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I. ANDREW L., born in Troy, March 11, 1851; married, Dec. 15, 1874, Annie M. Lord, born Feb. 21, 1848.
11. LIZZIE A., born June 30, 1854; married, Nov. 24, 1874, James Biggs of Lowell, Mass.
III. GEORGE H., born April 6, 1856; married, Oct. 2, 1878, Nellie An- drews of Chesterfield.
IV. MARIA A., born Oct. 21, 1857; married, Nov. 8, 1880, Frank H. Strickland of Winchendon.
V. EVA M., born June 28, 1860.
HENRY HASKELL, youngest son of Joseph, Senior, born July 20, 1812; married, Feb. 14, 1838, Martha, daughter of George and Naomi (Starkey) Farrar, and settled in Troy, but removed to Marlborough, March 1, 1841, and located in the southeast part of the town, where he lived until 1859, when he removed to Winchendon. He served eighteen months in the War
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of the Rebellion. Children, all but the first born in Marlborough; died 1891.
I. HENRY GEORGE, born Jan. 15, 1839; died Jan. 28, 1840.
II. MARTHIA ANN, born March 18, 1841; died Aug. 17, 1843.
III. ALBERT H., born June 4, 1849; killed Jan. 29, 1877, while engaged in running a circular saw in Merriam's mill in Westminster, Mass. He left a wife and one child.
IV. TARBEL P., born March 19, 1854.
V. FRANK E., born March 20, 1856; died Oct. 27, 1875.
JOSEPH HASKELL, son of Joseph, Jr., born Aug. 6, 1832; married, Sept. 25, 1858, Mary Jane, daughter of Bailey and Betsey (Clark) Starkey. Children born, I to III, in Marlborough, IV to VI, in Troy.
1. ELMER ELLSWORTH, born June 26, 1862; married, Oct. 28, 1893, Angie A., daughter of Edward C. and Caroline A. (Spooner) Sutton.
HI. WALTER JOSEPH, born Oct. 12, 1864.
III. ARTHUR HERBERT, born Sept. 2, 1866; married, Sept. 9, 1895, Mary M., born July 21, 1872, daughter of Elijah T. and Ella A. (Bennett) Platts of Jaffrey. One child, Ralph Platts, born May 27, 1896.
IV. ETTA VINA, born Jan. 29, 1868; married, Nov. 21, 1895, Elliott W. Aldrich.
NELLIE JANE, born Nov. 18, 1872; married, Jan. 16, 1895, Ernest F. Dean.
VI. BESSIE Axxx, born Feb. 2, 1878; married, May 28, 1897, Fred E. Whitcomb of Fitzwilliam.
EZEKIEL HASKELL, son of William, born Feb. 6, 1820; married, 1st, Mirantha Demary of Rindge; married, 2d, Mrs. Jane Lawrence of Troy; died Sept. 23, 1834. Children born, I to III, by 1st marriage, IV, v, by 2d marriage.
I. FLORA E., born -; married E. Locke of Athol, Mass.
II. NELSON W., born
III. ABBIE N., born -; married - Giles.
IV. FRED E., born Ang. 20, 1866.
HATTIE A., born May 13, 1868; married Bert Hale; resides in Athol.
JOSEPH HASKELL, son of William, born Oct. 16, 1822; married, 1st, Anna Bemis of Southborough, Mass .; married, 2d, Teresta T. Ray of Shutesbury, Mass .; married, 3d, Mrs. Ermina S. Rice of Jaffrey. Mr. Haskell is a regular ordained minister of the Baptist
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denomination and during the early part of his life held several pastorates.
CHARLES HASKELL, son of William, born May 14, 1840; married, Jan. 1, 1868, Mary Alice, born in Peter- borough, April 10, 1844, daughter of John A. and
CHARLES HASKELL.
Charlotte D. P. (Richardson) Allen. Mr. Haskell is quite well known as a dealer in horses, having followed the business, more or less for twenty years, and has also done something in training and driving horses upon the track. He has also followed the business of auctioneer, having commenced in Boston when about
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eighteen years of age. He was proprietor of the Kim- ball House for seven years, but about ten years ago he purchased the B. F. Perry place in the village where he has since resided.
I. MARY ALICE, born Nov. 6, 1868; married, May 17, 1892, Herbert D. Gee; resides in Winchester. Children. 1. Retta May Gee, born Dec. 23, 1893; 2. Marion Louise Gee, born April 15, 1897. HERRICK. The traditions of this very ancient family claim their descent from Ericke, a Danish Chief, who invaded Britain about the year 911, during the reign of Alfred, and, having been vanquished by that prince, was compelled, with his followers, to re-people the wasted districts of East Anglia, the government of which he held as a fief of the English crown.
In an attempt to unite the Danish power in Britain against the Englishmen, Ericke was defeated by Edward, the son and successor of Alfred, and was subsequently slain by his own subjects for alleged severalties in his government.
The Norman invasion found this name represented by Eric, the forester, who resided in Leicestershire, and was an extensive landholder. Erie raised an army to repel the invaders; and in the subsequent efforts of the English earls and princes to dispossess the Normans of their recent conquest, and drive them out of the country, he bore a prominent part. But he shared also in the unfortunate issue of all these patriotic efforts. His followers and allies were stripped of their estate, and the sources of his own power were dried up; and being no longer in a condition formidable to the new government, Eric was taken into favor by William, the Conqueror, who intrusted him with important offices about his person and in the command of his armies. In his old age, he was permitted to retire to his house in Leicestershire, where he closed his stormy and eventful life. The estate was given him by William, the
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Conqueror, for military services, about the year 1080. His descendants occupied the estate without interruption for nearly eight hundred years.
Henry Evryk, a lineal descendant from Eric, the fores- ter, was seated at Great Stretton, in the county of Lei- cester, England, at a very remote period. His grandson, Robert Eyryk of Stretton, by his wife Joanna and William, who bore the title of Sir William Eyryk, Knight of Stret- ton. He was commissioned to attend the Prince of Wales on his expedition into Gascony, 1355. From him descended Robert Evrick of Houghton, who was living in 1450. Thomas Eyrick of Houghton settled in Leicester, and died in 1517. His second son, John Eyrik, or Heyrick, born 1513, married Mary, daughter of John Bond, Esq., of Ward End in Warwickshire. He died April 2, 1589, leav- ing a large family, among whom was William, born 1557. He was a member of Parliament from 1601 to 1630, Knighted 1605, and was known as Sir William Herrick of Leicester, London, and Beau Manor Park. He married, 1596, Joan, daughter of Richard May, Esq., of London ; died March 2, 1652-53, aged 96. Henry, the fifth son of Sir William, was born at Beau Manor in 1604, and was named by command of the unfortunate Prince Henry, eldest son of James I. His sponsors were Sir David Murry, Sir John Spillman and Lady Aston. He came to this country and settled in Salem, Mass., in 1629. He married Editha, daughter of Mr. Hugh Laskin of Salem, and became the ancestor of the numerous race by that name in this country. He died 1571, leaving seven sons and a danghi- ter, who are named in his will. Of these, Thomas and Benjamin, the eldest and the youngest of the sons, and the daughter, Elizabeth, died childless. The other five sons are regarded as the patriarchs of their respective branches of the posterity of Henry and Editha Herrick. They are
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known in history as Zacharie of Beverly, Ephraim of Bev- erly, Joseph of Salem, John of Beverly, and George of Salem.
Joseph of Salem, baptized, Aug. 6, 1645; died Feb. 4, 1717-18; married, 1st, Sarah Leach, who died about 1764; married, 2d, Mary Endicott about 1677.
Joseph, son of Joseph and Sarah (Leach) Herrick, born April 2, 1667; married Elizabeth -; died Sept. 11, 1749. Benjamin the second son of Joseph, was born April 14, 1700; married, Nov. 27, 1720, Lydia Hayward; died 1773, at Methuen, Mass. He had a large family of whom the tenth was Nathaniel, baptized, Oct. 31, 1736; married Susannah Messer of Methuen, who died Nov. 7, 1807, aged 74; he died 1807. He had Nehemiah, born Sept. 16, 1775; married, 1st, Sarah Day, who died; married, 2d, Nov. 29, 1832, Abigail Hall. Inherited an estate in Methuen from his uncle, Thomas Herrick; died 1844. He had six children of whom the third was Jonathan S.
JONATHAN SYMONDS HERRICK, son of Nehemiah and Sarah (Day) Herrick, was born in Derry, N. H., April 20, 1810; married, 1st, Jan. 3, 1843, Maria S. Whitier, who died 1845; married, 2d, March 4, 1846, Martha R. Richardson, who died in 1852; married, 3d, April 20, 1853, Sarah Richardson; he died Dec. 8, 1895. At an early age his parents moved to Methuen, Mass., settling upon a farm which his father inherited from his uncle, Thomas Herrick. This farm now forms a part of the city of Lawrence. Here he passed his boy- hood and youth. At the age of seventeen he became converted and united with the Baptist church in Me- thuen. On coming of age, he became desirous of fitting himself for the ministry, and took measures to secure an education. He attended the high school in Haver- hill, Phillips Academy, Andover and Dartmouth College. He supported himself while studying by teaching com- mon schools and singing schools, and, at times, working at shoemaking. He left college in his junior year, to
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take charge of the Baptist church at West Norwich, Vt., where he was ordained September, 1840. He held pastorates in Hudson, N. H., Tyngsborough, Mass., Warner, Rumney and Hanover, and came to Troy in December, 1864, as pastor of the Baptist church, which he held for about fourteen years, or until late in the
REV. JONATHAN S. HERRICK.
winter of 1879, when feeble health compelled him to resign. Mr. Herrick was always interested in educa- tional matters, and especially in the schools of Troy, serving as superintendent of schools for a good many years. He was a Christian gentleman in the truest sense of the word and was honored and respected by the entire community.
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I. ARTHUR S., died 1845.
11. MARIA E., born in Warner, N. H., Dec. 19, 1846.
III. JAMES D., born in Warner, N. H., June 4, 1848.
IV. MARTHA J., born in Warner, N. H., Feb. 11, 1850; married, Sep- tember, 1876, Rev. Fred A. Thayer, a Congregational minister, who died in Quincy, Ills., March, 1883.
DANIEL F. R., born in Rinney, N. H., Jan. 10, 1852.
OLIVER HAWKINS, born in Winchester, Feb. 6, 1801; mar- ried, Sept. 1, 1824. Johannah H. Foster, and resided two years in his native town. He became a citizen of Troy in Sept., 1826. Soon after coming here he bought the location now owned by Mrs. Abel J. Burpee, and resided there until March, 1851, when he removed to Rindge, and later to Fitzwilliam. The last few years of his residence here he was one of the firm of Goddard, Buttrick & Co., in the manufacture of tubs and pails. I. Lucy F., born July 3, 1826.
1I. JOHANNAH, born April 15, 1828; married, 1st, Aug., 1847, Willard Holt, who died; married, 2d, June, 1857, Jesse Pike.
III. ANN LANY, born Oct. 18, 1830; married, Nov., 1852, Alfred R. Harris. IS. FANNY, born Sept. 9, 1832; married, May, 1854, Alfred T. Colony. NANCY E., born June 10, 1834; married, Nov., 1858, Nathan B. Boutwell.
11. OLIVER P., born July 21, 1836.
VII. MARSHALL P., born March 8, 1839; served in the Third Regiment, N. H. V., in the War of the Rebellion : resides in Minneapolis, Minn. VIII. SUSAN A., born Feb. 22, 1845.
IX. JOHN H., born July 14, 1846.
ANDREW HEBERTS, born in Canada, June 20, 1847; mar- ried, Aug. 28, 1868, Josephine Freeman, born in Vermont, Aug. 12, 1849.
1. BERTHA L., born in Canada, Dec. 7, 1871; married, Ang. 21, 1886, Daniel Enright, born Ang. 1, 1865. Children: 1. Cora Mabel Enright, born June 2, 1887: 2. Norman Edward Enright, born Aug. 1, 1895.
11. OSCAR L., born July 28, 1873; married, Sept. 10, 1894, Katherine Shehan. One child, Elfrida Sybil, born Feb. 28, 1896.
III. MINNIE E., born Aug. 20, 1875; married, Oct. 1, 1894, Edward McQuade of Marlborough.
IV. IDA M., born Sept. 12, 1878; married, June 18, 1895, Edmund H. Tenney. One child, Ellsworth Edwin Tenney, born Aug. 4, 1896. ABBIE E., born Oet. 12, 1880.
VI. ISABELLE P., born March 2, 1882.
VII. WILFRED J., born April 30, 1884.
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VIII. MELVIN S., born Feb. 25, 1887.
1X. CLIFFORD D., born Nov. 8, 1889.
OLIVE E., born Sept. 4, 1893.
HEZEKIAH HODGKINS was born in New Ipswich; married Lydia, daughter of Pelatiah Cummings. He died Oct. 4, 1821, aged 64. His widow died April 3, 1843, aged 83.
I. STEPHEN, born 1782; married Arethusa Corbin, March 26, 1807; died in Albany, N. Y., 1827.
Il. PELATIAH, born 1784.
SARAH, born 1786: died 1817.
IY. LYDIA, born May 21, 1790: died the same year.
AMos, born July 25, 1792: died the same year.
VI. Lucy. born Nov. 15, 1793: married Enoch Garfield: died Dec. 29, 1854.
VII. LYDIA, born 1796; married, Oct. 5, 1815, Joseph Corbin of Rochester, N. Y .; died 1817.
VIII. AARON, born April 25, 1797.
IX. ELIZABETH, born June 7, 1804: died 1812.
x. SARAH, born 1810; married Almon Wright.
PELATIAH HODGKINS, son of Hezekiah, born 1784; married, Oct., 1814, Mehitable Adams of Jaffrey, and settled on the homestead farm, now owned by Joseph Haskell, where he lived until his death, July 11, 1860. His wife died July 29, 1860, aged 72.
I. AUGUSTUS, born Nov. 12. 1815; died Oet. 29, 1817.
II. LYDIA, born Aug. 30, 1818; died June 20, 1845.
III. AUGUSTUS, 2D, born June 29, 1820.
IV. SARAH C., born July 19, 1823; died March 8, 1826.
HEZEKIAH, born Jan. 8, 1829; married. Died Sept. 14, 1875. One child, Angie Maria, born Oct. 6, 1867.
AUGUSTUS HODGKINS, the second son of Pelatiah, was born June 29, 1820; married, 1st, 1858, Hannah J. Rose- brook, who died Feb., 1883; and he married, 2d, April 14. 1883, Mrs. Elvira M. Leavitt of Twin Mountain, N. H .; died Dec. 15, 1894. Mr. Hodgkins lived on the home farm until about 1865, when he purchased of Leonard Wright the place in the village where he resided until his death. He was one of the selectmen from March, 1862, until March, 1867; represented the town in 1869 and 1870, and was town clerk in 1873,
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1874 and 1875. He was a man of conservative prin- ciples and sound judgment, and held the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.
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AARON HODGKINS, son of Hezekiah, born April 25, 1797; married, 1st, Dec. 30, 1821, Rhoda Perkins, who died in 1851; and he married, 2d, Jan. 15, 1852, Mrs. Alfreda T. Brown, widow of Erastus Brown, and daughter of Ezekiel Thompson of Swanzey. He died April 11, 1856; Mrs. Hodgkins died Feb. 4, 1873. After his marriage he located in a house near the mill formerly owned by James R. Stanley. After residing there some years he bought the farm now owned by H. E. Mellen, where he resided until his death.
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I. HARRIET A., born July 10, 1825.
IE. CHRISTOPHER, born Jan. 6, 1829; married, Nov. 14, 1854, Mrs. Mellisa (Gurnsey) Tenny ; resides in Marlborough. Children : 1. Leila E., born May 20, 1856; married Henry Metcalf; 2. Arthur C., born Ang. 31, 1857: 3. Eva AL., born Aug. 4, 1859; died Aug. 24, 1864.
III. AMBROSE, born Jan. 20, 1831.
IV. MARY, born Dee. 25, 1832.
FREDERICK, born March 4, 1835.
VI. CYRUS, born Jan. 24, 1837.
VII. ERMINA B., born March 19, 1839.
AARON HOLT, born in Holden, Mass., Oct. 27, 1776; settled in Troy in 1807; died in 1826, from the effects of a kick from a vicious horse.
1. AARON, born Jan. 25, 1801; died Jan. 6, 1818.
II. JOEL, born Mareh 30, 1803.
III JOTHAM H., born Feb. 22, 1805.
IV. DOROTHY, born Sept. 8, 1807; died 1812.
v. MOSES WHEELER, born July 6, 1810; died Sept. 21, 1813.
VI. WILLIAM, born Oct. 13, 1812; married, and went West; died in Newport, Ky.
VII. AMos, born Dec. 20, 1814. At the age of nineteen he left home and joined the regular army, and served with credit to himself and country during the Florida war, under Gen. Winfield Scott, as one of his body guard. He carried to his death an honorable scar from a wound received during this campaign. After his discharge from the army, he moved to Somerset, Ky., where he taught sehool and married in 1844. In 1849, he went to Cineinnati, Ohio, and entered into mercantile pursuits, and for many years was one of the leading merchants of the city. He died May, 1895. Children : 1. Lucy; married T. J. Collins; 2. Sarah Frances ; married W. B. Bemis; 3. Lizzie.
VIII. DOROTHY, born Feb. 28, 1816; married John Pool of Jaffrey; died April 18, 1840.
IX. BETSEY, born March 16, 1819; married Eri J. Spaulding ; died Ang. 8, 1849.
x. AARON, born July 15, 1821.
XI. LYDIA, born Nov. 16, 1825; married Henry Maynard of Holden, Mass.
JOEL HOLT, son of Aaron, born March 30, 1803; married, 1st, Nov. 20, 1828, Thirza, daughter of Bezaleel and Abigail (Woods) Baker of Marlborough, and located in Troy. In 1835 he moved to Princeton, Mass., and resided there until 1858, when he bought the Baker place and again located in Troy. Mrs. Holt died May
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17, 1861, and he married, 2d, Bathsheba -. Mr. Holt died June 19, 1873.
I. MARY B., born Sept. 8, 1829; died July 8, 1833.
II. TIIIRZA MARIA, born March 8, 1832; died Jan. 16, 1851.
III. EUNICE ABIGAIL, born Nov. 11, 1834; married Alvin S. White of Shirley, Mass.
IV. MARY JANE, born Oct. 16, 1839; married William L. Bemis.
JOTHAM H. HOLT, son of Aaron, born Feb. 22, 1805; married, April 19, 1831, Miriam Bartlett of Berlin,
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Mass., who was born Nov. 26, 1804; he died July 2, 1881. Mr. Holt resided about two and a half years on the Luther Whittemore farm, but in 1834, he purchased of Zopher Whitcomb and heirs the Joseph
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Cutting farm, which he owned and cultivated for many years, but finally disposed of it and came to the village to live. He was one of the prominent men of the town and had the confidence of his fellow citizens and was chosen to numerous positions of trust and respon- sibility.
I.
ELLEN P., born March 8, 1832; married, June 22, 1853, Charles Lewis of Cincinnati, Ohio; resides in Topeka, Kaus.
II. MILTON J., born April 7, 1834; married, Dec. 27, 1864, Lodema Giddings of Cincinnati, Ohio. Children: 1. George E., boru July 27, 1866; 2. Julian B., born April 28, 1870; died March 6, 1897; 3. Alice M., born Aug. 30, 1878. Went to New York city in 1868 and has been engaged in the produce commission business; resides i11 Hoboken, N. J.
III. LEVI B., born Nov. 9, 1835.
IV. SARAH D., born Oet. 7, 1838; unmarried.
FREDERICK A., born June 23, 1841; died March 19, 1842.
VI. JOEL, born Oct. 27, 1843.
VII. FREDERICK, born Oct. 29, 1845; died Aug. 10, 1846.
VIII. EDWIN F., born July 27, 1848.
LEVI BARTLETT HOLT, son of Jotham H., was born Nov. 9, 1835; married, June 13, 1869, Cecelia Fish of Stockton, California. He went to California when young, and June 12, 1863, was enrolled as sergeant of Capt. Cook's Co. G, Sixth Regiment California Infantry, serving until Oct. 31, 1865, when he was discharged. The following spring he secured employment on the west side of the San Joaquin river, twenty miles south of Stockton, and later was engaged to tend the ferry near by. In December, 1868, in company with H. Fish, an uncle of his wife, he purchased the ferry. In 1873 he also engaged in farming and stock raising near San Joaquin city. In 1875 he sold his interest in the ferry and devoted his time exclusively to farming, stock raising and buying grain on commission. By energy and industry he soon became a leader in the commission business. In 1886 he rented his farm and moved to Stockton, devoting his time wholly to the grain business. After residing in Stockton a short time he was elected councilman, which office he held for two years. He died May 16, 1889, from concussion
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of the brain, caused by being thrown from his carriage while returning from his farm a few days previously. His sudden death caused widespread sorrow in the community in which he resided.
LEVI BARTLETT HOLT.
JOEL HOLT was the fourth son of Jotham H. Holt and was born on the "Holt place," on West Hill, Oct. 27, 1843. He attended the district school, and for a time was a private pupil of Dr. Caverly who found him to be an apt scholar. Later he attended Appleton Academy at New Ipswich, from which he graduated in 1864, the valedictorian of his class. Soon after he enlisted in the First New Hampshire Cavalry, serving in Troop
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G, from August, 1864, until June, 1865. After his dis- charge he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied law with Judge Storer of that city and was admitted to the bar. He soon after went to Kansas, his first set- tlement being made at Wathena, Doniphan county,
JUDGE JOEL HOLT.
whence he migrated to Mitehell, then a new county. He was early chosen to the bench, where he served to great acceptance. For two terms of four years each he served as judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Kansas, the second term being held by the unanimous consent of the voters of that district. Afterwards he was
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appointed one of the associate justices of the supreme court of that state, the duties of which arduous and exalted position he discharged with impartiality and singular ability. He was at one time a prominent candidate for Congress in the northwestern section of the state, and although he made a strong fight was defeated. He was a thorough and profound lawyer and a model man, and was a leading citizen in that section of the country, assisting in laying solidly the foundations of lawful government and the institutions of society and religion. In all his public carcer he was revered as a man above reproach and of great ability. A kind and devoted husband and father and a Christian gentleman, always kind and gentle as a child and pure-minded; no one who ever associated with him in business affairs or the social circles but felt better for the contact, and greater admiration for the strong but simple character of the man. His home was at Beloit, but he joined the great movement from Kansas to Oklahoma and had established himself at Guthrie, and had attained a fine standing at the bar in his new home when he was stricken down before reaching the prime of life. Although a sufferer for some time from chronic stomach trouble, his death was sudden and unexpected, and occurred at Guthrie, O. T., April 27, 1892. On being congratulated after the delivery of an address on the previous Memorial Day, at his home, he remarked that he was gratified, not on his own account, but because he wanted his wife should hear him in such an address before she died, as Mrs. Holt at that time was not expected to live long ; but we know not the uncertainty of life, for at the next Memorial Day observance his comrades were called upon to decorate his grave. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth College in 1887. He was for a great many years an active and consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Beloit. Married, 1870, Kate A. Blanchard, born Oct. 6, 1846; died Aug. 18, 1894.
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I. JOEL S., born Sept. 20, 1871.
II. KATE M., born April 7, 1873.
III. MILTON, born Sept. 22, 1875.
IV. ALICE WELLS, born Feb. 28, 1876.
V. ANNA HAVES, born May 8, 1877.
ZALMON HOWE came from Holden, Mass., about 1803. About 1837, he removed to Fitzwilliam, where he died Sept. 13, 1855, aged 87 years; he married Pliebe Holt of Holden, who died April 10, 1867, aged 87 years, 9 months.
I. ASENATH, born -; married John Simonds of Brattleborough.
II. NELSON, born May 7, 1807; married, 1st, Dec. 24, 1831, Eliza, born March 14, 1815; died June 3, 1850, daughter of Caleb and Mary (Whittemore) Sweetser; married, 2d, Dec. 5, 1850, Angeline, daughter of David Platt of Troy. For many years Mr. Howe, either alone or in connection with his brother, did a large amount of business in manufacturing wooden ware at Howeville, in Fitz- william ; removed to Boston, and later to Maine.
III. Sarah, born Aug. 10, 1810; married, April 14, 1831, Thomas Sweetser of Fitzwilliam; died June 19, 1847.
IV. MARY, born -; married Harvey Blanding.
V. MARTHA, born -; married Asa B. Clark.
VI. HARRIET N., boru June 6, 1816; married, June 5, 1809, Gideon G. Willis of Swanzey; died May 12, 1878.
VII. JOEL, born -; married, March 6, 1844, Nancy, daughter of George Richardson; died in Keene.
BOWMAN HOWE, born Aug. 30, 1814; married, Jan. 1st, 1838, Hannah, born June 25, 1815, daughter of Jacob and Phillis (Sweet Grant) Whitcomb; she died Dec. 18, 1854, and he married, 2d, Oct. 2, 1855, Cynthia, born Sept. 21, 1825, a sister of his first wife, who died in Troy, Feb. 20, 1890; Mr. Howe died Jan. 20, 1877.
I. CHARLES, born Sept. 14, 1838; married, March 1, 1866, Sarah J., daughter of Jason and Sally Knights of Phillipston.
II. ISAAC WHITCOMB, born May 8, 1840; died July 3, 1842.
III. ELIZABETH, born June 10, 1843; married Henry Handy, June 29, 1865.
IV. ORRIN BOWMAN, born Aug. 2, 1847; married, March 17, 1872, Emma, born July 16, 1852, daughter of Amos A. and Catherine (Carter) Flint of Richmond. Children: 1. Edna, born in Rich- mond, Jan. 2, 1876; 2. Carl E., born in Winchester, Aug. 31, 1878.
V. CORA M., born April 20, 1859; died Dec. 6, 1861.
VI. EMILY S., born Nov. 6, 1861 ; married, July 8, 1896, Walter N. Gay.
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