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Although Mr. and Mrs. Thorne are without chil- dren of their own. they are seldom without young companionship. They brought up Waldo Thorne Worcester, a relative and a young man of fine promise, who was born at Chelsea, Massachusetts, November 2, 1872, the son of Hiram C. and Susan J. (Pitts) Worcester. He was graduated from the Concord high school in 1890, and was the first pupil to receive the first prize for original declamation at the annual prize speaking. He was subsequently graduated from the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston, and then engaged in the shoe business at Concord with Mr. Thorne. On June 29, 1899, he married Mabel Cooper Snow, of Hyde Park, Massa- chusetts, and they had two children: Dorothy and Thorne. Mr. Worcester's untimely death was caused by a canoe accident at Goff's Falls. near Manchester, on October 21, 1903, and was a loss widely felt beyond his immediate family. In 1906 Mr. and Mrs. Thorne invited Elsie A. Chandler, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Chandler, a descendant of one of the old Concord families to become an inmate of their home. She was born March 18, 1887, and is now being edu- cated at Saint Mary's (Episcopal) School at Con- cord.
(Second Family). The Nichols name
is numerous NICHOLS among the seventeenth century set- tlers of this country. Most of the early immigrants settled in Connecticut or the neighborhood of Boston. This family does not ap- pear to be related to the one whose history has pre- viously been traced. (See page 1857 for First Family ).
(I) John, son of Samuel and Susanna Nichols, was born in Washington, New Hampshire, October II, 1797. In childhood he moved with his widowed mother to Claremont, where he spent his youth. In 1836 he migrated to Illinois and settled near Tre- mont, where he bought a farm, removing in 1854 to Logan county and buying a much larger tract of land. He was a Republican in politics, and united with the Methodist Church early in life. Mr. Nichols accumulated a competency and gave liber- ally to the church and to philanthropic undertak- ings. Possessing an energetic temperament, a cheerful disposition, and an inventive mind, he had a large circle of friends. On March 14, 1824, John Nichols married Mary Gordon, daughter of Na- thaniel and Millicent (Rand) Gordon, who was born at East Washington, New Hampshire, De- cember 9, 1801. They had eight children: George P., Nathaniel Gordon, mentioned below; Frances E., married M. D. Tenney, and lives in Chandler, Oklahoma ; Harriet A., married M. R. Fuller, and lives in Blue Rapids, Kansas: Mary Gordon, died young ; Sarah B. married William Jones, and lives in Delavan, Illinois: and Edwin F., who lives in Delavan. John Nichols passed his later years in quiet home enjoyments, in reading and caring for his invalid wife to whom he was united for nearly fifty years. He died suddenly of paralysis on April 25, 1871, at Logan county, Illinois, and his wife died in October, 1875, at Tremont, Illinois.
(II) Nathaniel Gordon, second son and child of
John and Mary (Gordon) Nichols, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, September 17, 1826. At the age of ten he moved with his parents to Tremont, Illinois, which became his permanent home. He owns many hundred acres of rich prairie lands, and is one of the wealthy farmers of the state. Mr. Nichols attends the Congregational Church, and is a Democrat in his political affiliations, although he enjoyed the personal friendship of Lincoln. On January 29, 1850, Nathaniel Gordon Nichols married Lucia Jane Lovejoy, of Concord, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of Henry and Sarah (Thorne) Lovejoy, and was born May 30, 1828. Her maternal grandparents were Phinehas and Mir- iam (Lovejoy) Thorne. (See Thorne Genealogy III.) They had four children: Mary Gordon. who is mentioned in the next paragraph; Charles, Al- fred Henry, and Emily Prentiss. Charles Nichols was born February 2, 1854, and married (first), Georgine Morse, of Tremont, Illinois; and (sec- ond), Mrs. Annie Wilson, of Green Valley, Illinois. He died on August 31, 1899. Alfred Henry Nichols was born July 26, 1860. and married Helen Stone Hayward, of Morton, Illinois. Emily P. Nichols, born June 29, 1863, married Samuel Addison Cal- houn, on August 31, 1899, and lives in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Nathaniel Gordon Nichols died January 2, 1884.
(III) Mary Gordon, eldest child of Nathaniel Gordon and Lucia Jane (Lovejoy) Nichols, was born in Elm Grove, Illinois, April 8, 1852. On July 8, 1873, she married John Calvin Thorne, of Con- cord, New Hampshire. (See Thorne Genealogy V).
MORGAN The following line does not appear to be descended from Miles Morgan, of Springfield, Massachusetts, who is considered the earliest American ancestor. (See page 55).
(I) Luther Morgan, the founder of this branch, is said to have come directly from Wales, the an- cestral home of all the Morgans. He lived in vari- ous towns in Southern New Hampshire, first at Kingston. afterward at Kensington, Exeter and Suncook, all prior to 1750. He married Abigail -, and they had four children : Nathaniel, who lived at Canaan ; Abigail, who married Samuel Smith, of Suncook; Rachel, who married John Fel- lows of Kensington; and Jeremiah, whose sketch follows. Luther Morgan died December 10, 1768, and his widow died March 30, 1785.
(II) Jeremiah, second son and youngest child of Luther and Abigail Morgan, was born August IS, 1741. On January 12, 1764, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon David and Elizabeth (Chand- ler) Lovejoy, of Pembroke, New Hampshire, who was born January 10, 1742. They had six children, all born in Pembroke: Elizabeth, married Joseph Mann, of Pembroke; David, married Lois Ladd ; William, married Betsy Russ, of Bow: Priscilla, married John Johnson, of Bow; Jeremiah (2), who is mentioned below ; Sally, married Enoch Holt, of Allenstown. Jeremiah (2) Morgan died July 21, 1819, and his wife died April 11, 1815.
(III) Jeremiah (2), third son and fifth child of Jeremiah (1) and Elizabeth (Lovejoy) Morgan, was born August 12, 1776, in Pembroke, New Hampshire. On October 8, 1799, he married Abigail Johnson, who was born January II, 1770. They had five children: Mary, married Dr. Moses T. WVillard. of Concord, who was mayor in 1859-60; Melinda, married Jeremiah Gates, of Bow; Cynthia, who is mentioned below; Nathaniel, married Nancy Head Cochran; Eleanor Johnson, married John A.
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Gault, of Concord. Jeremiah (2) Morgan died April 12, 1839. His widow survived him twenty years, dying March 3, 1859, at the age of eighty- nine.
(IV) Cynthia, third daughter and child of Jeremiah (2) and Abigail (Johnson) Morgan, was born December 9, 1804, at Pembroke, New Hamp- shire, and married Calvin Thorne, of Concord. (See Thorne, IV.)
The first one in the line now herein
HOPKINS treated, of whom any definite
knowledge is at present accessible, was Riley Hopkins, who married Jane Welch, and resided in Washington, Vermont.
John, son of Riley and Jane (Welch) Hopkins, was born 1854, in Washington, Vermont, and died March 29, 1903, at Potter Place, in the town of Andover, New Hampshire. He was a man of con- siderable enterprise and executive ability, and erected at Potter Place a very handsome hotel. which is the pride of his town, and known as the "Hotel Potter." It is very largely patronized by summer vacationists, and enables the temporary sojourner in the town of Andover to secure com- fortable service at any time throughout the year. He was married, June 23, 1874, to Jennie Philbrick, who was born December 9, 1855. daughter of Eben Hadley and Jane Philbrick. Her father, Eben Had- ley, died March 21, 1872, and her mother exactly two years later, March 21, 1874. These were the parents of three children: Jennie, Charles E. and Linnie C., the latter now deceased. Charles E. married Nellie Dunham, and is the father of one daughter, Jessie. Mrs. Hopkins has been manager of the Hotel Potter for the past nine years, and is still conducting that popular hostelry with marked success. She is a regular attendant of the Baptist Church, and enjoys the respect of the people of Andover and vicinity. She is the mother of two children : Gertrude M., the first, born May 19, 1875, is the wife of George T. Blackwood, and has one daughter Evelyn, born July 6, 1902. Harley, the second, born May 5, 1880, married Grace M. Adams, and has a son John, born June 20, 1907.
Pinkerton Academy PINKERTON ACADEMY has good claim be called the cradle of Scotch culture in this country. It was the outgrowth of a classical high school that had been maintained among the Scotch people of Londonderry. New Hampshire, by voluntary con- tribution from as carly as 1793. It was to continue the benefits of this school to the community that Major John Pinkerton, in 1814, at the suggestion of his pastor, Rev. E. L. Parker, gave $12,000 to make it the institution that has since borne his name. His brother, Elder James Pinkerton, after- wards added $3,000 to the sum. By way of show- ing their appreciation of the gift of the Pinkertons, the people of the town contributed the funds for the building in which until 1887 the school was housed. The land for the site was given by William Choate and Peter Paterson.
The intention of the founders was a school after the Scotch pattern, that should be within the means of the poorest and "promote piety and vir- tue, and educate Youth in the Sciences, Languages, and Liberal Arts." It is to be remembered that the colonists of Londonderry were Scotchmen, though from the north of Ireland, Londonderry being as much a bit of Scotland twice removed as the Plym- outh of Protestant England. Love of learning
is one of the chief characteristics of the Scotch race : no people are less troubled with fear of edu- cating the common above his station. Some time it will be perceived that the Scotch, more than the English, sowed the seed with us of faith in general education, and gave us our particular type of free schools. The Pinkerton brothers stamped the new institution with their ideas, but those ideas were quite as much national as personal, and concurred in by the folk about them without dissenting thought.
It remained for a third Pinkerton, son of Elder James Pinkerton, to broaden the scope of the school to meet modern requirements and so greatly extend its influence. Dying in 1881, after a life of good works, John Morrison Pinkerton left a large estate, the income from which was to accumulate until a sufficient sum had been derived to meet the cost of erecting a new and improved school build- ing, and thereafter be expended for the purchase of a library and the general support of the school. To make room for the new building, which was opened in 1887, the original wooden structure was removed to a site not far distant, where it still has its important use. The academy was increased in size and strength. otherwise the will of John Mor- rison Pinkerton left it as he found it. "Alumnus of Yale and lawyer in Boston," he was of one mind with the "old-time merchants of Londonderry," his father and uncle, as to the kind of training best fitted to make useful citizenship. He was careful to do nothing, as the dominant giver, to divert the academy from its original purpose, making provis- ion that, with the larger institution made possible by his bequest, there should be no departure from the spirit of piety and zeal for the public welfare, in which it had its beginning.
In 1906, bronze tablets, the work of the sculptor, Daniel Chester French, (and as to the phrasing and arrangement of the inscriptions) of President Charles E. Eliot, of Harvard University were placed in the outer vestibule of the main building to commemorate the lives and special service of the three men who gave to Derry (as that part of Londonderry where the school stands is now known) one of the leading secondary schools of the state.
As with many similar schools in the century it has passed through, the academy's greatest praise. is that it has served so well as a stepping-stone in the rise of the country boy. It has been its privi- lege to help to preferment in life many of the kind of young people that like to help themselves. Pro- vision has been made in a very moderate tuition for such as these, and this liberality has not been without its reward. Only such charges have been made as have been thought requisite by the trustees. as an evidence of sincere purpose on the part of the pupil. The rate, eight dollars a year to begin with, has never exceeded twenty-one dollars, the present rate. Always far from restricted in use- fulness to the work of a college-preparatory school, the academy has, nevertheless, paid yearly tribute of its best scholars from the first to the institutions above it. At one time in the middle of the last century, when graduates of all schools were less numerous than today, seven graduates of Pinkerton were enrolled as tutors at Dartmouth. It was re- marked by Horace Greeley at the celebration in 1869 of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Londonderry, that at that time the descendants of the Scotch colonists in this country furnished one-sixth of the teachers for the educa- tion of the west. Many of these went directly to
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the field from the older Pinkerton Academy, but not a few indirectly by way of the colleges. Re- ceiving only boys at the first, it soon became co- educational. but the female department was discon- tinued in 1821 and not resumed until 1853. Since that time the girls have formed a good half of the student body, and have carried off their full portion of the honors and prizes. In recent years the more comprehensive curriculum of study demanded by the requirements of colleges and scientific schools has been provided, and the alumni who have gone forward to the higher institutions bear gratifying testimony to the intelligent, broad and effective mental and moral training the academy gave them for their subsequent careers.
The charter members of the board of trustees, who had an important part in shaping the destinies of the school, were, Rev. William Morrison, John Pinkerton, Jr., John Burnham, Isaac Thom, Elder James Pinkerton, Rev. Edward L. Parker, John Porter, Alanson Tucker, Robert Bartley, M. D. Suc- cessive members of the board chosen to fill vacan- cies as they occurred, have been as follows: Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D., James Thom, Rev. Asa Mc- Farland, D. D., Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., George Farrar, M. D., William M. Richardson, LL. D., Rev. John H. Church. D. D., William Choate, Sam- uel Adams, Thornton Beeton, Rev. Pliny B. Day, D. D., Rev. Jonathan Clement, D. D., Rev. Timothy G. Brainerd, Samuel H. Taylor, LL. D., John M. Pinkerton, A. M., Rev. Joshua W. Wellman. D. D., Rev. Ebeneezer G. Parsons, William Anderson, David H. Pinkerton, Rev. William House, Rev. Leonard S. Barker, D. D., Rev. James T. McCollom, D. D., Rev. Caleb E. Fisher, D. D., Rev. David Bremmer, Rev. Benjamin F. Parsons, Rev. Robert W. Has- kins, Rev. Charles Tenney, Rev. Charles Packard, Nathan B. Prescott, William G. Means. Rev. John P. Newell, Edward Spalding, M. D., LL. D., Hon. John W. Noyes, George L. Clarke, John C. Chase, Rev. Hiram B. Putnam, Frank N. Parsons, LL. D., Greenleaf K. Bartlett, Perley L. Horne, A. M .. Rev. Charles L. Merriam. Hon. Charles W. Abbott.
Of these the following have served as president : Elder James Pinkerton, from 1814; Rev. Edward L. Parker, from 1819; Rev. Daniel Dana, from 1822; Hon. William M. Richardson, from 1826; Rev. John H. Church, from 1838; Rev. Edward L. Parker, from 1841; John Porter, from 1850; Sam- uel H. Taylor, from 1858; John M. Pinkerton, from 1871 : Rev. Ebeneezer G. Parsons, from ISSI ; Rev. John P. Newell, from 1900.
The following have served as secretary: John Porter, from 1814: James Thom, from 1824; Sam- tel Adams, from 1831; Rev. Pliny B. Day. from 1838: Rev. Joshua W. Wellman, from 1850: Rev. Ebeneezer G. Parsons, from 1854: Rev. Benjamin F. Parsons, from 1872; Rev. Hiram B. Putnam, from 1896; John C. Chase, from 1901.
The following have served as treasurer: John Porter, from 1814: William Choate, from 1842; William Anderson, from 1856; Frederick J. Shep- ard, from 1888.
Following are names of the successive prin- ciples of the school : Samuel Burnham, Weston Bela Adams, Abel F. Hildreth, A. M., Caleb Em- ery., Rev. Elihn T. Rowe, Marshall Henshaw, A. M., John W. Ray, A. M., Henry L. Boltwood, A. M .. John Y. Stanton, A. M., John P. Newell, A. M., Marshman W. Hazen, A. M., Rev. Ebeneezer G. Parsons, George T. Tuttle, A. M., Homer P. Lewis. A. M., Edmund R. Angel, A. M., George W. Bingham. A. M. The longest and perhaps the most noted term of administration was that of Mr.
Hildreth, which extended from 1819 to 1846, and gave the academy a wide reputation for its general thorough instruction and as a fitting school for col- lege. The standard then established has been fully maintained up to the present time.
In 1866 was celebrated the semi-centennial anni- versary of the school, and much was made of the occasion, many distinguished alumni being present and taking part in the exercises. At that time the school had begun to feel cramped by want of means, and the voices of several of the speakers were raised in an appeal for help. The response was to come shortly in the shape of the munificent gift of John M. Pinkerton, which opened a future to the school such as its founders did not dream of. Since then its responsibilities, both to those destined to college and to those not, increased as they have been by the growth of the town of Derry, have not been increased beyond its ability to meet them fully. An idea of the growth of the school may be gained from the statement that the attendance, including the preparatory department abolished in 1901, rarely exceeded one hundred before that date, while in 1907 it had reached one hundred and thirty-five. Mr. Burnham, the first principal. managed the school with one assistant ; in 1907 Mr. Bingham has ten.
Nearing the end of its first century of existence, it can safely be said that the academy has well per- formed its expected work, and fully met the antic- ipations of its founders and later benefactors.
(I) David Wright, who was born in WRIGHT Ashford, Connecticut, in July, 1759, and died in Hanover, New Hamp- shire, in 1852. was a soldier of the Revolution and served at various times from 1775 until 1781. He enlisted first in 1775 as a private in a company of riflemen from Hanover, New Hampshire, and un- der command of Lieutenant James Parr was in ser- vice at Great Island in November of that year ; enlisted at Hanover, August 16, 1776. in Captain David Woodward's company of rangers for the state of New Hampshire, and was credited with forty-six days service : March 17, 1777, was mus- tered as private in Captain House's company of Colonel Cilley's regiment, and in September, 1777, was private in Colonel Jonathan Chase's regiment of militia which marched from Cornish, New Hampshire, to Saratoga. New York, and joined General Gates's army in opposing and overwhelming the British under General Burgoyne at Stillwater; service one month and three days. April, 1778, he was mustered with other men from Hanover for that town's quota in Colonel Jonathan Chase's regiment of the Continental army, and is described as then being twenty years old and five feet seven inches tall. February 17, 1779, he enlisted and was mustered. in April, for three years' service as pri- vate in Colonel Chase's regiment in the Continental army, and in the next year was reported as a private and sergeant of the fourth company of Colonel Cil- ley's regiment of the Continental army : and in 1781 he was reported as sergeant in the same company and regiment.
David Wright, of Hanover, married, September 16. 1783, Lydia Tenney. She was born October 23. 1761, and died at Hanover, New Hampshire, April 27, 1832, daughter of John and Olive (Armstrong) Tenny. David and Lydia had in all nine children, three of whom were born at one time. Their first child, name unknown, was born June 24, 1784, and died June 25, 1785. Their second child, Wealthy. was born July 31, 1785. died April 8, 1864. married
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Asher Ladd and settled in Painesville, New York. Their next children were triplets, born March IO, 1788, and died two on March II, 1788, and the third March 25, 1788. Their sixth child, Anna, was born May 20, 1790, and died May 1, 1875; married, Sep- tember 11, 18II, Henry Hilton Chandler (see Chan- dler, VII), of Hanover, New Hampshire. Their seventh child, Hannah, was born February 4, 1792. and died December 10, 1795. Their eighth child, David Jr., was born January 17, 1794, and died in Hanover; married, 1815, Irene Ladd, born March 21, 1793. Their ninth child, Caleb, was born Janu- ary 14. 1798, and died July 11, 1802.
The same causes which led to the set-
CLARK tlement of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, led to the settlement of the Scotch-Irish at Londonderry, New Hampshire. The settlers in each case fled not so much from the civil government as from the hierarchy and the laws which enforced conformity to the church es- tablishment, or at least compelled them to aid in supporting a minister of the established religion; and, in the case of the Scotch-Irish, a tenth part of all their increase was rigorously exacted for this purpose. They also held their lands and tenements by lease from the crown only, and not as proprietors of the soil. Their inextinguishable love of liberty, botlı civil and religious, would not permit them to remain in Ireland so situated; and knowing that they were leaving that country for one much its inferior in an agricultural sense, to make their homes in a wilderness whose solitude was broken only by the cries of wild beasts and blood thirsty savages, they chose to make the change rather than to live as they had been compelled to live.
Among those early settlers of Londonderry were the Clarks, honorable men and women from whom have descended many worthy citizens who have lived or are now living in all parts of the Union. (I) Robert Clark, of the Scotch colony in Ire- land. came to Londonderry, New Hampshire, about the year 1725, and settled on the height of land northwest of Beaver Pond. His example and his labors were of great service in promoting the in- terests of the colonists. He died in 1775. He mar- ried Letitia Cochran, daughter of John Cochran, of Londonderry, Ireland. She died in 1783. They had eight children, as follows: William, John, Samuel, Miriam, Jane, Letitia, Agnes and Elizabeth.
(II) William Clark, eldest son of Robert and Letitia (Cochran) Clark, was born in London- derry. In 1766 he settled in New Boston. where his grandson, George W. Clark, lived one hundred years later. "He was the only justice of the peace in New Boston, and received his commission from the British government; he did not sympathize at first with the patriots of the Revolution, and made enemies thereby. But he was a man with whom his fellow-citizens could not afford to be long angry. As a surveyor of land he had no equal in the town ; as an intelligent justice his services were of great value. He was a just man, and sought to promote peace and save the town and private parties from litigation ; he was employed in the service of the town for a long session of years in almost every capacity, and had the unbounded confidence of the people." From 1766 to 1776 inclusive he was town clerk : and in 1766-67 he was one of the selectmen. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and lived and died as a Christian, and left a name that will not soon be forgotten. He died March 9, 1808, aged seventy-three. He married, February 2, 1764, Anne Wallace, who was born in Londonderry, in
1736, and died in New Boston, June 12, 1792, aged fifty-five. She was the daughter of John Wallace, who came from county Antrim, Ireland, to London- derry, in 1719 or 1720, and married Annie Barnett on May 18, 1721, being the first couple married in Londonderry. The children of William and Anne were: Robert, John. Ninian, Rebecca, Anne and Letitia.
(III) John Clark, second son and child of Wil- liam and Anne (Wallace) Clark, was born in New Boston, September 3, 1768, and died in Francestown, February 12, 1831, aged sixty-three. He settled in the northerly portion of Hancock about the year 1792, on forest land which had been purchased for him by his father. "He took to his forest life an earnest nature and a resolute spirit, with more than the ordinary culture of that day. In the winter he taught in the district schools of the vicinity, and having a good knowledge of music he often taught a singing school. He was also a practical surveyor. and had many calls for that kind of work. His political sympathies were with the Federal party, consequently he was not called upon to fill any im- portant civil office; however, as a justice of the peace he was widely and favorably known. He early connected himself with the Congregational Church, and was a consistent Christian and a liberal supporter of religious institutions. In 1824 he sold his farm, and two years later removed to Frances- town, where he spent the remainder of his life." He married, October 17, 1793, Rebecca Wallace, of Londonderry. She was an intelligent Christian wo- man, a true yoke-fellow and helper to her husband, whom she survived a quarter of a century. After his decease she, with her daughter, established a home in Amherst, where she died in 1855, at the age of eighty-three, leaving a fragrant memory. Their children were: Annie Wallace, Samuel Wal- lace, William, Gilman, Rebecca, John, Lydia Gor- don, Letitia Rebecca, and Mary Abigail.
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