History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 11

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1714


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HAMPTON.


EDMUND TOPPAN was the only son of Hon. Chris- topher Toppan, a man of note in the history of Ilamp- ton. He was born Sept. 25, 1777, and graduated from Harvard College in 1796. He studied law under the direction of Hon. Theophilus Parsons, then of New- buryport, and after a short stay at Portsmouth com- menced business in Deerfield, his father having built him a house there and presented him with an ex- pensive library. Ile practiced there till about 1804, when his house and library were accidentally de- stroyed by fire, and then he returned to his native place, and there remained until his death in 1849. His business in Hampton was necessarily somewhat limited, but he was acceptable to the people, and represented the town in the State Legislature.


Mr. Toppan is said to have possessed by nature rather a brilliant than a logical mind. His learning in his profession and generally was considerable, he spoke readily and gracefully, and his manners were courteous and attractive.


KINGSTON.


FRANCIS PETER SMITH, son of Rev. Isaac Smith, was born in Gilmanton, Ang. 22, 1795. He read law with Ilon. Jeremiah H. Woodman and others, and began practice in Boston in 1819. He was in prac- tice in Kingston in 1822, and afterwards in Ossipee for ten years. Ile then studied divinity and became a clergyman, having settlements successively in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont.


JOHN EDWARD STANYAN was a native of Pem- broke; the time of his birth was May 17. 1816. For two years or more after his graduation from Dart- mouth College in 1840 he was preceptor of an acad- emy, and then studied law. He practiced at Pem- broke, Epping, and Kingston, in this State, and at Haverhill and Ashby, in Massachusetts. He was emphatically a rolling stone, and though a man of no little ability, was too irregular and erratic to ac- quire and retain the respect of those whose good opinion is of value.


WILLIAM COLCORD PATTEN was a Kingston man by birth, education, and residence. He was gifted by nature with superior powers of mind and a fine and pleasing address. He began life as a teacher and land surveyor, but gradually acquired a taste for the law, and prepared himself for its practice. His aptitude for political life gave him rather a remarkable succes- sion of official positions. He was a representative in the Legislature of 1857, State senator in 1861 and 1862, councilor in 1867 and 1868, and again repre- sentative in 1871 and 1872. He died in January, 1873, at the age of about fifty years.


Mr. Patten entered upon the practice of the law rather late in life, but from his experience brought with him much acquaintance with practical affairs and knowledge of human nature. His business was con- ducted with promptness and sagacity, and he acquired much credit as a practitioner. His ambition ran much in the line of politics, where his popularity was such that he was repeatedly elected to office by his towns- men when the majority was clearly against his party. Itad he lived, there was every reason for believing that he would have achieved bigher political honors.


His death was sudden, and, occurring while he was in the prime of life and apparently of sound constitu- tion, caused a severe shock to the community.


LONDONDERRY.


JOHN PRENTICE, born in Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of Harvard College in 1767, read law with Hon. Samuel Livermore, and established himself in business in Londonderry, having purchased the place where his instructor lived, and erected a large man- sion thereon. His wife brought him a handsome dowry, and he was thus enabled to live through the period of the Revolution when the law business was at a standstill. Having been an "addresser of Hutch- inson" in Massachusetts, he was not intrusted with public business by the friends of liberty, though at


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their instance or insistance he published a complete recantation of his "loyal"' sentiments, both in that colony and in New Hampshire.


But upon the return of peace and the revival of ordinary business Mr. Prentice began to receive a fair share of professional employment. He was by no means a learned lawyer ; he was not a student, and his professional library hardly contained fifty vol- umes; yet in those times an accurate knowledge of the law was perhaps less valuable to the practitioner, pecuniarily at least, than practical sense and abundant self-confidence. In these qualities Mr. Prentice must have excelled, for he occupied for a considerable period some of the highest positions in the State, and conducted a large and lucrative law practice besides.


In 1785 he was elected a representative to the State Legislature, and was often re-elected. In 1787 he received the appointment of attorney-general of the State, and held the office until 1793. The next year he was chosen Speaker of the House of Representa- tives. In 1798 he was appointed a justice of the Superior Court, but, perhaps conscious that his quali- fications were hardly equal to the position, he declined it, The same year he was elected Speaker of the House, and was annually replaced in that position until 1805. While holding that place he was sup- ported by his party for election to the Senate of the United States, but failed to receive the honor.


Mr. Prentice had many of the qualities needed for a lawyer of eminence. With more application and taste for the learning of his profession, he would have led in important causes where he hesitated to trust his own knowledge and judgment, and would have avoided many of the obstacles which beset his path. But he had an aversion to the use of the pen, and no inclination for book-learning so long as he found that his native powers enabled him to sustain himself respectably. He was fonder of his farm than of his office, and prided himself much on its products. It is a remarkable circumstance that the place where he lived was the home of Hons. Samuel Livermore, Arthur Livermore, and Charles Doe, an extraordinary succession of men prominent in the judicial annals of New Hampshire.


Mr. Prentice died May 18, 1808.


GEORGE REID was a son of Col. George Reid, of the Revolution, born at Londonderry, Jan. 29, 1774, and educated at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1797. He studied law, and opened an office in his native town, but removed two years afterwards into Massachusetts. He died in Boston at the age of seventy-four.


FREDERICK PARKER was a native of Bedford, who graduated from Dartmouth College.in 1828, and after the usual period of study of the law established him- self, about 1832, in Londonderry, but in a year or two removed to Bangor, where it is understood that he became a teacher, and died May 19, 1834, at the age of thirty-four years.


NEWMARKET.


EDWARD PARSONS, a son of Rev. Joseph Parsons, of Bradford, Mass., was born in 1747, and received a collegiate education. He had commenced the prac- tice of the law in Newmarket as early as 1773. He was a member from that town of the Provincial Convention which met at Exeter May 17, 1775, and afterwards became adjutant of Gen. Enoch Poor's regi- ment in the Continental army. He died at Ticon- deroga, it is believed, in 1776.


NATHANIEL HUNTOON was a native of Salisbury, and studied his profession with Hon. Samuel Greene. About 1802 he started in life at Portsmouth, and after remaining there about twelve years changed his residence to Newmarket. But he did not live long enough to accomplish much there, for he died about 1816.


AMOS A. PARKER is still living in Glastonbury, Conn., at an advanced age. He is a son of Hon. Nahnm Parker, of Fitzwilliam, and is a graduate of Vermont University in the class of 1815. He has led a varied and active life. He was settled as a lawyer for a time in Epping, then at Newmarket, afterwards at Kingston, and finally in his native town. For a year or two he resided in Exeter also. From 1823 to 1825 he was the proprietor of the New Hampshire States- man at Concord. In 1835 he went on a tour to the West and Texas, and the next year published an ac- couut of his trip in a dnodecimo volume, which ran through two editions. Within a few years he has is- sued a volume of poems, and a thick pamphlet of reminiscences of Lafayette's visit to New Hampshire in 1824.


WILLIAM TENNEY was the son of Capt. William Tenney, of Hollis, and born Sept. 13, 1785. Hle at- tended the law school at Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1811. He first practiced in Pepperell. Mass., then in Salem, N. H., and came to Newmarket in 1815, where he spent the remainder of his days. He is said to have been much interested in political matters, and to have been more ambitious for preferment in that line than for pro- fessional advancement. In 1823 he was assistant clerk of the Senate, and in 1829 he received the com- mission of postmaster of the Lamprey River village. He died in 1838.


GILBERT A. GRANT, who came from New York, practiced law in Newmarket three or four years, beginning about 1843. Ile was able, quaint, and entertaining, and might probably have acquired eminence in his profession had he remained longer here. He was afterwards in New York, and it is believed in California.


WILLIAM B. SMALL was a native of Limington, Me., and was born May 17, 1817. While he was a child his father removed to Ossipee, in this State, where William passed his youth. He was a pupil of Phillips Exeter Academy, and a student-at-law in the office of Messrs. Bell and Tuck, at Exeter. During


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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.


his education he taught school to eke out his narrow means, and showed himself to be diligent, capable, and independent. He commenced practice in New-


handsome talents, and much esteemed in the com- munity. He was gifted with some literary taste ; many of the poems of Robert Dinsmore, the " Rustic market in 1846, and soon acquired a good position at . Bard," were addressed to Mr. Betton, and some poet- the bar.


In 1866 he was appointed solicitor of the county of Rockingham, and was again placed in the same position in 1875, holding the office up to the time of his decease.


In 1870 he was elected a member of the State Senate, and while such received the nomination of representative to Congress, to which he was chosen in 1873.


Mr. Small had little taste for political life, but loved his profession, and devoted himself to its study and practice. He was industrious, studious, and per- sistent, regarding his clients' interest far above his own convenience or comfort. His character for honesty and perfect uprightness was never questioned. He prepared his causes with conscientious care, and tried them ably and vigorously, and took a high rank as a counselor and an advocate. Ilis death, while in the full tide of his usefulness and power, was re- garded as a real loss to the community. He died from the effects of a fall, April 7, 1878.


NORTHWOOD.


ABRAHAM B. STORY, born in Dunbarton, March 22, 1777, was the son of David Story, and graduated at Brown College in 1799. He studied his profession with Hou. Charles HI. Atherton, of Amherst, and practiced in 1802 and 1803 in Northwood, but then removed to Washington, where he lived till about 1830, in which year he died, in his native place.


NATHANIEL DEARBORN was a native of Chester, a son of Deacon John Dearborn. He completed his legal studies with Hon. George Sullivan, and set up in practice in Pembroke in 1806, remaining there till about 1820, when he migrated to Deerfield, and after- wards in 1831 to Northwood, where he lived ever after. He died Sept. 12, 1860. lle was an honest, painstaking man of fair abilities.


SALEM.


SILAS BETTON, a son of James Betton, born at Windham, and a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1787, was admitted to the bar in 1793 and settled in Salem. That town was represented by him in the General Court in the years 1797, 1798, and 1799, and in 1810 and 1811. In the years 1800, 1801, and 1802 he was a member of the Senate. In 1803 he was elected a representative in Congress, and served two terms. In 1813 he received the appoint- ment of sheriff of the county of Rockingham, which he held until 1818. He died Jan. 22, 1822, at the age of fifty-eight years.


ical epistles of his own composition were included in the volume of Dinsmore's published pieces.


DAVID WOODBURN DICKEY was born in London- derry, Dec. 25, 1792, and educated at Dartmouth Col- lege, graduating in 1818. He entered upon the prac- tice of law in Londonderry about 1821, and remained there until 1833, when he removed to Salem, where he died Jan. 26, 1837.


SEABROOK.


EBENEZER FRENCH was born in Newton, April 10, 1802. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1824, studied his profession with IIon. Daniel French, of Chester, commenced practice in Sutton in 1827, removed to Seabrook in 1828, and there continued about twelve years. Thence he went to Amesbury and to Boston, and served in the custom-house eight years, and subsequently emigrated to the West.


WINDHAM.


ISAAC MOGAW originated in Merrimac, his father's name being Jacob, as was that of an older brother, who was a lawyer of distinction in Maine. Isaac was born May 25, 1785, and completed his college course at Dartmouth in 1807. He opened his law-office first in Bedford, where he continued from about 1811 to 1818, and then took up his residence in Windham. There he was chosen a representative in the Legisla- tures of 1829 to 1833, inclusive, and of 1838. After a long period of respectable practice in his profession he removed to Merrimac, and passed his last years with his son-in-law, Edward P. Parker, Esq., and there he died Nov. 6, 1863.


WILLIAM MERCHANT RICHARDSON was born in Pelham, Jan. 4, 1774, and died in Chester, March 23, 1838. He was a graduate of Harvard College in 1797. His father was Capt. Daniel Richardson, a soldier of the Revolution and a farmer, and William would probably have been brought up to the same employ- ment but for an injury received to one of his hands, which incapacitated him for severe manual labor. After leaving college he was employed for a time as preceptor of Groton, Mass., Academy, and afterwards entered the office of Hon. Samuel Dana there as a student-at-law. On being admitted to practice he settled in the same town. In 1811 he was chosen representative in Congress, and two years after re- ceived a re-election. But political life was little to his taste, and in 1814 he resigned his seat and removed to Portsmouth, N. H., and opened an office.


He was at once recognized as a leading lawyer, and upon the reorganization of the courts in 1816 was appointed chief justice of the Superior Court. The propriety and excellence of the appointment were at once admitted, and never questioned during the


Mr. Betton married a daughter of Hon. Matthew Thornton, one of New Hampshire's three signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was a man of | twenty-two years of his service on the bench. Through


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his agency the publication of the series of judicial re- ports of New Hampshire was begun. He contributed very largely to many of the volumes, and his opinions have always been regarded as admirable in style and of high authority.


His professional learning was first-rate, his percep- tions were rapid, and his honesty and fairness above suspicion. By reason of his quickness of apprehen- sion, he was sometimes charged with jumping to con- clusions, but he had none of the pride of opinion which closes the mind to argument, and was always ready, for cause shown, to retract a hasty impression.


In 1819, Judge Richardson changed his residence permanently to Chester. He was a good citizen, kind and public-spirited, and was greatly esteemed by his townsmen. His intellectual powers were highly cultivated. He was a great reader both in his own and in other tongues. He acquired several of the modern European languages after his accession to the bench, and the Spanish very late in life. Bot- any and mineralogy too he made himself master of in theory and by practice. He had always a taste for poetry. His graduation part at college was the Eng- lish poem, and throughout his life he was accustomed to throw off poetical effusions, some of them of much merit. Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1827.


New Hampshire has been fortunate in having se- cured for her highest judicatory a succession of chief justices of extraordinary learning, ability, and integ- rity, and among these Judge Richardson holds no secondary place.


The following is a list of the present members of the bar :


Danville .- O. H. Key.


Derry .- G. C. Bartlett.


Exeter .- Governor Charles H. Bell, W. W. Stick- ney, Thomas Leavitt, J. F. Wiggin, Gilman Marston, J. Warren Towle, A. C. Buzell, E. G. Eastman, Fred. S. HIateb, C. H. Knight, A. O. Fuller, and W. C. Harriman.


Greenland .- C. W. Pickering.


Hampton .- Lamprey.


Kingston .- L. G. Hoyt.


New Market .- A. L. Mellows, C. H. Smith, I. T. George, and E. A. Keep.


Plaistow .- W. H. Hills and C. C. Cheney.


Portsmouth .- W. H. Rollins, J. S. H. Frink, Wil- liam H. Hackett, A. F. Howard, Calvin Page, G. E. Ilodgdon, H. Call, C. E. Batchelder, John Hatch, and Wallace Hackett.


The senior members of the bar of this county have many of them made up their records; those still left are soon to follow, and the juniors are to assume their places at the bar and on the bench ; to them will soon be committed these great responsible trusts. The perpetuity of our free institutions is committed to the guardianship and keeping of the bar and judi- ciary of our free, country, for the history of the world


teaches, and all free governments illustrate, this truth, that to the profession of the law civil government is indebted for all the safeguards and intrenchments with which the liberties of the people are protected, that legislation is shaped, Constitutions enlarged, amended, and adopted by the enlightened adminis- tration of the statesman, both of England and the United States, who have been in both, and are in all free governments, educated for the bar, and, ascend- ing by the inherent force of their disciplined pro- fessional life, they become the directors of the desti- nies of States and nations.


Military chieftains may spring into power, tyrants may for the hour dazzle with the glamour of military parade, the pomp of war, an oppressed and frenzied people, but they turn as the cannonade dies away to the statesmanship of the country, and call to the Parliaments and congressional halls for final debate the arbitraments of the liberties of the people. From the days of King John to the present hour the bar and the bench have furnished the statesmen who have ereeted the bulwarks of constitutional law, and ex- torted from tyrants the Magna Chartas which have secured to the oppressed the guarantee of free insti- tutious. Imbued with the historical traditions of their predecessors, and tracing the paths they have trod, emulating their good example, it should become more and more the resolute purpose of the Rocking- ham County bar to so walk in the light of their pro- fessional teachings that when they are called to follow them to that upper court and file their judgment- roll of the great trial of life with that Supreme Judge from whose bar they can take no appeal,-


" Then go not like quarry-slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an nufaltered trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his conch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams."


CHAPTER VI.


THE COUNTY FARM. -- INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.


Railroads : The Eastern-The Portsmouth and Dover-The Portsoiouth, Great Falls and Conway-The Concord and Portsmouth-The Port- land, Saco and Portsmonth-The Nashna and Rochester-The Port- land and Rochester-The Boston and Maine-The Dover and Winni- piseogee-The Manchester and Lawrence.


PREVIOUS to the establishment of the county farm system, the selectmen or overseers of poor of each town had charge of all persons needing assistance. At various times the Legislature enacted laws which largely increased the number classed as county poor. The system of allowing each town to care for the poor within its limits led to some evils, was expen- sive, and made it necessary to locate buildings at some central point in each county where this large class of


1 Contributed by Newton Johnston, Esq.


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unfortunates could be better provided for. The county convention at its session in the month of June, 1868, authorized the purchase of a farm and the erection of suitable buildings to accomodate two hundred and fifty inmates. The authority to pur- chase said farm was committed to a joint board con- sisting of a building committee,-John R. Reding, of Portsmouth; W. H. Robinson, of Exeter; H. P. Hood, of Derry ; and I. L. Robinson, of Fremont,- selected by the convention, and the commissioners, James C. Brown, John J. Leavitt, and Abbott Norris, who finally selected the Thyng farm, so called, in the town of Brentwood. The farm contains about one hundred and sixty acres, and is situated two and one- half miles from Epping depot, on the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad. The Nashua and Rochester Railroad now connects at said depot.


The first cost of the Thyng farm was $6500, in- cluding thirty acres adjoining land. The total first cost of the almshouse was $19,632.


The following year a building for the insane and a large barn were added at an expense of $9487. The same year the county convention authorized the com- missioners to purchase woodland and pasture, and the farm of D. W. Ladd was bought, one hundred and sixty acres, for $4500. In 1873 additional build- ings for storage were constructed, costing $2500. In 1874 boiler-house, laundry, etc., costing 88150. In 1875 House of Correction and work-shops, costing $12,000. In 1876 new brick asylum for insane, costing $9000.


The farm when purchased was in a poor state of cultivation, as but little had been done except to cut the hay for many years, which averaged about fifteen tons per year. The yearly crops now are one hun- dred tons of hay, with other crops of equal proportions.


The crops of the farm for the year 1881 are esti- mated as follows :


Hay


100 tons. 5 4


Beets (table). 6,000 pounds.


Corn fodder.


30 "


Carrots.


3,750


Potatoes.


2,500 bushels. 50


Pumpkins


6,000


Oats


620


Mebms


1,200


Bye


30


Beef


2,500


=


Beans .


50


Pork


8,000


Tomatoes,


40


Butter.


2,500


=


Cucumbers


25


Lard


1,250


Cider Apples.


100


Parsnips


2,500


Corn ..


500


Cabbage.


60 dozen.


Turnips


18,000 pounds.


Eggs


1,000


Average number of inmates for the years from 1871 to 1881, inclusive, has been 185. This includes in- sane, poor, children, idiotic, blind, and prisoners.


The farm constitutes a school district in itself, and three terms of school are taught yearly. There is also a chapel-room, provided with organ, etc., for services on the Sabbath. Children of sound mind and without parents or friends are furnished with good homes by the commissioners. The house is heated by steam ; comfortable rooms, clothing, and good and abundant food is furnished to all, and few, if any, of the inmates ever enjoyed a better home. The average weekly cost for each inmate for the year


ending May 1, 1882, was one dollar and ninety-five cents. This includes all running expenses of the farm, with food, clothing, medical attendance, nurs- ing, etc. The farm is under the care of the county commissioners, who are now elected biennially in September at each State election. They appoint a superintendent and all necessary officers and help. The first superintendent, William L. Philbrick, of Portsmouth, was appointed 1869, resigned in 1871, and was followed by Frank D. Pollard, of Plaistow, who resigned in 1878, and was followed by Haven L. Scott, of Portsmouth, who retained the position till his death in December, 1881. His wife, Nancy MI. Scott, continued in charge till the end of the year, May 1, 1882, when she resigned, and Gayton O. Rey- nolds, of Derry, was appointed. The farm always has an abundant supply of water drawn by steam pump and two wind-mills. The house is supplied with fire- escapes ; also three fire-extinguishers and a hydrant to the roof of the house, with plenty of hose in case of fire. Twice fire has been subdued, the first time in the men's wing, and second in the women's, each time with but slight damage.


The county debt, May 1, 1873, was $141,050; in 1882 it was $30,276.22.


COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.


1856, William C. Patten, William S. Hadley, Portsmouth; Josiah W. James, Deerfield ; 1859, Isic Woodbury ; 1860, Franklin Crombie; 1861, Horace P. Watts ; 1862, John Hodgdon (2d), Portsmouth ; 1863, John J. Leavitt ; 1864. Caleb Moulton ; 1865, John Rowe, Candia; 1866, James C. Brown, Portsmouth; 1867, John J. Leavitt ; 1868, Abbott Norris : 1869, William S. Pillsbury ; 1870, John W. F. Hobbs, North Hampton ; 1871, Frank D. Pollard, Plaistow ; 1872, Frank W. Miller, Portsmouth : 1873, Woodbury M. Dnrgin, Northwood ; 1874, Nathamel II. Brown, Derry; 1875, Frank P. Cram, Hampton Falls ; 1876, Sewall D. Tilton, Raymond; 1877, Newton Johnston, Ports- mouth ; 1878, Frank P. Cram, Hampton Falls; 1879, Newton John- ston, Portsmouth; Wells C. Underhill, Auburn ; Joseph C. Burley, Epping; 1881, Newton Johnston, Portsmouth; Joseph C. Burley, Epping ; Wells C. Underhill, Auburn.




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