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THE TOWN BECOMING A CITY.
On Tuesday, the 8th of March, 1853, occurred the New Hamp- shire state election, in which was still felt the Democratic impulse of the recent presidential result, and Governor Martin was re-elected by more than five thousand majority. The town-meeting in Coneord commenced its three days' session in the old historic town hall. Upon its check-list were the names of twenty-two hundred thirty- four voters, sixteen hundred of whom were actually to vote. With- out contest, Nathaniel B. Baker was chosen moderator. Two bal- lotings occupied the first day ; one for state and county officers and a member of congress, the other for members of the general court. Each of the three parties-Democratic, Whig, and Freesoil-stood by its own ticket; the first showing, in test eases, a majority of nearly one hundred eighty. Its eight candidates for members of the general court were chosen. They were : Jeremiah S. Noyes, John H. George, John Sawyer, William H. Page, James Frye, James Moore, Henry P. Rolfe, and Benjamin F. Dow. On the second day, John P. Johnson as town clerk, and John C. Pillsbury, Atkinson Webster, and David Abbot, 2d, as selectmen, were elected, with, virtually, no contest. Other town officers were chosen as usual by confirming nominations made by a committee. These were twenty-eight high- way surveyors, twenty-two constables, eight surveyors of stone, three auditors of town accounts, three fence-viewers, three cullers of staves, fifty-five surveyors of lumber, forty-four corders of wood, fifteen weighers of hay, seven sealers of leather, three sealers of weights, two pound keepers, one clerk of the market, and one hayward. It may be noticed that the field-drivers, hog-reeves, and tithing-men of earlier days had disappeared from the elective official list; and that, since 1834, collectors of taxes had been appointed by the selectmen. Certain appropriations were made, such as five thousand dollars for the support of schools the current year; 1 four thousand dollars for building and repairing highways and bridges, to be laid out in labor at ten cents per hour ;2 and ten thousand dollars to pay existing debts, and defray necessary charges and expenses the ensuing year-the same, with the sums received for tax on railroads and railroad stoek, to be appropriated " as the interests of the town " might "require." 2
The thirty-one articles of the warrant afforded many subjects for action and deliberation. But no other of them involved such possi- bilities of future advancement for Concord as did the twenty-third, expressed in the simple but suggestive words,-" To see if the town will vote to accept the City Charter granted by the Legislature of New Hampshire, June Session, 1849." Action upon this article was deferred, by special assignment, till nine o'clock of the morning of
2 Ibid, p. 11.
1 Proceedings of Town Meeting, 1853, p. 16.
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Thursday, March 10, the third day of the meeting. The ballot thereon commencing at the appointed time, showed, at its close, that eight hundred twenty-eight (828) votes had been cast in the affirma- tive to five hundred fifty (550) in the negative ; and that thus by a satisfactory majority of a reasonably full vote the city charter had been accepted. This action being followed by an order "that the selectmen of the town proceed forthwith to organize a City Govern- ment," the last Concord town-meeting was dissolved. And so the behest of Progress that the town become a city, was at last obeyed.
NOTES.
The Sunday-school. By the year 1825 the efficacy of the Sunday- school as a factor of religious progress had begun to be realized in Concord. Thereupon the claims of this important instrumentality for inculcating the knowledge of revealed scripture truth, and thus promoting the growth of the churches, were to receive ever-increas- ing recognition-as the treatment of the subject in the special eccle- siastical chapter will show.
Thespians. In 1844 the society had its printed by-laws with lists of officers and members. Its officers were: John Renton, M. D., president and stage manager; Charles W. Walker, vice-president ; John C. Stowell, secretary and treasurer; George Renton, librarian ; Harriman Couch, doorkeeper; Harriman Couch, John C. Stowell, Charles W. Walker, George Renton, Josiah H. Nelson, executive committee ; William A. Hodgdon, leader of the choir. With these the membership included Frank S. and Charles H. West, Abiel Carter, S. L. F. Simpson, Samuel G. Nelson, Alfred L. Tubbs, Charles A. Robinson, George Kimball, Josiah Stevens, 3d, Lewis R. and A. R. Davis, A. II. Bailey, George S. Towle, Ezra T. Pike, Har- rison G. Eastman, George H. Moore, George W. Pillsbury, George C. Pratt, Isaac A. Hill, and John Merrill; the ladies of the organiza- tion being the Misses Sarah C. Ayer, E. Bixby, Christie W. Renton, C. R. Baxter, A. Ingalls, A. Allison, Sarah A. and E. West, N. Hodgdon, and E. Merrill. All of these, save four, were, in the course of fifty-six years, to be numbered with the dead; the sur- vivors in 1900 being William A. Hodgdon, Isaac A. Hiil, Harriman Couch, and Sarah A. West (by marriage, Mrs. White). Isaac A. Hill's communication in Daily Patriot, July 31, 1900.
. Fire Department Reorganized. From 1807 to 1844 inclusive- thirty-eight years-the fire department consisted of firewards. These from the first five-Benjamin Kimball, Jr., Nathaniel Abbot, Sar- gent Rogers, Timothy Chandler, and Paul Rolfe-increased in num- ber to thirty-three, in 1844, when the board was composed of Isaac
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Eastman, William Restieaux, Moses Shute, Philip B. Grant, David Allison, Horatio G. Belknap, Jacob Carter, Frederick W. Urann, Enos Blake, Luther Roby, Ephraim Hutchins, Samuel Coffin, Joseph P. Stickney, George W. Brown, John Abbott, Charles Hutchins, Harry Houston, Nathaniel B. Baker, Theodore T. Abbott, William M. Carter, Benjamin Parker, Daniel A. Hill, James Woolson, Jona- than Sanborn, George H. H. Silsby, Cyrus Robinson, Oren Foster, John McDaniel, John M. Hill, Daniel Davis, Jr., Robert Eastman, Seth Eastman, and John Sawyer.
The firewards were selected from among the most energetic of the citizens of the town, and an old resident is authority for the state- ment that " the way they flourished their red staves at a fire, punch- ing holes through partitions, while Tom Sargent, the old North bell- ringer, mounted the ridge pole and cut holes through the roof to let the water in from the tubs, was a caution to modern chief engineers and their assistants." Communicated by Fred Leighton.
The first board of engineers under the organization of 1845, as nominated by members of the fire companies and appointed by the selectmen, consisted of the following persons : Chief, Luther Roby ; assistants, Arthur Fletcher, George H. H. Silsby, Caleb Parker, Daniel A. Hill, John Haines, John Abbott, Lowell Eastman, Harvey Rice, Benjamin Grover, James Moore, Shadrach Seavey, William Pecker, Henry H. Brown, Moses Shute, Benjamin F. Dunklee, Lewis Downing, Benjamin F. Dow, Stephen Brown.
Sufferers by Fires. The principal sufferers, being owners or occu- pants of the buildings burnt in the great fire of August 25, 1851, were : owners-Benjamin Grover ; Abraham Prescott, Prescott & Brothers, manufacturers of musical instruments ; Jane Dustin ; Alli- son & Gault, druggists ; Porter, Rolfe & Brown, hardware dealers ; William Walker, Jr. ; Edward H. Rollins, druggist; Mrs. Mary A. Stickney ; occupants-John Gibson, of the Eagle Coffee House ; Jacob Carter & Son, jewelers ; C. W. Gardner ; J. & C. Monroe, con- fectioners ; Charles W. Harvey, merchant (dry goods) ; Nathaniel Evans, Jr., clothier ; Page & Fay, dealers in crockery, etc. ; Johnson & Dewey, merchants (dry goods) ; Moore & Cilley, hardware deal- ers ; Charles E. Savory & Co., dealers in paints, etc .; Brown & Young, furniture dealers; G. Parker Lyon, publisher; Sylvester Dana, lawyer; Ephraim Eaton, do .; Benning W. Sanborn, book- seller; McFarland & Jenks, printers; James Prescott & Co., stable- keepers; George D. Abbott, painter; Fogg & Wiggin, printers ; Dr. Timothy Haynes ; David Winkley, merchant tailor; Henry A. & A. Herbert Bellows, lawyers ; Peaslec & George, do .; Calvin Ains- worth, lawyer ; James Peverly, merchant (dry goods, etc.) ; Tripp
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& Osgood, printers; Gilbert Bullock, merchant (dry goods, etc.) ; Benjamin Gage, shoe dealer ; Silas G. Sylvester, merchant (dry goods, etc.) ; Miss A. Hamlin ; Reed & Stanley, jewelers ; Norton & Craw- ford, booksellers .- EARLY in the morning of January 23, 1852, a fire broke out in a small wooden building on Free Bridge road, within a few feet of a range of wooden buildings on Main street, owned by Mrs. Mary Ann Stickney, to which it was communicated, destroying all. The occupants of the buildings consumed in this fire-the sequel to the greater one of five months before-were Daniel A. Hill, furni- ture dealer ; David Symonds, harness-maker ; Day & Emerson, mar- ble workers ; William Gilman, shoemaker; Eben Hall, tinware man- ufacturer; Joel C. Danforth, whip manufacturer; Moore & Jenkins, market keepers.
STREETS OF CONCORD IN 1834.
The names and limits of the streets of Concord, reported in June, 1834, by the committee mentioned in the text, and adopted by the town, were :
1. The street known by the name of Main Street shall retain its name, and shall extend from the head of the Londonderry Turnpike road northerly to Horse Shoe Pond, by the dwelling-house of the late Judge Walker.
2. The street west of Main Street, known by the name of State Street, shall re- tain its name, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northierly by the Burying Ground to Wood's brook, on the Boseawen road.
3. The street west of State Street, known by the name of High Street, shall hereafter be ealled Green Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street.
4. The street west of Green Street, recently laid out through land of George Kent, shall be ealled Spring Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street north- erly to Centre Street.
5. The plat of ground appropriated by George Kent, Esq., for a publie square, containing about five aeres, lying between Merrimack and Rumford Streets, shall be ealled Rumford Square.
6. The street west of Spring Street, and making the east line of Rumford Square, shall be ealled Rumford Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street.
7. The street west of Rumford Street, and making the west line of Rumford Square, shall be ealled Merrimack Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street.
8. The street running northerly from Centre Street through land partly of Mr. Odlin, shall be ealled Union Street, and shall extend from Centre Street northerly to Washington Street.
9. The street running southerly from Pleasant Street, by the dwelling-house of Samuel Fletehier, Esq., shall be ealled South Street, and shall extend from Pleas- ant Street southerly to Mr. Benjamin Wheeler's dwelling-house.
10. The street running south-easterly from Main Street, at the head of London- derry Turnpike Road, to Coneord Bridge, shall be ealled Water Street.
11. The street running southerly from Water Street, by the late Dea. Wilkins's dwelling-house, through the Eleven Lots, shall be ealled Hall Street, and sliall extend from Water Street to the town line by Col. Carter's dwelling-liouse.
12. The street running westerly from Main street, at the head of Londonderry
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Turnpike Road, shall be called West Street, and shall extend from Main Street westerly to South Street.
13. The street running westerly from Main Street through land of the late Mr. Richard Hazeltine, shall be called Cross Street, and shall extend from Main Street to South Street.
14. The street running westerly from Main Street, near Mr. Chas. Hoag's dwelling-house, through land of the late Mr. Thompson, shall be ealled Thompson Street, and shall extend from Main Street to South Street.
15. The street north of Thompson Street, through the same lot, shall be ealled Fayette Street, and shall extend from Main Street to South Street.
16. The street running westerly from Main Street by Mr. Asaph Evans's store, shall be ealled Pleasant Street, and shall extend from Main Street westerly to the junetion of the roads by Mr. Stephen Lang's dwelling-house.
17. The street running westerly from Main Street, through the lot lately owned by Mr. Benjamin Gale, shall be called Warren Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street.
18. The street known by the name of School Street shall retain its name, and shall extend from Main Street westerly by the north side of Rumford Square to Merrimack Street.
19. The street running westerly from Main Street by the north side of the State House lot, shall be ealled Park Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street.
20. The street known by the name of Centre Street shall retain its name, and shall extend from Main Street westerly over Sand Hill until it intersects Washing- ton Street.
21. The street running westerly from Main Street by Dr. Chadbourne's dwell- ing-house, shall be called Montgomery Street, and shall extend from Main Strect to State Street.
22. The street running westerly from Main Street by the north side of the Court House, through land of Mr. John Stickney, shall be ealled Court Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street.
23. The street running westerly from Main Street, by Dr. Carter's dwelling- house, shall be called Washington Street, and shall extend from Main Street, cross- ing State Street and over the hill, until it intersects Centre Street.
24. The street running westerly from Main Street, south of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot's dwelling-honse, shall be ealled Pearl Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street.
25. The street running westerly from Main Street, by the dwelling-house of Charles Walker, Esq., shall be called Franklin Street, and shall extend from Main Street to the angle of the old road on the hill where the Hospital onee was.
26. The street running westerly from Main Street, on the south side of the North Meeting-House lot to State Street, shall be known and called by the name of Church Street.
27. The street running westerly from Main Street at Horse Shoe Pond, shall be called Penacook Street, and shall extend from Main Street westerly by the dwell- ing-house of Richard Bradley, Esq., to the foot of the hill on the Little Pond road.
An Early Irish Immigrant. John Linehan was born in Macroom, County Cork, December 25, 1816. His father, grandfather, and undoubtedly generations before them, were millers and grain dealers in that town. He was an educated man. Business reverses obliged him to come to this country in 1847. He located in Fisherville shortly after his arrival, and made his home there until his death, July 7, 1897. His wife, Margaret Foley, with their eldest son, John (., and some others of a family finally numbering eight children, came over from Ireland in 1849.
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Meagher's Lecture. The five named in the text acted as a commit- tee of the Irishmen of Concord in securing a lecture from Thomas F. Meagher, the eloquent Irish exile, recently escaped from political banishment in Australia. The effort was listened to with 'admira- tion, at Depot hall, on Saturday evening, February 5, 1853, by one of the largest audiences ever assembled in Concord on a similar occasion. The president-elect, Franklin Pierce, was a delighted listener, and entertained the speaker as his guest on the following day. Facts communicated by William J. Ahern.
Horse Sheds. In 1831 a line of horse sheds in front of the burying-ground, on the town land, had been built under direction of the selectmen for members of the First Congregational so- ciety, by permission of the town, at a cost of twelve dollars each. In 1842, when the new meeting-house was built, a part of them were removed to the rcar of the new house, and a part were sold to Richard Bradley.
Old Horse Sheds.
The Precious Coin. On the occasion of President Jackson's visit to Concord, two lads named for him-one, between five and six years old, the other, twelve-were presented to him at the Eagle Coffee House, where he stayed. The younger of the two boys was Isaac Andrew, the youngest son of Senator Isaac Hill, the president's confidential personal and political friend. The president, kindly saluting the boys, and lifting the younger upon his left arm, pre- sented each with a new silver half dollar, having the Eagle on one side and Liberty on the other, and said: " I make you the same gift as I do to all my children-the eagle of your country. Here, my sons, is the cagle of your country, which during my life I have endeavored to honor and defend. Keep it in remembrance of me, and if ever it shall be assailed by a foreign or domestic foc, rally under its pinions and defend it to the last."
"I can see the old hero now," said Mr. Hill nearly sixty-eight -years later, "as he stood holding me, while the tuft of hair, as I looked into his face, stood up on his high forehead as stiff as if it had been waxed. Those were imperialistic days and ' By-the-Eternal ' had his arms around me then. I have carried that half dollar near my heart until, they say, it is worth only twenty-five cents, Mexican."
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Abolition Zeul. Stephen S. Foster, an anti-slavery lecturer of Can- terbury, in 1841-'42 attempted to speak without permission and without previous notice in three Concord churches. He entered the North church on Sunday, September 12, 1841, saying he had a message from God to deliver. Refusing to desist from speaking as requested by deacons of the church and others, he was escorted, without violenee, by three young men, Lyman A. Walker, James M. Tarlton, and Charles W. Walker, down the broad aisle, to the front door, whence he departed. This is substantially the account of the affair as given by the Rev. Dr. Bouton, who was absent that day on an exchange. On another oceasion Foster appeared, upon a like mis- sion, at the Unitarian church, and was allowed to speak by the con- sent of the Rev. Mr. Tilden. On Sunday, June 12, 1842, he made his appearance at the South church. Mr. Henry McFarland in "Six- ty Years in Concord and Elsewhere " says: " He (Foster) came to the morning service and took a seat near the pulpit, at the preach- er's right. After the preliminary exercises, the pastor, Rev. Daniel James Noyes, arose to begin his sermon, but Mr. Foster stood up and began an address in regard to negro slavery. He was requested not to interrupt the usual services, but continued to speak. The organist, Dr. William D. Buck, overwhelmed his words with the notes of the organ, and he seemed to be disconcerted, but kept his feet with a half audible remark about drowning his voice. He was conducted to the door, in a rather dignified way, by two persons, one of whom was Col. Josiah Stevens, at that time Secretary of State for New Hampshire. In the afternoon Mr. Foster came again, and began his address as soon as the congregation was seated, but was put out with less dignity and more promptitude than before. I remember the buzz made by his feet, as he held them 'non- resistingly ' together, and was slid along the central aisle toward the door in the grip of a stout teamster and the church sexton. No unnecessary force was used and no personal harm inflicted that I could see." Other churches in New Hampshire were visited by Foster in like manner and with like experience. By all but a few people he was regarded then as an enemy of the republic. Parker Pillsbury says: " Most of the leading abolitionists, Garrison, Phillips, and others, doubted the wisdom of Mr. Foster's course in thus enter- ing Sunday congregations, but none who knew him intimately ever doubted his entire honesty."
George Thompson in Concord in 1864. In October, 1864, an invi- tation was extended to George Thompson, then on his second visit to this country, to address the citizens of Concord. The signers of the invitation,-Governor Joseph A. Gilmore, Mayor Benjamin F.
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Gale, Edward H. Rollins, Nathaniel White, Asa McFarland, Amos Hadley, Asa Fowler, Sylvester Dana, John Kimball, Moses T. Wil- lard, Lewis Downing, George Hutchins, Robert N. Corning, Wood- bridge Odlin, and Arthur Fletcher,-said : " The incidents connected with your last public visit to Concord were such as to render it highly fitting that you should congratulate the citizens of Concord upon the assured triumph of Freedom over Slavery throughout the American continent." The invitation was accepted; and, on Wednesday evening, November 2, just pending the re-election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, Mr. Thompson addressed an immense audience in Eagle hall. For nearly three hours he held his listeners entranced by the old-time power of his cloquence, glowing with all his old-time love for America-a love intensified, now that the Republic had really become "the land of the free."
Colonel Richard M. Johnson in Concord. On Friday, the 25th of October, 1843, Colonel Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, vice- president of the United States in the administration of Martin Van Buren, and distinguished for military service in the War of 1812, visited Concord, in course of a New England tour. He did so at the invitation of citizens without distinction of party. He was roy- ally received and entertained. A detailed account of the interesting occasion is given in a special chapter.
Concord Men in the Mexican War. Concord men who did service in the Mexican War were Franklin Pierce, brigadier-general ; Charles F. Low, Jesse A. Gove, lieutenants in Ninth regiment; Joseph H. Potter, lieutenant in regular army. Upon the roll of Company "Il," of the Ninth United States Infantry, recruited by Captain Daniel Batchelder, and commanded by Lieutenant George Bowers, as given in the Military History of New Hampshire (Adju- tant-General's Report, 1868, pp. 335-6), stand the following Con- cord names: John C. Stowell, second sergeant; Ezra T. Pike, third sergeant ; Thomas F. Davis, first corporal; Robert A. Brown, Wil- liam Burns, William F. Bailey, JJeremiah E Curry, Michacl Cochran, Samuel Davis, David Dunlap, Joseph Duso; Benjamin E. Porter, or Potter: Nahum G. Swett, Henry Stevens, Elijah Wallace .- OTHER Concord men who served in the war were: Levi K. Ball, Henry F. Carswell, Jonathan Chapman, James Davis, John G. Elliot, Sewell W. Fellows, Michacl Freley, Joseph Huse, Calvin B. Leigh- . ton, James HI. Lawrence, William M. Murphy, Phillips N. Perry, James Price, Alfred K. Speed, Joseph Whicher.
A Subscription. Another result of the meeting was a subscription of three hundred dollars, by seventy-three citizens, mostly of Con- cord, in aid of the New Hampshire men attached to the regiment of
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volunteers in Massachusetts, in command of Colonel Caleb Cushing, and for which that commonwealth, in its hostility to the war, had made inadequate provision.
Death of " Little Benny." "Benjamin, the only son of General Franklin Pierce, was instantly killed on Thursday, January 6, 1853, by a terrible accident on the Boston & Maine Railroad, about one mile from Andover, Mass. In company with his parents he had just left the house of his uncle, John Aiken, Esq., of Andover, for Con- cord. The cars were suddenly thrown from the track, and precipi- tated down a rocky embankment of twenty feet or more. At the time of the occurrence the beautiful boy was standing near his par- ents, and when the cars went over, it was supposed he was thrown forward in such a manner as to fracture his skull and produce instant death. It is remarkable that he was the only one killed, although some were severely and many slightly injured. His remains were conveyed back to the house of Mr. Aiken, where funeral services were performed on the Monday following, the Reverend Henry E. Parker, of Concord, officiating. About sixty persons from Concord attended as sympathizing friends. Twelve lads, associates and school- mates of " Little Benny," attended as pall-bearers. After the ser- vices at Andover, the remains were brought to Concord, and, followed by an immense procession from the depot to the ancient burying- ground, at the north end of the village, were deposited in the family enclosure, beside those of his brother Robert, who died November 14, 1843, aged 4 years and 2 months." Benjamin's age was eleven years and nine months. Bouton's Concord, 495-'96.
Obituary. Died, February 8, 1830, George Hough, Concord's first printer, aged seventy-three ; Captain Richard Ayer, December 17, 1831, in his seventy-fifth year; February 25, 1834, at the age of one hundred years six months, Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Haseltine, and fourth child of Nathaniel Abbot, one of the original proprietors of the town-a woman " remarkable for kindness of temper, vivacity of spirit, energy and tenacious memory " [ Bouton's Concord, 418]; Charles Walker, July 29, 1834, aged sixty-eight, a son of Judge Walker ; October 19, 1834, at the age of eighty-seven, Captain Jona- than Eastman, a Revolutionary veteran, son of Philip, and grandson of Captain Ebenezer Eastman ; January 14, 1835, in his ninety-first year, Nathan Ballard, senior, a Revolutionary soldier ; David George, ex- postmaster, April 21, 1838, aged seventy ; John Farmer, historian, August 13, 1838, aged forty-nine; October 18, 1838, at the age of eighty, Captain John Eastman, son of Joseph, and grandson of Captain Ebenezer Eastman ; Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. Dr. MeFarland, November 9, 1838, aged fifty-eight, a woman whose life
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