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 96

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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SMITH It has not been possible to connect this line with those of the Smiths whose history has previously been written. The present family can be traced as far as the Rev- olution only.

(I) Abijah Smith, of Ashford, Connecticut, was a Revolutionary soldier, but the dates of his birth and death are not known. He served sixteen days at the time of the Lexington alarm, and also served in Captain Knowlton's company of Ashford from May 6 to December 10, 1775.

(II) Abijah (2), son of Abijah (1) Smith, was born probably in Ashford, Connecticut. On August 28, 1783, he married Judith Whiton, and they had seven children: Martha, Stephen, Judith, Polly, Abijah, Elijah W. and Howard. Abijah (2) Smith died in Randolph, Vermont.

(III) Elijah Whiton, third son and sixth child of Abijah (2) and Judith (Whiton) Smith, was born in Randolph, Vermont. He was a farmer and lived all his life in Randolph. He belonged to the local militia, and was captain of the Light Artillery Company of his town. Captain Smith married (first). a Miss Arnold, whose christian name is un- known. She died, leaving six children: Avery, Eleazer, Caroline, Ellen, Ann and Abby. Captain Smith married for his second wife Mrs. Dolly Hig- gins Stevens a native of Randolph. There were four children by the second marriage : Harriet, Delia. Edgar W. whose sketch follows; and Pren- tiss C. Captain Elijah W. Smith died in 1850 at Randolph. Vermont, and his widow survived him more than forty years, dying in May or June, 1894, at Randolph.

(IV) Edgar William, third child and eldest

son of Captain Elijah Whiton Smith and his sec- ond wife, Mrs. Dolly Higgins Stevens, was born at Randolph, Vermont, July 3, 1845. He was edu- cated in the schools of his native town and at New Hampton Institute, New Hampton, New Hamp- shire. He afterwards taught school in Fairview, New Jersey, for several years, and then returned to East Randolph, where he taught a select school for a time. He began the study of law in the office of Philander Perrin and N. L. Boyden, of Ran- dolph, and continued his study in the office of for- mer Governor George W. Hendee, at Morrisville, Vermont, and later in the office of Judge Abel Underwood, of Wells River, Vermont. He was ad- mitted to the Vermont bar on January 1, 1872. Mr. Smith then took up his residence at Wells River, and began the practice of law by himself, occupying the same office as Judge Underwood. After the death of the latter he took the entire office where he has maintained a large practice down to the present time. In 1884 he admitted Scott Sloane as partner, and a few years later they opened an office across the river at Woodsville, New Hampshire. This partnership continued till May 1, 1899, when Mr. Sloane retired and Mr. Edgar W. Smith re- ceived his son, Raymond U., as partner. On Au- gust 17, 1869, Edgar William Smith married Emma M. Gates, who was born January II, 1849, at Mor- risville, Vermont. They had three sons: Percy G., Raymond U., whose sketch follows; and Llewel- lyn, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Smith at- tend the Congregational Church, and live at Wells River, Vermont.

(V) Raymond Underwood, second son and child of Edgar William and Emma M. (Gates) Smith, was born September II, 1875, at Wells River, Ver- mont. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and was graduated from Norwich University at Northfield, Vermont, in 1894. He then studied law with his father in the offices at Wells River and Woodsville, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1897, and to the New Hampshire bar in 1900. He went into the office of Smith & Sloane, in whose employ he remained till 1899, when his father dis- solved partnership with Mr. Sloane, and the son became a member of the firm, which is now known as Smith & Smith, with offices at Wells River and Woodsville. Raymond U. Smith is a Republican in politics, and is much interested in fraternal or- ganizations. He belongs to Pulaski Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Wells River; Mount Lebanon Chapter of Bradford, Vermont: Omega Council of Plymouth, New Hampshire ; to Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont ; and Mount Sinai Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Montpelier, Vermont. He is a member of Moosehillock Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Woodsville, New Hampshire. Mr. Smith belongs to the Bar Associations, both of New Hampshire and Vermont, and is a member of the Vermont Fish and Game League. He is unmar- ried.

(I) Samuel Smith was born 1766, SMITH perhaps in Peterboro, and died October 6, 1840, aged seventy-four. He married Hannalı Mills. who died September 15, 1847, aged eighty-two. Their children were: Hannah, who died September 1, 1795, aged eleven months : Leon- ard, March 24, 1814, aged fifteen years; Hannah, February 21, 1849, aged fifty-two years; George, a physician, who died in Georgia; and Elisha, whose sketch follows.

(II) Elisha, son of Samuel and Hannah (Mills)

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Smith, was born in Alstead, January 25, 1787, and died in Keene, March 27, 1835, aged forty-eight He was a farmer in Alstead until a short time before his death, when he moved to Keene. He married, December 13, 1821, Betsey Warren, who was born in Alstead, February 21, 1794, daughter of Levi and Molly (Abbot) Warren. Levi Warren was a native of Nelson, New Hampshire, and was a farmer in Alstead. His death was the result of accident ; he drank poison by mistake. His wife Molly. was born June 18, 1773, daughter of Jo- seph (2) and Mary (Barker) Abbot. (See Ab- bot, IV). Their children were: Mary M. (Polly) ; Betsey, died young; and Emily Elizabeth (Betsey). After the death of Mr. Smith his widow married, March 4, 1840, Colonel David Low, a prosperous merchant of Hancock. He was a man of influence in religious, political and military circles.

(III) Mary M., eldest of the daughters of Elisha and Betsey ( Warren) Smith, was born May 19, 1825. She married Dr. Charles Wells, of Man- chester. He died childless, and left his wife an ample fortune which she enjoyed until her death. They resided in Manchester, where he built a large and handsome house surrounded with spacious and well kept grounds. Mrs. Wells was a very charit- able lady, and furnished and afterward kept up an operating room in Elliott hospital. Manchester. She died July 3, 1898, aged seventy-three years.

(III) Emily E., younger daughter of Elisha and Betsey (Warren) Smith, was born in East Alstead, November 12, 1826, and was seven years old when her father died. After the marriage of her mother to Colonel Low, she lived at his home. For many years she resided with her sister, Mrs. Wells, and became heir to the large property she left. She now resides in the Wells mansion on Elm street, and has a large circle of friends. She has a tender regard for the poor and distressed, and is well known for her deeds of charity. She maintains the operating room and other benefactions of her sister.

SMITH (I) Ezra Smith was a native of Win- chendon, Massachusetts, born Septem- ber 13, 1778, and one of the early set- tlers of Langdon, New Hampshire, where he cleared a good farm and spent the remaining years of his life. He is mentioned by biographers as a man of great physical strength and wonderful power of en- durance, and he also was a man of more than or- dinary mental capacity, a leader among the towns- men, an ardent Whig, hence a loyal supporter of Madison's administration in the second war with Great Britain and fully capable of maintaining his ground against the clamors of the Federalistic ele- ment of the community. He died July 14, 1864, having attained the unusual age of eighty-six years. His wife, Hannah Henry, was born in Vermont, August 10, 1779, and died in Langdon, New Hamp- shire. June 25. 1850, having borne her husband five children, as follows : Nancy, Orrin and Alden, twins, Franklin, and a daughter that died aged about six years.

(II) Orrin, son of Ezra and Hannah (Henry) Smith, was born in the town of Langdon, New Hampshire, November 1I, 1807, and was a twin. Like his father, he too was a farmer and lived at home with his parents until several years after at- taining his majority. In 1862 he removed to Peter- borough in Hillsborough county, and bought the farm of one hundred and sixty acres on which he afterward lived and on which he died August 6, 1886. In politics he followed the paternal example and was a Whig and later a Republican, his father having died before the latter party came into ex-

istence. Mr. Smith married, June 9, 1836, Marinda Partridge, daughter of Sylvester Partridge, of Al- stead, New Hampshire, and she, like her husband, was a twin. She was born in Alstead, October 25, 1814, and died in Peterborough, December 19, 1889. Orrin and Marinda Smith had seven children : Ezra Murray, born in Langdon, January 25. 1838. Irving Henry, born February 2, 1840, received a good common school education and was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Peterborough previous to the late Civil war; married Clara L. Gray. Hattie Marinda, born July 6, 1842, married Alden B. Tar- bell. Albert Orrin, born May 1, 1845, married Josie L. Hovey. Silas M., born February 21, 1847. mar- ried Marinda K. Parker, and has one son. Emma Rosanna, born December 5, 1850, now lives in Pe- terborough. Alden Emmons, born April 25, 1853, married Aldana Andrews.

(III) Ezra Murray, eldest son and child of Or- rin and Marinda (Partridge) Smith, was born in the town of Langdon, New Hampshire, January 25, 1838, and received his early education in public schools and Cold River Union Academy, in the lat- ter preparing for college. For a time he taught school in the towns of Henniker, Marlow and Fran- cestown, and also studied law at Charlestown with Judge Cushing and at Peterborough with Dearborn & Scott, and having grounded himself in elemen- tary law he became a student in the law depart- ment of the old University of Albany (now Albany Law School-the law department of Union Uni- versity). He completed the prescribed course of that still famous institution and was graduated February, 1861. Having been admitted to practice in the courts of New Hampshire Mr. Smith lo- cated at Peterborough and succeeded Mr. Dear- born as member of the firm of Dearborn & Scott. His partnership relation with Mr. Scott continued three years, and from the time he entered the firm had been active in the professional life; he is a member of the Hillsborough county bar. In the course of a few years he built up an extensive and lucrative general practice, and from the outset of his career has been regarded as one of the safest lawyers and counselors at the bar in his county-a county always famous for the strength of its bar. Like all of the younger and more enterprising lawyers of his time Mr. Smith took an active part in public and political affairs, and while he never was ambitious for political honors he frequently was appointed or elected to positions of a political character. For forty years he has been a justice of the peace, besides which he served as selectman twenty-two years, and is now (1907) a member of the school board ten years, and justice of the police court four years. He represented his town in the legislature in 1841, 1871-72, 1901 and again in 1903, and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1876. He is an Odd Fellow, member of Peter- borough Grange and of the Congregational Church.

He married, October 4, 1866, Mary S. Fairbanks, daughter of Moses and Abigail (Hadley) Fair- banks. She was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, February 13, 1845. Their children are: Etta Ma- rinda born December 2, 1870. Harlan Beecher, born March 9, 1874, died November 21, 1892. Orrin Fairbanks, born June 28, 1886, a graduate of Cush- man Academy.

(I) Joseph Smith, of Loudon, New SMITH Hampshire, was engaged in farming there at the beginning of the nine- teenth century. He married Abigail Morrill, of Orange, this state.

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(II) Micajah M., son of Joseph and Abigail (Morrill) Smith, was a native of Loudon. The greater part of his life was spent in Orange, where he followed argiculture industriously during the active period of his life. He married Abigail Cole, daughter of Thomas Cole, of Orange, and had a family of eight children: Olive, Ann, Thomas, Joseplı, Jason, Elijah, Samuel and Micajah.

(III) Elijah, fourth son and sixth child of Micajah M. and Abigail (Cole) Smith, was born in Orange, February II, 1832. Reared to agricul- tural pursuits he has devoted much of his time and energy to that calling, but has availed himself of eligible opportunities in other directions, including the surveying of land and the buying and selling of real estate. About the year 1863 he settled in Canaan and has ever since resided there. Politically he is a Democrat and was formerly quite active in local civic affairs, serving as sheriff for some time and representing his district for one term in the lower house of the state legislature. He is a Master Mason and a member of Summit Lodge, No. 98, of Canaan .. On April 11, 1857, he married Eliza Davis, who was born in Canaan, October 8, 1837, and died there October 29, 1863. For his second wife he married Isabella L. Goss, born Sep- tember 8, 1842. The children of his first union are : Alden E. and Carey. Those of his second mar- riage are: Cora B. and Henry R.

(IV) Carey, second son and child of Elijah and Eliza (Davis) Smith, was born in Orange, March 12, 1861. His preliminary studies were pursued in the public schools of Canaan, where he went to reside when two years old, and completed his edu- cation at the New Hampshire Conference Semin- ary, Tilton. from which he was graduated in 1881. Shortly after leaving the seminary he engaged in the grocery business at Canaan, and followed it continuously and with prosperous results for over twenty-five years, or until 1907, when he sold his mercantile establishment to his brother. For the past twenty years he has conducted a profitable lumber business, and still retains it in connection with the undertaking business which he has carried on since 1900. He is also engaged in farming on what was formerly the Canaan fair ground. In politics hic acts with the Democratic party, and served as postmaster during each of President Cleveland's administrations. He is an advanced Mason, belonging to Summit Lodge, of Canaan, St. Andrews Chapter, (Royal Arch) of Lebanon, and Sullivan Commandery (Knights Templar), of Claremont. He is also a member of Mount Cardi- gan Lodge, Knights of Pythias. and India River Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, both of Canaan.

September 13, 1891, Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Lizzie Idella Barney, daughter of Charles and Harriet (Wells) Barney, of Canaan. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Ned Barney, who was born February 16, 1893, and is now at- tending the Canaan high school.

(I) James W. Smith, born in Ipswich, SMITH was educated in the district schools of his native town. and afterward worked at farm labor. After his marriage he lived in Hills- borough and engaged in the grocery business. He was a Republican, and a regular attendant of the Congregational Church. He died in Manchester, Vermont, of yellow fever. He married Louisa Ben- nett.

(II) Daniel Bennett, oldest son and second child of James W. and Louisa (Bennett) Smith, was

born in Hillsboro. He received a common school education, became a musician, and was a noted performer on the violin. He was one of the first daguerreotype artists, and had a studio in Hills- boro for many years. He married, 1842, Mary H. Goodell, born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, daugh- ter of Levi and Mary Howlet Goodell. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The children of this union were: Orlena C., and Dan- iel Bennett. After the death of Mr. Smith his widow married, in 1853, George Jones, a farmer of Hillsboro, and died in 1897, leaving children: Levi G., and Mary Elizabeth, who died at the age of twenty-two.

(III) Daniel Bennett, eldest son and second child of Daniel B. and Mary H. (Goodell) Smith, was born in Hillsboro April 10, 1848. After ob- taining a common school education he worked on the farm for his stepfather until 1873. He then went to Ispwich and spent two years in the same employment, and then (1885) bought the farm his widow occupies, on the road from Concord to Hopkinton, where are fifty acres of land and a, large set of buildings. He was engaged in stock- raising. He voted the Republican ticket, and took an active part in politics. He was a councilman three years, an alderman two years, and member of the house of representatives 1891-93. He was a past grand of Valley Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hillsboro Bridge, New Hampshire, and a member of the Methodist Church. He was an enterprising, popular and well known citizen. Mr. Smith married, May 23, 1867, at Nashua, New Hampshire, Mary E. Small, born in Hillsboro, July 9, 1838, daughter of John and Mary Daforth Small, of Antrini, New Hampshire. Mr. Smith died July I, 1907.

It has not been possible to trace the

SMITH connection of this branch of the family with those whose history has pre- viously been writtten.

(I) John Smith married Hannah Burnham. Their children were: Daniel Lowe, whose sketch follows ; George W., Ziba and John B.

(II) Daniel Lowe, eldest child of John and Hannah (Burnham) Smith, was born January 17, 1804, at Essex, Massachusetts, and moved to En- field. New Hampshire, when a child. He had very little opportunity for schooling, but became a man of substance and standing in the community. He was a farmer by occupation, and an official of the Methodist Church all his life. He was a Democrat in politics, served on the board of selectmen sev- eral terms and represented the town of Enfield during two sessions of the state legislature. On March 30, 1830, Daniel Lowe Smith married Mary Flanders, daughter of Moses and Ann Flanders, of Enfield. She died July 8, 1841, leaving two chil- dren : Ann C., born November 18, 1837; and Mary F., born June 27, 1841. The eldest child died in in- fancy. On June 2, 1843. Mr. Smith married his second wife, Mrs. Sophronia Eastman Richardson, daughter of James and Polly (French) Eastman, of Enfield. (See Eastman VII). Two children were born of this marriage: Wilbur Fisk, whose sketch follows, and Moses F. E. Mrs. Sophronia ( Eastman) Smith died May 10, 1871; and Daniel Lowe Smith died April 16, 1882.

(III) Wilbur Fisk, older of the two sons of Daniel Lowe Smith and his second wife, Sophronia (Eastman) Smith, was born at Enfield, New Hamp- shire, September 27, 1844. He was educated in the

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common schools of his native town. and at the Seminary at Newbury, Vermont. He has followed farming most of his life. He is a Democrat in politics, and was selectman of Enfield for six years, also supervisor of the check list and a member of the school board. In 1890 he moved to Lebanon, New Hampshire, and was commissioner of Grafton county in 1891-92, and register of deeds for the county in 1894. He was elected town clerk of Lebanon, New Hampshire, March, 1907, being the first Democrat to be elected to that office for fifty years in this town, which is an eloquent index of his popularity and standing in the community. He has been on the official board of the Methodist Church for thirty-five years, and is a Mason of the thirty-second degrec. On March 7. 1866, Wilbur Fisk Smith married Maria A. Sargent. daughter of Winthrop and Louise (Smith) Sargent, of Clare- mont, New Hampshire. She was born April 10, 1845, and died May 27, 1902, leaving three sons : Daniel Leon, Wilfred Olen and Harold Elmo. Daniel Leon Smith was born September 13, 1867, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1891 and from Harvard Law School in 1894, and Is now an attorney in Boston. He married, April 4, 1895, Virginia Scott, daughter of Jesse Yeates, M. C., from North Carolina. Three children were born to them, the first dying at eleven months old; Louise Orme, born November 14, 1904: Virginia Yeates, March 13, 1907. The mother of these chil- dren died March 20, 1907. Wilfred Olen Smith was born April 25, 1869, and is now a clerk in the office of the Amoskeag Corporation at Manchester, New Hampshire. He married Lottie Louise Bishop, of Littleton. New Hampshire, June, 1893. They have one daughter, Marie Antoinette, born January 24, 1904. Harold Elmo Smith was born May 2, 1882, graduated from Dartmouth in 1903, and is now assistant examiner in the United States patent office, Washington, D. C.

SMITH The representatives of the great Smith family below mentioned are of Vermont extraction, and their more remote fore- fathers probably migrated from the state of Mas- sachusetts before the Revolutionary war. Various members of this family have long resided in Thet- ford, Vermont.

(I) Frederick P. Smith was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, son of Thurston and Betsey Smith. He married Hannah M. George, daughter of Samuel and Hannah George. of East Randolph, Vermont. He was at one time a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire. He was a skillful mechanic and an in- ventive genius, and to him we owe the invention of the hill-side plow, which he manufactured at La- Porte, Indiana, for some years. Later he resided in Northfield, Vermont, where he died in 1882, aged seventy-one years.

(II) Captain George H., son of Frederick P. Smith, was born in Thetford, Orange county, Ver- mont, in 1834, and settled in Farmington. New Hampshire, when a young man. He responded to his country's call early in the Civil war, and the following is an epitome of his war record. While residing at Nashua, New Hampshire, he enlisted, August 24, 1861, and was mustered in Company I, Third Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer In- fantry, as a wagoner; and was discharged May 15, 1862, at Hilton Head, South Carolina. January 3, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth Regi- ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in the same day as a private; discharged April, 1864, to accept promotion. Appointed second

lieutenant of Company E, First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Cavalry, March 18, 1864; mustered in July 8, 1864; appointed first lieutenant Company F, August II, 1864. Captain of Company M, June 10, 1865, not mustered ; mustered out July 15. 1865, as first lieutenant of Company F. He learned the business of shoemaking, and after some years as a hand was promoted to foreman of the finishing room of the Nute Shoe Factory at Farm- ington. After filling that place some twenty-five years, he was foreman for Furbush and Brown, shoe manufacturers of Grafton, Massachusetts, until age and ill health compelled him to resign the place. He died at the house of his daughter, Marion M. Hoyt, at Manchester. in 1898. He mar- ried, in 1854, Marion H. Brown, who was born in Wilmot, New Hampshire, September 29, 1835. died in 1903, daugliter of Joseph and Betsey Brown, of Wilmot. They had twelve children: I. Frank J. 2. Adelaide O., wife of Dr. P. B. Foss, now de- ceased. 3. Fred P., member of firm of Kent & Smith, of Lynn, Massachusetts. 4. Alice C., wife of Eugene Williams, of Brockton. Massachusetts. 5. Marion Myrtella, born in 1863. died in 1902, was wife of Harry M. Hoyt, of Manchester. 6. Henry, resides in North Grafton. 7. Lizzie, born in 1870, wife of E. Perley Elliot, of Manchester, New Hampshire; died in 1904: at the time of her death was a member of the Bostonian Opera Company. 8. Eva May, died in 1875, aged two years and six months. 9. Joseph P., lives in Grafton, Massachu- setts. IO. Thaddeus, an electrical designer in Springfield, Massachusetts. II. Roscoe, resides in Lynn. Massachusetts. 12. Bessie, wife of Henry Bushard, druggist, Grafton, Massachusetts,

(III) Frank J., eldest child of Captain George H. and Marion H. (Brown) Smith, was born in Wilmot, New Hampshire, September 28, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of Farmington, and when about twenty years old became a book- keeper for Nute & Sons, shoe manufacturers, of Farmington, and filled that position eleven years, and then took a place in the finishing department with his father and has ever since been employed in that department. In politics he is a Republican. He was elected selectman in 1901 and has been re- elected every year since except 1906, and has been chairman of the board during the time of his in- cumbency since 1902. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, No. II, Knights of Pythias, of Farmington, of which he is a past chancellor ; member and past master of Henry Wilson Grange, No. 205, Patrons of Husbandry, of Farmington; master of the East- ern New Hampshire Pomona Grange in 1906 and 1907. He married, in Farmington, 1882, Ada Lund, who was born in Warren, New Hampshire, in 1854, daughter of Abram Cookson.

SCHMIDT

The principal subject of this

sketch is one of the great multitude of foreign-born citizens who have in recent years come as poor inen to New England and by a proper use of their time and energies. built up good business and comfortable homes for themselves.

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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 96

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