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COLLEGE GRADUATES.
JOSEPH CLARK, Dartmouth, 1785 (p. 450). MOSES L. NEAL, Harvard, 1785 (p. 450). THOMAS BANCROFT, Harvard, 1788 (p. 450). JOSEPH TILTON, Harvard, 1797 (p. 451).
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JACOB MAINE, Harvard, 1800 (p. 440).
FRANKLIN MODUFFEE, third son of Capt. John and Abigail (Torr) MeDuffee, was born at Rochester Feb. 21, 1809. His early years gave tokens of superior talents, and hopes of an eminent future. From the war stories of his great-uncle, Colonel McDuff'ee (p. 117), he early imbibed a spirit of military patriotism, and after studious preparation eagerly sought an appointment in the military academy at West Point. The first year he was the twenty-sixth in scholarship in a class of seventy, and forty-ninth in conduct in a list of two hundred and nine. The last year he stood eleventh in scholarship in a class of forty-nine, and thirty-second in conduct in a list of two hundred and eleven. He graduated in June, 1832, and was commissioned Lieutenant of Artillery. He was just about returning home after an absence of two years, when he volun- teered to join an expedition under General Scott to defend the Western frontier against the Indians. He reached Fort Chicago, where he died of cholera July 15, 1832. A friend wrote : - " I have never marked the development of such estimable qualities in one so young. His life, short as it was, was filled with noble actions, and his personal courage was above all suspicion. He combined in a high degree the excellences of the warrior with the amiable qualities of the most ardent lover of peace. Had he been per- mitted to live he would have been an ornament to his country, and have encircled his head with the laurels of fame."
DAVID BARKER, JR., Harvard, 1815 (p. 350). JONATHAN P. CUSHING, Dartmouth, 1817 (p. 347).
THOMAS C. UPHAM, Dartmouth, 1818 (p. 324).
NATHANIEL G. UPHAM, Dartmouth, 1820 (p. 328).
NOAH TEBBETS, Bowdoin, 1822 (p. 456).
WILLIAM G. WEBSTER, Dartmouth, 1822 (p. 452).
JOHN P. HALE, Bowdoin, 1827 (p. 381).
CHARLES W. WOODMAN, Dartmouth, 1829 (p. 333).
GEORGE W. DAME, Hampden Sidney, 1829 (p. 437).
THEODORE C. WOODMAN, Dartmouth, 1835 (p. 334).
JARVIS McDUFFEE was a poor boy who with some assistance managed to graduate at Yale College in 1836. He was appointed teacher of mathematics on United States frigate Brandywine, and, after a three years' cruise, returned and settled in Exeter.
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JOHN H. TWOMBLY, Wesleyan, 1843 (p. 437). THEODORE TEBBETS, Harvard, 1851 (p. 354). GEORGE L. HAYES, Bowdoin, 1851 (p. 454). ELIJAH M. HUSSEY, Dartmouth, 1852 (p. 454). FRANKLIN McDUFFEE, Dartmouth, 1853 (p. 373). KINGMAN F. PAGE, Bowdoin, 1853 (p. 454). JAMES B. FARRINGTON, Bowdoin, 1854 (p. 446). S. E. Roor, Hillsdale, about 1857 (p. 447). JOHN SIDNEY WARREN, Dartmouth, 1862 (p. 441).
HENRY KIMBALL, Bowdoin, 1863 (p. 455).
CHARLES EDWARD LANE, son of Winthrop, graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1866, a short time before his father removed from Brentwood to Rochester. He was a teacher in Rochester and elsewhere for several years; was for some time superintendent of public schools in St. Louis, Mo .; is now general manager in that city for D. Appleton & Co.
JOHN HENRY WARDWELL, Dartmouth, 1870 (pp. 175, 232).
GEORGE S. WENTWORTH, Wesleyan, 1871 (p. 438).
FRANK P. VIRGIN, Bowdoin, 1875 (p. 448).
HERBERT YOUNG, Bates, 1876 (p. 449).
ALBERT WALLACE, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Greenfield) Wal- lace, was born at Rochester June 6, 1854; graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1877; is in business with his father at Rochester; married Rosalie K. Burr, who died Sept. 23, 1888, leaving an infant son.
SUMNER WALLACE, brother of the preceding, was born at Roch- ester March 7, 1856; graduated with his brother, with whom he is in business; married Hattie L. Curtis of Farmington.
FRANK EUGENE WHITNEY, Dartmouth, 1878 (p. 448).
WALTER SIDNEY MEADER, son of Levi, graduated from Brown University in 1880; is principal and teacher of mathematics in Friends' School at Providence, R. I.
R. V. SWEET, Cornell, 1880 (p. 450).
SAMUEL D. FELKER, Dartmouth, 1882 (p. 457).
HENRY WILSON FELKER, brother of the preceding, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1883.
CHARLES SHERMAN FELKER, brother of the preceding, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884.
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JOHN F. SPRINGFIELD, son of George W., graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1884, and from the Thayer School of Civil Engi- neering in 1886; is a civil engineer at Portsmouth; married Mary Emily Kimball (p. 452).
WALTER STEPHEN SCRUTON, son of Stephen, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887; is principal of the high school at Hillsborough Bridge.
SYDNEY E. JUNKINS, son of Edwin, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1887; is principal of high school at Newport; married Harriette, daughter of Dr. William Page.
FOREST LINCOLN KEAY, son of Frank, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1888.
WILLIAM WHEELER LOUGEE, son of Dr. I. W. (p. 444), gradu- ated from Dartmouth College in 1888; is managing editor of the "Rochester Courier."
FRED ALLEN WALKER, son of James, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1888.
JOHN R. McDUFFEE, Chandler Scientific Department of Dart- mouth College, 1857 (p. 377).
GEORGE BYRON LANE, son of Winthrop, graduated from the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1867; was a teacher and superintendent of schools in St. Louis, Mo .; is now State superintendent of schools in Nebraska. While in college served nine months in the Thirteenth New Hampshire Regiment.
JOHN B. HODGDON, son of George W., graduated from the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1885; is civil engineer at Big Stone Gap, Va.
GEORGE ALBERT SANBORN, son of Nathan, graduated from the Agricultural College at Hanover in 1887.
Nelson Edwin Baker Morrill, son of Jedidiah, is in class of '89 at Dartmouth College.
Herbert Davis, son of Rev. J. B., is in class of '90 at Bates College.
Willis McDuffee (p. 374), is in class of '90 at Dartmouth College.
George Sherman Mills, son of Rev. George A., is in class of '90 at Dartmouth College.
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Edson J. Gould, son of William and Susan E. Gould, is in class of '91 at Harvard University ; studied several years at Tilton Seminary, and has already preached considerable in the M. E. churches.
John Abbott, son of J. J. and Mary (Hall) Abbott, is in class of '91 at Dartmouth College.
William Wright, son of Wylie, is in class of '91 at Dartmouth College.
F. L. Pugsley, son of Frank, is in class of '91 at Bates College.
Everett Pugsley, brother of preceding, is in class of '91 at Bow- doin College.
Wilbur L. Duntley, son of J. Leighton and Augusta (Kimball) Duntley, is in class of '92 at Dartmouth College.
Alex D. Salinger, son of Isidor and Ida (Feineman) Salinger, is in class of '92 at Dartmouth College.
Leon Elmonte Scruton, son of Stephen, is in class of '90 of the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College.
Ephraim H. White, son of Samuel, was born in Topsham, Vt., and came to Rochester about 1836. By alternating labor with study he fitted at Exeter, and entered Williams College in the Sophomore year of the class of 1848, and died there Nov. 20, 1846, aged twenty-six years.
Joseph H. Worcester was in class of '54, Brown (p. 454).
Hiram Moore Sanborn was in class of '59, Dartmouth (p. 455).
John Harrison Roberts, son of Love, was in class of '63 at Bow- doin (p. 228).
John Greenfield was one year at Dartmouth College in class of '72 (p. 420).
Herbert Clarence Swasey, son of Joseph P., entered Dartmouth College in class of '79 and remained one year; is in the jewelry business in Boston, Mass.
William Page Hastings, son of William N. and Mary (Page) Hastings, was about two years in the class of '87 at Dartmouth College; was a printer; died at Rochester July 22, 1888.
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Benn Abbott, son of J. J. and Mary (Hall) Abbott, was born March 5, 1867; entered Dartmouth College in class of '89; died at Rochester April 9, 1888. He was a young man of unusual promise whose death was much lamented.
Charles Henry Erans, son of Solomon, was two years in class of '74 of the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College; resides in California.
John Edgar McDuffee (p. 373) was two years in class of '83 of the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College.
John Frank Sleeper, son of Wesley, was two years in class of '88 of the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College; is on a ranch in Colorado.
CHAPTER XV.
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER.
" Freedom, hand in hand with Labor, Walketh strong and brave."
NEXT to religion and education, the most important part of the history of any people is their industry. Nor can there be any true religion without diligence in business; nor can children be properly educated without labor. Religion, education, and in- dustry form a trinity of light and power bringing character, happiness, and prosperity wherever they abide. The three must go together or they all perish. For without the other two, reli- gion becomes superstition, education is reduced to a cipher, and industry turns to drudgery. Together they bring to any people unceasing progress in all that exalts or blesses humanity. Having already presented the religious and educational history of Roch- ester we come to speak more particularly of its industries.
As "the king himself is served by the field," agriculture lies at the foundation of all industries. So, like other New Hamp- shire towns, Rochester was at first almost entirely a farming community. And though this industry has lost its relative im- portance, it has by no means become obsolete. The number of acres of improved land is not far from twenty thousand. Com- bining the United States census with the tax list, and taking the larger number in each case, the farm products for the year 1850 were as follows: - 328 horses, 2,098 neat cattle, 1,491 sheep, 586 hogs, 123 bushels of wheat, 303 of barley, 757 of rye, 3,086 of oats, 13,789 of Indian corn, 661 of beans and pease, 31,652 of potatoes, 4,335 tons of hay, 2,700 pounds of hops, 49,591 of butter, 21,860 of cheese, 4,359 of wool, and 385 of beeswax and honey. The State report for 1876 gives 421 bushels of wheat, 330 of barley, 55 of rye, 776 of oats, 7,959 of Indian corn, 533 of beans and pease, 44,371 of potatoes, 3,192 tons of hay, 13,581 pounds
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of butter, and 161,092 quarts of milk. In 1881 are reported 646 horses, 1,423 neat cattle, and 522 sheep. In 1888 there were 1,400 pounds of wool, and 171,550 quarts of milk. These figures evidently suggest the gradual decay of the farming interest. The bleak hill-sides and stony soil of New England cannot successfully compete with the fertile prairies of the West. The increasing number of horses and the diminishing quantity of butter, point to village growth demanding more teams and a larger supply of milk.
Other industries sprang up as the growing necessities of the people required. At first they supplied their own wants with many things now produced only by special trades. Thus farmers often did their own carpenter work, and had sets of cooper's or shoemaker's tools, and not unfrequently tan-yards of their own, be- sides making nearly all their own clothing. (Chap. VIII.) Almost every kind of industry has been here represented at some time, and it is now impossible to even approximate a complete record of the persons by whom, and the places where, the various business of Rochester has been carried on. Only a desultory sketch can be presented. It would be difficult to trace the history of any kind of business through all its changes from its beginning to the present time. With brief allusions to the past, and an outline sketch, or condensed summary of the present, the aim of this chapter will be to give some impression, though necessarily inadequate, of the gradual evolution of the business of Rochester.
A previous chapter has already presented a statement of the business soon after the Revolution. Some idea of the business twenty years later can be gathered from the tax-list of 1806. The whole amount of "Stock in Trade" for that year was: - Nathan- iel Upham, $1,500; Joseph Hanson, and Jonas C. March, $1,300 each; David Barker, and Jabez Dame, $500 each; Andrew Pierce, and Haines & Ela, $300 each; Edward S. Moulton, $200; and Joseph Sherburne, $50; making in all, $5,950. Six tanneries were taxed, the three highest of which were Moses Hale's at $650, Simon Torr's at $200, and Anthony Whitehouse's at $50. Norway Plains upper saw-mill was taxed for $2,400; and McDuffee & Dame's fulling mill, Haven & Smith's grist mill, and Downing & Tebbets's grist mill, $200 cach. Capt. John Odiorne was taxed as a saddler, and William Pigeon as a tobacconist.
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This amount of business seems very small and the figures insig- nificant in presence of the immense sums now invested in trade and manufactures. But they were not small in those days. Nor were these men less enterprising than the traders and manufac- turers of to-day. They were the shrewd, energetic, successful men of their time.
Coming down to 1820, we have a sketch of the west side of the street, written by Jeremiah Hall Woodman (p. 334), a short time before his death in 1888, from which we take the following items: On the corner of Main street and the Parade, was a store con- nected with the house, both two stories in height, belonging to William Hurd. Next on the north was the blacksmith's shop and dwelling of Samuel Demeritt, then the two-story house of Hatevil Knight. Not far from Mr. Knight's was the two-story tailor shop and house of John Roberts. A large vacant lot, on which the academy was afterwards built, was between this and the one-story house of Simon Ross, in close proximity to which was the residence of John Smith, the blacksmith. This was the home of Professor Upham during his pastorate here (p. 240). Next came the two-story brick cabinet-shop of Charles Dennett, with a yard between it and his house, which was also two stories in height and painted white, as were nearly all Rochester houses at that period. On the next lot was a one-story, unpainted house occupied by Paul Harford and his two daughters, Abigail and Charlotte (p. 129). Next stood the village schoolhouse, a long, low, one-story, unpainted building, with a small belfry, and bell of corresponding size, on the middle (p. 165). A vacant lot, soon after built upon by Joseph Warren, led to J. H. Wood- man's, now the Mansion House (p. 333). A broad passage-way was between this and the law office, which was a two-roomed, one-story building fronting the street. Next was a building of which the lower story was Mr. Buzzell's store, and the upper his dwelling. James C. Cole's brick store was next, in the lower part of which he manufactured clocks, repaired watches, and sold jewelry. Passing down the lane to the "old Reed Tavern," was the house of Mr. Cole, and farther down the lane on the other side the dwelling of John Richards, afterwards the home of Hon. J. H. Ela. Returning to Main street and passing the stores of Nathaniel Upham and . Jonas C. March, at the corner of the tavern
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yard stood the store of Messrs. Horne & Cross. The next building was a small storehouse of Moses Hale, from which one lane on the south led to his tanyard, and another by his barn to his house, between which and the street was his garden. Close to his house was the road leading down to the grist-mill and woolen factory of the Barkers, at the lower falls. At the middle falls was a small foundry owned by Horne & Cross; also a saw-mill. At the upper falls Caleb Dame had a fulling mill, and above the bridge was another saw-mill. Opposite the lane leading to the Wakefield road was a two-story, unpainted house owned, but not occupied, by Caleb Dame; also the blacksmith shop of James Tebbetts. The traders on the opposite side of the street were Hanson, Green- field, Chase, and Chapman, all near Central Square, and Tristram Heard with his son, Nat, at the lower end of the street. Jonathan
H. Torr went into trade the same year (p. 428). On this side also
was the "Barker Tavern," and the residence of the Barker family. The ancient one-story "Moses Hurd house," still standing at the lower end of the street, was the residence of "Lawyer Clark."
Passing over thirty years, or one generation, we come to the year 1850. The tax list gives $49,600 "Stock in Trade," and $26,070 for " Mills and Machinery." In general trade there still remained Hanson, Chase, Torr, and Greenfield who sold the same year to Benjamin Jones & Co. James C. Cole was still in the jewelry business. There had been added the stores of Watson Hayes, Nathaniel Davis, the company of Stephen M. & Eben J. Mathes, and the Barkers who sold the same year to John Folsom. In the shoe trade were Levi W. Allen, and Joseph Varney & Co .; Alfred D. Kelley and Meader & Glidden were in the tin business. Onion & Richards, also Edmund Frye and George W. Hall had tanneries near where Wallace's now is. Thomas C. Davis was taxed as a tailor, and Thomas Brown as a harness maker. There were two blacksmiths and two shoemakers. Day & Stevens had a small marble shop; James M. Fessenden manufactured files; and Isaac Libbey made hair-covered trunks, studded with brass nails, in a little shop towards Great Falls. Under the head of " Mills and Machinery," the Barkers were taxed for $2,600, Simon & Enoch W. Chase for $1,700, N. D. Wetmore for $3,000, and the Norway Plains Co. for $12,000, with $15,000 "Stock in Trade."
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At Gonic, W. H. Y. Burnham had a store, James H. Place was blacksmith, Bean, Canney & Co. had a small factory where they did custom carding, weaving, and fulling. N. V. Whitehouse & Co. were taxed for $5,000 on "Mills and Machinery," and $4,000 on "Stock in Trade."
The business at East Rochester was little besides the chair shop of Stephen Shorey and the store from which he supplied his workmen with dry goods and groceries.
From about this time may be reckoned the exit of the old " country store," where every conceivable commodity was ready to supply family or individual needs. Very early on the ground, it is now impossible to trace its rise and progress to the numerous successors in every variety of trade which now imperfectly supply its place. The first store is said to have been kept by Capt. Samuel Storer (p. 131) from Portsmouth, who also made potash where Hale's tan-yard was. Capt. Moses Roberts, son of the first settler (p. 43) and grandfather of Dr. M. R. Warren (p. 441), had one of the earliest stores, where the "Factory Store" now is. Stephen Wentworth had a store in a shed connected with the " Wolfe Tavern" on Haven hill. Joseph Hanson traded in his house which stood near where the Norway Plains Savings Bank now is. His first stock was tea, tobacco, a few small articles like pins and needles, and a barrel of rum, of which he sold enough to his first customer to buy another barrel. In 1810 he built the first brick store in the county (p. 394). Upham and March built their rival stores at the beginning of the century, and about this time Andrew Pierce had the largest assortment of dry goods in town, in a store on the site of John P. Trickey's present residence. The second brick store was built by Simon Chase in 1825, and afterwards occupied by his son, C. K. Chase (p. 429). The third brick store, now occupied by the "Rochester Loan and Banking Company," was built in 1835 by Watson Hayes, who came from Barnstead the year before and continued in business here for thirty-five years.
The present generation knows almost nothing of the " country store " in its pristine perfection. The institution has ceased to exist. Even the general store of the small country town to-day bears small resemblance to that of fifty and seventy-five years ago. To elderly persons the words "country store " suggest a low, narrow
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room, with cob-webbed windows, whose 6X8 panes are dark with many layers of dust, -floors blackened with years of the indus- trious painting of tobacco chewers lounging on boxes, barrels, tubs, broken chairs, and wooden benches notched and carved by the universal Yankee jack-knife, -imbibing inspiration and com- fort out of yellow tumblers supplied from black bottles and brown jugs,-the air sometimes thick with smoke, but generally thicker with profanity, stories of no doubtful propriety, angry political debates, spicy gossip, etc. These stores have really no legitimate successors. To speak of them as containing even the germ of the large and elegant establishments of the present, demands more credulity than Darwin's "Descent of Man." Look, for instance, at the dry goods store built by the Salingers in 1886, -a sales- room 155×45 feet, steam-heated, gas-lighted, furnished with all the modern contrivances for transmitting bundles and cash to all parts of the room, -with ladies' parlor, and offices elegantly fitted up with all desirable and luxurious conveniences, -a wholesale department with traveling salesman, -a mail-order department with special clerk,-and a cemented cellar under the whole, with a special vault for storing furs through the summer. "The mis- sing link" would certainly be hard to find.
Groceries in the old stores meant cod-fish, molasses, raisins, sugar, and New England rum. As habits of living changed, and the wants of the public increased, these supplies increased in quantity and variety till separate grocery stores were established, some now selling $50,000 or $60,000 worth of goods annually, - an extent of business that would have greatly startled even the wealthiest and most successful of the old-time merchants.
One enterprise is worthy of notice as illustrating the intensity of political feeling a generation since. In February, 1859, a stock company was formed with Major John Walker as president, who built the " Union Democratic Store," now occupied by Frank E. Wallace. The preamble to their articles of agreement began with these words: - " Whereas the Republican party has adopted a narrow and restrictive policy," etc. William Rand was their agent, and Charles W. Brown clerk for two years; then Brown was agent, and Nathaniel Burnham clerk. After two years more, Burnham and Brown bought the stock, and the company disbanded.
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The "New England Protective Union " Store, No. 186, was estab- lished about 1850, in the front end of "brick row," but moved in a short time to a building nearly opposite the end of Union street, where is now the junction of Market and Bridge streets. David Legro was agent, soon followed by Levi W. Allen. William C. Fernald, - who with his ever-pleasant smile, kind words, oblig- ing disposition, and strict integrity, won the title of "Neighbor Fernald,"-took charge in 1854, and retired upon the closing of the store May 26, 1876.
The " Sovereigns of Industry " opened a store in the fall of 1875 on Charles street opposite Liberty street. They moved to Rail- road Avenue, and thence to Odd Fellows' Block, and sold to J. G. Morrill & Co. January 1, 1885.
The " Grange " built and opened the store where Nowell & Me- serve now are in 1876. They employed George D. Nowell as agent, and carried on a large business for ten years.
The first meat market in Rochester was opened in 1849, in the basement of Dodge's old building, by Daniel McDuffee & Emu- lus Gowen. They sold out to J. S. Gilman, who has been prom- inent in the business ever since. The first restaurant was started by Newell J. Bickford, in the spring of 1849, where Wolf's store now is. In the following summer he also started the first bakery. He sold out the next year, and is now confectioner at Great Falls. The manufacture of candy was begun in 1877 by C. A. Davis in Wentworth Block.
In 1807 Edward S. Moulton began clock-making in a small wooden building, where is now the corner of Main and Arrow streets (p. 133). Afterwards Thomas Bryant, brother-in-law of Capt. Joseph Dame, followed the same business in a one-story house, which having been remodeled became the residence of the late Moses W. Willey, on Elm street. Still later, James Cross, son of Richard, carried on the same business in his father's house below the common. In 1812 James C. Cole, having served his ap- prenticeship with Mr. Moulton, established the same business, and added that of watch-maker and jeweler. In place of the wooden shop, he erected the brick building now occupied by Miss Warren, in the upper story of which the Free Masons practised their mysteries.
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He was an neergetic workman, thorough and conscientious. The silverware stamped with his name was in demand through all the surrounding country, as certain to be what he sold it for. He married Betsey, the daughter of John Nutter, and had two sons and three daughters. Shubael went into the same business at Great Falls; Elizabeth married C. P. Weeks, and died in 1852; Sarah Jane was an accomplished teacher, and died January 14, 1889; the other two died young. Mr. Cole was a very prominent member of the Methodist Church (p. 264), one of the first trustees of the Norway Plains Savings Bank, ten years secretary of the Masonic lodge, thirteen years town clerk, and two years in the Legislature.
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