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 135

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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At the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Barton was the first Sullivan county man to enlist, and al- though only twenty-one years old at the time, he soon raised a company of volunteers for the three months' service, which was mustered in as Com- pany E, First New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, he being commissioned its captain, while the regi- mental command was given to Colonel Tappan. At the expiration of its term of service the company was mustered out, many of its men, however, re-en- listing, and at once afterward Captain Barton re- cruiting another company, of which he was captain, and which was mustered in as Company E, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. afterward known throughout the army as the "Fighting Fifth" of New Hampshire. After serving in the peninsu- lar campaign under Mcclellan, during which he took part in the fight at Fair Oaks, the Seven Days' Fight and the subsequent retreat to Harrison's Landing, where he won the warm commendation of his superior officers, Captain Barton resigned his commission on account of sickness and disabilities, and returned to his home in Newport. However, as soon as he was again able to enter the service he recruited a company of heavy artillery-Company B-which he commanded and took to the front, be- ing stationed first at Fort Constitution and later at Fort Foote, near Washington. During the summer of 1861 he was sent back to New Hampshire to re- cruit a regiment of heavy artillery, which he did with commendable promptness, and as promptly Governor Gilmore commissioned him lieutenant- colonel. This command was stationed at Fort Sum- ner, in the defenses of Washington, and was on duty there at the time of the assassination of Pres- ident Lincoln and until the close of the war.

After the war Colonel Barton received an ap- pointment as second lieutenant in the regular army, and while stationed at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was promoted first lieutenant. At the end of two years he resigned his commission and accepted an ap- pointment as district attorney for the tenth district of Arkansas, and afterward was appointed judge of the criminal court of Jefferson county in the same state. He served in the latter capacity two years, then resigned and took a partnership interest in and the editorship of the Jeffersonian Republican, a weekly paper published at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. However, having fought a good fight in a memor- able gubernatorial campaign in Arkansas, Colonel Barton disposed of his newspaper interests in the west and returned to Newport. In December, 1875, he resumed the general practice of law in partner- ship with his father, which relation was continued until the death of the junior partner, January 19, 1876.

Colonel Barton married (first), in 1861, Helen M. Wilcox, of Newport, who died. He married, (second), Addie L. Barton, of Ludlow, Vermont.

(VIII) Jesse Morton, son of Colonel Levi Win- ter Barton and Elizabeth F. (Jewett) Barton, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, January 21, 1870, and received his earlier education in the pub- lic schools of that town. Like his father, he laid the foundation of his classical edu- cation at Kimball Union Academy, then entered Dartmouth College and graduated from that famous institution with the class of '92, and during this course he taught school to pay his way through col- lege. After leaving college he began teaching and for the next several years filled a pedagogue's chair with gratifying success, first in the grammar school at Penacook, then three years as principal of the Simonds Free High School at Warner, New Hamp-

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shire, and afterward for a year in a select school in Chicago, Illinois. In the fall of 1897 he matri- culated at Boston University Law School, and in connection with his course there studied law under the direction of A. S. Wait, Esq., of the Sullivan county bar, and also in the office of his own fa- ther. In March, 1899, Judge Barton was admitted to practice in the courts of New Hampshire. and since that time has been actively identified with the professional and political life of his native county. In 1901-02 he represented the town of Newport in the New Hampshire legislature, and in 1903 was a member of the state constitutional convention. In January, 1906, he was appointed probate judge of Sullivan county, which office he now holds. He is a member of the New Hampshire State Bar Associa- tion, and of the order of Free and Accepted Ma- sons, a member of the Chapter, and also of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows. Judge Barton is one of the trustees of the Newport Savings Bank and Richard's Free Library. He takes an active interest in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Newport and is one of its board of trus- tees.

(Preceding Generations on Page 7II.) (III) Jacob, fifth child and third MORRILL son of Isaac and Phoebe (Gill) Morrill, was born in Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts, May 25, 1677. The date of his death is unknown. His will was dated December 1, 1750. and probated March 25, 1754. He was a soldier in Cap- tain Henry True's company, which went to Exeter, July 5, 1710. He married (first), December 4, 1701, at Salisbury, Elizabeth Stevens, daughter of Lieu- tenant John and Joanna (Thorn) Stevens. She was born February 14, 1678, but the date of her death is also unknown. He married (second), Jan- uary 5, 1723, Elizabeth Dalton. His twelve children, all by the first wife, were: Jonathan, Joanna (died young), Abraham, Samuel, Joanna, Ruth, Jacob, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, Isaac, Judith and Sarah.

(IV) Abraham, third child and second son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stevens) Morrill, was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, December 22, 1703. He was of the West Parish and is called "husband- man." He was baptized and signed the covenant in December. 1721, and was admitted to the second Salisbury Church, January 7, 1728, and signed him- self senior after 1731. He died August 15, 1757. His will, executed August 6, was probated October 17, 1757. He married (first), May 15, 1729, at Salis- bury, Eleanor True, who was born in Salisbury, November 4, 1705. baptized June 16, 1706, and died March 26, 1745. She was the daughter of William and Eleanor (Stevens) True, of Salisbury. He married, (second), June 30, 1747. Mary Currier, who died, perhaps July 2, 1788. The children were all by the first wife and named as follows: Wil- liam, Abraham, Zebedee, Eleanor and Jabez.

(V) William, eldest son of Abraham (2) and Elcanor (True) Morrill, was born in Salisbury, April 21, 1735, and baptized in the Second Salisbury Church, May 4, 1735. He removed to Brentwood, New Hampshire, where he was a man of conse- quence and filled various official positions. He signed the association test in 1776. He was select- man of Brentwood, a justice of the peace for many years, and a deputy from that town to the fourth Provincial congress which met at Exeter, May 17, 1775. He married Lydia Trask and among his children was William.

(VI) Captain William (2), son of William (I) and Lydia (Trask) Morrill, was born in Brentwood,

New Hampshire, and died August 27, 1838. He was a prominent citizen and business man of Brent- wood, represented the town-in the state legislature, and filled important local offices, including that of selectman. He married (first), Mary Gordon, of Brentwood, who died May 26, 1799, aged thirty-one years and six days. He married (second), Eliza- beth Dudley, of Brentwood. His children were: Nathaniel, Dorothy. Zebedec, Mary, Sarah Dudley, Samuel, John Dudley, Ann, William and Frederick.

(VII) Mary, daughter of Captain William and Mary (Gordon) Morrill, was born April 25, 1798, and married, November 26, 1826, John Fifield. (See Fifield I).

(Preceding Generations on Page 771.) (IV) Jonathan, second son and third

LUND child of Thomas (3) and Elizabeth Lund, was married April 2, 1741. in Dunstable, to Jean Barnum, and evidently spent his life in his native town. His children were: Olive, Joanna, Mary, Oliver and Mehitable.

(V) Jonathan (2), elder son and third child of Jonathan (1) and Jean (Barnum) Lund, was born July 24, 1747, in Dunstable, and made his home in that town through life. He was known as Captain Jonathan, and probably derived his title from serv- ice in the state militia. He was married October 22, 1765, in Dunstable, to Olive Sargent, and their children (recorded in Dunstable) were: Nathaniel, Joseph, Olive Sargent, Elizabeth and James Tay- lor.

(VI) Joseph, second son and child of Jonathan (2) and Olive (Sargent) Lund, was born Decem- ber 24, 1767, in Dunstable, and undoubtedly lived all his life in that town. There is authority for the statement that his wife's baptismal name was Bet- sey, but no record of their marriage appears in the vital statistics of the state, neither are their chil- dren on record, but the family record shows that they had a son, Joseph S.

(VII) Joseph S .. son of Joseph and Betsey Lund, was born in Nashua, in 1800, and died in Concord, December 27, 1882, aged eighty-two years. and ten months. He grew to manhood on a farm and acquired such education as he could in the com- mon schools of his time. Soon after attaining his majority he bought a farm in the southeast part of Concord, where he remained the balance of his life. He was a man of rare shrewdness and finan- cial acumen, and was prosperous in all he under- took. He added largely to his real estate by the- purchase of woodlands. For a time after going to Concord he was engaged in boat building. After he had accumulated considerable property he had a large amount of money loaned out, and also had bank stock and interest in manufacturing concerns. In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion a believer in the Universalist creed. He died pos- sessed of a handsome property, after a residence of sixty years in Concord. He married (first), Mary Swett, daughter of Stephen Swett. She died in 1840, leaving one child. Charles Carroll. He was married (second), in Manchester, November 23, 1846, by Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, to Phebe C. Ab- bott, of Concord. He was married (third), in Man- chester, April 21, 1877, by Rev. C. W. Wallace, to Widow Amanda J. Nutting, of Portsmouth, who survives him. She is the daughter of Moses and Betsy W. Allen. and was born in Hebron, Maine.

(VIII) Charles Carroll, only child of Joseph S. Lund and Mary (Swett) Lund, was born December 0, 1832, and died December 4. 1880. He prepared for college in Orford and Pembroke Academies,

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and in 1851 entered Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1855, after hav- ing completed a classical course. He was a mem- ber of the Kappa Kappa Kappa society. On re- turning to Concord he taught a year in the high school of that city, and also studied law, in the offices of Hon. L. D. Stevens and Judge Fowler, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. Soon after his admission he opened a law office in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he practiced eight years, having for partners John B. Sanborn and Theodore French, both New Hampshire men. The style of the firm was Sanborn, French & Lund. In 1864 he returned to Concord, and became the law partner of Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, his former preceptor, the firm being Stevens & Lund. This relation lasted until 1870. Notwithstanding Mr. Lund had entered the profession of law, which he did not like, at the in- stance of his father, he was very successful in it, patent office cases being favorite with him, as he was fond of mathematics and mechanical employ- ment and things pertaining to machinery.

Before going to college he had studied civil en- gineering. in which he was deeply interested and highly proficient, and spent part of a season in actual work with Mr. Adams, the chief engineer of the Concord & Montreal railroad, which he greatly enjoyed. In 1870 he accepted the invitation of a friend, a civil engineer, to spend his vacation in the summer of that year with him in surveying the pro- posed railroad between Concord and Rochester. This employment afforded him so much satisfaction that he determined to abandon the practice of law, and he accordingly closed his office and went to the Pacific coast, where with a corps of forty men he surveyed a line for a railroad between Portland, Oregon and Puget Sound, which was afterward ac- cepted and built upon in preference to several other lines which were subsequently surveyed by others. When this survey was completed he returned to Concord and was assistant engineer in chief of the construction of the Concord water works system. He also constructed the water works system in Leominster, Massachusetts. Later he was made chief engineer of the Concord & Montreal railroad, and as such had charge of the construction of vari- ous extensions of that road in the White Mountain region and above, including the Wing road to the base of Mt. Washington, the road to the Profile House, and the road to Lancaster. the successful and economical construction of which required en- gineering skill of a high order and the completion of which placed Mr. Lund in the front rank of engineers and brought him much deserved credit. Mr. Lund died at that comparatively early age of forty-eight years. Had he devoted himself to this profession earlier in life, or had his life been spared a few years longer, he would doubtless have attained great celebrity as an engineer. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. He married, in Concord, June 17, 1860, Lydia French, who was born in Concord, March 26, 1838, daughter of Theodore and Lydia ( Pol- lard) French, of Dunstable, Massachusetts. She was prepared for a higher course in private schools, and graduated from Mt. Holyoke Seminary in 1857. Three children were born to this union: Mary (died young). Fred B. and Joseph W.

(IX) Fred B., son of Charles C. and Lydia (French) Lund, was born in Concord, January 4, 1865, was prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and entered Harvard University in 1884, and graduated summa cum laude in 1888. He is a

member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. Following his graduation from the literary department of Har- vard, he matriculated in the Harvard Medical School, where he completed the four years' course in three years, and became an interne in the Massa- chusetts General Hospital, and remained there three years. In 1893 he entered the general practice of medicine with offices in Boston, and immediately took high rank as a physician and surgeon. He now has a large and lucrative practice. He is a sur- geon on the staff of the City Hospital of Boston.

(IX) Joseph Wheelock, youngest child of Charles C. and Lydia (French) Lund, was born in Concord, March 14, 1867, and attended the common and high schools of Concord, and subsequently graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1886, Ilarvard University in 1890, and Harvard Law School in 1893. Since the latter date he has been engaged in a successful law practice in Boston.

(For Ancestry see page IOII.)

Nathan Hesselton was probably HESSELTON the son of Nathan (or Nathan- iel), whose name appears in the early records of Wilton, New Hampshire. He mar-

ried Phebe and the names of seven children are given: Phebe, John, Nathan, Samuel, Louis, Betty and Sarah. Nathaniel and Nathan Hesselton's names were signed to the resolve "to defend by arms," etc. Nathan Hesselton served four months in the Revolution by his son David (three years service). David Hesselton, son of Nathan, served in the war of the Revolution.

Nathan (I) Hesselton removed to Weston, Ver- mont, later to Andover, New Hampshire. He mar- ried Prudence, daughter of Timothy Baldwin, of Wilton. After the death of her husband she re- turned to Wilton. Their children were: Abel, Daniel, Joel. Nathaniel and Hannah. Daniel, son of Nathan and Prudence (Baldwin) Hesselton, was born November II, 1807, and died June 24, 1877. He married Harriet Chandler. They lived in Ver- mont. Their three sons all served in the Civil war. Helen M. Hesselton, daughter of Abner, married Frederick G. Ellison. (See Ellison, III).

(For Ancestry, See Pages 914-15.)

(VI) Deacon Hezekiah, son of

HUBBARD Nathan and Mary ( Patterson) Hub- bard, was born in Groton, Massa- chusetts, January 19, 1755. He came to Rindge, New Hampshire, about the year 1783, and settling on what has since been known as Hubbard's Hill he became a prosperous farmer, an eminently useful citizen and an active member of the Congregational Church, of which he was a deacon for many years. His death, which was sudden, occurred April 22, 1822. He married Rebecca Hutchinson, who was born at Billerica, Massachusetts, in 1762, and she died in Rindge, April 13, 1849. They were the parents of thirteen children, namely: Benjamin, Levi, Rebecca, Sally, Polly, Rodney, Harry, Hezekiah, Mersylvia, Eliphalet, Otis, John Hutchinson and Addison, all of whom were born in Rindge.

(VII) Harry, fourth son and seventh child of Deacon Hezekiah and Rebecca (Hutchinson) Hub- bard, was born in Rindge, July 8, 1795. He began life as a farmer, but learned the shoemaker's trade and for a time resided in Burlington, Vermont. From Burlington he went to Shrewsbury, Massa- chusetts, and died in that town. His first wife, whom he married June 8, 1823, was Clarissa Fay, and on December 6, 1832, he married for his second

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wife Dorcas Whitney, daughter of Dr. Isaac Whit- ney. His first wife bore him two sons, Henry B., born August 28, 1825, became an extensive boot manufacturer in Worcester, Massachusetts. Ap- pleton B., who is referred to at length in the suc- ceeding paragraph.

(VIII) Appleton Burnham, youngest son of Harry and Clarissa (Fay) Hubbard, was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, May 29, 1829. He en- gaged in agricultural pursuits in Troy, New Hamp- shire, and was permitted to enjoy that independent life but a short period, as he died September 29, 1862, at the age of thirty-three years. On September 19, 1854, he married Betsey L. Clark, daughter of Howard and Dolly (Bemis) Clark. Of this union there are two sons, Charles A., who will be again referred to; and Ilarry, who is now a successful lawyer in New York City.

(IX) Charles Appleton, eldest son of Appelton B. and Betsey L. (Clark) Hubbard, was born in Troy, New Hampshire, June 7, 1857. He was graduated from the New Hampshire State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1877, and for the succeeding two years was employed as a clerk in the general store of E. P. Kimball & Sons, Troy. Removing to Boston in 1882 he was for a short time engaged in the electrical business, but destiny seems to have led him into other fields of usefulness, wherein his business ability has found more scope for development. Securing an advan- tageous position in the comptroller's office of the Union Pacific Railway Company in Boston, he worked up through the various ranks for several years, or until 1897, when he was appointed comp- troller of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company with headquarters in Boston. This company operates over fourteen hundred miles of railroad located in Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon, and Mr. Hub- bard performed the duties of his responsible posi- tion with marked ability for two years. When the United Fruit Company was organized in 1899 Mr. Hubbard was chosen treasurer, and relinquishing the railway service he began the financial manage- ment of the new enterprise with a spirit of energy which has ever since continued unabated, and the expansion of the fruit company's interests and its present high standard in financial circles is in no small measure due to his ability and sound judg- ment. The United Fruit Company is the largest importer of fruit products in the United States, and the largest banana importing concern in the world, having handled during the past year thirty-five mil- lion bunches of this fruit. The company owns directly one of the largest sugar plantations in Cuba, which produced during its fiscal year ending Sep- tember 30, 1907, forty-five thousand tons of raw sugar. It also has acquired practically all of the common stock of the Nipe Bay Co., giving the com- pany control of a plantation of about one hundred and thirty thousand acres of land, of which some twenty thousand acres has been planted in sugar, and a mill erected and a railroad and other facilities constructed for producing large quantities of sugar. This new property produced over sixteen thousand tons of sugar in 1907. The company operates a line of steamships, some of which are named in honor of distinguished admirals of the United States navy, and it employs a force of twenty-seven thousand men. Mr. Hubbard resides in Newton and affiliates with the Masonic order of that city, being a mem- ber of the Blue lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templar, and the Scottish Rite bodies of Boston up to thirty-second degree. On October 15, 1884, he was united in mar-

riage with Mary Anna Stearns, daughter of Julius Augustus and Mary Anna (Wood) Stearns, of Rindge. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have two children, Harry Appleton and Marion.

(For Ancestry, see page 1031.)

(II) Nathaniel Thayer, seventh son THAYER of Richard Thayer, was born in 1658. He settled in Boston. In 1676 he married Deborah Townsend. His children were: Nathaniel, Zachariah, Cornelius, John, died young ; John, Ebenezer and Deborah.

(III) Cornelius, third son and child of Nathaniel and Deborah (Townsend) Thayer, was born in Boston, November 14, 1684. He married Lydia Turell, of Medford, Massachusetts in 1706, and resided in Boston. He was the father of six chil- dren, namely: Lydia, Nathaniel, Samuel, Deborah, Cornelius and Turell.

(IV) Nathaniel, second child and eldest son of Cornelius and Lydia (Turell) Thayer, was born in Boston, July 17, 1710. He married Ruth Eliot, a sister of Rev. Dr. Andrew Eliot, of Boston. She became the mother of several children: Ebenezer, Catherine, Ruth, Lydia and Deborah.

(V) Rev. Ebenezer, eldest child of Nathaniel and Ruth (Eliot) Thayer, was born in Boston or Braintree, July 16, 1734. He graduated from Har- vard College in 1753, prepared for the ministry, and was ordained September 16, 1766. For twenty-six years he was pastor of the church in Hampton, New Hampshire, and his death occurred September 6, 1792. He married, October 2, 1766, Martha Cotton, daughter of Rev. John and Mary (Gibbs) Cotton, and a descendant in the fourth generation of the Rev. John Cotton, who became the first minister of the First Church in Boston in 1633. His children were: Ebenezer, born July 16, 1767; Rev. Dr. Nathaniel, born July II, 1769; Martha, born in April, 1771; John, born in July, 1773; Catherine, born September I, 1775; and the late Rev. Andrew Eliot Thayer, of Nashua.

(VI) Rev. Andrew Eliot Thayer, youngest child of Rev. Ebenezer and Martha (Cotton) Thayer, was born in Hampton, November 4, 1783. In addi- tion to the ancestors already mentioned he was a descendant of Sir Richard Saltonstall, one of the founders of Massachusetts and an assistant under Governor Winthrop; Nathaniel Ward, an early settler in Ipswich; and of Edward Rossiter, who was also an assistant to Governor Winthrop. Mr. Thayer was fitted for college in Exeter, New Hampshire, and was graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1803. He then studied theology and was ordained to the ministry in 1806, but owing to im- paired health was obliged to postpone, for a time, active participation in pastoral work and seek a more temperate climate. Upon his recovery. in 1820, he came to Nashua, opened a book store and circulating library on the site of which is now the entrance of Thayer's Court. He supplied the pulpit of the Old South Church until 1824, also taught school and he assisted in establishing The Nashua Constellation, of which he was editor and one of the publishers. The name of that paper was subse- quently changed to The Nashua Gasette, and in 1832 Mr. Thayer sold out to General Hunt, who changed it from a Whig to a Democratic organ. During Mr. Thayer's editorship of the Gazette it was published in a room in the rear of his book- store, and the Nashua Telegraph began its exist- ence in the same apartment. In November, 1838. his bookstore was destroyed by fire, and he resumed business in a building which stood upon the site of

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the present Whiting Block. Through his instru- mentality Mr. Beard was induced to establish and edit The Nashua Weekly Telegraph, and in rela- tion to this fact Editor Beard stated after Mr. Thayer's death that "a debt of gratitude, as well as a pecuniary debt, has been due him, and although we have been compelled to be a poor paymaster in regard to the latter we have never disowned the former." Mr. Thayer's interest in the general wel- fare of the town led him to accept various positions of trust, and he fulfilled his public duties with ability and faithfulness. His character was of a type well calculated to inspire confidence and admiration, and his death, which occurred January 31, 1846, was the cause of sincere regret.

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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 135

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