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BARKER, David, Jr. (1797—1834) BARKER, David, Jr., a Representative from New
Hampshire; born in Stratham, N.H., January 8, 1797; attended
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and was graduated from
Harvard University in 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1819 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.H.; member of the State
house of representatives in 1823, 1825, and 1826; elected as an
Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3,
1829); resumed the practice of law; was an original member of the
New Hampshire Historical Society; died in Rochester, N.H., April 1,
1834; interment in the Old Rochester Cemetery. Source: Biographical Directory of the United
States Congress, 1771-Present Contributed by
A. Newell
BELL, Charles
Henry (1823—1893) Senate Years of Service: 1879-1879 Party: Republican BELL, Charles Henry, (nephew of Samuel Bell and
cousin of James Bell), a Senator from New Hampshire; born in
Chester, Rockingham County, N.H., November 18, 1823; graduated from
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1844; studied law; admitted to
the bar and practiced in Chester, Great Falls, and Exeter, N.H.;
county solicitor for ten years; member, State house of
representatives 1858-1860, serving as speaker in 1860; member, State
senate 1863-1864, serving as president in 1864; appointed as a
Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the
term beginning March 4, 1879, and served from March 13, 1879, to
June 18, 1879, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for
election to the Senate in 1879; resumed the practice of law at
Exeter and also engaged in literary pursuits; Governor of New
Hampshire 1881-1883; president of the State constitutional
convention in 1889; president of the New Hampshire Historical
Society 1868-1887; died in Exeter, Rockingham County, N.H., November
11, 1893; interment in Exeter Cemetery. Source: Biographical Directory of the United
States Congress, 1771-Present Contributed by
A. Newell
BETTON,
Silas
(1768—1822)
BETTON, Silas, a Representative from New
Hampshire; born in Londonderry, N.H., August 26, 1768; studied under
a private tutor, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover,
N.H., in 1787; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Salem, Rockingham County, N.H., in 1790; member of the
State house of representatives 1797-1799; member of the State senate
1801-1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth and Ninth
Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1807); resumed the practice of
law; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1810
and 1811; served as high sheriff of Rockingham County 1813-1818;
died in Salem, N.H., January 22, 1822; interment in Old Parish
Cemetery, Center Village, Salem, N.H.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United
States Congress, 1771-Present
Contributed by
A. Newell
BUTLER, Maj. Gen.
Benjamin F.
MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN
F. BUTLER was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, in 1818, and
graduated at Waterville College, Maine. He studied law and having
commenced practice at Lowell, Massachusetts, gained distinction, and
was remarkable for his success in criminal cases. He supported John
C. Breckinridge in the presidential campaign of 1860. When the war
commenced, being then a brigadier of the Massachusetts Militia, he
offered his services to support the government, and was stationed at
Annapolis, where his energy and power overawed the secessionists.
General Butler was in command of the land forces in the expedition
against Hatteras Inlet in August, 1861, and captured Forts Hatteras
and Clark, with their garrisons In March, 1862, with much energy and
zeal; he raised the volunteer troops which formed the land force
against New Orleans. After the bombardment of Forts' Philip and
Jackson, and the fall of New Orleans, Butler landed his troops early
in May, and undertook the administration of the city with a zeal,
ability, and firmness that repressed secession, restored order, and
brought back a prosperous condition of affairs. He was afterward
relieved by General Banks, and reporting at Washington was put in
command of the Departments of Virginia and North Carolina. During
the siege of Petersburg and Richmond, he was in command of the army
of the James, and made several unsuccessful demonstrations against
the former place. After the unsuccessful attack on Fort Fisher in
December, 1864, General Butler, who had commanded the land forces,
in consequence of the failure, was removed from command. (Source: A Complete History of the Great
Rebellion of the Civil War in the U.S. 1861-1865 with Biographical
sketches of the Principal Actors in the Great Drama. By Dr. James
Moore, Published 1875)
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, soldier,
lawyer, governor, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1818, in Deerfield,
N.H. In 1853 he was elected to the state legislature; in 1859 was
elected to the state senate; and in 1860 was a delegate to the
Charlestown convention. In 1861 he was appointed a
brigadier-general; and entered actively into the civil war
movements. Before the close of that year he was made a
major-general, serving as such in New Orleans, Fort Darling, and
various other places. At the conclusion of the civil war he resumed
the practice of law in Lowell; and in 1867-79 he was a
representative from Massachusetts to the fortytieth to the
forty-fifth congresses. He was one of the managers of the
impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. He was re-elected to the
forty-first, forty-second, forty-third and forty-fifth congresses.
In 1883-86 he was the thirty-second governor of Massachusetts. He
died Jan. 11, 1893, in Washington, D.C.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American
Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the
Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by
William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
CLARK,
Rufus Wheelwright, P. E. clergyman; born, Portsmouth,
N.H., (Rockingham Co) May 29, 1844; son of
Rev. Rufus Wheelwright (D.D.) and Eliza Walton Clark; graduate
Williams College, 1865 (A. M., 1868; D. D., 1890); General
Theological Seminary, New York, 1868; married at Columbus, O., Apr.
9, 1874, Lucy G., daughter of Gov. William Dennison of Ohio. Deacon,
1867; priest, 1868; rector St. John's Church, Portsmouth, N. H.,
1868-71; Trinity Church, Columbur, O., 1871-77; St. Paul's Church,
Detroit, 1877-1905. Department secretary Board of Missions, 1906.
Member England Society of Michigan; chaplain Society of Colonial
Wars. President Michigan State Society Sons of American Revolution,
Author "The Church in Thy House"; "Addresses, Religious and
Patriotic." Address: 720 Jefferson Av. (Source: The Book of Detroiters. Edited by
Albert Nelson Marquis Copyright, 1908
- Submitted by Christine
Walters)
DEMERITT FAMILY
Joseph Demeritt came from Madbury, settled near
where Plumer Bennett resides.
His
children were:
(1) Moses, (2) Paul,
(3)
Joseph, (4) John,
(5)
Betsey,
(6)
Louisa,
(7)
Hannah,
(8) Lydia.
Moses
married a Miss Odell of Durham, whose son Gordon lives in
Nottingham;
Paul
married Martha Woodman of Deerfield, one of whose daughters became
the wife of the Hon. Alfred Hoitt of Durham;
and
another married a Mr. Seward;
another
married John Woodman of Newton;
Joseph
died in the war of 1812;
John, the
father of Joseph Demeritt, Esq., of Nottingham, was born January 30,
1777, lived in Nottingham, married Abigail, daughter of Robert Hill
of Nottingham, born May 13, 1781; they died within ten days of each
other; he was aged about eighty-seven.
Their
children were :
Jacob,
born July 8, 1800;
Joseph,
born November 11, 1801;
Sophia,
born January 8,1803;
John, born
April 20, 1806;
Timothy,
born March 23, 1808;
Mehitable
F., born March 18, 1810;
Daniel,
born July 12, 1812;
Samuel D.,
born May 22, 1814;
Andrew J.,
Sally,
Mary Ann,
Abigail.
Joseph
Demeritt married Sally, daughter of Benjamin Colcord of Northwood.
She was born March 10,1799, and died September 27, 1767.
Their
children were:
(1)
Benjamin Willard, born April 5,1827, married Eleanor A. Mills of
Nova Scotia, having one daughter, Hannah Maria;
(2) Eliza
Ann, born August 16, 1832; she married Byron D. Hoitt, died April 1,
1861;
(3) Joseph
Edward, born May 9, 1836, married Nancy B. Tuttle, daughter of
Ebenezer S. Tuttle of Nottingham, and they have three children,
Eliza Ann, Sally A., and John L.;
(4) Jane,
born April 11, 1838, died May 28, 1868;
(5) John
Seward, born October 10, 1840, died January 14, 1873.
Mr.
Demeritt has represented his town three years in the state
legislature, been selectman and assistant postmaster for many years,
and has been engaged in mercantile business since
1825.
[Source: History of Nottingham, Deerfield,
and Northwood, NH: By Elliott Colby Cogswell, Publ. 1878; Pg. 201;
Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski
Pack.]
GOODRICH FAMILY
The
Goodrich families descended from three Welshmen who landed at
Newburyport about the year 1640. From one of these, the Goodrich
family in Nottingham descended. Barnard Goodrich married Sally Carr;
he lived and died in West Newbury; Barnard Goodrich, their son,
married Eunice Cheney; he afterward married Sally Gove; he moved
from Newbury to the south-west corner of Nottingham, in the
Pawtuckaway Mountains, where he died; Barnard Goodrich, born
February 27, 1769, died February 23, 1834; his first wife, Eunice
Cheney, born March 4,1777, died February 17, 1807; his second wife,
Sally Gove, was born October 8, 1782; the children of Barnard and
Eunice Goodrich were: Moses C., born May 19, 1793, died January 17,
1858, lived in East Kingston; Jeremiah, born September 21, 1796,
died March 1, 1837; he removed to Fundy; Gilman, born December 4,
1798, died October 19, 1874; he lived at Corinth, Me., and
afterwards at Janesville, Wis.; Barnard, born April 2, 1800, now
resides in Gardner, Me.; Betsey C., born October 20, 1802, died
September 23, 1823; John, born January 9, 1805; now lives at Canaan,
Me.
The
children of Barnard and Sally Goodrich were: Samuel G., born March
21, 1808, died April 19, 1839; Nathan G. T., born February 27, 1810;
Perley C., born March 9, 1812, died February 11, 1834; Henry 0.,
born August 26, 1814, died March 25,1834; David A., born March
8,1817, died November 3, 1834; Jacob T., born June 13, 1820, died
November 3, 1834; Delia Jane, born February 5, 1823, died July 81,
1825.
The
children of Moses C. are Jackson, Evander A., and Doratha
Melissa.
The
children of Jeremiah are Barnard and Samuel B.
The
children of Gilman are James Munroe, Lydia, Elizabeth, and George
W.
The
children of Barnard are Samuel, George, and Eleanor.
The
children of John are Eleanor and others.
The son of
Samuel G. was Arthur D., who married Almira F. Bean of Nottingham,
and died July 20, 1861; they had two children: Jay M., who now lives
in Deerfield; Mary F., who married Charles G. Harvey; she died June
13. 1853, aged seventeen years, ten months.
Nathan G.
T. married Betsey A. Cate of Deerfield, June 17, 1840; they have one
son, George W., born August 23, 1844; Betsey A., his wife, died June
23, 1877.
[Source: History of Nottingham, Deerfield,
and Northwood, NH: By Elliott Colby Cogswell, Publ. 1878; Pg. 205;
Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski
Pack.]
DYER, Mrs. Julia
Knowlton, philanthropist, born in Deerfield, N. H., in
1829. Her father was Joseph Knowlton, and her mother Susan
Dearborn. Upon Bunker Hill Monument are inscribed the names of her
mother's grandfather, Nathaniel Dearborn, and of her own
grandfather, Thomas Knowlton. Julia Knowlton was one of six
children. Her father served in the war of 1812, and his namesake,
her brother, Joseph H. Knowlton, was a member of the secret
expedition against Fort Beaufort, in the Civil War. After graduation
in her eighteenth year, Miss Knowlton taught a year in the high
school in Manchester, N. H., where she was a successful instructor
in French and English literature and higher mathematics. She became
the wife, in her twenty-first year, of Micah Dyer, jr., now a lawyer
of Boston. Three children were born to them, two sons and a
daughter, the latter dying in infancy. The two sons still live. Dr.
William K. Dyer, of Boston, and Walter Dyer. Mrs. Dyer is connected
prominently with twenty-four associations, only one of which, the
Castilian Club, is purely literary. She is president of the
Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts, president and founder of the
Charity Club, a member of the executive boards of the Home for
Intemperate Women, the Helping Hand Association, and president of
the local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. For
twenty-six years she has been a manager for the Home for Female
Prisoners in Dedham, Mass., and is a life member of the Bostonian
Society. The association appoints a board of twenty-four women, two
of whom visit the Soldiers's Home each month to look after the needs
of the inmates. She is a member of the Methodist Church, but she
attends regularly the services of her husband's choice, in the
Church of the Unity, Boston, without comment, but without affecting
her own faith in the slightest. Mrs. Dyer is so engaged in
philanthropic work that she hardly thinks of herself as being a
leader. (American Women, Frances
Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright
1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
KNOWLTON, Harry; born, Portsmouth,
N.H., June 28, 1844; son of John
and Nancy (Janvrin) Knowlton; educated in public and high schools of
Portsmouth; married at Norfolk, Va., 1866, Marie Louise Butcher.
Went to Chicago, 1866 to engage in erection of flour mill,
continuing until 1871; worked in steam shop until 1872, then became
inspector of boilers for the Northwest with headquarters in Chicago
for the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co., has been
located in Detroit as agent for Michigan, and northern portion of
Ohio, same company, since 1893. Served in U.S. Navy as engineer
during Civil War. Member Stationary Engineers’ Association.
Republican. Congregationalist. Mason (32o), Shriner. Recreations: Fishing and
other outdoor diversions. Office: 66 Newberry Bldg. Residence: 827
Second Av.
(Source:
The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis Copyright, 1908 - Submitted by Christine
Walters)
Deacon Samuel
Lane
When those are removed from their
service by death, who have been distinguished for their usefulness
in life, and whose example exhibits a pattern for imitation; it is
but a proper tribute of respect and gratitude so their memories; and
may be an advantage to the living, to see delineated some peculiar
features of such characters, to excite others to emulate their
virtues.
All that
is attempted on the present occasion is a plain and brief recital of
some particulars, which may be profitably noticed in the character
of Deacon Samuel Lane who
departed this life at Stratham, December 29th, 1806, in the 89th
year of his age. He was endowed by the Divine Author of every
good gift, with a valuable capacity of mind, which under the
cultivation of singular industry and care, through a long life,
fitted him for extensive usefulness among men, and which he improved
for the best purposes--His industry was great, rearely equalled by
any, in the usual concerns of domestic life, and being accompanied
with the strickest integrity, and punctuality, in all his
transactions, it conduced to reuder him respectable, and to promote
under the blessing of providence his worldly interest, of which he
was bound to use in works of justice and charity as occasions
presented.
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