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 76

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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(V) William, son of David and Sibyl (Sher- man) Heard, was born in Wayland, September 19, 1795, died there March 30, 1869. "He was very prominent in the history of the town, and held every office in its government. He was coroner of Mid- dlesex county for many years. He was a man of very strong will, unswerving honesty and untiring zeal in carrying out whatever he undertook. Dur- ing the war he traveled a short time in the South, visited the soldiers in camp, with whom he had much sympathy and for whose interests he spent much time and labor." He was a Whig and Repub- lican in politics, and in religion a Unitarian. He married. March 14, 1825, Susan Mann, of Oxford, New Hampshire, who died July 14, 1870. Their children : Samuel H. M., William A., Jared M. and Susan E.

(VI) Hon. William Andrew, second child and son of William and Susan (Mann) Heard, was born in Wayland, Massachusetts, August 25, 1827, died at Centre Sandwich, New Hampshire, April 15. 190I. He attended the common schools and Wayland Academy until he was fifteen years old. and then entered mercantile life as a clerk in the store of Timothy Varney, of Centre Sandwich, Car- roll county, New Hampshire; this business he pur- chased when twenty-two years of age and continued in the same line of business until retiring in 1878, after nearly twenty-eight years of active service and successful merchandising. In August, 1862, Mr. Heard enlisted as a soldier in the Fourteenth Regi- ment, New Hampshire Volunteers, was commis- sioned quartermaster of the regiment at its organ- ization and accompanied it to the scene of its oper- ations in Virginia, then the center of military ac- tivity in the east. In November, 1862, he was made brigade quartermaster and discharged the duties of the position till failing health compelled him to re- sign in September of the following year. Mr. Heard's business ability was early recognized by those who knew him, and he was called upon to fill numerous public offices. He was clerk of Sand- wich in 1859-61, representative in the New Hamp- shire legislature in 1873-74. treasurer of Sandwich Savings Bank from September, 1872, until January, 1887, was appointed clerk of the courts of Carroll county in August. 1874, and was re-appointed in August, 1876, holding the office until 1887. In Jan- tary, 1887, he was appointed national bank ex- aminer for the states of Maine and New Hampshire, and in order to devote his entire time to this office resigned all other official trusts. August 16, 1889, Mr. Heard was appointed bank commissioner of the state of New Hampshire, which office he filled until August, 1893. resigning to accept the receivership of the National Bank of the Commonwealth of Manchester, New Hampshire.

In his early life he was a Whig, but upon the dis- solution of that party united with its successor, the Republican party. supporting Lincoln and the war measures, but sided with the Liberal Republicans in 1872 and voted for Greeley. Subsequently he ad- hered to the Democratic party. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and one of its most liberal supporters. He was made a Mason at the organization of Red Mountain Lodge, of Sandwich, and filled its principal chairs. He was a prominent member of Moulton S. Webster Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and was also a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Mili-

tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Mr. Heard started in life equipped with a sound mind in a sound body, making up what he lacked in book lore by fidelity and unflinching firmness of purpose in the pursuit of his chosen vocation in life. His personal character was above reproach, and his church relations exemplary. All these things con- tributed to make his life a success and render him a prominent and influential man in business, social and political circles.

He married, June 6, 1850, Anne Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Hon. Moulton H. and Ann M. (Ambrose) Marston, of Sandwich, New Hampshire. Mrs. Heard died January 4, 1854, leaving one child, Ed- win M., who resides in Sandwich, New Hampshire. Mr. Heard married (second), April 25, 1855. Emily Maria Marston, sister of his first wife, born April 17. 1833. Of this marriage there were two sons : William, who resides in Sandwich, New Hamp- shire, and Arthur Marston.

(VII) Arthur Marston, the younger son of William A. and Emily Maria (Marston) Heard, was born at Sandwich, New Hampshire, February 13. 1866. After receiving the usual training in the public schools he prepared for college at Tilton Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1884. He began his college course at Boston University, but after one year at that institution entered the sophomore class at Amherst College and was grad- uated in 1888. Soon after leaving college he went west, and for several years was in the employ of the First National Bank of Arkansas City, Kansas, where by rapid promotions he filled the various clerical positions of the institution. In the panic of 1893 he was appointed special national bank exam- iner and did acceptable work among the banks of southern Kansas and Oklahoma, but in the succeed- ing year he resigned to return to New Hampshire. In April, 1895, he was appointed national bank examiner, a position which he filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to the national officers. In December, 1895, he resigned this position and was elected cashier of the Merchants' National Bank of Manchester, New Hampshire. December 13, 1902, Mr. Heard was elected cashier of the Amoskeag National Bank to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John M. Chandler, brother of the late presi- dent, George Byron Chandler. On July II, 1905, following the death of George Byron Chandler, he

was elected president of the Amoskeag National Bank, making him the head of one of the largest and strongest banking institutions in New Hamp- shire. He is also president of the People's Gas Light Company, director and member of the finance committee of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, and is also connected with various other corporations. He is a member of Red Mountain Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Sandwich, New Hampshire; Trinity Commandery. Knights Templar, of Manchester, and intermediate Masonic bodies : Sons of American Revolution ; Massachu- setts Commandery. Loyal Legion of United States. He is an attendant at the services of the Franklin Street Congregational Church. He married, June 12, 1895. Ora B. Farrar, at Arkansas City, Kansas. Their children are: Marston, born December 2, 1897 : Carlton Farrar, March 24, 1900.

(I) Tristam Hurd was born in Rochester, and died in Manchester. 1865, at seventy-five or seventy- six years of age. He settled in Manchester in 1842, and spent the remainder of his life there. He was a painter and was a long time in the employ of the Amoskeag Mills. and served in the War of 1812 in defence of Dover. He was married February 1, 1818, to Sarah Hurd, both being of Rochester.

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(II) Charles W., only son and third child of Tristam and Lydia Hurd, was born in Durham, July 24, 1835, and died in Manchester, May 12, 1899. At the age of seven years he was brought to Manches- ter by his parents, and at seventeen made a voyage to China in a sailing vessel. After his return home he learned painting and frescoing, and was em- ployed for many years in the paint works of the Manchester Mills, and was superintendent of the painting department of the Manchester Print Works to 1885. On the very day Fort Sumter was fired on, April 19, 1861, he enlisted in the First Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, was mustered in May 2, as sergeant, and mustered out August 9, 1861. He again enlisted August 19, 1861, as a private in Company G, Fourth New Hampshire Vol- unteer Infantry, was appointed first lieutenant Sep- tember 20, 1861, commissioned September 18, 1861, as lieutenant, and served until March 20, 1862, when he resigned. April 28, 1863, he enlisted at Boston, Massachusetts, for one year as a landsman. He served on the United States ships "Ohio," "Prince- ton," and "Memphis," and was discharged July 26, 1864. as master at arms from the receiving ship at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his term of service hav- ing expired. He married Martha A. Farnham, born at Tilton, New Hampshire, daughter of Asa and Martha Farnham, of Tilton, who died November 6, 1899. They had three children: Viola, who died in infancy; Charles Asa, who died at the age of twen- ty-seven years; and William H., the subject of the next paragraph.

(III) William Hursey, youngest child

of Charles and Martha A. (Farnham) Hurd, was born in Manchester. July 22, 1863. After attending the Manchester schools for a while he went, at the age of twelve years, as newsboy on the Concord Rail- road, where he remained two years. He then learned the printer's trade, at which he worked sev- eral years in various places, first in the office of the Manchester Union; then on the Chicago Inter- Ocean; the Savannah (Georgia) News; Jackson- ville (Florida) Times; and in Boston, Massachu- setts. From 1883 to 1885 he was employed in a re- tail establishment in Boston. In the latter year he returned to Manchester, and in June bought a fine café which he carried on until 1902. In 1897 he bought the New City Hotel of Manchester, where he had a flourishing trade until 1905, when he re- . tired from active business. He is an admirer of fine horses, and has owned several fast trotters. Mr. Hurd is an agreeable companion, an entertain- ing talker, and a self-made man. He is a life mem- ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and of the Order of Eagles, of Manchester. He was the first chair- man of the board of trustees of Aerie No. 290, of Manchester. He is also a member of Amoskeag Veterans and the Calumet Club. He married, Jan- uary 1, 1891, Alice B. Knowlton, daughter of James and Mary Frances (Marshall) Knowlton, of Sutton. They have spent winters in southern California, Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Florida and Bermuda.

This name which usually indicates HUTCHINS an English ancestry, is claimed in the present instance as the heritage of Scotch-Irish whom royal disfavor and local race hatred forced out of Ireland, where the family had existed for some time. Two brothers landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1630, went from there to Dover, New Hampshire. then to Londonderry.

(I) Ebenezer Hutchins, the earliest known

member of the Hutchins family of this article, is said to have been of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and Lon- donderry is named as the place of his birth, which is stated to have been in 1776. He died in Septem- ber, 1858. Before his marriage he went to live in Canterbury, and there, January 1, 1807, he was mar- ried by Rev. William Patrick to Abigail Brier, of that town, who was born in London, New Hamp- shire, 1787, and died in Concord, New Hampshire, 1851. Their children were: Nancy, Reuben, John, Sarah, Ebenezer, Hannah, Josiah, Jane.

(II) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (I) and Abigail (Brier) Hutchins, was born in Canterbury, August 3, 1822. He grew up on his father's farm, and at the age of twenty-one years went into the employ of the Boston, Concord & Montreal rail- road, and was station agent at Canterbury about 1857, then yardmaster at Concord twenty years, and then lived on a farm in Canterbury three years. Since 1888 he has been tender at a railroad crossing in Laconia. He married, March 16, 1847, Citana McDaniel, who was born April 23, 1827. Her father, Jonathan McDaniel. was born in Northfield, and died March 31, 1858, aged fifty-three years. Char- lotte Foss, his wife, was born in Northfield, and died there December 6, 1868, aged sixty-three years. Nehemiah McDaniel, father of Jonathan McDaniel, died in Londonderry in 1840. Five children were born to Ebenezer (2) and Citana McDaniel.

(III) George Eugene, son of Ebenezer (2) and Citana (McDaniel) Hutchins, was born in Concord, October 16, 1848. At thirteen years of age he took service with the Boston, Concord & Montreal Road as a section hand, and followed that vocation three years. At sixteen years of age he went to Concord, New Hampshire, and there worked a year in a tan- nery. From 1865 to 1869 he was a locomotive fire- man for the Boston, Concord & Montreal road, and at the last given date became an engineer. He ran between Concord and Woodsville for some years, residing at Concord; then was removed to the Whitefield branch, where he served five years. For sixteen years he resided at Jefferson. In 1893 he was transferred to the Berlin branch, and has since ran between Berlin and Whitefield Junction, re- siding at Berlin since 1895. In political sentiment Mr. Hutchins is a Democrat. While in Jefferson he served on the board of education three years, 1888-1891. In 1903 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature. and served with credit. In 1904 he became a candidate for the office of mayor of Berlin on the Labor ticket, and was elected. Five months after election he succeeded in breaking up the corrupt ring that had governed the city, had an expert examine the city's books of records and ac- counts, who found a shortage of $17,000 in the ac- counts of the city clerk and treasurer. That in- dividual was prosecuted, found guilty, and sent to the penitentiary. Such was the vigorous start made by George E. Hutchins in the mayor's office. His administration of affairs in this case and in general has been so satisfactory to all the better element of Berlin that he has been twice re-elected, and is now (1907) serving his third term. Mr. Hutchins is a thirty-second degree Mason; he is a member of White Mountain Lodge, No. 86, of Whitefield, of which he was a master in 1889; North Star Royal Arch Chapter, No. 16, North Star Commandery, No. 4. Knights Templar, of Lancaster; and Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua. He is also a member of St. John's Lodge, No. 58, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Whitefield, of which he was noble grand in 1879; and Mt. Lafayette Lodge, No. 572, of the

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He be- came a member of the Congregational Church in 1901, and is now a deacon of the church of that denomination at Berlin, and superintendent of its Sunday school. He married, in Woodsville, De- cember 26, 1870. Helen Marr Chamberlain, daughter of Warren Kasson and Statira Frances (Edwards) Chamberlain. The following is a brief account of Mrs. Hutchins' ancestry :

(I) Richard Chamberlain was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, July 9, 1714. He ascended the Con- necticut river from Hinsdale, New Hampshire, in a boat, taking seven of his fourteen children. and some most necessary articles, and settled in New- bury, Vermont, in June, 1762. He was in Captain Phinehas Stevens' company of sixty men at Charles- town, New Hampshire. during the siege of 1747; was also in. Colonel Williams's regiment for the in- vasion of Canada, from March 13, to December 18, 1758, and was a minute-man in 1775. He died Oc- tober 16, 1784. He married Abigail, daughter of Remembrance Wright, of Northampton, Massachu- setts.

(2) Benjamin son of Richard and Abigail (Wright) Chamberlain, was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, December 15. 1747, and went to Newbury with his parents. He served a short time in the Revolutionary war. His wife was Widow Eaton.

(3) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) Cham- berlain, was born in October, 1774, and died De- cember 3, 1872. He married Sally, daughter of Thomas Kasson. She was born January 31, 1787, and died April 15, 1868.

(4) Warren K., son of Benjamin (2) and Sally (Kasson) Chamberlain, was born May 6, 1815, and was a farmer in Newbury. He died July 3, 1894. He married Statira Frances Edwards, who was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, 1827, daughter of David and Alciemena (Frisby) Ed- wards, of Maine. Their daughter, Helen Marr, born June 18, 1848, married George E. Hutchins, and they have had two children : Eben W., born in Concord. New Hampshire, 1872; and Frank Eugene, who died young.

(Second Family.) The immigrant ancestor of this HUTCHINS family of Hutchins was one of those soldiers who came to put down the American rebels of 1776, and remained after they had won their independence to assist them in the work of building up a mighty nation.

(I) Parley Hutchins was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and in 1774 came from there to America as a private in the British army to assist in keeping order in the colonies, then on the eve of open re- bellion against the English government. He served throughout the Revolution which followed, and after the close of the war settled in Connecticut, where he became a farmer and resided until his death. He married and raised a family.

(II) Parley (2), son of Parley (1) Hutchins, was born in Connecticut, removed to Wolcott, Ver- mont, and settled there about the year 1816. He built a cabin on the Lamoille river, and began his life in the wilderness by clearing the timber off the land on which he settled, and putting it in a fair state of cultivation. He built a large and com- modious tavern on the land he had cleared in 1830. which he conducted very successfully until his death, which occurred in July, 1858. He married, 1813, Polly Whitney. born in 1794, died April 18, 1878, and they were the parents of: Charles; Sid-

ney; Lewis Smitli, sce forward; John Corbin and Mary.

( III) Lewis Smith, third son and child of Par- ley (2) and Polly ( Whitney) Hutchins, was born in Wolcott, Vermont, August 6, 1825, and died in North Stratford, New Hampshire, April 8, 1895. He continued the hotel business commenced by his father, and in addition to this was engaged in farm- ing. Before the construction of the Portland & Ogdensburg railroad, he was extensively engaged in teaming to St. Johnsbury, Montpelier and Burling- ton, Vermont. In politics he was one of the two Democrats of the town, and was a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party. For a number of years he filled the office of selectman. He married, 1844, Marcia M. Aiken, born February II, 1826, died April 13, 1878, daughter of Solomon and Mary (Warner) Aiken. Solomon Aiken was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, July 15, 1758, and served two years in the army during the Revolution- ary war. He then entered Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in 1784. He was ordained pastor of the church in Duxbury, Massachusetts, June 4, 1788, and enlisted as chaplain in the United States army, June 11, 1812. He removed to Hard- wick, Vermont. in 1818, was representative in 1821-2, and died in June, 1833. He married, October 12, 1788, Mary Warner, daughter of Captain Daniel Warner, and they were the parents of four sons and five daughters. Lewis Smith and Marcia M. (Aiken) Hutchins had children: Emma C .; Mary P .; Warner J .; Marcia M .; Frederick L .; Burt M .; Kate A .; John Corbin, see forward; and Frank D., mentioned with descendants in this article.

(IV) John Corbin, fourth son and eighth child of Lewis Smith (3) and Marcia M. (Aiken) Hutch- ins, was born in Wolcott, Lamoille county, Ver- mont. February 3, 1864. He attended the public schools of his native city until he was thirteen years of age, and then became a student at the academy at Hardwick, where he attended the spring and fall terms for four years, teaching the district schools in winter, and assisting his father in the cultivation and management of the home farm during the sum- mer months. At the age of seventeen years he be- came the assistant principal of the academy, filling that position for a period of two years, and subse- quently taking a post-graduate course in the same institution. He went to Northfield, Vermont, in 1883, where he lived during the winter, at the same time teaching in the high school at Gouldsville. In the spring of 1884 he removed to Stratford, New Hampshire, and during the year following his ar- rival in that town was employed as a clerk in the drug and jewelry store of W. C. Carpenter. The next year he filled the position of teacher of the higher grade in the grammar school of the town, and employed all his leisure time in the store of Mr. Carpenter, acquiring a further knowledge of the drug and jewelry business. Failing health com- pelled Mr. Carpenter to remove to California in 1886, and he disposed of his business to Mr. Hutchins, who had passed his examination before the New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy, April 25, of that year. In politics Mr. Hutchins is a Democrat, and as such has been elected to various offices, and in these as well as in a number of other ways has ren- dred his town and district good service. He was elected chairman of the board of selectmen in 1889, and re-elected to the same office in the two follow- ing years. Important ' matters came up for con- sideration during his term of office, and were dis- posed of in such a manner as to be of the greatest

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advantage to the town. During that time the Maine Central railroad was constructed and, with the New Hampshire railroad commissioners, Mr. Hutchins was one of the board to settle the amount of dam- age to lands occasioned by the carrying out of this work. The righteousness of the awards of the board was so apparent to all concerned that but one appeal was taken from its decisions, and then the judgment of the board was sustained. Mr. Hutch- ins was tax collector from 1896 to 1906, inclusive, with the exception of 1899 and 1900. He was elected to the legislature in 1898 by the largest plurality ever received by a candidate in the town. At the following sitting of the general court he was a mem- ber of the committee of appropriations and of that of national affairs. He was elected a member of the board of education in 1900, and with the as- sistance of others established a high school in North Stratford, which has taken a high position for ex- cellency. He takes an active and prominent part in several secret societies, being a Mason and a Knight of Pythias of high degree. He became a member of Evening Star Lodge, No. 25, Free and Accepted Masons, of Colebrook, in 1886; later joined North Star Royal Arch Chapter, No. 16; North Star Commandery, Knights Templar, of Lan- caster : Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Thirty- second degree, Sublime Princes of the Royal Sec- ret of Nashua ; and is a charter member of Strat- ford Lodge, No. 30, Knights of Pythias, instituted August 5. 1886, in which he has held every office. He became a member of the grand lodge at its ses- sion in Lancaster in 1893; the next year, at Man- chester, he was elected grand outer guard, from which office he rose by regular gradation until at Woodsville, in October, 1900, he was elected grand chancellor of the state, in which office he served one year. He married, in West Stewartstown, Oc- tober 24. 1889, Sadie H. Mayo, born June 6, 1866, daughter of Thomas Henry and Ellen (Rowell) Mayo (see Mayo, VII), and they have had chil- dren : Ralph Mayo, born August 20, 1890; R11th Ward, born August 29, 1892; died January 10, 1896; Paul Aiken, born August 17, 1900.

(IV) Frank D., youngest child of Lewis S. and Marcia M. (Aiken) Hutchins, was born in Wol- cott. June 8, 1864. He studied preliminarily in the public schools and was graduated from the Hard- wick (Vermont) Academy in 1880. After teaching in the public schools for two years he abandoned educational pursuits, and going to Chicago was for a similar period employed in a wholesale hat and cap establishment. Returning to New England he secured a position as bookkeeper in the office of the American Express Company as a messenger with headquarters at Concord, and he continued in that capacity until 1894, when he was advanced to the position of local agent at Pittsfield, where he has ever since represented the company with ability and faithfulness.

Progressive, energetic and keenly alive to the possibilities obtainable through the de- velopment of the business resources of the town, Mr. Hutchins has acquired wide-spread popularity, and he is ready on all occasions to contribute both his time and means in promoting any well-con- ceived movement calculated to be of benefit to the general welfare of the community. In politics he is a Democrat, and in addition to serving as chairman of the Pittsfield Democratic Club for seven years has been a member of the board of selectmen a num- ber of years, was its chairman for four years, and in 1902-03 was representative to the legislature. In the capacity of chairman of the board of selectmen he was a leading spirit in public ceremonies con-

ducted during Old Home week in 1902, on which occasion was dedicated the Public Library presented by Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Carpenter, of Manchester, and his acceptance of the gift in behalf of the town was both eloquent and appropriate. He is a mem- ber of Corinthian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of Norris Lodge, Knights of Pythias, both of Pittsfield; also of Rumford Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and Tahanta En- campment, of Concord.

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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 76

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