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Children :
i. Irving, b. Chester, Vermont, Oct. 5, 1856; student at Mercersburg College some years ; farmer on homestead and surveyor.
ii. Carl, b. Newbury, April 19, 1859; student at Mercersburg College but did not graduate; studied law with his uncle, Judge Ladd at Lancaster, N. H., and admitted to the bar; clerk in the Treasury Department in Washington; now in practice in Boston.
iii. Helen Maic, h. Burlington, June 24, 1867; studicd for some years at the Conservatory of Music, Boston ; teacher of music at a college in Springfield, Mo; then at New London, N. H. Academy ; now at Perkins Institution for the Blind at South Boston.
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ABBOTT.
ROYAL H., b. Andover, Maine, came to Newbury in 1868, and settled at Boltonville. Children :
i. William H., d. in United States service.
ii. Elizabeth A., m. Nelson S. Forsyth; d. July, 1886.
iii. Martha, m. James Gardner, q. v.
iv. Edwin R., m. Ida, dau. of Valentine and Mary Morse of Haverhill; c., (1) Lewis W., b. Dec. 26, 1877. (2) Henry, b. Jan. 29, 1880. (3) Mary B., b. Feb. 3, 1886. (4) Frank G., b. June 22, 1888; d. Sept. 7, 1889.
ADAMS.
JOHN and ABIGAIL Adams were from Milton, Mass., who rem. to Wayland and are buried there.
JOSEPH, their son, b. in Milton in 1759; m. Aug. 14, 1793, Betsey Davis (b. New Bedford, 1765; d. Aug. 14, 1799) ; d. Concord, Mass., in 1830. They had five children, of whom Joseph, b. Littleton, Mass., May 2, 1796, d. June 1, 1863. He m. Roxalana, dau. of Daniel Hoar of Concord, probably of the same family as Senator Hoar (b. 1802, d. 1838.) Their son, Henry W. Adams, was b. in Concord, Mass., Nov. 17, 1825. When fourteen years of age he went to learn the paper trade at Cooperstown, N. Y., and in 1852, came to Wells River, and operated the old Ira White mill, in company with Union Durant, making straw paper. In 1856, they bought the new building east of the old mill, which, in 1857, they fitted up with new machinery for the manufacture of manila tissue, which has been their product in all these years since 1857. The reputation of their goods was very high, and their product always met with a ready sale being considered A No. 1, all the years operated by Durant & Adams, and by the Adams Paper Co. The partnership of Durant & Adams lasted thirty-seven years. In the meanwhile they owned and operated paper mills in West Derby, Bradford and Bellows Falls. This last mill was burned, with considerable loss, in 1866. They also owned and managed the Coosuck House, at Wells River, and the livery stable connected with it. In 1883, Mr. Durant died, and the mill was sold to Deming, Learned & Co. At the death of Mr. Learned the mill was sold to Franklin Deming and Henry W. Adams, who formed a partnership under the name of the Adams Paper Co. In 1895, the mill was sold to Warren Moore of Bellows Falls, but continues under the same name as before. While owned by Deming, Learned & Co. the mill was repaired, enlarged and equipped with more modern works, with great improvement in product and quality. On account of impaired health, Mr. Adams retired from his position as manager. He m. in Nashua, N. H., Aug. 31, 1848, Nancy Jackson, dau. of Abel and Varazina (Tower) Wright, b. 1828.
Children :
i. Flora Louise, b. Cooperstown, N. Y., July 6, 1851; m. Jan. 4, 1871, Oscar Cutler Hatch, now of Littleton, N. H., q. v.
ii. George Henry, b. Newbury, March 9, 1857; m. Martha Frances Sherman of Waltham. He has long held an important position in the American Watch Co., of Waltham, Mass., c., (1) George Harold, b. Oct. 31, 1879. (2) Roxalana, b. Aug. 2, 1883. (3) John Sherman, b. 1892. Mr. H. W. Adams has lived in Wells River since 1852, was town representative for the biennial term of 1876-77, has held most of the other town offices and was elected a deacon in the Congregational church in 1890.
AITKIN.
JOHN, son of Andrew and Margaret (Drummond) Aitkin; b. Star-Markinch, Fifeshire, Scotland, Dec. 3, 1813; m. 1842, Catharine, dau. of George and Janet (Patterson) Thompson; b. in the same parish, Dec. 11, 1811. They sailed for America, and came to Newbury, in the same year, living on the farm now owned by Samuel Tuttle. In 1848. he bought the retired farm, cleared by William Miller, on which he has since lived; farmer and stone-mason. She d. at Newbury, July 21, 1899.
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Children, all b. in N :
i. Andrew, b. Oct. 14, 1842. Served in the Union Army. (See war record.) He m. 1st March 21, 1866, Mary L., dau. George Chalmers (b. Newbury, Dec. 12, 1842; d. Bradford, July 7, 1867), one son b. June 15; d. Aug. 20, 1867. He m. 2d, May, 13, 1873, Agnes J., dau. Walter Arthur, (b. Feb. 13, 1843; d. April 26, 1887). He m. 3d, Feb. 20, 1890, Nellie E., dau. of S. R. Hancock of Bath. Chil. (1) Oscar J., b. June 18, 1891; (2) Irma Gratia, b. July 24, 1892; residence, Wells River since 1868, excepting two years at East Corinth; carpenter and builder.
ii. George, b. June 4, 1844; m. Oct. 14, 1880, Agnes, dau. of William Middleton, of Washington, D. C .; residence, Los Angeles, Cal .; in mining business.
iii. William, b. May 20, 1846, m. Nov. 6, 1888, at Kingman, Arizona, Mary Regia Netier ; residence, Truston Canon, on the Santa Fe & Pacific R. R .; farmer and fruit raiser.
iv. Janet, b. Oct. 18, 1848; m. June 5, 1879, James Arthur.
v. Margaret, b. Sept. 25, 1850; m. 1st. Jan. 23, 1880, Martin J. Hall, who d. Ryegate, Nov. 8. 1890; 2d, Nov. 5, 1895, John R. McLennan.
vi. Mary Ann, b. Oct 1, 1854; m. March 28, 1877, Wm. H. Berry; c. (1) Charles A., b. April 3, 1878; (2) George H., b. Aug. 12, 1880; (3) Ernest R., b. Sept. 10, 1881; (4) Josephine M., b. Ryegate, June 6, 1894.
ALLEN.
JOHN, b. Glasgow, Scotland, Dec. 31,1797. He m. Jan. 4, 1822, Mary Wallace, (b. Oct. 2, 1795; d. Newbury, March 25, 1882.) Their children were all born in Scotland. They left Scotland in March, 1841, their voyage across the Atlantic in a sailing vessel taking seven weeks and four days, coming to Newbury in May, 1841, and settling on the James Wallace farm. They lived in Topsham some years, but returned to Newbury. Both spent their last years with their daughter, Mrs. Cheney. He d. at N. March 22, 1873. Children :
i. Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1823; m. R. A. Brainerd of South Hadley, Mass.
ii. John, b. June 11, 1825; d. Topsham, Aug. 14, 1845.
iii. William Wallace, b. Kilbride Parish, Scotland, April 11, 1827. Farmer on Leighton hill; m. Susan F. Willey of Topsham; (b. Newbury Jan. 3, 1833; d. Sept. 22, 1898.) C., (1) Clara Ada, b. May 23, 1857; m. Oscar Dickey of Orange, Vt. (2) William W., b. Nov. 3, 1858; in the West. (3) Nellie M., b. June 22, 1862; m. Charles McLure of Ryegate. (4) May Belle, b. Oct. 17, 1872; m. William George.
iv. James, b. Jan. 15, 1830; m. Elizabeth Arthur of Ryegate; d. Newbury, April 7, 1899.
v. Ann, b. Feb. 1, 1832; m. W. F. Kimball of Topsham.
vi. Agnes, b. March 18, 1834; m. Harrison Cheney of Newbury, q. v.
vii. Matthew, b. March 18, 1836; served nine mos. from Sept. 1862 in Co. F., 22d Conn; he m. Laura A. Magoun of Topsham.
viii. Elizabeth, b. June 28, 1838; d. Newbury, Nov. 18, 1841.
ALLISON.
ROBERT, b. Leslie, Fifcshirc, Scotland, 1815; m. in 1839, Isabella, dau. of John and Isabella (Russell) Kinnaird, (b. Leslie, March 6, 1817, d. Newbury, July 8, 1895.) In the same ycar they came to America, being six weeks on the passage to New York, and up the Hudson and Lake Champlain to Burlington, thence to Newbury, and he obtained work at his tradc, which was that of a currier, at Haverhill. About 1842, they removed to Piermont and in 1845 to Newbury, on the farm now occupied by their son John; d Newbury, 1845. Children :
i. David R., b. Haverhill, 1841. In 1862, entered the employ of the Passumpsic Railroad at Barton, Vt., and in 1864. became station agent at Wells River, a position which he still holds. When he entered the station all the work was done by himself, with the assistance of a boy. It now requires nine men to carry on the work; m. 1871, Emma Carpenter, and has c. (1) Elsie Belle, b. 1876; m. Karl Morse of Jersey City, N. J. (2) Grace Carpenter, b. 1877.
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ii. Isabella, b. Piermont, 1842; d. Jan. 12, 1888.
iii. John R., b. Piermont, 1844; farmer on homestead; unm.
iv. Robert B., b. Newbury in 1846; went west in 1867; railroad conductor in Missouri many years; now settled on a farm at Tina in that state; m. 1882, Carrie Barrett. Nine c.
ARTHUR.
WALTER, son of Robert Arthur, b. Johnston, near Glasgow, Scotland, Dec., 1813; m. 1838, Elizabeth Smith, (b. Port Helen, Islay, Scotland, Nov. 14, 1819; d. Newbury Aug. 23, 1878.) They came to America in 1839, lived a short time in Topsham, one year in Groton, in Ryegate till 1871, when they came to Newbury, and settled on Jefferson Hill, where their son Andrew lives. They were members of the Presbyterian church; d. Ryegate, March 28, 1883.
Children :
i. Robert, b. Scotland Mar. 20, 1839; res., Hudson, Black Hawk Co .. Iowa.
ii. Agnes J., b. Ryegate, Jan. 13, 1843; m. Andrew Aitkin, q. v.
iii. Andrew, b. Ryegate, March 2. 1845; unm.
iv. James, b. Topsham, March 12, 1847; m. June 5, 1879, Janet, dau. John Aitkin ; c., (1) William N., b. May 26, 1881. (2) Walter J., b. April 6, 1883.
v. Sarah Isabel, b. Ryegate Feb. 16, 1854; m. Jan. 13, 1875, M. F. McDonald of South Ryegate; d. at the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, July 12, 1894.
*ATKINSON.
I. JOHN, son of Thomas and adopted son of his uncle, Theodore Atkinson of Bury, Lancashire, Eng., was born in Boston, 1640, was in Newbury, Mass., 1663, and there in 1664 m. Sarah Myrich. He was a hatter by trade.
II. JOHN,2 (John1) b. 1667; m. Sarah Woodman.
III. ICHABOD,3 (John,2 John1) 5th son of John, b. Aug. 13, 1714; m. Priscilla Bailey, 1733; d. 1803.
IV. AMOS, 4 (Ichabod,3 John,2 John1) 3d son of Dea. Ichabod and Priscilla Bailey, b. March 20, 1754; m. Anna Bailey 1778; d. Nov. 11, 1817.
V. WILLIAM,5 (Amos,+ Ichabod,3 John,2 John1) son of Lieutenant Amos and Anna Bailey Atkinson, b. at Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 13, 1779; m. Anna, dau. of Col. Josiah and Sarah (Tappan) Little, (b. Nov. 29, 1783; d. Nov. 13, 1866.) She inherited the sterling qualities of her ancestors and filled the various positions of life with marked fidelity. In early life Mr. Atkinson was a hatter and afterwards in the book trade with his brother-in-law, Edward Little. The family came to this town in 1830, occupying first the Spring Hotel and after a few years moved into the house then standing on the corner where Mr. C. Francis Darling now resides. In 1844, by an exchange of property with Hon. Tappan Stevens, Mr. Atkinson became owner of and moved into the house built by Horace Stebbins on the "Little Plain" in which his grandson, William H. Atkinson, now lives. He held many town offices, was one of the persons named in the act incorporating the Vermont Central Railroad in 1832 and in that incorporating the Bank of Newbury. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson observed their golden wedding, and ten years later, April 10, 1864, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. They lived two years after this and died within a few months of each other; d. April 25, 1866. Their c. were all born in Newburyport, Mass.
Children :
i. William, b. Oct. 11,1806; m. Sept. 2, 1829, Charlotte Adeline Reed. He was in the marine insurance business in New York city where he d. Nov. 15, 1862.
ii. Charles, b. May 18, 1808; m. Ann Eliza Bates Jan. 4, 1830. They went to Illinois in 1835, and became interested in the industries and enterprises of a new country. He was one of the original founders of Moline, Ill., and it has been said there was hardly a business of any large proportion in the city that was not indebted to him for aid. He accumulated property, and
*Prepared by Mrs. Joseph Atkinson.
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at his death April 27, 1887, made generous bequests to schools, churches and colleges. The tankards, plates and baptismal bowl used at communion service of 1st ch. in Newbury, were a gift from Mrs. Charles Atkinson in 1872.
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iii. Joshua Tappan, b. Feb. 9, 1810, q. v.
2 iv. Joseph, b. Feb. 15, 1812, q. v.
v. Moses L., b. July 27, 1814; grad. Dartmouth College 1838, Harvard Medical school 1844; m. May 7, 1845, Catharine M., dau. of Edmund Bartlett, Esq., Newburyport, Mass .; practiced his profession at Lawrence, Mass., where he d. Jan. 18, 1852. In 1866, Mrs. Atkinson bought the house built by Joseph Chamberlin on the Little Plain, which the son and daughter, Edmund B. and Martha W., usually occupy during the summer. vi. Judith Tappan, b. June 25, 1817; m. May 18, 1837, Gideon D. Dickinson of Lebanon, N. H. They lived a few years in Maine and in Boston. In 1850, Mr. Dickinson went to California and after his return they resided in Chicago and Moline, Ill., where she d. Dec. 17, 1876. Their two daughters were both m. the same day, Sept. 16, 1862. (1) Anna C., b. May 6, 1838; m. William D. Hawley and went immediately with him to Alexandria, Va., where he had a position in the Union army. She soon became a regular visitor at one of the hospitals and spent many hours each week ministering to the comfort of our sick and wounded soldiers. Of a delicate constitution she soon fell a victim to the infection of the place and after a short illness d. Dec. 7 of the same year less than three months after her marriage. (2) Mary L., b. Aug. 9, 1841; m. Charles H. Decre, a wealthy plow manufacturer of Moline, Il1.
3 vii. George H., b. May 10, 1819, q. v.
viii. Josiah L , b. Feb. 14, 1823; m. July 4, 1854, Isabella Clarkson who d. May 30, 1894; m. 2d, Mrs. Jennie Booth Champlin, Feb., 1896. He was engaged in farming in Vermont, lumbering and mining in California and since then has been' a successful real estate agent in Portland, Ore.
1 JOSHUA TAPPAN,6 (William,5 Amos,4 Ichabod,3 John,2 John1) b. Feb. 9, 1810; m. Emeline Little of Campton, N. H., Nov. 1, 1831. They moved to Whiteside Co., Ill., in 1835 and began life as pioneers, enduring the hardships and privations incident to settling a new country. Mr. Atkinson built the first house in Union Grove township and it was here that the first religious services in town were held. His best efforts were always given for the public good and every worthy project found in him a friend and helper. In 1875, he removed to Geneseo, Ill., where he died May 28, 1894.
Children :
i. Anna E., b. at Union Grove, Whiteside Co., Ill., Nov. 26, 1836-the first white child born in that vicinity. Graduated at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., in 1856. After teaching some time in Illinois she came to Newbury to reside with her grandparents and Nov. 3, 1863, m. Edward P. Keyes who d. Aug. 28, 1881. Mrs. Keyes was a woman of untiring energy and rare executive ability. She abounded in her ministrations to the aged, the afflicted and poor, and was greatly interested in all the benevolent and missionary enterprises of the time. Especially was this true of home missions. To this object she gave generously, not only of her means, but also of her time and influence. She d. suddenly at the home of her brother, Moline, Ill., Easter morning, April 15, 1900. Buried at the Ox-bow.
ii. James W.
iii. Sarah L., res. at Moline, Ill.
iv. Josiah L.
v. George L., dcccased.
2 JOSEPH,6 (William,5 Amos,4 Ichabod,3 John,2 John1) b. Feb. 15, 1812. Farmer in Newbury on Musquash Meadow and held various town and county offices. State Senator 1847-8. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention 1850 ; member of the 1st Cong. ch. 52 ycars, and before that of the 2nd Cong. ch. in Newburyport, Mass .; chosen deacon in 1871; m. 1st, Oct. 8, 1835, Charlotte, dau. of Moses and Elizabeth (Merrill) Swasey (b. Junc 3, 1814, d. Sept. 9, 1850) ; m. 2nd, Junc 4, 1851, Frances, dau. of
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JOSEPH ATKINSON.
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Nathaniel and Fanny (Gould) Farrington of Walden. Vt .; d. suddenly Mar. 5, 1883, from heart failure, brought about by excitement caused by a fire which broke out in the church building the day before his death.
Children :
5 i. William Hazen, b. Oct. 19, 1838, q. v.
ii. George Little, b. May 28, 1842; d. Aug. 9, 1860.
iii. Charles Henry, b. Aug. 13, 1845. Farmer in Illinois; m. Nov, 5, 1885, Mrs. Alice Little Hale, dau. of Capt. Joshua and Sophia C. (Tenney) Hale, Newburyport, Mass .; d. May 31, 1888.
3 GEORGE H.,6 (William,5 Amos,4 Ichabod,3 John,2 John1) b. May 10, 1819. Fitted for college at Newbury Seminary and other academies, earning funds by teaching. Graduated at Dartmouth College 1843, Andover Theological Seminary 1846, appointed by the A. B. C. F. M. to do missionary work among the Zulus, So. Africa, but his health forbade his going to that climate. In 1847, he was commissioned by A. H. M. society to establish their first mission on the Pacific coast in Oregon, at that time our only territory there. He was m. Oct. 8, 1846, to Nancy Bates of Springfield, Vt. Ordained in the Cong. church, Newbury, Vt., Jan. 24, 1847, the ordination sermon preached by Rev. George W. Campbell being printed. In Oct. they sailed from Boston via Cape Horn and the Sandwich Islands for their mission. At Honolulu they had to wait three months for a vessel bound for Oregon, and did not reach the Columbia river till June 12, 1848. He settled in Oregon City where he organized the first Cong. church in Oregon, of which he was pastor for fifteen years. Pastor of the 1st Ch. Portland, Ore., ten years. Mr. Atkinson devoted all his leisure time to pushing forward the cause of education in the territory, and it was through his efforts that the public school system was established by the legislature in 1849. He was school superintendent at Portland and was efficient and active in building up the system of public schools established in that city. He founded in Oregon an academy which afterwards became the Pacific University of which he was one of the original incorporators and for more than forty years Secretary of its board of trustees. Received in 1865 the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth College. In 1872 he became general missionary for Oregon and in 1880 general Superintendent of Missions for Oregon and Washington. He lived to see the one church of Oregon grow into ninety-three, the result largely of his long continued and faithful services. During the last nine years of his life, his labors were more abundant than ever, his journeyings in the care of the churches averaging more than eight thousand miles a year. One of his last trips was to Tacoma, Wash., where he owned some lots and designed to give part of their value for a church building. Upon his arrival the need seemed to him so urgent that he gave the whole amount, $3,000, for the 1st Ch. of Old Tacoma. After his death it was incorporated as the Atkinson Memorial Ch .; d. Portland, Ore., Feb. 25, 1889.
Children :
i. George H., b. Sept. 16, 1849; grad. Dartmouth College, 1871; Long Island Medical College 1873. He had an extended practice as physician and surgeon in Brooklyn, N. Y., and was popular in political and social circles. While operating upon a charity patient suffering from blood poisoning at L. I. Hospital, the poison entered his system through a scratch on his finger, causing the loss of his own life while saving that of his patient; m. Sept. 21, 1877, Clara, dau. of H. N. and Lamira Chamberlain, Newbury, Vt .; d. Dec. 27, 1884; one son George N., b. Feb. 18, 1881; d. Sept. 2, 1883.
ii. Anna L. B., b. Oct. 24, 1851; grad. at Mills Seminary, Cal., 1869; m. Oct. 8, 1872, Frank M. Warren, who is the owner of salmon canneries, Columbia River, Oregon.
iii. Edward M. L., b. Dec. 23, 1854; grad. Pacific University 1876; Columbia Law School, N. Y., 1879; lawyer at Portland, Oregon.
5 WILLIAM HAZEN,7 (Joseph,6 William,5 Amos,4 Ichabod,3 John,2 John1) b. Oct. 19, 1838. Farmer on homestead. Served in Co. H, 12th Vermont, in the civil war; m. Jan. 11, 1865, Ella, dau. of A. Hazen and Maria (Lang) Hibbard of Bath, N. H .; c., (1) Charlotte, b. Jan. 19, 1867; m. Oct. 12,
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1892, Francis S. E. Gunnell; res. in Brooklyn, N. Y. (2) Frances M., b. Aug. 23, 1871; grad. Vt. University 1895. Librarian of Tenney Memorial Library. (3) Anna Isabel, b. May 15, 1878; grad. Bradford, Mass., Academy, 1898, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1900.
ATWOOD.
The Atwoods were formerly quite prominent but they have long disappeared, and have left meagre records behind them.
1 JOHN ATWOOD, senior, and his family came here, probably, before 1830, as his certificate from the Orford, N. H., ch. is dated in that year. He settled on and owned the farm now that of J. J. Smith. He d. in July, 1862, aged 95, and his wife, who was Mehetabel Gage, of Pelham, Mass., d. May 23, 1844, aged 77. Children :
i. Amos, no record.
2 ii. John, b. Jan. 15, 1796.
3 iii. Benjamin, b. August, 1797.
iv. Mehetabel.
4 v. Hannah, b. Nov. 26, 1803.
vi. Almira, b. 1806; m. Bailey White, (q. v.) ; d. April 7, 1839.
vii. Mary Ann, b. 1810; m. I. H. Olmstead, (q. v.) ; d. March 10, 1842.
2 JOHN, JR., 2 (John1) b. Jan. 15, 1796; farmer at W. N .; long a member, steward and class-leader in the Methodist church; town representative, 1844. He was also in business with his brother, Benjamin, at So. N. Hem. 1st, Feb. 12, 1829, Eliza, dau. of Levi Rogers, and widow of Bradley Doe, (b. May 4, 1807; d. Oct. 16, 1853.) 2d, Mary Ann Dow. 3d, Judith, dau. of Robinson Brock and widow of Wm. A. Boyce, (b. Feb. 23, 1808 ; d. Jan. 26, 1897). He d. March 3, 1883.
Children, all by 1st m .:
i. Amanda Rogers, b. April 13, 1830. She m. at Richmond, Ind., Oct. 10, 1855, Henry Clay Moore, who d. at St. Louis, April 13, 1889; res. Marietta, O., and afterward at St. Louis. She d. at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 31, 1886. C., (1) Caroline A., b. Marietta, Sept. 23, 1856; d. Newbury, Aug. 23, 1864. (2) Henry Clay, b. Marietta, Sept. 27. 1858; d. St. Louis, Sept. 28, 1863. (3) John Atwood, b. St. Louis, Feb. 9, 1861. Graduated Yale College, 1883. In real estate business New York city. (4) Daniel Agnew, b. St. Louis, Dec. 4, 1864. Graduated Yale College, 1886; res. Pittsburgh, Pa. ; president of the Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Co. Hc m. Oct. 10, 1889, Nellie Card of Pittsburgh. C., Harriet D., b. Feb. 19, 1892, and William C., b. June 25, 1893. (5) Paul, b. St. Louis, Aug. 26, 1867; d. Colorado, May 25, 1886.
ii. John, b. Aug. 8, 1831 ; d. March 29, 1854.
iii. George L. B., b. Aug. 2, 1833; d. Dec. 20, 1854.
3 BENJAMIN, 2 (John1) b. August, 1797. He was long in active business at South N., part of the time with his brother John, owning the saw and grist mill, and brick-yard. He made the brick of which the seminary building was built, and most of the brick houses at the Street, and S. N. The hamlet at S. N., aftercalled Happy Hollow, was then known as Atwood's Mills. At the time of the famine in Ireland, large quantities of oat meal were ground there and sent to relieve the suffering. He built several of the houses in that place. His own, a two- story brick house, standing where George Tuttle's brick house now does, was burned in the fire of 1850. Benjamin Atwood was also prominent in the Methodist church, and so punctual and regular in his attendance that he was sometimes called the "Sabbath bell." He m. 1st. Aug. 19, 1819, Anna, dau. of William Doe, (b. Oct. 24, 1801; d. Jan. 6, 1847). C., William D., and John. 2d, Mrs. Judith Richardson. C., (i.) Annie m. July 17, 1867, Rev. Alfred B. Drew of the New Hampshire conference. (ii.) Carric. He died Feb. 10, 1854. William D. Atwood, carpenter and farmer in Newbury ; served in the civil war (see soldier's record) and d. in the Soldier's Home, at Milwaukee, in 1893. He m. Sarah Louisa, dau. of Dea. John Buxton. (For account of herself and family sce Buxton family.)
4 HANNAH,2 (John1) b. Nov. 26, 1803; m. Feb. 14, 1832, Joseph Nason of Orford. They settled in Newbury, near Round pond, on the farm, and built the house
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where Mrs. A. J. Bailey now lives. Later, they moved, and built the house in which Albert Kendrick lives. and carried on the saw mill. She d. June 9, 1887. Joseph Nason, b. Feb. 11, 1806 ; d. Nov. 5, 1890.
Children :
i. Atwood P., killed in his father's saw mill, March 25, 1860, aged 24 years, 7 months. He was rendered totally deaf in childhood by scarlet fever.
ii. Joseph M., served in Co. H, 12th Vt .; d. in service, April 17, 1863, aged 21 years, 6 months. Buried at W. N.
AUSTIN.
WILLIAM R., b. Upton, Mass., 1816; carpenter at Wells River, was also in the hotel, and other business at different times; came to Wells River 1839, or 1840; rem. to Wakefield, Mass., 1890; m. 1st Mrs. Sarah (Williams) Gage, who d. Sept., 1841, leaving one daughter, Sarah M .; m. 2d, Oct. 13, 1844, Hepzi E., dau. of Jonas Tucker, (b. July 4, 1811, d. Apr. 3, 1890) ; one son, W. G .; d. Wakefield, Mass., 1892.
1 SARAH MARIA, b. Newbury, Wells River, Sept. 2, 1841; m. Wells River, Jan. 1, 1867, Allen L. Dunshee; d. Wakefield, Mass., April 2, 1883.
Children :
i. Henry A., b. Wells River, Nov. 12, 1867; m. Malden, Mass., Nov. 12, 1894, Josie G. L. Scales.
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