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HISTORY OF WARNER.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1832.
B. E. Harriman, moderator. Thomas H. Bartlett, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Samuel Dinsmoor, 250
Ichabod Bartlett, 65
Representatives.
Benjamin E. Harriman, Daniel Jones.
Nathan S. Colby,
Timothy Davis, Selectmen.
Cummings Marshall,
The support of the poor was " struck off" to Eze- kiel Flanders, Jr., at $540.
Samuel Worthley was appointed collector.
The question of setting off the western ranges again came up, and Daniel George was appointed as agent of the town to oppose the movement.
Timothy Davis was a son of Robert, who came from Amesbury, and settled on what is known as the Ben Davis place. Mr. Davis settled in life near his fa- ther's residence, on Pumpkin Hill, where he remained till old age unfitted him for the cares of a large farm. For the last eight or ten years of his life he lived on the Plain, where Mr. Stanley now resides. His old homestead on Pumpkin Hill is owned and occupied by Mr. Tucker. Mr. Davis died about the year 1861, leaving two children,-Mrs. Gilman A. Bean, now of Woburn, Mass., and Henry H. Davis, of Warner.
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Cummings Marshall was born and reared on Bible Hill. His father, Richard Marshall, came from Hud- son, N. H., and settled on that hill, at the place which his son Nathan occupied a great many years. Cum- mings settled in District No. 10, where his son-in-law, Lemuel W. Collins, resides, and died there a few years ago.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1833.
B. E. Harriman, moderator. Mitchell Gilmore, Jr., town-clerk.
For Governor.
Samuel Dinsmoor, 242
No opposition recorded.
Representatives. Daniel Jones, Nathan S. Colby.
Timothy Davis, B. E. Harriman, Daniel Bean, Jr., Selectmen.
John Harriman was appointed collector.
On the question of purchasing a farm for the poor, 104 voted in the affirmative, and 62 in the negative.
The moderator appointed Benjamin Evans, Daniel George, and John Hardy as a committee to purchase a farm, and all necessary stock, tools, and furniture to run the same.
Voted that the Selectmen go in a body to appraise property and make their Inventory.
Voted to dispense with Superintending School Committee's visiting schools the present year.
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Voted that the Selectmen dispose of the Poor till the Commit- tee for that purpose furnish a Farm and House.
The committee set themselves about their work without delay, and bought a farm of Cephas Hough- ton, to which the poor were all conveyed in the month of April. Said farm is at the top of the hill, on the old Henniker road, between Stephen Foster's and the Stephen K. Hoyt place.
DANIEL BEAN, JR., who, at the election of 1833, was chosen to the office of selectman, was born in Warner, Dec. 4, 1804. Nathaniel Bean, his grandfather, was a prominent and influential man in town for many years. He came from Amesbury between 1770 and 1775, and settled on Pumpkin Hill, at the present Capt. Joseph Jewell place. He was a forehanded farmer. He built the first mills at Waterloo. He served as moderator, as selectman, as representative, and as a delegate to the convention that ratified the federal constitution.
The maternal grandfather of Daniel Bean, Jr., was Captain Asa Pattee, and Daniel and Sally (Pattee) Bean were his parents.
The subject of this sketch received his education mainly from the public schools of Warner, though he was a student for a term or two at Hopkinton acad- emy, where he gave attention to the higher English branches and to Latin. He taught school in Warner and the adjoining towns some six or eight winters,
Daniel Bear Ar
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commencing when but seventeen years of age. His second school was a large and turbulent one. Five or six of the scholars were over twenty-one years of age, and some of them were bent on mischief. Mr. Bean, though but eighteen, was resolute and determined. For some misdemeanor he called one of the young men to account. The student seized a billet of wood, and the master seized the fire-shovel, one well-aimed blow from which brought order out of chaos, and se- cured a suspension of hostilities for the rest of the term.
Mr. Bean had clear and settled convictions on all questions of public concern, and he was not easily swerved. He stood firmly by his own conceptions of right, whether men frowned or favored. He was a relentless foe to rum and tobacco. He sought only that popularity " which follows, not that which is run after ;" still, he received the suffrages of his fellow- townsmen, and served several years as selectman, and also as representative in the General Court.
He moved to Medford in April, 1840, and engaged in the baking business. He returned to Warner in the spring of 1843, and purchased and carried on the Eliezer Emerson farm. In the spring of 1851 he went a second time to Medford, but returned again to Warner in the autumn of 1852, where he died Feb. 7, 1853, aged 48.
Mr. Bean married, Feb. 3, 1828, Miss Martha C.,
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daughter of Jacob Davis, and had Lemuel Willis, born April 2, 1829 ; Henry, b. Jan. 8, 1832; Sarah Pattee, b. May 7, 1835. Henry died at the age of eight years. Lemuel W. married, at Concord, Mass., Miss Sarah Wheeler, and is there engaged in business.
Sarah P. Bean married George H. Witherle, a prominent merchant of Castine, Maine, where she has resided the last seventeen years.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
TOWN RECORDS-SECOND POOR-FARM-FARMERS' AND MECHAN-
ICS' LIBRARY-CRANBERRY AND HOOP-POLE PARTIES.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1834.
B. E. Harriman, moderator. M. Gilmore, Jr., town-clerk.
For Governor,
William Badger, 268
No opposition vote recorded.
Representatives.
Nathan S. Colby, Timothy Davis.
B. E. Harriman, Daniel Bean, Jr., Selectmen.
Asa Pattee,
John Harriman was appointed collector.
Chose a committee of five, consisting of the select- men, with Nathan S. Colby and Philip Colby, senior, added, to dispose of the poor-farm and buy another.
The first farm (on which the poor were kept but one year) proved unsatisfactory. This committee purchased the second farm of Moses Harriman, it being the one still owned by the town on Burnt Hill.
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HISTORY OF WARNER.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1835.
Nathan S. Colby, moderator. Mitchell Gilmore, Jr., town-clerk. For Governor.
William Badger, 297
Joseph Healey, 49
Representatives.
Timothy Davis, Philip Colby, Jr.
Asa Pattee, -
M. Gilmore, Jr., Selectmen.
Nathan Davis,
Elliot C. Badger was appointed collector.
Nathan Davis was a son of Gen. Aquila Davis. He served two years as selectman, and two as representa- tive. He lived at Davisville, and died there many years ago.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1836.
Nathan S. Colby, moderator. Clark Sargent, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Isaac Hill, 268
Scattering, 5
Representatives.
Philip Colby, Jr., Mitchell Gilmore, Jr.
Nathan Davis,
Abner Woodman, Selectmen.
Asa Pattee,
James M. Harriman was appointed collector.
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Voted that the Selectmen open the road from Nathaniel Bean's to Edmund S. Davis's.
Clark Sargent was a son of Joseph Sargent, of Schoodac. He lived at Warner village, and was a painter by occupation.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1837.
B. E. Harriman, moderator. Clark Sargent, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Isaac Hill, 238
Joseph Healey, 7
Representatives.
Mitchell Gilmore, Jr., Nathan Davis.
Abner Woodman,
John Stewart, Selectmen.
Abner Watkins,
James M. Harriman, collector.
Voted to receive our proportion of the "Surplus Revenue" money.
Voted that the money be loaned in sums not to exceed $200, and not less than $50.
Captain John Stewart lived on the south side of the Mink Hills, where his father settled before him in the wilderness. He added much during his life to the paternal acres. He married, for his first wife, Han- nah, daughter of Dea. Isaac Dalton, and died in 1851, leaving four sons and one daughter,-viz., Rev. Isaac D. of Dover, Cyrus of Wisconsin, Leonard of Warner, John of California, and Mrs. James Bean of Warner.
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Abner Watkins was a son of Jason, who was a son of the original Abner. He was born and reared at the Gore, but he lived many years in Lowell, Mass. After returning from there to Warner, he lived where Henry Seavey resides, and served the town as select- man and representative. One son of his (if no more) is living, viz., Geo. T. Watkins, of Kansas, who is now a member of the legislature of that state.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1838.
B. E. Harriman, moderator. Clark Sargent, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Isaac Hill, 388
James Wilson, 77
Representatives.
Nathan Davis, Abner Woodman.
Abner Watkins,
John Stewart, Selectmen.
Robert Thompson,
Voted to poll the house on the question of making Town Clerks Registers of Deeds. [Affirmative vote, 94; negative vote, 115.] Voted that the Selectmen appoint a Collector.
Isaac Hill, it will be observed, received a majority of 311, in Warner, which was larger than any other town in the state gave him. Claremont, the same day, gave James Wilson 311 majority, which was larger than any other town in the state gave him.
Robert Thompson
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ROBERT THOMPSON.
ROBERT THOMPSON, whose name appears in the above record, was born at Hooksett, April 24, 1803. Of his remote ancestry nothing is positively known, though the Thompsons are found among the earliest immi- grants to this country. The name is spelled in not less than four different ways,-Thompson, Tomson, Thomson, and Tompson.
Edward Thompson came in the Mayflower in 1620, and died Dec. 4th, between Cape Cod and Plymouth. John, his brother, came in 1643. He was representa- tive from Middleborough, Mass., eight years, beginning in 1674. Archibald Thompson settled at Marblehead in 1637, and Edward in Salem the same year. The latter two were from Framingham, Suffolk county, England.
Dr. Benjamin Thompson settled in Braintree. He was town-clerk there in 1696, and for several years afterwards. He left, at his death, eight children and twenty-eight grandchildren.
From some one of these branches of the family Robert Thompson undoubtedly descended. His grand- father was from Newbury, Mass. He settled in Con- cord, N. H., where he died about the year 1801, leav- ing a large family of sons and daughters, one of the sons being Robert, the father of the subject of this sketch. This Robert married Judith, daughter of Benjamin Noyes, settled at Hooksett, and worked at the shoemakers' trade. They had two children,-
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Mary, who became the wife of Jeremiah H. Wilkins, and Robert, now living at Warner.
Robert Thompson, the first, died in 1803, the very year that Robert the second was born. The orphan boy was taken by his grandmother Noyes to her home in Bow, where he remained till after his sister's marriage, when he went to live with her at Suncook. He took his little bundle in a handkerchief, contain- ing all he had in the world, and made this exchange of homes Feb. 9, 1818. He remained with Mr. Wil- kins, acting as his clerk, and as a copartner with him, till 1825, except for five months, when he was em- ployed in the store of John White, of Salisbury. In 1825 the firm of Wilkins & Thompson was by mutual consent dissolved, and the junior member, after pros- pecting for several weeks, pitched upon Warner for his future home. He hired a store of John E. Kelley for $25 a year, purchased his stock of goods at Bos- ton, and, full of hope and ambition, commenced trade the last of June, 1825. Being then but 22 years of age, and looking younger than that, he was popularly called " the boy trader." But by enterprise and close attention to business, and by receiving, in payment for goods, certain commodities which had not hitherto been articles of traffic, he soon laid the foundation for a successful business life.
In 1828 he had the misfortune to be burnt out. Speaking of the fire, the N. H. Statesman of that day
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said,-" Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1828, the tavern house of Capt. John E. Kelley, of Warner, was consumed by fire, and a store connected therewith, occupied by Robert Thompson. No insurance on the property." After this fire Mr. Thompson removed to the village, where he has since remained. He has often acted as · moderator at town-meetings, as selectman, and as town-clerk. He has also been three years a member of the legislature of the state.
In 1831 Mr. Thompson married Sarah B., daughter of Dr. Henry Lyman, who died in 1833. In 1835 he married Susan, daughter of Joseph Bartlett. Five children were born to this couple, viz., Sarah L., Rhoda B., Mary W., Robert H., and Arthur.
Mr. Thompson's second wife died in 1849, and in 1851 he married, for his third wife, Miss Eunice George, of Salisbury.
Robert H. Thompson was in business with his fa- ther a few years, prior to January, 1876, when he died.
Arthur served in the eleventh regiment three years during the Rebellion. He married Carrie Beckler, of Syracuse, N. Y., in 1867, and is now in company with his father.
Mary W. Thompson married Frank L. Martin, of Bradford, May 3, 1866.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1839. B. E. Harriman, moderator. Clark Sargent, town-clerk.
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For Governor.
John Page, 364
James Wilson, 70
Representatives.
Abner Woodman, Abner Watkins.
Robert Thompson, B. E. Harriman,
Selectmen.
Benjamin C. Davis,
Chose David Colby tythingman.
Benjamin C. Davis was a son of Robert, and a brother to Timothy. He occupied through life the old homestead of his father on Pumpkin Hill, which is now in possession of John Osgood.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1840. B. E. Harriman, moderator. Leonard Eaton, town-clerk.
For Governor.
John Page, 302
Enos Stevens, 39
Representatives. Abner Watkins, Asa Pattee.
B. E. Harriman,
Robert Thompson, Selectmen.
Benj. C. Davis,
Heath Flanders was appointed Collector.
Superintending School Committee.
John Currier, Jr., Geo. W. Cutting, H. H. Harriman.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1841.
B. E. Harriman, moderator. Leonard Eaton, town-clerk.
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FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' LIBRARY.
For Governor.
John Page, 372
Enos Stevens, 45
Representatives.
Asa Pattee, Robert Thompson.
Benj. E. Harriman, H. D. Robertson, Selectmen.
Jas. M. Harriman,
Heath Flanders was appointed collector.
James M. Harriman was a son of Moses, who came to Warner from Henniker, and settled on Burnt Hill. The family was originally from Plaistow. James M. was a colonel in the state militia. He served two years as representative, and repeatedly as selectman.
FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' LIBRARY.
The following record appears in the town books :
Whereas, by an act of the Legislature of New Hampshire, ap- proved July 1, 1831, granting and authorizing persons to assume and exercise corporate powers in certain cases, Therefore, be it remembered, that, on the 20th day of November, A. D. 1841, we, Stephen K. Hoyt, Abner Woodman and Timothy Davis, with many others, have this day associated, united and formed a Li- brary Company, and do hereby assume and bear the name and title of "Farmers' and Mechanics' Library Association," in the town of Warner.
By order of the Society.
A true copy, attest.
Hiram Buswell, Clerk.
Leonard Eaton, Town Clerk.
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ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1842.
B. E. Harriman, moderator. Ira Harvey, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Henry Hubbard, 280
John H. White,
43
Enos Stevens, 29
Daniel Hoit,
13
Representatives.
Robert Thompson, John Stewart.
Jas. M. Harriman,
Enos Collins,
Selectmen.
James Davis,
Franklin Simonds was appointed collector.
Superintending School Committee. John Currier, Jr., J. M. Chick, J. W. Perkins.
James Davis was the youngest son of Gen. Aquila. His home was at Davisville, but he died before the expiration of the year for which he was elected as selectman.
Saturday, June 11, 1842, was a winter day. Snow fell without ceasing throughout New Hampshire, from morning till night. While it disappeared as it came on the lowlands, it accumulated to considerable depth on the hills, and strong, healthy sheep, that were left in the pastures, were frozen to death in many cases. The selectmen of Warner sold the building of the road that day around under the ledge at Stevensville.
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DOMINANT PARTY DIVIDED.
CRANBERRY AND HOOP-POLE PARTIES.
At this time (1842) the dominant political party in Warner was rent by internal discord. It was split into two factions, or wings,-one wing being called the " Cranberry party," and the other the "Hoop- pole party." It is not difficult to account for the origin of these names. B. E. Harriman owned a large cranberry meadow, and he and his family were some- what prominent in one wing. H. D. Robertson car- ried on an extensive business in coopering. He bought hoop-poles by the dozen cords, and he and his personal friends were leaders in the other wing. Thus the names are accounted for ; but it is not easy to explain the cause of the division. It does not ap- pear that any vital principle was in jeopardy. It does not appear that either faction was promulgating her- esy, political or religious. All worshipped at the same political shrine, and voted the same general ticket. But yet the lines were distinctly drawn, and the con- test was sharp and exciting. The two armies were about equal in numbers and strength, and victory perched first on this banner and then on that; more frequently, perhaps, there was a drawn battle, and honors were easy. In 1846 neither wing could elect a representative, and this defeat of both factions led to a cessation of hostilities in 1847, and to subsequent concord and good-fellowship.
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HISTORY OF WARNER.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1843.
Erastus Wilkins, moderator. Ira Harvey, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Henry Hubbard, 231.
John H. White, 64
Anthony Colby, 19
Daniel Hoit, 13
Representatives.
H. D. Robertson, Robert Thompson.
Enos Collins,
H. D. Robertson, 1 Selectmen.
Stephen Bartlett,
Franklin Simonds, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
J. W. Perkins, J. M. Chick, Nathaniel Page.
Voted that the use of the Town Meeting House be granted to all Religious Societies in their turn.
Voted to buy Joseph Sawyer's farm, if the buying of said farm will prevent the road that is laid out near said Sawyer's from being made.
Enos Collins was a son of Enos, who came from Amesbury, and settled on Bible Hill. In his early days he was much engaged in school-teaching ; but his leading business through life was farming. Dr. Wm. S. Collins, of Nashua, is his son, and another son is in Colorado.
Stephen Bartlett was a son of Richard, and a grand- son of Simeon, one of the proprietors of Warner.
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Stephen occupied through life the farm on which he was born, and which is now in possession of one or more of his sons.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1844.
Robert Thompson, moderator. Ira Harvey, town-clerk.
For Governor.
John H. Steele, 238
John H. White,
45
Daniel Hoit, 35
Anthony Colby,
30
Representatives.
Harrison D. Robertson, Enos Collins.
Stephen Bartlett,
Levi Flanders,
Selectmen.
Nathaniel A. Davis,
Franklin Simonds, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
J. M. Chick, H. H. Harriman, Jesse D. Currier.
Levi Flanders was a son of Levi, and a grandson of Zebulon, and his home was at the North village. About the year 1868 he removed to Missouri, and there established a new home. His health soon gave way, and he died a few months after his settlement in that distant state.
Nathaniel A. Davis was another of the sons of Gen. Aquila, and his home through life was at Davisville. There were his mills, and there he was engaged largely in the lumber business. He died several
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years since, leaving his sons in possession of the mill property.
At the presidential election of 1844, the Polk electors received 331 votes ; Clay, 35; Birney, 34.
On the question, "Shall capital punishment be abolished ?" 164 voted yea, and 169 nay.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1845.
Erastus Wilkins, moderator. Ira Harvey, town-clerk.
For Governor.
John H. Steele, , 231
Daniel Hoit, 41
Anthony Colby, 22
John H. White,
16
Representatives.
Enos Collins, Daniel Bean, Jr.
Levi Flanders,
Nathaniel A. Davis,
Selectmen.
H. H. Harriman,
Asa Pattee, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
W. Harriman, J. Currier, Jr., H. W. Woodman.
Henry H. Harriman was the oldest son of B. E. Harriman, and was born July 11, 1813. In his early days he was a successful and popular school-teacher. Later in life he was both wheelwright and farmer, but was better known as a practical surveyor, and as ad- ministrator in the settlement of estates. In these two latter branches of business he found congenial em-
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ployment most of the time for many of the last years of his life. He served the town as selectman and as representative. He fell dead in his field, April 18, 1878, aged 64.
At a meeting legally holden Sept. 3, 1845,-
Voted that the Selectmen pay for the board of Moody W. Flanders, at the Asylum for the Insane at Concord, so long as they may think proper.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1846.
Erastus Wilkins, moderator. Ira Harvey, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Anthony Colby, 25
Jared W. Williams, 315
Nathaniel S. Berry, · 69
Representatives.
None elected.
Thomas Colby,
J. M. Harriman, Selectmen.
Jacob Jones,
Wm. R. Sargent, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
H. W. Woodman, A. B. Kelley, James W. Sargent.
Erastus Wilkins was born in Concord, was clerk in the store of Robert Thompson a number of years, and was afterwards in trade for himself, both at the Lower Village, and at the Centre. He married a daughter of Stephen George, and the family now resides in Boston.
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Thomas Colby was a son of Philip, of District No. 10. He carried on the business of farming near the old homestead till about fifteen years ago, when he removed to Wilmot, where he and his son are engaged in the same vocation.
Jacob Jones was a brother to Daniel, was born in Boscawen, where he lived many years after his ma- turity, was afterwards a resident of the Schoodac dis- trict in Warner, and then of Warner village.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1847.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Moses D. Wheeler, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Jared W. Williams, 336
Nathaniel S. Berry, 54
Anthony Colby, 30
Representatives.
J. M. Harriman, Daniel Bean, Jr.
- H. H. Harriman,
Geo. A. Pillsbury, 1 Selectmen.
John Currier,
Asa Pattee, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
A. B. Kelley, W. Harriman, J. S. Herrick.
John Currier, Jr., was a son of Jacob, and a grand- son of Joseph. He occupied the homestead of his an- cestors through life. He was both a selectman and
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deputy sheriff a number of years, but he died when a young man, about the year 1860.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1848. H. D. Robertson, moderator. Moses D. Wheeler, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Jared W. Williams, 348
Nathaniel S. Berry, 91
Representatives.
James M. Harriman, Franklin Simonds.
Thomas Colby,
Jacob Jones, Selectmen. Walter Harriman,
The record says,-
And the said Walter Harriman came forward, and in open Town Meeting, then and there, declined serving as Selectman.
Then said inhabitants of said town chose Abner Woodman for third Selectman.
Wm. R. Sargent was appointed collector.
Superintending School Committee. A. B. Kelley, W. Harriman, J. S. Herrick.
Moses D. Wheeler is a son of Jeremiah. He has been engaged most of his lifetime in the business of blacksmithing at Warner village, but has served the town several times in each of the capacities of town-clerk, selectman, and representative.
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CHAPTER XXVII.
TOWN RECORDS-NEW TOWN HALL-RAILROAD OPENING-THE BANKS-CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION-HOMESTEAD EXEMP- TION.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1849. H. D. Robertson, moderator. Wm. Carter, Jr., town-clerk.
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For Governor.
Samuel Dinsmoor, 337
Nathaniel S. Berry, 54
Levi Chamberlain, 22
Representatives.
Franklin Simonds, Walter Harriman.
Geo. A. Pillsbury,
Thomas Colby, Selectmen.
Jacob Jones,
John Harriman, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
A. B. Kelley, J. S. Herrick, W. Harriman. NEW TOWN HALL.
Voted to raise a committee to sell the town house, select a site for a new one, and report a plan for the same at an adjourned meeting.
Robert Thompson, Nathaniel A. Davis, and Cum- mings Marshall were appointed.
American Bank Note Co.Boston.
Go. A. Pillsbury
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GEORGE ALFRED PILLSBURY.
GEORGE ALFRED PILLSBURY. John and Susan (Wad- leigh) Pillsbury, of Sutton, had three sons and one daughter,-viz., Simon W., George Alfred, born Aug. 29, 1816, Dolly W. (Mrs. Cummings), John S., and Benjamin F.
Simon W. died in 1836, at the age of 24. He was a close student, and was believed to be, at the time of his death, one of the best mathematicians in the state. John S. became identified with Warner not far from 1844. From that time till 1851 he was engaged in mercantile business in town, either as clerk or propri- etor. He married his wife (Miss Mahala Fisk) in Warner. After the close of 1851 he was engaged in trade a few years at East Andover and at Concord. In 1855 he settled at St. Anthony's Falls, Minne- sota, and engaged in the hardware business. From 1863 to 1875 he served in the state senate. He was elected governor of Minnesota in 1875, and was re- elected in 1877, the elections occurring biennially. He is now largely interested in the manufacture of flour. Benjamin F. remained in Sutton till 1878, em- ployed mainly in farming, but filling acceptably the offices of selectman and representative. In 1878 he removed to Granite Falls, Minn.
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