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Time completes the full circle of a century to-day, since these " no- blest Romans of them all " embalmed their fame by a bold stroke of the eagle's quill. The inimitable signature of Hancock, among the "im- mortal fifty-six," never looked more defiant than it does to-day ; and to- day, also, the stalwart form of Samuel Adams, embalmed by the artist's chisel in imperishable marble, takes a conspicuous place in the Nation- al Museum, there to remain through future centuries of the American Republic.
12th toast. Statesmen-They have reared a grand superstructure, having for its foundation liberty and equal rights.
Responded to by Samuel H. Edes, Esq.
13th toast. The Past Century-Its beginning witnessed a nation's birth ; its end sees its glory.
Responded to by Edmund Wheeler, Esq. :
It is with the profoundest satisfaction that we on this Centennial Day turn our thoughts backward over the past hundred years, and recall the wonderful progress our country has made during that brief period.
Look, first, at our Territory. Then we had thirteen colonies, lying mainly along the Atlantic slope, comprising in all only some 300,000 square miles. Now our territory reaches from the Gulf of Mexico almost to the north pole, and from east to west it spans the entire conti- nent. It now embraces nearly four million square miles, and has more than fifty states and territories. Among all the nations of the earth, two only lead us in amount of territory.
Next, contemplate our Population. Then we had a little more than three millions : now we have more than forty-four millions, and in population rank among the leading nations of the world.
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In Agriculture, compare the rude efforts and still ruder imple- ments of 1776, and the modest results of their labor, with the science of modern farming, with its planters, its reapers, its mowers, its thresh- ers, etc., by means of which it produces more than a thousand million busheis of corn annually, and other grains and stock in proportion.
Take Commerce. Our trade, then small, was carried on mainly in a few British ships. Now our vessels whiten every sea, and reach every harbor on the habitable globe.
Turn for a moment to Manufactures. A hundred years ago our man- ufactures were few, of the rudest kind, and mainly by hand. Since then, mammoth factories, filled with all kinds of the most improved ma- chinery which the prolific genius of man can invent, working in brass, in iron, in wood, in cotton, and in wool, have sprung up all over the land. and are flooding the world with the products of their labor.
Mark the change in our Military condition. Contrast for a moment the humble band, with flint-lock guns, poor in everything save pluck and patriotism, which achieved our independence, with the million sol- diers of our late war, with their breech-loading rifles and iron-clad mon- itors.
Look at the Telegraph. Then electricity was a fierce monster, roam- ing wild whithersoever it pleased among the clouds, and sending its fearful bolts upon whatsoever and whomsoever it would. To-day modern science has harnessed that monster, and with it has almost annihilated time and space.
Look at Travel and Transportation. Railroads were then undreamed of. Our grandmothers rode on pillions behind our grandfathers, or on ox-sleds, or in ox-carts, for such were almost the only means of travel in those days, and they went over illy wrought, tedious roads. Trans- portation of goods was then by the slow progress of teams. To-day, seated in palace-cars, we are whirled with lightning speed all over the civilized world ; and the long trains of heavy merchandise, rushing in all directions night and day, are in proud contrast with the transporta- tion of other days.
Steam, in its wonderful resources, then comparatively unknown, is to- day the great propelling power of the earth. Besides countless railroad trains and an untold amount of machinery, it is driving unnumbered boats and ships over all the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the world.
Once more, the Printing-Press. Then there were scarcely thirty in the whole country, and those so clumsy as to be able to turn off but a few hundred copies a day at best. Now our mammoth presses will print and fold a morning edition of a hundred thousand copies before breakfast.
These are but specimens of the vast strides our country has made in all directions during the last hundred years. Such has been the Past Century, to which we bid adieu to-day. Now, in conclusion, let us ask. May we not hope that the sun of American Liberty, which has dawned so auspiciously upon our country, scattering sunshine, progress, and blessing all around us, will ride onward and upward to its glorious me- ridian, and illumine the whole broad earth, and, if it descend at all, go placidly down in the west only when time shall cease?
14th toast. The Coming Century-Its dawn gilded by the bow of promisc.
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Responded to by Rev. Charles Peabody, of Chicago, Ill., a native of Newport :
I have just come on to this, my native town, from the deep bosom of the great West, to get a little rest among these old hills, and find my- self to-day suddenly snapped up to reply to the toast, "The Coming Century." I am no prophet or son of a prophet. You require me to lift the dark curtain of the future, and tell what lies beyond. I am to rehearse what the next hundred years will bring forth. At first, I thought it was a hard and impossible task ; but, looking at it again, it seems not so difficult after all. We will lay down our measuring-rod over the Past Century, marking along upon it the progress that has been made, the changes that have taken place, the improvements in agriculture, in man- ufactures, in art, in learning, in invention, in science, and in morals, and then. reversing our measuring-rod, we will thrust it into the dark future. It will reach down through the coming years to the year 1976. It is fair to conclude that the same progress will be made during the Coming Century as has been made during the past. Human nature is the same; man's restless activity is the same. His passions never die out in the wear of centuries. Calculate, then, if possible, the amount of progress in the last hundred years, and estimate by this the progress of the Com- ing Century. Along our measuring-rod you will find marked, in the sep- arate decades, with tolerable exactness, the events which will transpire. Here and there will be bloody wars. In another place will come out a great invention, which will far exceed the power of steam. and throw Watt and Fulton far into the shade. Before one fourth of these com- ing hundred years have passed, men will begin to navigate the air, and then our railroad stock will be worthless. There will be a ticket-office in Richards block, where tickets will be sold, by balloon, for San Fran- cisco. Then this invention of Prof. Morse-the electric telegraph- will be improved and extended, and instead of a few wires running along railroad tracks between city and city, the whole country,- towns, villages, and farms,-will be crossed and recrossed with wires, like a spider's web in a dewy morning. Men and women, boys and girls, will freely talk with each other by the Morse alphabet, ten, fifty, and a hundred miles away. Young men and maidens will do their courting by telegraph. There is a man in Chicago, where I live, - and he has never been to college, - who has discovered a method by which musical sounds are sent over the wires instead of the click which you hear from the instrument. If musical sounds can thus be transmitted, why not the tones of the human voice? I have no doubt that within the lifetime of some of these young persons before me, men will be able to talk to each other over the wires fifty or a hundred miles off, as freely as face to face. These improvements will go on, and, before half the century has passed, the people of Newport will be able to sit in their quiet parlors of a Sunday morning, and listen to their favorite preacher in Boston or New York. Not only over the land, but beneath the ocean waves, along the cables on the bottom of the sea, will travel the tones of the human voice. If you and I, Mr. President, could live long enough, we should be able, within this Com- ing Century, to sit in our own homes and listen to the stormy debates of the French assembly at Versailles, or hear from her own lips the Queen's speech to Parliament.
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15th toast. The Men of the Present Time-Of those to whom much is given, much is required.
Responded to by Rev. O. H. Jasper, D. D. :
Mr. President : I am to speak of the gifts of the past to the com- ing century, the first to the second ; and I have just five minutes to perform this pleasant duty in. I think all must be impressed by the greatness of the undertaking. One might as well attempt to compress the ocean into a nutshell, or all time into a day. With this more than Herculean task, I shall not be required to even name any of the purely negative gifts-such as our immense indebtedness in nation, state, county, municipalities, and private accounts; nor to dwell on our man- ufacturing enterprises, diffused as they are through the entire range of the industrial arts ; nor to refer to our shipping interests ; nor to even think of our war material and preparations for defence; nor of the experienced commanders in war, all covered with glory and waiting for more worlds to conquer. Nor shall I be expected to dwell on that gigantic social force, commonly known among us as the " rum power." Whatever it may have been at the beginning of the first century, we pass it along to the second as a fifteen-hundred-million-dollar power of positive evil, whose only harvest is 60,000 deaths per annum, and a liberal furnishing of occupants to our prisons, almshouses, asylums, and victims for the gallows,-making 500,000 drunkards, raising to beggary, ignorance, and crime 100,000 children, and sending to prison 100,000 persons every year! And we must pass to our children the task of estimating the accompaniment of sorrows to this fearful be- quest. Nor can I even glance at the array of historic names which pass along as the great lights of the coming century. Our lists are full in all the departments-of statesmanship, literature, law, medicine, and divinity ; and we can only say to the coming generations, Look, and learn. But to the solid and the generally accepted and recognized gifts I may briefly refer. And first of all, our experience is worth some- thing, and not alone to our successors, but to the whole human race. Ours has been an apprenticeship in self-government, which ought not to be lost by our sons. They may grow wiser than their fathers were, but they will find it safe to hold fast to the first principles of the re- public. Population is one of the elements of strength. And of this item we pass to the second century 40,000,000 of people, in the place of 3,000,000 at the beginning. In a territorial view we have ex- panded from 300,000 square miles to 3.000,000 square miles, and no doubt there is more to follow. And on this territory we have laid off, in useful lines, 150,000 miles of railroads, at a cost of $12,000.000,000. Over the same territory we have stretched 200,000 miles of telegraph. How many steamships float on our rivers, lakes, and oceans, I have not inquired. But those last three items are new. Our fathers had none of these to start their century with. And these are invaluable gifts, and a commensurate return will be expected. And these are not all :- sewing machines, knitting machines, &c., swell the list, till it seems full, and leaves nothing more to do. And these are material. But the religious bequests are still more important, and not less rich. We fur- nish to our population of 40,000,000, 22,000,000 of church sittings, which is all that are called for at present. There are 7,500,000 church communicants ; there are 55,000 ministers in the country ; and church
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property amounting to $355,000,000. We spend in the cause of be- nevolence the sum of $7,000,000; we pay to the support of the Christian ministry a little less than $50,000,000 ; and for other current church expenses perhaps an equal sum,-while we spend $700,000,000 annually for intoxicating liquors.
In summing up, it is a pleasure to be able to say, that as a nation we occupy a position among the nations of the earth second to none and before many. And this position, so proudly ours to-day, has been reached by the wisdom and toil of the men of the first century. They began small and poor, but they have made their mark. This position with all its prestige, we pass along to our sons and successors. And with this view, hurried and imperfect as it is, of the gifts of the first to the second century of our history, we shall not be regarded un- reasonable if we expect a rich return. We, who stand between the two, with farewells to the first and salutes to the second, with the pride of the fathers and the hope of the sons swelling our hearts, may be excused if we expect great things. If the one talent of our fathers has produced five, surely the five we pass to the sons should not yield less than ten.
After music by the band, and a vote to adjourn to the Fourth of July, 1976, the meeting closed with three cheers for the Past Century and three for the new.
Thirteen guns were fired at sunrise, one hundred at noon, and at sun- set one for each of the states and territories, accompanied by the ring- ing of all the bells.
In the evening there was a splendid display of fireworks on the com- mon, and the town hall, public houses, and several private residences were brilliantly illuminated.
GENEALOGY.
GENEALOGY.
Abbreviations : b., born ; m., married ; unm., unmarried ; d., died ; s., son ; dau., daughter ; ch., child, children; r., resides, resided. residence.
ABBOTT.
EPIIRAIM E. P. ABBOTT Was b. in Concord, N. H., Sept. 20, IS41. When he was five years of age, his father, Theodore T. Abbott, removed to Manchester, N. H. In that city he passed through the various grades of the public schools, grad- uating from the high school in IS59. In the autumn of the same year he entered Dartmouth college. He graduated from college in 1863 ; taught the academy in McIndoe's Falls, Vt., one year ; studied two years in the Theological Seminary in New York city ; graduated from Andover Theological Sem- inary in 1867. Soon after his graduation, Mr. Abbott was called to the Congregational church in Meriden. N. H. He was ordained May 6, IS6S ; was m. June 30, IS6S. to Caroline Harvey, dau. of Alexander Harvey, of Barnet, Vt. In IS72 Mr. Abbott resigned his charge in Meriden, and spent one year in Germany. Upon his return, he accepted a call to settle over the Congregational church in Newport. He began his work Jan. 1, IS74; was formally installed March 24, 1875.
ADAMS.
JEREMIAH ADAMS, b. Sept. S. 1797, at Alstead. N. H. ; came to Newport in 1817, and settled at Northville. He was absent from town a few years, at Concord, Vt. ; now lives at Milford,
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Mass. ; m., in 1819, Lucy Wakefield, b. Aug. 17, 1795, d. Feb. 4, 1867 ; m., 2d, Sept. 15, 1847, Lavina Walker, of Worcester, Mass.
Ruth IV., b. Feb. 26, 1820; m., 1840, Philander J. Ladd, of Unity; d. at Wisconsin, Nov. 2, 1875.
Olive M., b. Dec. 27, 1821.
Hiram B., b. Nov. 25, 1823 ; a shoe manufacturer and dealer at Worces- ter, Mass. ; m., Jan. 1, 1846, Jane D. Ames.
Harrison S., b. Apr. 24, 1826; m., 1847, Betsey Ladd, of Unity. He was a soldier during the Rebellion-was in the 6th Vt. Regt. ; he reenlisted. and served during the war ; r. at Marshall, Wis.
Charles H., b. Mar. 26, 1830; m., 1854, Sarah Johnson, of Norwich, Vt. ; r. in Pompanoosuc, Vt.
George S., b. June 16, 1833 ; was a soldier in the 25th Mass. Regt. dur- ing the Rebellion, and was at the battles of Newbern and Roanoke; m. Hannah B. Ames, of Worcester, Mass., where they now reside. John Q., b. Apr. 19, 1836. Upon the firing upon Fort Sumter, he left Milford, Mass., his home, and joined the 40th New York Regt. at N. Y. city. He was appointed sergeant, and served until his death, which occurred at Alexandria, Va., Nov. 22, 1861. His funeral, at Milford, was attended by a large concourse of people ; and his re- mains were borne to their final resting-place, under the stars and stripes.
PAUL S. ADAMS, b. May 5, 1812 ; came to this town, in 1851, from Georgetown, Mass., and was settled as pastor over the Baptist church. He has been a moderator and a superintend- ing school committee, and in 1860 and 1861 was a county school commissioner of Sullivan county ; m. Susan Linscott, of Bruns- wick, Me., b. June 20, 1821.
Edgar E., b. Feb., 1843. [See Rebellion.]
Selma F., b. Aug. 14, 1844 ; m. Matthew Adams, Portland, Me. Dora L., b. Jan. 26, 1846; m. George Godfrey, Gardiner, Me. Helen S., b. May 21, 1847 ; m. Arthur W. Clark.
Osman, b. Apr., 1853,-a clerk at Portland, Me.
Bell, b. Jan. 10, 1856. Bertina, b. Feb. 12, 1859.
AIKEN.
ANDREW AIKEN, a native of Bedford, b. Dec. 26, 1770 ; came to this town in 1813; spent most of his life at the F. Aiken place on Pine street ; m. Martha McAllister, b. Dec. 25, 1774, a sister of William.
Frederick, b. Dec. 28, 1798.
William, b. Dec. 10, 1800; a mason in Boston; m. Elizabeth Locke ; m., 2d, Margaret Nichols.
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Sarah, b. July 28, 1803 ; m. Jeremiah Newell.
Ann R., b. Sept. 5, 1805 ; m. Naylor Starbird.
Martha 31., b. Nov. 29, 1807 ; m., 1831, Sawyer Belknap.
Margaret 21., b. Sept. 12, 1813; m. Jonathan W. Clement ; m., 2d, Leonard Kimball; m., 3d, Frederick Bissell, of Louisiana ; ch., Jay W., b. Jan. 31, 1839; Frederick W. B., b. April 2, 1854. She r. in Boston.
Caroline, b. Jan. 13. 1816.
James B., b. June 23, 1818; a merchant in Boston ; m. Jane Perkins, of Boston.
FREDERICK AIKEN, son of Andrew Aiken, was for several years engaged in the mercantile business, in the store of James Breck. He ultimately took the old homestead on Pine street, where he was a prosperous farmer, and where he remained until his death, Dec. 1, 1875. M., Jan. 31, 1856, Almira Carr, dau. of David Carr.
Addie F., b. Nov. 15, 1857 ; d. Nov. 30, 1875. Frederick II., b. Feb. 17, 1862.
ALEXANDER.
GEORGE E. ALEXANDER, son of Elkanah M. Alexander, b. Dec. 27, IS4S, at Lempster ; came to this town in 1875. He has most of his life been engaged in the manufacture of rakes, and is a fine workman. M., July 3, 1875, Arabella Merrill, of Sunapee.
ALLEN.
DAVID ALLEN, son of Gideon and Patience Allen, was born May 13, 1877, at Killingworth, Conn. He lived on the J. Page place, on the Goshen road, where he had a large farm, kept a hotel, and was a popular landlord there as long as the old Croydon turnpike was the great thoroughfare for business. He was a selectman eight years, a representative in IS23 and 1S26, and high sheriff five years. He d. Dec. 27, 1840. He m. Han- nah Wilcox, dau. of Uriah Wilcox, who d. Oct. 13, 1850, aged 69 years.
Ebenezer, b. April 8, 1804; graduated at Dart. Coll. in 1826: studied law a part of the time in the office of Amasa Edes, of this town. and, after being admitted to the bar, went to Orono, Me .. where he was for several years engaged in the practice of his profession. He then went to Texas, where he became secretary of state under Gen. Sam Houston, and where he continued his profession. He m. Sylvia Morse, of Skowhegan, Me.
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David, Fr., b. Dec. 1, 1805. See Lawyers.
Uriah IV'., b. Oct. 9, 1807; went to Stonington, Conn., where he spent his life at farming ; was twice m., and left one s .. Albert.
Alvira, b. Nov. 18, 1809; m. Philo Fuller, a manufacturer. Ch., Eu- gene, Nelson, Allen, Ellen, Edith.
Nahum IV., b. Nov. 6, 1812 ; went West as a teacher, where he became a clergyman, and where he d. Ch., Harriet.
Hannah Cordelia, b. Dec. 1, 1814; m. Gilbert Beach, a merchant at Perrysburgh, O. Ch., Anna, Mary. Edmund, Eugene.
Roxana, b. Feb. 19, 1817 ; m. J. Manning Hall, a merchant at Perrys- burgh, O. Ch., Harriet A., Frank N.
Samuel F., b. Jan. 4, 1819.
Harriet, b. April 26, 1821 ; m. Dr. Thomas Sanborn. See Physicians. Albert G., b. Nov. 12, 1823; a merchant ; d. at Perrysburgh, O., aged 22.
William, b. Oct. 20, 1825 ; a farmer ; d. July 1, 1858.
SAMUEL J. ALLEN, S. of David Allen, b. Jan. 4, 1819, was educated at Newport and Unity academies, studied medicine in the office of Dr. J. L. Swett, graduated at the Castleton Medical College, in 1842, and received an honorary degree at Dart. Coll. in 1870. He commenced practice at Hartford, Conn., but spent most of his life at Hartford, Vt. He was a surgeon in the army during the Rebellion. He m .. June 4. 1844, Mary J. Lyman, dau. of Lewis Lyman, of White River Junction, Vt.
Samuel }., b. April 30, 1845, at Woodstock, Vt. ; a graduate at Dart. Coll. ; a physician ; is a surgeon in the army.
Frederick L., b. July 7, 1848, at Hartford, Vt ; a graduate at Dart. Coll., in 1874, where he was awarded the highest prize. He is a student at Andover Theological Seminary.
Harry B., b. Sept. 30, 1857, at Hartford, Vt. ; a student at Norwich University.
SAMUEL ALLEN, a brother of David, lived on the farm ad- joining that of his brother at the north ; m. a lady in Mass.
Mary, m. Augustus Miller, of Brandon, Vt.
Marilla, m. Asa Richardson.
Almira, m. Bela Buel.
MARK W. ALLEN came from Hopkinton ; lived on the East mountain ; m. Betsey Webber.
Richard IV., b. Feb. 8, 1806; d. Nov. 21, 1825.
Seth Fewett, b. Sept. 27, 1809.
Elizabeth D., b. March 20, 1812; m. Joseph T. Chase.
Mark Washington, b. July 13, 1814; m: Parthenia E. Hurd. Ch., Webber, Caradora.
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SETH JEWETT ALLEN, son of Mark W. Allen ; b. Sept. 27, ISO9 ; came to this town and settled on East mountain ; was a prominent singer ; d. April 16, 1870. M., April 20, IS32, Bet- sey C. Chase, a sister of Joseph T.
Benjamin Rush, b. May 29, 1833.
Julia Augusta, b. Dec. 10, 1834; m., Sept. 23, 1855, Richard A. Web- ber.
Susan Arabella, b. March 24, 1839.
Dexter I"., b. Dec. 13, 1841 ; r. at Atlanta, Ga. ; m. Lizzie Osgood.
BENJAMIN RUSH ALLEN, son of Seth J. Allen, is a joiner by trade. He ha for years been our leading tenor singer. He has extraordinary skill in training voices, and has long been a leader of the South choir. He has been a teacher of music in this and other states. Married Mary Gilmore, dau. of Benj. M. Gilmore.
Fred Fewett, b. Oct. 21, 1857. Dora, b. Oct. 2, 1859. William B., b. April 1, 1861 ; d. May 28, 1869. Addie F., b. Oct. 10, 1867. Mary B., b. Aug. 22, 1870.
Minnie M., b. March 6, 1875.
SAMUEL W. ALLEN, b. Nov. 7, 1834, at Wells, Me., came here in August, 1855, and worked in the Sibley scythe factory until 1871, when he erected his saw-mill at Northville. M., Nov. 2, 1857, Amelia R. Sibley, dau. of Ezra T. Sibley.
Fred A., b. March 29, 1858. Carrie B., b. Sept. 6, 1859.
Cora D., b. Sept. 29, 1861 ; d. young.
George A., b. July 28, 1863. Hattie S., b. May 3, 1866.
Mary G., b. May 12, 1871. Eva Gertrude, b. June 12, 1873. John E., b. Feb. 26, 1876; d. young.
ANGELL.
ERASTUS ANGELL, a farmer, b. June 12, 1814, at Sunapee ; came to this town in IS40, and settled on the C. McGregor farm, now owned by Dr. T. Sanborn ; m. Fanny George, of Sunapee ; m., 2d, May, IS58, Rosiltha Sargent, of Sunapee, b. Jan., IS2S.
Hiram S., b. Aug. 14, 1851.
Jennie M., b. Feb. 5, 1850 ; m., Oct., 1876, Leon Caroon, of Canada ; ch., Kittie B., b. Oct. 5, 1878.
Abbie E., b. Nov. 19, 1854; m., Aug. 8, 1873, Ora C. Straw. of Clare- mont.
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HIRAM S. ANGELL, son of Erastus, a livery man, b. Aug. 14, IS51 ; m., Oct. 2, 1876, Sarah E. Russell, of Watertown, Ms., b. Sept. 21, 1857, at Battle Creek, Mich. ; ch., Lillian Maud, b. Oct. 22, 1877.
ANGIER.
REUBEN ANGIER, a brother of Needham L. Angier, of Georgia, b. Sept. 10, 1809 ; came here from Acworth in 1863, and settled on Claremont hill ; m. Mrs. Hannah M. Paul, dau. of Stephen Call.
Olive E., b. June 29, 1860. Needham E., b. Aug. 21, 1862. R. Willey, b. Jan. 13, 1865.
AVERILL.
CHESTER AVERILL, b. Nov. IS, IS12, at Windsor, N. H .; d. Sept. 22, 1876; came from Hillsborough to this town in IS37. He was for many years stage proprietor, and the prince of drivers ; afterwards merchant. He was genial and gener- ous. Married Robertha Ray, of Unity, b. Dec. 27, 1817. [See Travel.]
Ellen R., b. June 8, 1841 ; m., Aug. 14, 1860, Dean S. Clement, b. July 26, 1838. Isabell, b. Nov. 2, 1842 ; m., Sept. 13, 1871, Henry Noyes, of Lebanon. Henry C., b. Mar. 5, 1848 ; m., Sept., 1876, Nellie Pettis, of Frances- town.
Florence Adell, b. July 30, 1858 ; m., Sept. 20, 1874, Ira Stowell.
HIMAN A. AVERILL, b. May 19, 1829, at Windsor, N. H. ; a brother of Chester ; came to this town in 1850 ; was stage pro- prietor and driver, operating between Newport and Bradford, in connection with his brother. His brother having retired, he owned and controlled the staging, then a very important busi- ness, until it was discontinued. As a stage man, he was a shrewd manager, was attentive to the wants of his patrons, and had many friends. Since the opening of the railroad he has been engaged in farming and various speculations, and is a suc- cessful business man. He was a representative in 1866, 1867, and 1878. Married Angelina Taggart, who d. July 20, 1865, aged 38 years ; m., 2d, Martha J. Hunton, dau. of J. H. Hun- ton.
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