The history of Weare, New Hampshire, 1735-1888, Part 71

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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His wife, Fanny Wallace, died Mareh 28, 1848; he died Nov. 18, 1860.


* HARRISON HOBSON was born at Oil Mill village, Weare, April 11, 1814. He was the only child of Jonathan and Lydia (Kelly) Hobson. His grandfather on his father's side was Capt. Jeremiah Hobson, of Amherst, and on his mother's side, Lieut. George Little, of Goffstown. Two-thirds of a century ago Oil Mill village was what it still continues to be. a mere hamlet. There was little of wealth among its people, and the children of both sexes were early taught the necessity of frugality and economy. In boyish sports, whether of a winter's night, or at the distriet sehool, it is more than a tradition that young Hobson was never at the rear.


At the age of fourteen, young Hobson left home and entered the country store of George Ela & Co., in the neigliboring village of West Goffstown, and began to gain that practical knowledge of the business in which he was afterwards aetively en- gaged. At first his duties were those of an errand boy, but he soon acquired that familiarity with the routine and peculiarities of rural trade, which led to his employ- ment as clerk in the store of E. & C. Richards, at that time an enterprising firm at Goffstown. Here he remained one year, when the firm established a branch store at New London. It is a proof of the confidence of his employers in his capacity and honesty, that young Hobson, then in his eighteenth year, was entrusted with its management.


At that time Dunstable, hitherto an unimportant town of Hillsborough eounty, began to be known as having a rapidly growing manufacturing village, on the banks of Nashua river. Wishing to know more of business-life than eould be gained in a retired country store, at the end of a year, young Hobson went to Nashua village, and entered the dry-goods store of Stillman, Hall & Co. In the fall of 1833, while thus employed, he was called upon by Hiram Simons, who was a few years his senior, a school-mate and intimate friend from early boyhood, Mr. Simons informed him that he contemplated opening a store at Weare, and wished to have Hobson join him as partner, which he agreed to do. Simons & Hobson began business in Novem- ber, 1833; the partnership was a fortunate one. Unlike in their modes of thought and action, cach was the complement of the other. Mr. Simons was reticent, methodical, sagacious, averse to the bustle of street-traffic, but entirely at home at the desk. The subject of this sketch was wide-awake, conversational, adapted to out-door trade, and with a keen foresight of the wants of the market. Henee while the care of the store was in the hands of the former, the latter had the sole responsi- bility of making purchases and procuring supplies.


Fifty years ago the management of a country store was by no means a pastime. The eredit system prevailed everywhere; the inflated period had eonneneed its de- cadence, and the most discerning could not foresee the time or extent of the crash. When it came carly in 1837, a considerable number of the merchants in the towns ad- joining Weare were obliged to fail. The firm of Simons & Hobson survived, and profiting by the opportunity, largely increased their business and profits. They sold out their stock and dissolved co-partnership in 1845, after doing a successful business for twelve years, and ever after the parties remained confidential friends till the death of Mr. Simons. In 1846, 1847 and 1848, Mr. Hobson was associated with the late Abel B. Cram, in the same line of business, at the old stand.


In April, 1849, Mr. Hobson removed with his family to Nashua, and in June follow-


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HON. JOHN HODGDOTT.


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COLLEGE GRADUATES.


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COLLEGE GRADUATES. Twenty-seven sons of Weare have graduated from college, having finished the regular course of study.


James Hadley. .1809 .... Dartmouth. .M. D.


David H. Bailey .1815. ... Middlebury, Vt. .Law.


Silas Blaisdale.


.1817 .. . Dartmouth. . Teacher.


James Whittle


.1824 .... Dartmouth. .Law.


John Hodgdon*


1827 .... Bowdoin


. Law.


John Raymond.


1834 .... Dartmouthi.


.Law.


David Cross 1841. ... Dartmouth. .Law.


Elbridge Marshall. 1850. ...


.. Dartmouth.


. Reverend.


Lyman Marshall. . 1850 .... Dartmouth.


.Reverend.


Franklin E. Chase


.1851 .... Haverford, Pa Book-dealer.


Jonathan Marshall 1854. . Dartmouth


.Law.


Elijah A. Gove 1856. Dartmouth.


Law.


Thomas Marshall. 1857 . Dartmouth. . Reverend.


ing, entered into the employ of the Nashua & Lowell railroad, filling in succession the positions of station agent, wood agent and treasurer, remaining until October, 1855. Each of these positions required continual, vigorous and judicious effort, and it is no exaggeration to add that they were filled with rare ability.


In October, 1855, Mr. Hobson was elected cashier of the newly organized Penni- chuck bank, and filled the office until the institution, after a successful existence of ten years, closed its business in 1865. In October of the same year, he was appointed agent and treasurer of the Pennichuck water works, having the supervision of that successful enterprise, till his resignation in 1880. He was also one of the original trustees of the Nashua Savings bank, holding the position for twenty years, and much of the time one of the investing committee.


In 1880, Mr. Hobson retired from active business, still retaining the position of president of the Nashua Gas Light company, a director of the Pennichuck water works and of the Indian Head National bank. He retains that strength and vigor- ous health which result from regular habits and systematic industry, and takes an undiminished interest in the prosperity of the community and the current topics of the day.


On the 28th of December, 1837, Mr. Hobson was married to Eliza McQuesten, of Goffstown, a lady possessing in a rare degree the essential qualities of true woman- hood, not the least of which is the capacity to make a happy home. They have two children, a daughter and son, both born in Weare. The daughter, Sarah Josepha, is the wife of William A. Robinson, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; the son, Harry M., succeeded his father in 1880, as treasurer of the Pennichuck water works, and still holds that position.


In politics Mr. Hobson has always been a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, but never a professional politician. In religious views he is a Unitarian, and has been a member of the Unitarian society at Nashua for the past thirty-seven years.


The semi-centennial of the married life of Mr. and Mrs. Hobson will occur in December, 1887. Their residence is pleasantly located on the west side of Concord street, Nashua.


* HON. JOHN HODGDON, son of Moses and Dorcas (Dow) Hodgdon, was born at Weare, Oct. 8, 1800. He inherited the sterling integrity of his father, with the execu- tive ability and many personal traits of his grandfather. He received his prepara- tory education at the district school in Weare, Gilmanton academy and Phillips academy at Exeter, entered Bowdoin college in 1823, and graduated with distinguished honors in 1827. He studied law in the office of Allen Gilman, of Bangor, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1830. On the death of his grandfather, in 1821, Mr. Hodgdon came into possession of a large tract of land in Maine, and the conditions of ownership de- manded immediate attention ; he therefore left Exeter in the midst of his preparatory course, and following the water courses and the paths of trappers and Indians, sooll reached his grant in north-eastern Maine. He at once organized a surveying party from the neighboring province of New Brunswick, laid out his land into lots, secured settlers to establish his claim, and thus founded the town which afterwards bore his name. In 1832 he was a delegate from Maine to the Democratic national convention held in Baltimore, which nominated Andrew Jackson for the presidency. In 1833 he was a member of the governor's council. Through the influence of the Mainc dele- gation at Washington, he succeeded in establishing a military post at Houlton, and took an active and efficient part in the disputed boundary question which led to the Aroostook war, a controversy finally settled in 1842, by the famous Ashburton treaty. Mr. Hodgdon held the office of state land agent four years, and that of bank examiner and commissioner six years. He was appointed by President Polk com- missioner on the part of the state of Maine, to confer with a like commission from


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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1848.


Hcman A. Dearborn* .1857 .... Tufts.


.Professor of Latin.


Stark Fellows. 1862 ... Dartmouth


Colonel of colored regt.


George W. Morrill .1862 .... Dartmouth Law.


Elbridge G. Dearborn. .1862 ... Tufts.


. Went to war and died.


John P. Bartlett. .1864. Dartmouth. .Law.


Rodney G. Chasc. 1864


Dartmouth Sci. Dept .Teacher.


Frederick F. Foster .1865. Dartmouth. . Teacher.


Josiah G. Dearborn 1867. Dartmouth. Law.


Henry A. Sawyer. 1874. . Dartmouth Agri. Dept. .Farmer.


Walter S. Kelley 1882. Dartmouth Sci. Dept. . Manufacturer.


Charles Page 1884. .Tufts. .Teacher.


Manley Raymond


Harvard .Law.


Sewell Eaton


. Union


Reverend.


William L. Eaton.


Colby University. . Reverend.


Col. Jesse A. Gove graduated from the military school at Norwich, Vt.


LAWYERS. Weare has had but few lawyers who resided in town, but her citizens have employed a goodly number who lived elsewhere, particularly in Manchester.


Phinehas Howe. .1808


James Whittlet. 1827 | Dana B. Gove. .1885


David H. Bailey. .1818 Charles J. Hadley. .1880 Robert J. Peaslee 1886


Josiah Danforth. .1820


Oliver E. Branch. 1885 Abel B. Berry. .1887


PHYSICIANS. The following doctors have practised medicine in Weare : -


Philip Hoit. .1770 Jeremiah Eaton 1793


Jonathan Parker 1796


Benjamin Page. .1771 James Silver. .1775


- Jewett. .1796


William Oliver. .1780


Thomas Eatont .1793


- Tuttle. .1798


Langley Kelley. .1788


Elijah Butler§ .1795 - Blodgett. .1800


Massachusetts to settle and distribute the territorial fund. In 1846 he was elected to the state senate, and the following year was president of that body. He was at one time general of a division of the state militia, hence the title of general by which he was better known, the latter part of his life. In 1853 he removed from Maine to Dubuque, Iowa, where he was regarded from the first as a leading and influential man. In 1858 he was elected mayor of Dubuque, and in subsequent years filled many positions of trust. He was senior warden of the Episcopal church as long as he would consent to an election, and was inany times a delegate to the national church convention. General Hodgdon was a thorough partisan, but never narrow or petty, and bestowed his quiet sarcasm on political folly wherever it appeared. He was a typical gentleman of the old school, conservative in his tastes, stately in his bearing, somewhat formal in his conversation, but a delightful talker, original and always entertaining. In a memorial notice of General Hodgdon, he is spoken of as " the noblest Roman of them all," and it is but just to say that his manners, his learning, his character, marked the gentleman, the scholar and the Christian. "And death has rounded into calm completeness the stature of his life."


General Hodgdon married, in 1838, Margaret Amelia Leggett, of New York, who survives him. He died at Dubuque, Aug. 27, 1883. They had no children, but a few years since adopted a little girl, who became the pride and comfort of their lives.


* HEMAN ALLEN DEARBORN, son of Josiah and Sarah (Green) Dearborn, was born at South Weare, May 18, 1831. He spent his early years on his father's farm, attended Francestown academy, entered Tufts college in 1855 and graduated therefrom in 1857. He at once engaged in the profession of teaching, and taught first at Arlington, Mass., three years; was principal at Clinton Liberal institute, Clinton, N. Y., four years; then was appointed professor of Latin in Tufts college in 1864, and has since filled that position. He went to Europe in the spring of 1878 and returned in the fall of 1879, spending much of the time in Italy.


Mr. Dearborn married Miss Julia A. Patch, of Nashua, in 1858.


t Ile practised law in Weare, and at Concord in company with Hon. Charles H. Peaslee. He went South, cdited a paper, taught, and died at Cape Gradeau, Mo., in 1837.


# Weare Center. § On Sugar hill.


A,B, Story


1800.]


PHYSICIANS IN WEARE AND OTHER PLACES.


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- Leonard. .1803


Ziba Adams.


1824 | Joshua F. Whittle. .1842


Asa Kittredge .1806


Simon J. Beard. .1824


Freeman Horton. .1854


John Carr. 1811 John Baker .1824


Abram B. Storyt .. 1858


Isaiah Green. 1812 Hiram Hadley .1825


Robert B. Carswell 1860


Samuel Peterson .. 1812, 1815


Philip Cilley. 1811, 1826


Alfred R. Dearborn. 1870


William Swett. .1816


Samuel A. Shute* .1827


James P. Whittle. 1875


Peter C. Farnham. .1816


Henry Tebbetts .1828


Roscoe O. Wood.


1882


Ebenezer Stevens. .1816


James Peterson. .1830


Frank Eaton.


.1882


John Stevens. .1817


George E. Morrill. .1831


Thaddeus Hanson


Nathaniel Howard, 1818, 1820


Harrison Eaton. .1838


Isaac Kelley.


Abner Page. .1820


Lemuel W. Paige. .1840


Joseph Bean.


Samuel Sawyer. .1821


The following persons born in Weare have practised medicine in other places :-


Dr. Jeremiah Eaton.


Dr. Herbert G. Gould.


Dr. Daniel Breed, Medical university of New York.


Dr. Enoch Greene,§ Medical university of New York.


Dr. Nathaniel Martin.


* Died on his return from Montreal.


t DR. ABRAM B. STORY, the son of Col. Warren and Mary (Stinson) Story, was born in Dunbarton Feb. 9, 1821. His father, Colonel Warren, was the son of David Story, who came from Chebacco, now Essex, Mass., by the sea, in 1774 or 1775, and settled on the farm where David Story now lives, in the south part of Dunbarton. Doctor Story lived at home and went to the district school till he was fifteen years old, then attended for several terms Hopkinton and Pembroke academies, and at the age of twenty years he began the study of medicine with Doctor Carr, of Goffs- town. He continued his inedical studies with Dr. Benjamin Rush Palmer, of Wood- stock, Vt., who was professor of anatomy and physiology in both the Vermont Medical university and the Berkshire (Mass.) Medical college, and graduated from the latter institution in 1844. He at once bought out Doctor Gale, of Hookset, and practised there for two years. He then pursued his calling in Manchester, Mass., till the discovery of gold in California in 1849, when he went, with his brother, Lafay- ette, to that territory. He worked digging for gold two months, then for a time en- gaged in shipping merchandise up the Sacramento river, and finally settled in San Francisco, and in company with his brother dealt largely in real estate. Leaving his affairs in the charge of his brother, he returned East in 1857 and soon after engaged in the business of raising sheep and wool with Abraham Melvin, of Weare, with whom he lived, on Barnard hill, for ten years. In 1869 he went to Manchester and bought the residence of Gov. Moody Currier, where he has since resided. In 1870 he purchased, in company with others, a large tract of land in West Medford, Mass., five miles from Boston, and for the next three years was occupied in improv- ing and selling it for building lots. In the meantime he dealt in real estate in Man- chester, and has spent his time in taking care of it and in assisting his father-in-law, Mr. Melvin, in the sheep business, till the death of the latter in 1886. While in Weare, Doctor Story represented the town in the legislature. He has been a successful business-man, and is at present the executor of Mr. Melvin's large estate.


He married Mary Ann, daughter of Abraham Melvin, March 29, 1859, and to them were born three children : Sarah Jane, born March 22, 1860, and died of consumption Sept. 14, 1875; Mary Elbra, born Aug. 23, 1862, married D. Arthur Taggart Nov. 11, 1884; Carrie Melvin, born Jan. 30, 1868. Mrs. Story died at Manchester April 29, 1882.


JAMES HADLEY, son of George Hadley, was born in Weare, July 5, 1785. He grad- uated at Dartmouth college; a class-mate with Levi Woodbury; studied medicine with Dr. Jonathan Gove, of Goffstown; went to New York; married Maria Hamilton in June, 1812, and was professor of chemistry at Fairfield, Geneva and Buffalo, N. Y.


§ ENOCH GREENE, M. D., eldest child and only son of Moses and Betty Greene, was born in Weare, Oct. 29, 1820. He was educated until his nineteenth year in the district school and at Clinton Grove academy, under the tutelage of Moses A. Cart- land. In 1839 he attended Nine Partners' Friends' school, Dutchess county, N. Y .; in 1840 he commenced his studies and attended lectures in the Medical university of New York. After graduating and receiving his medical diploma he was appointed as assistant physician successively at Bellevue hospital and Blackwell's island hos- pital. In May, 1845, he commenced private practice in New Castle, Westchester county, N. Y., where he very soon gathered a large circle of friends and patients.


June 25, 1845, he was united in marriage with Phebe H. Chase, of Weare. He was, in 1848, appointed as medical director at the Sing Sing state prison, N. Y.,


Dr. Albert C. Buswell, Maine Medical college, 1877.


Dr. James Hadley.#


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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.


[1776.


Dr. James Danforth. Dr. John Harvey Woodbury. t


Dr. Philip N. Cilley,* Medical university of Louisiana, 1848.


Dr. Benjamin Dodge Peaslee, ; Pulte Medical college, Cincinnati, (., 1885.


STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS from Weare: -


JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND JUDGES OF THE COURT OF SES- SIONS. John Robie,§ 1776; Benjamin Page, 1776.


CORONER. Aaron Quimby, 1777.


REGISTER OF PROBATE. Josiah G. Dearborn, 1860, 1865.


REGISTER OF DEEDS. John L. Hadley, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.


DEPUTY SHERIFFS. Humphrey Sawyer, Allen Waldo, Isaac J.


Caldwell, Benjamin Alcock, Benjamin B. Currier, Thomas Muzzy.


and from thence appointed to the eare of Ward's island emigrant hospitals and nur- series. During the prevalence of cholera his wife, Plebe H., was stricken with the disease, and after a few hours' illness died, August, 1849. During Doctor Greene's superintendence the death-rate was greatly reduced, and his skill in the treatment of ship-fever so highly commended him that he acquired celebrity. New buildings for nurseries and hospitals were ereeted after architectural designs made by him and under his personal oversight. The pecuniary affairs of the institutions also were improved.


In January, 1850, his health became impaired, and he was compelled, reluetantly, to resign his appointment. After a period of rest he accepted the office of chief physician at the King's county hospitals, almshouses and nurseries, at Flatbush, L. I., Nov. 20, 1850.


On March 13, 1851, he married Susan M. Brandage, of New Castle, N. Y.


Doctor Greene was famed for winning the confidence of his patients and the love and respect of his wide circle of medical and private friends. He died April 24, 1851, of ship-fever, and was laid to rest beside his wife and children in the old church-yard of New Castle, N. Y.


* PHILIP N. CILLEY, son of Seth N. and Sarah (Cavis) Cilley, was born in Weare, March 9, 1821. He was educated at New Hampton academy and graduated in medi- cine at the University of Louisiana in 1848. He settled in Lawndesboro', Lawndes county, Ala., where he has since practised his profession. He was a member of the Alabama legislature in 1886 and 1887. Doetor Cilley married first Miss Carrie Stafford, and second Miss S. K. Whitman, and has three children.


t JOHN H. WOODBURY, son of William and Philinda H. (Blanchard) Wood- bury, was born in Weare Ang. 8, 1831. Early in life he became a close student, and at an early age prepared for college. After spending a year or two at Harvard Medical school he entered the homeopathie college at Cleveland, O., where he graduated with high honors in 1855. He practised at Lawrence and East Boston, where he was remarkably successful. In 1866 he visited Europe, where he spent some time in the German colleges. He was a member of the school committee of East Boston in 1872, and afterwards of the Massachusetts legislature. It was mainly through his energy that the Boston Homeopathic university was incorporated, and in addition to his large practice he filled a professorship in that institution.


He married Mary A. Gray, of Wilton, in 1856, and to them was born one son, Fred- erick Clinton, in March, 1860. Doctor Woodbury died Feb. 28, 1880. His son graduated at Harvard college, studied medieine and graduated at Harvard Medical school; commenced practice in the Massachusetts General hospital, where he died of typhoid fever Dce. 4, 1886. Mrs. Woodbury died March 2, 1886.


Į DR. BENJAMIN D. PEASLEE, son of Robert and Persis B. (Dodge) Peaslee, was born in Weare, April 18, 1857. He studied medicine, graduated at the Pulte Medical college, Cincinnati, O., in 1885, and at onee began practice at Coneord in company with Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger. In addition to the ordinary business of a physician he makes the eye and ear a specialty, and in the surgical treatment of the same has been decidedly sueeessful.


§ JOHN ROBIE did much justice business, and many eases werc tried before him. He would issue a writ, no matter how small the sum. He once tried a case against a man in Henniker, for a pint mug, - value, twenty-five eents. At another time he made a trover-writ for a man in Goffstown, to recover damages for the detention of a hen, - priee, twenty cents. IIe held the office of town clerk thirty-three years; when at last he was voted out, he felt very badly abont it, and said there were so many King George's men in Weare that one could not get his rights. He had held the office so long he thought he ought to have it all his life.


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S.R. Eastman .


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STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS ; FIRES.


1820.]


ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SESSIONS COURT. Joseph Philbrick, appointed Dec. 21, 1820; held the office four years.


SIDE-JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Simon P. Colby,* appointed in 1833 ; held the office eight years.


STATE SENATORS. Hezekiah D. Buzzell, 1822; one year. Simon P. Colby, 1842, 1843; two years. Daniel Paige, 1857, 1858; two years. William H. Gove, 1873, 1874; two years. Oliver D. Saw- yer,t 1887 ; elected for two years.


STATE TREASURER. Josiah G. Dearborn, 1874-5 ; one year.


SECRETARY OF STATE. John L. Hadley, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854 ; five years.


STATE LIBRARIAN. Samuel C. Eastman,# 1851.


WARDEN OF THE STATE PRISON. Joseph Mayo, 1868.


COUNCILORS. John L. Hadley, 1849, 1850; two years. Moses A. Hodgdon, 1868, 1869 ; two years.


FIRES. There have been many fires in Weare. The following are a part of them : -


Col. Nathaniel Fifield's house and his child in it, Sugar hill, 1788. Edmund Johnson's farm-buildings, East Weare, 1785.


Ebenezer Peaslee's farm-buildings and contents, East Weare, 1791; set by Phebe Flanders.


Ebenezer Peaslee's barn, East Weare, 1796.


The pest-house, Burnt hill, 1797.


Josiah Clough's farm-buildings, East Weare, 1797.


The first town-house, Weare Center, 1799.


* SIMON P. COLBY was appointed side-judge, and when he went for his commission he met Ex-Gov. Benjamin Pierce, who said, " Now, Mr. Colby, I would not bother myself, if I were you, to study up all the little niee points of law; just. exereise your common sense, for what is common sense is law, or ought to be."


t HON. OLIVER DENNETT SAWYER was born in Portland, Me., Nov. 19, 1839. His father, Daniel Sawyer, was a native of Henniker, and his mother, Dorcas Hodgdon, of Weare. She was the daughter of Moses Hodgdon, and sister of Hon. Moses A. Hodg- don. Young Sawyer was educated at Colby academy, New London, and at the Friends' school, Providence, R. I. In 1865, he entered his father's store at North Weare, the first one ever kept at that place. He continued with his father until the latter's death in 1885, and has sinee on his own account successfully carried on the business. He was appointed postmaster in 1869, and held the office till 1885. In 1886 he was elected to the New Hampshire senate for two years. In polities he has always been a Republican. His parents belonged to the Society of Friends, and he was brought up in the faith.


Mr. Sawyer married Mary J. Morgan, of Hopkinton, Oct. 8, 1884.


I SAMUEL C. EASTMAN, son of Thomas Eastman, a soldier of the 1812 war, was born in Weare, Nov. 10, 1821. He was educated in the common schools, was an excellent farmer and had much intellectual ability. He was selectman two years, represented the town in the legislature two years, 1849, 1850, and was state librarian in 1851. He married Fidelia Nichols, July 3, 1845, and had two sons : George F., born Sept. 17, 1846, and Morrison W., born Nov. 10, 1850. He soon after lost his health and spent the winter of 1855-6 in Florida, trying to regain it. He died of consumption May 24, 1856, aged 34 years 6 months. His wife died of the same disease March 10, 1857, aged 34 years 5 months. Mr. Eastman was a warm friend, possessed of good qualities, and was universally respected by his fellow-townsmen.




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