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HISTORY OF MERRIMACK COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The same amount was annually appropriated during the years 1772, '73, '74 and '75. In 1776 the school money was voted down, as was the case from that date until March 22, 1788, when the sum of seventy- two dollars was voted for the town school. In 1788 the town "Voted to raise eighty dollars for a town school, and that the selectmen divide the town into proper districts for a town school, and that no men send from one district to another."
In 1789, "Toted to raise twenty-four pounds for a town school."
In 1790, " Voted twenty-four pounds for a town school;" and in 1791 "thirty-five pounds were voted for the use of a school."
The law of 1791, which directed a tax to be assessed, amounting to seven thousand five hundred pounds sterling, npon the several towns, in proportion to their taxable property, gave a direct impulse to the common schools throughont the State.
Prior to the passage of the act of 1805 Dunbarton had been divided into three districts, each containing a school-house.
At that time the town was divided into three school districts, viz., Page's Corner, Centre and Mon- talona. Robert Hogg, a native of England, was the first teacher in town, and his many years' service gave him the sobriquet of Master Hogg.
The first school-honse at the Centre stood just south of the present Congregational Church. It was a plain structure, twenty feet square and ceiled instead of plastered. The entrance was from the east ; the fire- place was at the west end. Two rows of benches were on either side, and the master's desk stood near the entrance.
The only books used at that time were Dilworth's Spelling-Book, New Testament and Pike's Arithmetic. The branches taught were reading, writing and arith- metic. All copies for writing were set by the master, and only quill pens were used.
The town is at present divided into eleven school districts.
It is said that history repeats itself. The first re- presentative to the General Conrt was Caleb Page, in 1775; the representative in 1875 was Caleb Page also, but though the same in name, not in person.
No town of like size can claim a more honorable record, and none a larger number of distinguished military men, than Dunbarton.
The most famous of all engaged in the service was Major Robert Rogers, a brief biography of whom will he found in the following :
Major Robert Rogers, who hecame famons as the commander of the New England corps of rangers, was the eldest son of James Rogers, and was born in Londonderry in 1727. He was fifteen when he came with his father to the woods of Starkstown, and nine- teen when the family made their fortunate escape by night to Rumford.
The ranger corps of the "Seven Years' War" was
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mostly made up of Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire men. Major Rogers had with him his two brothers-Richard, who died at Fort William Henry of small pox ; and James, a captain in the Provincial militia-William and Archibald Stark, Jr., Caleb Page, Nathaniel Martin, Adam Dickey and John McCurdy, all of Starkstown. Rogers served through the war, and died in England in 1800.
Another was John Stark, who received his first bap- tism of fire under the heroic Rogers, and who after- wards made the independence of the American colonies an accomplished fact npon the ever-historic battle-field of Bennington ; Joseph Blanchard, the gallant colonel was another who led the New Hamp- shire forces to victory in many a contest during the Seven Years' War; Jeremiah Page, the surveyor of "Coos meadows," and afterward surveyor assistant for His Majesty's government, George III. Captain Alexander Todd ; Richard Rogers, the ranger, and brother of the famous Robert,-these have written. their names high on the roll of fame, and reflected honor on old Starkstown, the town they represented.
The following gives the names of officers and sold- iers in the Indian and French War, 1750-60:
Captain John Stark (afterward Genaral), Ensign Caleb Page, Major Robert Rogars, Captain Joseph Blanchard, Captain James Rogers, Cap- tain Jonathan Burbank, Captain Richard Rogers, Lieutenant Nathaniel Burbank, Lieutenant Jobn McCurdy, Lieutenant Abram Stark, Lien- tenant William Stark, Stephen Law, Andrew Dickey, John Foster, James Andrewa, James McCurdy, David Stinson (killed by the Indiana at Stin- aon'a Pond, in Rumnay).
The following are the names of those who served in the Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783:
Major Caleb Stark, General John Stark, Colonel William Stark, Captain Nathaniel Burbank, Captain Jamea Leach, Captain John Furgerson, Cap- tain John Schule, Major John Milla, Rev. Walter Harria, Lieutenant Thomas Mills, Lieutenant William Tennay, John McCurdy, Daniel Mc- Curdy, Caleb Page(3d), L. Barnard, Sipio (colored), Sampson Mcore (col- ored), James Stinson, William Holmes, Jotham Stearns, William Bailey, Tristram Bonnet, William Beard, George McAlpine, James McPherson, Alexander Hogg, Ebenezer Woodbury, Thomaa Hart, John Damon, Ste- phen Ayer, Amos Barnes, John Wegan, Moses Heath, John Dodge, James McCurdy, Samuel Lord, Thomas Hammond, William Page, Jeremiah Barnea, Asa Putney, Aaron Putney, George Hogg, Thomas Gregg, Jona- than Smith, Benjamin Collina, John Blanchard, Abel Hadley, Samnel Preston, Ebenezer Chase, John Holmes, Nathaniel Martin, Noah Sar- gent, Archalas Perkins, Abel Sargent, Nathaniel Wheeler, William Wheeler, Winthrop Sargent.
The following enlisted in time of peace, 1810 :
Robert Miller, Nathaniel Hemphill and Jonathan Colby.
The following enlisted in 1812-15 :
Dr. James Stark, Thomas Ayer, Joseph Collins, John Miller, Benjamin Bailey, John Ayer, Robert Sanborn, Ira Bailey, John Babson, John Ladd, Charles Hart.
The following were drafted in the War of 1812- 15:
Thomas Lord, Isaac Nichola, William Stark, John Stark, John Wash- bury, Luther Clement, Archibald Stinson, Daniel Clement, Stephen Wal- man, Jacob Ayer, Enoch Gila, Philip Kidder.
Daniel Stinson enlisted July 17, 1818, and E. Ly- man Harris in 1820.
In 1846, in the war with Mexico, the following men entered the army from Dunbarton ;
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Benjamin Whipple (3d), Charles Clement, Simeon Cilly, Lieutenant Winslow (navy ; served in regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers).
From the following it will be seen that the town displayed a truly loyal spirit in defending our gov- ernment and country, in its civil conflict of 1861 to 1865.
The following is a copy of the vote passed at an- nual town-meeting in the town of Dunbarton, March 14, 1865 :
"Voted, that Silvanue Hayward be a committee to obtain the names of all the men this town has furnished for the army as volunteers, con- ecripts or substitutee, and bounties paid to each, date of enlistment, length of service, and all the facts in relation thereto, which may be et historical value to the town, that the same may be recorded in the records of the town."
The following is a report of committee appointed to procure and place on record the names and history of the soldiers furnished by the town of Dunbarton in the late war :
" It were indeed base for the town to refuse or neglect te put oo per manent record the names of those of its own citizens who served in de- fense of our country in putting down the most causeless and infamous rebellion the world has ever known. Their names ebould be handed down with honor to the latest generation, that our children in years to come may read them with gratitude, and bless the names of those who gave their toil, and even, in Diany inetances, their lives, to save them from the curse of barbarism and slavery.
" To thisend, and that we ourselves may honor more definitely what the town has done, the following statement je presented :
"I have not been able to ascertain whether or not any townsman en- listed at the first call for seventy-five thousand men. Since that time the towe has furnished in volunteers and substitutes one hundred and one different men, three of whom re-enlisted after serving out their time.
" According to the Adjutant-General's Report, this gives an excess of eight men over all required by the government. By the statement fur- nished the selectmen from the recruiting-office, the excess is only one.
" The whole amount of money paid in town bounties has been twen- ty-four thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars, of which two thousand and twenty-two dollars has already been received back-eleven hundred dollars frem the State and nine hundred and twenty-two dollars from the United States. From one to three thousand dollars (how much cannot yet be exactly told) will be paid hack by the general govern- ment, and several thousand dollars are still claimed from the State, ot receiving which there is some doubt. A large portion of this has been paid to substitutes picked up here and there, whose names I have not thought best to look up, as they can be of no interest to Dunbarton. The separate sume paid to Dunbarton volunteers 1 have given as shown by receipts in the hands of the selectmen. Two Dunbarton men, Henry S. Hammend and Frederick Waite, enlisted in Manchester,1 the former of whom eerved his time out and returned in safety. The latter died of measles at Newbern, N. C., April 20, 1863. The following volnuteered and received no town bounty :
" Alonzo Barnard, enlisted in Second Regiment Sharpshooters, Com- pany F, November, 1861 ; re-enlisted December, 1863 ; promoted to cor- poral ; wounded May, 1864, and died soon after in the hospital at Phil- adelphia, Pa.
"Peter Barnes, enlisted in Second Regiment, Company D, November, 1863.
" Ira Briggs, enlisted in Sixth Regiment, Company I, November, 1861 ; discharged for disability, 1862.
" Wilbur F. Brem, enlisted in Second Regiment, Company R, June, 1861 ; captured at Gettysburg, July, 1863, and died of starvation in An- dersonville prison, 1864.
" Henry M. Caldwell, captain of Company F, Second Regiment of Sharpehooters, enlisted September, 1861 ; died of fever at Falmouth, Va., July 12, 1862.
" Horace Caldwell, orderly .sergeant, sanie company, enlisted Novem- ber, 1861 ; diecharged for disability, 1863.
1 Thie je evidently a mistake, and should read Massachusetts.
" Jeremiah Clough, enlisted in Secood Regiment Sharpshooters, Com- pany F, November, 1861 ; diecharged for disability, 1862.
" William C. Flanders, enlisted in Fourth Regiment, Company E, September, 1861 ; discharged for disability January, 1862; afterwards re-enlisted and served three years.
"Peter Gravelin, enlisted in Second Regiment, Company E, Juoe, 1861.
"Simeon N. Heath, enlisted in Second Regiment, Company E, June, 1861 ; re-enlisted January, 1864 ; died of disease at Oxford. 1864 or '65.
"David A. Jameson, enlisted in Second Regiment Sharpshooters, Company F, November, 1861 ; wounded June 8, 1864, and died in hospi- tal, at Baltimore, Md., June 26, 1864.
"William U. Marshall, enlisted in First Regiment Sharpshootera, Company E, September, 1861.
"Frank B. Mills, enlisted in Second Regiment Sharpshootere, Com- pany F, November, 1861 ; wounded March, 1862, and discharged for disability May, 1862.
" George Noyes, enlisted in Second Regiment, Company ", June, 186) ; discharged for disability July, 1861.
" Daniel Ordway, enlisted in Seventh Regiment, Company I, Decem- ber, 1861.
" Moses E. Ordway, enlisted in First Regiment Sharpshooters, Com- pany E, September, 1861 ; deserted aud went west.
"Frank A. Putney, enlisted in First Regiment Sharpshooters, Com- pany E, September, 1861.
" William A. Putney, enlisted for ninety daye and served in the Na- tional Guards stationed at Portsmonth, N. H.
"Samuel A. Symonds, enlisted in Seventh Regiment, Company K, December, 1861 ; killed at Lanrel Ilill October 7, 1864.
"John W. Twiss, enlisted in Fourth Regiment, Company H, Septem- ber, 1861.
"llenry A. Waite, enlisted in First Regiment Sharpshooters, Com- pany E, September, 1861.
"Edward Everett Whipple, enlisted in Second Regiment Sharpshoot- ers, Company F, November, 1861 ; died at home of consumption March 3, 1862.
" David H. Whipple, enlisted in Third Regiment, Company A, An- gust, 1861; died of disease at Port Royal July 4, 1862.
"J. Heory Whipple, enlisted in Second Regimeut Sharpshooters, Com- pany F, November, 1861 ; transferred to Invalid Corps July, 1863.
" Lewis Wood, enlisted in Second Regiment, Company E, June, 1861 ; re-enlisted January, 1864; promoted to corporal.
" These two received one hundred dollars town bounty each, viz. :
"Bradford Bunham, enlisted in Sixteenth Regiment, Company D, October, 1862.
" David F. Heath, enlisted in Fourtecath Regiment, 1864.
"The following individuals received a town bounty of two hundred dollars each :
" Ames C. Bailey, enlisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company H, September, 1862 ; wounded and discharged, 1865.
"James A. Baker, enlisted in Sixteenth Regiment, Company D, Octo- ber, 1862 ; died of disease at Brashear City, La., April 14, 1863.
"James E. Barnard, enlisted in Ninth Regiment, Company K, August, 1862 ; diecharged June 10, 1865.
" William E. Bunten, captain of Company H, Fourteenth Regiment, enlisted October, 1862 ; discharged September, 1863.
" Alonzo P. Chamberlain, colisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company H, September, 1862 ; promoted te corporal ; wounded September, 1864.
" Moses K. Eaton, enlisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company H, September, 1862 ; died of disease at Wilmington, N. C., September 21, 1863.
" John R. Emerson, enlisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company II, September, 1862 ; promoted to corporal.
"Joseph H. Healey, enlisted in Sixteenth Regiment, Company D, October, 1862.
"Marche M. Holmes, sergeant in Fourteenth Regiment, Company H, September, 1862 ; promoted to lieutenant May, 1864.
"Marcoller A. Merrill, enlisted in Tenth Regiment, Company C, September, 1862.
" Chester L. Page, onlisted in Fifteenth Regiment, Company E, No- vember, 1862.
" Wilson E. Poor, enlisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company II, Sep- tember, 1862 ; promoted to corporal.
"Daniel B. Roberte, enlisted in Ninth Regiment, Company E, May, 1862.
"John B. Samton, enlisted in Tenth Regiment, Company H, Septem- ber, 1862 ; captured at Fair Oaks, Va., October, 1864.
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" Andrew J. Stone, captain Company F, Ninth Regiment, enlisted August, 1862 ; died of wounds at Fredericksburg, Va., May 20, 1864.
" Benjamin Twiss, enlisted in Tenth Regiment, Company H, May, 1862 ; was captured in May, 1864, and after being nearly starved to death in prison was released on parole the December following.
" Robert E. Wheeler, enlisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company H, September, 1862 ; promoted to corporal.
" Leonard Wilson, enlisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company H. September, 1862 ; promoted to color-sergeant.
"Lysander Wyman, enlisted in Thirteenth Regiment, Company E, October, 1862.
". The following are those who received three hundred dollars bounty from the town :
" Timothy Clark, enlisted in Fifth Regiment, Company H, August, I863.
"John D. Ilouliban, enlisted in Fifth Regiment, Company D, August, 1863.
" Elbridge C. Brem, enlisted in Fourteenth Regiment, Company H, August, 1864, and is the only Dunbarton man who received five hun- dred dollars town bonnty.
"The following citizens of Dunbarton provided substitutes of their own accord, the town giving three hundred dollars to each for that pur- pose :
" Lemuel N. Barnard, Charles W. Brem, Isaac P. Clifford, Alfred ('ol- by, William A. Elliott, Lanren P. Hadley, Aaron Lorel, Johnson C. Mc- Intire, John C. Mills, John Mills, Nathan W. Wheeler, Jr.
" The labor of collecting the above statistics has not been small, and there are doubtless still many errors and omissions, but it is as accurate as the means at hand would allow.
"It has been tu your committee a labor of love, for which he will feel amply rewarded if he sball thus have been the means of giving greater permanence to Dunbarton's roll of honor.
" Respectfully submitted,
" SILVANUS HAYWARD, Committee.
" Dunbarton, N. H., April 7, 1866."
CHAPTER IV. DUNBARTON-(Continued).
FEW towns have graduated from college and sent out into the world a more worthy list of sons than Dunbarton ; fifty-one natives have graduated from colleges, as follows: Dartmouth 41; Wabash, Indiana, 3; Union, N. Y. 2; Harvard 2; Yale 1; Brown University 1; Amherst 1.
Among the ministerial graduates we find Isaac Garvin, Abraham Burnham, D.D., Hosea Wheeler, Amos W. Burnham, D. D., Thomas Jameson, Har- rison C. Paige, Charles H. Marshall, Abraham Burn- ham, Leonard S. Parker, Ephraim O. Jameson, George A. Putnam, John P. Mills. Among the teachers, Samuel Burnham, William Parker, Prof. Caleb Mills, Prof. Charles G. Burnham, Joseph Gibson Hoyt, LL. D., Prof. Mark Bailey, William H. Burnham. Of journalists, William A. Putney, Henry M. Putney, John B. Mills.
In the legal profession, the names of Jeremiah Stinson, William Stark, John Burnham, John Whip- ple, John Jameson, John Tenney, James H. Paige, Walter Harris Tenney, Caleb Stark, Jr., Amos Had- ley, Joseph M. Cavis, David B. Kimball, George H. Twiss, Wm. E. Bunten, Henry E. Burnham, Newton H. Wilson appear, while many others have made a good record in their chosen walks.
those who have won a name and position in their chosen walks, we give a brief sketch of a few.
PROF. MARK BAILEY was born in Dunbarton May 20th, 1827, and worked on his father's farm until he was fifteen years of age; he attended the academy at Pembroke, also at Danville, Vt., and was grad- uated at Dartmouth College in '49, in the same class with Judge Doe and the late Judge Stanley. His time was occupied winters by teaching, and his elocu -. tionary gift was further cultivated by training received from the late Prof. William Russell, of Reed's Ferry, and afterwards he became a partner of Prof. Russell's son in teaching the art in New York City.
Prof. Bailey taught in the Andover, Bangor, Union and Princeton Seminaries, and in most of the New England colleges during the years 1852 and '53. In 1855 he was appointed instructor of elocution in Yale College, New Haven, Conn., a position still re- tained.
In 1863, Prof. Bailey lectured before The American . Teachers' Association, and also prepared the " Intro- ductory Treatise on Elocution " for the popular Hill- iard readers ; his lessons on " Sound and Sense " have awakened a large degree of interest in the art.
Several courses of lectures have been given before the public teachers at Washington, D. C., and at Cin- cinnati. In 1856, '60, and '61 he was active as a Re- publican, on the stump, for "Free Territories, " the " Union " and the freeing of the slaves. Prof. Bailey has a delightful home, and has accomplished much in his work in developing good readers and speakers, is one of the best elocutionists in the country and re- tains a fond regard for his native town.
JOSEPH GIBSON HOYT, LL.D., was born in 1815 ; graduated at Yale College in 1840; he won a high reputation as a classical scholar and accurate teacher ; was chancellor of Washington University, in the city of St. Louis, and in the midst of his splendid career he died suddenly, in 1862. He is spoken of as the most brilliant son of Dunbarton.
REV. GEORGE A. PUTNAM, born in 1835, has achieved renown in the clerical profession. Another worthy son is REV. EPHRAIM O. JAMESON, born Jan- uary 23, 1832. He prepared for college in Gilman- ton (N. H.) Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1855, and from the Theological Seminary in An- dover in 1858. He was ordained to the gospel ministry March 1, 1860, and installed pastor of the East Congregational Church in Concord, N. H. He resigned and was installed November 9, 1865, pastor of the Union Evangelical Church at Salisbury, Mass., where he labored until July, 1871, when he resigned and was installed as pastor of the First Church of Christ in Medway, Mass., in 1871. The esteem in which this pastor is held by the people, is evidenced by his continuous service of nearly fourteen years among them. In addition to his duties as pastor, Mr. Jame- son does some literary work. He published, in 1844,
It will be pardonable if, out of the honored list of | a volume of family history, "The Cogswells in
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America. " The " History of Medway, Mass.," he has ready for the press.
Mr. Jameson married, September 20, 1858, Miss Mary Cogswell, eldest daughter of the late Rev. William Cogswell, D.D., of Gilmanton, N. H. Mr. Jameson is uow settled at Millis, Mass.
HENRY EBEN BURNHAM, son of Henry L. and Maria A. Burnham, was born in Dunbarton, N. H., Nov. 8, 1844; attended district school ; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1865; studied law in the offices of E. S. Cutter, Esq., aud Judge Lewis W. Clark, in Manchester, N. H., and in the office of Minot & Mugridge, in Concord, N. H .; admitted to the har in Merrimack County, April term, 1868 ; began the practice of law in the fall of 1868 at Manchester, and has continued in law practice at Manchester to the present time. He has been a part- ner for several years of Hon. David Cross, and is now in business with A. O. Brown, Esq., under the firm- name of Burnham & Brown.
He has represented one of the wards of Manchester in the Legislature two terms, has held the office of treasurer of the county of Hillsborough two years, and was judge of Probate for that county in 1876, 1877 and 1878.
Mr. Burnham is one of the most pleasing public speakers in the State. A thorough lawyer, popular, honored, and most highly esteemed by his host of friends. His poem at the Centennial of the town was a model in arrangement, word and sentiment, from which we quote at the opening of this town sketch.
He married Lizzie H. Patterson, daughter of John D. Patterson, Esq., of Manchester, October 22, 1874, and has three children,-Gertrude E., Alice M. and Edith D. Burnham.
COLONEL CARROLL D. WRIGHT, of Reading, Mass., was born in Dunbarton July 25, 1840. He is a son of Rev. Nathan R. Wright, a prominent Universalist clergyman, who was settled at different places in this State for many years, but has of late resided in Lynn, Mass. He attended the academies at Washington, Alstead and Chester, Vt., and in 1860 commenced the study of law in the office of the late Hon. William P. Wheeler, of Keene, continuing the same, subse- quently, with Erastus Worthington, of Dedham, Mass., and Tolman Willey, of Boston. In August, 1862, while on a visit to Keene, and before completing his legal studies, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, hut was commissioned second lieutenant before leaving for the seat of war. He filled various responsible posi- tions in the service; was appointed adjutant of his regiment in the fall of 1863, and was assistant adjutant- general in Louisiana and during Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, at the close of which cam- paign he was commissioned colonel of his regiment, but resigned in the following spring on account of ill health. He subsequently resumed the study of the
law, and was admitted to the bar at Keene in October, 1865. Recurring ill health prevented his engage- ment in active practice until the fall of 1867, when he opened an office in Boston, and soon succeeded in establishing a profitable business, making his resi- dence in the town of Reading, which has been his home up to the present time.
In 1871, Colonel Wright was elected to the Massa- chusetts Senate by the Republicaus of the Sixth Mid- dlesex District, and was re-elected the following year, serving with ability as chairman of the committees on insurance and military affairs, and secretary of the judiciary committee. In 1873 he was appointed by Governor Washburn chief of the State Bureau of Statistics of Labor, which position he still holds, and to the work of which office he has devoted his atten- tion since that time, winning a reputation as a thor- ough statistician, excelled by that of no man in America.
Colonel Wright was supervisor of the federal cen- sus in 1880 for the State of Massachusetts, performing his work with characteristic fullness and accuracy. He prepared for the Census Bureau an exhaustive special report upon "The Factory System of the Uni- ted States," visiting the principal factory centres of this country and of Europe in securing the informa- tion necessary to its thorough preparation. He also prepared, under authority of the Boston City Council, a large volume embodying the social, commercial and industrial statistics of that city, which was issued some two years since.
Colonel Wright is a graceful and eloquent speaker, and won distinction as a popular lecturer upon war and other topics before entering upon his statistical work. He was prominently brought forward as a candidate for Congress hy the young Republicans of his district in 1876, and received an earnest support in the nominating convention, which was only over- come by the peculiar influences brought to hear in the interests of a wealthier aspirant. In December, 1879, he delivered a course of lectures on social topics before the Lowell Institute, in Boston, and in 1881 was chosen university lecturer on the factory system at Harvard College.
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