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 4

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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(VI) George A., third child and oldest son of Jeremiah and Mary Jane ( Batchelder) Brown, was born in Loudon, April 14, 1836, and acquired his education in the common schools of London and Concord. At the age of eighteen he entered the wagon factory of Abbott & Downing, where he

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learned the wheelwright's trade. This firm has a remarkable record for selecting and keeping com- petent employes, and Mr. Brown's period of service with them exceeded that of any other man. For fifty-two years after he began to learn his trade, he was continuously in the employ of this company. His unusual record is a very high testimonial of his qualifications as a workman, and his strict and undeviating attention to one employment. Mr. Brown was an accomplished artist, and painted numerous pictures of merit from an artistic point of view. He died February 6, 1907. In politics he was Republican. He married (first). Grace Young, and (second), Lizzie Coffin, who was born in Concord. By the first marriage there was one son, Fred Irving Brown, who died some years since.

(III) Josiah, youngest child of Thomas and Abial (Shaw) Brown, was born November 15, 1701, in Hampton, and lived at Hampton Falls and Ken- sington. He married (first), January 1, 1724. Elizabeth Toule, daughter of Philip and Zipporah (Bracket) Towle. She was born December 9, 1699. and died about the end of the year 1733. Mr. Brown was married (second), December 5. 1744, to Mary Bradbury. His children were Zipporalı, Caleb, Josiah (died young), Elizabeth, Josiah, Ben- jamin, Hannah, Mary, Rebecca and Samuel.

(IV) Caleb, eldest son and second child of Jo- siah and Elizabeth (Toule) Brown, was born March 3. 1726. at Hampton Falls, and resided in Kensing- ton. No record of his marriage appears, and it seems impossible to discover the maiden name of his wife. Her christian name. however, was Lydia; and record of the birth of three of their children appears. It is probable that there were several others, as a period of twenty years elapsed be- tween the birth of the eldest and that of the young- est. They were: James, Elizabeth and Caleb.

(V) James, eldest child of Caleb and Lydia Brown, was born September 17. 1755, in Kensing- ton, and settled in the town of Weare, New Hamp- shire, as a very young man. Tradition says he came there before the Revolution. He located in the North Range near the northeast corner of Weare, New Hampshire, and moved over the townline into Henniker about 1800. He died August 23, 1842. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and served in Rhode Island and at Saratoga. He was married, December 8. 1779, to Anna Emery, who was born July 2, 1761. daughter of Caleb and Su- sannah (Worthley) Emery. (See Emery, V.) James and Anna (Emery) Brown had three chil- dren : (1) Lydia, born February 16, 1780, mar- ried John Newton: (2) Susannah, born February 21, 1783, died unmarried ; (3) Moses, born Noven- ber 2, 1785, died April 26, 1858.

(VI) Moses, only son of James and Anna (Emery) Brown, was born in Henniker, November 2, 1785. He was a farmer like his father before him. He died April 26, 1858. He was a man above his fellows in many ways, and was held in high esteem for his business ability. He was select- man ten years, moderator seven years and repre- sentative in the New Hampshire legislature nine years. He married Abigail Folsom, of Deering, and lived in Henniker. She died October 17, 1863. Their children were: (1) Anna, born February 20, 18to, died unmarried, October 16, 1843; (2) Jesse, horn April 22, 1812, died unmarried January 4, 1874: (3) David Folsom, born October 20, 1813: (1) Josiah, born October 14, 1818. physician in Lynn, Vermont, died Octoher 15, 1868: (5) James Brackenbury, born September 7, 1826, died June 23, 1896.

(VII) David Folsom, son of Moses and Abigail (Folsom) Brown, was born in Henniker, October 29, 1813, died June 11, 1890. As a young man he taught school, teaching two years in Martha's Vine- yard. For a period of twenty-eight years he was engaged in the mercantile business in New Lon- don, Weare Center and Hillsborough Bridge, New Hampshire. In 1864 he moved to Concord, New Hampshire, and bought the "Ben Gage" shoe store, where he was for a number of years engaged in the shoe business under the firm name of Brown & Moore. He was very much interested in the Methodist Church, and in the cause of education. He married Betsey Jane Butler, of Hillsborough Bridge, November 27, 1845. They had one child, James Butler, born September 23, 1848.

(VIII) James Butler, only child of David Fol- som and Betsey Jane (Butler) Brown, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, September 23, 1848. He learned mercantile business in the store of his father, and that of his uncle, James S. But- ler, of Hillsborough Bridge, and early in life en- gaged in trade and became a successful merchant in Wentworth, New Hampshire. He is a stirring business man, with a good deal of public spirit. For twenty-seven years he has been postmaster. He is a prominent Mason, and has attained the thirty- second degree in that ancient and honorable fra- ternity. In politics he is a Republican. He and his family attend the Congregational Church. He married, May 22, 1872, Eva M. Merrill, daughter of Russell Merrill, of Warren, New Hampshire. They have three children : Harry James, born March 2, 1873, is mentioned at length below. Da- vid Russell, born June 9, 1879, graduated from the University of Vermont, medical department, in 1902. He was married September 21, 1904, to Mary Wheeler Northrup, of Burlington, Vermont; he is a physician in Danville, Vermont. Bessie Jane, born August 24, 1881, was married November 20, 1905, to Charles Ayers Young, of Lisbon, New Hamp- shire.

(IX) Harry James, son of James B. and Eva M. (Merrill) Brown, was born in Wentworth, New Hampshire, March 2, 1873; attended the public schools of Wentworth, and the high school of Con- cord, New Hampshire, graduating from the latter in the class of 1891. He entered Dartmouth Col- lege in the fall of that year, and graduatel with the class of 1895 with the degree of B. S. After leav- ing college he read law in the office of Leach & Stevens, in Concord, New Hampshire, entering the law department of Columbian University in Wash- ington, D. C., in the fall of 1895, from which in 1897 he received the degree of LL. B., and later in 1899 that of LL. M. While in Washington he was employed in the department of agriculture, in the Section of Foreign Markets, where he was engaged during the day, and attended law school in the evening. He was admitted to the bar in July, 1899, and began to practice the same year in Concord, New Hampshire. He is now well established in general practice and has a constantly increasing clientele. A Republican in politics, he was elected a member of the common council of Concord in 1904. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, be- longing to the Masonic bodies located in Concord, and to the Consistory in Nashua, New Hampshire, and also belongs to Capital Grange, located in Con- cord.

Thomas Brown, a member of the

BROWN Brown family of Hampton, a sketch of whose earlier generations appears in this work, was born May 23, 1780, probably in

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Hampton or Stratham, and died October 24, 1848. He moved to Deerfield, and in 1826 or 1828 to Wilmot. He married (first), November 4, 1806, Rebecca Bartlett, who was born May 23, 1780, probably in Stratham, and died July 24, 1807; (scc- ond), September 26, 1809, Rachel Smith, who was born probably in Stratham, August 14, 1788, and died September 1, 1853. The children of Thomas and Rebecca were: Rebecca (died young), Smith, John, Rebecca, Thomas, Joseph G., James, Ruth and Asa.

(II) Joseph Goodhue, sixth child and fourth son of Thomas and Rachel (Smith) Brown, was born in Deerfield, March 25, 1820, and died at Wilmot Center, March 20, 1896. He was a farmer by oc- cupation. He was taken by his parents to Wilmot when eight years of age. After that time he lived in Wilmot, mostly in the northern part of the town, until the time of his death. In 1843 he was con- verted at a campmeeting to the Methodist faith, and was ever afterward a strong adherent to its doctrines, for many years being a class leader. In politics he was a Democrat. April 24, 1845, he mar- ried Mary Ann Vinton, of Cornish, born May 26, 1823, and died October 3, 1891, aged sixty-eight years. Their children were: Lucy Amelia, died young ; Lucy Jane, born August 6, 1851, married Horace Pingree in 1893, and died at Wilmot. June 1890; Helen A., born September, 1854, died Febru- ary, 1901; Mary Emma, born January 12, 1855, now living at Wilmot; Ernest, the subject of the next paragraph.

(III) Ernest, fifth and youngest child of Joseph G. and Mary Ann (Vinton) Brown, was born in Wilmot, December 14, 1869. He was educated at the Kearsarge School of Practice at Wilmot. and the New Hampshire Seminary at Tilton. He engaged in newspaper work some time before attaining his majority, and has spent about twenty years in that line of employment. He worked on the Franklin Transcript four years; the Nashua Daily Telegraph five years; was foreman of the Nashua Daily Press three years; was editor of the Franklin Journal Transcript a short time; for five years was fore- man of the composing room of the Nashua Telc- graph; night editor of the Lowell Daily Mail one year; and since March, 1905, has been editor and manager of the Rochester Record. He is a Mason, a member of Ancient York Lodge, No. 89, Free and Accepted Masons, of Nashua, a charter mem- ber of Granite State Commandery, No. 196, Ancient and Independent Order Knights of Malta, Nashua, of which he is past commander ; as a member of the Grand Commandery of Maine and New Hampshire he has filled various offices in that body, being elected in June, 1907, to the position of grand gener- alissimo, placing him in line for the position of grand commander in 1908. He married, November 5, 1899, Ella May Blackmun, born April 12, 1866, daughter of William J. M. and Jennie (Lamoy) Blackmun, of Nashua. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Methodist Church, and are active Christian workers. They have one child, Dorothea Eleanor, born November 5, 1902. Mrs. Brown is descended as follows :

(1) Luke Shurman Blackmun was born in Con- necticut, June 12, 1775, and about 1800 moved to northern New York, where he obtained title to a large tract of wild land at Mooers. There he was an early. settler, and there he passed many years of his life in clearing and making improvements on his farm. His name was originally Blackman, but in order that he and his descendants mnight be dis- tinguished from all the other Blackmans he had the

cognomen changed to Blackmun. Ile married, De- ceinber 13, 1797, Sally Foster, daughter of Rev. John Foster, who was born April 21, 1780. Their ten children were: Delia, Polly, Judith Foster, Sally Ann, Luke Sherman, Andrew Josiah, Lydia Amelia. William Sherman, Martha Ann and David Savage.

(2) William Sherman, eighth child and third son of Luke S. and Sally (Foster) Blackmun, was born December 15, 1816, and died in 1874, aged fifty- eight years. He married, February 20, 1838, Philena Manning, born at Franklin, Province of Quebec, Sep- tember 3. 1818, died at Mooers, in 1873. She was the sixth child of John and Phebe (Latten) Man- ning. They had ten children: Andrew Perkins, Cyrus Judson, William John Manning, Calvin Lu- ther, Richard Lattin, Elizabeth Philena, Delia Sweet, Sarah Nelly, Elbert Foster and Emma Jane.

(3) William John Manning, third son and child of William S .. and Philena (Manning) Blackmun, was born January 4, 1844, at Mooers, New York. He married Eliza Jennie Lamoy, and their children are : Ella M., John M., Philena J. and Reuel A. Ella May, born April 12, 1866, married Ernest Brown, now of Rochester.

The family of Lamoy is small and a comparatively newly settled one in the United States, the ancestor, Philip Lamoy, having settled here since the indepen- dence of the United States was established.

(1) Philip Lamoy was born in France, February 29, 1784, and died July 3, 1852. He was brought to this country when four years old, and resided near Plattsburg, New York. He died not far from Plattsburg, where he was visiting, from drinking too much water. He married Jeanne Paul. born September 10, 1782, died April 2, 1847. She is said to have been the daughter of Robert Paul, of the same family of which John Paul Jones, the famous Revolutionary sea captain, was a member, but the exact genealogical connection is not known by the present members of the Lamoy family. By his first wife, whose name is not known, Mr. Lamoy had one child, Mary. By his third wife, Jeanne Paul, he had : Philip, Margaret, Julia and William.

(2) Philip (2), eldest child of Philip (1) and Jeanne (Paul) Lamoy, was born in Plattsburg, New York, October 13, 1816, and died in Chazy, New York, October II, 1901. He married, February 7, 184I, at Whitehall, New York, Charlotte Eaton Switzer, born February 5, ISIS, at Warren, Massa- chusetts, died at Chazy, New York, December 13. 1897, aged eighty. The Switzers were and are a well known family of Northern New York. Philip (2) and Charlotte E. (Switzer) Lamoy had eleven children : Eliza Jennie, Mary Cornelia, Timothy Thomas, Sarah Elizabeth, Francis Henry, Julia Ann, Charlotte Caroline. Philip Charles, Albert Bently, William Joseph and Antoinette Aurelia.

(3) Eliza Jennie, eldest child of Philip (2) and Charlotte E. (Switzer) Lamoy, was born February 15, 1842, at Rutland, Vermont, and married. May 15, 1866. William John Manning Blackmin, of Mooers, New York. Came to Nashua, New Hamp- shire, December, 1888.

(Second Family.)

The families of this name are numer- BROWN ous and of different ancestral stocks, but the same has furnished many men prominent in the business, political, religious and social circles of the various states.

(I) Richard Brown, the immigrant ancestor of a prominent branch of the Brown family, is first of record in Newbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1635.

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and probably is the Richard Brown who came from England in the ship "Mary and John" in the year 1633. He married (first), Edith -, who died in 1647, and (second), February 16, 1648, Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Badger, daughter of Edmund Greenleaf, and widow of Giles Badger. He died April 16, 1661.

(II) Joshua, son of Richard and Edith Brown. was born April 10, 1642, in Newbury, where he spent his life and died in 1720. He married, Jan- uary 15, 1669, Sarah Sawyer, daughter of William and Ruth Sawyer, born in Newbury, November 20, 1651. They had seven children.

(III) Deacon Joseph, son of Joshua and Sarah (Sawyer) Brown. was born in Newbury, October II, 1669, and followed the vocation of trader. About 1700 he removed from Newbury to Ames- bury, Massachusetts. He died in 1732, leaving a will in which he provided a legacy to the First Church of Amesbury, of which he was a deacon. He left a widow Sarah, and five surviving children. His youngest son, Dr. Simeon Brown, married Hannah Young, daughter of Henry Young, and lived in Kingston, and subsequently in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Among the children of Dr. Simeon Brown was Henry Young Brown, a captain in the French and Indian war, who received a grant of land in recognition of conspicuous service, and was the founder of Brownfield, Maine.

. (IV) Joshua (2), son of Joseph and Saralı Brown, was born in Amesbury, about 1702, and for twenty years was a tailor in that town. In 1745 he bought the homestead in Kingston of his brother, Dr. Simeon Brown, and removed to that town, where he was a merchant and accumulated a good estate. He died in Kingston, April 23, 1756. He married in Salisbury. December 8, 1726, Joanna Morrill, born in Salisbury, February 17, 1708, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stevens) Mor- rill. She married (second) before 1762, Jonathan Brown, of Kensington. A record of the birth of six children of Joshua and Joanna Brown is found in Salisbury and a record of the baptismn of three appears in the church records of Kingston.

(V) Joseph (2), son of Joshua and Joanna (Morrill) Brown, was born April 28, 1733, and bap- tized in Salisbury, Second Church, May 13. 1733. He accompanied his father's family on its removal to Kingston in 1745, when he was twelve years old. He was a resident of the latter place until 1760, and was one of the petitioners for the di- vision of Kingston and the incorporation of Hawke, now Danville. His homestead was in the north part of the new town. He was a worthy citizen and an active business man. He signed the asso- ciation test in 1776, and was a soldier in the Rev- olution. In 1781 he removed from Hawke to An- dover, where he died April 6, 1812. He married in Kingston, December 29, 1757, Elizabeth Sawyer, baptized 1738. daughter of Joseph and Dorothy (Brown) Sawyer. She died July 13, 1813. Chil- dren: 1. Joseph, born in Kingston, March 31, 1759, died in Andover, July 29, 1843. 2. Isaac, born in Hawke, May 24, 1761, died in Andover, March 31, 1812. 3. Moses, baptized in Hawke, November 3, 1765; lived in Andover. 4. Nathaniel, baptized in Hawke, May 27, 1770: lived in Franklin. 5. Henry, baptized in Hawke, February 14, 1773. (See for- ward).

(VI) Henry, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Saw- yer) Brown, was baptized February 14, 1773. He was a farmer in Bridgewater, occupying the Wood- man farm on the river road. He died in 1834. He married Lovie Ladd, a sister of Theophilus Ladd, of Augusta, Maine. They had four children : I.

Hannah, born about 1800, died 1862. 2. James, born July 3, 1805. 3. Child, died September 29, 1818. 4. Mary Potter, born September 12, 1816; married Seth Spencer.

(VII) James, son of Henry and Lovie (Ladd) Brown, was born July 3, 1805, in Andover. He was a farmer and a respected citizen of New Hampton. and later of Bridgewater, and a deacon of the Sec- ond Baptist Church of Bridgewater. In 1867 he re- moved to Bristol. After the death of his wife he had a home several years with his son, John H. Brown. He died in Plymouth, at the home of his son, Manson S. Brown, January 17. 1898. He mar- ried, November 18, 1830, Judith Blaisdell Harran, daughter of John and Nancy ( Pressey) Harran, born in Bridgewater, January 12, 1807, died June 12, 1883. The father of John Harran left Ireland when young man, and came to America and was a Revolutionary soldier from Massachusetts. They had nine children: I. Mary Elizabeth, born in Bridgewater, December 5. 1831 ; married Dudley Marshall. 2. Joseph Harran, born in New Hampton, December 19, 1833. 3. Manson S., born in Bridgewater, November 29, 1835. 4. John Henry, died in infancy. 5. Hester Ann, born in Bridgewater, January 25. 1839; married Melvin A. Dame. 6. Hannah Angeline, born in Bridgewa- ter, July 31, 1841; married John D. Harris; died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, April 5, 1893. 7. Jo- sephine G., born in Bridgewater, February 5, 1844; married William H. Abel: died June 20, 1869. 8. Lavinia G., born April 13, 1847; married William H. Abel; died August 7, 1870. 9. John Henry. subject of following paragraph :

(VIII) General John Henry Brown, fourth son and ninth and youngest child of James and Judith (Harran) Brown, was born May 20, 1850, at Bridgewater, New Hampshire. He acquired his pri- mary education in the common schools, and at the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the machinist's trade in Greenville, Rhode Island, and went with his employers from that place to Bennington, Ver- mont, continuing his apprenticeship through a pe- riod of three years. Having saved his earnings he now took up further studies at the New Hamp- ton Literary Institution. where he continued nearly two years. On account of the ill health of his parents he returned to his home in Bristol, and was employed in a shop and store and in various ways until 1873. He established a small store in Bristol, which he conducted a few years, and subsequently became associated with James T. Sanborn in the lumber business, and their undertakings developed on an extensive scale. They operated a mill in Bris- tol, and did a large business in lumber jobbing in other sections of the state, and also in Vermont and Canada. Upon the death of Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Brown, being not in robust health, discontinued the business. He was subsequently in the railway mail service for about a year, and was appointed post- master at Bristol under President Arthur, serving four years. For a period of seven years he served as chairman of the board of selectmen of Bristol; was deputy sheriff, and in 1891 represented Bris- tol in the state legislature. In the same year he was appointed freight and claim agent of the Con- cord & Montreal railroad, and after the lease of that road to the Boston & Maine railroad, he was claim agent for that road in New Hampshire, re- moving to Concord in 1895. In 1904 he was ap- pointed postmaster at Concord and resigned his po- sition with the railroad company. He is a director of the First National Bank of Concord. He was commissary general on . the staff of Governor Busiel, 1895, and 1896; has been a member of the

John Brown

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Republican state committee for twenty-six years ; and for four years, 1900 to 1904, was chairman of the Republican city committee of Concord. In 1900 he was a presidential elector, and was a dele- gate to the Republican national convention in St. Louis, 1896, being one of the original MeKinley men. He is a member of the Wonolancet, Commercial and Webster clubs of Concord, and of the Derry- field Club, of Manchester. General Brown is a member and past master of Union Lodge No. 79, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bristol, a member of Pemigewasset Chapter No. 13, Royal Arch Ma- sons, of Plymouth, Mount Horeb Commandery. Knights Templar, and Bektash Temple of the Mys- tic Shrine, of Concord. He owes his popularity and prominence in commercial and political affairs to his natural ability and his genial and companion- able disposition. He was married, June 10, 1872, to Marietta Sanborn Lougee, born September 22, 1849, in Sanbornton, a daughter of Deacon Joseph and Sarah (Cram) Lougee.

(Third Family.)

This name was very early planted in BROWN New England, in various localities, and has numerous representatives scattered throughout the nation. The line herein traced was very conspicuously identified with the colony of Rhode Island in its inception and other later periods down to the present day.

(I) Rev. Chad Brown, one of the most honored representatives of the name, came from England in the ship "Martin" in July, 1638. His name ap- pears as a witness to the nun-cupative will of a passenger, who died on the voyage. About this time occurred the "Anabaptist" heresy. and many of the Boston colonists removed to the Providence Planta- tion. It is probable that Mr. Brown was among these, for his tombstone erected by the town of Providence bears the record that he was "exiled from Massachusetts for consciences' sake." By some au- thorities the date of his arrival is erroneously fixed as early as 1636, but the most probable date seems to be the autumn of 1638, when Roger Williams and twelve others executed what is known as the "initial" assigning of lands, acquired by purchase from the Indians. Mr. Brown at once became a leader in the colony, and when after a few months the restless Williams found that the church would not implicitly accept his teachings and again seceded, Mr. Brown was chosen as his successor. He was formerly ordained elder in England, in 1642, and assumed that office on his return and was in reality the first elder of the oldest Baptist Church in America. Prior to his ordination serious dissensions had arisen in the Colony involving a quarrel with Massachusetts, and Mr. Brown was appointed a member of the committee to make peace. His influence in shaping the early ten- dencies of the Colony was marked, and it is proba- ble but that for his resolute character and judicious management some of the restless spirits that com- posed the Colony would have come to blows on nu- merous questions of civil and religious import. So successful was he in adjusting these quarrels of his flock that the honorable title of "peacemaker" was popularly accorded him, and more than a century after his death (in 1792) the town of Providence voted a modest sum of money to erect a stone over his grave in the north burying ground whither his remains were removed at that date. In his history of the Baptist Church, Hague speaks of him as follows: "Contemporary with Roger Wil- liams, he possessed a cooler temperament and was happily adapted to sustain the interests of religion

just where that great man failed. Not being af- fected by the argument of the seekers he main- tained his standing firmly in a church, which he believed to be founded on a rock of eternal truth, even the word of God which abides forever." From the little that can be now learned of his character and record it is plain that he was highly esteemed as a man of christian spirit and of sound judg- ment. He lived in a community where individual influence was needed as a substitute for well-estab- lished laws, and he won that commendation which the Saviour pronounced when he said: "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God."

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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 4

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