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Elijah Johnson had a blacksmith shop at site seventeen on the river, East Weare, and ironed carriages. Elder Benjamin Man- ning, the Advent preacher, worked there. The elder kept Saturday for his Sunday, and used to run the trip-hammer on the Sab- bath, much to the annoyance of all other pious people. Mark Col- burn had a blacksmith shop, with a water-power in it, at site thirty- nine, South Weare, and ironed carriages. Cyrus L. Colburn
* HON. WILLIAM H. GOVE, son of Enoch and Rachel Gove, was born in Weare, July 10, 1817. He secured a good education at the district schools, Clinton Grove academy and Friends' school, Providence, R. I. He devoted a considerable portion of his early life to teaching, and had charge of schools in Weare, Lynn, Mass., and Rochester, N. Y. He studied law for a short time in Boston, but never practised the profession. In company with Peter C. Gove he operated an iron foundry in Weare for several years, and for the last twenty-two years of his life was engaged in mercantile pur- suits in Northi Weare village.
From his youth Mr. Gove took a deep interest in political affairs. He was edu- cated in the Democratic school and voted the Democratic ticket at the first election after coming of age. He was chosen moderator of the annual town-meeting, and was candidate for representative, but failed of an clection by five or six votes. About this time the Free Soil or Liberty party movement originated, and Mi. Gove soon joined it. He was an active member until it was merged in the Republican organization. He was distinguished as one of the most effective public speakers in the state and was known as the " silver-tongued orator," his brilliant and honest elo- quence being an effective instrument in promoting the causc. He was the first call- didate of the Free Soilers for representative in his town, and continued to run year after year until he was elected in 1851. He was re-elected the following year and again in 1855. He was a member of the Buffalo convention when Martin Van Buren was nominated for president, and also of the convention that nominated Horace Greeley. He supported the Republican cause up to the close of the Rebellion, but owing to the reckless and corrupt conduct of the radical managers, as he thought, and their disre- gard of the interests of the people he withdrew his support. A few years later he aided in the organization of the Labor Reform party and passed into association with the Democracy, by whom he was elected to the house of representatives in 1871, where he was chosen speaker, and subsequently to the senate, where he was chosen presi- dent. He was an admirable presiding officer-dignified, clear and impartial in his rulings. Mr. Gove at one time edited a paper, The White Mountain Torrent. He had a finc literary taste and wrote many poems, among the best of which was his threnody on Moses A. Cartland.
Hc married, April 12, 1843, Eliza Buxton, and to them were born two daughters, Abbie M. and Florence A. Gove.
He died March 11, 1876, the year in which occurred the death of Hon. Daniel Paige, and the town, at its next meeting, unanimously passed highly complimentary reso- lutions of respect to bothi.
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continues the business. Jonathan Shaw did a similar business at site five, and Amos Chase at site seven.
John Peasley, at East Weare, is said to have been the first black- smith in town simply for shoeing horses and oxen. He would go from farm to farm, as the style was in the early days, and shoe the cattle. The ox was caught, led into the barn, thrown down upon some straw, turned on his back, his legs crossed and tied, and the shoes put on. The ox-swing is a recent invention.
Blacksmiths have been plenty in all parts of the town .* It is told of Jedediah Dow, that he had an apprentice boy, Chase Puring- ton. People used to bring in almost every thing to be mended. One old lady brought a cracked bean-pot. Chase said he could mend it if it would only hold to punch. He put it on the anvil, struck hard, and it flew in a hundred pieces. The old lady went home, highly delighted. A flock of ducks bothered him, coming into the shop. He heated a nail-rod red-hot, cut off small pieces; they flew on the floor; ducks picked them up and swallowed them quick, and Chase
* THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE WEARE BLACKSMITHS.
WEARE CENTER.
John Connor, 1780.
Charles Cleaveland, 1809. Jonathan Carr, 1815. Josiah Gutterson, 1825. William Wlittle, 1832.
Andrew A. Hussey, 1835. Moses Mudgett, 1850. Jubal Eaton, 1852.
Daniel R. Peaslee, 1875.
Luther M. Farmer, 1884. Cyrus W. Colburn, 1887.
NORTH WEARE.
EAST WEARE.
Jedediah Dow, 1778.
Nathan Hoag, 1790.
Amos Johnson, 1795.
John Hooper. .
Thomas True.
Moses Collins, 1788.
John Collins.
Thomas Stevens, 1789.
Lydia Stevens, 1789.
" Dr." John Collins, 1810.
William S. Bowles, 1850.
PAGE HILL.
Israel Hodgdon, 1780.
Joshua Wright, 1784.
John Baker, 1796. Ebenezer Perry, 1808.
Tristram B. Paige, 1810. Moses Dennis, 1815.
CLINTON GROVE.
Thomas Saltmarsh, 1830. Gilman Saltmarsh, 1860. Harris G. Cram, 1887.
Lorenzo Philbrick.
Greeley Kimball.
Richard Hadlock.
Richard Currier. Levi Hadlock, 1840.
James Peaslee, 1840. Cyrus Lufkin, 1842. Porter W. Colby, 1845. Jonathan G. Colby. William Batchelder. Mark Colburn, 1850. Almon Lufkin, 1855. Nathaniel Ring.
Reuben Paige, 1824.
William Batchelder, 1826. Samuel Austin, 1826. Job Sargent, 1828. Samuel Gould, 1828.
Gilbert Small.
Amos J. Wilson, 1850. George S. Mudgett.
MEETING-HOUSE, OR FIFIELD'S CORNER.
Tristram B. Paige. Cyrus Lufkin. Nathaniel Ring. Daniel Clougli.
SUGAR HILL.
Matthew Puffer, 1785.
Bradford Bowie.
John M. Fox.
Jerry Chase. William Chandler.
Clement Beck.
Richard Collins, 1790.
James W. Hadley.
Elwin B. Nichols.
William W. Skillings, 1875. William C. Warren, 1887.
SOUTH WEARE.
Asa Whittaker.
Jesse Whittaker. Benjamin Danforth. Jesse Martin. Jonathan Emerson. John L. Eastman.
Levi B. Laney. Elijah Johnson. Benjamin Manning.
Jacob Atwood, 1808. Josialı Davis, 1812. Gilman Danforth. Richard Collins, Jr. Sylvester Hadley. Chase M. Ferry. John Hooper, 2d. John Andrews. OIL MILL.
Levi Andrews, 1820,
BARNARD HILL.
John Huntington, Jr., 1775. Thomas Shaw, 1790.
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Jolin Peasley, 1763.
Calvin Chase.
Chase Purington, 1796. Asahel Carr, 1810. Jonathan Shaw, 1818. Winthrop Chase, 1825. John Gillett, 1825. Jeremialı Chase, 1835. Jeremiah Martin, 1838. Gilman Dow, 1840.
William B. White, 1860. George W. Saltmarsh, 1865. Eben L. Paige, 1871.
Alvin C. Hadlock, 1887.
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said holes were burned right through out of their bodies. One lady, to whom he told the story, innocently asked, "Did it kill them ?"
Dr. John Collins was a very skilful workman. He hammered out on his anvil and made "jews-harps," large and small. The doctor was a strong politician, and it is handed down that at one election, when he was anxious to vote, one of his friends of the opposite political party hired him, for $1, to stay at home and make him one of his nicest instruments. The price was so large that he never thought of town-meeting, and worked all day in his shop. But he was terribly disgusted with himself when he found how he had lost his vote.
TANNERS AND TANNERIES. Tanning was an early industry in Weare. Before tanneries were established the settlers got their leather from Hampton and the adjoining towns. Benjamin Connor probably had the first tannery about 1770. It was located on lot three, range five, the mill lot, south of the river. Amos Stoning* had one soon after. It was just east of his house, by Horse Meadow brook. It is told that he skinned out the tails of the fresh hides the farmers brought to be tanned, and made them into soup. For years he relied upon them almost wholly for his meat. Ox-tail soup was ridiculed then; now it is a favorite dish. Lemuel Paige had a tan- nery on Page hill about 1790, and Stephen Dow had one near his house and a bark-mill on the Zephaniah Breed brook, west of Weare Center. Dow commenced, perhaps, as early as any of the above. He did work for tanners in Massachusetts at a good profit. His son Stephen succeeded him in business, and Pelatiah Gove had a tannery at the same place afterwards. They ground bark with a large stone truck on a shaft that went round and round on a circular plank floor, the bark all the time being kept on the track with a rake. When fine enough it was shoveled out, and more bark put under. The bark stone of Josiah Gove is now used as a well-cover at his old
* PRICES.
" John Pudney Dr to amos Stoning
" to Shoes ..
£0:12: 0
to Leather ...
0:17: 2
to Tanning and Curring two Calf Skins 0: 6=0
1:15:2
Credit for five Days work. £0:15 0
to one hide waid fifty. 0:10 0
" weare January 6th 1783
1: 5:0
" A true accompts pr
AMOS STONING."
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homestead, and its shaft as a gate post, the latter having been put to some use for more than a hundred years. Josiah Gove took hides to tan on shares from Squire Shores, of Danvers, Mass., and made it a profitable business. His tannery was near his house, between Weare Center and Clinton Grove. Elijah Peaslee started a tannery in 1790 on Cilley brook.
In the north-west part of the town, Ebenezer Breed, Sr., very early had a tannery, one-half mile west of Weare Center; Edmund Gove one a mile north-west of Clinton Grove ; Jonathan Breed one at Clinton Grove, opposite the South Quaker meeting-house; Pele- tiah Gove one a half mile south of Clinton Grove, on the Peacock, afterwards operated by Samuel Paige and till recently by Alfred F. Paige ; Carlton Clement one on lot forty-three ; Johnson Gove one south of Weare Center, on Center brook ; Enoch Breed one a mile west of Mr. Gove; Winthrop and Abraham Dow one a mile north- west of the Center, near Zephaniah Breed's, afterwards operated by Ezra Dow till 1836; Moses Osborne a small one, for tanning sheep- skins, at Slab City; Pelatiah Gove one, in 1845, near the mouth of Han- son brook ; and Isaiah Breed one on the old road up the west branch of the Peacock to Deering. Ezra Dow established a tannery at site five on the Piscataquog in 1836. He sold it to Jonathan B. Moulton in 1847, who did a large business till 1870. His buildings were burned three times while he was there. He sold to Simon G. Gove, who did business a few years and then sold to James E. Jones, when the tannery was burned for the fourth time.
In the north-east part of the town about the beginning of the present century Solomon Hanson had a tannery east of Center Square ; Benjamin Butler carried on the Lemuel Paige tannery, in 1796, on Page hill ; Elijah Johnson at East Weare one south of the river, near the Edmund Johnson mill, and Wheeler Eaton one in 1812, on the north side of the road to Sugar hill. Tristram Barnard owned this tannery in 1827. Daniel Morrison, of Salisbury, Mass., with his son Alexander, partly built a tannery at site twenty-four on Cilley brook, but not having money enough the enterprise proved a disastrous failure, and he soon left town.
In South Weare Jesse Hadley had a tannery as early as 1800, on the George Hadley farm, south-east slope of Mount Dearborn. In 1812 he established one at site thirty-four on Meadowbrook and ground his bark by water power. His son and then his grandson succeeded him in the business. The latter sold the establishment to
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Charles Martin, who operated it some time, when it was burned. Pelatiah Gove and Enoch Johnson had a tannery on the west branch of the Peacock at site fifty-one, on the road to Decring. Their old stone dam, eight feet high, is still standing. Daniel Gove had one on the east branch of the Peacock at site fifty. There was an auger hole bored in his flume six feet above the brook, out of which rushed a strong stream. A trout leaped up this stream, entered the hole, was too large to get through, could not get back, and there perished. Moses A. Hodgdon saw it and vouches for the story.
None of these old tanneries are now in existence, and at present there is but one in town. Alfred F. Paige, in 1874, bought the foundry site of William H. Gove, at North Weare, and erected a tannery. He gives employment to three men and tans about five thousand sides of leather annually.
SHOEMAKERS came as carly as blacksmiths, and their services were just as essential. In old times they were accustomed to travel from house to house all over town. The farmer would go with his ox-cart for the shoemaker with his kit of tools and bench, move him home and keep him till the whole family were shod, and then some other farmer would take him along. He was generally lively com- pany; would whistle and sing, tell anecdotes and spin yarns, and his peregrinations were called "whipping the cat." John Anderson, a Scotch-Irishman, was one of these peripatetic shoemakers. He lived for many years on the Isaiah Breed place. He was the great delight of the young people, for whose entertainment he told stories and sang quaint Scotch songs. He always wore leather breeches. These old shoemakers were known as sons of St. Crispin .*
In the first quarter of the present century, when the town was at its greatest prosperity, there Were a dozen or more shoe shops where one could get made such boots and shoes as were needed by his family, and farmers generally furnished their own leather to be worked up. Now there is not a shop in town where such work is done.
BOOTS AND SHOES were first manufactured by the wholesale about 1823. Josiah Gove and his boys at this time were making farmers' peg boots and shoes to sell in Vermont, Canada and the South. In one year they made twenty-three thousand pairs.
* Two shoemakers, brothers, by the name of Crispin, at Rome, imagined they were called to the ministry. They traveled and preached, and made shoes to pay their expenses. In Gaul, Oct. 25, A. D. 287, they were cruelly martyred, and the day has ever since been called St. Crispin's day, and all shoemakers Crispins.
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In 1827 Allen Sawyer* and Ira Govet were located at the cross- roads, -known as Slab City in Weare, -and made the first shoes to supply the stores in this and neighboring towns. In 1828 Sawyer bought out Gove and continued the business. In 1834 Ira and Moses Gove made shoes at Clinton Grove, and gave employment to a large number of workmen. They suspended work in 1838. Ira Gove resumed again in 1846 with his brother, William B. Gove, and they continued till 1866, when the business passed into the hands of George I. and Josiah Gove, son and son-in-law of Ira Gove. About this time there were eighty men and women at work on Lynn shoes, and the whole north part of the town was dotted over with little shoe shops.
Allen Sawyer, in 1852, removed his establishment to North Weare. In 1857 he transferred it to his son, Lindley M. Sawyer,# and his son-
* ALLEN SAWYER was born in Weare in 1803. In 1828 he opened a custom shoe shop. He soon took several apprentices, and commenced making ladies' shoes to sell in adjoining towns. He sold the first shoes in Pittsfield that were ever sold there in any store. He continued gradually to increase his business until he gave employ- ment to about forty hands, witli an annual production of eighteen to twenty thou- sand pairs and an annual sale of about $30,000. At one time he was in company with Ira Gove, at the cross-roads in Slab City, and subsequently with his son, Lindley M. Sawyer, and his son-in-law, John W. Hanson, at North Weare. Mr. Sawyer was a man of sterling integrity, universally respected, and contributed much to the pros- perity of his native town. He was a Whig in politics, afterwards a Republican, and a Quaker in religion.
He married, first, Annie Osborn, of Pittsfield, in 1828, and to them were born John O., Eliza L., Mary Jane and Lindley M. Sawyer; and second, Mary B. Peaslee, of Henniker, in 1845; children : Annie M., Hannah E., Abbie E. and Addie E. Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer died in 1867.
tIRA GOVE, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Breed) Gove, was born in Weare, July 4, 1805. He attended the public schools, worked on his father's farm and in his shoe shop till his majority, and then went to Concord where he worked in the custom shoe shop for Breed, Hoag & Dow, all well-known Weare men. In the fall of 1826 he returned to Weare, and in company with Allen Sawyer, bought the dwelling, tannery, shoe and currier shops of Daniel Osborn at the cross-roads, about a mile north of the Friends' south meeting-housc. There they manufactured the first ladies' shoes that were made in town for the country trade. Early in the spring of 1828 he sold his interest to his partner, went to Lynn, Mass., and established a similar business, but in a short time he entered Samuel Boyce's shoe factory as foreman and held the position for three years. In 1832 he again began shoe manufacturing on his own account, and for seven years made shoes for the southern and western market. In 1840, on account of ill- health, he removed to Richmond City, O., where he remodeled a steam flouring mill and manufactured flour till 1844, when he returned to Lynn. Two years later he went to his father's farm in Weare, and in company with his brother, William B. Gove, engaged in the manufacture of women's, niisses' and children's boots and shoes for the New England trade. He continued the business with his brother, and then with his son, till 1871, when he retired.
Mr. Gove now lives in Pittsfield, and for some time has been employed in the com- pilation of a genealogy of the Gove family in Weare. A remarkably good abstract which he furnished appears in the genealogical part of this history. In the fall of 1826 he took his first degrees in Masonry, in Aurora lodge, No. 43, Henniker. While in Lynn he was first lieutenant of a company of artillery, and for several years fore- man of the leading fire company. He represented the town of Weare in the legisla- ture in 1854 and 1865.
He married Harriet Phillips, of Lynn, Nov. 29, 1831. Issuc : Harriet Ella, born Oct. 28, 1835, at Lynn; George Ira, born April 10, 1837, at Lynn; Maria Augusta, born July 24, 1839, at Lynn; Helen Elizabeth, born Sept. 1, 1841, in Ohio; Rebecca Breed, born Nov. 13, 1843, in Ohio. Mrs. Gove died in 1878.
LINDLEY M. SAWYER, son of Allen and Annie (Osborn) Sawyer, was born in Weare Sept. 25, 1833. He attended Cartland's school at Clinton Grove, the Friends' school at Providence, R. I., and the academy at Vassalborough, Me. He early en-
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in-law, John W. Hanson. The latter firm was dissolved in 1865, when Mr. Sawyer once more engaged in the business, and continued it till he died in 1867. Lindley M. Sawyer, his son, has since car- ried it on and become wealthy.
Mr. Hanson* set up in the shoe business for himself in 1865, and has successfully prosecuted it ever since. He, as well as Mr. Saw- yer, put in improved machinery about 1868, and they now make mostly machine shoes, as they are called; many of the very best quality, and widely known as Quaker boots. Mr. Hanson gives employment to about thirty men and boys and fifteen women and girls. He has an annual pay-roll of nearly $12,000, and makes about fifteen thousand pairs of shoes, which sell for $30,000 .;
Mr. Sawyer is doing about the same amount of business, and the two establishments, Hanson's and Sawyer's, are the life of North Weare.
The shoe business has been of great advantage to the town. It has distributed more money, paid more taxes and brought more of the comforts of life, than any other mechanical industry.
SADDLES AND HARNESSES. Zephaniah Breed, at Weare Center, was a saddler in the last century. He carried on business until his death.
John Cheney, 1815, did business thirty years, until his death.
Thomas Rogers began about 1850. Did business about thirty years.
gaged in the shoe business with his father, and made shoes for the home trade, for parties in Lynn, Mass., and sent some to Mobile. In war times they annually made twenty-five thousand pairs; since he has been alone he has made from twelve thou- sand to twenty thousand pairs, and employed twenty to twenty-five hands. His shoes are known as the " Quaker" boots, and bear the stamp of a Quaker.
Mr. Sawyer has been town elerk several years and was a member of the legisla- ture in 1874 and 1875. He married Ellen R. Dickey Nov 25, 1867; eliildren : Allen W., Florence E., Emma R., George M. and Gertrude E. Sawyer.
* JOHN W. HANSON, son of Nathan and Sarah (Anstin) Hanson, was born at Pitts- field, Sept. 22, 1830, and moved to Weare with his parents in February, 1842. He at- tended the public schools, Pittsfield academy and Cartland's school at Clinton Grove. He worked on his father's farm till eighteen years of age, then engaged in the stove and tin-ware business at Weare Center from 1848 to 1857, selling from $5,000 to $10,000 worth of goods yearly. He moved to North Weare in December of the latter year, and in company with Lindley M. Sawyer carried on the shoe business in the shops of Allen Sawyer till June, 1865. He then began the manufacture of shoes on his own account, and has successfully continued the business to the present time. He has employed about forty persons on the average, has made some years fifteen thousand pairs of shoes, and his annual sales have reached $30,000. He began to use improved inaehinery in 1868, putting in that year one of Jordan Mckay's sewing machines, and has since profited by all the recent inventions for facilitating the work. For the last twenty years he has done as large if not a larger business than any one else in Weare. Mr. Hanson is also one of the proprietors of the Weare woolen mill, which at the present time is engaged in the manufacture of hosiery.
He married, Nov. 17, 1852, Mary Jane, daughter of Allen Sawyer, of North Weare.
t The shoc manufactories of Weare were reported as follows in 1870 : Capital, $24,000; males employed, 53; females and children, 20; annual pay-roll, $15,000; pairs of shoes made, 31,000; annual valne of products, $57,000.
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James Rogers succeeded his father in 1883, and is now doing business.
Jonathan Hobson had a harness shop at Oil Mill in 1824, and did an extensive business.
Amos Chase made harnesses in his shop at site seven on the Pis- cataquog, from 1836 to 1844.
CARDING AND FULLING MILLS. All wool was carded by hand for a whole half century after the town was settled. It was slow and hard work. Carding machines made their appearance shortly be- fore 1800, and Capt. Jacob Eaton, that year, was probably the first to bring one to Weare. He established it on lot sixteen, range six, by the road to Sugar hill, and operated it with horse-power. In 1811 he moved it down to Cross' mill, at site eighteen on the Pis- cataquog, and run it there till the mill was burned in 1830.
Richard and Ephraim Philbrick had a carding mill at site fifty- six on Center brook, built prior to 1809, and it run between thirty and forty years. The building was removed and made into a house.
Caleb Peaslee and David Nason built a carding and clothing mill at site nine on the Piscataquog about 1810. Andrew Woodbury, of Dunbarton, who had learned his trade of Cross & Gibson at East Weare, bought the establishment and operated it for many years. He was succeeded by his sons, William,* Caleb P. and George W. Woodbury, respectively. Custom carding is still done at this mill.
Daniel Bailey had the first carding machine in South Weare about 1814, at site forty-eight on the Peacock. He sold it about 1820. Josiah Dearborn once owned one-half of it.
James Whiting had a carding machine in his mill, site thirty-six on Meadow brook, about 1815. He operated it for many years.
James Woodbury established a carding mill at site thirty-six on the Peacock. Squires Gove succeeded him, and operated the mill till 1862, when it was burned, and a mill for other industries was erected in place of it.
* WILLIAM WOODBURY, son of Andrew and Lydia (Peaslee) Woodbury, was born in Weare, Jan. 20, 1804. He received a good common-school education, learned the clothier's trade of his father and carried on the business till 1854, when he sold to his brother, George W. Woodbury. Since then he has worked at farming. Mr. Woodbury served as town clerk several ycars, was one of the selectmen six years, a representa- tive to the legislature four sessions, 1840, 1841, 1842 and 1848, and a member of the constitutional convention in 1850. He was also a committee to perform other town business.
He married Philinda H. Blanchard, April 15, 1826, and to them were born three children, Daniel Peterson, John H. and Lydia A., who married Clinton W. Stanley, one of the judges of the Supreme Court.
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Moses Sawyer established a carding machine with his other in- dustries about 1831, at site ten on the Piscataquog, at North Weare.
After Cross' mill was burned at East Weare, John Q. and Louis F. Eaton cut a canal from the grist-mill at site seventeen on the Piscataquog down the north side of the road, and set up a carding mill, the water from this canal running across the road into the head of Cross' mill-pond. They did business here for many years.
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