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HENRY DE WOLFE CARVELLE, M. D.
H ENRY DE WOLFE CARVELLE, M. D., ophthalmic and aural surgeon in New Hampshire, was born in Richmond, N. B., May 26, 1852, his parents being James Sherrard and Elizabeth (Porter) Carvell. His mother was of Scotch birth, her ancestors coming from a place in Scotland near the home of the immortal Burns. His father was English, de- scended from an old family whose ances- try dated back to the time of William the Conqueror, and his great-grandfather fought in the Revolu- tion on the British side. Dr. Carvelle graduated from the Richmond high school, and in 1873 entered the Boston Eye and Ear Infirm- ary as medical at- tendant, remaining there two years. During the second year hc pursued his studies under the guidance of Dr. Al- bert N. Blodgett, superintendent of the institution. In 1875 he entered the Har- vard Medical School and graduated in 1878. During his last HENRY DE WOLFE CARVELLE, M. D. year he assisted Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson in his practice for a few months, residing at the house of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the latter's father, where his associations with the distinguished family were exceedingly delightful. After leaving college Dr. Carvellc settled in Boston for a short timc, but soon removed to Manchester. Hc continued in gen- eral practice till 1884, since which timc he has devoted himself to treatment of the eye and car. As a specialist he ranks high, being the first
and is called to all parts of the state upon difficult cascs. Dr. Carvelle is an Episcopalian, but attends the Franklin-Street Congregational church. He is a member of Wildcy Lodge and Washington Encampment, I. O. O. F., the Calumct and Elcc- tric clubs, the Gym- nasium, the New Hampshire Medical Society, the Centre District Medical So- ciety of Concord, the New England Oph- thalmological Soci- ety of Boston, cen- sor of the Medico- Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, hon- orary member of the L. Webster Fox Ophthalmological Society of Philadel- phia, of the ophthal- mological section of the American Medi- cal Association, and of the Pan-American Medical Congress. He has taken various special courses in the diseases of the eye and ear in New York. In 1887 he spent several months in the Royal London Oph- thalmic Hospital and in the eye and ear clinics in Paris. He is ophthal- mic and aural surgeon of the Elliot Hospital and of Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital and medical examiner for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. He married Anna Brewster Sullivan. daughter of John and Arianna (Whittemore) Sul- livan of Suncook, on May 5, 1893, and they have one daughter, Euphrosync Parepa, born May 16. 1894. His wife is a granddaughter of the late Hon. Aaron Whittemore of Pembroke.
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JOHN McNEIL was the first settler in Man- 1850. Gen. John A. Dix, in his memoirs, relates chester at the Amoskeag Falls, being em- this anecdote of Gen. MeNeil : At the June ses- sions of the New Hampshire legislature, Gen. McNeil was a familiar figure. He delighted in standing about the state house grounds on those occasions to greet his friends and converse with them on current topics. One day a little fellow, about five feet tall, was introduced to him by a friend. In order to start a conversation the man said to him: "General, how did you become lame ?" The general wasnettled. Straightening his tall form to its full height, he looked down on the little man and replied : "I fell down a barn cellar, you d-n fool ! Didn't you ever read the history of your country ?" ployed there by the town of Londonderry to ferry the townspeople to and from the islands on their fishing trips. He was six feet six inches tall, had the strength of a Samson, and was the champion wrestler in all this section of New Hampshire. His great-grandson, Gen. John MeNcil, who was of about the same height and proportions, distin- guished himself at the battles of Chippewa and Niagara in the war of 1812, and at the latter engagement was wounded in the knee by a grape- shot which erippled him for life. In 1830 Presi- dent Jackson appointed him surveyor of the port of Boston, and he held that office until his death in
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Col. Daniel F. Healy. Sheriff of Hillsboro County.
Thomas Hobbs.
SHERIFF HEALY AND MANCHESTER DEPUTIES.
SHRIEVALTY OF HILLSBORO COUNTY.
C OL. DANIEL F. HEALY, sheriff of Hills- boro county, was born at Cedarburg, Wis., Dee. 20, 1849. His parents, Cornelius and Mary Healy, were natives of Ireland who emigrated to America in 1845 and settled first in Manchester, where they were married in 1848, removing the same year to Wiseonsin, where they remained until the father's untimely death in 1850. The widowed mother and son then returned to Man- chester, where he has ever since resided. She died in 1854, leaving her only ehild to the care of his grandfather, Daniel Healy. The lad attended the public schools in the old Bakersville district until the age of eleven, when he went to work in the Manchester Mills, and for the succeeding years divided his time between work and attending the old Park-street grammar school. In February, 1864, when only fourteen years of age, he enlisted as drummer boy in the Sixth New Hampshire Regi- ment, but through the persistent efforts of his grandfather and the latter's counsel, Hon. Cyrus A. Sulloway, the runaway boy was, by special order of the war department, diseharged and sent home. The military spirit of the young soldier was, however, not so easily daunted, and a second time he went south and made himself useful by attending to the wounded in camp and on the battlefield. In 1866 he bound himself for three years as apprentiee in the machine shop of the Manchester Mills, and during all his apprentiee- ship he attended evening school and a business college. Having served his time, he worked at his trade of machinist in the Manehester Loeomo- tive Works, and in 1870 entered the employment of Varney & Niehols, machinists, remaining with them until 1874. His skill at his trade received recognition in his seleetion, together with Wil- liam F. Barrett, to put into operation the Cheney paper mill at Henniker, and in his special employ- ment upon the knitting machines for the works of ex-Gov. Smyth at Hillsboro Bridge. His political career began in 1874 with his election to the state legislature ; in 1876 he was a member of the Man- chester common eouneil, and in 1888 he was an alternate delegate to the Republican national con- vention. Appointed deputy sheriff for Hillsboro
county in 1874, hc served in that capacity until 1884, when he was elected to the office of sheriff, which position he has sinee occupied. In his official position Sheriff Healy has won the confi- denee and esteem of both bench and bar. Faithful to all his duties and to the trusts confided to his care, his effieieney and integrity are eommended by judges and lawyers alike. Hc has always been a member of St. Anne's church, the oldest Catholie parish in the city, and his numerous social and fraternal eonneetions inelude the Grand Army, the Foresters, the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Amoskeag Vetcrans, and the Derryfield Club. His title of eolonel was obtained by service on Gov. Goodell's staff in 1889-90. He was married in 1878 to Mary A., daughter of Timothy Sullivan of Manchester, and four children, three of whom survive, were the fruit of this union : Daniel F., Jr., James C., and Arthur S., aged respectively sixteen, fifteen, and twelve. Mrs. Healy died in 1885, and in September, 1893, Col. Healy was married to Sarah J. Carbery of Peabody, Mass.
Deputy Sheriff Harrison D. Lord was born in Barnstead Dec. 23, 1825. Coming to Manchester in 1844, he learned the machinist's trade and was employed by the Amoskeag company until 1865. He was then eleeted eity messenger and held the office for five years, serving also as constable in the meantime. He was appointed to his present position in 1876, and from that year until 1885 was also deputy sheriff of Rockingham county. Gov. Curricr appointed him to the office of coroner, which he still holds. Mr. Lord was a member of the legislature in 1870, and for eight years has been on the board of assessors. He was married in 1854 to Miss Juliette True of Centre Harbor, who died, leaving two sons: Harry T., born May 7, 1863, and Samuel J., born Sept. 14, 1869. In February, 1875, he married Mrs. Susan Beane of Manchester, who died in July. 1877.
Deputy Sheriff William J. Starr. son of William and Joanna (Cronin) Starr, was born in Manchester April 20, 1863. After graduating from the scientifie department of Dartmouth Col- lege in 1884, he engaged for a number of years in the banking and investment business in the West.
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April 1, 1895, he was appointed deputy sheriff. it should be made in the records. This is the Ile is a member of St. Anne's church and of the Knights of Columbus.
Deputy Sheriff Frank T. E. Richardson, son of Reuben M. and Mary A. (Sanborn) Richardson, was born in Chester April 26, 1841. Coming to Manchester in carly youth, he was graduated from the high school, and for several years he was employed in various capacities by different corpora- tions. In September, 1862, he bceame aceountant in the office of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and filled that position with marked fidelity for twenty-eight years, resigning in 1890 to accept the paymastership of the Stark Mills, where he remained four years. In January, 1894, he was appointed deputy sheriff, and has since devoted himself to the duties of that office. He has been a member of the legislature, supervisor of elections and for many years a member of the school board. Mr. Richardson is prominent in Masonry and Odd Fellowship. He was married in 1863 to Mary C., daughter of Merrick and Eusebe (Gerry) Houghton of Sterling, Mass., and three daughters have been born to them.
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Hobbs was born in Manchester March 4, 1868. His father, Hon. Edwin H. Hobbs, was at the head of the civil engineering department of the Amoskeag Manu- facturing Company for many years and was a state senator. After two years at Dartmouth College, Mr. Hobbs was engaged in business for several years, and Jan. 1, 1895, was appointed deputy sheriff.
Deputy Sheriff Joseph N. St. Germain was born in Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, Sept. 2, 1870, and graduated from the Sherbrooke Univer- sity in 1889. He came to Manchester in 1890 and was seeretary of the Littlefield Drug Company until February, 1895. In April of the same year he was appointed deputy sheriff. Mr. St. Germain has the reputation of being the most expert swordsman in New Hampshire, having perfected himself in the art of fencing in Paris.
T THE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK on Nov. 18, piano factory. 1755, was so severe in Nutfield that Moses Barnett, the town clerk, felt that some mention of
entry he made, and it is the only authentic account which has been handed down of that memorable event : " on tusday nobr ye 18th 1755 at foure aclock in the morning and ten minets there was an Extrornary Shock of An Earthquaik and con- tinuous afterwards with smaller shocks."
A LEXANDER McMURPHY was born in Londonderry Dec. 9, 1813, in the house where he now lives. He received a common school education, with the addition of a few terms
ALEXANDER MCMURPHY.
at Pinkerton Academy. He learned the carpen- ter's trade, and being very clever in the use of tools, he was secured by his brother-in-law, Jacob Chickering, in Andover, Mass., to work in his When he was twenty-one years of age, his father offered him the homestead if he would return and assume the responsibility of
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paying certain sums of moncy to his sister, and his medical studics. After engaging in his pro- give a bond of maintenance for the support of his parents. He accepted the condition and returned to Derry in 1835. (For an extensive genealogy of the McMurphy family, see Derry edition, Book of Nutfield.)
JOËL E. GUILLET, M. D., was born in
Nº St. Charles, Canada, on Christmas Day, 1861, son of Charles and Mary (Pratt) Guillet. His parents removed to Burlington, Vt., when he
DR. N. E. GUILLET.
was five years of age, and he has resided in the United States since that time. He attended the public sehools of Burlington, Vt., St. Hyacinthe College, Vietoria Medieal School in Montreal, and the medieal school at Burlington, graduating in 1886 and settling for practice in Nashua. After leaving St. Hyaeinthe College he studied under Dr. St. Jacques (who was also a druggist) of St. Hyacinthe, and then went to Woonsocket, R. I., and was registered as a pharmacist. Here he purehased a drug store and earned enough money to go to Montreal and Burlington to finish
fession in Nashua seven years he went to Europe, where he studied surgery for a year and a half, coming to Manchester on his return. While in Paris he was for six months ex-chief of clinics at St. Joseph Hospital. Dr. Guillet makes a specialty of general surgery and discascs of the nosc, throat, ear, and bladder. Hc is consulting surgeon of the Fanny Allen Hospital of Winooski, Vt., president and surgeon-in-chicf of Notre Dame Hospital of Manchester. He marricd, Feb. 4, 1889, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Margucrite (Lambert) Lessard of St. John, Canada, who died Nov. 20, 1889. He has onc daughter, Isabelle Ircnc, born Nov. 13, 1889. Dr. Guillet attends St. Augustine church.
THE PRINCIPAL ROADS IN TOWN arc the River road south, extending from Bakers- ville to Litchfield, name now changed to Brown avenue ; Calef, from Bakersville to junction with Brown avenue; Nutt, from junction of Elm and Hayward streets to Londonderry line; South, from Goffe's Falls to Mammoth road, thence Corning to Conant, and the last from Derry road ncar Mosquito Pond schoolhouse to Londonderry linc; Harvey road, from Nutt, near Cohas brook, to Londonderry line; Mammoth, from London- derry to Hooksett lines; Derry, from town line on the south to Mammoth ncar crossing of Cohas brook ; Weston, from Mammoth to Nutt ; Merrill, from Weston to Brown avenue; Cohas, from Derry road near Webster, past pumping station to eity reservoir; Island Pond, from reservoir, north side, to Auburn linc; Lake Shore, from Island Pond road near Mill Dam House to Candia road beyond Youngsville ; Candia road, from Mas- sabcsic street to Auburn line, near head of Lake Massabcsic ; Smyth, from Gore street near Amos- keag reservoir to Mammoth road near Hooksett line; Hooksett road, from Liberty street near Salmon to Hooksctt; River road north. from Amoskcag bridge to Hooksett line; Dunbarton road, from Front street near Black brook to Dun- barton line; Goffstown road, from Front street to Goffstown line; New Mast, from 371 Mast street to Goffstown line. (Sce " Roads and Streets," p. 63).
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A RTHUR HERBERT HALE, son of Wil- pensable to a successful banker. Mr. Hale is liam Henry and Mary Jane (Pillsbury) Hale, clerk of the Forsaith Machine Company, secretary of the local Dartmouth Alumni Association, and a prominent member of the Franklin-Street Con- gregational church, and seems in every way fitted for the various responsible positions which he occupics. (Sce article on First National bank of Manchester and Merrimack River Savings bank, entitled " Banks and Banking.")
was born in Concord March 27, 1864. His father, a machinist by occupation, is a native of Salem, Mass., and his mother was born in Boscawen. Arthur began his education in the public schools of Concord, graduating from the high school first in his class, and from Dartmouth College also among the first in the class of 1886. He came to Manchester the same year and entered the office of Hon. David Cross as a law student. In 1889 he was admitted to the bar and at once formed a partnership with Hon. Lucien B. Clough, which was continued until 1892, when he accepted the office of cashicr of the First National bank of Manchester, a posi- tion which he now holds. He has also been made treasurer of the Merrimack River Savings bank. Mr. Hale married Addie A., daughter of Gilman C. and Olive (Batchellor) Smith of Manchester, both pa- rents being natives of Candia and the former a brother of ex-Gov. Frederick Smyth.
ARTHUR H. HALE.
Two children have blessed their union : Olive, born April 1, 1893, and a son, born July 12, 1895. Judge Stanley and Hon. Oliver Pillsbury, insurance commissioncr of New Hampshire, were relatives of Mr. Hale. He has shown especial aptitude for matters of finance and gives particular attention to the investment of money and the safc placing of loans. While he is not one of the old residents, he has yet achieved a reputation for honesty and fair dealing indis-
W M. PERKINS, son of Capt. James and Sally (Smith) Perkins, was born July 31, 1816, at Essex, Mass. His father, a tanner and native of Essex, a moved to London- derry with his family of eight children, three girls and five boys, and purchased a farm, desiring to save his sons from the temptations and dan- gers of a sea-faring life, with which he was too well acquainted, having followed the sea for many years. William was about twelve years of age at this time, and here he attended the dis- trict schools and later Pinkerton Academy. After completing his educa- tion he found employment in the shoe manufac- tories of Goffe's Falls and Amoskeag. From the latter place he went to Marlborough as a book- keeper, but did not remain long, as an opportunity was offered him to buy an interest in the flour and grain business of Sargent & Hall, at the corner of Elm and Central streets, the firm name becoming Sargent, Hall & Perkins. About this time, 1850, he began to sell coal, and was the first person to
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deal in this fuel, selling out his interests in this line gencrous, and true to his convictions in all the later to E. P. Johnson. In 1867 Mr. Perkins relations of life, he was greatly respected by the public and loved by his friends. again made a business change, entering into part- nership with E. P. Johnson in the sale of hay, grain, and coal, under the firm name of E. P.
WILLIAM PERKINS.
Johnson & Co., this connection lasting till the time of his death, Dec. 20, 1891. Mr. Perkins married Miss Sarah A. Bartlett June 3, 1847, and two children were born to them: J. Frank of St. John, N. B., and Ida H., wife of George W. Towle of Fort Payne, Ala. His first wife died Oct. 26, 1882, and March 23, 1887, he married Mrs. Mary D. Colburn of this city, who survives him. Mr. Perkins twice represented his ward in the state legislature, during the sessions of 1877 and 1878, and was also a member of Lafayette Lodge, A. F. and A. M. Brought up in the Con- gregational faith, he early entertained distinctive views of his own, and united with the Unitarian church, of which he was a constant attendant and one of its most liberal supporters. Mr. Perkins was a man who possessed many warm personal friends, being of a genial, social nature. Honest,
ISAAC WHITTEMORE, the son of Jacob and Sally (Blodgett) Whittemore, was born in Manchester May 19, 1818, and received his educa- tion in the public schools. He worked on his father's farm until the age of twenty-three, and then began farming for himself and has pursued the same vocation ever since, filling also with credit many public offices. He was moderator of Ward 6 in 1852-53; selectman from the same ward from 1854 to 1868; assessor or assistant assessor every year since 1868, except 1877, to the present time; member of the legislature in 1857 and 1859; alderman in 1866-67; inspector of check lists, 1876 to 1892; enrolling officer of militia in 1863-64 ; and enumerator of the United States census in 1880 and 1890. Mr. Whittemore
ISAAC WHITTEMORE.
was married to Lucy Hall Dec. 28, 1843. and by her had two children : Emma Frances, born Nov. 21, 1845, dicd Feb. 28, 1877, and Isaac Clarence, born Dec. 2, 1847, still living in Manchester. Mrs. Whittemore died April 25, 1889.
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O TIS BARTON, the founder of the old dry getting credit for a small stock of goods, and in goods and carpet house of Barton & Co., is February, 1850, he opened his little store under the firm name of Barton & Co. Under this name he has done business here for nearly fifty years, and during all this time has never had a note go to protest ; cvcry claim against his firm has been met promptly in full, and his establishment today is not only one of the oldest and largest dry goods and carpct houses in the state, but also one of the most reli- able and successful. During the civil war Mr. Barton was member of the city government for a few years. He has been a director in the Amoskeag National bank and is at present a trustce in the Amos- keag Savings bank. Mr. Barton was mar- ried in March, 1851, to Sarah J. Tuck, a teacher in the public schools and a daughter of Dea- con Samuel Tuck of this city. Two sons, Milton Homer, born June 20, 1852, and Frederick Otis, born Jan. 20, 1858, were added to the family. Mrs. Barton died July 3, 1891. of Puritan stock, his ancestors having come from England and settled in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. He is of the fifth generation in descent from Samuel and Hannah Barton, who were married in 1690 and settled in Framingham, Mass., and he is the youngest son of Warner and Elizabeth (Clement) Barton, who were mar- ricd in 1815 and located in Worcester, Mass., where they lived until 1824, when they emi- grated to Maine, where Otis was born in 1825. He lived on his father's farm until he was eigh- tecn years of age, when he entered a little coun- try store in his native town. Soon realizing, however, that there was little chance to better his condition, he gave up his situation in less than a year and went first to Worcester, and then to Springfield, Mass., then the western terminus of the Boston & Albany railroad. Here he found cmploy- ment in a small dry goods store at a salary of fifty dollars a year and board. After re- OTIS BARTON. maining five years as clerk with this firm, he decided to go into business THE FIRST BIRTH IN NUTFIELD was that of Jonathan Morrison, son of John and Margaret Morrison, who was born Sept. 8, 1719, within less than six months after the settlement of the colony. The second child born was James Mckean, Jr. Their births were not far apart, and there had been much anxious speculation which mother's son should obtain the prize of a farm, or lot of land, which was to be assigned to the first-born son of Nutfield. himself, and visited many New England towns in search of a desirable location. Coming to Man- chester in January, 1850 he determined, after remaining a few days, that he would try his fortunes here, provided he could get credit in Boston for goods with which to stock a small store, for he was a stranger and without money. He accordingly went to Boston, and making known his condition and wishcs, succeeded in
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LANDING OF THE NORSEMEN. In Manchester Art Gallery.
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SECOND FRAMED HOUSE IN NUTFIELD.
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JOHN FERGUSON, M. D., son of David F. to the faculty of the medical college of Castleton, and Kate Lavenia (Fitz Gerald) Ferguson, Vt., then in session, and casily obtained their diploma. In the follow- ing spring he received the diploma of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and then accepted the position of surgeon on a line of mail steamships plying between New York, Liverpool, Bre- men, and Havre, where for three years he was associated with many distinguished persons among the travelling public and made many valuable friends. Leav- ing the service of the steamship company, he was appointed one of the post-mortem examin- ing surgeons for the coroners of New York city, also assistant ana- tomical demonstrator and assistant clinical in- structor at the medical university in Fourteenth street, a college patron- ized chiefly by the sons of Southern planters. In 1861 he came to Man- chester, being the first Irish physician to settle here, and was shortly afterward appointed by Gov. Berry surgeon of the Tenth New Hamp- shire Volunteers. He left for the front with his regiment in the fall of 1862. During his
was born in Rathkeale, county of Limerick, Ire- land, Oct. 28, 1829. His ancestors were Scotch, who settled in the north of Ireland and were gen- erally engaged in linen manufacture. Hisgrand- father, David, moved to the south of Ireland, became a merchant in Rathkeale, and reared a family of five sons and two daughters. Four of the sons chose the learned professions, law, divinity, and medicine, one of them becoming judge for the southern district of Ireland. Dr. Ferguson is the eldest of eight children. He was instructed by a pri- vate tutor in his early years, and was graduated from a Jesuit college in 1847. He then immc- diately began the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Philip O'Han- lon, in Rathkeale, and in 1850 was graduated from the Hall of Apothe- caries in Dublin. His continued association with his uncle enabled him to acquire a practi- cal knowledge of medi- cine, surgery, pharmacy, and dispensary practice. Dr. O'Hanlon emigrated JOHN FERGUSON, M. D. to America and soon became celebrated as a successful practitioner in residence in New York he had been surgeon on the staff of Col. Corcoran, of the famous Sixty- tine riots on Staten Island, which fitted him all New York. Dr. Ferguson followed him to this country in 1851, and that he might practice his Ninth Regiment, and saw service in the quaran- profession here he offered himself for examination
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