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He m. Rachel J. Coffin, who d. March 20, 1885. He d. May 26, 1887. Ch. :
(1). Gertrude A., b. in Worcester, Mass., Jan. 13, 1858.
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(2). Herbert H., b. in Springfield, Dec. 7, 1862; d. July 14, 1884 .. (3). Ernest Graves, b. Dec. 10, 1868; d. -.
4. John, b. -; m. - Earle of Chester ; res. in Boston.
5. Horace, b. April, 1838; member of Company E, 16th Reg't Ver- mont Volunteers; m. Lorette L., daughter of Alvah and Salome S. Houghton. Ch. :
(1). Edna S., b. Nov. 14, 1865; m. May 18, 1892, Harry L. Rich- mond.
6. Elizabeth, b. --; m. Oscar Mason.
7. Alice b. -; m. John Cutler; d.
V. Charles, b. May 23, 1808 ; d. June 20, 1831.
VI. William Mellen, b. 1810; d. Sept. 2, 1849; m. Arabella S. - , who d. Aug. 17, 1865, aged 49. Ch. :
1. William O., b. May, 1843. Enlisted in Company A, 3d Vermont Volunteers. Wounded at battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864; d. of wounds June 7, 1864.
2. A daughter, d. June 5, 1856, aged 20 years.
VII. Betsey B., b. March 7, 1814; m. Jonathan Martin. (See sketch.)
JOSEPH MESSER, son of Zacheus and Hannah (Hutchins) Messer, was b. in New London, N. H., in 1806, and came to Springfield in 1826, to learn the cabinet maker's trade of Abiel Smart, who had a shop where the Parks & Woolson machine shop now stands. Before finishing his trade, Mr. Smart sold out to Davidson & Parks, who there established their business of building shearing machines, and Mr. Messer was at. once employed in the woodworking department of their establishment, where he remained forty-six years, and for many years was superintendent of that depart- ment, until failing health compelled him to resign. He d. Aug. 18, 1885, at Cohasset, Mass., and was buried at Springfield.
He was at one time engaged in raising silkworms, and one year received the highest bounty from the State for producing the most cocoons. He invented a machine for reeling the silk from the cocoon. It was then sent to Newport, N. H., where it was twisted, colored, and made into sewing silk of good quality. This was before the seminary was established here, and Mr. Messer one year occupied the old meeting-house for feeding and growing his silkworms, which was afterward the Wesleyan Seminary, and is now the high school building. It was soon found that the business could not prove a success on account of the climate. The mulberry trees winter-killed and the worms sickened and died, and it was finally given up altogether.
Mr. Messer was a good mechanic, and had an inventive mind. He invented several machines which greatly facilitated the work under his charge. He was also successful in grape culture, and had one of the finest vineyards in this section on his place where he built his home in 1836, which is now well known and still owned by the family.
In 1831 he m. Mary Stodder, daughter of Elijah and Katharine (White) Stodder. She was b. in Springfield in 1806, and always lived in the village. She d. Aug. 24, 1879, and was one of the two oldest persons then living in the village.
GEO N.WALKER & Co. BOSTON
Alijuh Hielten
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Mr. and Mrs. Messer united with the Congregational church in 1834, under the ministry of Rev. Daniel O. Morton. They had seven ch. :
I. Mary Elizabeth, unm.
II. Isadore Phila, m. Capt. James H. Little, and they now live in Cohasset, Mass.
III. Joseph Rossendel ; unm.
IV. Horace Jerome, m. Anna Holden.
V. Orlin Marsh, d. at age of 15.
VI. Frances Louisa, d. at age of 5.
VII. Abby Georgianna, m. Edwin B. Heywood, now a prominent merchant in Claremont, N. H.
ALBERT I. MILLER, son of Rhoderick and Mary J. (Holden) Miller, was b. as Claremont, N. H., May 23, 1860; m. Dec. 10, 1883, Charlotte F. Litchfield, daughter of Jairus and Almira L. (Faxon) Litchfield of Springfield. Ch .:
I. Mary A., b. May 23, 1885.
JAMES HARRINGTON MILLER, b. Oct. 30, 1763, came from Grafton, Mass., to this town in 1806. He settled in Eureka, on what is still the Miller farm. His wife was Lucy Pratt. Ch. :
I. Levi, b. Nov. 19, 1786; went to Wisconsin.
II. Patty, b. April 13, 1788; m. Daniel Leland. Seven ch.
III. John, b. May 28, 1790; d. young.
IV. Abijah, b. June 8, 1792.
V. John, b. Dec. 5. 1795; m. 1st, - Cady ; m. 2d, Susan Pratt. They lived on what has since been called the Houghton farm, now owned by the town, a part of which is to be used for a cemetery. "They had five children, some of whom have risen to prominence. Later he emigrated to Wisconsin, where he d. in 1885.
Abijah, the fourth child of James Harrington Miller, was the last member of the family to leave Grafton. He drove the herd of forty fine cattle which have been bred and the stock retained on the farm to the present day. After coming to Vermont he began life for himself by working for Consul William Jarvis, at Weatherfield Bow, at eight dollars per month, and teaching school winters. He was a remarkable penman and very successful in his teaching. He afterward purchased the homestead, and added to it, until he owned one of the most productive farms in town, of about six hundred acres, where he attained great success in raising Durham cattle.
Mr. Miller was noted for his industry, frugality and good manage- ment. In 1817 he m. Sarah Fuller Stimpson. Ch. :
1. Lucy Ann, b. 1818; m. 1837, Henry Reed Dyer, a native of this town, afterwards a prominent business man of Rutland, Vt. They had six children. Of these,
(1). James H. was a successful business man in Rutland, and met his death by accidental shooting, Aug. 18, 1880.
(2). Charles, another son, is superintendent of the Santa Fé and Pacific Railroad, located at Las Vegas, N. M.
2. James S., b. 1820; d. 1842.
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3. Sarah Jane, b. 1822; lives on the homestead ; unm.
4. Abijah Cortez, b. 1824; lives on the homestead; m. April 3, 1860, Charlotte Weston, daughter of Jehiel Weston; she d. Dec. 21, 1885. Ch .:
(1). A. C. Frank, b. August, 1864. He lost his life in a burning building at Fitchburg, Mass., Aug. 2, 1891.
(2). Lottie A., b. 1875.
Three other children d. in infancy.
5. John Pratt, b. 1830; d. in childhood.
6. Frank D., b. June 29, 1833 ; a young man of great promise; grad- uated at University of Vermont in class of 1854. He d. May 24, 1856.
JAMES MITCHELL was b. in Lempster, N. H., Feb. 14, 1820, and was the fourth child and second son of James and Celinda (Whitcomb) Mitchell.
At the age of eighteen he went to Nashua, N. H., and for three years was employed there and at Milford, in manufacturing carriages and agricultural implements.
In 1841 he went to Felchville, Vt., purchasing of John Brown an in- terest in his blacksmithi shop, at the same time engaging outside of this business, in the manufacture of ploughs.
Feb. 22, 1844, he m. Miranda, the youngest daughter (b. Juue 16, 1814) of Major Charles Webster of Alstead, N. H., and in June, 1846, he moved to Springfield, entering the employ of Spencer & Nourse, foundrymen. Less than a year after he bought out Mr. Spencer's interest in the busi- ness, and in 1848 he also bought out Mr. Nourse, a little later taking in Russell Burke as partner. From this time until near the close of 1870 (with the exception of the period between 1859 and 1862) he was active in the management of the business, most of the time under the firm names of Shepardson & Mitchell and James Mitchell & Co.
In 1859 he sold out his business owing to ill health, and spent some time travelling in the West. Late in 1859 he established a foundry at White River Junction, Vt., and when two years later he was burned out, he again bought out his old business at Springfield. After retiring in 1870 he never again engaged actively in business, and d. in Springfield, July 2, 1885. He had five ch. :
I. George H., b. Dec. 20, 1844; d. Aug. 30, 1850.
II. Lizzie A., b. July 7, 1846; d. Feb. 8, 1875.
III. Flora E., b. Feb. 20, 1849; d. Oct. 13, 1881.
IV. James Edward, b. March 28, 1854; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, April 13, 1891.
V. Herbert W., b. Feb. 25, 1859; m. Oct. 6, 1886, Annie M. Titus, daugh- ter of Henry and Mary (Whitney) Titus of Bellows Falls, Vt. They have one ch. :
1. Annie Helena, b. Aug. 16, 1887.
The subject of this sketch was of Scotch descent. His father was b. in Haverhill, Mass., in 1785. The originator of the family in this country was John Mitchell, who, iu company with a brother, came from Scotland about
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JAMES MITCHELL.
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1685, and settled in Massachusetts. John was a merchant, and his son James. grandson and great-grandson of the same name succeeded in turn to his business.
ORLIN F. MOODY, son of Daniel and Lucinda (Cram) Moody, was b. at Charlestown, N. H., Aug. 3, 1825 ; m. Dec. 31, 1848, Lucy Densmore, daughter of William and Rebecca (Record) Densmore of Unity, N. HI. ; came to Spring- field in 1861; d. April 25, 1888. Ch .:
I. Nellie R., b. at Charlestown, N. H., Sept. 20, 1855; m. March 3, 1879, Oscar W. Walker. (See Walker family.)
CHARLES H. MOORE, son of Levi B. and Mary A. (Hall) Moore, was b. in Plymouth, Oct. 8, 1863. He came to Springfield in 1882, and commenced mer- cantile business as clerk for A. II. Holman. In 1888 he bought the clothing business of O. M. Double- day, which he still continues, in the " Blue Store," where he has one of the finest stocks of goods in the county. He m. June 29, 1887, Mary Edna, daughter of E. C. Burke. Ch. :
CHARLES H. MOORE.
I. Edmund Burke, b. May 12, 1888.
GEN. LEWIS R. MORRIS traced his ancestry to one of two brothers, Col. Lewis Morris and Capt. Richard Morris of Tintom, Mon- mouthshire, England, who were officers in the Parlia- mentary army under Crom- well. At the Restoration they were banished, and fled to the Barbadoes. In 1672 Capt. Richard came to New York, and obtained a grant of the manor of Morrisania, an estate of three thousand acres in Westchester County, which he bequeathed to his son Lewis, who was born the same year.
This son married Isabella Graham, a ward of the Duke of Montrose, and became the first governor of New Jersey.
The third generation is represented by his son Lewis, b. Sept. 23, 1698, and d. July 3, 1762. He was Judge of Admiralty. He was twice married. His first wife, Catharine Staats, a daughter of Dr. Staats, who married an Indian Begum in the Dutch East Indies, and settled in New York, where he
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was prominent as one of the heads of the liberal party in the Dutch period. By her he had three sons; Lewis, to whom he devised his Morrisania cstate, and who made his name immortal by affixing it to the Declaration of Inde- pendence; he married a Walton. Richard, an eminent jurist, was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of New York. The third, Staats Long, was an officer in the British service, with whom the Duchess of Gordon fell in love and married. He was sent to other service during the war. The second . wife of Lewis Morris, who married Catherine Staats, was Sarah Gouverneur, a lady of Huguenot descent. By her he had only one son, Gouverneur Mor- ris, our first minister to the court of France, and one of the most brilliant men of his time.
Chief Justice Richard Morris was, before the Revolution, a Judge of Ad- miralty, as were his father and grandfather before him. As chief justice, he held court at Westminster when Vermont was under New York rule. He was one of the original proprietors in the Confirmation Charter of the town of Springfield. He married Sarah Ludlow, and their son, Lewis R. Morris, b. Nov. 2, 1760, is the subject of this sketch. He was fitting for college, but quitted his studies at the age of seventeen to join a company raised in New York City for the war of Independence, and was chosen ensign of the com- pany. He served through most of the war. He was on the staff of Gen. Schuyler, and after that officer was superseded by Gen. Gates, was on the staff of Gen. Clinton and also of Gen. Van Rensselaer. In 1777, by order of Gen. Schuyler, he led a force of troops from Schenectady through the wil- derness to the relief of Ida Castle, which stood on the present site of the city of Utica, and was surrounded by a large force of English troops and Indians; reaching there just in time to save the inmates from massacre.
Gen. Morris saw Jennie McCrae only a few hours before she was massacred by the Indians, a tragedy which excited horror and indignation everywhere, and helped to unite the colonists in a determination to resist a power which could use such base instruments to perpetuate its tyranny.
The race of Morris was marked by a splendid physique. The four young men who joined the army were considered to be the handsomest men in the American army. Gen. Morris was a man of courtly manners and distin- guished bearing. His skilful horsemanship was something wonderful. It is related of him that in the street of Springfield he picked up a lady's glove from the ground while riding at full speed, and returned it to her with a courteou's bow.
Gen. Morris bought eighteen thousand acres of land in western New York at $1 an acre. Then he sold one half of it at $2 an acre to a Mr. Parish, but at the urgent remonstrance of his uncle, Gouverneur, he declined an offer of the same amount for the other half. In 1807 Gen. Morris and his wife and daughter Sarah went to Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., and spent a year on his land in the woods, leaving his son Richard at Russell Hunt's in Charlestown. They lived in a log shanty, and made a clearing in what is the present village of Ox Bow in the town of Antwerp, and enjoyed rustic life. They entertained distinguished company there; among others his uncle Gouverneur. The latter having suffered the loss of a leg, could not ride horseback, and no carriage roads existing, the distinguished statesman and
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minister to France was drawn through the woods and over the rough ground on an ox sled.
Lewis G. Morris of Fordham, N. Y., the celebrated breeder of fine stock, was a nephew of Gen. Morris.
That an ambitious young man, of distinguished ability, attractive person and winning manners, a member of one of the most influential and powerful families in the city and State of New York, with every reason to expect a suc- cessful public career in contact with the brightest minds of that great State, should turn his back on those tempting opportunities and advantages and the polished society of the cultivated city, which he was so well calculated to en- joy and to adorn, to cast his lot in the little colony in the wilderness of Ver- mont, struggling for existence between conflicting claims, and seemingly without strength to maintain her own right to existence, is a mystery not easily understood by the young Vermonters of to-day who are so eager to get away to a city to drudge for their board, with little encouragement of ever earning more than their food and clothes.
The exact date of Gen. Morris's settlement in Springfield is not known. The town records show that at a town meeting held Dec. 19, 1785, he was chosen one of a committee to prepare a plan of a meeting-house, and acted with the committee. He was also one of the building committee of the old meeting- house on the common. He assumed at once here, as he did everywhere, the position of a leader. Gen. Morris was a large landholder in Springfield, and leased out many farms on perpetual leases. He was a lenient landlord, al- lowing his tenants extensions of time for payment when they were unfor- tunate and were honestly trying to pay their rent; and often remitted the rent altogether.
He was a wise counsellor in public affairs, in which he had great influence in the State and nation, as well as the town. He held many public offices. He was member from Springfield, of the General Assembly, and Speaker of the House from 1795 to 1797. He also represented the town in the Legisla- ture in 1803-5-6-8. He was clerk of the House in 1790-91; secretary and member of the Constitutional Convention in 1793; representative from Ver- mont in the fifth, sixth and seventh Congresses, from May 15, 1797, to March 3, 1803; United States marshal from 1791 to 1797; county clerk of Windsor county court, 1790 to 1796, and chief judge of that court in 1796. In Janu- ary, 1791, he was appointed one of the commissioners, with Nathaniel Chip- man and another, to confer with Congress with respect to the admission of Vermont to the Union. From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary of foreign af- fairs under Chancellor Livingstone. In 1811 he was appointed major-general of the first division of militia, which office he resigned in 1817.
Gen. Morris was three times married. His first wife was a Miss Dwight of Northampton, Mass. There was one daughter, Louisa M., who married, July 28, 1807, John S. Edwards of Connecticut, and moved to Warren, Ohio. Mr. Edwards was clected to Congress in 1812, but died before taking his seat, leaving three children, two of whom died in infancy ; the other William J. Ed- wards, of Youngstown, Ohio, recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, still in vigorous health. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Edwards married a Mr. Montgomery, by whom she had one son and two daughters, the son
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and one daughter, now a widow, living at Hazelton, a manufacturing village near Youngstown. The other daughter left two children.
The second wife was Theodosia, daughter of Rev. Bulkley and Martha (Pomeroy) Olcott of Charlestown, N. H. She died Feb. 16, 1800, leaving one child, Lewis O., born in 1796, well and favorably known to old residents of the town, and who died in Boston, Oct. 14, 1818. He was in trade in the vil- lage at one time, and built ". Morris's Mills."
The third wife was Elleu, daughter of Lieut .- Governor Jonathan and Levinah (Swan) Hunt of Vernon. There were five children by this marriage. Richard H., born May 16, 1803, who was a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, and died Nov. 5, 1837, leaving two children. Sarah Ludlow, born March 23, 1806; married Rev. Edward Ballard of Pittsfield, Mass., where she died March 28, 1847. Her only surviving daughter, Miss Sarah J. Ballard, now of Bruns- wick, Me., for several years resided in Springfield with her grandmother; Gouverneur, born in 1809, a lawyer and judge, now a resident of Monroe, Mich., where he is still in active legal practice, in his eighty-second year; James H., born in 18-, who is still in active business at Ann Arbor, Mich., and Robert, the youngest, born in 1814, and died May 2, 1834.
Gen. Morris died Oct. 29, 1825, aged sixty-five years, at the pleasant home- stead he had built amid his fertile acres, under the shadow of Skitchewaug mountain, and here, forty years later, Aug. 24, 1865, his widow died. Their bodies and those of his second wife and four of his children and two grand- children lie in the family lot in the cemetery at Charlestown, N. H.
ELLIS W. MORSE, machinist, was b. in Canton, Mass., Nov. 16, 1831. He has for many years worked for the Parks & Woolson Machine Co. He m. April 1, 1855, Mercy Fletcher, daughter of Justus and Thankful (Leland) Fletcher, b. in Chester, Vt., Nov. 29, 1835. Clı. :
I. Clarence E., b. at Claremout, N. H., June 21, 1860.
II. Charles F., b. at Springfield, Jan. 20, 1863.
MYRON C. MUNSON, son of Hosea and Lurilla (Smith) Munson, was b. at Whately, Mass., May 21, 1824 ; m. Nov. 23, 1873, Almira W. Lockwood, daugh- ter of Ezekiel and Sarah (Bemis) Lockwood, b. in Springfield, Feb. 20, 1823.
FRED O. NASH, son of Otis and Millie E. (Rumrill) Nash, was b. at Al- stead, N. H., Sept. 8, 1858 ; m. June 23, 1883, Marion L. Stanley, daughter of Alfred L. and Caroline (Tate) Stanley, b. at Weston, Vt., Jan. 17, 1870.
MINER W. NEWTON, was b. in Weathersfield; he was a painter by trade aud worked at house painting a number of years in Springfield and Weathers- field. Wheu the Woolson block was about to be built he bought the old store then standing on the site, moved it up Valley Street, set it over the brook, and began trade in it, where he did a good business in grain and groceries for a number of years. The freshet of 1884 flooded his store and damaged his goods badly, and he then moved to the store at the head of Main Street, iu the Washburn block, where he remained until he sold out to Lund R. Barney in 1887 or 1888. Mr. Newton was a man of great industry, and he combated and overcame difficulties which would have discouraged many men of less persistence and energy. He d. in Springfield.
His widow is still living in Springfield. No children.
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LEVI NICHOLS moved to Winchendon, Mass., in 1773, and erected a spacious tavern stand on the spot where Cromwell Fisher's house now stands, about midway between the present village and the centre. There he did a large business, and was well known and popular.
About 1787 he removed to Keene, N. H., and continued the same business. About 1790 he came to Springfield and bought some two hundred acres of land of Lieut. Joseph Little and James Bates, in Eureka, comprising what is at present known as the Nichols place, owned by Henry F. Barnard, and a portion of the farm of C. Horace Hubbard. He erected two dwelling houses, just west of the present barns and highway. In one of them he lived until his death in 1809, and the other was occupied by the father of Mrs. Nichols, Lieut. Nathaniel Sawyer, who served through the War of the Revolution, d. in 1805, and was one of the first to be interred in the new cemetery on the common.
About 1800 he erected on the east side of the road a building for a saddler's shop, which was carried on by his sons Luke and Thomas. In the basement he had a nail shop, where a rude machine, operated by foot- power, punched out the nails from a strip of iron, and they were after- ward headed by hand. This building, which has the distinction of being the first in this busy manufacturing town used exclusively for manufac- turing purposes, was moved to the Barnard farm, where it was used as a carpenter's shop until burned in 1889.
Levi Nichols m. January, 1760, Elizabeth Sawyer. Ch. :
I. Mary, b. May 4, 1761.
II. Elizabeth, b. May 28, 1763.
III. Eunice, b. Nov. 25, 1765.
IV. Levi, b. Oct. 30, 1767; m. Mehitable Barnard, and lived on the Abijah Miller farm until 1797, when he removed to Jericho. Ch. :
1. Fanny, b. June 15, 1789; m. Major John Stevens, son of Simon Stevens, and went to Illinois.
2. Jennison, b. August, 1790.
3. Theodosia, b. Dec. 14, 1791; m. John Gould of Essex, N. Y., and moved to Chicago.
4. Levi, b. April 1, 1793.
5. Samuel, b. March 13, 1794.
6. Luke, b. Jan. 6, 1796.
The above children were born in Springfield on the Miller farm. He had nine other children born in Jericho and Burlington, Vt., and Essex and Plattsburgh, N. Y.
V. Luke, b. Oct. 31, 1769.
VI. Sally, b. July 17, 1771.
VII. Nancy, b. Dec. 9, 1773; m. David Seymour.
VIII. Lucy, b. Nov. 15, 1775 ; m. Jennison Barnard. (See Barnard family.)
IX. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 15, 1778; was a hotel-keeper in Champlain, N. Y., and had four children.
X. Theodosia, b. Oct. 16, 1780; m. Jonathan Steele, and d. Aug. 23, 1819. Ch. :
1. Theodosia Ames.
2. Julia, Sophronia.
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3. Jonathan William.
5. Sarah Jane.
6. Luke Nichols.
7. Gardner Seymour.
8. Elizabeth.
XI. John, b. Sept. 25, 1782; m. 1st, Mary Allen. Ch. :
1. Frederick.
2. Elizabeth.
3. Sarah S.
4. Roderick N.
M. 2d, Julia Lynde. Ch .:
5. Elsie L.
7. Frances Charlotte.
8. George F.
XII. Thomas, b. March 13, 1785.
ELBERT P. NORTON, son of Sylvanus and Mary (Parker) Norton, was b. June 25, 1847. He came to Springfield in 1870; worked in the gristmill of Cobb & Derby. He m. Louisa Bixby, daughter of John H. Bixby, b. iu Plymouth. Ch. :
I. Blanche, b. Aug. 3, 1889.
SEBASTIAN NORRINGTON, son of Sebastian and Nancy (Noble) Norring- ton, was b. in Claremont, N. H., Jan. 4, 1833; m. Harriet Mallory, daughter of Moses and Harriet (Willard) Mallory. Ch. :
I. Sebastian D., b.
July 19, 1860; m. Florence Mont- gomery.
II. Edwin F., b. June 2, 1862.
III. Luella J., b. Jan. 17, 1864; m. June 1, 1886, Leonard Wil- son.
IV. Louis A., b. Sept. 28, 1866, in Wind- sor', Vt.
V. Hattie N., b. Sept. 15, 1867; m. Jan. 7, 1888, Eugene P. Williams.
VI. Ada M., b. Nov. 29, 1870, at Windsor.
VII. Eugene N., b. April 23, 1871, at Wind- sor.
VIII. Clara E., b. April 11, 1873, at Clare- mont, N. H.
JOHN R. NOURSE, son of John and Mehitable (Roundy) Nourse, was b. in 1806. He was a mechanic,
4. Mary Elizabeth.
G. Mary Julia.
JOHN R. NOURSE.
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and for many years active in business in Springfield, engaging in many different enterprises. He was possessed of a native wit, and his sharp sayings are still current. He m. Hannah R. Bisbee, who d. Oct. 25, 1862. Ch. :
I. Nelson R., who served in the War of the Rebellion in Co. K, 4th Reg't Vermont Volunteers.
II. Lucien.
III. Mary, who m. - Bishop, and removed to Buffalo, N. Y.
URIAL G. NOURSE, son of Hiram L. and Zilpha (Spaulding) Nourse, was b. at Springfield, May 3, 1831; m. Sarah F. Gardner, daughter of John W. and Sarah (Spear) Gardner, b. at Brimfield, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1835. Ch. :
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