Author: Muriel Bristol

By Muriel Bristol | February 5, 2023

Samuel Gardner Chamberlain was born in Milton, July 9, 1827, son of Samuel N. and Mary M. (Moody) Chamberlain.

Samuel G. Chamberlain was born also on the above [Chamberlain Stock Farm] farm, a son of Samuel N. Chamberlain and a grandson of Moses Chamberlain, who was the first of the family to own this property. He was born on a farm in Strafford county, one mile south of the homestead, and came to the town of Milton in early manhood. Here he [Grandfather Moses Chamberlain (1760-1832)] reared his family, and the land has remained a family possession ever since (Scales, 1914). 

Father Samuel N. Chamberlain died of brain trouble in Milton, May 10, 1846, aged fifty-nine years, three months, and twenty days.

Mary [(Moody)] Chamberlin, aged fifty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Emily Chamberlin, aged thirty years (b. NH), Lucy Chamberlin, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), Samuel G. Chamberlin, a farmer, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Charles Rogers, a farmer, aged sixteen years (b. ME), John Rogers, aged ten years (b. ME), and Lockey Clayton, a laborer, aged twenty-one years (b. Ireland). Samuel G. Chamberlin had real estate valued at $3,000. Their household was first in the enumeration; following them was the household of Hawley Applebee, a farmer, aged sixty-one years (b. ME).

Samuel G. Chamberlain married (1st) in Lebanon, ME, August 28, 1850, Miss Mary Elizabeth Fall, he of Milton and she of Lebanon, ME. She was born in Lebanon, ME, in 1823, daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Moody) Fall.

Samuel G. Chamberlain married Elizabeth Fall, who was born at Lebanon, Me., and they had four children: Alexander H., who is foreman of a mill at Union, N.H.; Adelia E., wife of C.W. Lowe; Frederick M., who is employed by the Boston Ice Company at Milton; and Moses G. The mother of the above-mentioned family died at the age of sixty-seven years, but the father lived to be eighty-four years old. Their burial was in the Milton Mills cemetery (Scales, 1914).

(The known children of Samuel G. and Mary E. (Fall) Chamberlain were Alexander H. Chamberlain (1851–1930), Adelia E. “Delia” Chamberlin (1855–1938), Frederick Moody “Fred” Chamberlain (1858–1935), and Moses G. Chamberlin (1862–1951)).

Mother-in-law Lucy (Moody) Fall died in Lebanon, ME, December 3, 1850, aged fifty-seven years, eleven months.

Son Alexander H. Chamberlain was born in Milton, September 9, 1851.

Father-in-law Daniel Fall died of consumption in Lebanon, ME, December 26, 1853, aged sixty-two years, eight months.

Daughter Adelia E. “Delia” Chamberlain was born in Milton, September 9, 1855. Son Frederick Moody “Fred” Chamberlain was born in Milton, May 29, 1858.

Samuel G. Chamberlin, a farmer, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary E. [(Fall)] Chamberlin, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), A. Chamberlin, aged eight years (b. NH), Adelia Chamberlin, aged four years (b. NH), and Fred Chamberlin, aged one year (b. NH), Mary [(Moody)] Chamberlin, aged seventy-one years (b. NH [SIC]), Emily H. Chamberlin, aged forty-two years (b. NH), Lucy R. Chamberlin, aged forty years (b. NH), and F. Chick, a farm laborer, aged twenty years (b. NH). Samuel G. Chamberlin had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Wm. M. Cason, a farmer, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and James Applebee, a farmer, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH).

Moses G. Chamberlin was born in Milton, January 15, 1862.

Samuel G. Chamberlain, a farmer, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), registered for the Class II military draft in Milton in June 1863.

Milton sent Samuel G. Chamberlain to Concord, NH, as one of its two NH State Representatives for the first year of the 1869-70 biennium and the first year of the 1871-72 biennium. (The other representatives were George Lyman (both years 0f 1869-70) and George W. Tasker (both years of 1871-72)).

Reps. Samuel G. Chamberlain and George Lyman were among the 187 NH State Representatives (58.8%) – mostly Republicans – who voted in favor of the XVth Amendment to the US Constitution in 1869.

Amendment XV. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Some 131 NH State Representatives (41.2%) – mostly Democrats – voted against the proposed amendment (Philips & Solomon, 1870). Such an amendment did and does require approval by three-quarters of the US states.

Samuel G. Chamberlaine, a farmer, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary E. [(Fall)] Chamberlaine, keeping house, aged forty-five years (b. ME), Alexander J. Chamberlaine, a farm laborer, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Adelia E. Chamberlaine, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Fred Chamberlaine, at school, aged ten years (b. NH), Moses Chamberlaine, at school, aged seven years (b. NH), Mary [(Moody)] Chamberlaine, aged eighty years (b. ME), Sally Spinney, aged eighty-four years (b. NH), Thomas C. Rogers, a farm laborer, aged thirty-three years (b. ME). Samuel G. Chamberlaine had real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $2,010. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mary Robinson, keeping house, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), and Edward Hart, a farmer, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH).

Alexander [H.] Chamberlain married in Somersworth, NH, May 29, 1873, [Sarah] Emma Corson, he of Milton and she of Wakefield, NH. He was a road man, aged twenty-two years, and she was aged twenty-five years. Rev. Nathaniel Barker performed the ceremony. She was born in Wakefield, NH, August 16, 1846, daughter of Robert S. and Sarah (Nay) Corson.

Mother Mary M. (Moody) Chamberlain died of consumption and age in Milton, January 1, 1874, aged eighty-four years.

Samuel G. Chamberlin, a farmer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary E. [(Fall)] Chamberlin, keeping house, aged fifty-four years (b. NH [SIC]), his children, Delia E. Chamberlin, at home, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Fred Chamberlin, a peddler, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), and Moses G. Chamberlin, a farm laborer, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and his sister, Lucy R. Chamberlin, at home, aged sixty-one years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Geo. W. Fellows, connected with the park, aged forty years (b. Unknown), and Edward Hart, a farmer, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH).

Alexander H. Chamberlin, works in sawmill, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census, His household included his wife, Emma S. [(Corson)] Chamberlin, keeping house, aged thirty-three years (b. NH).

Daughter Adelia E. Chamberlain married in Milton, October 7, 1882, Charles W. Lowe. He was born in North Shapleigh, ME, December 23, 1856, son of John and Hannah (Hargraves) Lowe.

C.W. LOWE, who is associated with his son, H.C. Lowe, in the livery and undertaking business at Rochester, was born at North Shapley, Me., in 1855, and is the oldest of the family of six children born to his parents, who were John and Hannah (Hargraves) Lowe. The father was also born in Maine and died at North Shapley at the age of 74 years. During his entire active life he was a spinner in a mill (Scales, 1914).

Moses G. Chamberlain married in Fitchburg, MA, November 13, 1884, Arthia Edna Junkins, he of Milton and she of Wakefield, NH. He was aged twenty-two years, and she was aged nineteen years. Rev. J.M.R. Eaton performed the ceremony. She was born in Wakefield, NH, January 15, 1862 [1864?], daughter of James and Sally (Wentworth) Junkins.

Mr. [Moses] Chamberlain married Miss Arthie E. Junkins, who was born at Union, N.H., a daughter of the late James H. Junkins. They have one daughter, Blanche E., who is the wife of A.F. Walker. Mr. and Mr. Walker reside also on the farm. They have one son, Burton Moses Walker. Mrs. Chamberlain belongs also to the Grange and assists in promoting the social affairs of the order. Like his late father, Mr. Chamberlain is identified with the Republican party (Scales, 1914). 

Fred M. Chamberlain married (1st) in Milton, October 9, 1886, Grace M. Dicey, both of Wakefield, NH. He was a laborer, aged twenty-one years, and she was aged twenty years. Rev. Henry E. Allen performed the ceremony. She was born in Wakefield, NH, circa 1865, daughter of George W. Dicey.

Mary E. (Fall) Chamberlain died of pneumonia in Milton, November 4, 1890, aged sixty-seven, one month, and thirteen days. J.E. Scruton, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Samuel G. Chamberlain married (2nd) in Boston, ME, September 5, 1895, Ruth L. (Littlefield) Kilham [or Killam], he of Milton and she of Boston, MA. He was a farmer, aged sixty-eight years, and she was at home, aged sixty years. Rev. J.M. Lowden performed the ceremony. She was born in Sanford, ME, July 8, 1835, daughter of Moses E. and Ruth (Littlefield) Littlefield. (Her first husband, Albert D. Kilham. had died in Boston, MA, November 22, 1888, aged forty-eight years).

MARRIAGE INTENTIONS. – William S. Barrett and Flora T. Barriant, Eugene Testa and Flavia Sacca, Samuel G. Chamberlin and Ruth L. Killam, Angus McPhee and Mary McAskill, Michael Roche and Mary J. Lane, Hyman Kleeman and Sarah Zeltza (Boston Globe, September 6, 1895).

MAINE TOWNS. Items of Interest Gathered by Correspondents of the Press. … ACTON. Mrs. S.G. Chamberlain spent last week with her sister, Mrs. B.J. Grant (Portland Daily Press (Portland, ME), June 14, 1898).

Samuel G. Chamberlin, a farmer, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of four years), Ruth [((Littlefield) Kilham)] Chamberlin, aged sixty-four years (b. ME), his son, Moses G. Chamberlin, a farm laborer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), his daughter-in-law (of fourteen years), Arthie E. [(Junkins)] Chamberlin, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), his granddaughter, Blanche J. Chamberlin, at school, aged seven years (b. NH), and his boarder, Henry Whitton, a farm laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jonas S. Laskey, a farmer, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), and Abby P. Hayes, a farmer, aged seventy-three years (b. NH).

Moses G. Chamberlain was educated in the town of Milton and in the village of Milton Mills. All the Chamberlains have been farmers to some extent, and Moses G., the youngest son, remained on the home place and continues the agricultural activities in which his father and grandfather also prospered. A large portion of the land is devoted to pasturage; milk production is a leading industry, a morning shipment of 100 quarts being made daily to Boston. Also about one thousand cords of lumber have been cut and shipped from the place. Mr. Chamberlain keeps his property in fine order, cultivates about fifty acres and breeds high grade cattle. In him the Grange at Milton Mills has a valuable member, for he is deeply interested in all progressive agricultural movements, and at present he is treasurer of the local body (Scales, 1914).

Alexander H. Chamberlain, a laborer (excelsior mill), aged forty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield (“Union Village”), NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-seven years), Sarah E. [(Corson)] Chamberlain, aged fifty-four years (b. NH). Alexander H. Chamberlain owned their house, free-and-clear. Sarah E. Chamberlain was the mother of no children.

Charles W. Lowe, a dealer (marble), aged forty-three years (b. ME), headed a Wakefield (“Union Village”), NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of seventeen years), Adelia E. [(Chamberlain)] Lowe, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and his son, Homer C. Lowe, at school, aged fourteen years (b. NH). Charles W. Lowe rented their house. Adelia E. Lowe was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

C.W. Lowe left school at the age of eleven years to become a worker a textile mill, where he continued until 18 years old. He then spent one summer in Boston, after which he located at Milton Mills, N.H., later to Union, where he bought a marble shop, still later entering a woolen mill at Springvale. He remained there as carpenter for 18 months and came to Rochester, where he was car inspector for two years. In 1904 embarked in the livery business and in 1911 his son, H.C. Lowe, went into the undertaking business, and the two lines have since been carried on partnership (Scales, 1914).

Fred Chamberlin, a hotel keeper, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fourteen years), Grace M. [(Dicey)] Chamberlin, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), his children, Guy Chamberlin, at school, aged twelve years (b. NH), and Pearl Chamberlin, at school, aged six years (b. NH), his servant, Albert F. Downs, a hotel servant, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), and his boarder, D.L. Perkins, a paper mill operative, aged forty-six years (b. “unknown”). Fred Chamberlin rented their house. Grace M. Chamberlin was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George Jordan, a picker stick maker, aged sixty-four years (b. ME), and Frank S. Lee, a house painter, aged fifty-four years (b. NH).

Son Fred M. Chamberlin, of Milton divorced his first wife, Grace M. (Dicey) Chamberlain, of Roxbury, MA, in Strafford County Superior Court, October 2, 1902. He alleged adultery (one had to allege something); and received custody of a minor child, Guy H. Chamberlin. (She died at the NH State Hospital in Concord, NH, June 15, 1908, aged forty-seven years).

MILTON. S.G. Chamberlain is very ill at his home, near the Branch (Farmington News, February 5, 1904).

DOGS, CATS, ETC. FOR SALE – 1 extra good rabbit dog, $25; others, not so good, for sale. Write F.M. CHAMBERLAIN, Phoenix house, Milton (Boston Globe, October 30, 1904).

Son Fred M. Chamberlain married (2nd) in Milton, February 8, 1907, Caroline E. [(Armstrong)] Reed, he of Milton and she of Houlton, ME. He was a hotel proprietor, aged forty-eight years, and she was a widowed housekeeper, aged thirty-two years. She was born in Glassville, New Brunswick, Canada, circa 1874, daughter of James and Abigail (Thompson) Armstrong.

ROBBER IS UNCAUGHT Who Held Up a Man in Lebanon IN THE WOODS. Little Evidence To Aid the Officers. VICTIM SUFFERS MUCH PAIN. Groom Was in Bed When Wedding Took Place. York county officers and those of Rochester, N.H., have been unable to get any tangible evidence upon which to work to bring about the arrest of the party claiming to be a traveling man who robbed Joseph McDonald of $215 In the Lebanon woods while the latter was carrying him in a team from Rochester, N.H., to Sanford. The officers visited the scene of the robbery as soon as they could after being notified. The country has been scoured as far as possible and a lookout kept on parties taking the trains on the Worcester, Nashua and Portland division of the Boston and Maine. It was thought that he might have remained in hiding in the Lebanon woods during the first day after the hold-up. For this reason a close watch was kept in order to catch the man should he attempt to get away by train to some big city. If he remained in the woods in a logging camp or in some other place he got away without being detected. McDonald is reported as still being considerably used up at Rochester. He is in bed at the home of Charles W. Lowe, the stable keeper in whose employ he was when he figured in the robbery. His wife of two days is nursing him carefully and it is only a question of time before he will recover as the wound inflicted by a bullet from his own revolver is not considered to be very serious unless complications set in. He has suffered a good deal of pain from the wound. It is learned that the groom was in bed when the wedding ceremony was performed on the evening after he was robbed of his money bride and the clergyman were at his bedside. The ring service was used and only members of the Lowe family witnessed the ceremony. Mr. Lowe, the Rochester stable keeper, has sent telegrams to every stable keeper in that vicinity asking them to be on the lookout for the wanted man and to hold him should he put in an appearance (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), August 3, 1907).

(Joseph W. McDonald married in Rochester, NH, August 1, 1907, Mary J. Sullivan, he of Rochester, NH, and she of Wellesley, MA. He was a stable keeper, aged twenty-two years, and she was a waitress, aged twenty-four years. Rev. J. Corcoran performed the ceremony).

MAINE TOWNS. Items of Interest Gathered by Correspondents of the Press. … ACTON. Mrs. S.G. Chamberlain and Mrs. Mary F. Hersey have been recent guests at B.J. Grant’s (Portland Daily Press (Portland, ME), April 30, 1909).

Samuel G. Chamberlin, a general farm farmer, aged eighty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fourteen years), Ruth L. [((Littlefield) Kilham)] Chamberlin, aged seventy-four years (b. ME), his son, Moses G. Chamberlin, a home farm farmer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), his daughter-in-law (of twenty-five years), Arthea E. [(Junkins)] Chamberlin, aged forty-six years (b. NH), his granddaughter, Beulah Chamberlin, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and his servant, Harvey Whitten, a general farm laborer, aged forty-eight years (b. ME). Samuel G. Chamberlin owned their farm, free-and-clear. Arthea Chamberlin was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George W. Ellis, a laundryman, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), and John W. Hanson, a farmer, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH).

Alexander H. Chamberlain, excelsior mill, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield (“Union Village”), NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-seven years), Sarah E. [(Corson)] Chamberlain, aged sixty-three years (b. NH). Alexander H. Chamberlain owned their house on Maple Street, free-and-clear. Sarah E. Chamberlain was the mother of no children.

Charles W. Lowe, a livery stable keeper, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Adelia E. [(Chamberlain)] Lowe, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), his son, Homer C. Lowe, a livery stable keeper, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), his daughter-in-law, Eva M. [(Webber)] Lowe, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), his grandchildren, Robert L. Lowe, aged four years (b. NH), and Elizabeth Lowe, aged one month (b. NH). his boarder, Sarah M. Roberts, a city hall clerk, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and his servant, Lydia M. Parshley, a houseworker, aged twenty-two years (b. NH). Charles W. Lowe rented their house at 11 Central Avenue.

LOCAL NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Homer C. Lowe, also Mr. Charles W. Lowe of Rochester were here Tuesday to attend the funeral of Darling S. Hayes (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), January 12, 1912).

C.W. Lowe and son are identified with the Republican party politically and fraternally with the Odd Fellows, and the younger member of the firm belongs also to the Grange, the Red Men and to the American Mechanics. As reliable businessmen and excellent citizens they stand high in public regard (Scales, 1914). 

Fred M. Chamberlain, an odd jobs teamster, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton 3-Ponds”) household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his [second] wife (of three years), Caroline [((Armstrong) Reed)] Chamberlain, aged thirty-five years (b. Canada), his [step] children, Myrtle Chamberlain [Armstrong], a dressmaker, aged fourteen years (b. ME), and Elmer Chamberlain [Armstrong], aged thirteen years (b. ME), and his hired man, Mike Sullivan, a stable laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. MA).

Samuel G. Chamberlain died of a cerebral hemorrhage (due to a “fall on ice”) on the Milton Mills Road in Milton, January 2, 1911, aged eighty-three years, five months, and twenty-three days. He was a farmer and lifelong resident of Milton. J.A. Stevens, M.D., signed the death certificate.

LOCAL. Samuel G. Chamberlin, one of Milton’s old and respected residents, fell on the ice Monday fracturing his skull and causing death on Tuesday. His age was 80 years. Funeral this Thursday (Farmington News, January 6, 1911).

Fred M. Chamberlin, of Milton divorced his second wife, Caroline A. [((Armstrong) Reed)] Chamberlain, of Roxbury, MA, in Strafford County Superior Court, October 15, 1915. She alleged extreme cruelty (one had to allege something).

Ruth L. Chamberlin appeared in the Milton directory of 1917, as the widow of Samuel G. Chamberlin, with her house at Acton, ME.

Bodwell J. Grant, a general farm farmer, aged seventy years, headed an Acton, ME, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Albertine M. [(Littlefield)] Grant, aged sixty-six years (b. ME), and his sister-in-law, Ruth L.K. [((Littlefield) Kilham)] Chamberlain, aged eighty-four years (b. ME). They shared a two-family residence on the Garvin Road with the household of Bodwell B. Grant, a general farm farmer, aged thirty-three years (b. ME). Bodwell J. Grant owned their portion, free-and-clear.

Charles W. Lowe, a livery stable proprietor, aged sixty-four years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Adelia [(Chamberlain)] Lowe, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), his son, Homer C. Lowe, a livery stable proprietor, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), his daughter-in-law, Eva M. [(Webber)] Lowe, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), and his grandchildren, Robert L. Lowe, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and Elizabeth Lowe, aged nine years (b. NH). Charles W. Lowe rented their house at 69 Portland Street.

Fred M. Chamberlain, ice cutter laborer, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his son, Guy H. Chamberlain, an ice cutter laborer, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and his grandchildren, Marion G. Chamberlain, aged eleven years (b. MA), Gardner M. Chamberlain, aged ten years (b NH), Madeline L. Chamberlain, aged eight years (b. MA), Howard R. Chamberlain, aged six years (b. MA), Pearl E. Chamberlain, aged four years (b. MA), and Muriel Chamberlain, aged two years (b. NH).

Moses G. Chamberlain, a lumberman (owner), aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Arthie E. [(Junkins)] Chamberlain, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), his daughter, Blanche J. [(Chamberlain)] Walker, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), his grandson, Burton M. Walker, aged seven years (b. NH), and his hired hand, Henry Whitten, a farm laborer, aged sixty-one years. Moses G. Chamberlain owned their farm, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Victor C. Evans, a truckman laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and Abbie L. Hayes, aged sixty-two years (b. NH).

MISSING BOSTON AUTO FOUND IN ROCHESTER, N.H. ROCHESTER, N.H. Oct. 11 – Charles W. Lowe, a local livery stable keeper, discovered in the woods at Strafford Corner an abandoned five-passenger touring car, the number plates, found nearby, being marked “253-373 Mass.” The car was in a clump of bushes in a pasture at the foot of a steep hill. The machine was slightly damaged. The Boston police were notified, and the owner located (Boston Globe, October 11, 1921). 

Ruth L. ((Littlefield) Kilham) Chamberlain died of chronic nephritis in Acton, ME, August 4, 1922, aged eighty-seven years, and twenty-six days. She had resided there for eleven years, i.e., since 1911, with her previous residence in Milton. E.K. Thompson, M.D., signed the death certificate.

FARMINGTON [ME]. Mr. and Mrs. Moses Chamberlain of Milton, N.H., were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Junkins who returned with them for a visit (Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, ME), August 12, 1925).

Daughter-in-law Sarah E. (Corson) Chamberlain died of nephritis in Union Village, Wakefield, NH, July 11, 1926, aged seventy-nine years, ten months, and twenty-four days. She was a lifelong (“always”) resident of Wakefield, NH. Charles C. Rogers, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Son Alexander H. Chamberlain died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Union Village, Wakefield, NH, January 18, 1930, aged seventy-eight years, four months and nine days. He was a retired mill worker, who had resided in Wakefield, NH, for fifty years, i.e., since circa 1880. His prior residence had been in Milton. J.J. Morin, M.D., signed the death certificate.

UNION. A. Chamberlain passed away at his home Friday night, January 17, after a long illness. Services were held at the home Tuesday (Farmington News, January 24, 1930).

Charles W. Lowe, retired, aged seventy-four years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-seven years), Adelia E. [(Chamberlain)] Lowe, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), and his lodger, Warren V. Baker, a grocery salesman, aged twenty-three years (b. MA). Charles W. Lowe rented their apartment on Charles Street.

Fred Chamberlain, a road commissioner (state road), aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his grandchildren, Howard Chamberlain, aged fifteen years (b. MA), Pearl Chamberlain, aged thirteen years (b. MA), and Muriel Chamberlain, aged twelve years (b. ME). Fred Chamberlain owned their house on North Main Street, which was valued at $1,000. They had a radio set.

Moses Chamberlain, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty years), Arthie [(Junkins)] Chamberlain, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), his son-in-law (of seven years), Clifton Hersom, aged twenty-nine years (b. ME), his daughter, Blanche [((Chamberlain) Walker)] Hersom, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), and his grandson, Burton Walker, aged seventeen years (b. NH). Moses Chamberlain owned their farm on the Union Road, which was valued at $10,000. They had a radio set. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Edward E. Buzzell, retired, aged sixty-seven years (b. ME), and Victor Evans, an odd jobs laborer, aged forty-five years (b. NH).

Son Frederick M. Chamberlain died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Union, Wakefield, NH, May 30, 1935, aged seventy-seven years, and one day. P.A. Kimball, M.D., signed the death certificate.

IN MEMORIAM. Fred Chamberlain. Fred Chamberlain of Milton, aged 77, passed away at Union last Thursday evening. The deceased was a native of Milton Mills, the son of Samuel G. and Mary E. (Fall) Chamberlain. He was well known in this section where he served as state road patrolman between Milton and Sanbornville. He is survived by one son, Guy Chamberlain; a sister, Mrs. Charles Lowes of Union, a brother, Moses Chamberlain of Milton Mills, and twelve grandchildren living in Milton and Boston. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the Congregational church. Bearers were Fred Foster, Ed Jordan, Charles Tanner and Martin Eaton (Farmington News, June 7, 1935).

Daughter Adelia E. (Chamberlain) Lowe died in Wakefield, NH, August 15, 1938.

MILTON MILLS. By Alfred W. Lewis. Moses G. Chamberlain was taken to the Goodall Memorial Hospital Saturday for an operation and at last report was doing as well as can be expected (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), October 27, 1938).

Son-in-law Charles W. Lowe died in Wakefield, NH, May 2, 1939.

Moses G. Chamberline, a farmer, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Arthie E. [(Junkins)] Chamberline, aged seventy-six years (b. NH), his daughter, Blanche L. [((Chamberlain) Walker)] Herson, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), his son-in-law, Clifton E. Herson, a Town of Milton road agent, aged thirty-nine years (b. ME), his grandson, Burton M. Walker, a woodsman wood cutter, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), and his maid, Marian Chute, a private home maid, aged twenty-one years (b. ME). Moses G. Chamberline owned their farm on the Main Road, which was valued at $7,000. Their household was first in the enumeration; following them were the households of Fred Barnes, a farmer, aged sixty-five (b. NH), and Victor Evans, an odd jobs laborer, aged forty-five years (b. NH).

Real Estate Transactions. The following warranty deeds were recorded at York county Registry of Deeds in Alfred last week: Moses G. Chamberlain, Milton, N.H., to Arthur Stackpole, Lebanon, land at Lebanon (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), December 27, 1940).

Arthie E. (Junkins) Chamberlain died of lobar pneumonia in Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NH, December 28, 1943, aged eighty-one years, eleven months, and thirteen days. J.L. Hartigan, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Moses G. Chamberlain, a farmer, aged eighty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his son-in-law, Clifton E. Herson, a sawmill manager, aged forty-nine years (b. ME), his daughter, Blanche J. [((Chamberlain) Walker)] Herson, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), his grandson, Burton M. Walker, a sawmill roller, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), and his granddaughter-in-law, Marion I. [(Chute)] Walker, aged thirty-two years (b. ME). Moses G. Chamberlain owned their farm at the “1st house on right” on the Milton Mills Road, near its intersection with Branch Hill Road.

Moses G. Chamberlin died of acute myocarditis in Milton, July 11, 1951, aged eighty-nine years. He was a retired lumber dealer. H.W. Ross, M.D., signed the death certificate.

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References:

Find a Grave. (2013, August 13). Alexander H. Chamberlain. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115369978/alexander-h-chamberlain

Find a Grave. (2013, July 30). Frederick Moody “Fred” Chamberlain. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/114673086/frederick-moody-chamberlain

Find a Grave. (2011, February 28). Grace M. Dicey Chamberlain. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/66263737/grace-m-chamberlain

Find a Grave. (2013, August 13). Moses G. Chamberlain. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115370002/moses-g-chamberlain

Find a Grave. (2013, August 13). Samuel Gardner Chamberlain. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115369940/samuel-gardner-chamberlain

Find a Grave. (2013, August 13). Samuel Nason Chamberlain. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115369672/samuel-nason-chamberlain

Find a Grave. (2015, May 24). Daniel Fall. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/146917019/daniel-fall

Find a Grave. (2009, March 10). Ruth Littlefield Kilham. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/34656737/ruth-kilham

Find a Grave. (2013, August 14). Adelia E. Chamberlain Lowe. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115479770/adelia-e-lowe

Find a Grave. (2011, July 13). Joseph W. McDonald. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/73321710/joseph-w.-macdonald

NH General Court. (1869). Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=nH8lAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA215

NH General Court. (1871). Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=UtFHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA184

Philip & Solomons. (1870). Handbook of Politics for 1870. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=17pIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA495

Scales, John. (1914). History of Strafford County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=nGsjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA868

By Muriel Bristol | January 22, 2023

The Sixth (1840) Federal Census tabulated occupations as well as populations. The available categories were Mining; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures and Trades; Navigation of the Oceans; Navigation of Canals, Lakes, and Rivers; Learned Professions and Engineers.

Milton had 1,322 people overall in 1840. Those 1,322 people resided in 250 households, i.e., there was an average of 5.3 people per household. A large portion (41.1% of the total population) were children. Some 156 infants and toddlers (11.8% of the total population) would have been below school age. Another 388 children (29.3% of the total population) were attending school, which ran through the seventh or eighth grade (thirteen or fourteen years of age).

Of those past school age, 435 adults and teenagers (32.9% of the total population) were employed in some capacity or another. Likely, many of the remaining 343 people (25.9% of the total population) were engaged in what would later be called “keeping house” (250 houses suggests at least 250 housekeepers) or were engaged in some activity or occupation not tabulated, such as innkeepers, or were simply retired or semi-retired (53 people (4.0% of the total population) were aged seventy years or above)).

The vast majority of the 435 Milton persons that were tabulated as engaged in economic activities were working in Agriculture (84.6% of those engaged), followed by Manufacture & Trades (12.2%), followed by Commerce (1.6%) and the Learned Professions (1.4%), and lastly by a single person engaged in Navigation of the Ocean (0.2%).

Some 53 persons (12.2% of those engaged) were engaged in Manufacture & the Trades. This category would have included shoemakers, millers, millwrights, blacksmiths, etc. They resided in the households headed by Joseph C. Wentworth (2 persons), William Wentworth (1 person), Parker Knowles (1 person); Stephen Main (2 persons), Ebenezer Wentworth (1 person); Nathaniel Durrell (1 person), Dearborn Wedgewood (1 person), Alexander Goodwin (1 person), Francis Looney (2 persons), James Worcester (1 person), George Worster (1 person), John H. Varney (3 persons); Elizabeth [(Spencer)] Gerrish (1 person), Hazen Duntley (1 person), John McMillen (1 person), James Pinkham (1 person), John Scates (1 person), Daniel Quimby (1 person), John Drew (2 persons); Thomas Edgerly (2 persons); Benjamin Furnald (1 person); Alpheus Goodwin (3 persons), Ebenezer Osgood (1 person), Stephen Stores (5 persons), Charles Swasey (5 persons), Gilman Jewett (three persons), Samuel Hart (1 person), Thomas Butter (1 person), John Marsh (1 person); Samuel W. Applebee (two persons), Mary Pager (1 person), and Joseph Rines (two persons).

Some 7 persons (1.6% of those engaged) were engaged in Commerce. This category would have included shopkeepers, merchants, traders, etc. They resided in the households headed by Robert Mathes (2 persons), James M. Twombly (2 persons), Bray Sims (1 person), Asa Fox (1 person), and James Berry (1 person).

Some 6 persons (1.4% of those engaged) were engaged in the Learned Professions. This category would have included ministers, lawyers, physicians, etc. They resided in the households headed by Joseph Pearle (1 person (Dr. Rufus K. Pearl)), Wesley Burnham (1 person), Benjamin G. Willey (1 person), Stephen Drew (1 person), John L. Swinerton (1 person), and Theodore Stevens (1 person).

Only 1 person (0.2% of those engaged) was engaged in Navigation of the Ocean. He resided in the household headed by James Quimby. (One wonders if he had with him Odysseus’ “winnowing oar”).

No one in Milton was engaged in Mining or Navigation of Canals, Lakes, and Rivers. (The Salmon Falls River was not navigable).

Extra: Revolutionary Pensioners and Number of Schools (and Students)

Some continuation pages gave the names and ages of “Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services.” Sarah [(Twombly)] Nute, aged seventy-seven years, resided in the household of David Nute; Amos Bragdon, aged seventy-eight years, resided in his own household; Elizabeth [(Hayes)] Roberts, aged eighty years, resided in the household of James C. Roberts; Jonathan Dore, aged eighty-three years, resided in the household of Jonathan Dore; David Corson, aged seventy-nine years, resided in the household of David M. Corson; Thomas Applebee, aged eighty-four years, resided in his own household; and Benniah Dore, aged seventy-five years, resided in his own household.

Some continuation pages enumerated the numbers of schools and the number of scholars attending them. It is difficult to determine what, if any, relationship there might be between a householder’s line and the school information that appeared on that same line of an associated continuation page. (This data always appeared at the top of the continuation page, two of three together if there were more than one).

Edward Tibbetts appeared with 1 primary or common school, with 20 scholars, on his line of a continuation page. James Y. Pinkham appeared with 1 school, with 35 scholars, and Sarah Pinkham appeared with 1 school, with 25 scholars, on their lines. David Nute appeared with 1 school, with 24 scholars, and Ezekiel Nute appeared with 1 school, with 80 scholars, on their lines. William Ricker appeared with 1 school, with 27 scholars, Joshua H. Ricker appeared with 1 school, with 70 scholars, and John Foss appeared with 1 school, with 50 scholars, on their lines. Jonathan Dore appeared with 1 school, with 27 scholars, and Samuel Clement appeared with 1 school, with 30 scholars, on their lines.

Summed up, this would amount to a total of ten primary or common schools, with a total of 388 scholars. (There was a mean (average) of 38.8 students per school, due to a few larger outliers, and a median of only 28.5 students per school).

References:

Wikipedia. (2022, May 26). Winnowing Oar. Retrieved from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnowing_Oar

By Muriel Bristol | January 15, 2023

David Wallingford, Jr., was born in Milton, in 1801, son of David [Sr.] and Sarah (Corson) Wallingford.

(N.B.: There were several Milton men in this time named “David Wallingford,” and it is difficult to distinguish between them. This David Wallingford (1801-1878) was called “Jr.” from his birth through the death of his father, who was also named David Wallingford, in 1816. The “Jr.” appellation passed then to his seven-year-old nephew of the same name, David Wallingford (1819-1903), son of Samuel Wallingford (1790-1815). He was “Jr.” only in that sense that he was younger, rather than as being the son of the elder. The elder David Wallingford had also a son named David W. Wallingford (1848-1926), who was distinguished through his having had a middle name, whereas the others lacked them. For these reasons, it is here assumed the elder David Wallingford (1801-1878) – without appellation – to have been the Milton Selectman of 1845-1846 and the NH State Representative of 1855-56, while his younger nephew, David Wallingford (1819-1903) – with the “Jr.” appellation – is assumed to have been the Milton Selectman of 1855-56, 1870, and, after the 1878 death of the elder David Wallingford, as having been – now without appellation – the Milton Selectman of 1880-81).

Mr. David Wallingford married in Strafford, NH, September 21, 1828, Miss Mary Ann Tasker, he of Dover, NH, and she of Strafford, NH. Rev. Enoch Place of Strafford, NH, performed the ceremony. She was born in Strafford, in 1805, daughter of Daniel and Sarah “Sally” (Randall) Tasker.

(The known children of David and Mary A. (Tasker) Wallingford were: Samuel Wallingford (1830–1830), Eliza Jane Wallingford (1832–1867), George S. Wallingford (1834–1857), Samuel Willard Wallingford (1837–1899), Mary E. Wallingford (1841-1882), David Woodbury Wallingford [I] (1844–1844), Sarah Ann Wallingford (1845–1893), David Woodbury Wallingford [II] (1848–1926), Emma F. Wallingford (1850–1920), and Susan E. Wallingford (1852–1856)).

David Warringford [SIC] headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 20-29 years [Mary A. (Tasker) Wallingford], one male aged 10-14 years, one male aged 5-9 years, one male aged under-5 years [Samuel Wallingford], one female aged 30-39 years, and one female aged 50-59 years [Sarah (Corson) Wallingford]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Lord and Amos Gerrish.

Son Samuel Wallingford was born in Milton in 1830. He died in Milton in 1830.

Daughter Eliza J. Wallingford was born in Milton in 1832. Son George S. Wallingford was born in Milton in 1834. Son Samuel Willard “Willard” Wallingford was born in Milton, November 27, 1837.

David Wallingford headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. Hos household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Mary A. (Tasker) Wallingford], one male aged 15-19 years, one female aged 15-19 years, one female aged 5-9 years [Eliza J. Wallingford], one male aged 5-9 years [George S. Wallingford], one male aged under-5 years [Samuel W. Wallingford], and one female aged 60-69 years [Sarah (Corson) Wallingford]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Amos Gerrish and Nahum Tasker.

Daughter Mary E. Wallingford was born in Milton in 1841.

Son David Woodbury Wallingford [I] was born in Milton in 1844. He died in Milton in 1844. Daughter Sarah Ann Wallingford was born in Milton in 1845.

The Milton selectmen of 1845 were Asa Fox, I.H. Wentworth, and David Wallingford.

In the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1845, Milton gave 52 [31.7%] votes to Abolitionist Daniel Hoit, of Sandwich, NH, 69 votes [42.1%] to Whig Gen. Anthony Colby, of New London, NH, and 43 votes [26.2%] to Democrat John H. Steele, of Peterborough, NH. (See Milton and Abolitionism). (On a statewide basis, Abolitionist Hoit received 5,786 votes [12.9%], Whig Colby received 15,579 votes [34.8%], and Democrat Steele received 23,406 votes [52.3%]). Democrat Steele won the election. Most editors identified Steele as a “Loco Foco” Democrat, while others said he was favored by the “Polkites.”

NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. The Loco-Focos elect 4 of the 5 Councillors and 10 of the 12 Senators, and will of course elect the others in Joint Meeting of the Legislature. Hon Salma Hale, the Whig candidate for Senate in the 9th (Cheshire) District, is said by the Patriot to lack six votes of a majority over all others. The House, so far, stands 156 Loco, 74 Whig, 7 Abolition, 2 politics unknown, 19 towns no choice, 9 to be heard from – probably all Loco (Greenfield Recorder, March 25, 1845).

Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson said of the “Loco Foco” Democrats: “The new race is stiff, heady, and rebellious; they are fanatics in freedom; they hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks, hierarchies, governors, yea, almost all laws.” They had favored formerly Presidential candidates Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

The Milton selectmen of 1846 were Asa Fox, D. Wallingford, and J.C. Varney.

Son David Woodbury “Woodbury” Wallingford [II] was born in Milton, November 22, 1848.

David Wallingford received an initial five-year appointment as a Milton justice-of-the peace, December 27, 1848.

David Wallingford, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Tasker)] Wallingford, aged forty-five years (b. NH), Eliza J. Wallingford, aged seventeen years (b. NH), George S. Wallingford, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Samuel W. Wallingford, aged twelve years (b. NH), Mary E. Wallingford, aged nine years (b. NH), Sarah Wallingford, aged five years (b. NH), David W. Wallingford, aged two years (b. NH), and Sarah [(Corson)] Wallingford, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH). David Wallingford had real estate valued at $1,500. Sarah Wallingford had real estate valued at $600. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Francis D. Horn, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and Enoch Plummer, a farmer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH).

Emma F. Wallingford was born in Milton in 1850. Susan E. Wallingford was born in Milton in 1852. She died in Milton in 1856.

David Wallingford received a five-year renewal of his appointment as a Milton justice-of-the peace, December 9, 1853.

Milton sent David Wallingford to Concord, NH, as one of its two NH State Representatives for the 1855-56 biennium. (The other was Eli Wentworth (1821-1863)). His mileage was rated as 100 miles.

New Hampshire passed a prohibitory law on a third attempt in July 1855, only a month after the Portland Rum Riot. (See Milton Under “Semi-Prohibition” – 1855-02).

Son George S. Wallingford died in Milton in 1857.

Daughter Eliza J. Wallingford married in Strafford, NH, circa 1858, Edmund O. Caswell. He was born in Strafford, NH, September 12, 1833, son of Thomas and Sally (Evans) Caswell.

David Wallingford received a five-year renewal of his appointment as a Milton justice-of-the peace, September 30, 1858.

MILTON. Justice, State, John E. Goodwin. Justice, Quorum. Eli Wentworth. Justices, John L. Swinerton, Daniel P. Warren, Joseph Pearl, Robert Mathes, Elias S. Cook, David Wallingford, Charles C. Hayes, Thomas Y. Wentworth, Asa Fox, Daniel E. Palmer, Joseph Plumer, Luther Hayes, Ezra H. Twombly, Joseph Mathes, Elbridge W. Fox, Charles Jones (Farmer, 1860).

David Wallingford, a farmer, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary A. [(Tasker)] Wallingford, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), Saml. W. Wallingford, a farmer, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Mary E. Wallingford, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Sarah A. Wallingford, aged fourteen years (b. NH), David W. Wallingford, aged twelve years (b. NH), Emma F. Wallingford, aged ten years (b. NH), and Sarah [(Corson)] Wallingford, aged eighty-eight years (b. NH). David Wallingford had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $900. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nahum Tasker, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), and Benja Scates, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. NH). (The household of David Wallingford, Jr., a farmer, aged forty-one years (b. NH), appeared below that of Benja Scates).

Edmond O. Caswell, a farmer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), headed a Strafford, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Eliza J. [(Wallingford)] Caswell, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH). Edmond O. Caswell had real estate valued at $1,050 and personal estate valued at $250. They shared a two-family residence with the household of Charles C. Caswell, a farmer, aged twenty-three years. (His real estate was also valued at $1,050, i.e., they likely had equal shares of the same farmstead).

David Wallingford received a five-year renewal of his appointment as a Milton justice-of-the peace, September 29, 1863. (This was his final appointment).

Son Saml W. Wallingford paid a $1 US Excise Tax on his carriage, which was valued at $75, September 16, 1864.

Mother Sarah (Corson) Wallingford died in Milton, November 22, 1864.

Daughter Mary E. Wallingford married in Farmington, NH, January 5, 1865, John Wingate, she of Milton and he of Strafford, NH. He was a shoemaker, aged twenty-nine years, and she was a lady, aged twenty-three years. Rev. Roger M. Sargent performed the ceremony. Wingate was born in Strafford, NH, in 1835, son of Joshua and Mary (McNeal) Wingate.

Daughter Eliza J. (Wallingford) Caswell died in Strafford, NH, in 1867.

Daughter Sarah A. Wallingford married in Strafford, NH, March 13, 1867, Thomas Sawyer Pease, she of Milton and he of Strafford, NH. He was aged twenty-seven years, and she was aged twenty-one years. Rev. B.B. Smith performed the ceremony. Pease was born in New Bedford, MA, September 5, 1839, son of Daniel Jr. and Jerusha (Hall) Pease.

Son Daniel W. Wallingford married (1st) in Barnstead, NH, February 13, 1870, Mary J. Tuttle, he of Milton and she of Barnstead, NH. He was a farmer, aged twenty-two years, and she was aged nineteen years. Rev. Hector Canfield performed the ceremony. She was born in Chichester, NH, September 28, 1850, daughter of Thomas and Lois (Wingate) Tuttle.

Daughter Emma F. Wallingford married in Andover, MA, February 23, 1870, George E. Drew, she of Milton and he of Strafford, NH. He was a machinist, aged twenty-four years, and she was aged nineteen years. Rev. James P. Law performed the ceremony. Baker was born in Strafford, NH, circa 1846, son of Tobias and Eliza Drew.

David Wallingford, a farmer, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary A. [(Tasker)] Wallingford, keeping house, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), David W. Wallingford, a farm laborer, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), and Mary J. [(Tuttle)] Wallingford, a housekeeper, aged nineteen years (b. NH). David Wallingford had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $982. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles Bragdon, a farmer, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and Peleg B. Trask, works in shoe factory, aged thirty-two years (b. ME).

John Wingate, a worker (“work for …”), aged thirty-five years, headed a Rochester (“Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary E. [(Wallingford)] Wingate, keeping house, aged twenty-nine years, Hattie G. Wingate, aged four years, and Mary [(McNeal)] Wingate, aged seventy-six years.

Thomas Peas, works for shoe manufactory, aged twenty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Farmington (“Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sarah P. [(Wallingford)] Peas, keeping house, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Herbert Peas, at home, aged three years (b. NH). Thomas Peas had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $450.

Milton sent son Samuel W. Wallingford to Concord, NH, as its NH State Representative for the second (1870) year of the 1869-70 biennium. He would seem to have replaced Samuel G. Chamberlain, who had been the NH State Representative for the first (1869) year of that biennium.

Son Samuel W. Wallingford married, November 10, 1870, Mary B. Plummer. She was born in Milton, September 8, 1844, daughter of Col. Enoch and Orinda (Ayers) Plummer.

George Drew appeared in the Fall River, MA, directory of 1873, as a machinist, boarding at 7 North Main street. George E. Drew appeared in the directory of 1874, as a machinist, with his house at 214 South Main street. He appeared in the directory of 1876, as a machinist, boarding at 7 North Main street. (Marianne Grinnell kept a boarding house at 7 North Main street).

Samuel W. Wallingford, a penitentiary instructor, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Brooklyn, NY, household at the time of the NY State Census of 1875. His household included his wife, Mary B. [(Plummer)] Wallingford, aged thirty years (b. NH). They shared their two-family frame house with the upstairs household of John M. Pinkham, a penitentiary foreman, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH).

Daughter-in-law Mary J. (Tuttle) Wallingford died in Milton, October 18, 1877, aged twenty-seven years, and twenty days.

David Wallingford of Milton made his last will August 23, 1878. He devised all his provisions, household furniture, stock, hay, and farming tools to his beloved wife Mary Ann Wallingford. She was also to receive a life estate in his 140-acre Milton homestead farm. He devised $600 to his son, David W. Wallingford; $100 each to his three daughters, Mary E. Wingate, Sarah A. Pease, and Emma F. Drew; and $1 each to the three children of Edmund O. Caswell, they having already received $100 each. He devised the aforementioned Milton homestead farm to his son, Samuel W. Wallingford, after the decease of his wife. Son Samuel W. Wallingford was named also as executor. Enoch T. Mason, Calvin M. Hubbard, and T.W. Tuttle signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 89:493; Strafford County Probate Docket 4941).

David Wallingford died in Milton, July 20, 1879, aged seventy-six years. He had been a farmer. He was said also to have been a widower. His will was proved in Strafford County Probate court held in Dover, NH, August 5, 1879 (Strafford County Probate, 89:493; Strafford County Probate Docket 4941).

Son Daniel W. Wallingford married (2nd) in Rochester, NH, December 15, 1879, M. [Mary] Ellen Wingate, he of Milton and she of Rochester, NH. He was a shoemaker, aged thirty-seven years, and she was aged thirty years. Rev. Ezekiel True performed the ceremony. She was born in Strafford, NH, July 23, 1849, daughter of Lyman and Abigail T. “Abbie” (Gray) Wingate.

Samuel W. Wallingford, a farmer, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary B. [(Plummer)] Wallingford, keeping house, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), his mother, Mary A. [(Tasker)] Wallingford, at home, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), his nephew, George W. Wallingford, aged eight years (b. NH), and his niece, Millie M. Wallingford, aged five years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Frank G. Horn, works on shoes, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and James A. Wentworth, a farmer, aged forty-two years (b. NH).

John Wingate, works in shoe factory, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary E. [(Wallingford)] Wingate, keeping house, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), and his daughter, Hattie G. Wingate, at school, aged thirteen years (b. NH).

Thomas S. Pease, a farmer, aged forty years (b. MA), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Sarah A. [(Wallingford)] Pease, keeping house, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), and his children, Herbert H. Pease, at home, aged twelve years (b. NH), and Edgar S. Pease, aged four years (b. NH).

David W. Wallingford, works in shoe factory, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Nellie M. [(Wingate)] Wallingford, keeping house, aged thirty years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence on Charles Street with the household of Sarah E. Severance, keeping house, aged thirty years (b. NH).

Emma [(Wallingford)] Drew, a servant, aged twenty-five [twenty-nine] years (b. NH), was a servant in the Fall River, MA, boarding house of Marianne Grinnell, aged seventy-nine years (b. RI), at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. It was situated at North Main Street.

Daughter Mary E. (Wallingford) Wingate died in Rochester, NH, February 14, 1882.

Mary Ann (Tasker) Wallingford died in Milton in 1887.

Emma F. Drew appeared in the Fall River, MA, directories of 1889, as a widow, with her house at Section B, of the Granite Block. Emma F. Drew appeared in the Fall River, MA, directories of 1890, 1894, and 1895, as a widow, with her house at Section D, of the Granite Block.

Daughter Sarah A. (Wallingford) Pease died of apoplexy in Rochester, NH, June 22, 1893, aged forty-seven years. E.T. Hubbard, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Milton sent son Samuel W. Wallingford to Concord, NH, as its NH State Representative for the 1893-94 biennium. Republican Samuel W. Wallingford received 240 votes (60.5%), while Democrat Henry R. Johnson received 153 votes (38.5%) and Prohibitionist Hiram Wentworth received 4 votes (1%) (NH Secretary of State, 1893).

The Milton selectmen of 1896-97 were S.W. Wallingford, J.H. Avery, and F.H. Lowd. The Milton selectmen of 1898 were S.W. Wallingford, G.E. Nute, and F.H. Lowd.

Emma F. Drew appeared in the Fall River, MA, directories of 1896, 1897, and 1899, as widow, with her house at 23 South Main street.

Son Samuel W. Wallingford died of pyemia (following a pulmonary abscess) in Milton, May 25, 1899, aged sixty-one years, five months, and twenty-eight years. M.A.H. Hart, M.D., signed the death certificate.

LOCALS. The many friends of the Plumers of the ridge in Milton bearing their name, feel sympathy for one of their number in the death of her husband, S. Willard Wallingford, on Thursday of last week. He had been ill only a week (Farmington News, June 2, 1899).

Mary B. [(Plummer)] Wallingford, a farmer, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her brother-in-law, John H. Twombly, a physician (retired), aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and her sister (and his wife of twenty years), Frances W. [(Plummer)] Twombly, aged forty-nine years (b. NH). Mary B. Wallingford owned their farm, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Susan F. Horn, a widow, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and George F. Henderson, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. ME).

John Wingate was a farm laborer, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), boarding in the Strafford, NH, household of Charles A. Tibbetts, a farmer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census.

Thomas S. Pease, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a North Hampton, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his [second] wife (of five years), Helen A. [(Loud)] Pease, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and his daughter, Lucy M. Pease, at school, aged twelve years (b. NH). Thomas S. Pease owned their farm, with a mortgage. Helen A. Pease was the mother of no children.

David W. Wallingford, a shoe laster, aged fifty-two years, headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty years), Mary E. [(Wingate)] Wallingford, aged fifty years (b. NH), and his father-in-law, Lyman Wingate, retired, aged seventy-nine years (b. NH). David W. Wallingford rented their house on Mont Street.

Emma F. Drew appeared in the Fall River, MA, directories of 1900, 1901, and 1903, as widow, with her house at 23 South Main street.

Son-in-law John Wingate died of stomach cancer in North Barrington, NH, July 30, 1903, aged sixty-eight years, five months, and twenty-one days.

MILTON. Mrs. Mary B. Wallingford went to Boston last week (Farmington News, February 5, 1904).

MILTON. Mrs. Mary B. Wallingford returned home last week from a visit to Boston and vicinity (Farmington News, May 6, 1904).

MILTON. Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Wallingford of Rochester were in town last week (Farmington News, June 3, 1904).

Daughter-in-law MARY B. WALLINGFORD, widow of Samuel W., appeared in the Milton directory of 1905, as proprietor of a summer boarding-house at Plummer’s Ridge, near the schoolhouse.

Mrs. Emma Drew appeared in the Fall River, MA, directories of 1906, and 1908, as a loom harnessmaker, with her house at 271 Franklin street.

PERSONAL. Miss Florence Hayes made a short visit home to Milton last week, to bid bon voyage to her brother Charles and others who have gone to Washington for the class tour, M.H.S., ’08. Principal C.E. Kelly is with his students, and Mrs. Mary B. Wallingford is acting as chaperon (Farmington News, April 24, 1908).

MILTON. About 11.30 o’clock Monday night of last week a fire was discovered in the barn connected with the house on Main street owned by Woodbury Wallingford, of Rochester, and occupied by Charles Bodwell. An alarm was given but before the hose could be connected with the S.F. Dawson mill the fire had gained an uncontrollable headway. Everything was removed from the house except the furniture of two chambers. All possible work was done to save the buildings around, but the house occupied by George Gowan was lost, together with an empty store beside it. The fire was probably set by fireworks, since the barn was not occupied (Sanford Journal Tribune (Biddeford, ME), July 16, 1909).

Mary B. [(Plummer)] Wallingford, a general farm farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her brother-in-law, John H. Twombly, a home farm keeper, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), her sister (and his wife of thirty-one years), Fannie W. [(Plummer)] Twombly, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), and her sister-in-law, Susan [(Pecker)] Plummer, aged seventy years (b. NH). Mary B. Wallingford owned their farm, free-and-clear.

Thomas S. Pease, a general farm farmer, aged seventy years (b. MA), headed a Strafford, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his [third] wife (of six years), Mary E. [(Berry)] Pease, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Hannah A. [(Foss)] Berry, aged eighty-five years.

D. Woodbury Wallingford, a shoe factory laster, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty years), Mary E. [(Wingate)] Wallingford, aged sixty years (b. NH). D. Woodbury Wallingford owned their house at 20 Jackson Street, free-and-clear.

OUR FOLKS AND OTHER FOLKS. Mrs. Emma Drew, who has been summering in Rochester N.H., has returned to this city (Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, MA), October 21, 1912).

LOCAL. The Milton Woman’s club at its annual election last week elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Carrie E. Kimball; vice presidents, Mrs. Ira W. Drew, Mrs. Ruth F. Plummer; recording secretary, Mrs. Gertrude Getchell; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Edith A. Dawson; treasurer, Miss Sadie Avery; auditor, Mrs. Mary B. Wallingford; executive committee for three years, Mrs. Annie Hayes; delegate to State Federation, Miss Gertrude Getchell (Farmington News, May 4, 1917).

Daughter Emma Drew appeared in the Fall River, MA, directory of 1919, as having removed to Rochester, N.H.

Mary B. [(Plummer)] Wallingford, aged seventy-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her brother-in-law, John H. Twombly, a farmer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), her sister, Frances W. [(Plummer)] Twombly, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), and her sister-in-law, Susan E. [(Pecker)] Plummer, aged eighty years (b. NH). Mary B. Wallingford owned their farm on Plummer’s Ridge Road, free-and-clear.

Thomas S. Pease, a general farm farmer, aged eighty years (b. MA), headed a Strafford, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary E [(Berry)] Pease, aged sixty-one years (b. NH). Thomas S. Pease owned their farm, free-and-clear.

David W. Wallingford, a general farm farmer, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ellen M. [(Wingate)] Wallingford, aged seventy years (b. NH). David W. Wallingford owned their farm on the Strafford Road.

Daughter Emma F. (Wallingford) Drew died in Fall River, MA, in 1920.

CARD OF THANKS. We desire to return our thanks to the kind associates who arranged for the care of our late sister, Mrs. Emma F. Drew, of Fall River, Massachusetts; to her esteemed nephew in the furtherance of those plans for the opening of her native home to perform the burial service; also for the choice floral offerings. MR. AND MRS. WOODBURY WALLINGFORD – Rochester N.H., December 24, 1920. Rochester New Hampshire papers please copy (Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, MA), December 27, 1920).

Son-in-law Edmund O. Caswell died of angina pectoris at Bow Lake in Strafford, NH, October 20, 1920, aged eighty-seven years, one month, and eight days. He had been a farmer and a lifelong resident of Strafford, NH.

Son-in-law Thomas S. Pease died of apoplexy in Strafford, NH, December 21, 1922, aged eighty-three years, three months, and sixteen days. He had been a farmer, who had resided in Strafford, NH, for twenty-two years, i.e., since circa 1900. His previous residence had been in North Hampton.

Son David W. “Woodbury” Wallingford died of arteriosclerosis on Strafford Road in Rochester, NH, October 18, 1926, aged seventy-seven years, ten months, and twenty-six days. He had been a farmer, who had resided in Rochester, NH, for forty years, i.e., since circa 1886. His previous residence had been in Milton.

Mary B. [(Plummer)] Wallingford, a widow, aged eighty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Mary B. Wallingford owned her house on Plummer’s Ridge, which was valued at $4,000.

Mary [(Wingate)] Wallingford, aged eighty-two years (b. NH), was one of fourteen inmates in the Gafney Home on Wakefield Street in Rochester, NH, at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census.

Daughter-in-law Mary Ellen (Wingate) Wallingford died of natural causes (arteriosclerosis senility) in the Gafney Home on Wakefield Street in Rochester, NH, November 17, 1933, aged eighty-four years, three months, and twenty-four days. She had resided in the Gafney Home for four years, i.e., since circa 1930, with her previous residence in Rochester, NH. C.E. Dunbar, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Daughter-in-law Mary B. (Plummer) Wallingford died of hypertensive heart disease in the Masonic Home in Manchester, NH, September 22, 1939, aged ninety-five years, and fifteen days. She had resided in the Masonic Home for seven years and eight months, i.e., since circa January 1932, with her previous residence in Milton. C.E. Dunbar, M.D., signed the death certificate.

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By Muriel Bristol | January 8, 2023

George W. Tasker was born in Milton, October 28, 1829, son of Nahum and Mary (Wallingford) Tasker. (She was a sister of David Wallingford (1801-1878)).

Nahum Tasker, a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Wallingford)] Tasker, aged fifty years (b. NH), George Tasker, a shoemaker, aged twenty years (b. NH), Abby A. Tasker, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Clary Tasker, aged twelve years (b. NH), and Hiram Tasker, aged nine years (b. NH). Nahum Tasker had real estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Plummer, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH), and Sally [(Worster) Wallingford)] Jones, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH).

George W. Tasker married (1st) in Lebanon, ME, September 20, 1855, Lydia S. Jones, both of Milton. She was born in Milton, in 1831, daughter of Joshua and Sarah K. “Sally” (Cowell) Jones. (She was a sister of Susan A. (Jones) Wallingford).

(The known children of George W. and Lydia S. (Jones) Tasker were Charles W. Tasker (1856–1939), Mabel Tasker (1858-1858), Addie F. Tasker (1862-1863), Nellie B. Tasker (1867–1955), Amy E. Tasker (1870-1871), and Dana J. Tasker (1874-1975)).

Son Charles W. Tasker was born in Lebanon, ME, in 1856.

Sister Abby A. Tasker died of consumption in Milton, April 1, 1858, aged twenty-three years, one month, and nineteen days. She was a teacher.

Daughter Mabel Tasker was born in Milton, in July 1858. She died in Milton, September 25, 1858, aged ten weeks. (A bud on earth, A rose in Heaven).

George W. Tasker, a shoemaker, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Lydia S. [(Jones)] Tasker, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Charles W. Tasker, aged four years (b. NH). George W. Tasker had real estate valued at $900 and personal estate valued at $700. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ephraim Plummer, a shoemaker, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and John H. Varney, a shoemaker, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH).

Daughter Addie F. Tasker was born in Milton, March 11, 1863. She died in Milton, April 14, 1863, aged five months, and three days. (Our little girl too fair for earth, But not too fair for heaven).

Daughter Nellie B. Tasker was born in Milton, September 15, 1866.

George W. Tasker was one of the ten prominent Milton citizens who incorporated a private secondary school – the Milton Classical Institute – at Three Ponds Village in Milton, NH, in July 1867. The incorporators included also NH Governor’s Councilor (and ex-officio NH State Board of Education member) Charles Jones, Strafford Sheriff Luther Hayes, manufacturer Hiram V. Wentworth, miller William P. Tuttle, Dr. George W. Peavey, and others.

Mother Mary (Wallingford) Tasker died of consumption in Milton, January 5, 1868, aged sixty-nine years, two months, and seventeen days.

Father-in-law Joshua Jones died of palsy in Milton, June 17, 1868, aged seventy-nine years, three months, and eight days.

George W. Tasker was the Milton Town Clerk in 1869. He filled a one-year gap between a first term of Joseph Mathes, 1856-68, and a second term of Joseph Mathes, 1870-74.

George W. Tasker received an initial appointment as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, May 13, 1869. (John S. Hersey received one that same day).

MILTON. Justices – Charles Jones, Luther Hayes, State; Elbridge W. Fox, Joseph Plumer, Ebenezer Wentworth, Charles A. Cloutman, Asa Jewett, Joseph Cook, Robert Mathes, Ira C. Varney, George Lyman, George W. Peavey, Martin V.B. Cook, John T. Hersey, George W. Tasker, Edward W. Fox, Ezra H. Twombly, Thomas H. Roberts, John U. Şimes, Larkin A. Craig [Lang] (McFarland & Jenks, 1869).

George W. Tasker, a shoe cutter, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Lydia S. [(Jones)] Tasker, keeping house, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Charles W. Tasker, at school, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Nellie B. Tasker, aged three years (b. NH), and Ellen F. Wentworth, a domestic servant, aged sixteen years (b. NH). George W. Tasker had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Lucas, a carpenter, aged forty-six years (b. ME), and Eliza A. Fernald, keeping house, aged forty-eight years (b. NH).

Daughter Amy Edly Tasker was born in Milton, June 26, 1870. She died of liver congestion in Milton, March 15, 1871, aged eight months, seventeen days. (In life [beloved], In death not forgotten).

In the NH gubernatorial election of 1871, Milton gave 187 votes [57.5%] to Republican candidate James Pike, 116 votes [35.7%] to Democrat candidate James A. Weston, and 22 votes [6.8%] to Labor Reform candidate L.P. Cooper, Temperance candidate Rev. M.S. Comings, and “Scattering.” Statewide, the gubernatorial race was effectively a draw, and the legislature chose Democrat James A. Weston to be governor.

Milton sent George W. Tasker to Concord, NH, in that same election, as one of its two NH State Representatives for the 1871-72 biennium. (The other representative was initially Samuel G. Chamberlain (1827-1911), for the first year of the biennium (1871); and then Bray U. Simes (1801-1885), for the second year of the biennium (1872)).

Rep. George W. Tasker of Milton served on the Committee on the Division of Towns. (Another Rep. Tasker – Rep. Charles E. Tasker of Newmarket, NH – served on the Committee on the Insane Asylum). His mileage was rated as 174 miles.

The House of Representatives. … STRAFFORD COUNTY – Dover, republican, Jonas D. Townsend, James E. Lothrop, Russell B. Wiggin, John B. Hull, George T. Day, Moses D. Page, Calvin Hall, Jasper H. Randlett, John C. Varney; dem., John Roberts; Madbury, dem., V.B. Felker; Milton, rep., George W. Tasker, Bray N. Lines [Bray U. Simes]; Barrington, rep., W.E. Waterhouse, William Jewett; Somersworth, rep., James M. Tebbets, Joseph Sibley, Hiram Wentworth, Geo. S. Bates, Hartley S. Chapman; Farmington, rep., James E. Haves, J.L. Haskins; Durham rep., Thomas H Wiswall; Rollinsford, rep., Temple Lord (Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT). March 16, 1872).

George W. Tasker received a renewal of his appointment as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, May 19, 1874.

Son Dana Jones Tasker was born in Milton, June 1, 1874.

Father Nahum Tasker married (2nd) in Strafford, NH, October 26, 1879, Mary ((Clark) Peavey) Hanson, he of Milton and she of Barrington, NH. He was a farmer, aged seventy-five years, and she was a widow, aged sixty-eight years. Rev. B. McDaniel performed the ceremony. She was born in Barrington, NH, December 23, 1808, daughter of Martha Clark. (She was the widow of Caleb Hanson, who had died in Barrington, NH, in March 1871/72).

George W. Tasker, works in shoe manufacturing, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lydia S. [(Jones)] Tasker, keeps house, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), his children, Charles W. Tasker, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Nellie B. Tasker, at school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and Dana J. Tasker, aged five years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Pound, tends grist mill, aged thirty-four years (b. England), and Eliza A. Fernald, keeps house, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH).

George Tasker appeared in the Milton directories of 1880, 1881, and 1882, as a Milton mechanic, specifically a shoemaker.

Mother-in-law Sarah K. “Sally” (Cowell) Jones died of old age in Milton, May 8, 1884, aged ninety-one years, and one day. (She was a daughter of Samuel and Amy (Kilgore) Cowell).

Step-mother Mary (((Clark) Peavey) Hanson) Tasker died October 12, 1883, aged seventy-four years, nine months, and nineteen days.

Son Charles W. Tasker married in Haverhill, MA, June 2, 1885, Ida B. Shattuck, both of Milton. He was a shoe-cutter, aged twenty-nine years, and she was a lady, aged twenty-eight years. Rev. J.N. Lowell performed the ceremony. She was born in Rochester, NH, in 1857, daughter of Charles O. and Lydia (Cobb) Shattuck.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. D.S. Burley to G.W. Tasker, land in Milton, $400 (Farmington News, January 6, 1888).

Father Nahum Tasker died of kidney disease in Milton, July 12, 1888, aged eighty-four years, six months, and twelve days. He was a farmer.

Lydia S. (Jones) Tasker died of Bright’s disease in Milton, April 3, 1890, aged fifty-eight years, eight months, and four days. Charles D. Jones signed the death certificate, in his capacity as Milton Town Clerk, rather than as a physician.

MILTON. Mrs. George W. Tasker of this village died at her home last Tuesday morning, after an illness of several months’ duration, from a complication of diseases. She suffered very much, especially the last days of her life, and was ready for the messenger of death when he came. Mrs. Tasker was a christian, highly esteemed in this community, having resided here many years. A husband and three children are in sorrow by her departure, besides a large circle of relatives and friends. Funeral services occurred at the house Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. F. Haley, with appropriate selections by the choir of the Congregational church of which she was an honored member (Farmington News, April 11, 1890).

Daughter Nellie B. Tasker married in Farmington, NH, September 24, 1890, Royal K. Webber, both of Milton. He was a carpenter, aged thirty years, and she was a shoe stitcher, aged twenty-four years. Rev. W.J. Sweet performed the ceremony. Webber was born in Shapleigh, ME, October 15, 1859, son of Greenleaf and Sarah (Grant) Webber.

George W. Tasker appeared in the Portsmouth, NH, directories of 1895, and 1897, as a shoe cutter, rooming at 8 Langdon Street.

George W. Tasker married (2nd) in Kittery, ME, January 22, 1898, Elizabeth A. “Lizzie” (Caverly) Hanson, he of Portsmouth, NH, and she of Barrington, NH. He was a shoemaker, aged sixty-eight years, and she was a shoe stitcher, aged fifty-four years. Rev. Henry Emerson performed the ceremony. She was born in Barrington, NH, April 29, 1843, daughter of Azariah and Elizabeth (Tasker) Caverly. (Her first husband, Stephen W. Hanson, had died in Barrington, September 4, 1894).

PERSONALS. Mr. John C. Plummer and Mr. and Mrs. George W. Tasker have been visiting in Milton (Portsmouth Herald, September 15, 1899).

PERSONALS. George W. Tasker is to remove to Milton, N.H. (Portsmouth Herald, April 30, 1900).

George W. Tasker, a retired shoemaker, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of three years), Elizabeth A. [((Caverly) Hanson)] Tasker, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH). George W. Tasker owned their house, free-and-clear. Elizabeth A. Tasker was the mother of zero children. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Hiram S. Cate, a leatherboard hand (retired), aged seventy-nine years (b. NH), and Royal K. Webber, a carpenter (house), aged thirty-seven years (b. ME).

Charles Tasker, a shoe cutter (uppers), aged forty years (b. NH [SIC]), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fifteen years), Ida [(Shattuck)] Tasker, aged forty-three years (b. VT [SIC]), his children, Edgar Tasker, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and Grace Tasker, aged eleven years (b. NH), and his father-in-law, Charles Shattuck, a retired woolen mill superintendent, aged seventy-five years (b. MA). Charles Tasker owned their house, free-and-clear. Ida Tasker was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles Cole, a shoe finisher, aged forty-six years (b. ME), and Elvira V. [(Leighton)] Pierce, a home keeper, aged seventy-nine years (b. NH).

Royal Webber, a carpenter (house), aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of ten years), Nellie B. [(Tasker)] Webber, aged thirty-three years (b. NH). Royal Webber opened their house, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George W. Tasker, a retired shoemaker, aged seventy years (b. NH), and John A. Barrett, a mill engineer, aged forty-six years (b. ME).

Sarah J. [(Waite)] Libby, a widow, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), headed a Fort Fairfield, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Jerre H. Libby, a lawyer, aged twenty-four years (b. ME), and Amy L. Libby, at school, aged seventeen years (b. ME), and his boarders, Mary E. Fish, a milliner, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA), Laura E. Harvey, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-three years (b. ME), Bessie E. Burpee, a school teacher, aged twenty-six years (b. Canada), Dana J. Tasker, a drug salesman, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and George S. Osborne, a house painter, aged twenty-seven years (b. ME). Sarah J. Libby owned their house on Main Street, free-and-clear. She was the mother of six children, of whom three were still living.

Son Dana J. Tasker married in Center Ossipee, NH, June 12, 1901, Lena M. Spear, he of Milton and she of Ossipee, NH. He was a pharmacist, aged twenty-seven years, and she was a teacher, aged twenty-five years. Rev. S.W. Richardson performed the ceremony. She was born in Ossipee, NH, November 2, 1879, daughter of Alphonso and Sarah E. Spear.

SANFORD LOCALS. Dana Tasker is working at Meserve’s drug store in Kennebunk (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Sanford, ME), April 17, 1903).

George W. Tasker appeared in the Milton directories of 1902, and 1905, as retired, with his house on South Main Street, opposite Charles Street. His son, Charles W. Tasker, appeared in 1902 as a shoe cutter, resident in Roxbury, MA.

Son Charles W. Tasker appeared in the Boston directories of 1902, 1903, and 1904, as a [shoe] cutter, boarding at 6 Galena Street, Roxbury.

SANFORD LOCALS. Dana J. Tasker and Mrs. Tasker are on a vacation trip in New Hampshire (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Sanford, ME), July 18, 1902).

Son Charles W. Tasker appeared in the Boston directories of 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, as a [shoe] cutter, with his house at 82 Bower Street, Roxbury.

Our Grange Homes. NEW HAMPSHIRE. The following officers of Lewis W. Nute grange were installed Jan. 10th by John A. Edgerly of Tuftonboro: B.B. Plummer, Jr., M.; James F. Doe, O.; Ruth L. Fall, L.; Hervey W. Dorr, S.; Carl H. Keene, A.S.; Mrs. Mary C. Hall, Chap.; Mrs. Nellie B. Webber, Sec.; Charles A. Jones, T.; J.W. Johnson, G.K.; Mrs. Ina Webber, C; Mrs. Lucia Jones, P.; Mrs. C.M. Dorr, L.A.S. (New England Farmer (Brattleboro, VT), February 3, 1906).

MILTON, N.H. Dana Tasker of Center Ossipee visited his father, George W. Tasker, who has been quite ill, last Wednesday (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Sanford, ME), February 1, 1907).

MILTON, N.H. Dana Tasker of Centre Ossipee visited his father, George W. Tasker, Monday (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Sanford, ME), March 22, 1907).

MILTON, N.H. Mrs. Eleanor Metcalfe Hunt, of Boston, is visiting at Mrs. Royal K. Webber’s (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Sanford, ME), June 26, 1908).

Son Charles W. Tasker appeared in the Boston directory of 1910, as a sexton, with his house at 82 Bower Street, Roxbury.

George M. Tasker, a laborer, aged eighty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of ten years), Elisabeth [((Caverly) Hanson)] Tasker, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH). George M. Tasker owned their house, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Melvina [(Staples)] Dorr, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), and John R. Kennett, a paper mill lapper, aged thirty-eight years (b. NY).

Charles W. Tasker, a church sexton, aged fifty-four years (b. ME), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-five years), Ida B. [(Shattuck)] Tasker, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), and his children, Edgar S. Tasker, an electric light distributor, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and Grace M. Tasker, a law office stenographer, aged twenty years (b. NH). Charles W. Tasker rented their house at 82 Bower Street. Ida B. Tasker was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.

Roy Webber, a leatherboard mill carpenter, aged forty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty years), Nellie [(Tasker)] Webber, aged forty-three years (b. NH). Roy Webber owned their house, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John R. Kennett, a paper mill lapper, aged thirty-eight years (b. NY), and Charles Stackpole, a shoe shop foreman, aged thirty-five years (b. NH).

Alphonso A. Spear, a general farm farmer, aged sixty-eight years (b. ME), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Fedeal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-three years), Sarah E. [(Hodsdon)] Spear, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), his daughter, Lena M. [(Spear)] Tasker, a housekeeper, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), his son-in-law (of nine years), Dana J. Tasker, a periodicals agent, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and his brother-in-law, John W. Hodsdon, a farmer (works at home), aged seventy-four years (b. NH). Alphonso A. Spear owned their farm in Center Ossipee, and/or the Road to Ossipee, free-and-clear. Sarah E. Spear was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

George W. Tasker died of chronic valvular heart disease in Milton, March 13, 1911, aged eighty-one years, four months, and fifteen days. He was a shoe cutter (his father, Nahum Tasker, had been a stone mason). James J. Buckley, M.D., signed the death certificate.

MILTON, N.H. The annual meeting and roll call of the Congregational church was held last Saturday afternoon and a large number was present. A most enjoyable dinner was prepared by the ladies of the church which was fully enjoyed by all. After an hour was spent in the discussing of the good things spread on the table the members met in the church for the election of the officers for the ensuing year and to listen to the reports from church officers. The report of the clerk showed a loss of two members by death the past year, George W. Tasker and Samuel Chamberlain, who had been Deacon of the church for over 58 years. Six members had been dismissed by letter to other churches. Three persons were elected to church membership to receive the hand of fellowship on Sunday. James M. Gage was elected as Deacon and Mrs. Emma Looney, as clerk in place of Mrs. A.M. Roberts, who is in California. J.M. Gage was chosen as treasurer. The committees are Standing Committee, Rev. Clarence Pike, R.M. Kimball, Frank Dawson, Jr., Mrs. Chipman and Mrs. J.B. Hart; Music, Mrs. Ella Hart, Mrs. Bertha Chipman and Mrs. Frank Dawson; Reception, Mrs. R.A. McIntosh, Mrs. Sarah Miller, Mrs. Fred P. Jones and Mrs. Ella Hart; Visiting Committee, Mrs. Ella Hart, Mrs. Lizzie Plummer, Mrs. C.L. Clements, and Mrs. Clara Corson. Letters were read from many who were unable to be present (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Sanford, ME), November 10, 1911).

Son Charles W. Tasker appeared in the Boston directories of 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, as a sexton at Immanuel-Walnut Ave. Church, with his house at 75 Humboldt Avenue, Roxbury. His son, Edgar S. Tasker, appeared in 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, as a clerk at 39 Boylston Street, boarding at 75 Humboldt Avenue, Roxbury. His daughter, Grace May Tasker, appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1916, as an interior decorator at 6 Beacon Street, Room 627, boarding at 75 Humboldt Avenue, Roxbury.

Brother Hiram H. Tasker died of heart disease on School Street in Berwick, ME, December 25, 1912, aged seventy-one years, eleven months. He was a shoemaker. W.T. Elliot, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Son Charles W. Tasker appeared in the Boston directories of 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1920, as a sexton at Immanuel-Walnut Ave. Church, with his house at 6 Harold Park, Roxbury. His son, Edgar S. Tasker, appeared in 1917, as a salesman, boarding at 6 Harold Park; in 1918, as a clerk at 219 South Station, with his house at 6 Harold Park, Roxbury; and in 1920, as a clerk at 420 South Station, with his house at Atlantic. His daughter, Grace May Tasker, appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1915, 1916, as an interior decorator at 6 Beacon Street, Room 627, boarding at 6 Harold Park, Roxbury.

ROXBURY GIRL TO MARRY ARCHIRECT. Miss Grace May Tasker, an interior decorator, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tasker of 6 Harold Park, Roxbury, and G. Bertram Washburn of Arlington, a Boston architect, announced tbsir engagement Thursday (Boston Post, August 19, 1916).

Florence E. [(Griffin)] Tuck, a leatherboard mill molder, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Marjorie E. Tuck, aged eight years (b. MA), Donald L. Tuck, aged six years (b. MA), Gordon C. Tuck, aged four years, seven months (b. MA), Helen M. Tuck, aged three years, three months (b. MA), and James H. Tuck, aged two years, three months (b. MA), her mother-in-law, Clara [((Todd) Tuck)] Martell, a leatherboard mill molder, aged fifty-five years (b. ME), and her grandmother, Elizabeth [((Caverly) Hanson)] Tasker, a widow, aged seventy-six years (b. NH). Florence E. Tuck rented their house at 14 Front Street.

Son Charles W. Tasker, a church sexton, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-five years), Ida B. [(Shattuck)] Tasker, aged sixty-two years (b. NH). Charles W. Tasker rented their apartment at 6 Harold Park Street.

Royal K. Webber, a house carpenter, aged sixty years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Nellie B. [(Tasker)] Webber, aged fifty-three years (b. NH). Royal K. Webber owned their house on Lower Main Street, Milton Village, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George H. Paul, a laborer, aged fifty-three years (b. MA), and Joel Barron, an owner teamster, aged thirty-five years (b. ME).

Dana J. Tasker, a civil engineer, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lena S. [(Spear)] Tasker, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Sarah E. Spear, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH). Dana J. Tasker owned their house on the State Road, free-and-clear.

Son Charles W. Tasker appeared in the Boston directories of 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, as a sexton at Immanuel-Walnut Ave. Church, with his house at 6 Harold Park, Roxbury. His son, Edgar S. Tasker, appeared in 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, as a clerk at 420 South Station, with his house at Atlantic.

Daughter-in-law Ida B. (Shattuck) Tasker died in 1924.

Son-in-law Royal K. Webber died of lung oedema on Main Street in Milton, July 16, 1928, aged sixty-eight years, nine months, and one day. He was a carpenter, who had resided in Milton for forty-four years, i.e., since circa 1884. Robert V. Sweet, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Elizabeth A. ((Caverly) Hanson) Tasker died of valvular heart disease at Bow Lake in Barrington, NH, May 8, 1929, aged eighty-six years, and nine days. J. Messill, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Charles W. Tasker, a Congregational church sexton, aged seventy-three years (b. ME), headed an Orange Park, FL, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. He resided at 262 New England Avenue.

Dana J. Tasker, a road surveyor, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty years), Lena S. [(Spear)] Tasker, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), and his boarder, Maynard W. Helton, a farm laborer, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). Dana J. Tasker owned their house. They had a radio set.

CENTER OSSIPEE LANDMARK BURNS. Center Ossipee, March 20 – “Bonnie Brow,” the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Eldridge, was completely destroyed by fire about 4.30 o’clock this morning with damage estimated at $10,000. The two and one-half story, wooden building, ell and shed was well known as the old Miller place. It was built in 1760 and was one of the finest houses in this vicinity. The fire was discovered by Mrs. Eldridge. Mrs. Eldridge had been sick during the night and was sleeping on a couch in the dining room when she was awakened by the smell of smoke. She saw flames eating their way through the wall of the dining room above a fireplace. Mrs. Eldridge rushed upstairs and woke her husband, who drove a mile and a half to the home of Dana J. Tasker to call the Fire Department. A mixup in the telephone message the firemen nearly five miles out of the way. When the mistake was discovered and the apparatus got to the fire, it was too late. The fire spread so rapidly that Mrs. Eldridge saved but little furniture. The cause of the fire is unknown. The place was partially covered by insurance (Portsmouth Herald, March 30, 1935).

Daughter Nellie B. (wid. Royal K.) Webber, appeared in the Orlando, FL, directory of 1936, as residing at 107 E. Robinson Street.

Son Charles W. Tasker died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the Memorial Hospital in North Conway, NH, July 14, 1939, aged eighty-three years, two months, and twenty-eight days. He was a widowed shoe operator. Daughter Mrs. Grace [(Tasker)] Washburn of Arlington, MA, supplied the personal details. C.M. Wiggin, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Nellie B. [(Tasker)] Webber, a widow, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), headed an Orlando, FL, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. She rented her apartment at 107 East Robinson Street, for $30 per month. She had resided in Milton, NH, in 1935.

Dana J. Tasker, a state highway engineer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lena S. [(Spear)] Tasker, aged sixty-three years (b. NH). Dana J. Tasker owned their farm, which was valued at $2,000.

Nellie B. [(Tasker)] Webber, a widow, aged eighty-three years (b. NH), headed an Orlando, FL, household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. She resided at 303 Livingston Street (Apt. 1).

Dana J. Tasker, a retiree, aged seventy-five years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lena S. [(Spear)] Tasker, aged seventy-three years (b. NH). Dana J. Tasker owned their house.

Daughter Nellie B. (Tasker) Webber died in Orland0, FL, May 7, 1955.

Obituaries. MRS. NELLIE B. WEBBER. Mrs. Nellie B. Webber, a native of Milton, N.H., died Saturday in a local hospital. She is survived by a brother, Dana Tasker, Ossipee, N.H. The body will be shipped to Union, N.H., for services and burial by Fairchild Funeral Home (Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL), May 9, 1955).

Son Dana Jones Tasker died in 1960. Daughter-in-Law Lena May (Spear) Tasker died in Laconia, NH, in May 1971.

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By Muriel Bristol | December 25, 2022

Joseph Sayward, Jr., was born in Thomaston, ME, August 27, 1817, son of Joseph and Martha (Wheeler) Sayward. (His father was a sergeant in Capt. G. Coombs’ militia company, in Lt. Col. E. Foot’s regiment, when it was raised in Thomaston, ME, in September 1814, for coastal defense at Camden and Thomaston, ME).

In 1820 he [Joseph Sayward, Sr.] moved to Twenty-five Mile Pond Plantation, now Burnham, and in 1824 took an active part in the incorporation of that town. In 1828 he moved to Thorndyke, nine years after its incorporation, and from the virgin forest commenced to clear the farm on which the last fifty-three years of his life were spent (Sayward, 1890).

Joseph Sayward married (1st) in Vassalboro, ME, May 17, 1840, Mary A. Getchell. She was born circa 1818.

Joseph Sayward headed a Thorndyke, ME, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], and one female aged 20-29 years [Mary A. (Getchell) Sayward]. One person in his household was engaged in Agriculture. (His father headed another Thorndike household).

Mary A. (Getchell) Sayward died in Unity, Waldo County, ME, April 27, 1849, aged thirty-one years. Son Charles Francis Sayward was born in Milton [?], circa 1849.

Joseph Sayward married (2nd), circa 1849, Ann E. Wiggin. She was born in Vassalboro, ME, circa 1829.

Joseph Sawords, a joiner, aged thirty years (b. ME), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Ann [(Wiggins)] Sawords, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and Charles H. Sawords, aged one year (b. ME). Their house appeared in the enumeration between those of John W. Ricker, aged twenty-three years (b. ME), and Daniel W. Horne, a blacksmith, aged forty-one years (b. ME).

Son Charles Francis Sayward died of dysentery in Milton, September 29, 1852, aged three years.

The Milton selectmen of 1855 were Jos. Sayward, Lewis Plummer, and J.C. Wentworth.

Daughter Martha A. “Mattie” Sayward was born in Milton, June 27, 1855.

The Milton selectmen of 1856 were Jos. Sayward, J.C. Wentworth, and D. Wallingford, Jr.

Son Frank Sayward was born in Milton, October 24, 1857. D.E. Palmer, M.D., reported the birth. Frank Sayward died in December 1859.

Son Fred B. Sayward was born in Milton, December 25, 1858. (Recorded as Frank B. Sayward). He was the fourth child; his father was a shoe manufacturer.

Joseph Sayward, aged forty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Ann E. [(Wiggin)] Sayward, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), M.A. [Martha A.] Sayward, aged eight years (b. NH), and F.B. [Fred B.] Sayward, aged one year (b. NH). His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Nute, a laborer, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), and B.E. Witham, a laborer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH).

Joseph Sayward of Milton paid $7.21 as a 3% tax on 480 pairs of shoes (valued at $240.30) for the month of December in the US Excise Tax of 1862.

Joseph Sayward of Milton paid $10.62 as a 3% tax on 539 pairs of shoes (valued at $354.26) for the month of January in the US Excise Tax of 1863. Joseph Sayward of Milton paid $5.59 as a 3% tax on 300 pairs of shoes (valued at $186.52) for the month of January in the US Excise Tax of 1863.

The Milton selectmen of 1864 were T.H. Roberts, Jos. Sayward, and D.B. Goodwin.

The NH Bureau of Labor report of 1896 mentioned the destruction by fire of J. Sayward’s shoe manufactory in 1864.

… and J. [S]ayward, who carried on a successful [shoe manufactory] business at various times at Three Ponds, the latter continuing until burned out in 1864 (NH Bureau of Labor, 1896).

Joseph Sayward of Milton paid $5.83 on an auctioneer’s license in the month of October 1864.

The Milton selectmen of 1865 were Jos. Hayward [Sayward], J.U. Simes, and Ebenezer Wentworth.

Joseph Sayward of Milton paid $10 for a retail dealer’s license in the US Excise Tax of 1865. Joseph Sayward of Milton paid $10 for a retail dealer’s license in the US Excise Tax of 1866.

Joseph Sayward and sixty-eight other Milton residents petitioned the NH House seeking establishment of a NH state constabulary, i.e., a NH state police force, in 1867.

PETITIONS, ETC., PRESENTED AND REFERRED. To the Special Committee on the State Constabulary. By Mr. Gault, of Hooksett, petition of A. Burnham and forty seven others, of Hooksett; by Mr. Smith of Raymond, petition of Joseph Fullerton and fifty-six others of Raymond; by Mr. Miller, of New Durham, petition of Cyrus B. Bean and eighteen others of New Durham; by Mr. Lang, of Lee, petition of Mason Morse and one hundred and eighty-nine others of Lee; by Mr. George, of Lempster, petition of Collins Hurd and thirty-three others of Lempster; by Mr. Andrews, of Orange, petition of John W. Hodges and one hundred and sixty others of Canaan; petition of Moses R. Marshall and seventeen others of Pelham; petition of Joseph Sayward and sixty-eight others of Milton; by Mr. Horne, of Farmington, petition of R.M. Sargent and forty-two others of Farmington; – severally for a State Constabụlary (NH General Court, 1867). 

Joseph Sayward was one of the ten prominent Milton citizens who incorporated a private secondary school – the Milton Classical Institute – at Three Ponds Village in Milton, NH, in July 1867. The incorporators included also NH Governor’s Councilor (and ex-officio NH State Board of Education member) Charles Jones, Strafford Sheriff Luther Hayes, manufacturer Hiram V. Wentworth, Dr. George W. Peavey, William P. Tuttle, and others.

Joseph Sayward appeared in the Milton directories of 1868, and 1869-70, as a Milton merchant.

Mother Martha (Wheeler) Sayward died in Thorndike, ME, January 20, 1869, aged seventy-nine years.

We cherish all thy tender love, That once thy lips did speak, Though thou art sleeping in the grave, Thy spirit’s with the meek.

Joseph Sayward, a retail grocer, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Ann E. [(Wiggin)] Sayward, keeping house, aged forty years (b. ME), Martha A. Sayward, a teacher, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Fred B. Sayward, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH), George W. Sayward, a retail grocer, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), Gracia H. Sayward, at school, aged twelve years (b. ME), Nellie F. French, aged four years (b. MA). Joseph Hayward had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $1,620. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathaniel G. Pinkham, works for shoe factory, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and Joseph Mathes, a carpenter, aged fifty-four years (b. NH).

Thorndike, ME, sent father Joseph Sayward to the Maine House of Representatives in 1870.

REPRESENTATIVES ELECTED. Waldo – Entitled to 9. Republicans. Belfast, Willard P. Harriman; Unity, William Taber; Searsmont, James Severance; Monroe, Ashur H. Mayo; Thorndike, Joseph Sayward; Lincolnville, Henry Crehore; Searsport, Isaac Carver – 7. Democrats. Winterport, George White; Morrill, Thomas Storer – 3 (Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), September 21, 1870).

Brother George W. Sayward appeared in the Milton directory of 1871, as a Milton merchant.

Daughter Martha A. “Mattie” Sayward married in Rochester, NH, November 14, 1874, George E. Horne, she of Rochester, NH, and he of Lebanon, ME. He was a farmer, aged twenty-six years, and she was aged twenty-two years. Rev. Anthony C. Hardy performed the ceremony. Horne was born in Milton, circa 1848, son of Charles F. and Betsy Horne.

Joseph Sayward, a retail grocer, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ann E. [(Wiggin)] Sayward, keeping house, aged sixty-seven years (b. ME), his son, Fred Sayward, clerk in store, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), his brother, George W. Sayward, a laborer, aged fifty years (b. ME), his niece, Nellie French, at home, aged fifteen years (b. MA), and his boarders, Lewis S. Clark, works in shoe shop, aged thirty-two years (b. VT), Elma J. Clark, works in shoe shop, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), Henry L. Cutter, works for express co., aged twenty-two years (b. MA), Bridget McQuade, works in woolen mill, aged thirty years (b. (Ireland), and William R. Pettee, a clerk in store, aged twenty years (b. MA). They resided on Charles Street.

George E. Horne, works in woolen mill, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mattie A. [(Sayward)] Horne, keeping house, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), his son, Roy C. Horne, aged five years (b. NH), his servant, Anne Furbish, a domestic servant, aged twenty years (b. ME), and his boarders, John Moulton, works in woolen mill, aged forty-eight years (b. ME), Walter Cullen, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-one years (b. Ireland), Noah Eaton, a carpenter, aged fifty years (b. ME), John Mason, works in shoe factory, aged twenty years (b. NH), Thomas Keefe, a painter, aged thirty years (b. Ireland), Nellie Chamberlain, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), and C.H. Chamberlain, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH).

Father Joseph Sayward [Sr.] was quite sick in Thorndike, ME, in February 1881.

Thorndike. It is quite sickly at the present time. Joseph Sayward, one of our oldest towns men is quite sick. R.S. Rich, Esq., is very ill with rheumatic fever, and Isaac Collin has been afflicted some time with rheumatism. Daniel Cordon is teaching high school in Johnson’s Hall, and having quite a good attendance, he is one of our best teachers. Business continues good — Hay and potatoes are coming in every day in large quantities.  O.J. Farwell has a car load of wool ready for shipment (Republican Journal (Belfast, ME, February 24, 1881).

Father Joseph Sayward died in Thorndike, ME, April 21, 1881, aged eighty-eight years, eleven months, and twelve days.

Rest weary heart Like a tired child Upon its mother’s breast. Rest, sweetly rest.

Son Fred B. Sayward married in Rochester, NH, August 10, 1881, Helen Augusta Roberts, both of Rochester, NH. He was a merchant, aged twenty-two years, and she was aged twenty-two years. Rev. A.J. Quick performed the ceremony. She was born in Rochester, NH, April 17, 1857, daughter of John R. and Ellen Roberts.

LOCALS. Fred Sayward of Rochester handled the piano keys in a satisfactory manner last Friday and Monday evenings (Farmington News, April 12, 1889).

Joseph Sayward died in Rochester, NH, July 24, 1889, aged seventy-one years.

CLIPPINGS ABOUT ROCHESTER. The late Joseph Sayward had a policy for $5000 in the Granite State Mutual Aid Association. Soon after Mr. Sayward’s death the association went out of business. It had quite a sum of money on deposit in one of the banks of this village upon which Mrs. Sayward placed an attachment. On Wednesday she received $2500 in settlement of the claim, previous offer of 40 per cent having been declined (Farmington News, November 8, 1889).

Brother George W. Sayward died in Rochester, NH. March 3, 1898.

PERSONALS. Mr. Fred B. Sayward of Rochester was here on Wednesday (Portsmouth Herald, August 25, 1898).

George E. Horne, a shoe cutter, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Martha A. [(Sayward)] Horne, a boarding house keeper, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), his son, Roy C. Horne, a printer, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and his boarder, Arthur Sewall, a shoe packer, aged seventeen years (b. ME). George E. Horne owned their house at 11 Glen Street., with a mortgage. Martha Horne was the mother of two children, of whom one was still living.

Fred P. Sayward, a music teacher, aged forty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eighteen years), Augusta [(Roberts)] Sayward, aged forty-one years (b. NH), his son, Carl B. Sayward, at school, aged ten years (b. NH), and his boarder, James A. Roberts, a hotel clerk, aged forty-three years (b. NH). Fred P. Sayward rented their house at 94 Charles Street. Augusta Sayward was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

George E. Horne, a shoe cutter, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-six years), Martha [(Sayward)] Horne, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), his son, Roy C. Horne, a job work printer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), his daughter-in-law (of seven years), Lucy M. Horne, a compositor, aged thirty years (b. NH), and his lodgers, George W. St. John, a printer, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME), Patrick S. Driscoll, a box mill bookkeeper, aged twenty-nine years (b. RI), and Royal Lord, a drug salesman, aged twenty years (b. NH). George E. Horne owned their house at 11 Glen Street., with a mortgage. Martha Horne was the mother of two children, of whom one was still living.

Fred B. Sayward, a moving picture piano player, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty years), Helen A. [(Roberts)] Sayward, aged fifty years (b. NH), and his boarder, Carrie Tabert, aged forty-three years (b. MA). Fred P. Sayward rented their portion of a two-family residence at 147 Charles Street. Helen A. Sayward was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

MR. COCHRANE DEAD. George Edward Cochrane, one of the best known attorneys in Strafford County, died last week Thursday night at the residence of Fred Sayward of Rochester, where he had been living since the death of his wife last spring. … (Farmington News, December 20, 1912).

LOCAL. Willey & Sayward, proprietors of the new moving picture house known as the Colonial Theatre, in Rochester, opened Saturday night (Farmington News, July 28, 1916).

George E. Horne, a school house janitor, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Martha A. [(Sayward)] Horne, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), his son, Roy C. Horne, a print office proprietor, aged forty-four years (b. NH), his daughter-in-law, Lucy M. Horne, a print office printer, aged forty years (b. NH), and his boarder, Mary A. Atterton, a toilet article canvasser, aged forty-nine years (b. ME). George E. Horne owned their house at 11 Glen Street.

Fred B. Sayward, a theater pianist, aged sixty-one years (b. Milton, NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Helen A. [(Roberts)] Sayward, aged sixty years (b. Rochester, NH). Fred P. Sayward owned their house at 155 Charles Street. This particular census taker, McDowell Healey, collected more information than required in that he recorded birth town names, rather than just states. His supervisor crossed out the town names. His parents were said to have been born in Thorndyke, ME, and hers were born in Rochester, NH, and Dover, NH.

Son Fred B. Sayward died of natural causes at 155 Charles Street in Rochester, NH, May 7, 1920, aged sixty-one years, four months, and twelve days. He was a musician, who had resided in Rochester, NH, for fifty-two years, i.e., since circa 1867. His previous residence had been Milton. Forrest L. Keay, M.D. signed the death certificate.

George Horne, a school janitor, aged eighty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Martha [(Sayward)] Horne, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH), his son, Roy Horne, a print office printer, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and his servant, Elma J. Aula, a private family servant, aged seventy-one years (b. NH). George Horne owned their house at 11 Glen Street, which was valued at $3,200. They had a radio set.

Carl B. Sayward, a plumber, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Cambridge, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Anna [(Whitten)] Sayward, a printing co. bookkeeper, aged thirty-nine years (b. MA), his daughter, Priscilla Sayward, a retail store clerk, aged nine years (b. MA), and his mother, Helen A. [(Roberts)] Sayward, aged sixty [seventy] years (b. NH). Carl B. Sayward owned their house at 185 Lakeview Avenue, which was valued at $6,200. They had a radio set.

Son-in-law George E. Horne died in Rochester, NH, November 24, 1930, aged eighty-two years.

Daughter Martha A. (Sayward) Horne died of angina pectoris at 7 Central Avenue in Rochester, NH, January 7, 1933, aged eighty years, six months, and twenty-nine days. She had resided in Rochester, NH, for sixty years, i.e., since circa 1873. She had formerly lived in Milton.

Carl B. Sayward, a plumber, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Cambridge, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Anna [(Whitten)] Sayward, a printing co. secretary, aged forty-nine years (b. MA), his daughter, Pricella Sayward, a retail store clerk, aged nineteen years (b. MA), and his mother, Helen A. [(Roberts)] Sayward, aged eighty-one years (b. NH). Carl B. Sayward owned their house at 185 Lakeview Avenue, which was valued at $6,500. They had all resided in the same house in 1935.

Daughter-in-law Helen A. (Roberts) Sayward died in Cambridge, MA, October 14, 1946, aged eighty-nine years.

DEATH NOTICES. SAYWARD – Helen Augusta, at her home, 183 Lakeview av., Cambridge, Mass., widow of the late Fred B. Funeral services will be held at the Edgerly Funeral Home, Rochester, N.H., Thursday afternoon at 1:30. (Boston Globe, October 15, 1946).

References:

Find a Grave. (2012, September 21). Martha A. Horne. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/97553396/martha-a-horne

Find a Grave. (2016, July 15). Fred B. Sayward. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/167015693/fred-b-sayward

Find a Grave. (2009, April 16). Joseph Sayward [Sr.]. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/35933597/sa

Find a Grave. (2008, November 20). Mary Sayward. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/31568225/mary-sayward

NH Bureau of Labor. (1896). Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=dEQbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23

NH General Court. (1867). Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=Z0AtAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA263

Sayward, Charles A. (1890). The Sayward Family: Being the History and Genealogy of Henry Sayward of York, and His Descendants. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=hnktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA93

By Muriel Bristol | December 18, 2022

Lewis N. Berry was born in Strafford, NH, March 7, 1824, son of Mesach and Eliza (Kimball) Berry.

(The known children of Mesach and Eliza J. (Kimball) Berry were: Lewis N. Berry (1824–1863), Sarah E. Berry (1834–1874), Martha J. Berry (1836–1919), and Alice F. Berry (1844–1884)).

Meshach Berry headed a Strafford, 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 J. (Kimball) Berry], one male aged 15-19 years [Lewis N. Berry], two females aged 5-9 years [Sarah E. Berry and Martha J. Berry], and one female aged under-5 years. One member of his household was engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Berry and Hiram Berry.

Lewis N. Berry married in Farmington, NH, June 17, 1848, Emily Maria Leighton, both of Farmington, NH. Rev. J.H. Nutter performed the ceremony. She was born in Somersworth, NH, March 11, 1827, daughter of Tristram and Betsy (Peavey) Leighton.

Lewis Berry appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1848, as a cordwainer, boarding at B. Davis’s house.

Meshach Berry, a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Strafford, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Kimball)] Berry, aged forty-five years (b. NH), Martha J. Berry, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Ellis F. [Alice F.] Berry, aged six years (b. NH). Meshach Berry had real estate valued at $1,000.

Lewis N. Berry, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Emily [(Leighton)] Berry, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Sarah Berry, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Laura A. Sleeper, aged eighteen years (b. NH). They resided in a two-family residence with the household of Nathaniel Montgomery, a laborer, aged forty-three years (b. NH).

Sister Sarah E. Berry married (1st) in Farmington, NH, April 29, 1852, Asa B. Hayes, Jr. He was born in Farmington, NH, in January 1830, son of Asa B. and Mehitable (Hayes) Hayes.

Mother Eliza (Kimball) Berry died in Strafford, NH, October 16, 1853.

Daughter Jeannette E. Berry was born in Milton, June 24, 1858.

Mesach Berry, a workman, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included M.J. [Martha J.] Berry, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and A.F. [Alice F.] Berry, aged fifteen years (b. NH). His household appeared in the enumeration between those of [his son,] Lewis N. Berry, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and E.R. Lord, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH).

Lewis N. Berry, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Emily [(Leighton)] Berry, aged thirty-three years, and Janette E. Berry, aged three years (b. NH). Lewis N. Berry had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $2,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of James M. Twombly, a farmer, aged sixty years (b. NH), and Mesach Berry, a workman, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH).

Wentworth Hayes, a farmer, aged eighty-one years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Asa B. Hayes, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH), Sarah E. [(Berry)] Hayes, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), Clara J. Hayes, aged five years (b. NH), Jesse B. Hayes, aged three years (b. NH), Cora Bell Hayes, aged two months (b. NH), and Lucy A. Pease, aged twelve years (b. MA). Asa B. Hayes had real estate valued at $1,800 and personal estate valued at $1,500.

Lewis N. Berry of Milton paid $10 for his manufacturer’s license for September in the US Excise Tax of 1862.

Lewis Berry received an initial appointment as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, September 13, 1862.

L.N. Berry of Milton paid $22.39 as a 3% tax on 1,260 pairs of split brogan shoes (valued at $746.55) for the month of October 1862 in the US Excise Tax of 1862. He paid $35.80 as a 3% tax on 1,560 pairs of brogan shoes (valued at $1,193.43) for the month of November 1862. He paid $23.59 as a 3% tax on 840 pairs of brogan shoes (valued at $786.51) for the month of December 1862.

Mother-in-law Elizabeth “Betsy” (Peavey) Leighton died of a bilious colic in Farmington, NH, December 25, 1862, aged seventy-two years. (There is a question mark next to the “62” of 1862 on the death certificate). She had been a farmer.

L.N. Berry of Milton paid $109.47 as a 3% tax on 3,960 pairs of shoes (valued at $3,649.05) for the month of February 1863 in the US Excise Tax of 1863. He paid $88.45 as a 3% tax on 3,000 pairs of shoes (valued at $2,948.40) for the month of March 1863. He paid $107.81 as a 3% tax on 3,660 pairs of shoes (valued at $3,593.70) for the month of April 1863. He paid $175.86 as a 3% tax on 6,360 pairs of shoes (valued at $5,856.30) for the month of May 1863. He paid also $6.67 for a renewed manufacturer’s license in May 1863.

Lewis N. Berry died of softening of the brain in Milton, June 5, 1863, aged thirty-nine years, three months. He had been a shoe manufacturer.

Brother-in-law Asa B. Hayes, Jr., died of consumption in Farmington, NH, September 16, 1863, aged thirty-three years. He had been a farmer.

Father Mesach Berry died in Farmington, NH, May 6, 1864, aged sixty-one years.

Lewis Berry appeared posthumously in NH Political Manual of 1866, as a Milton justice-of-the-peace. The court roster column reserved for his 1867 reappointment bore instead a notation that he was “dead.”

MILTON. Justices – Charles Jones, State; Elbridge W. Fox, Joseph Plummer, Luther Hayes, Ebenezer Wentworth, Ezra H. Twombly, Joseph Mathes, Charles A. Cloutman, Asa Jewett, Elias S. Cook, Lewis Berry, Joseph Cook, Robert Mathes (McFarland & Jenks, 1866).

Sister Sarah E. (Berry) Hayes married (2nd) in Farmington, NH, August 27, 1867, John F. Scruton, she of Farmington, NH, and he of Strafford, NH. She was a lady, aged thirty-three years, and he was a farmer, aged twenty-six years. Rev. N.S. Tufts performed the ceremony. Scruton was born in Strafford, NH, November 8, 1841, daughter of Joseph and Louisa (Brock) Scruton.

Emily [(Leighton)] Berry, keeping house, aged forty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Jennette E. Berry, at school, aged thirteen years (b. NH). They resided in a two-family residence with the household of John L. Wing, a works in shoe factory, aged forty-six years (b. ME).

John F. Scruton, works in shoe manufactory, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sarah E. [((Berry) Hayes)] Scruton, keeping house, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), Clara J. Hayes, at home, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Jessie B. Hayes, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Fannie S. Hayes, aged ten years (b. NH), Louis Scruton, aged two years (b. NH), and [Female] Scruton, aged two months (b. NH). John F. Scruton had personal estate valued at $1,000 and Sarah E. Scruton had real estate valued at $2,500.

Sister Martha Berry, without occupation, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), was one of about one hundred residents in the Rockingham County Farm in Brentwood, NH, at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. She could neither read nor write and was identified as being “idiotic.”

Geo. W. Webster, a shoe cutter, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Harriet Webster, keeps house, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), Cora Webster, at home, aged four years (b. MA), Alice Berry, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Hattie Jones, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Lucas Poor, works in shoe factory, aged thirty years (b. NH), Greeley Cumming, a shoe contractor, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), Geo. S. Horn, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Edward Hoyt, works in shoe factory, aged eighteen years (b. NH), John Gale, works in shoe factory, aged twenty years (b. NH), Elena Heart, no employment, aged sixty-two years (b. NH). Geo, Webster had real estate valued at $5,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. Greeley Cumming has personal estate valued at $600; and Geo. S. Horn had person estate valued at $400.

Sister Alice F. Berry married in Barnstead, NH, April 2, 1871, Calvin C. Chesley, she of Haverhill, MA, and he of Barnstead, NH. He was a dentist, aged twenty-eight years, and she was aged twenty-five years. Rev. Hector Canfield performed the ceremony. Chesley was born in Barnstead, NH, circa 1842, son of Benjamin and Sally (Bodge) Chesley.

Father-in-law Tristram Leighton died in Rochester, NH, April 26, 1873.

Sister Sarah E. ((Berry) Hayes) Scruton died in Farmington, NH, January 14, 1874, aged thirty-nine years.

Son-in-law John F. Scruton married (2nd) in Barnstead, NH, November 23, 1876, Lydia A. Varney, he of Farmington, NH, and she of Madbury, NH. He was a farmer, aged thirty-five years, and she was a school teacher, aged thirty-six years. Rev. William Rogers performed the ceremony. She was born in Farmington, NH, circa 1840, daughter of Amos and Anna (Locke) Varney.

Emily [(Leighton)] Berry, works in shoe factory, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Jennette Berry, keeping house, aged twenty-two years (b. NH). They resided in a three-family residence at 30 Franklin Street with the households of John Wiggin, retired, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), and Lucy Nute, keeping house, aged sixty-one years (b. NH).

Oliver Waldren, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Madbury, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary E. Waldren, keeping house, aged fifty years (b. NH). and his servant, Martha J. Berry, a servant, aged forty-four years (b. NH).

Calvin C. Chesley, a dentist, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Alice F. [(Berry)] Chesley, keeping aged thirty-five years (b. NH). They resided on Arch Street.

Brother-in-law Calvin C. Chesley appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1884, as a dentist in Bracewell’s building, with his house on Washington street, at its corner with Arch street.

Sister Alice F. (Berry) Chesley died of cancer in Dover, NH, June 4, 1884, aged thirty-nine years. E.S. Berry, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Brother-in-law Calvin C. Chesley died of paralysis in Barnstead, NH, September 29, 1889, aged forty-seven years, three months, and twenty-eight days. He had been a dentist. G.H. Hawley signed the death certificate.

Alice L. [(Berry)] Chesley, widow of Calvin C. Chesley, appeared posthumously in the surviving Veterans Schedule of the Eleventh (1890) Federal Census. Both were deceased. He had been a private in Company B of the Twelfth NH Volunteer Infantry.

Mrs. Emily Berry appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1892, as a tailoress at 438 Central avenue, boarding at 43 Grove street. Miss Jennette E. Berry appeared as a clerk at 380 Central av., boarding at 43 Grove street. Miss Fannie E. Morrison appeared as a cashier at 380 Central av., boarding at 43 Grove street.

Mrs. Emily Berry appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1895, as a tailoress, with her house on Milk street, near Central av. Jennette E. Berry appeared as a clerk at 380 Central av., boarding at Mrs. Emily Berry’s house.

Daughter Jennette E. Berry died in Dover, NH, March 20, 1897, aged thirty-eight years.

Abednigo Drew, a wheelwright, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nine years), Ella J. Drew, a boarding-house keeper, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), his brother-in-law, Tristram A. Smith, aged forty-two years (b. NH), his aunt, Emily [(Leighton)] Berry, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), and his boarders, Augustus Oniel, a heel trimmer, aged forty-one years (b. NH), Joseph Schlenken, a dry goods salesman, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), and Annie Schlenken, aged twenty-one years (b. NH).

Martha Berry, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), was one of eleven boarders in the Old Ladies Home on Deer Street in Portsmouth, NH, at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census.

Emily M. (Leighton) Berry died of stomach cancer on Charles Street in Rochester, NH, February 7, 1904, aged seventy-six years, ten months, and eighteen days. She had resided in Rochester for five years, i.e., since circa 1897. Her previous residence had been in Dover, NH. Robert V. Sweet, M.D., signed the death certificate.

PERSONAL. Mr. and Mrs. G.I. White and Mrs. A.R. Leighton were in Rochester Wednesday, attending the funeral of Mrs. Emily Berry. H.W. Andrews of Dover took charge of the express office during Mr. White’s absence (Farmington News, February 12, 1904).

Martha H. Berry, aged eighty [seventy-four] years (b. NH), was an inmate at the Rockingham County Farm at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census.

Sister Martha Berry died of senility at the Rockingham County Farm in Brentwood, NH, March 21, 1919, aged eighty-six years. She was said to have been born in Rochester, NY [NH], but had entered into care from Rye, NH, about fifty years, previously, i.e., circa 1869. A.W. Mitchell, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Brother-in-law John F. Scruton died of broncho-pneumonia in Farmington, NH, May 11, 1927, aged eighty-five years, six months, and three days. He had resided in Farmington, NH, for sixty-two years, i.e., since circa 1864-65, with his previous residence having been in Strafford, NH. He had been a farmer. D.L. Stokes, M.D., signed the death certificate.

LOCAL. John Frank Scruton, aged 85, one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of this town, died at his home in West Farmington on Wednesday night. The funeral services will be held from the home Saturday afternoon at two o’clock. Owing to the lateness of the hour at which the report was received, it is impossible to publish a full account this week. Particulars will appear next week (Farmington News, May 13, 1927).

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References:

Find a Grave. (2015, June 15). Martha Berry. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/147882459/martha-berry

Find a Grave. (2016, October 23). Alice F. Berry Chesley. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/171714470/alice-f-chesley

Find a Grave. (2020, May 31). Asa B. Hayes, Jr. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/210624862/asa-brewster-hayes

Find a Grave. (2016, April 7). John F. Scruton. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/160696850/john-f-scruton

Find a Grave. (2020. May 31). Sarah Elizabeth Berry [Hayes] Scruton. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/210624881/sarah-elizabeth-scruton

McFarland & Jenks. (1866). Political Manual for the State of New Hampshire. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=g4ABAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA127

By Muriel Bristol | December 11, 2022

David Washburn was born in Natick, MA, March 7, 1815, and Samuel Washburn was born in Natick, MA, April 10, 1823, both sons of Jedediah and Mehitable “Mitta” (Frost) Washburn.

David Washburn married in Natick, MA, December 16, 1834, Eliza Jane Parker, both of Natick, MA. She was born in Framingham, MA, June 6, 1817, daughter of Artemas and Almy (Clark) Parker.

Almy Clark Washburn was born in Natick, MA, September 27, 1835, daughter of David and Eliza J. (Parker) Washburn. She was a namesake for her maternal grandmother, Almy (Clark) Parker. Romanzo Neridin Washburn was born in Natick, MA, July 4, 1839, son of David and Eliza J. (Parker) Washburn.

David Washburn headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 20-29 years [Eliza J. (Parker) Washburn], two males aged 15-19 years [Samuel Washburn [?] and another], one female aged 10-14 years, one female aged under-5 years [Alma C. Washburn], and one male aged under-5 years [Romanzo N. Washburn]. Three members of his household were engaged in Manufacture and the Trades.

Mary Eliza Washburn was born in Natick, MA, April 4, 1845, son of David and Eliza J. (Parker) Washburn.

Samuel Washburn married in Natick, MA, April 28, 1848, Abigail W. Haynes, both of Natick, MA. He was a cordwainer, aged twenty-three years, and she was aged twenty years. Rev. Samuel Hunt performed the ceremony. She was born in Natick, MA, March 8, 1830, daughter of Martin and Hannah (Carter) Haynes.

The Washburn brothers moved from Natick, MA, to Milton and there carried on a shoe manufacturing business at Milton Three Ponds from about 1849 to sometime around 1856.

… and D. & S. Washburn, L. Berry and J. Layward [Sayward], who carried on a successful [shoe manufacturing] business at various times at Three Ponds, the latter continuing until burned out in 1864 (NH Bureau of Labor, 1896).

Edgar Warren Washburn was born in Milton, July 12, 1849, son of Samuel and Abby W. (Haynes) Washburn.

Oscar Jedediah Washburn was born in Milton, January 28, 1850, son of David and Eliza J. (Parker) Washburn.

David Washburn, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-five years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza J. [(Parker)] Washburn, aged thirty-three years (b. MA), Alma E. Washburn, aged fourteen years (b. MA), Romanzo N. Washburn, aged ten years (b. MA), Mary E. Washburn, aged five years (b. MA), and Oscar J. Washburn, aged four months (b. NH). His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Scates, a tailor, aged forty-five years (b. ME), and [his brother,] Samuel Washburn, a shoe manufacturer, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA).

Samuel Washburn, a shoe manufacturer, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Abby W. [(Haynes)] Washburn, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), and Edgar W. Washburn, aged eleven months (b. NH). His household appeared in the enumeration between those of [his brother,] David Washburn, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-five years (b. MA), and Robert Mathes, a trader, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH).

D. Washburn appeared in a MA register of 1852, as a shoe manufacturer, resident in Natick, MA (Lord & Holbrook, 1852). It would seem that he had resettled his family back in Natick, MA, while he continued as a Milton shoe manufacturer. (His family would appear without him in Natick, MA, in the MA State Census of 1855).

Milton sent Rev. James Doldt and John D. Lyman to Concord, NH, as its NH State Representatives for the 1853-54 biennium. For some reason, Rev. James Doldt dropped out after the first year and was replaced by Samuel Washburn for the second (1854) year. Washburn served on the NH House Education Committee.

The NH House voted on a series of four NH House Resolutions intended to advise or direct its Federal delegation (NH General Court, 1854).

The issues involved in these resolutions concerned the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while limiting the territory available for the expansion of slavery. But the Missouri Compromise had been recently repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which would allow for local option regarding slavery in the territories. Its repeal would set the scene for partisan violence in “Bleeding Kansas” and would be the subject of the Lincoln-Douglas debates: US Senator Stephen A. Douglas having been the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also Milton and Abolitionism).

Resolved, That the State of New Hampshire reaffirms the principles promulgated by her House of Representatives in 1850, “that the people are bound by no compact, express or implied, to suffer the introduction of slavery into territory now free, and that they are unalterably opposed to the erection of any territory without its prohibition by positive law;”

This first resolution passed by a vote of 159-118, with Milton Rep. John D. Lyman voting “aye,” and Milton Rep. Samuel Washburn voting “nay.”

Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri Compromise by the passage of the Nebraska and Kansas bill, so called, was in violation of those principles, was unnecessary, impolitic, a breach of faith with the North, dangerous and wrong;

This second resolution passed by a vote of 154-120, with Rep. Lyman voting “aye,” and Rep. Washburn voting “nay.”

Resolved, That the course of George W. Morrison and George W. Kittredge, a portion of our delegation in Congress, in resisting such repeal, receives the hearty and united approval of the people of New Hampshire; 

US Reps. George W. Morrison (1809-1888) of Manchester, NH, and George W. Kittredge (1805-1881) of Newmarket, NH, have been characterized as anti-Kansas-Nebraska Act Democrats. This third resolution passed by a vote of 155-110, with Rep. Lyman voting “aye,” and Rep. Washburn voting “nay.”

Resolved, that the course of Harry Hibbard, Moses Norris and Jared W. Williams, the other members of our delegation, in voting for such repeal, was in opposition to the wishes of the people of the State, treacherous to freedom and the great cause of equality and human rights, and meets our decided reprobation;

US Rep. Harry Hibbard (1816-1872) of Bath, NH, and US Senators Moses Norris (1799-1855) of Pittsfield, NH, and Jared W. Williams (1796-1864) of Lancaster, NH, were Democrats who were in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This fourth resolution passed by a vote of 151-118, with Rep. Lyman voting “aye,” and Rep. Washburn voting “nay.”

Frank Samuel Washburn was born in Milton (“Milton Falls”), August 16, 1854, son of Samuel and Abby W. (Haynes) Washburn.

Eliza J. [(Parker)] Washburn, aged thirty-eight years (b. MA), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the First (1855) MA State Census. Her household included Almy C. Washburn, aged twenty years (b. MA), Romanso N. Washburn, aged sixteen years (b. MA), Mary E Washburn, aged ten years (b. MA [SIC]), and Oscar J. Washburn, aged five years (b. MA [SIC]). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Mary A. Bigelow, aged fifty-eight years (b. MA).

The Washburn brothers, including Samuel Washburn’s family, left Milton and returned to their native Natick, MA, at some time between July 1855 and June 1860.

Daughter Almy C. Washburn married (1st) in Natick, MA, January 1, 1856, Charles M. Felch, both of Natick, MA. He was a shoe manufacturer, aged twenty-one years, and she was aged twenty years. Rev. Elias Atick performed the ceremony. Felch was born in Natick, MA, in 1834, son of Asa and Ellen (Haven) Felch.

David Washburn, a mechanic, aged forty-five years (b. MA), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Eliza J. [(Parker)] Washburn, aged forty-two years (b. MA), Romanzo Washburn, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-one years (b. MA), Mary E. Washburn, aged fifteen years (b. MA), Oscar J. Washburn, aged ten years (b. MA [SIC]), and Ann Coultra, a milliner, aged thirty-two years (b. VT). David Washburn had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $500.

Samuel Washburn, a shoe maker, aged thirty-six years (b. MA), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Abby W. [(Haynes)] Washburn, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA), Edgar W. Washburn, aged ten years (b. MA), and Frank S. Washburn, aged five years (b. MA).

Son R.N. Washburn of Natick, MA, a clerk, aged twenty-five years, enlisted in the U.S. Army in Washington, DC, June 23, 1864. He had blue eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion. He served as a hospital steward with the 39th MA infantry until discharged July 11, 1865.

Son-in-law Charles M. Felch died of typhoid fever in Medford, MA, April 23, 1864, aged twenty-five years, six months.

Son Romanzo N. Washburn married in Augusta, ME, August 22, 1865, Annie Church, he of Natick, MA, and she of Augusta, ME. Rev. John Young performed the ceremony. She was born in Augusta, ME, June 14, 1843, daughter of Amos and Catherine (Stackpole) Church.

Daughter Mary E. Washburn married in Natick, MA, September 8, 1865, Sylvanus Stewart, she of Natick, MA, and he of Haverhill, MA. She was aged twenty years, and he was a hatter, aged twenty-five years. Rev. E.E. Strong performed the ceremony. Stewart was born in Haverhill, MA, April 14, 1840, son of John and Alice (Webster) Stewart.

David Washburn, a shoe [clerk?], aged fifty years (b. MA), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Second (1865) MA State Census. His household included Eliza J. [(Parker)] Washburn, a housewife, aged forty-seven years (b. MA), Mary E. Washburn, aged twenty years (b. MA), Oscar J. Washburn, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Almy C. [(Washburn)] Felch, aged twenty-nine years (b. MA), Jennie A. Felch, aged eight years (b. MA), Joseph Currier, a soldier, aged twenty-seven years (b. ME), and Emily R. Currier, aged twenty-four years (b. ME).

Samuel Washburn, a bookmaker, aged forty-one years (b. MA), headed a Milford, MA, household at the time of the Second (1865) MA State Census. His household included Abby W. [(Haynes)] Washburn, a housekeeper, aged thirty-six years (b. MA), Edgar W. Washburn, aged fifteen years (b. MA), and Frank S. Washburn, aged ten years (b. MA).

Daughter Almy C. (Washburn) Felch married (2nd) in Natick, MA, December 12, 1866, George W. Lewin, both of Natick, ME. He was a pattern fitter, aged thirty-one years, and she was aged thirty-one years. Rev. W.C. Ayres performed the ceremony. Lewin was born in Swansea, MA, February 22, 1836, son of William and Fanny (Briggs) Lewin.

David Washburn, works in shoe factory, aged fifty-five years (b. MA), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Eliza J. [(Parker)] Washburn, keeping house, aged fifty-three years (b. MA), and Oscar J. Washburn, a dentist, aged twenty years (b. NH). David Washburn had real estate valued at $3,500 and personal estate valued at $250.

Samuel Washburn, a shoe factory cutter, aged forty-two years (b. MA), headed a Chicago, IL, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Abby W. Washburn, a dressmaker, aged forty years (b. MA), and Frank Washburn, aged sixteen years (b. NH). Samuel Washburn had personal estate valued at $500.

Son Edgar W. Washburn married in Waltham, MA, October 12, 1872, Helen Maria Avery, he of Framingham, MA, and she of Boston, MA. He was a layer, aged twenty-three years, and she was aged nineteen years. Rev. E.E. Strong performed the ceremony. She was born in Dedham, MA, January 24, 1853, daughter of John C. and Huldah M. (Allen) Avery.

David Washburn appeared in the Natick, MA, directory of 1873, as a leather cutter, with his house on Washburn street. Romanzo N. Washburn appeared as a bookkeeper, with his house on Washington street.

Son Oscar J. Washburn married in Sherborn, MA, January 6, 1876, Emma J. Leland, he of Natick, MA, and she of Sherborn, MA. He was a dentist, aged twenty-five years, and she was aged twenty-four years. Rev. E. Dowse performed the ceremony. She was born in Eden, ME, October 6, 1851, daughter of Amariah and Martha (Anderson) Leland.

Son Frank S. Washburne married in St. Joseph, MI, August 12, 1877, Clara Josephine Gentzler, he of Chicago, IL, and she of St. Joseph, MI. He was a clerk, aged twenty-three years, and she was aged twenty-two years. Rev. George S. Barnes performed the ceremony. She was born in Waukegan, WS [IL], circa 1854, daughter of Rev. John C. and Rebecca Gentzler.

PERSONAL. Mr. Frank S. Washburne, with J.V. Farwell & Co., of this city, will be married to Miss Clara Gentzler at the residence of the bride’s father, the Rev. J.C. Gentzler, St. Joseph, Mich., on Monday evening (Chicago Tribune, August 12, 1877).

David Washbourn, a grocer, aged sixty-five years, headed a Vassalboro, ME, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Eliza J. [(Parker)] Washbourn, keeping house, aged sixty-two years (b. MA).

Samuel Washburn, a grocer, aged fifty-six years (b. MA), headed a Chicago, IL, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Abby W. [(Haynes)] Washburn, a housekeeper, aged fifty years (b. MA), his sons, Edgar W. Washburn, a lawyer, aged thirty years (b. MA), Frank S. Washburn, a grocer’s clerk, aged twenty-five years (b. MA), and his daughters-in-law, Clara Washburn, aged twenty-four years (b. IL), and Mariah Washburn, aged twenty-two years (b. IL).

Eliza J. (Parker) Washburn died in Natick, MA, March 12, 1884.

Son Romanzo N. Washburn died of paralysis in Orford, NH, March 22, 1887, aged forty-seven years, seven months, and eighteen days. He was a bookkeeper. E.E. Chase, M.D., signed the death certificate.

David Washburn died in Haverhill, MA, August 17, 1887.

Daughter Almy C. ((Washburn) Felch) Lewin died of pneumonia in Fall River, MA, October 9, 1888, aged fifty-three years, and twelve days.

Samuel Washburne, aged seventy-seven years (b. MA), headed a Chicago, IL, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fifty-two years), Abbie W. [(Haynes)] Washburne, aged seventy years (b. MA), his son, Sidney W. Washburne, retired, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and his sister [-in-law], Emeline C. Haynes, aged seventy-six years (b. MA). Samuel Washburne owned their house at 1400 Clark Street, with a mortgage. Abbie W. Washburne was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

Son Edgar W. Washburn died in Chicago, IL, February 24, 1905, aged fifty-four years.

Son-in-law Sylvanus Stewart died of acute bronchitis and pulmonary tuberculosis at 45 Columbia Park in Haverhill, MA, May 17, 1906, aged sixty-six years, one month. He was a retired restaurant keeper.

Daughter-in-law Anna (Church) Washburn died of a heart ailment in Salem, MA, March 23, 1907, aged sixty-three years, nine months, and nine days.

Mary E. (Washburn) Stewart of Merrimac, MA, died of cerebral apoplexy at 86 Fourteenth Avenue in Haverhill, MA, March 13, 1908, aged sixty-two years, eleven months. A.M. Hubble, M.D., signed the death certificate. She was the daughter of David and Eliza J. (Parker) Washburn, and widow of Sylvanus Stewart.

Samuel Washburne died in Chicago, IL, November 26, 1908, aged eighty-six years

OBITUARY. SAMUEL WASHBURNE, 86 years old, who had been a resident of Chicago since before the great fire, died yesterday at residence, 1402 North Clark street. Before coming to Chicago, he resided in Natick, Mass., and in New Hampshire, where he was a member of the legislature. He retired from business fifteen years ago. A widow survives (Chicago Tribune, November 27, 1908).

Abby W. (Haynes) Washburn died in Chicago, IL, April 28, 1914.

Son Oscar J. Washburn died of arsenical poisoning on Maple Street in North Brookfield, MA, March 1, 1915, aged sixty-five years, one month, and one day. He had been a dentist.

Son-in-law George W. Lewin died in Fall River, MA, February 10, 1923, aged eighty-six years.

Obituary. GEORGE W. LEWIN. George W. Lewin, of 86 Cherry street, a prominent member of Richard Borden Post, G.A.R., died at his home this morning after an illness of nearly two months. He was in his 87th year. George Washington Lewin was born Feb. 22, 1836, in Swansea, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Lewin. During Civil War he gave 37 months of service as a sergeant in the 22nd Massachusetts Regiment. He took part in important battles of the war, suffering wounds on several occasions. After the war he was employed in a foundry here. For the past 20 years of his life he operated a comb manufactory on Second street. Surviving him are a daughter, Miss Fannie E. Lewin, a step-daughter, Mrs. Jennie Winslow, a brother John Lewin of this city, a half-brother Gardner Lewin, and a half-sister, Mrs. Annie Strange, both of Pottersville (Fall River Globe, February 10, 1923).

Son Frank S. Washburn died in Chicago, IL, May 28, 1924.

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By Muriel Bristol | December 4, 2022

John Elkins Goodwin was born in Middleton, NH, September 14, 1820, son of Deacon Joseph and Anna (Hanson) Goodwin. (Joseph and Anna Goodwin would be in 1827 two of the ten founding members of Milton’s Christian Church, in which Joseph Goodwin would be a deacon).

Joseph Goodwin headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Anna (Hanson) Goodwin], and three males aged 15-19 years [John E. Goodwin, Shepard K. Goodwin, and Charles H. Goodwin]. Four members of his household were engaged in Agriculture.

John E. Goodwin married (1st), probably in West Milton, September 14, 1844, Leah Hayes Wentworth. She was born in Milton, June 27, 1826, daughter of Joseph C. and Tryphena B. (Roberts) Wentworth.

Son Henry Clayton Goodwin, was born in Milton, May 14, 1846. (He seemed also to be known, at least initially, as Joseph Henry Goodwin or Joseph Henry Clayton Goodwin). Daughter Leah Helen Goodwin was born in Milton, September 18, 1848.

John E. Goodwin and his younger brother, Charles H. Goodwin, opened a shoe manufactory in the Goodwinville area of West Milton in the mid to late 1840s.

MILTON. Among the early manufacturers of shoes in this town were John E. Goodwin & Co., at West Milton, who gave employment to 25 or 30 hands in cutting and putting up stock, to be fitted and bottomed by the people of the town (NH Bureau of Labor, 1896)).

It seems unlikely that Goodwinville had the ability to run water-powered machinery. This description aligns with accounts of older hand methods. Their staff of 25-30 hands were employed to cut out the various shoe components from leather. Then those shoe components might be distributed to local households for assembly into shoes on a piece-work basis. This would have been a welcome part-time sort of job for agricultural workers, especially during any “down” periods, such as wintertime.

Leah H. (Wentworth) Goodwin died in Milton, September 22, 1848, aged twenty-two years, eight months, and thirteen days.

DEATHS. In Milton, Sept. 20th, Mrs. Leah H., wife of Mr. John E. Goodwin, and daughter of of Mr. Joseph C. Wentworth, aged 22 years, 8 months and 13 days (Dover Enquirer, September 26, 1848).

John E. Goodwin married (2nd) in Milton, March 11, 1849, Eliza Hayes, both of Milton. Rev. James Doldt performed the ceremony. She was born in Milton, July 23, 1825, daughter of Ichabod and Sarah “Sally” (Card) Hayes.

Brother Charles H. Goodwin married in Milton, September 8, 1849, Susan E. Wentworth, both of Milton. Rev. J.T. Colby performed the ceremony. She was born in Milton, June 13, 1832, daughter of Joseph C. and Tryphena R. (Burnham) Wentworth. (She was a sister of the late Leah H. (Wentworth) Goodwin).

At West Milton, formerly called Goodwinville, John E. and Chas. Goodwin built and operated a shoe factory which soon made that village a prosperous place. After the business had been carried on with success for a dozen or fifteen years, the factory was closed, John E. Goodwin going to Dover to take charge of a factory there, and Charles to become a traveling salesman for a Boston firm (Mitchell-Cony, 1908). 

John E. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Hayes)] Goodwin, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Joseph H. Goodwin, aged three years (b. NH), and Leah H. Goodwin, aged two years (b. NH). John E. Goodwin had real estate valued at $3,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles H. Goodwin, a trader, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Shepherd Goodwin, a shoemaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH). (The household of his brother, Daniel B. Goodwin, a blacksmith, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), appeared higher up on the same page; and that of his father, Joseph Goodwin, a blacksmith, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), appeared lower down on the same page).

John E. Goodwin received an initial five-year appointment as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, July 5, 1850. (Charles C. Hayes was also appointed that same day).

Daughter Laura May Goodwin was born May 26, 1851. Daughter Alice Eliza Goodwin was born in Milton, March 19, 1853.

John E. Goodwin and another twenty-one Milton inhabitants petitioned the NH legislature in July 1855, seeking removal of then Strafford County Sheriff, George W. Brasbridge (1784-1856) of Somersworth, NH. The Milton petition was only one of seven similar petitions seeking this Sheriff’s removal (NH General Court, 1855). Many other NH county officials, especially judges and sheriffs, were singled out for removal too. One might suppose it had something to do with their enforcement of the controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The officials petitioned against were possibly Democrats or pro-slavery Whigs. (See also Milton and Abolitionism).

Milton’s NH state representatives for the 1855-56 biennium were Eli Wentworth and David Wallingford. On Thursday, July 12, 1855, a majority of 169 NH State Representatives (71.9%), including Rep. David Wallingford, voted to concur with a NH State Senate vote to remove Sheriff Brasbridge from office. A minority of 66 NH State Representatives (28.1%), including Rep. Eli Wentworth, voted not to concur in removing Sheriff Brasbridge (NH House, 1855).

The Whig party was then in its death throes. An American or Native-American party – known also as the “Know-Nothing” party, due to its semi-secret nature – was one of the political entities that sought to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the Whigs. The “Know-Nothings” were opposed to slavery, and proponents of women’s rights, temperance, increased government regulation, and inflationary government spending. But they are associated often with their opposition to immigration, especially any non-Protestant immigration. (The tide of largely Irish Catholic famine immigrants in the east and Chinese immigrants in the west was then flowing).

“Know-Nothings” had won 51% of NH state elections of November 1854. (But the Brasbridge removal proportion of 71.9% was greater than that “Know-Nothing” proportion alone).

An anti-“Know-Nothing” Washington editor characterized the NH legislative majority of 1855-56 as a “miserable, shameless faction”:

We feel some repugnance to allude to the general character and conduct of the New Hampshire legislature during its recent session. It was such a legislature as that noble little State never had before, and we are satisfied never will have again. She has had the misfortune, with many other northern States, to fall temporarily into the hands of a miserable, shameless faction, which the great majority of her people at this day both condemn and despise, and are only anxious to prove to the world how heartily they have repented of their political folly at their last election. We have neither the space nor the disposition to review the proceedings of this legislature during its recent session, much as it offers for useful comment; but the passage from its history imbodied in the “list of acts, resolutions, and addresses passed June session, 1855,” may serve to show not only what is the spirit, the elevation of purpose, the patriotism of know-nothing legislatures, but also how false is the allegation of the recent Commissioner of the Land Office. By the list above referred to, and which we give below, it will be seen that the legislature have adopted addresses for the removal of more than twenty officers, including judges, sheriffs, and others, whose term of service had not expired, and would not expire in many instances for years, and none of whom could be removed from office but by the extraordinary method of address – a proceeding so unusual and so unparalleled that no officers have thereby, except for incompetency, been removed in that State since the “reign of terror” in 1813, when many democrats – and among them Governor Benjamin Pierce, father of the present Chief Magistrate of the United States – were “addressed” out of office by the then federal legislature for their bold and persistent advocacy and defence of the principles which brought about, and the men who carried on, that second war of independence (Washington Union (Washington, DC), July 21, 1855).

A new anti-slavery Republican party was rising also at this time. Its initial adherents were an assemblage of former Whigs, Free-Soilers, Liberty party adherents, anti-slavery Democrats, and others, and would include even some admixture from the short-lived “Know-Nothing” party. The Republican party’s first presidential candidate, in November 1856, would be Sen. John C. Fremont, of California. (Their second presidential candidate, in November 1860, would be Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois).

Son John Fremont Goodwin was born in West Milton, January 12, 1857. (He was likely a namesake for Sen. John C. Fremont, of California).

Milton sent John E. Goodwin and Daniel E. Palmer to the NH House of Representatives for the 1859-60 biennium.

John E. Goodwin received a renewal of his five-year appointment as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, June 27, 1860.

John E. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“West Milton P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Hayes)] Goodwin, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), J.H. [Joseph H.] Goodwin, aged fourteen years (b. NH), L.H. [Leah H.] Goodwin, aged twelve years (b. NH), L.M. [Laura M.] Goodwin, aged nine years (b. NH), A.B. [Alice E.] Goodwin, aged seven years (b. NH), and J.F. [John F.] Goodwin, aged three years (b. NH). John E. Goodwin had real estate valued at $7,000 and personal estate valued at $5,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of George F. Nute, a shoe cutter, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and his brother, Daniel B. Goodwin, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH).

C.H. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“West Milton P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Susan E. [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, aged twenty-five years. and Abba A. Goodwin, aged six years (b. NH). Charles H. Goodwin had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $600. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of [his brother,] George W. Goodwin, a merchant, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and a vacant house.

Daughter Eliza Hayes Goodwin was born and died in Milton, October 15, 1861. Her mother, Eliza (Hayes) Goodwin, died in Milton on that same day, October 15, 1861.

John E. Goodwin married (3rd) in Concord, NH, May 7, 1862, Pamelia N. (Davis) Pinkham, he of Milton and she of Concord, NH. He was a shoemaker, aged forty-one years, and she was aged thirty-three years. Rev. E.E. Cummings performed the ceremony. Mrs. Pinkham was born in Alton, NH, in 1829, daughter of Rev. Jacob and Lois (Kelley) Davis. (Her first husband, James H. Pinkham, had died of consumption in Milton, December 21, 1853, aged twenty-nine years, five months).

John E. Goodwin of Milton paid $9.96 as a 3% tax on 430 pairs of shoes (valued at $332) for the month of December in the US Excise Tax of 1862. (See also Milton’s US Excise Tax of 1862).

John E. Goodwin of Milton paid $20.63 as a 3% tax on 15 cases of shoes (valued at $687) for the month of January in the US Excise Tax of 1863. He paid $130.68 as a 3% tax on 4,440 pairs of shoes (valued at $4,356) in April 1863. He paid $66.23 as a 3% tax on 2,652 pairs of shoes (valued at $2,207.80) in June 1863.

John E. Goodwin of Milton, a shoe manufacturer, aged forty-two years (b. NH) registered for the Class II military draft in June 1863. Brother Charles H. Goodwin of Farmington, NH, registered there June 30, 1863.

John E. Goodwin of Milton paid $83.97 as a 3% tax on 3,050 pairs of shoes (valued at $2,799) for the month of August in the US Excise Tax of 1863. He paid $64.89 as a 3% tax on 35 cases of shoes (valued at $2,163) in November 1863. (See also Milton’s US Excise Tax of 1863).

John E. Goodwin & Co. transferred its shoe operations from Goodwinville in West Milton to Dover, NH, in the latter part of 1863. They had access perhaps to water power there or, at least, access to a larger labor pool.

The major shop locations [in Dover, NH,] were at the corners of Chestnut and Third, Chestnut and Fourth, Chestnut and Lincoln, Chestnut and Sixth, and 10 Grove Street. And like the Hayes Brothers, most of the men who ran these shops: John H. Hurd, John E. Goodwin, Alvah Moulton, Jonathan Bradley, Ira W. Nute, and E.C. Kinnear came here from Farmington (Dover Heritage Group, 1993).

John E. Goodwin & Co. of Dover, NH, paid $43.98 as a 3% tax on 1,500 pairs of shoes (valued at $1,466) for the month of January in the US Excise Tax of 1864. The firm paid $67.53 as a 3% tax on 2,520 pairs of shoes (valued at $2,251) in February 1864. It paid $82.47 as a 3% tax on 2,868 pairs of shoes (valued at $2,749) in March 1864.

John E. Goodwin & Co. paid $119.16 as a 3% tax on 3,768 pairs of shoes (valued at $3,972) in April 1864. The firm paid a $10 tax for a manufacturer’s license, in May 1864. Goodwin paid a $1 tax on his carriage (valued at $75), in May 1864. John E. Goodwin & Co. of Dover, NH, paid $218.64 as a 3% tax on 4,968 pairs of shoes (valued at $7,288) in June 1864. (See also Milton’s US Excise Tax of May 1864).

John E. Goodwin & Co. of Dover, NH, paid $492.65 as a 5% tax on 6,432 pairs of shoes (valued at $9,853) for the month of September in the US Excise Tax of 1864. The firm paid $69.05 as a 5% tax on 1,020 pairs of shoes (valued at $1,381) in September 1864. It paid $76.15 as a 5% tax on 1,320 pairs of shoes (valued at $1,523) in October 1864. It paid $59.90 as a 5% tax on 1,176 pairs of shoes (valued at $1,198) in December 1864.

John E. Goodwin & Co. (John S. Wheeler) appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1865, as shoe manufacturers in Pray’s building on Fourth Street, with John E. Goodwin having his house on St. John street, at its corner with Charles street. His partner, John S. Wheeler (1835-1909), boarded at Rev. J.F.G. Colby’s, on Brick street. (Wheeler would marry in Dover, June 12, 1866, Mary Emma Frost, he of Newmarket, NH, and she of Dover, NH).

Then, just around the middle of the 19th century, a new industry took hold in this part of Dover: shoe manufacturing. Up until this time, a boot or shoe was made throughout by one person who precisely measured the food of his customer: length, width around heel, ankle, and instep, around joints at toes “making allowances for corns and bunions” and then hunted through his pile of lasts for one the right length. Then the shoemaker glued on the pieces of leather till it made the exact shape of the foot. The cordwainer’s trade, often promoted door-to-door with whole families “footed out” at a time, ended in Dover in 1865 when John Goodwin and John S. Wheeler introduced steam-powered machinery at their shoe shop on Fourth Street: equipment that “could cut soles as rapidly as a dozen men could do by hand” (Dover Heritage Group, 1993).

John E. Goodwin & Co. of Dover, NH, paid $454.60 as a 5% tax on 6,768 pairs of shoes (valued at $9,092) for the month of February in the US Excise Tax of 1865. The firm paid $101.76 as a 6% tax on 1,476 pairs of shoes (valued at $1,696) in April 1865. It paid 307.92 as a 6% tax on 4,776 pairs of shoes (valued at $5,132) in June 1865. It paid $329.22 as a 6% tax on 4,788 pairs of shoes (valued at $5,487) in July 1865.

John E. Goodwin of Dover, NH, paid a $1 tax on his carriage (valued at $75), a $1 tax on his watch (valued at $75), and $17.55 as a 5% tax on his personal income of $351.00 in the US Excise Tax of August 1865.

John E. Goodwin & Co. paid $508.20 as a 6% tax on 7,908 pairs of shoes (valued at $8,470) for the month of August in the US Excise Tax of 1865. The firm paid $881.34 as a 6% tax on 14,689 pairs of shoes in November 1865. It paid $1,096.20 as a 6% tax on 9,900 pairs of shoes (valued at $18,270) in December 1865.

(Note the price increase of a pair of shoes, from 77¢ in December 1862 to a high of $1.35 in September 1864. The U.S. Treasury note (or “Greenback”) of 1862-63 was an inflationary “fiat” currency, i.e., backed by nothing, and its value fluctuated with sentiment regarding the war. Confederate paper currency (or “Grayback”) would collapse completely. Note also that the manufacturers’ excise taxes rose over the same period, doubling in fact, from 3% to 6%).

Brother-in-law William Hays, a shoemaker, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Stoneham, MA, household at the time of the Second (1865) MA State Census. His household included Lucy L. [(Crawford)] Hays, aged forty-two years (b. NH), [his two nieces:] Laura M. Goodwin, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Alice E. Goodwin, aged twelve years (b. NH), William Wosten, a shoemaker, aged thirty-seven years (b. MA), Mira Wosten, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA), Eunice Coy, aged thirty years (b. ME), Caroline E. Austin, aged twenty-four years (b. ME), William H. Crawford, an engineer, aged thirty years (b. NH), Jefferson Hays, a shoemaker, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Maria Stewart, aged twenty-two years (b. NH).

John E. Goodwin and Joseph D. Guppy were Dover Ward 2 aldermen in 1866. There were seven alderman in all and Mayor Joshua G. Hall (City of Dover, 1866)).

John E. Goodwin of Dover, NH, paid a $2 tax on his piano, a $1 tax on his watch, and $131.90 as a 5% tax on his personal income of $2,638.00 in the US Excise Tax of May 1866.

Daughter [Leah] Helen Goodwin married in Dover, NH, May 7, 1867, William Brown Dennis, both of Dover, NH. He was a clerk, aged twenty-three years, and she was aged nineteen years. Rev. I.D. Stewart performed the ceremony. Dennis was born in Dover, NH, May 18, 1844, son of Samuel and Lydia N. (Varney) Dennis.

John E. Goodwin received an initial five-year appointment as a Dover, NH, justice-of-the-peace, January 3, 1868.

Father Joseph Goodwin died in Milton, March 13, 1868, aged eighty-five years.

Mrs. John E. Goodwin was a soprano singer in the Dover Choral Union in 1869. Her choral group traveled to Boston, MA, to perform in the National Peace Jubilee and Great Music Festival, which was held there for five days beginning June 15, 1869 (Gilmore, 1871). There were hundreds of performers with an audience of tens of thousands in attendance.

John E. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged forty-seven years, headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Pamelia [((Davis) Pinkham)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged forty-two years (b. NH), Henry Goodwin, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Alice Goodwin, attending school, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Fremont Goodwin, attending school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Erie Pinkham, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), and Lovey Ricker, teaching school, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH).

William B. Dennis, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), headed a Lynn, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included L. Helen [(Goodwin)] Dennis, keeping house, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Joseph H. Dennis, at home, aged two years (b. NH), Gideon Dennis, no occupation, aged forty-six years (b. RI), Lydia N. [(Varney)] Dennis, no occupation, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), and M. Lizzie French, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-two years (b. MA). They lived in a two-family dwelling with the household of N.H.P. Ireson, a bookkeeper, aged fifty-two years (b. MA).

William Hayes, works in shoe factory, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Stoneham, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Lucy L. [(Crawford)] Hayes, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), Laura L. Goodwin, works in shoe factory, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Richard Hayes, a school teacher, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and Jefferson Hayes, operates pegging machine, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH). William Hayes had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $300. (William Hayes was the maternal uncle of Laura M. Goodwin).

Charles Goodwin, a wholesale shoe store salesman, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Boston, MA. household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Susan [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Abbie A. Goodwin, at school, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Tryphonia [(Burnham)] Wentworth, at home, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Josiah Vinton, a drill-maker, aged forty-six years (b. ME).

John E. Goodwin & Co.’s Dover shoe factory burned down in the early hours of Tuesday, November 1, 1870.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DOVER, N.H. – John E. Goodwin’s large shoe manufactory at Dover, N.H., was discovered on fire about half-past two o’clock yesterday morning and was totally destroyed, with its contents. The fire next caught a smaller shoe factory occupied by the same firm, which was also burned. The old Catholic church was next burned, and a building occupied by C.E. & S.C. Hayes. From the old church the fire caught the new Catholic church now building, and the priest’s residence, which were also burned. The high wind carried the cinders a long distance and roofs of buildings were repeatedly on fire. Had it not been for the rain on Tuesday the fire would have been much more disastrous. Goodwin & Co. were insured for $27,000 on their stock. The building was owned by Benjamin Pray and was insured for $4,000. There was no insurance on the churches (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier (Bangor, ME), November 2, 1870).

Son Henry C. Goodwin married, June 25, 1872, Emma M. Horne. She was born in Dover, NH, in 1845, daughter of Dr. Jeremiah and Harriet (Chamberlin) Horne.

John E. Goodwin received a renewal of his five-year appointment as a Dover, NH, justice-of-the-peace, January 3, 1873. (In the column for his next renewal, which would have been in January 1878, there was instead a notation of “Mass.,” i.e., he was ineligible for a renewal as he had moved to Massachusetts at some time prior to 1878).

Mother Annie (Hanson) Goodwin died of pneumonia in Milton, March 20, 1875, aged eighty-seven years, ten months, and four days. (There is a question mark next to the “75” of 1875 on the death certificate).

Daughter Alice E. Goodwin married in North Brookfield, MA, September 4, 1878, Gilbert Thornton Webber, Jr., both of North Brookfield, MA. He was a tinsmith, aged thirty-six years, and she was aged twenty-five years. He was born in Chelsea, MA, March 3, 1842, son of Gilbert T. and Julia A. (Boothby) Webber. His previous wife, Amanda (Hudson) Webber had died in 1871.

Son John F. Goodwin married (1st) in Dover, NH, October 26, 1879, Vienna Belle Sanborn, he of North Brookfield, MA, and she of Dover, NH. He was a merchant, aged twenty-two years, and she was aged eighteen years. Rev. George B. Spaulding performed the ceremony. She was born in Pittsfield, NH, September 23, 1861, daughter of Charles H. and Vienna M. (Prescott) Sanborn.

John E. Goodwin, works in shoe factory, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a North Brookfield, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Pamelia N. [((Davis) Pinkham)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), his son, John F. Goodwin, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and his daughter-in-law, V. Belle [(Sanborn)] Goodwin, at home, aged eighteen years (b. NH).

Henry C. Goodwin, an apothecary, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Emma M. [(Horne)] Goodwin, keeps house, aged thirty-four years (b. MA), his children, Maria B. Goodwin, aged six years (b. NH), Alice E. Goodwin, aged eleven months (b. NH), his father-in-law, Jeremiah Horne, a physician, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), his mother-in-law, Harriet [(Chamberlin)] Horne, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), and his brother-in-law, Frederick E. Horne, a clerk in store, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). They resided on Nelson Street.

William B. Dennis, a fancy goods dealer, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Helen L. [(Goodwin)] Dennis, keeping house, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), Joseph H. Dennis, at home, aged twelve years (b. NH), James S. Dennis, at home, aged seven years (b. NH), William V. Dennis, at home, aged eight months (b. MA), and his domestic [servant], Kate Boyle, does housework, aged eighteen years (b. NY). They resided on Maple Street.

Wm. Hayes, works in shoe factory, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Stoneham, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lucy L. [(Crawford)] Hayes, keeping house, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), his niece, Laura Goodwin, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), and his lodgers, Eunice Coy, works in shoe factory, aged forty-seven years (b. ME), and James Whepley, a farm laborer, aged twenty-three years (b. New Brunswick).

Gilbert T. Webber, a tinsmith, aged thirty-eight years (b. MA), headed a North Brookfield, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Alice E. [(Goodwin)] Webber, keeping house, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), and Jennie I. Webber, at school, aged eleven years (b. MA). They lived in a two-family dwelling with the household of Enoch H. Jones, works in shoe factory, aged forty-four years (b. NH).

Chas. H. Goodwin, a commercial traveler, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and his wife, Susan E. [(Wentworth)], aged forty-six years (b. NH), were two of the ten boarders in the Somerville, MA, household of Nathaniel Millikin, a R.R. freight clerk, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census.

Son-in-law William B. Dennis died of rheumatism in Dover, NH, January 24, 1883, aged thirty-eight years. He had been a merchant.

TOWN TALK. Mrs. Geo. W. Boyden of Dover, N.H., and Mrs. John E. Goodwin of North Brookfield, Mass., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Day (Vermont Tribune (Ludlow, VT), August 14, 1885).

A business publication published a sketch of son Henry C. Goodwin and his pharmacist’s shop in Dover, NH, in 1887.

Henry C. Goodwin, Pharmacist and Stationer, No. 1 Bracewell Building, Central Street, corner First. – This house was established by its present proprietor in 1874, and is included among the finer class of pharmacies in this city. The store is spacious in size, admirably fitted up, and replete with everything required to constitute a first-class drug and prescription establishment. The extensive and well-selected stock embraces a full line of pure drugs, chemicals and medicines, toilet and nursery articles, fancy goods and school books, confectionery and cigars, soda and mineral waters, and a carefully assorted stock of such patent or proprietary medicines as are known to possess virtues and curative properties devoid of deleterious or injurious elements. Mr. Goodwin also makes a line of preparations that are highly prized by his patrons and have a large sale, among which are sarsaparilla, tooth powder, all-healing ointment, anti-bilious bitters, kidney and liver medicine, stomach bitters, Lewis’ cholera cordial, cough mixture, etc., etc. The compounding of physicians’ prescriptions and family recipes receives that careful and intelligent professional attention which their important character so imperatively demands, and accuracy and precision invariably prevail in every department of the business. Mr. Goodwin is a native of Milton, N.H., and an accomplished pharmacist and a reliable and trustworthy business man (Intl. Pub. Co., 1887).

Son Henry C. Goodwin removed his pharmacy business to Malden, MA, circa 1890.

BOSTON. In Malden the aldermen have concluded to grant licenses to these druggists: Levi W. Rockwell, M.G. Croscombie, Henry C. Goodwin, Walter P. Sheldon, John J. McCarthy, J. Inglis Street, J.R. Colby, W.F. Weld, C.A. Charles, Albert B. Morgan, Winslow B. Southworth Jesse W. Sargent, Daniel W. Kelly and N.G. Cofran. Other licenses will soon be granted (Pharmaceutical Era, May 15, 1891).

John E. Goodwin of Malden, MA, made his last will, August 18, 1892. He devised $200 to his wife, Pamelia N. Goodwin for her immediate use. He bequeathed $25 to his son, Henry C. Goodwin; $25 to Eri W. Pinkham; $300 to daughter Leah Hellen Dennis; $200 to daughter Laura May Goodwin; $25 to daughter Alice E. Webber; and $500 and his gold watch to son John Freemont Goodwin. He bequeathed all the rest and residue to Gilbert T. Webber of North Brookfield, MA, Edward L. Goodwin of Boston, MA, and John Fremont Goodwin of Malden, MA, as a trust for the comfortable support and maintenance of his widow during her natural life. He devised his furniture to his widow, with the proviso that she should pass such as she did not want to his children. He devised one-fourth of his original estate, if any be remaining after her decease, to the Freewill Baptist Home and Missionary Society, and the other three-fourths to his son, John Fremont Goodwin. He appointed Gilbert T. Webber, Edward L. Goodwin, and John Fremont Goodwin as joint executors. Robert C. Fanning, Horace D. Gove, and Jesse M. Gove signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 104:428).

(Edward L. Goodwin (1839-1922) was a son of brother Daniel B. Goodwin); Eri W. Pinkham (1848-1904) was a son of Pamelia N. ((Davis) Pinkham) Goodwin).

John E. Goodwin died of heart disease in Malden, MA, May 29, 1893, aged seventy-two years, eight months, and seventeen days. He had been a shoe manufacturer, who had been born in Middleton, NH, son of Joseph and Annie (Hanson) Goodwin.

The last will of John E. Goodwin was proved in Middlesex County Probate court, July 11, 1893 (Middlesex County Probate, 531:442).

Daughter-in-law Vienna Belle (Sanborn) Goodwin died of septicemia in Malden, MA, September 6, 1893, aged thirty-one years, eleven months, and fourteen days. She had been born in Pittsfield, NH, daughter of Charles H. and Vienna (Prescott) Sanborn.

MALDEN. Henry C. Goodwin of Clifton is visiting at his old home in Rochester, N.H. (Boston Globe, September 3, 1895).

Son John F. Goodwin married (2nd) in Malden, MA, December 25, 1895, Grace C. Richards, both of Malden, MA. He was a clerk, aged thirty-seven years, and she was aged twenty-six years. Rev. Benjamin H. Bailey performed the ceremony. She was born in Melrose, MA, March 5, 1869, daughter of Charles E. and Elizabeth A. “Lizzie” (Dearborn) Richards.

Goodwin-Richards. MALDEN, Dec 25. Miss Grace C. Richards, a well-known young woman of this city, and Mr. John P. Goodwin of Boston were married this noon at the home of Mrs. S.O. Dearborn, on Pleasant st., by Rev. B. Bailey, pastor of the Unitarian church of this city, in the presence of the immediate friends and relatives of the bride and groom (Boston Globe, December 26, 1895).

Henry C. Goodwin of Malden, MA, was impaneled as a Middlesex County juror in a larceny fraud case against John Reed, the so-called “King of the Bunco Men,” in March 1898.

The Jury which was impanelled with the greatest care, was composed as follows: Hiram F. Bean of Hudson, Edward J. Ryan of Marlboro, Nelson W. Jenny of Lexington, Henry B. Badger of Reading, Edwin A. Bennet of Burlington, Edwin A. Brown of Belmont, Edward E. Chapman of Medford, Henry C. Goodwin of Malden, George T. Freeman of Arlington, George F. Heeland of Dracut, Harry C. Whlttemore of Cambridge, and Charles A. Sherburn of Tyngsboro (Boston Evening Transcript, March 8, 1898).

Reed was convicted and sentenced to not less than four years and not more than five years in prison. Other sentences would be added to his total. He would escape from custody in Worcester, MA, October 30, 1898, while being transported, and would resurface later in London, England.

Daughter Alice E. [(Goodwin)] Webber, of North Brookfield, MA, was selected to be a delegate to the Women’s Relief Corps National Encampment in Philadelphia, PA, in September 1899 (Boston Globe, February 26, 1899).

Henry C. Goodwin, a druggist, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-seven years), Emma [(Horne)] Goodwin, aged fifty-four years (b. MA), his children, Maria B. Goodwin, a teacher, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Elizabeth Goodwin, aged twenty years (b. NH), his [step-] mother, Amelia M. [((Davis) Pinkham)] Goodwin, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), and his boarders, Minna Parker, a bank clerk, aged thirty-nine years (b. Japan), and Marjorie G. Parker, at school, aged eight years (b. MA). Henry C. Goodwin owned their house at 207 Clifton Street. Emma Goodwin was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living. Amelia M. Goodwin was the mother of two children, of whom one was still living; and Minna Parker was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

Leah H. [(Goodwin)] Dennis, a fancy goods dealer, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her son, Samuel J. Dennis, a teacher, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH). Leah H. Dennis owed their farm on Horne Street. She was the mother of six children, of whom five were still living.

William Hayes, aged eighty-two years, headed a Stoneham, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-four years), Lucy L. [(Crawford)] Hayes, aged seventy-seven years, and his niece, Laura M. Goodwin, a shoe factory stitcher, aged forty-nine years (b. NH). William Hayes owned their house at 17 Hancock Street, free-and-clear. Lucy L. Hayes was the mother of no children.

Gilbert T. Webber, a tinsmith, aged fifty-seven years (b. MA), headed a North Brookfield, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-two years), Alice E. [(Goodwin)] Webber, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), Frank G. Webber, at school, aged eighteen years (b. MA), Paul T. Webber, at school, aged twelve years (b. MA), and Alice E. Webber, at school, aged nine years (b. MA). Gilbert T. Webber owned their house on Gilbert Street, free-and-clear. Alice E. Goodwin was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living.

John F. Goodwin, an express agent, aged forty-three years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of four years), Grace R. [(Richards)] Goodwin, aged thirty-one years (b. MA), and his daughter, Annie M. Goodwin, aged sixteen years (b. MA). John F. Goodwin rented their house at 40 Gould Street.

Frederick G. Nickerson, a R.R. auditor, aged forty-four years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-one years), Abbie A. [(Goodwin)] Nickerson, a music teacher, aged forty-six years (b. NH), his daughter, Florence A. Nickerson, aged twenty years (b. MA), his boarders, Charles H. Goodwin, insurance, aged seventy-five years (b. MA [SIC]), [his wife of fifty years,] Susan E. [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, aged sixty-six years (b. MA [SIC]), and his servant, Katie Waldron, aged twenty-four years (b. Ireland). Frederick G. Nickerson rented their house at 29 Spring Street. Abbie A. Nickerson and Susan E. Wentworth were each the mother of one child, each of whom was still living.

Brother Charles H. Goodwin died of old age in Malden, MA, May 25, 1904, aged seventy-nine years, eight months, and fourteen days. He had been a retired merchant.

Pamelia N. ((Davis) Pinkham) Goodwin died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Malden, MA, October 11, 1904, aged seventy-five years, six months, and twenty-three days. She had been born in Alton, NH, daughter of Rev. Jacob and Flois (Kelley) Davis. Her step-son, Henry C. Goodwin, supplied the personal information.

Mrs. Pamelia N. Goodwin, widow of John E. Goodwin of Malden, died yesterday at the home of her son, Henry C. Goodwin, in the seventy-sixth year of her age. She was a native of Alton, N.H., and the daughter of Rev. Jacob Davis of Gilmanton (Boston Evening Transcript, October 12, 1904).

Sister-in-law Lucy L. (Crawford) Hayes died of old age in her home at 17 Hancock Street in Stoneham, MA, February 28, 1905, aged eighty-three years, seven months, and sixteen days.

Brother-in-law William Hayes died of apoplexy in his home at 17 Hancock Street in Stoneham, MA, February 5, 1908, aged eighty-nine years, ten months, and twenty-five days.

DEATHS. HAYES. – At Stoneham, Feb 5, William Hayes, 89 yrs., 10 mos., 25 dys. Funeral on Saturday at 2.30 P.M., at late home, No. 17 Hancock street, Stoneham, Mass. Friends are invited. Kindly omit flowers. Train from North Station at 1.13 P.M. (Boston Evening Transcript, February 7, 1908).

(Their house at 17 Hancock Street in Stoneham, MA, passed to his niece, Laura M. Goodwin).

Henry C. Goodwin, a retail druggist, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-seven years), Emma M [(Horne)] Goodwin, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), and his daughter, Maria B. Goodwin, a school teacher, aged thirty-six years (b. NH). Henry C. Goodwin owned their house at 207 Clifton Street, with a mortgage. Emma Goodwin was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.

John A. Dennis, a glass works clerk, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Union, PA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of five years), Mary Dennis, aged thirty-four years (b. PA), Helen Dennis, aged four years (b. PA), John A. Dennis, Jr., aged four months (b. PA), his mother, Leah H. [(Goodwin)] Dennis, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), and his servant, Mary Mckinney, a housework servant, aged sixty-four years (b. PA). John A. Dennis rented their house on Monongahela River Road. Mary Dennis was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.

Laura M. Goodwin, a candy store saleslady, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Stoneham, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. She owned her house at 17 Hancock Street, free-and-clear.

Gilbert T. Webber, a plumber, aged sixty-eight years (b. MA), headed a North Brookfield, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-one years), Alice E. [(Goodwin)] Webber, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and Ethel A. Webber, aged eighteen years (b. MA). Gilbert T. Webber owned their house on Gilbert Street, free-and-clear. Alice E. Goodwin was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living.

John F. Goodwin, a storage house storekeeper, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), headed a Pittsburgh, PA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fourteen years), Grace R. [(Richards)] Goodwin, aged forty-one years (b. MA). John F. Goodwin rented their portion of a two-family residence at 12 Hemlock Street.

Son-in-law Gilbert T. Webber died in North Brookfield, MA, April 11, 1917.

Daughter Leah H. (Goodwin) Dennis died in Washington, DC, May 31, 1917.

DIED. Dennis – Leah Helen Dennis died at the home of her son, Samuel James, 6937 Georgia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., June 1st, 1917. Her remains were taken to Dover, New Hampshire, and laid beside those of her husband, William Brown Dennis, who died in 1883. She is survived by four sons, Samuel James, of Washington, D.C.; William Varney, of Moorestown, N.J.; Lindley Hoag, of Harrisburg, Pa.; and John Alfred, of San Dimas, California. A devoted Christian mother and loyal member of the Dover Monthly Meeting for fifty years (The American Friend (Richmond, IN), January 21, 1917).

Henry C. Goodwin, a drug store salesman, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Emma [(Horne)] Goodwin, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), and his aunt, Mary Bangs, aged eighty-three years (b. NH). Henry C. Goodwin rented their house at 141 Clifton Street.

Laura M. Goodwin, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Stoneham, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Laura M. Goodwin owned her house at 17 Hancock Street, free-and-clear.

John F. Goodwin, a printing shop shipper, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Grace R. [(Richards)] Goodwin, aged fifty years (b. MA). John F. Goodwin rented their house at 18 Savin Hill Avenue.

Son Henry C. Goodwin died in Malden, MA, January 13, 1920, aged seventy-three years.

MALDEN. Funeral services for Henry C. Goodwin, a well-known druggist, will be held tomorrow afternoon at the home of the family, 141 Clifton st. He was 73 years old, a native of Milton, N.H., and had lived here 30 years. He was a member of the First Congregational Church and the Schubert Club (Boston Globe, January 15, 1920).

Mary Bangs died of accidental gas asphyxiation in the home of her step-niece, Emma (Horne) Goodwin, November 8, 1920, aged eighty-three years. She was a younger sister of Dr. Jeremiah Horne’s first wife, Maria (Bangs) Horne.

MALDEN. Miss Mary Bangs was found dead from gas asphyxiation yesterday at the home of her niece, Mrs. Henry C. Goodwin, 141 Clifton st., was 83 years old, a native of Dover, and had lived here the past three years. Death was accidental (Boston Globe, November 9, 1920).

Nephew (and co-executor) Edward L. Goodwin died in Roslindale, MA, January 14, 1922.

DEATHS. GOODWIN – In Roslindale, Jan. 14, Edward L., husband of Jane T. Goodwin. Services at residence, 6 Tappan st., Tuesday, at 1 p.m. Relatives and friends invited. Farmington, N.H., papers please copy (Boston Globe, January 16, 1922).

Sister-in-law Susan E. (Wentworth) Goodwin died in Malden, MA, April 22, 1929, aged ninety-six years.

Daughter Laura May Goodwin died in Stoneham, MA, May 1, 1929, aged seventy-seven years.

MRS. [MISS] LAURA M. GOODWIN. STONEHAM, May 1 – Miss Laura M. Goodwin, a resident of Stoneham since 1861, died today at the home of Mrs. Ada DeMariano, 112 Hancock st. Miss Goodwin was born in West Milton, N.H., in 1851. She was a member of the Eastern Star and of Evergreen Rebekah Lodge. A sister, Mrs. Alice E. Webber of Springfield, and a brother, J.S. [J.F.] Goodwin of Brighton, survive her. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at the home of C.E. Bockus, 17 Hancock st. (Boston Globe, May 1, 1929).

Emma [(Horne)] Goodwin, a widow, aged eighty-four years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. She owned her house on Clifton Street, which was valued at $6,500.

John F. Goodwin, a printery elevator operator, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-four years), Grace R. [(Richards)] Goodwin, aged sixty-one years (b. MA). John F. Goodwin rented their portion of a two-family residence at 22 Allston Street, for $25 per month. They had a radio set.

Daughter-in-law Emma M. (Horne) Goodwin died in a fall in Malden, MA, November 29, 1935, aged ninety years.

FALL DOWN STAIRS KILLS MALDEN WOMAN, AGE 90. MALDEN, Nov 29. Mrs. Emma M. Goodwin, 90 years old, was killed late this afternoon when she fell down the cellar stairs at her home, 141 Clifton st. She was found by her daughter, Mrs. Frederick R. Perry, with whom she lived, when Mrs. Perry returncd home about 5 o’clock. Dr. Leo J. Lynch, who was called, said she had suffered a fractured skull and had been dead about two hours (Boston Globe, November 30, 1935).

Son John F. Goodwin died in Boston, MA, December 26, 1937 (given as 1938 on gravestone).

Death Notices. GOODWIN – In Dorchester, Dec. 26, John F. Goodwin, of 38 Mount Vernon st. Services at the Burroughs’ Funeral Home, 21 Virginia st., Uphams Corner, on Wednesday, Dec. 29, at 2 o’clock (Boston Globe, December 27, 1937).

Andrew R. Pomeroy, a retail milk owner, aged fifty-seven years (b. MA), headed a Longmeadow, MA, household at the time of the (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ethel A. [(Webber)] Pomeroy, a housewife, aged forty-seven years (b. MA), his children. Edward R. Pomeroy, a public-school teacher, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA), and Richard W. Pomeroy, aged eighteen years (b. MA), and his mother-in-law, [Alice] Elizah [(Goodwin)] Webber, aged eighty-seven years (b. NH). Andrew R. Pomeroy owned their house at 1195 Longmeadow Street, which was valued at $7,500.

Grace R. [(Richards)] Goodwin, a widow, aged seventy-one years (b. MA), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the (1940) Federal Census. She rented her apartment at 11 Everett Avenue. She had resided in the “same place,” i.e., Boston, MA, in 1935.

Daughter Alice E. (Goodwin) Webber died in Longmeadow, MA, in 1941.

Grace R. [(Richards)] Goodwin, a widow, aged eighty-one years (b. NH [SIC]), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the (1950) Federal Census. She rented her apartment at 41 Rockland Street.

Daughter-in-law Grace R. (Richards) Goodwin died in 1953.

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