History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 25

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

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PORTSMOUTH SAVINGS-BANK .- May 26, 1818, some of the most prominent citizens of the town met and organized an "Institution for the Deposit and Invest- ment of Monies," and applied for a charter, which, however, the Legislature 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 institutions in the United States.

The bank was first kept in a chamber of the build- ing now occupied by it, and open for deposits and withdrawals only on Wednesdays, from three to five P.M. It was first opened Aug. 20, 1823, and on that day nine deposits were made, ranging from $5 to $240, and amounting in all to $626. One of these accounts has never been closed, and is still on the books of the bank. Another deposit of $20, made Dec. 17, 1823, has been undisturbed from that time, and now amounts by mere accumulation of interest to $618.08. The present amount of deposits is $2,916,242.70, belonging to 8084 depositors. The | bank has also a guarantee fund of abont $80,000.

The following is a list of the presidents and treas- urers 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.

Treasurers, Samuel Lord, 1823-69; James F. Shores, Jr., 1869-77; Joseph H. Foster, 1877.

The present trustees are Lyman D. Spalding, Sam- uel Adams, J. S. Pray, J. W. Emery, W. W. Cotton, . Joseph H. Thacher, Charles H. Mendum, John ! Knowlton, Jolın Sise, Benjamin F. Webster, Thomas E. Call, Charles H. Rollins, Daniel Marcy, John Laighton, Marcellus Bufford, Charles M. Laighton, Henry M. Clark, W. Freeman.

THE PORTSMOUTH TRUST AND GUARANTEE COMPANY, a savings-bank, incorporated in 1871, with a perpetual charter.

The presidents have been George L. Treadwell, Ezra H. Winchester, and Jeremiah F. Hall.

The present officers are: President, Jeremiah F. Hall; Vice-President, Frank Jones; Directors, Jere- miah F. Hall, Frank Jones, Ezra H. Winchester, Daniel Marcy, John Sise, Thomas H. Odion, Edwin A. Peterson, William D. Fernald, Calvin Page, and Samuel J. Gerrish ; Treasurer, Charles H. Rolins.

Charles H. Rollins was treasurer until December, 1876, when he was sncceeded by G. L. Treadwell, who officiated until April, 1879, when Mr. Rollins was re- appointed, and has held the office to the present time.

W. H. Y. Ilackett, E. D. Kimball, W. L. Dwight, John H. Broughton, Robert C. Peirce, Augustus Lord, J. Albert Walker, J. H. Hutchinson, A. P. Howard, J. W. F. Hobbs, E. C. Spinney, and E. B. Philbrick.

The first president was W. H. Y. Hackett, who was succeeded by Governor Ichabod Goodwin.

Mr. R. C. Peirce has been secretary and treasurer from the beginning.

Trustees, William L. Dwight, J. H. Hutchinson, E. C. Spinney (Kittery, Me.), E. P. Kimball, J. Albert Walker, Robert C. Peirce, J. W. F. Hobbs (North Hampton), E. B. Philbrick (Rye), John H. Broughton, A. F. Howard, and H. A. Yeaton.

The New Hampshire Gazette .- This is the old- est continuously published newspaper in the United States. The first number appeared Oct. 7, 1756, and the imprint reads, "Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Printed by Daniel Fowle, where this paper may be had at one dollar per annum, or an equivalent in Bills of Credit, computing a dollar this year at Four Pounds old Tenor."

Daniel Fowle, who was the first printer in New Hampshire, was born at Charlestown, Mass., and began business near the head of King (now State) Street, in Boston, in 1740. In 1754 he was arrested by order of the House of Representatives, on suspicion of having printed a pamphlet entitled "The Monster of Mon- sters ; by Tom Thumb, Esq.," which contained severe animadversions on some of the members. He was cast into jail, but subsequently suffered to depart with- ont trial. Unable to obtain satisfaction for the illegal imprisonment, and disgusted with the provincial gov- ernment of Massachusetts, Fowle accepted an invita- tion from several prominent gentlemen of this State to remove to Portsmouth, and the result was the issue of his first number of the New Hampshire Gazette on the date above mentioned.

This number, of which a fac-simile was produced at the centennial anniversary of the introduction of the art of printing into New Hampshire, celebrated in Portsmouth, Oct. 6, 1856, was seventeen by ten inches, and was published in this size until the beginning of the year 1757, when it was enlarged, and in July of that year, and occasionally after, was doubled in size in its issue. In 1797 it was permanently enlarged. But little is known of the location of the office. The paper did not give that information. The first issues were from an office in an old wooden building at the corner of Pleasant, Washington, and Howard Streets, removed a few years since, to be succeeded by the brick dwelling-house recently built on the site by Mr. John E. Colcord. In 1767 we find it published by Daniel and Robert Fowle, " near State House, in the Street leading to the Ferry," now Market Street, and perhaps this was the first removal from the Pleasant Street location, which was until then near the centre

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of business of the town. An ancient deed of land at corner of Pleasant and Richmond Streets would lead us to infer that Fowle had this site as late as 1772 for his office. In any event the office has been frequently removed, having been in Congress Street, on the site of the present Franklin building, on Daniel Street, and on Pleasant Street opposite to the locality where for the past twenty-one years it has been pub- lished. But the fact remains certain that if the office of publication changed, the weekly appearance of the paper has never ceased for more than a century and a quarter of its existence.

Fowłe published the Gazette, either alone or with his partner, until 1785, when he sold the paper to two of his apprentices, John Melcher and George Terry Osborne. Fowle died in 1787. The publication up to 1785 was as follows: By Daniel Fowle, from 1756 to 1764, when Robert Fowle became interested in the paper, and continued until 1773. Benjamin Dear- born was publisher in 1776, but two years after, Mr. Fowle resumed the publication, and was succeeded by Melcher & Osborn, in 1785. Mr. Osborn shortly after retired, but Mr. Melcher continued until 1802, when he sold to Nathaniel S. and Washington Peirce, who changed the politics of the Gazette from Federal to Republican. Mr. Melcher was the first State printer,-an office continued to the publishers of the Gazette down to 1814. N. S. and W. Peirce, in con- nection with Benjamin Hill and Samuel Gardner, published the paper for little more than seven years, when it was sold to William Weeks, who came to Portsmouth from Rutland, Me., and conducted the paper up to 1813. He was followed by Gideon Beck and David C. Foster, whose firm of Beck & Foster was dissolved by the death of Mr. Foster in 1823. From this time to 1834, Mr. Beck was the publisher. Then Albert Greenleaf was admitted as partner, and in 1838 Mr. Beck retired. After this Thomas B. Laighton, formerly a prominent politician of Ports- mouth, but who afterwards spent his declining years at Appledore, Isles of Shoals, was for a year or more interested with Abner Greenleaf, Jr., as the imprint informs us, and subsequently from late in 1839, and Mr. Greenleaf alone conducted the paper down to 184I. Then Samuel W. Mores, a practical printer, with Joel C. Virgin acting as editor, and George Greenleaf published the paper until 1844, when Abner Greenleaf (Sr.) is named as editor. Then ap- pears " A. Greenleaf & Son." For the succeeding two years the paper was owned and managed by certain prominent Democrats, who gave no sign of editorship or proprietorship. In 1847, William Pickering Hill, a son of ex-Governor Isaac Hill, came from Concord, where he had been interested in the Patriot, and pur- chased the Gazette, and also an opposition Democratic paper called the Republican Union, and the Gazette was then enlarged. He also started a daily Gazette, but his efforts were not successful, and he retired after a loss of no little amount of money during his man- 7

agement. Mr. Hill was succeeded by Gideon H. Rundlett, who was an able and fearless writer, and as far as a political paper was desired he supplied the need. He was followed by Edward N. Fuller, for- merły of Manchester, who took the paper in 1852, and remained until I858, when he removed to Newark, N. J. He attempted to publish a daily Gazette, which was a reputable paper, but the enterprise was not ap- preciated, and it was given up. In 1858, Mr. Fuller was succeeded by Amos S. Alexander, Esq., a lawyer from the interior of the State, who held an office under the administration, but was not always in the line of service acceptable to the party managers. He gave way to Samuel Gray, a native of Portsmouth, and a practical printer, in February, 1859. In Sep- tember, 1861, Mr. Gray sold out to Frank W. Miller, who had started with others the Daily Chronicle in 1852, and the Gazette establishment became united with the Chronicle office. The New Hampshire Gazette was then removed from the office in Daniel Street opposite the old Custom-House to its present location in Exchange Building in Pleasant Street, and its time-honored name appeared at the head of the weekly paper published at the Chronicle office. Many of its former subscribers continued to take the paper, which now became transformed from a political organ to a newspaper, and its circulation began to increase.

In 1868, Mr. George W. Marston became a partner with Mr. Miller, and the paper was published by Frank W. Miller & Co. Mr. Miller sold his interest in October, 1870, to Mr. Washington Freeman, who has ever since owned one-half of the paper. Mr. Marston disposed of his interest in June, 1877, to William H. Hackett, who, with Mr. Freeman, pub- lished the paper under the name of the "Chronicle and Gazette Publishing Company." In June, 1882, Mr. Hackett disposed of his interest to Mr. Charles W. Gardner, a practical printer of Portsmouth. During the proprietorship of Mr. F. W. Miller and his successors there have been in the editorial chair Messrs. Tobias Ham Miller, Mr. Jacob H. Thomp- son (now connected with the editorial department of the New York Times), and the present editor, Mr. Israel P. Miller. After Mr. Marston purchased an interest in the paper it advocated the principles of the Republican party, but it has of late aimed to ex- cel in serving its readers with general and local news rather than with abstract dissertation upon political topics. During the lifetime of the Gazette about thirty newspapers have come and gone in Ports- mouth, the last to cease publication being Miller's Weekly, a temperance journal, which stopped soon after the decease of its founder and owner, the late Frank W. Miller.

The Daily Chronicle, which was started by Messrs. F. W. Miller, Thomas M. Miller, and Samuel Gray in 1852, under the firm of Miller & Gray, has been in turn owned by this firm, F. W. Miller & Co., Mars- ton & Freeman, and by the "Chronicle and Gazette

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Publishing Company." Since its establishment the local news of Portsmouth has been carefully pro- duced by the papers, perhaps in better shape than in any place of its size in the country, a feature which is appreciated by the many natives of the "City by the Sea," who go to live beyond its borders, and yet cher- ish a desire for news from home. The next oldest paper in Portsmouth is the Portsmouth Journal, which succeeded the Oracle, established in 1793. It has borne its present name for over sixty years.

The Portsmouth Journal .- The original title of the Journal was The Oracle of the Day. It was established by Charles Pierce June 3, 1793, and pub- lished semi-weekly until January, 1798, when it was enlarged and became a weekly, the editor giving as a reason for the change that the public demand was for " one very large paper per week in the room of two." The " very large" paper measured twelve by nineteen inches. The Oracle started and was conducted in the interest of the Federal Republican party. Jan. 4, 1800, on the week that the paper was in deep mourning for the death of Washington, its name was changed to The United States Oracle of the Day. Mr. Peirce sold out July 4, 1801, to William Treadwell & Co., on account of "the impaired state of his health" and " the excessive fatigue attendant in the publication of a newspaper." In October of that year the name of the paper became United States Oracle and Portsmouth Advertiser. The publishing firm became William & Daniel Treadwell Dec. 11, 1802. The name Portsmouth Oracle was adopted Oct. 22, 1803, and Daniel. Treadwell left the firm just two years afterwards. Charles Turell be- came the publisher Sept. 25, 1813.

In January, 1821, the paper was purchased by Na- thaniel A. Haven, Jr., who changed its name to The Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics. The name and the plain style of the heading have never since been changed. Charles Turell published it until Feb. 7, 1824, when the publication was assumed by Harrison Gray & Co., Mr. Turell continuing to print it. It was made a six-column paper in January, 1823. Nov. 20, 1724, the publishers were H. Gray and E. L. Childs, the latter of whom died at Washington, D. C., about two years ago.

Mr. Haven conducted the Journal four years. He was a gentleman of the best literary ability and at- tainments, and gave to the paper a high standing in the community.

Miller & Brewster purchased the Journal July 2, 1825, and thereafter edited and published it at No. 3 Ladd Street, where it continued to be published until January, 1870, when the office was removed to its present location.

Oct. 20, 1827, the Journal absorbed the Rockingham Gazette, published at Exeter by Francis Grant; and June 1, 1833, it also included the State Herald, a Portsmouth paper, these names appearing at the head of the paper until Aug. 13, 1836. T. H. Miller re- tired from the firm April 26, 1834. The paper was

enlarged in June, 1838, again in January, 1853, and again to its present size Feb. 29, 1868.

The present proprietor, Lewis W. Brewster, became connected with the publication of the paper in Jan- uary, 1856, in the firm of Charles W. Brewster & Son. The senior partner died Ang. 4, 1868, and in January, 1869, the publication began and has continued as at present.

The Daily Portsmouth Journal, which we have men- tioned above, was started for a week's trial June 4, 1834, but was not a success apparently. It was a little sheet of four pages, the page measuring eight by ten and a half inches.

"The States and Union."-The first number of the States and Union newspaper was issued on Jan. 2, 1863, by Mr. Joshua L. Foster, because (as he an- nonneed in his salutatory) of "the indispensable necessity of a sound and thoroughly Democratic jour- nal in this section of the State," the Democracy of Rockingham County having been deprived of an organ hy the death of the New Hampshire Gazette, which took place in 1862, having been printed for over one hundred years. The old Gazette presses and material were purchased for the new enterprise, and the paper was issned from the office which had for many years been occupied by the Gazette, No. 31 Daniel Street. At the commencement of the second volume Mr. George W. Guppy's name appeared as publisher in connection with Mr. Foster. The paper was decidedly outspoken and fearless, and because of its views upon the conduct of the war it was mobbed on April 10, 1865, everything contained within the office-type, presses, material, and machinery of every description-being destroyed and thrown into the street. After this the type was set and press-work for the paper done for a few weeks in Manchester, until new material and presses could he procured and brought to Portsmonth, when work was resumed in , the office, and the paper has been issued regularly ever since.

The Daily Evening Times .- On March 16, 1868, the Daily Evening Times began to be issued from the same establishment, with Joshua L. Foster as editor and proprietor, George W. Guppy as publisher, and William M. Thayer as local editor, and the paper has been regularly issued ever since. In May, 1870, Mr. Foster sold the establishment to Messrs. Thayer & Guppy, and their connection continued till November, 1873, when Mr. Guppy bought his partner's interest, and was sole editor and proprietor until Dec. 15, 1879, wheu he sold out to Mr. Alpheus A. Hanscom, who was formerly publisher of the Maine Democrat, at Saco, Me., and for the fifteen years immediately pre- vions to his purchase of Mr. Guppy was one of the proprietors and editors of the Union Democrat and Manchester Daily Union, at Manchester, N. H.

The Navy-Yard .- The following is a list of the commandants of the navy-yard at this place from 1812 to 1883:

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Captain Isaac Hull, 1812.

Thos. Macdonough, 1815.

Charles Morris, 1818.

W. M. Crane, 1823.

Joseph Lanman, 1867.

= C. G. Ridgeley, 1825.

Jno. A Winslow, 1869.

44 J. O. Creighton, 1826.

A. M. Pennock, 1870.

J. C. Howell, 1872.

כר A. Bryson, 1874.

= Earl English, 1876.

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George W. Storer, 1843.

Jolin Guest, 1877.

Daniel Turner, 1846.

.l. C. Beaumont, 1879.

Thomas W. Wyman, 1849.

C. H. Wells, 1881, who

is now the present commandant.

List of Vessels of War built at this Station.

Built for the Royal Navy .- 1690, frigate Falkland, 54 guns ; 1696, frigate Bedford, 32 guns; 1749, frigate America, 60 guns.

Built for the Colonial Navy, from 1775 to 1800 .- 1775, frigate Raleigh, 22 guns; 1776, sloop Ranger, 18 guns; 1778, frigate Crescent,1 32 guns; 1799, frigate Congress, 38 guns; 1776, ship of line America, 74 guns; 1797, sloop Portsmouthi, 24 guns; 1798, schooner Scammel, 14 guns.

Built for the Navy of the United States .- 1814, ship Washington, 74 guns; 1817, ship Alabama (changed to New Hampshire, launched 1864), 74 guns; 1820, schooner Porpoise, 11 guns : 1820, frigate Santee (launched 1855), 44 guns ; 1827, sloop Concord, 24 guns : 1839, sloop Preble, 20 guns; 1841, frigate Congress, 50 guns; 1842, sloop Saratoga, 24 guns; 1843, sloop Portsmonth, 24 guns; 1848, steam frigate Saranac, 11 guns; 1855, light-ship for Nantucket; 1857, sloop Jamestown,2 24 guns; 1857, steam sloop Mohican, 9 guns ; 1864, ironclad Passaconaway, 4 guns; 1864, tug Port Fire; 1864, Blne Light; 1864, ironclad Agamenticus, 4 guns; 1864, sloop of war Piscataqna, 15 guns; 1864, sloop of war Minnetonka, 15 guns; 1864, sloop of war Illinois, 15 guns; 1861, steam sloop Ossipee, 9 guns; 1861, steam sloop Kearsarge, 9 guns ; 1861, steam sloop Sebago, 9 guns; 1861, steam sloop Mahaska, 9 guns; 1862, steam sloop Sacramento, 10 guns; 1862, steam sloop Sonoma, 10 guns; 1862, steam sloop Conne- mangh, 10 guns; 1863, steam sloop Sassacns, 10 guns ; 1863, steam frigate Franklin, 60 guns; 1863, steam sloop Patuxent, 9 guns ; 1863, steam sloop Nipsie, 9 guns; 1863, steam sloop Sbawmint, 10 guns; 1863, steam sloop Dacota,2 10 guns; 1864, steam sloop Contoocook, 15 guns; 1865, steam sloop Benecia, 11 guns; 1869, steam sloop Monongahela,2 10 guns; 1873, steam sloop Marion, 10 guns; 1873, steam sloop Enterprise, 7 guns ; 1874, steam sloop Essex, 7 guns.

List of officers now on duty at the navy-yard : Com- modore C. H. Wells, U.S.N .; Captain E. A. K. Ben- ham; Commandants T. II. Eastman, A. R. Yates, B. J. Cromwell, M. S. Johnson, C. G. Barclay ; Lieuten- ants William H. Reeder, Herbert Winslow; Medical Inspector C. J. Cleborne; Chief Engineers B. F. Garvin, D. B. Macomb, Essa J. Whitaker; Past As- sistant Engineer William H. Nauman; Chaplain William H. Stewart; Naval Constructor R. W. Steel; Commander's Secretary William F. Lawyer ; Boat- swains Isaac T. Choat, John I. Killin; Gunner Eugene Mack; Carpenter Leonard Hanscom; Sail- makers John H. Birdsall, James W. Wingate. Marine Barracks: Major George Buttler, U.S.M.C., com- manding marines; Captains P. C. Pope, Israel H. Washburn ; First Lieutenant Samuel H. Gibson.

Societies, etc,-MASONIC. The Masonic bodies are De Witt Clinton Commandery of Knights Temp- lar, instituted 1826; New Hampshire Chapter of Rose Croix ; Grand Council of P. of J .; Ineffable Grand Lodge of Perfection, No. I; Davenport Council, No. 5, Royal and Select Masters; Washington Chapter, No. 3; St. John's Lodge, No. 1, instituted 1736; St.

Andrew's Lodge, No. 56; Portsmouth Rose Croix Chapter, No. 1, E. M. R. M., organized 1881 ; and Rockingham Masonic Relief Association. .

ODD-FELLOWS .- Strawberry Bank Encampment, No. 5, instituted Feb. 28, 1845; Mount Sinai En- campment, No. 19, instituted March 17, 1871; Piscat- aqua Lodge, No. 6, instituted May 24, 1844; New Hampshire Lodge, No. 17, instituted Feb. 11, 1846; Osgood Lodge, No. 48, instituted Aug. 27, 1868; Union Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 3; and Odd- Fellows' Mutual Relief Association of Rockingham County, organized April 6, 1872.

AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR. - St. George's Council, No. 2I, instituted May 23, 1879; and River- side Council, No. 441.

KNIGHTS OF HONOR .- Sagamore Lodge, No. 258, organized March 27, 1876; and Governor Goodwin Lodge, No. 1661, organized June 27, 1879.

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS .- Damon Lodge. No. 9, in- stituted Jan. 31, 1871.

UNITED ORDER PILGRIM FATHERS, No. 15, or- ganized April 27, 1880.

PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY .- Portsmouth Grange, No. 22, organized March 2, 1874.

RED MEN .-- Newichewannick Tribe, No. 4.

ROYAL ARCANUM .- Alpha Council, No. 83, insti- tuted May 1, 1878.

SOVEREIGNS OF INDUSTRY .- Rockingham Coun- cil, No. 7, established 1874.

TEMPERANCE. - Women's Temperance League ; Old Oaken Bucket Division, No. 2, S. of T. ; Pepper- ell Lodge, No. 35, 1. O. of G. T .; Rockingham Lodge, No. 37, I. O. of G. T .; Strawberry Bank Lodge, No. 54, I. O. of G. T .; Portsmonth Temperance Reform Club ; Portsmouth Washington Total Abstinence So- ciety, organized June 14, 1841; and Portsmouth Temperance Mutual Relief Association, organized March, 1877.

UNITED ORDER OF THE GOLDEN CROSS .- Ports- mouth Commandery, No. 47, organized April 5, 1879.

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC .- Storer Post, No. 1, reorganized August, 1878.

MILITARY .- Portsmouth Veteran Artillery Asso- ciation, organized 1775; Portsmouth Cavalry; and Portsmouth Guards, N. H. V. M.

Manufacturing Companies, Etc .- ELDREDGE BREWING COMPANY. M. Eldredge, president; H. F. Eldredge, vice-president ; M. Eldredge, treasurer ; PORTSMOUTH AQUEDUCT COMPANY, incorporated 1797 ; PORTSMOUTH BREWING COMPANY, Arthur Harris, president; John Conlon, treasurer; D. M. Lenigan, brewer ; W. H. Palmer, selling agent; W. C. Robinson, clerk ; PORTSMOUTH BRIDGE COMPANY, incorporated 1819; capital, $64,000; PORTSMOUTH GAS-LIGHT COMPANY, incorporated June, 1850; capital stock, $77,000. .

Bow MISSION, established Angust, 1875; CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Rev. James De Normandie, president ; John S. Rand, treasurer ; Joseph H. Fos-

1 Presented to Algiers.

2 Rebuilt.

Captain John Pope, 1857. Commodore G. F. Pearson, 1860.

T. Bailey, 1864.

J. D. Henley, 1828. W. M. Crane, 1832. John D. Sloat, 1840.

Joseph Smoot, 1852.

John T. Newton, 1855.

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ter, secretary ; FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY, organized 1789; HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ; LANGDON PARK ASSOCIATION ; NEW HAMPSHIRE MECHANIC ASSO- CIATION, organized Oct. 2, 1802 ; PORTSMOUTH ATHE- NÆUM, incorporated June, 1817. This institution is owned in a hundred shares of $100 each, the institu- tion having the right of pre-emption at half the value of the shares. Thus by the sale of shares it has a regular income. It has a valuable library of 14,000 volumes, and a large number of newspapers and peri- odicals are also taken.

PORTSMOUTH BOARD OF TRADE; PORTSMOUTH FEMALE ASYLUM. This institution was founded in 1804 by a few ladies, and incorporated in 1808. For several years it was well sustained, and many orphans found a comfortable home, in which was laid the foundation of their after usefulness; but as new ob- jects presented the interest in this association declined, and the asylum was discontinued. A small perma- nent fund remained and accumulated, the income of which, together with the annual subscription, has been devoted for the last ten or twelve years to the payment of teachers of sewing, at first in separate schools on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, and since in connection with one of the public schools in each district. PORTSMOUTH HOME FOR INDIGENT WOMEN was established Jnne, 1876, and chartered June, 1877 ; PORTSMOUTH HOWARD BENEVOLENT

SOCIETY was instituted in 1829, and incorporated in | ter of Kinsley Hall, of the Exeter combination. He

1854. The funds of the society are derived from the annual contributions of $1.00 from each member, and

fortunate poor, chiefly in the winter. PORTSMOUTH MARINE SOCIETY, incorporated A.D. 1808; PORTS- MOUTH MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION; PORTSMOUTH MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ; PORTSMOUTH SOCIETY FOR THE P. O. C. T. CHILDREN ; PORTS- MOUTH YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION; RIVERSIDE BAND, poor children's sewing mission, established January, 1878; ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, founded January, 1875, by the pastor, Very Rev. Canon Walsh; THE CHASE HOME FOR CHILDREN, FORMERLY THE CHILDREN'S HOME; PUBLIC LIBRARY.

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History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 25

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

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