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Col. Lane was always actively interested in It was about sixteen years later when the Manchester Atheneum was founded. The Amos- military affairs. He was a member of the Amos- keag Veterans of Manchester, and of the Gov- keag corporation gave $1,000, the Stark and Man-
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chester $500 each, and $500 was paid in member- library was installed in its old plaec. Here it ship fees, toward the new enterprise. The price remained for about fourteen years, when the present building was erected by the city at a cost of $30,000 on land given for that purpose by the Amoskeag Company. (See eut on page 147.) No member of the original board of trustees, exeept ex-Gov. Smyth, is living. Gentlemen who have been chosen as trustees sinee the first organ- ization in order of time are as follows: Lueien B. Clough, David Gillis, Samuel Webber, Phinehas Adams, Waterman Smith, Isaae W. Smith, Nathan P. Hunt, Moody Currier, Thomas L. Livermore, Benjamin C. Dean, Herman F. Straw, Walter M. Parker, Charles D. McDuffie, and Frank P. Carpenter. Of the above Messrs. Clough, Gillis, Adams, and Waterman Smith have deceased, and Messrs. Webber, Livermore, and Dean have removed from the city. The trustees at present are as follows: William C. Clarke, mayor, John T. Gott, president of the common eouneil, ex-offieis; Isaae W. Smith, ehosen in 1872; Nathan P. Hunt, in 1873; Moody Currier, in 1876; Herman F. Straw, in 1885; Walter M. Parker, in 1891; Charles D. MeDuffie, in 1892; Frank P. Carpenter, in 1895. The librarians have served as follows: Franeis B. Eaton, from 1854 to 1863 ; Marshall P. Hall, October, 1863, to June, 1865 ; Benjamin F. Stanton, June, 1865, to April, 1866 ; Charles H. Marshall, April, 1866, to 1877 ; Mrs. Mary Jane Davis Buneher, July, 1878, to February, 1894. Mrs. Buneher was sueeeeded by Miss Kate E. Sanborn, the present librarian. of shares was fixed at $14, and young men were admitted to the reading room on payment of one half the value of a share. Admission to the library and reading room was $3 a year. The organization was as follows: Samuel D. Bell, president ; Cyrus W. Wallace, vice president ; David Gillis, Daniel Clark, and William P. Newell, directors ; William C. Clarke, secretary ; Herman Foster, treasurer; David Hill, librarian. The rooms were in the second story of No. 6 Union bloek, recently the office of Lueien B. Clough. In his inaugural address of that year, Mayor Frederik Smyth advocated the establishment of a free publie library, and several gentlemen eon- neeted with the Atheneum proposed to transfer its books and other artieles of value to the eity for that purpose. The offer was accepted with its conditions, which were, in brief, that not less than $1,000 a year should be appropriated for the pur- chase of books and periodicals, and that the eurrent expenses be provided for. In the autumn of 1854 the library was removed to Patten's bloek and installed under the care of Samuel N. Bell. The board of trustees was as follows: Frederik Smyth, mayor, David Clark, president of the com- mon eouneil, ex-offieis; Samuel D. Bell, Daniel Clark, David Gillis, William P. Newell, Ezekiel A. Straw, William C. Clarke, Samuel N. Bell. The last named was chosen treasurer and Franeis B. Eaton, librarian. The library was open to the public Nov. 8, 1854. For a time the convenienees From time to time the library has received bequests and donations of considerable amount, the largest being that of Dr. Oliver Dean, which has now increased to nearly $7,000, and will be devoted to the purchase of technologieal and kin- dred treatises; the Eliza Eaton bequest of $2,974.59 for the general purposes of the library, and the Mary E. Elliot fund of $1,039.28, to be devoted to the purchase of works on medieal seienee. Ex-Gov. Moody Currier has given an edition of Bohn's elassieal publications and some of the early Christian Fathers, and the Hon. Gardner Bremer of Boston gave 683 volumes of various works, mostly of the Tauehnitz edition. for delivery were of the most primitive kind. There were about 4,000 books on the shelves, more than half of which were taken out in the first two months. Affairs, however, were soon put into better shape, and a reading room was opened. On the morning of Feb. 5, 1856, Patten's block was partially destroyed by fire and nearly all the books were burned. The volumes reseued were hastily removed to Smyth's bloek and quarters provided for them in Merchants' Exchange, where they remained for nearly a year. In the meantime new books were purchased, the old replaced as far as possible, and the public was served with but brief interruption. At the close of the year, better Much of the work ineident to the formation and progress of the library was gratuitously done rooms were provided in Patten's block and the
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by Hon. Samuel N. Bell, who was trustee and treasurer until his resignation in 1879, when he was succeeded by N. P. Hunt, who is practically the general manager of the library. It may be said that the library, valuable as it is, has been very much restricted as to its best use by the public from lack of proper catalogues and from the defective shelving, which, after a few years of growth, made it impossible to group works on kindred topics together. This was the fault of no one in particular, save that the appropriation for
THE SNOW STORM OF 1888 .- This storm was the most severe that has ever been known in Manchester. It began Sunday evening, March 11, very gently, continuing through the night and the next forcnoon, when the gates of the Arctic regions scemed to have been opened, and the storm burst with terrific fury over the city. It lasted all that day and far into the night. The wind blew a gale, piling up mammoth drifts in picturesque forms, blockading the railway trains, and tcaring down telegraph wires in all directions.
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current expenses was never large cnough to warrant the introduction of a better system. It is indeed only in recent years that the business of the librarian has risen to the dignity of a profcs- sion, while to shelve, catalogue, and make acecs- sible to the public a large library, or onc cven with 40,000 volumes, but which is growing every day, is no easy task. It is believed now, however, that the trustees have taken the matter in hand and that they are to be congratulated on having secured the services of such a competent librarian.
Tuesday morning the snow was twenty inches deep, clinging to everything it touched, making artistic and grotesque images from the plainest and most obscure objects. Business men closed their stores and offiees long before the usual hour on Monday and started home amid blinding sheets of snow that prevented one seeing an object a block distant. The barometer fell from 30.68 to 29.27 in twenty-four hours. The storm of March 1. 1886, was less severe in the quantity of snow, but the wind was about equal in velocity.
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M ATTHEW THORNTON, one of the signers having previously been chief justice of the court of the Declaration of Independence, was of common pleas. His knowledge of the law seems to have been acquired by private study. He removed from Londonderry to Exeter, and later fixed his residenee in Mcrrimaek, having purchased the eonfiseated estate of Edward Gold- stone Lutwyehe, situated on the Merrimack, near Lutwyehe's (now Thornton's) Ferry. Judge Thornton died while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. John MeGaw, at Newburyport. The monu- ment over his grave in Merrimack bears this inseription : " Ereeted to the memory of the Hon. Matthew Thornton, Esq., who died Junc 24, 1803, aged eighty-nine years. The honest man." He was not only honest, but he had a ready wit, like most of the Seoteh-Irish race. About the year 1798 he attended as a speetator the sessions of the legislature, which met at Amherst, about eight miles from his home. Happening to meet a former neighbor of his at Nutfield, who was then a member of the legislature, and who was not dis- posed to underrate his own eonsequence, the latter said to the judge : "Do you not think the Gen- eral Court has much improved sinee you had a seat in it ? Does it not possess more men of ability now and more eloquent speakers? For then, you know, there were but five or six who could talk ; but now all we farmers ean make speeches." The judge replied : "To answer that question I will tell you a story about a farmer who lived a short distance from my father's home in Ireland. He was very exemplary in his observanee of religious duties, and made it a constant praetiee to read a portion of Seripture every morning and evening before addressing the throne of grace. It happened one morning that he was reading the chapter which gives an account of Samson's catehing three hundred foxes, when his wife inter- rupted him by saying: 'John, I'm sure that eannot be true, for our Isaae was as good a fox hunter as there was in the country, and he never eaught but about twenty.' 'Nonsense !' replied the husband, ' you must not always take the Seripture just as it reads. Perhaps in the three hundred there might have been eighteen, or maybe twenty, that were real foxes; the rest were all skunks and woodehucks.' " The legislator drew his own inferenees and was silent. born in Ireland in 1714, his father, James Thorn- ton, cmigrating to Ameriea two or three years later, and taking up his residenee first at Wiseas- set, Me., and subsequently at Woreester, Mass., where the son was educated. He studied medieine and began practice in Londonderry about the year 1740. Here he acquired a wide reputation as a physician, and in the course of several years of successful practice became comparatively wealthy, taking an influential part in the affairs of the town. In 1745 he joined the expedition against Cape Breton as a surgeon in the New Hampshire division of the army, consisting of five hundred men, and of the number only six died during the campaign, although they were subjected to exees- sive toil and constant exposure. The troops, a company of which was from Nutfield, under the command of Capt. John Moor, were employed, during fourteen sueeessive nights, with straps over their shoulders and sinking to their knees in mud, in drawing eannon from the landing place to the eamp, through a morass. Dr. Thornton's name appears frequently in the Nutfield records. In 1758 he drew up and headed a memorial to Gov. Wentworth and the General Court, thanking him for their "late gracious Aet, in which it is Stipu- lated that Londonderry shall have no more than three Taverns and two Retailers, for the present and four Ensuing years, and we had rather the number were diminished than inereased." He was a representative to the General Court in 1758-60 and a moderator of the town meeting in 1770-71, and again in 1776. He was president of the provincial convention which met May 17, 1775, after the termination of the British govern- ment in New Hampshire, and was a member of the convention of Dee. 21, 1775, which afterward resolved itself into a house of representatives. In September, 1776, he was appointed by that body a delegate to represent New Hampshire in Con- gress, but he did not take his seat until November, four months after the passage of the Declaration of Independence. He immediately aceeded to it, however, and his signature is among those of the fifty-six immortals. He was subsequently appointed a judge of the superior court of New Hampshire,
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NUTFIELD RANGES AND BOUNDARIES.
A LTHOUGH the boundaries of the original grant of Nutfield specified in the conveyanee of John Wheelwright in 1719 appear to have been very definite, it is nevertheless apparent, on elose examination, that the only fixed line in the ease was the bank of the Merrimack river, with no starting place, no distances, and no terminal point except the uneertain line of Dunstable. The boundaries of Chester were not fixed at that date ; consequently the northern limit of Nutfield was tentative. Haverhill limits were not settled, and Nutfield's eastern boundary was likewise undeter- mined. The southern boundary of Nutfield, dependent upon the limits of Draeut and old Dun- stable, was indefinite, as the assumptions of their proprietors were not established by valid deeds, and in the settlement of the state line and the limitations of royal charters they did not touch Nutfield anywhere. But the western boundary of Nutfield could not be moved by the eneroaehments of neighbors or the decisions, of the general court, although it is seen by the charter of Londonderry in 1722 that even the last definite boundary of Nutfield, the Merrimack river, was sacrificed to Litehfield, and no original side or corner can now be claimed as coineiding with the deseription afforded in the first deed.
The accompanying map, covering about fifty square miles, ineludes the principal ranges and extends eastward two hundred and forty rods over the original line of Haverhill, southward nearly to the line of Windham, westward to Litehfield, and northward to Manchester. The Double, English, Eayers, Aikens, High, South Double, Three Quarter Mile, Half Mile, Dock, Hill, Canada East, Middle, West, and Fourth Ranges, and a large number of short ranges not distinetively named, are included. For more than forty years, attempts
have been made by various persons to draw a plan of the original allotments of land, and it is not elaimed that the present map is absolutely perfect. Some of these persons had the first two volumes of the town records and worked for months inees- santly to put the deseriptions in order upon a chart, but in the end each pronounced the result a failure and the undertaking impossible. Among those who gave a large amount of time to this patchwork without being able to make the pieces join together, were John N. Anderson, Col. Robert Thompson, Andrew W. Maek, Washington Per- kins, Joseph R. Clark, and Robert C. Maek. The last named, with help of his brother, who was a surveyor, approached the nearest to mapping the township, but his attempts failed in the end. He was able to prepare the ranges and locate the original settlers, and had plans in detatehed por- tions for nearly every part of the town, but he found it impossible to join them together into one map. As already stated, this first and only map of the township, showing a plan of the farms, is not absolutely perfeet, but the main features are eor- reet, and it contains all the elements necessary for the construction of the most accurate and com- plete drawing, as it was made from two indepen- dent copies of the town records, made for the purpose of continued and uninterrupted work, and indexed for this special undertaking. These two volumes of the town records are paged differently from the originals in the keeping of the town elerk, and to facilitate any further improvement in this map or in others, numbers are placed on the map to indicate the pages in the records where full deseriptions of the lots are to be found. The numbers with dashes below them indicate the pages of the second volume, and the others the pages of the first volume.
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STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
IN 1855 the state legislature authorized the governor and council to appoint a board of three commissioners, empowered to buy a tract of land and erect buildings thereon, to provide a "house of reformation for juvenile male and female offenders against the law." Popular sen- timent at the time seemed to be hostile to the measure, and it required several years to dcmon- strate its wisdom. Hon. Frederick Smyth of
Manchester, Hon. Matthew Harvey of Concord, and Hosea Eaton of New Ipswich were appointed commissioners, and they selected as the site for
the proposed institu- tion the farm which was once the home of Gen. John Stark, nearly two miles north of the Man- chester city hall, on the Merrimack river road, containing about one hundred acres. The price paid was $10,000, and another piece of ten acres was purchased soon after at a cost of $1,000. The build- ing, which cost $34,000, was begun in the spring of 1856 and was ready for occupancy in the spring of 1858. It was dedicated May 12 of that year, the address on the occasion being delivered by Hon. T. M. Edwards of Keene, author of the bill establishing the institution. The first superintendent of the school was Brooks Shattuck, who continued in charge until April, 1866, when he was succceded by Isaac H. Jones, who remained about four years, and was followed by Edward Ingham. The latter also remained four years, and was then succeeded by John C. Ray, whosc date of appointment was July 2, 1874. The institution continued to bear its original name until 1878, when it was changed to Reform School, and in 1882 it was given the name which it now bears. From its establishment
STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, MANCHESTER.
the school has been under the management of a board of seven trustecs, appointed by the governor and council, who have yearly chosen a superinten- dent. The law requires that one or more of the trustces shall visit the institution every two weeks, at which time the scholars shall be examined in the schoolroom and workshops. Once in three months a majority of the trustees are required to examine the institution in all its departments and make a report showing the results of their exami- nations. The superintendent, who is also treas- urer of the school, has charge of the funds, lands, buildings, and all other property. In addition to his other duties he is required to keep a register containing the name, residence, and age of each scholar, with the date and term of commitment and the time and manner of discharge. If any scholar is found in- corrigible and his continuance in school prejudicial to its management and discipline, steps are taken to have him removed. Instances of this kind are not frequent, but they sometimes happen. The trustees have the right to bind out any scholar as an apprentice or servant to any inhabitant of the state of good moral and religious character, for any time not excceding the term for which he was sent to the school. Any scholar distinguishing himself by his obedience, diligence, and good conduct, may be discharged by the trustees at the annual examina- tion, and the superintendent also has the power to let any of the boys or girls out on probation, if he sees fit to do so. All minors under seventeen ycars of age who may be delivered to the superin- tendent with a proper warrant for their detention. by a proper officer, are received at the school.
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