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261. JAMES CHAPMAN built this house in 1877.
262. CHARLES H. NICHOLS built this house and settled here in 1878. He had formerly been a merchant at Fitchburg, Mass., and he and his wife are members of the Rollstone Church in that city.
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263. ISRAEL LOVELAND, JR., built a house on this spot about 1800, and resided herc till his death. He enlisted in the Revolutionary army, when under age, and served five months near Lake George.
264. JOHN CHAPPEL of Hebron, Conn., bought the east half of the 11th Lot, 6th Range, of Berzeleel Mack for £20 in October, 1785. He built a log house on this spot and lived here till 1794, when he sold to Israel Loveland.Jr. (Page 165.)
In January, 1795, Israel Loveland, Jr., came to this house and lived a short time before he bought the east part of his farm.
378. ANANIAS TUBBS had a log house on this spot. He was a brother of Abishai Tubbs of Marlow, and served in the Revolution. (Page 38.) About 1796, Israel Loveland, Jr., bought the place and lived here four or five years.
265. ISRAEL B. LOVELAND lived with his father on number 263 till about 1830, when he built this house, where his widow still resides. He was one of the early friends of Temperance, and a valuable citizen. He served the town as Selectman five years, and as Clerk twenty-two years. The records furnish lasting evidence of his peculiar fitness for that office. He was also Justice of the Peace.
Sidney Barrett bought the farm and lived here two years, when he removed to Sullivan.
Other residents : - Kendall Nichols, Samuel Bruce a tin-peddler from Lempster, and Gustave Polzer.
266. BENJAMIN H. HORTON built this house in 1877. He is Town Clerk the present ycar.
267. BENJAMIN COREY built this house in 1876, and still resides here.
268. Willard S. Cady put up the house on this spot about 1852, but did not finish it. TRUMAN BILL bought it and resided here till his death in 1860. His brother Otis lived here with him several years. John Bahan came to Gilsum in 1869, and lived here two years. After five years at Harrisville he returned to Gilsum, and now lives near the Loveland Bridge. (242.) He served nearly three years in the 14th N. H. Reg't, Co. G.
Charles E. Crouch and his family lived here till 1877. Lawrence A. Gravlin bought the place and settled here in 1879.
Other residents : - Joseph S. Bingham, and John Pletzner.
269. This was the shop number 194, and was moved here for OTIS BILL about 1861. He was crippled by an accident when a school-boy, and was helpless for many years. He died here in 1878.
Daniel Carley Guillow was a shoemaker, and after living in many places, came here to take care of Mr. Bill, and died here in 1876. John L. Foss next came here, and died in 1879. Byron Alexander now oceupies the place.
270. LUTHER HEMENWAY came from Boylston, Mass., and settled in Sullivan in 1818, removed to Gilsum in 1830, and built this house in 1832. When he camc, this was a thiek alder swamp, and his daughter says, when she lived in Sullivan, she was always afraid to go by here, and " thought Gilsum was an awful place."
Mr. Hemenway was an ingenious mechanic, and in 1826 patented an awl handle. These handles had a large sale, and the principle involved is still in use. He and his wife were mem- bers of the Baptist Church in Sullivan, but under the influence of Elder Rollins joined the Christian Church in Gilsum. Having much zeal and a natural gift for public speaking, he became a preacher, and was ordained in his own house about 1835. The house was unfinished, and some of the partitions were taken down to accommodate the gathering. He preached in the vicinity, as opportunity offered, mostly in school-houses, and baptized many converts. When
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asked how he succeeded in a certain field that seemed very discouraging, he answered, "It is easy enough converting them, but the trouble is they won't stay converted." He was interested in " every good word and work," and especially zealous in the cause of temperance. (Page 96.) He lived to great age, and none could doubt the sincerity of his piety towards God, and good-will towards men. His descendants are numerous.
Luther S. Hemenway lived with his father and in the shop till 1844, when he removed to Daysville, Ill., and having become a Mormon went to Utah in 1847, where he still resides.
Artemas P. Hemenway resided here with his father several years. In 1852, he removed to Springfield, Mass., and was employed in the United States Arsenal, and afterwards by a private firm in the manufacture of arms. In 1875 his health was suddenly destroyed by "inhaling the oxide from red-hot lead with which he was experimenting in the interest of the firm in whose employ he had for years held an important position." He retired to a small farm in Douglas, Mass., where he died in 1879, at the age of sixty.
A brother writes : - " My brother, so full of life, how could he ever become old, and his enlivening song for- ever cease ? In his gayest moments he would outrival the bob-o-link in love-time. Art. could put fitting words to the warbler's song, and the bird gallantly acknowledged his rival. Can his voice forever cease, and his intellect fade, and the light of it forever slumber, like the everlasting rocks ? Let us hope not, but that he has a happy change to a life of greater enjoyment, and is now with kindred that passed before."
His friend, J. B. Smead of Fitchburg, Mass., writes : - "I first met him in 1841, and our acquaintance rapidly ripened into a friendship that has continued uninterrupted; and when separated, a letter correspondence was maintained up to within a short time before his departure for the 'Beautiful land by the spoiler untrod.'"
" In all moral questions, he was ever on the side of right, and dearly as he prized the approbation of his , friends, could not compromise conscience for any consideration. Deeply religious in his mental and moral consti- tution, he was far too progressive to be shackled by any system of creeds. He was an enthusiastic worker in the cause of temperance, in which field he did efficient service early and late, not only in the word spoken 'in the right time and in the right place,' but in the singing- as only he could sing - the most stirring temperance songs." (Page 94.)
" In the social circle his presence was ample security against dullness. While he was generous - the mere worldling would say 'to a fault' -- he had too sacred a regard for the right in all things, to indulge his generosity at another's expense."
" He had a very receptive mind, grasping the truth at a glance, as by intuition. He was scrupulously honest, and open as the day.
'I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.'
In a close acquaintance of nearly forty years, I never saw in him the least prevarication ; to dissemble was for him impossible."
" In politics, from his first vote to his last, he was for true Democracy, in the highest and best sense of the term. In the Fremont campaign, he was an indefatigable worker, and the political songs of that time were sung by him with 'telling effect.'
" The combination of his highly religious and affectional nature constituted his most prominent characteristic. Up to the time of the failure of his health, at about fifty-six years of age, he had all the vivacity and buoyancy of youth ; and though cut off in the midst of his years and usefulness, he had really lived a hundred years, if meas- ured by the standard of average manhood. He did nothing at halves ; for him to touch a subject was to lay hold of it."
" I can hardly refrain from giving the first stanza of a hymn that was an especial favorite with my dear Arte- mas, which he often sang, and with an unction, always repeating the last two lines of each stanza.
'Ye objects of sense, and enjoyments of time, Which oft have delighted my heart, I soon shall exchange you for joys more sublime, For joys that will never depart. ' "
" Alas ! -
'That I should have to say I knew him, And have not in possession still.'"'
E. Perley Hemenway, son of Artemas P., was a graduate of the High School at Springfield, Mass., in 1867, and of the Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1870. He was then employed for a year in machinery drafting for Smith and Wesson at Springfield, Mass. The next year he went to Hartford, Conn., and engaged in drafting for the Connecticut Valley Railroad, and afterwards became their chief assistant engineer. He was employed one winter in the " State
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evening drafting schools," at Springfield, Mass., and had charge of the same schools for two winters at Northampton, Mass. . The care of his father, during the first part of his protracted sickness, withdrew him from business for about two years. Since October, 1878, he has been Mechanical Engineer for the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Co. of Worcester, Mass., and employed principally in drafting and conducting experiments .*
George W. Taylor, a grandson of Elder Hemenway, has resided here since 1872.
271. This was built for an awl shop by Elder Hemenway in 1830, and he lived in it two years before building the house.
David M. Smith, son-in-law of Elder Hemenway, lived here several years, and removed to Springfield, Vt. He was sent one year to the Legislature, and received the appointment of Justice of the Peace.
Charles H. Cummings was a son of Elder Charles Cummings of Sullivan, (page 120,) and lived here about three years. He served the town two years as Moderator.
Other residents : - Luther S. Hemenway ; Artemas P. Hemenway; Joseph B. Smead, now of Fitchburg, Mass .; Lorenzo Rice from Woodstock, Vt .; Alexander Brown ; Lorenzo Derby ; George O. Dow; John E. Dow ; Joseph S. Bingham ; and John H. Boody, the present occupant.
272. Joseph Foster's mill. (Page 144.)
273. JACOB D. NASH moved this house from the hill near the old Guillow place, (294,) and lived here a few years.
Henry C. Lawton was here in 1865, and died here. In January, 1864, he enlisted from Acworth in Troop L of the 1st N. H. Cavalry, and served till the close of the war. Hc was reported missing at the battle of Winchester, but was "gained from missing," and promoted from Corporal to Sergeant, Ap. 30, 1865.
Simeon A. Mason from Keene bought this place in 1870. Seven years after he went to Marlow and let it to Daniel Nevers, who remained a year or two. Solomon M. Howard is the tenant at the present time.
274. BENJAMIN THOMPSON came from Alstead and settled here about 1798. When a boy he lost his right hand in a "corn mill," but could labor successfully at all kinds of farm-work. He was a man of great zeal and enthusiasm in religion and whatever else he engaged in. John Thompson lived here with his father till his death in 1840. (Page 151.)
Levi Barrett came here from Stoddard in 1841, and remained till 1867, when he removed to the village.
James L. Bates came from Keene in 1839, and hired the Squire Hammond place. After living in various places, fourteen years of the time in Sullivan, he settled here in 1871, and remained till 1879, when he removed to Acworth.
275. WARREN FARRINGTON, a house painter, built a log house on this spot. He afterwards built on number 280, and still later lived in the old Fuller house.
David Nash afterwards lived here. He and Philip R. Howard were married the same evening in Philip Howard's log house.
276. Here was a log house, with oiled paper in the windows instead of glass. Whether built by Philip Howard is uncertain, but he is the first resident now remembered here.
Michael Murphy, an Irishman, lived here a year or two, about 1847, and removed to Alstead. 277. ORLANDO MACK built this house in 1831. In the Spring of 1839, he removed to Illi- nois, and the next year settled in Butler, Montgomery County, where he spent his life.
He was a man of more than average energy and perseverance in business and achieved considerable success. He was known as a public-spirited citizen, having at heart the progress of the community and county in which he
* This sketch belongs in Chapter 31, but was received too late for insertion there.
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lived. He showed this spirit, not only in educational and religious matters, but took a great interest in all improvements calculated to benefit his neighbors, such as the establishment of mills, public roads, and was ever ready to help forward all public enterprises. His immediate neighbors feel that they have lost a kind and obliging neighbor and friend, the community a good man, and the county an honest, upright citizen. In all the relations of life he performed every part and every duty that devolved upon him faithfully and well. A good man full of years, an estimable eitizen is gone. His death has left a void that cannot easily be filled. - Local paper.
Jesse Hemenway came from Marlboro' about 1837 and remained till 1842, when he swapped the place for a farm in New York to which he removed. Charles Nash took the place a few years. In 1848 Mason Guillow settled here and remained fourteen years.
Other residents : - Levi Gates, Jacob D. Nash, Charles Osgood, Joseph S. Bingham, Horace Howard, and Leander Pratt.
278. OTIS G. ISHAM built this house in 1856, where he died four years after. Daniel W. Bates has resided here for several years.
Other residents : - J. Dana Wyman, Francis C. Howe, Ariel Carpenter, Joseph N. Taft, William Smith, George Wright, William F. Bruce, James Bates, and Henry Grant.
368. Newman's Saw Mill. (Page 137.)
279. MRS. HARRIET H. DEETS built here in 1865. She was a woman of marked peenliari- ties, and was formerly well-known as a peddler of children's books and trinkets, at Woreester, Mass. After her death, her son George oeenpied it a year or two. Joseph S. Bingham was here a short time. In 1879 Francis F. Bates bought and settled here.
280. WARREN FARRINGTON built this honse and lived in it a year, when it was only boarded up at one end. Esek T. Green from Taunton, Mass., lived here a short time.
Thomas Howard from Marlow settled here about 1836, and remained here till his death in 1857. In his later years he was very zealous and ready to speak in the cause of temperance and religion. His son, A. J. Howard, lived here with him several years.
Lyman G. Pieree came here in 1865, and resided here till 1878. He has been a sea-faring man, and has visited many parts of the world. He is very peculiar, and at times insane. He now resides at Woreester, Mass.
Clement Uriah Bates came here in 1878, and has bought the place. In April, 1864, he enlisted from Bradford in the 1st N. H. Cavalry, Troop B, and served till the close of the war. A fortnight before mustering out, he was promoted to Corporal.
281. LEVI NASH built a log house on this spot about 1815, and lived here many years.
282. ANANIAS TUBBS built a log house on this spot, probably about 1796. In 1798 Dudley Smith eame here and lived about two years.
283. DUDLEY SMITH built a house on this spot about 1800, and lived here about six years.
Antipas Maynard removed from Bolton, Mass., and settled in Sullivan about 1797. Five years after, he came to Gilsum, and lived on this place about fourteen years. He lived after- wards on different farms till 1828, when he removed to Keene.
He was "highly esteemed as a citizen and a christian man." His wife " was an estimable lady and even in her advanced years was cheerful and made sunshine wherever she was." Lambert Maynard, their oldest son, was for many years proprietor of the New England House, Boston, Mass. Jesse Maynard, another son, a baker by trade, resided in Boston, Mass., many years, where he was a member of the Common Council, and now resides in Worcester, Mass.
Amherst Hayward lived here in 1817, and it was here N. O. Hayward was born.
William Hayward lived here about 1832. He afterwards lived in the house now occupied by Capt. Chandler, and at some other places. He removed to Manchester, and afterwards to Law- renee, Mass., working at his trade of machinist. He lived a short time with his brother George on a farm at Landgrove, Vt. He next went to Bridgeport, Conn., where he was employed for many years in the manufacture of Wheeler and Wilson's sewing machines. Becoming infirm
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with age, he returned to Gilsum, where he still resides. He has been a very social man, and extremely radical in his views. He was a zealous follower of Garrison, and even left the church for a time on account of his anti-slavery zcal.
Other tenants : - John Bingham, Jr., Selden Borden, David Clark, and Joseph Clyde.
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284. JOHN GRIMES came from Maine about 1806 and lived on the Asa Nash place several years. He went to Roxbury in 1820, where he remained ten years. He then returned to Gilsum, and after living a short time on the place south of Edouard Loiselle's (155,) he removed to this place where he built a house. Several of his children were notoriously non compotes.
Josiah Grimes continued here after his father's death till 1859, when he removed to Stod- dard and afterwards to Marlow. About 1870, he went to Westmoreland, where he was killed by the falling of a bank under which he was at work. He was well-known for many years as an essence peddler, and was frequently called Dr. Grimes. His manner of speech sometimes tempted would-be wits to make sport of him, but he generally got the better of his assailants.
Perry H. Waldron, of Indian descent, removed from Dighton, Mass., in 1858, and came from Stoddard to this place in 1860. In 1863, the house built by Mr. Grimes was burned, and Mr. Waldron immediately built what is now the ell part of the house. Two years later, he built the rest of the house. In 1867, he removed to Nelson. Hiram N. Davis lived here with his father-in-law a year or two. James L. Bates was here a year or two. Jotham A. Bates settled here about 1870, and still occupies the place.
285. BROOKS HUDSON came from Connecticut with the Kilburns and went with Capt. Kilburn to the war. After the war, he settled on this place, where he died about 1800.
A family tradition says that at one time he was on guard over a fine peach orchard. Gen. Washington came along and asked him about the peaches, and took some to eat, and told him to eat. While they were eating, Arnold went by in flight. They saw him, but didn't mistrust who it was. He was near enough to have shot him, had they known. Gen. Washington was then on his way to the fort to look after Arnold's management there.
James Hudson lived here after his father's death till about 1833, when he removed to Surry, and about 1836 to Vermont. He was a preacher in the Christian Church.
Joseph Clyde, a carpenter, came from Hancock in 1827, and lived here two years, when he went to the Maynard place for a year. He next removed to Alstead, and then to Marlow.
Other residents : - Samuel Clark and Jonathan Twining.
286. This house was built in 1876 for James Davis and has not been occupied since his death.
287. JOSHUA ISHAM, of Bolton, Conn., (called " Isom " in the deed,) bought the cast half of the 14th Lot, 8th Range, for £18, of Silvanus Hayward, Ap. 22, 1794. He probably began clearing about that time, and having built a log house came here with his bride in 1798. About 1800, he settled on the place where George H. Carpenter now lives, and in 1815 went to Alstead.
James F. Isham learned the trade of watchmaker and carried on the business at East Alstead. He was appointed Post Master under President Tyler in 1841, and held the office till his death in 1874. "He was for 45 years a deacon in the Congregational Church, beloved and respected by all, as an upright man and a devoted Christian."
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Solomon Smith settled here about 1803. He was from Draent, Mass., and remained here about five years, when he returned to Massachusetts. In 1839, he came back to Gilsum, and lived where Henry Grant now does, where he died in 1859, aged 89.
384. On this spot appears to have been a log cabin. In searching records, I find that in October, 1789, Oliver Holman of Brookfield, Mass., sold this place for £35 to " Prince Gun, a Black Man." In the Census of 1786 " One Black " is reported. (Page 146.) Putting these facts together, it seems probable that Prince Gun, after having been in Gilsum for a few years, had saved a little money, and bought this place, and settled here. Nothing is known of him.
288. ELISHA PENDELL settled here before the Revolution, and in 1779 was one of the Selecet- men. In some old deeds this place is mentioned as " the Pendell lot." In 1785, Irene Pendell, probably his widow, sold the place for £50. She was then of Montagne, Mass.
Luthier Hohnes settled here about 1798, and the place is still called the Holmes lot.
After Mr. Holmes, a Mr. Whitcomb, the father of Mrs. Luther Ballard, is said to have lived here a short time, and the place has since remained vacant.
289. This house was built in 1848 by Charles Nash for his son, GEORGE H. NASH, who resided here four years and removed to Swanzey.
Charles Nash, Jr., was here a short time with his brother George, and then lived in the village. In 1867 he removed to Iowa.
Other residents : - Cyrus R. Bliss, Lucius L. Goodenough, Gleneira J. Guillow, Solomon M. Howard, and Leander Pratt.
290. This house was built about 1851 for CYRUS R. BLISS who lived here twelve years and removed to Massachusetts.
William H. Bates has lived here since 1870. He enlisted from Bradford, April, 1864, in the 1st N. H. Cavalry, Troop B, but soon left on account of sickness.
Other residents : - Amasa Barron, and J. William Bates.
369. N. O. Hayward's Saw Mill. (Page 137.)
291. SILAS DAVIS was brought up by John Nash and built this house about 1830. His uncle afterwards gave him a small farm in the edge of Sullivan, where he built a log house on number 299, and went there to live about 1841.
Other residents : - David Nash, Alonzo Cook, George Bates, B. F. Jefts, and Lucius Davis the present occupant. (Page 44.)
292. PAUL FARNSWORTH came from Surry about 1799 and built a log house on this lot, prob- ably a few rods east of this spot, in which he lived a few years. After him Daniel Nash was here a while.
John Guillow, of Italian descent, came from Gill, Mass., about 1806, and two years later setted on this place. In 1829, he built the house now here. He studied medicine with Dr. Palmer, (page 181,) and bought some of his books. He also attended some medical lectures, but never took a degrec. He was known as Dr. Guillow, but never practiced much. His descendants are numerous.
Other residents : - Francis F. Bates, B. F. Nevers, Warren Howard, Joseph Dupies, and Luther Guillow.
293. JOHN NASH settled here in 1796. He lived here forty years, and having no children, left the place to his nephew, Cyrus Bliss, who remained here till his death in 1872. The well on this place is probably the deepest in town, and was dug for Mr. Nash by Silvanus Hayward. Alfred Bolton, brother-in-law of Mr. Nash, lived with him a few years, and returned to Taunton, Mass., in 1817. Jacob D. Nash lived here about a year.
294. JACOB D. NASH built a house here in 1851, and afterwards removed it to number 273. 295. Asa Nash built a log house here in 1809, where he lived about fifteen years. He afterwards built the
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house now standing, which has been occupied by various tenants, including the following : - Joseph Jolly and B. F. Nevers.
297. DAVID DEAN, a blacksmith from Taunton, Mass., settled here about 1801. He made board nails and edge tools.
296. DAVID DEAN, JR., built this house and resided here for many years.
Other residents : - Samuel Frost, Warren Farrington, J. Wmn. Bates, and Harvey Bates the present occupant. 298. Here a man named Howe lived for some years, and one or two of his children were buried near by.
299. Here Silas Davis had a log house in Sullivan.
300. SAMUEL COREY came from Tewksbury, Mass., and bought this place of Ezra Loomis in 1781. While building a house, he boarded at Dea. Bond's. About that time he went on foot to Billeriea, Mass., and brought home two dozen panes of glass on his back. His brothers Joshua and William settled near him in what is now Sullivan.
Benjamin Corey followed his father on this place, and built the house now standing, in 1823. In 1876 he removed to number 267 where he still resides.
Woodbury Corey, grandson of Benjamin, has lived on the old place since 1873.
301. SAMUEL DERBY was a cooper from Rehoboth, Mass., and settled here about 1795.
Samuel Lawrence came here from Swanzey in 1802. He moved an old school house from Sullivan and lived in it about three years. He returned to Swanzey and was drowned there. His brother, Isaae Lawrence, lived here with him in 1803.
John Grimes eame here about 1806 and lived a year or two.
302. DANIEL STEELE married Samuel Derby's daughter and lived here from 1797 to 1803. 388 and 389. All that is known of these places is, that a Boynton lived on one, and a Rich on the other.
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