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Alice B., wife of Moses R. Emerson, of Boston; George W. Goddard, of New York city, and Elizabeth Worth. His wife died May 7, 1852. On June 13, 1855, he married Elizabeth P., daughter of the late Rev. Christopher Marsh, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., by whom he had one son-Christopher M. Goddard, of Boston.
NATHANIEL GOSS
Came from Winchester to Claremont about 1775 and settled on the farm west of the Charlestown road, two miles south of the village, afterward owned by his son Joel, then by his grandson, Charles N., and now by George P. Rossiter. He had eight chil- dren - two sons, Nathaniel and Joel, and six daughters. He died June 25, 1824, at the age of seventy-three years, and his widow on March 29, 1840, at the age of eighty-seven years. He was select- man in 1787.
JOEL GOSS,
Son of Nathaniel, was born January 30, 1782, and died January 4, 1833, on the farm where he was born and always lived. He was the father of the late William and Charles N. Goss, an excel- lent farmer, prominent citizen, and selectman in 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1831.
TIMOTHY GRANNIS
Came from North Haven, Conn., and settled in Claremont in 1769. He married a daughter of Dr. William Sumner, by whom he had seven children. She died June 25, 1789, and he married for his second wife Sarah Nye, of Tolland, Conn., and they had four children born to them. On July 4, 1888, appeared in the Clare- mont Advocate half a column of blank verse, headed " Ascut- ney. Written on the top of Ascutney mountain, in October, 1804, by Timothy Grannis." He died May 7, 1827.
TIMOTHY GRANNIS, JR.,
Oldest son of Timothy Grannis, was born June 30, 1772, married Phebe, daughter of Ebenezer Rice, and lived on what has since
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been known as the Samuel Carleton farm, at the west part of the town. They had five children, Solon C., Laurens A., Homer P., Sarah M., and Samuel R., all of whom are dead, except Laurens A., born in 1802, and is now living in Guildhall, Vt. Timothy Grannis, Jr., was quite prominent in town in his time. He was selectman eight years, from 1821 to 1829, and representative in the legislature for the years 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832.
SOLON C. GRANNIS,
Oldest son of Timothy Grannis, Jr., was born on the Samuel Carleton farm, at the west part of the town, in August, 1801. When but little more than twenty years old he married Nancy Spaulding and went to live on the large farm where she had been brought up by her uncle, about a mile north from his birthplace, there lived more than seventy years, and there died on the sev- enth of March, 1892. They had six children, five of whom are living. Of the sons, Joseph S. is a lawyer, at Cleveland, Ohio; Homer E. owns considerable real estate in the northwest part of the town and has a lumber mill on Red Water brook; and George C. lives on a good. farm adjoining that of his father. Of the daughters, the oldest was the wife of the late Chester P. Smith, and died young; the second is the wife of Daniel N. Bowker, a farmer living on Red Water brook; and the youngest lived with and cared for her father through his declining years. The sub- ject of this sketch was five times, from 1843 to 1852, both inclu- sive, elected one of the selectmen of the town, and was chairman of the board several years. He was representative in the New Hampshire legislature in 1861. From early age Mr. Grannis was a member of Union Episcopal church, and warden more than forty years preceding his death. He was an excellent farmer, an extensive and intelligent reader; authority in matters relating to the early history of the town, and much respected.
DR. LELAND J. GRAVES,
Son of David J. Graves, was born at Berkshire, Vt., May 24, 1812. He was educated in the public schools and Chester, Cavendish, and
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Ludlow, Vt., academies; attended lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth College, May 10, 1842. Soon after his graduation he located at Langdon, and had an extensive practice in that town and vicinity. In 1868 he removed to Claremont with his family, intending to retire from general practice, but responded to calls from his old patrons in the south part of the county. He died February 22, 1891. He was a prominent Freemason, and his burial was attended with high Ma- sonic honors.
THE HANDERSONS .- GIDEON HANDERSON
Was a son of Gideon Handerson. He was born at Amherst, Mass., October 9, 1753, and died here July 10, 1825. He married Abigail Church, of Amherst, January 1, 1778, and the following year, with his wife and infant son Phinehas, removed to Claremont. They came through the woods on horseback, Mrs. Handerson carrying her infant in her arms. Mr. Handerson engaged in the tanning and currying business, at the north side of Sugar river, a few rods east of the present residence of Edwin W. Tolles; continued it until his death, and was succeeded in that business by his son Rufus. He was one of the selectmen seven years, from 1791 to 1805, both years inclusive. Mrs. Handerson died June 23, 1846. They had two children, Phinehas and Rufus. This Gideon Han- derson was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, in the company of Capt. Noadiah Leonard, which was attached to Col. R. Wood- bury's regiment. The most of this regiment was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.
PHINEHAS HANDERSON,
Son of Gideon, was born at Amherst, Mass., December 13, 1778. He came to Claremont with his parents in 1779. He studied law with George B. Upham, was admitted to the bar in 1804, and opened an office at Chesterfield in 1805 or 1806, where he continued in the practice of his profession until 1833, when he removed to Keene, and there was in practice until his death, March 16, 1853. He was
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one of the selectmen of Chesterfield in 1811, representative from that town in the New Hampshire legislature in 1812, 1813, and 1815; state senator in 1816, 1817, 1823, 1831, and 1832; and mem- ber of the executive council in 1841 and 1842. He also was a rep- resentative from Keene in 1843 and 1849. At the time of his death he was president of the Cheshire county bar, and was one of the oldest practicing lawyers in New Hampshire.
RUFUS HANDERSON,
Son of Gideon, was born in Claremont, December 13, 1781, and died October 16, 1829. He married Betsey Munger, November 20, 1803, who died March 20, 1853. They had five children, two of whom died in infancy. The three that lived to maturity were Frederick W., born April 5, 1806, and died May 4, 1862; Horace P., born June 6, 1811, and died August 26, 1867; and Lucius R., born February 18, 1819. He removed to Vergennes, Vt., in 1869. Rufus Handerson carried on the tanning and currying business from the death of his father until he died, and was succeeded in the business by his son, Horace P., who continued it for a few years. Mr. Handerson was moderator of the annual town meetings nine years, from 1819 to 1829; selectman eight years, from 1813 to 1829; and representative in the New Hampshire legislature in 1822, 1823, 1824, and 1826.
ICHABOD HART
Was born in Connecticut in 1780, and died in Brattleboro', Vt., December 1, 1874. He came from Charlestown to Claremont in 1813, and settled on the farm in the west part of the town, now occupied by his grandson, Oliver C. Hart, where he lived until within a few years of his death. He was by trade a carpenter and brick mason, a useful and respected citizen. He had eleven chil- dren, two of whom, Josiah Hart, of West Claremont, and Thomas Hart, of the village, are now living. Ichabod Hart was in New York in 1807, when Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont was launched and made her trial trip on Hudson river. Mr. Hart asked
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Mr. Fulton if he could go with him, and the latter replied that he could if he went. This was the first successful steamboat trip ever made in this country if not in the world.
ICHABOD HITCHCOCK
Came from what was then a part of New Haven, Conn., to Clare- mont, with Bill Barnes in 1772. He bought and settled on the farm a little more than a mile north of the village, the same now owned by Frederick P. Smith. This farm continued to be owned and occupied by Mr. Hitchcock and his son Samuel and his grand- son William for more than a hundred years. He was a master builder, and as such and in other ways a useful and valued citizen. He died November 24, 1838, at the age of eighty-nine years. He had eleven children, ten of whom were born in this town, and all but three of them died in infancy or when quite young. Those that reached maturity were : Samuel, the father of Ichabod and William, both of whom died several years ago; and Amos, the father of Henry A. Hitchcock, for many years a prominent citizen of Walpole, and state senator in 1872 and 1874, who has since died ; Alexander V. Hitchcock, now living at Newport, register of deeds for Sullivan county several years, and representative from that town in the New Hampshire legislature; and the widow of George Wal- lingford, now living in Claremont.
HERMON HOLT
Was born at Woodstock, Vt., September 7, 1845; fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1870; read law with Judge B. H. Steele, of Vermont, and Ira Colby, of this town; admitted to the Sullivan county bar in 1873, and has since been in practice in Claremont. He was a representa- tive in the New Hampshire legislature in 1890 and 1891, and state senator in 1895 and 1896.
DR. JAMES P. HOLT
Was born in Claremont, June 19, 1853, and is a son of James Holt, late sheriff of Sullivan county. He graduated at Stevens High
REV. JAMES B. HOWE.
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School in June, 1873; entered the drug store of Dr. W. M. Ladd and remained there about four years, the last two years of which time and the following year he studied medicine with Dr. O. B. Way. He took a medical course at Dartmouth College and gradu- ated there October 30, 1877. He then commenced practice in Claremont and continued until September, 1880, when he entered the Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn., and was there one year,- six months as assistant and six months as house physician and sur- geon. At the end of this time he returned to Claremont and resumed practice. In May, 1884, he bought a half interest in the drug store of Dr. W. M. Ladd. Dr. Ladd having died, he became sole proprietor in July, 1885, and continues the business and the practice of his profession.
ASA HOLTON,
Son of Jonathan Holton, born at Charlestown in November, 1786, and died in Claremont, March 4, 1840. He read law in his native town in the office of ex-Governor Henry Hubbard; was admitted to the bar in 1815 ; practiced at Lempster about two years and then removed to Claremont, where he spent the remainder of his life in the active practice of his profession. He was town clerk in 1825, 1826, and 1827.
THE REV. JAMES B. HOWE
Was born at Dorchester, Mass., March 31, 1773, and graduated at Harvard College in 1794. He was ordained deacon November 25, 1817, and priest May 14, 1819, by the Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, and installed rector of Union church, to succeed Rev. Daniel Barber, September 15, 1819. He resigned his parish August 4, 1843, after which he made his home with his children in Boston. For some years preceding his ordination he was a successful classical teacher in Boston. Mr. Howe was an old school gentleman ; always wore the long stockings, short clothes, and silver knee and shoe buckles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the fore part of the nineteenth century. He was tall,
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erect, of commanding appearance, a conspicuous figure in town for many years; highly respected for his ability and faithfulness as a rector, and beloved for his goodness by all who knew him. He died of apoplexy, in a railroad car, at Albany, N. Y., on the seventeenth of September, 1844, when on his way to Indiana to visit one of his sons. He was the father of the late Rt. Rev. W. B. W. Howe, Bishop of South Carolina, who resigned his bishopric on account of ill health, in May, and died in Novem- ber, 1892.
ISAAC HUBBARD,
Son of George Hubbard, a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Tolland, Conn., July 28, 1770. In 1778 he came with his parents to Claremont and settled on the farm in the southwest corner of the town now occupied by Isaac H. Long, a grandson of Isaac Hubbard, and the widow of Dr. I. G. Hubbard, a son of the subject of this notice. Isaac Hubbard spent his whole life, after eight years old, on that farm. He was an extensive and suc- cessful farmer and stock raiser. He was selectman in 1811, 1812, 1816, 1817, and 1818; representative in the New Hampshire legis- lature in 1819 and 1821; prominent in the Episcopal church, and regarded as one of the solid and strong men of the town. He was a brother of Judge J. H. Hubbard, of Windsor, Vt. He died January 28, 1861.
THE REV. ISAAC G. HUBBARD, D. D.,
Was born in Claremont, April 13, 1818, and was a son of Isaac Hubbard, Esq. He graduated at Trinity College in 1839. He passed from college into the General Theological Seminary, New York, where he spent two years, and finished the prescribed course of study with Bishop Carlton Chase. While studying with Bishop Chase he officiated as lay reader at Drewsville and Bellows Falls, Vt. He was ordained deacon in Trinity church, Claremont, June 25, 1845. He served his deaconate at Vergennes, Vt., and received priest's orders from Bishop Chase in March, 1847. The first four
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years of his priesthood he was rector of a church at Potsdam, N. Y. Then for several months he was assistant of the venerable Dr. Muhlenburg, in the Church of the Holy Communion, New York. In March, 1852, he became rector of St. Michael's church, Man- chester, N. H., where he remained until February, 1866. The field was a missionary one, demanding great self-denial, patience, energy, and wisdom, and involving a large amount of work. The growth of the parish was real and lasting. The great visible work of Dr. Hubbard was the erection of a beautiful stone church and comfortable rectory, to accomplish which he wrought with his own hands and superintended every detail. The strain upon him was very great and produced the usual result, and in the spring of 1866, by reason of mental and bodily exhaustion, he was compelled to resign his parish, and retired to his portion of his late father's farm in Claremont for rest. In August, 1867, he was sufficiently restored to accept the rectorship of Trinity church, Claremont, where he remained until Easter, 1875. During this period he was forced by a recurrence of his former trouble to take a rest of six months, and through the kind instrumen- tality of a few friends he visited Europe. Again his health failed, and when he resigned and returned to his farm he did not ex- pect to resume priestly labors. However, in October, 1876, he began services at Union church, without making any permanent engagement. The Easter following he felt able to accept the post of minister in charge for a year, and renewed the engage- ment at Easter, 1878. On Passion Sunday, March 30, 1879, he drove to church with his family as usual, but on his arrival did not feel able to perform service, and started to return home in a sleigh, and expired very suddenly on the way. Dr. Hubbard was one of the trustees of St. Paul's school, Concord, for twenty years immediately preceding his death.
SIMEON IDE,
The oldest of eight children of Daniel Ide, was born in Shrews- bury, Mass., September 28, 1794, died at the house of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Dibblee, Boston Highlands, June 22, 1889, and was
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buried in Claremont. When fifteen years old he was apprenticed to the printing business in the office of Farnsworth & Churchill, publishers of the Vermont Republican, at Windsor, Vt. Before completing his apprenticeship there was a change in the estab- lishment, and Mr. Ide returned to his father's house, then in New Ipswich, N. H., in 1814, set up a small printing office, and with the help of a sister, eleven years old, printed and published an edition of the New Testament, said to have been the first published in New Hampshire. It bore the imprint of 1815. In February, 1817, Mr. Ide started the publication of a newspaper at Brattleborough, Vt., under the title of the American Yeo- man, and in 1818, in company with a Mr. Aldrich, bought the Vermont Republican establishment, at Windsor, and united the two papers under the title of the Vermont Republican and American Yeoman. Subsequently Mr. Ide bought the interest of Mr. Aldrich, and continued the business alone, adding book- binding, publishing, and book-selling. Under the administration of President John Quincy Adams, Mr. Ide had the contract for supplying the post-office department with all the blanks, paper, and twine used by the post-offices in the New England states and New York. He carried on quite an extensive business at Windsor for about sixteen years. In 1834 he united his Windsor estab- lishment with the Claremont Manufacturing Company, which had just commenced manufacturing paper, and he became manager of the business of the concern, which was well equipped for making books, in which he continued until 1858, when he sold his interest to his sons, George G. and Lemuel N. Ide, and retired from business. In 1863 he bought the National Eagle news- paper and printing establishment, and was publisher and editor of that paper until 1867, when he sold out to Arthur Chase, after which he did not engage in active business. In March, 1818, Mr. Ide married Evelina Pamela, daughter of Captain Nichols Goddard, of Rutland, Vt., by whom he had ten children -two sons and eight daughters -five of whom are still living. His . wife died in 1857, and in 1859 he married Mrs. B. Maria Mott, of Auburn, N. Y., who died March 23, 1889.
DR. LEONARD JARVIS. - ( THE ELDER. )
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DR. LEONARD JARVIS
Was born in Boston, June 22, 1774; graduated at the Boston Latin School, and studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Charles Jarvis, of Boston. He came to Claremont and commenced the practice of his profession in the fall of 1795. He was quite famous as a physician and surgeon, and, for about twenty years, had a large practice in Claremont and surrounding towns. After that he engaged extensively in sheep breeding, wool-growing, and manufacturing, but was often called in consultation with other physicians as long as he lived. He died February 9, 1848.
RUSSELL JARVIS,
Son of Samuel G. Jarvis, senior, and brother of Dr. Leonard Jarvis, senior, studied law with his cousin, William C. Jarvis, of Pittsfield, Mass., was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Claremont in 1818. In 1820 he married Miss Caroline Dana, of Chelsea, Vt., who died in two or three years, leaving an infant daughter, Caroline, the wife of John H. Uhl, of New York city. Soon after the death of his wife Mr. Jarvis removed to Boston, and in time married Miss Eliza Cordis, who, with their two young daughters, was lost in Long Island sound in the burning of the steamer Lexington, January 13, 1840. The Lexington had on board one hundred and ten or fifteen passengers, and thirty-five officers and crew, all but four of whom were lost. Mr. Jarvis left the practice of law, became noted as a journalist, and died in New York city in 1853.
COL. RUSSELL JARVIS,
Third son of Dr. Leonard Jarvis, senior, was born January 8, 1824, and died February 24, 1888, in the room where he was born. He owned considerable mill and other property in the west part of the town, including the home farm on Town hill, to the most of which he succeeded on the death of his father, in 1848. He was extensively engaged in the breeding of Spanish merino sheep, and the raising
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of fine wool, in which business his father was a pioneer in this country. For fifteen years preceding his death he carried on paper manufacturing in the mill at the south side of Sugar river, which was burned the twelfth of May, 1890, and rebuilt by his son Russell, in 1892. He was a man of remarkable energy and activity. He was aid-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, on the staff of Gov- ernor William Haile, in 1857 and 1858, and United States marshal for New Hampshire during the administration of Andrew Johnson. He left surviving him a widow and three sons.
DR. SAMUEL GARDINER JARVIS,
Oldest son of the late Dr. Leonard Jarvis, was born in Claremont, September 30, 1816. He was educated in the public schools of the town, at the academy of the Rev. Virgil H. Barber, West Clare- mont, and the Boston Latin School. He studied medicine with Dr. Thomas B. Kittredge, then in practice here; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1830, and commenced the prac- tice of his profession, having located on the farm at West Clare- mont, where he spent the remainder of his life. His practice extended over the towns in this vicinity in New Hampshire and Vermont for a period of fifty-two years, and until within a few weeks of his death. He was for two or three years United States examining pension surgeon, and was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature in 1875 and 1876. He died March 5, 1892. In the annual town meeting, on the 14th of that month, John L. Farwell offered a series of resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by rising vote, expressive of the sense of the people at the death of Dr. Jarvis, and it was ordered that they be spread upon the records of the town.
DR. LEONARD JARVIS,
Second son of Dr. Samuel G., and grandson of the late Dr. Leonard Jarvis, was born in Claremont on July 29, 1852. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873, and at Harvard Medical School in 1882. He was house physician at the lying-in hospital, Boston,
DR. SAMUEL G. JARVIS.
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four months, and house surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital, Provi- dence, fifteen months. He commenced practice in Claremont in May, 1884, and continued until the fall of 1892, when, by reason of impaired health, he went to Colorado and remained until the fol- lowing spring, when he returned and resumed the practice of his profession.
THE JEWETTS. - JOHN JEWETT,
Of West Windsor, Vt., had nine children -seven sons and two daughters. Four of the sons and the two daughters are still living. Three of the sons - Marcus L., Frederick, and John W .- came to Claremont more than forty years ago, where they have been con- spicuous in trade and in other ways ever since.
MARCUS L. JEWETT
Was born April 16, 1825, and died January 25, 1891. He came to Claremont in 1853, and was engaged in the grocery and provision business the most of the remainder of his life, alone, in company with his brothers, later with his sons, and at his death was suc- ceeded by his sons.
FREDERICK JEWETT
Was born May 25, 1827. He came to Claremont in October, 1848, and was of the firm of Kidder, Danforth & Jewett three years, after which he was clerk in the store of C. M. Bingham a few years. In 1857 he entered into copartnership with his brothers, Marcus L. and John W., under the firm name of M. L. Jewett & Co., which was continued seventeen years, when he bought out his brothers, and afterward took his son George W. into partnership. After a few years the son retired, and he continued alone until January, 1890, when he formed a copartnership with his brother John W., under the firm name of F. & J. W. Jewett & Co., and has so con- tinued to the present time. Frederick Jewett has been longer in trade in Claremont than any other man now living. He was elected a representative in the New Hampshire legislature in 1890, and re-elected in 1892.
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JOHN W. JEWETT
Was born August 4, 1829. He came to Claremont in July, 1851, and bought the grocery and provision business of Kidder, Danforth & Jewett, and carried it on until 1853, when his brother Marcus L. came to town, and they formed a copartnership in the same busi -. ness, which they carried on until 1857, when the brother Frederick was admitted to the firm, which was continued under the firm name of M. L. Jewett & Co., until 1874. After this John W. Jewett car- ried on the same business, having for a partner Clarence E. Pea- body, under the firm name of Jewett & Peabody. At the end of eight years Mr. Peabody retired and Mr. Jewett continued the busi- ness alone until January, 1890, when the copartnership of F. & J. W. Jewett & Co. was formed and still continues. John W. Jewett was one of the selectmen in the years 1868, 1869, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881, and several of these years overseer of the poor.
DANIEL W. JOHNSON,
Son of the late Moses Johnson, was born in Sutton, October 16,. 1827, and died April 29, 1894. In December, 1845, when but little more than eighteen years old, he came to Claremont, entered the Monadnock mills and was employed there in responsible positions until February, 1858, when he accepted the appointment of agent and superintendent of the Phoenix cotton mill at Peterborough. When Jonas Livingston resigned the agency of the Monadnock mills in 1863, Mr. Johnson was appointed to the place, and held it until his death. He was president of Sullivan Savings Institution from January, 1870, to January, 1893; was chairman of the board of trustees of Fiske Free Library, and was elected representative in the New Hampshire legislature in November, 1892. In 1874 he made a trip to Europe on business connected with the Monadnock mills. He was attacked with apoplexy April 29, 1894, and died in a few hours afterward, leaving a widow.
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