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Number Fourteen.
There was no house here early, the district being very small. Dolly Hoit, born in 1774, says she generally went to Poplin to school, but there was sometimes a school kept at John Knowles's. The first school-house tax raised was in 1834, one hundred and seventy-five dollars, and in 1836 fourteen dollars.
Number Fifteen,- Number Five in Auburn.
So late as 1810 they either had no school-house, or it was too open to have a school in winter. R. S. Clark says that on the cold Friday, January 19th, 1810, the school was keeping at Moses Bricket's. The first house was probably built by individuals, and in 1813 there was a tax raised of thirty-two dollars. The old house stood a little north of the present road to Auburn village. In 1856 the district voted to remove the old house on to the Dearborn road, thirty-two rods east of the turnpike, and repair it. Mr. Amherst Coult offered to give the frame if they would build a new one, which offer was rejected. Two hundred and eighty-five dollars were expended.
Number Sixteen,- Number Seven in Auburn.
This district erected a house as early, perhaps, as 1796, but it remained unfinished so as to be unfit for use in cold weather, and Nathaniel Underhill's house and Deacon Kelly's shop were used. The house stood near where the present brick one stands, and underwent several repairs,
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and in 1827 gave place to the present one, for which the district was taxed, in 1827 and 1828, two hundred and sixteen dollars.
District No. Seventeen,-now No. Three in Chester.
This district was formed from No. 1 and No. 3, in 1805. The school-house was probably built by individuals, and stood a few rods southeast of the Josiah Chase house, now Fred. Morse's. In 1808 fifty-two dollars and twenty cents school tax was raised. The house was afterwards moved to near where the present brick house stands, and in 1835 sold to Elijah Hall for a tenement, and the brick one built. Tax raised, 1835, three hundred and fifty dollars ; 1836, two hundred and seventy dollars.
District No. Eighteen, -- Head's, in Hooksett.
The first school-house in this district was built about 1805, and burned in 1808. A tax of two hundred and fif- teen dollars raised, and the house rebuilt in 1808. The new one burned in 1839, and a good brick one built in its place, costing five hundred dollars. This district has been No. 1 in Hooksett. Sometime prior to 1842 it was divided, and a new district, No. 7, constituted at the Factory, and a house built in 1848, costing five hundred dollars. There has been another district formed from the Head district, No. 9, and a house built near the Head tavern in 1857, costing six hundred dollars.
District No. Nineteen, - Martin's (No. Two) in Hooksett.
All of Chester woods was once in one district. Robert Martin, born 1778, informed me that when a boy there was a log school-house near Martin's Ferry, which probably accommodated that part of Chester, and the upper part of Derryfield. There was probably no other school-house before the turnpike was built in 1806. In 1808 one hun- dred and twelve dollars were raised by tax, and a house built at the junction of the turnpike and White Hall road.
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District No. Twenty,-No. Eight in Auburn.
This district was a part of No. 5, and was constituted in 1806. The school-house was probably commenced by indi- viduals. In 1808 fifty dollars were raised by tax.
District No. Twenty-one, - Beech Hill (No. Three) in Hook- sett.
Constituted 1821. Was in Chester but one year. The school-house stands by the turnpike above Hall's-mill brook, where the road to Candia turns from the turnpike. There have been two school-houses burned there.
In 1854 a building was erected by a few individuals at an expense of two thousand five hundred dollars, including school furniture. In 1855 the building and land were sold to the town of Chester for a town-house, for one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, reserving forever the use of the second story for school purposes, to be under the control of the trustees of Chester Academy. A high school has been kept in it a portion of each year since that time.
MONEY APPROPRIATED FOR SCHOOLS IN CHIESTER.
DIST.
1806.
1810.
1815.
1820.
1825.
1830.
1835.
1840.
1845.
1850.
1855.
1860.
1865.
No.
1
$104 63
$131 81
$129 83
$150 53
$156 49
$143 58
$164 45
$125 40
$120 10
$130 29
$161 00
$184 16
$188 95
2
51 04
55 08
53 56
65 14
60 22
65 52
43 62
49 48
49 54
65 39
75 68
76 64
96 92
3
37 30
37 00
37 48
35 29
36 73
35 46
31 16
28 74
4
37 20
38 92
39 00
38 76
16 39
43 97
34 84
30 89
28 24
41 30
45 73
51 04
55 90
5
29 79
29 89
30 27
33 65
42 82
46 19
34 87
29 61
6
31 20
32 83
30 87
29 16
38 54
40 55
31 13
30 02
30 87
43 50
48 08
50 72
43 99
7
27 21
27 73
33 13
34 33
34 82
40 69
42 78
35 35
32 11
51 94
55 93
58 08
56 27
8
31 32
37 49
37 21
46 40
51 53
56 61
40 06
38 59
35 15
56 33
65 71
66 72
67 88
6
18 18
21 74
23 69
21 00
21 20
34 78
33 98
45 76
19 01
16 93
27 23
31 76
36 00
29 74
10
17 25
19 27
23 88
22 39
26 48
23 92
21 03
31 12
22 27
33 72
33 96
39 20
38 17
12
15 95
18 99
21 93
24 10
26 31
28 62
22 51
17 76
13
25 00
31 67
34 27
42 97
52 11
41 75
35 42
30 73
14
9 12
9 55
8 85
13 93
16 03
16 48
18 76
17 52
16 31
28 11
29 22
33 44
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15
9 57
14 21
16 59
17 72
22 71
29 91
26 71
25 90
16
21 87
30 06
35 03
38 63
47 87
36 13
S 92
30 03
17
32 35
35 13
33 82
31 58
37 52
68 17
91 57
61 25
63 03
87 85
91 75
102 20
97 90
* 18
33 70
39 24
38 70
39 20
+ 19
21 71
25 66
25 99
36 09
+ 15 70
17 93
18 97
31 01
30 50
32 80
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20
14 36
18.55
22 05
21 62
26 84
32 93
30 90
33 87
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$600 45
$680 08
$705 30
$772 72
$790 08
$821 24
$777 10
$698 96
$133 52
$596 67
$669 32
$731 00
$487 72
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* In Hooksett, 1825.
+ Hall's Village.
# Beech-Hill District In 1821.
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28 69
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25 26
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MONEY APPROPRIATED FOR SCHOOLS IN AUBURN.
DISTRICT
1846.
1850.
1855.
1860.
1865.
No. 1
$15 92
$31 12
$48 03
$45 36
$31 02
* 1
9 00
10 00
10 00
2
28 41
47 95
57 06
67 59
55 59
3
50 07
80 32
95 03
109 30
117 71
4
26 42
57 16
81 87
75 24
46 27
5
27 17
47 02
60 56
72 34
62 07
6
27 56
40 41
58 41
59 56
59 01
7
27 77
49 42
76 16
90 23
81 03
8
33 37
57 48
67 05
63 36
51 12
$236 69
$413 88
$553 17
$592 98
$513 82
· Money received from Chester in No. 1.
In 1759 there was paid to the northwest part of the town, towards Suncook, ten pounds, old tenor, equal to about one dollar and sixty-seven cents for their part of the school money.
In 1767 Joseph Brown was paid twelve shillings lawful money ; and for 1766, nine shillings.
In 1810 District No. 18, Head's, had thirty-nine dollars and twenty cents ; No. 19, Martin's, thirty-six dollars and nine cents ; No. 21, Beech-Hill, fourteen dollars and ninety- two cents.
No. 18 has been divided into Nos. 1, 7 and 9; No. 19 is No. 2, and No. 21 is No. 3.
MONEY APPROPRIATED TO THESE DISTRICTS BY HOOKSETT.
DISTRICT
1842.
1845.
1850.
1S53.
1860.
1865.
No. 1
$68 85
$78 52
$99 05
$217 42
$125 05
$116 72
7
83 28
98 89
116 23
222 87
183 65
116 72
9
57 77
83 69
117 00
216 86
190 57
177 72
3
27 12
32 40
46 73
116 37
98 68
76 64
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110 40
86 20
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Where the school money was one dollar and fifty cents in 1766, it was seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-two cents in 1865.
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GRADUATES.
LIST OF GRADUATES.
The following list contains the names of those who were natives of Chester ; also of those who were residents dur- ing their college course, though not natives.
1761. John Flagg, son of Rev. Ebenezer, and Lucretia Keys, born Feb. 24, 1742, graduated at Harvard, 1761; M. D., 1766 ; settled at Lynn, Mass.
1778. John Webster, son of Col. John Webster and Hannah Hobbs, born March 13, 1754; graduated at Dart- mouth, 1778; studied theology and preached some, but gave up the profession from diffidence ; settled in Chester, and removed to Franklin, Vt., and died Jan. 7, 1838, aged eighty-three.
1787. Jonathan Calef, son of Joseph Calef and Eliza- beth Jewel, graduated at Dartmouth ; was pastor of the Congregational church, Bloomfield, Maine, 1794, dismissed 1798; installed at Lyman, 1801, dismissed 1831; died April 25, 1845, aged eighty-three.
1798. Josiah Webster, son of Nathan Webster and Elizabeth Clifford, born Jan. 16, 1772; graduated at Dart- mouth, studied theology with Rev. Stephen Peabody, of Atkinson ; ordained Fourth Congregational church, Ips- wich (Chebacco), 1799, dismissed 1806; installed at Hampton, June 8, 1808 ; married Elizabeth Knight, of At- kinson ; died in 1837. John Calvin, graduated at Dart mouth in 1832, Joseph Dana, 1832, and Claudius Buchan- nan, 1836, were his sons.
1805. Francis Brown, son of Benjamin Brown and Prudence Kelly, born Jan. 11, 1784; graduated at Dart- mouth ; tutor at Dartmouth from 1806 to 1809; studied theology ; ordained at North Yarmouth, Maine, Jan. 10, 1810, dismissed 1815; appointed President of Dartmouth Sept. 27, 1815; went a tour to western New York for a consumptive tendency in 1818, and to South Carolina and Georgia in 1819, and died soon after his return, July 27, 1820. In person he was commanding and dignified, and of prepossessing manners, and had a mind of uncommon
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acuteness and moral worth. He was forced into a conflict between the college and the state, the trustees having re- moved President Wheelock and appointed him, the Legisla- ture and the Superior Court being in favor of President Wheelock. But the case was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, by writ of error, and was decreed in favor of the trustees. His course was unexceptionable, and for the college effective. Williams and Hamilton conferred D. D. in 1819. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Tristram Gilman, of North Yarmouth, Feb. 4, 1811, and had three children. Samuel Gilman Brown, Dartmouth, 1831, Professor at Dartmouth and President of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., is his son.
1806. Edmund Flagg, son of Josiah Flagg and Anna Webster, born July 13, 1787, graduated at Dartmouth ; was preceptor of Moore's school, 1806 and '7; read law with Daniel French, of Chester, and F. D. Channing, of Boston ; settled in Wiscassett, Maine, 1810; was Register of Pro- bate, 1812, and is said to have possessed shining talents. He went abroad for his health, and died at St. Croix, W. 1., Dec. 14, 1815. He married Harriet, daughter of Col. Da- vid Payson of Wiscassett.
1803. William White, son of Col. William White and Elizabeth Mitchel, born May 13, 1783; graduated at Dart- mouth. He read law with Amos Kent, of Chester, and John Wilson, of Belfast; commenced practice at Union, Maine, 1809; was post-master from 1809 to '12; removed to Thomaston and Belfast; published orations and a his- tory of Belfast ; died June 17, 1831.
1811. . Caleb Chase, son of Moody Chase and Anna Webster, born Feb. 4, 1783, graduated at Dartmouth. He studied theology but never preached ; was several years a teacher, and in a bookstore. He died at Portland, Sept. 2, 1850.
1814. Samuel Emerson, son of Capt. John Emerson and Elizabeth French, born Feb. 4, 1792, graduated at Dartmouth ; read law with Amos Kent, of Chester ; com- menced practice at Moultonborough, 1817; Sandwich 1824;
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Moultonborough again in 1827 ; Solicitor of Carroll county ; Senator, 1859; married Mary Ann F. Morton, 1817, and Elizabeth (Merril) Picket, 1860.
1816. Samuel Dana Bell, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, graduated at Harvard ; LL. D. at Dartmouth, 1854. (See the Genealogy.)
1816. John Rogers, son of Major William Rogers and Abigail Worth, born at West Newbury, Mass., May 24, 1787; graduated at Dartmouth. His mother married Moody Chase, which brought him to Chester. Before preparing for college, he learned the art of dressing cloth of Wil- liam Haselton of Suncook. He studied medicine with Dr. Chadborne of Concord; graduated from the Medical De- partment of Dartmouth in 1819; commenced practice in Chester ; removed to Boscawen, and died January 5, 1830. He married Sarah, daughter of Caleb Knight of Wake- field.
1818. James White, son of Colonel William White and Elizabeth Mitchel, born September 2, 1792, graduated at Dartmouth. He read law with his brother William, at Belfast, and began practice there in 1821. Was State Treasurer from 1842 to 1847. He married Lydia Shaw Wood and Mrs. Hannah W. Cushman.
1820. John Bell, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, graduated at Union.
1822. James Bell, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, graduated at Bowdoin.
1822. Luther V. Bell, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, gradu- ated at Bowdoin. (See Genealogy of the Bell Family.)
1825. Thomas Tenney, son of Silas Tenney and Rebecca Bailey, born at Bradford, Mass., November 10, 1798 ; grad- uated at Dartmouth ; taught at Moore's school ; Hampton, two years ; Portland, one year; studied theology with Rev. N. Bouton ; ordained at Standish, Me., dismissed in six years ; taught in Gorham four years ; has preached at Mason City and Plymouth, Iowa. He married Martha Tenney, daughter of William Parker of Dunbarton.
1826. John S. Emerson, son of Captain John Emerson
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and Elizabeth French, born December 23, 1800, graduated at Dartmouth; graduated at Andover in 1830; agent of A. B. C. F. M. in 1830-'31 ; ordained a missionary in 1831, sailed November, 1831, arrived at Honolulu in May, 1832 ; visited the United States in 1860, when Dartmouth con- ferred upon him the degree of M. D. ; staid eleven months and returned. He has published several valuable elemen- tary books in the languages of the Sandwich Islands. Died March 26, 1867. He married Ursula Sophia, daughter of Rev. Gad Newell, of Nelson, October 25, 1831.
1827. Henry J. Hall, son of Joseph Hall and Ruth Har- riman, born October 25, 1795, graduated at Waterville, Me. Ile is a minister at Kalamazoo, Michigan. He married Emily A. Wood in 1828.
1827. Sewell Tenney, son of Silas Tenney and Robecca Bailey, born at Bradford, Mass., August 27, 1801, gradu- ated at Dartmouth ; taught at Sanbornton one year ; grad- uated at Andover in 1831; ordained in 1831; installed over the Bethel church, Portland, and dismissed in 1835.
1832. Stephen Chase, son of Benjamin Pike Chase and Mary Chase, born August 30, 1813, graduated at Dart- mouth ; studied at Andover one year in the class of 1834; preceptor at Gorham one year; taught in Virginia and Maryland two years ; tutor and professor at Dartmouth from 1838 till his death. He published a treatise on Alge- bra. He died January 7, 1851. He married Sarah T. Goodwin, of South Berwick. Frederic Chase (Dartmouth, 1860), and Walter Wells Chase (Dartmouth, 1865), were his sons.
1835. Charles Tenney, son of Silas Tenney and Rebecca Bailey, born at Chester, September 23, 1814, graduated at Dartmouth ; preceptor at Gilmanton one year ; at San- bornton in 1837; graduated at Bangor in 1840 ; Gilman- ton again from 1841 to 1844; professor of rhetoric of the theological seminary at Gilmanton in 1844; ordained in 1844; installed at North Haverhill and Plaistow in 1853, dimissed in 1858; installed at Biddeford, Me., in 1858.
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1838. Christopher S. Bell, son of Hon. John Bell and Persis Thom, born June 4, 1819, graduated at Dartmouth. (See the Bell Family.)
1841. Daniel Tenney, son of Silas Tenney and Rebecca Bailey, born December 10, 1816, graduated at Dartmouth ; graduated at Lane Seminary in 1844; settled at Oxford, Ohio, from 1845 to 1856; Lawrence, Mass., from 1857 to 1862; Boston from 1862 to 1865. He married Mary Adams, daughter of Deacon Nathaniel Parker, September 22, 1844.
1842. Perley Smith Chase, son of Josiah Chase and Abigail Shaw, born November 8, 1817, graduated at Brown University. He read law, and practiced at Lawrence.
1843. Amos Lufkin, son of Nehemiah Lufkin and Rachael Currier, born September 1, 1816, graduated at Dartmouth ; taught at Taunton and Cleveland, Ohio.
1843. John Wason Ray, son of Stark Ray and Hannah Wason, born December 23, 1814, graduated at Dartmouth ; taught at Atkinson in 1843-'44 ; Manchester, from 1844 to 1848; Eastport, 1848-'49; Reed's Ferry, 1850; also at Derry ; ordained, and stated supply at Goffstown. He is now at Hastings, Minnesota.
1844. Charles Henry Bell, son of Hon. John Bell and Persis Thom, born November 18, 1823, graduated at Dart- mouth. (See Genealogy of the Bell Family.)
1844. Hiram Chase, son of Josiah Chase and Abigail Shaw, born July 1, 1819, graduated at Union ; died August 31, 1845.
1847. Rufus Jay Kittredge, son of Dr. Rufus Kittredge and Sally Temple Underhill, born in 1828, graduated at Dartmouth, and M. D. at Jefferson Medical College. He died in 1850.
1848. John Currier Clark, son of John Clark and Eliza- beth Currier, born at Chester (now Auburn), March 3, 1822, graduated at the Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. ; immediately became teacher of mathematics at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary ; then Principal of the institution in 1850; resigned in 1852, on account of ill health ; then went into the lumber trade at Cleveland,
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Ohio; then at Detroit, and now resides at St. Clair, Michi- gan, where he is County Superintendent of Schools.
1850. David Bremner, son of William Bremner and Helen Frazer, born in Scotland June 25, 1828, graduated at Dartmouth, and at Andover in 1853 ; pastor of the Sec- ond Congregational church at Rockport from 1855 to 186; at Plymouth in 1864.
1851. George Bell, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, born June ' 28, 1829, graduated at Dartmouth.
1852. John Bell, brother of the above, graduated at Dartmouth.
1853. Charles Bell, brother of the above, graduated at Brown University. (See Genealogy of the Bell Family.)
1854. Edmund Webster Kittredge, son of Dr. Rufus Kittredge and Sally Temple Underhill, born November 29, 1833, graduated at Dartmouth ; read law at Harvard, and practices in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1855. Nathan Sherburne Haselton, son of Thomas Has- selton and Elizabeth Sanborn, born March 29, 1829, gradu- :ated at Dartmouth, and at Andover in 1858; ordained at Springfield, Vt., January, 1859 ; died January 22, 1860. He married Mary A., daughter of Rev. Robert F. Lawrence, of .Claremont.
1855. David Quigg, son of Abel G. Quigg and Lydia Bixby, born at Litchfield in 1834; read law at Peoria, and practices at Chicago.
1856. Charles Tenney Melvin, son of Thomas J. Melvin and Harriet Tenney, born June 23, 1835, graduated at Dartmouth, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1859 ; pastor of the Presbyterian church at Columbus, and Elk Grove, and Rising Sun Prairie, Wisconsin ; married Eliz- abeth, daughter of Thomas Tracy, in 1860, and Sarah A. Vanderburg in 1864.
1857. Arthur Folsom, son of Hon. Jolin Folsom and Dorothy Temple Underhill, born July 4, 1833, graduated at Amherst ; studied theology at Danville Theological Seminary, Kentucky; about 1862 went a missionary to Canton, China, under the Old School Board of Foreign Missions.
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1857. Richard Folsom, brother of the foregoing, graduated at Amherst ; studied law at the Harvard Law School, and is in practice at Cincinnati, Ohio.
1862. David Folsom, brother of the above, born July 4, 1839, graduated at Dartmouth. He was a merchant at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1862-'63 ; at New Orleans to Feb- ruary, 1864 ; then at St. Louis, Mo. The three above 'were born in what is now Auburn.
UNDER-GRADUATES.
Eleazer Blanchard, son of Hon. Joseph Blanchard and Sarah Calfe, died 1809, aged twenty-seven, a Sophomore at Dartmouth.
Arthur Livermore French, son of Hon. Daniel French and Betsy V. M. Flagg, died April 25, 1825, aged nineteen, a Junior at Dartmouth.
James Isaac Bell, son of Hon. John Bell, entered Dart- mouth 1837. (See the Bell Family.)
Samuel Francis Murry, of Auburn, son of Samuel Murry and Eveline French, entered Dartmouth 1861; after one term enlisted into the second regiment U. S. Sharp-shooters, was promoted to captain, and is now a druggist at Man- chester.
Charles Warren Kimball, son of Lewis Kimball and El- eanor Elkins, born 1847, now, 1868, a Sophomore at Dart- month.
Albert Augustus Osgood, of Auburn, son of Cady; Os- good and Mary Kelly, born Feb. 9, 1844, now, 1868, a Sophomore at Dartmouth.
Gilman Jenness, son of Abraham Jenness and Abigail Haselton, born at Derry, Feb. 25, 1850, now a resident of Chester, Sophomore at Dartmouth.
James F. Savage, of Auburn, son of Rev. Isaac A. Sav- age and Mary Ann, daughter of John Clark, born Feb. 24, 1849, Freshman at Dartmouth.
Charles Almond Goldsmith, of Auburn, son of Thomas Goldsmith and Esther McDuffee, born June 29, 1846, is now a Senior in the Medical Department of Harvard Uni- versity.
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PROFESSIONAL MEN, NOT COLLEGE GRADUATES, NATIVES OF CHESTER.
Dr. Edward Dearborn, son of Jonathan Dearborn and Delia Robic, studied medicine and practiced at Seabrook.
Dr. Cyrus Dearborn, brother of Edward, studied medi- cine, and practiced at East Salisbury, Mass.
Dr. Ebenezer Dearborn, another brother, studied medi- cine, and practiced at Nashua. (See under the name in early settlers.)
Dr. Jonathan Hilliard Shaw, son of Cornet David Shaw and Abigail Smith, studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Kittredge, practiced in Candia and Dunbarton, and went as surgeon on board of a privateer in 1814 ; died Sept. 3, 1821.
Dr. John Sargent, son of Abraham Sargent and Lydia Richardson, born Jan. 6, 1793, studied medicine with Dr. Zadock Howe, of Concord, practiced at Loudon, Sandwich and Tamworth ; died at Moultonborough, May 17, 1840.
Dr. Josiah I. Hall, son of John Hall and Hannah Ingalls, born March 1, 1805, studied medicine with Drs. Benjamin and Rufus Kittredge, and Dr. McMullan of New Boston, practiced in Manchester, and now resides in Chester, but does not practice.
John James Bell, son of Hon. S. D. Bell and Mary Healey, born Oct. 30, 1827 ; attorney-at-law now at Exeter. (See genealogical part of this work.)
Dr. Rufus Shackford, son of Capt. Samuel Shackford and Hannah Currier, born Dec. 17, 1816, studied medicine with Dr. James M. Cummings, Groton, Mass. ; in the Tremont street medical school, Boston ; attended lectures at Dart- mouth in 1842, also at Harvard in 1843 and '44; graduated from Harvard March, 1845 ; practiced at Groton, also at Lowell, and removed to Portland, where he is still in prac- tice.
Dr. Hosea Ballou Burnham, son of Miles Burnham and Saloma Hall, born at Chester, now Auburn ; fitted for col- lege at Gilmanton and Sanbornton Bridge ; entered the
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Wesleyan University 1848, remained there through his Jun- ior year, then left on account of ill health ; studied medi- cine with Dr. W. D. Buck, of Manchester ; M. D., Vermont Medical College, 1853; is a fellow of the N. H. Medical Society and member of the American Medical Association ; in practice at Epping.
Dr. Mary E. Cox, daughter of Rufus Sanborn and Betsy Fitts, born at Chester, Nov. 1834, studied medicine and received the degree of M. D. at N. Y. Hygeio Therapeutic College, 1864; at present resides in Chester, travels and lectures on the laws of health.
Dr. James F. Brown. (See Physicians.)
PHYSICIANS.
Who was the first physician in Chester is not known. Tabitha Foss, in her administration account, 1747, charges for having paid Drs. Rogers and Bond ; and Mary Has- elton, in 1759, charges as having paid Dr. John Bond, and they probably resided in Chester. There was a Master Wood who taught school in 1746, '47 and '48; and there was a Dr. George Wood in Chester, who removed to Lon- donderry about 1770 and practiced there until about 1785, but there is no certainty that they were the same.
Dr. Samuel Moore was a school teacher in 1749 and '50. He married Mehitabel Ingalls about 1750. He removed to Candia Corner and was a very prominent man there, though I think not as a practicing physician. Mrs. Moore was famous as a midwife. He died in 1793; she died in 1818.
Dr. Jolin Ordway was a native of Amesbury, came to Chester and taught school in 1758; married Sarah, daugh- ter of Samuel Robie, in 1760, and lived nearly opposite where John Robinson now lives. He died about 1770.
Dr. John Manning is paid for a visit to a pauper in 1781, and is taxed in 1785. Nothing further is known of him.
Dr. Benjamin Page was in town and his family had the small-pox in 1778. He was in 'Chester in 1785 and '87. There was a Dr. Page in Raymond, who lived on No. 122,
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Old Hundreds, and Dr. Benjamin Page is taxed for the Ray- mond place several years. His buildings in Chester were burned April 5, 1791. New buildings were put up, which he sold to Joseph Robinson about 1793, and left town. He died at Hallowell, Oct 28, 1825, aged seventy-eight.
Dr. Thomas Sargent came to Chester about 1777, and practiced until about 1818, and removed to Canada. (See his name as an early settler.)
Dr. Samuel Foster was born in Bilerica, Mass .; studied medicine at Woodstock, Conn. He came to Chester and married Mary Colcord of Brentwood, Feb. 19, 1789. He removed to Candia in June of the same year, and prac- ticed there until 1812. He died at Brentwood, 1826.
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