USA > New Hampshire > 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 119
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119 | Part 120 | Part 121 | Part 122 | Part 123 | Part 124 | Part 125 | Part 126 | Part 127 | Part 128 | Part 129 | Part 130 | Part 131 | Part 132 | Part 133 | Part 134 | Part 135 | Part 136 | Part 137 | Part 138 | Part 139 | Part 140 | Part 141
& A Tillow
1971
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
was active in raising the Twelfth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, for the Civil war, and served as an officer in the same, commanding the Laconia company at Fredericksburg and Chancel- lorsville. He was permanently disabled by a wound in the last named battle, and died October 6, 1879. He was married in 1841, in Dorchester, to Betsey Ham, who was born June 20, 1820, in Strafford, New Hampshire, and died March 25, 1907. Their children were: Nancy A., George H., Emma Susan and Frank Sullivan.
(VIII) George Henry, elder son of Joseph S. and Betsey ( Ham) Tilton, was born May 13, 1845, in Dorchester, and lived with his parents until the outbreak of the Civil war. He joined the Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, September 14. 1861, and served three years. After his return to civil life he was trained by his father in his busi- ness, and became a partner in 1870. He has con- tinned the business since his father's death, and has mills in the South, beside those at Tilton and La- conia, in which latter place he resides. He has represented his city in the legislature, and is an es- teemed and respected citizen. He was married (first). June 19. 1866, to Marietta Randlett, who was born August 12, 1844, in Gilmanton, and died August 15, 1874. Mr. Tilton was married (second), April 11, 1883, to Calista E. Brown, of Meredith, who was born November 11, 1862, and died Octo- ber 9, 1901. He married (third). September 20. 1902, his cousin, Julia Caroline Green, of San Mateo, California, who was born March 30, 1862, in San Bruno, same state.
(IX) Elmer Stephen, only son of George Henry and Marietta (Randlett) Tilton, was born October II, 1869, in Laconia, New Hampshire, and was edu- cated in the public schools of that city. After grad- nating from school he took a place with his father, learning the business, in which he has been for a long time a partner. He has represented his city several times in the house of representatives, and his district in the state senate. He is an active member of the Masonic fraternity, and a very well known man of his native state. He was married, January 26, 1892, to Lillian Gertrude Harrington, who was born August 21, 1868. in Laconia. Their children are: Charles Henry, born February 7, IS93: Elmer Harrington, September 14. 1895; and Kenneth Joseph, June 15, 1900, all in Laconia.
(V) John, possibly a son of Timothy and Eliza- beth Tilton, was born about 1702, and died in 1784, in Kensington, aged eighty-two years. He was mar- ried, December 23. 1779, to Molly Cram, and their children on record in the archives of New Hamp- shire were: Nehemiah, John Sherburn, Betsey and Eunice.
(VI) Nehemiah, eldest son of John and Molly (Cram) Tilton, was born July 9, 1782, and resided in Barnstead, New Hampshire. He was married, September 10, 1804, to Hannah Philbrick, and they had thirteen children, namely : Molly (died young), John. Ruth, Daniel (died young), Daniel, Molly, Betsey, Benjamin, David, Loviey, Eunice, Margaret and Hannah Cram. The youngest, who is the only survivor of the family, became the wife of David L. Green (see Green VII).
This is the earlier form of a name HODSDON which is now more generally writ- ten Hodgdon, though some of the Maine families in York county, where the line is quite numerous, prefer the early English spelling of Hodsdon. The branch in Barnstead, this state, iv-46
spell the patronymic Hodgdon. Members of this family were pioneer settlers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The Hodgdons ( Hodsdons) in carly and recent times have earned a reputation for industry, loyalty and obedience to the law, which reflects credit on them as a race.
The Hodsdon English coat of arms is of quite unusual design. It has a field, argent, erossed by a wavy band, gules, between two horse-shoes, azure ;. crest, a man's head couped at the shoulders, vested argent, on the head of a cap, or. The motto is "Animo et fide."
(I) Nicholas Hodgdon was one of the immigrant settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman March 9, 1636, and was granted a house lot the same year, in the center of the town. and later two meadows were granted him. About 1650, in company with others, he purchased a large tract of land at Cambridge Hill, now Newton. October 15, 1656, he received a grant of land from the town of Kittery, Maine, and soon removed to that place. December 13, 1669, he received another grant of land from the town of Kittery, both of the grants being bounded by or situated near Birchlea Point brook. He also purchased several other lots in the vicinity of the same brook. The farm oc- cupied by him in the latter part of his life was pur- chased in 1674 of John Wincoll, and is situated on the east side of the Piscataqua river, and is bounded on the south by Thompson brook, which divides the town of Elliott and South Berwick. Maine. His farm descended to heirs of Nicholas regularly until 1828.
Nicholas Hodgdon married, about 1639, Esther Wines, who died in Hingham, Massachusetts, No- vember 29, 1647. He married (second), Elizabeth, widow of John Needham. She was living in 1686. The children of the first wife, baptized in Hing- ham, were: Esther, Mehitable, Jeremiah, Israel and Elizabeth. The children of the second wife were: Benoni. Sarah, Timothy, John, Joseph and Lucy. (Benoni and descendants receive mention in this article).
(II) Jeremiah, eldest son and third child of Nicholas and Esther (Wines) Hodgdon, was bap- tized in Hingham, September 6, 1643. He removed with his father to Newton and Kittery. He settled in Portsmouth, and afterward resided in Newcastle, New Hampshire, where he died in 1716. He mar- ried, about 1666, Ann Thwaits, daughter of Alex- ander and Anne Thwaits, of Portsmouth. Alexan- der Thwaits came to America from London in the ship "Hopewell." The children of this marriage were: Alexander, John, Elizabeth, Nathaniel and Rebecca. After the death of her husband Anne Hodgdon lived in Boston. where she joined the Brattle Street Church. (An account of John and his descendants is found farther along in this nar- rative).
(III) Alexander, eldest child of Jeremiah and Ann (Thwaits) Hidgdon, was a soldier in the old fort of William and Mary, at Newcastle, 1708. He was taxed in Portsmouth in 1713, and in Green- land 1714. He bought an extensive tract of land near Welchman's Cove, in Newington, where he subsequently lived. He married, as early as 1716, Jane Shackford.
(IV) John, son of Alexander and Jane (Shack- ford) Hodgdon, was born in 1708, and resided in Newington. He married, January 30, 1729, Mary Decker, born in 1711, daughter of John and Sarah Decker, of Newington. Their eleven children, all born there, were: Jane, John (died young), Mary,
1972
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Phineas, Temperance, Charles, John, Hannah. Ben- jamin, Sarah and Joseplı.
(V) Charles, third son and sixth child of John and Mary (Decker) Hodgdon, was born in New- ington, in 1740, and baptized October IS, 174I. When a young man he resided in Portsmouth for a time, and some of his children were born there. In 1768 he settled in Barnstead, locating on the old Province road, and erected the first two-story dwell- ing house in that town. He was prominent in both political and religious affairs, serving as a selectman and representative to the legislature. acted as a jus- tice of the peace, and was a deacon in the church for many years. His death occurred in Barnstead, March 23, 1817. While living in Newington, on De- cember 12, 1765, Charles Hodgdon married Mrs. Hannah Dennett, widow of Charles Dennett, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and daughter of Hatevil and Hannah Nutter, of Newington. She was born in 1743, and died November 19. 1790, aged fifty-one years. After her death he married Abigail Thyng. of Brentwood, New Hampshire, who died March 29, 1830, aged eighty-three years. His children, all born in Portsmouth, by his first wife, were: Elizabeth, Benjamin, Olive, Nancy and Charles.
(VI) Benjamin, second child and older son of Charles and Hannah (Nutter) (Dennett) Hodgdon. was born in Portsmouth, June 28, 1768, and died June 6. 1849. The greater part of his life was spent in Barnstead. where he was a hotel keeper and trader, and one of the foremost public men in all that region. He held many public offices, both town and county, was justice of the peace and quorum. deputy sheriff, town clerk from 1787 to 1800, and representative to the general assembly in 1810-II. His famous old hostelry on the Province road was known far and wide as the Hodgdon House, while "the genial manners and warm hospitality of him- self and his most estimable wife gained for them a large share of the public patronage. They con- tinned in this business until the infirmities of age obliged them to seek a more quiet life." In Sep- tember, 1797. Mr. Hodgdon married Polly, dangh- ter of Timothy and Mary Emerson. She was born in Durham, New Hampshire, June II, 1777, and died July 15. 1858. Their children included Han- nah, Abigail. Timothy E., Mary and Alexander. ( Mention of the last and descendants will be found in this article).
(VII) Timothy E., third child and elder son of Benjamin and Polly (Emerson) Hodgdon, was born in the town of Barnstead, New Hampshire, April 23, 1808, and died there October 1. 1864. During the early part of his business life he was a merchant in Barnstead, but in IS19 he was drawn to the Pacific coast by the "gold fever" so prevalent throughout the country, and spent some time in the promising gold fields of California ; but unlike the great majority of the many thousands who were similarly attacked, Mr. Hodgdon accumulated a for- tune and returned home a wealthy man. On Sep- tember 28. 1830, he married Elizabeth Mary George, daughter of Rev. Enos George. (See George VI). She was born September 20, 1808, and died April, 1886. Their children: Mary, George. Hannah, Charles A., Julia A., Lyman, Sophia. Jennie M., Lizzie, Enoch George. Benjamin and Emerson. (Lyman and Enoch George receive mention in this narrative).
(VIII) Charles A., third child and eldest son of Timothy E. and Elizabeth Mary (George) Hodg- don, was born in Barnstead. August 4, 1833, and received his early education in the town schools.
He was brought up to farm work, but in 1854, when he attained his majority, he went to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and worked in the "diggings" until 1865, when he returned to old Barnstead and began farming on "Beauty Hill." For about four years he drove stage from Barn- stead to Rochester, New Hampshire. Mr. Hodgdon was married twice. His first wife was Addie, daughter of William and Charlotte (Langley) Pierce. She bore her husband one son, who died in infancy. His second wife was Mary Ann Nut- ter, widow of Samuel D. Nutter, and daughter of Greenleaf and Fanny (Langley) Allen, a descend- ant of Governor Samuel Allen, who in 1692 was a merchant in London, England. He purchased the Mason claim to the province of New Hampshire, and in September, 1698, came to America and as- serted his authority over that jurisdiction. In 1703 he entered upon the duties of his gubernatorial of- fice
(VIII) Lyman, fifth child and second son of Timothy E. and Elizabeth Mary (George) Hodg- don, was born in Barnstead, June 30, IS37. When twelve years of age he went with his father to California, returning in 1865 after a prosperous so- journ in that "land of gold." In 1866 he married and bought out an established meat market in Do- ver, which he operated for some time. Selling his Dover business he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where in company with John Hayes. of Dover, he ran a large restaurant which he later sold out to Mr. Hayes. The next two years he was in busi- ness in Province, Rhode Island, then returned to Dover, where he again conducted a meat market. In 1883 he went to the Isthmus of Panama and there conducted a hotel and eating house for the English and American canal employes. Here he contracted the fever peculiar to that locality and died May 30, 1886. In his religious belief he was a Universalist. He married, April 4, 1866, Harriet Delaney, born September 4. 1847, daughter of John Delaney, of Dover, and reared one child.
(IX) Harry E., only child of Lyman and Har- riet (Delaney) Hodgdon, was born in Dover, Jan- uary 15, 1867. He attended the public schools until fourteen years old. when he entered the office of the Morning Star as an apprentice and learned the prin- ter's trade. He was subsequently for a short time employed in a shoe factory, but finding that occupa- tion uncongenial he resumed his former calling. and in 1897 established himself in the book and job printing business at Dover, which he has ever since conducted with gratifying success. He affiliates with Moses Paul Lodge. Free and Accepted Ma- sons, the Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 184, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Ma- jor Waldron Council. No. 980. Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Universalist Church. Mr. Hodg- don married Edith J. Johnson, daughter of George B. and Angie P. Johnson, of Farmington, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgdon have one daughter, Eileen J .. horn August 5, 1892.
(VIII) Enoch George, third son of Timothy E. and Elizabeth M. (George) Hodgdon, was born in Barnstead. March 4. 1839. He prepared for college in the public schools of Portsmouth, whither his father had moved, and at the Phillips Andover Acad- emmy, and entered the freshman class at Dartmouth College in March, IS5S. During the winter vacations of his college course in common with the majority of his classmates he taught school in various places, and in the autumn of 1859 was the principal of the Guildhall (Vermont) Academy. At the outbreak of the Civil war he contemplated entering the Union
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1973
army immediately after graduation, and with that purpose in view pursued a course of military instruc- tion under the late General Alonzo Jackman, the professor of military science in Norwich University. Soon after his graduation he was appointed by Gov- ernor Berry, of New Hampshire, a recruiting officer at Portsmouth and Newmarket, with the assurance that a commission would be the reward for his ser- vices ; although he had enlisted a sufficient number of recruits for the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers to have received a subaltern's appointment his name was not among those to whom commissions were is- sued. He then commenced the study of law with the Hon. John S. H. Frink, at Portsmouth, which he continued until May, 1862, when he was solicited to assist in raising a company of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers at Portsmouth ; this was soon accomplished, but that regiment being already filled upon the arrival at the rendezvous, it was assigned to the Tenth Regiment, and ordered to Garrison Fort Constitution until the completion of the latter organization. Mr. Hodgdon was appointed first lieu- tenant, his commission bearing date August 20, 1862. In September the Tenth was attached to the First Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. After the battle of Fredericksburg the Ninth Corps was sent to Newport News, Vir- ginia. While there Lieutenant Hodgdon was at- tacked with pleuritic fever, and upon the advice of the attending surgeons resigned, February 13, 1863. Returning to New Hampshire, for several months his life was in jeopardy from the effects of the disease contracted in the service. Partially recover- ing, he was appointed, January 2, 1864, by President Lincoln, second lieutenant in the Veteran Reserve Corps, and assigned to staff duty in the Department of the Tennessee, organizing colored troops. He participated in the operations in northern Georgia and around Atlanta in the summer of 1864. Early in September of that year he was transferred to the Department of the Missouri, and became aide-de- camp upon the staff of Brevet Major-General Thomas Ewing, Jr., and as such took part in the campaign which resulted in driving out of Missouri the Confederate forces under General Sterling Price. He was promoted to the rank of captain, November 4, 1864; was recommended for a colonelcy of colored troops by the board of examiners at St. Louis in January, 1865, and was appointed January 24, 1865, lieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred and Thirteeth United States Infantry, but declined the appointment. He acted as judge advocate of the general court mar- tial and military commission at St. Louis from Jan- tary until May, 1865, when he was ordered to Gallop's Island. Boston harbor, to assist in mustering out of the United States service the Massachusetts Volunteers. March 29, 1866, he resigned his military commission, resumed the study of law, and was ad- mitted to the bar of New Hampshire, October, 1866; he entered practice at Portsmouth, and at once at- tained a prominent position at the Rockingham bar and a lucrative practice. In politics he was a Democrat, and his party honored him in many ways. He was appointed solicitor for the years 1874-75-76, and was representative in the New Hampshire legislature 1875-76-1887-89, and mayor of the city of Portsmouth from August, 1887, to August, 1889. In all these positions he served his party faithfully and zealously, and in the house of representatives lie acquired a reputation as a deep and logical thinker and a keen and invasive debater. He allied himself with the Grand Army of the Republic when that organization was first started, and always took a great interest in its affairs. In that order he filled
many positions of honor and trust, having served as commander of Post i of Portsmouth in 1880, ad- jutant general of the department of New Hampshire for the year 1885, member of the National Encamp- ment at Portland, Maine, June, 1885, judge ad- vocate in 1886-87, junior vice-commander in 1889-90. In secret societies he was also prominent, having been elected, October, 1885, by the New Hampshire Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor, grand dictator of New Hampshire, and was also a leader in the Order United American Mechanics.
Always a great reader, Mr. Hodgdon turned his attention to local history and genealogy about 1880, and soon became fascinated with these subjects, giving all his leisure time to their study. As a result he attained high rank among the genealogists of the country, and was commissioned to write the genealogy and history of the Shannon family in America, to which work he devoted the spare mno- ments of a busy career, and succeeded in producing one of the most succinct and readable family histories ever compiled in this country, "a monument of patient research and intelligent and faithful study." He also compiled histories of the Vaughn, Ambrose, and Ayres families of New England. As a local his- torian he was well known, and his work of editing "Adams's Annals" for the Portsmouth Journal and his copious notes and annotations in relation to the same aroused much interest during their publication. The greater part of his work in the historical field was published in the Journal, and by his death it lost a valuable and faithful correspondent-one whose .contributions needed no verifications, and whose facts were never questioned.
He married, December 19, 1867. Mary Emma Webster, who died March 21, 1877, only daughter of Roswell WV. and Sarah B. Webster, of Portsmouth. Of this marriage were born four children : Bertha, Mabel. Georgie Alice and Edith, the two last named dying in infancy. Bertha, born August 21, 1868, received her education in the public schools of Ports- mouth and at Wellesley College, graduating from the high school in 1887, and from Wellesley in 1891. She rendered valuable aid to her father in his liter- ary labors, and also designed and drew the plans of the spacious and handsome home her father built in Portsmouth. She married Cyril E. Jackson, a stock broker, of Portsmouth, who was born in Port- land, Maine, 1868, son of Cyril E. and Mary (Wey- man) Jackson, of Portland. Mabel, born September 12, 1872, graduated from the Portsmouth high school in the class of 1890. She married, June, 1898, Fred Hatch, and resides in Portsmouth. They have one daughter, Helen Mabel, born 1905.
( VII) Alexander, son of Benjamin and Polly (Emerson) Hodgdon, was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, April 8, ISII, and died in Greenland, May 3, 18 -. He was a farmer and stone mason, and lived nearly all his life in Greenland. He was a respected citizen, and filled the offices of school committee and selectman. He married Sarah Abby Walker, daughter of Captain William S. Walker. The children of this union were: Elizabeth, Sulden, Olive, Louise, Alexander, Charles, Sarah, William A., Ephraim, Helen, Anna, Manning and Ellsworth.
(VIII) William Augustus, eighth child and fourth son of Alexander and Sarah A. (Walker) Hodgdon, was born in Portsmouth, December 9, 1848. He received his education in the common schools of Portsmouth, and at Greenland Academy, and subsequently began to learn the carpenter's trade with Moses Yeaton, and completed his apprentice- ship in New York City. In 1874 he returned to Portsmouth, and formed a partnership with Yeaton
1974
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
& Son. In 1880 he began contracting and building on his own account, and has since been successfully engaged in that employment. He has given con- siderable attention public
questions and has filled various offices. Ile has been coun- cilman, president of the council and alderman of Portsmouth, representative in the state legislature, and for fifteen years past a trustee of the public library of Portsmouth, and is also ex-president of the Mechanics' Fire Association, and of the Mercan- tile Library Association. He is popular in fraternal societies and clubs, and is a member of numerous organizations. He is pastmaster of St. Andrews Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Royal Arch Chapter; Commandery, Knights Templar ; member of Piscataquog Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; past president of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution; member of the Warrick and Coun- try Clubs; and the Pepperell Society. He married (first), April 20, 1874, Clara A. Yeaton, who was born in Portsmouth, and died April 16, 1885, daugh- ter of Yeaton, of Portsmouth; and ( second ), September 23, 1892, Clara I. Randall, daughter of - Randall, of Portsmouth. One child. Ethel, was born of the first marriage.
(HI) John, second son and child of Jeremiah and Anne ( Thwaits) Hodgdon, was born in New- ington or Portsmouth, and died probably in 1736. He married Mary Hoyt, and they had children : Jeremiah and Jolin.
(IV) John (2), second son and child of John (1) and Mary ( Hoyt) Hodgdon, was born in Newington in 1708, and died about 1793. He was married Janu- ary 30, 1729, to Mary Decker, daughter of John and Sarah Decker, of Newington. Their eleven children were: Jane, John (died young), Mary, Phineas, Tem- perance, Charles, John, Hannah, Benjamin, Sarah and Joseph.
(V) Benjamin, ninth child of John (2) and Mary (Decker ) Hodgdon, was born in Newington. May 20, 1750, and died March 1, 1823, aged seventy-three. In January. 1776, he signed the Association Test, which was posted for three Sundays before the meet- ing house door at Newington. November 5. 1775, he joined Captain Nicholas Rawlins company Kittery Point. His name appears in the muster and pay roll of Colonel Evans' and Colonel Badger's regiments, and also among the names of privates of Captain Stephen Hodgdon's company, and on the roll of Colonel Abraham Drake's regiment, which was formed out of the regiment commanded by General Whipple, and sent to reinforce the Northern Continental army at Stillwater, September 8. 1777. Ile married Rosamond Coleman. Their children were: Lydia, Ephraim, Benjamin, Alexander, Sally and Temperance. .
(VI) Ephraim, eldest son and second child of Benjamin (I) and Rosamond ( Coleman) Hodgdon, was born in Newington, March 10, 1779, and died in Portsmouth, May 18, 1848, aged sixty-nine. He was a farm laborer. He lived in Newington about three years after he married, and then removed to Barn- stead, where he resided about ten years, and then removed to Portsmouthi. He married Abigail Thomas, and they were the parents of ten children : Mary, Benjamin, Sarah, Louisa, Alexander, Selden C., Obadiah MI., John, Abigail P. and Ephraim.
(VII) Benjamin (2), eldest son and second child of Ephraim and Abigail (Thomas) Hodgdon, was born in Newington. May 20, 1805, and died in Ports- mouth, September 8, 1894, aged eighty-nine. In early life he performed farm labor for hire. In 1835 he removed to Portsmouth, where he bought the farm now occupied by his son Charles. He married, April
22, 1832, Hannah Foster Frye, who was born in Portsmouth, February 16, 1810, daughter of Isaac and Rachel (Foster ) Frye, of Portsmouth. She died May 13, 1886, aged seventy-six years. Their children were: Augustus L., Hannah E., Lydia F., Benjamin F., Henry C., Mary A. and Charles E., whose sketch follows.
(VIII) Charles Edward, youngest child of Ben- jamin (2) and Hannah Foster (Frye) Hodgdon, was born in Portsmouth, October 27, 1848. He was educated in one of the district schools of Ports- mouth. He was employed on his father's farm until he was nineteen years of age, and then engaged in the ice business, which he has since successfully carried on in connection with farming. In political faith he is a Republican, and has taken an active interest in public questions. He was councilman in in 1877-78, alderman in 1895-96, and is now a mem- ber of the Portsmouth board of education. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree,. and is a member of the following divisions of that order: St. Johns Lodge, No. 1; Ineffable Grand Lodge of Perfection; Grand Council Prince of Jerusalem; New Hampshire Chapter of Rose Croix ; and New Hampshire Consistory of the Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. In Odd Fellowship he is a member of Osgood Lodge, No. 48; Straw- berry Bank Encampment, No. 5; Canton Senter, No. 12: Patriarchs Militant; and Union Rebekah Lodge No. 3. He is also a member of the Massachu- setts Society Sons of the American Revolution; of Ranger Section No. 17, of the Naval League of the United States ; is president of the Paul Jones Club, S. A. R .; member of Strawberry Bank Grange, No. 251, Patrons of Husbandry; East Rockingham Pomona Grange, No. II, and of the State Grange. He married (first), January 24, 1876, Martha J. Locke, who was born in Rye, New Hampshire, January 24, 1855, daughter of James and Hannah Locke, of Rye. She died December 23, 1879, and he married (second), November 30, 1882, Lillie Lewis Robertson, born in Northfield, New Hampshire. October II, 1856, daughter of James Lewis and Elizabeth Susan (Carter) Robertson. (See Robert- son, V). The children by the second wife are: Cora Elouise, born April 16, 1884; Mildred, November 12, 1887; Winifred, November 11, 1891; and Augusta, who was born August 5, 1894, and died September 24, 1894. The family are all members of the Middle Street Baptist Church, Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire. Cora E. married, in 1904, Albert Forrest Witham, and their children are: Edward Forrest, born January 16, 1905, and Pearl Elouise, September 15, 1906.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.