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POSTMASTERS .- The successive postmasters,
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covering a period of fifty years, are given in the subjoined list. During the first two decades of that time our mail accommodations were small and imperfect, consisting, in the beginning, of one mail a week, growing at length to twice and and three times, and finally to a daily delivery. At the present time we have four mails per day -an ontgoing south at 7.30 A.M .; an incoming from the west at 9 A.M .; an outgoing west at 4 P.M .; an incoming from the south at 6 P.M. The Boston and other city dailies reach their sub- scribers regularly, and what is known in the cities at noon is in possession of the people of Sunapee in six hours from that time, and, if need be, by telegraph or telephone, instantly.
The postmasters have been as follows: John Hopkins to 1844; John P. Knowlton to 1857 ; Franklin Morgan to 1861 ; Josiah Turner to 1866 ; John Young to 1870; W. C. Stocker to 1881; N. P. Baker to 1885; Charles A. Knowl- ton, appointed 1885.
MEDICAL MEN .- Although it has, from the earliest period of our town history, been a cus- tom deeply-rooted in the minds of the people to call in the aid of the medical men at Newport, six miles distant, yet as early as 1815 a young doctor of the name of Caleb Buswell opened an office in town at the house of John Chase, Jr. Buswell was elected selectman and town clerk in 1817, but left town two years subsequent to the last-named date. He was followed by Tilton Elkins, who remained only three years, and Dr. James Corbin took his place and re- mained until about 1829, when John Hopkins, a native of Francestown, settled in town and commenced practice. Hopkins remained about thirty-five years, or until 1864. But in the mean time some younger practitioners had come in and taken a share of the business, as in 1857, Isaiah M Bishop, who remained till 1864.
Dr. Hopkins removed to Vineland, N. J., and died there on the 24th of April, 1879, aged eighty-seven.
Dr. Bishop removed to Bristol, N. H.
In 1866 Ira P. George, son of Rodney George,
and whose father was a native of Sunapee, be- gan practice as a physician, but only remained about three years, when he removed to Newport, and finally to Nebraska. David M. Currier, a graduate of Dartmouth of 1867, came into town in 1868, and removed to Newport in 1871, where he is at present in good practice. The next doctor was Charles F. Leslie, from Maine, a young man of great natural gifts, who com- menced practice here in 1874, and continued till 1883, when he left for Windsor, Vt. His place was soon filled by our present excellent physician, Edwin C. Fisher.
THE LEGAL PROFESSION .- The lawyers' story is soon told in connection with Sunapee, the writer of this imperfect sketch of the town being the first to establish himself in town. He was admitted in 1855 and has enjoyed the en- couragement commonly falling to the lot of a village attorney, using his influence rather to suppress than to foment litigation.
In 1879 George Dodge, having been admitted to the bar at Newport, settled in town to pursue his profession.
About 1855 Abial Cooper Sargent, son of Charles and Sarah Sargent, was preparing him- self, after a collegiate course, for law, but pre- maturely fell a victim to consumption on the 14th of December, 1859, aged thirty.
CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES .- As early as 1800, Elder Nehemiah Woodward, a Congregationalist, was located on what was soon assigned, or granted, to him as the "min- ister's lot," being substantially the farm for many years and now owned by Gideon Angell, in the south part of the town. Religions ser- vices were, for about thirty years, held either in private dwellings, or in school-houses ; and there are many citizens still living who look back with satisfaction on those devout gatherings in those primitive temples. Elder Woodward had finished his labors in town about 1815, when he removed to Westminster, Vt., where age compelled him to resign his work, although about 1824 he made a farewell visit to his old
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parish of Wendell; and, while his head and hand trembled with palsy, he once more preached in the red school-house in Distriet No. 2. Meetings during those early times were also held at the dwelling-house of Elijah George, in the north part, and at other points, and the leading spirits in those lay-meetings were Fran- ces Smith, the progenitor of the Smith family, and Deacon Adam Reddington.
On the 29th day of July, 1830, Elder Eli- jah Watson organized a Free-Will Baptist Church, having at the outset fourteen members, which, for twenty years, was the leading relig- ious society in town. The last survivor of that membership was Mrs. Mary Conant, widow of the late Josiah Conant. She was an exceed- ingly devout person, and bore with resignation the terrible affliction of total blindness for fifteen years, and died in 1879, aged eighty-nine.
But no church edifice was erected until 1831, when the First Free Meeting-House at the Cen- tre was built. At an adjourned meeting of the legal voters held on the 1st day of June of that year, it was voted "that Nathaniel Perkins, Jr., Lieutenant John Young and Charles Sargent be the building committee;" and it was further voted, "that those who purchase pews shall pay for the same, one-half in money, the other half in grain."
Even the hardy yeomanry of Sunapee had become liberalized in their views on religions freedom when they proceeded to form this church proprietary, so that they set forth in the preamble to the constitution, which they adopted for their guidance, the following principles :
" Believing that public instruction in Piety and Religion has a tendency to promote the best interests of society, and considering a suitable House for the public worship of the Deity a desirable object; believing, also, that each person has a right to worship God ac- cording to the dictates of his own conscience and rea- son,-We, the undersigned, agree to proceed to the building of a Meeting House in Wendell, free for all denominations of Christians, under the regulations of the following Constitution."
This constitution consists of twelve articles, and under it the organization or proprietorship has been maintained, their annual meeting being held on the first Wednesday of January of each year. The officers for 1885 are: Moderator, Joseph Russell; Clerk, William C. Sturoc; Standing Committee, Moses A. Young, Joseph Russell, John A. Tucker ; Janitor, Joseph Rus- sell.
For twenty years there has been no stated and permanent minister engaged, but partial and occasional supplies have been had, chiefly from the Universalist denomination, and the house is used on all proper occasions. In 1832 a similar church edifice to that of the Centre was built in a like manner at the south part of the town, but of late years it has been but little occupied.
In 1853 Rev. Joseph C. Emerson was sent by the New Hampshire Methodist Conference to this town, and was reappointed in 1854; but there had existed for years before that time a "class " of some dozen or more members. Chief among this · little band were "Uncle" Andrew Young, the grist-miller, and his brother Captain William Young, both of whom will long be remembered for their marked traits of character.
In 1855 Oseas S. Morris was appointed to supply Sunapee, and served one year. In the spring of 1856 J. C. Emerson was appointed again, and remained as local preacher and pastor for the four years following. In this year the first Methodist Episcopal Church was built and dedicated on the 29th day of October. Joseph Emerson closed his labors here with the spring of 1860, and went to Fisherville, N. H., where he became chaplain of the Seventh Regi- ment New Hampshire Volunteers. At the close of the war he went to Florida, where he died. Mr. Emerson was a man of varied gifts, a thorough organizer, with a deep insight into men and their motives.
In April, 1860, Rev. J. W. Johnson was sent to Sunapee. He is remembered as a faith-
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ful and devoted minister, but his feeble health limited his effort and usefulness. During his second year he was able to preach only part of the time. He died here on the 12th day of April, 1862, and is buried in the Centre bury- ing-ground, and his wife, who survived him several years, also reposes in that " God's acre."
In the spring of 1862 Rev. Joseph Hayes came to Sunapee as the appointee of the Methodist Episcopal Conference, and during his pastorate of two years forty were added to the membership of the church. Mr. Hayes was succeeded in 1864-65, by Rev. L. L. Eastman. He was a man of considerable energy and true to his convictions of right.
In 1866 Samuel J. Robinson became pastor. He was a young man fresh from the Biblical Institute, at Concord, N. H. He remained two years. He was followed in 1868 by L. W. Prescott, who remained three years. During his second year the church was enlarged and a vestry built.
In the spring of 1871 W. H. Stuart received this appointment, but on the 15th of June, of this year, the church and vestry were totally con- sumed by fire, after the raging element had spent its force on shops and dwelling-houses on the south side of the highway, including those of John B. Smith, Moses L. Sargent, Isaac Ham- man and others. There was no insurance on the church property.
During the summer services were held in the First Free Meeting-House, and a new church and vestry having been erected on a new founda- tion, where it now stands, the latter building was dedicated on the 27th of December, 1871. Mr. Stuart remained but one year and was re- placed by J. H. Hillman, who was pastor for two years, and was followed by S. E. Quimby, who remained three years. In 1877, B. W. Chase was the minister and served acceptably in that capacity for three years. 1880 found the Rev. S. C. Keeler laboring as preacher at this station, where, for two years, he enjoyed the esteem of the entire community.
In 1882, Rev. S. G. Kellogg was sent by the Conference to this place, he having years before filled larger appointments in various portions of the State. His industry and ability place him high in the ministry. He is now on his third and, perhaps, final year.
NATIVE PREACHERS .- A few men, born and reared in Sunapee, have become preachers of the gospel, the first and most prominent name among which is that of John Young, now in his sev- entieth year, but still hale and robust. He has preached for forty years, and in most of the towns within a circle of twenty miles from Sun- apee. He was ordained as a minister of the Christian denomination on the 24th of October, 1850, and in the forty years of his ministerial service has attended eight hundred funerals and solemnized about half that number of mar- riages.
Ezra S. Eastman, another self-made but vig- orous son of Sunapee, had been a Baptist occa- sional preacher for quite a number of years, and died at the age of fifty-three, September 24, 1874.
Edward R. Perkins is a preacher of the Methodist persuasion, forty-four years of age, and is at present preaching at Goffstown, N. H. He has marked ability for the pulpit, and is a son of whom Sunapee may well feel proud.
Charles E. Rogers, son of Charles and Nancy Rogers, is fifty-seven years old, and is an ap- pointee of the Methodist Conference. He is a grandson of Colonel Samuel Rogers, one of the early settlers and for many years a prominent official of the town.
Alden C. Abbott, who was born in Sunapee, April 5, 1848, is the son of Stephen and Sarah Abbott. He is also connected with the Method- ist body, having been stationed in Connecticut and Massachusetts, but was compelled, April, 1885, on account of a throat difficulty, to abandon preaching, for a time at least, and is now acting as an agent for a life insurance company.
Joseph H. Trow is the son of John and
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Hannah Trow, and is about thirty-eight years of age. He has been under appointment by the Conference and is preaching at Haverhill, N. H.
John Batchelder was a son of Zachariah Batchelder, a graduate of Dartmouth and a minister of the Presbyterian denomination. He died in Iowa about 1870.
Calvin R. Batchelder, another son of Zacha- riah, was an Episcopal clergyman, and died at. Charlestown, N. H., February, 1879, aged sixty-seven years.
MILITARY.
REVOLUTION .- In regard to the soldiers, if any, who may have represented Saville-for that was the name of the town in pre-Revolu- tionary times-the writer is in great doubt, al- though it is claimed by the descendants of the first settlers, whose names were Young, and who came from Smithfield, R. I., that they all participated in the War of the Revolution. Those first settlers were six in number, it is said, and their names are given as Abiather, Robert, Cornelius, Esek, Edward and James. There was also a half-brother to these six Youngs, who bore the name of Bryant, and tradition has it that he carried in one of his ankles a Revolutionary bullet through life. Our oldest records are silent on those soldiers. But when we come to the War of 1812 we are then treading on solid ground, the name, rank and service of each man being set down beyond question or cavil ; and if the record had unfor- tunately been incomplete, we have still with us the last lingering survivor of that memorable service in the person of our venerable fellow- townsman, Jacob C. Stickney, aged ninety, who will be found on the following list as a musi- cian, and whose mental faculties are still clear, if his physical powers give evidence of decay.
WAR OF 1812 .- The following is a list of soldiers who enlisted from the town of Wendell (now Sunapee) in the First Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of 1812, and
who went into camp at Concord, N. H., Feb- ruary 1, 1813 :
Samuel Rogers, 2d lieut. Amos George.
John Gage, ensign. Thomas Lamb.
William Gage, sergeant. James Young (2d).
Scribner Huntoon, sergt. James Boyce. William Lamb, sergeant. Daniel Pickernell. Corbin Huntoon, mus. James Young.
Jacob C. Stickney, mus. Samuel Pickernell.
Joseph Avery. Hezekiah Peck.
Joseph Chase, Jr. Ezek Young.
Richmond Clapp. Joseph Pillsbury.
On the 12th of September, 1814, a detach- ment of " three months' men " joined camp at Portsmouth, N. H., as follows :
Nathan Rogers. Moses Follansbee.
Charles Gage. Joseph Chase, Jr.
On the 26th of the same month (September)
a detachment of "sixty days' men " followed to Portsmouth :
William Lamb.
Moses Eastman.
Edward Crosby.
From the close of the War of 1812 to the outbreak of the Rebellion of 1861, a period of almost fifty years, Sunapee had sent forth no men to fight the minor battles that inter- vened, and her citizens had to content them- selves with pseudo-military displays under the military organizations of the State.
The " Sunapee Guards," a company of the Thirty-first Regiment, Fifth Brigade, Third Di- vision, New Hampshire Militia, was organized in 1841, with William Young for its first captain ; Joseph Lear, ensign ; and Francis Smith, lieu- tenant.
As a not inappropriate way of preserving the names of some of the stalwart yeomanry of Sun- apee of that period, and also as a brief but fair exhibition of the personnelof that company, I here give the roster of 1846, that being about the middle period of the existence of that organiza- tion. Its last muster was held at Newport, in fall of 1851, and the writer of this sketch had the pleasure of seeing and hearing Captain
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William Young beat the tenor drum with a perfection and vim that could not well be sur- passed.
Commissioned Officers.
Moses F. Knowlton, capt. John P. Knowlton, lieut. Abram Davis, ensign.
Non- Commissioned Officers.
D. G. Knowlton, 1st sergt. Janson George, 3d sergt. H. P. Muzzy, 2d sergt. E. D. Cooper, 4th sergt.
Musicians.
James Trow. Willard C. Severance.
Benjamin F. Young.
Privates.
Francis Smith. Caleb B. Stevens.
William Trow (2d).
James R. Muzzey.
Francis S. Trow.
Daniel C. Eastman.
Nelson Chase.
Jerome Blaisdell.
Richmond C. Angell.
Richard C. R. Cooper.
Joseph G. Eastman.
Elias B. Abbott.
James Eastman.
Eli Davis.
Ezra Carpenter. William Gardner.
John Colby.
Samuel G. Rider.
Samuel Gardner, Jr.
Solomon Bartlett.
Edwin P. Stickney.
Jesse E. George.
James George. Samuel O. Baily.
Josiah Trow, Jr. Stephen Abbott.
Andrew J. Kidder.
Henry Remington.
Warren Simmons.
James W. Trow. Perkins Trow.
Charles F. Sargent.
There was also at the same time an inde- pendent company, who carried the impressive name of " The Bold Rangers," but I have been unable to find its complete personnel, and can only give some of the successive captains, as Putney Roby, Moses A. Young, Moses C. Mnzzey, all of whom have been saluted by their neighbors by these honorable titles.
WAR OF 1861-65 .- We come now to the War of the Rebellion, in which Sunapee, by enlistments and all the other modes of that eventful period, contributed her full share.
The following is the list of the men who enlisted into the service of the United States :
Cornelius Y. Gardner. Nathaniel S. Gardner.
Henry Young. Wilbur Young.
Jeremiah W. Ladd.
Samuel O. Bailey.
Nathaniel Batchelder, Jr. Thomas Abbott.
Josialı Trow.
Perley Trow.
Samuel Thompson.
William Thompson.
John M. Colby. Timothy Eastman.
Oliver Young. Nathan Young.
Alfred Davis. William C. Eastman.
Cyrus Thompson. W. H. Osborn.
George W. Haven. John T. Cotterell.
Samuel Abbott. Josiah Scott.
Gilman Abbott. Sylvester H. Powell.
Charles D. Hopkins. Frank Symmister.
Charles H. Watts. Jacob D. Sleeper.
John Edminster. Charles Clement.
Wilbury Leonard.
In the mean time, and before the last call for men was made, some twelve substitutes were put in by inhabitants liable to the draft, or who were drafted, and the town sent twelve in a body on the call of 1863, and the following are the names given by this batch of substitutes :
James Burke. Thomas Leonard.
William Sullivan. James Keneff.
Alexander Peterson. George Johann.
Mitchell Benedict. William Smith.
George Woodman. Benjamin Williams.
Edwin Mathews.
Isaac Brown.
John Flanders enlisted in the navy.
EDUCATION .- In the widest sense, this head covers a great deal more than the mere manage- ment of our common-school system, and if ta- ken in this extended meaning, the inhabitants of Sunapee are at least equal to any other rural community in New Hampshire. They discuss in the village stores the passing topics of inter- est with an average amount of intelligence, and hardly a man in town but takes one or more newspapers. Our interest in our schools cannot be less than that of our neighbors, for the to- tal school money the present year was : Literary fund and extra statute appropriation, $916.21.
Robert Lear.
Wells H. Davis.
Joseph Young.
Charles E. Rogers.
Wilson S. George.
Benjamin Morrill. John Skinner.
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There are nine school districts, and the total number of scholars in town is one hundred and sixty-one. Our school-houses are all in good condition, and some of them have been fitted up in the most modern style, giving the sehol- ars of the present day many advantages as com- pared with their fathers and mothers of forty years ago.
An act was passed at the last session of the Legislature abolishing the district system, and establishing the town system of schools ; but the prospect is, that the plan will meet with lit- tle favor in Sunapee. The constant tinkering with our common-school system, making expen- sive and unnecessary changes in text-books, and introducing into the schools, supported by the public taxes, what are called " higher" branches -these, with the general tendency among the would-be leaders in education to centralizing the management in the hands of a few, are among the mistakes of our time, which can only be remedied by an honest return to the princi- ples of the founders of our State system of edu- cation, namely : to secure to every child of the commonwealth, from the public purse, a knowl- edge of the elementary branches, which form the basis of special and more advanced courses to be procured at private expense solely.
PROMINENT FAMILIES AND NAMES .- Our check-lists displayed for a long course of years a few prominent names, and these would, in the natural current of things, change places-at one time the Angells would lead ; and then for a season the majority would fall to the Georges or to the Youngs. At our last annual meet- ings the Youngs had a plurality of fourteen names. Then a host of names less numerous make up the body of the list, such as the Sar- gents, Gardners, Eastmans, Smiths, Abbots, Colbys, Coopers, Bartletts, Trows, Knowltons and others. But in a sketch of this kind, which must necessarily be brief, we shall only be able to refer to a few of the pioncers in the settling of our town, and perhaps make an allusion to the descendants of some.
The common ancestor of the Smiths was Francis, who came from Rowley, Mass., and settled in the north part of the town, not far from 1792. His death occurred on the 8th of May, 1829. But he left four children,-Nathan, Mary, John and Hepzibah. Nathan was the father of John B., Hepzibah, Joseph P. and Thomas Pike. Joseph Pillsbury Smith and Thomas Pike Smith still survive, Joseph hav- ing held office in town for twenty years, and being the chairman of the present Board of Se- lectmen.
Thomas is a leading business man, a justice of the peace, and a man of unusual literary taste and ability. The writer has been much indebted to his careful preservation of many facts. John B. Smith was in all respects an extraordinary man. As an inventor he had no superior in New Hampshire, and his death, from paralysis, on the 19th day of October, 1884, left the whole community in sadness.
Joseph George was the progenitor of the Georges of Sunapee, and had five sons,-Elijah, Samuel, Joseph, Daniel and Benjamin. Daniel was the founder of George's Mills, a subdivi- sion of our town at the upper or north end of Sunapee Lake. He was an excellent mechanic and miller, and specimens of his handiwork still remain, such as small and great spinning- wheels and reels. His son Daniel succeeded him in the grist-mill and became an able and popular citizen, acting as moderator of our town meetings for full twenty years, filling the office of representative for four years and discharging various other trusts with fidelity and accept- ance.
His son Daniel A. George, the fourth from the common ancestor Joseph, is the present miller, and still operates on the old privilege and has many of the qualities of his progeni- tors. He has been moderator, selectman and Representative and is still in the vigor of life. Daniel George, the father of Daniel A. died suddenly, in 1864, aged fifty-six.
The Youngs, as we have already intimated,
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were of Rhode Island stock, and were early in town. They numbered, at the last census, for- ty-six persons.
The Christian name of the oldest of the orig- inal settlers was Abiather, and he had sons,- Abiather, John, William and Andrew,-and the elder Abiather was the common ancestor of most of the name found in town to-day. Several of them held military commissions under the mi- litia laws of the State, and five at least of these descendants were in the Union army in the late Rebellion. Of Captain William Young, whom we have noticed elsewhere :- " He was every inch a soldier." He was also the best penman of his time, as the records still remain- ing will verify.
The Chases were another of the pioneer families who, with great energy, joined in sub- duing the wilderness and contributing to the enterprise and prosperity of the town. John Chase, the father of John Chase Jr. came to Wendell in 1784, and purchased a lot and a half at the outlet of Sunapee Lake, embracing every foot of land now covered by the village commonly designated " The Harbor," and reach- ing from the Runals Hotel to the Methodist meeting-house. John Chase, Jr., married, in 1794, Elizabeth Rogers, sister of Colonel Sam- nel Rogers. They had children,-Richard Hills, Abigail, Sarah, Alvin, Elmira, Francis and Elizabeth. The elder John Chase was the first to erect and run a grist-mill in town, and during the above-named year (1794) he joined his son, John Chase, Jr., in the raising of the large two-story dwelling-house now modernized an'l owned by W. C. Sturoc; Richard and Hills Chase left town when young men ; the first becoming a lawyer at Ausable Forks, N. Y., and the last a physician at Syracuse,
mer, and accomplished many other things almost beyond belief. He died in June, 1834, aged twenty-seven years.
ABSENT NATIVES .- Nearly sixty years ago quite a number of the families then in town and individual members of others removed to Ohio, and settled for the most part in the towns of Painesville and Concord, the latter name being established in honor of the capital of their na- tive State. Those emigrants were Huntoons, Youngs, Clapps and Chases. Without a single exception, they all rooted in their adopted soil and prospered, and many of them have made pilgrimages to their native town.
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