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194. Jacob-Copeland6, b. Nov. 13, 1832; m. Jan. 20, 1864,
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Lucinda Hoar, of Fitchburg, Mass., b. May 9, 1839; res. in Keene, N. H.
CHILD.
1. Austin-C.7, b. March 28, 1871.
195. Clarissa-Melissa®, b. Dec. 26, 1833; m. June 1, 1854, Virgil-A. Wright, b. Feb. 16, 1830; res. Keene, N. Il.
CHILDREN.
1. Murry-V.7, b. at Marlow, March 15, 1855.
2. Clarence-1.7, b. nt Keene, March 1, 1858.
3. Mabel-C., b. at Keene, July 1, 1866.
196. Silas-Murray6, b. June 22, 1836; studied medicine and began practice at North Branch ; m. Sept. 11, 1866, Georgiana Cary, of Lempster, N. H., b. Nov. 20, 1841; and moved to East Washington, thence to Francestown, and thence to Keene, where he pursues his profession with ability and honor.
CHILD.
1. Frank-M.7, b. Dec. 28, 1868.
197. James6 [75] (John', John8, Robert2, John1), was born in Windham, Aug. 24, 1790. Graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1813. He read law with John Porter, of Derry, till the death of his father, in 1814. After settling his father's business affairs, he left, on account of a family predisposition to consumption, for Natchez, Miss., where he continued his legal studies with Judge Turner, of that city. He soon, however, engaged in sugar-planting, and never practised his profession. After pursuing that business in Mississippi and Louisiana for twenty-five years, desiring to live in a more northerly climate, he was induced by his uncle Silas to buy 800 acres of land in Boone County, Kentucky, and there engaged in farming. He also bought a tract of land in Missouri, and upon these he put his colored people that had worked on his sugar-plantation in Louisiana. In Kentucky, he cultivated his land with success; a portion was devoted to the growth of basket-willow, which he made a profitable crop. He lived in rural affluence, dispensing hospitality and entertaining his friends and visitors when at home, and visiting Cincinnati and other cities when inclination prompted, with the leisure for enjoyment which is unknown to the business man. He was scholarly in his tastes and pursuits ; kept himself abreast with all the current literature, maintained a large correspondence with men of letters, enjoyed the otium cum dignitate so much desired by the old Roman. In person he was of majestic mien, over six feet (two inches) in height, broad- shouldered, and with muscular limbs in every way proportionate. When he lifted an iron casting, weighing 500 pounds, from the ground, with his hands, the looker-on would not readily believe that he had fled from New Hampshire to find a climate, as he
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supposed, more congenial to one having the taint of hereditary consumption. He died at his home in Kentucky, Dec. 21, 1872. He married, May 13, 1829, Martha Macomb, daughter of Alex- ander Macomb, of Georgetown, D. C., a lady of rare accomplish- ments, and a most genial and loving companion, who died Aug. 17, 1859. Children : -
198. Isabella-Ramsay6, b. Cincinnati, O., April 11, 1830. She m. in 1859, Hon. Charles-C. Flandran, of St. Paul, Minn., and d. June 30, 1867.
CHILDREN.
1. Martha-Macomb7, b. Aug. 14, 1861.
2. Sarah-Gibson7, b. Dec. 4, 1866.
199. Julia-Stockton6, b. Terrebonne Parish, La., March 6, 1833. She resides on her paternal acres in Kentucky.
200. Susan-Bell6, b. Terrebonne Parish, La., Sept. 10, 1835. She was drowned from a pleasure-boat while on a visit at her uncle's, in Ripley, N. Y., July 19, 1851.
201. John-Bell5 [76] (John+, John3, Robert2, John1), b. Windham, Aug. 14, 1792. He followed the sea three years. In 1814, at the suggestion of his father, on account of a sup- posed tendency to consumption in his family, he left Derry, N. H., and went to Chautauqua Co., N. Y., where, on the 14th of August of that year, it being the day on which he attained his twenty-second year, he purchased a large tract of land, on a part of which he continued to reside till his death, Ang. 15, 1871. He was a man of marked character, simple and unpretending in his manners, doing good in various ways as opportunity offered, desiring most of all to live near to God. The people of Ripley, where he lived fifty-eight years, still feel his influence in church and school. He was widely known and greatly respected. He m. 1st, at Erie, Pa., March 6, 1821, Nancy Wilson, b. June 8. 1798; d. Jan. 15, 1831. Children : -
202. Jane-Swan6, b. May 10, 1822; m. May 25, 1847, Wm .- B. Hawley. Mrs. H. d. May 20, 1879, at Westfield, N. Y.
CHILDREN,
1. Florence-B.7, who m. D .- W. Cronse, M. D., and res. at Waterloo, la.
2. Grace-D.7, b. Nov. 25, 1856; d. April 20, 1878.
3. Martha-Dinsmoor7, b. Oct. 2, 1857.
203. Charles6, b. March 7, 1824; d. in Wis., Feb. 25, 1855 ; m. Oct. 4, 1848, Emeline Willis, of . Ripley, N. Y.
CHILDREN.
1. Emma, b. Feb. 1, 1850; m. William-H. Collins, Oct. 15, 1873; res. Ripley, N. Y.
2. William7.
204. Sarah-Wilson6, b. June 3, 1828 ; m. May 25, 1847, Hon. Selden Marvin, of Erie, Pa.
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1. Dudley?, d. in youth.
Mary-Whally?, graduated Vassar College, 1874; read medicine in New York City; m. Sept. 1876, D .- O. Dell, New York, but died soon after her marriage, of typhoid fever. She was a young lady of brilliant talents and great promise.
3. Charles-Dinsmoor, graduated Lafayette College.
1. Elizabeth-Selden, graduated Vassar College, 1881.
5. Anna-Humphreys ?.
205. William-Wilson", b. June 3, 1828; m. Oct. 2, 1854, Annie Bliss, of Westfield, N. Y. ; res. Erie, Pa.
John-Bell Dinsmoor was a second time married, June 14, 1832, to Elizabeth Griffin, who was b. at East Haddam, Conn., July 13, 1799, and d. Feb. 2, 1836. Children, by 2d wife : -
206. Ellen-Griffin6, b. April 19, 1833; d. April 17, 1838.
207. Harriet-Griffin", b. Jan. 25, 1835; m. Feb. 12, 1862, Herman Woodruff; res. Ripley, N. Y. Children : John-Dins- moor7, Mary7.
John-Bell Dinsmoor was a third time married, Feb. 15, 1837, to Harriet-Hall Alden, of Meadville, Pa., who was b. in Williams- town, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1806 ; now dec. Children, by 3d wife : -
208. John-Bell6, b. March 15, 1838; m. April 14, 1865, Helen-M. Mattison, of Ashville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y .; res. at Sutton, Clay Co., Neb. He served in the war of 1861 as first lieut. of the Ninth N. Y. Cavalry. Has been sheriff and clerk of the county in which he resides.
209. Henry“, b. Sept. 3, 1839 : d. in infancy.
210. George-Washington-Pattison6, b. Aug. 30, 1840.
211. Elizabeth-Alden6, b. March 12, 1843; m. Feb. 8, 1875, Silas-Spencer Goodrich, who d. Nov. 14, 1878. She now res. at Sutton, Neb.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary-Marvin7, b. Oct. 1, 1879.
2. Helen-Gertrude7, b. July 5, 1878 ; d. April 19, 1879.
212. Susan-Bell", b. July 16, 1845 ; d. Jan. 25, 1853.
213. James6, b. Dec. 26, 1848 ; m. Sept. 15, 1873, Jane Fell. Is a banker, and res. at Chester, Thayer Co., Neb.
CHILDREN.
1. Harriet-A.7, b. May 19, 1876.
2. Sallie-Marvin7, b. April 22, 1880.
214. William-B.5 [111] (William4, John3, Robert2, John1), was b. in Boston, 1810. In boyhood his father sent him to Pink- erton Academy, in Derry, N. H. After he came home the father made an examination of his acquirements, to learn whether he had made a good investment of his money, and found William to be a very poor penman. Fully appreciating the importance to a young man of being able to write a good hand, he selected a writing- master, and sent his son to him to learn to write. The father, in
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speaking of it at the time, said, "I found William could not write a good hand when I brought him from Derry, so I sent him to - to learn to write. Now he writes a hand as handsome as copper-plate." Who can tell how much of the success of the son is directly owing to the keen foresight of the father in thus looking after his practical education ? As the best part of his life has been spent in the express business, and he has been so identified with it, that the history of the Adams Express Company is little more than that of William-B. Dinsmore, we will give it in brief, at the same time by no means desiring to be understood as wishing to detract from the merit of his associates and co-laborers.
In 1839, Mr. Alvin Adams, of Boston, commenced the express business over the Norwich line from Boston to New York. Mr. Dinsmore was employed by him as bookkeeper. Soon after this a partnership was formed between them, under the name of Adams & Co. Mr. Dinsmore was admitted as a partner, and was sent to New York to establish the business there. When he arrived in the city he went to the United States Hotel to board. He told his landlord why he had come to New York, and that he was by no means confident of the success of the business about to be started. The modesty of this beginning and the success of the enterprise are in striking contrast with many flash operations that have had their brief day of extrava- gant existence, and have overwhelmed friend and foe in one common ruin. At this time the express business was confined to Boston and New York. In 1842-3, extensions were made to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Pittsburgh. Other parties, also, became interested as proprietors, and in a few years, express traffic growing rapidly, the firm's business extended West and South, and covered every railway in the Southern States. On July 1, 1854, the firm of Adams & Co. became the Adams Express Company, a joint stock association, with Alvin Adams as president and William-B. Dinsmore, treasurer. The main office and headquarters of the association were located in New York City. Its business had become prosperous, and its importance to the public established. Its snecess continued until the approach of serious difficulty between the North and South made it necessary to sell its Southern lines to Southern stock- holders. When the civil war commenced in 1861, the Adams Express Company's agents accompanied the Northern army, and wherever a " camp " was established, "express offices" (generally in tents) were opened, and an opportunity given the soldiers to receive packages from home and transmit money to their families or friends. Over five millions of money parcels were forwarded from the armies and distributed by the Adams Express agencies, without the loss of a dollar to the parties sending or receiving them. The agents of the company were so zealous and active in securing and occupying good situations in captured cities and towns, that they often transgressed military rules. It is related that
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when our army entered Vicksburg, Miss., upon its surrender by General Pemberton, the Adams Express agent having rushed forward and secured an unoccupied house, was about to raise the express flag, when General Grant rode up, and with a quiet twinkle in his eye, said, " Will you do me the favor to allow me to hoist my flag first ?" The Express Company now traverses daily 72,162 miles of railway, and has agencies at all places on the lines of road where business is transacted. It is the authorized agent of the United States Treasury Department, and has transported thousands of millions of its treasures and securities, without the Government having sustained the loss of a dollar. From his first connection with the Company, to the present time, Mr. Dinsmore has remained at his post in New York City, having been made president of the association in 1856. He has never permitted himself to engage in any business capable of diverting his attention from the Adams Express, and its great success has been his justification.
A prominent feature in Mr. Dinsmore's character is his resolute conservatism. His determined resistance to all adventures of a precarious nature, and his insisting upon absolute security in all investments, have carried the Adams Express Company through the financial storms of thirty years with less loss than has ever been sustained by any other organization which has owned as many millions. Mr. Dinsmore's integrity, good judgment, force of character, and wealth have placed him undoubtedly at the head of the express interest. In private life he is somewhat reserved in manner and reticent in conversation. With friends and old associates he is frank, genial, and entertaining. His fund of "mother wit" seems inexhanstible. As a correspondent, he has few superiors. His letters overflow with wit and humor. An interchange of epistles between him and Tom Hood would have become classical reading, and the full capacity of Hood have been ascertained.
Mr. Dinsmore is naturally economical, and has always lived in accordance with his circumstances, but he has a very sensitive ear to a tale of woe, and many hearts have been gladdened by his yniet a-sistance, not put on record in this world. His hospitality is unbounded, and few have the opportunity and surroundings to maintain it as he does at his country-seat on the Hudson, at Staatsburgh.
He has avoided political strife, but was chosen one of the electors in the presidential election of 1880, and may not be able to escape other responsibilities which his friends desire to thrust upon him. He m. Oct. 19, 1842, Augusta-M. Snow, of Brewster, Mass. Children : -
215. William-B., Jr.6, b. 1845.
216. Clarence-G.6, b. 1848.
217. Theodores [119] (James+, Robert3. Robert2, John1). Dea. Theodore Dinsmoor, son of Capt. James and Ruth (Betton)
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Dinsmoor, was b. in Windham, N. H., April 22, 1798. He was of a square build, compact in bone and muscle. When a young man he was straight as an arrow ; could outrun and out- jump and ontwrestle the whole town. Indeed, in youthful ath- letie sports he was the pride of the neighborhood. The ease and grace with which he would beat any competitor, took away all sting and mortification from the vanquished, and instead of a sullen foe, he became a fast friend, and as proud of the honor of having contended with him in a trial of his strength and skill as most boys would have been in coming off victorious. He was a most skilful drummer, - this as a mere amateur, not giving his time to the profession, except as a source of amusement to him- self and gratification to his friends. That was in the days of the glorious pomp and circumstance of the training and regimental muster of the New Hampshire militia, before the military spirit, kindled by the war of 1812, had died out, and the militia degen- erated into that laughing-stock of the world which characterized its condition, in most of the Northern States, at the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861.
He was a hatter by trade, and had a shop near his house, in which he worked during the winter season, and at such times as the work on his farm did not require his attention ; and while the most of the other young men in his town were obliged to resort to teaming, which in that day was done almost exclusively with ox-teams, whose slow motion required their driver to be a part of the night as well as a whole day on the road from home to market with wood, which was the chief article of merchandise for the farmer, he saved his wood, his team, and his sleep, by accomplish- ing as much, or more, with his hands in his shop, as others would with their teams in carrying wood to market. He was remark- ably neat and trim in his personal appearance, always dressed in good taste, and whatever pursuit he was engaged in, the man, the dress, and the work made a harmonions whole; and this characteristic was noticed in every detail about his farm. His buildings were always neat, tidy, and in good repair; his horse was faultless in form.and nicely groomed ; his carriage clean and fit for the nicest occasions; and yet in all this there was a total absence of all attempt at show. There was in him that instinc- tive idea of the eternal fitness of things, which enabled him to do the right thing at the right time and in the right place. As he was in the conduct of his affairs, so was he in his personal habits and character, - as a boy, guilty of no marked indiscre- tions ; as a young man, the supporter of no pernicious vice or habit; and as a man of mature years, a model of propriety in every walk of life. He served his town in the various capacities of town officer, and represented its interests in the legislature in 1842, '43, '18, and '54, with credit to himself and fidelity to his constituents. He united with the Presbyterian church in Wind- ham in 1831, and was ordained a deacon in that church in 1843,
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which office he held until his death, Ang. 26, 1870. He m. Oct. 24, 1827, Eliza Morrison, of Windham, who still (1880) survives him. Children : -
218. Samuel-Morrison", b. in Windham, May 31, 1831; m. Adelia-II. Banta, of New York; carpenter; res. Yonkers, N. Y.
CHILD.
1. Theodora-Belle?, b. April 11, 1872.
219. Edwin-Orville", b. Sept. 23, 1834, at Windham; at- tended Atkinson Academy several terms, and has given much study to music ; succeeded his father on the home- stead : is a musician, carpenter, and farmer; has been organist in the church for about twenty-eight years, and was a member of the choir previously, making over thirty years of choir mem- bership. He perforins well the duties of a good citizen.
220. Martha-Amanda6, b. Oct. 16, 1839; m. July 5, 1877, Horace Anderson; res. Windham. In her school-days she was much beloved by her companions, and as she matured, and girl- hood gave place to womanhood, the true womanly qualities of mind and heart were more strongly developed. She was very attractive in form and personal bearing, and winning in her ways, possessed of good judgment, and much decision and force of character. She res. with her brother in New York City and Yonkers, N. Y., for several years previous to her marriage. She was happily married, and became an efficient worker in the church and Sabbath-school, and society generally; and when to her friends and acquaintances it became apparent that the hand of the Destroyer was laid upon her, kindly they ministered to her: but leaving her companion and family and friends to mourn her loss, she d. respected and beloved. July 19, 1880. (See An- derson family.)
221. Aurelia-Jennette6, b. May 10, 1844; res. at the home- stead in Windham, 1882.
222. John-Taylor-Gilman5 [120] (James4, Robert3, Robert", John1). He was b. in Windham, on the old homestead of his father and grandfather. He was symmetrical in build, powerful in muscular strength, of commanding height and perfect figure, and when clothed in regimentals would have filled the eye of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden. Genial in his manners, a favorite among his associates, he rose by regular promotion to the cap- taincy of the company of infantry in his native town, soon after arriving at his majority. He and his brother Theodore bought out the other heirs in the homestead, and making a verbal parti- tion of the lands and buildings, they both settled on the home farm. He m. Mehitable, dau. of Cadford and Susanna Malloon, of Salem. He was brought up in the Presbyterian church, and prior to his acquaintance with his wife, had always attended that meeting. But she was a Methodist before their marriage, and he left the Presbyterians and united with the Methodists.
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The historian tells us that General Washington met his wife (then Mrs. Custis) the first time by accident, and when upon business so urgent that it would not permit him to make more than a mo- mentary delay to make an inquiry incidental to his journey; but onee having seen Mrs. C., his former urgent business entirely escaped his mind, and he made a stay of three days with his charmer. Who that saw Mehitable Malloon at that time of life, in her queenly beauty, and would have the heart to chide a young man like Capt. D., every way her equal, for joining the Methodist church, or doing any other reputable thing, to gain her heart, and hand, must have been an ascetic of the most malignant stamp. After living some years on the farm in Windham, a growing fam- ily, and an offer of purchase by his brother, induced him to sell his share of the farm and buy a large farm in Derry, whither he moved with his family. Although a stranger in that town, and without family connection for political support, he was sought out by his fellow-citizens and placed in the responsible offices of selectman and representative to the State legislature, by re- peated elections. After his removal to Derry, he was one of the leading men in building up the Methodist church in that town, assisted in raising funds and erecting the first church edifice that denomination ever owned in that town. He resided on his farm for many years, a model of industry, economy, and thrift. Late in life he was afflicted with the asthma, and the face that adorns our pages represents him when worn by disease, giving but a faint image of the man in his prime. He was through life greatly beloved by all his intimate friends, and respected by all who knew him. He d. at Derry, Nov. 9, 1866.
Of his wife it can be said she was his most fitting companion, possessed of a physical constitution equal to all demands upon her arising from her numerous family, and of mental vigor com- mensurate with all her duties. She d. at Derry, Dec. 8, 1872.
A family incident may be related here, not likely to find its parallel. After all their children had arrived at majority, a fam- ily thanksgiving meeting was arranged, at which they all at- tended, it being the only time that the father, mother, and all their children had the pleasure of a simultaneous meeting. Chil- dren : -
2224. James", b. Windham, Dec. 2, 1824 ; m. in Providence, R. I., Mrs. Mchitable-N. Hicks, of Boston, July 5, 1851. They have always lived in Boston : no ch.
223. Cadford-M." Rev. Cadford-M. Dinsmoor was b. at Windham, Ang. 20, 1826. He was brought up on his father's farm, and fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, and at the N. H. Conference Seminary, and entered Wesleyan Univer- sity at Middletown, Conn., in 1847, from which he graduated with honor in 1851. During his preparatory and college course he was a successful teacher in the common schools of New Hamp- shire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, which has been considered
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a crucial test of the pluck and taet of a young man, and some- times of his character.
After leaving college. he was principal of the academy at Andover, N. H., for two years. He was licensed to preach while fitting for college, but subsequently read theology at the Biblical Institute at Concord, N. H. (which was the nucleus of the pres- ent Boston University), and joined the New Hampshire Confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has ever since been connected. He has been stationed over some of the most important churches in that conference, and has filled all his appointments with credit to himself, with profit to his charge, and honor to his Divine Master. In 1855 he was a mem- ber of the N. II. legislature. In 1866 he was Commissioner of Schools for Sullivan County, a member of the State Board of Edu- cation, and was elected a member of the N. H. Historical Society. During the war of the rebellion he served for a time in the Christian Commission at Fortress Monroe and Hampton Hospital. In 1872 he was a member of the General Conference of the M. E. Church, at Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1880 he was a delegate from the N. H. Sunday-school Association to the Robert Raikes Cen- tennial. In connection with discharging the duties of that trust, he visited England, Scotland, and passed over to the Continent, and visited Paris, Rome, Naples, Florence, and other princi- pal eities, and many of the universities, on his route, and thus he not only acquired the health and vigor which usually follow rest and recreation, but the liberal and enlarged views which are the result of travel, to the thoughtful and studious. He has ac- cumulated a large and well-selected library, and keeps abreast with the times in science, arts, literature, and theology. And while he is the only one bearing our patronymie who has essayed the most sacred profession, and must from necessity be called the chaplain of our regiment, we, his kinsmen, may well thank God that the anointing oil fell upon the head of one so worthy to minister at His altars. On the 23d of Nov. 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia-P. Hall, of Colchester, Conn., a lady who for nearly thirty years has shown herself possessed of that God-given patience and long-suffering which only the wife of an itinerant Methodist minister can appreciate.
CHILDREN.
1. Jennie7, b. Ang. 2, 1854: d. Oct. 13, 1858.
2. Edward-Arthur, b. July 13, 1856: d. Jan. 5, 1858.
3. Grace-Chetwood, b. Oct. 29, 1861.
224. George-O.", b. at Windham, July 7, 1828; came to Illi- nois in the fall of '52, and has since that time resided at Cherry Point City, Edgar County, where he has held various offices of trust. Now (1882) cultivates a large and well-improved farm. He m. for his first wife Annette-E. Hazelton, of Chester, N. H.,
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