The history of Weare, New Hampshire, 1735-1888, Part 51

Author: Little, William, 1833-1893. cn
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Lowell, Mass., Printed by S. W. Huse & Co.
Number of Pages: 1240

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Eaton, David

Fifield, William

Gove, Peter C.

Hoyt, John Jolin, 2d

James,

Flanders, John M.

Samuel,

John Q.

Jonathan,

Sarah, Widow

Joseph B.

Lewis F.

Fletcher, William

Simeon G.

Lucretia, Widow

Moses,

William B.

Squire,

Randall F.

Nathan,

Follansbee, Eben'r

Swett, Zaccheus,

Benjamin,

Thomas,

John,

Gray, Dodevah H.

Benjamin, 2d

Washington,

Moses,

Green, David

John,

Edmunds, Enocli

Reuben,

Ezra,

Moses, . Thomas,

Ezra,

Samuel,

John L.

Huse, Moody

Horace, John,

Samuel, Jr. William,

Moses,

Jewell, Jacob

Edwards, Josiah Oliver,

French, Minot

Simon P. Simon P., Jr.

Johnson, Amos

Thomas,

Jolin,

Guild, Charles

Edmund,

Elliot, Joseph W.

Moses E.

Gutterson, John

Elijah,

Emerson, Billy

Nathan, Worthen,

Hadley, Abner L. George,

John,

Jesse,

Gibson, Randolpli

Jesse,

Jonathan,

John,

Giddings, Lucy, Wid.

John L.

Lydia & sisters

Joseph,

Gile, Daniel

William,

Mary, Widow

Marden,

Gould, Barnard Daniel,

Hanson, Charles T. David D.

Kendrick, Gorham P. Samuel T.

Stephen,

Luther E.

Solomon A. Thaddeus M.

Kennedy, James

Emery, Caleb

Samuel,

Harriman, David

Kenney, Charles A.

Gilman, Otis, William,

Charles,

Leach, John L.

Evans, Osgood

Daniel, 2d

Leighton, Ephraim

Favor, John

David,

Hedding, Damon

John, John B. Livingston, Enoch

Nathaniel,

Edmund,

Hoag, Israel Jonathan, Joseph,

Lufkin, Cyrus Lull, David G.

Zebadiah, Wid.

Hiram,

Hobson, Harrison

Dudly,

Benjamin, Jr.

John M.

James,

Jonathan,

Johnson,

Jefferson,

Leonard,

Johnson, 2d

Hogg, William, Jr.

John,

Leonard, 2d

Josiah,

Hovey, Nathan G. Timothy, Hoyt, Aaron

Moses, 2d

Squier,

Luke,

Willard,

Fifield, Betsey, Wid.

Moses,

Abner,

Marshall, Albert

George E.

Nathan C.

Amos,

Joseph,

Obadiah,

Francis,

Moody,

Robert S.

Pelatiah,

Horace J.

Seth N.

Samuel,

John,

Solomon,

Keniston, Richard

Walter,

Nathan,

Joseph S. Hazzen, Ezra W. John, Moses,

Samuel,

Nathaniel,

Ebenezer,

Hines, Daniel

Thomas,

Enoch,

Locke, Benjamin

William,

Gardner,

Felch, Benjamin

James,

Hodgdon, Mary Moses, Moses A.

Moses,

Lewis,

Levi,

Hadlock, Levi

Moses,

Marden, Jr.

Moses R.

Moses E.

James,

Gove, Abijalı

Kimball, Benj., Jr.

Abner,

Jesse C.

Eunice, Widow

George, Jesse

Jonathan,

Huntington, Abner

Reuben,

Jacob,

Otis,

* History of the Surplus Revenue, 1837, p. 83.

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[1844.

The school, literary and ministerial funds are a great help to edu- cation, public morals and the well-being of the people. They are well guarded, and the town is honored in so doing. It seems a pity that the surplus revenue could not have been thus kept and the in- terest used for some such useful purpose. About fifty towns in the state did keep theirs for a school fund.

The revenue from the sale of the public lands fell short, and some of the great men at Washington wished to borrow money to dis- tribute as the fourth installment, but Congress refused. Our town was very anxious to get its share of the fourth installment, and at its annual meeting, in 1844, instructed its representatives to the legis- lature to use their influence to procure it.

No papers are to be found in the offices of the secretary of state

Marshall, William

Paige, Lemucl W.

Raymond, Step'n.B. Tutherly, Rufus

Martin, Benjamin P. Jonathan, Samuel,

Osgood,

Thomas,

Tuttle, Benjamin

Samuel,

Reed, Daniel T.

Lewis,

McCutchins, Moses

Samuel B.

Richardson, Dan'l M. Tuxbury, George H.

Mckellips, Silas

Thomas E.

Ring, Obadiah

Vitty, John A.

Melvin, Abraham

Parmeter, Aaron

Robie, John

Wadleigh, Rufus

Merrill, Jacob

Patch, William

Rollins, Charles S.

Wallace, James

John,

Patterson, Dan II. William,

Rowell, Stephen

Woolen Factory Co.

Morrill, Abraham Albe,

Peaslee, Abigail Caleb,

Sargent, Jacob Jacob, Jr.

Webber, Jason

Morrison, Ebenezer

David,

Job,

Webster, Abel

Mudgett, Ebenezer Moses,

Ebenezer,

Samuel,

Justus,

William,

James, 2d

Muzzy, Benjamin

Jonathan,

Sawyer, Allen Ezra,

Whittaker, Alvan

Dimond, Jr.

Nathaniel,

Moses,

Jesse, Sarah, Widow

John D.

Robert,

Philip,

Whittemore, Amos

Jonathan P.

Samuel,

Simons, Christopher Enoch,

Whittle, H. G.

Thomas,

Stephen,

Harrison,

John, John, Jr. Otis,

Nowell, George

Wheeler,

James,

Willard, Cyrus S. Moses S.

Osborn, Daniel Daniel, 2d

Philbrick, Alvah Andrew,

Lewis, William B.

Wilson, George H. Joseph,

John,

Anna, Widow

Sleeper, George W.

Wingate, Aaron

John P.

Betsey,

George W. P.

Wood, Cyrus E. John,

Samuel,

Ephraim,

Small, John

Woodbury, Andrew Andrew, Jr.

Samuel, 3d

Jeremiah,

Southwick, Isaiah

Caleb,

William,

Jeremialı, Jr.

Starrett, John

George,

Paige, Albe

John,

Stevens, Nathaniel William,

James, 2d

Daniel, Jr.

Moody,

Stoning, Amos George,

John,

Daniel, Jr.

Nathan,

David,

Olive, Widow Samuel,

Jonathan,

Worthen, Daniel

Eliphalet, Jr.

Priest, James

John,

Proctor, Eli

Straw, David T. Israel, Samuel, Tenney, Samuel S. J. William B.

Moses,

John, 3d

Putney, Perlcy

Moscs, 2d

Jonathan,

Quimby, Isaac

Thorp, Abraham

Samuel,

Joshua,

Raymond, Jere.

Town, Luke

Tamar, Widow

George E.

Daniel R.

Saunders, George W. White, Aaron James, Dustin,

Dimond,

Moses,

Gilman,

Nathaniel,

Nathan,

Hannah, Widow

Paige,

Samuel, 2d

Nichols, Hiram Simeon,

Enoch,

Ira,

Peterson, Jamies

Joseph,

Ezekiel W.

Jonathan,

Daniel,

Z. M. Pike,

Samuel, 2d

Jason,

Smith, Ivers

James,

Daniel,

Josiah,

Jonathan, William,

Eliphalet,

Worthlcy, Bet'y, Wid. James,

John, 2d

Purington, Elijalı

Root, Nathan K.

Weare Cotton &

John, Widow

Samuel, Jr.

Richards, Perry

Simon,

Weare Woolen

Saltmarsh, Thomas

Factory,

James,

Whiting, James

Perkins, Benjamin

Hiram,

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or the state treasurer at Concord relative to the surplus revenue transactions. Zenas Clement, who was then state treasurer, perhaps wished to prevent the towns ever being called upon to repay to the state and so burned the bridges behind them by hiding or destroying the records. The only account we have found of how much each town received is in the New Hampshire Patriot.

As yet the United States has never called on the states for the surplus revenue, and probably never will.

CHAPTER LVIII. THE ADVENTISTS.

DURING the last two or three thousand years it has been a common thing for " certain great, level-headed men," at intervals, to preach the coming of the Messiah. Tremendous excitement would then often pervade whole nations. A day would be fixed for the grand event, which would come and go, the sun rising and setting as usual : no Messiah appearing; then a calm would follow, and the next generation would know little or nothing about it.

William Miller, sometimes ignorantly called "Joe Miller," first began to preach the Advent doctrine in 1831 .* From 1834 to 1839 he delivered over eight hundred discourses. Then Mr. Miller re- doubled his efforts. He studied the great image seen by Nebuchad- nezzar, its head of gold, breast of silver, sides of brass, legs of iron and ten toes representing Babylon, Media and Persia, Greece, Rome, and the ten kingdoms into which it is said Rome was divided. He read of the stone which without hands smote the image upon its feet, ground the metallic parts to powder, became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. This last was the kingdom of God set up, never to be destroyed. He contemplated Daniel's great beasts ; the first was a lion with the wings of an eagle; the second like a bear, and it raised itself up on one side and had three ribs in its mouth; the third was a leopard, which had four wings and four heads ; and the fourth beast was dreadful and terrible and strong

* White's Life Incidents in the Great Advent Movement, p. 60.

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exceedingly. This beast had ten horns, and he studied the horns. They were Huns and Goths and Ostrogoths and other barbarian hordes. And he saw a little horn come up among the other horns, with the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things. This was the pope of Rome.

He saw a ram having two horns, and a he-goat, the great King Alexander, and a great horn which was broken, and four horns sprang up in its place. Out of one of them came a little horn, Rome.

. He conned the twenty-three hundred days spoken of by Daniel, which according to the great commentators mean twenty-three hundred years. They began in the time of Ezra, B. C. 457, and of course would end in the year 1843, when the stone would smite the image, the world be destroyed, and the kingdom of God established. Miller believed it; he thought that March 23d would be the day, and there was great excitement among many to whom the tidings came .*

The Methodists and Freewill Baptists were particularly carried away by the new doctrine. The latter sect in Weare got their el- ders to procure Advent preachers to come, and soon the town was red hot. The great event would be opened by Gabriel, who would blow his trumpet, and then, -

" You will see your Lord a-coming, You will see your Lord a-coming, You will see your Lord a-coming In a few more days, While a band of music, While a band of music, While a band of music Shall be chanting through the air."

Elder John G. Hook came, and with him were Elders Thomas M. Preble, Benjamin Manning and others. They preached at the south, north and east meeting-houses; and the walls of those churches echoed to the sound of the great image, the terrible beasts, the ram, the pope of Rome and Rome; and even Babylon was heard of! They formed no church; but elders exhorted them to be prepared, as they were. Some left the Freewill Baptists, say

Hannah B. Hazen, Mary Ann Hadley, H. Adaline Locke, Mary Ann Philbrick, Mary Sargent, Dan H. Patterson, Hannah Patterson,

* ADVENTISTS IN 1843 AND SINCE. Charlotte Philbrick, Mary M. Patterson, Hannah G. Corliss, Brother and Sister Clough. Jacob Sargent, Ruth P. Philbrick,

Samuel Follansbee,

Mary Jane Corliss,

Martha Ann Corliss,

Abigail G. Tewksbury. Widow Hazen and family, Leonard Felch.

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ing "they wished to come out of Babylon"; and some, after a time, were excommunicated from that church.

A few of the believers neglected their business; they refused to plant or sow. Two or three sold their property at a great sacrifice, and it was said some prepared their ascension robes; but this last has been pronounced a scandal. Elder Locke, who came from Ver- mont, made good ox-yokes and other useful articles ; he, too, sold his tools for a nominal sum, preparatory to the sounding of the trumpet.

The 23d of March came; the day passed slowly, and nothing unusual happened, except that the Adventists were sadly disap- pointed .* And then they set the tenth day of the tenth month, 1844, as the day of the coming, and they were again disappointed. Several other days were designated, with like failures, as the years went by. But in time they ceased to predict, only saying that "the coming was near at hand ; the day and hour no man knoweth."

Gradually Adventism crystalized into a sect, and it now numbers its members by thousands. It stands well beside other denom- inations; and like them, proves its doctrines, beyond the shadow of a doubt, from the Bible.

In East Weare, Feb. 11, 1857, several of the faithful met at the house of Rev. Benjamin Locke, 2d, and formed "The Society of the Church of God or Adventists." At this first meeting, Henry Foster was chosen moderator, Thomas M. Preble clerk and Benja- min Locke, 2d, treasurer. They adopted a preamble,t in which they said there was "a wide-spread conviction that we are living in the last days, and what is done for a lost world must be done quickly." Any man in fair standing could join their society, but no woman, for it was strictly a business affair.

They formed no church and had no deacons. Their church, as they considered it, embraced everybody the world over who held to their views.

The society at East Weare kept a record from 1857 to 1877. The preamble, the names of the officers, the clerks, members of the society and elders comprise nearly the whole of it.

They have no regular preaching at the present time, but occa-

* Leonard Felch sat up all night, listening, to hear Gabriel's trumpet.

+ " PREAMBLE. Whereas in the Providence of God there has been for the last few years a wide-spread conviction over christendom that we are living in the last days and therefore what is done for the lost world must be done quickly, we the under- signed form ourselves into a Society called the Society of the Church of God or Ad- ventists, at East Weare, N. H."

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[1848.

sional elders now and then break the Bread of Life to them .* Their meetings are held in the Freewill Baptist meeting-house at East Weare, or in private houses, and are generally well attended. Their treasurer, Samuel Follansbee, regularly draws their propor- tion of the ministerial money, and uses it either to pay for preaching or any current expenses.

CHAPTER LIX.

THE RAILROAD.

THE Manchester & North Weare railroad was chartered under the name of the New Hampshire Central Railroad Company June 24, 1848. It was to run from Manchester through Bedford, Goffs- town, Weare, Henniker, Bradford and other towns to the Connec- ticut river. The route was twelve miles shorter to White River junction than by the way of Concord and Franklin. The first meeting of the corporators named in the charter was held in Brad- ford Aug. 3, 1848. Mason W. Tappan was chosen clerk, and they adjourned to meet at Henniker Oct. 5th. When met, David Steele, of Goffstown, David Cross, t of Manchester, Perry Richards, of New

* RESIDENT ELDERS. Thomas M. Preble,

Benjamin Manning.

Benjamin Locke, 2d,

OCCASIONAL ELDERS.

Henry Tukesbury,

1 David M. Leavitt, Zina Ford, John G. Hook.

Sineon Robie, Cyrus H. Fletcher, Charles H. Sargent,

CLERKS.

Thomas M. Preble, Samuel Follansbee,

George F. Locke,

Rodney W. Gould, Henry E. Eaton.

MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.

Benjamin Locke, 2d, Henry Foster,

George F. Locke,

Thomas M. Preble, Samuel Follansbee, Elbridge Kimball, Henry E. Eaton, Samuel Jameson, Andrew J. Hood,

Rodney W. Gould, Henry Tukesbury, Frank P. Felchi.

t HON. DAVID CROSS, son of David and Olive (Kimball) Cross, was born in Weare, July 5, 1817. The father, David Cross, Sr., son of Abiel Cross, was born in Salem, June 19, 1772, and died in Weare, March 7, 1856. His mother, Olive Kimball, the daugh- ter of Thomas and Olive (Lovejoy) Kimball, was born June 19, 1782, and died April 3, 1871. He attended the district school, and early showed a taste for books and study. In 1832 and 1833 he was a clerk in the store of Enos Merrill at East Weare; in the fall of 1834 he attended the academy at Pembroke, and in the winter of 1834-5, taught his first term of school at North Weare. In the spring of 1835 he went to Hopkinton acad- emy to fit for college and there met for the first time Mason W. Tappan, with whom a friendship was formed that continued as long as Mr. Tappan lived. He also at- tended Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., entered Dartmouth college in 1837 and grad- uated in 184]. He read law in the office of Willard & Raymond, Troy, N. Y., attended the Harvard Law school, studied a short time in the office of Hon. Daniel Clark, in Manchester, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1844. While pursuing his

EngªbyAH Fornie

David Powody

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Boston, Moses Sawyer, of Weare, John S. Craig, of Henniker, Bar- tholomew Smith, of Bradford, and Samuel H. Price, of Windsor, Vt., were chosen directors .* This board organized by the choice of David Steele, president, and Mason W. Tappan, clerk. They held a meet- ing Nov. 1st at Hiram Bell's tavern in Henniker, all present, and on motion of Mr. Price, voted unanimously that it is expedient to pro- ceed with the building and construction of the New Hampshire Cen- tral railroad. Samuel H. Price, David Steele and Bartholomew Smith were chosen building committee, and Franklin N. Poor, treasurer.

studies he taught school at Hillsborough Lower Village, at Concord West Parish, two terms at Candia high school, two at New Boston, and district schools in several other places, thereby ncarly supporting himself and paying school expenses.

Mr. Cross opened a law office in Patten's block, Manchester, in January, 1845, where he has ever since continued in active practice, and has been eminently successful. The New Hampshire law reports show the great number of important cases in which he has been engaged, among which Thompson against the Boston, Concord & Mon- treal railroad, in which Hon. Harry Bingham and Hon. Henry W. Blair were the op- posing counsel, and Manchester Mills against Manchester, Saunders against Farmer, Morrison against Manchester, each involving tax questions; the somewhat noted case of Weare against Deering, a pauper suit which turned upon the ownership of a dog, and the celebrated Amoskeag flowage cases are perhaps the best remembered. He was for many years counsel for the Boston & Maine railroad and conducted their business before the New Hampshire legislature, and at the present time is the re- tained counsel of the Manchester Mills and the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, the latter being far the largest corporation in the state. He has been associated as a partner in practice with Elijah M. Topliffe, Ira A. Eastman, Henry E. Burnham and D. Arthur Taggart. No office in the state for the last thirty-six years has had so many law-students as his.

He has always manifested an interest in all matters tending to advance the moral and material interests of his city and the state.

In 1852 and 1853 he was city solicitor. In 1848, 1849, 1856, 1876, 1877, he was a member of the legislature from Manchester. In 1856 he was appointed judge of probate for Hillsborough county, which office he held till 1874. He was United States pension agent from 1865 to 1872. During all the time he held these offices he continued in the active practice of law at Manchester, the business of the pension agency being done by clerks under his supervision and direction. The labor in his profession from 1865 to 1872, with his other business, was severe; he, however, worked with great cheerfulness and filled every position creditably and honorably. Judge Cross was one of the directors, from 1855 to 1865, of the Merrimack river state bank and has been one of the directors and vice-president of the First national bank since its organization in 1865. He has also, since 1861, been one of the trustees of the Merrimack river savings bank.

Judge Cross had the rare good fortune to be naturally endowed with a sound physical constitution, strong and active mental powers, good judgment and excellent common-sense. Add to these a cheerful temper, a cordial and engaging manner and a genial good nature, and we have the secret of his success.

He married Anna Quackenbush Eastman, daughter of Hon. Ira A. Eastman, a member of Congress from this state four years and one of the judges of the Suprene Court for fifteen years. Of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Cross, two died in infancy. Clarence Eastman Cross died Jan. 11, 1881, he being within eleven days of twenty-one years of age. He was a member of the junior class in Dartmouth college, and a young man of much promise. He seemed to have inherited from his father and maternal grand-father a taste and ability for the law, and his character and talent gave high hope of success. Allen Eastman Cross, eldest of the two surviving children, was born Dec. 30, 1864, graduated at Amherst college in 1886, and is at present pursuing luis studies at the Andover theological school. Edward Winslow Cross, now at school in Manchester, was born July 21, 1875.

* DIRECTORS, 1849.

David Steele, president, Moses Sawyer, Barth. Smith, Horace Childs, Moses A. Hodgdon, George W. Pinkerton, Perry Richards.

DIRECTORS, 1850.

David Steele, president, Edward Crane, Moses Sawyer, Moses A. Hodgdon,

John T. Cahill, Lewis Smith, Abner Hoit.

DIRECTORS, 1851. David Steele, president,

Moses A. Hodgdon, Charles Stinson,

James Straw,

Edward Crane, John T. Cahill, Abner Hoit.

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[1849.

Subscription books for stock were at once opened, and a little over $300,000 subscribed, including the amount issued to contrac- tors. It was paid in by installments.

The survey began Aug. 17, 1848, under the direction of Francis Chase, civil engineer, and cost $15,086.31.

The work was put under contract in January, 1849. John T. Cahill and Thomas Stackpole did the grading; John S. Dawson, Eliphalet Richards and J. M. Batchelder & Co., the masonry ; Horace Childs, of Henniker, built the bridges, and Hathaway & Spofford laid the rails. All these took from twenty to fifty per cent of their pay in stock. John M. & David A. Parker and Ezra Clement built the depot at Parker's station; James Simons, James Priest* and Ezra Clement the Oil Mill depot, wood-shed and engine-house, and

* HON. JAMES PRIEST, son of John and Lydia (George) Priest, was born at Oil Mill, April 8, 1813. His ancestors came from England and settled in Harvard, Mass., about the beginning of the eighteenth century. Abel Priest, grandfather of James, a far- mer and miller, at the age of sixteen joined the army and was present at Lexington, Bunker hill and many other battles. He moved to Weare to live in 1818. John Priest, father of James, came to Oil Mill in 1805, worked several years in the mills, married Lydia George, granddaughter of Dea. James Emerson, and then engaged in teaming lumber, staves and bark to " Squog " landing and the boat-house on the Merrimack. He died, on aceount of an aeeidental rupture of a blood vessel in his lungs, Oet. 29, 1823, aged 35 years, and was carried on a bier to his grave in Emerson cemetery, by sixteen bearers.

James, at the age of sixteen, began to learn the hatters' trade of Andrew Savage, served with him three years, attending the district sehool winters, and in 1832 bought his employer's business and continued it till 1850. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Goffstown light infantry, a uniformed company composed of soldiers from six towns, and in it did duty for ten years, He went with the company to Coneord when President Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren visited that place, and the com- pany did escort duty at Amoskeag and Manchester. In 1840 he joined the Weare rifle company and in it held several offices. He was also instrumental in forming a band and was one of the musicians. On the opening of the railroad to Oil Mill, in 1850, he was appointed wood agent for the road, and he also had charge of the station at that place for five years. In 1856 he moved to Derry, and for the next thirty years was station agent there and also agent for the express and telegraph companies.

Mr. Priest was instrumental in establishing a post-office at Oil Mill in 1847 and was postmaster for eight years. In 1860 he aided in establishing the Derry depot post-of- fiee and was postmaster there for nine years. In politics he is a demoerat, has writ- ten many politieal artieles for the press, and some of lis suggestions in relation to the amendment of the state constitution were adopted. In Weare he served as a seleet- man, in Derry he was twice eleeted (in 1874 and 1875) to the New Hampshire senate, and he has been a justiee of the peace for the last thirty-six years. He is also a di- reetor in the Derry building association and is one of the board of fire wards. He has taken a great interest in the growth of the depot village, and has been active in laying out and improving the new streets. For a long time he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity.

He married, first, Sarah F. Richards, of Goffstown, Jan. 1, 1835; second, Lurinda Simons, of Weare, April 4, 1838, and third, Irena Locke, of Deering, Aug. 3, 1839. By his second wife he had one child, Lurinda, and by his third, five children : Lydia Ann, Adaline S., Lucy Jane, George Frank and John Henry.1

1 JOHN HENRY PRIEST was born Feb. 15, 1851. He early learned of his father, in the railroad station, the art of telegraphing and all the details of freight and express business. Beginning in 1871 he was employed for five successive seasons by the Mount Washington railway, having sole charge of the station at the base of the moun- tain. He was also station agent at Fabyan's two years and for a time was a passenger- train conduetor. In the winter of 1875-6 he was eashier of the Hamilton hotel on one of the Bermuda islands.

Mr. Priest was a member of the St. Mark's lodge of Masons in Derry and of the chapter in Lisbon. He died suddenly, of typhoid fever, July 17, 1878, and was buried with Masonie honors. He was dignified in bearing, kind and genial, made many friends, and his constant eare was for the welfare and happiness of his parents and the home eirele. He was liberal in sentiment, and to do good was his religion.

James Priest.

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Ebenezer Peaslee the depot buildings at East Weare. These took their pay wholly in stock, which eventually became almost or en- tirely worthless. James Priest gave an acre of land for the depot and landing at Oil Mill, and he also took his pay in stock for about eighty rods of the road bed.

The road was completed and the cars ran to Oil Mill, eleven miles from Manchester, Feb. 19, 1850 ;* the track reached North Weare,

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The history of Weare, New Hampshire, 1735-1888, Part 51

Author: Little, William, 1833-1893. cn Publication date: 1888 Publisher: Lowell, Mass., Printed by S. W. Huse & Co. Number of Pages: 1240

Author: Little, William, 1833-1893. cn
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Lowell, Mass., Printed by S. W. Huse & Co.
Number of Pages: 1240