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The monument was designed by Mr. O. L. Hazelton, and was erected by the C. A. Bailey Monumental Works of Manchester. It stands in the triangle made by the bifurcation of the street leading from the railroad station to the Main Street or state road in the village of North Haverhill, a little distance from the town hall and clerk's office. It is built of light Barre granite.and, from foundation to top of figure of soldier, the height is twenty-six and one half feet. The accompanying cut gives an idea of its beauty of proportion. It bears no inscriptions except those on the tablets of United States standard bronze which cover the four sides of the die, which is 5 feet 10 inches in height and 4 by 4 on the base and 3.6 by 3.6 on the top. The tablet on the front of the monument facing the state road and the west is 2.6 by 3 feet, on the east 3 by 4 feet, and on the south and north they are each 5 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 8 inches at the bottom and 3 feet 2 inches at top.
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The inscriptions are as follows:
(Face of Monument on West)
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE SERVICES OF THE SOLDIERS OF HAVERHILL IN THE WARS OF THE COUNTRY
ERECTED BY THE TOWN AND WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS, NO. 11
(On the South)
1861 WAR FOR THE UNION 1865
KILLED IN ACTION
CHARLES W. SHERWELL ARCHIBALD H. STOVER JOSEPH L. WILLEY
ALBERT U. WILLEY GEORGE C. SWIFT
HORACE L. BLANCHARD RILEY B. CADY JEROME B. CARR
HENRY N. CHAPMAN WILLIAM CLARK DANIEL C. RANDALL JOSEPH RANEY
SAMUEL P. ADAMS ROBERT ARNOLD LYFORD BAILEY ROYAL F. CLARK EDWIN J. L. CLARK JOHN COPP GEORGE COPP DANIEL J. COBURN CHARLES T. COLLINS GEORGE F. CUTTING SIMON G. CUTTING FRANK D. DAVIS
HONORABLY DISCHARGED
JAMES BOSWELL
LIN BRADISH
CYRUS ALDEN
THOMAS BAXTER
PATRICK BALDWIN
SOLOMON H. BUTTERFIELD
LOUIS BEAN J. LEROY BELL
FRANK B. CARR BYRON L. CARR
CHARLES F. CARR
HIRAM S. CARR
CHARLES CARPENTER
MARTIN V. B. CADY
JERE. B. DAVIS, JR.
CHANDLER G. CASS JOHN D. MCCONNELL
DIED IN SERVICE
HYLUS HACKETT
HENRY MERRILL
GEORGE SOUTHARD
IRA STOWELL
CHARLES G. PERKINS
HENRY G. TASKER
ADIN M. PIKE
EZEKIEL DAY, 2D
NATHAN W. WHEELER
HENRY C. WRIGHT
JOHN FLAVIN SILAS WOODARD
NATHANIEL W. WESTGATE, JR.
JOHN CHAPMAN JONATHAN CLARK
JOHN D. BROOKS
NEANDER D. BROOKS
JOHN W. BEAMIS
LEVI B. BISBEE
BENJAMIN BIXBY
HARLAN 8. BLANCHARD
CHESTER M. CARLETON
JAMES W. SAMPSON
GEORGE W. MILLER
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(On the North)
1861 WAR FOR THE UNION 1865
HONORABLY DISCHARGED
JOHN H. DAY
GEORGE F. KEYES
WESLEY PORTER
WILLIAM DEAN JOSEPH DELAND
SCOTT W. KEYSER
SIMON E. PLFER
HIRAM KIDDER
MARTIN V. B. RANDALL
RICHARD C. BROWN
CALEB KNIGHT
ANDREW J. RANDALL
DANIEL C. DUNCKLEE
HIRAM K. LADD
MARTIN ROGERS JOHN C. SHELLEY
DANA FIFIELD
LEWIS LADDERBUSH
ORRIN SIMPSON
FRANKLIN FURGERSON JAMES R. GEORGE
AMOS LUND
GEORGE H. SMITH
VAN BUREN GLAZIER
SYLVESTER W. MARSTON
GEORGE C. SMITH
JAMES GLYNN
MOODY C. MARSTON
JOHN STEARNS
CHARLES GOODWIN
SAMUEL E. MERRILL
JOHN P. SWIFT
IRA B. GOULD JOHN HACKETT
HENRY M. MINER
SOLON SWIFT ALBERT H. TEFFT
NELSON S. HANNAFORD
HORACE H. MORRISON
WILLIAM G. WALCOTT
ROBERT W. HARVEY
ELIAS MOULTON
JOHN T. WALCOTT
SUMNER HARDY
JAMES A. PAGE
PERSON WALLACE
ETHAN O. HARRIS JAMES E. HAYNES
WEST PEARSON
JOSEPH WEED WILLIAM C. WETHERBEE
JOEL E. HIBBARD HENRY M. HICKS CURTIS HICKS ORAMUS HIX
GEORGE W. PENNOCK GEORGE PERKINS
DON F. WILLIS
EDWIN C. HOLMES
EDWIN P. PHILBRICK
JAMES WILSON
HORACE J. HOLMES
CHARLES J. PIKE
GEORGE W. WOODS, JR.
HIRAM S. KELLAM
HIRAM H. POOLE
GEORGE W. WOODWARD
SAMUEL WOODWARD
(On the East)
1775-1783 WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE COL. JOHN HURD, COL. TIMOTHY BEDEL COL. CHARLES JOHNSTON AND 116 OTHERS, SCOUTS, RANGERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE LINE
WAR OF 1812-15 BRIG. GEN. JOHN MONTGOMERY, LT. COL. MOODY BEDEL AND 28 OTHERS
WAR WITH MEXICO. 1846-1848
CAPT. DANIEL BATCHELDER AND 15 HAVERHILL MEN Co. H. 9th U. S. INFANTRY WAR WITH SPAIN 1898 SIX ENLISTED MEN
SIMON W. ELLIOTT
AIKEN LADDERBUSH
GEORGE W. LEITH
ELIJAH L. SMITH
GEORGE W. MORRISON
CHARLES P. PATTEN
EBEN C. WEED
CALVIN PENNOCK
JONATHAN C. PENNOCK
ORRIN M. WHITMAN
JOSEPH WILLIS
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When Surveyor Whiting made his first survey of the town of Haverhill for the proprietors, and divided the town into lots, he located the double right on the five hundred acres which Governor Benning Wentworth, in granting the charter to John Hazen and others, had reserved for himself, in the extreme northwest corner of the town. The village of Woodsville, therefore, lies within what was known as the Governor's reservation or the Governor's farm.
When a name was sought for the northern terminus of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad in 1853, Benning Wentworth had long been forgotten, while John L. Woods who had a quarter of a century before purchased the sawmill and mill privilege at the mouth of Am- monoosuc River, was still alive, and was the one resident of the locality actively engaged in lumber and mercantile business, and Woodsville became the official designation of the Governor's farm. It may be of interest to trace the title of such part of the farm as Captain Woods owned from Governor Wentworth down.
In February, 1774, Ezekiel Ladd, collector for the proprietors, sold at a meeting of the proprietors several rights for non-payment of proprietary taxes. Among these thus sold was the Governor's right, or Governor's farm, which was purchased by Moses Little of Newbury, Mass., for thirty-eight dollars,1 and the house and meadow lot of James Nevins for eight dollars. Colonel Little had previously acquired the house and meadow lot belonging to the original right of William Symes. These two latter were Upper Meadow lots and adjoined the Governor's farm. Colonel Little, who was subsequently an officer in the War of the Revo- lution and was one of the grantors of Newbury, Vt., and also of Littleton and in honor of whom the latter town was named, thus came into posses- sion of a tract of some six hundred acres for a sum of money not exceed- ing sixty dollars. Benning Wentworth had died in October, 1770, and except for the presumable ignorance of the value of the Haverhill property on the part of those having charge of his estate, it is hardly credible that the five hundred acres in which lies the present village of Woodsville would have been sold for the sum of thirty-eight dollars.
In February, 1782, Colonel Little deeded to his son, Moses Little, Jr., then a minor, in consideration of the love and good will he bore his son, this tract of six hundred acres which he described as follows: Beginning at a white pine tree standing on the east bank of Connecticut River and north of Ammonoosuc River which is the northwesterly corner boundary of said Haverhill, thence on the north line of said Haverhill five hundred rods to a stake and stones, thence southwest one hundred and sixty rods or thereabouts, thence such a course northwesterly so as to include what was called the Governor's farm; also the house lots and all the meadow
1 Spanish milled dollars.
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PAPER
WEEKS BLOCK SHOWING PARKER HOUSE AND ODD FELLOWS HALL IN 1SSS
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lots belonging to the original rights of James Nevins and William Symes to Connecticut River thence up said river about two hundred rods to the bounds begun at, the same containing six hundred acres be the same more or less.
Moses Little, Jr., January 21, 1795, sold to William Abbott thirty-seven and one-half acres in the northwesterly corner of this tract, upon which Abbott settled and cleared land which became known as the Abbott farm. On this farm was a mill privilege near the month of the Ammo- noosuc. This mill privilege was deeded by Moses and Jacob Abbott to Isaac Smith and Moses Campbell, April 9, 1809, for the sum of four hundred dollars. A portion of the privilege was situated in the town of Bath, and the whole contained five and one-half acres and twenty-nine rods.
Mills Olcott of Hanover purchased the premises of Smith and Camp- bell, September 3, 1816. During his ownership a dam was con- structed across the river, and a mill built, and this was deeded, September 14, 1827, to William Styfield, subject to a lease to John L. Woods and Sam- uel Hutchins & Son of Wells River, Vt.
Woods, in company with Hutchins was then evidently operating the sawmill under lease, having a few months previously purchased all the remainder of the William Abbott farm of thirty-seven and a half acres, except that part set off for widow's dower, and that deeded to Moses Campbell for a mill privilege, and all the buildings thereon except that part of house set off for widow and the back part of the house built for "Widow Brock."
John L. Woods, January 22, 1830, purchased the mill privilege of William Styfield, the consideration being one thousand dollars and the descrip- tion the following: "A certain piece or parcel of land in Haverhill and Bath containing five and one-half acres and twenty-nine rods, with the appurtenances thereto belonging, containing a sawmill and privilege, together with the mill irons in and about the same which properly apper- tain thereto, and the dwelling house standing thereon."
In June, 1835, Woods purchased of Moses Little, for consideration not stated thirty-six acres and one hundred rods. This was in the heart of what is now the village of Woodsville on both sides of Central Street and was covered with a heavy growth of white pine. In November, 1835, the remainder of the Governor's reservation, excepting fifty acres on the east end deeded in 1800 to Joseph Sanborn, estimated to contain from three hundred and eighty to four hundred acres, was sold by Moses Little to Russell King of Charlestown for the sum of $6,000.
William Abbott was, undoubtedly, the first actual permanent settler in what is now Woodsville, and his dwelling was on the site of what has since been known as the Brock house just off Ammonoosuc Street. Land
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adjoining the Governor's reservation was disposed of to early settlers: Amos Kimball of Barnet, Vt., purchased, February 18, 1781, house and meadow lot No. 8 on the Upper Meadow drawn to the right of Lemuel Tucker, and house and meadow lots No. 9, drawn to the right of J. Harri- man, and in August, 1809, sold the same to John Kimball, who had pre- viously purchased of Nathaniel Adams of Portsmouth in March, 1799, the adjoining Simpson farm so called, containing about one hundred and fifty acres, of which forty acres was situated on the Upper Meadow. The land drawn to the right of Theodore Atkinson, secretary of the Province, and of Theodore Atkinson, Jr., and known as the Secretary's farm, five hundred and sixty-four acres in all was purchased from the Atkinson estate January 27, 1795, by Amos Kimball.
When John L. Woods came from Wells River in 1830, to take charge of the sawmill he had recently purchased, he devoted himself with energy to the manufacture of lumber, finding for the first few years his material ready at hand. A few dwellings were erected in the vicinity of his mills: there was the Abbott farm, the Simpson farm, the farms of Amos and John Kimball, and later the farm of Russell King, and his brother-in-law, Eli Evans, who had purchased a part of the King holdings, but the settle- ment was of slow growth, and the clearing of the land aside from the meadows lying north of what is now Cottage Hospital proceeded slowly, the upland being for the most part covered by a heavy growth of white pine. Even when the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad was com- pleted in 1853, and Woodsville was made its northern terminus, though much of the forest growth had been cleared away, and farms, by the division and subdivision of the Woods, Kimball, King and Evans proper- ties, had become more numerous, there was little to suggest a village except a half a dozen or so dwellings, a gristmill added to the saw- mill, a blacksmith shop, and a store for the transaction of general mer- chandise business erected some years before by Mr. Woods, and a little schoolhouse at the foot of Clay Hill. This is still standing, transformed into a dwelling house, as is also the store, which has undergone a like transformation and has been now, for some years, the residence of Isaac K. George.
The boom which might have been expected did not seem to materialize. The construction of the White Mountains road, which was completed from Woodsville to Littleton, two years later, added little or nothing to the growth of the former. The tracks of both roads were carried on the roof of the toll bridge, newly constructed for that purpose, across the river to Wells River, Vt., which thus became the real junction of the railroads, and the immediate benefit and advantages arising from the new railroad facilities were reaped by the latter named village.
The Woods store, erected near his sawmill, in the management of
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which he was succeeded by Edward Child as agent for the Wells River firm of Hutchins & Buchanan, and later by Ezra S. Kimball, seemed for years to meet Woodsville demand for mercantile supplies, while the stores and shops, and manufactories patronized by the farmers of the surround- ing country, the church, hotels, bank, post office, in short nearly all the business was at Wells River. Bath Village, four miles to the north, was then flourishing, its decadence having hardly begun, while ten miles to the south was Haverhill Corner, with its stores, hotels, newspaper and printing establishment, academy, court house and county offices, with its manufactures at the near by "Brook,"-the most important village, all things considered, in Grafton County. The growth of Woodsville was hardly perceptible. Some idea of the slowness of the growth of the village, if indeed it might properly be called a village, during the ten years succeeding the completion of the railroad may be gathered from a statement of Ezra B. Mann who says:
For a few weeks in the spring of 1864 I performed the duties of station agent, post- master, and express agent, besides having the care of the round house, and making my run as conductor of the freight train which carried all the freight between Woodsville and Littleton, then the terminus of the White Mountains road.
Had Mr. Woods been a younger man when the railroad was completed, he would, doubtless, with his natural enterprise and energy, have availed himself of the advantages which it seemed to offer for the growth and development of business, but he was then past sixty years of age, was in poor health, and death put an end to his activities a little less than two years later. Woodsville was forced to wait.
The beginning came in 1859, when Charles M. Weeks of Lyndon, Vt., who had a little before reached his majority, purchased the Woods store from Ezra S. Kimball, and immediately devoted himself with the enthusiasm and enterprise of a young man to making his store a centre for general trade for the surrounding country. The next year he erected a new store south of the railroad track on the road to Wells River, a part of which is still standing, known for many years as the Weeks Block, and now as the Stahl Block. He secured the establishment of a post office, and began the finding of markets for the produce of the farmers, not only of the northern part of Haverhill but of the adjacent towns. During the War of the Rebellion he became the purchasing agent of several large mills to secure the wool clip in a large territory in both New Hampshire and Vermont, and later became interested in potato starch and other manufactures, and was instrumental in giving Woodsville growing repu- tation as a centre for country trade. Until he met with business reverses by accommodation on the paper of others, which resulted in his removal to Lowell, Mass., where he resided until his death in 1897, he was the leading spirit in business enterprises, and the business growth of the
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village as something apart from being an annex of Wells River may be said to have begun with him. He erected for himself in 1870, on a lot adjoining his store, the commodious and well appointed dwelling, now the residence of Ezra B. Mann.
The Woods sawmill, with the gristmill which had been added later, passed in 1864 into the hands of Charles B. Smith, a native of Belgrade, Me., who had been engaged in the manufacture of shovel handles in Maine and at Union Village, Vt., for a period of some twenty-five years. Mr. Smith immediately added to the machinery that for the manufacture of axe and shovel handles, and made the industry an important one until mill and dam were carried away by a freshet in 1878. He was preparing to rebuild when he died quite suddenly in the summer of 1880 before his preparations were completed. Mr. Smith had marked business ability, became quite an extensive owner of real estate, and was a public spirited citizen who believed in the future of the village. He encouraged building by selling building lots at a low price, and gave the lot for the erection of the first church in the village, St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal, valued at a thousand dollars, though he was not himself a communicant.
Ira Whitcher, who had been for more than thirty years engaged in the lumber business in Benton, removed to Woodsville in the spring of 1870 in order to avail himself of the railroad facilities which that location offered for his business, and was from that time, perhaps, more than any other single individual identified with the growth and development of the village until his death in December, 1897, at the age of 82. In 1872 he formed a copartnership with Lewis C. Pattee of Lebanon and erected the steam sawmill plant which, under the name of the Woodsville Lumber Company, did an extensive and lucrative business. He had the sole man- agement of this, besides his other lumbering interests in Benton, Easton and Warren, until 1891, when he sold his half interest to Mr. Pattee, and under the name of the Woodsville Lumber Works it was conducted by Fred L. Pattee until the plant was destroyed by fire about 1902. Mr. Whitcher built a large number of dwelling houses which he rented or sold on liberal terms, and at his death was the owner of thirteen of these besides his own large and substantial residence on Court Street which he erected in 1870, and which is now occupied by his son, and he also aided several others in erecting homes for themselves by making them loans on favorable terms. He was largely instrumental, as has been elsewhere stated, in securing the location of the county court house and offices in Woodsville, donating the lot on which it was erected, and as one of the special commission appointed to build it, supervised the work. He was one of the corporators of the Woodsville Aqueduct Company and its first president, of the Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank, and the largest sub- scriber to the stock of the Woodsville National Bank. Indeed there was
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no movement calculated to advance the welfare and prosperity of the village which did not find in him a liberal and hearty supporter. His early educational opportunities, so far as schools were concerned, were the most meagre, but he keenly appreciated the value of education and of books, and gave to the village its handsome brick and stone library building for free public library use, at a cost of some seven thousand dol- lars, and placed on its shelves a thousand dollars' worth of well selected books as a nucleus of a library. He was a liberal supporter of the church of his choice, the Methodist Episcopal, giving a fund of some two thousand dollars, the income to be used for pastoral support, and also a fine pipe organ at a cost of twelve hundred dollars.
Ezra B. Mann, a nephew of Mr. Whitcher, born in Benton in 1843, entered the employ of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad in 1863, and since 1864 has made Woodsville his home. He early became identi- fied with its interests, and in 1872 left the employ of the railroad and entered into partnership with George S. Cummings in the drug business under the firm name of E. B. Mann & Co., of which firm, with a greatly enlarged business embracing a periodical department, paints, oils, soil pipes, powder and other explosives, he is still the senior partner. He has by no means confined his attention to this business, but has been engaged in real estate transactions, has been president of the Guaranty Savings Bank, for which he was instrumental in securing a charter, is president of the Woodsville Aqueduct Company, of the Opera Block Association, owning one-third of the stock, and is interested in and a supporter of every enterprise which promises to add to the prosperity of Woodsville. If Mr. Mann has any one characteristic dominating others, it is his unbounded faith in the future of Woodsville, of which he has been and is no small part. There were others who might be named as among the early promoters of the growth of the village, but after John L. Woods, the four names that stand out prominent are those of Charles M. Weeks, Charles B. Smith, Ira Whitcher and Ezra B. Mann.
When in 1868-72, the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad began to extend its trackage by the acquisition of the White Mountains road, it was recognized by those who studied the situation that Woodsville was destined to become the natural centre of a somewhat extensive rail- road system. It had the room for tracks, yards and necessary buildings which Wells River lacked. In 1873 the White Mountains road, which had previously been extended to Lancaster, became, by purchase the property of the Boston, Concord & Montreal, and was extended to Groveton, making connection there with the Grand Trunk. From Wing Road, a road was built to Twin Mountain, Fabyans, and the base of Mt. Wash- ington. The construction of the Franconia Notch, the Bethlehem, the Whitefield and Jefferson, the Berlin, the Pemmigewasset Valley, the Til-
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ton and Belmont and the Lake Shore branches followed, and Boston, Concord & Montreal became quite an extensive system in itself, made more extensive in the era of leases and consolidations which followed. The road and its branches, as has been noted elsewhere, was leased to the Boston & Lowell, which in turn was leased to the Boston & Maine. This lease declared invalid, the B. C. & M. was consolidated with the Concord under the name of Concord & Montreal, and later the consolidated road was leased to the Boston & Maine, of which road the old B. C. & M. system became the White Mountains Division. Woods- ville, which had been growing in importance as a railroad centre and ship- ping point, became naturally and almost inevitably the headquarters for the offices and departments of this division, with new and commodious buildings, engine houses and large modern planned freight yard.
In 1868 only two locomotives remained in the little roundhouse at Woodsville over night. Only one freight and two passenger trains passed through Woodsville daily, and the passenger trains passed through with just a bare stop. The work of the road north of Woodsville was per- formed with one twenty ton locomotive. At the present time 70 locomo . tives are required for the regular train work, the smallest weighing 33 tons the freight locomotives 105 tons, and those of the Pacific type 116 tons. There are upwards of ninety locomotive engineers employed and eighty firemen. The division has 240 miles of track exclusive of spurs and sidings. In the passenger service there are twenty regular conductors, and thirty-five or forty trainmen. There are forty freight conductors and sixty freight brakeman. The roundhouse calls for the employment of thirty men and the freight yards and freight stations for from thirty to forty more. In 1868 the wood burning locomotives at the roundhouse were kept supplied with fuel prepared by two men, while the locomotives take at present no less than 125 tons of coal from the Woodsville coal sheds each day for locomotive use. The superintendent of the division has his assistants and clerks who with the chief train dispatcher and his assistants make no inconsiderable force employed at the passenger station. During the summer season twenty-eight regular freight trains and upwards of thirty regular passenger trains run in and out from the Woodsville station and yards. In short Woodsville has become a bustling railroad centre, the most important in the state perhaps except Concord. The railroad division offices, have for nearly a quarter of a century been under the personal supervision of Superintendent George Edgar Cum- mings whose home from early boyhood has been in Woodsville, and whose residence which he built on Central Street is one of the pleasantest and best appointed in the village. Superintendent Cummings, now in the early sixties has enjoyed the best of training as a practical railroad man, training which has come to him in nearly fifty years of railroad experience.
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As kindergartener he began as a small boy cleaning engines, and then took the graded course up through the positions of fireman, brakeman, baggage master, freight conductor, passenger conductor, wood agent, manager of railroad logging, transfer agent at Concord, train master at Woodsville, assistant superintendent, and since 1892 superintendent of the Concord and Montreal Railroad north of Woodsville, now the White Mountains division of the Boston and Maine. His entire railroad life of nearly half a century-and Mr. Cummings is by no means an old man-has been spent on the same road under various managements preceding his own, thus giving him the advantage of a thorough knowl- edge not only of the road but also a personal acquaintance with its employees and business patrons.
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