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 53

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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(VII) Charles Gale, only child of Captain Charles W. and Sarah (Doty) Shedd, was born in South Wallingford, May 18, 1865. After graduating from the Keene high school he entered the wholesale and retail drug store of Messrs. Bullard & Foster as an apprentice, and having acquired proficiency as a pharmacist, in 1888 he purchased Mr. Foster's interest in the firm, which then was known as Bul- lard & Shedd. This partnership continued until Mr. Bullard's death. After the death of Mrs. Bul- lard in 1899 he purchased her interest, organizing a stock company known as the Bullard & Shedd Com- pany, of which he is treasurer, manager and prin- cipal shareholder, and is now transacting a profitable business. As a Republican he has figured quite con- spicuously in local civic affairs, having served as a selectman and common councilman, and president of the common council and chairman of the board of health since 1903. For several years he has served as chairman of. the Ward One Republican Club, and moderator of the ward. In 1900 he represented Keene in the lower branch of the state legislature, serving on the insane asylum committee. He was elected in. 1906 to represent the thirteenth district in the state senate. For several years he served as hospital steward of the Second Regiment, New Hamp- shire National Guard. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order, in which he has taken the highest degree of the Scottish Rite, the Thirty- third degree. He is president of the New Hamp- shire Society Sons of the American Revolution, a member of the Red Men, Knights of Pythias, Sons

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of Veterans, New Hampshire Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation, and a trustee of the New Hampshire State Sanatorium. He attends the Unitarian Church. On September 23, 1891, Mr. Shedd was joined in mar- riage with Rhoda Jane Colburn, who was born in Shrewsbury, Vermont, August 17, 1866, daughter of Leonard and Mary (Martin) Colburn. Their chil- dren are: Gale Colburn and Paul Wesley, twins, born July 14, 1892; and Charles Herbert, born Feb- ruary 3, 1907.

(II) Nathan, youngest child of Daniel Shedd, was born February 5, 1689, in Billerica, Massachusetts. He married Mary French, of that town, and they were the parents of nine children.

(III) Nathan (2), the eldest child of Nathan (I) and Mary (French) Shedd, was born May 23, 1695, in Billerica, and resided in the adjoining town of Tewksbury, where he was a well-to-do citizen, He was town treasurer for several years, and known by the title of Deacon. He died March 24, 1759. He married a cousin, Hannah Shedd, and they were the parents of eleven children.

(IV) Jonathan, sixth child of Deacon Nathan (2) and Hannah (Shedd) Shedd, was born Octo- ber 28, 1728, in Tewksbury, where he made his home. He was a very muscular man and indus- trious, and became well to do. He died March 26, 1801. He married Lydia Kittredge, and they were the parents of five children.

(V) Jonathan (2), eldest son of Jonathan (1) and Lydia (Kittredge) Shedd, was born August 10, 1759, in Tewksbury, and resided nearly forty- seven years in that town, removing then to Nor- way. Maine. He died in Albany in the latter state, October 3, 1837. He married Abigail Fisk, who was born June 23, 1753, and was the mother of nine children.

(VI) John, fourth child of Jonathan (2) and Abigail (Fisk) Shedd, was born August 14, 1786, in Tewksbury, and lived in Albany, Maine, just out- side the town of Waterford. He was married Oc- tober 9, 1809, to Hannah Fleming, who was born September 18, 1794, in Tewksbury. Both died on the homestead in Albany, he on August II, 1864, and she September 15, 1870. They were the par- ents of fourteen children, of whom eleven grew to maturity.

(VII) George, seventh son of John and Hannah (Fleming) Shedd, was born January 27, 1827, in Albany, Maine, and died in the adjoining town of Waterford, January 27, 1893. He married. (first), Rebecca Frost, of Albany, Maine. She was de- scended from an early Massachusetts family as follows :

(I) John Lovejoy, one of the proprietors and earliest settlers of Andover, died in 1690. He mar- ried, in 1651, Mary Osgood, daughter of Christopher and Naomi (Hoyt) Osgood, pioneer settlers of An- dover. They had two sons and several daughters, most of whom grew up and married.

(II) William, son of John and Mary (Osgood) Lovejoy, was born April 21, 1657, and married Mary Farnum.

(III) Samuel, son of William and Mary (Far- num) Lovejoy, was born April 10, 1693, and mar- ried Hannah Stevens.

(IV) Isaac, son of Samuel and Hannah (Stev- ens) Lovejoy, was born February 9, 1724, and married Deborah Sheldon.

(V) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (I) and Deborah (Sheldon) Lovejoy, was born March 16, 1757. He married, November 12, 1778, Mary Morse, of Methuen, who was born February 12, 1757, and

died April 15, 1835. He died December 8, 1832. The children of this union were: Isaac, Bodwell, Mary, William, Lemuel, Phebe, Henry and Anna P.

(VI) Phebe, daughter of Isaac (2) and Mary (Morse) Lovejoy, was born December 5, 1790, and died March 16, 1877. She married Ziba Frost, who was born September 15, 1793, and died November 21, 1860. Their children were : Samuel J., Rebecca and Benjamin F.

(VII) Rebecca, daughter of Ziba and Phebe (Lovejoy) Frost, was born December 22, 1825, and died August 24, 1869. She married George Shedd, May 16, 1852. George Shedd was married (sec- ond), in June, 1871, to Saphronia (Brackett) Lamb, of Harrison, Maine. Of the first marriage there were two children: George Horsley and John Ziba; of the second marriage two: Myrtie Nina and Alton Brackett.

(VIII) George Horsley, son of George and Re- becca (Frost) Shedd, was born in Waterford, Maine, February 13, 1853. His preliminary educa- tion was obtained in the public schools of Norway, Maine, and in the Norway Liberal Institute. After teaching a few years he entered the Medical School of Maine, from which he graduated in June, 1879. His further medical education was obtained by post-graduate work in New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, and the hospitals of Berne, London. Paris, and Edinburgh. He is a member of the New Hampshire Board of Medical Examiners, of the Conway Board of Health, of his county, state and the Maine Medical Societies, also of the American Medical Association. He is a Mason, being a member of Mt. Washington Lodge and Signet Royal Arch Chapter of North Conway, and of St. Girard Commandery, Knights Templar, of Littleton, New Hampshire. He commenced the practice of medicine in Bartlett, New Hampshire, during the summer of 1879, and in the spring of 1883 moved to Fryeburg. Maine, where he resided until 1891, when he removed to North Conway, where he has since resided and been actively engaged in the prac- tice of his profession. He married, May 15, 1880, Mary Hall, daughter of Soloman Smith and Emily Augusta (Warren) Hall. She decended on the paternal side from Hate Evil Hall, son of one of three brothers who came from England and set- tled in New Hampshire. Hate Evil Hall (2) was born at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1707, and after- ward settled in Falmouth, Maine, where he died, November 28, 1797. He married Sarah Furbish, of Kittery, Maine, by whom he had thirteen children : Dorothy, Daniel, Hate Evil, Mercy, Ebenezer, Abi- gail, William, John, Jedediah, Andrew, Nicholas, Paul and Silas. Jedediah (3), son of Hate Evil and Sarah (Furbush) Hall, married (first). Hannah Hussey, and (second), Elizabeth Clough. His children were : Peter, Joel, Elizabeth, Aaron, Mercy, Moses, Abigail, David, Jonathan, Ann and Dorcas. Jona- than (4), son of Jedediah, married Mary, daughter of Joshua Smith, who was town treasurer of Nor- way, Maine, for twenty years. Soloman Smith Hall (5), son of Jonathan and Mary (Smith) Hall. was born at Norway, Maine, June 10, 1821, and died at Waterford, Maine, January 8, 1895. He married (first), November, 1852, Emily Augusta Warren, granddaughter of Abijah Warren, who was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. October 15, 1762, and at the age of thirteen entered active service as minute- man in the battle of Lexington, and served with distinction throughout the Revolutionary war. She was born in Paris, Maine, April 22, 1832, and died in Norway, Maine, August 29, 1861. Of this mar-

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riage there were born three children: Mary, Julia and Lizzie E. He married (second), Olivia G. Warren, by whom one child was born : Sidney Smith Hall, now living in Waterford, Mainc.

Mary. daughter of Soloman Smith and Emily (Warren) Hall, and wife of Dr. George H. Shedd, was born in Norway, Maine, March 6, 1854. They have one child. George Harold, born in Bartlett, New Hampshire, November 1, 1882. He is a grad- uate of Harvard University, A. B. 1905, and is now a student in Harvard Medical School. Mrs. Shedd has always been active in educational and charitable work. She is ex-president of the North Conway Woman's Club, of which she is one of the founders ; president of the Woman's Educational League ; vice-regent of Anna Stickney Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and chairman of the industrial and child labor committee of both the New Hampshire Federation of Woman's Clubs and New Hampshire Daughters of the American Revo- lution.

John Z. Shedd was born at Norway, Maine, July 8, 1861. During the autumn of 1884 he went to Fryeburg. Maine, and entered Fryeburg Academy, from which he was graduated in 1886. The two following years were devoted to teaching and read- ing medicine. In 1891 the degree of M. D. was received from the Medical School of Maine, at Brunswick, since which time he has taken several post-graduate courses in New York. In 1891 he began the practice of medicine at North Conway, New Hampshire, where he has since resided and has met with a good degree of success. He is a member of his county, state and the Maine medical societies, as well as of the American Medical Asso- ciation. Early in his twenty-first years he was made a Mason in Oxford Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Norway, Maine, and during the following year joined Union Royal Arch Chapter in the same town. He later withdrew from these so- cieties to become a member of similar bodies in the town of his adoption, where he has been an active Masonic worker, being past high priest of his chapter, of which he is a charter member. In more recent years he has become a member of St. Girard Commandery, Knights Templar, at Little- ton, New Hampshire, and also of Bektash Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Concord, New Hampshire.

Myrtic Nina Shedd was born at Norway, Maine, September 16, 1875. Alton Brackett Shedd was born at the same place, February 17, 1880. About two years after the birth of the latter, the children with their parents removed to Waterford, where they resided until after the death of their father, i11 1893. Later, with their mother, they removed to Fryeburg, Maine, where both were graduated from Fryeburg Academy. On September 20, 1899, Myrtie N. was married to Dr. Byron W. McKeen. a native of Fryeburg, and a classmate in the acad- emy. He received his M. D. from the Medical School of Maine, and, after serving one year as house physician at the Maine Insane Hospital, set- tled in Saxony, Massachusetts, where by his pleas- ing personality and medical skill he built up a large and lucrative practice. He died of pneumonia, May 7, 1903, at the age of twenty-eight years. Shortly after his sister had become settled in Massachu- setts, Alton B. and his mother removed to the same town and household, where they all have continued to reside. Alton B. accepted a position with the Dennison Manufacturing Company at South Fram- ingham, where he has been advanced to becoming the head of one of its departments.

The name of Tyler has been dis- TYLER tinguished in many ways in American history. Beside furnishing a president of the United States, it has been noted in law and literature, in educational and other professional la- bors. One of its most honored bearers in New Hampshire was long an instructor at Dartmouth College, and other representatives have been hon- orable and respected business men.

William Tyler probably from Devonshire, Eng- land, took the oath of fidelity at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1657. He married Abigail Terrell, daughter of Roger Terrell. of Milford, New Haven Colony. They had ten children. He died in Mil- ford in 1692.

(II) John (1), son of William and Abigail '(Terrell) Tyler, was born in 1667 in Weathers- field, Connecticut, and died in Wallingford, Con- necticut, in 1741. He married, January 7, 1674, Abigail Hall, daughter of Sergeant Thomas and Grace (Watson) Hall, of Wallingford. There were eleven children.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) and Abigail (Hall) Tyler, was born in Wallingford, Connecti- cut. January 14, 1710. No date is given of his death. April 7, 1731, he married Phebe Beach, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Wilcoxen) Beach, of Stratford, Connecticut. There were five children by this marriage.

(IV) Benjamin, son of John (2) and Phebe (Beach) Tyler, was born in Wallingford, Febru- ary 23, 1733. Colonel Benjamin Tyler came to Claremont, New Hampshire, from Farmington, Connecticut, in 1767, traveling part of the way on snow shoes on the ice of the Connecticut river. That summer he built the first dam across Sugar river at West Claremont. Colonel Tyler is entitled . to an extensive sketch in a history of New Hamp- shire and especially in the town of Claremont. as he did more to open up the resources of the town and the Vermont towns just across the Connecticut river than any other man of his day or since, and has been called "the most sterling man in the first generation of the history of Claremont." His views. were liberal, and his interest was always for the ad- vancement of the church, the school and his town. Like many of his descendants he was conspicuous- for his progressiveness, liberality and hospitality. In 1768, Colonel Tyler went back to Connecticut, and returned with his family. That year he built the first mill erected in town-a grist mill at West Claremont, near where the Jarvis Mills now stand. He owned all the water power from Fall No. I to No. 9 inclusive, on the south and east side of Sugar river ; here he built in 1780 the first sawmill in the section. In consideration of Colonel Tyler having built the first mills in town he was given as a premium ten acres of land on the south side of Sugar river opposite the mills. He purchased a tract of land on the north side of Sugar river and eighty acres south of the river. He also bought a tract of what is now Claremont Village, extending from the L. A. Tolles farm to Tremont Square, and south to Summer street. He received as a grant fifty acres of what was called the "big meadow" east of the town. In 1768 Colonel Tyler put a dam across Sugar river a few rods above where the high bridge. now stands. and built a smelting and iron working establishment for manufacturing mill irons and other heavy articles from iron which he brought from North Charlestown, obtaining his lime from Weathersfield, Vermont. He did a lucrative busi- ness for over twenty years, employing about thirty hands. In 1810 he built and put in operation what

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was known in those days as the flax mill, the use of which was to prepare flax for the old hand spinning wheel. In 1785 Colonel Tyler built the first mills in the village-the "Old Tyler Mills," Lower Vil- lage, both grist and sawmills. He also built the first saw and grist mills that the people had in nearly all the surrounding towns, and also many in northern Vermont.

Colonel Tyler, with two of his sons, bought half of Ascutney mountain, in Vermont, from whence they quarried mill stones with which they supplied the states and Canada for a number of years. Many were the narrow escapes that these energetic first settlers had in getting the large stones down the mountain side. The eleventh patent issued by the United States government in actual series was to Colonel Benjamin Tyler on "a machine for cleaning wheat, etc.," in 1796. During the next few years he with his son John took out six other patents. The crowning work of Colonel Tyler, at the age of over sixty years, was the invention of an improved bucket for a wooden water wheel with an upright shaft called the "rye fly," or tub wheel, for which he secured two patents. one in 1800, the other in 1804. His marked mechanical genius has been transmitted to a long line of descendants. Benjamin Tyler's name appears as a member of the board of selectmen at the "first meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Claremont in the Prov- ince of New Hampshire in 1768." He was subse- quently re-elected many times, and held many other offices of trust.

The first settlement of the town of Claremont was by a band of Episcopalians, or Church of Eng- land people, from Connecticut, several of whom in 1769 addressed "A Memorial of the inhabitants of Claremont, New Hampshire, to the Reverend Clergy of the Church of England, and missionaries of the Venerable Society of P. G. F. P. to be convened at New Milford in the Colony of Connecticut in Trinity week," which was the first step toward or- ganizing Union Church (West Claremont), the old- est Episcopal church edifice in New Hampshire. Benjamin Tyler was one of the signers of this pe- tition. He "contributed fio and all the timber for the building, and helped to build it with his hands." At the first vestry meeting of the parish in Novem- ber. 1773, he was chosen warden. and many times after. In 1770 he went by marked trees to Charles- town, New Hampshire, to pilot the Rev. Samuel Peters to Claremont in order . that his children might be christened. After the lapse of over a century Benjamin Tyler's descendants of the same name are still communicants of Union Church, the church in the wilderness in whose support he was so zealous that he refused to take up arms against the mother country. Benjamin Tyler's only brother John, after graduating at Yale College, went to London, England, where by the bishop of that city he was ordained in the Established Church and, re- turning to Norwich, Connecticut, officiated as rec- tor of Christ Church over half a century 1760- 1823. He is buried under the chancel of the new church there, which contains a memorial tablet. During the famous "Barber Crusade" in Claremont, when the Rev. Daniel Barber, rector of Union Church, his family and a few others became con- verts to Catholicism, one of Benjamin Tyler's sons, Noah, (who married Mr. Barber's sister) with his family were of the number. This Noah's son, Wil- liam Tyler, became a man of note in the Catholic world. Although he died before he was forty years old he reached the distinction of being the first iv-31

Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Hartford, which See then included the states of Connecti- cut and Rhode Island.

In 1773, Colonel Tyler built for a home for his family the large house at West Claremont, still standing and but little altered. It was long known as the Mansion House of Colonel Tyler, and many pieces of the handsome carved mahogany with which it was furnished are still in existence. Since its sale seventy-five years ago, by the Tyler heirs, it has been used as a hotel, known as the "Maynard House."

Benjamin Tyler married, at Wallingford. Con- necticut, June 26, 1753, Mchitable Andrews, daugh- ter of Elisha and Mabel Andrews. She was a lineal descendant of Lientenant William Andrews, of Hampsworth, England, who was early at New Haven and died in 1676 at East Hampton, Connec- ticut. Their children were: Ephraim, married Abi- gail Pardee: Phebe, married John Hitchcock; Mary, married Nehemiah Rice; Risby, married Elisha An- drews: Patience. married John Strowbridge ; Mehit- able. married George Hubbard; Sally, married Sam- tel Sumner; Benjamin, married Anne Smith; Noah, married Abigail Barber ; and John, who mar -. ried Mary Giddings. ( Benjamin and John and de- scendants receive mention in this article). During his lifetime Colonel Benjamin Tyler gave to each of his six daughters a large farm in Claremont. Their land comprised what is now the business sec- tion of the town. He died at West Claremont, March 9, 1814. "from which time to this date the family has perhaps been the most conspicuous and aidful of all in developing the resources of this re- gion."

(V) Ephraim, eldest son of Colonel Benjamin and Mehitable (Andrews) Tyler, was born in Farmington, Connecticut, and died in Claremont, New Hampshire, December 16. 1823, aged sixty- four years. On his twenty-first birthday Ephraim Tyler was given by his father one hundred acres of land extending from Main street to Tremont Square, to Summer street, and west to the Lawrence Tolles farm. He also gave him at this time (1780) both the grist and sawmills at the lower village, which he owned and operated during his life time. He built on Sullivan street, which was cut through his farm, the old Tyler homestead still standing, and shaded by the fine old elmn trees planted by his hand. Ephraim Tyler married (first), Abigail Pardee, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah ( Beecher) Pardee ; she was born in New Haven, in 1761, and was a descendant of George Pardee, the Huguenot, who came from Paris at the time of the Huguenot persecution. He was in New Haven in 1645 and engaged to teach the "towne schoole," promising to teach English and Latin. This school was the foundation of what is now the Hopkins Grammar School. Abigail ( Pardee) Tyler was also a lineal descendant of Dr. David Yale, LL. D., of Chester, England, and of the Rt. Rev. George Lloyd, bishop of Chester, England, 1604. The chil- dren of Ephraim and Abigail ( Pardee) Tyler were : Benjamin Pardee, Ephraim, Austin, Miles, Abigail, Lola. Sarah, Marcia, William, Rebecca and Sarah.

(VI) Honorable Austin Tyler, third son of Ephraim and Abigail (Pardee) Tyler, was born in Claremont, January 6, 1790. He is said to have been "the most public spirited son of Claremont." His ambition was to develop and improve the town rather than to aggrandise himself. In 1813 he was commissioned sergeant in the New Hampshire mili- tia, and in 1822, after many years service, he re-

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signed as paymaster of the Fifteenth Regiment, Fifth Brigade, Third Division, New Hampshire Militia, and "was honorably discharged at his own request." He held various offices of public trust. He was deputy sheriff in 1819;, selectman for nine years, representative in the New Hampshire legisla- ture in 1827-28 and 1831-32-1835-36-37, and in 1842; state senator in 1838. He compiled and published in 1835 Tyler's "Tax Maker's Book." which was aft- erward used in nearly every town and city in New Hampshire, and was also used in most of the states of the Union. I11 1843 Mr. Tyler placed the pic- turesque "old stone watering trough" on the West Claremont road, and also rebuilt the same year that highway which is one of the old time corduroy roads. He was one of the most active and influen- tial individuals engaged in organizing in 1832 the Claremont Manufacturing Company, which was the first company organized by citizens of Claremont for manufacturing purposes. Mr. Tyler built as a home for his bride, in 1813, the old colonial house on Mulberry street, since known as the Rossiter house. He later built and occupied the brick house on the corner of Sullivan and Union streets, still owned by his grandchildren. He married, in Plain- field, New Hampshire, March 6, 1814, Almira, only child of Daniel (4) and Hannah (Bailey) Kingsbury, of Plainfield. (Sce Kingsbury, VI). She was born in Keene, March 6, 1799, and was married on her fif- teenth birthday. Their children were: Henry Dan- iel, Louise, Emeline, Elizabeth Bailey, Frederick Austin, Ellen Almira and Sarah Frances. Austin Tyler died in Claremont, August 12, 1844. The National Eagle of August 16, 1844. says : "Hon. Austin Tyler was one of the most active, enterpris- ing and public spirited men in town, the strictest integrity was a prominent trait in his character, and his influence has been extensive in the town where he has always resided." He was an Episcopalian, being a member of the Historic Union Church, where for many years he sang in the choir. His wife survived him, and died in Claremont, Decem- ber 19, 1867.

(VII) Henry Daniel, eldest son of Austin and Al- mira (Kingsbury) Tyler, was born August 13, 1815. He was educated at Unity Military Academy, the Rev. Virgil H. Barber Academy, and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden. He served in the Mexi- can war; was a volunteer from Massachusetts un- der Captain Webster, First Regiment, and afterward belonged to the "Army of Acceptation." He died unmarried in San Antonio, Texas, June 16, 1868.

(VII) Louise, eldest daughter of Austin and Al- mira (Kingsbury) Tyler, was born March 30, 1818. She married, November 14, 1842, Nathaniel Waite Westgate, of Enfield, later known as Judge West- gate, of Haverhill, New Hampshire.

(VII) Emeline, second daughter of Austin and Almira (Kingsbury) Tyler, was born April 21, 1820, and married in September, 1838, Asa Tufts Starbird. of Boston. She died in Dover, Kansas, March 4, 1876.

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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 53

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