HISTORY OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Part VIII BIOGRAPHIES OF PROMINENT CITIZENS ---------------------------------- Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE and its counties TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885, 878 pgs. page 199 NASHUA, N.H. by John H. Goodale *************** BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES *************** HON. ISAAC SPALDING Hon. Isaac Spalding, of Nashua, was the son of Captain Isaac Spalding, and was born in New Ipswich, N.H., February 1, 1796. The family moved to Wilton NH in 1800. His father was a man of good education for those times, but his means were moderate. His son, therefore, had a limited education, and was very early thrown upon his own resources. In 1809, at the age of thirteen, he went to Amherst, NH as the clerk of Robert Reed, Esq., a leading merchant of that place, with whom he continued in that capacity seven years. In 1816 he became a partner of Mr. Reed, and remained in that situation ten years, being for the most of the time the post-master. In 1826 Mr. Spalding moved to Nashua, where he soon became the leading dry-goods merchant of the then new and thriving village. After twelve years in business he retired from it to engage in railroad enterprises, chiefly in the Concord Railroad, with which he was connected for twenty-five years. He was among the first who saw the importance of a railroad connection between the lakes and tide-water, and gave his aid to those enterprises. There was no more systematic and efficient business man in Hillsborough County than Mr. Spalding and such was the confidence in his impartiality that in the most heated political contests he was often chosen moderator by unanimous consent. He was several years a representative in the Legislature, and, under the city charter, was a member of the Board of Alderman. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1850, and of the Governor's COuncil in 1866-67, and in 1867-68. Mr. Spalding was elected one of the trustees of the State Asylum for the Insane in 1863, and was chosen president of the board in 1869. He was one of the earliest advocates of the Concord Railroad and its first treasurer, and, from its incorporation in 1835 to 1866 he served either as treasurer, director, or president. He was for more than twenty-five years president of the Nashua Bank, a State institution, which closed its business in 1869, having never made a bad debt or lost a dollar. In the War of the Rebellion he was a financial agent of the government, and assisted in providing the means of our country's success. Mr. Spalding, at the time of his death in May 1876, was one of the richest men in New Hampshire, having acquired his property by industry and economy, united with a wise forecast and untiring energy. He left no surviving children. In May 1828 he married Lucy, daughter of Nathan Kendall, of Amherst, who was born December 13, 1796. Two sons were born to them,--Edward Francis, in 1831, and Isaac Henry in 1840. Both of them died in childhood. Mrs. Spalding is still living, and resides in the family mansion on Main Street, in Nashua. JOSIAH G. GRAVES, M.D. AMong the most honored names of medical men in Hillsborough County during the last half-century is that of Josiah G. Graves. No history of Nashua would be complete that would not give a sketch of one for so long a period identified as one of its representative physicians, and who, to-day, retired from practice, retains the vigor of middle life, the power of accurate thought and just and quick conclusion, the firmness of an honest and truthful natures, and the suavity and courtesy of the gentleman of the "old school." Josiah Griswold Graves, M.D., was born July 13, 1811, in Walpole, N.H., one of the loveliest villages of the beautiful Connecticut Valley. His father was a well-to-do farmer, and his mother a woman of superior mind and excellent judgment, who looked well to the ways of her household, as did the notable women of that period. Ralph Waldo Emerson affirmed that man is what the mother amkes him. Much of truth as there undoubtedly is in that assertion, it does not tell the whole truth. Past generations, as well as the beloved mother, have contributed to the building of the man. Physical peculiarities, physical attributes, and mental tendencies have been transmitted by the ancestors, and in this case of this mother and son, who shall say that the mother's nature, intensified by the inheritance of powers from progenitors strong physically and mentally, did not so influence the son as to make his successful carreer certain from the start, forcing him from the uncongenial vocation of a tiller of the soil into a mission of healing during a long range of years? From an able article in "Successful New Hampshire Men" we extract as follows: "Not having a fancy for farming, and thus acting contrary to the wishes of his father, he left home at the age of eighteen with his mother's blessing and one dollar in money, determined upon securing an education and fitting himself for the medical profession. He defrayed the expenses of his education by his own teaching both day and evening, and was remarkably successful in his labors. Being a natural penman, he also gave instruction in the art of penmanship." He commenced the study of his profession in 1829. He was a student in medicine in the office of Drs. Adams and Twitchell, of Keene, and subsequently attended medical lectures at the Medical Department of Williams College in 1834. Afterwards he spent six months in the office of Drs. Huntington and Graves in Lowell. Dr. Graves commenced the practice of medicine in Nashua, N.H., September 15, 1834. At this time Nashua was a comparatively young town. It was but a brief period, however, before his energy, determination and superior medical and surgical skill of the young physician carved out for him an extensive practice. For forty years he followed his profession in Nashua and the adjoining region with untiring assiduity and with a success that has but few parallels. He loved his profession and gave ot it his best powers. He was gifted in a remarkable degree with a keen insight into the nature of disease, and, of course, his success was in proportion to his fitness for his calling. He did not need to be told symptoms; he knew by intuition where the break in the constitution was and how to rebuild and give new life. He was made for his profession, and not his profession for him, which is too often the case. After several years' practice, desirous of further improvement, he took a degree at Jefferson College, Philadelphia. At the time of the Rebellion the Governor and Council of New Hampshire appointed him a member of the Medical Board of Examiners. Dr. Graves retired from active practice in 1871. He has been for many years a valued member of the New Hampshire State Medical Association. In 1852 he delivered an address before that body on the subject which was of the greatest moment, and at that time occupied the attention of the leading members of the medical profession in all manufacturing centres. This address was on "The Factory System and its Influence on the Health of the Operatives." It was bold, incisive and fearless, and won high praise for the careful investigation which it showed, its exhaustive treatment and its convincing logic. He took the ground (in opposition to Dr. Bartlett, who stated that the death-rate of Lowell was less than the surrounding towns) that the young people went to the mills, and the old people stayed on the farms, and after a few years, when mill-life had broken their constitutions, the operatives returned to their birth-places and did not die in Lowell. Much care was taken in the preparation of the address. Factory after factory was visited, and hundreds of operatives consulted. The conclusions reached by Dr. Graves were acccepted as correct. He has had a most remarkable practice in obstetrics, and has a complete record of five thousand cases. We give as an illustration of Dr. Graves' wonderful accuracy and system one fact well worthy the attention of all physicians. From his first day's practice he, every night, posted his books for that day's business and now has the entire set bound in fine morocco, with all entries in his own clear writing and without a blot to mar the symmetry of the page. Every business transaction has been inserted in his "diary," which is equal in accuracy to that famous one of John QUincy Adams, and many an old soldier has had occasion to thank Dr. Graves for the facts derived from these books, by which he has secured his bounty, back pay, or pension. Dr. Graves had been much interested in railroads, east and west; has been a director in the Nashua and Lowell Railroad and other roads. He is a director in the Faneuil Hall Insurance Company and in the Metropolitan Steamship Line, and is also connected with many other financial interests of a comprehensive character. He has a business office in Boston, and manages his large estate with as much foresight and sagacity as many younger men. He has always manifested a deep interest in the application of science to business purposes, believed firmly in the financial success of the electric light where many shrewd men considered it an impractical scheme, and was one of the earlier investors in its stock. His faith has been munificiently repaid, and he is now a large holder of the most valuable stock in this field. From the first, Dr. Graves has been in warm sympathy with the principles of the Democratic party as enunciated by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and other leaders, and has fearlessly, at all times, and under all circumstances, championed what he believed to be for the "greatest good to the greatest number," conceding with a broad liberality the same rights to every other citizen which he exercises himself. He was received the thirty-second degree of Masonry, and is a Unitarian in religion. He believes "in a Christian observance of the Sabbath; that Sabbath-schools should be supported, for on them rests the moral safety of the country; that the 'Golden Rule' should be the guide for all our actions.'" The family relations of Dr. Graves have been most felicitous. He married Mary Webster, daughter of Colonel William Boardman, of Nashua, in 1846. She was descended from two of the ablest New England families,--Webster and Boardman,-- and was a most estimable and Christian lady. For many years she was a devoted member of the Unitarian Church and an earnest worker in all good causes. Kind and sympathetic, courteous to all, with a quiet dignity and purity of demeanor, she was a cherished member of society and an exemplar of the highest type of Christian womanhood. She died December 26, 1883. "As a man, Dr. Graves is distinguished for his firmness. His opinions he maintains with resolutenss until good reasons induce him to change them. He means yes when he says 'yes,' and no when he says 'no.' He is a man of positive character. It is needless to say that, while such a man always has enemies (as what man of ability and energetic character has not?) he has firm and lasting friends,--friends from the fact that they always know where to find him. Among the many self-made men whom New Hampshire has produced, he takes rank among the first, and by his indomitable energy, industry, and enterprise has not only made his mark in the world, but has achieved a reputation in his profession, and business on which himself and friends may refelct with just pride." SAMUEL G. DEARBORN, M.D. Among the first settlers of Exeter, N.H., nearly two and a half centuries ago, was a family by the name of Dearborn. The descendants of this family are now to be found in every county of New Hampshire, and are numerous in several of them. Beginning at an early date, it is worthy of note that with the Dearborn family in this State, the practice of medicine has been a favorite occupation. In the last century Portsmouth, North Hampton, Seabrook and Nottingham had each a physician of marked reputation bearing the name, and to-day several among the abler physicians of the State are of the same descent. Samuel Gerrish Dearborn, son of Edmund and Sarah Deaborn, was born in Northfield, this State, August 10, 1827. His father was an honest, industrious farmer, and his mother attended well to the duties of the household. He was educated at the district school, the Sanbornton Academy, and the New Hampshire Conference Seminary. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Woodbury, at Sanbornton Bridge, in 1847, and graduated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in November 1849. After a few month's practice at East Tilton, in February 1850, he opened an office at Mont Vernon, where he began to acquire a reputation as a skillful, safe and sagacious physician. In June 1853, Dr. Dearborn removed to Milford, where he had already gained some practice. The people of Milford are widely known as an intelligent, discriminating and progressive community. It isnot place for a moral or medical quack. For twenty years Dr. Dearborn had an increasing practice, not only in Milford and the adjoining towns, but patients frequently came from a distance. Nashua being a railroad centre, Dr. Dearborn came to this city in May 1873. His practice for the past eight years has been more extensive than that of any other physician in the State. A large proportion of his patients are from a distance. Grafton, Belknap and Coos Counties each furnish a large number annually, and this has been the result of no advertising other than that of his successful treatment. Of late he has found it advisable to travel for health and relaxation. In 1884 he made, with his family, and extensive trip to the Pacific coast and through the Territories of the Northwest. Early in 1885 he visited Mexico, and made excursions to various points of interest which are now attracting the attention of our people. During the Rebellion, Dr. Dearborn, in 1861, served one years as surgeon of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers in Louisiana, and in the summer of 1863 he served in the same position for three months in the Army of the Potomac. On the 5th of December 1853, he married Miss Henrietta M. Starrete of Mont Vernon, an educated an accomplished woman. They have two sons. The elder, Frank A., was born September 21, 1857, studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and graduated in 1883. He is associated with his father in practice at Nashua. The younger son, Samuel G., is a wide-awake, healthy school-boy of thirteen years. In politics, Dr. Dearborn is a Republican, and represented Milford two years in the State Legislature. Denominationally, he is associated with the Unitarian Society of Nashua. HON. CHARLES HOLMAN Hon. Charles Holman, son of Porter and Persis (Reed) Holman, was born in Sterling, Mass., November 7, 1833. His parents being in humble circumstances, Charles early left home to begin the battle of life, and fight his way step by step through the world from poverty to wealth and an honorable position, unaided by any resource save his own will and hands. When he was eleven years old he went to work on a farm, where he remained until he was sixteen; he then went to West Boylston, Mass., where he was engaged in making boots and shoes four years. From his savings he purchased his time of his father, and attended school at Fort Edward, N.Y., for a year. The sedentary life and cramped position of his employment had seriously impaired his health, and, in hopes of improving it, he became a book canvasser, and in 1856 came for the first time into New Hampshire, to sell "The Life of General John C. Fremont," the first Republican candidate for President. He was accompanied by a fellow-workman, William W. Colburn, afterwards a prominent Methodist clergyman, and at one time chaplain of Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison. (These young men had aided each other in obtaining what education they had acquired, and Mr. Holman subsequently had the pleasure of enabling Mr. Colburn to pursue his studies in his chosen profession). They traveled through New Hampshire for several months, but the pecuniary results of the trip were not encouraging, and Mr. Colburn returned to West Boylston and his trade, while Mr. Holman continued the canvass, determined not to return to the bench. Although it did not prove lucrative as a business, still the canvass was valuable to the young man, giving him a knowledge of human nature and fixing upon his mind so strongly the principles of Republicanism, that he has never deviated one iota from the principles and platform of which John C. Fremont was the representative. While canvassing he obtained a chance to travel for E.K. Smith, confectioner, of Hanover, and he entered his employ for a year. In the fall of 1857, Mr. Holman, then twenty-four years of age, came to Nashua, and for three years was a traveling salesman for Colonel J.C. Kempton, confectioner. For a year afterwards he was employed in the same capacity by Chapman & Cram. Much of this time his health was so delicate that it was only by the strongest exertion of his will that he kept at his labor, and, at the close of his engagement with the last-named firm, he has a severe hemorrahage of the lungs which for six months entirely incapacitated him for business. About 1861 he engaged as a manufacturer of confectionary in Nashua, and has ever since been identified with the growth and enterprise of the city. His business of five thousand dollars per annum, has enlarged to two hundred thousand dollars a year, with forty employees instead of the two who were with him at his commencement. One Friday night, about twelve o'clock in 1874 or 1875, Mr. Holman's manufactory was totally destroyed by fire. He immediately purchased Colonel Kempton's manufactory and two houses on West Pearl Street, had, before seven o'clock the next morning after the fire, ordered needed material, and the last of the succeeding week he went off to his customers new goods which he had manufactured. This prompt action is characteristic of the man and his manner of conducting business. He remained on Pearl Street until June 1882, when, selling his property, he leased a building on Main Street of Hon. J.A. Spaulding, where he continued manufacturing until January 1883, when he was again burned out. He then erected the brick block on Main Street which bears his name, where he now carries on business. Mr. Holman has held numerous positions of public trust, the duties of which have been conscientiously discharged with credit to himself and honor to his constituents. He was alderman of Nashua two years, member of the School Board two years, was a member of the Lower House of the State Legislature 1869-70, a State Senator 1875-76, and president of the Senate the latter year; mayor of Nashua 1878-79. He is a director of the First National Bank of Nashua, and one of the directors of the Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to that notable Republican National COnvention at Chicago in 1880, which nominated James A. Garfield for President. He is a Congregationalist in religious belief, and president of the Pilgrim Church Society of Nashua. He has been largely identified with temperance work, especially in connection with the Nashua Temperance Reform Club. He has tken the thirty-second degree of Masonry, and belongs to the Encampment of Odd-Fellows. Mr. Holman married, November 1, 1863, Mary S., daughter of George W. and Susan (Marston) Osgood, of Amesbury, Mass. Their only surviving child, Charles Francis was born September 29, 1866. In all his business relations, Mr. Holman is known as thoroughly prompt and upright, and no man in the city has a more honored reputation. In all his relations, whether business, social or political, he has enjoyed the full confidence of those with whom he has come in contact. Of unusual public spirit, he has always welcomed and given generously to every good cause, and no deserving person ever went away from him empty-handed. His own life having been an unaided struggle against poverty and adverse circumstances, his sympathies have ever been responsive to the calls of those who, like himself, are bravely fighting the battle of life. Mr. Holman possesses the power to keenly analyze any subject coming before him, and to detect any flaws of logic or fact. He can gracefully, as well as forcibly, express himself in writing and speaking, and, with a large fund of humor, is a public speaker of entertaining and convincing power. A skillful business man, versed in public affairs, ripe in experience, an ardent Republican, a true friend, and in full sympathy with every movement to elevate and advance the best interests of the community, he is one whom the citizens of Nashua are pleased to number among her honored sons. NORMAN JOHN MACLEOD MOORE, M.D. Norman John Macleod Moore, M.D. was a descendant of an ancient and honorable family, which for generations has been renowned in the military profession. The family were orginally from Dorsetshire, England. THey received from Cromwell, for military services, the estate and lands of Saleston, near Carton, Ireland, which remained in the family until a late date. His maternal ancestors were of Scotch origin, his great-grandmother being the only daughter of Norman John Macleod, the celebrated chief of the historical Macleod clan of Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye. This castle is probably the oldest inhabited castle in Scotland, and famous in Scotch history. Dr. Moore was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. His preparatory education was acquired there, and at a very early age he was graduated with high honors at the celebrated Oxford College. He then studied medicine and surgery at the University of Dublin, Ireland, and of Edinburgh, Scotland, receiving diplomas from the same, and after seven years of study and practice in the hospitals, he was graduated at the Royal College of Surgery, in London, in January 1842. His superior medical education and especial adaptability for this chosen profession led him to desire a broader field of practice, and he came to this country, and after practicing three years in the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass., he settled in Derry, N.H. where he remained about five years. But his reputation and practice soon extended, and for convenience and other considerations he removed to Nashua, and for nearly thirty years was a resident of this city. Unquestionably Dr. Moore stood at the head of the medical profession in New Hampshire. For more than a quarter of a century he was called in the most difficult and delicate cases of surgery, and he was eminently successful in restoring to health innumerable patients whose casees were considered incurable, and numbers still bless him for his wonderful cures and remarkable power in diagnosis. His extended education and admitted skill made him a valuable expert witness, and although his modesty made him shrink from the notoriety, yet he was often called to testify in the more important State cases, and many times in other and remote States. Dr. Moore was a man of winning manners, attractive social qualities, and as such as a most excellent family physician, and the poor always received equal care with those able to reward him munificently. His nature was large, generous and sympathetic, but with the inherited traits of his Scotch ancestry, he never forgot a favor or an injury. With his enthusiastic love for his chosen field of labor, he was a kind friend and adviser to younger members of the profession, to whom he always gave the assisting hand. OF a most genial and sunny temperament, courtly in his bearing, and yet at all times easily approached and unpretentious, even a timid child felt at ease in his company, and soon became his acquaintance and friend. He was amiable and considerate in his home, popular among his acquaintances, a valuable member of his profession and a good citizen, always ready to respond to the demands made upon him. He was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Although a great sufferer for many years from asthma, he never complained or murmered, and attended to his business until too feeble to enter his carriage. He died in Nashua, December 31, 1882, in the last hour of the last day of the closing year, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. [Resolutions regarding his made by fellow physicians of Nashua, found in the original document is not included here]. ORLANDO DANA MURRAY Orland Dana Murray, son of David and Margaret (Forsyth) Murray, was born in Hartland, Vt., March 12, 1818. The first American ancestor of this branch of the Murray family was Isaac Murray, who came from Scotland to Londonderry (now Derry) N.H. He was married in 1774 to Elizabeth, daughter of John Durham and granddaughter of Mary (Tolford) Durham, sister of Deacon William Tolford. Isaac Murray and wife went to Belfast, Me., where they passed their lives. They had four children, of whom the oldest, David and Jonathan (twins) were born October 30, 1775. David, when a young man, removed to Chester, N.H. where he worked at his trade, that of carpenter and builder, for some years. He belonged to a cavalry troop in the War of 1812, and for his services received a grant of land from the government, and his widow a pension. From Chester he removed to Hartland, Vt., returned to Chester in 1822, and in 1825 settled in Nashua, where he resided for twenty-five years, dying at the age of seventy-five. He was a Wesleyan Methodist, and was married three times. He married, December 1807, his second wife, Margaret Forsyth, of Chester NH, daughter of Lieutenant Robert and granddaughter of Deacon Matthew Forsyth. (Deacon Forsyth was born in Edinburgh Scotland, graduated at the University of Edinburgh, went to Ireland and then emigrated to America, and settled in 1730, in Chester NH. He married Esther, daughter of Robert Graham, and was an enterprising business man, prominent in town and church affairs). The children of David and Margaret Murray were Emeline Johnson, born at Belfast, Me., Oct. 26, 1808 (married Deacon William Tenney); Laurana Tolford, born at Belfast, Me., December 31, 1810; Leonidas, born in Chester NH, died in Hartland VT June 3, 1816; Marietta, born in Hartland Vt, January 3, 1816 (married Charles C. Flagg of Mobile, Ala, and died September 11, 1853), and Orlando D. Orlando Dana was the youngest child. He acquired an excellent academic education at the celebrated Pinkerton Academy at Derry, and afterward prepared for college with Colonel Isaac Kinsman, principal of Pembroke Academy, a noted military school of that day. His advantages were diligently improved, and in 1834, at sixteen years of age, instead of going to college, he entered what Horace Greeley called "the best training-school in the world," the printing-office, becoming an apprentice in the office of the NASHUA GAZETTE, then edited by General Israel Hunt Jr. His earnest application was not confined to the printer's trade, for, during the three years of his apprenticeship and the subsequent four years life life as a journeyman, he was also clerk in the post-office, then under the administration of John M. Hunt. After his day's work at the case he was occupied in the post-office until nine o'clock, besides assisting in the distribution of the mails during the day. The nature of the young man was not one to rest content in the condition of the employee. He was keen, shrewd, energetic and desirous of making an independent career in life, so in 1841 he purchased a half-interest in the MANCHESTER MEMORIAL, a weekly newspaper, and became editor, and also the publisher of a monthly periodical, the IRIS. This connection continued only one year, when in the fall of 1842, he sold his interest in Manchester, and with A.I. Sawtell, established the OASIS, a weekly independent journal, in Nashua, and became its editor. The first number was issued January 1, 1843. The position was by no means a sinecure. Mr. Murray worked daily at the case, and his editorials were placed in type by himself without being written. The strong, earnest efforts of the young firm were rewarded by substantial results. The OASIS soon gained the largest circulation in this seciton, and was highly prized. But Mr. Murray had other and valuable ideas. He had no intention of spending his days in a country printing-office when he believed a more lucrative field was before him. He was a natural inventor and machinist; he invented some printing-presses and deemed his services could command a higher price. In his brain he originated and to him is due the establishment of one of Nashua's most successful manufactures. He sold his interest in the OASIS in September 1849 to J.R. Dodge, and became a member of the firm of Gill & Co., which immediately began the manufacture of card-board and glazed paper. This new enterprise not only afforded fine scope for Mr. Murray's mechanical skill, but, like all such ventures, called also for other necessary elements to success,--patience, pluck and persistency. Mr. Murray and his partners, fortunately, were endowed with a more than ordinary share of these qualities, and finally the business swung clear of rocks and breakers and reached the open sea of prosperity. THe firm became Gage, Murray & Co., after a time, with Mr. Murray as manager of the manufacturing department. In 1866, Messrs. Gage & Murray sold their interests to the Gilman Brothers. After two years, in February 1868, Mr. Murray purchased the interest of John F. Marsh in a recently established manufactory, the Nashua Glazed Paper Co. The new firm took the title of Murray, Pierce & Co. This firm did business until the fall of 1869, when it consolidated with that of GIllman Bros. in the stock company organized as the Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Co. Mr. Murray was elected president of the company on its organization and re-elected annually until 1883, when he retired from business. To Mr. Murray must be given a great share of the credit due, for the development and permanency of this business, now one of the institutions of Nashua. He familiarized himself with the chemical qualities of the colors, mixed them with his own hands for years, until he had thoroughly instructed his son, George D., to take his place. He invented the rotary card-cutter, and by various devices, much improved the modus operandi of the manufacture. Mr. Murray was one of the original stockholders of the Nashua Watch Co., and a director of the same until the business was purchased by the Waltham Watch Co. and removed from Nashua (This company took the greatest pains to produce and undoubtedly did make, the finest watches ever manufactured, and its business was conducted as a separate department at Waltham, "the Nashua department" until November 1884). During the larger part of the decade (1870-80) Mr. Murray was one-fourth owner of the Contoocook Valley Paper Co., a very successful corporation located at West Henniker, N.H. He was director and president of the board until the company was united with the Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Co., when the stock of the latter was increased to two hundred thousand dollars. He was one of the original incorporators and directors of the American Fan Company during its existence. He has given his financial aid and counsel to many other undertakings, both railroad and manufacturing, and was one of the prime movers of the Pennichuck Water-works. Mr. Murray was by education at Democrat, but soon after became a Whig, and since the Republican party organized has been connected with it. He was elected town clerk in 1849-50-51, and was on the School Board for many years. After the city charter of Nashua was granted, in 1858-59, he was an alderman of Ward Seven. Erected his present residence in 1861-62, he became, on occupying it, a resident of Ward Six., which he also represented as alderman in 1865. He was a member of the city Board of Education, during the year the schools were graded, and did efficient service. He was elected representative to the State Legislature of 1855, re-elected in 1856, and is the member for 1885-86. He has held the commission of justice of the peace for many years. His official positions have come to him without seeking, and have been held as public trusts to be conscientiously discharged. In 1843 Odd-Fellowing was first introduced into New Hampshire, at Nashua, by the formation of Granite Lodge No. 1. Mr. Murray was made a member of the first meeting, and has since held every office in the lodge. At the organization of the first encampment in the State (Nashoonon), also at Nashua, Mr. Murray drew lot No. 1, and was made the first member. He has been a delegate to both the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment several times. He is a member of the following Masonic bodies: Rising Sun Lodge, Nashua, since January 6, 1867, Meridian Sun Royal Arch Chapter, St. George Commandery, Council of Select Masters and the Consistory of the Thirty-second Degree. He is a member of the New Hampshire Club. Mr. Murray married July 7, 1842, Mary J., daugher of Solomon and Sarah (Wetherbee). She was b. at Concord NH April 2, 1821. Their children were George Dana (deceased, he was in the commisary department of the Army of the Potomac and was with the advanced troops which entered Richmond at its surrender), Sarah L. (married William A. Crombie, of Burlington, Vt., one of the resident managers of the Shepard & Morse Lumber Co., they have three children-- William Murray, Arthur Choate and Maud Elizabeth), Levi Edwin (married Jane Russell Hopkins, their children were Marie Louise, Charles Russell and Lizzie Crombine. He was in the lumber business in Springfield, Mass and Ogdensburgh NY, he died Feb 18, 1880), Albert C. (deceased), Clarence A. and Charles O. (married Lulu Bemis and has two children--George Bemis and Lilian Cushman, he graduated from Tufts College in 1877, succeeded is brother in the lumber business and is a member of the J.A. Hoitt Company, manufacturing chemists of Nashua). Since the marriage of his daughter, Mr. Murray has become interested in several financial and business institutions of Burlington, and is now a director in the Burlington Shade Roller Co. Mr. Murray has always been noticeable for extreme urbanity and courteousness of manner, in a combination, at least unusual, with great force of character and unyielding determination in the face of Difficulties, and as evidence of the regard in which he is held by his townsmen, we submit the following extrqact from the "Nashua Telegraph" (newspaper) March 13, 1884: "A Pleasant Social Gathering of Nashua's Representative Citizens--Spalding's Hall was last evening the scene of a very soci gathering and successful surprise, some of the many friends of Mr. O.D. Murray, the former president of the Card and Glazed Paper Co., seizing the occasion of the gentleman's birth-day to present him with an unexpected testimonial of their regard and esteem. Mr. Murray was decoyed to the spot on the pretense that it was desired by the proprietor of the hall to dedicate the hall again by a select party of gentlemen, and at the proper time Hon. Isaac eaton, in behalf of the gentlemen, presented Mr. Murray with an elegant and costly gold-headed ebony cane, gracefully expressing the sentiments of respect felt for the recipient by the sixty-six donors. Mr. Murray, though completely surprised, responded most fittingly, and 'brought down the house' by his reference to the 'first families' of the time of Cain and Abel. "The company was then invited to partake of an excellent banquet. "It is rarely that a gathering in Nashua has contained so many of its most prominent citizens and old residents." JEREMIAH W. WHITE On the head-waters of the Suncook River, in the central region of New Hampshire, is the town of Pittsfield. It is limited in extent, undulating in surface, rich in the quality of its soil. Its earliest settlers were sturdy farmers, men and women, who, from infancy, had been accustomed to the hardships and privations of pioneer life. Among these settlers was Josiah White, who, with his wife of Scottish origin, in the spring of 1775, made his home on the outskirts of an unbroken forest. His son, Jeremiah, succeeded to the homestead. He was born March 4, 1775; died December 5, 1848. He is still remembered by the older residents of Pittsfield as a citizen who was useful, influential and respected. Of great personal activity and tact in business, genial and generous, an enterprising farmer of the old school, a safe and sagacious adviser, his departure left a place difficult to fill in the business affairs of the vicinity. Jeremiah Wilson White, son of Jeremiah, was born in Pittsfield, September 16, 1821. The active habits and pure atmosphere of his early life laid the foundation of a sound physical constitution. His educational advantages during childhood were limited to a few months at a distant district school. At the age of fifteen he entered Pittsfield Academy, under the instruction of James F. Joy (a graduate of Dartmouth, and, in later years, well-known as president of the Michigan Central Railroad). Remianing at the academy two and a half years, Mr. White decided to prepare himself for mercantile and active business life, and for this purpose went to Boston and entered upon an apprenticeship in a drug-store. Forty years ago such an apprenticeship was not a sinecure. But Mrs. White was not adverse to toil, and by assiduous and systematic attention to his duties was preparing the way for future success. He also commenced the study of medicine, and continued it for several years, until he was qualified for professional service. After the completion of his apprenticeship in Boston he engaged as a clerk to Luther Angier, postmaster and druggist, at Medford, Mass., with the agreement that, with proper notice, he could leave to engage in business for himself. In the summer of 1845, Mr. White, having heard of Nashua as a growing manufacturing town, came here, and, after a few hours' inspection of the place, hired the store which he afterwards occupied for nearly thirty years. Mr. White, in engaging in trade for himself in Nashua, was aware that a young man and a stranger must encourter severe difficulties in entering into mercantile life. Many before him had succumbed to the obstacles which he was now to encounter. He did not hesitate. Laying out his plan of business, he examined into the most minute details of its management. No man was more thorough and painstaking in the discharge of obligations to his customers. His labors often entended far into the night. With these habits, added to sound business judgment and foresight and a rare knowledge of men, the recrod of the business life of Mr. White has been an uninterrupted success; and it is in this department of consistent and persistent effort that his example is worthy of imitation. In many of the business enterprises of Nashua, Mr. White has taken an active and, in some of them, a prominent part. Engaging in the transportation and sale of coal on his arrival, he has always been the leading dealer in the trade. After the close of the war he originated the project of and gave his attention to the construction of the large block of stores on Main Street known as the "Merchants' Exhcnage," retaining for himself and son the corner store, which he still occupies. Early in 1875 he concieved the idea of establishing a new national bank, and in April following obtained a charter. The people of Nashua and vicinity, believing in his financial ability, immediately subscribed for the stock, and elected him president, a position he continues to hold to the satisfaction of the stockholders and the advantage of the institution. In addition to the presidency of the Second National Bank, Mr. White is now recognized as a sagacious and influential railroad manager. In 1876 he has been prominently connected with the affairs of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad as a director and a large stockholder. For many years this road had been connected with and used by the Boston and Lowell Railroad corporation, and, as Mr. White clearly saw, on terms greatly disadvantageous to the stockholds of the Nashua and Lowell Company. The stock had gradually declined below par. To resist so great and powerful a corporation required pluck and energy. To be successful against such odds demanding a leader daring, prompt and aggressive. Mr. White was the man for the emergency. How well his measures succeeded is realized not only by every stockholder, but in all railroad circles throughout New England. He is also a larger owner and director in the Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Company, and a leading stockholder in the White Mountain Freezer Company, of this city. In the transaction of business Mr. White is not only methodical, but positive. He reaches his conclusions quickly, and acts upon them with the utmost directness. Having decided upon a measure, he engages in it with all his might, bending all his efforts to make sure of the desired end. Selecting his agent, he accomplishes the whole work while many would be halting to determine whether the project was feasible. A man of so pronounced opinions and prompt action naturally makes some enemies; but he has no opponents who do not accord to him the credit of an open and honorable warfare. In a word, he is essentially a business man in the full sense of the term, not only in occupation, but in taste and aptitude; he is a representative of that class of American citizens who have won a world-wide reputation for practical sagacity, enterprise, and thrift. Mr. White is in no sense of the word a party politician. Of whig antecedents, his first vote was cast for Henry Clay, in 1844, for President. Before leaving his native town, his liberal tendencies had been quickened by witnessing the unwarranted arest, in the pulpit, of Rev. George Storrs, who was about to deliver the first anti-slavery lecture in Pittsfield. The event justly occasioned an unusual excitement, and was the beginning of that agitation which reached every town and hamlet in the Union. Since the organization of the Republican party, Mr. White has supported it in all national issues; but is one of the independent thinkers who does not hesitate to exercise "the divine right of bolting" when unfit men are put in nomination. In the winter of 1861 Mr. White and his family left on a southern trip, and reached Charleston, S.C., the last of February, not long after the United States troops, under Major Anderson, were shut up in Fort Sumter by the rebel forces. Mr. White had letters of introduction to several citizens of the city high in authority, who received him kindly, and, learning that he was a business man and not a politician, were anxious to learn from him the state of feeling among the business men and middle class of citizens at the North. While the statements of Mr. White were far from gratifying, they continued their friendly relations. Previously he had written to his friend, Captain John G. Foster, second in command at Fort Sumter, of his intended tarry at Charleston. Desirous of an interview with him, he applied to the Confederate authorities at Fort Sumter for a pass; it was granted him--a privilge not allowed to any other civilian during the siege. On the following day, March 5th, he went on the steamer "Clinch" to Fort Johnson, to which point Major Anderson was allowed to send his boat, under a flag of truce, for the daily mail. Here a new obstacle was encountered, for the boat was forbidden by Major Anderson to bring any person to the fort; but, with the restriction that he should remainoutside with the boat until Captain Foster could be notified, he was permitted to go. The interview was a great surprise as well as gratification. Reaching Washington before the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the beginning of hostilities, Mr. White was taken to the War Department and interviewed by General Scott as to the determination and strength of the Confederate forces at Charleston. Mr. White thought it would require a force of ten thousand men to relieve Fort Sumter, and said so. General Scott laughed heartily, and told him that two thousand men would be ample for the purpose. In common with most of the leading men at the capitol, General Scott underestimated the pluck and strength of the rebels. Soon after, when Jay Cooke was appointed government agent to negotiate the war loans, Mr. White received the appointment of agent for Nashua and vicinity. In 1846, the year after coming to Nashua, Mr. White married Caroline G., daughter of Caleb Merrill, Esq. of Pittsfield. The marriage was a happy and fortunate one. The young wife was endowed with scholarly and refined attainments, qualifying her for the enjoyment of social and domestic life. Added to this, she possessed a sound and discriminating judgment, on which her husband could safely rely. No transaction of any magnitude was entered upon without securing her approval. Many of his best and most sagacious moves in business were made at her suggestion. Of their two children, the eldest, Caroline Wilson, died in infancy. The son, James Wilson White, born June 10, 1849, fell a victim to the prevailing disease of this climate, and died in Florida January 27, 1876. Mrs. White, having survived her children, died suddenly, of apoplexy, in 1880. Her memory is cherished by many who knew her worth. In April 1881, Mr. White was married, the second time, to Mrs. Ann M. Pritchard, of Bradford, Vt. an educated and accomplished lady and the sister of his first wife. His residence, at the corner of Pearl and Cottage Streets, combined the elements of modesty, taste and comfort. CORNELIUS VAN NESS DEARBORN As early as 1639, and only nineteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims, John Wheelwright, a dissenting minister from England, was banished from massachusetts Bay colony. It is an evidence of the stern intolerance of that day that the only error with which he was charged was "inveighing against all that walked in a covenant of works, and maintained sanctification as an evidence of justification,"--a charge not readily comprehended at the present day. There was a minotiry, including Governor Winthrop, who protested against the sentence, but without avail. Mr. Wheelwright, therefore, gathering a company of friends, removed from Massachusetts to Exeter, in the province of New Hampshire. Among the thirty-five persons who signed the compact to form a stable and orderly colony is found the name of Godfrey Dearborn, the patriarch of the entire Dearborn family in this country. Forty years before, he was born in Exeter, England, and in 1637 landed at Massachusetts Bay. He lived at Exeter ten years, and in 1649 moved to Hampton, built a framed house, which is still standing, became a large land-holder and town official and died February 4, 1686. Few men of the early settlers have left a family name so widely represented as Godfrey Dearborn. His descendants are numerous in every county of New Hampshire, and are to be found in every part of New England. It is worthy of note that among the descendants of Gofrey Dearbon the practice of medicine has been a favorite occupation. Benjamin Dearborn, of the fifth generation, graduated at Harvard in 1746, and entering upn a succcessful practice at Portsmouth, died in his thirtieth year. Levi Deaborn had for forty years an extensive practice at North Hampton, and died in 1792. Edward Dearborn, born in 1776, was for half a century the medical adviser of the people of Seabrook, and acquired a handsome estate. General Henry Dearborn, who gained a national reputation by his brilliant services in the Revolutionary War and as the senior major-general of the United States army in the War of 1812, was practicing physician in Nottingham when summoned to join the first New Hampshire regiment raised in 1775. To-day several of the ablest physicians of the State bear the name. Toward the middle of the last century the Dearborn family had been quite generlaly distrubted through Rockingham County. Peter Dearborn, the great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Chester [NH] in 1710. Of his children, Josiah, born in 1751, married Susannah Emerson, the daughter of Samuel Emerson, Esq., a substantial Chester farmer, who was a man of such judgment and integrity that he was chosen to fill the various town offices of Chester and to decide nearly all local controversies beyond review or appeal. Young Dearborn learned the trade of a shoemaker, but, on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, entered the army as a private, and was stationed at Portsmouth under Colonel Joseph Cilley. Afterward he did honorable service, first as a private and then as a lieutenant in Northern New York, and finally closed his enlistment by an expedition to Newport RI in 1778. Returning from the war, he and his family found a new home thirty miles westward in Weare. It was not an unfitting location. With its sixty square miles still mostly covered with a dense forest of oak, maple, and beech, with its uneven sufrace nowhere rising into high hills, it had a strong soil, which, when cultivated, yielded large crops of hay and grain. It was already a growing township, and thirty years later became one of the four leading farming towns of the State. Here Josiah Deaborn passed his life, raising a family of twelve children, ten of whom were sons. Samuel the fifth son and father of the subject of this sketch was born in 1792. The district-school system was not organized in New Hampshire until 1806, and the children of that time had scanty opportunities for instruction. Samuel Dearborn and his brothers were reaching manhood, when farming in the Eastern States was depressed by the recent war with England and the occurrence of several cold summers. Migration westward had commenced, and the Dearborns for a time debated the expediency of a removal to the Western Reserve. They at length decided to locate in Vermont, and, from 1814 to 1820, five of the brothers and a sister removed to Corinth, a town in the eastern part of Orange County. Here Samuel Dearborn settled upon a farm, soon after married Miss Fannny Brown, of Vershire, whose parents were natives of Chester NH, and here passed a long and useful life. He died December 12, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age. His wife had died in 1836. Of scholarly tastes, he was for many years a teacher of winter schools. An active member of the Free-Will Baptist denomination, his religion was a life rather than a creed. Cornelius Van Ness Deaborn, the son of Samuel and Fanny Dearborn, was born in Corinth VT, May 14, 1832. His name was in compliment to the then ablest statesman of the State, who had filled the offices of Governor and minister to Spain. Cornelius was the youngest of one of seven children. His childhood was passed in a strictly agricultural community. Corinth, lying among the foot-hills of the Green Mountains, is one of the best farming towns in Eastern Vermont. Without railway facilities, with scanty water-power, its inhabitants depend for a livelihood upon the products of the soil, from which by industry they gain a substantial income. Few in Corinth have ever accumulated more than what is now regarded as a fair competency, and very few have encountered extreme poverty. A more industrious, law-abiding, practically sensible people would be difficult to find. When four years old, Dearborn met with the saddest loss of childhood,-- a mother, whose intelligence, forethought and womanly virtues had been the life and light of the household. He early joined his older brothers in the labors of the farm, attending the district school for a few weeks in summer and ten or twelve weeks each winter. When fifteen years old he attended the spring term of the Corinth Academy, and continued at intervals for several terms later. In the winter of 1848-49, his seventeenth year not yet completed, he taught the school of a neighboring district. His success warranted his continuance as a teacher in the vicinity for the five following winters. Continuing his farm labors in summer, he, in the mean time, developed a mechanical capacity in the making of farm implements and the erection of buildings,--a natural aptitude which has been of great service in maturer years. Soon after attaining the age of eighteen, Mr. Dearborn determined to enter upon a course of study preparatory to a professional life. Before leaving Corinth, he commenced the study of law with Rodney Lund, a young man who had commenced practice in the vicinity. In March 1854, at the suggestion of his maternal uncle, Dr. W.W. Brown, he came to Manchester, and renewed his law studies in the office of Hon. Isaac W. Smith, with whom he had remained until his admission to the bar, in the fall of 1855. In December 1855, he opened an office at Francestown. The town afforded a safe opening for a young practitioner, but not one for large profits. There was a time, after the close of the War of 1812, when the trade of Francestown village exceeded that of any other locality in Hillsborough County. But the opening of the railroad to Nashua, and soon after to Manchester, entire changed the centres of trade and business, and left Francestown to become a respectable and very quiet village. Hitherto, Mr. Dearborn, while entertaining positive views, had not actively participated in political discussion. But the year 1856 witnessed the consolidation of the anti-slavery sentiment for the country. It had already so far concentrated its strength in New Hampshire as to have secured the State government and a unanimous representation in Congress. The nomination of John C. Fremont for President, in the summer of that year, hastened the organization of the anti-slavery elements of the entire North under the name of the Republican party. In common with a majority of the intelligent young men of the State, Mr. Dearborn entered into this contest with all the zeal, vigor and enthusiasm of one whose action is untrammeled by personal and partisan ends. The campaign which followed was the most brilliant and far-reaching in its resuilts of any in the political history of the nation. No idea ever agitated the American mind to which calculating selfishness was more foreign. Even the great uprising which brought about the War of Independence was less free from selfish motives. And, though the general result in the Presidential election of that year was adverse, yet in New Hampshire, as in every State north of Pennsylvania, the returns clearly showed that the cause of freedom had acquired an overruling strength. In June 1857, Mr. Dearborn was united in marriage with Miss Louie Frances Eaton, daughter of Moses W. and Louisa S. Eaton of Francestown, and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Eaton, a physician of long and extensive practice, and one of the most extensive farmers of his time. In 1857 he was elected country treasurer, and re-elected in 1858. It was the first public position he had held, and its duties were satisfactorily discharged. In 1858 he removed to Peterborough, occupying the office of E.S. Cutter, Esq. who had recently been appointed clerk of the courts for Hillsborough County. He resided in Peterborough until 1865. During this time he was in partnership with Charles G. Cheney, and afterwards with Albert S. Scott, both of whom have since died. He represented the town in the Legislature in the years 1861 and 1862, being a member of the judiciary committee. In the summer of 1865 he removed to Nashua for the purpose of continuing the practice of his profession. An accidental purchase led to a change of occupation. The NASHuA TELEGRAPH (newspaper) had for many years been edited by Albin Beard, a genial, witty and withal, accomplished writer. Under him the TELEGRAPH had acquired a marked local popularity. He died in September 1862. Its present publishers were inexperienced writers, and illy qualified to satisfy the admirers of its former editor. The TELEGRAPH was rapidly deteriorating in value and influence. The senior proprietor inquired of Mr. Dearborn what he would give for half of the establishment. A somewhat nominal price was offered, and, much to the surprise of Dr. Dearborn, was accepted. He at once entered upon the duties of editor and financial manager. Under his direction the TELEGRAPH was rapidly recovering its patronage and influence, but at the end of two years his health failed, and a change of occupation became a necessity. He disposed of his interest to the present editor, Hon. O.C. Moore, and resumed the practice of law. Since his residence at Nashua, Mr. Dearborn has contributed largely to the improvement of real estate, to the erection of improved school buildings and to the reconstruction and greater efficiency of the public schools. He was appointed register of Probate for Hillsborough County in 1868, and held the office until 1874. For several years he was treasurer of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, and is still one of the directors. In his official action he aided largely in sustaining the measures which have placed that corporation in the front rank of profitable railways. He is also the treasurer of the Underhill Edge-Tool Company, and is at this time president of the Board of Education. In 1863, while a resident of Peterborough, he was appointed by the Governor one of the bank commissioners of New Hampshire. In that capacity he became acquainted with the extent and peculiarities of the financial institutions of the State. In 1864 and 1865 he actively superinteded, in his official capacity, the converting of the State banks of discount into the national banks of the present system. In March, 1866, he was appointed examiner of the national banks for the State of New Hampshire, a position which he still holds. He is the only person who had filled this position since the organization of the national banking system. [two general paragraphs found in the original omitted] Mr. Dearborn is a member of the Congregational Church. His two children are sons. The older, John Eaton, born November 1862, is acquiring a business education, and is at this time clerk for his father in the office of the Edge-Tool Works. The younger, George Van Ness, born in August 1869, is attending the public schools. His house is pleasantly situated on Main Street, and is one of the desirable residences in the city. Still in the prime of life, his many friends have no reason to doubt that in the future, as in the past, he will be adquate to any responsibility which may devolve upon him. HORACE W. GILMAN Horace Way Gilman was born in Unity, NH, on December 6, 1833. He is the younger brother of Virgil C. Gilman, a sketch of whose life is given in the preceding pages, and hence it is not necessary to write of his ancestry and parentage. Removing with his parents to Lowell [MA] in 1837, he also came with them to Nashua in 1844, in the eleventh year of his age. For several years his boyhood alternated between the cotton-mill and the public school, both of which, no doubt, taught him some useful lessons in practical life. When fifteen years old he went to West Springfield, Mass, working in the cotton-mill one year, and returning to Nashua in 1850. In the winter of 1852-53, Mr. Gilman taught a district school in Nashua, in 1853-54 in Hudson and in the two winters following in the grammar school at Belvidere and at the Harbor, in this city. In the meantime, having gained some knowledge of the card and paper manufacturing business as a workman in the employ of Gage, Murray & Co., in 1856 he went, with Mr. John Dobler, to Albany NY, where the firm of Dobler & Gilman started a card and paper manufactory, which has since become a large and profitable business in that city. In the spring of 1861, Mr. Gilman disposed of his interest, and returned to Nashua. In January 1862, he bought a one-fourth interest in the firm of Gage, Murray & Co., and was assigned the charge of the financial department. In 1869, when the Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Company was organized under a legislative charter, Mr. Gilman became its treasurer, a position which he has held ever since. His attention is still chiefly given to the interests of this company. In 1872 he became half-owner and treasurer of the Contoocook Valley Paper- Mill, at West Henniker, and retained the interest until 1879. In 1883 and 1884 he was director and president of the Underhill Edge-Tool Company, is at this time a director and vice-president of the Davidson Loan Company, at Wichita, Kan [KS], and is also a director of the Second National Bank in this city. In a business point of view, it is no exaggeration to say that no man in this city has shown a larger ability and more uniform success than the subject of this sketch. Of late years Mr Gilman has given some time to travel, having visited the most of the States, and, with his family, made the tour of the Southwestern Territories and the States of the Pacific Coast. In his political views Mr. Gilman is a decided Republican, but is a business man and not a politician. Least of all is he an office-seeker. With an ability above that of a majority of the men who have been the chief magistrates of this State during the past thirty years, Mr. Gilman has never had the gubernatorial nor any other political bee in his hat, and never will have. He has not, however, shunned responsibility in public matters, having served as assessor and member of the Board of Education in city affairs, and was member of the last State Constitutional Convention. In denominational affiliation, Mr. Gilman is a Methodist; he was a delegate in 1866 to the Centennial Convention to celebrate the preaching of the first Methodist sermon in New England, by Jesse Lee; in 1872 was a delegate to the General Conference at Brooklyn, NY; and in 1884 to the centennial of the American Methodist Church, held at Baltimore. He is one of the vice-presidents of the New England Educational Society of the denomination, and a vice-president of New England Methodist Historical Society. In the building of the Main STreet Church and in supporting the interests of the society he has been a generous contributor. In his domestic relations, Mr. Gilman has had his usual good fortune. In December 1854, he married Miss Adaline W. marsh, daughter of Fitch P. Marsh, of Hudson. They have two sons. The eldest, William V., was born November 25, 1856 and is a resident of Nashua. He is a director and the paymaster of the Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Company. The younger, Edward M., was born September 26, 1862, and is associated with his father as H.W. Gilman & Son, of the eastern agency of the Davidson Loan Company, of Kansas. A spacious and well-arranged residence on Prospect Street is the home of Mr. Gilman and his family for the most of the year; but for fifteen years they have passed the summer at their seaside home, at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, a well-known resort during the warm season. VIRGIL C. GILMAN Virgil Chase Gilman was born in Unity, Sullivan County, NH, May 5, 1827 and was the third son of a family of eight children, born to Emerson and Delia (Way) Gilman. Emerson Gilman was the oldest son and the first of twelve children born to Stephen and Dorothy (Clough) Gilman, who were married September 5, 1793. This was his second marriage, he having married Anna Huntoon, by whom he had nine children, some of whom died in infancy. Stephen Gilman was a native of Kingston, and served as a cavalry officer in the War of the Revolution. He was a descendant of Moses Gilman, who was one of the three brothers--Edward, John and Moses--who emigrated from Hingham, England, early in the sixteenth century. In 1827 it was said: "Edward Gilman's descendants are as numerous as the sands on the sea-shore. There is hardly a State in the Union where they may not be found. The family have been in civil office from the time our coloney became a royal province to the present time. John Gilman was one of the first counselors named in President Cutt's commission, and died in 1708. Colonel Peter Gilman was one of the royal counselors in 1772. Hon. Nicholas Gilman was counselor in 1777 and 1778, Hon. John Gilman in 1787, while the present venerable John Taylor Gilman was fourteen years, eleven in succession, our highly respected chief magistrate. His brother, Nicholas Gilman, was a member of the House of Representatives in Congress eight years and in the national Senate nine years. Our ecclesiastical annals have, also, Rev. Nicholas Gilman, Harvard College 1724, and Rev. Tristram Gilman, Harvard College 1857, both respected clergymen and useful men." These words are quoted in substance from Mr. Lincoln's work. "If he had written forty years later," says the author of "The Gilman Family in England and America," he would have found the family still more numerous, and many additions would have been made to his list of prominent men bearing the Gilman name. The family of Gilmans is not one furnishing a few brilliant exceptions in a long list of common-place names. Its members appear generally to have been remarkable for the quiet home virtues, and rather to have desired to be good citizens than men of great name. To an eminent degree they appear to have obtained the esteem and respect of those nearest to them for sound judgment and sterling traits of character." Emerson Gilman followed the trade of clothier until the introduction of machinery supplanted the hand process, when he, after pursuing the business of farmer for a few years, removed to Lowell, Mass., in 1837, relying upon his strong and willing hands to find support for his large family and give his children the advantages of education which that city signally afforded. The subject of this sketch was then ten years old, and made fair progress through the several grades of the High School, with which his school-days ended. He removed to Nashua in 1843, but it was not until 1851 that he entered business on his own behalf, at which time he became associated with Messrs. Gage & Murray for the manufacture of printers' cards of all the various kinds, also fancy-colored, embossed and marble papers, a new business in this country at that time, which business he followed successfully for twenty-one years, and until his close and unremitting application made it necessary for him to relinquish it for a more active out-door employment Following a natural love for rural affairs, he was not long in possessing himself of a hundred-acre farm, in the south part of the city, upon the Lowell road, which he greatly improved, and indulged to some extent in the unusually expensive luxury of breeding Jersey cattle, trotting-horses and Plymouth Rock fowls. He claims to have bred the finest and fastest-gaited horse ever raised in New Hampshire. Meantime, having realized the object sought, greatly improved health, and the office of treasurer of the Nashua Savings-bank becoming vacant by the resignation of Dr. E. Spalding, in 1876, he was elected to fill the vacancy, and still continues in this responsible position, with nearly two and a half millions of deposits committed to his watchful care and secure investment. Never coveting office, still he has rearely refused to perform his full share of duty in the various departments of labor and responsibility incident to city affairs, from ward clerk to the mayor's chair, serving also as assessor, member of the Board of Education, and is now trustee of the Public Library, also its secretary and treasurer. To him Dartmouth College is indebted for the Gilman scholarship, and the board of trustees of the Orphans' Home at Franklin finds in him an interested member. He is identified with the mechanical industries of the city, having a large interest in the Nashua Iron and Steel Company, and being its local director; also an owner and director in the Underhill Edge-Tool Company and Amoskeag Axe Company; also a director in the Indian Head National Bank. In military affairs actively he is unknown, his service having commenced and ended with the Governor's Horse-Guards, enlisting as private in Company B. and ending as major of the batallion. His interest, however, is kept alive by honoraby membership of City Guards and Foster Rifles of his adopted city. His strong love for agricultural affairs led him to take an interest in our New Hampshire Agricultural Society, of whose board of trustees he was formerly a member, also one of the trustees of the New England Agricultural Society. He was a member of the Legislature of 1879, serving as chairman of committees on banks and taking a deep interest in the work of that session, and especially zealous in opposition to the taxation of church property. In 1883 he was the Republican Senator from the Nashua district, and was honored by the chairmanship of the leading committee of the State, the judiciary, no member of the legal profession holding a seat in that body at that time. How well he discharged the duties of this responsible position those can testify who had business with the committee, or those who witnessed his unremitting application and conscientious decisions. Denominationally, he is a Congregationalist, and a communicant with the First Church, that was organized in 1685 [sic 18??]. An interest in its prosperity has induced him to serve as director of the society connected therewith many years, and of which he is now president, and treasurer of the Sabbath-school connected. It will thus be seen that the subject of this sketch fills many positions of responsibility and usefulness, which bring no pecuniary reward, without ostentation, and no foul breath tarnishes his fair record.... In 1850 he married Sarah Louisa, daughter of Gideon Newcomb, Esq. of Roxbury by whom he had two children,--Harriet Louise, who married Charles W. Hoitt, an attorney-at-law in Nashua, and Alfred Emerson, who did not attain his second birth-day. page 211 HON. ARCHIBALD H. DUNLAP One of the best elements of our American civilization is the Scotch-Irish. Possessed of clear, cool-headed, common sense, industry, integrity, and remarkably successful in all the varied branches of financial, business and legislative action, the descendants of the old Londonderry stock have held conspicuous and trustworthy positions, the duties of which have almost universally been discharged in a manner showing the clearest knowledge of these varied duties, and a determination to fulfill these responsibilities with honesty and fidelity. Not officious, nor loudly self-asserting, they quietly bring to their labors a faithfulness and energy that surely accomplishes their end. Hon. Archibald Harris Dunlap, son of John and Jennie (Nesmith) Dunlap, was born in North Branch village, Antrim [NH] September 2, 1817. He is of the fourth generation in direct descent from the emigrant Archibald Dunlap, who came from the Scotch settlement in Ireland, and located in Chester NH about the year 1740. The line is Archibald-1, Major John-2, John-3, Archibald H.-4. Archibald-1 Dunlap married Martha Neal of Chester. She was of Scotch ancestry, and her father, Joseph Neal, was among the Presbyterians who petitioned the Legislature, in 1736, to be freed from paying a second tax to support a Congregational minister. The third child of Archibald was Major John Dunlap, of Revolutionary memory. He was born in Chester [NH] in 1746, married Martha Gilmore, settled in Bedford [NH], owned and carried on a large farm, was also a manufacturer of furniture, and his industry and energy were rewarded with financial success. As a military man he was well known in his day, and his hospitality and liberality were shown by his entertaining on one occasion his entire regiment. His son John inherited his father's business characteristics, and early left Chester, went to Antrim [NH] and made his home at the North Branch village of that town. He married, June 26, 1807, Jennie, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Nesmith of Antrim. He was in the cabinet-making business for many years, and was probably the first to introduce the manufacture of knit underclothing in this State, and also made looms for that purpose. This was about the year 1812, and was deemed a great curiousity. In 1835 he erected a factory at South Antrim (now known as the Silk-Factory). His busy life closed December 15, 1869, at the advanced age of eighty-five. Archibald H. Dunlap, while yet a lad of thirteen, showed that he had inherited the Scotch zeal and powers of endurance; he, with his elder brother, Robert, left home at early morning with a bundle in one hand and a staff in the other, to walk to Nashua, a distance of thirty-five miles, which place they reached late in the afternoon. The next day, Saturday, Archibald passed in looking over the town, and his first Sabbath he attended the church of which Rev. Mr. Nott was pastor. "That day he cast his anchor in with that people, and it has held ever since." At this time, 1831, the Nashua Manufacturing Company and the Indian Head Company were completing cotton-mills, and on Monday, the third day after his arrival, Archibald was engaged by Ziba Gay, manufacturer of machinery, to work for him through the summer. In the fall he entered Franklin Academy, then under the charge of Professor Benjamin M. Tyler, remaining until spring. Returning to Nashua, he was employed by the Nashua Manufacturing Company for over two years, when, being disabled from active labor, he attended Francestown Academy for a term, and one term at Antrim, finishing his school education. And now, after this varied experience of work and study, of large stature, sound in mind, fearless, independent, upright, industrious and persevering, all of which attributes promise success, Archibald makes Nashua his home, and at the age of twenty was an overseer of the Indian Head Mills, which position he occupied until 1847, when failing health obliged him to relinquish it. The next two years he passed in business in Franklin NH, and in 1849 he removed to Nashua, of which place he has since been a resident, and commenced the garden seed business in which he has been very successful, and "Dunlap's Garden Seeds" are known all over the land. The business is now conducted by A.H. Dunlap & Sons. Mr. Dunlap married August 12, 1841, Lucy Jane, daughter of Josiah Fogg, of Exeter NH, and granddaughter of Major Josiah Fogg. Major Fogg came from Hampton in 1752, and settled in that part of Chester which, in 1764, was set off as the town of Raymond. He was a very prominent man in Chester, paid the highest "parish, State and war tax" in Raymond in 1777, and rendered great service in the Revolution. The Fogg family can trace their ancestry back in England and Wales to the year 1112. The first American Ancestor was Samuel Fogg, who came to Hampton in 1638. The family is an able one, and its members have been distinguished in various ways. William Perry Fogg (Mrs. Dunlap's brother) is a writer and traveler of some note; author of "Arabistan," "Round the World Letters," etc. The children of Archibald H. and Lucy J. (Fogg) Dunlap are James H., Georgie A., John P. (deceased), Abbie J. and Charles H. Mr. Dunlap has the confidence and esteem of the people of Nashua, as shown by the many trusts committed to him and the offices he has held in the city government. In 1858 he was elected railroad commissioner of the State for three years. In 1864 he was chosen one of the Presidential electors for New Hampshire, and had the honor of casting one of the electoral votes for Abraham Lincoln. He represented Nashua in the State Legislature in 1869-70. He is one of the directors of the Nashua and Rochester Railroad, and is a trustee of the New Hampshire Banking Company. He has always been interested in whatever pertained to the welfare and improvement of his native town, and at her centennial in 1877, his address was very able and appropriate. He also generously aided with his time and money in the preparation of the recently-published "History of Antrim." From the terraces of the grounds of his pleasant home, Mr. Dunlap can view Mount Monadnock and its surrounding hills, which often were gazed upon by him with admiration while a mere lad in his native town. In his religious views Mr. Dunlap is a Congregationalist, and he was deacon in the Olive Street Church (where he attended service his first Sabbath in Nashua, poor and a stranger) from 1855 until its recent union with the Pearl Street Church; was then chosen deacon in the United, or Pilgrim Church, and is now the oldest deacon, and the chairman of their building committee in the erection of the new and stately edifice of 1881. Politically, he is a Republican. Mr. Dunlap is one of the best types of a self-made man, and his success is due to his energy, industry, and steady, active attention to his business. He is characterized by strong social feeling, and has many friends. In his public life he has always been a faithful and devoted servant to public interests. Upright and conscientious in his convictions, sincere in his desire for the right, he is a worthy representative of his strong and sturdy ancestry. THE HOWARD FAMILY The name of Howard is another form of Haward or Hereward, and is identified with the most brilliant achievements in various departments of knightly and honorable service in England, and is one of the proudest families in that fair land. [Extracts of the family from "Burke's Heraldic Register" contained in the original document are not shown here, as it has no specific direct relationship to the American family]. The first American ancestor of this line was doubtless Nathaniel Howard, who emigrated from Suffolk, England, to Dorchester, Mass in 1641, and was made a freeman in 1643. The name is variously spelled in old records, Howard, Hayward, Haward, Heywood, etc. Two of Nathaniel's sons went to charlestown. William was a weaver, born in England, and at the May meeting, 1656, of the proprietors of Chelmsford, he was admitted as an inhabitant, "the people needing his services," and granted lands to secure his permanent residence. Nathaniel soon followed him to Chelmsford, settling near his brother. He had children, among them Nathaniel and Jacob. The line from Jacob to Silas is difficult to trace; we can go back a few generations, but from the first settlers in 1656 down to seven successive generations is attended with great difficulty, and from the incompleteness of old records, at times impossible; but Benjamin, of Chelmsford, Mass, from our searches is probably the father of Silas. There is no record of Silas' birth in Chelmsford; but as he married Sybil, daughter of Captain William Reed of Westford, and the towns lie side by side, Westford was probably his native place. The Howards were conspicuous for many years in the early days of Chelmsford, and held important offices, and several of the name are now resident there. SILAS was a farmer and patriot, and when the clouds of war threatened the colonies, and the demand was for brave men, he responded to the call, and was among the "embattled farmers of the Revolution." He removed from Massachusetts to Lyndeborough, N.H. He had ten children--Silas, Samuel, *Joseph, Jacob, John, Benjamin, Martha, Abigail, Rachel and Sybil. Silas settled in Hebron NY, Samuel in Lyndeborough [NH], *Joseph in Wilton [NH], Jacob in Milford [NH]. Samuel, John and Benjamin were gallant soldiers in the War of 1812, John and Benjamin dying in service. Martha married a Hutchinson, of Milford [NH]; Abigail married a Mr. Blanchard, resided in Albany NY; Rachel married first, Mr. Emerson, second Mr. Dodge, lived in Mont Vernon NH; Sybil died young. JOSEPH HOWARD was born June 19, 1792. He married Phebe, daughter of William Pettengill, of Milton (Mr. Pettengill was a soldier of the Revolutionary army). Mr. Howard was born April 26, 1796. The children of Joseph Howard were *Ezra P., John S.G. (born July 9, 1821), Joseph A. (born October 16, 1823, died June 6, 1876), Adeline P. (born May 27, 1834) and Hannah G. (born June 14, 1836). Mr. Howard died September 13, 1839. Adeline and Hannah are children of a second wife, Abiah Parker. EZRA PETTENGILL HOWARD was born July 2, 1818, in Wilton [NH]. When he was a mere lad, between the ages of nine and eleven, he drove a team between Wilton and Nashua [NH]. About this time his mother died, and he went to Temple NH, where he remained until he was eighteen, passing the years on a farm. He then bought his time of his father for fifty dollars, and apprenticed himself to a carpenter for three years, receiving thirty dollars for the first year, forty dollars for the second, and twenty dollars per month for the third summer, with the stipulation that he should clothe himself out of his wages. He afterwards worked at his trade in Lowell and Cambridge, Mass.; then, his father being ill, he went to Wilton and remained with him until his death, which soon after occurred. Washington, Sullivan County [NH] was his next residence for a year and a half; then he went to Rochester NY and worked on the large flouring-mills; returned to Temple in 1842, and for a short time was employed on the Congregational Church; then he removed to Washington, and, in connection with his carpentering business, he made card-boards for manufacturers. He was diligent and prudent, and from hard-earned savings was able to erect a set of buildings. January 25, 1844, he married Mary Trow, daughter of Levi and Betsy (Averill) Trow. She was born at Mont Vernon, July 22, 1818. Their children were JOSEPH W., and MARY H. (born November 22, 1844) and MARTHA J. (born January 29, 1847). Mary H. married January 1, 1863, Charles H. French; she died AUgust 30, 1869, leaving one daughter, Mary H. Martha J. resides with her parents. In 1846, Mr. Howard, with his brother Joseph A., purchased the business of manufacturing card-boards, which they carried on successfully for five years, when Joseph retired, and Mr. Howard continued the business until 1869 (with the exception of two years and a half). At this time Mr. Howard, with the keen foresight and good judgment which have largely contributed to his financial success, saw the future possibilities and capavilities of the business, and enlarged his facilities to meet the demand, and controlled the manufacturing, and after a while was for some years the sole manufacturer in the United States. The business was prosperous. In 1869, Mr. Howard moved to Nashua, where he has since resided. He purchased a half-interest in the flour and grain business of McQuesten & Co., and is still connected with the firm. Mr. Howard was formerly a Free-Soil Democrat, but has affiliated with the Republican party since 1856, and as a member of that party represented Washington [NH] in the State Legislature of 1867-68, serving both terms on committees of railroads. This town being largely Democratic, his election showed a very great personal popularity and also great confidence in his ability. During his residence in Nashua (1871) he has been a member of the Common Council of the city, serving on serveral important committees. He has never aspired to positions of responsibility, but, when placed in them, has discharged their duties fearlessly, faithfully and conscientiously. Loyal to the core, he took an active part in securing substitutes to fill the quota of Washington in our great Civil War, and in erecting the soldiers' monument. COmpelled to battle with life at an age when one most needs the care of a mother and home comforts, Mr. Howard's course has been steadily upward, and by his own unaided exertions he has won wealth and an honorable position in society and the estseem of a large circle of friends. JOSEPH WOODBURY HOWARD, son of Ezra P. and Mary (Trow) Howard, came to Nashua in 1868, and engaged in the furniture trade with E.P. Brown. His father afterwards purchased the interest of Mr. Brown, and organized the firm of Howard & Copp, which, after five years' time, was changed to Howard & Co. In 1880, E.P. Howard sold his interest to his son-in-law, Charles H. French, who with Joseph W. Howard, now constitutes the firm of Howard & CO. They commenced the manufacture of furniture in 1880, erecting the factory the same year. The business has increased rapidly. With characteristic New England enterprise, they have developed into a large and flourishing establishment, doing a large wholesale and retail business. J.W. Howard is a young man of energetic business qualities and genial social disposition, which have made him well and most favorably known in this community and financial quarters. He has been councilman and alderman of Nashua NH, and he received the unanimous nomination, in 1882, of the Republican party for the mayoralty, but declined. He is serving the third term on the School Board. He married August 27, 1868, Nancy J. Hasselton, of Wilton. They have three children--Charles W., Frank B. and Mary H. REUBEN GODFREY. Reuben Godfrey, son of Joseph and Sarah (Dearborn) Godfrey, was born at South Hampton NH September 2, 1816. He was a descendant of an early New England family of good repute in colonial days, as well as in later years. He was fifth in a family of six children, and early in life learned how to labor. When about fifteen, he went to Meredith [NH] where his stay was short, for, about the same age, he made his advent in Nashua, a runaway lad, his personal effects in a small bundle in his hand, and his entire cash capital comprising seventy-five cents. This was Reuben GOdfrey as he appeared one day to his sister, Mrs. Fisk, after a walk from Sanbornton. The young wandered was kindly received; Captain Daniel Fisk, his brother-in-law, furnished him employment on his farm, and, after a time, he added to the little stock of school knowledge already possessed by attending the public schools. He soon was engaged in driving a milk-cart, and in a short time became the owner of the business. This was in 1836, when he was only twenty years old. From this period until his death, February 27, 1880, Mr. Godfrey was an active participant in the business enterprises of Nashua, an energetic, successful worker in various spheres, and a prosperous, public-spirited citizen. He engaged in the livery business, and had several teams employed in teaming, yet gave his most especial attention to quarrying stone and stone masonry, taking many contracts for various kinds of stone-work. This arduous labor he followed until 1854, with very substantial financial success. He then purchased a farm a short distance below Nashua, where he resided five years, carrying on with his farm an extensive lumbering business, a member of the firm of Wright, Roby & Co. His connection with this company lasted several years, and he was in this field handsomely rewarded for his labors, shrewdness and ability. Of an active temperament and not at all disposed to idleness, he next engaged in the ice business in Nashua, and also in other branches of commercial activity. These he carried on in the same skillful manner until 1870, when he retired from active labor and connection with business with a competency. He married, December 3, 1846, Mary A., daughter of Benjamin A. and Sarah W. (Gilson) Davis. They had three children,--Ellen E. (died young), Mary Frances and Charles J. (deceased). In early life Mr. Godfrey was an Old-Line Whig of the stanchest order. After the death of that party he did not take the same active interest in politics which characterized his previous days, but in a quiet way supported the Republican party by his vote and otherwise. In the various official relations the suffrages of the people entrusted to him he was ever the faithful, honest public officer, performing his duties with the integrity and accuracy manifested in his private affairs. He served the city many years as assessor and tax collector with great efficiency. He was a member of the Board of Health and for a long period an overseer of the poor, for which position he was especially qualified. He was a strong, positive, man, to whom action was a necessity of life. Of cheerful and brisk nature, he easily won and retained friends and was popular. He was very liberal both to the church and to the poor, particularly remembering the latter with seasonable gifts at Thanksgiving, Christmas and like occasions. His judgment of men and things was of more than ordinary power, and his services were in great demand as appraiser, in settling estates, and as guardian for minors, etc. During the last years of his life he was in charge of the estate of Colonel L.G. Noyes. Congregational in religious belief, he was a regular attendant and supporter of the Pearl Street Church. ELLIOT WHITFORD AND JAMES H. HALL ELLIOT WHITFORD, son of William and Lucy (Dale) Whitford, was born in Hillsborough [town] NH, October 11 1809. His father, born in Salem, Mass., August 19, 1773, was in youth a shoemaker, who, after his marriage, October, 28, 1798 to Lucy Dale (who was born in Beverly, Mass March 20, 1778) settled in Hillsborough NH where he purchased a farm, lived many years and died January 30, 1838. His wife survived him, dying May 17, 1855. Elliot had only the meagre school education conferred by the by the common schools of his boyhood, but he acquired sufficient knowledge to lay the foundation of a good practical business education by dint of perseverance and the force of circumstances. He let home when seventeen years old and worked at farming in Massachusetts during the summer, attending school in the winter. He worked for his father until he was twenty years of age, then started in life for himself, and for eight years became a farm laborer, working by the month. He was now in a good school for the acquisition of he practicality, ingenunity, diligence and economy which have served to built up the comfortable home wherein he is passing his retired life. Mr. Whitford came to Nashua in 1838, and, in company with his brother, George D., purchased the farm of two hundred acres which is now his residence. This being distant from the highway, they petitioned the selectmen for a road; but the petition not being granted, they appealed to the county commissioners, and the road was laid out. Mr. Whitford and his brother repaired the house, built the barn, bought a milk route, and, up to the present time, the farm has been kept as a milk farm. The land at that time was in a low state of cultivation, yielding only twelve tons of English hay, but by good culture was made to produce as high as eighty tons. Mr. Whitford and his brother were together for ten years. He then purchased his brother's interest, and bought a market and was in the butchering business for a number of years. Active and energetic, in connection with his other pursuits, he became quite an extensive dealer in agricultural implements, and when the mowing-machines were introduced, he was appointed agent, and increased the first year's sales of two or three to fifty in one year. Having a water privilege on his land, Mr. Whitford determined to utilize it, and finding the estimated cost of a wooden dam to be two thousand dollars, he, with his characteristic preference for solidity, began, in August 1873, the building of a cemented stone dam, which, when completed, was one hundred and forty feet in length, twenty-four feet thick and from five to twenty-seven feet in height. Here he erected a saw and grist-mill, putting in also stave and kit-machines, cutting-off saw and an edger. This mill has been in operation continuously since, except in time of low water. Mr. Whitford has taken hold of local improvements and public matters with the same energy and enterprise shown in his private affairs. Whig and Republican in politics, he has filled various official positions with acceptance. He was selectman for many years, elected the first time in 1841, the third year of his residence, and held that office when the town was divided, the town-house built, and when the towns were united in the city of Nashua. He has been assessor, street commissioner, alderman and was a representative for Nashua in the State Legislature. Although strong and robust, of late years he has been debarred from the activities of life by an affection of the eyes, which has deprived him of sight. He has been an active member of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, was a charter member of Nashua Grange, No. 13, and presiding officer of the same for two years. He is a Congregationalist in religious belief and a member of the Pilgrim Church. Mr. Whitford married, November 26 1840, Elizabeth, daughter of Abel and Hannah F. (Hunniwell) Bowman. Their children were Alfred J. (deceased), Josephine E. (deceased), Frederick E. (deceased). Frederick left one child, (Lizzie Maria) and Ann, Maria K. She married James H. Hall, and has had four children,--Susibell W., Webb E., James E. and Annie May (died, aged six months). JAMES HORACE HALL, son of Joshua Hall Jr. and Sarah F. Whitney, his wife, was born in Pepperell, Mass., November 20, 1842. His father died when James was about two years of age, and when but six years old he as "put out" among strangers, and from that time has made his own way in life. When eighteen he moved to North Chelmsford, Mass., to learn the machinists trade, where, at the commencement of the great Civil War, he was engaged. He then enlisted in Company F., Third Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, and was with his regiment in three long years of active service and numerous bloody engagements. He participated in those of Hilton Head, Drury's Bluff, Morris Island, siege and taking of Fort Wagner, Fort Fisher and Wilmington, siege of Petersburg, some of these being among the most sharply contested battles of the war, with great losses, yet, singularly enough, neither Mr. Hall nor his brother, Charles T., who served with him and was his tent-mate, ever received a wound, although their clothes were often cut with bullets. Mr. Hall was in Wilmington, N.C. when the news came of Lee's surrender and the consequent near return of peace. He was mustered out of the United States service in June 1865, accompanied his regiment to New Hampshire, and in the following August was discharged honorably from the State service at Concord. Returning to Chelmsford and finishing his trade, Mr. Hall was employed until 1868 as a machinist at Worcester and Providence. He then removed to Milford NH and for a time carried on a machine-shop. Coming then to Nashua, which has since been his home, he was for ten years an employee of the Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Company. He married Anna M. Whitford, January 18, 1876, and became a farmer on Mr. Whitford's place in 1881. He is a member of the Baptist Church of Hudson; is Republican in politics; has been a Freemason since 1866, is a Sir Knight, and has taken the thirty-second degree; an Odd-Fellow since 1868, belongs to the Encampment. He is a steady, industrious citizen,--one who has proven the highest title to that name by his active service for three long years in his country's defense. CHARLES LUND Among the old families and those who did good service in the early days of Old Dunstable, in defending her against the Indians, should be mentioned the Lund family. The first emigrant bearing the name was Thomas Lund, merchant, who came from London, England in 1646, to Boston, with power from certain citizens in London to collect debts. One of the first settlers of Dunstable was Thomas Lund, born about 1660, probably a son of the Thomas above mentioned. His children were Thomas (1682), Elizabeth (1684) and William (1686). He was selectman and a worthy citizen. Thomas-3 was a soldier; served under command of Lieutenant Jabez Fairbanks, of Groton, on garrison duty. On the evening of September 4, 1724, a party of about seventy French Mohawks made an attack on Dunstable and took two men prisioners; the next morning Lieutenant French, with fourteen men, among them Thomas Lund, went in pursuit; but he, with half his men, were killed. The bodies were found and were buried in one grave. The place of their interment was the ancient burial-ground near the State line. The inscription was as follows: "Memento Mori, Here lies the body of Mr. Thomas Lund, who departed this life September 5, 1724, in the 42d year of his age. This man, with seven more that lies in this grave, was slew all in a day by the Indians. Some time during this year William, brother of Thomas, was taken prisoner by the Indians, carried into captivity, where he suffered great hardships, and was obliged to pay a large price for his ransom. Thus, the Lund family have been important factors, as well as actors, in the early days of Nashua. Thomas had children.--Thomas (1712), Elizabeth (1715), William (1717), Ephraim (1720), and Phinehas(1723). THOMAS (1712) was a deacon in the church, married Mary --, and died Feburary 4, 1739. From the time he was seven years old he supported himself. He became a farmer; but, having also a natural aptitude for mechanics, he made carts and wagons, and the house where his grandson Charles, now resides, was mostly built by his own hands. He was an industrious, energetic worker, and from his savings was enabled to buy the farm where he resided many years. He married Sarah Whitney. Their children were Hannah, John, Thomas, Isaac, Oliver, Sarah, Huldah, and Noah. Mr. Lund died at the age of eighty. OLIVER LUND, son of Thomas and Sarah (Whitney) Lund, was born April 8, 1779, married April 17, 1814, Orpah, daughter of William Danforth. She was born January 2, 1788. Their children attaining maturity were George (deceased), Orpah (deceased), Laura (Mrs. John A. Foster), Charles, Sabra (Mrs. E.P. Parker) and Handel (deceased). Oliver passed his early life on the farm, and afterwards, for several years, was captain of the packet-boat running on Middlesex Canal from Boston to Middlesex. He was an active man, held various town offices, was a member of the First Congregational Church of Nashua, and a good type and worthy descendant of the pioneers of Nashua. He died December 21, 1866. His wife survived him, dying in March 1867. CHARLES LUND, son of Oliver and Orpah (Danforth) Lund was born November 8, 1821; married May 8, 1846, Eliza, daughter of Samuel G. and Betsey (Davis) Stevens. (Mr. Stevens was a son of David Stevens, a resident of Bedford NH, and was born in 1797; was a carpenter. He came from Goffstown to Nashua, and resided there forty years; he then removed to Weare and afterwards to Derry, where he now lives, aged eighty-seven years. He assisted in the erection of the first buildings of the Nashua Manufacturing Company). The children of Charles and Eliza (Stevens) Lund are Eliza Ann (married Joshua W. Hunt and has three children--Alma F., William E. and Charles L.), Charles H. (a dealer in milk), Alma L. and Marcus O. The last three reside with their parents. Mr. Lund's early education was that of the district schools. He became a farmer and remained at home, and after his father gave up active life he took care of his parents until their deaths, and resides on the ancestral farm, which he inherited. He is a Congregationalist in religious belief, a Republican in politics, and was for two years a member of the Nashua City Council. He is quiet and unostentatious, has never sought public office, but has closely attended to his business. Plain and simple in his habits, social, amiable and pleasing in his ways, he is a kind husband and father, a good neighbor and useful member of society, a careful, painstaking, industrious man, successful in his business, and possesses a good knowledge of agriculture. He is interested in the object and mission of the Patrons of Husbandry, and at this writing is treasurer of the Nashua Grange. STILLMAN SWALLOW A century and more ago there lived in the old town of Dunstable, Middlesex County, Mass., a pious, just and honorable man, Peter Swallow by name. He was a farmer, and the land he tilled was his by inheritance and acquisition, much of which had been in the Swallow family since the time when the white man first planted the foot of civilization upon it. Peter Swallow married Sibbil --, and they had six sons and two daughters,--Nahum, Larnard, James, Moody, Abijah, Archelaus, Prudence, and Lucy. As his will was made in May, 1812, and presented for probte in May, 1813, his death must have occurred between those dates. His son Archelaus inherited the old homestead, and following the calling of his father. He married Susanna Kendall, and they had six children, all of whom attained maturity. Archelaus was a man slow of speech, patient and persevering in his daily toil, and also possessed a large amount of good, practical common-sense. He was one of the first workers in the temperance cause, and with his energy, combined with good judgment, he was enabled to accomplish much. In his religious convictions he was a Congregationalist, and a liberal supporter of the interests of that denomination. Politically, he was a Whig. He died about 1855, aged seventy-two. STILLMAN SWALLOW, second child of Archelaus and Susanna (Kendall) Swallow, was born on the old Swallow place in Dunstable, September 19, 1816. He passed the early part of his life upon his father' farm, sharing its toils and availing himself of such educational advantages as the district school afforded. When about nineteen years of age he left his home and came to Nashua, and hired out as a farm-hand to Mrs. Fisk, a widow, whom he married the next year, March 6, 1837. The children of Stillman and Nancy (Roby) Fisk Swallow are Mary F. (married Phineas P. Mitchell; they hve ten children of whom eight are now living,-- Josephine R. (now Mrs. F.E. Wills), Katie A., Lucy C., Fannie P., Harry S., Howard W., Emily G., Carrie B.,), Clarence H. (deceased, married Mary H. Barr, children--James C., Geo. W., and Willie C.), James R., Anna A., and Louis M. (married Amanda A. Smith, and has Lucy E. Frank H. and Fred W.). Mrs. Swallow is a woman of great strength of character, and her husband has ever found her helpful, sympathetic and encouraging in his life's work. She was the daughter of James and Lucy (Cutter) Roby of Amherst, NH, thus descending from two old and reputable families of New England. Her first husband, Ralph Risk, was a merchant of Boston and Providence. His health failing, he came to the home of his father, Nathan Fisk, in Nashua (who lived where Mr. Elliot Whitford now resides, and owned nine hundred acres of land) where he died. The children of Ralph and Nancy (Roby) Fisk were William F. (deceased), Anna A. (deceased), Lucy W. (married Alonzo Fisk, and has one child, Charles S.), Emily (married Rev. Geo. P. WIlson, for many years city missionary of Lawrence, Mass, and has three children,--Geo H., who is one of the oldest employees in the custom-house, Boston; Francis A., with Perry Mason & Co, Boston, and Anna F.). Mrs. Swallow has been a diligent observor of passing events. A great reader, she has taken much interest in the political and moral questions of the day, and formed decided and intelligent opinions upon them. As a mother she has brought up her children wisely, and now has the pleasant satisfaction of seeing her children and her children's children occupying useful and honorable positions in life. Mr. Swallow has always been a farmer, and for many years conducted a milk-route. He was bred a farmer and has never seen the day when he was tempted to change his calling. In this he has shown his good sense, for he never could have changed it for a more honorable or useful one. Diligent, industrious, and unassuming, he has lived a useful life, and is much esteemed by his brother farmers. He has a pleasant home and three hundred acres of land, but his farm has not occupied him to such an extent that he has neglected his civil and political duties. He has been selectman, a member of the Common Council and an alderman of the city of Nashua. In politics he is a Democrat, and represented his party in the State Legislature of 1861. Mr. Swallow, in an unpretentious manner, has done the duties which have presented themselves to him thoroughly and well. He is kind-hearted and charitable, and is an attendant of the Baptist Church, and contributes liberally to all good causes. GENERAL JOHN G. FOSTER General John G. Foster was born in Whitefield, NH, May 27, 1823. When ten years old he removed with his family to Nashua, where he attended the public schools. He also attended the academy at Hancock, and subsequently fitted for the West Point Military Academy at Crosby's school, Nashua. Through the influence of Charles G. Atherton, then member of Congress from this State, he was appointed cadet at West Point in 1842. He graduated at that institution, ranking number four in his class in 1846, with Generals McClellan, Reno, Sturgis, Stoneman and Oakes, of the Union army, and Jackson and Wilcox, of the rebel army. He was in the Mexican War, and in 1847 was breveted first lieutenant, "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco." At the storming of Molino del Rey he fell, severely wounded. For his gallantry here he was breveted captain. In 1854 he was appointed assistant professor of engineering at West Point. He was second in command at Fort Sumter when it was first fired upon by the rebels, from Charleston, in April 1861, and for the heroism he displayed on this occasion he was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers. General Foster accompanied General Burnside's expedition into North Carolina, bore a conspicuous part in the battle of Roanoke Island, the capture of Newbern, and received the surrender of all the batteries, all the defenses and all the troops--over two thousand--upon the island in February, 1862. In July he was left in command of the Department of North Carolina with limited force, General Burnside being ordered with the main force to Fortress Monroe. Late in autumn, reinforced by new regiments from Massachusetts, he resolved to assume the offensive. He led an expedition to the Roanoke, but found no rebel force, and liberated several hundred slaves. In April, 1863, the rebel General Hill made an attack on Washington, N.C., and was handsomely defeated by General Foster. In October he succeeded General Burnside in East Tennessee. All through the war General Foster occupied responsible positions, and was regarded as one of the most accomplished, brave and prudent officers in the army. After the close of the Rebellion, General Foster continued in the service at the South for several years. On account of feeble health he was stationed at Boston in 1869, having his headquarters at Fort Independence. In the spring of 1874 he returned to his old homestead at Nashua, where he died on September 2d of that year. The funeral services at the Church of the Immaculate Conception were largely attended. (end)