Month: April 2024

By Muriel Bristol | April 28, 2024

Ralph Walter Pugh was born in Lynn, MA, April 18, 1908, son of Charles and Amelia (Rockwood) Pugh.

Ralph W. Pugh married in Manchester, NH, May 18, 1935, Rachel Margaret Doe, he of Barnstead, NH, and she of Manchester, NH. He was a shoeworker, aged twenty-seven years, and she was a houseworker, aged twenty-nine years. Rev. Allan Lorimer performed the ceremony. She was born in Milton, February 13, 1906, daughter of James F. and Etta J. (Martin) Doe. (Her father, James F. Doe, died on Plummer’s Ridge in Milton, April 5, 1920, aged forty-eight years. He was a married farmer. M.A.H. Hart, M.D., signed the death certificate).

(The children of Ralph W. and Rachel M. (Doe) Pugh were: Shirley Ann Pugh, Ralph W. Pugh, Jr.).

Ralph W. Pugh was one of those that found the body of Maude Horne, February 4, 1939, when they stopped by her house to pick her up for dinner. (See Milton and the Horne Murder – 1939).

Milton, N.H., Feb. 4 – Believed to have been murdered, the body of Miss Maude Horne, 61, who lived alone on the Farmington road [now Elm Street] in the heart of the town was found tonight on the floor of the living room by relatives who called to take her out for supper. Her Car Missing. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Cobb of Dover, their daughter, Miss Miriam Cobb and Ralph W. Pugh of Milton called at the house tonight.  The fire in the stove was out and the pint bottle of milk was still on the doorstep. Miss Horne’s car, a 1935 Plymouth sedan, carrying New Hampshire registration 51,839, was missing from the garage adjoining the story and a half frame house near the Nute High school. … (Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME), February 5, 1939).

Ralph W. Pugh, a fireman (leatherboard mill), aged thirty-one years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Rachel M. [(Doe)] Pugh, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), and his daughter, Shirley A. Pugh, aged three years (b. NH). Ralph W. Pugh owned their house, which was valued at $1,500. He had resided in a rural location in 1935, and his wife had resided in Manchester, NH. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George W. Ellis, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH), and Norman V. Dillon, a fireman (leatherboard [mill]), aged thirty years (b. ME).

Ralph Walter Pugh of R.F.D. Union, Milton, N.H., registered for the WW II military draft in Milton, October 16, 1940. He had been born in Lynn, MA, April 8, 1908, aged thirty-two years, and was employed by Spaulding Fibre Company in Milton. His next of kin was his wife, Mrs. Rachel Margaret Pugh. They had no telephone. He stood 5′ 11″ tall, weighed 210 pounds, and had blue eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion.

The Milton Selectmen of 1945 were John G. Gilman, Ralph W. Pugh, and Halton R. Hayes. The Milton Selectmen of 1946 were John G. Gilman, Ralph W. Pugh, and Halton R. Hayes.

MILTON MILLS. By Alfred W. Lewis. The picture “The Man Who Forgot God” was presented at the Free Baptist Church Sunday evening under the direction of Ralph Pugh of Plummer’s Ridge. A delegation from the Milton Community Church and the Rev. Ralph Townsend were present (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), March 28, 1946).

Father Charles Pugh died of coronary thrombosis in Barnstead, NH, May 16, 1946, aged seventy-seven years, seven months, and twelve days. He was a married and retired G.E. employee, who had lived in Barnstead for twenty years, i.e., since circa 1926. H.W. Epling, M.D., signed the death certificate.

RECENT DEATHS. Charles Pugh. Charles Pugh, former employe of the General Electric Company and resident of Lynn for 48 years, died yesterday of a heart attack while working in a field near his home at Barnstead, N.H. He was 77 years of age. Born in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, he recently celebrated his 56th wedding anniversary with his wife, Mrs. Amelia (Rockwood) Pugh. Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Theodore Dahlquist and four sons, William Pugh, Arthur Pugh, Leslie Pugh, all of Lynn, and Ralph Pugh of Milton, N.H.; two brothers, John Pugh of Newfoundland and William Pugh of Toronto, Canada; nine grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Rhodes Memorial Chapel Saturday at 3 PM. Burial will be in Pine Grove cemetery (Lynn Daily Item (Lynn, MA), May 17, 1946).

The Milton Selectmen of 1947 were Ralph W. Pugh, Robert P. Laskey, and John G. Gilman.

The Milton Selectmen of 1948 were Robert P. Laskey, John G. Gilman, and Ralph W. Pugh. Their salaries as Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor were $225 apiece. (According to an inflation calculator, their inflation-adjusted pay would now be $2,915.96 apiece). Ralph W. Pugh received as $45.17 in expense and mileage reimbursement. (His reimbursement was the smallest of the three Selectmen).

Rachel D. [(Doe)] Pugh was assessed for Milton taxes for a 10-acre plains lot, valued at $400; an 80-acre farm, valued at $1,400; a homestead and garage, valued at $1,200; G.W. & T (growing wood & timber), valued at $50; four goats, valued at $40; pumps and tanks, valued at $185; and stock in trade, valued at $200.

The Milton Selectmen of 1949 were John G. Gilman, Ralph W. Pugh, and Robert P. Laskey. The Milton Selectmen of 1950 were Ralph W. Pugh, Robert P. Laskey, and John G. Gilman.

Ralph W. Pugh, a beaterman (fibreboard mill), aged forty-two years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Rachel M. [(Doe)] Pugh, aged forty-two years (b. NH), his children, Shirley A. Pugh, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and Ralph W. Pugh, Jr., aged ten years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Etta F. [(Martin)] Doe, a widow, aged seventy-six years (b. MA). The house was located in the “4th house on left” (when “Proceeding North on State Highway #16 from Milton Town House.” Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Carl A. Flagg, a manager (service station), aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), and Wilhelm E. Baloodis, a loader in warehouse (woolen mill), aged fifty-two years (b. Latvia).

Milton Mills. By Alfred W. Lewis. School Notes. At the Riverside School, Clayton Waymouth, Maine State fire warden, recently showed films. Mrs. Rachel Pugh of Plummers Ridge, Milton, furnished the movie projector. Pupils receiving 100 per cent in spelling last week were: Ruth Ann Doe, Robert Mee, Robert Rand, Paula Hunter, Donna Doyle and Kenneth Fox (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), June 10, 1954).

SCHOOLS. NUTE HIGH. Mr. Roberge was guest speaker at the special assembly held at Nute High because of Constitution Week. Ralph Pugh played the piano for the singing of “America” by the student body (Farmington News, October 6, 1955).

Mother Amelia (Rockwood) Pugh died in Lynn, MA, December 30, 1958, aged eighty-seven years.

Mrs. Amelia Pugh. Mrs. Amelia Pugh, 87, of 29 Michigan Avenue, died last night at her home after a brief illness. She was born in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, and lived in Lynn for 60 years.  She leaves four sons, William J. Pugh and Leslie S. Pugh, both of Lynn, and Arthur Pugh and Ralph W. Pugh, both of New Hampshire; a daughter, Mrs. Theodore Dahlquist of Lynn, with whom she made her home; and ten grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Services will be held at the W.C. Goodrich Funeral Home, 128 Washington Street, on Friday at 3 PM. Burial will be in Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn Daily Item (Lynn, MA), December 31, 1958).

Nute High School Dedication and Open House Sunday. Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock Dr. Charles F. Ritch, Jr., Commissioner of Education for the State of New Hampshire will be the guest speaker at dedication exercises to be held at Nute High School, Milton, N.H. The Nute High School Band directed by Mrs. Dorothy Bassett and the Nute High School Chorus, directed by Arthur Mirabile, are to provide the musical numbers. The Rev. Bradley T. Lines is to give the invocation and the benediction will be offered by the Rev. Raymond Laferriere. The keys to Nute High School and the Milton Elementary School will be presented by the Maxam Company, general contractors, and Mr. Hersey of Irving W. Hersey Associates, architect, to Ralph W. Pugh, Sr., chairman of the school board. C. LeRoy Dickson, president of the Board of Trustees of Nute High School, is to preside at the dedication. Open house at the Nute High School and Milton Elementary School will follow the dedication. The public are invited to attend. Pupils attending Nute High School are largely from Milton but in Grades 9-12 there are many tuition pupils from Acton and Lebanon, Brookfield, Middleton, Rochester, and Wakefield, N.H. The freshman class of 54 is the largest in the history of the school (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), October 13, 1960).

Mother-in-law Etta J. (Martin) Doe was honored as a long-term member of the Multon Community Church in November 1961.

40 YEAR MEMBERS HONORED IN MILTON. Milton. Eight 40-year members were honored at the Forefathers’ Sunday service of the Milton Community church Sunday. They were Mrs. Etta Doe, Mrs. Amy Stow, Mrs. Grace Willey, Mrs. Adah Nutter, Mrs. Katherine Dorr, Mrs. Hugh Innes, Mrs. Peter Lover and Mrs. Grace Dickson (Farmington News, November 23, 1961).

Mother-in-law Etta J. (Martin) Doe took a series of three ambulance trips to the hospital beginning in May 1962.

LOCAL LINES. Last Thursday the Peaslee ambulance took Mrs. Doe, mother of Mrs. Ralph Pugh of Milton, to Frisbee hospital. She had a broken hip. On Saturday Oscar Gagnon of Union was taken to Huggins hospital in Wolfeboro suffering from a heart attack (Farmington News, May 17, 1962).

FARMINGTON LOCAL LINES. Mr. Clarence Peaslee reports two ambulance calls, one Monday when Mrs. Etta Doe was taken from her home in Milton to Frisbie hospital for observation and treatment and Tuesday when Mrs. Dolly Ryder of Milton was returned home from Mary Hitchcock hospital in Hanover after surgery (Farmington News, November 21, 1962).

FARMINGTON LOCAL LINES. Peaslee ambulance took Mrs. Inez Ellis of Milton to Frisbie hospital in Rochester for observation Tuesday and Mrs. Etta Doe from Frisbie hospital to the home of her daughter, Mr. Ralph Pugh of Milton after treatment for a fractured shoulder (Farmington News, December 6, 1962).

Mother-in-law Etta J. (Martin) Doe died of broncho-pneumonia on Route 16 in Milton, March 29, 1963, aged eighty-nine years. She was a widowed practical nurse. She had resided in Milton for seventy-five years, i.e., since circa 1888. George E. Quinn, M.D., of Farmington, NH, signed the death certificate.

DEATHS. MRS. JAMES F. DOE. MILTON – Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Milton Community church by Rev. Frank Bunker, Jr., for Mrs. Etta F (Martin) Doe, 89, who died Friday, March 29 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rachel Pugh, after a long illness. She was born in Brockton, Mass., and had lived in Milton most of her life. She was the widow of James F. Doe, was a 60-year member of the Lewis W. Nute grange in Milton and a member of the Milton Community church. Mrs. Doe served as nurse at the Daniel Webster Home for children in Franklin for 18 yrs. She was also a school teacher in Somersworth many years ago. Besides her daughter, members of her family include three grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Funeral arrangements were in charge of the Peaslee Funeral home in Union and burial will be in Forest Glade Cemetery, Somersworth (Farmington News, April 4, 1963).

UNION NEWS. By Ray Marsh. GRANGE. The Reunion Grange held the last of the three point meetings Friday night. It was an exceptionally fine meeting with 62 Grangers attending. The program was under the supervision of Mrs. Evelyn Chamberlain of Lewis W. Nute Grange of Milton. William Pomeroy of Lewis W. Nute Grange showed a special collection of bottles, many of which were very old. A question-and-answer period followed. Ralph Pugh, Master of the Nute Grange, played several selections on the piano and Donald Stowe did his thing with some humorous anecdotes. We consider the whole three point program a complete success and deserves repeating next year. The Reunion Grange whist party last Wednesday night was well attended and women’s high score went to Polly McKinney, low to Arzelle Littlefield; Men’s high to Emerson Abbott and low to Guy Greenlaw. Annette Dunnells took the cake (Farmington News, October 27, 1970).

Ralph W. Pugh died in Milton, in November 1982.

Discovering life down on the farm. By Tom Long. Globe Staff. MILTON – Walter Kasinskas walked in the door of Levi Jones‘ farmhouse last week and entered another world: a world of straw mattresses, woodstoves, bed warmers and butter churns. “A lot of people have a quaint idea of what farm life was like, but I know better,” says 73-year-old tour guide Milford (Mickey) Galarneau, as he leads Kasinskas and his mother along with a handful of tourists through Jones‘ house on Plummer’s Ridge in Milton, home of the New Hampshire Farm Museum. “I grew up on a farm in North Conway and I know what it’s like to get a load from the woodpile on a winter night. I know what it’s like to wake up with frost on your chin.” During the chatty, anecdotal 45-minute tour of the museum’s six interconnected buildings, Galarneau introduces Kasinskas, a tow-headed 12-year-old from Kingston, to the mysteries of rope bedsprings. thunder jugs, rag rugs. Christian doors and ceiling rails. Kasinskas gets a chance to peek through a stereopticon, to wear a water yoke, to pat a horse-hair rocking horse and try on a 19th century waistcoat. In the parlor, Rachel Pugh, whose family lived on the ridge for seven generations, lets Kasinskas examine a whale’s tooth that belonged to a relative who “followed the sea.” Pugh, who claims to be “83 years young and foolish” also allows Kasinskas to examine a farm ledger that shows a 32-cent debit to pay a farrier for a day’s horse-shoeing. Levi Jones scratched his livelihood out of the woods of the northern parish of Norway Plains, now Milton, in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was an enterprising Yankee who sold lumber, bartered butter and opened a tavern when the farm became a stop on the stagecoach run from Boston to the White Mountains in 1810. The farm remained in Jones’ family until 1977, when Elizabeth Jones willed the property to the Society for the Preservation of New Hampshire Forests and it became the home of the New Hampshire Farm Museum, a collection of farm tools and furniture stored in Exeter-area barns for a decade. “We’ve tried to create a casual, hands-on atmosphere so people can learn about farm life in an un-intimidating manner.” says museum director Melissa Walker as she leads a visitor to the barn. The barn houses an assortment of antique farm tools and furniture including a high-chair that converts into a stroller, several generations of wooden washing machines, a dog-powered butter churn and other original examples of Yankee ingenuity. The artifacts were donated to the museum. The farm’s original furnishings were auctioned off when Elizabeth Jones died. “The blacksmith shops and cobbler’s shops weren’t part of the original farm either.” says Walker. “They were donated by families in Belmont and Kingston. We just got a horse-powered cider mill, too. We’re hoping to raise enough money to raise a barn to house it.” To further illustrate life on the farm, the museum hosts weekly demonstrations: Rock Splitting Day, Stone Wall Day, Quilt Day, Ice Cream-Making Day. Today is Herb Day. Herbalist Chris Whitmann stands behind a table of apothecary jars filled with dried mint and sassafras, explaining the Insect repellant properties of tansy to a visitor. A half dozen scarecrows made on Scarecrow Day guard an adjoining vegetable patch. Though 20 visitors are exploring the farmhouse and outbuildings, the barnyard is quiet. Too quiet. Where are the animals? “In order to keep animals, we’d need to hire a caretaker,” explains Walker. “That would mean paying his salary and probably heating the farmhouse. We can’t afford it. “We used to have an ox named Bucky, but he had a tendency to wander. We got sick of chasing him down the highway.” But young Walter Kasinskas doesn’t seem to mind. “This is the best museum I’ve ever been to,” he says as his tour breaks up. “They let you touch things and the people are real friendly. It was neat. I feel like I really learned what it was like to live on a farm.” New Hampshire Farm Museum – Off Route 16, Milton. Telephone 652-7840. Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (after Labor Day. Saturday and Sunday only). Admission: Adults $3, children 50 cents (Boston Globe, August 27, 1989). – [Hours and fee information are NOT current (See References instead)].

Rachel M. (Doe) Pugh died in Rochester, NH, December 4, 2000, aged ninety-four years.

Rachel D. Pugh. MILTON – Rachel D. Pugh, 94, of White Mountain Highway, died Monday, Dec. 4, 2000, at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Born Feb. 13, 1906, in Milton, she was the daughter of the late James and Etta (Martin) Doe. She resided most of her life in Milton and was a graduate of McIntosh College in Dover. She was employed as the House Hostess at the New Hampshire Farm Museum in Milton. She was a member of Reunion Grange, Pomona State and National, and also a member of the Milton Historical Society. Rachel was “bad as ever.” The widow of the late Ralph W. Pugh, Sr., who died in 1982, she is survived by her four children: Shirley A. Varney of Madbury, Ralph W. Pugh, Jr., of Milton, Betsy R. Mack of Somersworth and Barbara E. Chick of Milton; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson; several nieces and nephews. She was pre-deceased by a granddaughter, Kim Varney (Portsmouth Herald, December 4, 2000).

PUGH – Rachel D. Pugh, 94, of Milton, died Dec. 4, 2000. Calling hours are from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday at C.E. Peaslee and Son Funeral Home, 32 Central St. in Farmington. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2000, at the Community Church of Milton with the Rev. Linda J. Rackliffe, the Rev. Michelle A. Violette and the Rev. Stephen E. Hanson officiating. Interment will follow at the family cemetery in Milton. At the conclusion of the service, a time of reception will be held at the New Hampshire Farm Museum. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in her memory, to either the New Hampshire Farm Museum, P.O. Box 644, Milton, N.H. 03851 or to Strafford Guidance Center, 130 Central Ave., Dover, NH 03820 (Portsmouth Herald, December 4, 2000).

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References:

Find a Grave. (2017, July 30). Etta F. Doe. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/181902169/etta-f-doe

Find a Grave. (2007, April 11). Charles Pugh. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/25936757/charles-pugh

NH Farm Museum. (2024). NH Farm Museum. Retrieved from nhfarmmuseum.org/

By Muriel Bristol | April 21, 2024

John Garland Gilman was born in Lisbon, NH, August 18, 1910, son of John S. and Ethelyn Maude (Garland) Gilman.

Maternal grandfather Llewellyn D. Garland died of broncho-pneumonia in West Milton, June 18, 1929, aged seventy-two years, one month, and three days. He had resided in West Milton for twenty-nine years, i.e., since circa 1899, with his previous residence in neighboring Farmington, NH. J.L. McLaughlin, M.D., of Farmington, NH, signed the death certificate.

IN MEMORIAM. Llewellyn D. Garland. Llewellyn D. Garland, one of the best known, most prosperous residents of West Milton, passed to the reward of a faithful and dutiful life at his home, “The Garland Farm,” on the Hare road, Tuesday, at 6.45 p.m. The end came after one week of illness of influenza pneumonia, while surrounded by his immediate family, who gave up hope only when every effort of medical science and expert nursing had failed to bring responsive improvement. Mr. Garland was born in Farmington 72 years ago and was the older son in a family of two boys and one girl, the children of Jacob Dudley and Ann (Pinkham) Garland. He received his education in the public schools of his day and grew to manhood possessed of conservative and well balanced judgment that always was manifested in the prosperity that he steadily achieved. By occupation, he was a shoe operative and a farmer, in later years well known to many vacationists who yearly sought the hospitality of his beautifully located and finely equipped farm. Here, as always in the association of lifetime of fellowship and friendly Intercourse with his fellowmen, he gained the reputation of a genial host, a friend in need and in deed. Genial, kindly, generous and just, he was a man whom none sought to reproach, all welcomed as an acquaintance and will miss as a friend and neighbor. January 6, 1877, Mr. Garland united in marriage with Miss Cora Goodall and to the end this couple remained faithful, devoted and companionate, trusting and working together in God’s wonderful scheme of things. Twenty eight years ago Mr. and Mrs. Garland moved from Farmington to West Milton and during that time, in countless ways, endeared themselves to the community, contributing liberally to all its interests and friendly relations. Aside from charter membership with Nute Ridge Grange, the deceased made no fraternal connections, but in the brotherhood of man he enjoyed an exalted leadership. Much sympathy is expressed for the afflicted wife, one daughter, Mrs. John S. Gilman of Laconia, and three grandchildren, John, Barbara and Robert Gilman, all of Laconia. Funeral services were held from the home Thursday afternoon at 1.30, with Rev. T.J. Poelman, pastor of Nute chapel, officiating. Interment was in the family lot in Farmington cemetery (Farmington News, June 21, 1929).

John S. Gilman, a superintendent (public schools), aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Laconia, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. his household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Maud G. [(Garland)] Gilman, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), his children, John G. Gilman, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Barbara L. Gilman, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Robert C. Gilman, aged nine years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Cora B. [(Goodall)] Garland, aged seventy-one years (b. NH). John S. Gilman owed their house at 93 Whipple Avenue, which was valued at $6,000. They had a radio set.

John Garland Gilman married in Laconia, NH, June 12, 1934, Mildred May Lake, he of Milton and she of Laconia, NH. He was a farmer, aged twenty-three years, and she was a nurse, aged twenty-seven years. Rev. E. Jerome Johanson performed the ceremony. She was born in Lincoln, NH, April 19, 1907, daughter of Henry G. and Louise (Bishop) Lake. (Her father, Henry G. Lake, died in West Thornton, NH, December 17, 1926).

Newbury. Word comes from Laconia, N.H., that Miss Mildred May Lake, daughter of Mrs. Louise Lake of Thornton, N.H., became the bride of John Garland Gilman, son of the Laconia superintendent of schools. The father many years ago was principal of Newbury high school (Barre Daily Times (Barre, VT), June 21, 1934).

WEST MILTON. F. McGregor. John Gilman was the successful bidder for transporting West Milton pupils to Nute high school (Farmington News, September 6, 1935).

PERSONAL. Mrs. Cora Flanders entertained for Thanksgiving Mr. and Mrs. John Gilman of Laconia, Mr. and Mrs. John Gilman, Jr., and Mrs. Cora Garland (Farmington News, December 3, 1937).

JOHN GILMAN BUYS YOKE OF SIX-FOOT WHITE-FACES. John Gilman, one of the most ambitious young farmers in the West Milton section has created one of [sensations] in the region by his purchase of a pair of six-foot white-faced oxen. This is the first pair that has been owned in this region […]. Mr. Garland has to find hay for his oxen […] on his large farm spring and summer where […] was as planned. It is remembered that Mr. Gilman’s grandfather, the late Llewellyn Garland, owned about the last of this stock (Farmington News, April 28, 1939).

Father John S. Gilman died of a coronary occlusion at 93 Whipple venue in Laconia. NH, February 17, 1940, aged fifty-nine years, seven months, and three days. He was the Laconia Superintendent of Schools.

Leaves Daughter Here. Miss Barbara Gilman, district nurse, was called to her home in Laconia Saturday by the death of her father, John S. Gilman, 59, who had been superintendent of schools in Laconia for the past 23 years. He died suddenly when apparently recovering from a brief illness with the grip. Miss Vera Willis is substituting as district nurse during the absence of Miss Gilman (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), February 20, 1940).

John G. Gilman, a farmer, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mildred F. [(Lake)] Gilman, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), his son, John L. Gilman, aged seven years (b. NH), and his boarder, Lyman Lovely, aged seventeen years (b. NH). Their house was on the Nute Ridge road. They had resided in the “same house” in 1935, excepting Lyman Lovely, who had resided in Franklin, NH, at that time. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Evah H. Nelly, aged sixty years (b. NH), and Peter Bostock, aged forty-five years (b. Russia).

John Garland Gilman of R.F.D. Farmington, Milton, N.H., registered for the WW II military draft in Milton, October 16, 1940. He had been born in Lisbon, NH, August 18, 1910, was a self-employed farmer, aged thirty years. His next of kin was his wife, Mrs. Mildred L. Gilman. Their telephone number was 3419. He stood 5′ 7″ tall, weighed 170 pounds, and had gray eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion. He had a “stiff, right elbow.”

The Milton Selectmen of 1944 were Leroy J. Ford, Arthur M. Flye, and John G. Gilman. The Milton Selectmen of 1945 were John G. Gilman, Ralph W. Pugh, and Halton R. Hayes. The Milton Selectmen of 1946 were John G. Gilman, Ralph W. Pugh, and Halton R. Hayes.

The Milton Selectmen of 1947 were Ralph W. Pugh, Robert P. Laskey, and John G. Gilman. The Milton Selectmen of 1948 were Robert P. Laskey, John G. Gilman, and Ralph W. Pugh. The Milton Selectmen of 1949 were John G. Gilman, Ralph W. Pugh, and Robert P. Laskey. The Milton Selectmen of 1950 were Ralph W. Pugh, Robert P. Laskey, and John G. Gilman.

John G. Gilman, a farmer, aged thirty-nine years, headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mildred L. [(Lake)] Gilman, aged forty-three years, and his children, John L. Gilman, aged fourteen years, and Nancy J. Gilman, aged eight years. Their house was the 7th one on the right on the Hare Road. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Perley A. Gray, a treer (shoe factory), aged sixty-three years (b. MA), and Roland A. Pageau, a treer (shoe factory), aged thirty-one years (b. Canada).

Mother-in-law Annie Louise (Bishop) Lake died in Laconia, NH, March 12, 1951.

MRS. ANNIE L. LAKE. LACONIA, March 16 — Services for Mrs. Annie L. Lake of 350 South Main street were held yesterday afternoon at the Wilkinson Funeral home with Rev. William P. Neal, rector of St. James Episcopal church, officiating. Mrs. Lorraine Begin Breed was the organist. Bearers were Richard G. Tilton, Robert P. Tilton, John Gilman, Frederick A. Tilton, Alfred Ripley and George Copp. The body was placed in the tomb at Union cemetery to await burial in Woodstock cemetery, Woodstock, at a later date (Concord Monitor, March 16, 1951).

The Milton Selectmen of 1951 were Robert P. Laskey, John G. Gilman, and Leroy J. Ford. The Milton Selectmen of 1952 were John G. Gilman, Leroy J. Ford, and Robert P. Laskey.

The Milton Selectmen, including John G. Gilman, were a part of the Milton sesquicentennial committee in 1952.

150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TOWN OF MILTON CELEBRATION, AUGUST 10. The town of Milton was incorporated in 1802, when it separated from Rochester, where formerly it was known as the Northeast Parish. Since the first settlement in 1760, the population has increased until now there are 1510 persons in town. They will be joined by many former residents and people from other communities in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town at a program to be held on Nute high school grounds on Sunday August 10, from one to five in the afternoon. The Goodall Sanford band will be in attendance, the principal speaker will be Hon. Styles Bridges, and there will be other interesting and entertaining numbers. The committee in charge of the occasion consists of Chairman Lyman Plummer, Edward R. Stone, Maurice L. Hayes, Theodore C. Ayer, John G. Gilman, Leroy J. Ford, and Robert P. Laskey (Farmington News, August 1, 1952).

The Milton Selectmen of 1953 were Leroy J. Ford, Robert P. Laskey, and John G. Gilman.

Milton voters to Buy New Road Grader. Milton – John Gilman, selectman, headed a slate of unopposed officials seeking re-election here Tuesday – and all were elected. Mrs. Dorothy Piper was named tax collector. Proposal to increase salaries of town officials was approved, and details will be worked out. A new grader, financed on a long term note of 4 years, will be purchased, and the town has decided to sell the Looney house and use the proceeds for the school reserve fund (Farmington News, March 15, 1956).

Local Lines. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Gilman of Hare Rd., Milton, journeyed to Ashland on Christmas to be with his brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilman (Farmington News, January 2, 1958).

LINE PERAMBULATED. Middleton and Milton selectmen spent three days last week walking the town line – a chore performed every 7 years. John Gilman and Stanley Tanner were the Milton selectmen and Donald Francoeur represented Middleton (Farmington News, January 9, 1958).

MILTON NEWS. Raises for Officials; Gilman Re-elected. Raises for town officials and reelection of John Gilman as selectman highlighted town meeting here Tuesday. Gilman defeated Roy Ford, 174 to 129. Chief Charles Walbridge was reelected over Edwin Hutchins, 194-107. Authorization to spend $10,000 for a preliminary survey leading to a water pollution cleanup was defeated. Budget approved was up about $7,000 from last year to $65,515. Pay Jumps voted were $100 each to town clerk, overseer of tax collector and trust funds secretary, the 3 selectmen and selectmen’s secretary; $50 to Chief of police and alder plus a jump of 50¢ to an hourly rate of $2 (Farmington News, March 15, 1962).

District Nurse Mildred M. (Lake) Gilman made arrangements for a second polio vaccine clinic at Milton to be held in August 1962.

SABIN POLIO CLINIC IN MILTON, AUG, 15. Mrs. John Gilman, local school nurse, is completing arrangements for a second Sabin oral vaccine for polio immunization. Date will be Wednesday, Aug 15. She has pointed out that incidence of polio usually is higher in the late summer and early fall (Farmington News, July 26, 1962).

District Nurse Mildred M. (Lake) Gilman planned and directed a third polio vaccine clinic at Milton in September 1962.

400 ATTEND SABIN POLIO CLINIC AT MILTON. MILTON – Over 400 children and adults attended the Polio Clinic in Milton last week for the Salk shots and the oral Sabin vaccine. The attending physician was Dr. George Quinn of Farmington. District Nurse Mrs. John G. Gilman planned and directed the clinic, and she was aided by the following nurses: Mrs. Glen Walsh of Milton, Mrs. Rachel Feeney of Farmington, Mrs. Robert Tibbetts and Mrs. John Drew, Jr. The record cards were distributed by Mrs. Harold B. Stanley, Mrs. Thelma Thompson, Mrs. Robert Taatjes, Mrs. Everett McIntire, Albert Columbus, C.L. Dickson, Mrs. Alfred Swett, Mrs. Bard Plummer, Mrs. Leslie Chase and Mrs. Edwin K. Boggs. Also helping was Arthur Chase and Miss Roselyn Strid served coffee and donuts to the workers, following the clinic (Farmington New, October 4, 1962).

(Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine, which he discovered in 1955, had become commercially available from 1959; while Dr. Albert B. Sabin’s oral vaccine had become commercially available in 1961).

At the March 1965 Milton town meeting, the Moderator acknowledged John G. Gilman’s lengthy service as a Milton Selectman. Mrs. Mildred M. (Lake) Gilman received a floral corsage.

TOWN MEETING. … Prior to the close of the meeting Mrs. Fred Eldridge presented Mrs. John Gilman with a corsage of pink carnations and Moderator F. Everett McIntire gave John G. Gilman a pipe set and a certificate of appreciation on behalf of the townspeople in recognition of Mr. Gilman’s outstanding service as a member of the Board of Selectmen for the past twenty-one years (Farmington News, March 18, 1965).

MILTON WOMAN’S CLUB. … Mrs. John G. Gilman reported that Dr. James Burns of West Milton had donated a blood pressure gauge for use by Mrs. Gilman in the schools and in the district so the money voted in March by the Club to purchase a gauge would remain in the treasury (Farmington News, April 15, 1965).

Mother Maude Ethelyn Gilman died of bilateral broncho-pneumonia in the Concord Hospital in Concord, NH, January 28, 1970, aged eighty-nine years.

MAUDE G. GILMAN. Mrs. Maude G. Gilman, 89, of 196 South St., died yesterday at a local hospital after a long illness. She was the widow of the late John S. Gilman, former superintendent of schools in Laconia. A native of Farmington, she had resided here for 16 years. She was a member of South Congregational Church and its Opportunity Circle. She formerly taught school in Milton and Haverhill. She leaves two sons, John G. Gilman of Milton and Robert C. Gilman of Rochester; a daughter, Miss Barbara L. Gilman of Concord, with whom she resided; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services will be held at the Wilkinson-Beane Funeral Home, 15 Whipple Ave., Laconia, Saturday at 3 p.m. Rev. Franklin Parker, former pastor of the Chichester Congregational Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Laconia. There will be no calling hours. In place of flowers it was suggested donations “may be made in her name to the Memorial Fund of South Congregational Church (Concord Monitor, [Thursday,] January 29, 1970).

John G. Gilman died in Milton, in January 1987, aged seventy-six years.

OBITUARIES. John G. Gilman. MILTON — John G. Gilman, 76, of the Hare Road, brother of a Concord resident, died late Thursday night at his home in West Milton after a brief illness, He was born in Lisbon and was a resident of West Milton for 52 years. He was a self-employed farmer and was also a school bus driver for the town of Milton for many years. He was a 1933 graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He was a selectman in Milton for 21 years. He was also a member of the Milton School Board and the planning board. He was a trustee of the Nute Charitable Association and a member of the Strafford County Forest Fire Wardens Association. Family members include his wife Milred (Lake) Gilman of West Milton; a son; a daughter; three grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; a brother; a sister, Barbara L. Gilman of Concord; and several nieces and nephews. The funeral was to be held today at 1 p.m. in the chapel of the C.E. Peaslee and Son Funeral Home, 32 Central St., Farmington, with the Rev. Dean French, director of the Nute Ridge Bible Chapel, West Milton, officiating. Burial will be in the Hayes Cemetery. Flowers are acceptable or contributions in his name may be made to the Milton Emergency Ambulance Service, c/o Mrs. Sandra Perry, Charles Street, Milton 03851 (Concord Monitor (Concord, NH), January 5, 1987).

Mildred M. (Lake) Gilman died in Farmington, NH, July 22, 1989.

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References:

Find a Grave. (2014, September 14). Llewellyn Dudley Garland. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/135905435/llewellyn-dudley-garland

Find a Grave. (2020, May 7). John G. Gilman. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/209852077/john-g-gilman

Find a Grave. (2018, February 25). John Sanborn Gilman. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/187596666/john-sanborn-gilman

Find a Grave. (2011, Match 12). Henry Gilbert Lake. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/66836087/henry-gilbert-lake

By Muriel Bristol | April 14, 2024

One might gain some sense of the potential advantages of a private subscription library from this contemporary advertisement for a similar Social Library being established at Peacham, VT.

A LIBRARY. The Utility, and benefit arising to every class of people, from SOCIAL LIBRARIES, must be apparent to every intelligent mind. There is no member of society, who has not, at some seasons, leisure to attend to the cultivation of his mind, and the increase of his knowledge, or to amusing himself by reading and perusing books of wit and humor. To effect this, a Subscription paper has been circulated, and a considerable number of subscribers obtained, who have had two meetings, formed and accepted a Constitution, and adjourned till Monday evening, the 21st inst. Any persons in this, or the neighboring towns, who are desirous of becoming sharers in this Library are hereby requested to attend at the Academy, on that evening, at SIX o’clock (Green Mountain Patriot (Peacham, VT), January 11, 1799).

Some Rochester, NH, persons established their own private subscription library in March 1792. Their Rochester Social Library was the second such library in the state. (Nearby Dover, NH, having established the first such library). The initial Rochester library subscribers included a minister, current and former state representatives, justices, selectmen, farmers, merchants, professional men and militia officers.

On the twelfth day of March, 1792, a few persons assembled at the house of Col. John Goodwin and subscribed a paper in which they declared that learning tended to enlarge the views and the tempers of mankind; that it was more profitable and pleasant when enjoyed in a social manner, and as social libraries had been found in other places to serve the cause of learning and virtue, they were agreed to form such a society in this town. Each member was to pay eighteen shillings towards the first purchase of books. Only ten paid their tax before the time appointed, and in all twenty-three paid before the end of the year, some turning in at a fair price such books as they could contribute. The first book mentioned was presented by Mr. Haven, and is entitled “The Principles of Natural and Political Law,” a work then esteemed of great merit. The following titles will show to admirers of the ephemeral literature of the present day, what our fathers considered a substantial nucleus for a public library: ~

Butler’s Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion, Foster’s Discourses upon the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue, Scott’s Christian Life, Morse’s Geography, Chesterfield’s Principles of Politeness, Goldsmith’s Roman History, Robinson’s History of Charles V, Voltaire’s Charles XII & Peter the Great, Brydone’s Tour, Robinson’s America, Tom Jones, etc., etc.

[Links to these initial library books may be found in the concluding Reference section].

Not one in twenty of those early volumes was in the department of fiction. The first book presented by an author was “A Compendium of Military Duty,” the first of its kind ever published in this country. This was by Jonathan Rawson, an aid of Gen. [John] Sullivan, and a lawyer at Dover. The society voted thanks, and elected him a member of the association (McDuffee, 1892).

(Author Col. Jonathan Rawson was not long a member. He would die in Dover, NH, May 30, 1794, aged thirty-five years. His widow, Hannah [(Gage)] Rawson, appeared in subsequent library membership lists).

The NH State Legislature of 1794 passed subsequently – about two years after the library’s founding – an act to formally incorporate the Rochester Social Library. (Milton and Farmington, NH, were then the Northeast and Northwest Parishes of Rochester respectively).

The named library incorporators included the aforementioned Rev. Joseph Haven (1747-1825); and Rochester’s two then NH State Representatives [Dr.] James Howe (1755-1807) and Aaron Wingate (1744-1822). (Rev. Haven conducted church services in Milton’s Horne Tavern before the Milton Town House and Church was established. He performed the marriages of Elijah Horne (in 1784), Levi Jones (in 1801), Ichabod Hayes (in 1803), Rebecca Wentworth (in 1806), Sarah Hayes (in 1806), Olive Wentworth (in 1807), Elizabeth Hayes (in 1812), Sally Worster (in 1815), and others).

Other named library incorporators included William Palmer (1757-1815), Joseph Clark (1759-1828), Richard Dame (1762-1832), Beard Plummer (1754-1816), and Maj. Richard Furber (1753-1848), who would be NH State Representatives for Rochester in the years that followed; and Col. John Goodwin, Col. David Place (1741-1824), Col. Jonathan Rawson (1758-1794), Maj. Richard Furber (1753-1848), and Capt. Daniel Hayes (1759-1846), who were either Revolutionary veterans or officers of the 39th NH Militia Regiment (or both).

State of New Hampshire }

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN PERSONS HEREIN AFTER NAMED INTO A SOCIETY BY THE NAME OF, “THE SOCIAL LIBRARY COMPANY IN ROCHESTER”

[Approved February 14, 1794. Original Acts, vol. 14, p. 43, recorded Acts, vol. 8, p. 288]

Whereas a general diffusion of useful knowledge in a land of liberty, has a happy tendency to preserve Freedom, and make better men & better citizens ~

Be it therefore enacted by the Senate & house of Representatives in General Court convened, That the Revd Joseph Haven, Honbl John McDuffee, Aaron Wingate, Majr Richard Furber, Capt Daniel Hayes, Joseph Clark, Jonathan Rawson, Coll David Place, Jonas C. March, John Plummer junr, Richard Dame, Daniel Dame, Edward Rollins, Ephraim Kimball, Daniel McDuffee, James How, William Palmer, Beard Plummer, & others their associates, be, & they hereby are formed into, constituted & made, a body politic & corporate by the name of “The Social library Company in Rochester” and that they, their successors & such other persons as may elected in the manner herein after mentioned, shall be & continue a body politic & corporate by the same name forever ~

And be it further enacted, That the members of said society may from time to time elect a director thereof, a Secretary, a Librarian Treasurer, & such other Officers, as they may deem necessary & expedient, & to determine the respective numbers, & the duties their several officers. ~

And be it further enacted, That the members of said society have full power & authority to make & enact such rules & by-laws for the government thereof as may by them be found necessary; provided the same be not repugnant to the Constitution & of this State, and to annex reasonable fines & penalties to the breach of them, not exceeding the value of the delinquent’s share in said library; to be recovered by said Society in an action of debt, to their use in any Court within this State proper to try the same. ~

And be it further enacted, That the said society shall forever have the power, to establish the time & mode of convening themselves together, & the number necessary to constitute such meeting, as also the place which to them may appear most convenient. ~

And be it further enacted, That the members of said society may from time to time, admit such persons to become members as they may judge proper; & shall have power to suspend expel or disenfranchise any member thereof. ~

And be it further enacted, That the members of said society shall forever be deemed capable in law of taking & holding, any donations that may be made them whether the same be in money, books or other personal estate. ~

And be it further enacted, That the members of said society, may sue & be sued in all actions personal & prosecute & defend the same to final judgment & execution by the name of the Social Library Company in Rochester.

The Rochester Social Library librarians during its initial phase were: attorney Joseph Clark (1759-1828), in 1792-96; Rev. Joseph Haven (1747-1825), in 1797; merchant Joseph Hanson (1764-1832), in 1798; taverner Thomas Shannon (1740-1800), in 1799, who died in office (May 29, 1800), and [his son], William Shannon (1779-1813), who served until another was chosen; Joseph Ballard, in 1801-02, who “absconded,” and Samuel Adams took his place; attorney Joseph Clark (1759-1828), in 1803; Andrew Pierce (1774-1852), in 1804; Joseph Sherburne (1765-1807), in 1805; attorney Jeremiah H. Woodman (1775-1854), in 1806-08; Rev. Joseph Haven (1747-1825), again, in 1809-12; Joseph Cross (1789-1833), in 1813; John Smith (1769-1843), in 1814-18; and attorney David Barker, Jr. (1797-1834), in 1819-23 (McDuffee, 1892).

The Rochester Social Library’s records contained also names of the “prominent and respectable” subscribers of its early days.

The list of members on the first book of records evidently includes many who did not sign at first, as well as some who soon dropped out of membership. It is as follows:
John McDuffee, Aaron Wingate, Richard Furber, Jr, Joseph Clarke, Benja Odiorne, John Brown, David Place, Daniel McDuffee, Moses Horn, Junr, John McDuffee, 3d, Daniel Hayes, Junr, Beard Plumer, Jotham Nute, Hateval Knight, James How, Isaac Brown, Jacob Hanson, Daniel Dame, Barnabas Palmer, Ephraim Kimball, Jacob McDuffee, Joseph Haven, Daniel McDuffee, Junr, Lt William Palmer, Ephraim Blasdell, Samuel Palmer, Paul Dame, Lt Edward Rollins, Peter Cushing, Esther Copps, Joshua Lane, Hezekiah Cloutman, Joshua Harford, Ephraim Twombly, Junr, James McDuffee, 3d, Daniel Rogers, Jonathan McDuffee, Col. Jona Palmer, John Plumer, Junr, Jonas Clark March, Daniel Hayes, 3d, Amos Main, Saml Chamberlain, Junr, Richard Dame, Wm W. Blasdell, Revd Robert Gray, Thomas Bancroft, Josiah Edgerly, John Plumer, 3d, John Downs, Thomas Tash, Jr., Esqr, Hannah Rawson, Thomas Roberts, Joseph Walker, Dearborn Jewitt, Moses L. Neal, Edward Cole, Levi Jones, Moses Roberts, Junr, Joseph Hanson, John Haven, Polly Bell (Dover), Daniel McDuffee.
This list includes the most prominent and respectable citizens of that day and it is evident from the first that they felt they had founded an institution not merely for themselves but for posterity (McDuffee, 1892).

The Rochester Social Library remained an available resource for its subscribing members through 1823, a period of thirty years. (Local physicians, such as Milton’s Dr. Stephen Drew (1791-1872), had access to the medical library of the NH Medical Society; and Milton established its own Milton Social Library in 1822).

In 1794 the Association was incorporated by the Legislature, and continued to maintain some degree of life and interest in 1823. At that time there were about four hundred volumes the library, but for eleven years following it was sadly neglected (McDuffee, 1892).

After those eleven years of neglect, Rochester cabinetmaker Charles Dennett (1788-1867) sought to revive the then moribund Rochester Social Library in and after 1834.

He [Charles Dennett] filled various offices of trust, having served as town clerk, county treasurer, representative to the State Legislature, and was deputy sheriff eighteen years. He was on the first board of directors of the Rochester Bank, which was organized in 1835, and was on the first board of trustees of the Norway Savings Bank when that institution was organized in 1851, and was also its president for many years. His integrity and sound judgment were recognized, and he was often chosen as arbitrator in cases among his townsmen, and also acted as guardian for children (McDuffee, 1892).

The [library] committee reported the names only of “those who had taken books within the last ten years,” [i.e., circa 1824-1833,] and it was voted to remit all fines incurred during that period. The following is the list: Louis McDuffee, Jeremiah H. Woodman, Jonathan H. Henderson, Levi Hayes, Heirs of Jonas C. March, Heirs of John Plumer, 3d, James Adams, Moses Page, Heirs of Nathl. Upham, James Tebbetts, Heirs of David Birke, Jr., Heirs of Richard Dame, Moses Hale, Charles Dennett, John H. Smith, Samuel Chamberlain, Ira Fish, John McDuffee, Jr., Walter B. Knight, Joseph Hanson, Jr., Isaac Jenness, Moses Roberts, Jr.  (McDuffee, 1892). 

The NH State Legislature passed an act, in July 1834, to legally revive and reincorporate the Rochester Social Library.

State of New Hampshire }

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AND TO REVIVE AN ACT PASSED FEBRUARY 14, 1794, TO INCORPORATE THE SOCIAL LIBRARY COMPANY IN ROCHESTER.

[Approved July 5, 1834. Acts, vol. 30, p. 468. The act referred to is printed in Laws of New Hampshire, vol. 6, p. 147].

Sec I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Convened, That Charles Dennett be and he is hereby authorized to call a meeting of the proprietors of the social Library Company in Rochester, by posting up notifications thereof in two or more publick places in Rochester at least fifteen days previous to said meeting at which meeting a majority of the proprietors present may make, renew, or alter, the by-laws of said Corporation, which shall not be inconsistent with the Constitution and Laws of this State, each share being entitled to one vote and may hold possess and enjoy all the property of said Corporation in the same Way and manner as if the proprietors had called their regular annual meetings and chosen their officers, as by the by-laws of said corporation they were required.

The Rochester Social Library librarians during its second phase were: Judge Noah Tebbetts (1802-1844), in 1834-1842; [Dr.] Rufus K. Pearl (1815-1864), in 1843; attorney Daniel J. Parsons (1821-1893), in 1844-1853; attorney Cyrus K. Sanborn (c1819-1886), in 1854-1868; attorney Henry Kimball (1833-1905), 1869-1871; insurance agent A.S. Parshley (1840-1901), in 1872-1874; and attorney Henry Kimball (1833-1905), again, from 1875 (McDuffee, 1892).

With a new charter, new by-laws, and a librarian thoroughly in earnest, new life was imparted to the society, and an interest was then aroused which has never since wholly died away. From this time the society has been prosperous, with an increasing membership, and respectable yearly additions to its library. The present fee for membership is $5.00 with an annual tax of one dollar. Non-members can use the library by the payment $1.50 per year. The number of volumes is not far from 2,200, and about sixty persons avail themselves of their use (McDuffee, 1892). 

The revived Rochester Social Library appeared still in Rochester, NH, directories of 1876, and 1878, over forty years after its reincorporation. (Franklin “Frank” McDuffee (1832-1880), who was its President and a member of its Prudential Committee, was at various times, among other things, a Rochester banker, historian, newspaper columnist, selectman, school committeeman, and NH State Representative. He was a grandson of one of the library’s founding subscribers. Attorney Henry Kimball (1833-1905) was the Clerk and Librarian).

The Rochester Social Library appeared still in NH Business Directory of 1887, fifty-three years after its reincorporation and nearly a century after its original incorporation (Sampson & Murdoch, 1887). (Civil War veteran and fire insurance agent Augustine S. Parshley (1840-1901) succeeded Franklin McDuffee on the Rochester Social Library’s Prudential Committee. His daughter, Lillian E. Parshley (1868-1945), would be the first librarian of the Rochester Public Library).

The Rochester Public Library was the successor of the century-old private Rochester Social Library Company.

The Rochester Public Library first opened its doors to the public January 22, 1894. On its shelves were 2,429 volumes, the gift of the Rochester Social Library Association, an organization which had been in existence since early in 1792 (NH State Library, 1906).

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See also Milton Social Library – 1822

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Brydone, Patrick. (1774). A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=X8pDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover

Fielding, Henry. (1820). The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=VLUNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover

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Find a Grave. (2010, September 17). Richard Dame. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/58777421/richard-dame

Find a Grave. (2016, July 15). Charles Dennett. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/167007125/charles-dennett

Find a Grave. (2015, September 19). Gen. Richard Furber. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/152510797/richard-furber

Find a Grave. (2010, February 20). Rev. Joseph Haven. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/48404096/joseph-haven

Find a Grave. (2016, September 13). Daniel Hayes. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/169872705/daniel-hayes

Find a Grave. (2010, February 20). Dr. James Howe. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/48404139/james-howe

Find a Grave. (2013, August 14). Henry Kimball. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115416349/henry-kimball

Find a Grave. (2014, June 2). Franklin McDuffee. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/130757473/franklin-mcduffee

Find a Grave. (2010, February 10). John McDuffee. Retrieved from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48404194/john_mcduffee

Find a Grave. (2015, October 17). Sgt. William Palmer. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/153850898/william-palmer

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Find a Grave. (2012, November 21). Col. Jonathan Rawson. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/101110014/jonathan-rawson

Foster, James. (1749). Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=EhEtAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover

Goldsmith, Oliver. (1786). Roman History. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=-cBXAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover

McDuffee, Franklin. (1892). History of the Town of Rochester, New Hampshire, from 1722 to 1890. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=RY0-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177

Morse, Jedediah. (1792). The American Geography: Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=PUcMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover

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By Muriel Bristol | April 7, 2024

Ezekiel Hayes was born in Madbury, NH, March 9, 1768, son of Daniel and Sarah (Plummer) Hayes.

[Ezekiel Hayes] received from his father the land which became his homestead, adjoining the homesteads of his brothers Daniel and Ichabod. It was situated in West Milton at the southeast corner of the Hare Road, so-called, and the road to Milton Three Ponds. His brother Daniel had a house on the north side of the road opposite. These two fine old colonial houses have been destroyed by fire, and Ezekiel’s land long ago passed from the family (Richmond, 1936).

Ezecal Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census, His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Danl Hayes and James Varney. (See Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).

“He was a man of small stature, a fashionable dresser with his small clothes and silver knee buckles, and was known as a graceful dancer. He acquired a good property and was considered among the first people of his town” (Richmond, 1936).

Ezekiel Hayes was one of one hundred eighty-three inhabitants of Dover, Rochester, Somersworth, Barrington, and other places that petitioned the NH legislature, in January 1791, seeking a replacement Cocheco River bridge near the lower falls at Dover, NH. It would connect again the public road running from Portsmouth to Rochester and the “Upper Towns.” Prior bridges had been swept away by freshets in 1772 and 1785. Since the most recent bridge loss in the “memorable” freshet of October 1785, which took out many bridges, those seeking to cross the river at Dover had been obliged to travel much greater distance – and that involving a large hill – to the lower bridge near the landing.

… But in addition to these inconveniencies it Very frequently happens from the great Quantity of Lumber hauled to the landing that the lower road is in fact so Crowded with Teams that it is Difficult for horses & almost impracticable for Carriages to pass that way.

The petitioners suggested a lottery to finance the new bridge. They estimated its cost at about £300. Benjamin Scates, Beard Plumer, and John Plumer signed also. (See also Salmon Falls Sawmill Petition – 1797 and Milton Road Weight Petition – 1816).

Ezekiel Hayes married, October 13, 1796, Mehitable Gale, he of Rochester, NH, and she of Sanbornton, NH. Rev. Joseph Woodman performed the ceremony. She was born in Sanbornton, NH, May 26, 1777, daughter of Stephen and Mehitable (Plummer) Gale.

(The children of Ezekiel and Mehitable (Gale) Hayes were: Stephen Hayes (1797–1837), Nathaniel Hayes (1799–1835), John Hayes (1802–1847), Mehitable Hayes (1807–1832), and Eliza Hayes (1809–1871)).

Son Stephen Hayes was born in Rochester Northeast Parish, i.e., Milton, February 23, 1797. He was a namesake for his maternal grandfather, Stephen Gale. Son Nathaniel Hayes was born in Rochester Northeast Parish, i.e., Milton, August 2, 1799.

Ezekiel Hayes headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-45 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Mehitable (Gale) Hayes], and three males aged under-10 years [Stephen, Nathaniel, and John Hayes (?)]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Hayes and Ichd Hayes. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Ezekiel Hayes and his brothers, Daniel Hayes, Jr., and Ichabod Hayes signed the Rochester Division Petition of May 1802.

Son John Hayes was born in Rochester Northeast Parish, i.e., Milton, August 1, 1802.

The Milton Selectmen of 1803 were Will Palmer, John Fish, and Ezekiel Hayes.

At the first annual meeting held March 14, 1803, Beard Plumer was chosen moderator; Gilman Jewett, clerk; William Plumer [Palmer], John Fish, Ezekiel Hayes, selectmen; Beard Plumer, representative. One hundred and thirty-four votes were cast for governor, of which [Federalist] John Taylor Gilman had 103; [Democrat] John Langdon 31 (Scales, 1914).

Daughter Mehitable Hayes was born in Milton, June 19, 1807. Daughter Eliza Hayes was born in Milton, May 16, 1809.

Ezekiel Hayes had a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. his household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Mehitable (Gale) Hayes], two male aged 10-15 years [Stephen Hayes and Nathaniel Hayes], one male aged under-10 years [John Hayes], and two females aged under-10 years [Mehitable Hayes and Eliza Hayes]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Hayes and James Varney.

Ezekiel Hayes and his brothers, Daniel Hayes and Ichabod Hayes, contracted with the U.S. Government to provide ship timbers during the War of 1812.

In partnership with his brothers Ichabod and Ezekiel, he [Daniel Hayes] furnished ship timbers and masts by contract with the U.S. Government for the navy at the time of the War of 1812. The records of this partnership with the details of ship dimensions are preserved (Richmond, 1936).

Father-in-law Stephen Gale died in Sanborton, NH, July 9, 1815, aged seventy-nine years. Stepmother-in-law Phebe ((—-) Page) Gale died in Sanbornton, June 23, 1816, aged eighty-four years.

Mehitable (Gale) Hayes died in Milton, October 19, 1817, aged thirty-nine years, two months.

Tuesday, 21 [October 1817] – I went with my wife to Milton to the funeral of her Uncle Ezekiel Hayes’s wife, who Starved her Self to Death under Conviction that She was not one of the Elect that must be Saved. O my God what evil the doctrins of men have done (NEHGS, 1998).

(The diarist, Freewill Baptist Rev. Enoch Hayes Place (1786-1865) of Strafford, NH, was husband to Sally V. (Demeritt) Place (1789-1880). Her mother, Sarah (Hayes) Demerritt (1764-1855), was a sister of Ezekiel Hayes).

Ezekiel Hayes and his eldest son, Stephen Hayes, signed the Milton anti-division remonstrance of June 1820. (See Milton Anti-Division Remonstrance – June 1820 and Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).

Daughter Mehitable Hayes married, in 1824, Asa Brewster Hayes, she of Milton and he of Farmington, NH. Rev. James Walker performed the ceremony. Hayes was born in Farmington, NH, May 2, 1804, son of Wentworth and Tamson (Hayes) Hayes.

Son John Hayes married, January 13, 1825, Sarah Wingate. She was born in Farmington, NH, December 19, 1803, daughter of John and Mary (Cate) Wingate. (His sister, Eliza Hayes, would marry her brother, John C. Wingate).

Ezekiel Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one male aged 30-39 years [Stephen Hayes], and one female aged 20-29 years [Eliza Hayes]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joshua Ray and John Hayes.

Wentworth Hayes, Esq., headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Tamsen (Hayes) Hayes], one male aged 20-29 years [Asa B. Hayes], one female aged 20-29 years [Mehitable (Hayes) Hayes], one female aged 15-19 years, one male aged 10-14 years, one male aged under-5 years [Asa B. Hayes, Jr.], and one female aged under-5 years.

John Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], two females aged 20-29 years [Sarah (Wingate) Hayes], one male aged 5-9 years, one female aged under-5 years [Mehitable Hayes], one male aged under-5 years [John W. Hayes]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ezekiel Hayes and Daniel Hayes, Jr.

Ezekiel Hayes of Milton was elected to the Executive Committee of the Strafford County Agricultural Society in October 1830. (Nehemiah Eastman of Farmington, NH, who would witness Hayes’ last will in 1839, was elected President of the society).

STRAFFORD, (N.H.) CATTLE SHOW. The Cattle Show and Exhibition of articles of Domestic Industry of the Strafford Agricultural Society was held at Gilmanton, on the 6th and 7th of October. – We have not room for a detailed statement of the premiums &c. The following gentlemen were elected officers for the coming year. Nehemiah Eastman of Farmington, President. Wm. Hale, jr. of Barrington, 1st. vice do, Jeremiah Wilson, Gilmanton, 2d, do do, Francis Cogswell, Ossipee, C. Secretary, Daniel Pickering, Wolfborough, Treasurer, John Ham, Gilmanton, R. Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Augustus Rollins, Somersworth. Ezekiel Hayes, Milton. Daniel Tucker, Meredith. Richard Furber, Centre Harbor. Paul Wentworth, Sandwich. Francis P. Smith, Ossipee. Elisha Rollins, Wakefield (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), November 19, 1830).

Son Nathaniel Hayes married in Sanbornton, NH, July 19, 1831, Phebe Moody, he of Somersworth, NH, and she of Sanbornton, NH. Rev. Abram Bodwell performed the ceremony. She was born in Sanbornton, NH, December 25, 1799, daughter of Bradstreet and Ednah (Gale) Moody.

Son-in-law Asa B. Hayes died of consumption in Barrington, NH, March 18, 1832, aged twenty-seven years, ten months, and sixteen days.

Daughter Eliza Hayes married, June 21, 1832, John Cate Wingate. He was born in Farmington, NH, October 15, 1802, son of John and Mary (Cate) Wingate). (Her brother, John Hayes, had married his sister, Sarah Wingate).

They lived first in Farmington, till 1836; rem with his father to Northwood, for one year, and thence to Sanbornton Bridge in 1837. He here carried on the blacksmith’s trade; was an ordained deacon of the Congregational Church, and greatly beloved by his pastor (Runnells, 1881).

Daughter Mehitable (Hayes) Hayes died in Farmington, NH, December 28, 1832.

The officers of the NH 39th Militia Regiment in 1834 were Colonel Daniel Waldron, Lt. Colonel Stephen Hayes, and Major Richard Nutter. Other officers included Adjutant J.B. Edgerly, of Farmington, NH, and Quartermaster Jos. C. Wentworth, of Milton (Claremont Manufacturing, 1834).

Son Nathaniel Hayes died in Brookfield, NH, July 10, 1835, aged thirty-five years. At the time of his death he was “Steward of the Methodist Church.” (“The grave contains what thousands idolized but the shrine of the Christian is Heaven”).

His widow, Phebe (Moody) Hayes, married (2nd) William Tyler Trickey (renamed later to William Tyler Milton). He was born in Rochester, NH, March 6, 1795, and served in Capt. William Courson’s Co. during the War of 1812. He does not appear in the list of Milton’s militiamen. He apparently joined or succeeded them in Portsmouth, NH (His first wife, Olive (Pierce) Trickey, died in September 1834).

The U.S. Post Office Department appointed John Hayes as the third Chestnut Hill [West Milton] Postmaster on March 19, 1836. (See Milton’s First Postmasters (1818-c1840)).

Stephen Hayes of Milton, gentleman, made his last will, May 2, 1837. He bequeathed $5 to his honorable father, Ezekiel Hayes; one-third of his estate, both real and personal, to his brother, John Hayes; one-third of his estate, both real and personal, to Ada Brewster Hayes [Jr.] and Tamson Mehitable Hayes, children of his late sister, Mehitable Hayes; and one-third of his estate, both real and personal, to Eliza Wingate, wife of John C. Wingate. He appointed his brother, John Hayes, as his executor. Nehemiah Eastman, Calvin S. Horne, and Apphia Wingate signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 52:107).

Son Stephen Hayes died in Milton, June 8, 1837, aged thirty-nine years, eight months. His last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate court, held in Sanbornton, NH, June 27, 1837 (Strafford County Probate, 51:108).

Ezekiel Hayes of Milton made his last will, March 11, 1839. He devised $250 in money, as well as any notes he might have at the time of his death, to his daughter, Eliza Wingate. He bequeathed $250 each to Tamson Mehitable Hayes and Asa Brewster Hayes, children of his late daughter, Mehitable Hayes. (He had received the money from the estate of his late son, Nathaniel Hayes). He devised his homestead farm, and any residue, upon which he then lived, to his son, John Hayes. He named his son John Hayes as executor, and asked also that the executor arrange for a gravestone equal to that erected for the executor’s mother. Thomas T. Edgerly, Mark Demerit, and Nehemiah Eastman signed as witnesses. (Strafford County Probate, 59:424).

In his will, drawn 11 Mar. 1839 and proved 7 Nov. 1843, he gave to his daughter Eliza Wingate $250, together with all notes due him; to Tamson Mehitable and Asa Brewster, “children of my late daughter Mehitable Hayes, $200 each the money hereby bequeathed being a part of estate descended to me from my late son Nathaniel Hayes”; to son John the homestead and residue of estate, and John was made executor (Strafford County Probate, vol. 59, p. 424) (Richmond, 1936).

John Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census, His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Sarah (Wingate) Hayes], one male aged 10-14 years [John Hayes], one female aged 10-14 years [Eliza Hayes], one male aged under-5 years, one female aged under-5 years, one male aged 70-79 years [Ezekiel Hayes], and one female aged 20-29 years. Three members of his household were engaged in Agriculture.

John C. Wingate headed a Sanbornton, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census, His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Eliza (Hayes) Wingate], one female aged 5-9 years [Mary J. Wingate], and two males aged under-5 years [John Wingate and Stephen Wingate], one male aged 20-29 years, and one female aged 15-19 years. Two members of his household was engaged in Manufacture and Trade.

Rev. Enoch Hayes Place (1786-1865) of Strafford, NH, visited with his wife’s surviving Hayes uncles in West Milton in 1841.

Fri 10 [September 1841] – Went to Milton to viset My wifes Uncles Daniel & Ezekiel Hayes Esquires – good viset (NEHGS, 1998).

Ezekiel Hayes died in Milton, October 8, 1843, aged seventy-five years, seven months. His last will was proved November 7, 1843 (Strafford County Probate, 59:426).

Son John Hayes died in Rochester, NH, May 27, 1847, aged forty-four years, ten months.

Sarah [(Wingate)] Hayes, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included John W. Hayes, a stable keeper, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Henry Hayes, a shoemaker, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Mary F. Hayes, aged ten years (b. NH), Betsy Hayes, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and Sarah Currier, aged twenty-two years. Sarah Hayes had real estate valued at $1,200.

William Milton, a lumberman, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Cicero, NY, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Phebe [((Moody) Hayes)] Milton, aged thirty [fifty] years (b. NH). William Milton had real estate valued at $4,000.

John C. Wingate, a blacksmith, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Sanbornton, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Hayes)] Wingate, aged forty-one years (b. NH), Mary J. Wingate, aged sixteen years (b. NH), John Wingate, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Stephen Wingate, aged twelve years (b. NH), Henry Wingate, aged eight years, Ann E. Wingate, aged five years (b. NH), and Caroline Wingate, aged two years (b. NH). John C. Wingate had real estate valued at $1,000.

John C. and Eliza (Hayes) Wingate left Sanbornton, NH, and removed to Janesville, WI, in 1853.

In Sept. 1853, he rem to Janesville, Wis. (Runnells, 1881).

Sarah [(Wingate)] Hayes, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Her household included Mahitable [(Hayes)] Whitehouse, aged thirty-four years, Mary F. Hayes, a common s. teacher, aged twenty years, Mary F. Whitehouse, aged ten years, A. Messer, a daguerreotype artist, aged thirty-five years, and Fanny Messer, aged twenty years. Sarah Hayes had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $2,000. Mahitable Whitehouse had personal estate valued at $1,500.

William Milton, a farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a West Monroe, NY, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Pheba [((Moody) Hayes)] Milton, a domestic, aged sixty years (b. NH), Thomas T. Milton, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), Franklin Milton, a farmer, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and William Belknap, a farmer, aged twenty-four years (b. NY). William Milton had real estate valued at $12,000 and personal estate valued at $2,000.

J.C. Wingate, a blacksmith, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Decatur, WI, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Elisa [(Hayes)] Wingate, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), Anna E. Wingate, aged fifteen years (b. NH), and Caroline Wingate, aged eleven years (b. NH). J.C. Wingate had real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $200.

Daughter-in-law Sarah (Wingate) Hayes died in Rochester, NH, in July 1863.

Son-in-law John C. Wingate died in Janesville, WI, November 26, 1867, aged sixty-five years.

He d. [in Janesville, WI] after an illness of several months, Nov. 26, 1867, ae. 65. He was there also deacon, and “none in Janesville were ever known to speak evil of him” (Runnells, 1881).

Alter Younraus [Winersky], at home, aged seventy-three years (b. NY), headed a Hastings, NY, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included C. Corinda Younraus, keeping house, aged sixty-six years (b. NY), Thomas Woodbeck, farming, aged eighteen years (b. NY), William Milton, lumbering, aged seventy-five years (b. NY), and Phoebe [((Moody) Hayes)] Milton, visiting, aged seventy-years (b. NY). Alter Younras had personal estate valued at $1,900.

J.H. Wingate, a furniture dealer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Janesville, WI, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Anna M. Wingate, keeps house, aged thirty years (b. NH), Chas. H. Wingate, aged ten years (b. WI), Henry K. Wingate, age five years (b. WI), Willie S. Wingate, aged two years (b. ME), Fannie M. Wingate, aged nine months (b. ME), Fannie [Eliza] [(Hayes)] Wingate, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), Ama E. Wingate, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), Carrie Wingate, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), and Matilda Schroder, a domestic servant, aged seventeen years (b. WI).

Daughter Eliza (Hayes) Wingate died in Janesville, WI, March 8, 1872.

PERSONAL. Mrs. Eliza Wingate, twenty years a resident of Janesville, died on Thursday evening from the effects of an apoplectic fit (Green Bay Weekly Gazette, [Saturday,] March 16, 1872).

Daughter-in-law Phebe ((Moody) Hayes) Milton died in Brewerton, NY, March 15, 1883.

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