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 7

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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(VIII) Charles Severence, son of Charles and Susan Morehead Brown was born in Bos- ton, November 18, 1844, and was educated in the common schools of that city and at Chauncey Hall. In 1872 he engaged in the carriage service, to which he has given his unremitting attention ever since that time, and now employs a hundred horses and many vehicles in his business, which has steadily grown from the beginning. He has a summer home in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. where he passes the summer months. In politics he is an inde- pendent. He married (first), Frances Partridge, who was born in Boston, daughter of Adrian Part- ridge. He married (second) Ruth Miller, daughter of Ephraim Miller, of Temple, and granddaughter of General James Miller. Two children, Albert Ed- win and Susan, were born to the first wife; and one, Philip, to the second.

BROWN In the United States there are several ancient families bearing this name, and from among them many men of promi- nence have arisen. The surname is of the class called complexion names, and was assumed by its first bearer from his complexion or the color of his hair.

(I) Samuel Brown was a farmer in Andover, Vermont. He was one of the principal citizens of the town, and was selectman, town treasurer several times, and representative in the state legislature sev- eral terms, holding office as late as 1808 or there- about. He had three children: Abraham, Ebenezer and a daughter. He lived to be nearly ninety years old, and died about 1830, with his mental faculties unimpaired.

(II) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Brown, was born in what is now Andover, Vermont, and was a life- long farmer. He lived in Cornish and West Wind- sor, then a part of Windsor. About 1825 he re- moved from there to Windsor Village, where he remained until about 1840, when, some of his older

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children having settled in New York, he and his wife went to them and spent their remaining years in that state. Mr. Brown died in the early fifties, aged about seventy-three, his wife having preceded him, dying in 1846, aged about fifty. Both died and were buried at Fonda, Brodalbin, New York. He married Lucy Walker, a native of Plainfield, New Hampshire, daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Ames) Walker, and they had eight children: Selinda, Ada- line, Lorenzo E., Madison, Horace Ames, Persis, Luman and Stillman.

(III) Horace Ames, third son and fifth child of Ebenezer and Lucy ( Walker) Brown, was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, October 3, 1823. He received very little education in the public schools which he attended but a brief time, but by constant study and attention to the defects in his early school- ing he afterward largely compensated for what he was then unable to obtain, his life occupation having constantly furnished to him opportunities for edu- cation that no other trade could have done. Janu- ary 18, 1837, he became an apprentice to the printer's trade in the office of the Democrat-Statesman, at Windsor, Vermont. . After a year and a half of service there he went to Claremont, New Hamp- shire, and worked on the National Eagle, four years, of which time he was two years a journeyman. From that employment he went to the Claremont Manufacturing Company, a concern of importance at that time, which manufactured paper, and printed and bound books, taking large contracts for work of this kind from individuals and firms in New York city and elsewhere. Here he worked inter- mittently from 1844 to 1847, and completely mas- tered the details of the business. In company with the late Joseph Webber he published for a time the Northern Intelligencer at Claremont. With the sus- pension of this publication he returned for a brief period to the National Eagle, and in 1852 proceeded to Concord. There he entered the employ of Mc- Farland and Jenks, proprietors of the New Hanip- shire Statesman. This firm afterward sold out to the Republican Press Association, which later be- came the Rumford Press Company. From 1852 until March 1878, he was pressman and foreman of the pressroom, doing as opportunity afforded, more or less composition. From 1878 to 1882 he

devoted his time to municipal.

affairs. Re- turning to his old employment at the latter date he took charge of the stone work or preparation of the forms for press, for fifteen years, and for six years more was employed on composition. January 18, 1907, he completed seventy years as a printer, and established what is believed to be a record for New England. He was a thorough master of the art in every branch, and the men employed in the office ever found him a stanch friend and a wise coun- sellor. On the occasion of his having in 1887 com- pleted fifty years of service as a compositor his type- mate's in Concord presented him with an elegant gold watch and chain inscribed : "1837-1887. From Black Art Friends to Horace A. Brown."

Mr. Brown's political affiliations were first with the Whig party, and he cast his first vote for Henry Clay in 1844. In 1856 he cast his ballot for John C. Fremont, the first Republican candidate for the presidency, and has ever since been a Republican. Mr. Brown was made assessor in Concord in 1866, and served that and the following year. Subse- quently he was alderman, and also filled the office of highway commissioner. He was elected to the legis- lature from ward 4, in 1875-76, and elected mayor of Concord, and served from March 18, 1878, to No- vember, 1880. By a change in the law governing

this office his last term covered a period of twenty months instead of one year as under the old law.

Mr. Brown was an industrious worker, an ex- emplary citizen, and a leading layman in church cir- cles, and prominent in the choir of his church. While at Claremont, Mr. and Mrs. Brown joined the Episcopal Church by baptism. In 1857 he was elected secretary of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire, and filled that place from that time until his death, a period of fifty years, by successive an- nual reelections. In 1863 he was made junior warden and in 1865 became senior warden of St. Paul's Church, and filled the latter office at the time of his death. He was elected a member of the standing committee of the Episcopal diocese of New Hamp- shire in 1861, and was secretary of the same from 1897, to his death. lle was a lay reader in the diocese since 1857. While in Claremont ( 1852) he became a member of the church choir, and on his removal to Concord took a place in the choir of his church at that place, which he held at his death, making a continuous service of fifty-five years in that office. When seventy-eight years of age he was elected a delegate to the triennial convention of the church in the United States, and enjoyed equally with much younger men the trip to San Francisco and return as well as the great church gathering. In 1884 he delivered the historical address at the twenty-fifth anniversary `of building the St. Paul's edifice.

He was also a prominent man in the fraternal secret societies. November 25, 1845, he joined Sulli- van Lodge, No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, of Claremont, of which he was soon after noble grand. In 1851 he was representative to the Grand Lodge, which held its sitting at Concord that year. From 1868 to his death he was a member of Rumford Lodge, No. 46, of Concord. In 1880 he be- came a member of Penacook Encampment, No. 3, of which he was a past chief patriarch. In 1883 he was elected grand master of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, and served one year, and in 1886 was sent as representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. He was a Mason in Blazing Star Lodge, No. II, of Concord, in 1867, and was worshipful master of that body four years-1871-2-3-4. He subsequently was department grand master, and be- came a member of Trinity Royal Arch Chapter, No. 2, of which he was later high priest, and still later grand high priest of the order in the state. He was made a member of Horace Chase Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters, and became a member of Mount Horeb Commandery. Knights Templar. Of this organization he was prelate from 1884 until his death. In 1889 he delivered the historical ad- dress at the celebration of the one hundredth anni- versary of Blazing Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

Horace A. Brown married in Claremont, May 29, 1845, Sarah S. Booth, born in Claremont, New Hampshire, February 8, 1825, daughter of Colonel Hosea and Nancy (Downs) Bootlı. Jabez Downs, maternal grandfather of Sarah S. Booth, was born in Connecticut, and served in the war of the Revolu- tion. He died at Claremont, New Hampshire, from a wound received while serving in that war. His body was removed from Claremont to Concord by H. A. Brown, and now lies in Blossom Hill ceme- tery. Hosea Booth was born in Lempster, New Hampshire, and his wife was born in Windsor, Ver- mont. Colonel Ilosea Booth was an officer in the American Revolution. The children of Horace A. and Sarah S. (Booth) Brown were: Edwin O., who died young, and Frank Eugene, whose sketch fol-

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lows. Horace A. Brown died at the Margaret Pills- bury Hospital, after a long illness, October 31, 1907. (IV) Frank Eugene, son of Horace A. and Sarah S. (Booth) Brown, was born in Claremont, July 15, 1850, and was taken by his parents to Con- cord two years later. He completed the course in the public schools of Concord, and graduated from the high school in 1868. In August of the same year he entered the employ of the Concord Railroad Company at Concord, as superintendent's clerk. He held that position and other clerkships until March 1, 1883, when he was appointed general ticket agent for the Concord Railroad Company, with office at Concord. Upon the consolidation of the Concord & Boston, and Concord & Montreal Railroad com- panies, he was appointed general passenger and ticket agent of the Concord & Montreal railroad, and upon the leasing of the road of that corporation to the Boston & Maine Railroad Company, he was appointed assistant general passenger and ticket agent with office at Concord. He was been clerk of the Mount Washington Railroad corporation many years and now holds that position. He is also a director and general passenger agent of that corporation. Frank E. Brown has now (1906) lived in Concord fifty- four years; for thirty-eight years of that time he has been continuously in the service of one rail- way company and its successors. He is one of the oldest railway officers, in point of service, in New Hampshire, and one of the most efficient and most favorably known men of that class in New England. His cheerful and tactful manner and prompt and expeditious disposition of railway business have made him friends from ocean to ocean, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the frozen north. He is a man of pleasing personality, a true and steadfast friend, and a good neighbor. He is a Republican and has indulged in politics to a small degree, and has been a representative in the state legislature, but has not sought further official positions. Born of Episcopalian parentage he was baptized and brought up in that faith. For many years he was organist of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and organized and directed the first vested choir in that church in Con- cord. He is at present organist and choir director in the First Baptist Church. He has a talent for musical composition, and has written several anthems and songs. He is a member of Blazing Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Concord.

He married (first) Evelyn Hazeltine, daughter of James H. Hazeltine, of Concord. She died in 1888. He married (second), Annie Baker Dietrich, daughter of John and Ann ( Baker) Dietrich. She is a lady of superior musical talent, sings in the choir of the Congregational Church, and is one of the best known lady vocalists in the state. Two sons were born to the first wife: Frank W. and Charles Walker. Frank W. is a civil engineer in the office of the state engineer at Concord. He married, 1898, Bessie Farwell, daughter of Farwell, of Montpelier, Vermont. Charles W. is a clerk in his father's office.

This family is not connected with other BROWN families of the name which have previously been written about. The Browns are so numerous that no one has ever 1111- dertaken to make a genealogy of the family ; hence it has been impossible to trace this line further than four generations.

(I) Aaron Brown was born in Marlow, New Hampshire. It is said that his father was a general in the Revolutionary army, and commanded New Hampshire troops at Bunker Hill. The only Browns

in New Hampshire regiments recorded on the rolls as participating in this battle as officers are James Brown, first lieutenant, Fourth Company, Third Reg- iment, commanded by Colonel James Reid, and Jo- siah Brown, first lieutenant, Sixth Company, Third Regiment. There is nothing to show which of these Browns, if either, was the father of Aaron. In early life Aaron Brown removed to Acworth, New Hampshire, where he lived for a short time. Later he went to Putney, Vermont, remaining for two or three years, and finally moved to Syracuse, New York, where he lived until his death. He was a carpenter by trade. Aaron Brown married Polly, eldest child of Isaac and Mary ( Wheelock) Gates, of Acworth, New Hampshire. Her father settled in that town in 1781. Aaron and Polly (Gates) Brown had three children: Aaron (2), whose sketch follows : Polly, who married Alden Gee, of Marlow, New Hampshire; Isaac, who married (first ) Mary Newton, and ( second) Sarah A. Bliss.

(II) Aaron (2), eldest child of Aaron (1) and Polly (Gates) Brown, was born at Alstead, New Hampshire, March 4, 1795. He attended the schools in Acworth and Lempster, New Hampshire. He was a farmer and lived in Acworth till late in life, when he removed to Alstead, New Hampshire, where he died. He was a Democrat in politics, and attended the Universalist Church. He married Eady, daughter of John and Polly (Cockle) Watts, of Hollis, New Hampshire. They had ten children : Eady Diana, married (first) Captain George Lewis, of Marlow, and (second) Orlando Newton, of Clare- mont. Mary Urana, married Amos Fletcher, of Hollis. Isaac married Frances L. Bundy, now living in Fowler. Samuel, died young. Martha Melissa, married Samuel Savory, of Newbury, New Hampshire. John Cockle, whose sketch follows. George R., studied at Tufts College; read law with Edmund Burke, at Newport, New Hampshire. Maria L., married Moses Moulton, of Manchester, New Hampshire. James H. married Mary Ellen

Whittemore, and lives at Hillsboro Bridge,

died New Hampshire. £ Emily A., young Aaron (2) Brown died at Alstead, New Hamp- shire, January, 1884. His wife died in 1874.

(III) John Cockle, third son and sixth child of Aaron (2) and Eady ( Watts) Brown, was born at Acworth, New Hampshire, June 10, 1831. He was named after his maternal great-grandfather, John Cockle, who at the age of sixteen was taken by a press gang from a ball-room in England, and im- pressed into the British army. He was in the first regiment sent to Boston at the outbreak of the Revolution, and deserted to the Continental army. He served through the war and went east at its close. John Cockle Brown attended the public schools of Acworth and Alstead. In 1852 he went to Sheffield, Ohio, where he remained a year, en- gaged in farming. He came back to New Hamp- shire, but in 1855 he went to Ohio again, remaining till 1857. This time he, with two partners, built a "fore and aft" boat, and freighted timber to Buf- falo and other points whence it was shipped by the Erie canal to New York City. The panic of 1857 caused a suspension of this business, and Mr. Brown was obliged to return home. He farmed in Lang- don, New Hampshire, for about four years, and then came to Walpole, where in company with George H. Holden he conducted a meat market for about two years. He then bought a farm in that town and returned to agriculture. Mr. Brown owns about one hundred and thirty acres of land, and has made a specialty of raising cattle, Merino and Southdown sheep and Morgan and other thoroughbred horses.

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He is a Democrat in politics, and represented his town in the legislature in 1876 and 1877, and for a third time in 1889. He has been selectman, super- visor, road agent, and has served on the school com- mittee for three years. He attends the Unitarian Church.

He married, February 28, 1862, Jeannette, daugh- ter of Levi Snow (2), of Wilmington, Vermont. She was born in Wilmington, February 22, 1839. They had five children: Annette, born December 6, 1862, married Erwin S. Bowman, and lives in Bos- ton. Orr W., born June 1, 1867, died February 14. 1904. Ashton Burton, February 18, 1873, lives at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and is in the grocery business. Florence Maud, May 3, 1876, lives at home. Harry Brigham, lives at Jamaica Plain, and is in business with his brother, Ashton B.

BROWN The family of Browns of which this article treats is descended from early residents of Dunbarton, who settled in the wilderness of what is now Hillsborough county, before the Revolution. The imperfect man- ner in which the early records were kept precludes the possibility of tracing the family to the immi- grant ancestor.

(I) Barton B .. son of Barton Brown, a native of England, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, 1810, and died in Dunbarton, 1865, aged fifty-five years. His mother died when he was a child, and he was adopted by a family by the name of Wallace, of Concord, with whom he lived until twenty-one , years of age. He was educated in the public schools, and brought up as a farmer, which line of work he followed throughout his active career. In poli- tics he was a Democrat, and in religious faith a Baptist. He married Susan P. Goodwin, born July 17, 1816, daughter of Alpheus and Ann ( Ham- mond) Goodwin. She is living at the present time (1907), aged ninety-two years. Her mind is clear and her memory retentive, and she tells of the incidents of the reception of La Fayette at Hopkin- ton, New Hampshire, in 1823, as if they were the happenings of yesterday. She was a Methodist in early life, but is now a member of the Baptist Church. The children born to Barton B. and Susan P. (Goodwin) Brown were: Wilbor, who was one of Berdan's sharpshooters; he died in Anderson- ville prison. Eldridge C., resides in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. Annie S., deceased. Susan F., deceased. Alpheus, deceased. Parker Richardson, see forward.

(II) Parker Richardson, sixth child and fourth son of Barton B. and Susan P. (Goodwin) Brown, was born in Dunbarton, May 25, 1855. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Dunbarton, Weare and Grafton, and Pembroke and Canaan academies. He was reared on his father's farm, and at the age of fifteen engaged in the grain business as a clerk for E. P. Prescott & Company, at Concord, continuing until 1880. He then went to Manches- ter and was a clerk for J. S. Kidder & Company. later with C. R. Merrill, and subsequently this be- came the firm of Freeman & Merrill. Later the firm dissolved, after which H. H. Freeman formed a partnership with H. H. Merrill, and Mr. Brown was with them until he bought out the business of Freeman & Merrill, 1895, and he conducted the busi- ness successfully until 1900, when he sold it to his son. Arthur S. Brown. During this time Mr. Brown and O. M. Titus, as partners, built the Milford railroad from Milford to Manchester. Mr. Brown is a Republican, and attends the Baptist Church.

He was an orderly sergeant in the State Capital Guards from 1877 to 1880. In 1888 he became a member of the Amoskeag Veterans, and since 1893 has been color sergeant of that organization. With the Guards he was present at the laying of the corner stone of the Bennington ( Vermont) Monu- ment, 1877; at the dedication of this monument. 1888; at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chi- cago, 1893, and in fact attended all the affairs of this organization since becoming a member. He was a member of Queen City Lodge, No. 32, Knights of Pythias ; Lodge No. 146, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Uncanoonuc Court, No. 1962, Inde- pendent Order of Foresters, and Ben Franklin Lodge, No. I, American Mechanics. Parker R. Brown married, in Manchester, Angie Straw, born in Manchester, 1856, daughter of Daniel Felch and Lucretia Ann Straw. She died in 1885 (see Straw). They had one child, Arthur Straw Brown, of whom later.

(III) Arthur Straw, only child of Parker R. and Angie (Straw) Brown, was born in Manchester. April 3, 1879. He was educated in the common and high schools of Manchester and at Bryant & Stratton's Business College. He learned the flour and grain business while assisting his father in that line. At the age of twenty-one he purchased his father's business, which he has since conducted with success, and has now one of the leading flour and grain stores in Manchester. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the following named Masonic bodies : Washington Lodge, No. 61 ; Mount Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. II : Adoni- ram Council, No. 3. Royal and Select Masters ; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, and Ed- ward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, the last named of Nashua. He is also a member of Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord, and is a call member of the Manchester Fire Department.

Arthur S. Brown married, November 6, 1900, in Manchester, Ina Grace, daughter of Dana Elmer and Anna Maria (Stewart) Brown, of Hillsborough. and granddaughter of Stephen A. Brown, formerly a prominent citizen of Hillsborough, and a lead- ing Mason of the state. Mrs. Arthur S. Brown has taken an active part in the Rebekahs, and is now (1907) a vice-grand of that order. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brown are active members of Ruth Chapter, No. 16, Order of the Eastern Star, Mrs. Brown having been treasurer for two years, 1906 and 1907.

BROWN James Brown, a native of Westteny. England, and a jack-spinner by oc- cupation, married Sarah Curtis. and reared a family of seven children, namely : Ham, William, Jeremiah, Sarah, Caroline, Ann and Ox- ford.

(11) Jeremiah, third son and child of James and Sarah (Curtis) Brown, was born in England, in 1809. Ile was educated in a school conducted under the auspices of the Established Church of England. Having served a long and arduous ap- prenticeship in a woolen mill, he acquired unusual proficiency in both the carding and spinning depart- ments, and eventually became an overseer in a large manufactory of woollen goods. In 1854 he came to the United States, and locating in Franklin, New Hampshire, was employed as a spinner in that town for two years, and at the expiration of that time he returned to England, where his death occurred about 18SI, at the age of seventy-two years. He

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married for his first wife Eva Reeves, who died in 1842, and he was again married two years later to Mary Wickton. He was the father of six children : Adam, Martin, Mary, Jane, Sarah and George, all of his first union.

(III) George, youngest son of Jeremiah and Eva (Reeves) Brown, was born in England No- vember II, 1836. After concluding his attendance at the public schools he was employed in a woollen mill for two years, and having accompanied his father to America he remained on this side of the ocean. He resided in Franklin for two years, go- ing from there to Portsmouth, where he remained two years, and for the ensuing seven years he worked in the Amesbury Mills, in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Some forty years ago he purchased a farm in Candia, and has ever since resided in that town, devoting the greater part of his time to agricultural pursuits. Politically he is a Republi- can, and in his religious faith he is an Episcopal- ian. In 1854 he was united in marriage with Eliza Martin, daughter of James and Ann (Sawyer) Martin, of England. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are the parents of three children: I. James H., born in 1855. He is a farmer in Candia. He married first Annie Pettingill, and they had a daughter Emma, who married George Smith, and who had two children. He married second, Mary Leach, and they had three children: Walter, Mary, Clara. He married third, -. 2. Jane, born 1857, mar- ried Thomas Clough, of Lakeport, and they had two children, Ethel and Frank, both of whom married, and each has two children. 3. George E., born 1863, a farmer in Candia; married Grace Kim- ball, and they have two sons, George and Al- fred.

BROWN

(1) Moses Brown, who was born in Landaff, New Hampshire, in 1824, went to reside in Colebrook, this

state, during his boyhood, and was reared upon a farm in that town. He was an industrious farmer, an upright, conscientious man, and a most estim- able citizen. His interest in the moral and religious welfare of the community was frequently manifested, and for many years he served as a deacon of the Christian Church. He married Abigail Stevens, daughter of James Stevens, of Colebrook, and had a family of six children, three of whom are now living, namely : William M., a resident of Lan- caster ; Irving Charles, a clergyman of Salisbury, Massachusetts ; and Elmer F., who is again referred to in the succeeding paragraph. The others were: Abbie, Dencic and Ida.

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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 7

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