounties for scalps he was out all the winter of 1744-45. after the St. Johns Indians." He was captain of a company in the expedition against Louisburg under Sir William Pepperill, and after the surrender was mustered out in June, 1745. He was soon after taken sick, sent to Boston, and was unable to serve again till April, 1746, when he was given command of a company on the eastern frontier, but he suffered a relapse and did not re- cover for many months, being at his home in York with his wife and three small children, suffering from sickness and poverty, so that in February, 1748, he received seven pounds from the general court, and again in April, 1749, the legislature voted five pounds for his relief, and on December 7, 1749, four pounds. In the next war against the French and Indians he was at Boston. in April, 1758. with a company of Biddeford men, and served in the expedition against Crown Point. But a return of this company, dated October II, 1756, reports Cap- tain John Lane Sr. as dead, and the command as devolving on his son, John Lane Jr. It is supposed that he died in the service of his country, at the age of fifty-four, and was buried not far from Crown Point, Essex county, New York. He mar- ried, about 1733, Mary, daughter of Peter Nowell. of York, Maine, and had five children : John, Henry, Joanna, Daniel, and Jabez. His three sons, John, Daniel and Jabez, were "splendid looking men. possessed of great physical powers and per- sonal bravery. They inherited the military spirit of their father, and each of them became a captain in the revolutionary war."
(IV) Captain Jabez. fifth child and fourth son of Captain John and Mary (Nowell) Lane, was born in Wiscasset. Maine, September 21, 1743. and died at Buxton, April 30, 1830. He resided in Buxton. one mile from the Lower Corner, on a farm, and was often engaged in "lumber oper- ations." His name in 1754 appears on the roll of his father's company as "a son under age, not twelve years." The muster roll of Captain Jabez Lane's company is dated January 1, 1777, and he served through most of the revolutionary war. In early youth his taste for military affairs was cultivated in the company where his father commanded at Crown Point, where his eldest brother John was lieutenant, at the age of twenty, and his brother Daniel a private at the age of sixteen. Colonel
Isaac Lane once mnet a southern gentleman in Washington City, who said that his father, an officer in the revolutionary army at the south, once fought a duel with a Captain Lane from the cast. That "it was at a dinner given by the officers; that when they had become excited over their wine, his father said something derogatory to the Yankees, and Captain Lane slapped him in the face, and a chal- lenge followed. Captain Lane was wounded in the side, and his father in the leg." Colonel Isaac concluded that if it was either of the three Buxton captains, it must have been Captain Jabez, for neither of the others would have kept it secret for so long. After his return to Maine, one Saturday afternoon, when Captain Jabez and "a goodly num- ber of citizens were met at his store, drinking rum and molasses, telling stories, swapping horses, and so forth, Colonel Isaac related the story ot the duel. Captain Jabez, at the close of the story, re- moved his clothes and showed a scar, left by the wound, on his side." He was a quiet man and re- mained on the farm where he settled in 1772, until his death. He married, August 27, 1772, Sarah, daughter of Joshua Woodman, who died March II, 1825. They had ten children : Samuel, Jabez, Polly, Joshua, John, Captain Stephen W., Mehi- table M., Rufus K., Silas . Nowell, and James.
(V) Joshua, fourth child and third son of Cap- tain Jabez and Sarah (Woodman) Lane, was born June 5, 1782; and died October 5, 1860, at Water- boro, Maine. He was a farmer and resided at Bux- ton. He married, October 21, 1799. Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and Priscilla (Davis) Rin- nery, of Buxton, born November 28, 1780, who died April 28, 1846. They had ten children: Sarah W., Alvin Bacon, Rufus K., Priscilla Ann, Henry J., Joshua C., Jonathan R., Mary R .. Amanda Eliza- beth and Jonathan R.
(VI) Joshua Charles, fourth son and sixth child of Joshua and Elizabeth (Runnery) Lane, was born at Buxton, Maine, August 4, 1823. He has been long a resident of Limerick, where he has been a merchant, banker, and influential citizen. He was treasurer of the Savings Bank at Limerick for twenty-three years, and of the Limerick National Bank for seventeen years. He is a Democrat, and has taken a lively interest in politics, having filled the offices of selectman, representative in the state legislature. delegate to the National Convention in 1894, etc. He was trustee of the Phillips Limerick Academy, and president of the board of trustees. He is a Universalist, a member of the Masonic fra- ternity and of the Odd Fellows. He married, 1849, Martha 1. Staples, born in Limington, 1826, died in Limerick in 1903. They adopted two children : Eugene, born in Limerick, December 25, 1856, and Alice M., born in 1870.
(VII) Eugene. adopted son of Joshua C. and Martha A. (Staples) Lane, was born in Limerick, Maine, December 25. 1856, and educated in the common schools and Limerick Academy. t the age of fifteen he went to Augusta, where he learned the printer's trade in the office of the Gospel Banner. Two years later he had so fully mastered the de- tails of the business that he was placed in charge of the Banner's entire printing establishment, which at that time was the largest Universalist de- nomination and book publishing house in the coun- try. This place he filled four years, and then en- gaged in newspaper work at Limerick and Cornish, Maine.
Mr. Lane came to Suncook in 1881 and entered the newspaper field. In April, 1883, he came into possession of the Suncook Journal, and with com-
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mendable enterprise and energy endeavored to give the community a sprightly, newsy. weekly paper, fand meet promptly the demands of the public for job work. To furnish greater facilities for increasing business, he added a cylinder press in 1884. He conducted this paper till October, 1894, when he sold the plant and it was removed from the town. Mr. Lane has contributed to other papers in the state, and for several years was the local representative of the Associated Press. He was appointed post- master at Suncook in 1898, and served in that office four years. In politics he is a Republican, and for twenty-two years past has been a member of the town council, serving all that time as its clerk. He has served two terms as town clerk, and in 1893-94 represented Pembroke in the New Hamp- shire legislature. He married, May 17, 1883, Meta G. Gault, daughter of Andrew and Abby (Davis) Gault. of Pembroke, born January 5, 1860. They have had three children: Dean G., born February 20, 1884, died August, 1884. Hazel, born May 2, 1889, died June 17, 1906, and Gladys, born October 29, 1891.
(II) William (2), second child and eldest son of William (I) and Mary (Brewer) Lane, born October 1, 1659, was a tailor by trade. He joined the North Church, Boston, in 1681, and in 1686 re- moved to Hampton, New Hampshire, where he settled on a grant of ten acres. He built a one- story house near the meeting house and the spot where the old academy stood. He is said to have been "a devout and godly man," living a quiet and humble life, respected by those who knew him. He (lied at the home of his son Joshua, February 14, 1749, aged about ninety years. He married, June 21, 1680, Sarah. daughter of Thomas and Sarah ( Brewer) Webster, born January 22, 1661, died January 6, 1745, aged eighty-five years, and they had seven children: John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abi- gail, Joshua, Samuel. and Thomas.
(III) Deacon Joshua, fifth child and second son of William (2) and Sarah (Webster) Lane, was born June 6, 1696, and was killed while standing on his door-step after a shower, June 14, 1766, aged seventy years. He and his wife joined the church in Hampton, March 10, 1718. Here he resided on a farm on the road to North Hampton, one-half mile north of the present railroad station, and car- ried on the trade of tanner and shoemaker. He married, December 24, 1717, Bathsheba, daughter of Samuel and Mary Robie, born August 2, 1696, Old Style, died April 13, 1765. They had sixteen children, eight sons and five daughters of whom lived to become useful members of society. He had sixty grandchildren before his death. His children were: Deacon Samuel, Mary, Joshua
(died young), William, Joshua, Josiah (died young), Major John, Sarah, Bathsheba. Isaiah, Deacon Jeremialı, Ebenezer, Abigail. Elizabeth, Josiah and Anna. (Mention of Joshua, John and Jeremiah and descendants occurs in later para- graphs of this article).
(IV) Deacon William, third son and fourth child of Deacon Joshua and Bathsheba (Robie) Lane, was born January 1, 1723, and baptized on the tenth of the following February, in Hampton. He was a tanner and shoemaker by occupation, and his estate continued in the family for many years, being occupied in very recent years by his great grandson. He died December 20, 1802, but a few days short of eighty years of age. He was mar- ried, February 13, 1746, to Rachel, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Sanborn) Ward, of Hampton. Their children were: Noah (died young), Abigail, Ward, William, Noah, Thomas and Jeremiah.
(Noah and descendants are noticed in this ar- ticle).
(V) Ward, second son and third child of Dea- con William and Rachel (Ward) Lane, was born June 1, 1751, in Hampton, and died there June 24, 1837. He was also a shoemaker, and settled on the North Hampton road. His house was standing until the latter part of the past century. He was married, April 28, 1774, to Mehitable, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Towle) Fogg, of Hampton. She was born July 13, 1755, and died August 21, 1839. Their children were: Abigail, Samuel Fogg. Rachel. Daniel Ward, Dearborn, Thomas, Mary, William, Anna and Jolın.
(VI) Daniel Ward, second son and fourth child of Deacon Ward and Mehitable (Fogg) Lane, was born March 7, 1780, and died July 4, 1865, in Hampton. He was a farmer by occupation, and was succeeded by his youngest son. who was still living in recent years. He married Lydia, daughter of Josiah and Hannah (Towle) Towle, of Hamp- ton. She was born April 3, 1783, and died Decem- ber 18, 1849. Their children were: Joseph Stacey (died young), Oliver (died young), Joseph Stacey, Asa, Thomas, Shuabel, Sarah, and Oliver.
(VII) Oliver, youngest child of Daniel Ward and Lydia (Fogg) Lane. was born January 14, 1828, in Hampton, where he died. He was a blacksmith by trade, and was employed many years on the rail- road. He married Sarah A., daughter of Sewall and Nancy (Blake) Brown. She was born August 26, 1830, and died September 2, 1891. Their chil- dren were: Mary Abbie, Lydia Ann, Julia Etta, Sarah Augusta, Lizzie Florence and Nellie Ger- trude.
(VIII) Sarah Augusta, fourth daughter of Ol- iver and Sarah A. (Brown) Lane, was born Jan- uary 22, 1860. in Hampton, and was married July 23. 1887, to Walter E. Darrah, of Concord (see Darrah, V).
(V) Deacon Noah, fourth son and sixth child of William and Rachel (Ward) Lane, was born in Hampton, January 30, 1756 or '57. He settled upon a farm in Deerfield, where he became closely iden- tified with the Congregational Church, and was for many years a deacon. He married Mehitable Burn- ham, who died in 1846, aged ninety-one years. The twelve children of this union were: Molly. Lieu- tenant Edmund Churchill, William, Sarah, Rachel, Thomas Robie, Noah, Simeon and Levi (twins). Joshua, John and Samuel, all of whom were born in Deerfield except the first born.
(VI) Joshua, seventh son and tenth child of Deacon Noah and Mehitable (Burnham) Lane, was born in Deerfield. November 26, 1794. He was a shoemaker, and followed that trade in connection with farming. The last years of his life were spent in Manchester, and he died there August 12, 1849. February 28, 1822, he married Jane Batchelder, who was born in Deerfield, October 22, 1796; died Jan- tary 12, 1880. She became the mother of six chil- dren : Erastus, born March 16, 1823; Mehitable. Jane, August 12. 1824: Thomas A., the date of whose birth is recorded in the succeeding para- graph : Abigail Ann, February 8, 1831 ; Sarah Eliza- beth, June 1, 1833; and Adoniram Judson, October 30, 1835.
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