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 45

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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Mr. Clarke has inherited his father's energy, great capacity for work and executive ability. His ver- satility is further illustrated by the fact that the Mirror farm near Manchester, widely and favorably known in the agricultural world, is under his super- vision. There experiments in branches of rural iv-29

economy are conducted, new fruits are tested, the seeds of new varieties tried, and experiments with commercial fertilizers carefully noted.

Mr. Clarke's labors have not all been devoted to newspaper work, nor have his travels all been within his native country. He is a man of broad culture, has traveled abroad extensively, and has embodied his impressions of foreign lands in a most interesting book entitled "European Travels." As a Republican he has been very active in the politics of the state and of the city of his residence. He held the office of public printer of the state of New Hampshire from 1897 to 1901, was a member of the Manchester com- mon council, 1879-80, and represented ward 3 of Manchester in the legislature for two years from June, 1881. He was adjutant of the First Regiment, New Hampshire National Guard, for a number of years was statistician of the department of agricul- ture for New Hampshire during Garfield's admin- istration, and was colonel on Governor Tuttle's staff. He is a member of numerous associations and clubs. He has been president of the New Hamp- shire Press Association and the New Hampshire member of the executive committee of the National Press Association, and a member of the Boston Press Club, the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Manchester Press Club, the Coon Club, the Calumet Club of Manchester, and the Amoskeag Grange. He is past exalted ruler of the Manchester Lodge of Elks, ex-president of the Derryfield Club, a member of the Manchester Board of Trade, and a director of the Northern Telegraph Company. He is a mem- ber of the Franklin Street Society (Congregational ), and president of the Franklin Street Young Men's Association.

Colonel Clarke has been an enthusiastic student of elocution from his school days, and has attained conspicuous distinction in reading and reciting, carry- ing off high honors at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Dartmouth College. He has gratuitously drilled a number of pupils of the Manchester public schools, who have won first prizes in the annual speaking contests. He has given prizes for excellence in elo- cution to the schools in Hooksett, and is often invited to judge prize speaking contests at educational in- stitutions. Ever since he became associated with the Mirror, he has had charge of its dramatic and musical departments. He has written interesting and valuable interviews with many distinguished players, which have been extensively copied by the press of the country. The first noticably long, analy- tical and complimentary criticism of the work of Denman Thompson was from the pen of Editor Clarke, Mr. Thompson then being an obscure mem- ber of a variety company.

MIr. Clarke has always had a fondness for ath- letic sports, and has won distinction in many lines. He organized and was captain of a picked team of ball players in Manchester, which defeated the best club in the state for a prize of $100. He is one of the finest skaters, both roller and ice, in New Hamp- shire. With shot gun, rifle and revolver he is an expert, and holds a record of thirty-eight clay pigeons broken out of forty in the days of the Man- chester Shooting Club, a score never before equalled by a Manchester marksman. He held the billiard championship of Dartmouth College, and upon his return to Manchester in 1875 defeated the best play- ers in the city, winning substantial prizes. He is very fond of hunting and fishing and keeps a kennel of fox hounds; for with all his vocations, avocations, and recreations he is a devotee of fox hunting, and in this, as in other things, he excels. He holds the

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record for the largest brook trout ever taken in Lake Sunapee, seven and three-quarters pounds, and the fish was presented to President Mckinley. Colonel Clarke, in April, 1906, purchased a con- trolling interest in the John B. Clarke Company.

Colonel Clark married, in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, January 25, 1893, Martha Bouton Cilley, born in Concord, New Hampshire, daughter of Dr. Na- thaniel and Elizabeth Ann ( Cilley) Bouton, of Con- cord, and widow of Jacob G. Cilley, of Manchester.

Mrs. Clarke organized the Daughters of the American Revolution in New Hampshire, also the Society of the Colonial Dames of America in New Hampshire, the Woman's Aid and Relief Society in Manchester, the New Hampshire Musical Festival Association, the New Hampshire Audubon Society, the Cambridge ( Massachusetts) Shakespeare Club, in all of which societies and clubs she held high offices. She is president of the Animal Rescue League.

( VII) William Cogswell Clarke, the younger son of Jolin B. and Susan Greeley ( Moulton) Clarke, was born in Manchester, March 17, 1856. He was educated at the Manchester high school, Phillips Andover Academy, and at Dartmouth College, where he was a student in the Chandler Scientific School. After completing the course at college in 1876 he entered the office of the Mirror and Amer- ican and learned the printer's trade. He went to New York City in 1880, and devoted a portion of that year to the acquisition of a knowledge of the business of newspaper advertising. On his return to Manchester he entered the service of the Mirror and American as a local reporter, and later was promoted to be city editor, a position which he held for about eight years, conducting in the meantime several special departments for the daily and weekly editions of that paper. During these years he made the horse department of the Mirror a spe- cial feature, and to his efforts in this direction is due the high deputation which that paper justly holds among the horsemen of New England. This department he still conducts, as well as that de- voted to field sports, for which he writes under the nom de plume of "Joe English."

From 1884 to 1890 Mr. Clarke was a member of the Manchester school board, and in 1891 served as representative from ward two in the legisla- ture, and was chairman of the committee on fish- eries and game. In 1894 he was nominated by the Republicans of Manchester for the office of mayor, and was elected by a large majority, notwithstand- ing the fact that at the two preceding elections the Democratic candidate had been successful. He was re-elected in 1896, and again in 1898, and in 1900, each year by a handsome plurality, the last time by 2,157 votes, leading the entire ticket, and upon the completion of his term in 1902 had occupied the mayor's chair for a period of eight years, a longer service than that of any of his predecessors, as none of them served three consecutive terms. The years of his mayorship were notable for their public improvements. Five new school buildings were erected, including one for the high school; a steel bridge sixty feet wide and paved with stone blocks was built across the Merrimack river to replace the wooden structure which was carried away by the memorable freshet of 1896; a modern system of street paving inaugurated; the City Hall building was remodeled and refitted; a police patrol system was installed, and is in successful operation. Dur- ing Mayor Clarke's first term the fiftieth anniver- sary of the incorporation of the city was fitly com- memorated by a celebration which continued for

three days ( September 7, 8, 9, 1896). Mayor Clarke was the presiding genius of the celebration. From the day when the first plans were roughly sketched down to the hour of the closing exercises, his was the brain that conceived, the mind that directed, the hand that executed. As chairman of the celebra- tion committee he won golden opinions from liis fellow citizens for the rare executive ability which he displayed.

In 1900 Mr. Clarke was a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia which nominated Mckinley and Roosevelt. He was the first delegate from New England to give his support to Theodore Roosevelt for the vice-presi- dency. He retains connection with the John B. Clarke Company. He. is a member of the Derryfield Club, the Manchester Board of Trade, the Amos- keag Grange, the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, and the Passaconaway Tribe of Red Men; and is also a member of the Franklin Street Congre- gational Society. For a number of years he has been a trustee of the New England Agricultural Society, and vice-president of the New England Trotting Horse Breeders' Association. He was one of the organizers of the New Hampshire Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, and its secretary for three years. He was for several years clerk of the Manchester Driving Park Association, and has represented New Hampshire most creditably on several occasions at the biennial congress of the National Trotting Association. From his youth up he has displayed great interest in athletic sports, and while a collegian took an active part in them. He was captain of the Dartmouth College baseball team in 1876, and at one time held the amateur long distance record of the state for throwing the baseball 358 feet 11 inches. In later years he has taken a deep interest in all field sports, and has made a wide reputation as an accomplished wing shot. By birth and education Mr. Clarke was equipped for the performance of duties of a high order. He is suave and courteous in his manner, a polished and forcible speaker and debater, a grace- ful and ready writer, a man of high integrity and generous impulses, and of much energy and force of character.

He married, in Manchester, IS79, Mary Olivia Tewksbury, born in Manchester, 1859, daughter of Elliot Greene and Submit Roberts (Scott) Tewks- bury, of Manchester. They have two children : John Badger and Mitty Tewksbury, both born in Manchester.

(II) Henry, son of Nathaniel (1) and Elizabeth (Somerby ) Clarke, was born July, 1673, in New- bury, and died June, 1749.

(Il1) Enoch, son of Henry Clark, probably lived and died in Newbury.

(IV) Greenleaf, son of Enoch Clark, resided in Greenland, New Hampshire, and in 1760 signed the petition for the construction of the Newmarket bridge at the new Fields landing. "He was a cap- tain in the Revolutionary war, and on December 2, 1775, was commissioned by the committee of safety to enlist sixty-one men, including two sergeants and three corporals, for the Continental army, to serve until January 15, unless sooner discharged, and as soon as recruited to march them immediately to join General Sullivan's brigade." He married Mary Moody, who was born in December, 1738, died December 21, 1817, and had a family of seven children, namely: Mary, Enoch Moody, Greenleaf, Joseph, Joshua, Sarah and Elizabeth.

(V) Joseph, third son and fourth child of Green- leaf and Mary (Moody) Clark, was born in Green-

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land, April 20, 1767, died in 1857. Ile married Comfort Weeks, who was born November 26, 1773, died in August, 1861. They had several children, a complete list of whom is not at hand. Among them were Ichabod and Mary Moody (and proba- bly Richard, who is mentioned, with descendants, in this article).

(VI) . Mary Moody, daughter of Joseph and Comfort (Weeks) Clark, was born in Greenland, August 25, 1795. On January 13, 1814, she became the wife of Samuel Avery, of Wolfboro. ( See Avery, VI.)

(VI) Richard, undoubtedly a son of Joseph and Comfort (Weeks) Clark, was born in Greenland, New Hampshire, in 1793. He married a Miss Mars- ton. They had five children : Caleb, David, Betsey, who married John Jones; John and Richard, whose sketch follows. It is said that three of the four sons settled in Canaan, New Hampshire. Many of the descendants of this family are distinguished for remarkable longevity.

(VII ) Richard (2), youngest child of Richard (I) and - (Marston) Clark, was born in 1725. He married Elizabeth Burley. There were six .children: Lydia, who married John Scofield (2) ; Anna, Betsey. Josiah, who is mentioned below ; Richard (3), who married Esther Jones, and Richard (2) Clark died in 1815, at the age of ninety years.

(VIII) Josiah. eldest son and fourth child of Richard (2) and Elizabeth (Burley) Clark, was born in 1758. In 1782 he married Pernal Barber. who wrote the Canaan Town Record at the age of fifteen. They had five children: Judith, Betsey, Robert, Sally and Josiah. Judith died in 1795. Betsey married John Worth (2). Robert is men- tioned in the next paragraph. Sally, born July I, 1789, married Daniel Blaisdell (2), and had seven- teen children. Josiah, born June 9, 1795, lived to · be ninety-seven, dying July 3, 1802. He married three women : Betsey Bailey, Sally Gilman and Sally Hazeltine.

(IX) Robert, eldest son and third child of Jo- siah and Pernal (Barber) Clark, was born August 17, 1787. He was thrice married. His first wife was Betsey Currier. They had nine children: So- phronia, Eliza. Mary, Robert B., who is mentioned below ; Josiah, Eleanor, who married David Kim- ball; Richard, Emily and Betsey. On February 27, 1827, he married Mrs. Eliza Currier, of Lyme, New Hampshire. They had two children: Theda H., born December 11, 1827, who married John San- ford Shepard; and Purnell Elisa, who was born April 29, 1834, married Freeman White, of Boston. In 1852 he married his third wife, Mrs. Mary Flint Wallace.

(X) Robert Burns, eldest son and fourth child .of Robert and Betsey (Currier) Clark, was born February 26, 1818, at Canaan, New Hampshire. He was a Republican in politics. He married Elvira G. Stevens, of Canaan, who was born at Went- worth, New Hampshire, July 4, 1818. They had five children: Jemima I .. Mrs. Fred Bane; Wy- man R., married Mary Buckner, three children ; Frank B., mentioned below ; Richard O., unmarried ; Austin E. Robert Burns Clark died March 2, 1890. His wife died 1869.

(XI) Frank Burns, son of Robert Burns and Elvira G. (Stevens) Clark, was born May 27, 1851, at Canaan, New Hampshire. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at Tilton Seminary, Tilton, New Hampshire. He moved to Dover, New Hampshire, in 1885, where he was en-

gaged with J. E. Lothrop Company until 1895, when he engaged in the lumber business. Ile is a Re- publican in politics, and has several times been called to serve his party in the New Hampshire legislature. He served two terms as representative from 1899 to 1901, and from 1901 10 1903. He was state senator from the Twenty-second district from 1905 to 1907. He attends the Universalist Church of Dover, of which he is a trustee. He is promi- nent in fraternal organizations. Ile is a member of Moses Paul Lodge, No. 96, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of Belknap Chapter, No. 8 Royal Arch Masons; of Orphan Council, No. I, Royal and Select Masters; and of St. Paul Com- mandery, Knights Templar. He belongs to Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine, of Boston; also the Veritas Lodge, No. 49, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Lowell, Massachusetts ; and the Olive Branch Lodge, No. 8, Knights of Pythias. Frank Burns Clark married. November 20, 1877, at Claremont, New Hampshire, Lillea M. Davis, daughter of Morris L. and Melissa A. ( Benson) Davis. Mrs. Clark was born Sep- tember 8, 1858, at Burlington, Vermont. Slie was educated in the public schools of that city and at the academy at Royalton, Vermont. Her father was a contractor and served in the Civil war. Mrs. Clark comes of unusually patriotic ancestry, for hier mother had six brothers who fought in the cause of the Union. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have one child, Alice Benson Clark, who was born July 24, 1881, at Claremont, New Hampshire. She was graduated from the Dover high school and from Smith Col- lege in 1903.

"Os," as a root word implicative of OSGOOD Deity, has made for itself a firm place in Osgood and other surnames which are as old as the Saxon language. John, Christopher and William Osgood, who do not seem to have been relatives, though they and their fam- ilies were closely associated, settled in Massachu- setts Bay Colony within a short time after the set- tlement of the Puritans at Plymouth. (William and descendants receive notice in this article.)

(I) John Osgood, born in Wherwell, Hampshire county, England, July 23, 1595, died in Andover, Massachusetts, October 24, 1651, aged fifty-six. He came from Andover, England, and settled in An- clover, Massachusetts, before 1645. He had been at Ipswich and Newbury before his settlement at Andover. John Osgood was one of the petitioners who had liberty to begin a plantation at Hampton in 1638. On a leaf in the town records a list is written in an ancient hand, without date, but proba- bly when most of the settlers were living, and may be considered correct : "The names of all the householders in order as they came to town: Mr. Bradstreet, John Osgood, etc." So, John Osgood was the second settler in Andover. He was a frec- man in 1639, one of the founders of the church in Andover, October, 1645, and the first representa- tive of the town in the general court in 1651. His will was dated April 12, 1650, and probated Novem- ber 25, 1651. He was married in England. His wife Sarah survived him more than fifteen years, and died April 8, 1667. Their children were : Sarah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Stephen and Hannah. Ab- bott, in "The History of Andover," mentions two more, Christopher and Thomas. (Mention of Ste- phen and descendants forms part of this article.)

(II) Captain John (2), oldest son of John (I) and Sarah Osgood, was born in England about

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1631, and came to America with his parents. He was a captain in the militia, afterward held the office of selectman, and representative in the gen- eral court. He died in 1693, aged about sixty-two. He married, November 15, 1653, Mary Clement, of Andover, born about 1037, eighth and youngest child of Robert Clement, an immigrant from England, who came from Coventry, Warwickshire, about 1652 or 1653. She was indicted for witchcraft in 1692, and was living in 1695. They had twelve children, among whom were sons John, Timothy, Peter and Samuel.

(III) Lieutenant John (3), eldest son of Cap- tain Jolın (2) and Mary (Clement) Osgood, was a prominent man in Andover, and held the office of lieutenant and selectman, and died in 1725, aged seventy-one. His sons were: Ebenezer, Clement, John and Josiah.

(IV) Deacon John (4), third son of Lieutenant John (3) Osgood, was born in Andover, Massa- chusetts, in 1682, and died in Concord, New Hamp- shire, in 1768, aged eighty-three. His is the fourth name on the petition to Governor Shute, of Massa- chusetts, 1721, requesting the grant of Penny Cook, and is on another petition for the same purpose to Hon. William Dunmore, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, in 1725. In 1727 he was elected treasurer "to ye settlers" who were to establish their claims in Penny Cooke, February 28, 1726; he drew lot No. II in the lowest range; and in 1727 he drew house lot No. II in the "Eleven Lots," containing eight and three-quarters acres. In the statement as to the state and condition of the set- tlement at Penacook, made October, 1731, it is said of Jolin Osgood that he had a house built and in- habited. In 1729 he was one of the committee ap- pointed by the settlers of Penacook "to lay our grievances before the general court's committee." His is the first name on the committee appointed by the proprietors of Penacook, June 25, 1729, "lo call and agree with some suitable person to be a minister of the town of Penny Cook, and pay him such salary as shall hereafter be agreed upon by the company of settlers." In 1730 John Osgood is first of a committee of seven "to agree with Rev. Tim- othy . Walker, in order to his carrying on the work of the ministry in Penny Cook for the year en- suing." October 14 of that year he was appointed first on a committee "to agree with the Rev. Tim- othy Walker upon terms for being our minister." As a man's standing in the church was a very cer- tain index of his standing in a community in the days when John Osgood lived, it appears that he was one of the foremost citizens of the infant set- tlement of "Penny Cook." In the records of the assembly, April 3, 1747, his name appears in ref- erence to his connection in the bloody tragedy of a year before. It was then voted, "that there be al- lowed to John Osgood twelve shillings and six pence for coffins, etc., for the men killed at Rum- ford last year." He was a deacon in the church and major in the militia. His wife, Hannah, died in 1774, aged ninety. They had sons Josiah, Joseph, John and James, whose sketch follows.

(V) James, son of John (4), died April 16, 1757, aged fifty. He was a proprietor and an early settler in Penacook, and June 19, 1734, was elected one of the three "assessors for the proprietors" (of Rum- ford, late Penacook). In 1746 there was a garri- son around his house. In 1744 he was one of the field drivers. He married Hannah Hazen, daughter of Richard Hazen, of Boxford, Massachusetts. Their

children were: Anna, Samuel, Elizabeth,

James, Benjamin, Hannah, William, John and Rich- ard Hazen.

(VI) Samuel, eldest son and second child of James and Hannah (Hazen) Osgood, was born in Concord, July 13, 1734, and died March 16, 1774, aged forty. February 16, 1761, John Webster and Samuel Osgood filed a remonstrance with the gen- eral assembly, stating that "they had lately pur- chased the farm commonly called Keith's farm, con- tiguous to Rumford, of the claimers of the right of John Tufton Mason, Esq., and that it would be more convenient for them to be annexed to Bos- cawen than to Canterbury, on account of the dis- tance from the meeting house, and the badness of the roads, and not agreeable to their interest, con- nexions or inclinations" to be annexed to Canter- bury. This farm contained three hundred acres,. and lay north of the Rumford (Concord) line, on the east side of the Merrimack river. Bouton's History states that he married Jane Webster; Car- ter's Pembroke says he married, January 4, 1753, Elizabeth -, who died September 27, 1792 .. His children were: Lydia, Elizabeth, Sarah. Joseph, Dorcas, John, Thomas and Christopher, whose sketch follows.

(VII) Deacon Christopher, youngest of the nine children of Samuel and Elizabeth Osgood, was born April 25, 1769, and died October 3, 1841, aged seventy-two. He went from Concord to Suncook about 1796. He married (first) November 9, 1793, Anna Abbott, of Andover, Massachusetts, who was born September, 1767, and died December 26, 1827, aged sixty, and (second), February 17, 1829, Anna Abbott, of Deering, who was born October, 1769, and died May 31, 1847, aged seventy-eight. The children, all by the first wife, were: Anne C., Herman Abbot, John Hall, and Ira Ballard.

(VIII) John Hall, third child and second son of Deacon Christopher and Anna (Abbott) Osgood, was born April 23, 1801, and died April 1, 1868, aged sixty-seven. He resided at Suncook. He mar- ried, May 13, 1828, Cynthia Stewart, of Lowell, Massachusetts, who died February 22, 1891. Their children were : Cynthia Ann, Alonzo, Melissa, Ellen, James Henry, John Emery, Nancy Jane and Anna Eldusta.

(IX) Nancy, Jane, seventh child and fourth daughter of John Hall and Cynthia (Stewart) Os- good, was born in Suncook, February 28, 1843, and married, November 29, 1860, Thomas Besston Wat- tles. (See Wattles.)

(II) Stephen, second son of John and Sarah Osgood, was born in Ipswich or Newbury about 1638, and afterward settled in Andover, where he was a farmer. He died January 15, 1691. He mar- ried, October 24, 1663, Mary Hooker, and they had children: Stephen (died young), Hooker, Stephen, Joseph and Mary.

(III) Hooker, second son and child of Stephen (2) and Mary (Hooker) Osgood, was born August 24, 1668, and resided in Lancaster, where he died January 29, 1748, aged eighty years. He married. April 26, 1692, Dorothy Wood. Their children were: Hooker, Joshua, Jonathan, David. Benjamin, Moses, Aaron, Dorothy, Elizabeth and Sarah.

(IV) Joshua, second son and child of Hooker and Dorothy (Wood) Osgood, was born Septem- ber 2, 1694, and died January 31, 1783, aged eighty- nine. He was a farmer in Leominster, but about 1726 bought a farm in Barre, and probably removed to that place at that time. He married, December 20. 1722, Ruth Divall, who died May 28, 1782. Their children were Joshua, Ephraim, Ruth, Sarah, Wil-

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liam, Asahel, Abel, Sarah, Manassah, Lemuel and Joshua.

(V) William, fifth child and third son of Joshua and Ruth ( Divall) Osgood, was born Angust 20, 1732, and died February 5, 1801, in Cabot, Ver- mont. He resided successively in Barre, Massachut- setts; Claremont, New Hampshire, and Cabot, Ver- mont. He married, June 3, 1756, IIepsibah Dunton, who died October 31, 1809. Their fifteen children were: William, Thomas, Levi, Abijah, Mary, Sarah, Amasa, Joshua ( died young), Joshua, David, Solo- mon W., John, Samson, Hepsibeth and Anna.

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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 45

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