History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 141

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


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"There was a rare combination in him of natures which are too opposite to be often found in union, - the strong, logical reasoning and the quick sensibili- ties. But these were early developed in Mr. Varney, and were easily recognized by others, each distinct and superior of its kind, but most harmoniously blended. In his college days he was both the mathe- matician and the poet of his class.


" How much of this richness in his nature was fed by his religions faith I cannot say, but his religious faith had done much for him, and to some of us had been doing a very noticeable work during these few years past.


" Into what mellowness he was ripening ! Into what childlike simplicity of spirit and faith ! Christ was the central sun in all his speculations and forms of belief. He held at last no formularies of faith, or philosophies of salvation, or human systems of the indisputable facts and truths of revelation ; he held none of these human theories with any great tenacity of belief. But Christ was all and in all to him, suffi- cient for all needs, his and the world's."


Mr. Varney at the age of sixty-two, May 2, 1882, in the full maturity of his powers and usefulness met death in an instant, under the falling walls of the


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Washington Street Free-Will Baptist Church, which had been burned a few hours before. The great con- course of people (every place of business in the city being closed) which attended his funeral at the First Church, three days after, was an evidence of the great respect which all classes had for him while living, and of their deep sorrow for him when dead.


CHARLES BURNHAM SHACKFORD was the son of Samuel B. Shackford, of Chelsea, Mass., and was a graduate of Bowdoin College. He pursued his law studies in the office of Hon. Samnel M. Wheeler, of Dover, and at the conclusion thereof commenced practice in that city. He was assistant clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1864 and 1865, and clerk of the same in 1866 and 1867. In 1876 he was appointed solicitor of the county of Strafford, and under the revised Constitution was elected in 1878 and in 1880 to the same office. Ile died Jan. 2, 1881, at the age of forty years, having won an enviable reputation as a lawyer and a man.


JOHN SULLIVAN, son of an educated emigrant from Ireland of the same name, was born in Somersworth, Feb. 17, 1740. With the advantages of such educa- tion as his father could personally give him, he studied law with Hon. Samuel Livermore, of Portsmouth, and practiced successfully in Durham. He manifested a taste for military affairs, and, in 1772, held the com- mission of major in the militia. In 1774 his position pointed him out as a fit delegate to the first Conti- nental Congress, and in December of the same year he, in co-operation with John Langdon, led a raid against Fort William and Mary, at the mouth of the Piscataqna, and carried off therefrom one hundred barrels of gunpowder, which afterwards furnished ammunition to the patriot troops at Bunker Hill. In June following he was appointed by Congress a brig- adier-general in the Continental army, and after a year of service, major- general. He took part in the siege of Boston ; in the battle of Long Island, where he was taken prisoner ; in the successes of Princeton and Trenton ; in the engagements of Brandywine and Germantown ; and he had the chief command in the operations in Rhode Island, and in the victorious expedition against the Indians in 1779. By reason of impaired health he then resigned his commission, and was honored with a vote of thanks by Congress. Re- turning to New Hampshire, and to the practice of his profession, he was in 1780, and again in 1781, re- turned to Congress. In 1782 he received the appoint- ment of attorney-general of New Hampshire, and retained the office till 1786, during which time he was also a member of the State Constitutional Conven- tion, in 1784, and Speaker of the House of Represen- tatives and State councilor in 1785. In 1786 he was chosen president of New Hampshire, and held the office that and the succeeding year. While president, in 1786, he rendered good service to the State in quell- ing a "paper money mob" which threatened to sub- vert the government. In 1788 he was again Speaker


of the House, and president of the convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States, to which his personal exertions and influence largely contributed. In 1789 he was again elected president of the State, and in September of the same year was appointed by Washington district judge of the United States, which office he held until his death, Jan. 23, 1795.


Gen. Sullivan was a prominent figure of the Revo- Intionary era. His influence weighed strongly in committing his native State upon the side of resist- ance to the encroachments of Great Britain. He was a deserving rather than a fortunate general, but he always retained the confidence of Washington, a rare judge of merit, and of the people of his own State, who knew him best. He was impulsive, brave, and patriotic, and made many sacrifices for his country. HIe was an able and successful lawyer, and an attor- ney-general sans reproche and' sans peur also, as was evidenced by his intrepid conduct in sustaining the court against the insurgents in Cheshire County in 1782. In all times of trial he was found firm and un- shaken. The important part that he bore in gaining our liberties and in shaping the organic law of the State and the nation, as well as in launching the gov- ernment and piloting it through the perils of novelty, entitles his memory to the highest respect and grati- tude of his successors.


EBENEZER SMITH was a native of Durham, born in March, 1758. Gen. John Sullivan was his law- preceptor, and he established himself in practice in his native town as early as 1787. In the years 1788, 1793, 1794, and 1795, he was a member of the Execu- tive Council of the State, and in 1798 he is said to have received and declined the appointment of asso- ciate justice of the Superior Court.


He maintained through life a highly respectable standing in his profession and as a citizen, and died at Durham, Sept. 24, 1831, at the age of seventy- three; having held for twenty years the office of president of the Strafford County bar.


JONATHAN 'STEELE was a son of David Steele, of Peterborough, but was born in Londonderry Sept. 3, 1760, and on the " Prentice place" it is believed, which is mentioned in the notice of IIon. John Prentice in the history of Rockingham County. IIe attended the town schools, and later an academy, and studied law in the office of Gen. John Sullivan. Admitted to the bar in 1787, he began to practice in Durham, and the next year married Lydia, the daughter of Gen. Sullivan. He became a lawyer of prominence, and was studious and attentive to the interests of his clients. His style of address to the court and jury was clear and energetic.


When Gen. Sullivan was appointed judge of the United States District Court, in 1789, he made MIr. Steele its clerk, and upon the judge's death his suc- cessor, Judge Pickering, continued him in the office. When the. latter lost his position by impeachment,


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Mr. Steele was appointed district attorney, but de- clined the office.


In 1805 he represented Durham in the State House of Representatives, and in 1810 he was appointed by Governor Smith a justice of the Superior Court. This office he resigned in 1812 and returned to his private practice. He died in Durham Sept. 3, 1824.


Mr. Steele was a man of superior talents, and de- voted himself to his professional pursuits. He was successful as a lawyer, and realized a handsome com- petency. But his life was not a happy one by reason of his domestic trials, which rendered him in his later years inditlerent to society and to matters around him.


STEPHEN MITCHELL was a native of Peterborough, born March 29, 1780, and a son of Benjamin Mitchell. Hle was a graduate of Williams College in 1801, and studied law with his uncle, Hon. Jonathan Steele, of Durham. In due time he commenced practice in the same town. He was a man of talents and standing, and was esteemed a good lawyer. Besides his legal qualifications, he had considerable historical and lit- erary tastes. He used to write communications for the newspaper press; and when Lafayette visited the State, in 1825, Mr. Mitchell was appointed by his townsmen to make him an address on his arrival at Durham, which duty he performed in a very hand- some and appropriate manner. He was one of the original members of the New Hampshire Historical Society. His wife was Sally, daughter of Maj. Joseph Mills, of Deerfield, an officer in the First New Hamp- shire Regiment in the Revolution. Mr. Mitchell's death occurred Feb. 15, 1833.


JAMES BARTLETT, son of Dr. Joseph Bartlett, was born at Salisbury, Aug. 14, 1792. He took his bach- elor's degree at Dartmouth College in 1812, and after studying law with Moses Eastman, Esq., and Parker Noyes, Esq., opened an office in Durham, but lived there but a few years before he received the appoint- ment of register of probate for Strafford Connty in 1819, and removed to Dover, where he spent the re- mainder of his life. He was a representative from Dover in the State Legislature from 1823 to 1826, in- clusive, and a member of the Senate in 1827 and 1828. IIe died in Dover, July 17, 1837.


Mr. Bartlett was gifted with fine talents, but lacked ambition. In the language of one of his professional brethren, he had "a good deal of latent power, but did not love work." And, like too many others well endowed by nature, he fell into irregular habits, and failed to accomplish the useful part in life of which he was capable.


RICHARD ELA was born in Lebanon, and was a son of Joseph Ela, of Portsmouth. He studied his pro- fession under the direction of Hon. W. M. Richard- son and Hon. Ichabod Bartlett, and entered the prac- tice at Durham as early as 1820. There he continued about twelve years, when he removed to Washington, D. C. He was a man of ability, and while in practice


reported the trial of Amos Fernald for murder, which was published in 1825.


JOHN ADAMS RICHARDSON was a son of Joseph Richardson, and born in Durham, Nov. 18, 1797. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1819, and after teaching for a year in Haverhill, Mass., read law in the office of Hon. John Varnum, of that place, and began practice in his native town in 1823. There he remained to the end of his long life. Mr. Rich- ardson, upon the State being carried in 1845 by a coalition of the Whig and Free-Soil parties, was chosen clerk of the Senate, but was not re-elected, as the Democrats returned to power the next year.


He maintained through life a high character for integrity and ability, though his business was never very large, and he rarely appeared in the trial of causes in court. His manners were dignified and agreeable, and he enjoyed the friendship and esteem of his brethren in the profession and of all who knew lim best.


NEHEMIAH EASTMAN, a son of Ebenezer Eastman, was born in Gilmanton, June 16, 1782. He pursued his preparatory studies at Gilmanton Academy, and read law in the office of Stephen Moody, Esq., and of Hon. John C. Chamberlain. In 1807 he commenced practice in Farmington, where he ever after resided. Ile represented that town in the General Court in 1813, and was chosen State senator five successive years, 1819 to 1824, and in 1825 was elected a repre- sentative in the Congress of the United States, and served two years. His death took place Jan. 19, 1856.


Mr. Eastman held a good position in his profession, and for many years enjoyed a very large business. His diligence and laborious habits would hardly be credited in these degenerate days. He often was in his office by four o'clock in the morning, and did not leave it until ten o'clock at night. He made a great number of writs, most of them, of course, in cases not contested. But he did not often engage in trials in court.


LOUIS BELL, the youngest son of the Hon. Samuel Bell, of Chester, was born in that town, March 8, 1837. He was educated at Derry and Gilford Acade- mies and at Brown University, from which he grad- uated at the age of eighteen. Having gone through the usual preparatory law studies, he opened an office in Farmington in 1857, and soon began to make his mark in the profession. He was appointed jns- tice of the Police Court of Farmington in 1859, and July 2, 1861, received the commission of solicitor for the county of Strafford, and soon after changed his residence to Dover.


But before this time his services were required in another capacity. When President Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand men to suppress the Southern Rebellion was issued, Mr. Bell at once of- fered his services to the Governor of the State, and was appointed captain of Company A in the First


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Regiment. On his return home he received the com- mission of lieutenant-colonel in the Fourth Regiment, and was afterwards promoted to the colonelcy of the same. He served with much distinction in South Carolina and Florida, and afterwards in the Army of the James in Virginia. He was here assigned to the command of a brigade, and led it in the successful assault on Fort Fisher, N. C., in which he received a mortal wound. President Lincoln, in recognition of his gallant services in the field, conferred upon him the rank of brigadier-general, dating from the day of that assault.


He was a brave and patriotic soldier, a scholar of high attainments, a lawyer of thorough training and great promise, and his early death was a sad blow to his family and friends, and a public loss.


AMASA COPP lived in Milton from five to eight . a learned lawyer, he had a sufficient practical knowl- years, beginning in 1815, and then removed to Wake- field, where he passed the rest of his life, and died Jan. 7, 1871. He was born in Wakefield, Oct. 8, 1788, and received his degree of A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1811. After completing his studies with Hon. W. K. Atkinson and Amos Kent, Esq., he opened an office for a few months in Chester, and then removed to Milton in 1815.


He was gifted with uncommon talents, and with application to his profession would have taken a high rank both as a counselor and an advocate. But he disdained hard study and preferred to rely on the inspiration of the moment for his law, and naturally his diligent opponents outstripped him. He had a herculean frame, loved out-door sports, and became a mighty fox-hunter. He used to say jocularly that he was captain of the swamp law, as Jeremiah Mason was of the common law.


He was representative of the town of Wakefield in the New Hampshire Legislature for six years.


DAVID STEELE was born Nov. 27, 1793, a native of Peterborough, and a son of Thomas Steele. He pre- pared himself for college, but an accidental injury to his spine not only prevented him from obtaining a collegiate education, but affected him physically throughout his life. He studied law with his brother, Hon. Jonathan Steele, and others, and commenced practice in his native town, but shortly after, in 1826, he removed to New Durham, and there contin- ued till 1850, when he took up his residence in Dover. - He was a prominent and successful practitioner, and filled several local civil offices. For the last few years of his life he was a confirmed invalid. He died at the residence of his son in Dover, July 6, 1882.


JOSEPH CLARK, a native of Columbia, Conn., and a son of Simeon Clark, was born March 9, 1759. He served in the Revolutionary army; was taken pris- oner and carried to Halifax and to England. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1785, and pursued a course of law study under Gen. Sullivan's direction, aud then settled about 1788 in Rochester, where he


remained about twenty-five years. In 1798 and 1801 he represented the town in the General Court, and in 1794 delivered a Fourth of July oration, which was published.


He left Rochester about 1813 and returned to his native State, and died of apoplexy at East Hartford, Coun., Dec. 21, 1828.


JOHN PARKER HALE, a son of Samuel. IIale, was born at Portsmouth, Feb. 19, 1775. His law studies he pursued in the office of John Hale, Esq., and began practice in Portsmouth about as soon as he reached his majority. A year or two later he changed his residenee to Barrington, and thence about 1801 to Rochester, where the remainder of his life was passed.


He was a man of extraordinary readiness and apti- tude for his profession. Without being a diligent or


- edge of his profession, and held a leading position at the bar. His facility of apprehension and fertility of resources were so well known to his professional brethren that he was constantly applied to on occa- sions of emergency. He would sit down to the trial of a cause without preparation or instruction, take his facts from his associate's opening statement, and rely upon his general professional knowledge and his keen apprehension for his law, and argue the cause about as ably as any man of his time, it is said.


He lived in good style, was liberal in his dealings, and no financier, so that he was not always ready to meet the calls of his clients for money which he had collected. Sometimes they would go to him in a state of indignation, but he always received them so cordially that they went away without uttering a com- plaint. Ilis tact and politeness were inexhaustible, as was his fund of entertaining anecdotes.


JEREMIAH HALL WOODMAN, born in Sanbornton, April 15, 1775, was a son of Rev. Joseph Woodman. He graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1794 with high honors, and after teaching an acad- emy two years he received his law tuition in the offices of Hon. T. W. Thompson and Hon. Jeremiah Smith. Being admitted to the bar in January, 1799, he practiced successively in Warner. in Meredith, and in Rochester, where he finally established him- self in 1806, and died there May 8, 1854.


He was a diligent, careful, and successful lawyer, and after bringing up his family handsomely left a comfortable estate. He was interested in the cause of education, and took pains to supply competent teachers in the public schools of his town. He was president of the board of trustees of Wolfborough Academy, which he was instrumental in founding. He was also interested in agriculture, and assisted in organizing the first agricultural society in Strafford County, act- ing for several years as its president. Though opposed to the majority of the citizens of his town in political opinion, he was chosen by them in 1823 and 1824 to represent them in the State Legislature.


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preferred to adjust the disputes of his neighbors amicably, and was highly respected and esteemed in the community where he dwelt. He died in Roches- ter, May 8, 1854.


DAVID BARKER, JR., was a son of Col. David Barker, of Stratham, and was born Jan. 8, 1797. Before he reached the age of eleven he entered Phillips' Academy at Exeter, and there went through the preparatory course of study, and graduated at Harvard College in 1815. He then entered the office of John P. Ilale, Esq., as a student-at-law, and in 1819 set up in prac- tice at Rochester. He early manifested an interest in political affairs, and was a representative to the Legislature from Rochester in the years 1823, 1825, and 1826; and in 1827 was elected a representative in the Congress of the United States, where he served one term. Ile died in Rochester, April 1, 1834, of a lingering illness.


As a lad he was precocious, and early developed the qualities which belong to maturity. His judg- ment and consistency of character were fully de- veloped in his youth, and gave him the respect and confidence which is usually reserved for age. He was learned in his profession, diligent, and of integ- rity beyond question. It was well said of him by one who spoke from knowledge that " he was a ripe and finished scholar, and a sound, correct, and able law- yer." His early death deprived society of one of its most valued and promising members.


NOAH TEBBETS, born in Rochester, Dec. 26, 1802, was the youngest son of James Tebbets. Ile was a diffident boy, but fond of books. He was prepared for college in the academies of Wakefield and Saco, Me., and took his first degree from Bowdoin College in 1822, Ifis law studies were pursued under the direction of J. H. Woodman, Esq., and when in 1825 he was ad- mitted to the bar, he first established himself in Par- sonfield, Me. There he practiced for seven years, at the end of which time he returned to Rochester and set up in business there. In 1842 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and in January, 1843, he was appointed a circuit justice of the Court of Common Pleas. The appointment was considered an excellent one in every respect. In point of learning, diligence, character, and judicial fairness, he was admirably adapted to a position on the trial bench.


But his career was destined to be a brief one. The confinement of his new office, especially during a tedious trial for murder, preyed upon his health, which was naturally slender, and symptoms of serious disease soon manifested themselves. He was com- pelled to adjourn a term of the court which he per- sisted in holding as long as his failing strength would permit, and to return home to a sick-bed, from which he never arose. At the early age of forty-one years his earthly career was closed, Sept. 9, 1844.


JOHN SMITH WOODMAN, born at Durham, Sept. 6, 1819, was a son of Nathan Woodman, and suc-


ceeded to a house built near two hundred years ago by his ancestor as a place of refuge from the attacks of Indians. He was a graduate of Dartmouth Col- lege in the class of 1842, and then went to Charleston, S. C., where he was engaged in teaching for four years. He then traveled a year in Europe, and on his return completed his legal studies with Hon. D. M. Christie, and was in practice for a year in Dover, and then for two years in Rollinsford. Receiving the ap- pointment of Professor of Mathematics at his Alma Mater, he occupied that position from 1851 to 1855, and then resumed the practice of the law in Boston for a single year, after which he accepted the profes- sorship of civil engineering in the Chandler Scientific School at Dartmouth College, which made him the chief executive officer, under the president, of that department, and to that position he gave his undi- vided energies so long as his physical strength enabled him to do so.


He at last felt compelled to resign the place, and returned to his ancestral home in Durham with a mortal illness which closed his life May 9, 1871.


Prof. Woodman was identified with the educational interests of the State for many years as county com- missioner of schools, and secretary and chairman of the board. His acute and analytical mind would have given him distinction in the law had he given to it his undivided attention, but perhaps in no other department could he have rendered greater service to his generation than in that in which his life was spent.


TAPPAN WENTWORTH was born at Dover, Feb. 24, 1802, a son of Isaac Wentworth. He was edu- cated chiefly in the common schools, though be was enabled to make acquaintance with Latin so far as to read two books of Virgil. He then became a clerk in a grocery-store, and occupied that position for some years ; but when he was about twenty-one years of age a newspaper article of his composition attracted the notice of IIon. William Burleigh, a lawyer of South Berwick, Me., and a member of Con- gress, and he took young Wentworth into his office as a student. In 1826 he was admitted, and for about seven years was engaged in the practice of law at Somersworth. He then took up his residence in Lowell, Mass., carrying with him about seven thou- sand dollars as the fruits of his early labor. Energy, industry, and judgment like his could not fail of their reward, and in the forty and more years that he lived in Lowell his seven thousand increased to nearly three hundred thousand dollars. He became a lead- ing member of his profession, and was chosen to both the legislative houses of Massachusetts, and a mem- ber of Congress from 1833 to 1835. Ile died in Lowell, June 12, 1875, leaving the bulk of his prop- erty, a munificent legacy, to Dartmouth College.


NATHANIEL WELLS was born in Wells, Me., in 1805. and graduated at Phillips' Exeter Academy in 1826. He then went to Brunswick, Me., where he engaged in trade, and for a time edited a weekly


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newspaper. He came to Great Falls in 1830, and studied law in the office of Winthrop A. Marston, and after his admission to the bar became a partner of Mr. Marston. He was subsequently a partner with Hon. Charles H. Bell, later with George William Burleigh. In 1856 he formed a copartnership with the late Royal Eastman, and the firm of Wells & Eastman continned until 1873. Ile practiced alone some time, and then in the firm of Wells & Burleigh until his death. He was attorney for the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, and director in the Great Falls National Bank, and trustee of the Somersworth Savings-Bank. He died Aug. 16, 1878.




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