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 110

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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have two children : Sidney E., born June 8, 1875, married Lenore Philbrick, daughter of Elwin and Ella (Sargent) Philbrick, of Springfield, New Hampshire; they were married December, 1905. George Merton, born November 19, 1877, married M. Alice Young, daughter of Wilbur and Margaret

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(Pyke) Young. They were married October, 1897, and have one son, Stanley, born July 26, 1903. They live on the home place, and Mr. Paul is station agent at Sunapee on the Boston & Maine railroad.

(II) Daniel Paul, Jr., eighth child and fifth son of Daniel and Lovisa (Answorth) Paul, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, May 31, 1801, and died on the old home farm in that town. He married, November 30, 1828, Experience C. Whip- ple, born November 22, 1808, daughter of David Whipple of Croyden, New Hampshire. Three chil- dren were born of this marriage: Laban, born Janu- ary 5, 1832, died in 1859; Epaphras, born Decem- ber 17, 1833, married Mary George of Sunapee and settled at Croydon; and Doddridge, of Newport.

(III) Doddridge, youngest of the three sons of Daniel and Experience ( Whipple) Paul, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, October 12, 1835, and lived nearly sixty years on the old farmn where his grandfather settled before 1800. Doddridge Paul has not been content with merely maintaining the paternal acres, and added to his lands in that vicinity until at one time he owned six hundred acres. Some parts of these lands were afterward sold, and in 1894 he removed with his family to his present farm in East Unity. He is known as one of the most thrifty, successful and well-to-do farmers of the town of Newport, and now owns and with the assistance of his son carries on about five hundred acres of farm lands. Mr. Paul never has been active in either town or county polities, having no ambition for public office, and in both politics and religion he holds to liberal views. He is an active man, holds his years well, a close observer of men and affairs and a careful reader of the events of the day.

He married, March 20, 1864, Rosetta Rogers, of Goshen, New Hampshire. She was born June 15, 1843, and died at East Unity, November, 1905. Six children were born of this marriage, viz. : Daniel, born December 14, 1864; Lovisa A., born July 17, 1866, married Elmer Dodge, of Newport; Jennie L., born December 16, 1871, married Frank Putnam, of Claremont, New Hampshire; James R., born January 17, 1874, died in 1851; Isabel H., born July 5, 1877, married Ralph Johnson; John L., now living at home.

George H. Morrison, proprietor of MORRISON the Morrison Hospital, Whitefield, New Hampshire, was born in Jef- ferson, New Hampshire, December 7, 1854, a son of Calvin and Elmira (Jordan) Morrison. Calvin Morrison being a man of limited means, depending solely upon his labor for the support of his family, and his wife dying in 1861, leaving him with three small children, he was unable to give his son the educational advantages which are so essential to a successful career. and accordingly at a very early age George II. was obliged to maintain himself by manual labor.

George H. Morrison was first employed on farms and in saw mills, but being an ambitious lad, desirous of acquiring an education and studying a profession, he made good use of every opportunity, and prior to attaining the age of twenty-one was thoroughly versed in rudimentary knowledge. He studied medicine with Dr. Charles E. Rowell, of Lancaster, and saved sufficient capital to defray his expenses through college. In 1877 he entered Bos- ton University, where he remained two years, and then went to Philadelphia and in 1881 graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College. He im- mediately began the practice of his profession at

North Strafford, New Hampshire, and the follow- ing year (1882) came to Whitefield and succeeded to the practice of Dr. C. S. Snell. He conducted a general practice successfully until 1902, when he took up general surgery as a specialty. In 1886-87- 88-89 he pursued post-graduate courses at the Post- Graduate and Polyclinic Hospital, New York City, and each year since then has spent some time visit- ing the hospitals in the large cities of the country. The summer of 1900 he spent in visiting the more important hospitals of Europe, and in this way kept abreast with the advanced and more modern methods of surgery and medicine. In the winter of 1901 an epidemic of small pox broke out ill Whitefield, and Dr. Morrison gave up his large practice and took charge of the cases, treating them successfully, not losing a single case, and the fees paid him by the county commissioners he used to beautify the public common of Whitefield. There being no hospital in northern New Hampshire and the need being great, in 1902 Dr. Morrison estab- lished a private hospital at his residence, but his quarters soon became inadequate, and the following year he erected his present commodious building. Dr. Morrison is a member of the Coos County Medical Association, New Hampshire Medical So- ciety, American Medical Association, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arech Masons, Knights Templar, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a Republican.

Dr. Morrison organized the Board of Health in Whitefield, and has acted in the capacity of chair- man of the same for more than two decades. He, with a partner, established the electric light plant and owned and managed it for twelve years, dis- posing of it in the fall of 1907. He has taken stock in all companies conducting business in his adopted city, and was one of the organizers and has since been a director of the Whitefield Bank and Trust Company. He has always been a leader in all enterprises that would prove of benefit to the town and community. He presented to the town the clock which adorns the cupola of the town hall. Dr. Morrison was married in 1878 to Carry F. Snow, of Columbia, New Hampshire, daughter of Dr. Lewis and Jannett ( Hobert ) Snow.

The Morrison Hospital, completed and opened to the public March 20, 1903, has a picturesque situa- tion at the edge of the village, on a commanding rise known as "The Highlands," a location which not only furnishes a magnificent view of White Mountain scenery, but which is at the same time emi- nently healthful on account of its dry sandy soil, and invigorating on account of its. pure balmy air and abundant sunshine. The handsome building has more the appearance of a fine mountain hotel or of a large private house than of a hospital. It is one hundred and six feet long, is admirably lo- cated in ample grounds, embracing about one acre of well laid lawns decorated with flowers and shrub- bery. The building was originally designed for a surgical institution, but now all cases are admitted except contagious. This is the largest and prob- ably the only private hospital in the state that is self-sustaining, and being located in the heart of the White Mountains, where many tourists come, their patients are from all sections of the country. Each floor lias five pleasant and cosy private rooms, while there are also two wards, each containing eight beds, on each floor. One of the private rooms is reserved for Catholic patients, and has been furnished by the local church. Throughout the hospital the greatest care has been taken with the steam heating and the ventilation, and every

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precaution has been used to secure the prevention of dust, and to leave no breeding or even harboring place for microbes of any kind. Throughout the building the floors are of hardwood, finished in wax; the walls are all in hard finish, done in oil, and ceilings handsomely frescoed. The electrical room contains the electrical appliances, consisting of several small Faradic batteries, one large fifty- cell galvanic battery, and one ten-plate Morton- Wimshurst static generator, with which is a com- plete outfit for X-ray work, including the special German tubes for the treatment of all forms of cancers. On the north side of the building is located the well lighted operating room. Beside the complete outfit of surgical instruments, glass topped iron tables and stands, this room contains one dressing sterilizer for dressings and instruments, also one water sterilizer having two fifteen-gallon tanks with filtering device attached which filters the water before it enters the tanks. Other rooms namely, the recovery room, sun parlor and sitting room for nurses, are modern in their appointments, and com- pare favorably with similar institutions in the larger cities. The hospital is at the disposal of any re- putable physician who may wish to bring patient's for either operation or treatment. the operating room, which is fitted up with the most modern ap- paratus, being always available with trained as- sistants, and patients cared for afterwards as he may direct. The hospital business has more than quadrupled in the past five years.

In connection with the hospital Dr. Morrison has a Training School for Nurses, which, like the hos- pital, has proved a success from the start. They have a Nurses' Home near the hospital, and fur- nish trained nurses for the towns in northern New Hampshire and Vermont. A three years' course of training is required before graduating. This includes a thorough course of instruction in medi- cal, surgical, gynecological and maternity nursing. Three months is required in the diet kitchen, where special instruction is given in the cooking and pre- paration of foods for the sick. Nurses are not sent out on private cases until they have been in the hospital at least six months, and no diploma is granted to a nurse who has not spent at least twenty- four months' actual work in the hospital. The train- ing school is now under the superintendency of Miss Mae S. Intire, who is a graduate of the school. This school took an active part in securing the bill for the registration of nurses which passed the legislature in 1906. The staff of the hospital comprises some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons in this part of the country, namely: G. H. Morrison, M. D., R. E. Wilder, M. D., H. M. Wiggin, M. D., G. W. McGregor, M. D., L. C. Ald- rich, M. D., J. C. Breithing, M. D., C. A. Cramton, M. D., and W. C. Leonard, instructor in phar- macy.

This family has been promi- LITTLEFIELD nently identified with south- western Maine from the early settlement of that section to the present time, and not a few of its representatives have acquired dis- tinction in other states of the Union. It is of English origin.

(I) Edmund Littlefield, of Tichfield, England, emigrated about the year 1637, accompanied by his son Anthony, and the remainder of the family came in the "Bevis" in 1638. He went from Boston to Exeter, New Hampshire, and thence to Wells, Maine, where he was granted land under the Gorges 1v-44

Patent in 1643, and it is quite probable that he built the first dwelling house in that town, also the first saw and grist mills. He was a grand juryman in 1645, took the oath of allegiance in 1653, and his will, which was dated December 11, 1661, was pro- bated on December 24 of that year. His wife, whose christian name was Annis (or Annas), was born in England about the year 1600. She became the mother of eight children : Francis, Anthony, Eliza- beth, John, Thomas, Mary, Hannah and Francis (2), Francis (I), who was born in 1619, mysteriously disappeared from his home in England when about. six or seven years old, and his parents, supposing. him to be dead, named their youngest son in memory of their lamented first-born. He subsequently came to America and was reunited with his family. He married and was the father of one daughter.

(II) Ensign Francis, youngest son and child of Edmund and Annis Littlefield, was born in Eng- land about the year 1631. He was a carpenter in Wells, and is sometimes mentioned in the records as Francis the Younger. His will, which was wit- nessed by his brother Francis, was made February 5, 1674, and probated April 6, 1675. His widow, whose christian name was Meribah, was living in 1677. His children were: Joseph, Nathan, Jonathan, Job, David, Mary, Joanna, Tabitha and Hannah.

(III) David, fifth son of Francis and Meribah Littlefield, was born in Wells, about 1653. He was baptized an adult in July, 1707. He resided in Wells, and there reared his family. His children were: David, Eleanor, Nathan, Mary, Jeremialı, Meribah, Tabitha and Ithamar.

(IV) Ithamar, son of David Littlefield, was born in Wells, 1670.

(V) Ithamar (2), son of Ithamar (1) Little- field, was born July 20, 1727. His intentions to marry Margaret Williams was published April 10, 1745. He was a resident of kennebunk, Maine, and a prosperous farmer.

(VI) Obadiah, son of Ithamar (2) and Mar- garet ( Williams) Littlefield, was born in Kenne- bunk, 1747. He married Lydia Perkins, of Kenne- bunk, Maine.

(VII) Joshua, son of Obadiah Littlefield, was born in Kennebunk, April 6, 1810, died April 6, 1887. He was reared to farm life, but abandoned it for the sea, which he followed for several years in the merchant service, and visited all parts of the civilized world. Deciding at length to remain on shore, he entered the lumber business in Sanford, Maine, shipping lumber from there to Boston, and followed that occupation for several years. He was for some time in charge of a brick yard in San- ford. Maine, and later at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He subsequently served as sheriff of York county, and also as captain in the state militia, Third Regi- ment, Third Brigade, First Division, and his son still has his commission, dated July 9. 1839. August 20, 1846, he was appointed sergeant of Company C. First Regiment of Volunteers, raised in the state of Maine for the prosecution of the war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico. He married Mary Clough, born May 10, 18II, died April 21, 1900, daughter of Samuel Clough, of Alfred, Maine. Of the seven children of this union but one is now living, John C., who is mentioned at length in the succeeding paragraph. Emery P., a brother of John C., who resided in Manchester, died February 27, 1907. He left a widow and two children, William E. and Andrew G.

(VIII) John Clough, son of Joshua and Mary (Clough) Littlefield, was born in Sanford, July 15,

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1841. After concluding his attendance at the public schools he became an operative in a textile mill, and going to Manchester, April 5, 1858, was employed there in the same calling for one year. For the ensuing seven years he followed the trade of millwright. He then became connected with the James Baldwin Bobbin and Shuttle Company, had charge of the shuttle department, was one of the directors, and succeeded the late Mr. Baldwin as president. Some time since this enterprise, which constitutes one of the most important industries in Manchester, was consolidated with other large concerns of a similar character, and is now known as the James Baldwin Division of the U. S. Bobbin and Shuttle Company (sce Baldwin family). Mr. Littlefield is one of the proprietors in the Percy Lumber Company, hav- ing extensive works at Percy, New Hampshire, and at Auburn, Maine, and is president of the company. He is also president of the Ranno Saddlery Com- pany of Manchester, manufacturers of all kinds of saddlery and harnesses. In politics he is a Re- publican. Although not being a political aspirant, he consented to and served with ability in the city council in ward S, and was a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1902. Mr. Littlefield and his family are members of the First Baptist Church. He was many years a director of the Young Men's Christian Association of Manchester. Mr. Littlefield married, July 12, 1864, Mary E. Baldwin, daughter of the late James and Mary ( Butrick) Baldwin, the former of whom was the founder of the Baldwin Company previously referred to (see Baldwin). Mr. and Mrs. Littlefield have one daughter, Minnie E. After her graduation from the high school, where she was the valedic- torian of her class, she entered the Emerson School of Oratory of Boston, from which she was graduated with high honors and received the degree of O. B., and since then has been a successful teacher of elocution.

LITTLEFIELD This name is of the class known as local, and was adopted as a surname by a person who lived

at or by a little field. The Littlefields are numerous in New England, and many of them have been promi- nent citizens.

(I) Erastus Joseph Littlefield was born prob- ably in Frankfort, Maine, in ISOS, and died in 1863. He spent his first years on a farm. When a young man he worked some years in the saw mills at Vesey, Maine. From there he removed to Mon- roe, Maine, where he was engaged in farming. In 1855 he removed to Bangor, where he carried on a small farm, and also conducted teaming in the city. He died there in 1862. He married Elizabeth B. Washburn, of Hebron, Maine, who was born in 1823. and died in 1897, aged seventy-four. They had six children : Horace, George H., Chauncey B., Van Rensselaer, Eva L. and Addie L.

(II) Chauncey Bonny, third child and second son of Erastus J. and Elizabeth B. ( Washburn) Littlefield, was born in Monroe, Maine, February 9, 1846, and was educated in the common schools of Bangor, and at East Corinth Academy. At the age of sixteen he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and be- came a clerk, first in the wholesale and retail drug house of S. M. Colcord & Company, where he re- mained until 1865, and then with Joseph T. Brown & Company, where he remained until 1869. On the opening of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Mr. Littlefield entered on a course of study there under Professor George F. Babcock. Professor George F. H. Markoe, and others. Here he attended

two years. In 1869 he removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he has since resided, and opened a drug store, carrying on business under the name of C. B. Littlefield until 1892, when the Little- field Drug Company was incorporated, of which Mr. Littlefield was made president. From 1870 to 1907 Mr. Littlefield was engaged in the manufac- ture of a meritorious proprietary medicine, which was a profitable industry. Mr. Littlefield has been engaged in the real estate business since 1902. From the time of his coming to Manchester until the present, Mr. Littlefield has been successful, liberal and cheerful, and his business generally prosperous. He has been popular and respected. He has taken some interest in politics. In 1877, while absent on business in Canada, he was nominated without his knowledge as a candidate for the common council, and duly elected. In 1886 he was elected representa- tive to the legislature from Ward two. In I871 he was made an Odd Fellow in Hillsboro Lodge, No. 2, and afterward joined Mt. Washington Encampment, No. 16. At the formation of the Calumet Club, Mr. Littlefield was a charter member.

He married (first), in Manchester, 1872, Fannie E. Porter, daughter of. Benjamin F. and Eliza A. (Buffun) Porter; she died in 1901. He married (second), in 1902, Laura A. Campbell, a native of Manchester, daughter of Henry R. and Adeline (Dickey) Campbell. They attend the Methodist Church.

From one couple of this name comes a TOWLE large progeny of Towles in south- eastern New Hampshire and Maine, who are people of good standing. The early Towles were patriotic, and many of them fought for liberty in the Revolution. The early generations were strong and hardy, and noted for longevity. Vitality and vigor characterize their descendants.

(I) Philip Towle, seaman, is supposed to have been of Irish descent. April 15, 1664, he bought a dwelling and outhouses and a house lot containing seven and one-half acres, and about seventy acres of outlying lands and some shares in common lands in Hampton. Part or all of this land is still owned by his descendants. He married at the age of forty-one years, November 19, 1057, Isabella, daugh- ter of Francis and Isabella (Bland) Austin, of Colchester, England, and Hampton, New Hampshire, and granddaughter of John and Joanna Bland, of Edgartown, England. She was born about 1633, and was the eldest of three daughters. She was once the victim of persecution for witchcraft. She and Rachel Fuller were accused in the summer of 1680. Rachel confessed and accused Isabel. Both were committed to prison, where they remained until the sitting of the Hampton court, September 7, when the case was heard, and later released on bail of £10o each, and discharged the next year. Isabella was then the mother of eight children, from two years old upward. Philip and family lived in what is now the heart of the village of Hampton. Fve of their sons-Joseph, Philip, Benjamin, Francis and Caleb- served in King Williams war, 1689-1698. Their chil- dren were: Philip, Caleb (died young), Joshua, Mary, Joseph, Benjamin, Francis, John and Caleb.

(II) Sergeant Joseph, fourth son and fifth child of Philip and Isabella (Austin) Towle, born May 4, 1669, died September 2, 1757, probably lived a little north of the village of Hampton. He served in King William's war, and was selectman in 1723- 29-33. He married (first), December 14, 1693, Me- hitabel Hobbs, born February 28, 1673, daughter of John and Sarah (Colcord) Hobbs; and (second),

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March 4, 1731, Sarah, daughter of Morris Hobbs. The children, all by the first wife, were: John, Joseph, James, Mary, Jonathan, Mehitabel and Amos. (Mention of Jonathan and descendants appears in this article).

(III) James, third son of Joseph and Mehitabel (Hobbs) Towle, was born in 1698. He was select- man of Hampton, and with his sons is known to have been connected with church, for we know their children were baptized. In 1725 he married Keziah Perkins. He died April 14, 1756, leaving seven children: Mary, Mehitabel, Anna, Huldab, Abraham Perkins, James and Jonathan, the sons being respectively sixteen, thirteen and nine years of age. The two elder daughters had previously mar- ried, but of the other two we have no record but their baptism. Jonathan afterwards named his first two daughters after them.

(IV) Jonathan, son of James and Keziah (Per- kins) Towle, was born in 1747. He was an honest, genial man, industrious and thrifty, a progressive farmer giving unusual attention to the raising of fruit and potatoes. He removed from Hampton to Pittsfield in 1780, and began cutting down the forest on a lot about a mile west of Wild Goose pond, bought of Samuel Marston, of Deerfield, for four hundred pounds of continental currency. This Iot was No. 15 of the first range of the second divi- sion, then of Chichester. In 1786 he bought of Stephen Cross lot No. 14, west, for nine pounds. It contained fifty acres and extended to Barnstead line. Fifty acres more were subsequently added. He was one of eight owners of a sawmill at the outlet of the pond. At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1775, when the alarm following the battle of Lexing- ton reached Hampton, it is said that Jonathan and his brother Abraham were in the field plowing. They immediately ran for their guns and started with the Hampton company for Boston, leaving the oxen for the women to unyoke. At Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, they were met with an order to return, probably for coast defence.

Jonathan was without doubt in the battle of Bunker Hill. He served in Captain Moses Leavitt's company, Colonel Abraham Drake's regiment, sent to reinforce the northern Continental army at Still- water, New York, from September 8 to December 16, 1777. He was credited two pounds and two shillings for travel home from Windsor, Vermont, two pounds and eleven shillings and four pounds four shilling for wages. He was probably present at the time of Burgoyne's surrender. His brother, Abraham P., was paid one pound and sixteen shil- lings "toward hiring to go to Peekskill for the first time." The three brothers with thirteen other Towles signed the Association Test in 1776. Thirty- two names of Toweles are recorded in the New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls. The tradition is that Jonathan went to Pittsfield the year after the Dark Day, which would have been in 1781. The log house built the year before on a little knoll some twenty rods south of where he afterwards built, is now marked by a large mound of stones. While living in Hampton, Jonathan and his wife were members of the Congregational Church, uniting Oc- tober 16, 1774. In Pittsfield he became a pioneer Free Baptist. The family were of strong constitu- tion, equal to the hardships they were called to en- dure, and attained remarkable longevity. Jonathan married Miriam Marston, of Hampton, in 1773, and died in 1822. His wife was born in 1749 and died in 1835. Their children were Molly, Huldah, Jona- than, Daniel, James, Sally, Abraham Perkins and Nancy.

(V) James (2), son of Jonathan and Mirian (Marston) Towle, was born in 1781. Ile settled ou the old homestead. He was short and of medium height, but very strong, in which he took great pride. One of his feats, which cost him his life, was the carrying of four bushels of salt up stairs, which resulted in an immediate attack of spinal difficulty making him helpless. After thirteen months of suffering he died, June 13, 1813. This was a severe blow to his father, who was depending upon him for care in his old age. He married, January 13, 1806, cousin Polly, daughter of Robey and . Hannah ( Drake) Marston, of Deerfield. She was born March 22, 1779, and died September 24, 1854. Their children were Robey Marston and Samuel.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. IV, Part 110

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

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