History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 99

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1520

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The sums appropriated by this town during the war, excluding benefits to soldiers' families, amounted to something over one hundred thousand dollars. The report of the Adjutant-General of New Hamp- shire for 1875, volume ii., thus states the summary

1 The division of railroad extending from Contoocook to Hillsborough, a distance of fifteen miles, was built by Joseph Barnard, of ITopkinton, now living, and one of our influential citizens. Mr. Barnard constructed this line in 1849.

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of Hopkinton's war record: Enrollment, April 30, 1865, 180; total of qnota under all calls from July, 1863, 86; total credits by enlistments or drafts, 115; surplus, 29.

In endeavoring to recover the names of the actual residents of Hopkinton who were engaged in mili- tary service during the war of 1861, we have met many difficulties. The imperfect nature of the rec- ords within our reach, the doubtful location of some individuals, and the difficulty of resuscitating facts that have passed into only a little more than twenty years of history, make the work of identification irksome and partially fruitless. The records of New Hampshire soldiers, so far as they are officially pub- lished, are found in the reports of the Adjutant-Gen- eral of the State, and these reports are so accessible that we refrain from the labor of reproducing per- sonal notes in full. In the list of names we give, it is proper to remember that not all of them are of sol- diers officially credited to Hopkinton, nor have we admitted into our list the names of non-resident sub- stitutes. The names we give are classified with suffi- cient distinctness to guide the search of those wishing to investigate further personal histories. The follow- ing list of Hopkinton soldiers is approximately cor- rect :

SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

E. Westou Boutwell, Proctor Collins, Hiram Cutler, Johnson N. Dan- forth, John Danforth, Charles H. Danforth, John S. Daniels, Charles W. Dierood (second lieutenant), frevi W. Dimond, James Foster, William H. Foster, William H. Goodrich, Alfred S. Hastings, Charles Holmes (second lieutenant),1 Francis S. Hoyt, Burleigh K. Jones, Luther D. Jones, Willard H. Kempton, Charles A. Milton (sergeant),? William Montgomery (second licuteunut), Frank W. Morgan (captain), Timothy G. Moores, Frederick H. Nichole, Lucins P. Noyes, Joab N. Patterson (colonel),3 Samuel F. Patterson (captain), Thomas W. Piper (sergeant), John C. Rand, Lewis N. Relation, Martin P. Rowell, Abram G. Rowell, John G. Rowell, Adoniram J. Sawyer, James B. Silver (corporal), George II. Straw, Henry C. Tyler, Moses C. Tyler, Charles Tyler, Richard A. Walker.

SIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. James M. Hook, Charles H. Smart.

SEVENTHI NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

Hermen Burt, Lucius H. Chandler, James M. Chase (captain), Groveuur A. Curtice (captain), Charles B. Danforth, Gilbert F. Dustin (first ser- geant), Jenas Foster (sergeaut), Thomas Heath, Warren E. Kimball, Warren Lewis, Edmund C. Lewis, Joseph C. Lewis, Warren F. Locke, Charles A. Morrill, Joseph C. Relation, Onville Upton (corporal).

EIGHTII NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. James F. Mille, Charles A. Moulton (assistant surgeon).

NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Martin J. Crowell, Francis R. Moore, Alonzo Rowell.

ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. William H. Raymond, George I. Raymond.

THIRTEENTHI NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. George W. Nichols.

FOURTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. George M. Bernard (corporal), George F. Blanchard (captoin), Henry H. Blanchard, Semuel G. Bradbury, George O. Colby, Daniel Downing, Moses K. Eaton, Arthur T. Goodrich (corporal), David Harrington, Hiram Nichols, Marsell Sourell.

SIXTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

Charles Ash, Augustus Barnard (sergeant), Otis M. Brown (nmusician), Orrin Chase, George E. C'rowell, George A. Currier, Ira K. Dimond, Eben H. Dustin, Hanson D. Emerson, Daniel E. Howard (captain), Byron E. Kemptoo, Themas Kenniston (corporal), Charles N. Kezar, Benjamin Long, Newton G. MeAlpine (wagoner), George Mckenzie, George W. Mills (corporal), James F. Mills, Jacob M. Morrill, Henry E. Moulton, Edward G. Runeels, Horace Smart, George W. Smart, Brackett B. Weeks, William H. Weeks, N. Cogswell Weeks, Jacob Whittier (mu- xician).

EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

David M. Chase, Edward F. Chase, Hiram Cutler (corporal), Charles F. Harrington (corporal), Clarion H. Kimball (captain), Timothy G. Moores (corporal), John F. Mudgett (nmusician), Frank Steveus, Moses C. Tyler (corporal), Edson Upton (musician), Barlow Upton (musiciau). FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE CAVALRY.

Alonzo Burbank, William H. Downing, Juhu H. Kimball, Byron E. Kempton.

FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE HEAVY ARTILLERY.

Samuel E. Crowell, Hanson D. Emerson (corporal), George W. Mille, Joseph P. Morrill, Adoniram J. Sawyer (sergeant), Frederick P. Scott, Horace Smart, William S. Smart, George H. Straw (corporal), Barlow L'pton, George N. Watkins (sergeant).

FIRST UNITED STATES SHARPSHOOTERS. George N. Watkins.

SECOND UNITED STATES SHARPSHOOTERS.

Henry H. Crowell, Giloian K. Crowell (corporal), Lewis E. Crowell, William H. Goodrich, Clarion H. Kimball, Joseph P. Law, Joseph Mills, Alfred A. Rollins, Joseph S. Thompson (corporal), Charles F. Whittier.

FIFTH MAINE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Frederick G. Sanborn (See Biographical Notices).

FIRST MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Horatio E. Clough (sergeant).

TWENTY-FOURTII MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Edgar Clough (lieutenant).

SECOND MASSACHUSETTS LIGHIT BATTERY. Ezra Folsom.

ELEVENTH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Jonathan G. Emerson.

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Joseph B. Dustin (sergeant).

Later Facts and Incidents .- The town of Hop- kinton is to-day, in an eminent sense, a rural one. Possessing a soil favorable to cultivation, its agricul- tural standard is a high one. The proximity of the markets afforded by Concord and Manchester and their suburbs has encouraged specialties in products. The dairy interest of this town is a prominent one. The farmers of Hopkinton have adopted most or all of the improved kinds of stock, implements and vari- eties of produce that are adapted to this soil.

There is very little manufacturing in Hopkinton at the present time, if we exclude the various mills and shops that are always considered necessary ap- purtenances of a complete rural community. There are a machine-shop, a grist-mill, a hub-factory and a lumber-mill on the water-power at Contoocook, and a kit and pail manufactory is there run by steam. There is also a kit-mill and hub-factory on the water- power at West Hopkinton. In 1873, a fire was very disastrous to the manufacturing interests of Contoo- cook, in burning all the works on the south side of the river. The Coutoocook water-power is now owned

1 Procioted to captain iu Seventeenth United States Infantry. 2 Promoted to medical cadet. 8 See Biographical Notices.

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by Colonel Edwin C. Bailey, who, in 1883, built a new dam across the river.

The proximity of Hopkinton to large markets affects local trade to its damage. There are two gen- eral stores in Hopkinton village and four general and special ones in Contoocook. There is one hotel in Contoocook. There are three post-offices in the town,-Hopkinton, Contoocook and West Hop- kinton. There are three railroad stations in town,- Contoocook, West Hopkinton and Tyler's. There is a telegraph-office at Contoocook, first opened in 1866. There are two telephone-offices,-at Hopkinton vil- lage and Contoocook, opened in 1884.

There is a Congregational, a Baptist and an Epis- copal Church at Hopkinton village, and a Free-Will Baptist, a Swedenborgian and a Methodist at Contoo- cook. A Swedenborgian Church was organized in Contoocook in 1857,1 but it is not now active. A Methodist Church was organized in Contoocook in 1871.2

A grange was organized in Hopkinton in 1875; a lodge of Odd-Fellows in Contoocook in 1876; a lodge of Good Templars in Hopkinton in 1878; a Grand Army post in Hopkinton in 1882; a Rebecca Degree lodge in Contoocook in 1884. These societies are all now active.

In June, 1880, the Hopkinton Times, a weekly news- paper, was started in Hopkinton village by H. Sumner Chase. In the fall of the same year the office was moved to Contoocook. In January, 1885, the paper was consolidated with the Kearsarge Independent, of Warner. A job printing office is still at Contoocook.

The Contoocook Library, founded in 1871, has over one thousand volumes. The Hopkinton Village Library, established also in 1871, has nearly nine hun- dred volumes. The New Hampshire Antiquarian Society, incorporated in 1875, has its headquarters in Contoocook, where it has very many thousands of an- tique and curious articles, besides numerous volumes of books and also pamphlets and papers. In Jones' building, where this society has rooms, there are nearly fifty thousand collected articles of all kinds.

Among the present residents of Hopkinton are Joseph Barnard, commissioner of forestry for Merri- mack County ; Herman W. Greene, solicitor of Merrimack County from 1876 to 1881 ; Carlos G. Hawthorne, formerly assistant United States pro- vost-marshal and attorney for the board of enroll- ment at Dubuque, Iowa, during the late war; John Stevens Kimball, register of deeds for Merri- mack County from 1879 to 1881. In Contoocook are Colonel Edwin C. Bailey, formerly a proprietor and editor of the Boston Herald; Edward D. Burnham,

member of the Executive Council in 1875; Captain Grovenor A. Curtice, State Senator from 1881 to 1883, and member of the Executive Council from 1883 to 1885 ; Walter S. Davis, State Senator ; John F. Jones, treasurer of Merrimack County from 1881 to 1883.

The inventory of Hopkinton, taken in the spring of 1885, showed 397 horses, 177 oxen, 780 cows, 355 neat stock, 710 sheep. The total value of real estate was 8765,050; of stock in trade, $12,776; of mills and machinery, $12,776 ; of cash and miscella- neous investments, $115,798. The total valuation of the town was $1,006,335

CHAPTER V.

HOPKINTON -- (Concluded).

Biographical Sketches .- JAMES SCALES, being the. first minister of Hopkinton, is entitled to further men- tion. He was a graduate of Harvard College in 1733. He came from Boxford, Mass., to Rumford, where he was received by letter into the Congregational Church in 1737. He afterwards became town clerk of Canter- bury. Being licensed to preach, in 1743, he was paid twenty pounds for preaching in Canterbury. Being ordained in Hopkinton in 1757 he continued here as minister till 1770, and is said to have died in 1776. He was of versatile mind, and practiced, with greater or less regularity, both medicine and law. Being public-spirited, he was prominently influential in se- curing Hopkinton's charter of incorporation, being paid twenty-five pounds by the town for his services. In his later years he preached in Henniker. His re- mains are said to lie in the old cemetery on Putney's Hill, in this town.

James Scales had a wife, Susanna. In the clerk's record of this town are the following data of their children :

John, born in Rumford, August 4, 1737; died at Canterbury, August 13, 1752. Joseph, born in Rum- ford, April 15, 1740; died July 10, 1740. Stephen, born in Rumford October 16, 1741. Susanna, born in Canterbury, October 26, 1744.

Rev. James Scales' first salary in Hopkinton was the equivalent of sixty Spanish milled dollars. While in Canterbury in 1746 he was twenty-three days in the colonial military service, under Captain Jeremiah Clough.

JOHN CLEMENT was the first public physician in Hopkinton. He was a former resident, and perhaps a native, of Haverhill, Mass. The site of his first Hopkinton home is on Putney's Hill, a few rods south of the graveyard, on the opposite side of the road. It is indicated by a slight depression and a quantity of stone. Later in life, Dr. Clement, in con- nection with a son, built a two-storied house on the western slope of the hill, on the road from Hopkin-

1 This church was the result of the missionary activity of the Rev. Ahiel Silver, a uative of this town, and the congregation occupied the old Union or Universaliet house, Imilt io 1837.

2 There was a Methodist society operative for a brief period in Hopkin- ton village. The academy was used as a place of worship. Preaching wae in part eupplied by the students of the Biblical Institute at Concord. This society ceased active work about 1850.

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ton village to West Hopkinton, a little farther north than his first residence. He seems to have been a popular physician, as his practice is said to have ex- tended to fourteen towns. He had five sons,-John, Timothy, Phineas, Benjamin and James; also four daughters,-Ruth, Polly, Sally and Betsey. Socially, he is said to have been genial and mirthful. His wife, Molly, was probably from Salisbury, Mass. Dr. Clement died November 20, 1804, aged sixty-one. His wife died February 12, 1817, aged seventy-two. Their remains lie in the old cemetery on Putney's Hill.

BARUCH CHASE was probably the first lawyer res- ident in Hopkinton. He is said to have been a native of Cornish. He came to Hopkinton before 1785. He was solicitor of Hillsborough County from 1808 to 1817. He built the house now occupied by Mrs. Louisa A. P. Stanwood, next east of the Episcopal Church. He married Ellen, danghter of Benjamin Wiggin, of Hopkinton. Two sons lived to old age, --- Samuel died March 12, 1875, aged seventy-one; Ben- jamin Wiggin, January 6, 1878, aged eighty-two. Baruch Chase was an uncle of the late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. He died March 5, 1841, aged seventy-seven. His wife died March 17, 1868, aged ninety-two.

BENJAMIN WIGGIN was the most noted of the early taverners of Hopkinton. His tavern stood next building west of the Episcopal Church. He began business here as early as 1744, coming from Stratham. He was landlord, merchant, justice and public servant generally. He gave the site of the old Hillsborough County court-house, where now is the Hopkinton town-house. In a time of scarcity, he sold corn cheaply to favor his poorer neighbors and townsmen. He was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth Clement ; his second, Mrs. Sarah Holt. He had children,- Timothy, Benjamin, Mary, Ellen, and Joseph and Elizabeth, twins. He died October 31, 1822, aged eighty ; his first wife, May 24, 1782, aged thirty-one ; his second, October 31, 1824, aged sixty-five. Mrs. Ellen C. Greene, now living, is a grandchild of Es- quire Wiggin. Herman W. Greene is his great- grandchild.

JOSHUA BAILEY has already been mentioned as a captain in the Revolutionary War. Captain Bailey was a native of England, and was born about 1738. He came to Hopkinton from Massachusetts, and lived abont a mile east of llopkinton village, where now resides Carlos G. Hawthorne. He was one of the most useful citizens of the early times, holding nearly or quite every important office within the gift of the town. He seems to have been twice married. The following were children of Joshua and Anna Bailey : John, born February 23, 1769; Joshua, born November 13, 1770 ; Elijah, born Feb- uary 27, 1773; Betty, born May 8, 1780; Rachel, born August 16, 1782; Esther, born March 18, 1785.

Joshua Bailey died April 9, 1806, aged sixty-eight

years. Sarah, his wife, died January 29, 1816, aged sixty-four years.

Mrs. Seth Webber, now living, is a grandchild of Captain Bailey.

WILLIAM WEEKS was a native of Greenland, where he was born in 1755, being a son of William and Eleanor Weeks. He was a graduate of Harvard College, and adopted the life of a merchant and farmer. He came to Hopkinton about 1792 and re- mained there till he died, in 1843. He was a soldier of the Revolution, entering the army as a quartermaster and leaving as a major. During a considerable por- tion of the time he was an aid-de-camp of General Washington. In Hopkinton he built a house that is now standing in the district known as Farrington's Corner. Deacon Thomas J. Weeks, a son, is now living in the same neighborhood. Major Weeks was twice married. His first wife was Abigail Rogers, whom he married in 1780; his second wife was Sally Cotta Cotton Weeks, daughter of Dr. Ichabod Weeks, of Greenland. There were thirteen children of Major Weeks. Their names were William, George, Charles, Abigail Rogers, Mary, Jacob, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah Ann, Susan, Hannah, Emily, John.

EBENEZER LERNED, a native of Medford, Mass., was born October 6, 1762, being a son of Thomas Lerned and Hannah Brooks. He graduated at Har- vard College in 1787; studied medicine with Dr. E. A. Holyoke, of Salem, Mass .; received the degree of M.D. from Dartmouth College. He practiced a short time in Leominster, Mass .; and then came to Hopkinton, where he practiced medicine and pursued trade. He was the first delegate to Dartmouth Col- lege from the New Hampshire Medical Society, of which he was vice-president at the time of his de- cease, in 1831. He founded the New Hamphire Ag- ricultural Society and was its first president. He was active in all the public interests of the town of Hopkinton, and left bequests to its schools and to its poor, and to the town itself. He was the first liber- ally educated physician in town. He was twice mar- ried. His first wife was Mary Hall, of Londonderry, whom he married in 1802. They had four children,- Louisa, Mary Eliza, Margaret, Brooks Holyoke. His first wife died November 22, 1813, aged thirty-two. His second wife was Catharine, daughter of Timothy Perkins and Hannah Trowbridge, whom he married in 1814. They had five children,-Catharine Crosby Perkins, Edward Augustus, Hannah Brooks, Lucy Ann, Elizabeth Trowbridge. His second wife died September 30, 1869. Mrs. Mary Eliza Flanders, his daughter, is living in this town. Misses Catharine C. P., Hannah B. and Lucy A., his daughters, occupy his former residence in Hopkinton village.

JOHN HARRIS, a native of Harvard, Mass., was born October 13, 1769, being a son of Richard Har- ris and Lydia Atherton. He graduated at Harvard College in 1791; read law with Simeon Strong, of

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Amherst, Mass., and Timothy Bigelow, of Groton, Mass. In 1794, he came to Hopkinton ; in 1799, he married Mary Poor, a native of Hampstead, and daughter of Eliphalet Poor and Elizabeth Little. They had four children,-George, Catharine, Eliza Poor, Ann. Catharine hecame the wife of Timothy Wiggin Little, of Hopkinton. John Harris lived in the house now occupied by Reuben E. French. In 1810, he was made captain of the Fourth Company of the Twenty-first Regiment of New Hampshire Militia. He was the first postmaster in Hopkinton, holding office from 1811 to 1825. In 1816, he was made a trustee of Dartmouth College. He was solicitor of Hillsborough County from 1817 to 1823, judge of probate from 1812 to 1823 and the same of Merri- mack County from 1823 to 1843. He was associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire from 1823 to 1833. The probate laws of Hillsborough County were revised by Judge Harris and Charles H. Athertou, the commission being established in 1820. In June, 1814, Judge Harris was made chair- man of a committee of the Legislature to locate a state capital. He was a prominent Free-Mason. He was the founder of Trinity Chapter in 1807. He was also founder of Tyrian Council and of the Mount Horeb Commandary of Knights Templar. He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter at its formation, in 1819, and first Grand Master of the Grand Encamp- ment of Knights Templar of New Hampshire at its formation in 1826. He was one of the subscribers to the ecclesiastical constitution of Christ's Church in 1803, and was one of the first wardens of St. An- drew's Church in 1827. He was a skillful farmer. Judge Harris died on the 23d of April, 1845; his wife died March 6, 1843, aged sixty-four. There is no descendant of theirs living.

SAMUEL GREENE, son of Nathaniel, was born in Concord, March 7, 1770. He read law with his hro- ther Peter, and began practice in Concord in 1793. He was associate justice of the New Hampshire Su- preme Court from 1819 to 1840. He came to Hop- kinton about 1833 and remained here till about 1837. After leaving the justice's bench he accepted a clerk- ship in Washington, D. C., where he died in 1851, aged eighty-one. His remains are buried in Hopkinton village, in the old cemetery. He was thrice marricd. One wife, Ann N., who died in 1834, is buried by his side. Herman H. Greene was a son of Judge Greene, and was born in Concord in 1802. In early life he entered the counting-room of Alexander Ladd, of Portsmouth. Soon after he became a sailor, rising to the command of an East Indianman. He left the sea about 1838, and then traded in Bangor, Me., a few years, and next came to Hopkinton, where he died in 1862. In 1851, he took a company hy sea to Califor- nia in the ship "Leonora," also taking along the first steamboat used on the California coast. In California, Captain Greene gave attention to mining, but made

one trip to Australia. He returned to Hopkinton after four or five years. He married Ellen C. Wiggin, of Hopkinton, in 1837, who is now living. Herman W. Greene is his son.

MATTHEW . HARVEY, a son of Matthew, was born in Sutton, June 21, 1781. He prepared for college under the tuition of Rev. Dr. Samuel Wood, of Bos- cawen, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1806. He studied law with John Harris, was admitted to the bar in 1809 and opened an office in Hopkinton. He was thirteen years a moderator of Hopkinton's town-meeting. In 1814, he was elected a State rep- resentative from Hopkinton, and continued one for seven successive years ; was Speaker of the House from 1818 to 1820. In 1821, he was sent to the United States House of Representatives, where he served four years ; he then entered the State Senate and served three years, being president of that body the whole time. In 1828 and 1829, he was a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council. In 1830 he was Governor of the State, and was the same year appointed a United States district judge. He was a prominent member of the Episcopal Church, and was a trustee of Hopkinton Academy. He was vice-president of the New Hampshire His- torical Society from 1829 to 1831, and its president from 1832 to 1834. Judge Harvey moved from Hop- kinton to Concord about 1850, and died there April 7, 1866, aged eighty five. His wife was Margaret Rowe, a native of Newburyport, Mass. They had two children. His only daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, died in 1836; his only son, Frederick, in Louisiana, in 1866.

GRACE FLETCHER, noted for her personal beauty, and celebrated in being the first wife of Daniel Web- ster, is said to have been born in Hopkinton in 1781. Her Christian name was Gratia. She was the daughter of Rev. Elijah and Rebecca Fletcher. Her father was a native of Westford, Mass., and the pas- tor of the Congregational Church in Hopkinton from 1773 to his death, in 1786. Grace Fletcher's Hopkinton home was about a mile east of the village, on the road to Concord, the ancient house being now occupied by Mrs. Stephen Abbott. Grace was edu- cated at Atkinson Academy, leaving that institution in 1801, her mother having married the Rev. Chris- topher Paige. Grace married Daniel Webster at Salisbury in 1808, while making a home with her sister Rebecca, the wife of Judge Israel Kelly. Her monumental record at Marshfield asserts that she was born January 16, 1782, and died January 21, 1828.

HORACE CHASE was born in Unity, December 14, 1788. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1814. He studied law with Matthew Harvey, of Hopkinton, and opened an office in Goshen in 1818. He returned to Hopkinton in 1821 and formed a law partnership with Matthew Harvey. He represented Hopkinton in the Legislature in 1829, and was assistant clerk of

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the House from 1830 to 1832. He was postmaster of Hopkinton from 1829 to 1850. He was judge of probate of Merrimack County from 1833 to 1855, and published the Probote Directory in 1845. He was cashier of the Franklin Bank. He was prominent in Free-Masonry ; he was made a Master-Mason in 1815, a Royal Arch Mason in 1817 and a Knight Templar in 1826. He was Grand Recorder of the Grand Com- mandery from 1860 to 1870. He compiled and pub- lished the records of the Grand Lodge from 1789 to 1856. He died March 1, 1875. He was thrice mar- ried. His first wife was Betsey Blanchard, of Hop- kinton, by whom he had four children,-a daughter and three sons. His second wife was Lucy Blan- chard, sister of his first. His third wife was Mrs. Ruhama Clarke, of Manchester, who is now living. His only daughter, Mary Elizabeth, died in 1843, aged twenty-one years. Samuel B. and Charles C., his sons, reside at Wright's Grove, Ill. ; Horace G., also his son, resides in New Haven, Conn.

-CARLTON CHASE, the son of Charles Chase and Sarah Currier, was born in Hopkinton January 20, 1794. He finished preparation for college at Salisbury Academy in 1813, and graduated at Dartmonth in 1817. While in college, he became an Episcopalian. After leaving college, he studied theology with Bishop Griswold at Bristol, R. I. In 1818, he was ordained a deacon at Bristol, and, in 1820, a priest, at New- port. He first became rector of Immanuel Church, Bellows Falls, Vt., in 1819, where he remained about twenty-five years. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Vermont in 1839, and was subsequently admitted ad eundem at Bishop's College, Lenoxville, Canada. In October, 1843, he was chosen bishop of New Hampshire, and was consecrated in Philadelphia in October, 1844. His diocesan resi- dence was at Claremont, where he had accepted the rectorship of Trinity Church, and which he held till 1863. He died January 18, 1870. Bishop Chase married Harriet, daughter of Dr. Cutter, of Bellows Falls, in 1820, by whom he had eight children.

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History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 99

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1520

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1520