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 67

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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Farnum attended the North Church, of which his wife was a member. He married, January 11, 1803, Hannah Martin, whose parents resided by Long Pond. Of this union there were nine children: Es- ther, married Josephi S. Abbot; Hannah, married Captain Bradbury Gill, and lived in Concord (sc Gill, VI) ; Almira, married Joseph Eastman, and lived in West Concord; David, lived in West Con- cord; Henry, resided on the old farm; Lucretia, married George WV. Brown and resided in West Concord: Phebe M., married William C. Webster and resided in Boscawen; Lucy D., married Andrew Jackson, a resident of Concord; Isaac, died young.

(VI) Simeon, fourth son and fifth child of Stephen (1) and Martha ( Hall) Farnum, was born January 14, 1782, in Concord, and resided in his

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native town. He married (first), Mary Smith of Hopkinton, who bore him three children, namely : Josiah S., Moody (died young) and Mary. After her death, Mr. Farnum married her sister, Clarissa, who was the mother of: Simeon and Clarissa (twins), Moody S., Aaron Q. and Martha A.

(VII) Mary, eldest daughter and third child of Simeon and Mary (Smith) Farnum, was born June 25, 1814, and became the wife of Simeon Abbott in 1837 (see Abbott, VI).

(VII) Martha A., youngest child of Simeon and Clarissa (Smith) Farnum, was born April 8, 1853, and became the wife of George W. Page of Dun- barton. (See Page, VIII).

(V) Abner, fourth son and fifth child of Joseph and Zerviah (Hoyt) Farnum, married (first), Re- becca Merrill and (second), Sally Elliott. The chil- dren of the first marriage were: Thomas, John (died young) and Moses. The children of the second mar- riage were: John, Abner, Jacob, Joseph, Jedediah, Rebecca, Nathan, James, Betsey and Isaac.

(VI) Abner (2), fifth son of Abner Farnum and second child of his second wife, Sarah Elliott, mar- ried Mary Martin, and had the following children : Judith, Hiram, Caroline, Daniel, Sarah J. and Abner Doddridge.

(VII) Abner Doddridge, youngest child of Abner- (2) and Mary (Martin) Farnum, married Margaret Crosby and had only one child, namely, Abner Dodd- ridge.

(VIII) Abner Doddridge (2), son of Abner Doddridge (1) and Margaret (Crosby) Farnum, was born 1828, in West Concord, where his father was a farmer. He was educated in the public schools of West Concord, and as a young man went to Bos- ton, where he engaged in business. In 18- lie went to Billerica, Massachusetts, and was there success- fully engaged in the milk business. He was subse- quently engaged in the lumber business, and was em- ployed as a carpenter in the ship-yards for many years. He next invested in a steam saw-mill. He located at Mast Yard, New Hampshire, being the first one of the kind in the state. Having lost most of his possessions by fire, he removed to Warner and there engaged in the lumber business. He pur- chased a farm, on which his son and namesake now lives, and engaged in general farming and was an ex- tensive stockraiser. He still lives on the same farm in Warner. He is an attendant of the Baptist Church, and has always been a Democrat in politics. He was married to Margaret T. Crosby, daughter of Michael C. Bell. She died March, 1887, in Warner. They were the parents of nine children, four of whom are now deceased. Charles, the oldest of those living, is engaged in the milk business in Boston. Alice, the second. is the wife of W. H. Woodward. of Somerville, Massachusetts. Margaret married George Pattee, proprietor of the Yarmouth House, Nova Scotia. Florence May is now a teacher in Mont Clair, New Jersey. Abner Doddridge is the subject of the next paragraph.

(IX) Abner Doddridge (3). second son of Abner Doddridge (2). and Margaret T. (Crosby) Farnum, was born April 16, 1868, in West Concord, and com- pleted his education in the high school of that town. He began his business career in the wholesale house of Dickerman & Company, in Concord, where he continued for three years. He was subsequently employed for one year by the Boston & Maine rail- road as a carpenter. On account of the advancing years of his father it became his duty to care for the homestead in Warner, where he is now conducting a successful general farming and lumbering business. He is a Democrat in politics, but has but little to do

with public affairs. As the duty of a good citizen he has performed service as road agent of the town of Warner. He is a member of Warner Grange, and attends the Baptist Church. He was married March 31, 1896, to Annie M. Corrigan, daughter of John Corrigan, of Lyndonville, Vermont. She is active in church and benevolent work, and is the willing and competent helpmate of her husband. They are the parents of four children: Harold, Gertrude M., Franklin S. and Abner Doddridge.

This line of Gleason, Gleison, Glezen, GLEASON Gleeson or (as it was sometimes writ- ten and pronounced) Leesen, descends from the first of the name in New England. The family has been active in religious and military affairs, in professional life, and all lines of industry.

(I) Thomas Gleason, the immigrant, early took the oath of fidelity at Watertown, Massachusetts, and is named, 1657, on the town records of Cambridge. He was of Charlestown, March, 1666, in the occu- pation of the "tract of land reserved to Squa Sachem." In 1663 he leased a farm of Captain Scarlett. He died in Cambridge, probably about 1684. By his wife Susanna he had children : Thomas, Joseph, John, Mary, Isaac and William.

(II) Thomas (2), oldest child of Thomas (1) . and Susanna Gleason, settled in Sudbury as early as 1665, on the east side of Cochituate pond. On September 29, 1673, he bought by exchange one-half of the Benjamin Rice farm lying between Beaver Dam brook and Gleason's pond in Framingham, Massachusetts, and in 1678 he built near the said pond which took its name from him. He became an inhabitant of Sherborn, October 5. 1678, and died July 25, 1705, his wife Sarah having died July 8, 1703. Their children were: Sarah, Anna, Thomas, Isaac, Patience, Mary and John.

(III) Isaac, fourth child and second son of Thomas (2) and Sarah Gleason, lived in Framing- ham. On February 18, 1725, he bought eighty acres of land of Jonathan Lamb, where his sons Isaac and Phinehas afterward lived. In 1726 he sold his old place to Daniel How, and opened a tavern. He was one of the petitioners of June II, 1711, for permission to buy land of the Indians. He was the head of one of the seventeen families set off from Sherborn to Framingham in the boundary controversy settled in 1710. In 1713 he was chosen to have the care of the meeting house, and was voted Igs for such services. He died December 5, 1737. He married, December II, 1700, Deborah Leland, who was born August 16, 1687, daughter of Ebenezer Leland, of Sherborn. Their children were: Deborah, Isaac, Prudence and Phinehas.

(IV) Isaac (2), second child of Isaac (I) and Deborah (Leland) Gleason, was born in Sherborn, May 17, 1706. He lived in Framingham, and is probably the Sergeant Isaac Gleason who was in Captain Ebenezer Newell's company on the Crown Point expedition ; in service from March 27 to June 2. 1756, and again in Captain Nixon's company in the expedition of 1758 against Ticonderoga. He moved to Petersham, and died there in 1777. He married, December 19, 1725, Thankful, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Osland) Wilson, of Newton, Massa- chusetts. She died in Westmoreland, New Hamp- shire, December 2, 1800, aged ninety-four. They had: Isaac, Elizabeth. Deborah, Simeon. Thankful, James. Joseph, Nathaniel, Benjamin and Fortunatus. (V) Isaac (3), eldest child of Isaac (2) and Thankful (Wilson) Gleason, was born in Framing- ham, Massachusetts, August 3, 1726, and lived in several towns in Massachusetts, where his children

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were born. He finally settled in that part of No. 4 (Charlestown) which is now the town of Langdon, and there died. He married, November 2, 1752, Mary Nixon, who was born December 24, 1733, daughter of Christopher and Mary (Seaver) Nixon. The widow married second, a Sartwell. The chil- dren of Isaac and Mary were: Lucia, Dolly, Eliza- beth, Eliab, Winsor, Betsey and Thaddeus.

(VI) Winsor, fifth child and second son of Isaac (3) and Mary (Nixon) Gleason, was born February 18, 1762, and died August 8, 1816. He was a farmer in Langdon. He married, January 21, 1787, Sally Gleason, who was born April 7, 1767, and died Feb- ruary IS, 1801, daughter of Isaac and Sally (Curtis) Gleason, of Petersham, Massachusetts. He married (second), July 13, 1803, Martha Follett, who was born August 1, 1776, and died February 28, 1858, aged eighty-two. His children were: Miranda, Sally, Polly, Curtis, Salmon, Winsor, Laura, Joseph Win- sor, Huzziel, Horace, Elizabeth and Salmon-nine by the first wife and three by the second.

(VII) Rev. Salmon, youngest child of Winsor and Martha ( Follett) Gleason, was born in Langdoni, July 9, 1804, and died September 9, 1889, aged eighty- five. He probably acquired his education at Wind- sor, Vermont. He was ordained deacon at Barre, Vermont, by Bishop Elijah Hadding, June 17, 1830; elder at Lyndon, Vermont, by Bishop Roberts, August 12, 1832. The New Hampshire conference accepted him as elder July 8, 1839. In 1847 he went to Warren from Plymouth, where he was pastor of the Methodist Church for two years. After- ward he moved to East Warren, where he bought a saw mill which he operated until 1858. Subse- quently he farmed a short time, and then lived for six- teen years near Mankato, Minnesota. At the end of that time he returned to Warren, and resided there till the time of his death. He was an Abolitionist in the days of the anti-slavery agitation, and a Re- publican from the formation of the party. He mar- ried, December 24, 1828, Jerusha Willard, who was born in Hartland, Vermont, July 20, 1803, and died in Warren, January 9, 1876, daughter of Charles and Hannah Willard, of Hartland, Vermont. The children of this union were: William, Salmon W., George L., Orange S. and Horace W.

(VIII) Orange Scott, fourth son and child of Rev. Salmon and Jerusha (Willard) Gleason, was born at West Plymouth, July 8, 1835. In early life he was in the employ of H. W. Wicks, saw mill oper- ator, and afterward with Mead, Mason & Company, in the same business. In 1887 he began farming in Warren, and has since followed that calling. In politics he is a staunch Republican, and has been overseer of the poor and member of the town build- ing committee. He married, December 7, 1858, Ruth Clifford, who was born February 27, 1832, daughter of Russell and Sarah (Fitts) Clifford. Their chil- dren were: Jennie M., died young; Fred C. and Willard Fitts, died young.

(IX) Fred Clifford, second child of Orange Scott and Ruth (Clifford) Gleason, was born in Warren, February 28, 1866, and acquired his edu- cation in the common schools of Warren, and at Haverhill Academy. He taught school, clerked for E. B. Eaton & Son five years, and in 1890 engaged in general merchandising, which he has since carried on profitably. He is a strong Republican, and has been postmaster since his appointment in 1897. He has been town treasurer, treasurer of the school board, treasurer of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and secretary of the Republican town committee. He organized the Baker River Telephone Company, and is its president and gen-

eral manager. He is prominent in Masonry and other fraternal secret societies. He is a member of Moosehillock Lodge, No. 63, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Pemigewasset Royal Arch Chap- ter; Omega Council, Royal and Select Masters; St. Gerard Commandery, Knights Templar; Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite Masons; and Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Waternomie Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor.

He married, September 1, 1892, Etta L. Prescott, who was born October 9, 1865, daughter of Rev. L. W. and Julia (French) Prescott, of Warren. They have one child, Kenneth Prescott, born July 19, 1900.

The members of the Gleason family GLEASON who are now scattered over the United States are descendants of an ancestor whose religious principles brought him to this land; and who for conscience sake left his country and his home and "sought a faith's pure shrine" upon our then bleak and inhospitable shores.

(I) Job Gleason, born 17II, was probably of Scotch extraction and a native of the North of Ire- land. He settled early in the eighteenth century near what is now Highgate, Vermont, where he died July 28, 1796, aged eighty-five. By his wife Hannah he had one son, the subject of the next paragraph.

(II) Isaac. son of Job and Hannah Gleason, was born in Vermont, 1776, and removed to the Province of Quebec, Canada, where he married Eunice Loveland, who was born in 1781. He died in 1854, aged seventy-eight. His wife died Decem- ber 22, 1858, aged seventy-seven. They had two sons, Isaac and Hiram.

(III) Hiram, son of Isaac and Eunice (Love- land Gleason, was born in Dunham. Providence of Quebec, in November, 1800, and after his marriage moved to Brome, Province of Quebec, and settled there. He was a farmer for years, and then re- moved to . Cowansville, Province of Quebec, where he had a considerable store, and was a man of in- fluence in social and political circles; was mayor of the town, and held other offices. In religious faith he was a Congregationalist. He died in 1878, aged seventy-eight years. He married in Durham, January 15, 1827, Lucinda Wightman, who was born August 18, 1808, and died in 1882, aged seventy-four years. Their eight children were: Hiram Elhanan, Mary Jane, Emily, Roscoe, Isabel, Albert, Ellen and Caroline.

(IV) Hiram Elhanan, eldest child of Hiram and Lucinda (Wightman) Gleason, was born at Brome, May 24, 1852, and died September 7, 1881. At the age of nineteen he removed with his father to Cow- ansville. There he was in business at first with his father but soon withdrew and engaged in busi- ness for himself. He was a shrewd business man, and often saw opportunities for making a profit in other business than that in which he was en- gaged, and by improving his opportunities he made many profitable ventures. When the lumber about him commenced to command a good price he be- gan to deal in it, and thus made large profits. He was a leading citizen in Cowansville, and was post- master for years, holding that office at the time of his death. In the "Fenian raid" into Canada in 1869. Mr. Gleason was one of the two hundred vol- unteer defenders of Misisquoi county, called the "Home Guard," who participated in the battle of Eccles Hill, where the Fenians were repulsed and

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dispersed. In religion he was a Congregationalist. He married, April 25, 1865, at Cowansville, Prov- ince of Quebec, Mary Victoria Stinehour, who was born in Stanbridge, June 10, 1843, and who still makes her home in Cowansville. Their children were: John H., Homer, Edward, Forest, Park- man and Mary.

Mary Victoria Stinehour descends from German ancestry as follows :

(I) Herr Von Christian Wehr, eldest son and heir to the estate and title of his father, Baron Christian Wehr Von Stein, Neukirk, Germany, quarrelled with his father over a girl his father wished him to marry, and left the fatherland and canic to America, settling in Albany, New York. He was finely educated, and the master of five languages. In 1770 he made a voyage to Germany, returning the next year. From that time on he lived as a gentleman in Albany until 1777, when his political tenets got him in trouble. Being a "United Empire Loyalist," he was compelled to leave the United States, and went to Canada, where he ever afterward lived, and was made a lieutenant of the royal forces stationed at Canada, October 5, 1783. Shortly after this Lieutenant Wehr, Conrad Best and others petitioned His Ex- cellency Frederick Holdemand, then governor and commander-in-chief in and over the Province of Quebec and territories, for a tract of land east of Misisquoi Bay. This having been granted to others, these petitioners received in 1785 a grant of the greater parts of the counties of Huntington, Misis- quoi. Shefford, and Compton, and a township in Sutton. He resided on this grant until well ad- vanced in years, and afterward lived with his son Christian. He cut a great amount of timber from his forest grant and rafted logs down the St. Law- rence to market. On one occasion two large rafts were broken up by the storms of Lake St. Peter, and all the logs were lost. Christian Wehr was the first promoter of the first church in the pioneer days of Misisquoi county, and before it was built Lutheran meetings were held at his house.

(Il) Christian (2) Wehr, son of Lieutenant Christian Wehr, was a man of wealth and political influence, and was a colonel in the British military service. He married Katherine, daughter of Con- rad Best, who, like the Wehrs, was a United Empire Loyalist and a German gentleman. They lived at St. Armand, Province of Quebec. Seven children were born of this marriage, two sons and five daughters, none of whom died under eighty years of age. One of the daughters. Charlotte Augustus Matilda, was born February 27, 1805, and died at Cowansville, November 26, 1896, aged ninety-two years and nine months. She married John Stine- hour, whose sketch appears below.

(I) George Stinehour was a German gentleman wno settled in Albany, New York, in 1790. He af- terward removed ic Highgate, Vermont, and thence to Standbridge, Province of Quebec. He was a man of good standing in the continity. and thor- oughly imbued with the united empire loyalist prin- ciples. He married in Highgate, Vermont, Charity Holenbeck, who died in Highgate, December 5, 1829, in the seventy-second years of her age. He died in Standbridge, February 26, 1844, aged eighty-eight years and ten months. They were the parents of sixteen children.

(II) John, sixth son of George and Charity (Holenbeck) Stinehour, born in Highgate, Ver- mont. April 21, 1800, and died May 5, 1865, aged sixty-five, at Cowansville, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was married in St. Ar-

mand, October 17, 1826, by the Rev. James Reed, to Charlotte Augusta Matilda Wehr, and they were the parents of seven children: Harriet Attwood, John Parkman, Charlotte Augusta, Elizabeth, Ger- trude, Mary Victoria. Caroline and Jane Adams.

(V) Dr. John Hiram Gleason, eldest child of Hiram E. and Mary Victoria (Stinehour) Gleason, was born in Cowansville, September 20, 1869. He attended the common schools, and later graduated from the Cowansville Academy at six- teen years of age The following year he went to Montreal and matriculated at McGill University, and took a course in chemistry, graduating as .a chemist in 1891. He then entered McGill Medical College, and in 1895, after a four year course, graduated with honors as M. D., C. M. After graduation he took a post-graduate course at the Post Graduate College in New York City. In June, 1896, he settled in Manchester, New Hampshire. where he has since resided, and now has a large practice, there being among his patients many of the best people of the city. Soon after going to Manchester he became connected with the out- patient department of the Sacred Heart Hospital, and also with the out-patient department of the Emergency Ward of the Elliot Hospital. He per- formed the duties of these offices until 1898, when he was appointed surgeon to the Elliot Hospital. In 1903 he took a similar position on the staff of the Notre Dame Hospital and still holds the last named place. Dr. Gleason devotes special attention to surgery, and each year spends two months in medical centers in order to obtain the latest and best ideas relative to the practice of his profession. His skill, manner and conduct as a medical prac- titioner and a gentleman have made him popular and successful. For three years he has been med- ical examiner for the Massachusetts Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the British Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the New Hampshire State Medical Society. the New Hampshire Surgeons' Club, the Hillsborough County Medical Association, the Merrimack County Medical Society, the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and the Manchester Medical Association, of which he is the president. He is also a member of various non-medical socie- ties and clubs, among which are the Manchester Historical Society, the New England McGill Grad- uate Society, the Derryfield Club, the Cygnet Boat- ing Club, the Manchester Country Club, and the Manchester Driving Club. He attends the Frank- lin Street Church.

He married, October 17, 1899, Ethel Eastman Simmons, born in New York City, December 26, 1878, daughter of William L. and Julia (Eastman) Simmons, of Lexington, Kentucky, and grand- daughter of the late Colonel Arthur McArthur Eastman, of Manchester. Soon after the birth of Mrs. Gleason her mother died, and Mr. Simmons removed to Kentucky, where he was engaged in stock raising until his retirement a few years ago. Mrs. Gleason is an attendant of the Franklin Street Church, and a member of the Society of Colonial Dames of America, and of the Manchester Thimble Club. The children of Dr. and Mrs. Gleason are : Elizabeth Eastman and John MacArthur.

This name is probably of German origin

VOSE and was formerly spelled Voose. It be- came Latinized into Voseius and finally Anglicized into its present form. Two immigrants, said to have been brothers, came from England at an early date, one of whom settled in Massachu-

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setts and the other in Connecticut. The latter spelled the name Vorse.

(I) Robert Vose came from Lancashire in 1638, and in 1640 purchased a farm in that part of Dor- chester which was afterward set off as the town of Milton, where he died in 1683. aged eighty-four years. His wife, whose christian name was Jane, died in 1675. Their children were Henry, Edward, Thomas, Elizabeth and Martha. Of Henry there is no. further mention. Edward inherited the home- stead in Dorchester. Thomas will be again referred to. Elizabeth, born in 1629, married, in 1657, Thomas Swift, and died in 1675. Martha, married (first), John Sharp, who was killed in King Phillip's war in 1676. and she subsequently became Mrs. Buckminister.

(II) Thomas Vose, third child and youngest son of Robert and Jane Vose, was born in Dorchester in 1641. He resided near the family homestead, and his death occurred in 1708. The maiden name of his wife does not appear in the record at hand. He had a son Henry ; Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Crane : Jane, who became Mrs. Lyon; and Thomas, born in 1667, were probably his children.

(III) Henry Vose, son of Thomas Vose, was born in Dorchester in 1663. For his services in a campaign against the Narragansett Indians he re- ceived a grant of land in Bedford. His death oc- curred in 1752. He married (first), Elizabeth Bab- cock, and married (second), Jemima Tucker. His children, all of his first union, were: Waitstill, Robert, Elizabeth Mary, Martha, Abigail, Joshua, Hepzibah, Beulah and Thomas.

(IV) Robert Vose, second son of Henry and Elizabeth . (Babcock) Vose, was born in 1693. He married Abigail Sumner, and was the father of Othniel and Waitstill (twins), Robert, Henry, Wil- liam (died young), Samuel, William, James, Eliza- beth, Abigail, Thomas, Joshua and Benjamin. His eleventh child, Thomas, who acquired the title of honorable by his prominence in civic affairs, went to Robinson, Maine, as manager of the property of Governor Edward Robbins, and established the branch of the Vose family in that state.

(V) Lieutenant James Vose, eighth child of Robert and Abigail (Sumner) Vose, was born in 1734. About the year 1755 he went to Bedford, New Hampshire, accompanied by his brother Sam- uel, settling first on the river road near the Mer- rimack line, and later removing to Plummer Hill. The maiden name of his first wife does not appear in the record at hand, but her istian name was Abigail, and they were probably married in Bed- ford. Their first and second child were each named James, and their other sons were Jacob and Joshua. They also had four daughters, two of whom married Eatons, presumably brothers, an- other became Mrs. Vickery, and the other became Mrs. Barnes. Samuel Vose, brother of James Vose, married Phoebe Vickery, and had children : Thomas, Samuel, Robert, Frances, John, Roger, Mercy, Phebe. Samuel Vose settled on the river road near Merrimac line. His son John born in 1766, graduated from Dartmouth College. 1795, and was distinguished as an instructor.

(VI) Joshua Vose, fourth child and third son of Lieutenant James and Abigail Vose, was born in Bedford in 1783. In early life he was engaged in teaming between Bedford and Boston. He pur- chased considerable real estate in Bedford, mostly wild land, and was a prosperous farmer for the re- mainder of his life, which terminated in 1862. In his religious belief he was a Presbyterian. He was twice married, first to Nancy Shirley, daughter of

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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 67

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