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DR. PARSONS DR. PEARSEY
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H JON. MACE MOULTON, son of Henry and Susan Moulton, was born in East Concord May 2, 1796. Holding the theory that boys are better throughout life for having learned a trade, his parents apprenticed him to a house carpenter, with whom he served six years. To this work he applied himself with vigor and attained a profi- cieney which would undoubtedly have resulted in numerous monu- ments of his skill had he followed the trade, as, at even this early period of life, he was actuated by the principle of doing - well whatever he at- tempted. In 1817, when but twenty-one years of age, he was appointed deputy sheriff of Hillsboro' county, and he re- sided for a few months at Pembroke. Six months after his appointment he moved to Piscata- quog, then a part of Bedford. He served as deputy sheriff with honor to himself and usefulness to the business men for a period of twenty- three years, until 1840, when he was elected high sheriff. He held that office until 1844, when he resigned and was elected representative to congress, serving during the stirring times of the Mexican War. During his occupaney of this office he gained the personal friendship of Webster, Pieree, and Hamlin, and a close acquaintance with many who afterward became noted in the history of the nation, notably Houston of Texas, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, James Buch- anan of Pennsylvania, John A. Dix of New
York, but a native of New Hampshire, and many others. Although politically at variance with some of his new found friends, foundations were laid in Washington for friendships which existed during the remainder of his life. During his con- gressional term he ranged himself on the side of ceonomy and conservatism, and voted on questions which agitated the national legislature in a way which later develop- ments have proved to have been saga- eious and far secing. He threw his influ- enee in favor of the admission of Texas as a state and the organization of a ter- ritorial government in Oregon, and did his best to have the Wilmot Proviso, against slavery in any territory which might be acquired by the United States in future time, passed with the three mil- lion loan bill enacted for settling the war with Mexico. It was during his term of office also that a new tariff bill was en- acted, during the dis- eussion of which his judgment counselled him to vote against some of his best per- sonal friends on certain questions, it being his nature to allow nothing to interfere with his con- vietions as to what was right, and best for his constituents. In 1847, on his return from Wash- ington, Mr. Moulton was elected a member of the governor's eouneil and served two years. He also filled many official positions in the town of Bed- ford. In 1849 he moved to Manchester, where he lived during the remainder of his life. Between 1847 and 1849, on the urgent appeals of
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the prominent men of both political parties, he heart many men in need had ample proofs. again became deputy sheriff, and served for several Young men, eramped in their business relations, seldom appealed to him in vain if he saw that they had the enterprise and ability, with a little aid, to carry out their plans. As a statesman, Mr. Moul- ton was a Jeffersonian Demoerat of the old school, and had the highest reverence for the Constitu- tion and the Union as established by the fathers. During his long and happy domestic life there were born to him and his wife, Dol- ly Gould (Stearns) Moulton, whom he married in 1822, one daughter, Eliza Jen- nie, and two sons, Henry De Witt and Charles Lucian Moulton. The last named died March 10, 1858; Henry's death oeeurred Dee. 21, 1893; Eliza died Oct. 22, 1895. Mr. Moulton passed away March 5. 1867, at the age of seventy- one, after a short illness, and his wife, who survived him, died Sept. 21, 1879. The only grandehild was Maee Moulton, son of Henry De- Witt Moulton. He RUFUS H. PIKE. was educated in the 1
years. Both as sheriff and as deputy he is acknowledged to have had no superior in integrity and intelligence. He understood the law and the duties of the office thoroughly, and was prompt, humane, and honest in its execution. As a elear- headed, thinking man, fully abreast if not ahead of the times, he early discovered how much time and money were wasted in the old forms of "red tape," and in consequence he originated new forms for the returns on sheriffs' writs and other important im- provements in the transaction of the routine business of that office. He hated duplicity and politi- cal cunning, and never sought office ; in his later years he had a decided dis- taste for it. He was often proposed as a candidate for mayor, and on the death of Hon. Levi Wood- bury during his ean- didaey for governor of the Granite State, a committee waited on Mr. Moulton to ascertain if he would accept the nomination for public schools of Manchester, and later graduated governor, but he peremptorily declined. He was at Dartmouth College in the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in 1878. Since then, after travelling extensively over the United States, he has settled in Springfield, Mass., as manager and chief engineer of one of the largest iron and bridge manufacturing establishments in New England. a director of the Amoskeag bank and president of the Amoskeag Savings bank, which position he held at the time of his death. His mind was strong and active, and what his judgment told him was right he believed in. He was a model for promptness and reliability and exact integrity in all business relations, and his word was never R UFUS H. PIKE, the fourth child and eldest son of Eber and Mary C. (Dakin) Pike, was questioned. He might have been ealled stern and severe at times, but of his overflowing kindness of born in Londonderry Oct. 25, 1829. Before he
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was three years old his mother died, leaving his to its interests. April 9, 1857, he was united in father with a family of five children. In 1833 the marriage to S. Elizabeth Batch. In 1874 and family moved to Mont Vernon and lived there 1875 he was president of the common council. At the time of his death, he was treasurer of the local and the state plumbers' associations, and these organizations, with the exception of the Amoskeag Veterans, of which he was an honorary member, were the only ones with which he was ever identified. Mr. Pike was never an aspirant for political honors and never sought public service. To his own private business he gave his energies and undi- vided attention, and with that he was con- tent, and his life work brought him ample recompense. He was ever the soul of honor and integrity. His word was never chal- lenged and he lived without an enemy, and left no stain or blot upon his noble record. He is sur- vived by his widow and daughter, Florence M., wife of Willis B. Kendall. The aecom- panying portrait is from an ink drawing by H. W. Herrick. until the spring of 1837, when they moved to Bedford. There the boy attended the district school until he was sixteen years old, being, in the meantime, employed on the farm, toiling carly and late to assist his father in caring for the family. That year he left home and worked on a farm for two years, attending school win- ters. During the spring of 1847 he went to Bangor, Me., where he was em- ployed by an uncle on cabinet work for a year and a half. In the winters of 1848 and 1849 he went to school in Pembroke. In March, 1849, he came to Manchester to en- ter the employ of Hartshorn, Darling & Tufts, copper, brass, and iron workers, and in 1858 he became a member of the firm, which was changed to Hartshorn & Pike. Under this name they did business until Mr. Hartshorn's death, when another change was made, and Charles JOHN HAPGOOD MAYNARD. N. Heald became the junior partner. In 1891, still another change was brought about by the death of Mr. Heald. Later a corporation was formed bearing the name of the Pike & Heald Company, of which Mr. Pike was president and treasurer. For forty-six years he gave his energies to the business, which, under his management, steadily increased, new departments being added from time to timc as they were required, and at the time of his death, which occurred Jan. 8, 1895, he was still actively devoted
J OHN HAPGOOD MAYNARD, son of Asa and Mary (Linfield) Maynard, was born in Concord, Mass., Jan. 23, 1804. His father, who recollected the days of the Revolution, died in May, 1874, at the age of ninety-seven years. In 1809 his parents removed to Loudon, N. H., and here John worked on the farm until he was four- teen years old, when he was apprenticed for seven years to learn the carpenter's trade. He was placed in charge of the erection of several important
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buildings in Concord while he was still an appren- tice. Having served his apprenticeship, hc soon after went into business on his own account. He foresaw the rapid development of Manches- ter and took up his permanent residence here in 1836, having previously done work for the Amos- keag company as early as 1833. He built for this corporation mills Nos. 3, 4, and 5, besides numer- ous tenements, etc., and continued in their employ as contractor for more than thirty years, often hav- ing in his service nearly a hundred men at a time. All his affairs prospered, and he was able, while still comparatively young, to amass a competency. In politics Mr. Maynard was a Republican. Hc was a member of the common council in 1859 -60, and of the board of aldermen in 1861-62, and again in 1879, 'So, '81, and '82. He also served in the general court for one term. Always taking an active interest in fire department matters, hc was chief engineer for several years. Elected a director of the Manchester National bank in 1854, he continued in that capacity until his dcccase, a period of forty years. Mr. Maynard was chosen the first assessor after the incorporation of the city of Manchester, and his knowledge of real estate values in the city was for many years remarkably thorough and complete. Of a sympa- thetic and benevolent nature, his bencfactions were numerous, and no deserving case was ever laid before him in vain. He was plain, frank, and honcst in all his dealings, he hated shams and humbugs, and he was never proud of being called rich. It was said that at one time he owned land in thirty different towns, but he still lived as simply and as unostentatiously as when he began the struggle of life. In March, 1837, Mr. Maynard married Jane Kimball of East Concord. She died thirty years later, and he married her cousin, Aphia Kimball of Hopkinton, who survives him. He passed quietly away May 6, 1894, at the advanced age of ninety years. In his religious belief Mr. Maynard was a Universalist.
REV. WILLIAM SHERBURN LOCKE, who for many years has resided in the south- ern part of Manchester, just below the settlement known as Bakersville, was born in Stanstead, Province of Quebec, April 28, 1808. He is still
crect in form, and active and alert, although on account of impaired sight he is somewhat restricted in his business and social intercourse. For quite a number of years he has sustained a local relation to the church of his first love, but even now his enthusiasm is contagious as he rccounts the early charges and the circuits which he travelled in the saddie as an itinerant, from appointment to appointment, over regions of country many miles in extent. Hc is of the sixth generation in direct descent from the old Indian fighter, Capt. John Locke of Rye, who paid the penalty of his prowess by being ambushed and killed while reaping his grain on what is now known as Straw's Point, then Locke's Neck. One of the savages sacrificed his nose in the encounter, the old captain cutting it off with his grain sickle, which is now preserved in the rooms of the New Hampshire Historical Socicty. Onc of the captain's grandsons, Edward. moved to Kensington, where his son Moses was born. Moses removed to Epsom, from which place he enlisted under Gen. Stark, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill and other engage- ments, in one of which a bullet pierced his hat ; in another battle his coat was struck by a ball, and his gunstock was shot off. For his services in the Revolutionary War he received a sum of money which he paid out for a pair of yearling heifers after he returned homc. His son James, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Epsom, and remained there until he was twenty-one years of age, when he entered the shipping firm of Daven- port Brothers of Newburyport. While in their service he visited England and later went on a vessel which carried the first cargo of shingles to Federal City, as Washington, D. C., was then called. The shingles were for use on the govern- ment buildings, then in process of construction. He remained in Virginia for some time, but the opinion he formed of the practice of slavery deterred him from settling in that section, and when his mother wrote him of the death of one brother by yellow fever in the West Indies, and the departure of another on a cruise, he acceded to her request and returned home, becoming a partner with his brother Jonathan in trade. In 1800 he married Miss Abigail Sherburn, a native of Portsmouth, and settled in the town of
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Stanstead, Canada, just over the line from Derby, up but a few dollars over and above the cost of Vt. Here he took up a farm, and here his son William S. was born.
While quite young, Sherburn, as he was called, learned the leather dresser's trade, finishing his apprenticeship in Danvers, Mass., and before he was twenty-one he had charge of a shop in Barton, Vt. While there he was converted, joined the Methodist church, and was led to leave his sccular occupation in order to obtain a morc ad- vanced education. Entering Browning- ton Academy, hc re- mained under Rev. Mr. Twilight's instrue- tion until his health failcd, and by the ad- vice of a physician he camc near the sca air and entcred the acad- emy at Hampton. After the recovery of his health he was intending to return to Vermont, but on the way, stopping to attend a series of mectings in North- field, he was cmploycd as assistant laborcr on the eircuit consisting of Northfield, San- bornton, Canterbury, Gilmanton, Meredith, and Franklin, and here he spent the first nine months in the ministry, with Benjamin C. Eastman, preacher in charge. At the close of the next conferenee he received a local preacher's licence at Sanbornton Bridge, John F. Adams presiding eldcr. In those days the Methodist itincrants werc solemnly adjured to frequent no public houses, but to look to the brethren, as the laity were called, to provide for their needs, and simple and inexpensive was the clergyman's outfit, A year's income would count
food, lodging and horse baiting, and as the result of a whole year's labor, Mr. Locke recalls the pair of shag mittens - the only thing received except- ing $2, which he carned by helping in thic hayfield. The money collected was willingly given to his senior laborer, a man with a family.
Mr. Locke's first experience in Manchester was in 1832, when he was regularly ap- pointed by the con- ference of New Hamp- shire and Vermont, then onc body, to the circuit comprising Amoskcag, Amherst, and Nashua. Hc re- members crossing the river on stringers laid from rock to rock, to view the wonderful mechanism of the locks and visit friends on the east side. At this time the Method- ists, Congregational- ists, Baptists, and Uni- versalists held
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ser- vices alternately in the corporation hall at Amoskeag and in the schoolhouse. Mr. Locke's first attend- ance at a public meet- ing in Manchester was at the ordination of Rev. Mr. Foster, a Congregationalist,
which was held at the Methodist church at the Centre, now known as the First M. E. church. Mr. Foster was allowed to use it half the time, the Methodists using it the other half. This was the only church building in Manchester at that timc. During this appointment Mr. Locke suc- cceded in obtaining the use of the court house in Amherst for the Sabbath services, which was con- sidered a signal achievement, as hitherto the Methodists had received no greater favor than the
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use of a schoolhouse on the outskirts of the town, and in 1846 ground was broken for the First M. E. church in Nashua.
Aug. 27, 1833, he came from Merrimack, aeross Reed's Ferry, to Manehester Centre, with his intended wife, Miss Caroline D. Tibbetts, and in the parsonage standing on the site of the present reservoir they were united in marriage by a dearly beloved friend, Silas Green, pastor of that charge, and proceeded on their way to the home of the bride's father in Pittsfield, stopping at Head's tavern in Hooksett for their wedding supper. After two years' pastoral work on Epping eireuit and at Chichester, Mr. Loeke was again summoned to Manehester to fill the appointment where he had begun his married life, and one day in 1835, he drove with his wife and little daughter, six weeks old, to the door of Nathan Johnson, who entertained them until the settling arrange- ments could be perfeeted. Mr. Johnson is still a resident of that seetion.
Mr. Loeke's pastoral labors were very sueeessful, there being a large number of aceessions to the church the first year. After having labored in Strafford and Barrington, N. H., and Wilmington, Wardsboro' and Brattle- boro', Vt., he returned to this seetion and preached a year and a half at South Merrimack and Amherst, after which, by request of the presiding elder, he supplied the eity ehureh, now St. Paul's, from Jan. 1, 1842, until conference. This congre- gation then oeeupied a ehapel which stood on the site of the present government building, and here a series of meetings was held which resulted in a revival of great interest. During this time the foundation of St. Paul's church was laid on Elm street and preparations made for building. The following three years Mr. Loeke was employed by the society at the Centre. Many churches at this time were more or less divided by the doctrine of the immediate second advent of Christ, and great excitement prevailed, but with a firm hand, level head, and sympathetie heart, Mr. Loeke sueeeeded in keeping those under his eare, and not a mem- ber was lost. Following this charge, he went to
Auburn, where he succeeded in putting a weak ehureh on a firm basis, and also in improving his finanees by judieious investment. By this time his children were reaching the age where he realized the importance of good sehools and elevating surroundings, and henee, after mature deliberation, he decided to establish a home near Manchester. While studying in William Stark's law office, the eldest son, James W., laid the foun- dation for his sueeessful career as United States distriet judge in Florida. The second son, Joseph, fitted at Bridgewater for a life of teaching, but on the day of his graduation he enlisted in the Thirty-Third Massachusetts Regiment and served through the Civil War. He is now a manufae- turer in Chicago. The third son, Eugene O., a graduate at Dartmouth in the elass of 1870, studied law with J. B. Clark of Manchester, and is now a sueeessful attorney in Jacksonville, Fla. He is widely known throughout the southern part of that state, having made Key West and Tampa his headquarters for the past twenty years. The eldest and youngest of the children were daugh- ters: Mary Frances, now Mrs. Charles H. Bart- lett, whose husband is connected with the Ports- mouth navy yard, resides at Kittery, Me. ; her son, Charles Carroll, has entered the law and settled in Chieago. The youngest daughter, Izetta, has been for many years connected with the publie sehools of Manchester. The mother of the family was noted among her associates as a woman of superior aequirements. In the midst of her varied duties as mother, pastor's wife, and social leader, she was a constant reader, and the director of her children's studies, and she also wrote mueh for the loeal press over the signature of "Aunt Carlie." She died Feb. 14, 1893.
Mr. Loeke, now nearly eighty-eight years of age, likes to reeount the fact that he has preached the gospel in about sixty different places, and that he has been enabled to save to active work ten churches which were unprovided for by the eon- ferenee, sueeeeding in every ease in putting them on a firm working basis for regular pastoral eare.
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L EWIS SIMONS, son of Christopher and the city. Mr. Simons was never an ambitious Nancy (Locke) Simons, was born Ang. 12, politician or office seeker, but served the city as alderman, and was once the candidate of his party for mayor, failing however, of election because his party was in the minority. For many years he was a prominent member of the Universalist society, but he later attended the Unitarian church, and was president of its board of trustees. Early in life Mr. Simons was a member of the volunteer militia of Weare, and subse- quently he served with distinction in the Goffstown light infantry and in a rifle company. Every year until the dis- banding of the state militia he performed active military duty, serving in every rank of the line, and he was one of the or- ganizers of the Amos- keag Veterans, being a valued and efficient member of that or- ganization and hold- ing every office within its gift. For two years he was its commander. Mr. Simons's first wife was Hannah H., daughter of Charles Gove of Weare, and LEWIS SIMONS. to them were born six children, Langdon, Almeda, and Minot living to maturity. Mrs. Simons died in January, 1861, and Mr. Simons was married to Mary J. Gilmore. After her death, in 1886, he married Miss Grace A. Darling, Dec. 7, 1887. 1815, and was educated in the district school at Oil Mills and at Henniker Academy, being a class- mate of ex-Gov. Harriman at the latter institution. After leaving the academy he taught school in his own and other districts with marked success for five winters, and also worked at farming, lumber- ing, and in his father's sawmill. In 1842 he went into trade, but not finding it con- genial to his tastes, he sold his store in 1845 to his brother George, and formed a partnership with his brother Hiram in the lumber business, which was very suc- cessful. In 1853 he disposed of his in- terest in the firm and removed to Man- chester, where he profitably conducted the same business with various partners until his death, which occurred Oct. 6, 1895. He was more than usually successful and fortunate. His judgment in estimat- ing values, his thor- ough knowledge of all the details of working and sawing lumber, his exceutive ability and personal devotion to the management of his business, together with his sagacity and prudence in putting his merchan- dise upon the market at the right time, or in holding it until a better market would insure its full value, won for him an enviable reputation and much wealth. He also engaged extensively in building operations, and Mercantile block, Music Hall block, and Webster block in Manchester, H JON. LUCIEN BONAPARTE CLOUGH, son of Joseph and Mehitable A. (Chase) Clough, was born in Northfield April 17, 1823. built by himself and others, are among the best in
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His great-grandfather was Thomas Clough, who came from Salisbury, Mass., about 1750, and his maternal grandfather was Stephen Chase of Haver- hill, Mass. His father was born in Canterbury Feb. 1, 1795, and his mother in Northfield April 7, 1795. In November, 1856, he was united in mar- riage with Maria Louise Dole, in Augusta, Mc. Her father, Albert Gallatin Dole, was born at Alna, Me., Sept. 8, 1808, and her mother, Rebecca Cobb Ford, was born at Jefferson, Me., July 20, 1812. On her mother's side Mrs. Clough is a descendant of John and Elizabeth Tilly Howland, both of whom came over in the Mayflower, and among her paternal ancestors were the Carltons and Doles, ancient families of Cumberland and So- merset counties, Eng- land. The subject of this sketch attended the schools of Can- terbury until 1841, when he went to a seminary in North Scituate, R. I. In 1845 he entered the New Hampshire Con- ference Seminary at Tilton, and five years later he graduated at Dartmouth College. In 1850 he went to Troy, N. Y., where he remained three years, and in 1853 he came to Manchester and opened a law office, which he conducted up to the time of his death, which occurred July 28, 1895. He was judge of probate of Hillsborough county from 1874 to 1876, and he served as trustec of the city library for many years. In his long career as a lawyer of more than forty years he was cxccedingly exact and conscientious in all his dealings. Many of his clients placed in his care important trusts and estates, which were always carefully and successfully 5
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