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Mr. Ramsdell is a high-minded, well-equipped, conscientious gentleman. He possesses tact, candor, ability and integrity. Although his life has been somewhat uneventful, it has been useful, and he is well prepared to meet the duties of any position to which he may be called. He is one of the brightest and most substantial men Milford has produced.
Albert E. Pillsbury, born at Milford, August 19, 1849, attended the public schools in Milford, Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, 1865-66; Lawrence Acad- emy, Groton, Mass., 1866-67 ; entered Harvard Col- lege in 1867 but did not complete the course ; taught school and studied law at Sterling, Ill. ; was admitted to the Illinois bar and to the Massachusetts bar in 1870, and has been in active practice in Boston since. He was a member of the House of Representatives from the Seventeenth (Suffolk) District in 1876-77-78, being the junior member in 1876; was a member of the Senate from the sixth (Suffolk) Senatorial District in 1884-85, and is now president of that body, and he is said to be the youngest man ever elected to the chair. A noteworthy fact in Mr. Pillsbury's political career is seen in his Senatorial canvasses. He was first nominated for the Senate in 1882 and was defeated by forty-three votes. In 1883 he was elected by four hundred and twenty-three votes, and re-elected in 1884 by fourteen hundred votes, being the largest plurality ever cast in the district.
Mr. Pillsbury is a well-read, bright and accom- plished lawyer, and in every respect a first-class man. Clear in expression, sound in judgment, with a fine voice and graceful physique, he never speaks with- out carrying great weight and often convietion. Al- though young, he has achieved popularity and a deservedly high position among his fellow-men, and it is safe to predict for him a brilliant future.
Jonas Hutchinson was born at Milford January 10, 1840. He was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of '63; admitted to the New Hampshire Bar, March, 1869, and went immediately to Chicago, Ill., where he has ever since remained in the active and successful practice of the law.
Mr. Hutchinson has exhibited in his profession the same indomitable perseverance that he displayed in
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getting an education, and he is in all respects a self- made man. He takes good rank at the bar. He has never given any attention to politics. He is a man of fine personal appearance, genial and agreeable manners and high and honorable character.
The Secombes are successful men in Minneapolis. The writer has not been able to obtain sufficient data to justify an extended notice of other legal gentlemen who have the honor of being natives of the town, but they are all honorable men. It is too early to write much concerning some of them, as they are young and have just launched their boats for the rough sail.
Fred. Hatch has started well at Exeter, N. H. and his law-office is visited by quite a numerous clientage ; Edward Brown is battling away at Law- rence ; while Jeremiah Doyle's shingle is hung out at Nashua.
Alvaro Hutchinson was born at Milford, studied law and was admitted to the bar and began practice at Milford, but soon left town and located in Wash- ington Territory, and is now engaged in mining.
Robert M. Wallace was born at Henniker, May 2, 1847, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1867. He studied law in the office of M. W. Tappan, making the third Milford lawyer who started on his legal tour in the office of our genial and accomplished Attorney-General. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1871.
He formed, soon after going to Milford, a copart- nership in the practice of the law with ex-Senator Wadleigh, and continued in that relation until Mr. Wadleigh went into practice in Boston, and Mr. Wallace still continues in active practice at Milford.
In 1882 he was elected solicitor of Hillsborough County, and re-elected in 1884. He has been a mem- ber of the House of Representatives twice from Milford.
Mr. Wallace possesses the indispensable qualifica- tions of a good lawyer. He is square, bright, push- ing, well informed, and remarkably industrious. His business is already prosperous and his place at the bar assured. He has many elements of popularity and a great many friends. He is a growing man, with a promising future.
Carl E. Knight was born in New Hampton, N. H., May 6, 1851; graduated at Dartmouth in the class of 1873 ; taught school for a while at various places ; studied law with John G. Murgridge; was admit- ted to the bar September 1, 1881, and located as a lawyer in Milford in December following.
Mr. Knight comes from an excellent family, and is a worthy young man. Should he give his whole at- tention to the practice of the law, he will, without doubt, be a successful man.
Physicians .- Milford has not only been fortunate in lawyers, but also in physicians. Drs. Jonas Hutch- inson, S. S. Stickney, Samuel G. Dearborn, H. El- dridge, O. O. Roberts, and its present physicians,
Drs. W. H. W. Hinds, Dearborn, Dinsmore, Smith and Hutchinson, make a list of exceedingly reputable gen- tlemen. The limits of this article will not allow a detailed account of all.
Dr. Jonas Hutchinson was born at Milford, June 2, 1792, and died September 13, 1857; studied medi- cine at Dartmouth College; commenced practice at Hancock, and continued there till November, 1841, when he removed to Milford. He represented Han- cock in the Legislature, 1833-34-35. He was a skillful and successful physician.
S. S. Stickney was born in Townsend, Mass., No- vember 16, 1810, and died in Milford, after liv- ing there forty years. He graduated at the Carlton Medical College, in Vermont, in 1836. He practiced in Dublin, N. H., a few months, then removed to Milford. His cotemporaries in practice were Drs. Hutchinson and Eldridge. He was a strong, sensi- ble, upright man and a good physician.
Dr. Eldridge's history we have been unable to look up, but he was for a long time one of Milford's best doctors. A good, kind, honest, faithful physician.
Samuel G. Dearborn, born at Northfield, N. H., August 10, 1827 ; educated at the district school and at Sanbornton Academy and New Hampshire Confer- ence Seminary ; graduated in November, 1849, from Medical Department of Dartmouth College; practiced medicine at Union Bridge (now East Tilton), for three months; in February, 1850, went to Mont Vernon ; in June, 1853, removed to Milford; married Decem- ber 5, 1853; in 1861 was commissioned surgeon Eighth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, served one year; in summer, 1863, served three months in the Army of the Potomac; went to Nashua May, 1873, and has always had a large and lucrative prac- tice. He is the best known and one of the most skillful physicians and surgeons in Southern New Hampshire.
Dr. Dearborn belongs to a noted family of physi- cians, and he is himself a man of eminent ability. He has patrons from all parts of New England.
Henry G. Dearborn, born at Northfield September 18, 1835, practiced medicine with his brothers, Samuel G. Dearborn and Thomas B. Dearborn, at Milford, for a while, then went to Nashua, and is now in practice there with his brother.
Thomas Benton Dearborn was born at Northfield September 25, 1838. He graduated at the State University of Indiana in 1861. He studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Jonathan Dearborn, of Sterling, Ill., and with his brother, Dr. S. G. Dearborn, and he graduated at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College, and practiced medicine at Milford, where he died, June 10, 1879, at the age of forty years. He was a very accomplished surgeon and a man of large brain and great ability. His funeral was attended by an enormous concourse of people, and his death caused widespread sorrow. He left a widow and four beautiful boys.
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William H. W. Hinds was born at Chichester, N. H., August 1, 1833; was educated in the Boston schools, including the English High School, from which he graduated in 1850; studied medicine with O. S. Saunders, M.D., and Daniel Hall, of Lowell, and Jonathan Brown, of Tewksbury ; was at the State Almshouse, Tewksbury, from 1857 to 1861 ; gradnated from Harvard Medical College in 1861; assistant surgeon Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers, and later surgeon Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers, and served in that capacity three years ; began practice in Milford in 1865, where he has remained since, doing a large and successful business. He has represented Milford in the lower branch of the Legislature, in 1875-76, and is now a member of the Senate from his district.
Dr. Hinds is a man of large intelligence, very skill- ful as a physician and an agreeable and accomplished gentleman.
Darius Stearns Dearborn, another Northfield Dear- born, was born there, attended school at Tilton Semi- mary and at Lind University, Illinois ; graduated from University Medical College, New York; began prac- tice in Wyanet, Ill., afterwards at Brookline, N. H., and for six years past at Milford, where he is engaged wholly in a very large practice. Dr. Dearborn has had large experience and is a first-class physician.
Dr. Dinsmore is a young man of excellent educa- tion and very skillful as a physician. He first located in Amherst, where he was very successful, but re- cently moved to Milford, in which place he has be- come one of the leading and most successful prac- titioners.
Herbert S. Hutchinson, born in Milford in 1849; fitted for college at Milford High School, 1869-71; gradnated at Dartmouth College June, 1875; studied medicine at the Medical School of Maine, at Brunswick, and at Bellevne Hospital Medical Col- lege ; graduated at the latter, March, 1880; prac- ticed a short time at New Boston; then removed to Francestown, where he remained five years, and is now located at Milford. Dr. Hutchinson possesses all the requisites of a first-class physician and surgeon. He is well educated, skillful and energetic.
Among the natives of Milford who have become physicians the following may be named,-all young men of great promise : Fred. A. Eldridge, Charles A. Hatch, George E. Hatch, Charles A. Weaver, James Sullivan and Herbert S. Hutchinson.
Civil List .- The following are the names of those who have represented Milford in the House of Rep- resentatives :
1795 .- William Peabody was elected to represent the towns of Milford and Raby, (Brookline now.)
1796 .- No article in the warrant to send.
1797 .- Augustus Blanchard was elected to represent the town of Mil- ford.
1798 .- No article in the warrant to send. 1799 .- Augustus Blanchard. 1800 .- William Peabody.
1801-2 .- William Crosby.
1803 .- Augustus Blanchard.
1804. - Voted not to send any one.
1805-12 .- Captain Josialı Osgood.
1813-19 .- William Lovejoy.
1820-24 .- William Crosby.
1825 .- Stephen Peabody. 1826 .- Josiah French. 1827 .- Stephen Peabody.
1828 .- Josiah French.
1829-31 .- Solomon K. Livermore.
1832 .- Josiah Crosby (3d).
1833-34 .- John Wallace, Jr.
1835-36 .- Solomon K. Livermore.
1837 .- Abiel Lovejoy.
1838 .- Solomon K. Livermore.
1839 .- Voted not to send any one.
1840 .- Rev. Humphrey Moore.
1841 .- Daniel Putnam.
1842 .- William Ramsdell.
1843 .- Daniel Putnam.
1844 .- Nineteen ballots and no choice and voted not to send.
1845 .- Voted not to send any one.
1846 .- Five ballots, no choice and voted not to send.
1847 .- Daniel Putnam and William Ramsdell.
1848 .- Daniel Putnam and Daniel Russell.
1849 .- Daniel Russell and George Daniels.
1850 .- Leonard Chase and George Daniels.
1851 .- Leonard Chase and Jacob Gove.
1852 .- Jacob (ove and Hiram A. Daniels.
1853 .- Hiram A. Daniels and William Wallace.
1854 .- William Wallace and Abel Chase.
1855 .- Abel Chase and Bainbridge Wadleigh.
1856 .- Bainbridge Wadleigh and John E. Bruce.
1857 .- John E. B. uce and George W. Burns
1858 .- George W. Burns and George W. Came.
1859. - George W. Came and Bainbridge Wadleigh.
1860 .- Bainbridge Wadleigh and George F. Bartlett.
1861 .- George F. Bartlett and William Lane.
1862 .- William Lane and Martin Hall.
1863 .- Martin Hall and Gilbert Wadleigh.
1864 .- Gilbert Wadleigh and Frederick T. Sawyer.
1865 .- Frederick T. Sawyer and John Marvell.
1866 .- John Marvell and Francis J. French.
1867 .- Francis J. French and Mathias F. Crosby.
1868 .- Mathias F. Crosby and Samuel G. Dearborn.
1869 .- Samuel G. Dearborn and Bainbridge Wadleigh.
1870 .- Bainbridge Wadleigh and Moses French.
1871 .- Bainbridge Wadleigh and Moses French.
1872 .- Bainbridge Wadleigh and George C. Gilmore.
1873 .- Benjamin F. Hutchinson, William B. Towne and Isaiah Hutch - inson.
1874 .- Benjamin F. Hutchinson, William B. Towne and William M. Knowlton.
1875 .- William M. Knowlton, William H. W. Hinds and Christopher C. Shaw.
1876 .- William II. W. Hinds, Christopher C. Shaw and Timothy Kaley. 1877 .- Isaac P. Abbott, Robert MI. Wallace and Timothy Kaley.
1878 .- Robert M. Wallace, Isaac P. Abbott and William W. Howard. 1879 .- Stephen (. Coburn and William W. Howard.
Biennial Sessions Adopted.
1880 .- David Heald and Stephen C. Coburn.
1882 .- Jason T. Burns and David F. Thompson.
1884 .- John McLane and Samuel B. Cotton. .
The following are the names of citizens of Milford who have been elected and served as members of the New Hampshire Senate :
James Wallace, in 1814, '15, '16. John Wallace, Jr., in 1821, '22, "23, '24, '28. Humphrey Moore, in 1841. Leonard Chase, in 1861, '62. Timothy Kaley, in 1881, '82. William H. W. Ilinds, in 1885.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
CLINTON S. AVERILL.
Among the families that for nearly a century and a half have been connected with the improvement and progress of Milford, and which deserve especial mention in this history, is that of Averill. This family is undoubtedly of early French or Norman extraction, domiciled, however, in England since the time of William the Conqueror. The branch located in county of Worcester, England, and from which, probably, the American Averills derive, was entitled to bear arms described in heraldry as follows: "Gu. a cross fleury, ermine charged in chief, with a buck's head of the field ; crest, a buck's head, caboshed as in the arms."
The first American Averill was William, whose descendants are numerous in various parts of this country. There are many of the name in Topsfield, Mass., from which place Ebenezer Averill came in 1752 to Milford, N. H., then the South Parish of Amherst, as one of the pioneers of the town, and pur- chased a farm adjoining the Mont Vernon line. He was an active man of energy, well qualified to succeed in the troublesome and difficult life of the early set- tlers. His children were Ruth, Ebenezer, David, Elijah and Moses. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer, born 1752, succeeded to the home farm, where he became a well-to-do farmer. He erected a frame house, yet standing, about 1790, and this was so unusual an event as to call people from near and far to witness the strange appearance. He married Anna Johnson, born 1755, and had children,-James (1778), Elijah (1781), Eben (1783), Luther (1786), Calvin, Aladan, Nancy and Alma. He died July 14, 1837, aged eighty-five. Mrs. Averill died September 15, 1839, aged eighty-four. They were a quiet, undemonstrative people of marked industry, who early impressed upon their children the value and necessity of labor; these did credit to their instructions, and all inherited a goodly share of ancestral strength and physical vigor.
James purchased a farm in Mont Vernon which adjoined the paternal estate, where he lived until his death, in 1868, at the advanced age of ninety. Luther settled on the farm immediately south of his father's, always resided there and attained nearly four-score years. Elijali in early life was a farmer, afterward removed to the village and was for years engaged in lumbering with his brother Calvin. Eben remained on the home farm, succeeding to its ownership, and died when about eighty-six. Aladan, after a short experience as farmer on a part of the home farm, came to the village, where he conducted a saw and grist-mill for many years, dying at an advanced age.
Nancy married John Leavitt, a farmer of Amherst, had several children and died aged nearly seventy. Alma married, first, Daniel Johnson, had one child,
Isaac UT. ; second, Benjamin Barker, of Milford, who was a miller. She also attained an advanced age.
Calvin Averill was born September 18, 1788. His education was acquired at the common schools of that period, and in the practical one of farm-life, where knowledge of the axe, the plough and the scythe was of far more value than the conjugation of Greek verbs, and well was he grounded in their principles. At his father's request, he remained on the home farm until he had several years passed his majority, and married, in 1814, Eunice, daughter of Oliver and Eunice (Brown) Spalding. The hard labor of the farm was not sufficiently remunerative for his ambi- tion, and, with a desire of bettering his condition, he removed to Milford village and engaged in lumbering and running a saw-mill. This part of the State was then covered with dense pine forests, and the rapid growth of Lowell and other cities gave a quick market and good price for the lumber. Mr. Averill was prosperous, and continued this business alone, and with others, during his active life. He was a man of positive character, clear and decided in his opinions and strong in his advocacy of them. He aided freely, all matters of public improvement, was a pro- nounced Jeffersonian Democrat in a community in- tensely Whig in sentiment, but was often selected for important trusts and the management of affairs of consequence. He held the various town offices, was selectman many terms and at one time county com- missioner. He owned, in company with his brother Elijah, a large farm in the rich valley of the river, immediately below the village. In 1836 they built the house now occupied by C. S. Averill, and which, modernized and improved, is one of the pleasantest homes in Milford. Here the brothers passed their last years, Calvin dying April 27, 1874. He was a great loss to the business interests of the town and to the Baptist Church, of which he was a valued and active member. In this large family one especial trait is noticeable-love of home and their native town ; they all passed their lives and died within a radius of ten miles from the old homestead.
Clinton Spalding Averill, the only child of Calvin and Eunice (Spalding) Averill, was born in Milford, September 22, 1827. His primary education was received at the district schools of Milford ; he then attended Hancock and Pembroke Academies, fitting himself for the military school, Norwich University, Norwich, Vermont, where he was graduated in 1849 with the degree of B. S., and from which he afterward received the honorary degree of M.A. After grad- uation he became a tutor in the same institution ; then was appointed professor of natural science, which position he resigned in 1853, as his health would not permit him to continue his work. In December, 1853, he went to Marietta, Ohio, as princi- pal of the Western Liberal Institute, but ill health obliged him again to relinquish teaching, and he re- turned to New Hampshire. This was a severe trial
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to a young man who had the essential qualities of a good teacher,-knowledge and power,-that is, he was master of his work, and had the power, without which all knowledge is vain, to stimulate. As Pro- fessor Tyndall says: "Both go together in the true teacher ; a power of character must underlie and enforce the work of the intellect. There are men who can so rouse and energize their pupils-so call forth their strength and the pleasure of its exercise- as to make the hardest work agreeable." It is a remarkable coincidence in the lives of many good teachers, those well fitted for this work, that ill health forces them from their chosen field of labor.
On returning to New Hampshire, Mr. Averill studied law with Colonel O. W. Lull, of Milford, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1861 the break- ing out of the great Civil War created a large demand for experienced military instruction, and his Alma Mater again demanded his services as teacher. He was there for a few months only, the confinement proving injurious to his health. In 1862 he opened a law- office in Milford, but owing to his precarious health, two years passed before he was able to attend to busi- ness. From 1864 his office business has grown stead- ily, and is now quite extensive, pertaining mostly to matters of trust and probate. His interest in educa- tion has always been warm, and he was superintendent of schools for many years in Milford. He held the position of trustee of the State Normal School for several years. In 1873 he was elected superintendent of schools of the city of Nashua, accepted the posi- tion and held it for two years. The same love of home and home surroundings which has been so marked in all his family drew him again to Milford, and, in connection with this, was an urgent request from the officers of the Milford Five-Cent Savings- Bank, of which he had been trustee since its incor- poration, to return and devote his time and financial ability to its affairs, which were in an unsatisfactory condition,-a consequence of the robbery so well remembered by all citizens. He consented to do this, returned to Milford, and in August, 1875, was elected its treasurer, which office he still retains. He has been connected with the Souhegan National Bank for many years as director, vice-president and president, being elected to the latter position in January. 1882.
Mr. Averill married, March 10, 1852, Catherine Frances, daughter of Dr. Jonas Hutchinson, of Mil- ford. They had but one child, who died in infancy. Mrs. Averill's death occurred April 4, 1878. During all his active life Mr. Averill has been prominently connected with the business, social and educational affairs of his native town, and a large contributor to its development and progress. A Democrat in politics, he has always cared more for the triumph of right principles and the election of good men than for party or personal gain. Careful and conservative, but always in favor of true progress, he has shown him- self a successful financier and a valuable adviser in
business undertakings, and has ever commanded the respect, confidence and esteem of a large range of acquaintance. In private life he is especially marked by his modest and unassuming manners, strong social feeling and warm friendship for his numerous friends. In public life he is the courteous gentleman to all and a faithful and devoted guardian of all trusts.
DAVID HEALD.
David Heald, son of Oliver and Patty (Wright) Heald, was born in Nelson, Cheshire County, N. H., October 6, 1832.
He is a descendant of two early New England families, which in various ways have been connected with the progress of the last two hundred and fifty years. John Heald left Berwick, England, in 1635, to make a home in far-off America, and settled in Concord, Mass., where he died May 24, 1662. He had eight sons, the oldest of whom, John2, married Sarah Dean, in 1661. Their oldest son, John3, married, in 1690, Mary Chandler. Of their six sons, John4, the okdl- est, married a Hale. settled in Acton, Mass., where he died in 1775, aged eighty-two years. Oliver5, his third son, married Lydia, daughter of Deacon Isaac Spauld- ing, of Townsend, Mass., and came as one of the first settlers to that part of New Hampshire now Temple. The young couple experienced the hardships and pri- vations incident to pioneer life, and it is written of them and their companions : "Their only guide- boards were marked trees ; they could keep no stock of any kind for want of provender, and when they went to church they were obliged to go on foot all the way to New Ipswich, it being a distance of six statute miles."
Oliver Heald was a man of strong and sturdy in- dependence of thought and striet integrity, and won the respect of all. Active and energetic, he held various offices of trust. He was an official member of the first church in Temple, selectman for several years, and one of the patriotic band of forty-six who, upon the alarm of April 19, 1775, marched from Temple to Cambridge to assist in repelling the British troops. He died in 1790, aged fifty-six. His wife survived him, dying at the age of sixty-five, in 1802. They had eleven children, of whom Amos6 was second son. He was born June 16, 1765, married, in 1789, Sybil Brown, of Temple, and became a resident of Nelson. They had seven children. Oliver, their second son, born October 1, 1790, learned the trade of cloth-dresser, to which he afterwards added those of wool-carder and clothier, in connection with farm- ing. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, a soldier in the War of 1812, and was many times chosen by his townsmen to fill places of trust. He had the commission of justice of the peace for years. Of in- dependent thought and positive character, and with an innate hatred of all oppression, he early identified himself with the unpopular Abolition movement, and
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