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The number of communicants in 1878 was 14 and in 1914, 106, with a membership in the Sunday school of 33. The church property, consist- ing of church and parish house on the corner of Central and School streets, and rectory on Maple Street, with endowment funds, is valued at about $15,000.
In the summer of 1892, the Rev. Arthur Jenks, rector of St. Luke's, began holding mission services in Village Hall at North Haverhill, which were continued until 1895, when the Rev. James C. Flanders, who suc- ceeded him at St. Luke's, organized a Guild, becoming its first president and the sum of $50 a year was pledged for its support. His successor, the Rev. F. C. Cowper, continued the work, having service twice a month, with Holy Communion at Christmas and Easter. In 1914, Trinity Mission was regularly organized by Bishop Parker, and has since been in charge of the rectors of St. Luke's. The mission still holds its services in Village Hall, formerly the place of worship of the Baptist church. It hopes in the not distant future to have a church building of its own.
THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
In the early summer of 1891, a movement was inaugurated by the preaching of the Rev. Walter Dole, a Universalist clergyman of Barre, Vt., in Music Hall, which resulted in the organization of a Universalist parish society by Mr. Dole, in November of that year, and the organiza- tion of a church in August, 1892, with a membership of 18. A leading
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promoter in the organization of the parish and church was the Rev. Q. H. Shinn, D. D., general missionary of the denomination, who also urged the erection of a church. In August, 1891, Dr. Shinn, and the Rev. M. D. Shutter preached in Music Hall and, the first movement towards building a church was a collection taken by Mr. Shinn at the morning service, amounting to $21.30, and at a meeting held after the service about $600 was pledged for the same purpose.
A Help and Hope Society was organized by the leaders on August 12, 1891. Those present at the first meeting were Mrs. C. E. Randall, Mrs. C. K. Kinne, Mrs. C. O. Whitcher, Mrs. Martin Perkins, and Miss Ida Crossier. The membership had increased to 30 in November, and it was voted to raise $1,000 towards a building fund. The organization, which has taken effective lead in all the financial work of the church, still vigorously carries on its work.
A desirable church lot was obtained on Elm Street for the sum of $500. A building committee consisting of W. D. Sargent, C. E. Randall and O. D. Eastman was chosen July 21, 1892; plans were adopted and a con- tract was made with Martin Perkins to build the church for the sum of $3,900. Ground was broken August 8, 1892, and on December 11 serv- ices were held in the vestry. The church was finished, except the fur- nishings, June 3, 1893, and was dedicated August 11. The pews were furnished by the Help and Hope Society, the pulpit and pulpit furniture by the Young People's Christian Union, and the organ by the Sunday school. This was first held August 2, 1891, and afterwards, when no church services were held, it met at the home of Mrs. C. E. Randall. The Y. P. C. U. was organized at the home of Mrs. C. K. Kinne, Novem- ber 1, 1891. This society placed the pipe organ in the church in the summer of 1899.
During the first year or two of the organization, there were a number of preachers, some of the ablest in the denomination, and the Rev. Walter Dole frequently served until the church had a regular pastor. The church has been greatly prosperous, and for its prosperity too much credit can- not be given to the constant, persistent, self-sacrificing work of a few lead- ers, among whom Mrs. C. E. Randall must be regarded as pre-eminent during the entire life of the church. It has at the present time a com- modious church edifice and parsonage valued at $14,000 and entirely free from indebtedness. Its pastors have been the Rev. F. L. Carrier, who served from June 17, 1894, till March, 1902, except for a few months in 1898 when he was chaplain of the First New Hampshire Regiment in the war with Spain, and his pulpit was supplied by Rev. H. L. Veazey. Succeeding pastors have been Rev. F. L. Leavitt, 1902-04; Rev. F. W. Miller, 1904-06, and the Rev. C. F. McIntire, the present pastor who entered on his work in July, 1906.
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ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, ROMAN CATHOLIC
Up to the year 1896, the Catholics of Haverhill had been under the spiritual care of priests in Littleton, and St. Johnsbury, Vt. There had been, too, for some years a small mission chapel in Wells River, where mass was occasionally celebrated, and where the Catholics of Haverhill and other towns availed themselves of the rites and sacraments of the church. The few Catholics hereabouts were also visited occasionally by priests from Littleton and Claremont. The Catholic population here was small when January 1, 1896, the Rev. P. S. Cahill was given charge of a parish which embraced the towns of Haverhill, Bath, Lisbon, Landaff, Monroe, Lyman, Carroll and Lincoln, and took up his residence in Woodsville. There was no church building in this parish, except at Twin Mountain in Carroll, and at all other places services were held in schoolhouses, town halls and private residences. For several months after Father Cahill's arrival in Woodsville, mass was celebrated twice a month in the hall over what is now the Central Fire Station, but in the meantime plans were formulated for the erection of a church, which were carried into effect.
A house was purchased on Pine Street for a rectory, and land adjoining for a church edifice, which was completed and named St. Joseph's before January, 1897. The interest taken in providing a church home for the Haverhill Catholics may be noted from the fact that upwards of $1,000 was contributed by non-Catholics towards the erecting of the church be- sides the patronage given by them at fairs, entertainments and suppers. Owing to the extent of his parish and the large number of Catholic visitors during the summer months at Sugar Hill, Fabyans, Bretton Woods and Twin Mountain, Father Cahill was in need of an assistant, usually from May 1 to November 1, and during his pastorate, his assistants were the Revs. William Sweeney, M. J. Reddin, D. D., W. F. Pendergast and W. L. Dee, D. D. The Rev. Thomas Reddin succeeded Father Cahill in May, 1907, and took up pretty much the same work, with the same parish, except the town of Lincoln where a church was built in 1902 by the late Rev. J. J. McCooey. Father Reddin was given a permanent assistant so that he was able to hold services at St. Joseph's every Sunday. During his pastorate his assistants were successively the Revs. J. H. Sullivan and Michael R. Griffin.
Father Reddin was succeeded, October 12, 1913, by the present pastor, the Rev. P. E. Walsh, and his assistants have been the Revs. John Belford, Edward Quirk and J. E. Belford.
There are now four churches in the parish: the three outside of Woods- ville are St. Catherine's at Lisbon, Our Lady of the Mountain at Bretton- Woods, both built during the pastorate of Father Reddin, and St. Mar- garet's at Twin Mountain built in 1915 to replace the old St. Margaret's destroyed by fire in June, 1914. This new church, built of stone, cost
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about $14,000 and is said to be one of the most beautiful church edifices in northern New Hampshire. These churches are all in flourishing condition. St. Joseph's at Woodsville is free of debt, the last of a twenty- year mortgage having been paid in 1915 by the present pastor. Some $1,500 has been expended on the rectory during the past two years, and the church property is valued at about $13,000. St. Joseph's parish is efficiently organized and in addition to the regular Sunday morning serv- ices, there is a well attended Sunday school class and evening services every Sunday, and holy days of obligation. The Catholic population of Woodsville is (1916) about 350, and 120 in other parts of Haverhill, principally at East Haverhill where plans are being made for the erection of a church in the near future.
THE EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION
In the summer of 1893 an independent church was organized of which Rev. George E. Noble of Haverhill, Mass., became pastor. He was called to a larger field the following year, and the society decided to enter the Evangelical Association, one of the Methodist bodies, and the change in organization was effected July 8, 1894, by the Rev. Joshua Gile, presiding elder. The officers were: Trustees, Benjamin Dow, Charles W. Eastman; stewards, Benjamin Dow, Charles W. Eastman, Anson B. Bowen, Sarah E. Dow, Helen Eastman; treasurer, A. B. Bowen; recording steward, Helen Eastman; Sunday school superintendent, A. B. Bowen. A neat and commodious chapel was dedicated August 25, 1897, by Rev. John Short, presiding elder.
During the first year or two the pulpit was supplied by Rev. R. S. Harrington and later still for a brief period by Rev. C. A. Lockwood. Suceeding pastorates were as follows: 1896-97, Rev. George Haddon; 1897-99, Rev. L. H. Merrill; 1899-1901, Rev. B. M. Smith; 1901-02, supplied by A. R. Craig; 1902-04, Rev. M. E. Perry; 1904-06, Rev. L. H. Merrill. From March until August, 1906, the pulpit was supplied by J. E. Nickerson, when the church was disbanded, and the chapel was converted into a dwelling.
MENTAL LIBERTY SOCIETY
This was the name given an organization formed in 1845 or 1846 at North Haverhill. It was not a church, nor did it profess to be a religion, but, organized in open and avowed opposition to churches and to all forms of supernatural religion, it may, perhaps, be noticed as appropriately in this chapter as elsewhere. A pamphlet, published in 1846, contains an address of the president of the society, Dr. M. F. Morrison of Bath, with the constitution, resolutions and by-laws, the constitution con- stituting the articles of faith-or non-faith they might be more appro- priately called. Article 9, perhaps, as clearly as any other summarizes the
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purpose of the society and the attitude of its members towards revealed religion :
It shall be the duty of each and every member of this Society, by candid and careful examination, to render firm their own convictions, and the wavering or doubtful opinions of others: to meet with candor and frankness, but temperate firmness, the opposing prejudices of those swayed by different influences, and convince the world by the prac- tical utility and careful observance of our own moral precepts, that while we eschew and are Infidels to the modes, forms, ceremonies of all supernatural religion, we are faithful to Science, Truth and Morality, and the great and Universal Brotherhood of Man.
The names of officers and associates appended to the constitution are Dr. M. F. Morrison, Bath, president; Dr. John McNab, McIndoes Falls, Vt., vice-president; Josiah F. Wilson, Haverhill, secretary and treas- urer; Jonathan Wilson, Haverhill librarian; Nathaniel Annis, Haverhill, Cyrus J. S. Scott, Newbury, Vt., and Jacob Morse, Haverhill, council of supervision; Jacob M. White, Haverhill; Charles J. Scott, Newbury, Vt .; Charles A. Sawyer, Haverhill; Frederick Crocker, Bath; Capt. Daniel French, Haverhill; Richardson French, Haverhill.
Perhaps the object of this Mental Liberty Society is best declared by its president, Dr. Morrison, in his address delivered at North Haverhill and published in 1846. He said:
We therefore believe, from the evidence of all history, that religion in all its phases and Prolian forms, is the offspring of a wild and visionary imagination, not of inductive reason :- that its influence is demoralizing, oppressive, intolerant, legalizing crime, con- serving ignorance, nourishing credulity, promoting discord, founded in error, and perpetu- ating misery. Shall we then honest and firm in our own convictions, conscious of the purity of our motives, and the benefits to be derived from their practical application, hesitate to act up to the full measure of our convictions, and thus prove traitors to our- selves and recreants to our race? And does it not become highly important and necessary to associate for the purpose of accomplishing the high and glorious objects we have in view? Few in numbers and isolated in situation, what can be the result of individual
effort without concentrated, united action? . History points out the crimes of this visionary superstition (Christianity) and we are sensible to its better ingredients. Few have waked to the guidance of reason and the light of truth, but of those who claim to be free, we entreat by their experience of the past, by their hopes of the fu- ture, to come fearlessly forward and act individually and socially in accordance with the impulse of their own conviction.
Just how long this organization was maintained, when and where it held meetings, does not appear. It did not break down and destroy the churches. It did not "emancipate" the fellow townsmen and neighbors from the thralldom of their superstitions. It soon passed out of sight, and it has been long lost to memory. Its only monument seems to be the little pamphlet of twenty-four pages containing the inaugural address of its president, Dr. Morrison, the resolutions passed, the constitution and by-laws adopted, and the names of its members. The church, how- ever, lives on and on.
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The Rev. N. F. Carter in his "Native Ministry of New Hampshire," published in 1905, gives brief sketches of no less than twenty-seven natives of Haverhill who entered the Christian ministry. This list does not include nearly as many who were residents of Haverhill at the time of their academic, collegiate and theological education. The list given by Mr. Carter is as follows:
Stephen Adams, Methodist, son of Stephen and Sarah (Johnston) Adams, b. Feb. 12, 1813. Admitted to N. H. Conference 1840; d. New Hampton, Va., May 14, 1883. Paul P. Atwell, Methodist, b. Mar. 28, 1801. Studied medicine; admitted to Troy Con- ference 1843; d. Schuylerville, N. Y., June 13, 1873.
Amos Gilman Bartlett, Congregationalist, son of Dr. Ezra and Jane Hannah (Gale) Bartlett, b. Jan. 14, 1814; d. Albany, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1880.
Ephraim Weston Clark, Congregationalist, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Weston) Clark, b. Apr. 25, 1799. Graduated Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary; missionary Sandwich Islands, 1827-63; first secretary Hawaiian Mis- sionary Society; d. Chicago, Ill., July 15, 1878.
John Clark, Congregationalist, son of John and Mehitable (Hutchins) Clark, b. June 25,
1800. Pastorates and ministerial labors in New Hampshire and Vermont; d. Rumney, Aug. 31, 1887.
Laban Clark, D. D., Methodist, b. July 19, 1778. Admitted to New York Conference 1801; d. Middletown, Conn., Nov. 28, 1868.
Moses Elkins, Methodist, son of Jonathan and Sally (Philbrick) Elkins, b. June 20, 1801. Ordained by Bishop Soule, May 21, 1843; most of life spent in teaching; d. Hixton, Wis., 1866.
Stephen Goodhue Emerson, Congregationalist, son of Rev. John Dolbeer and Sarah Jane (Dudley) Emerson, b. Oct. 19, 1864. Graduated Dartmouth 1887; Oberlin Theological Seminary 1890; pastorates in California; in Pasadena, since 1898.
Robert Waterman Carr Farnsworth, Methodist, b. Feb. 20, 1844. Graduated Wesleyan University 1871; School Theology, Boston University, 1872-73; admitted to Provi- dence Conference 1874; pastorates in that conference and in California; d. San Fernando, Cal., Jan. 3, 1888.
Lucien Haskell Wary, D. D., Congregationalist, son of Charles and Abigail Carpenter (Haskell) Wary, b. Mar. 19, 1839. Dartmouth College 1866; Andover Theological Seminary 1869; d. Long Beach, Cal., May 13, 1903.
Michael J. Gray, Congregationalist, son of Ebenezer and Ruth (Johnston) Gray, b. Oct. 28, 1789. Settled as pastor in London 1813.
Jakey True Howard, Congregationalist, son of John and Sarah (True) Howard, b. Aug. 22, 1804; d. West Charleston, Vt., Oct. 7, 1883.
Lorenzo Dow Jeffers, Free Baptist, son of Josiah and Lydia Jeffers, b. 1821. Ordained 1854; d. Haverhill.
Charles Johnston, Presbyterian, son of Michael and Sarah Atkinson (Converse) John- ston, b. June 3, 1789; d. Ovid, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1866.
David Merrill Ladd, Free Baptist, son of Asa and Martha (Chase) Ladd, b. 1806. Pastorates in Vermont; d. Jan. 8, 1889.
Benjamin Merrill, Presbyterian, son of Abel Kimball and Mary Leverett Merrill, b. Mar. 25, 1835. Graduated Dartmouth, and Princeton Theological Seminary; d. Swanzey, Nov. 16, 1888.
Charles Henry Merrill, Congregationalist, son of Abel Kimball and Abbie (Leverett) Merrill, b. June 16, 1845. Dartmouth College 1867; Andover Theological Semi- nary 1870; secretary of the Vermont Missionary Society 1887 -; resides St. Johns- bury, Vt.
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John Leverett Merrill, Presbyterian, son of Abel Kimball and Mary Leverett Merrill, b. May 29, 1833. Dartmouth College 1856; Princeton Theological Seminary 1859; last pastorate, Newbury, Vt., 1891-1901; residence, 1911, Reading, Mass.
Horace Webster Morse, Universalist, son of David and Sarah (Morse) Morse, b. May 2,
1810. Numerous pastorates in Massachusetts and New Hampshire; d. Green- wood, Mass., March 1, 1903.
Joseph Bartlett Morse, Universalist, son of John and Eunice (Willoughby) Morse, b. May 21, 1814. Dartmouth College 1838; d. Hanover, June 26, 1893.
Silas Everard Quimby, Methodist, son of Rev. Silas and Penelope Cowdry (Fifield) Quimby, b. Oct. 19, 1837. Wesleyan University 1859; New Hampshire Conference 1863 -.
Jonathan Shepard, Methodist, afterwards Universalist, son of Harris and Martha Shepard, b. Apr. 16, 1792. Evangelist, never a pastor; d. Linden, Mich., Aug. 26, 1878.
Stephen Sanford Smith, Congregationalist, son of Rev. Ethan and Bathsheba (Sanford) Smith, b. Apr. 14, 1797; d. Worcester, Mass., Oct. 29, 1871.
William Page Stone, D. D., Methodist, son of Joseph and Priscilla Page Stone, b. Sept. 1, 1831. Graduated Lawrence University, Wisconsin, 1858; joined Wisconsin Conference 1858; d. Chicago, Jan. 4, 1896.
George Stevens Wheeler, Swedenborgian, son of Ezekiel Horace and Mehitable Towne Wheeler, b. Apr. 27, 1857. Pastor Bridgewater, Mass., 1890 -.
Dyer Willis, Methodist, b. July 20, 1816. Joined Vermont Conference 1843; pastorates all in Vermont; retired 1883.
Charles B. M. Woodward, Methodist, son of Jacob and Lydia Woodward, b. June 10, 1808. Admitted N. H. Conference 1839; retired 1847; d. Sept. 9, 1881.
Elder John Davis, though not a native of Haverhill, but rather of Plais- tow from which town so many of the first settlers came, was so long a resident of Haverhill that he has been regarded by many as a native. He came to Haverhill a boy of fourteen, and the town was his home for a greater part of his active life. He was born in 1802 and died in Boston in 1885. He was ordained a Free Baptist minister in 1830, and came to Haverhill in 1845, and remained till 1866, preaching in the meantime in North Haverhill, Centre Haverhill, Bath, Benton, Warren and Piermont. His educational advantages were limited but he studied his Bible and was sound in the faith. Blunt and outspoken he had a habit of saying, in the pulpit as well as out of it, whatever came to his mind. His pulpit preparation was made for the most part on his feet after he had begun his sermon. He never failed to reprove those who violated the sanctity of the Sabbath. On one occasion, while preaching at the Union Meeting House, he saw through the open window a man riding rapidly horseback. Pausing and pointing out of doors, he shouted, "There goes a man bound for hell," but getting a nearer view of the man as he passed and recog- nizing him as one of his neighbors, he quickly added, "No, no, it's Mr. going for the doctor." His salary was not large, and on one occa- sion noticing several of his congregation asleep, he abruptly called out, "It's hard enough to preach for a dollar a day without having to talk to as sleepy a crowd as this." The sleepers awoke and remained awake.
CHAPTER VIII
SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION
TIMOTHY CURTIS, THE FIRST SCHOOLMASTER-SCHOOLHOUSES AT TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS EACH-WOODSVILLE HOUSE COST LESS-INTERIOR OF OLD SCHOOL- HOUSE-TEXT-BOOKS AND SUPERINTENDENCE-FIRST COMMITTEE IN 1815-REC- ORDS OF TWO SCHOOLS-TOWN SCHOOLS IN 1885-UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO SECURE A COLLEGE-HAVERHILL ACADEMY-LIST OF SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS- MR. SAMUEL SOUTHARD.
JUST when the first school was opened in Haverhill is not definitely known. The earliest vote of the town on record is that of March 9, 1773, when it was "voted to hire a master to keep a town school this present year, and to raise £35 to be paid in specie for the use of school." In the warrant for the annual town meeting the previous year, 1772, there was an article "to see if the town will lay out a tract of land for the use of the school in Haverhill." It does not appear that any action was taken on this article, but its wording would indicate that a school was probably in existence before that date. Such school, however, was doubtless small. The population was composed of new families and single persons. During the first few years of the settlement there were few children of school age. The town at the beginning made provision for a minister. It may be safely assumed that when the need arose, it also made provision for a schoolmaster. Peter Powers was the first minister, and so far as known Timothy Curtis was the first schoolmaster. Little is known of Timothy except that he was employed to "keep school" for at least two years. On the first page of the earliest volume of town records, there are the two following entries:
May 10, 1774, Received of Capt. Charles Johnston £8, 19s, 6d in full for five months and twenty days teaching school in Haverhill.
TIMO. CURTIS.
Haverhill, Feb. 10, 1775, Recd of Charles Johnston £8, 7s, 6d in full for 5 mos. 18 days teaching publick school in said town.
TIMO. CURTIS.
In 1774, the sum of £35 to be paid in specie was again voted "for use of the school" and in 1775, £34. The records show no separate appro- priation for schools until 1786, but notwithstanding the disorganized state of affairs during the War of the Revolution there is evidence that the public school was not neglected. Just where the town school was kept does not appear, whether at Ladd Street, Haverhill Corner, or Horse Meadow, or at each of these places alternately is not certain. There
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were no schoolhouses until 1787. At the annual meeting in 1786, it was voted to divide the town into four school districts, and £60 was raised for the support of schools to be paid in wheat at 6s per bushel and Indian corn at 3s per bushel. District Number One extended from Piermont line to the Oliverian, the second from the Oliverian to the south line of the Fisher farm, the third to the bridge leading to Colonel Howard's island, and the fourth from there to Bath line. These districts were all on the river.
In 1811 a vote was passed to increase the number of districts but it does not appear that anything was done till 1815, when the town was divided into nine districts and their boundaries were fixed. Number One was at Haverhill Corner, and the schoolhouse was near Powder House Hill. Number Two was the Ladd Street District, so-called. Number Three was at North Haverhill. Number Four was near the Bath line, and was known as the Pine Plain or Kimball district. Number Five was the Brier Hill district. Number Six was near the Benton line, and was later known as the Morse or Jeffers district. Number Seven was known as the Union district, a part being in Piermont. Number Eight was at what is now Pike village and Number Nine was at Haverhill Centre, the schoolhouse being located at the junction of the County road, and that leading from North Haverhill to Number Six known as the Limekiln road.
But with the increase of population and the settlement of the eastern section of the town districts were divided and subdivided until they numbered twenty. An idea of their location is gained from the location of the schoolhouses. Number Ten lay to the north and east of Nine with schoolhouse at the junction of County road and road leading to Colby Hill. Number Eleven schoolhouse was on the road leading from Brier Hill to Swiftwater in Bath. Number Twelve was the Horse Meadow district. Number Thirteen the Woodsville district. Number Fourteen the East Haverhill district midway between Number Six and Eight. Number Fifteen had its schoolhouse located on the County road near the old stone town house. Number Sixteen schoolhouse was on a road leading off the Pond road, so-called, towards the Bradley Hill road leading to Benton. Number Seventeen was set off from Number One and the schoolhouse was on Main Street at the Corner near Piermont line. Number Eighteen was just off the road between the Brook and Pike. Number Nineteen was between Ladd Street and North Haverhill and was known as the Powers district, and Number Twenty was between Nine and Six, and was known as the Limekiln district.
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