History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 128

Author: Hazlett, Charles A
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 1390

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Lemuel S. Beckman, after acquiring a practical education in the public schools, engaged in shoemaking, which occupation he has followed for many years. He has taken an active part in local affairs, was tax collector for seven years and constable, and was representative in 1913 and 1914, faith- fully serving the interests of his constituents. September 30, 1885, he mar- ried Miss Sally A. Knowles, daughter of Augustus P. and Hannah E. (Felch) Knowles. He and his wife have had three children, who died in infancy.

RANDOLPH R. MERRICK, superintendent of the finishing depart- ment of the Derry Shoe Company, has been a resident of this town since 1872. He was born in Litchfield, N. H., May 2, 1847, a son of Jonathan L. and Nancie C. (Moss) Merrick. When he was three years old his mother died and his father moved to Atkinson, N. H., where the subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days. He was educated in the Atkinson Academy and on completing his schooling became connected with the shoe manufacturing industry and for twenty years was superintendent in the Pillsbury factory at Derry. He then retired and for awhile was unoccupied, but, not satisfied to lead an idle life, he subsequently accepted his present position with the Derry Shoe Company, which he has held for about two years. He is also a trustee of the Derry Savings Bank and is interested in several other business enter- prises in this vicinity. He is past master of St. Mark's Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,

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and past noble grand of Echoe Lodge, I. O. O. F. Religiously he affiliates with the Universalist church.

Mr. Merrick as a public spirited citizen has taken an active interest in the welfare of the town, which he served in the office of moderator for twelve years. He was also for four years a representative in the State Legislature. He was married, July 4, 1871, to Miss Lottie Copp, of Hampstead, N. H., the Copp family being one of the oldest in Rockingham County. He and his wife are the parents of two children; Arthur W., who is foreman of the stock room in the Emerson Pennington factory, and Mrs. Lottie Derkee, a widow who resides with her parents.

REV. GEORGE EDWIN ERNEST HASLAM, rector of the Church of the Transfiguration, the Episcopal Church at Derry, Rockingham County, N. H., was born in Cullinswood House, near Dublin, Ireland, on March 30th, 1857, a son of John Haslam and Isabella (Greville) Haslam. He was edu- cated at home and at private schools, also at Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained honors in logic and English; also a Moderatorship. He was graduated in 1882, the degree of Master of Arts being conferred upon him in 1885. In 1883 he came to Canada and in the following year was ordained deacon, being ordained priest in 1886. He became curate of St. Stephen's Church, Toronto, in 1884, and was Fellow and Lecturer in Natural Science at Trinity University, Toronto. He became rector at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1887 and in 1900 was appointed Manager of the Twentieth Cen- tury Fund of the Diocese of Nova Scotia. From 1904 to 1907 he was in charge of the church at Rose Blanche, Newfoundland. His present charge comprises both Derry and Peterboro, N. H., and in addition he holds the office of District Secretary.

Mr. Haslam was married in August, 1890, to Mabel Mary, daughter of Rev. Canon Brent of Newcastle, Ontario, and sister of Bishop Brent. Of this marriage have been born four sons, namely: George A. Greville, who is now a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Maurice Brent, a Medical Student in Canada ; C. Edwin Cummings, a student at Har- vard University, and Herbert Montfort, at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.

Aside from his parochial duties, Mr. Haslam has done a considerable amount of work along educational, literary and scientific lines. For some years he was editor and publisher of the Church Review, and was also lecturer in Apologetics in King's College, Windsor, N. S., of which he was a Gov- ernor. He has published several lectures on scientific subjects, and is the inventor of a machine for calculating the rate of evaporation from exposed water surfaces. He has now in course of publication a scientific allegory entitled "Old Jump Off." Mr. Haslam is a Royal Arch Mason. He resides at the Rectory, Derry, N. H., and since coming to Derry has made many warm friends among the people of the village and town.

ERNEST G. COLE, a prominent merchant and business man of Hamp- ton, who has been postmaster here since 1901, was born in this town, June 16 , 1869, a son of William G. and Susan L. ( Page) Cole. The Cole family is one of the oldest in this section. William G. Cole, father of our subject, was a tanner and currier doing business in Portsmouth, N. H., and Saco, Me. He was twice married : first to Hannah Brooks of Eliot, of which union there were three children: Everett S., deceased: Myron W., deceased, and Abbie Isabelle, who is the wife of S. Albert Shaw, of Hampton. By his

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second marriage to Susan L. Page of Hampton, he had three children : Anna M., who graduated from Newburyport high school and Mt. Holyoke College and who for the last twenty years has followed the profession of teacher at Hampton Academy and Berwick Academy; Ernest G .; and Hattie L., who is now deceased. Both parents of our subject are now deceased.

Ernest G. Cole after attending the common schools entered Hampton Academy in 1887, being a member of the first class to graduate from the institution. Subsequently, in 1891, he graduated from New Hampshire Col- lege, now at Durham, but then a part of Dartmouth. He then became a part- ner in the firm of J. A. Lane & Co., proprietors of a general store at Hamp- ton, and was thus occupied for six years. At the end of that time he sold out to Mr. Lane and bought out the J. W. Mason Co.'s general store, operat- ing it under the style of E. G. Cole & Co. In 1909 it was incorporated as the E. G. Cole Company, Mr. Cole being president and treasurer. The concern does a very large business and operates a branch store at Hampton Beach. The other members of the company are William Brown, manager, and Mary E. Craig, secretary and bookkeeper. Mr. Cole was appointed postmaster of Hampton in 1901 and has two rural routes under his supervision, employing three mail clerks. He has been justice of the peace for the last ten years and notary public fourteen years. He is also treasurer of the Hampton Water Works Company. A republican in politics he served on the town com- mission for years.

Mr. Cole married Caroline E. Jones of Rochester, N. H., a daughter of Charles A. and Myria (Noyes) Jones, and they have one child, Ernestine. Mr. Cole belongs to all three branches of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows ; also to Star in the East Lodge; A. F. & A. M. at Exeter, the Chapter and Council at Exeter, the Commandery at Portsmouth, the Eastern Star at Exeter, the Royal Arcanum at Exeter and the Junior Order of American Mechanics. He and his wife are members of the Congregational church. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school for the last ten years and clerk of the Congregational Society for twenty years. Mrs. Cole belongs to East- ern Star Lodge at Exeter.

CHARLES H. GORDON, who, since 1894 has been engaged in the un- dertaking business in Derry, and is otherwise interested in the business de- velopment of the village, was born in Sandown, this county, September 25, 1855, a son of James R. and Lucy Wells Gordon. His parents moving to Chester, N. H., when he was a mere child, he grew to maturity in that town, receiving his education in the public schools of that place. In 1874 he came to Derry, where for a time he worked in a shoe factory, but shortly after- ward he purchased a barber shop and for many years conducted this establish- ment, in fact, at the time of this writing ( 1914) he still owns that business, which is acknowledged to be one of the finest and best equipped barber shops in the state. Mr. Gordon, however, devotes very little of his time to the barber shop, as his ever increasing undertaking business takes up most of his time. He is also a trustee of the Nutfield Savings Bank and is a member of several fraternal societies in Derry. However, Mr. Gordon's name will probably be longer remembered for his valuable services in organizing, equip- ping and serving as chief of the first real Fire Department in Derry, practical- ly all of the present apparatus and equipment of the Derry Fire Department having been purchased while he was chief. The citizens of Derry, especially the members of the Fire Department, showed their appreciation of Mr. Gor-

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don's valuable services by presenting him with a very valuable solid gold medal at the time of the Grand Parade in Derry, October 8, 1891, in cele- bration of the opening of the Derry Water Works.

Mr. Gordon was married June 28, 1880, to Miss Caroline Dearborn, a native of Chester, N. H., and a daughter of Alfred Sargent and Aseneth Willey Dearborn. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had been children friends and com- panions and one of their most valuable possessions is an old fashioned, one- seated wooden rocking horse, in which as children they passed many a happy hour, seated side by side. It is needless to add that this same old rocking- horse recalls many happy thoughts to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon's own children, and perhaps to their grandchildren as well.

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon have four children living, as follows: Howard D., a resident of Chelsea, Mass., who is engaged in the automobile business in Brookline, Mass., married Evelyn Dingwell and has four children-Eleanore Isabelle, Phylis Viola, Constance and Charles Henry; Annie, the second born of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon's children, who is the wife of Dr. L. S. Downing, a prominent dental surgeon of Derry, N. H .; Isabelle May, the third child, who is the wife of Fred A. Cardinal, night telegraph operator at Andover, and has two children-Louis Gordon and Robert James; and Lillian Frances, the youngest, familiarly known to her friends as Goldie Gordon, who resides at home with her parents. Mr. C. H. Gordon's brother, John B. Gordon, has been chief of the Haverhill, Mass., Fire Department for the past 25 years or more.

HERBERT A. WHITE, M. D., who has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in the town of Rye since 1903, was born in Somerville, Mass., April 5, 1878, a son of Augustus C. and Alice E. (Lambert) White. The father, a native of Massachusetts, was a veteran of the Civil war, in which he was wounded. After his return home he spent his time in looking after his real estate interests. His wife Alice was a native of Maine. Their family consisted of two sons, Ernest L., a farmer of Hampton, and Her- bert A.

Herbert A. White began his education in the grammar schools of Somer- ville, Mass. After attending the high school there, he became a student at Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1899. He was graduated M. D. from Dartmouth College in 1900, after taking the medical course, and after two years spent in the Sacred Heart Hospital at Manchester, began practice in Rye, where he has now been established eleven years. He is a member of the Portsmouth Medical Society. His ability is widely recognized and he is one of the most popular physicians in this part of the county. He belongs to the Masonic order, attending lodge at Portsmouth. In politics he is a republican.

Dr. White was married December 24, 1903, to Mildred T. Prescott of Somerville, Mass., a daughter of Albion M. and Mary T. (Sturtevant) Pres- cott, her parents being from Somerville, Mass. Their other children were Harold S., Alice and Marion. Dr. and Mrs. White have three children : Elizabeth Alice, William P. and Emily T. The family attend the Univer- salist church.

CHARLES HALEY, owner and proprietor of the Central Market, deal- ing in meats and provisions, Exeter, N. H., was born in this town, Sept. 5, 1842. His father, Charles Haley, Sr., who started the present business, was

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born on the New Market road in the town of Exeter, and was a son of Ben- jamin Haley, a farmer. He was educated in the common schools and worked at farming until he established himself in the meat and provision business about 75 years ago, when quite a young man. He was a progressive and sub- stantial citizen and very popular among his fellow townsmen. He first mar- ried Sarah J. Lowe, a native of New Hampshire, and they had two children, Charles, the subject of this sketch, and Sarah J., who married Moses S. Barnard. Charles Haley, Sr., married secondly Sarah Wiggins of Stratham, N. H., of which union there were six children, as follows: Olive A., wife of Daniel G. Johnson; Alice J., wife of Abbott Williams; Harriett O., wife of William N. Langley; George W .; Mary Ella, who married George S. Hathaway, and Edna M., wife of Ernest Leavett.

Charles Haley, Jr., was educated in the common and high schools of Exeter, graduating from the latter in the class of 1861. He began industrial life in his father's store and has continued in mercantile business ever since, becoming his father's successor on the latter's death. He was first married to Mary Ellen Wiggin, of Canterbury, N. H., who died leaving two children : Charles E., who is clerk for his father in the store, and Emma B. For his second wife Mr. Haley married Priscilla B. Safford, a native of Exeter, of which union there are two children: Florence S., wife of Lewis P. Damon, and J. Gilbert. Mr. Haley is a republican in politics and he and his wife attend the Adventist church. They are energetic and prosperous people and have many friends in this community.

EVERETT W. CALL, who is engaged in the express and truck busi- ness in Portsmouth, N. H., was born at Kittery Point, York County, Me., December 15, 1860, son of John C. and Abbie (Saywards) Call. Both his parents were natives of Maine, the father of Kittery Point and the mother of Wells. The former was a sea captain until reaching the age of sixty years, after which he followed farming. Their children were John J., Charles W., Howard M., Everett W., Almond D., Martin L. and Henry C.

Everett W. Call was educated in the common school at Kittery Point, after which he spent six years as an employe of the Boston & Maine Rail- road. He then worked twenty years in the express business for Jackson & Co., of Portsmouth, after which he started his present business, using two wagons and being assisted by his son. In politics he is a democrat. Mr. Call has been three times married : first to Addie Tobey, of Kittery Point, Me., who died, leaving two children, Edward E. and Curtis. He married secondly Mamie Danmenburge, of North Kittery, who died leaving one son, Raymond C. Mr. Call .subsequently married Emma H. Manson of North Kittery. They have a son Harold, who married Bessie Jenness and has a daughter, Dorothy. Mr. Call and his family attend the Congregational church.

WARREN BROWN, farmer, historian and politician, is one of the best known and most respected citizens of the town of Hampton Falls, where he was born in 1836. His parents were John B. and Sarah M. (Leavitt) Brown. The father was a son of Jacob Brown, whose family numbered four children, namely: Thomas, who with his wife met an untimely death in 1868 by assassination: Nathan W., who was a merchant in Newburyport, married Sarah Chase, by whom he had four sons, and died in 1836; Joseph C., who resided in Hampton Falls and was killed by having a rock fall on him; and John B., father of the subject of this sketch.

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John B. Brown was born in 1799 and resided upon the family homestead in this town. He died in 1858, at which time he was president of the Weare Bank. His wife Sarah, who was a daughter of Thomas Leavitt, Esq., of this town, died in 1896 at the advanced age of eighty-seven years.

Warren Brown, who was the only child of his parents, acquired a good education and in due time succeeded to the parental homestead, where he has always resided. He has made extensive improvements on the property, build- ing the present commodious residence in 1879. A practical and scientific farmer, he served as president of the New Hampshire State Agricultural Society for eleven years, has been treasurer of the New England Agricul- tural Society since 1893, and trustee of the State College twenty-four years, of which board he was president for four years. Mr. Brown, with Mr. Lovell, was active in promoting the Interurban Trolley line. A republican in politics, he has for many years taken a strong and active interest in public affairs, and he has been chosen by his fellow citizens on various occasions to fill responsible offices. He was a member of the state senate in 1872 and 1873, and of the executive council during Natt Head's administration from 1879 to 1881 ; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884, and served as representative in 1887, in each case showing marked ability as a broad minded politician and man of affairs. In 1908 Mr. Brown was a presidential elector, casting his vote for Taft. He takes a keen interest in local history, on which subject he is one of the best informed men in the county, which fact, together with a more than ordinary degree of literary ability, he demonstrated in 1900, when he published a History of the town of Hampton Falls from the time of the first settlement within its borders to the present.

Mr. Brown was married in 1867 to Sarah G., daughter of Daniel L. and Sophia (Osgood) Norris, of Dover, N. H. Their children are as follows : Harry B., now deceased, born in 1870, resided in Hampton, this county, and was a contractor in the construction of the Interurban Trolley line ; Arthur W., born in 1873, graduated from Cushing Academy, at Ashburn- ham, Mass., in 1890; Gertrude, born in 1878. was a member of the class of 1896 at Robinson Seminary, Exeter, and died just before graduation; Mil- dred L., born in 1880, was graduated from Sanborn Seminary, Kingston, in 1898. Mr. Brown is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the New Hampshire Consistory.

WILLIS DU BOIS PULVER, a lawyer of well known ability, is one of the foremost citizens of Salem Depot, was born in Luzerne, New York, June 24, 1871, and is a son of Nathan and Estelle (Du Bois) Pulver.

The Pulvers are of an old Holland Dutch family which became estab- lished on Manhattan Island in the seventeenth century. Peter Pulver, great- grandfather of the subject of this record, was for many years owner and proprietor of the Pulver Hotel at Chatham, New York. His son, Henry Pul- ver, was married to Susan Evans, and their children were Peter. Myron, Nathan and Mary.

Nathan Pulver was born in Luzerne, N. Y., in 1855, and is a civil en- gineer by profession. In addition to surveying, he is engaged in lumbering. He has held all the town offices and for the past twenty-five years has been judge of the local court. He also is town assessor at the present time. For twenty years he has been on the Republican County Committee. He mar- ried Estelle Du Bois, who is of French Huguenot stock, an ancestor, Louis

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Du Bois, having settled at New Paltz, N. Y., in the Wallkill Valley, where he owned several thousand acres of land which he purchased from the Indians. Nathan Pulver and his wife became parents of the following children: Wil- lis Du Bois; LeRoy M., born September 2, 1873, who is an attorney in Luzerne and also supervisor of the town; George, born in 1877, who is mar- ried to Celia Cook; John W., born 1875, who died in 1906; Frank Dudley, born in 1884, who is general manager of the electric light company.at Lu- zerne; Roscoe, born in 1886, who died in 1896; and Fred N., born in 1888, who is assistant editor of Glens Falls Times. The last named married Julia Higgins and has a son Fred N. LeRoy M. Pulver married Julia R. Barrett and has three children-Russell, Mortimer and Catherine. Frank Dudley Pulver married Edna Wilson and has two children-Lucile and James N.

Willis Du Bois Pulver attended the public school and worked on his grand- father's farm until he was sixteen years old. He then went to Glens Falls Academy, paying his way by working at the carpenter's trade. He subse- quently attended the law department of the University of Baltimore, and was graduated with the class of 1898, receiving the degree of LL. B. Going to Chicago, he was there employed in a law office for one year, and at the end of that period established himself in practice at Holly, Mich. His next move was to Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1904, where he practiced two years. In 1906, he came to Salem Depot, where he was destined to become one of the . community's most active citizens. He has a large clientele and enjoys the highest esteem of his fellow citizens in general. He has not been a seeker for political preferment, but did serve two years as tax collector. He was organizer of the Board of Trade, served the first year as secretary, and dur- ing the past seven years has rendered efficient service as president of the board. He also is one of the vice-presidents of the New Hampshire State Board of Trade. He acted as Tribunal for the trial of local criminal cases from 1906 to August, 1913.

On September 24, 1912, Mr. Pulver was married to Miss Helen W. Emerson, a daughter of Rufus and Grace E. Emerson, of Haverhill. To them was born October 18, 1914, a daughter, Marjorie Estelle. Fraternally Mr. Pulver is a member of Senat Lodge, No. 456, A. F. & A. M. of Glens Falls; Glens Falls Chapter, No. 56; Gedel Council No. 56 of Urichsville. Ohio; Washington Commandery No. 33, K. T., of Saratoga Springs, N. Y .; and Bektash Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Concord, N. H., of which he is a charter member and is now Oriental Guide. He also is a member of Plaistow Grange, West Rockingham Pomona, Pilgrim Fathers of Salem and the New England Fat Men's Club.

EMERY N. EATON, of Seabrook, Rockingham County, N. H., was born in Seabrook, January 20, 1860, a son of Jacob and Rebecca (Eaton) Eaton. He is a representative of a long established and respected family of this locality and is a direct descendant of one of the very earliest settlers in Rockingham County. The first progenitor here was John Eaton, whose life was devoted to reclaiming and cultivating the section of land on which he located. His son Jonathan became in turn the father of Jacob Eaton ( Ist), the grandfather of the subject of this sketch.

Jacob ( Ist), who had his birth in Seabrook, was engaged throughout his life in general agricultural pursuits and in carpentering. He participated in the second war with England and in recognition of his loyalty, and of duty performed, his children received a pension from the National government.

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He and his wife Martha were blessed in the birth of six children, namely : Samuel, Stephen, Emery, Jacob, Caroline and Ardesira.

Jacob Eaton (2d), was also a native of Seabrook, where he was born in 1830. He followed shoemaking as his vocation, though for thirty-five years he passed his life on the sea as a fisherman. He was joined in matrimony with Miss Rebecca Eaton, daughter of True Eaton of Seabrook and their union was fruitful in the birth of six children: Belinda J., Carolyn, Jacob L., Emery N., Caddie J. and Lawrence; only one of these, Emery N., now survives. Mr. Jacob Eaton who enjoyed the society of a wide circle of friends, passed from this life January 17, 1894.

Emery N. Eaton obtained his early intellectual preparation for the duties and responsibilities of life in the district schools of his ancestral town. In 1895 he accepted an appointment by the Boston & Maine Railroad corpora- tion as station agent at State Line station, now Atlantic, a depot on the Port- land Division, and in that position he still officiates.

On July, 1883, Mr. Eaton was married to Miss Alberta L. Janvrin, daugh- ter of John S. and Emily A. Follansbee, formerly of Weare, N. H. Into their home have come with blessing two children, Caddie J. and Byron J. L. by name. Mr. Eaton has been frequently elected by his fellow citizens to positions of public trust. He has served as selectman of Seabrook twenty-five years-1883-84-85-86-87, 1894-95-96-97-98-99, 1900-01-02-03-04-05-06-08- 09-10-II-12-13 and 14. He has served as chairman of the board for twenty-one years. He was a member of the school board in 1882-83-95; served five years as treasurer of the school board, was town treasurer three years, and town clerk in 1889. He has also filled the position of town audi- tor, 1882-88-89-90-91-92, and served as town moderator twelve years. He has been elected overseer of the poor for twenty-seven years, also as clerk of the school district for twenty-three years, and during the last twenty-two years has been justice of the peace, having a large practice in the probate business. He represented his town in the General Court of New Hampshire, session of 1891. He has been secretary of the local board of health fourteen years.

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History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 128

Author: Hazlett, Charles A Publication date: 1915 Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Number of Pages: 1390

Author: Hazlett, Charles A
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 1390