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Immediately upon his return to the states, Mr. Hill entered upon newspaper work, in which he has been engaged for the past eight years. He became connected with the Haverhill ( Massachusetts) Ga- sette on May 1, 1899, and September I of that year he came to this state as one of the city reporters for the Manchester Union a paper with which he has been associated ever since. During the
constitutional convention and legislature of 1902- 1903 at Concord, he occupied the city editor's chair in the Concord Monitor office. Since then he has been the Concord correspondent of the Manchester Union, with his residence in the capital city. Mr. Hill's excellent and effective work is shown by the fact that the Concord circulation of the Union has more than doubled in that time, a substantial adver- tising business has been built up and that this in- crease has not only been established but maintained. Besides his regular work on the Union, he has written many special articles for Boston and New York papers and magazines. Notwithstanding Mr. Hill's successful journalistic experience he intends to make the law his profession. He began his studies in Haverhill a number of years ago with William II. Moody, since attorney general, and now one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States. Mr. Hill has prosecuted his studies at inter- vals, chiefly in the midnight hours, and was admitted to practice December 19, 1907. In politics Mr. Hill is a staunch Republican. On May 8, 1894, at the age of eighteen, he joined the First Con-
gregational Church at Bradford, Massachusetts, founded in 1682. Like his father, Mr. George V. Hill is an enthusiastic sportsman, and he has fished and hunted along the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to northern Virginia. Most of his school vacations were spent in camping and tramping. He is also an enthusiastic devotee of golf. Mr. Hill belongs to many clubs, the Wonolancet, the Beaver Meadow and the Gun Club of Concord; and the Merrimack County Fish and Game League, be- sides social organizations in Haverhill and Manches- ter. In 1904 he was the moving factor in organizing Camp General J. N. Patterson, United Spanish- American War Veterans.
On November 14, 1906, George Vernon Hill was united in marriage to Mary Genevieve Gannon, daughter of Michael George and Sarah (Larkin) Gannon, who was born at Concord, New Hampshire, May 30, 1877.
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The family of whom this sketch treats have for generations been stout and
sturdy laborers, members of which came to this country more than a century ago and by their industry and skill in the various fields of labor have become useful, respected and prominent citi- zens.
(I) Samuel Hill was born in Birmingham, Eng- land. where he was engaged in coal mining. In his young manhood he removed to South Wales, where he was employed in the extensive collieries near Swansea, and was also largely engaged in the build- ing of canal boats.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel {}) Hill, men- tioned above, was born at Clydash, South Wales, May 28, 1810, and died in that town, February 25, 1895. He followed the occupation of his father in the coal mines, was the owner of a colliery, and a barge builder. He was a very upright man and held in high respect by all who knew him. For sixty years he held the office of deacon in the Congrega- tional Church in Clydash. He married Emma Nichols. of the Mundels, of Wales, who was born September 5, 18r6, and died in 1902, daughter of Henry and Emma Nichols. They had nine chil- dren.
(III) George William, sixth child of Samuel (2) and Emma (Nichols) Hill, was born in Swan- sea, South Wales. July 20, 1850. He attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age and then apprenticed himself to learn the trade of
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carpentering. He emigrated to the United States in 1870, and after residing in various places, located in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1872. He entered the employ of the White Mountain Freezer Com- pany in 1887, and is still engaged with that company, having risen to the rank of foreman in the lumber department. He is an active member of the Chris- tian Brethren denomination and highly respected in the community. He is also a member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons : and Pennichuck Lodge, No. 39, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. He married in Wilmot, New Hampshire, October 20, 1879, Hattie Fisk, born in Sutton, New Hampshire, January 12, 1858. daughter of Levi F. and Susan Fisk. Levi F. Fisk was a farmer in Orange, and his parents were among the first settlers in Vermont, where they were also farmers. His mother, Susan (Rogers) Fisk, born in Vermont, was killed by the Indians while gathering berries. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have one child: Stanley F., born at Clydash, South Wales. March 2, 1885. He is now a junior in the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Me- chanical Arts, and is exceedingly proficient in music.
HILL One branch of the Hill family is traced to William Hill, a blacksmith, who was born March 4, 1788, and died in Grafton, this state, January 3, 1867. He was married, No- vember 12, 1812, to Rebecca Hoskins, who was born March 28, 1791. and died, October 17, 1863.
Brief mention of their children follows : Charles P., the eldest, died in infancy. Lucina P. married Stephen George, and lived and died in Grafton. Wil- liam H. was a blacksmith, and resided long in Man- chester, where his life ended. Varnum H. was also for many years a citizen of Manchester. Eli F. died at the age of twenty-six years. John M. died in Manchester, in 1897. Moses C. died at four years of age. Samuel D. at one year. Bushrod W. is the subject of the succeeding paragraph. The fourth died in infancy.
Bushrod Washington Hill, for many years one of the most substantial citizens in Manchester, was born June 26, 1832, in Grafton, New Hampshire, where he resided until nearly grown to manhood. His education was supplied by the country school of his native town. and previous to 1850 he went to Manchester and joined his older brother, who was then engaged in the express business which was established between Boston and Manchester via Lawrence. The younger brother soon became a partner in the business, and in 1882 became its sole owner. By his industry and faithful attention to the wants of customers he built up a very exten- sive and profitable business, and in 1894 this was sold to the American Express Company. Mr. Hill was an exceedingly careful and prudent manager, and ,made safe investments in real estate, and at the time of his death was the owner of a large farm on Mammoth road, near Derryfield Park. He was president of the Hillsborough County Savings Bank, and a director of the Merchants' National Bank. also the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, having been, identified with the latter from a time shortly after its organization. He was a trustee of the Valley cemetery, and occupied a prominent position in the business circles of the city. His success in the management of his own affairs caused him to be frequently consulted in financial matters, and he was a trusted investor of money. Mr. Hill passed away at his home in Manchester, March 3, 1904. and his departure was
mourned by a large circle of business associates and appreciative friends. He was a member of the Old Residents' Association, and was active in the Masonic order, affiliating with Washington Lodge, Mount Horeb Chapter, and Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, of Manchester, being the oldest member in point of service of the latter body at the time of his death. In 1902 he represented the fourth ward of Manchester in the state legislature, and was a member of the last constitutional convention. He was a staunch supporter of Republican princi- ples, and ever had the welfare of the community and his country at heart. He was a regular attend- ant and liberal supporter of the Hanover Street Congregational Church. Mr. Hill was married (first), to Ann Sweat Appleton, who was born Jan- uary 31, 1828, in Nashua, a daughter of Thomas Ap- pleton. His second wife was Helen M. Peaslee .. His family includes two children : John Frank Hill, who now resides on the paternal farm in Man- chester, and Sarah Louise, wife of James Howard Campbell, of Manchester. At the present time nine of his grandchildren are living.
BARNEY The ancestor of this family came to Massachusetts for the same purpose as nearly every other person did who settled in New England at that time-the oppor- tunity to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.
Edward Barney, of Bradenham, county of Bucks, England, in his will dated 1643 makes a bequest to his son Jacob "if he be living at time of my death and come over to England."
(I) Jacob, the emigrant ancestor of the family, is said to have been a son of Edward Barney. He was born in England, 1601, landed in Salem, 1634, was made a freeman May 14, 1634, and died in Salem, April 28, 1673, aged seventy-two years. His wife, whose name was Elizabeth, survived him. A well-known writer says of Jacob: "An intelligent merchant, often selectman and deputy to the general court, 1635-38-47-53-65. and served on the first grand jury that ever sat in this country. The loss of such men as Mr. Barney is not easily supplied." His children were: Jacob, Sarah, Hannah and John. The last named died young.
(II) Jacob, eldest child of Jacob and Eliza- beth Barney, and the only son surviving childhood, was born in England, died in Rehoboth, Massachu- setts, February 12, 1692. He was a Baptist minister and founded churches in Charlestown and Swan- sea, Massachusetts. He married (first), in Salem, August 18, 1657, Hannah Johnson, who died June 5, 1659. He married (second), April 26, 1660, Ann Witt, who died in Rehoboth, March 17, 1701. His children were: Josiah, Hannah, Sarah, John,' Abi- gail, Jacob, Ruth, Dorcas, Joseph, Israel, Jonathan, Samuel and Hannah.
(III) Joseph, ninth child and fourth son of Jacob Barney, was born in Salem, March 9, 1673. He lived in Swansea and later in Rehoboth, where he died February 5, 1731. He was a lieutenant in the army. He married in 1692,. Constance Davis, born in Haverhill, March 9, 1674, daughter of James and Elizabeth Davis.
(IV) John, son of Joseph and Constance (Davis) Barney, was born April 2, 1703, in Reho- both, and was married (intentions published March 8, 1729) to Hannah Clark.
(V) Aaron, son of John and Hannah (Clark ) Barney, was born in Rehoboth, April 12, 1734. He purchased three thousand acres of land in Grafton, New Hampshire, on a part of which he settled in
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April, 1773, and said part has ever since been known as Barney Hill. He gave each of his sons a farm. He married Susannah Carpenter, who bore him chil- dren : Jabez, John, Hannah, Aaron, Otis, Kezia and Susannah. The death of Mr. Barney occurred in Grafton, 1817, aged eighty-three years. (Mention of John and descendants forms part of this article.)
(VI) Jabez, eldest son of Aaron and Su- sannah (Carpenter) Barney, was probably born in Rehoboth or Swansey, Massachusetts, and accom- panied his parents to Grafton in 1774. He married a woman of the same family name, perhaps a distant relative, and had a family of eight children, whose names are not at hand.
(VII) John, son of Jabez Barney, was a native of Grafton, and resided there his entire life. He married Nancy Martin, of that town. and was the father of Alfred, Horace, Eleazer, Jessie, Mary, and three others whose names do not appear in the rec- ords consulted.
(VIII) Eleazer, son of John and Nancy (Martin) Barney, was born in Grafton, March, 1819, and died there in 1884. He was a merchant in Dan- bury for a time, but returned to Grafton where he was in trade for a number of years, and removing to Canaan he carried on a general mercantile busi- ness there, selling out to his sons, after which he devoted his time to other interests. He was quite active in public affairs. representing his district in the legislature two terms, and with the majority of the old Whig element he joined the Republican party at its formation. In his religious belief he was a Baptist. In 1835 he married Emeline A. Durrell, of Grafton, and they were the parents of three children: Albert E., Arthur J. and Bertha E. The mother of these children died February 14, 1906.
(IX) Albert Eleazer, eldest child of Eleazer and Emeline A. (Durrell) Barney, was born in Grafton, September 8, 1843. He began his education in the Grafton public schools, continued it at the Kimball Union Academy, in Meriden, and completed it at the Union Academy in Canaan. Prior to former school- ing mentioned, he took a course at Eastman's Busi- ness College at Poughkeepsie, New York. Entering his father's store as a clerk, he was admitted to partnership under the firm name of E. Barney & Son, who transacted a thriving business in Canaan. The retirement of the elder Barney was followed by the admission to
partnership of the latter's youngest son, Arthur J., and the firm name became known as Barney Brothers. Shortly after its estab- lishment the new concern began in a small way to manufacture pants, shirts and overalls, and this side speculation proved so successful that they in- creased their facilities, employing at the present time some fifty operatives and turning out a large amount of work annually. Albert E. Barney was chosen representative to the legislature for the years 1877-78, was also chosen town clerk, serving one year in that capacity, and in politics he is a Republican.
He married Abbie A. Hutchinson, born October 26, 1846. daughter of Richard Hutchinson, of Ca- naan. Mr. and Mrs. Barney have two children : Ernest A., born July 11, 1869, and John E., born March 14. 1876.
(VI) John. second son of Aaron and Susannah (Carpenter) Barney, was born in Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts, March 4, 1769, died October 3, 1840. He married Annie Smith, who bore him children: John, Jedediah, Amanda, Cyrus, Annie, Aarad, Amy, Rival and Nelson.
(VII) Jededialı, second child of John and Annie (Smith) Barney. was born in Grafton, January
17, 1798, and died there November 4, 1869. He resided on the farm formerly owned by his grand- father and later by his father, and was a leading citizen, holding various town offices, including repre- sentative to the legislature in 1848-49. He was also one of the foremost members of the Methodist Church. He married (first), February 13, 1824, Melancy Williams, daughter of Samuel Williams, and they had one child, Mark F., who died at the age of eighty-two years. Mrs. Barney died in her thirtieth ycar. Mr. Barney married
(second), February 3, 1831, Eunice Blackman, born July 4, 1807, a native of Gilmanton, daughter of Adam Blackman, of northeastern Massachusetts. She died February 19, 1862, at the age of fifty-four years. She was an active member of the Methodist Church. They were the parents of eight children : Eliza, Harriet, Hial, Cyrell, Albert E., Charles B., La Fayette T., Jacob and Ellen F., all of whom are deceased but Hial and La Fayette T. (Jacob and descendants receive mention in this article.)
(VIII) Hial, eldest son and third child of Jedediah and Eunice (Blackman) Barney, was born March 26, 1836, in Grafton. He was educated in the common schools of that town and an academy in Thetford, Vermont. After leaving school he went to Brookline, New Hampshire, and was there en- gaged in agricultural pursuits for a time. Go- ing to Bridgewater, Massachusetts, he learned the trade of butcher, and was subsequently located at Wareham, Massachusetts, where he carried on a profitable wholesale and retail business in meats. He bought and sold many cattle, and was interested in other business enterprises. He purchased a house and lot in Wareham, and made his permanent home there for twenty-nine years. He was a trustee of the Wareham Savings Bank, and took an active part in public affairs, being twice elected selectman and serving five years. also serving for a similar period of time as assessor and overseer of the poor. Dur- ing the prevalence of tuberculosis among cattle, he was appointed deputy state inspector and held that office many years, resigning it upon his removal to Manchester, New Hampshire. He was also a member of the committee for the suppression of crime.
In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, Third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and took part with his command in battles, namely : Kingston, White Hall, Gouldsboro, Newbern and Batchelders Creek, North Carolina, and in a num- ber of skirmishes in the siege of Little Washington, North Carolina. He was discharged at Lakeville. Massachusetts, June 26, 1863. He was lieutenant in the New Hampshire state militia before the Civil war. In 1895 Mr. Barney removed
to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he built a handsome residence 011 Pine street, and where he now lives in comfortable retirement. He is an attendant of the Universalist Church of Manchester, and has been president of the associa- tion seven years.
He was a member of William T. Sherman Post, No. 208, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ware- ham, Massachusetts, of which he was commander, and is now affiliated with Louis Bell Post, of Man- chester. He was made a Mason in Wareham, and is a member of Social Harmony Lodge of that town. Since living in Manchester he has become a member of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Board of Trade. Throughout his life Mr. Barney has consistently adhered to the Democratic party in politics. His career has been a most active and successful one, and he has conferred credit
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upon the state of his nativity and his parentage. By unremitting industry and prudent investments he has accumulated the competence which now en- ables him to enjoy life. His life work has embraced more than a selfish accumulation of gain, and he has devoted time and money for the enhancement of the moral and social advantages of the public. Mr. Barney married, February 19, 1868, Jane Cole, of Grafton, New Hampshire, daughter of Richard and Sylvia (Dwinnell) Cole. She died February 9, 1900.
(VIII) Jacob, youngest son of Jedediah Bar- ney, was born in Grafton, and resided in Orange. He married Lois Walker, of Grafton, and reared five children : Jacob, James. Aaron, Charles and Ahira.
(IX) Major Aaron, third son and child of Jacob and Lois (Walker) Barney, was born in Orange, June 21, 1810. He was a prosperous farmer and a leading resident of Orange, serving as a member of the board of selectmen, was representa- tive to the legislature for the years 1846 and 1853, and acted as a justice of the peace. Originally a Whig, he became actively identified with the Know-Nothing movement during the latter days of the anti-slavery agitation, and was subsequently an earnest supporter of the Republican party. In the state militia he ranked as major, and he evinced a profound interest in the welfare of that organiza- tion. Mr. Barney died March 24, 1882. He married Sarah Ann Chase, of Canaan, who died January 8. 1891. She bore him two children, Charles O. and Addie S.
( X) Charles Oscar, eldest child and only son of Major Aaron and Sarah Ann (Chase) Barney, was born in Orange, July 21, 1844. Having pur- stted the primary branches of study in the common schools at Grafton, he completed his education at the Canaan Union Academy, graduating in 1866, and in the following year he founded the Canaan Reporter, and espoused journalism as a permanent profession. He has ever since devoted his time and energy to the interest of this offspring of his enterprise, which has now passed its fortieth year of usefulness, and the successful career of the Reporter is due wholly to his ability and sagacious management. It is worthy of note that although frequently encumbered with important outside af- fairs, including public business, he never allows his managerial and editorial duties to be super- seded by other interests, and from the first issue of the Reporter to the present time he has been away from the office but five publication days. Politically Mr. Barney is a Republican, and in addition to serving upon the board of supervisors for the past six years, he represented his town in the lower house of the legislature in 1901. He was mainly instrumental in promoting and organizing
the Crystal Lake Water Company, drafted the bill con- stituting its charter which he guided to a final enactment by the legislature, and he is now one of the directors and clerk of that corporation. For twenty-seven consecutive years he was a director and secretary of the Mascoma Fair Association ; was for many years master of the local Grange; and has occupied all of the important chairs in Mount Cardigan Lodge, No. 31, Knights of Pythias, including that of grand chancellor. In his religious faith he is a Methodist.
On July 21. 1874. Mr. Barney was united in marriage with Miss Mary Wilmarth, of Enfield, this state, who died February J. 1887. She became the mother of five children: Lester O., Addie S., Ed- ward .A., Alice (deceased), and Ralph T. Edward
A. Barney, born July 22, 1881, is a graduate of the Canaan high school, is now private secretary to the Hon. Frank D. Currier, a member of congress from this state, and has served as clerk of the house committee on patents since 1905. Ralph T. Barney, youngest son of Charles O. Barney, was born July 8, 1885, is also a graduate of the Canaan high school, and is now assisting his father in the office of the Reporter.
BARNEY Jacob Barney, who was made a free- man in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1634, was representative in 1635-38-47-53, and died in 1673, aged seventy-two. From him descended the Sudbury family of Barneys from whom the members of this family have probably sprung.
(I) George Darwin Barney, son of Nelson Barney, was born in the town of Shoreham, Ver- mont, June 16, 1852, and died at Island Pond, 1889. He was a farmer and lumberman for some years. For ten years before his death he conducted a hotel at Island Pond. He married Emma McNamara, daughter of Michael McNamara. Her father was a soldier in the war with Mexico, and was in Gen- eral Scott's army at the capture of the City of Mexico. Two children were born of this union : Elmer J. E. and Catherine. She married Peter McCrystal, and resides in Berlin, New Hampshire. (II) Elmer Joseph Barney, M. D., only son of George D. and Emma (McNamara) Barney, was born in Shoreham, Vermont, June 16, 1873. He attended the common schools of Island Pond, and then learned the printer's trade. In 1895 he removed to Berlin, New Hampshire where he started a job printing office with one Andros. Later he engaged in the printing business under the name of the Barney Reporter Press, and pub- lished the Berlin Reporter, of Berlin, a newspaper which is still published there. He was engaged in the printing business eight years and brought out the first city director of Berlin. He entered the Uni- versity of Vermont as a student in the medical department and graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1905. He immediately returned to Berlin and opened an office and began the practice of his profession in which he has met with gratifying success, especially in obstetrics. He is both a
musician and a poet, is leader of the Berlin or- chestra, and plays the violin and trombone. He is a member of the Grand Council of the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity of the University of Vermont, and was editor-in-chief of its magazine, The Centaur. He is a member of the Coos Medi- can County Society, the New Hampshire Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He is a member of Sabatis Lodge, No. 95. Free and Accepted Masons ; the Knights of Pythias: Ber- lin Lodge. Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and the Order of Eagles, of which he is president and examining physician. He married, June 20, 1890, Helen Maud Clark, who was born in Berlin, daughter of Thomas Clark. Mrs. Barney is a pianist, has a fine voice, and sings in the Congre- gational Church choir. She is very much interested in the kindergarten school established by President William W. Brown, of the Berlin Mills Company, of which she is a teacher. Dr. and Mrs. Barney have one child, George.
This name is of Scottish origin and GAULT originally, as found in the New Eng- land records. had various spellings, such as Gott, Gaat and Galt. It has been borne by
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many excellent citizens of New Hampshire and of other states, and has been especially conspicuous in railroad operations in the West, as well as in the various walks of life in New England.
(I) Samuel Gault was a native of Scotland, and married there Elsie Carlton, who is said to have been a native of Wales. They had three children born in Scotland, and two after they removed thence to Londonderry in the northern part of Ireland, whence they came to the United States in 1721, lo- cating first in Massachusetts. In 1737 Mr. Gault settled in what is now the town of Hooksett, then part of Chester. The records show that he pur- chased of Joseph Hubbard, of Concord, lot No. 24, in the Suncook tract, the deed bearing date, May 25. 1736, in which his name is spelt "Gott," and his place of residence is given as Westford, Massachu- setts. In the next year he settled on lot No. 25, and it is presumed that he purchased this at that time and was the owner of both. This property he deeded to his son, Mathew, January 29, 1789. His children were: Patrick, Mathew, Andrew, Samuel and Jane.
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