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" That epidemic seized my brain And set my thoughts a-roving ; My business overmuch curtailed, Besides the expense of moving !
" A rolling stone ne'er gathers moss, But often wounds the roller; - Now I'm resolved to live content And be no more a stroller."
Dea. Cochran always signed his poems "I. C." He died in good old age, Aug. 21, 1825. His wife died April 11, 1816, aged seventy-three. Their children, all born in Windham, were : -
1. NAOMI, [b. Oct. 29, 1766, d. in Windham Dec. 17, 1783, aged 17. On the slate-stone at her head in the old yard in that town, is engraved an empty hour-glass ; and under it a couplet in which the engraver curiously left out the letter " 1" in glass, making it read, -
" My gass is run And so will yours."]
2. ANDREW, [b. in Windham May 13, 1769, was two years at Dartmouth College, but did not graduate. Settled on the
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south part of his father's large farm. He built and lived in the house now owned and occupied by his grandson, Andrew Cochran ; m. Jennett Wilson of Windham ; d. Oct. 16, 1820 ; wife d. Oct. 10, 1851, aged 83. Had ten children : - Naomie, (b. Dec. 3, 1793, m. James Wallace of Antrim, moved to Manchester, and d. there.)
Nancy, (b. Jan. 15, 1795, m. Thomas Jameson of Antrim, moved to Lowell, Mass., d. Nov. 23, 1846. Their son An- drew was ten years in the naval service and was a Union soldier in the late war.)
Rev. Sylvester, (b. May 8, 1796, m. 1824 to Hannah Symonds of Hancock, had four children, two dying in infancy. He d: March 14, 1860; wife d. Feb. 23, 1863. Both d. in Northville, Mich., where they had resided since 1844. Had two children that survived him. Lyman, b. in Antrim, at the Branch, Aug. 6, 1825, known as Judge Cochrane, was the older of these ; and the other, Miss Sarah A. Cochrane of De- troit, Mich., is the only survivor of the family at the present time. Rev. Sylvester was a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1835. Studied divinity under Dr. Whiton, and entered somewhat late in life into the ministry, settling in East Poultney, Vt., where he continued pastor ten years. In 1837, he went to Vermontville, Mich., where he gathered a church and was five years pastor. Afterwards in several places, he was in the service till near his death. A writer from Vermontville, after forty years, says of him : ,“ His memory is cherished here by many hearts." Another speaks of him as " loyal to his creeds without bigotry, and liberal without laxity," and as one "eminently useful and universally beloved." Evidently he was among the worthiest of the sons of Antrim. In his last years he was a teacher as well as preacher, and acquired considerable prominence as the founder of Northville Academy. Judge Lyman Coch- rane, a native of this town, went when a boy with his father to Vermont, and thence to the West. Was graduated at the University of Michigan, in the class of 1849; and from Ballston, N. Y., Law School, in 1852. Settled as a lawyer in Detroit. Was early chosen to the legislature of that State. In 1873 he was appointed judge of the superior court, which office he held at his sudden death Feb. 5, 1879. He was a rare scholar, retiring, conscientious, and thought-
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ful. He was specially successful as a judge, being dignified, courteous, patient, industrious in the management and dis- patch of business, and studiously upright. Judge Cochrane was m. Aug. 3, 1876, but left no children.)
John, (b. April 24, 1798. Was in trade several years in Bos- ton and Roxbury, Mass. Went to New York City about 1825 ; was heard from only a few times after.)
Isaac, (twin-brother of John, traded in company with his brother John, in Boston and Roxbury ; m. Mary A. Lynch of Roxbury. Inherited the homestead. He was a stone- mason and mover of buildings ; d. Nov. 8, 1869. Had children, Mary Ann and Andrew, both now residing on the old homestead with their aged mother. Andrew served three years in the rebellion of 1861, in the Thirteenth N. H. Regiment.).
Clarissa, (b. April 18, 1800, m. Aug. 30, 1827, Alfred Fair- banks, a merchant in Francestown. After his death, went to St. Augustine, Fla. ; m. Dr. Andrew Anderson of that place ; he d. leaving one son, Andrew, who followed the occupation of his father, and is a physician in St. Augustine. He inherited the homestead, on which he and his mother reside, which is an extensive orangery. From a letter to the " Boston Journal " in February, 1879, we clip the following : "Dr. Anderson's grove is one of the most famous in the South, and is exceedingly profitable. His residence fronts on a street charmingly embowered in orange, lemon, and magnolia trees.)
Ann, (b. March 2, 1802, m. David Holt of Lyndeborough, Jan. 18, 1838, d. in that town May 13, 1870. Had four children : Alfred, Andy, Frances, and Ellen. Alfred was a surgeon in the army of the rebellion of 1861, and is now a physician in Cambridge, Mass. Andy served in the rebellion, and is now captain of the Lafayette Artillery Company of Lyndebor- ough, and a farmer. Frances m. K. Curtis, and lives in Lyndeborough. Ellen is a teacher in Ohio.)
Joanna, (b. July 11, 1805, d. of spotted fever, April, 1812.)
Mary J., (b. Sept. 25, 1807, m. David Campbell of Antrim, in 1834.)
Lorenzo, (b. Aug. 24, 1809. Went South in early life ; when last heard from was boating on the Mississippi river. Sup- posed to have d. of cholera.)}
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3. JAMES, [b. in Windham, Sept. 5, 1771 ; m. 1st, Joanna Creesy of Francestown in 1796 ; she d. March 23, 1829, aged 54; 2d, Mrs. Hannah Gibson of Amherst, January, 1830. She d. Nov. 1, 1858, aged nearly 79. He inherited the home- stead, except that portion given to his brother Andrew. Was a live man, one of great energy and force ; run the saw and grist mill in connection with his farm. Was noted for acci- dents and broken bones. By a fall from an apple-tree in the autumn of 1844, he being then seventy-two years of age, one leg was so badly fractured that it had to be amputated. After this he broke his ribs, thigh, and wrist, all by different accidents, yet he survived it all, and d. June 1, 1851, nearly eighty years of age. Children six, all born in Antrim.
Andrew C., (b. April 20, 1797'; m. 1st, Louisa, daughter of the Hon. Jacob Tuttle, Dec. 11, 1828. She d. Jan. 11, 1849 ; 2d, Mrs. Augusta Kinsley of Peterborough, Oct. 25, 1863. Was in trade in Boston and Medford, Mass., and afterwards in Hancock, where he spent most of his life. He moved to Peterborough in 1863. Was president of the Peterborough Bank from the time of its organization to the time of his death, and owner in a woolen mill in that town, known as the firm of Noone and Cochran. For more than half a century his reputation for integrity and honesty was unsullied. Was a pious, generous, efficient man, a friend to all. He d. May 30, 1865. He left but one child, Lizzie T., born May 5, 1830. She m. L. T. Minor, Oct. 15, 1857. Mr. Minor d. August, 1865, and his wife d. Dec. 31, 1865.)
Ira, (b. July 1, 1799, m. Clarissa Taylor of Hillsborough, March 4, 1830. She d. May 27, 1868, aged 60. In early life lived several years in Boston. Kept a tavern at the brick house near the East cemetery in 1826. Inherited the home- stead where he and all his children were born; run the saw and grist mill as his father and grandfather had done before him, until the mill was taken down in 1855. Was an offi- cer in the troop, or cavalry, in the old militia days. It is said that the first and only bowling-alley in town was kept at the brick house by him and his partner, Hiram Bell, while they run the house as a hotel in 1826. A kind, genial, intelligent man, having the efficiency of his fathers, but laid aside in a great measure for years, by deafness. Had six children : Mary Eliza, b. Jan. 13, 1831, d. Nov. 29, 1832 ;
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Mary, b. April 3, 1833 ; George A., b. Dec. 8, 1835, m. Etta A. Chapman of Windsor, Nov. 26, 1872, occupies the home- stead of his fathers, has been much honored by his towns- men with the highest offices they could give, year after year ; Clara R., b. April 24, 1839, m. John R. Whittemore, mer- chant of Bennington, May 30, 1866, who d. Nov. 20, 1875 ; Caroline C., b. July 31, 1841, m. Benjamin P. Baldwin of Clinton, Io., Feb. 3, 1869 ; and Ann M., b. Jan. 4, 1849, m. Charles E. Eaton of Bennington, Feb. 18, 1875.)
Mary W., (b. Jan. 10, 1802, d. of spotted fever, April 2, 1812.)
Rodney, (b. Jan. 8, 1806, m. Mrs. Ellen Dodge of New Jersey. In early life lived several years in Boston. Went to New York City, kept a hotel there many years ; d. July 22, 1876. Had children, James and Joanna. James served in the rebellion of 1861, in a New York Zouave Regiment, was badly wounded in the thigh ; lives in New York City. Joanna m. Gabriel Aguier, a captain of police in New York City.) Eliza, (b. Dec. 24, 1809, m. Dr. Jacob P. Whittemore of An- trim.) .
James, (b. Nov. 19, 1813, m. Kate Crosby of Milford, Nov. 23, 1853. Traded in Hancock, Marblehead, Mass., Dublin, and several years in Milford. His health being poor, he went South to recuperate, where he remained only a few months, and on his return home d. at Baltimore, March 28, 1854.)]
JOHN COCHRANE of New Boston, nephew of Dea. Isaac, was the oldest child of James Cochran of Windham, and half-brother to his other children. His mother died very young, and he was taken in infancy by a kinsman, Robert Boyd of New Boston, and brought up. He married Jemima Davis (daughter of Benjamin Davis, a captain in the Revolution- ary army, formerly of Goffstown) ; lived most of his life on the slope of Joe English Hill, New Boston ; was a cripple many years from rheuma- tism, and died in Chester, Feb. 10, 1845, aged seventy-five. Several of his large family have come to honor, though pinched and poor in early life. Their mother was one of the most blessed of women. She died Oct. 7, 1868, aged ninety-four. Their children were nine, as follows: -
Hon. Robert B., who was born in New Boston, Oct. 24, 1794 ; married Elizabeth Warren, daughter of Capt. Robert and Prudence (Butterfield) Warren; was for fifty years a leading man in New Boston; was several times state senator ; several times representative of his town; for a long series of years selectman; for half a century, justice of the peace ; for nearly half a century a school-teacher winters; was largely in probate business; was a land surveyor far and near; was most of his life a Chris-
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tian; long an officer in the Sabbath-school; and died May 7, 1878. Was a man of marked intellectual ability; self-made, having had very scanty opportunities in early life.
Polly, who married Moses Hall of Chester, was a most devoted Chris- tian, left a large family, died recently at the age of eighty.
Mercy, who married William Haselton, a merchant of Chester, has two sons members of Congress from Wisconsin, and is now living with her children in that State.
Sophia, unmarried, half a century a school-teacher, now of Albert Lea, Minn.
Marinda, a teacher all her life, a woman of marked talent, a Christian whose influence was great, died unmarried in Methuen, Mass., in 1871.
Hon. Gerry W., long a merchant in Boston; on executive council of Massachusetts during the war. Married, first, Mary J., daughter of Rev. Mr. Batchelder of Haverhill, Mass .; second, Helen F. French, a magazine writer of note; lives in Chester; was a donor of Center vestry ; one son, Rev. Harry Cochrane, is a pastor in New York.
Abigail, who married Jonathan Pressey and lives in Chester.
Hon. Clark B. Cochrane, born May 31, 1815. Studied at Francestown under B. F. Wallace of Antrim ; graduated at Union College, 1839; mar- ried Rebecca Wheeler of Galway, N. Y .; was admitted to the bar in 1841; was chosen same year to represent his county in the State Assembly, and was constantly in office till the day of his death. Was in Congress several terms, but died in the prime of life, March 5, 1867. He was among the best speakers and ablest men that ever went out from our State.
Susan, who married David Mallory in January, 1843, and died in March of the same year, aged twenty-four.
REV. WARREN R. COCHRANE was the eighth child of Hon. Rob- ert B. Cochrane, named above, and was born in New Boston, Aug. 25, 1835. Doing his best in a very humble district school, and at the fire- side, afterwards by " boarding himself" at select schools here and there, he went to Francestown to finish fitting for college, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1859, and was twice elected tutor in said college, in which capacity he served till prevented by failing health. Mr. Cochrane was some time a teacher, and was licensed to preach by the Derry and Manchester Association, April 10, 1866. Was invited at once to Harris- ville, where he preached, as health would allow, two summers. He began service for the Presbyterian Church in Antrim, Jan. 1, 1868, and, contin- uing in the same, was ordained March 18, 1869, as pastor, which office he now holds. He married Lilla C. Cochran of New Boston, daughter of William C. and Harriet (Crombie) Cochran, and granddaughter of Dea. Thomas and Margaret (Ramsay) Cochran, June 14, 1864. Has two chil- dren : -
1. HAYWARD, [b. in New Boston, Nov. 27, 1865.]
2. SUSIE E., [b. in Antrim, Nov. 18, 1872.]
CLARK B. COCHRANE, brother of Rev. Warren R. and youngest of the family, was born in New Boston, Feb. 9, 1843. Studied at Frances-
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town and Meriden, graduated at Albany Law School in 1865, and at once settled in the practice of law in Gloversville, that State. Compelled to surrender everything by failing health, he returned to New Boston in 1869. The same year he published a volume of poems. He came here in 1873, into the house in Clinton built by Horace B. Tuttle, and at once opened a store on the premises, - the first store in Clinton. He was superintending school committee in 1875. He married Mary E. Andrews of New London, and has children : -
1. MABEL, [b. in New Boston, May 15, 1871.]
2. ROBERT B., [b. in New Boston, Oct. 5, 1872.]
3. BENJAMIN R., [b. in Antrim, June 21, 1875.]
4. WINIFRED, [b. in Antrim, Dec. 31, 1876.]
5. JULIAN M., [b. Oct. 8, 1879.]
REV. THOMAS COCHRAN, born in New Boston in 1771, was son of John and Elisabeth (Boyce) Cochran, and grandson of Dea. Thomas and Jennett (Adams) Cochran. The father of this Dea. Thomas was James Cochran, and his mother was Letitia Patten, both of whom took part in the defense of Londonderry in the great "Papal siege." This Dea. Thomas was born in that city in 1703, and came over at the age of seven- teen. Came to New Boston in 1748, and was chosen elder at the forma- tion of the Presbyterian Church in that town. Rev. Thomas Cochran was graduated at Brown University in 1799, and came here in the earliest weeks of 1805. He was so much loved by the people, that they gave him a call to settle in May of that year. He declined, however, probably for the reason that he was offered a larger salary in Camden, Me. He seems to have thought that God's call was in the line of fair pay. At any rate he was ordained in the latter place, September, 1805. The day of ordina- tion was made, in that place, a day of horse-racing and carousing : one man at the public table was choked to death eating, and many were over- loaded with drink ! The character of the people, as thus shown, is fur- ther indicated by the fact that at the close of his pastorate, in 1818, he sued the town of Camden for non-payment of dues and recovered $1,400. His wife was Mary Barstow of Hanover, Mass. He died of cholera, in Baltimore, in 1838.
NINIAN COCHRAN, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian of excellent faith and character, highly recommended by his pastor on the other side of the sea, came to America in 1828. In the fall of that year he came to Antrim to live in the family of Alexander Parker, and remained with them, good and faithful, until 1867, when he went with some of the family to their home in the West, and died at Baxter Springs, Kan., Dec. 25 of the same year, at the age of seventy years. He was smart and respected, was unmarried, and about his retired life there lingers a mystery, which can only be revealed in another world !
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COFFIN.
PHILIP COFFIN came here in the early part of the Revolutionary war, and lived near the Gould place. After some years he moved away and nothing further is known of him. The house he occupied while here was no doubt a small house built by Tristram Cheney on the old road from the Gould place to the Whittemore place. The road was thrown up and the house taken down so long ago as to be forgotten by the oldest neighbors. They used to call their name Cofran. Philip was a savage kind of man. When he was dog-pelter, he made a spear with a hook on one side of the blade, so as to spear and pull up dogs as one would throw up fish with a hook, and actually put it in operation ! He had children, Philip, Mary, James, and perhaps others. We know not the mother's name. Some of the children remained a few years in Hillsborough ; but all are now gone and forgotten.
COLE.
NATHAN COLE, probably son of John and Eunice (Spofford) Cole, was born in 1750. He married Molly Flint and came to Antrim, from Boxford, Mass., in 1792, living on the Jeremiah Hill farm, next west of the pound. He lived awhile on the John Gilmore farm (Whitney's), and a road was laid out from the Nesmith place to his house, Jan. 19, 1793. He moved to Hill, then New Chester, in 1802. He was' a soldier at the battle of Bennington, and had a brother John who was killed at the bat- tle of Bunker Hill. He died at Danbury in 1834, aged eighty-four years. He had five sons and four daughters. His first wife, Nabby Brown, had no children. His sons were : -
1. JOHN, [b. 1777 ; m. 1st, Jenny Gregg of Antrim, who d. in 1804 ; 2d, Sally Smith, April 5, 1810 ; lived awhile on Meet- ing-House Hill, then moved to Hill, where he d. aged 89.] 2. NATHAN, [m. Polly Nichols of Antrim, in 1805 ; lived near Linn Parker's a few years, and moved in the autumn of 1808 to Cattaraugus, N. Y., forty miles west of Buffalo. Thence, in the fall of 1817, they moved to Ohio, finally locating in Columbus, that State. Here he d. Oct. 21, 1856, aged 77. Was an honest and good man ; and left six chil- dren, the two oldest being born in Antrim : -
Frederick, (b. Nov. 27, 1805, is land surveyor, has been county surveyor, and many years county auditor, and lives in Columbus, Ohio. He m. Rebecca Jane Graham, a native of Virginia. She d. in 1857.)
Alonzo, (b. July 29, 1807, has six children, lives in Putnam Co., Ohio, and m. Sarah Caldwell of Ohio.)
Hannah E., (b. Dec. 2, 1808, m. Washington Moore, and lives in Vermillion Co., Ind.)
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Thomas, (b. Dec. 9, 1810, d. in childhood.)
Nathan, Jr., (b. Sept. 22, 1815, has been register of deeds, or county recorder, at Columbus, Ohio, for thirty-two years, and is a man held in the highest esteem. He m. Mary Sayles of Rhode Island.)
George N., (b. July 9, 1820, d. in infancy.)]
3. LEVI, [m. Polly Philbrick of Andover, Mass. He d. in Dan- bury about 1850, aged 74.]
4. MILES, [m. Sally .Bixby of Hillsborough. Went to Illinois in 1840, and d. at English Prairie, that State, in 1860. His son Nathan was colonel of cavalry in the Union army.]
5. JEDEDIAH, [m. Parmelia Chase of Franklin, and d. in Hill June 25, 1860, aged 72. His son, Charles B. Cole, Esq., of Hill, has furnished most of this information concerning the Cole family.]
The daughters of Nathan and Molly (Flint) Cole were : -
1. POLLY, [m. 1st, James Smith of Hudson, Dec. 19, 1793 ; 2d, James Barrett of Hudson, and d. in that town about 1864.]
2. BETSEY, [b. Aug. 3, 1780, m. John Wadleigh of Hill, where she d. Sept. 14, 1867, aged 87.]
3. SUSAN, [m. William Winter of Danbury, where she d. about 1834.]
4. LUCY, [b. Oct. 26, 1791; m. 1st, Samuel Pillsbury ; 2d, C. Roach, and lived in Parkman, Me., being the last surviving child of Nathan and Molly (Flint) Cole. She d. Oct. 12, 1879.]
COLLINS.
JOHN M. COLLINS, son of James and Sarah (Thayer) Collins, born in Boston in 1768, married Elisabeth Brackett of Peterborough, in 1799. Came here immediately, having bought the saw and grist mill at the Branch. This he occupied till 1806, when he moved to Hancock where he died in 1856. . The four oldest children were born in Antrim. He had children : -
1. SARAH, [b. Jan. 4, 1800, m. John Tenney and settled in Han- cock.]
2. JOHN M., [b. Oct. 4, 1801; m. 1st, Elisabeth Bradford of Francestown ; 2d, Abbie S. Dean of Dover ; lives in Peter- borough.]
3. SAMUEL B., [m. Frances M. Wilson and settled in Lempster.]
4. ELISABETH, [m. Alonzo Hall of Hancock.]
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5. LYDIA E., [m. Lewis Partridge of Dalton.]
6. REBECCA B., [m. Cyrus Partridge of Peterborough.]
7. JAMES H., [m. Harriet Way, is deacon of Congregational Church, Peterborough.]
8. LOIS H., [d. unm. in 1840.]
COMBS.
WILLIAM COMBS, son of John and Margaret (Aulds) Combs, was born in Merrimack April 18, 1758, married Thankful Fletcher of Hollis, lived in Landsgrove, now Andover, Vt. There his wife died in 1800, aged thirty-four. Soon after he came to Antrim. He married Mrs. Margaret (Moor) Holmes, widow of William Holmes, about the first of January, 1801, and spent the rest of his days on the Holmes place, dying in 1840 at the age of eighty-two. The two youngest children were by his second wife, and were born in this town : -
1. WILLIAM, [m. Mary Jane Nutt of Manchester ; had fourteen children ; lived and d. in that city.]
2. JOHN, [m. Jennie Platt of Marcellus, N. Y., and lived and d. in that place ; one son, Dr. Henry Combs, is a physician, in Adrian, Mich.]
3. SARAH A., [m. Thomas Stuart of Antrim, May 31, 1814, and was mother of Robert Carr Stuart. She d. in Boston.]
4. ABIGAIL F., [m. Dan Dunlap, being his 2d wife. She is now living with a son in Lynn, Mass., at the age of 84.]
5. BETSEY F., [b. Feb. 16, 1797 ; m. Gilman Swain, 1825; d. here at the age of 82.]
6. JAMES, [b. in 1800 ; went to Kentucky, and was a wealthy planter there before the war. Three of his children were educated at Oberlin College, Ohio.]
7. JESSE, [b. in 1801 ; m. Achsah Cram Sept. 3, 1829. After living here and there in town for many years, he bought the place now Lewis Green's, and lived there till his family was broken up by death. His own death occurred Aug. 8, 1875. Children : -
Hiram, (b. Jan. 16, 1831, m. Clara Dunlap, and lives on the Capt. Thomas Dunlap place. He has children, Iza Frances, b. Dec. 17, 1870, and Mary Eloise, b. Nov. 26, 1873.)
James M., (accidentally shot dead by his father while taking a charge from a gun, in 1843, aged 7.)
Mary J., (b. April 22, 1837 ; m. Edward Roach, but lived only four days after marriage.)
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Charles, (b. Feb. 16, 1852; m. Mary J. Lyford of Lowell, Mass. They have one child, Warren W., b. Oct. 9, 1875.) Etta, (an adopted daughter ; b. in 1844; m. Lewis Simonds. )] 8. ELIZA J., [d. unm. in Cambridgeport, Mass., 1873.]
CONANT.
JONATHAN CONANT came here from Mont Vernon in 1811, bringing a large family. He lived on the Dea. Shattuck place, and moved back to Mont Vernon in 1816, and died there Oct. 28, 1829, aged sev- enty. This was a very respectable family. We have but few facts con- cerning them. One of the sons was Israel Conant, who lived with his father, married Elizabeth Holt of Antrim, in 1815, and had two sons born here. He moved to New Haven, Vt., about the end of the year 1816, and died in Vergennes, Vt., 1857, aged sixty-nine. His two sons born here were :
1. ALBERT, [b. Oct. 3, 1815.]
2. WILLIAM, [b. Nov. 25, 1816.]
JOSHUA CONANT of Antrim was born in Londonderry March 11, 1798. He was the son of Joshua, and grandson of Joshua who came from England. He married Rebecca Preston of Stoddard in 1824. She was the daughter of Samuel Preston, and was born Feb. 18, 1799, and died June 28, 1848. He married, second, Eliza A. Read of Stoddard, July 25, 1852. He came to Antrim in 1860. His children were : --
1. RUEL K., [b. Sept. 2, 1825 ; m. Julia A. Curtis, daughter of Levi Curtis, Oct. 6, 1851, and went to Springfield, Mass., where he has since resided with the exception of a brief so- journ in Boston. Has three children, Ella R., George W., and Mary L. Is passenger conductor on the railroad between Springfield, Mass., and New Haven, Conn., and has been for many years ; has been in constant service traveling on the rail for upwards of thirty years, commencing Dec. 29, 1848.]
2. HIRAM P., [b. Sept. 18, 1830 ; went West in 1853, finally locating in Pittsburg, Penn., where he m. - Kelley, and now lives. ]
3. FREEMAN C., [b. Aug. 3, 1837; went to Vermont, and was currier by trade. At the breaking-out of the rebellion he went into the army, and served through the entire war, after which he settled in Wilton, Io., where he now lives. He m. Alice C. Stryker.]
4. ABILENE, [by 2d wife ; b. Stoddard, April 17, 1855; m. Wil- lard A. Paige of Munsonville, Oct. 1, 1873.]
5. AUGUSTA, [d. in childhood.]
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SAMUEL A. CONANT, of whom I can learn nothing more, came here and built the last house on the canal, at the top of the hill in South Village. The large basement was for a wheelwright-shop. Conant lived but a short time after the building was up, dying with consumption, brought on, it was said, by exposure in trying to build in winter.
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