History of Strafford County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 66

Author: Scales, John, 1835-1928
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 988

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Mr. Lord is a Republican in politics and fraternally is connected with the B. P. O. E. at Dover, and the I. O. R. M. at Salmon Falls, and the Wetamoo Council of the Daughters of Pocahontas of Dover.

Mr. Lord has been quite a traveler in his time, having visited the South and West, Mexico, and all of the states on the Pacific Coast, also Canada and other British possessions on this Continent.

BERNARD Q. BOND, who is recognized as one of the able financiers of Strafford county, is cashier of the Rochester National Bank, treasurer of the Norway Plains Savings Bank and a director in the Wolfboro National Bank. Mr. Bond was born in 1879, at Dalton, N. H., and is a son of Frank P. and Emma (Cushman ) Bond. Frank P. Bond was born in New Hampshire and has always been a resident of his native state, at present living at Littleton, in Grafton county. He is engaged there in the mercantile business and is a member of the directing board of the Littleton Savings Bank. He married Emma Cushman and they have but one child.

Bernard Q. Bond attended school at Littleton and later entered Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in 1901. His first banking experience was gained in the Littleton National Bank, where he remained three years and was then called to the Rochester National Bank to succeed Henry M. Plumer as cashier, assuming the duties of this position in 1907. His association with this bank has been very satisfactory to the directors, stockholders and the public and his main interests are centered liere. As a citizen of Rochester he is deeply interested in all local movements promising good government and readily contributes to the same. Politically he is identified with the Republican party and fraternally is a Mason. Mr. Bond was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Edward, who was born at Laconia, Belknap county, N. H., and

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they have two children, Marguerite and Franklin, aged four and two years, respectively. Mr. Bond and wife attend the Congregational church.

WILLIAM T. GUNNISON, attorney at law at Rochester and a member of the law firm of Felker & Gunnison, the senior partner being the governor of the state of New Hampshire, was born in September, 1869, and is a son of Arvin and Sarah (Putnam) Gunnison. Arvin Gunnison was born in New Hampshire. After the close of the Civil war he went to Mississippi and became interested in growing cotton, purchasing a plantation. His death occurred while there, in middle age. He married Sarah Putnam, who was born at Milford, N. H., and they had a family of five children, the only sur- vivor being William T.

William T. Gunnison attended school at Milford, then became a student at Exeter Academy, from there entered Dartmouth College and in July, 1895, was graduated from the Harvard Law School. He then came to Rochester and became the partner of Governor Felker. This firm has a good law practice and he is judge of the police court for the district of Rochester. He is a Republican in politics.

Mr. Gunnison married Miss Grace Horney and they have two children, Arvin and John, both attending school. Mr. Gunnison in addition to his pro- fessional activities, is serving at present as judge of the police court and was formerly for some time a very useful member of the school board. He has long been identified with the Masonic fraternity. With his family he attends the Congregational church.

THOMAS A. BARIL, secretary of the Rochester Board of Trade and interested in general insurance and investments, with offices at Nos. 24-5 Dodge Block, is one of the progressive business men of this city. He was born in 1868, at Pottsdam, N. Y., and was educated in the schools of Lawrence, Mass. For twenty-three years after his school days were over, Mr. Baril was in the dry goods business, prior to 1890 at Lawrence and afterward at Rochester. In 1903 he went into the insurance business and became state agent for the New York Life Insurance Company, a position of responsibility he still holds; he later added fire insurance and liability and still later took on the line of investments. On December 30, 1908, Mr. Baril brought about the organization of the Board of Trade at Rochester, of which R. V. Sweet is the present president, Mr. Baril being the first secretary, which office he now fills, and is one of the leading members of the Merchants' Club.

Mr. Baril married Miss Minnie J. Furbush, who was born at West Lebanon, Me., and they have five children: Fred, Harold, Spencer, Marie Felice, and

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Roberre. Mr. Baril votes independently although nominally a Republican. He is identified officially with several of the leading fraternal bodies, being past exalted ruler of Dover Lodge No. 184, Elks, and past worthy president of the Eagles.

A. H. FOWNES, treasurer and manager of the C. F. Trask Manufactur- ing Company, with plant located on River street, Rochester, has been man- ager of this concern since June, 1911, but continues the business under the old and well known name. Mr. Fownes was born at Horton, Nova Scotia, in 1867, one of a family of eleven children born to his parents, who were Alexander and Mary (Finley) Fownes, the former of whom never came to the United States and died in 1878.

A. H. Fownes passed his school period in Nova Scotia. He has been active in business since early manhood, first becoming identified with C. F. Trask in 1892 and continuing with him for four years. For the following ten years he was New England manager for the Beechnut Packing Company and also was in business at Rochester with the firm of Fownes & Henderson, dealers in boots, shoes and furnishings. The business associates of Mr. Fownes in his present enterprise are: Albert E. Tutein, of Boston, president ; F. H. Hilton, an attorney of Framingham, Mass., vice pres .; while, as noted above, Mr. Fownes is manager and treasurer. The output of this plant are paper boxes and box shooks and employment is afforded to from 60 to 65 people.

Mr. Fownes married Miss Marion B. Hilton, of South Framingham, Mass., and they have three children: Eleanor K., Frances and Lois. The family attends the Congregational church. Politically Mr. Fownes is a Republican and fraternally a Mason.

DANIEL WINGATE. Somersworth, N. H., has among its honored retired residents men who have claimed this place as their home all through life and one of these is Daniel Wingate, now residing at No. 214 High street, who was born here when the city was known as Great Falls, March 8, 1826. His parents were Daniel and Sabina (Tibbetts) Wingate, the former a native of Rochester, N. H., and the latter of Berwick, Me.

Daniel Wingate, the father, was a man of business importance at Great Falls. He bore the name of his father, Daniel Wingate, who had been a Revolutionary soldier and probably was the founder of the family at Roches- ter, N. H., where he died in old age. The second Daniel Wingate taught school at Great Falls in early manhood and afterward was a traveling sales- man for a time. Later he embarked in a mercantile business, which he con-

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tinued for many years, at last retiring to his farm, which was situated between Somersworth and Dover. Of his children there are three survivors: Daniel, the third of the name in succession; Mrs. Harriet N. Hubbard, of Berwick, Me. ; and Mrs. Ina Ferguson, also of Berwick.

Daniel Wingate attended the Somersworth schools in boyhood and remained at home until his seventeenth year. He then went to Boston to take instruction along lines for which he had developed considerable natural talent. He served there an apprenticeship of almost three years with a firm of car- riage and sign painters and then returned to Somersworth, where he went into business for himself, at the age of twenty years becoming a contractor both in house and sign painting. He also conducted a store at Great Falls, where he handled paints, oils, glass, sash and blinds, to which he later added hard- ware. Included in his line of work was frescoing church interiors. At times he employed a large force of men and did work all over Strafford county, N. H., and York county, Me., and for a long period the painting work on depots, bridges and signs required by the Boston & Maine and the Great Falls & Conway Railroads, was entrusted to him. After a long business career, marked with much success, he retired to enjoy the ease won by his former industry.

Mr. Wingate married Miss Abigail J. Wiggin, of Dover, and they had six children, the survivors being: William H. and Edward C., both residents of Nashua, N. H .; Emma J., wife of Frank F. Fernald, a well known attor- ney of Dover; and M. Isabel, wife of Frank H. Morrison of Rochester. Mr. Wingate and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Somersworth. In public matters Mr. Wingate was active and useful serving as a member of the first board of assessors after Somersworth was incorporated as a city, for five years being chairman of the board. For several years he was the executive officer of the board of health and also was a selectman of the town of Somersworth in 1873 and 1874. The other members of the board were Hon. David G. Buffum, former president of the New Hampshire Senate; Samuel D. Rollins, cashier of Somersworth National Bank, Hon. Thomas Jameson and Enoch Whitehouse. He also served as street commis- sioner and later as a member of the town school committee with the late Judge William D. Knapp and Hon. James A. Edgerly. Mr. Wingate belongs to that type of citizenship whose influence is lasting, for it is through its honest industry and high ideals that progress has been made and the welfare of all has been placed on a firm foundation.

ANDREW JACKSON, attorney at law and a member of the law firm of Jackson & Hurlburt, with offices at No. 8 Hanson street, Rochester, was

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born at Littleton, N. H., in 1882, and is a son of James R. and Lydia (Drew) Jackson. James R. Jackson was a native of Vermont and from there came first to Dover, where he married and later was a well known practitioner of law at Littleton, N. H. His family consisted of six children.

Andrew Jackson attended the excellent public schools of Littleton and then entered Dartmouth College. After completing his collegiate studies he entered the educational field, teaching his first school at Lyndonville, Vt. He after- ward taught at Rochester for three years and for three years more was super- intendent of schools here before entering the Boston University Law School, where he secured his degree and in 1912 was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He entered into practice at Boston as a member of the firm of Hurlburt, Jones & Cabot, in the following year opening his present office at Rochester. In his political sentiments Mr. Jackson is a decided Democrat.

FRANK B. MAGUIRE, who is one of the enterprising business men of Rochester, is proprietor of the Graves Corset Company and is also secretary and manager of the Rochester Agricultural and Mechanical Association. He was born in 1861, at Danby, Vt., and is a son of John and Mary (Heney) Maguire and they had a family of twelve children. The father was a native of Enniskillen, Ireland, and the mother was born in Dublin, Ireland, and they married there. They spent their married life at Danby and died there, the father living to the age of 82 years.

Frank B. Maguire secured a public school education at Danby, after which he was in a shoe factory in Hudson, Mass. In 1895 he came to Rochester and went into the shoe business but prior to this had been in the business for some years at Springvale, Me. The Graves Corset Company, of which Mr. Maguire has been proprietor since 1907, manufactures corsets and does a large mail order business. A large part of Mr. Maguire's time is demanded by his duties in relation to the Fair Association, a very important and popular organiza- tion in Strafford county. Politically Mr. Maguire is a Republican. He served with extreme efficiency for one year in the New Hampshire legislature and for fifteen consecutive years has been an official of the city government. Mr. Maguire married Miss Lillian Weber, of Lynn, Mass., and they partake of the pleasant social life of the city. Mr. Maguire is a Mason of high degree, belonging to the Shrine at Boston and to the lower branches, including the Commandery, at Rochester. He is identified also with the Odd Fellows.

WILLIAM K. KIMBALL, who is one of Rochester's active business men, conducts a grain, flour, hay and straw business on Hanson street and owns and operates a grain elevator. He is a native of Rochester, born in 1863, and

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is a son of W. K. and Sarah J. (Hoyt) Kimball, one of a family of two chil- dren. The father of Mr. Kimball was also born at Rochester and for many years engaged in a grocery, confectionery and stationery business. His death occurred at Rochester on May 11, 1884.

W. K. Kimball attended the public schools through boyhood. His first place of employment was in the Wallace Shoe factory where he became a shoe cutter. Afterward for eight years he was connected with the G. T. Laundry Company. In 1898 he embarked in his present business at Rochester and has expanded it into a large enterprise, employment being given to five people and trade connections maintained all through this section. Mr. Kimball mar- ried Miss Annie H. Jones, of S. Milton, N. H. He is identified politically with the Republican party and fraternally with the Masons. With his family he attends the Methodist Episcopal church.

WALTER N. MORRISON, who belongs to the active and progressive business men of Rochester, does a large amount of work in the line of engineer- ing, heating and general mechanics, his location being on Front street, Roches- ter. He was born November 24, 1859, in Wolfboro, N. H., and is a son of Benjamin and Fannie (Foss) Morrison. They had three children, Ida, Walter N. and Fannie. The father, a native of Walton, was an engineer by profession, and died at the age of seventy-seven years, at Wolfboro.

Walter N. Morrison attended the public schools of his native place. Having a natural inclination in the direction of mechanics, he learned engineering and worked as a stationary engineer until 1889, when he embarked in his present business at Rochester. He gives employment to from eight to ten men, a general line of machine and mechanical work being satisfactorily covered.

Mr. Morrison married twice, his second wife having been prior to marriage Miss Ellen Pike. One daughter, Florence, born to his first marriage, resides at home. Mr. Morrison and family attend the Baptist church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons and belongs also to the Odd Fellows.

G. E. DEAN, who operates a grist mill on Railway avenue, Rochester, and deals in grain, flour, feed and hay, has been interested here since April, 1910. He was born in 1865, at Brownington, Vt., and is a son of G. M. and Ellen (Barrows) Dean. The parents are natives also of Vermont and still survive, the father being in his seventy-fifth year. Of their four children two are living, G. E. and a daughter, Mrs. Etta McLean. During his entire active life the father followed milling.

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After his school days were ended, G. E. Dean went to work in a bakery and so continued for five years and learned the business. He was 23 years old when he became associated with his father in the mill and some years afterward bought a mill at Orleans, Vt., formerly Barton Landing, which he operated until he went to the West for a year. After his return he went into his present business at Rochester, purchasing from J. C. Daniels & Son. He has equipped his mill with modern machinery and affords employment to two millers all the time and adds to his force as occasion demands.

Mr. Dean married Miss Anna Goss and they have two daughters, Catherine and Pauline, aged fifteen and seven years respectively. In politics Mr. Dean is a Republican but his, tastes have never been in the direction of public office. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, the Grange and the American Mechanics. In his business relations he has won the confidence of his fellow citizens and is numbered with the reliable and representative men of Rochester.

JOHN E. FISHER, a member of the firm of A. C. Fisher & Sons, lumber dealers and operators, was born in Canada in 1886, a son of Albert C. Fisher. The latter was also a native of Canada, who came to this country about 25 years ago. He was a lumber sawyer, at first operating a stationery mill and afterwards a portable mill, which he conducted until his death on February 8, 1909. He married Emma Lavoie and they were the parents of four children, Charles E., John E., Frank E. and Norman A.

John E. Fisher was educated in the schools of Rochester and afterwards became associated with his father in the lumber business here. Since the lat- ter's death he and his brother, Charles E., have operated the business together, dealing in timber lots and lumber and running portable saw mills. They are doing a prosperous business and are numbered among the substantial and reliable citizens of Rochester. John E. Fisher was married three years ago to Ora Vachon, of Somersworth, and they have two children, Brenda and Florence. Mr. Fisher is independent in politics and attends the French Catholic church.

WALTER J. ROBERTS, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of medi- cine and surgery at Rochester, N. H., having an office at 46 Main street, was born in York county, Maine, a son of William E. and Cora B. (Carl) Roberts. His father, who was a farmer, is now living retired at Waterboro, Maine.

W. J. Roberts was educated in the Maine schools and was graduated at the Medical School of Maine in 1906. He spent a year in the Maine General

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Hospital, where he gained much practical experience and in 1907 came to Rochester, where he bought out the practice of Dr. John H. Neal and has since practiced his profession successfully here. He is medical referee for Strafford county and he belongs fraternally to the Masons and Odd Fellows, having membership in the local lodges. He married Idella E. Ross of Phillips, Maine.

MARTIN P. BENNETT, one of the well known citizens of Dover, where he has been in business for many years, is located at No. 8 Milk street and deals in wagons, carriages, harness, whips, etc., and is agent for the Brown automobile truck. He has the distinction of being the only dealer in his line in this section of the country. Mr. Bennett was born at Dover, in 1852, and is a son of George P. and Abbie P. (Straw) Bennett.

George P. Bennett was a native of Maine but spent a number of years in Dover engaged as overseer in old No. 4 weave room. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil war he went to Wakefield, N. H., and there enlisted and served faithfully until he lost his life in the charge before Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864. The family then returned to Dover, where the mother died, March 10, 1889. There were three children : Martin P., William H., and Mrs. Arabella Watson.

Martin P. Bennett started to work in a shoe shop at Dover after his school days were over. He then worked about five years in the Cocheco Print Works and then went into the junk business in which he continued for thirty-five years, following which he embarked in his present line. As a business man he stands high and is numbered with the substantial men of the city. Left fatherless in boyhood he had to make his own way and what he owns he earned for himself. He owns considerable property, his investments having been made judiciously.

Mr. Bennett was first married to Miss Mary E. Abbott, a daughter of John W. Abbott, who was survived by two children : Mrs. Angie M. Brown, and Alice L. His second marriage was to Mrs. E. P. Churchill. Mrs. Churchill had two children: Albert H. and E. Ruth Churchill. The family belongs to the Central Avenue Baptist church. In politics Mr. Bennett is a Republican and has served in city offices, first as selectman, later as a mem- ber of the council for two years and for two years was alderman. Fraternally he is identified with the leading organizations, belonging to Moses Paul Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; Mt. Pleasant Lodge No. 16, Odd Fellows, Prescott Encamp- ment and Canton Parker, and has passed all the chairs in the above orders. He is a past chancellor of Olive Branch No. 6, Knights of Pythias, and belongs also to the Pythian Sisters and the Rebeccas; also to A. O. Q. Workmen, Gar-

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rison Lodge No. 6. He has taken great interest in the Sons of Veterans, hav- ing passed through all the chairs and in 1910 was elected Division Commander of his state.

CHARLES W. VARNEY, of Charles W. Varney & Co., general insur- ance, with office in the McDuffee Block, Rochester, N. H., and a member also of the firm of Crawford, Tolles & Co., of Somersworth, is a native of Lebanon, Me. His father, David W. Varney, was a lumberman and was also engaged in farming in Lebanon, Maine, where he always resided. He is now deceased. He married Abbie S. Tibbetts, of Rochester, N. H., and they had a family of four children.

Charles W. Varney in his boyhood attended the district school in Lebanon, Me., and West Lebanon Academy, and also took a course at Bryant & Strat- ton's Business College of Boston, Mass. He then worked four years for the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company in their Boston office, coming to Roches- ter April 1, 1906. Here he is carrying on a general line of insurance and also transacts a loan business. Much of his time is devoted to the Somersworth firm of Crawford, Tolles & Company, of which he is a member. He is a thorough business man and a reliable citizen, which he has proven while in public office, having served as representative to the State legislature in 1913. He is a 32d degree Mason, member of the Odd Fellows, American Mechanics, and the Grange, having taken all seven degrees. At the present time he is serv- ing the office of lecturer of The New Hampshire State Grange. In politics he is a Republican and he affiliates with the M. E. church. Mr. Varney mar- ried Matilda Webster Shepherd, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and they have one child-Charles W., Jr.

JOSEPH MORRILL, a former citizen of Dover who passed away in 1870, will long be remembered for his many estimable personal qualities and his remarkable business ability, coupled with an admirable public spirit that made him a benefactor of the community in which he spent the greater part of his useful life. Generations yet unborn will enjoy the beauty and shade of the long avenues of trees that it was his great pleasure to set out to adorn the city. This single beneficence would entitle him to the gratitude of all.

Little is known of the boyhood days of Joseph Morrill. He came to Dover when a young man and for over thirty years was employed in the local mills, for a long period being an overseer. He was the son of a farmer, but agricultural labors did not attract him, his business sense being so keen that he more enjoyed the trade and barter of commercial life, and so unerring were his judgment and foresight that any enterprise he engaged in was usually

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successful. He was a careful investor in real estate and for many years was the largest holder of the same in Dover. He also owned ships and a two-third interest in the Dover water works, besides having other wealth, which, when inherited by his family, caused them to be the largest tax payers in the county. He erected the two business blocks which bear his name, the first of brick, and the second, completed just before his death, of wood, this being then the most pretentious building in the city.

Joseph Morrill married Nancy Quimby, who came from the old Waldron family, some of the finest stock in the state. Of their nine children there are now three survivors-Charles Joseph, Mrs. James E. Lothrop, and Rosena. Mr. Morrill donated the first drinking fountain in Dover. On this same spot his heirs erected a handsome memorial in granite, in 1913.

Charles Joseph Morrill, son of Joseph and Nancy Morrill, secured his edu- cation in the Dover schools. During his active years he was in the clothing business, but since his father's death he has been more or less fully occupied with taking care of the estate. He married Miss Annie D. Cushman. They had one son, James Lothrop, who was born in 1876 and died when two years old. Mr. Morrill is a Republican and has served in various public offices.

HON. WILLIAM G. BRADLEY, now living retired from active business, at Rochester, for many years has been a prominent citizen of Strafford county and through high efficiency in public office as well as through personal integ- rity, has won the confidence, respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. Mr. Bradley was born March 29, 1848, at Burlington, Mass., and is a son of Charles P. Bradley, a native of England, who, coming to the United States in boyhood, served as a sailor on the old United States frigate Constitution, familiarly called "Old Ironsides." He lived to the age of 78 years and died in Massachusetts. The mother of Mr. Bradley survived until 1875. He was the only child.

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History of Strafford County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 66

Author: Scales, John, 1835-1928 Publication date: 1914 Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Number of Pages: 988

Author: Scales, John, 1835-1928
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 988