History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 19

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

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Third Regiment .--- John H. Jackson, lieutenant-colonel; Alfred J. Hill, adjutant; William H. Cornelius, lieutenant; Thomas M. Jackson, second lieutenant. Company B: William J. Morrison. Company D: James Burk. Thomas Entwestle, Warren G. Gates, George C. Harris, William Horrocks, Charles E. Johnson, Harrison E. Johnson, Daniel Kimball, Joseph T. Moore, James Neal, George W. Odiorne, William B. Parks, James W. Plaisted, Ezekiel C. Rand, Thos. E. Stoodley, John H. Tredick, Leonard G. Wiggin. Company B: W. J. Morrison. Company K: Charles W. Moulton, Richard Thomas. Marched from Concord September 3, 1861.

Fourth Regiment N. H. V .- Company A: Harrison Hartford. Com- pany B: George F. Towle, captain; Jacob Ambuster, Albert C. Berry, John W. Brewster, Stephen Conner, Luther Harmon, John Henderson, Seth W. Huntress, George H. Perkins. Company G: James Donavan. Fourth Regiment marched from Manchester September 27, 1861.

Fifth Regiment, N. H. V .- Company B: John H. Locke, Frank C. Sweetser. Company D: Michael Brooks. Company K: Peter Brennan, Charles W. Burleigh, Michael Harr, Walter M. Hatch, James Stearns, Robert S. Dame. Fifth Regiment marched from Concord October 29, 1861.

Sixth Regiment N. H. V .- Company H: Andrew J. Sides, second lieu- tenant; James Berry, Havillah F. Downing, Pierpont Hammond, Dennis

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Kane, Bickford L. Rand, Irving W. Rand, William H. Redden, Samuel S. Sides, William G. Tripp, William Wilson, Edward McDonald, James Daley, John S. Dore, Hiram Hayes, William A. Horton, William Kemp, Franklin Jones, Edward Martin, Hiram Morrow, Richard Norton, John O'Brine, Daniel Quinn, Charles H. Thompson, Reuben H. Ricker, Washington Sweet. Sixth Regiment N. H. V. marched from Keen December 25, 1861. Lieut. A. J. Sides was first sergeant of Company K when it left the city, but was subsequently discharged and recruited the men of Company H.

Seventh Regiment .- Company D: George B. Parker. Company G: John White. Seventh Regiment marched from Manchester January 14, 1862. Ninth Regiment .- Company C: David Binch. Company E: Edward F. Goodwin. Ninth Regiment marched from Concord August 25, 1862.

Tenth Regiment .- Company G: George W. Towle, captain; George E. Hodgdon. first lieutenant ; Lemon R. Marston, second lieutenant; Horace H. Adams, Henry L. Adlington, Thomas Archibald, James S. Ayers, John O. Ayers, Meschack Bell, Jr., Henry T. Brill, George Brown, Abram D. Burn- ham, Joseph B. Burnham, John H. Custton, Hesam Cowen, Thomas Day, William E. Dearborn, Benjamin F. Evans, John E. Fields, Richard Fitz- gerald, John H. Flint, Franklin E. Gardner, Lucius Gilmore, Michael Gilli- gan, Thomas Haley, Michael Haire, Pierpont Hammond, Owen Henwood, John Higgins, William Hill, George A. Hodgdon, John Hodgdon, Harlan P. Hodgdon, Charles L. Hoitt, James Howes, John E. Hoyt, Edward Jarvis, Joseph F. Keen, George M. Kimball, George King, B. Stow Laskey, Charles W. Lolley, John N. Marden, Michael Mason, Charles Mayes, Robert Miles, John H. Moore, John H. Morrison, George O. Murray, Charles H. Much- more, John S. Patterson, Edward B. Prime, Charles W. Pickering, Edward O. Randall, John H. Ramsdell, Eugene Reistle, Thomas Rutter, J. Albert Sanborn, Freeman F. Sanborn, Joseph S. Seavey, Michael Sheridan, Jr., Alfred S. Sweetser, Oliver F. Taylor, John Thompson, Andrew D. Walden, Richard Walsh, Andrew W. Whidden, Sylvester Y. White, Henry J. Willey, Thomas Williams, William H. Williams, William Wingate, Aaron Sias, Peter Sullivan, John H. Stringer, John S. Sheridan, Horace J. Willey. Tenth Regiment marched from Manchester September 22, 1862.

Eleventh Regiment .- Company A: Francis F. Butchelder. Eleventh Regiment marched from Concord September 1I, 1862.

Thirteenth Regiment .- Jacob Storer, major; William J. Ladd, sergeant- major. Company E: Charles F. Adams, Henry Nutter. Company F: Edwin H. Leslie. Company K: Matthew T. Betton, captain; Enoch W. Goss, first lieutenant: Nathaniel J. Coffee, second lieutenant; Samuel P. Abbott, Henry Bean, Charles Braydon, John W. Brown, Ferdinand Barr, D. Webster Barnabee, Joseph B. Brown, Thomas Critchley, Jr., Joseph H. Coche. Joseph N. Davidson, George Davids, James Danielson. Thomas Fair- service, Nathaniel Gunnison, James. Gilchrist, John V. A. Hanson, John Harmon, Henry C. Hodgdon, Henry A. Haneyfield, Michael Hoy, Abel Jack- son, Ephraim Jackson, Daniel M. Jellison, William H. Jellison, Francis R. Johnson, Martin Johnson, William H. Lean, James R. Morrison, John H. Mawbey, John Moore, Martin Moore, John Mottrane, John May, John Mc- Millan, William Mitchell, Jr., Jeremiah L. McIntire, Peter Mitchell, George

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Manning, Daniel H. Plaisted, William Peirce, Jr., Thomas B. Parks, Henry S. Paul, Charles Powell, Isaac N. M. Pry, John L. Randall, Owen H. Roche, Ezekiel C. Rand, Robert Rand, Charles W. Randall, Reuben S. Randall, Moses Rowe, John C. Stevens, Storer E. Stiles, Daniel J. Spinney, George Scott, Enoch F. Smith, Robert M. Spinney, Charles G. Smith, George L. Sides, Edward W. Sides, Horace S. Spinney, Patrick Sullivan, Edwin A. Tilton, Henry S. Thompson, Samuel Taylor, Benjamin F. Winn, Robert B. Welch, William Warburton (2d), John F. Welch, Daniel H. McIntire. Thirteenth Regiment marched from Concord October 6, 1862.

Sixteenth Regiment .- Company K: Joseph H. Thacher, captain; George T. Wilde, first lieutenant; William A. Haven, second lieutenant; Henry B. Adams, George E. Allen, James Anderson, Thomas Brackett, Jr., Samuel Blatchforce, Henry M. Caster, James Cunningham, Daniel Danielson, Frank- lin Dow, William Dutton, Charles E. Edny, Henry O. Ellinwood, James H. Emery, Hollis W. Fairbanks, Israel G. Fletcher, John Flynn, Otto Franck, Frederick Franz, Charles F. Goodwin, Thomas J. Goodwin, Charles E. Gray, Jacob Haddock, Otis F. Haley, John Higgins, George W. Hill, Joseph E. Holmes, Christopher J. Kellenbeck, Jacob F. Knight, Philip Krunz, John Leary, Charles W. Levitt, Patrick Mahoney, William Mason, Angus Mc- Cormick, John McIntosh, James Mitchell, William J. Mills, John H. Mor- rill, Joseph E. Nash, Franklin W. Neal, Timothy O'Leary, Albert A. Payne, Charles A. Payson, John H. Pearson, William A. Rand, Samuel Ruvill, Oren Seavey, James Shaw, Jr., John Shaw, Robert Smart, James L. Smith, Nathaniel Spinney, Charles Stewart, John Sullivan, John Taylor, Isaac Thomas, Mark W. Tucker, Charles Wagner, Samuel W. Walden, James A. Waterhouse, James E. Walker, Benjamin F. Watkins, Daniel Watkins, James Webster, George A. Woodsun, John F. Woodsun. Sixteenth Regiment marched from Concord August -14, 1863.

Seventeenth Regiment .- Company B: Isaac F. Jenness, captain; Frank D. Webster, first lieutenant; Joseph W. Ackerman, George Anderson, Wil- liam J. Andrews, Charles H. Alvarez, John Barry, Thomas Brown, J. C. Canney, William Carter, Daniel M. Clark, Warner Coggswell, Thomas Cook, John Fernald, Thomas H. Fisher, Joseph Fuller, Charles Davis, John F. Gallagher, Hiram A. Grant, Clarence S. Gray, James Haley, Joseph A. Hane, Christopher W. Harrold, Henry Harris, Charles H. Kimball, John H. Lam- bert, Joseph Midgley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles E. Morse, John S. Perkins, Ammi C. Rand, Louis H. Rand, James H. Roberts, Henry V. Rogers, Ed- ward D. Stoodley, Robert W. Stoll, James Tangney, Richard Turner, John W. Walker, John A. Walch, Henry A. Whitton, Thomas H. Wilson, Henry Wingate.

Berdan's Regiment (Sharpshooters) .- Company F: Henry L. Richards, James H. Frost, Alvah H. Woodward; Paymaster Albert H. Hoyt.

First Regiment New England Cavalry .- Robert E. Shillaber.

Fifth Maine Regiment .- John E. Moran.

Fifteenth Maine Regiment .- Samuel Blackford, Addison H. Beach.

First Massachusetts Regiment .- William H. Davidson, William H. Hunters.

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Second Massachusetts Regiment .- William Tate, wounded before Rich- mond, and died August 2, 1862.

Tenth Massachusetts Regiment .- Wilber F. Lamb.

Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment .- Andrew H. Moran.

Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment .- Wallace W. Gore, Joseph J. Locke.

Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment .- Robert B. Henderson, John B. Coswell.

Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment .- William H. Smith.

Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment .- James W. Leverton.

Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment .- Ezekiel Mann, Samuel A. Badger.

Nineteenth . Massachusetts Regiment .- George W. Moran, Samuel A. Bridge.

Twenty-second Massachusetts Regiment .- Charles Drew, Joseph Drew, Samuel A. Wiggin.

Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment .- Robert F. Foster, Simeon S .. Sweet.

Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment .- Henry W. Paul.

Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment .- Samuel B. Shapleigh, Charles W. Shannon.

Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment .- Ezekiel Fitzgerald, Benjamin Chandler, Albert L. Dodge, Frederick L. Dodge.

Forty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment .- Charles C. Haley.

Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment .- Charles L. Tidd.

Fifth New York Artillery .- John Swindells.

Fifty-seventh New York Regiment .- Daniel J. Vaughan.

Eighty-ninth New York Regiment .- George A. Edny.

Third Wisconsin Cavalry .- George W. Carr.

First Minnesota .- Oliver M. Knight.

First Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry .- Daniel B. Sawyer.

Second Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry .- Albert S. Leighton.

Heavy Artillery at Fort Constitution .- Stephen S. Blaisdell, Henry M. Davis, Andrew Goldthwait, Joseph H. Graves, Clarence S. Gray, John Haley, Samuel P. Halt, Charles E. Moore, Alanson Ordway, George B. Roofe, Amos B. Smith, Stark Spinney, Jesse A. Tobey, Charles E. Young.

United States Navy .- George C. Abbott, John Q. Adams, Charles W. Adams, Woodbury Adams, George E. Anderson, Joseph Barry, Joshua Bas- tille, Andrew Bayne, Freeman Beale, Daniel F. Bean, Joel Bean, Charles E. Beck, Charles E. Berry, William Black, William W. Black, George C. Board- man, Elijah Brown, George W. Brown, Joseph Brown, William Brown, William Brown, William Brown, Michael Buckley, James Burke, George Butler, William Card, Joseph W. Carlton, Henry A. Carter, Josiah P. Car- ter, Henry H. Cate, Joseph G. Cate, Albert Chamberlain, Horace A. Chase, Walter Chesley, Charles W. Clark, Edmund Clark, Wallace W. Clark, Thomas Collins, Kiesan Copley, James Courtney, George Cox, Michael Crow- ley, William Currier, Charles Cummings, Frederick Danielson, Joseph David- son, Francis Dema, James M. Devine, Michael Devine, John M. De Roch- ment, Castine B. De Witt, Arthur Dorrity, John H. Downs, Frank M. Drake, Nelson N. Downing, Franklin N. Ellison, Horace Ellison, William Ellison,

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William H. Emery, William Y. Evans, David Faulkner, William H. Fields, Albert Fisher, Joseph Fitzgerald, Joseph Foster, Charles E. Freeman, Wil- liam D. Freeman, Thomas B. Gammon, Thomas S. Gay, J. Nelson Good- rich, Benjamin Gray, Charles A. C. Gray, Henry Gray, Samuel Gray, Frank W. Hackett, William H. Haddock, Allison W. Hadley, Mark S. Ham, Ben- jamin Harris, Thomas A. Harris, Lyman H. Hertford, John Hartnett, Frank F. Hastings, Charles E. Hawkins, Henry Hayes, William C. Hazlett. Fred- erick Henderson, George Herbert, Daniel Hennessey, James Hennessey, John A. Holbrook, Charles W. Holmes, Alfred H. Hook, Andrew J. Hough, William H. Howell, Hugh Hunter, James Hurley, Michael Hurley, Patrick Hurley, William S. Jarvis, Henry Jenkins, John Jenkins, Abraham A. John- son, Augustus Johnson, George N. Johnson, George W. Johnson, Charles C. Jones, John Jones, Michael Jones, Charles K. Knox, John H. Knox, Thomas Kehoe, Irving W. Laighton, William F. Laighton, William M. Laighton, Henry S. Lambert, John L. Lambert, Edward D. Lane, Harvey V. Lang, Thomas W. Lang, John T. Larrabee, Samuel Lear, Lafayette Leary, John C. Lewis, Edwin.W. Locke, Jeremiah S. Locke, Oliver H. Locke, William W. Locke, James Lynch, John F. Lyons, William H. Manson, Rob- ert B. Marden, Albert S. Marston, George E. Martin, Gustavus W. Mason, John McAwley, David McCliskey, Michael McCliskey, Daniel McDonald, Robert McFadden, John McGraw, John McKenly, Alexander McLead, Cor- nelius Mead, Henry Melvin, Oliver Messer, Thomas J. Mitchell, Thomas Moore, Edward Moses, John F. Muchmore, Isaac C. Murch, James Mur- wick, William Newick, Jeremiah Newman, Leverett W. Noyes, William Nuckett, John E. Odwone, Andrew B. Paine, William Paine, John F. Parks, William Parks, Enoch G. Parrott, John A. Payne, George F. Pearson, Albert G. Pembell, Edward Pendexter, George W. Perry, William Pettigrew, Sam- uel Phelbrech, Charles W. Pickering, Simeon S. Pickering, William P. Pender, Alonzo K. Place, Charles L. Place, Leonard Place, Frank Plaisted, James E. Plaisted, Patrick Quenland, Cornelius Quinn, John Quinn, Thomas Quinn, Charles Ricker, Thomas W. Ridge, John M. Roberts, Joseph Rey- nolds, Alexander Robinson, Richard Robinson, Charles H. Ross, Charles H. Rowe, Jabez Rowe, John Rutlidge, Lewis Rutlidge, William Rutlidge, Frank C. Sawyer, William O. Seawards, George E. Smart, Ivory Smart, Charles J. Smith, James Smith, James H. Smith, John H. Smith, Stephen Smith, William Smith, James A. Snow, Lyman G. Spalding, Chesley Spinney, William T. Spinney, George E. Stackpole, William Stanley, George W. Storer, William P. Storer, John W. Stott, Joseph W. Stringer, Dennis O. Sullivan, Warren L. Sweet, Charles Tate, Andrew Tetterly, Samuel Thomas, Henry Tucker, Thomas L. Tullock, Jr., Edwin Underhill, Joseph B. Upham, Jr., Charles L. Varney, Frank A. Varney, John L. Venare, James Walch, Daniel Walker, William Walker, Joseph Wallace, Edward L. Warburton, Benjamin F. Watkins, Frank Watkins, Thomas Watkins, Richard Watkins, William Watkins, Henry C. Webster, William Webster, Edward H. Weeks, George W. Weeks, John Welch, Joshua Wetherell, Thomas Wetherell, Andrew White, Joshua W. White, George F. Whitehouse, Samuel A. Whitehouse, William H. Whitehouse, John W. Young.

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The Winfield Scott Schley Camp No. 4, United Spanish War Veterans, located at Portsmouth, has a membership of eighty-nine comrades.

SHIP BUILDING AND PRIVATEERING

The principal industry of Portsmouth for half a century was ship build- ing. From 1801 to 1850 an average of nine vessels per year were built on the Piscataqua River, and every decade the vessels were made larger and more costly. Starting with an average of 200 tons in 1801, there was hardly any increase until 1827, when thousands assembled to see the launching of a full rigged ship, the Sarah Parker, of about 400 tons, that was built for Captain Ichabod Goodwin. In the '30s and '40s the average rose to 450 tons and in the '50s the eighty-four vessels launched averaged 900 tons, one, The Sierra Nevada, being of 1,952 tons. The famous Typhoon that made the record trip across the Atlantic in thirteen days, was built here in 1851. In the Fourth of July procession in 1853, George Raynes had an ox team decorated with fifty-three models of vessels that he had built. That number was excelled by Master William Badger, for on his monument on Badger's Island is the inscription that he built nearly one hundred vessels, but the fact that he never saw one of them launched has not been published. In 1800, 108 vessels were owned in this port besides those engaged in fish- ing. In 1824, 182 vessels, including 38 ships, were owned here, employing 1,453 seamen. In 1834, 196 vessels, of which 40 were engaged in foreign trade, 4 in whaling, 85 in fishing, 56 in coasting. In 1840, 201 vessels were similarly employed. For years the wharves were lined with vessels export- ing lumber, fish, beef, pork and live stock, and importing wines, molasses, sugar, coffee, spices, iron and salt. The odd hours of Portsmouth youths were spent in the numerous shipyards and on the wharves, and it is no won- der so many went down to the sea in ships with the hopes of a captain's berth, or learned one of the trades connected with ship building or commerce.

In 1844 Rev. Andrew P. Peabody stated to a lyceum audience in a lec- ture on the industries of Portsmouth, that the yearly earnings from agri- culture was $30,000, manufacturing-principally stocking factories-$100,- 000, and from commerce $500,000. In 1846 when the Portsmouth Steam Factory and Sagamore Company started with about 500 employees, the main producing population were engaged in commerce, fishing and ship building. The prosperous years of Portsmouth ship building and commerce departed during the Civil war. The high rates of insurance premiums for war risks, on account of the confederate privateers and the chance to sell American built ships for English gold at a high premium, left our ship yards and wharves nearly vacant.

Of late years Portsmouth has been and is the coal port of the State of New Hampshire and a good part of Maine and Vermont. More than half a million tons are annually shipped by rail to the great mills of Manchester and other inland places. The Piscataqua Navigation Company with its steam-boats and barges carries the bricks from the yards on the upper Piscataqua to Massa- chusetts. The Morley Button Company is the largest concern of its kind in the world. Giving constant employment to 250 employees. The Gale Shoe Company and the Widder Bros. Shoe Company employ hundreds of workmen.

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PRIVATEERING

In the latter part of the War of 1812-14 ten brigs and schooners were built as armed privateers, and they captured as prizes British vessels and cargoes amounting to millions of dollars. Only a partial account of the sixteen Ports- mouth privateers has been written, for most of the records have been pur- posely destroyed, but enough manuscripts and books have come into the possession of the editor to indicate the large fortunes the owners made, from which were erected our largest and finest houses of that and the following decade. Four hundred and nineteen vessels were taken by sixteen Portsmouth privateers. Four captured prizes which, with their contents, were valued at two and one-half millions of dollars. Few people are acquainted with the influence of privateering upon the seaport towns, and the successful issues of the two wars with England. In the Revolutionary war the prizes captured by the privateers amounted to $18,000,000. In the 1812-14 war alone the value of British prizes taken by 517 privateers amounted to $39,000,000, and by the twenty-three U. S. war vessels to $6,000,000. The numbers of prisoners taken on the high seas, principally by privateers, amounted to 30,000, while the army captured only 6,000. The Portsmouth schooner "Fox" in 1814 received from the U. S. Government $3,650, as bounty for the prisoners captured from British vessels.

CHAPTER XV PORTSMOUTH-(Continued)

Banks-Newspapers-Fires-Architecture, Various Events-Famous Inhabi- tants-Schools, Parks and Playgrounds

BANKS

Chronology .- New Hampshire Bank incorporated 1792, expired 1842 .*

New Hampshire Union Bank incorporated 1802, expired 1842 .*

Portsmouth Bank incorporated 1803, expired 1843 .*

Rockingham Bank incorporated 1813, succeeded by Rockingham National Bank 1865, expired 1905 .*

Branch Bank of the U. S. established 1816, closed 1835 .*

Portsmouth Savings Bank incorporated 1823.

Piscataqua Bank incorporated 1824, succeeded by Piscataqua Exchange Bank incorporated 1844, succeeded by First National Bank 1863.

Commercial Bank incorporated 1825, succeeded by Mechanics and Traders Bank 1844, succeeded by National Mechanics and Traders Bank 1865.

New Hampshire Bank incorporated 1855, succeeded by New Hampshire National Bank 1865.

Rockingham 10-Cent Savings Bank incorporated 1867, closed 1876 .*

Portsmouth Trust & Guarantee Company incorporated 1871.

Piscataqua Savings Bank incorporated 1877.

The First National Bank is a successor of the Piscataqua Bank of 1824 and the Piscataqua Exchange Bank of 1844. The First National Bank is number I in the Treasury Department. The $30,000 U. S. 6% bonds to secure circulating notes, sent to Washington on April 9, 1863, were the first received from any bank in the United States and its bonds were kept in Box No. I, by the United States treasurer during the term of the original charter. The bank opened July 7, 1863, being number 19 on the Comptroller's books.

Presidents .- Samuel Hale, 1824-1844; William H. Y. Hackett, 1844- 1878; Ichabod Goodwin, 1879-1882; Edward P. Kimball, 1882-1910; John K. Bates, 1910-1914.

Cashiers .- Samuel Lord, 1824-1871 ; Edward P. Kimball, 1872-1882; Charles A. Hazlett, 1883-1914.

Long Services .- The three cashiers were employed in the bank 53, 47

* No successor.

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and 41 years respectively. Five directors have acted on the board 53, 51, 49, 47 and 41 years respectively. For 80 years the bank messenger, his father and grandfather, have faithfully served the banks in this city.

The officers elected January 13, 1914, were: J. K. Bates, president; C. A. Hazlett, vice president; R. W. Junkins, cashier; J. M. McPhee, assistant cashier ; L. B. Wright, teller. Directors: John H. Broughton, Henry A. Yeaton, Wallace Hackett, Charles A. Hazlett, Joseph O. Hobbs, John K. Bates and Edward T. Kimball.

The National Mechanics' and Traders' Bank is a successor of the Com- mercial Bank, which was chartered in July, 1825. Isaac Walton, president ; George Melcher, Jr., cashier ; succeeded by Richard Jenness, president ; James T. Shores, cashier. This bank was succeeded by the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, chartered 1844. Richard Jenness, president; James T. Shores, cashier. This was succeeded by the National Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, organized May, 1864. George L. Treadwell, president; James T. Shores, cashier. Mr. Shores died in 1871, and was succeeded by G. W. Butler, cashier. G. L. Treadwell resigned in February, 1876, succeeded by John Sise. G. W. Butler resigned in April, 1881 ; succeeded by John Laighton, who resigned in March, 1882, when James P. Bartlett was elected cashier, and resigned in 1895. He was succeeded by C. F. Shillaber in 1895. The present officers are: G. Ralph Laighton, president; C. F. Shillaber, cashier. Directors: J. W. Peirce, G. R. Laighton, Gustave Peyser, C. F. Shillaber, Wm. E. Marvin, F. H. Sise, John J. Berry.

The New Hampshire National Bank is a successor of the New Hamp- shire Bank, incorporated in 1855. The present bank was organized as a national bank in 1865. Peter Jenness was president from 1855 to 1866, when he was succeeded by Mr. J. P. Bartlett, who remained until 1882, and was succeeded by E. A. Peterson who served till 1890. Thomas A. Harris was president from 1890 to 1893, and Calvin Page president from 1893 to 1914. J. P. Bartlett was cashier from 1855 to 1866, L. S. Butler from 1866 to 1890, and W. C. Walton from 1890 to 1914.

The present officers are: Calvin Page, president; W. C. Walton, cashier ; W. L. Conlon, assistant cashier. Directors : Calvin Page, H. Fisher Eldredge, A. F. Howard, F. H. Ward, J. W. Emery, W. C. Walton.

Portsmouth Savings Bank .- May 26, 1818, some of the most prominent citizens of the town met and organized an "Institution for the Deposit and Investment of Monies," and applied for a charter, which, however, the Legis- lature declined to grant. But in 1823 the charter of the "Portsmouth Savings Bank" was obtained, and this bank is therefore among the oldest of such insti- tutions in the United States. At first the bank was open for deposits and withdrawals only on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 P. M. and occupied a chamber of the building then on the site of their new building. The following is a list of the presidents and treasurers of the bank :

Presidents, Nathaniel A. Haven, 1823-31 ; Henry Ladd, 1831-39; James Rundlett, 1839-40; Robert Rice, 1840-44; William M. Shackford, 1844-69; William Simes, 1869-80; William H. Rollins, 1880-93; C. E. Batcheder, 1893- 95 ; J. S. H. Frink, 1895-1905 ; G. Ralph Laighton, 1905. Treasurers, Samuel Lord, 1823-69; James F. Shores, Jr., 1869-77; Joseph H. Foster, 1877-85;

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Geo. Tompson, 1885-89; G. Ralph Laighton, 1889-1905; Harry E. Boynton, 1905.

The present officers are: G. Ralph Laighton, president; H. E. Boynton, treasurer. Trustees: Joseph W. Peirce, D. F. Borthwick, Gustave Peyser, H. E. Boynton, Moses A. Safford, G. Ralph Laighton, William E. Marvin. The Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee Company, a savings bank, incor- porated in 1871. The presidents have been George L. Treadwell, Ezra H. Winchester, Jeremiah F. Hall, Frank Jones and Calvin Page. Charles H. Rollins was treasurer until December, 1876, when he was succeeded by G. L. Treadwell, who officiated until April, 1879, when Mr. Rollins was re-ap- pointed. Samuel J. Gerrish was treasurer from 1892 to 1911 and was suc- ceeded by Wm. C. Walton in 1911. The present officers are: Calvin Page, president ; A. F. Howard, vice president; Wm. C. Walton, treasurer ; Willis E. Underhill, assistant treasurer ; Percival C. Sides, clerk. Directors: Calvin Page, B. F. Webster, A. F. Howard, John H. Bartlett and W. C. Walton.

The Piscataqua Savings Bank was incorporated in 1877. The first presi- dent was W. H. Y. Hackett, who was succeeded by Governor Ichabod Good- win in 1878. E. P. Kimball served until 1910. The present president, C. A. Hazlett, was elected in April, 1910. Robert C. Peirce was treasurer from 1878 to 1893, W. C. Fraser to 1906, and C. W. Brewster to 1913. The present officers are: President and acting treasurer, Charles A. Hazlett ; assistant treasurer, E. Curtis Matthews, Jr. Trustees: John H. Broughton, Alfred F. Howard, Henry A. Yeaton, Wallace Hackett, Joseph O. Hobbs (North Hampton), Lewis E. Staples, Charles A. Hazlett and John K. Bates.

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History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 19

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