By Muriel Bristol | August 16, 2019
Continued from Milton’s Congregational Ministers of 1847-90
The sequence of Congregational ministers listed in Scales’ History of Strafford County concluded in 1890. This list has been constructed from other sources.
The Milton Congregational ministers of this 1891-1924 period were Robert T. Osgood, Myron P. Dickey, Joseph N. Walker, Clarence E. Pike, Simon F. Goodheart, Owen E. Hardy, and Newell W. Whitman.
Rev. Robert Treadwell Osgood – 1891-92
Robert T. Osgood was born in West Roxbury, MA, October 16, 1865, son of Edward T. and Hannah P. (Newell) Osgood.
Robert Treadwell Osgood. b. Jamaica Plain, Mass., Oct. 16, 1865; Harv. 1887; ord. June 16, 1891; p. Milton, N.H., 1891-92; res. lic. Yale Sem., 1893-94; p. Meredith, N.H., 1895-97; w.c. Biltmore, N.C.; Hadlyme, Ct., from 1903. Address Hadlyme, Ct. (Andover Theological Seminary, 1908).
Robert T. Osgood was ordained in Milton’s Congregational Church, June 16, 1891. His grandfather, Rev. Samuel Osgood, appears to have been in attendance.
HERE AND THERE. On Tuesday, June 16, Mr. Robert Osgood will be ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational church at Milton Ponds [Three Ponds]. The Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D., of Cambridge, Mass., is expected to preach the sermon on this occasion, the distinguished divine having counted Mr. Osgood as one of his parishioners. The latter is a young gentleman of fine ability and training, his early life was spent in Europe, where his mother is at present directing the education of her younger children. He is the grandson of Dr. Osgood, who served as pastor to a church in Springfield, Mass., for a half century, and it is thought that the younger man is moved by the right spirit in coming to minister to the picturesque village across the hills. Messrs. Hall of Dover, Street of Exeter, Lewis of Salmon Falls, and Clark of Wolfboro and other neighboring pastors besides Lyman Whiting and Prof. Tucker, with the Senior Mr. Osgood, will be present at the ordination, on June 16, of Robert Osgood of Milton. The council will meet at 1 p.m. at the church, and Dr. McKenzie will preach at 2.30 (Farmington News, June 12, 1891).
Ministerial Personals. CONGREGATIONAL. R.T. Osgood was ordained and installed as pastor of the church in Milton, N.H., on June 16 (Christian Union, July 4, 1891).
Religious Intelligence. New Hampshire. Milton. Rev. R.T. Osgood is under treatment in New York for trouble with his eyes (Vermont Chronicle, November 18, 1892).
MILTON. Rev. Robert Osgood has been obliged to give up the pastorate of the Congregational church, on account of failing health (Farmington News, December 9, 1892).
Religious Intelligence. New Hampshire. Milton. The town and state loses an excellent minister through the resignation of Rev. R.T. Osgood on account of an obstinate and disabling disease of the eyes (Vermont Chronicle, December 16, 1892).
Rev. Robert T. Osgood went next to Yale University, for several years, and then to a pastorate in Meredith, NH.
WATERVILLE, N.H. Rev. Robert T. Osgood of Meredith is enjoying a few days at this resort (Boston Globe, August 16, 1896).
R.T. Osgood appeared in the Meredith, NH, business directory of 1897, as pastor of the Meredith Congregational church.
William Cheesborough, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. SC), headed an Asheville, NC, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his siblings, John Cheesborough, a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. SC), and Elizabeth Cheesborough, aged forty years (b. SC), his servant, James Shorter, a farm laborer, aged thirteen years (b. SC), and his boarder, Robert Osgood, a preacher, aged thirty-five years (b. NY [SIC]).
SINGING LESSONS: Mr. Osgood will receive private pupils as beginners in singing. Especial attention to tone-production and reading.. Also lessons in French. Care in pronunciation, conversational method. Has studied in French schools. Apply post office box 16 or at Rose Villa (News-Herald (Morganton, NC), February 21, 1907).
John T. Pillsbury, a private school principal, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), headed a Newton, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-one years), Sarah E. Pillsbury, a private school teacher, aged fifty-six years (b. ME), his son, W. Robinson Pillsbury, a wholesale leather salesman, aged twenty-two years (b. MA); his assistants, Robert T. Osgood, a private school teacher, aged forty-four years (b. MA), Carl Killam, a private school teacher, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), and Earl A. Roadman, a private school teacher, aged twenty-six years (b. IA); his janitor, Hewitt W. Proctor, a private school janitor, aged twenty years (b. NH), his cook, Anna Johnson, a private school cook, aged thirty-nine years (b. Sweden), his laundress, Hilda Syred, a private school laundress, aged twenty-two years (b. Sweden), his maids, Elizabeth Johnson, a private school servant, aged twenty-two years (b. US), and Lillian Chute, a private school servant, aged twenty-one years (b. US); and his boarders, Carl C. Enebuske, a building architect, aged twenty-one years (b. NY), Louis Simon, aged seventeen years (b. Cuba), Ernest Simon, aged fifteen years (b. Cuba), Fangen Sim, aged seventeen years (b. China), Tsu Chang Kwanan, aged thirteen years (b. China). and Myron Lord, aged ten years (b. MA). John H. Pillsbury owned their residence at 1690 Beacon Street, but with a mortgage. The Wolcott School occupied that space in 1910 (now the Angier School).
News from the Classes. Class of 1887. R.T. Osgood writes an interesting letter from Paris. From 1900 to 1917 he was principally engaged in teaching, especially in French. In the spring of 1917 he went to France as a volunteer hospital aid and since then has been engaged in war activities before and after the Armistice until the present time. He hopes to return to this country in the fall (Harvard Graduate’s Magazine Association, 1923).
He Was Here. Robert T. Osgood of Valenciennes, France, a Latin teacher at Pittsfield High in 1887 and 1888, is looking for proof of his American citizenship. In a letter to the mayor yesterday, Osgood asked him to please certify he was a resident here in 87 and 88, A check by Superintendent of School Russell verified Osgood’s claim, and a letter of certification is on the way to Valenciennes. During the war, Osgood explained in his letter, his documents were lost when the consulate at Lille was closed and later merged with another office. Citizenship proof is necessary to put his personal affairs in order, he noted. Mr. Osgood’s family lived in Hancock years ago before he moved to France (Berkshire Eagle, July 8, 1948).
Robert T. Osgood would then have been about eighty-four years of age. Nothing has come to hand to suggest that he returned to the United States. (He likely died in France).
Rev. Myron Parsons Dickey – 1893-1908
Myron P. Dickey was born in Derry, NH, February 19, 1852, son of David W. and Sarah A. (Campbell) Dickey.
He married (1st) in Palmer, MA, August 2, 1876, Louisa R. Shumway, he of New Hampshire, and she of Palmer. He was a teacher, aged twenty-four years (b. NH); she was aged thirty-two years (b. Palmer). She was born in Palmer, MA, February 1, 1845, daughter of Asa and Orinda (Hall) Shumway.
Sophia Amidon, a widow, aged forty years (b. MA), headed a Palmer, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household included her son, Fayett Amidon, a laborer, aged eighteen years (b. MA), her boarder, Myron P. Dickey, a school teacher, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), [her boarder’s] wife, Louise Dickey, no employment, aged thirty-six years (b. MA), and [her boarder’s] son, Maurice Dickey, aged two years (b. NH). They shared a two-family dwelling with the household of Eli Smith, a dry goods merchant, aged forty-eight years (b. MA).
In February 1883, a unanimous call was given to Rev. Myron P. Dickey to become the [Ludlow, MA] pastor at a salary of $700 and the parsonage. A council convened the 14th of June to install Mr. Dickey. In 1887 his salary was increased $100. June 23, 1889 was observed as the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Church. At this time Rev. Mr. Dickey delivered a historical sermon in the afternoon. Others who took part were: Rev. J.W. Tuck, a former pastor; Rev. Mr. Buckingham and Rev. Mr. Cone of Springfield; Rev. Mr. Howard of Wilbraham; Rev. Simeon Miller of Ludlow and Dea. Elisha T. Parsons. Mr. Dickey resigned in 1893 to accept the pastorate of a church in Milton, N.H. (Noon, 1912).
Myron P. Dickey appeared as the pastor of the Congregational church in the Milton directories of 1894, 1898, 1901, and 1904. He appeared as pastor of the Congregational church, 17 So. Main street, in the Milton directory of 1905-06.
LOCALS. The pastor of the First church exchanged desks on last Sunday with Rev. M.P. Dickey of Milton, who presented to his audience a thoughtful and forcible exposition of Isaiah xxxii, 2. Mr. Dickey, a scholarly and original thinker, has been for five years the pastor of the church in Milton, and it is hoped that his parish may be so happy as to continue, for a long time to come, the relation with him which has been so valued and enjoyed (Farmington News, October 6, 1899).
Myron P. Dickey, a clergyman, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-three years), Louise Dickey, aged fifty-six years (b. MA), and his children, Morris Dickey, a grocery store salesman, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Orinda Dickey, at school, aged sixteen years (b. MA), and Mark Dickey, at school, aged fourteen years (b. MA). Louise Dickey was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living. They appeared in the enumeration between the households of Stephen E. Twombly, a retired janitor, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), and Estella Rowe, a home keeper, aged forty years (b. ME).
Church and Ministerial Record. Bequests and Other Gifts. MILTON, N.H. Rev. M.P. Dickey. From Ladies’ Society, individual communion set (Congregationalist and Christian World, May 20, 1905).
Daughter Orinda S. “Ora” Dickey married in Milton, NH, November 15, 1906, Arthur T. “Thad” Smith. Smith had been earlier the second principal of Nute High School. Rev. Myron P. Dickey performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Dickey Falls to Her Death. KENNEBUNK, Me, Oct. 14 – Mrs. Myron P. Dickey, wife of Rev. Mr. Dickey, pastor of the Congregational church, fell downstairs today and was killed. Her neck was broken. She was about 60 years old and leaves several children (Boston Globe, October 15, 1908).
LOCAL. The tragic death of Mrs. Louise Dickey, wife of Rev. M.P. Dickey formerly of Milton, is greatly regretted by the many friends of the family in the vicinity. Mrs. Dickey had been in her new home in Kennebunk, Me., only a week when she fell down stairs and broke her neck. The funeral was held late Saturday afternoon, Rev. A.C. Fulton of Somersworth officiating. Mrs. Dickey was born in Palmer, Mass., Feb. 1, 1845, and besides a husband leaves a daughter, Mrs. Arthur T. Smith of Boston, and two sons. one being Mark S. Dickey, the pianist. She was the daughter of Asa and Orinda Shumway of Palmer. Mr. Dickey was pastor of the Congregational church at Milton for a number of years and only recently accepted a call to Kennebunk (Farmington News, October 23, 1908).
Dartmouth. Class of 1874. Dickey, Myron Parsons, A.M.; Yale Div. Sch., 1883; φβκ [Phi Beta Kappa], b. 19 Feb. 1852, Derry, N.H. Minister, res. Kennebunk, Me. (Dartmouth University, 1910).
Myron P. Dickey married (2nd) in Milton, NH, January 12, 1910, Nellie M. Wentworth, he of Kennebunk, ME, and she of Milton. He was a clergyman, aged fifty-seven years; she was a teacher, aged thirty-five years. Rev. R.M. Peacock of Milton performed the ceremony. She was born in Milton, December 23, 1875, daughter of John A. and Hannah E. (Gray) Wentworth.
Myron P. Dickey, a Congregational clergyman, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Kennebunk, ME, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of zero years), Nellie W. Dickey, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and Mark S. Dickey, a musician and composer, aged twenty-five years (b. MA). They resided in a rented house on Main Street.
REV. MYRON P. DICKEY DEAD. Graduate of Dartmouth and Held Pastorates In Ludlow, Mass., Milton, N.H, and Kennebunk, Me. KENNEBUNK, Me, Aug 30 – Rev. Myron Parsons Dickey, pastor of the First Congregational Church, died at 3 o’clock this afternoon of complications following an operation for appendicitis. He was in his 63d year. He was brought home from the Maine General Hospital in Portland two weeks ago and seemed slightly improved for a time, but last Friday his condition grew serious and he failed steadily to the end. Mr. Dickey was born Feb 19, 1852, in Derry, N.H, the son of David Woodburn and Sarah (Campbell) Dickey. He attended Pinkerton Academy in Derry and was graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1874. For a time he was principal of the High School in Hampstead, N.H. Deciding to enter the ministry, he went to Yale Theological Seminary and after graduating he took up his first pastorate in 1883 over the First Congregational Church at Ludlow Center, Mass. He remained there 10 years, then accepting a call to Milton, N.H., where he stayed 15 years. In 1908 he went to Kennebunk. While teaching school in Palmer, Mass., Mr. Dickey met Miss Louise Shumway who became his wife. She died in 1908, soon after their removal to Kennebunk. He was married again to Miss Nellie Wentworth of Milton, who survives him. He also leaves three children, Maurice W. Dickey of West Roxbury, Mass., a news editor on the Boston Globe; Orinda S., wife of Arthur Thad Smith of Winchester, and Mark Shumway Dickey of Winchester; two brothers, Frank A. Dickey of Kansas City and George A. Dickey of Manchester, N.H.; and two sisters, Miss Nellie S. Dickey of Cambridge, Mass., and Miss Etta G. Dickey of Derry, N.H. The funeral services will be in the church at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon (Boston Globe, August 31, 1914).
Deaths. MRS NELLIE WENTWORTH DICKEY. At Milton, N.H., Dec. 4, 1918, after a very brief illness, Mrs. Nellie Wentworth Dickey, widow of Rev. M.P. Dickey, passed away. At the time of her death, Mrs. Dickey was living at her mother’s home and was acting as assistant in Nute High School, Milton, N.H. A graduate of this same institution and of the Framingham Normal School, she early proved herself a teacher of remarkable enthusiasm and value in Milton, Newington, Peterboro, and Rochester, N.H. A great company of pupils will look back to the awakening and inspiring touch of her personality as something never to be forgotten. While teaching at Rochester she became the wife of Rev. M.P. Dickey, who had been her pastor in Milton, and at that time was minister in Kennebunk, Me. In this new relation, no woman could be more useful and beloved than she proved herself to be, and during the illness and hospital experience of Mr. Dickey the beautiful devotion of Mrs. Dickey touched all our hearts. Then when she was left alone in her bereavement and went back with the same heroism and cheerfulness as of old to her work as a teacher, we could only marvel at her strength of soul. The survival value of such a personality as hers must bring to us all not only abiding comfort but abounding assurance of the immortal life. It must be that God has been pleased to call her to some other room in his immortal and eternal presence and service. C.H.P. (Pilgrim Press, 1919).
Rev. Joseph Newton “Joe” Walker – 1908-11
Joseph N. Walker was born in Moseley, Cheshire, England, August 10, 1851, son of William and Hannah (Newton) Walker.
He married in North Troy, VT, February 28, 1884, Mary Clayton. She was born in Manchester, England, in January 25, 1855, daughter of George and Mary Clayton.
Joseph N. Walker, a clergyman, aged forty-eight years (b. England), headed a Stewartstown, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of sixteen years), Mary C. Walker, aged forty-four years (b. England), and his children, Charlotte C. Walker, at school, aged fourteen years (b. VT), Mary H. Walker, at school, aged thirteen years (b. VT), Samuel J. Walker, at school, aged eleven years (b. VT), Dorothea Walker, at school, aged nine years (b. VT), Paul W. Walker, at school, aged eight years (b. NH), and Ruth Walker, aged four years (b. VT). Mary C. Walker was the mother of six children, of whom six were still living. Joseph N. Walker was a naturalized citizen, who had immigrated in 1874; Mary C. Walker had immigrated in 1884. They resided in a rented house.
The Congregational church appeared in the Milton directory of 1909, as being at 17 So. Main street. Its pastor was not identified.
Joseph Walker, a Cong. church clergyman, aged fifty-eight (b. England), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteen (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Mary Walker, aged fifty-six years (b. England), and his children, Charlotte Walker, aged twenty-two years (b. VT), Dorothea Walker, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Paul Walker, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Ruth Walker, aged fourteen years (b. NH). They resided in a rented house.
Ecclesiastical and Ministerial Register. CALLS. Walker, Joe K. Milton, N.H., to Mt. Desert, Me. Accepts (The Advance, June 1, 1911).
Mary (Clayton) Walker died in Mount Desert, ME, June 24, 1912, aged fifty-seven years.
Joseph Newton Walker married (2nd) in Portland, ME, October 18, 1918, Grace (Woodbury) Pilling, he of Windsor, MA, and she of Portland. He was a widowed clergyman, aged sixty-five years (b. Manchester, England); she was a divorced teacher, aged forty-six years (b. Island Pond, VT). She was born in Brighton, VT, May 11, 1869, daughter of Louis A. “Augustus” and Lucy S. (Currier) Woodbury.
Windsor. Our local pastor, Rev. Joseph Newton Walker, has returned to the parsonage bringing with him a bride. Mr. Walker was married October 16 to Miss Grace Woodbury at Portland, Me. Previous to her marriage she conducted a girls’ private school at Portland. She will be a great help in the parish and community (Berkshire County Eagle, October 23, 1918).
Joseph N. Walker, a Congregational clergyman, aged sixty-seven years (b. England), headed a Windsor, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his housekeeper, Harriet E. Jones, a dressmaker, aged forty years (b. Canada (Nova Scotia)), and his boarder, Estelle A. Jones, a public school teacher, aged thirty-eight years (b. Canada (Nova Scotia)). Joseph N. Walker rented their house. He had immigrated in 1874 and become a naturalized citizen in 1884.
BAY STATE PASTOR FILES DIVORCE SUIT. Rev. J.N. Walker, Windsor, Alleges Desertion. Special Dispatch to the Globe. PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 7. Rev. Joseph N. Walker of Windsor, Mass., has filed a divorce libel against his wife, Grace W.P. Walker of this city, alleging desertion. He was exonerated recently from charges she filed, implicating a woman member of his congregation. They were married Oct 9., 1918, and he says she deserted him, April 7, 1919 (Boston Globe, September 8, 1922).
ALUMNI. [Class of] 1880. Joseph Newton Walker, (spec course), p. Lebanon Centre, Me., 1906-08; Milton, N.H., 1908-11; Mt. Desert, Me., 1911-14; Windsor, Mass., 1917-21. Address 10 Nutting Ave, Amherst, Mass (Andover Theological Seminary, 1927).
East Windsor. Rev. Joseph N. Walker, a former pastor here, and his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Roberts of Amherst, called on friends Sunday afternoon (Berkshire County Eagle, [Wednesday,] May 7, 1930).
Robert J Knightly, plumbing (own business), headed an Amherst, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary A. Knightly, aged sixty-three years, and his father-in-law, Joseph N. Walker, a retired minister, aged eighty-nine years (b. England). Robert J. Knightly owned their house at 14 Allen Street, which was valued at $4,000. They had all resided in the same house in 1935.
Rev. Clarence E. Pike – 1911-15
Clarence E. Pike was born in Waterford, ME, December 18, 1857, son of Ezra B. and Elizabeth A. (Mitchell) Pike.
Clarence Pike married in Hyde Park, MA, July 6, 1887, Caroline E. Thompson, he of Amesbury, MA, and she of Durham, NH. He was a clergyman, aged twenty-nine years, and she was a teacher, aged thirty-nine years. She was born in Durham, NH, May 16, 1848, daughter of Daniel F. and Mary F. Thompson.
Clarence Pike, a clergyman. aged forty-two years (b. ME), headed a Mansfield, CT, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirteen years), Caroline E. Pike, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), his daughter, Florence C. Pike, aged ten years (b. MA), and his housekeeper, Almyra Johnson, a housekeeper, aged forty-six years (b. CT). Clarence E. Pike rented their house. Caroline E. Pike was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Clarence E. Pike, a Congregational church minister, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), headed an Ashland, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-three years), Caroline E. Pike, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), and his child, Florence C. Pike, aged nineteen years (b. MA). Clarence E. Pike rented their house. Caroline E. Pike was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
ASHLAND. Rev. Clarence E. Pike, pastor of the Ashland Congregational church for the past five years, preached his farewell sermon yesterday. Mr. Pike goes to a Milton, N.H. pastorate (Boston Globe, May 22, 1911).
Ecclesiastical and Ministerial Register. CALLS. Pike, Clarence. Ashland, Mass., to Milton, N.H. Accepts (The Advance, June 1, 1911).
Clarence Pike appeared in the Milton directory of 1912, as pastor of the Congregational church, at 17 So. Main street.
Church and Ministerial Records. Calls. PIKE, CLARENCE. Milton, N.H., to First, Royalston, Mass. Accepts to begin July 4 (Pilgrim Press, June 24, 1915).
[Dartmouth] CLASS OF 1880. Secretary Dana M Dustan, 340 Main St., Worcester, Mass. Rev. Clarence Pike became July 4 pastor of the First Congregational church, Royalston, Mass., going thither from Milton, N.H. (Dartmouth Secretaries Association, 1916).
Caroline E. (Thompson) Pike died in Dorchester, MA, September 12, 1918.
MANSFIELD CENTER. Mansfield people were grieved to read in the last number of the Congregationalist of the death of Mrs. Caroline E. Pike, wife of Rev. Clarence E. Pike of Royalston, Mass., at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Bates, at Dorchester, Mass. Burial was at Brentwood, N.H. Mr. Pike was for twelve years pastor of the local church, leaving here in answer to a call about twelve years ago. Mrs. Pike endeared herself to all who knew her. Although frail in body, she will long be remembered for her kindly and efficient services in many lines in the parish. The husband and daughter have the love and sympathy of a host of friends here (Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, CT), October 5, 1918).
Herbert A. Smith, aged forty-eight years (b. RI), headed a Princeton, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Nellie M. Smith, aged fifty years (b. MA), his daughter, Natalie Smith, aged sixteen years (b. CT), and his boarder, Clarence Pike, a clergyman, aged sixty-two years (b. ME). Herbert A. Smith owned their house, free-and-clear.
Clarence E. Pike married (2nd) in Saugus, MA, November 10, 1922, Hattie M. (Holton) Hallowell, he of Royalston, MA, and she of Saugus. He was a minister, aged sixty-five years, and she was at home, aged sixty-five years. She was born circa 1858, daughter of John and Mary (Foye) Holton.
Clarence Pike, a Congregational minister, aged seventy-two years (b. ME), headed a Coventry, VT, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Hattie M. Pike, aged seventy-two years (b. ME). Clarence Pike rented their house, for $10 per month.
Hattie M. ((Holton) Hallowell) Pike died in Saugus, MA, in July 1936. Clarence E. Pike died in Saugus, MA, September 8, 1936, aged seventy-eight years.
DEATHS. PIKE. – In Saugus, Mass., Sept. 8, Reverend Clarence Pike, 78 years. Funeral services at the First Congregational Church, Cliftondale. Mass., Sunday, Sept. 13, at 3 p.m. Relatives and friends kindly attend (Boston Globe, September 10, 1936).
COVENTRY. Rev. Clarence Pike of Saugus, Mass., died at his home September 11. Funeral services were held Sunday, September 13. Mrs. Pike was buried in July. Her death was a severe shock to Mr. Pike from which he never recovered. Mr. Pike was a former pastor in this place, and he and his wife left many friends here, who are saddened by their deaths (Newport Daily Express (Newport, VT), September 24, 1936).
Rev. Simon Francis Goodheart – 1915-1918
Simon Francis Goodheart was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, in 1872, son of Herman G. and Freida (Walden) Goodheart. (His birthplace was also given as Rossein, Poland; Kovno, Russia; and Lithuania, in various other sources).
Alumni. 1898 Graduates. Simon Francis Goodheart. b. Rossein, Russian Poland, Sept. 28, 1872; Union Miss’y Training Inst., Brooklyn, NY, 1892-93; Ober, 1893-96; ord. Oct. 18, 1898; p. East Fairfield and Fairfield, Vt., 1898-99; De Smet, SD, 1899-1900; Redfield Coll., 1900 and instructor Hebrew and German 1899-1900; p. Lowell, Vt., 1901-04; Whiting from 1904. Address Whiting, Vt.
Simon F. Goodheart, a teacher, aged twenty-seven years (b. Germany), was one of twenty-six boarders, and one servant, residing in the Redfield, SD, household of Dolly A. Fountain, at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Fountain was a college matron, aged sixty-one years (b. IN). Twenty-two boarders were students and four were teachers.
Simon F. Goodheart married (1st) in Lowell, VT, June 12, 1901, Josephine R. Hull, he of Lowell. He was a clergyman, aged twenty-eight years. She was born in Fairfield, VT, circa 1875, daughter of Joseph B. and Abbie (Sturtevant) Hull.
Record of the Week. Calls. GOODHEART, SIMON F., to remain a third year at Lowell, Vt. (Congregationalist, 1903).
Simon F. Goodheart, a country parish clergyman, aged thirty-seven years (b. Germany), headed a Whiting, VT, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eight years), Josephine R. Goodheart, aged thirty-five years (b. VT), and his child, Ester J. Goodheart, aged one year (b. VT). Simon F. Goodheart rented their house. Josephine R. Goodheart was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Josephine Robena (Hull) Goodheart died in St. Johnsbury, VT, April 27, 1914, aged thirty-nine years, one month, and fifteen days.
BETHEL. Intelligence came yesterday of the death Monday evening in Brightlook hospital, St. Johnsbury, of Mrs. Simon F. Goodheart of St. Johnsbury Center, wife of a recent pastor of the Bethel Congregational church. She underwent an operation Friday for several disorders and her heart failed to stand the strain of recovery. Much sympathy is felt here for the bereaved husband and daughter, Esther, aged five years. The funeral was held yesterday at St. Johnsbury Center, with interment at her old home, East Fairfield (Barre Daily Times (Barre, VT), April 30, 1914).
PUTNEY. Accepts Call to Milton, N.H. Rev. S.F. Goodheart has accepted a call to the First Congregational church of Milton, N.H., and will take up his duties Sunday, Oct. 24. He is packing what household things he has here and will go to St. Johnsbury Centre to prepare the rest of his goods for shipment Mr. Goodheart was acting pastor of the Congregational church here previous to his visit to San Francisco, and did good work in building up the Church. He is a deep student, with an unusually keen mind and a fluent speaker and leaves many firm friends in the parish, whose best wishes he has for his work in the new field (Brattleboro Reformer, October 14, 1915).
Bethel Local Intelligence. Bev. Simon F. Goodheart, a former pastor of the Bethel Cong’l church but lately located at Putney, Vt., assumed Oct. 24 the pastorate of the Cong’l church at Milton, N.H. (Bethel Courier (Bethel, VT), October 24, 1915).
UNION. Rev. Mr. Goodheart of Milton was in town recently, calling on Rev. E.P. Eastman and Rev. Harold Gould (Farmington News, June 2, 1916).
Simon F. Goodheart married (2nd) in Rochester, NH, August 24, 1916, Sarah A. Lester [(Jones)] Gane, both of Milton. He was a clergyman, aged forty-three years, and she was a housekeeper, aged forty-five years. She was born in Plumstead, Kent, England, circa 1871, daughter of Roger and Sarah E. (Poulter) Jones.
(It must have been something of a whirlwind courtship. An Englishwoman, Mrs. Sarah A.L. Gane, a teacher, aged forty-four, departed from Liverpool, England, February 2, 1916, bound for New York, NY, on the White Star liner Adriatic).
The Congregational church appeared in the Milton directory of 1917, as being at 17 So. Main street. Its pastor was not identified.
Simon Francis Goodheart registered for the WW I military draft in Milton, NH, September 12, 1918. He resided in Milton, NH, where he was employed as a clergyman by the Congregational Society. He was forty-five years of age (b. September 28, 1872). He was of a medium height, medium build, with brown eyes and brown hair. His nearest relation was his wife, Sarah Lester Goodheart, of Milton, NH.
SHIRLEY. Rev. Francis Goodheart, the new pastor of the congregational church, is expected to arrive here the last of this week from Milton, N.H., his pastoral work in Shirley beginning on Oct. 15. He is to occupy the parsonage on Front street as soon as repairs now being made are completed (Fitchburg Daily Sentinel, October 17, 1918).
Both the Milton, NH, that Rev. Goodheart had left and the Shirley, MA, to which he was going were suffering then under the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The same Sentinel column that announced his arrival in Shirley noted that the boys of the Shirley industrial school, i.e., reform school, as well as one of its warders, all of whom had been confined to its infirmary with influenza, had all recovered and been discharged from the infirmary.
Simon F. Goodheart, a country parish clergyman, aged forty-seven years (b. Kovno, Russia), headed a Shirley, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eight years), Sarah L. Goodheart, aged forty-eight years (b. England), and his child, Ester J. Goodheart, aged ten years (b. VT). Simon F. Goodheart rented their house on 7 Front Street.
Simon F. Goodheart, a Congregational church clergyman, aged fifty-seven years (b. Lithuania), headed a Riverhead, NY, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, and Sarah L. Goodheart, aged fifty-eight years (b. England). Simon F. Goodheart rented their house on Main Road, for $30 per month. They had a radio set.
SHIRLEY. Rev. Simon Goodheart, a former pastor in Shirley, has accepted a call to the Congregational church m Jamestown, N.Y. For the past few years he has had a parish at Eading River, L.I., and his new pastorate is not so very far from there. Before going to Long Island Mr. Goodheart was located in Harvard, where he went after leaving Shirley (Fitchburg Sentinel, February 15, 1932).
Simon F. Goodheart, aged sixty-seven years (b. Lithuania), headed a Stratford, CT, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Sarah Goodheart, aged sixty-eight years (b. England). Simon F. Goodheart rented their house at 16 Eleanor Street, for $35 per month. They had resided in James, Long Island, NY, in 1935.
Simon F. Goodheart died in Norwood, MA, April 26, 1951, aged seventy-eight years.
DEATHS. GOODHEART. – In Norwood, April 26, Goodheart, S.F., in his 79th year, beloved husband of Sarah L. Goodheart and father of Mrs. George H. Chitty. Services from the May Funeral Home, 85 Nichols St., Norwood. Saturday. April 28 at 2 p.m. Friends may call at the Funeral Home, Friday evening, 7 to 9. New York Times and Bridgeport, Conn., Post please copy (Boston Globe, April 26, 1951).
Sarah A.L. ((Jones) Gane) Goodheart returned to England. The widow Sarah Lester Goodheart, of 32 Leybourne road, Leytonstone, Essex, England, died August 10, 1956, leaving effects valued at £3,877 3s 9d. Probate was assigned to Lloyd’s Bank Ltd., September 12, 1956.
Rev. Owen E. Hardy – 1920-21
Owen Eaton Hardy was born in Wilton, ME, July 13, 1862, son of Eliphalet J. and Sabrina E. (Jennings) Hardy.
Owen E. Hardy, son of Eliphalet J. and Sabrina (Jennings) Hardy, was born July 13, 1862, at Wilton, Me. He was born on a farm, where he lived until attaining his majority, his lot the same as that of the average farmer’s boy, attending the district school as opportunity offered. He fitted for college at the May School, Strong, Me., graduating from there in June, 1887, entered Bowdoin College, and graduated in 1891. He says of himself that he obtained all of his education by his own efforts, working his way through college by teaching and in other ways. He entered Andover Theological Seminary in the autumn of 1891, and was graduated in 1894. He joined the church in 1881. This church was three miles from where he lived, and he says he “used to walk both ways most of the time.” He preached one summer at North Anson, Me., and the next summer at Alexandria, South Dakota (Donovan & Woodward, 1906).
Owen E. Hardy married in Alexandria, SD, June 28, 1894, Eva B. Bates. She was born in Van Buren, IA, September 24, 1868, daughter of Walter and Azulah M. Bates.
He served while in college on the “college jury,” the governing body of the students. He resigned his pastorate Feb. 5, 1899 and was dismissed March 6, 1899, serving about five years. He removed to West Peabody, Mass., becoming the pastor of the church there. While here [Lyndeborough, NH] Mr. Hardy labored earnestly for the upbuilding of the church in promoting lectures, courses, and in all ways striving for the best interests of the community (Donovan & Woodward, 1906).
Owen E Hardy, a clergyman, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Peabody, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of six years), Eva B. Hardy, aged thirty-one years (b. IA), and his child, Amy F. Hardy, aged five years (b. NH). Owen E. Hardy rented their house. Eva B. Hardy was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Owen E Hardy, a farmer, aged forty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Townsend, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of sixteen years), Eva B. Hardy, aged forty-one years (b. IA), his children, Amy F. Hardy, aged fifteen years (b. NH), and Eva C. Hardy, aged four years (b. VT), his servant, Alice B Chamberlain, a private family servant, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and his boarder, Timothy Murphy, aged sixty-five years (b.MA). Owen E. Hardy owned their farm, with a mortgage. Eva B. Hardy was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
Church and Ministerial Records. Calls. HARDY, O.E. Bardwells, Shelburne, Mass., to Milton, N.H. Accepts and is at work (The Congregationalist and Advance, March 4, 1920).
Owen E. Hardy, a Congregational Conference clergyman, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Eva B. Hardy, aged fifty-one years (b. IA), and his child, Eva C. Hardy, aged fourteen years (b. VT). Owen E. Hardy rented their house on Lower Main Street, Milton Village.
Church and Ministerial Records. Calls. HARDY, O.E. Milton, N.H., to Alstead and Langdon. Accepts (The Congregationalist and Advance, April 14, 1921).
Owen E. Hardy died in Walpole, NH, February 14, 1924, aged sixty-one years. Eva B. (Bates) Hardy died March 28, 1953, aged eighty-four years.
Rev. Hardy of Alstead Dies of Pneumonia. Pastor of Congregational Church Had Slight Operation on His Nose. (Special to The Herold.) Alstead, N.H., Feb. 14. Rev. Owen E. Hardy, pastor of the local Congregational church, died today at the home of Dr. B.T. Mouseley in Walpole, where he had been for the past week. He had a slight operation a week ago on his nose and pneumonia developed rapidly, causing his death. For the past three or four years he had been pastor at Alstead, East Alstead and Alstead Center. He came here from Milton, N.H. where he was located two years and before that a much longer time at Shelburne, Mass. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Owen Barrow of Barre, Mass., and Mrs. Leslie Kelley of Alstead (Rutland Daily Herald, February 15, 1924).
Newell W. Whitman – 1921-24
Newell Wordsworth Whitman was born Sarkis Apov Aprahamian in Marash, Armenia, then a part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, February 3, 1869, son of Apou and Taniom (Bushgarian) Aprahamian.
Sarkis Apon Aprahamian appeared in the Bangor, ME, directories of 1892 and 1893 as a student at the Bangor Theological Seminary, boarding at the seminary.
GRADUATES AT BANGOR. Where the Theological Seminary Men Will Go. BANGOR, June 6. The anniversary exercises of the Bangor theological seminary, were continued today. The annual examinations closed at noon. The annual meeting of the alumni was held at 12.30 p m, and the annual dinner at the library came at 1.15. The graduating exercises of the senior class took place at 7.30 p m in the Hammond st. church. The graduates are: Sarkis Apov Aprahamian, Marash, Turkey; Clayton Deering Boothby, Portland; Charles Grant Fogg, Roxbury, Mass; Edward Melville Kennison, Temple; Wilford Ernest Mann, Manhurst, N.B.; Herbert Lindsay McCann, South Norridgewock; William Leander Muttart, Atherton, P.E.I. Aprahamian goes to Merroll’s Mills. Boothby is called to Thomaston. Fogg takes a special course at Bowdoin college, Kennison goes to Rockport, Mann goes to Dexter. McCann’s future course is not decided: Muttart goes to Greens Landing, Deer isle. Of the middle class men, W.F. Barker goes to Vanceboro, A.S. Bole to Olamonn. R.F. Chambers to North Belfast, I.B. Conley to Outer Long island, J.D. Dingwell to Deer Isle 2d and Sunset, F.K. Ellsworth to Blanchard, C.W. Fisher to Sandy Point, H.F. Graham to Carratunk and the Forks, Hugh McCallum to Freedom, S.E. McGeehon to East Bangor and Essex st, and P.E. Miller to Monroe and Swanville. Of the junior class, R.H. Abercrombie goes to Abbot Village, A.S. Freeze to Northfield, F.A. Fuller to Lincoln, D.M. James to Letter B, A.E. Lambert to Jackman. H.E. Lombard to Whiting, R.R. Morson to Veasie, and B.A. Willmot to Marshfield and Whitneyville. A course in English Bible study and literature has been added the past year to the usual courses, Prof G.W. Gilmore in charge. It is especially for students who have not previously had collegiate education. Its trial has been very successful, and at the trustees’ meeting Monday evening a decision regarding making it permanent will be reached. Bangor theological seminary has received during the past year the following gifts: From Hon B.B. Thatcher of Bangor $5000, and from Rev Henry S. Loring of Sidney $1000, which have been Invested as additions to the permanent fund, and from T.C. Kennedy of Newcastle $250. which has been applied to current expenses. The following order of exercises was carried out at the graduation this evening: “The Work of our Father,” Herbert Lindsay McCann; “The Advantages of Historical Study,” Clayton Deering Boothby; “The Tendency of American Congregational Polity,” Charles Grant Fogg; “Scientific Study of the Bible,” Edward Melville Kennison: “The Institutional Church,” Wilford Ernest Mann; “The Bequest of the Spanish Moors,” William Leander Muttart; “What Have We Gained from the World’s Parliament of Religions?” Sarkis Apov Aprahamian (Boston Globe, June 7, 1894).
AT THE TURKS’ HAND. A Maine Pastor Receives Dreadful Tidings from the Armenians Stating Husband of His Sister and Brother Massacred by Moslems. Deer Isle, Me., February 19. – Rev. S.A. Apraham, pastor of the Congregational church at Green’s Landing, receives letters confirming the report of the suffering of his near relatives in Armenia. Some weeks ago Mr. Apraham received a letter from a missionary saying that his sister, with her five children, were in utter destitution. Later, Mr. Apraham received a letter from his sister confirming the worst. The husband and his brother were shot down before the eyes of his wife and children, and when the grief-stricken wife cried out in suffering to her Savior, one of the murderers, with an oath, struck her, saying “Do you still call on Jesus?” Two younger sisters of Mr. Apraham were robbed of all their possessions by the Moslems who protect them. An uncle of Mr. Apraham writes, “We are sitting naked in our shop, our house plundered and reduced to ashes. Read the 79th Psalm if you would get a faint idea of our condition.” Mr. Apraham is a recent graduate of Bangor Theological Seminary, and the Green’s Landing church is his first charge. He has sent money to his relatives in Armenia, but hardly dare hope that it reaches them (Portland Press Herald, February 20, 1896).
Sarkis A. Apraham married in Deer Isle, ME, November 30, 1898, Edith I. Fifield, both of Stonington, ME. He was a clergyman, aged thirty-one years, and she was a teacher, aged twenty years. She was born in Deer Isle, ME, circa 1877, daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Horton) Fifield.
Sarkis A. Abraham, a preacher, aged thirty-three years (b. Turkey), headed a Litchfield, ME, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of one year), Edith I. Abraham, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and his child, Paul A. Abraham, aged ten months (b. ME). They resided in the Congregational church parsonage. Edith I. Abraham was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Sarkis A. Abraham, a clergyman, aged forty-two years (b. Asia (Armenia)), headed a Suffield, CT, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eleven years), Edith I. Abraham, aged thirty-two years (b. ME), and his children, Paul A. Abraham, aged ten years (b. ME), Levon F. Abraham, aged eight years (b. ME), Chester C. Abraham, aged six years (b. ME), Ward Abraham, aged four years (b. ME), and Murell Abraham, aged two years (b. CT). Sarkis A. Abraham rented their house in West Suffield. Edith I. Abraham was the mother of five children, of whom five were still living.
Sarkis A. Apraham sought Superior Court permission in Hartford, CT, in late October 1919, to legally change his name to Newell Wordsworth Whitman. He would seem to have been an admirer of poets William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Sarkis A. Apraham of Suffield. a Congregational clergyman, a native of Turkey, who has [had] parishes in this state, Maine and Vermont, received authority to take the name of Newell Wordsworth Whitman. He has eight children and he told the judge the name militated against himself and against his children (Hartford Courant, November 1, 1919).
Personals. APRAHAM, S.A., Suffolk, Ct., has had his name legally changed to Newall W. Whitman (Pilgrim Press, 1919). [Sarkis Apon Aprahamian]
Newell Wordsworth Whitman, a Congregational church minister, aged forty-nine [fifty-two] years, headed a Suffield, VT, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Edith F. Whitman, aged forty-two years (b. ME), his children, Levon Whitman, an auto factory welder, aged eighteen years (b. ME), Chester Whitman, a farm laborer (working out), aged sixteen years (b. ME), Ward Whitman, aged fourteen years (b. ME), Muriel Whitman, aged twelve years (b. CT), Catherine Mae Whitman, aged three years, eight months (b. VT), and Edith Irene Whitman, aged one year, eight months (b. CT), and his mother-in-law, Catherine Fifield, aged eighty-one years (b. Canada). Newell Wordsworth Whitman rented their farm on Hill Street in the NW district.
REV. N.W. WHITMAN WILL GO TO UXBRIDGE CHURCH. HARTFORD, Conn., Feb 16. Rev. Newel! W. Whitman, formerly pastor of the West Suffield Congregational Church and later with a church in Willington, Vt. has accepted a call to the Evangelical Congregational Church at Uxbridge (Boston Globe, February 19, 1920).
HINSDALE, N.H. Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Robertson are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. W.F. White of Trumbull, Conn,, and Rev. N.W. Whitman of Milton, N.H. They are enjoying the Northfield conference (Brattleboro Daily Reformer, August 7, 1922).
Newell W. Whitman oversaw the merger or federation of Milton’s Congregational and Free-Will Baptist churches into a combined Community Church of Milton.
The Community Church of Milton was organized on September 16, 1924, after World War I, when conversations regarding federation between Congregationalists and Free Baptists matured. It was decided that committees of five from each church would convene and form a Community Church. The Baptist Church was used for worship, while the former Congregational Church was adapted into the Parish House. The members of these two churches believed the same things, doctrinally, and so no great theological division separated the people from their congregational neighbors (CCM, 2020).
Rev. Newell W. Whitman received and accepted a call to a Congregational church in Ashby, MA, in 1924.
ASHBY. Rev. Newell Wordsworth Whitman, who was recently called to the pastorate of the Orthodox Congregational church in Ashby, has moved with his family into the parsonage. He came to Ashby from Milton, N.H., where during the three years as pastor of the Congregational church he has done constructive work building the church financially and numerically. His most notable achievement was the federation of the Baptist and the Congregational churches in town. Next Sunday Mr. Whitman will preach on “New birth: the greatest fact in a man’s life work. What it is; what it does; how to get it” (Fitchburg Sentinel, November 7, 1924).
TOWNSEND. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Walker and Lincoln and Stanley Walker of Peabody, and Rev. Newell W. Whitman of Ashby were visitors at the home of Arthur D. Barber, Turnpike road, Sunday. Rev. Mr. Whitman had preached in Peabody Sunday (Fitchburg Sentinel, November 9, 1926).
Newell Whitman, a church pastor, aged sixty-two years (b. Turkey (Armenian)), headed a Stonington, ME, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Edith Whitman, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), and his children, Katharine Whitman, aged thirteen years (b. VT), Irene Whitman, aged eleven years (b. ME). Newell Whitman owned their house on a Private Way (off the Sand Beach Road), which was valued at $2,500. They had a radio set.
Newell W. Whitman, a church clergyman, aged seventy-one years (b. Armenia), headed a Deer Isle, ME, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. He had resided in the same house in 1935.
Newell W. Whitman died in Stonington, ME, October 5, 1948, aged seventy-nine years. Edith I. (Fifield) Whitman died in Penobscot, ME, October 28, 1971, aged ninety-four years.
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