Through a special legislative act, the South Milton school was managed by the Milton school district, but was financed jointly by Milton and neighboring Rochester. Milton provided two-thirds of its funding and Rochester provided the remaining one-third. (In Rochester’s records, it was called either their District No. 16 school or the South Milton school). Presumably, its student population came from Milton and Rochester in roughly similar proportions.
Ira W. Jones (Milton’s hydraulic engineer) received the bulk of his formal education at the South Milton school, although a generation earlier (c1861-70) than the period covered here. He supplemented this eighth-grade education at the private Milton Classical Institute, then at evening technical drawing classes in Boston, and finally through a succession of on-the-job experiences.
The Nute Ridge school is visible (to the left), but the South Milton school does not appear, as one might expect, at South Milton P.O. One supposes it was just off map (to the right), beyond the house of I. & G.H. Wentworth
The South Milton school does not appear in the 1892 map of the South Milton P.O. village. It has been described as having stood on the State road, i.e., the modern NH Route 125. One supposes it was just off the edge of the map, i.e., nearer to the Milton-Rochester boundary, as students came on foot from both places.
The South school teachers identified in this 1886-1929 period were Mabel L. Goodwin, Laura G. Page, Coran K. Davis, Clara E. Stanton, Minerva R. Perry, Dolly M. Wallace, Ferne C. McGregor, and Cora E. (McDuffee) Hayes. Several of these teachers taught also in other Milton school districts in other years.
(As before, this list is necessarily a partial one, subject to addition or revision if and when more complete information comes to hand).
Mabel L. Goodwin – 1886-87
Mabel L. Goodwin was born in Dover, NH, June 29, 1868, daughter of William H.H. “Henry Harrison” and Belle (Davis) Goodwin. (His father was presumably an enthusiastic Whig, in that he named his son after Whig President William Henry Harrison (the “Tippecanoe” of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”)).
Her father died in Somersworth, NH, August 9, 1876, when she was seven years of age. Her mother married (2nd) in Somersworth, NH, November 28, 1877, John R. Meserve.
John P. Meserve, an expressman, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his “2nd Wife,” Belle Meserve, keeping house, aged thirty-five years, his step-daughters, Mabel L. Goodwin, at school, aged twelve years (b. NH), and Florence Goodwin, aged eight years (b. NH), his daughter, Gertrude R. Meserve, aged three months (b. NH), and his wife’s aunt, Louisa Davis, aged sixty-one years (b. NH).
Mabel’s mother died in Somersworth, NH, April 8, 1884, when she was fifteen years of age.
Rochester, NH, reported that Mabel L. Goodwin was its District 16 (Milton and Rochester) school teacher for Fall 1886, at a monthly wage of $24. She had twenty-two enrolled students, with an average attendance of nineteen students.
Rochester School Board Secretary Louis M. Richardson reported on the difference between the length of the academic year in Rochester and in the Milton-Rochester union school:
For the past year there has been twenty-eight weeks of school in all the districts except No. 16, which is the union district with Milton (length of schooling twenty-three weeks). Satisfactory arrangements could not be made with that board to prolong the school, thus the scholars in that district suffered the loss of five weeks’ schooling. But the action the voters of the town took in relation to the articles specified in the warrant at the last school meeting concerning that district is sanctioned by the board, and hereafter those scholars will receive instruction in this town on an equal basis with the rest (Annual Report of the City of Rochester, New Hampshire, 1887).
The Superintending School Committee of Somersworth, NH, mentioned her in its report of the 1890-91 academic year:
In the primary schools some changes have occurred. Miss Mabel L. Goodwin has had charge of the 2d primary school, in the Orange street house.
It mentioned also the poor condition of the Orange Street school house to which they had assigned her.
The Orange street house is calling loudly for attention. Leaking roofs and worn-out paint tell the story of present needs (Reports of the Town of Somersworth, For the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 1891).
Mable L. Goodwin married in Boston, MA, September 22, 1892, Nathaniel M. Nichols, she of New Hampshire and he of Three Rivers [Palmer, MA]. He was born in Staten Island, NY, in March 1866, son of James M. and Eliza B. (Mason) Nichols.
Nathan M. Nichols, an advertising agent, aged thirty-four years (b. NY), headed a Manhattan, New York, NY, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eight years), Mabel G. Goodwin, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), and his child, Francis B. Nichols, aged five years (b. MA). Nathan M. Nichols rented their house [apartment[ at 71 East 95th Street. Mabel G. Nichols was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Nathaniel M. Nichols, a town school buildings custodian, aged forty-four years (b. NY), headed a Winchester, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of seventeen years), Mabel G. Nichols, forty-one years (b. NH), his children, Marion Nichols, aged seven years (b. MA), and Doris E. Nichols, aged three years (b. MA), his servant, Margaret Lydon, a private family servant, aged twenty-five years (b. Ireland), and his lodger, Ella G. Prentiss, a private family nurse, aged forty-nine years (b. VT). Nathaniel M. Nichols rented their house at 10 Hillside Avenue. Mabel G. Nichols was the mother of three children, of whom two were still living.
Nathaniel M. Nichols, a public school custodian, aged fifty-three years (b. NY), headed a Winchester, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mabel G. Nichols, fifty-one years (b. NH), his children, Marion Nichols, aged seventeen years (b. MA), and Doris E. Nichols, aged thirteen years (b. MA), and his boarder, Ella G. Prentiss, a public school teacher, aged forty-five [fifty-nine] years (b. MA). Nathaniel M. Nichols rented their house at 10 Hillside Avenue.
Nathaniel M. Nichols, a Town government tax collector, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), headed a Winchester, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-eight years), Mabel G. Nichols, aged sixty-one years (b. NH). Nathaniel M. Nichols owned their house at 29 Crescent Road, which was valued at $10,000. They had a radio set.
Nathaniel Nichols, a tax collector, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), headed a Winchester, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mabel G. Nichols, aged seventy-one years (b. NH). Nathaniel M. Nichols owned their house at 29 Crescent Road, which was valued at $8,000.
Nathaniel M. Nichols died in Winchester, MA, December 27, 1947, aged eighty-one years. Mabel L. (Goodwin) Nichols died in MA, December 17, 1961.
Laura G. Page – 1890-91
Laura Gertrude Page was born in Wakefield, NH, in October 1866, daughter of Charles W. and Mary Ann (Chapman) Page. (She was a sister of Myra L. Page, a Hare Road school teacher).
MILTON. School commenced in the South Milton district this week. Miss Laura Page, teacher (Farmington News, August 29, 1890).
WEST MILTON. Miss Laura Page is not as well, and Miss Myra has remained at home this winter; Miss Josephine, the younger sister, is teaching in Manchester (March 16, 1900).
Charles H. Page, a farmer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-nine years), Mary A. Page, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), and his children, Josephine W. Page, a school teacher, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Myra L. Page, a school teacher, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), and Laura G. Page, aged thirty-three years (b. NH). Charles H. Page owned their farm, free-and-clear. Mary A. Page was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
MILTON. Miss Laura Page of Wakefield is visiting friends in town (Farmington News, January 29, 1904).
MILTON. Miss Laura G. Page of Sanbornville is the guest of Mrs. R.K. Webber (Farmington News, June 17, 1904).
Charles H. Page, a farmer, aged eighty-one years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-nine years), Mary A. Page, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), and his children, Laura G. Page, aged forty-three years (b. NH), Myra L. Page, a school teacher, aged forty-one years (b. NH), and Josephine W. Page, aged thirty-five years (b. NH). Charles H. Page owned their farm on the South Wakefield street, free-and-clear. Mary A. Page was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
Mary A. Page, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Laura G. Page, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), Myra L. Page, a public school teacher, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and Josephine W. Page, aged forty-five years (b. NH). Mary A. Page owned their house, free-and-clear.
Mira L. Page, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her sisters, Laura G. Page, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), and Josephine W. Page, aged fifty-five years (b. NH). Mira L. Page owned their house at 11 Liberty Street, which was valued at $1,000.
Laura G. Page, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her sister, Josephine W. Page, aged sixty-five years (b. NH). Laura G. Page owned their house at 11 Liberty Street, which was valued at $4,500. Both sisters had attended two years of college. They had resided in the same house in 1935.
Josephine W. Page died in 1947. Laura G. Page died in 1950.
Coran K. Davis – 1891-92
Coran K. Davis was born in Barnstead, NH, December 8, 1869, son of John K. and Abigail D. (Walker) Davis.
NORTH BARNSTEAD. The following is a partial list of the teachers in town: – Center, Harry Sanborn; Bickford, Miss Anne Hanson; Dennett, Mr. Myre George; Beauty Hill, Mrs. Grace Jenkins; White Oak, Mrs. Annie Tasker; Berry’s, Lula M. Hurd; North, C.K. Davis; Lock’s Corner, Emma Locke; Shackford’s Corner, Annie E. Ayers (Farmington News, May 15, 1891).
SOUTH MILTON. School commenced here Aug 17, under the instruction of C.K. Davis (Farmington News, August 28, 1891).
Despite the West Milton heading, the Pearl school house at which Coran Davis taught during the 1892-93 academic year was in Farmington, NH. (He perhaps boarded still in West Milton from the prior 1891-92 year spent at the South Milton school).
WEST MILTON. Mr. Coran Davis has closed another successful term in the Pearl school house (Farmington News, March 24, 1893).
Coran K. Davis married in Barnstead, NH, October 27, 1894, Annie A. Tuttle, both of Barnstead. He was a teacher, aged twenty-four years, and she was a houseworker, aged twenty-one years. She was born in Barnstead, NH, August 2, 1873, daughter of James C. and Alice J. (Hill) Tuttle.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. Belknap County Pomona grange will meet with Barnstead grange, Barnstead Centre, November 21. The public is invited. The following is the program: Singing, choir; welcome, Arthur T. Prendergast; response, J.M. Taylor; reading, Edith V. French; recitation, Mrs. Eva Gilman; music, Coran K. Davis; essay, O.E. Davis; recitation, H.B. Holman: grange paper, Mrs. L.A. Dyer; question, “What is the influence of the grange in making farming more popular, and how can we increase our membership?” T.E. Hunt, Richard Hanscome, C.F. Davis, H.N. Colbath, B. Frank Dow and others (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), November 17, 1894).
BARNSTEAD. Schools begin Monday, April 18. Miss Bertha Parshley takes this school again and C.K. Davis has the Berry school (Farmington News, April 1, 1898).
NORTH BARNSTEAD. C.K. Davis went to Concord Friday of last week, to take the examination for teachers’ state certificate. There were but nine present to take it (Farmington News, April 7, 1899).
NORTH BARNSTEAD. Coran Davis and Will Cote of the Belknap Cornet Band of this place have been engaged to play with the Gilmanton band at Barnstead Centre, Memorial Day (Farmington News, May 26, 1899).
John K. Davis, a farmer, aged seventy-nine years (b. NH), headed a Barnstead, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fifty-six years), Abby Davis, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), his son, Coran Davis, a teacher, aged thirty years (b. NH), and his daughter-in-law (of five years), Annie B. Davis, a dressmaker, aged twenty-six years (b. NH). John K. Davis owned their farm, free-and-clear. Abby Davis was the mother of four children, of whom four were still living.
Coran K. Davis, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Barnstead, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fifteen years), Annie A. Davis, aged thirty-six years (b. NH). Coran K. Davis owned their farm, with a mortgage.
Coran K. Davis, a general farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Barnstead, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Annie Davis, a dressmaker, aged forty-six years (b. NH). Coran K. Davis owned their farm, with a mortgage.
Coran K. (Annie) Davis appeared in the Barnstead directory of 1926, as a school teacher, with his house at Ctr. Barnstead.
Coran K. Davis, a public school teacher, aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Barnstead, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-five years), Annie A. Davis, aged fifty-six years (b. NH). Coran K. Davis owned their farm. They did not have a radio set.
Annie A. (Tuttle) Davis died February 7, 1939.
ALTON and ALTON BAY. Mrs. Coran Davis, who was well known in Alton, passed away quite suddenly at her home In Barnstead, Monday evening (Farmington News, February 10, 1939).
Coran Davis, a widower, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Barnstead, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Coran Davis owned his farm on the Locke Road, which was valued at $1,500. He had lived in the same house in 1935.
Coran K. Davis died in Barnstead, NH, January 1, 1965.
BARNSTEAD. The Coran Davis Farm shown against the sky is an historic landmark reported to be the oldest building still standing in the township, unfortunately, the timbers are weak and the old building is to be dismantled. Note the two chimneys with fireplaces at the two ends of the main house (Farmington News, April 28, 1966).
???? – 1892-93
MILTON. The school at South Milton had a flag raising Friday (Farmington News, October 28, 1892).
MILTON. The South Milton school has closed for a vacation of about two weeks (Farmington News, November 18, 1892).
Clara E. Stanton – 1893-94
Clara Edith Stanton was born in Lebanon, ME, September 4, 1856, daughter of James B. and Catherine (White) Stanton.
Clara E. Stanton of West Lebanon, ME, was one of eight senior class Ladies at the New Hampton Literary and Theological Institution in 1875. She took the English and Classical course of studies, and resided at Hamptonia Hall. Other potential majors were Classical; English and French; and English and Latin (Catalogue of the Officers and Students at New Hampton Literary Institution, at New Hampton, N.H., For the Academical Year 1874-75).
James B. Stanton, a farmer (and house carpenter), aged fifty-two years (b. ME), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Catherine Stanton, keeping house, aged fifty-two years (b. RI), and daughter, Helen W. Stanton, at home, aged sixteen years (b. ME). Meanwhile, another daughter, Clara E. Stanton, a high school teacher, aged twenty-three years (b. ME), was boarding in the Warner, NH, household of Newell Carr, a laborer, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), and his wife, Mahala Carr, keeping house, aged sixty-one years (b. VT).
MILTON. The school at South Milton began Monday with Miss Stanton as teacher (Farmington News, August 18, 1893).
Timothy B. Young, keeps variety store, aged fifty-nine years (B. NH), headed a Wolfeboro, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-eight years), Sarah I. Young, aged fifty years (b. NH), his son, Oscar L. Young, a lawyer, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), his boarder, Clara E. Stanton, a teacher, aged forty-three years (b. ME), Timothy B. Young owned their house, free-and-clear. Sarah I. Young was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Fred L. Shapleigh, a painter (own shop), aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Eva D. Shapleigh, a private school proprietress, aged forty-five years (b. ME), his mother-in-law, Melissa J. Davis, own income, aged seventy-two years (b. ME), and his boarder, Clara E. Stanton, a private school teacher, aged fifty-three years (b. ME). Fred L. Shapleigh owned their farm, free-and-clear. Melissa J. Davis was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
Clara E. Stanton was paid as the teacher of various district schools in Gilford, NH, in the 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-13, 1913-15, and 1915-16 academic years; and Sanbornton, NH, in the 1918-19, and 1919-20 academic years.
Clara E. Stanton, a public school teacher, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her lodger, Jennie M. Orrell, a shoe factory stitcher, aged fifty years (b. NH). Clara E. Stanton rented their house at 17 Maple Street.
Willard N. Kimball, a cotton mill machinist, aged sixty-five years (b. ME), headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-one years), Eva M. Kimball, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), and his roomer, Clara E. Stanton, aged seventy-three years (b. ME). Willard N. Kimball owned their house at 31 Lincoln Street, which was valued at $5,000. They had a radio set.
???? – 1897-98
The Annual Report of the City of Rochester, NH, reported an “incidental” payment of $85.17 to the “Town of Milton, one-third expense of school at South Milton.” Milton paid the other two-thirds of the costs of their South Milton “Union” school (Seventh Annual Report of the City of Rochester, New Hampshire, For the Year Ending December 31, 1898).
???? – 1900-01
The Annual Report of the City of Rochester, NH, reported an “incidental” payment of $84.58 to the “Town of Milton, ⅓ expense of school,” i.e., 1/3 of the costs of the South Milton school. Milton paid the other two-thirds of the costs of their South Milton “Union” school (Tenth Annual Report of the City of Rochester, New Hampshire, For the Year Ending December 31, 1901).
Minerva R. Perry – 1903-04
Miss Minerva R. Perry taught the South Milton school in the 1903-04 academic year. (A fuller account of her life and career may be found in Milton’s Hare Road Teachers, 1890-26).
MILTON. Miss Minerva Perry, who is teaching the South Milton school, was a guest of Mrs. G.W. Tasker over Sunday (Farmington News, January 22, 1904).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. G.H. Hurd had the pleasure of a visit last Saturday from Miss Minerva Perey. She was a former teacher of the Hare road school and is now teaching at South Milton (Farmington News, February 19, 1904).
Millicent J. Penney – 1904
Millicent J. Penney was born in Union, Wakefield, NH, November 23, 1883, daughter of John C. and Arabella E. “Belle” (Stevens) Penney.
MILTON. Miss Millicent Penny has opened a private school in the house of Dans Hart, with 23 pupils (Farmington News, February 25, 1898).
Belle E. Penney, a widow, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, (“Union Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Millicent J. Penney, a teacher in school, aged twenty-two [seventeen] years (b. NH). Belle Penney owned their house free-and-clear. Belle Penney was the mother of three children, of whom one was still living.
MILTON. Miss Millicent Penny has the South Milton school this spring (Farmington News, April 22, 1904).
MILTON. Owing to the rain Monday afternoon, the Woman’s Relief Corps was unable to perform the Sailor service on the bridge, as planned, or go to the cemetery to participate in the service for the unknown dead. The Columbia drum corps of Dover furnished music for the march and Madokawanda Tribe, I.O.R.M., acted as escort. The exercises in the hall consisted of the oration by William S. Pierce of Somersworth, recitations by R.R. Hanson and Miss Millicent Penney, singing by eight young ladies, and several selections by Butler’s orchestra of Farmington (Farmington News, June 3, 1904).
Millicent J. Penney appeared in the Milton directory of 1905, as a teacher, boarding at 10 Bridge street, Leb. s. [Lebanon side]. Belle E. Penney appeared as the widow of John C. Penney, with her house at 10 Bridge street, Leb. s.
PERSONAL. Last Friday Mrs. B.F. Perkins, Mrs. A.W. Flanders, Miss Carrie Evans and Mrs. N.F. Roberts spent the day at the last mentioned lady’s cottage, “Openwell,” at Middleton. This week Mrs. Roberts is staying there and has as guests Mrs. Belle Penney and her daughter, Miss Millicent Penney of Milton, and Miss Blanche Trefethen of Exeter, beside occasional Farmington visitors (Farmington News, August 10, 1906).
Millicent J. Penney of Milton appeared in the Rochester directory of 1909, as one of two Grade IV teachers at Rochester’s Allen School for the 1908-09 academic year. (Nellie M. Wentworth of Rochester was the other).
Belle Penney, own income, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Millicent Penney, a school teacher, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH). Belle Penney rented their portion of a two-family house at 9A Silver Street. Belle Penney was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
She married in Rochester, NH, February 15, 1911, Frank R. Spiers. He was born in Chicopee, MA, circa 1873, son of John and Christina (Shaw) Spiers. She was a teacher, aged thirty-three years, and he was a brick manufacturer, aged thirty-eight years.
LOCAL. On Wednesday, Feb. 15, Miss Millicent J, Penney of Rochester and Frank R. Spiers of that city were united in marriage, Rev. Eastman of Union performing the ceremony. The bride, who is a graduate of Nute High and Plymouth normal schools, has been a popular teacher in Rochester for six years. The groom is a member of the Spiers-Fish Brick Co. They will reside in Rochester. Mrs. Spiers has many friends in Farmington who join in wishing her a life of happiness (Farmington News, February 17, 1911).
Frank Spiers, a brick yard manager, aged forty-eight years (b. MA), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nineteen years), Millicent Spiers, aged forty-two years (b. NH), his son, John R. Spiers, aged three years, six months (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Belle Penney, a widow, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH). Frank R. Spiers owned their house free-and-clear.
Frank (Millicent P.) Spiers appeared in the Rochester directory of 1929, as vice-president and assistant treasurer of the Spiers Brick Company, with his house at 16 Academy street. The Spiers Brick Company was north of the Pickering station in Gonic, i.e., Rochester, NH.
Frank R. Spiers, a brick yard manager, aged fifty-nine years (b. MA), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nineteen years), Millicent P. Spiers, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), his son, John R. Spiers, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and his mother [-in-law], Belle E. Penny, a widow, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH). Frank R. Spiers owned their house at 16 Academy street. They had a radio set.
Millicent J. (Penny) Spiers died in Rochester, NH, April 14, 1931, aged fifty-three years, four months, and fourteen days. Frank R. Spiers died in Rochester, NH, August 7, 1938.
Dorothy M. “Dolly” Wallace – 1908-09
Dorothy May “Dolly” Wallace was born in Milton, September 20, 1889, daughter of John C.F. and Madora N. “Dora” (Perkins) Wallace.
Dollie M. Wallace appeared in the Milton directory of 1909, as teacher of the South school for the 1908-09 academic year.
The Annual Report of the City of Rochester, NH, reported an “expenditure” of $101.84 for “One-third cost So. Milton school.” Milton paid the other two-thirds of the costs of their South Milton “Union” school (Eighteenth Annual Report of the City of Rochester, New Hampshire, For the Year Ending December 31, 1909).
Charles F. Wallace, a trucking teamster, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-eight years), Dora Wallace, sewing (at home), aged forty-seven years (b. NH), and his daughters, Dorothy M. Wallace, a school teacher, aged twenty years (b. NH), and Annie J. Wallace, aged nineteen years (b. NH). Charles F. Wallace rented their house on Banker Street. Dora Wallace was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
Dollie May Wallace married in Farmington, NH, April 2, 1911, William D. Tufts, she of Farmington and he of Middleton, NH. He was born in Middleton, NH, circa 1887-88, son of Charles D. and Nellie M. (Corson) Tufts. She was a shoe shop operative, aged twenty-one years, and he was a farmer, aged twenty-two years.
Local. Married, April 2, by Rev. E.K. Amazeen, William D. Tufts of Middleton and Dollie May Wallace of Farmington (Farmington Nes, April 7, 1911).
LOCAL. The stork was a welcome visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Tufts of Mt. Vernon street last Tuesday, where was left a bright little daughter (Farmington News, April 12, 1912).
William S.D. Tufts, a lumber jack (woods), aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Dollie M. Tufts, a shoe factory stitcher, aged thirty years (b. NH), and his daughter, Frances L. Tufts, aged seven years (b. NH). William S.D. Tufts rented their house on Winter Court.
William D. Tufts, a wood lot operator, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nineteen years), Dollie M. Tufts, aged forty years (b. NH), his children, Frances L. Tufts, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Rosalie E. Tufts, aged nine years (b. NH), and Wallace W. Tufts, aged five years (b. NH), and his roomers [parents], Charles D. Tufts, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), and [his wife (of fifty years),] Dora M. Tufts, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH). William D. Tufts owned their house at 21 Winter Court, which was valued at $800. They did not have a radio set.
Dolly M. (Wallace) Tufts died at the Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, NH, October 7, 1932, aged forty-three years, and seventeen days.
IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. William D. Tufts. A devoted family circle and many friends are deeply bereaved by the death of Mrs. Dollie M. Tufts, wife of William D. Tufts, which occurred at the Huggins hospital in Wolfeboro last Friday morning. Mrs. Tufts had been a patient there since September 13, during which time she had been critically ill. She was a native of Milton, the second daughter of a family of four children born to Charles F. and Dora (Perkins) Wallace and had been a lifelong resident of this [vicinity]. She was born September 26, 1889, and received her early education in the public schools of her native town, having graduated from Nute high school with the class of 1907, with honors for scholarship, and later attended Plymouth Normal school. For some time she taught in the rural schools of Middleton. In April 1911 she was married to Mr. Tufts, to whom she was a faithful, helpful and companionable wife. Mrs. Tufts was a woman of resourceful capabilities and Christian character, which contributed to the worthy pillars of example in the home where she lavished a wealth of devotion and found her first duty. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Miss Frances Tufts and Miss B. Rosalee Tufts, one son, W. Wallace Tufts, her father, Charles F. Wallace, one sister, Mrs. Harvey Whitehouse of Durham, and a brother, Walter Wallace of Farmington. Funeral services were held from the Baptist church Sunday at two o’clock with Rev. Emery Wallace officiating. Interment was in Farmington cemetery with committal services. Anton Perkins, Cheney Perkins, Llewellyn Perkins, and Alvah Perkins, all cousins, acted as bearers (Farmington News, October 14, 1932).
William D. Tufts died in Farmington, NH, March 10, 1942.
???? – 1914-15
The Annual Report of the City of Rochester, NH, reported a “miscellaneous” payment of $119.63 to “Milton, town school district,” i.e., Rochester’s share of the cost of the South Milton school (Annual Report, City of Rochester, New Hampshire, For the Year Ending December 31, 1915).
Ferne C. McGregor – 1919-20
Miss Ferne C. McGregor taught the South Milton school in the 1919-20 academic year. (A fuller account of her life and career may be found in Milton’s Nute Ridge Teachers – 1897-47).
WEST MILTON. Nute Ridge school has reopened with Mrs. Martin Wentworth as teacher, and Miss Ferne McGregor has the South Milton school (Farmington News, September 19, 1919).
Cora E. (McDuffee) Hayes – 1918-19, 1926-29
Cora Emma McDuffee was born in Rochester, NH, April 7, 1881, daughter of Daniel S. and Martha J. (Pinkham) McDuffee.
Daniel S. McDuffee, a R.R. section hand, 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 twenty years), Martha J. McDuffee, aged forty-one years (b. NH), and his daughter Cora E. McDuffee, at school, aged nineteen years (b. NH). Daniel S. McDuffee owned their house at 201 Main Street, free-and-clear. Martha J. McDuffee was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Cora E. McDuffee married in Rochester, NH, September 2, 1903, Luther C. Hayes, she of Rochester and he of Milton. She was a teacher, aged twenty-two years, and he was a farmer, aged thirty-three years. He was born in Milton, November 3, 1869, son of Luther and Sarah D. (Cochran) Hayes.
Luther C. Hayes, a general farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of six years), Cora E. Hayes, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), his servants, Clara Pinkham, a private family servant, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), and Charles E. Dorr, a private family servant, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and his hired man, Henry Johns, a farm laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH). Luther Hayes owned their farm on the Wakefield Road, free-and-clear.
The Milton School Board paid Cora E. Hayes $168 in teacher salary and a further $18 to serve also as a janitor, up to September 1, 1919, i.e., for the 1918-19 academic year. It also paid her $4 for fuel for the South Milton school. (It paid also A.J. Goodwin $13.50 for fuel for the same location).
The School District warrant for March 9, 1920, included an article seeking dissolution of the South Milton union district.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the District will vote to dissolve the Union District at South Milton, now maintained by the School District of Milton and the City of Rochester, or take any action in relation thereto.
School Superintendent Fred W. Dudley explained his reasoning for Article 11 in his accompanying annual report:
The problem with the school which we maintain at South Milton in partnership with the City of Rochester is one which deserves careful consideration. Milton has only six pupils in this school at the present time. Located upon the State Road it would be easy to transport these children to the village schools, where there is plenty of room to take care of them and where they can be given much greater advantages. I believe that it would be much better for the children and no more costly for the town to dissolve this district, which can be legally done by vote of Milton School District, and transport the pupils to the village.
In point of fact, the School District paid that year $686.50 to transport students to the village schools. That transportation expense – equivalent to the salaries of three teachers – was one the district had not incurred prior to closing its district schools. The measure did not pass at this time, although it would arise again (Annual Report of the Town of Milton, New Hampshire, for the Year Ending January 31, 1920)..
Luther C. Hayes, a general farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Cora E. Hayes, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), his aunt-in-law, Clara A. Pinkham, aged seventy years (b. NH), and his hired man, Frank Therrien, a dairy farm farmer, aged fifty years (b. Canada). Luther Hayes owned their farm on the Wakefield Road, free-and-clear.
School Superintendent Fred W. Dudley explained in the 1928 Milton Town Report that the South Milton school was a “Union” school, attended by both Milton and Rochester students.
I understand that some citizens have expressed surprise at the small number of pupils reported in the South Milton School. For the information of those who do not understand the situation I will say that, under a special act of the legislature, this school is maintained jointly by Milton and Rochester. Milton is responsible for the management of the school and pays two-thirds of the costs. Rochester pays one-third of the costs. Last year there were thirteen Rochester pupils in this school. The records of these pupils are kept in a separate register which is given to the school authorities of Rochester, and so these pupils do not appear in the statistics of Milton (Annual Report of the Town of Milton, New Hampshire, for the Year Ending January 31, 1929).
Luther Hayes, a farmer, aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Cora Hayes, a rural school teacher, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and his father-in-law, Daniel McDuffee, a widower, aged seventy-one years (b. NH). Luther Hayes owned their farm on the Wakefield Road. They had a radio set.
Luther C. Hayes, a dairy farmer, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Cora E. Hayes, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH). Luther Hayes owned their farm on the Old Road, which was valued at $5,000. Luther C. Hayes had attended eight years of school, and Cora E. Hayes had attended also four years of high school.
Luther C. Hayes died in Milton, June 25, 1952. Cora E. (McDuffee) Hayes died in Milton, April 8, 1954.
Dissolution of the South Milton School
The Milton School District warrant for the 1930 town election included the following article regarding the South Milton school.
13. To see if the District will vote to dissolve the union district at South Milton, now maintained by the School District of Milton and the City of Rochester, or take any action thereto (Annual Report for the Town of Milton, for the Year Ending January 31, 1930).
Article 12 involved selling the Branch district school. The superintendent’s report for the 1931 warrant has not come to hand. The South School may or may not have been open for the 1929-30 academic year (which would have been reported in the missing report). It was not open during the 1930-31 academic year nor any year thereafter.
The Milton School District warrant for the 1933 town election included the following article regarding the South Milton school and the West Milton school.
9. To see if the district will vote to authorize the School Board to sell the school buildings at South Milton and West Milton either at auction or at private sale (Annual Report for the Town of Milton, for the Year Ending January 31, 1933).
Ira Wilbur Jones was born in Milton, June 10, 1854, son of George H. and Lucy J. (Varney) Jones.
IRA W. JONES, who has been established in his own business at Milton since 1900, is a designer of water power plants, a practical millwright and general engineer, having been specially trained for this line of work. He was born in South Milton, N.H., June 10, 1854, and is a son of George H. and Lucy Jane (Varney) Jones (Scales, 1914).
George H. Jones, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lucy J. Jones, keeping house, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and his children, Addie J. Jones, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Charles A. Jones, a farm laborer, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Ira W. Jones, a farm laborer, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Nellie J. Jones, at school, aged seven years (b. NH). George H. Jones had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $455.
Scales’ History of Strafford County and other sources had Ira W. Jones attending the South Milton district or common school and, thereafter, the Milton High school. Of course, there would be no “Milton High School,” as such, for another generation. Ira W. Jones would have attended the Milton Classical Institute. (In 1940 he was said to have attended three years of high school).
Ira W. Jones attended the district schools in South Milton and the Milton High school. Recognizing his special talent he then entered the Starr King Drawing school at Boston, Mass., where he received his technical training as a draughtsman and afterward spent three years in Boston working at pattern and model making (Scales, 1914).
The Starr King school was a Boston district public school on Tennyson street. Its building was used also for an evening technical drawing school. The pattern maker for whom Jones worked in 1877-80 was Galen Coffin (1823-1895), whose office or shop was in 1878 at 8 Province Street, and his residence at 77 Worcester Street.
Boston Directory, 1878
Galen Coffin, a pattern maker, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ellen S. [((Page) Wildes)] Coffin, keeps house, aged fifty-two years (b. MA), and his children, Ella P. Wildes, at home, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA), Josie P. Coffin, at school, aged eighteen years (b. MA), Harry G. Coffin, at school, aged thirteen years (b. MA), and Arthur W. Coffin, at school, aged ten years (b. MA). They resided at 24 Alexander Street.
(Galen Coffin and his son, Arthur W. Coffin, drowned in 1895 when their sailing dory was swamped in a sudden gale off the mouth of Marblehead harbor. A third member of their party survived).
Mr. Jones then learned the trade of millwright as a necessary adjunct to his chosen line of work and for four years devoted himself to practical effort as millwright, afterward for one year being employed with a machinery company at Worcester, Mass., as machinist and draughtsman (Scales, 1914).
Jones learned the adjunct trade of millwright while working for Lewis D. Sanborn (1829-1904). Sanborn’s first wife had divorced him in Dover, NH, February 20, 1877 (both then of Dover). Sanborn appeared in Boston, MA, at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. There he was listed (enumerated in error as Louis D. Sandler), as “puts in water wheels,” aged fifty years (b. NH), and one of Charles Huster’s thirteen lodgers at 50 Chambers Street. Lewis D. Sanborn appeared in the Boston directory of 1882, as a machinist, boarding at 35 Kneeland Street.
George H. Jones, a farmer, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lucy J. Jones, keeping house, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), and his sons, Charles H. Jones, works on farm, aged twenty-seven years, and Ira W. Jones, sets water wheels, aged twenty-five years (b. NH).
For the twelve succeeding years he was a salesman through New England for a business firm of Dayton, O., and afterward for eighteen months was salesman for the Holyoke Machine Company of Worcester, Mass.
Milton Business Directory, 1902
Ira W. Jones married in Milton, September 29, 1886, Lucia C. Wentworth. She was born in Milton, June 23, 1867, daughter of George C.S. and Mary C. (Hanson) Wentworth.
Mr. Jones married Miss Lucia C. Wentworth, a daughter of George C.S. Wentworth of Milton and they have two children: Nettie W., who is the wife of Ernest C. Lord of Dover, and Mary C., who lives at home. Mr. and Mrs. Jones reside at Lebanon, N.H. (Scales, 1914).
Holyoke Machine Company Letterhead, Featuring Its Hercules Turbine Water Wheel – 1895
I.W. Jones of Milton, NH, is here mentioned as being the water power contractor at Morrisville, VT, when he was not engaged in trout fishing. His fishing companions were Frederick M. Gould (1862-1936), a traveling shoe salesman (and president of the Commercial Travelers Association of Burlington, VT), Charles H. Nudd (1834-1905), an insurance agent, and his wife, Lydia J. (Weeks) Nudd.
MORRISVILLE. Fishermen Coming in from Abroad – Local Activities. Three Boston gentlemen spent Monday and Tuesday in these parts capturing some handsome specimens of speckled trout. F.M. Gould of Burlington, I.W. Jones of Milton, N.H., the water power contractor at the electric station, and Mr. Nudd of Manchester. N.H., representing the Granite State Provident association, accompanied by Mrs. Nudd, were among the. people in town Tuesday (Burlington Free Press (Burkington, VT), May 9, 1895).
I.W. Jones represented the Victor Water Wheel company of Dayton, OH, when surveying the intended site of an electric power plant. (One may note with some amusement that the manager of the electric power company happened to be named “Sparks”).
BOLTON FALLS POWER. Manager George H. Almon, of the Bolton Falls Electric company, was at the falls yesterday with Chief Engineer A.F. Sparks, of the James Leftell Water Wheel company, of Springfield, O., I.W. Jones, of the Victor Water Wheel company, of Dayton, O., and B.W. Johnson, of Newbury. The two first named desired to look the site over so as to bid on water wheels and pen stock, and Mr. Johnson to bid on the dam. The three representatives said the site was one of the finest they had ever seen for such a plant as intended (Montpelier Evening Argus (Montpelier, VT), May 14, 1898).
The Victor Water Wheel was invented by Jones’ employer, Stilwell-Bierce Manufacturing Company (prior to its merger with the Smith-Vaile Company).
Ira W. Jones, Eng’r placed his name, and the date 1899-1900, on a bronze plaque set in the mill wheel masonry at the North Rochester, NH, fibre plant of J. Spaulding & Sons Co. From which it may be inferred that he was responsible for designing the dam, mill run, mill wheel, mill race, and, possibly, the mill building itself (Snyder, 2011).
Spaulding & Sons at North Rochester say that their mill at the above place will be completed about the last of this month. The great wheel is ready for operation, and the water could now be turned on. When business is good they expect to employ 200 hands (Farmington News, May 25, 1900).
I.W. Jones, Eng’r Plaque at North Rochester, NH (per James M. Snyder)
Ira W. Jones, a hydraulic engineer, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirteen years), Lucia C. Jones, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and his daughters, Nettie Jones, at school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and Mary Jones, at school, aged eight years (b. NH). Ira W. Jones owned their farm free-and-clear. Lucinda C. Jones was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
In 1900 he embarked in a general engineering business for himself, having his offices on Main street, Milton, employing from ten to fifteen trained designers and draughtsmen and having contracts all over New England, the southern states and Canada. Mr. Jones is an intelligent, wideawake and progressive citizen but not a politician. He votes with the Republican party (Scales, 1914).
IRA W. JONES, appeared in the Milton directory of 1902, as a hydraulic engineer, on Main street, with his house on Bridge street, L.S. [Lebanon side, Milton].
BRATTLEBORO. The Brattleboro Gas Light company is practically ready to begin the work of construction of a dam across West river. I.W. Jones of Milton, N.H., the civil engineer who made the survey, was in Brattleboro last night and talked the matter over with some of the directors (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), April 11, 1902).
BRATTLEBORO. I.W. Jones of Wilton [Milton], N.H., the engineer who had charge of the survey and plans for the Brattleboro Gas Light company’s dam across West river, was in Brattleboro Wednesday to inspect the work of the contractors, Spence & Coombs. The work was found to be satisfactory, and, the dam having been completed, it was accepted by the engineer and the company and a settlement was made with the contractors by the company (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), May 8, 1903).
The Waldron Mill in Farmington, NH, was taken down in 1903 to make room for an electric power plant to supply power for the J.F. Cloutman Shoe Company factory.
The construction of the plant is under the supervision of Mr. Ira W. Jones of Milton, and is so nearly completed that power will be turned on January 1, 1904 (Farmington News, December 18, 1903).
The plant was constructed in charge of Ira W. Jones of Milton, and in spite of inclement weather during much of the work, the power was turned on according to contract, January 1, 1904, and the Cloutman factory is supplied from this station with light and motive power. And this was done at the instance of a man [John F. Cloutman] past seventy years. It was a great work (Farmington News, April 29, 1904).
Ira W. Jones was one of the “promoters” of the Milton & Lebanon Building Association, when it was incorporated in February 1904.
Maine Corporations. Milton & Lebanon Building Association, Lebanon – Capital, $10,000. Promoters, F.H. Thayer, Boston; Joseph H. Avery, B.B. Plummer, J. Gardner Alden, Milton; Ira W. Jones, Lebanon (Boston Globe, February 29, 1904).
“I.W. Jones, Eng.” Employees, circa 1905
James M. Snyder identified some of I.W. Jones’ associates as having been Seth A. Moulton, a chief engineer (1900-09) [who married Hare Road teacher Elfrida M. Peacock, daughter of Nute Chapel minister Rev. Robert M. Peacock]; George L. Freeman, a draftsman (1903-04); Patrick E. McCarthy, a field engineer (1903-04); Robert C. Gammon, a consulting engineer (1904-08); Stephen E. Preble, an inspector (1904-20); Walter I. Barrows, a reinforced concrete design engineer (1909-20); Alexander H. Reid, a draftsman (1912); Edward A. Wright, a structural draftsman (1913); Stephen H. Smith, a chief engineer (1923-24); and Bryant H. Moore, a design engineer (1927).
MILTON. S.A. Moulton, draughtsman of the Holyoke machine works of Worcester, has opened an office in the Jones block (Farmington News, July 20, 1900).
LOCAL. The marriage of Miss Annie B. Kimball of Milton to George L. Freeman solemnized last Thursday by Rev. M.P. Dickey, is attended by the good wishes and congratulations of many Farmington friends. The bride is connected with numerous families of this town, and is well known as a fine violin player. The groom, draughtsman for Contractor Ira W. Jones for several years, is spoken of in high terms. The young couple will continue to reside in Milton (Farmington News, February 12, 1904).
MILTON. P. McCarty, who formerly worked in the office of Ira W. Jones, was in town over Sunday (Farmington News, September 9, 1904).
The Worcester Polytechnic Institute listed mechanical engineering graduate A.H. Reid as being “with” Ira W. Jones, i.e., employed by Ira W. Jones, in 1911 (Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1911).
To whom one might add several other possibilities from Milton census records: Ralph Frobisher, a draughtsman for an engineering office, in 1910; Walter H. Webster, a draughtsman for an engineering office, in 1910; William Slingerland, an office draftsman, in 1920; and Natt E. Young, a draftsman, in 1920.
I.W. Jones appeared several times in the Milton business directory of 1905-06. He was listed as an architect and designer (of water power plants), on Main street, opposite the Lebanon bridge. He appeared also as a civil and hydraulic engineer; designer of water power plants; and engineer (civil).
I.W. Jones planned a flume and concrete mill building, for the Passumpsic Fibre Leather Company, in Passumpsic, VT, in 1905 (Snyder, 2011).
Will Rebuild. The Passumpsic Fibre Leather company at Passumpsic, whose plant was almost entirely destroyed by fire the morning of December 19, has begun to clear away the debris and will rebuild at once. The loss was reported at the time to be $45,000 above the insurance of $18,000, and considerably over half this loss fell upon the Chase Brothers, one of whom is manager and the other treasurer of the concern. The plant gave employment to 20 men and its output of leather board was about three tons a day (Middlebury Register (Middlebury, VT), March 31, 1905).
BUYS WATER POWER. St. Johnsbury Electric Company and E.T. & H.K. Ide to Build. The St. Johnsbury Electric company have acquired the E.T. & H.K. Ide water power at Passumpsic, 400 horse power, and will begin at once the erection of a modern electric light station. This move is made because of the company’s increasing business, and to save the expense of using steam in times of low water. When the new power house is completed steam will be used only in cases of an emergency. Plans are being drawn now for the power house, which will be erected on the site of the old grist mill. It will be of brick, and thoroughly modern in every respect. It will be direct connected, the dynamos fastened to the water wheels without belts. The wires will be brought up from Passumpsic to the Belknap station, which will be made the distributing station. I.W. Jones of Milton, N.H., hydraulic engineer, is drawing plans for the company and it is expected that the station will be completed by October. The company will then have three water power plants, one at the Center, the Belknap station and the new one. E.T. & H.K. Ide have bought 85 horsepower and will begin immediately to put up a grist mill. The mill will be a four or five story structure with heavy brick walls. It will be absolutely fire proof and will be fitted up with all modern machinery. The machinery contract has been placed with the Noye Manufacturing company, of Buffalo, N.Y. It is to be a roller mill and the power will be furnished by electricity. The building will adjoin the Ide elevator on Hay street (St. Johnsbury Republican (St. Johnsbury, VT), July 12, 1905).
PASSUMPSIC. The Passumpsic Fibre Leather Co. has a force of men engaged in making a new drying shed (St. Johnsbury Republican (St. Johnsbury, VT), October 31, 1906).
Ira W. Jones had a partnership for a time with the Spaulding Brothers, under the name Spaulding-Jones Company, which company sought in 1907 to build a “huge” hydroelectric dam on the Merrimac River.
Mr. [Roland H.] Spaulding’s first practical experience of political conditions in New Hampshire came about as a development of his business affairs. At the session of 1907, the Spaulding-Jones Company, a concern consisting of the three Spaulding brothers and their engineer, Ira W. Jones, came before the legislature with a request for permission to build a huge dam on the Merrimac River, near Reed’s Ferry, and thus to develop the water power there for electrical purposes, a development which would have meant great things for the business of the state. But the project was opposed by the united corporate interests of New Hampshire interests, which had at that time vastly more power in Concord than they have today (Fitchburg Sentinel (Fitchburg, MA), July 8, 1911 (also Hollis Times, July 31, 1914)).
I.W. Jones & Company planned a pulp factory building, for the Androscoggin Pulp Company, in South Windham, ME, in 1907 (Snyder, 2011).
SOUTH WINDHAM PULP. What is Doing at One of the Mills Near Portland. Portland, Me., April 12. – The Androscoggin Pulp company, which has an extensive pulp making plant at South Windham, has begun the work of increasing its plant by the erection of several other buildings. Among the buildings now in process of construction is a new two-story stock house, 78×200 feet, of brick and frame work; a new wood cooking room, 30×50, with brick walls and concrete roof; raising roof of beater room one story, which will make room for the installation of six new screens; adding one story to grinder room, which will be used for a wet machine room; will install one new Horne engine and new masherator and will also build a covered run 400 feet which will be used for conveying from the stock house to the beater room (Portsmouth Herald, April 12, 1910).
The elder Jones daughter, Miss Nettie Jones, then twenty years of age, had a very close call while in their house in August 1907.
NEWS OF THE STATE. A bullet crashing through a window struck Miss Nettie Jones of Milton in the shoulder and then imbedded itself in the wall. It is not known who fired the shot, but it is supposed that it came from the rifle of some hunter (Farmington News, August 9, 1907).
Ira W. Jones might have been away from home examining water possibilities on the Winooski River in Montpelier, VT, at the time his daughter was wounded.
MONTPELIER. I.W. Jones of Milford [Milton], N.H., a hydraulic engineer, has been making an examination this week of the water power possibilities of the rights owned by Messrs. Corry, Deavitt and Frost on the Winooskl river above Barre transfer. He will report later (Burlington Free Press (Burlington, VT), August 17, 1907).
ENGINEER’S REPORT. Hydraulic Expert Again Visits Kinney’s Mills. I.W. Jones, hydraulic engineer, of Milton, NH., went back to his home last night after making another inspection of the water privileges owned by Messrs. Corry, Deavltt and Frost at Kinney’s mills. A contour map has been prepared showing the various sources of water supply and the lowest points in that neighborhood where it would be possible to erect power plants. Mr. Jones has reported to the syndicate his observations of the various dam sites, the possibilities of each and the probable cost of construction. It Is reported that Mr. Jones is very favorably impressed with the water privileges owned by the syndicate. The Montpelier men have not yet decided how large a plant they will put in. They can do two things, the first build a plant that will supply their street railroad with possibly a small amount of juice for sale, or build a large plant with plenty of juice for sale. Such a development will involve the investment of a large amount of money (Montpelier Evening Argus (Montpelier, VT), August 28, 1907).
MONTPELIER CITY NOTES. I.W. Jones, a civil engineer from Newton [Milton], N.H., was in town yesterday in consultation with the officials of the electric railroad relative to plans for the dam for their new power plant to be erected at Kinney’s mills (Burlington Free Press (Burlington, VT), October 25, 1907).
I.W. Jones, of Milton, N.H., a hydraulic engineer, was in town today in conference with Messrs. Curry and Deavitt on their proposed dam at Kinnev’s mills (Montpelier Evening Argus (Montpelier, VT), June 17, 1908).
I.W. Jones appeared several times in the Milton business directory of 1909. He was listed as an architect and designer (of water power plants), on Main street, opposite the Lebanon bridge. He appeared also as a civil and hydraulic engineer; and designer of water power plants. Mrs. I.W. Jones appeared as a music teacher (piano), at Lebanon side, Milton. His daughter, Nettie W. Jones, appeared as a milliner, at I.W.J., at Lebanon side, Milton.
MILTON. The marriage of Miss Nettie Jones and Mr. Ernest Charles Lord of Dover took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Jones on Lebanon, Me., side Thursday, June 10, The young couple will reside in Dover after September 1 (Farmington News, June 18, 1909).
Ira W. Jones, a hydraulic engineer (own office), aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-two years), Lucia C. Jones, aged forty-three years (b. NH), his daughter, Mary C. Jones, at school, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and his brother-in-law, Eugene H. Wentworth, a stove works foreman, aged thirty-five years. Ira W. Jones owned their farm free-and-clear. Lucia C. Jones was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
BURLINGTON MENS’ BIG VENTURE. … The power at Otter creek [at Vergennes, VT] is considered one of the steadiest in New England. The banks are low and marshy and hold the water, preventing the deluge which often puts many plants out of commission, in the wet times, and keeping the water for the dry times, when many plants are obliged to depend on steam. A set back of nearly eight miles makes unnecessary the building of an expensive dam. and with the other natural advantages there would appear little likelihood of a dam being washed out at those falls. For many months a crew of 75 men has been at work on the dam, which is now completed, and the machinery is on the way for the wheel pit and power house, which are now in process of construction. The engineer in charge of the construction of the dam is I.W. Jones, of Milton, N.H., and the Twitchell Lumber Co. of Maine, which has long been identified with hydraulic ventures, doing that part of the work The machinery was all ordered of the Westinghouse company of Pittsburg (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), March 30, 1911).
I.W. Jones appeared several times in the Milton business directory of 1912. He was listed as an architect and designer (of water power plants), on Main street, opposite the Lebanon bridge. He appeared also as a civil and hydraulic engineer; designer of water power plants; and engineer (civil). Mrs. I.W. Jones appeared as a music teacher (piano), at Lebanon side, Milton.
I.W. Jones designed the Milton Leatherboard Company replacement factory after the prior structure had been destroyed by fire in March 1912. Its concrete beater tubs were considered to be a daring innovation at the time.
I.W. Jones & Company planned a dam and concrete mill building, for the Cabot Manufacturing Company, in Topsham, ME, in 1912 (Snyder, 2011).
Milton Business Directory, 1912
Village Meeting. There was a good attendance at the special village meeting last Wednesday evening to consider the question of an up-to-date electric plant. H.W. Lyster, one of the commissioners, made a few remarks in regard to the present condition of the plant thinking it time to have it renewed. At his request the chairman called upon I.W. Jones, an electrical engineer of Milton, N.H., who had made an investigation of the present plant and had a written report and who had prepared plans and estimates for a proposed new plant, these plans calling for erection of a new concrete and brick building and the installation of two new Francis type turbine wheels, and two new generators direct connected on the same shaft. The lowest reading of the measured flow-age of the river taken at Centervale by the U.S. geological survey in 1911 was 75 cubic feet per second. On this basis there was an estimated gain in efficiency of the new wheels and generators of more than 100 per cent over the present ones. His total estimate for the proposed new work complete was $31,200. W. Clark of the engineering department of the General Electric Co., gave a technical description of the proposed new generators and electrical equipment. Commissioner Graves spoke in regard to the faults of the plant, difficulty of getting repairs, etc., and the opportunities there would be for new business with a modern plant. W.I. Powers made a motion that the electric light commissioners be empowered to equip the electric light plant with new and modern equipment and building. This was seconded by N.A. Norton with an amendment that the work be commenced at once. The amendment was accepted and the motion was unanimously carried. It was moved by E.A. Cook that the commissioners be authorized to hire sufficient money to carry out the project just voted, and this motion was carried unanimously. Under head of other business F.C. Shonyo made a motion that the water commissioners be instructed to investigate the matter of purchasing the land included in the watershed of the present village water reservoir from which the owners propose to cut standing timber. It was voted to have this done. The commissioners have commenced making arrangement for the new work. As soon as the specifications for the foundation and concrete work of the new building are prepared the work will be begun (Vermont Union-Journal (Lyndonville, VT), October 14, 1914).
I.W. Jones & Company planned a dam, run, and mill building, for the Groton Leatherboard Company, in Groton, MA, in 1916. It also planned a dam and hydroelectric power station, for the Town of Swanton, VT, at the Highgate Fall on the Missisquoi River, in that same year (Snyder, 2011).
SWANTON. Estimate on Cost of Power Development to Be Secured. At the adjourned special meeting of the voters of Swanton village relative to development of electric power at Highgate, held Wednesday evening ln the town hall, it was voted to instruct the officers of the village to secure from I.W. Jones, of Milton, N.H., a competent engineer, an estimate of the cost of development below the present site, and the meeting was adjourned to Wednesday night, July 5 (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), June 23, 1916).
HOTEL ARRIVALS. Among the arrivals at the Grand Avenue the past week were: Frank Pierce, Rutland; I.W. Jones, Milton, N.H.; H.N. Long and wife, Louisville, Ky.; C.E. Severance, St. Johnsbury; J.H. Robinson, Palmer, Mass.; E.H. Martin, Burlington; E.D. Blackwell, Brandon; H. Eglee, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. Perry vanCamp, Wills River, Vt.; G.J. Riley, Plattsburg, N.Y.; H. Bean, Enosburg Falls; F.J. Dragoon, Plattsburg; Mrs. H.E. Townsend and Alma B. Townsend, Westbrook, Me. (Swanton Courier, June 29, 1916).
SWANTON. I.W. Jones, of Milton, N.H., with one of his expert engineers, was in Swanton June 28 going over the Highgate property of Swanton village and getting information on which he is to base his report and estimate to have ready for adjourned special meetings yesterday (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), July 6, 1916).
I.W. Jones appeared several times in the Milton business directory of 1917. He was listed as an architect and designer (of water power plants), at 28 Main street, opposite the Lebanon bridge. He appeared also as a civil and hydraulic engineer; designer of water power plants; engineer (civil); and surveyor for dams, paper and electric power plants. Mrs. I.W. Jones appeared as a music teacher (piano), at Lebanon side, Milton.
I.W. Jones & Company announced plans for a hydroelectric power plant, for the Lockwood Company, in Waterville, ME, in 1918 (Snyder, 2011).
NEW CONSTRUCTION. Proposed Work. Me., Waterville. The Lockwood Co. is having plans prepared by I.W. Jones, Arch., Milton, N.H., for the erection of a new hydroelectric power plant here (Hill Publishing, June 11, 1918).
Among New England Factories. BERWICK, ME. – The I.W. Jones & Co. has been incorporated to do general engineering and developing water powers with $10,000 capital by Ira W. Jones, M.C. Jones and L.C. Jones, Lebanon, Me. (Industry Week (Volume 63), 1918).
Ira W. Jones, a hydraulic engineer, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lucia C. Jones, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), and his daughter, Mary Jones, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH). Ira W. Jones owned their farm free-and-clear. They resided on Prospect Hill Street.
Ira W. Jones planned an Androscoggin River dam for the Dummer Power Company, in Dummer, NH, in 1921. The proposed dam faced political opposition from other dam and mill owners, which occasioned Jones testifying several times over the course of a year before the NH Public Service Commission. The plans were approved in August 1922.
FIGHT AGAINST DUMMER DAM BEFORE COMMISSION. CONCORD, N.H., Oct. 19 – Hearings begun in Berlin were resumed by the Public Service Commission at its offices in the State House today on the petition of Ira W. Jones of Lebanon, Me., and the Dummer Power Company for the right to build a dam across the Androscoggin River in the town of Dummer for the development of electrical power. The Berlin Mills, the International and Umbagog Paper Companies and the Union Water Power Company oppose the petition. Chairman William T. Gunnison of the commission does not sit in the case, having been counsel for Mr. Jones, and his place is taken for this hearing by Dwight Hall of Dover, appointed by Gov. Brown (Boston Globe, October 20, 1921).
ATTEMPT TO SHOW BIG DAM PROJECT UNSAFE. CONCORD, N.H., March 23 – The State Public Service Commission today resumed its hearing upon the petition of the Dummer Power Company for permission to erect a dam across the Androscoggin River, eight miles above the city of Berlin, for the generation of electrical power. Ira W. Jones of Milton, engineer, who prepared the plans for the power company, was on the witness stand most of the day. testifying as to the probable cost of the project and the use which would be made of its product. Cross-examination was on the line of contention that his plans did not provide for a sufficiently strong structure to insure safety, if built at the place desired and according to his specifications (Boston Globe, March 24, 1922).
N.H. STATE NEWS. The public service commission has granted the right to Ira W. Jones and others to erect a dam in the Androscoggin river at Dummer. The petition has been before the board for a year. Commissioner Storrs opposed the move. The dam will be utilized to generate electrical power (Groton Times (Woodsville, NH), August 18, 1922).
President Ira W. Jones and Treasurer Fred B. Roberts published legal notices in the local papers regarding the intended dissolution of the Milton A.O.U.W. Building Association, which had been founded by them and others on December 8, 1890. Its original purpose had been to construct a three-story office block, and rent its space for the benefit of the A.O.U.W. The building was to be sold and the proceeds split among the shareholders (Farmington News, February 19, 1926; February 26, 1926; and March 5, 1926).
The following sketch of Ira W. Jones’ career appeared in a 1927 publication of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, of which he was a member.
JONES, IRA W., Lebanon, Me. (Age 72, b. Milton, N.H.) Educated in common and high schools, Milton, N.H.; one term in Starr King Evening Drawing School in Boston; 1877-80, with Galen Coffin, as pattern and model maker; 1880-84, as assistant to Lewis D. Sanborn as practical millwright and designer of hydraulic structures; 1884, with Holyoke Machine Company as erector of hydraulic machinery, pattern maker and draughtsman; 1885-86, private practice; 1887-99, salesman and engineer in New England territory; 1899-1900, engaged in design and supervision of plans and sale of hydraulic equipment; July 1900, established an engineering office in Milton, N.H.; 1918 to date [1927], president and general manager of I.W. Jones & Co. During past ten years has been consulting engineer for C.H. Tenney & Co.; inspector of dams for N.H. Public Service Commission; retired in 192[?] (Boston Society of Civil Engineers, 1927).
I.W. Jones & Company played some role at the Ambursen sawmill dam, for South Tamworth Industries, in Tamworth, NH, in 1929 (Snyder, 2011).
IRA W. JONES (Lucia) appeared in the Milton directory of 1930, as a hydraulic engineer, in Milton.
Ira W. Jones, a civil engineer, aged seventy-five years (b. NH), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-three years), Lucia C. Jones, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), and his daughter, Mary C. Jones, a stenographer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH). Ira W. Jones owned their farm free-and-clear, which was valued at $5,000. They did not have a radio set.
Ira W. Jones, a retired civil engineer, was one of several local people that gave their impressions of an earthquake that occurred on Friday evening, April 1, 1938.
Rochester Section Is Shaken by Earthquake. Trembling Felt Last Night Over Ten-Mile Area – Most Severe in East Rochester and Rochester and in South Lebanon, Me. Rochester, April 2. – Buildings were shaken and pictures were torn from the walls as this region experienced what was believed to have been an earthquake at about 9.30 o’clock last night. The earth-trembling was felt within a 10-mile area of Rochester, with reports of more severe movements received from East Rochester, North Rochester and South Lebanon, Me. The telephone exchanges in Milton and Rochester were flooded with calls from nearly every town in the area. Stories of shaken buildings and fallen pictures were received from Lebanon, Me., and East Rochester. In other sections residents told of how dishes had been smashed on the floor when shaken from cupboards. As near as anyone could determine the movement was first felt when a “loud rumbling sound” was heard and was followed by what several people described as an explosion. Mrs. Helen Piper, telephone operator at Milton, said there was a “rumbling sound and the building shook” It was followed by what seemed to be a “terrific explosion.” Residents of South Lebanon, Me., said the whole earth movement seemed to center along the banks of the Salmon Falls river which divided Maine and New Hampshire in this section. The shock was less severe in the center of Rochester. Ira. W. Jones, a retired civil engineer at Milton, expressed the opinion that a “meteor had fallen and exploded.” The Rev. Leland Maxfield, pastor of the Community church at Milton, said he at first thought a heavy object had rolled down the hill behind his home and struck the house. Basil Blake, Rochester newspaperman, reported his house shook perceptibly and he thought a heavy truck was passing on the nearby highway. According to the Associated Press, Harvard University seismographic officials that the earth movement lasted on 15 seconds and had been a “very weak” earthquake. The exact time of the movement was said to have been 19:15:24 o’clock. The Weston College machine timed the first impulse at 9:13.40 p.m. (Portsmouth Herald, [Saturday,] April 2, 1938).
Fred B. Roberts and Ira W. Jones marked the repositioned Milton Town Pound with a commemorative plaque in 1939.
Here and There. The Milton town pound, one of the few remaining In New Hampshire, which was removed and rebuilt two years ago to permit a change in the location of the highway, has just been marked with a commemorative tablet by Fred B. Roberts, veteran town meeting moderator, and Ira W. Jones. In the early days pounds were common in New England for the confinement of cows and other domestic animals caught running at large. Early records of the town show that in 1803, when Gilman Jewett was town clerk, it was voted that the “town build a pound as near the center of the town convenient.” The following year the pound was built, according to the records, “on land westerly opposite the town house, by Jonathan Pinkham.” The pound is circular and 30 feet in internal diameter. The walls are of field stone, about six feet high. A wooden gate adorns the front (Portsmouth Herald, July 3, 1939).
Ira W. Jones, aged eighty-five years (b. NH), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lucia C. Jones, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), and his daughter, Mary C. Jones, a stenographer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH). Ira W. Jones owned their house free-and-clear, which was valued at $4,500. They had a lived in the “same house” in April 1935. Ira W. Jones had completed three years of high school, Lucia C. Jones had completed eight years of grammar school, and Mary C. Jones had completed one year of college.
Ira W. Jones died in Milton, April 10, 1946, aged ninety-one years. Lucia C. (Wentworth) Jones died in Milton, September 3, 1949, aged eighty-one years.
Recent Deaths and Funerals. Mrs. Lucia C. Jones. Milton, N.H., Sept. 4. – Funeral services for Mrs. Lucia C. Jones, 82, who resided across the river in Lebanon. Me., will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Community Church in Milton. The Rev. Ralph V. Townsend will officiate and burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Lebanon. Mrs. Jones, widow of Ira W. Jones, widely known engineer who died in 1946 at the age of 92, died Saturday night at the Jones Summer home at Milton [Three] Ponds. She was born in Milton, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Wentworth and was educated here. She was a member of the Community Church and the Mary Torr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, in Rochester. Surviving relatives include two daughters. Mrs. Ernest Lord of Dover and Miss Mary Jones of Lebanon, two grandchildren and several great grandchildren (Portland Press Herald, September 5, 1949).
As its name would suggest, the Hare Road schoolhouse stood on the Hare Road in West Milton, between the houses of Jacob D. Garland and John I. Cook.
Hare Road School, 1892
The Hare Road school was open as late as Spring 1925. Nothing has come to hand regarding the 1925-26 academic year, but the School District reported no Hare Road school payroll or expenses for the 1926-27 academic year (Annual Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1928).
As with the Nute Ridge school teachers, there are gaps in our sequence. At least some of those gaps might be explained away through earlier or later tenures for the teachers who have been identified. It might also be the case that the school was simply not open in some years. It was often the case, especially among the various schools in West Milton, that a school with but few students in a particular academic year might not open at all. Its students would go instead to one of the other West Milton schools.
WEST MILTON. The Hare road school will now have the few pupils from the Downingville district. In Massachusetts and Vermont the children in sparsely settled districts are carried to the village schools, the towns paying the costs, thus reducing the expenses and giving the children the advantage of better grading. The school at this place and the one at Nute Ridge are both very small (Farmington News, September 10, 1897).
DOWNINGVILLE. As Clara Downing is the only pupil here, she is conveyed to the Hare road school (Farmington News, October 14, 1898).
I retain hopes of tapping other sources once the current Covid-19 restrictions have passed, at which point improvements and revisions may be in order.
Progressive-era State education bureaucrats looked down their noses at the one-room school teachers of their day.
One hundred forty two of these schools are taught by immature girls and nearly all of these schools are rural schools. It must be apparent to all that few girls of 16 to 19 have sufficient education, maturity and judgment to hold the responsible position of teacher of a school. It will be seen that the majority of the teachers, 62 per cent, in all classes of schools are young women 20 to 34 years of age and the number of elderly persons is surprisingly small. It is assumed that the 158 teachers who have furnished no record of their age are doubtless between 35 and 44 (NH Board of Education, 1920).
The NH Board of Education did everything in its power to restrict, require and regulate them out of existence. And yet the test scores achieved by the students of these “immature girls” were higher – to the extent that they are comparable – than those achieved by students of the present day. (See also Milton’s Arithmetic Textbooks of 1878).
N.H. State News. Recent tests in 8th grades in the state schools, taken by 5,000 pupils, showed an average of 67.42 in spelling with 76 towns having an average of 75, or better. Tests in arithmetic showed that 8th graders in New Hampshire this year are better than 9th graders of Springfield, Mass., were in 1846, for they did the same examples and had an average of 49.29 against an average in Springfield in 1846 of 29.41 (Groton Times, November 28, 1924).
It remains for the reader to decide whose education, maturity and judgment was to be preferred.
The Hare Road school teachers identified in this 1890-1926 period were Vienna L. Hill, Myra L. Page, Annie J. Horne, Mary E. Tuttle, Edna N. Calkins, N. Susan Fletcher, Elfrida M. Peacock, Jessie F. Butler, Minerva R. Perry, Blanche E. McCrellis, Alice L. Patterson, Miss Whittaker, Alice M. (Brownell) Canney, Marion I. Dixon, Lizzie M. (Whittier) Drew, and Clara B. (Tozier) Miller.
(The dates given for them in their headings are the dates they are thought to have taught at the Hare Road school. Many of them taught at other Milton schools as well).
Vienna L. Hill – 1890-91
Vienna L. Hill was born, probably in Lowell, MA, November 12, 1868, daughter of John T. and Sarah A. (Locke) Hill.
If, as was later reported, Miss Hill taught at the Hare Road school at the same time as the Nute Chapel dedication, then she would have been there in at least the 1890-91 academic year.
Vienna L. Hill appeared in the Dover directory of 1892, as a teacher at the Glenwood ave. school, boarding at 21 East Brick. (John T. Hill, stoves, ranges and tinsmith, 19 Third, house 21 East Brick (see page 281)).
Vienna L. Hill appeared in the Dover directory of 1895, as a teacher at the Upper Factory school, boarding at 21 East Brick. (John T. Hill, tinsmith, house 21 East Brick). Both appeared in the Dover directory of 1898 as having moved to Greenwood, Mass.
John T. Hill, a painter, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-two years), Sarah A. Hill, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), his daughter, Vienna L. Hill, a laundry bookkeeper, aged thirty years (b. MA), and his nephew, Arthur Hill, a stenographer, aged nineteen years (b. NH). John T. Hill owned their house at 821 Main Street, with a mortgage. Sarah A. Hill was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
John T. Hill, a painter, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his (second) wife (of forty-one years), Sarah A. Hill, aged eighty years (b. NH), his daughter, Vienna L. Hill, a public school teacher, aged thirty-nine years (b. MA), and his servant, Mary E. Hupper, aged fifty-two years (b. ME). John T. Hill owned their house at 821 Main Street, with a mortgage. Sarah A. Hill was the mother of two children, of whom one was still living.
West Milton. Miss Hill of Dover, formerly a teacher on the Hare road, has been visiting Mrs. B.F. Twombley (Farmington News, September 20, 1912).
John T. Hill, a kitchen ware commercial traveler, aged eighty years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his daughter, Vienna L. Hill, manager of Sperry & Hutchinson [trading stamps], aged fifty-one years (b. MA). John T. Hill owned their house at 27 Oxford Street, with a mortgage.
Vienna Hill appeared in the Haverhill, MA, directory of 1921, as having removed to California. (Her father, John T. Hill, also removed to California. He died there September 11, 1922).
“Aunt Vie”
Walter E. Foss to Be Leader in New Heating Company. Announcement is made today of the retirement of Walter E. Foss from the Foss-Jones company, 28 East Union street, and the formation of a new company to be known as Foss Heating and Sheet Metal company, 34 East Holly street. With Mr. Foss in his new venture are associated J.W. Anger, David L. Shepherd, Robert F. McCullum, William H. Stewart and Percy W. Anger, all well-known in Pasadena in their respective lines of sheet metal, heating and mechanical work. Fifteen years ago Walter E. Foss and the late Frank R. Stewart formed the Foss-Jones company, with whom Mr. Foss has been associated until the present time. Mr. Foss explains that his new step has been made possible by a steady growth of business in Pasadena, and that he believes a continuation of square dealing and courteous treatment will win his new firm their share of patronage and good will (Pasadena Post, November 25, 1925).
Vienna L. Hill married, probably in Pasadena, CA, circa 1927, Walter E. Foss, both of Pasadena. He was born in Deerfield, NH, March 6, 1862, son of William J. and Jerusha (Pettingill) Foss.
Walter E. Foss, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Pasadena, CA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his (second) wife (of two years), Vienna H. Foss, aged sixty-three years (b. MA). Walter E. Foss owned their home at 312 North Raymond Avenue, which was valued at $7,000. They had a radio set.
WEST MILTON. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ross of California called on friends on the Hare road one day last week. Mrs. Ross was formerly Miss Vienna Hill, a teacher at the Hare road school at the time Nute Chapel was dedicated (Farmington News, July 11, 1930).
Walter E. Foss died in Los Angeles, CA, May 20, 1934.
Vienna H. Foss seems to have been unfortunate in some at least of her investments.
Requisition Is Issued – A requisition on the governor of Mississippi was issued by Governor Frank F. Merriam for the return from Natchez, Miss., of Mark E. Wakefield, who is wanted in Los Angeles on three counts of grand theft. He is accused of embezzling several thousand dollars from Miss Meta C. Matthiesen, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Vienna Foss, Pasadena, in a series of stock transactions (Sacramento Bee, February 19, 1937).
Santa Monica Mayor Held on $2500 Bond. (Associated Press Leased Wire). LOS ANGELES. Oct. 11. —Mayor Claude C. Crawford of Santa Monica and his associate, Paul C. Murray, 48, have been held for Superior Court trial under $2500 bonds each on a charge of failing to obtain a state permit to sell interests in a Tuolumne county mining lease. Mrs. Maude Wetzel, a Santa Monica widow, testified at yesterday’s preliminary hearing she invested $6500 in the mine. Other witnesses testified they had invested in it as follows: Mrs. Ethel Flick, $1500; Mrs. Vienna H. Foss, $1500; Mrs. Mary L. Wood and William C. Lundberg, $500 each; Mrs. Mary Rizzo, $250. All said they had received no return on their money (Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, CA), October 11, 1941).
Vienna L. (Hill) Foss died in Pasadena, CA, July 31, 1953.
Myra L. Page – 1893-94
Myra Luella Page was born in Wakefield, NH, September 23, 1868, daughter of Charles W. and Mary Ann (Chapman) Page.
NUTE’S RIDGE. Miss Lena Reynold[s] is teaching school at Downingville and Mrs. [Miss] Myra Page on the Hare road (Farmington News, September 1, 1893).
NUTE’S RIDGE. Miss Myra Page closes a very successful term of school in the Hare road district this week. She is an excellent teacher, having taught in nearly every district in town (Farmington News, December 22, 1893).
Charles H. Page, a farmer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-nine years), Mary A. Page, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), and his children, Josephine W. Page, a school teacher, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Myra L. Page, a school teacher, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), and Laura G. Page, aged thirty-three years (b. NH). Charles H. Page owned their farm, free-and-clear. Mary A. Page was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
WEST MILTON. Miss Myra Page of Wakefield, who was formerly a teacher of the Hare road school, is visiting Mrs. George Hurd. She is now teaching in Sanbornville (Farmington News, March 8, 1907).
WEST MILTON. Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Hurd went to Wakefield last Saturday and spent the day with Miss Myra Page. She was a successful teacher of the Hare road school for several years (Farmington News, September 13, 1907).
WEST MILTON. Miss Page, of Wakefield, a former teacher of the Hare road school, has visited Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Hurd (Farmington News, September 25, 1908).
Charles H. Page, a farmer, aged eighty-one years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-nine years), Mary A. Page, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), and his children, Laura G. Page, aged forty-three years (b. NH), Myra L. Page, a school teacher, aged forty-one years (b. NH), and Josephine W. Page, aged thirty-five years (b. NH). Charles H. Page owned their farm on the South Wakefield street, free-and-clear. Mary A. Page was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
WEST MILTON. Miss Myra L. Page and sister Josephine of Wakefield, accompanied by friends, motored to West Milton, Wednesday of last week (Farmington News, August 30, 1918).
Mary A. Page, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Laura G. Page, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), Myra L. Page, a public school teacher, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and Josephine W. Page, aged forty-five years (b. NH). Mary A.Page owned their house, free-and-clear.
Myra L. Page retired from teaching in June 1926. She would have been fifty-seven years of age.
Mira L. Page, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her sisters, Laura G. Page, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), and Josephine W. Page, aged fifty-five years (b. NH). Mira L. Page owned their house at 11 Liberty Street, which was valued at $1,000.
UNION. Mrs. George W. Drew visited the Misses Myra and Josephine Page in Rochester on Friday and attended a meeting of the Ladies’ Aid (Farmington News, February 18, 1938).
Myra L. Page died in Rochester, NH, May 22, 1938, aged sixty-nine years, seven months, and thirty days. (Her elder sister, Laura Page, supplied the information for the death certificate).
Annie J. Horne graduated from Nute High School with the Class of 1895. Her classmates included future Milton principals Robert M. Looney and Edwin S. Huse (Purple and Gold, 1941).
WEST MILTON. The Misses Horn from Plumer’s Ridge teach in West Milton and Hare road school districts and board with Mrs. John Nute. Miss Nellie Nute drives to Milton high school daily (Farmington News, May 6, 1898).
(The other Miss Horn from Plummer’s Ridge was her cousin, Miss Maude F. Horne, who was also for a time a Milton teacher (see Milton and the Horne Murder – 1939)).
WEST MILTON. Miss Annie Horne, who has taught school here [West Milton] for two years, and previously taught on the Hare road, is much loved by all and has done excellent school work (Farmington News, May 12, 1899).
WEST MILTON. The Hare Road school, taught by Miss Annie J. Horne, closed on Friday of last week (Farmington News, January 19, 1900).
Frank G. Horne, a commercial traveler, aged thirty-eight [forty-eight] years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-five years), Mary C. Horne, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), and his children, Herbert F. Horne, a commercial traveler, aged twenty-four years, Annie J. Horne, a school teacher, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), and Hattie E. Horne, at home, aged twelve years (b. NH). Frank G. Horne owned their farm, free-and-clear. Mary C. Horne was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
She married in Bethel, ME, September 15, 1908, Charles Lafayette Beaton, she of Milton and he of Madison, NH. He was a railroad agent, aged twenty-six years, and she was a housekeeper, aged thirty years. He was born in Jefferson, NH, May 3, 1882, son of Charles C. and Allie E. (Hill) Beaton. (He was a brother of Milton’s long-serving B&M Railroad station agent, Hugh A. Beaton).
Charles Beaton, a B&M freight agent, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton 3-Ponds”) household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of two years), Annie Beaton, aged forty-two years (b. NH).
Charles L. Beaton, a telegraph operator, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Portsmouth, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Annie H. Beaton, aged forty-two years (b. NH). Charles L. Beaton rented their house at 50 Orchard Street.
VETERAN RAILROADER Charles L. Beaton of 50 Orchard Street is completing his 35th year in Portsmouth today sending and receiving telegraph messages at the Boston and Maine Passenger station (Portsmouth Herald photo).
R.R. Ticket Agent, Telegrapher Notes 35th Year Here. Charles L. Beaton, of 50 Orchard street, ticket agent and telegrapher at the Boston and Maine passenger station in Portsmouth, has been sending and receiving the clicking messages of the wires for 42 years now. Tonight he will have completed 35 years at the station here. His life mirrors the changes in two rail lines and two states. Born May 3, 1882, in Jefferson Mills, later named Dartmouth and now named Riverton, near Lancaster, Mr. Beaton seemed destined since childhood to have been a telegrapher. When he was only seven years old, he first heard the clacking of a telegraph key board at the local railroad station. Then and there the desire to be an operator was born. Despite the fact that he was 21 years old before he got to learn the code language of the key, the desire remained. Tried Many Jobs. Before his chance came, Mr. Beaton worked a few months each in jobs in saw mills, leather-board pulp mills and farming, till he finally got a job on the Maine railroad as a section hand and crew man. At last, in September, 1903, he started his training as a telegraph operator, in the Riverton station of the Maine Central line. His first job as a trained operator was at Beecher Falls, Vt., for that line, which he started March 17, 1904. As a Maine Central telegraph operator Mr. Beaton worked at Beecher Falls, Vt., North Conway, Willey House, Sawyer River, Glen Station and Rockland, Lewiston and Rumford Junction in Maine. Mr. Beaton resigned from his job with the Maine Central railroad in June, 1905, to go to work for Boston and Maine railroad at Ossipee, a town which is now Mt. Whittier. Since that day, the veteran operator says proudly, he has never been out of a job for a single day. He has been with the B.&M. for 41 years. For that line he has sounded telegraph keys at Mt. Whittier, Madison, Mountainview, Burleyville (for. East Wakefield), Milton, Conway Junction (now Jewett), North Conway, Hampton, East Saugus Mass., Lynn Common, Mass., and Portsmouth. Since March 25, 1911, Mr. Beaton has worked at the Portsmouth railroad station. Till May 7, 1927, he worked solely as a telegraph operator, handling the toughest bit of key work on the line. In May, 1927, he took over the work of ticket agent, and Oct. 1, 1930, he took over consolidated jobs of ticket agent and telegraph operator, which he has held down since. In 1911 Mr. Beaton rented a home at 50 Orchard street, in which he and his wife Annie (Horne) Beaton have lived ever since, although the. house has changed hands four times. Mr. Beaton was married Sept. 15, 1909. Their 38th wedding anniversary was last September. Safeguards Trains. In his work as a telegrapher Mr. Beaton has safeguarded the trains, by keeping train orders straight, and helping to clear up general tie-ups caused by storms or wrecks. When the late President Roosevelt’s special train arrived in Portsmouth, Mr. Beaton was the telegrapher on duty at the station. Crossword puzzles and jig-saw puzzles are the veteran railroader’s indoor hobbies. In his younger, he used to enjoy fishing for pickerel, bass and horn-pout in the ponds around Milton, and for trout in mountain brooks. Mr. Beaton is a member of John’s Blue lodge, the Chapter Council, and the Knights Templar Commandery of Portsmouth (Portsmouth Herald, March 25, 1946).
Charles L. Beaton, a railroad depot agent, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Portsmouth, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-one years), Annie H. Beaton, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), his niece, Gladys M. Beaton, a public school teacher aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and his roomer, Sarah A. McDonald, a public school teacher, aged twenty-two years (b. MA). Charles L. Beaton rented their house at 50 Orchard Street, for $41.50 per month. They had a radio set.
Home Closed By Investigators. Mrs. Annie Beaton, wife of Charles L. Beaton, of 50 Orchard street, who is one of four surviving cousins of the late Miss Maude Horne of Milton who was murdered at her home in that town Friday night, was informed that her aunt’s home, scene of the murder, has been closed. This, it is said, is by order of Federal investigators probing this mysterious case which is said to involve possession of a machine-gun by a suspect as well as a kidnapping of a fifteen-year-old girl. Mr. and Mrs. Beaton attended the funeral of Miss Horne today in Rochester (Portsmouth Herald, February 7, 1939).
Charles L. Beaton, a B&M R.R. ticket agent and telegraph operator, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Portsmouth, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Annie H. Beaton, aged sixty-one years (b. NH). Charles L. Beaton rented their house at 50 Orchard Street, for $32.50 per month. Beaton was selected randomly for several additional questions. He was not a veteran, and he did have a Social Security number.
Brother Of Local Woman Dies. Herbert Home of Farmington, brother of Mrs. Charles L. Beaton of 50 Orchard street, Portsmouth, died at Farmington yesterday. He was 65 years of age and widely known as a biscuit salesman. He retired about-a year ago. He Is survived by his wife and in addition to his sister in this city he is survived by another sister, Mrs. Ralph Cobb of Dover (Portsmouth Herald, April 11, 1941).
Charles L. Beaton died in Portsmouth, NH, in 1948.
County Probate Settles Estates. Inventories were accepted in the estates of Alfred Conner, Newfields; Charles B. Edgerly, Exeter; James P. Griffin, Portsmouth; A. Pethle, Portsmouth; Etheiyn T. Rumford, Portsmouth; Stella May Thurlow, Seabrook; Annie M. Dow, Exeter; Rene Labranche, Newmarket; Bertha E. Appleton, North Hampton; Charles L. Beaton, Portsmouth, and Elizabeth Briggs, Hampton (Portsmouth Herald, July 6, 1948).
Personal Mention. Mrs. Charles L. Beaton of Dover, formerly of Portsmouth, is a patient at Wentworth hospital (Portsmouth Herald, June 29, 1951).
Annie J. (Horne) Beaton died in Dover, NH, June 24, 1962, aged eighty-four years.
Mrs. Charles Beaton. DOVER -Mrs. Annie H. Beaton, 84, of 118 Locust St., widow of Charles Beaton and a former resident of Portsmouth, died yesterday morning. A native of Milton, she was born Oct. 26, 1877, the daughter of the late Frank and Mary (Weeks) Horne and had resided in Dover for the past 13 years. Mrs. Beaton, a retired school teacher. was a member of the North Congregational Church of Portsmouth. Survivors include a sister. Harriet Cobb of Milton; and a niece (Portsmouth Herald, June 25, 1962).
Mary E. “Mamie” Tuttle – 189?-9?
Mary E. Tuttle was born in Dover, NH, July 27, 1879, daughter of John W. and Elizabeth A. (Wilkinson) Tuttle.
WEST MILTON. The stormy week gave the school children an extra week of vacation here and on the Hare road (Farmington News, December 9, 1898).
John W. Tuttle, a teamster, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Dover household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-three years), Elizabeth Tuttle, aged forty-three years (b. RI), and his children, Mary E. Tuttle, a school teacher, aged twenty years (b. NH), Charles W. Tuttle, aged nineteen years (b. NH), and Viola C. Tuttle, aged twelve years (b. NH). John W. Tuttle rented their house at 19 Charles Street. Elizabeth Tuttle was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living.
Mary Etta Tuttle married in Dover, NH, January 25, 1905, Herman Ross Flye, she of Dover and he of Somerville, MA. He was a train dispatcher, aged twenty-four years, and she was a school teacher, aged twenty-five years. He was born in Saugus, MA, February 14, 1880, son of John and Malvina O. (Packer) Flye.
WEST MILTON. Mrs. Flye of Chelsea, Mass., who has been spending a few weeks with Mrs. Waldo Thurber, returned home Monday accompanied by her husband, who came to spend Sunday with her. Mrs. Flye was a former teacher of the Hare road school (Mamie Tuttle of Dover) (Farmington News, June 19, 1908).
Herman R. Flye, a steam railroad train dispatcher, aged thirty-nine years (b. MA), headed a Concord, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary E. Flye, aged forty-three years (b. NH). Herman R. Flye rented their house at 51 South Street (which had six units or apartments).
Herman R. Flye, a steam railroad train dispatcher, aged fifty years (b. MA), headed a Concord, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-five years), Mary E. Flye, aged fifty years (b. NH). Herman R. Flye rented their house at 56 South Street, for $40 per month. They did not have a radio set.
Herman R. Flye, a steam railroad train dispatcher, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a Concord, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-five years), Mary E. Flye, aged sixty years (b. NH). Both had attended four years of high school. Herman R. Flye rented their house at 56 South Street. They had resided in the same house in 1935.
TEA TABLE CHATTER. It was a Golden Wedding anniversary celebration for Mr. and Mrs. Herman R. Flye when they dined at the Skyline this week as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis G. Applegate. Others in the party were L. Mabel Harding, Mrs. W.E. Long more, Mrs. Rena Lord, Mrs. Mary C. Leland and Phineas and Mary Kinney. All are Winter Parkers except Mrs. Leland, who is visiting from Waterford, Conn. (Orlando Evening Star, February 4, 1955).
Herman R. Flye died in FL, in 1959.
Edna N. Calkins – 190?-0?
Edna Nettie Calkins was born in Trescott, ME, October 15, 1882, daughter of Henry G. and Emma M. (Lancaster) Calkins. (She was the older sister of Josie M. Calkins, who became a Nute Ridge teacher).
Edna Calkins, then a Nute High school student, aged sixteen years, suffered a serious accidental injury while working at the paper mill. (Then owned by Alvah Shurtleff). Her recovery prevented her from graduating with her own Nute High School Class of 1898. She graduated instead with the Nute High School Class of 1900.
MILTON. Bad Accident at Paper Mill. A painful and sad accident occurred Saturday at the paper mill. Miss Edna Calkins, who has been employed there the past few months, had her hand nearly severed from her wrist. She stood by a cutting machine, which was not in motion at the time, but which suddenly started, and the knife came down upon her hand. Drs. Hart and Wallace, who are attending the unfortunate young lady, hope to be able to save the thumb and one finger of this hand. Miss Calkins is a highly respected young lady, sixteen years of age. She was a member of the Nute high school, class of ’98, but owing to her delicate health her friends thought it better for her to rest from her studies for a time, and enter upon another year in September. She has the heartfelt sympathy of a host of friends (Farmington News, May 27, 1898).
Edna N. Calkins’ schoolmate and friend was Bessie A. Plummer, who was born in Milton, July 8, 1880, daughter of George H. and Mary P. (Hayes) Plummer. Edna would visit with and be visited by Mrs. Plummer and Miss Plummer (later to be Mrs. Twombly) often over the years.
WEST MILTON. Miss Bessie Plummer had been enjoying a few days with her friend Miss Edna Calkins at South Milton (Farmington News, October 20, 1899).
John W. Avery, a shoe cutter, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eleven years), aged thirty-two years (b. ME), his ward, Gertrude Gatchell, aged twelve (b. ME), and his boarder, Edna Calkins, at school, aged eighteen (b. ME). John W. Avery owned their house, free-and-clear.
WEST MILTON. Miss Edna Calkins, class of 1900 Nute high school, is visiting at the home of her friend, Miss Bessie Plummer (Farmington News, July 6, 1900).
WEST MILTON. Miss Jessie Calkins of South Milton spent the day, Tuesday, with her sister, Miss Edna Calkins (Farmington News, August 3, 1900).
WEST MILTON. The Misses Edna and Jessie Calkins are boarding at Mrs. Hersom’s (Farmington News, December 14, 1900).
MILTON. Work at the paper mill is rushing … Miss Edna Calkins is working at the paper mill (Farmington News, December 21, 1900).
Edna Calkins was described in September 1903 as being a former Hare Road school teacher. She was herself in her final year as a Nute High student during the 1899-00 academic year. Her time as a Hare Road school teacher would seem to have taken place probably in one or more of the 1900-01, 1901-02, or 1902-03 academic years.
Edna N. Calkins’ friend, Bessie A. Plummer, married in Milton, June 30, 1903, Bertrand E. Twombly, both of Milton. Rev. Myron P. Dickey performed the ceremony.
PERSONAL. Miss Edna Calkins of Milton was in town this week (Farmington News, September 11, 1903).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. George Plummer was visited last week by Miss Edna Calkins of Milton, a former teacher at the Hare road school (Farmington News, September 18, 1903).
MILTON. Miss Edna Calkins is teaching school at West Lebanon, Me. (Farmington News, April 29, 1904).
Miss Edna Calkins, W. Lebanon, had seven votes in a Boston Globe educational contest in September 1904 (Boston Globe, September 22, 1904). She appeared also early on as a teacher, Milton, with thirty-four votes, just a week later (Boston Globe, September 28, 1904). This sort of contest was a newspaper promotion. Ballots were printed in the newspaper. One might send in as many as one liked (to the extent that one could purchase newspapers). Likely many of her students and other well-wishers voted more than once. Her total, consolidated under her W. Lebanon location, rose to 2,180 votes before the contest ended (Boston Globe, December 14, 1904).
WEST MILTON. Miss Edna Calkins of Milton was the guest of Mrs. B.E. Twombly, Sunday (Farmington News, October 28, 1904).
WEST MILTON. Miss Edna Calkins was a guest of Mrs. G.H. Plumer and Mrs. B.E. Twombly over Sunday (Farmington News, November 18, 1904).
WEST MILTON. Miss Edna Calkins is the guest of Mrs. George Plumer and her daughter, Mrs. B.E. Twombly (Farmington News, February 10, 1905).
Edna L. Calkins of North Rochester appeared in the Rochester directory of 1905, as a Grade VII and VIII teacher at Rochester’s [New] High School in April 1905.
Edna N. Calkins married in Milton, June 17, 1905, Charles [W.] Tucker, she of Milton and he of Lebanon, ME. She was a teacher, aged twenty-two years; he was employed in a mill, aged twenty-nine years. Rev. Myron P. Dickey performed the ceremony. Tucker was born in Lebanon, ME, circa 1876, son of George and Augusta (Ellis) Tucker.
Charles W. Tucker, a leatherboard mill molder, aged thirty-four years (b. ME), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Edna M. Tucker, a public school teacher, aged twenty-six years (b. ME), his child, Raymond C. Tucker, aged two years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Emma M. Calkins, aged forty-five years (b. ME). Charles W. Tucker owned their house, with a mortgage. Edna M. Tucker was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living. Emma M. Calkins (married twenty-seven years) was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
Charles W. Tucker, a leatherboard mill molder, aged forty-four years (b. ME), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Edna c. Tucker, a private school teacher, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), and his children, Raymond C. Tucker, aged twelve years (b. MH), and Avis L. Tucker, aged seven years (b. NH). Charles W. Tucker owned their house in West Lebanon Village, with a mortgage.
Edna C. Tucker, a public school teacher, aged forty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Pittsfield, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Avis L. Tucker, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Joseph G. Tucker, aged nine years (b. ME). Edna C. Tucker rented their portion of a multi-family residence at 21 Carroll Street for $15 per month.
Charles W. Tucker, a molder, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Edna C. Tucker, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME), and his child, Joseph G. Tucker, a shoe shop block cutter, aged nineteen years (b. ME). Charles W. Tucker owned their house, which was valued at $500. They had resided in an “R,” i.e., rural place, in Belknap County, in 1935. Charles W. Tucker and Joseph G. Tucker had graduated from the eighth grade, while Edna C. Tucker had one year of college.
Edna N. (Calkins) Tucker died January 8, 1964. Charles W. Tucker died November 23, 1966.
N. Susan “Susie” Fletcher – 1900
Nellie Susan Fletcher was born in Hollis, ME, in November 1878, daughter of Tristram H. and Emily F. (Benson) Fletcher.
Tristrum H. Fletcher, an shoe edge trimmer, aged sixty-five years (b. MA), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-four years), Emily F. Fletcher, aged sixty-four years (b. ME), and his child, Nellie S. Fletcher, a teacher, aged twenty-one years (b. ME). Tristrum H. Fletcher owned their house at 6 Mt. Pleasant street, free-and-clear. Emily F. Fletcher was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
WEST MILTON. Mr. Charles Downing is transporting pupils from Downingville to the Hare road school (Farmington News, September 29, 1899).
WEST MILTON. The spring term of the Hare Road school, taught by Miss Susie Fletcher of Farmington, closed last Friday. A program consisting of recitations and dialogues was much enjoyed by those present. The decorations were very pretty and skillful fingers deserve a word of praise. At the close of the exercises Miss Fletcher presented her pupils with dainty and useful gifts in token of her appreciation of their efforts to make the term one of the most enjoyable she had ever taught (Farmington News, July 6, 1900).
Miss Susan Fletcher appeared in the Farmington directory of 1902 and 1905, as a teacher, boarding at 6 Mt. Pleasant street. Tristram H. Fletcher, a shoe operative, had his house at 6 Mt. Pleasant street.
CHIP’S CONTRIBUTION. Miss N. Susie Fletcher, who has been teaching school at West Townsend, Vt., returned home Thursday of last week (Farmington News, February 14, 1902).
LOCAL. Miss N. Susie Fletcher has returned home after a successful term of teaching at Canobie Lake (Farmington News, July 4, 1902).
CHIP’S CONTRIBUTION. Miss N. Susie Fletcher is at Brockton, Mass., this week (Farmington News, September 12, 1902).
Miss N. Susie Fletcher was teacher of the Centre school in New Durham, NH, during the 1902-03 academic year.
NEW DURHAM. A school concert was given Friday evening, July 3, by the New Durham Centre school. The program consisted of flag and doll drills, recitations and songs, with a farce entitled “Deception,” which was given by the older members of the school, kindly assisted by Richard Miller and Winnie Miller, formerly members of the school. . (Farmington News, July 10, 1903).
Miss N. Susie Fletcher was teacher of the Grade 7 class at the Farmington Main street intermediate school in March 1905.
PERSONAL. Miss N. Susie Fletcher is visiting relatives and friends in Lynn and Brockton, Mass., for a few days (Farmington News, March 24, 1905).
N. Susie Fletcher married in Lynn, MA, February 27, 1907, Charles E. Child, both of Farmington, NH. He was a clerk, aged twenty years, and she was an operative, aged twenty-eight years. He was born in Farmington, NH, circa 1887, son of Charles E. and Elizabeth (Drew) Child. (The Lynn clerk scrambled the names, reporting the groom and his father as being named Charles E. Drew, and the groom’s mother as being named Elizabeth Child).
LOCAL. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Childs (N. Susie Fletcher) were in town over Sunday. As this was Mrs. Childs’ first visit home since her marriage, several of her young lady friends took occasion to call Saturday evening and present her with a nice picture, as a wedding gift (Farmington News, April 26, 1907).
LOCAL. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Child of Lynn were in town over Sunday, visiting relatives (Farmington News, June 14, 1907).
Charles E. Child, an electrical machinist, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of three years), Nellie S. Child, aged thirty years (b. ME), and his child, Charles E.T. Child, aged two years (b. NH). Charles E. Child owned their house on Glen Street, free-and-clear. Nellie S. Child was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Charles E. Child, a garage keeper, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Nellie S. Child, aged forty-one years (b. ME), and his children, Charles E.T. Child, aged twelve years (b. MA), Florence E. Child, aged nine years (b. NH), Ethel M. Child, aged three years, six months years (b. NH). E. Charles Child owned their house at 6 Mt. Pleasant Street, free-and-clear.
E. Charles Child, a garage mechanic, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his his wife (of twenty-eight years), Susie Child, aged fifty-one years (b. ME), and his children, Charles E.T. Child, a garage mechanic, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), Florence E. Child, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Ethel M. Child, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and James H. Child, aged ten years (b. NH). E. Charles Child owned their house at 9 Mt. Pleasant Street, which was valued at $1,000. They had a radio set.
N. Susie (Fletcher) Child died June 12, 1933, aged fifty-four years.
IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. N. Susie Child. This community and many intimate friends sorrow with the family of Mrs. N. Susie Child, wife of Charles E. Child, whose death occurred as the result of an automobile accident early Monday morning on the state road near the Barnstead-Alton town line. Mr. and Mrs. Child and their younger son were returning from Milford where they had made a Sunday trip to leave their older daughter, Florence, who is a teacher in the public schools of that town. Mrs. Child was in the front seat with her husband and was thrown out when the top of the car came in contact with a tree, shattering the glass and unlatching the door. A physician was called from Alton by telephone and Mr. Child drove on to meet him, but as soon as it was possible to make examination it was determined that death had been instantaneous. It appears that accident had occurred as the Child car rounded a banked curve, causing it to careen, and the front wheels broke through the surface at the edge of the road., throwing it out of control. The deceased was 54 years of age, a native of Hollis, Me., the daughter of Tristram and Emily (Benson) Fletcher. As a small child she came to Farmington with her parents and since had lived in this village, where she was educated in the public schools and graduated from Farmington high school with the class of 1897. For a number of years she was a teacher in the upper grades at the high school building, and also taught at Glen street and at the Hare Road school in West Milton. In her younger days she displayed remarkable talents in the field of art and was a woman of culture and refinement. In 1907 she was married to Mr. Child. Since this union she had devoted herself to a loving family circle which is sadly afflicted by this tragic death. For several years the deceased had been in frail health and was just recovering from a severe accident of several months ago. Mrs. Child was a member of Minnehaha Rebekah lodge and the Farmington High School Alumni association. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Miss Florence Child, who is a member of the class graduating from Keene Normal school this week and a practice teacher in Milford, and Miss Ethel Child of this village, two sons, Charles E.T. Child, and James Henry Child, of this village, a half-sister, a half-brother and numerous relatives farther removed. Funeral services were held at the Congregational church this Wednesday afternoon at 1.30, with Rev. D.H. Smith officiating. Interment was in Farmington cemetery, with committal services (Farmington News, [Friday,] June 16, 1933).
Her younger daughter, Ethel Child, died in Rochester, NH, February 24, 1934. Charles E. Child died in 1974.
Elfrida M. Peacock – 1901-02
Elfrida Mabel Peacock was born in Solon, ME, August 2, 1881, daughter of Robert M. and Ada M. (Lee) Peacock.
Elfrida M. Peacock was one of the three students who shared a three-way tie for public speaking at the Nute High School graduation ceremony for the Class of 1899. (She was then a junior).
LOCALS. Many Farmington friends of pupils in the Nute high school in MIlton will be interested in knowing that Miss Nellie Frances Nute of West Milton, Miss Elfrida M. Peacock of Nute Ridge and Carl Percy of Union are the three speakers at the graduating exercises of the class of ’99 who were decided upon as too nearly equal in the merit of their work for any distinction in rank to be made in the award of the three prizes offered. Miss Pansy E. Wallace, formerly of this village, is another of the speakers in whom readers of the News have a special interest. It is to be remembered that all the speaking was so high in character that it was difficult even to choose any as best. The judges are congratulated upon their impartiality and their appreciation of the exercises (Farmington News, June 23, 1899).
Robert M. Peacock, a clergyman, aged fifty-one years (b. Canada), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty years), Ada M. Peacock, aged forty years (b. ME), and his children, Elfie M. Peacock, at school, aged eighteen years (b. ME), Harold L. Peacock, at school, aged twelve years (b. MA), Robert B. Peacock, aged five years (b. MA), and Alfred G. Peacock, aged one year (b. NH). Robert M. Peacock rented their house. Ada M. Peacock was the mother of four children, of whom four were still living.
WEST MILTON. Miss Elfrida Peacock is spending the week at Milton Ridge, as the guest of her friend Miss Orinda Plummer. Miss Peacock, a graduate this June of Nute high school, expects to take an extended course at a Normal school this fall (Farmington News, July 20, 1900).
WEST MILTON. The school on the Hare road, taught by Miss Elfrida Peacock, closes this Friday (Farmington News, February 7, 1902).
WEST MILTON. Owing to the illness of Miss Peacock, the Hare road school will not begin until April 14 (Farmington News, April 11, 1902).
Seth Augustine Moulton (per James Snyder)
Elfrida Mabel Peacock married in Milton, September 3, 1903, Seth Augustine Moulton, both of Milton. Her father, Rev. Robert M. Peacock, performed the ceremony. Moulton was born in Lowell, MA, circa 1875-76, son of Charles E. and Clara (Russ) Moulton.
SOMERSET. Invitations have been received here for the wedding of Miss Elfrida Mabel Peacock, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Robert Peacock, to Mr. Seth Augustine Moulton, on Thursday, Sept 3, at Milton. Miss Peacock is very well known here, where her father was pastor of the First Congregational church for five years (Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, MA), August 24, 1903).
WEST MILTON. Miss Elfrida M. Peacock was united in marriage to Mr. Seth Moulton of Milton, by the bride’s father Thursday. In the afternoon a reception was held at her home and many beautiful presents were received. Mr. and Mrs. Moulton have gone to the mountains on their wedding tour (Farmington News, September 11, 1903).
Seth A. Moulton, a civil engineer, aged thirty-four years (b. MA), headed a Portland, ME, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of seven years), Elfrida P. Moulton, aged twenty-eight years (b. ME), his children, Lorna A. Moulton, aged five years (b. NH), and Olivia R. Moulton, aged three years (b. NH), his mother, Mrs. Clara A. Moulton, a widow, aged sixty-two years (b. MA), and his servant, Delia T. Duffey, a private family servant, aged twenty-four years (b. Ireland (Eng.)). Seth A. Moulton rented their house at 22 Clifton Street. Elfrida P. Moulton was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living. Mrs. Clara A. Moulton was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Augustus Moulton, a consulting engineer, aged forty-four years (b. MA), headed a Cambridge, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of seven years), Alfrida M. Moulton, aged thirty-eight years (b. ME), his children, Lorna A. Moulton, aged fifteen years (b. NH), and Olivia F. Moulton, aged twelve years (b. NH), his mother, Clara A. Moulton, a widow, aged sixty-eight years (b. MA). Augustus Moulton rented their house at 120 Brattle Street.
Seth A. Moulton, a consulting engineer, aged fifty-four years (b. MA), headed a Los Angeles, CA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Elfrida M. Moulton, aged forty-eight years (b. ME), and his child, Lorna A. Moulton, a public school teacher, aged twenty-five years (b. NH). Seth A. Moulton rented their residence in the Lil Mar Apartments, in the Assembly District, for $65 per month. They had a radio set.
Florence E. Wallinder, a life insurance typist, aged thirty-eight years (b. NY), headed a Long Beach, CA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Marian R. Wallinder, aged fourteen years (b. CA), and her lodgers, Elfrida Moulton, aged fifty-eight (b. ME), and Lorna A. Moulton, aged thirty-four years (b. NH). Florence E. Wallinder rented their residence at 1000 Elm Avenue, for $30 per month. (Seth A. Moulton, a chemical engineer, aged sixty-four years (b. MA), was a guest at the Woodward Hotel, on West 55th Street, in New York, NY, at the same time).
Seth A. Moulton died in 1945. Elfrida (Peacock) Moulton died in Augusta, ME, December 3, 1969.
Jessie F. Butler – 1902-03
Jessie F. Butler was born in Berwick, ME, in 1882, daughter of Oren H. and Oriana “Orrie” (Chellis) Butler.
Orrin C. Butler, a soap manufacturer, aged fifty-six years (b. ME), headed a Berwick, ME, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his [second] wife (of six years), Bessie Butler, aged forty years (b. ME), his children, Arthur C. Butler, aged twenty-nine years (b. ME), Clarence O. Butler, soap business, aged twenty-five years (b. ME), Jessie F. Butler, a school teacher, aged eighteen years (b. ME), Dean Butler, at school, aged five years (b. ME), Ella Butler, aged three years (b. ME), and Harry Butler, aged two years (b. ME), his lodger, James Carol, a farm hand, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), and his servant, Blanche Boivin, a houseworker, aged twenty-three years (b. New Brunswick (Canada (Fr.)). Orrin C. Butler owned their house, free-and-clear. Bessie Butler was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living.
WEST MILTON. Schools began Monday. Miss Hattie Campnell has her same school at Nute Ridge, Miss Jessie Butler of Berwick teaches on the Hare road and Miss Daisy Davis of Rochester the West Milton school (Farmington News, September 12, 1902).
WEST MILTON. Miss Nellie Nute has been substituting at the Hare Road school this week, on account of the illness of Miss Butler (Farmington News, January 2, 1903).
WEST MILTON. The school on the Hare road taught by Miss Jessie Butler and the Nute Ridge school taught by Miss Hattie Campbell closed last Friday (Farmington News, February 6, 1903).
WEST MILTON. Miss Jessie Butler of Berwick, Me., a former teacher of the Hare Road school, has been visiting friends in this vicinity (Farmington News, October 23, 1903).
WEST MILTON. Miss Jessie Butler of Somersworth is spending Christmas holidays with Mrs. John Nute and friends (Farmington News, January 1, 1904).
WEST MILTON. The last meeting of the [In-As-Much] Society was with Mrs. Nellie Hayes, with an attendance of fifteen. Three were visitors, who are always welcome. The work was the tacking of a puff for Miss Jessie Butler of Somersworth (Farmington News, February 3, 1905).
WEST MILTON. The friends of Miss Jessie Butler, formerly a teacher here, will be interested to know that she is at present teaching in Munsonville [Nelson, NH]. In January she will have two weeks recess, during which time she will visit in this vicinity (Farmington News, November 23, 1906).
Jessie F. Butler married in Berwick, ME, June 16, 1907, Charles L. Batchelder, she of Berwick and he of North Hampton, NH. He was a farmer, aged twenty-two years, and she was a teacher, aged twenty-five years. He was born in North Hampton, NH, in 1886, son of Charles and Martha M. (Brown) Batchelder.
Charles L. Batchelder, an express [company] chauffeur, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), headed a North Hampton, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of two years), Jessie B. Batchelder, aged twenty-four years (b. ME), and his boarder, Mercy H. Roberts, own income, aged seventy-four years (b. NH). Charles L. Batchelder rented their house.
Charles L. Batchelder, a garage proprietor, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a North Hampton, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Jessie B. Batchelder, aged thirty-eight years (b. ME), Martha A. Batchelder, aged nine years (b. NH), Eleanor C. Batchelder, aged six years (b. NH), Helen A. Batchelder, aged four years (b. NH), and Mary C. Batchelder, aged eleven months (b. NH). Charles L. Batchelder rented their house on Atlantic Avenue.
WEST MILTON. Mrs. Charles Batchelder of Hampton, with her four little girls, was at the Appleby farm for several days last week, She formerly was Jessie Butler, and before her marriage was a teacher for many successful terms in West Milton (Farmington News, October 27, 1922).
Charles L. Batchelder, a public garage man, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed a North Hampton, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-two years), Jessie B Batchelder, aged forty-eight years (b. ME), Martha A. Batchelder, a public garage taxi driver, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Eleanor C. Batchelder, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Helen A Batchelder, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and M. Charlotte Batchelder, aged eleven years (b. NH). Charles L. Batchelder owned their farm on Atlantic Avenue. They had a radio set.
WEST MILTON. Mrs. Charles Batchelder of North Hampton, with her four daughters, spent the week-end at Russell Wentworth’s house. Mrs. Batchelder was Jessie Butler, who was a former teacher at the Hare road school in 1901-02. Eleanor Batchelder favored the Nute chapel with violin music at the morning service (Farmington News, October 16, 1931).
Charles L. Batchelder died in 1938.
Jessie Batchelder, a trucking proprietor, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME), headed a North Hampton, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Charlotte Batchelder, a hairdresser, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). Jessie Batchelder owned their house at 21 Atlantic Avenue, which was valued at $6,000.
Jessie F. (Butler) Batchelder died in Hampton, NH, April 15, 1973, aged ninety-one years.
Minerva R. Perry – 1903
Minerva Roxy Perry was born in Strafford, NH, May 26, 1871, daughter of John H. and Roxanna M. “Roxie” (Rundlett) Perry.
Minerva R. Perry taught the Fall term at least at the Wednesday Hill school in Lee, NH, during the 1890-91 academic year. Lee usually sent its few Wednesday Hill students to Packer’s Falls in Durham, NH, but found on this occasion that they had enough to reopen their own Wednesday Hill school.
But in the fall there were 10 scholars in Wednesday Hill and it was decided to run one term of 10 weeks, in the old school house. Although it may not be a disadvantage to change teachers occasionally, we do not consider it as well for the scholars to attend first one school, and then another, not being in any particular class and often alone. At Wednesday Hill we find the attendance very good, whole number 10, average 8; but the teacher was obliged to record what seemed to us an unnecessary number of instances of tardiness, taking into consideration the nearness of all the scholars. There are but five families and they are all very near the schoolhouse. The teacher, Miss Perry, encountered the same obstacles there that other teachers have found and met them as successfully as those before her have (Annual Report of the School Board of Lee, For the Year Ending March 31, 1891).
She received $28 per month, making $70 total, which she was paid November 14, 1890. (J.S. Jenkins was paid $2.25 for firewood for the school house). Miss Perry taught Reading, Spelling, and Penmanship to all ten students; Arithmetic to eight students; Geography to seven students; Grammar to eight students; History to three students; Composition to eight students; Physiology to one student; and Algebra and Bookkeeping to one student.
Miss Minerva R. Perry held the office of Lecturer at the Bow Lake Grange, in Strafford, NH, in 1893.
John H. Perry, a farmer, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), headed a Strafford, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-three years), Roxie Perry, aged seventy years (b. NH), and his children, Minerva R. Perry, a school teacher, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Cornelia R. Perry, an invalid, aged thirty-three years (b. NH). John H. Perry owned their farm, free-and-clear. Roxie Perry was the mother of six children, of whom six were still living. (Cornelia R. Perry had been married for eight years).
Minerva R. Perry appeared in the Strafford directories of 1900 and 1902, as a teacher at the Daniels school, No. 18, boarding with John H. Perry, Strafford, Bow Lake.
WEST MILTON. The school at Nute Ridge began this week with the same teacher, Miss Campbell. The Hare road school will begin next Monday. Miss Pratt from Bow Pond will teach. The West Milton school will be discontinued, the scholars being conveyed to Nute Ridge (Farmington News, April 3, 1903).
WEST MILTON. We wish to correct the mistake in the name of the teacher of the Hare road school as given last week. It should have been Miss Perry not Miss Pratt (Farmington News, April 10, 1903).
WEST MILTON. Miss Minerva Perry spent Sunday of last week with Mrs. Jennie French at Farmington (Farmington News, May 15, 1903).
WEST MILTON. Miss Minerva Perry went to her home at Bow Lake Friday for a visit. On her return she was accompanied by her father (Farmington News, May 22, 1903).
WEST MILTON. The exercises at the Hare road schoolhouse Friday were very impressive and well attended. They were in charge of the two teachers, Miss Perry and Miss Campbell. Appropriate remarks were made by Rev. R.M. Peacock, and by Messrs. Jordan and Johnson, who represented the G.A.R. Post of Milton (Farmington News, June 5, 1903).
Miss Minerva R. Perry taught at the South Milton school during the 1903-04 academic year.
WEST MILTON. Miss Minerva Perry, who is teaching the South Milton school, was a guest of Mm G W Tasker over Sunday (Farmington News, January 22, 1904).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. G.H. Hurd had the pleasure of a visit last Saturday from Miss Minerva Perey. She was a former teacher of the Hare road school and is now teaching at South Milton (Farmington News, February 19, 1904).
Minerva Roxy Perry married in Rochester, NH, May 18, 1904, John Leslie Sanders. He was born in Swanville, ME, February 28, 1868, son of Permit P. and Rebecca (Cunningham) Sanders.
MILTON. Miss Minerva Perry, who formerly taught school in town, was married at her home in Strafford May 18, by Rev. John Manter of Rochester, to Rev. John L. Sanders of Dexter, Me. (Farmington News, May 27, 1904).
John L. Sanders, an F.B. [Free Baptist] Church minister, aged forty-two years (b. ME), headed a Charlestown, RI, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of five years), Minerva R. Sanders, aged forty-eight [thirty-eight] years (b. NH), and his children, Helen R. Sanders, aged three years (b. RI), and Winifred E. Sanders, aged two years (b. RI). Rev. Sanders rented their house. Minerva R. Sanders was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
John L. Sanders, a Free Baptist minister, aged fifty-one years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Minerva R. Sanders, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), and his children, Helen R. Sanders, aged thirteen years (b. RI), Winifred E. Sanders, aged eleven years (b. RI), Irene R. Sanders, aged seven years (b. ME), and Phyliss L. Sanders, aged six years (b. ME). Rev. Sanders rented their house on Church Street, in Gonic village.
John L. Sanders, a Baptist Church clergyman, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), headed a Portland, ME, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Minerva R. Sanders, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), and his children, Irene R. Sanders, aged seventeen years (b. ME), and Phyliss L. Sanders, aged sixteen years (b. ME). Rev. Sanders rented their house at 1435 Congress Street, for $25 per month. They did not have a radio set.
John L. Sanders died in Derry, NH, July 17, 1955. Minerva R. (Perry) Sanders died in Swanville, ME, December 27, 1964, aged ninety-three years.
MORNING DEATH NOTICES. SANDERS – In Swanville, Me., Dec. 27, Minerva R., 93 years, widow of Rev. John L. Sanders. Funeral services at the Coombs funeral Home in Belfast, Me., Tuesday,. Dec. 29, at 2 p.m. (Boston Globe, December 28, 1964).
Blanche E. McCrellis – 1904
Blanche Edna McCrellis was born in East Rochester, NH, September 17, 1883, daughter of Fred H. and Edith E. “Stella” (Howe) McCrellis.
Clara McCrellis, a widow, aged seventy-three years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her son, Fred McCrellis, a spinner, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), and her grandchildren, Blanch McCrellis, at school, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Lola McCrellis, at school, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Bertha McCrellis, at school, aged twelve years (b. NH). Clara McCrellis owned their house at 7 Mill street, free-and-clear; she was the mother of four children, of whom four were still living.
It would seem that the Hare Road school pupils attended the West Milton school for the Fall term of the 1903-04 academic year. Miss Blanche McCrellis taught the Hare Road school for the Winter and Spring terms.
WEST MILTON. School began Monday with the following teachers: Miss Ora Dickey at West Milton; Miss Hattie Campbell, Nute Ridge school. Mr. Doughty convoys the students from Downingville and the Hare road to the West Milton school (Farmington News, September 18, 1903).
NEWS OF THE STATE. Banner Grange of East Rochester has elected the following officers: Master, E.A. Corson; overseer, Henry Varney; lecturer, Mabel Wiggin; assistant steward, A.I. Richards; chaplain, Flora Shorey; treasurer, C.A. Sleeper; secretary, Sabra J. Corson; gatekeeper, John Baker; Pomona, Blanche McCrillis; Flora, Oriana Baker; Ceres, Mrs. Henry Varney; lady assistant steward, Mrs. Frank W. Walsh; pianist, Grace Shorey; steward, John C. Bigelow (Farmington News, January 1, 1904).
WEST MILTON. The Misses Daisy Davis and Blanche McCrellis spent the Memorial recess at their homes in Rochester (Farmington News, June 3, 1904).
WEST MILTON. School in this section closed last Friday. Miss McCrellis, teacher of the Hare road school, returned to her home Wednesday. Miss Davis of the West Milton school will remain with her aunt, Mrs. Annie Cook, over the Fourth (Farmington News, July 1, 1904).
Fred H. McCrellis, a woolen mill jack fixer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his daughter, Blanche E. McCrellis, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and his granddaughter, Edrie E. McCrellis, aged four years (b. NH). Fred H. McCrellis rented their house at 16 Green Street
Fred H. McCrellis, a woolen mill loom fixer, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife [daughter], Blanche E. McCrellis, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and his grandchildren, Odrie M. McCrellis, a shoe factory worker, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Otto N. McCrellis, aged nine years (b. NH). Fred H. McCrellis rented their house at 16 Green Street.
EAST ROCHESTER, N.H., MAYOR IS VOTED BEST-LOOKING MAN. Councilman Gets Title of Homeliest in Beauty Contest – Three Women Judges. EAST ROCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 20 – According to information that has leaked out, Mayor Elihu A. Corson won the contest for the best-looking man, and Councilman Harry G. Bickford for the homeliest-looking man in the beauty contest staged in connection with the regular meeting of Banner Grange here Wednesday night. Mayor Corson was presented with a mirror and Councilman Bickford with a vanity case. The judges were three women. Miss Blanche McCrillis, Mrs. Mary Frye and Mrs. Cora Bucklin. There were 15 contestants and they represented three Granges, Banner of this place, Lebanon, of Center Lebanon, Me, and Crown Point Grange of Stratford Corner (Boston Globe, January 20, 1928).
Fred H. McCrellis, a woolen mill loom fixer, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his daughter, Blanche McCrellis, aged forty-six years (b. NH), and his grandson, Otto N. McCrellis, a shoe factory laborer, aged nineteen years (b. NH). Fred H. McCrellis rented their house at 16 Green Street, for $10 per month. They had a radio set.
Blanche E. McCrellis died in East Rochester, NH, February 10, 1939, aged fifty-five years, four months, and twenty days. Edrie M. Carpenter of East Rochester, NH, supplied the information.
Alice L. Patterson – 1904-05
Alice Louise Patterson was born in Brookline, MA, October 14, 1877, daughter of James and Catherine (Campbell) Patterson.
James Patterson, an insurance co. office janitor, aged sixty-two years (b. Ireland), headed a Brookline, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-five years), Catherine Patterson, aged sixty years (b. Ireland), his children, Mary [(Patterson)] Massie, a public teacher, aged thirty-four years (b. MA), William Patterson, a machine salesman, aged twenty-nine years (b. MA), Alice L. Patterson, a music teacher, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), his grandchild, Mildred P. Massie, aged seven years (b. MA), and his lodger, J. Tina Grant, a dressmaker, aged twenty-six years (b. Canada (Eng.)). James Patterson rented their house at 101 Harvard Street. Catherine Patterson was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living.
WEST MILTON. Miss Alice L. Patterson, teacher in the Hare Road district, returned to her home in Brookline for the vacation (Farmington News, December 30, 1904).
WEST MILTON. Miss Alice Patterson has gone to Newbury, Vt., to visit Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Gilman (Farmington News, September 25, 1908).
Catherine C. Patterson, a widow, aged seventy-one years (b. Ireland), headed a Brookline, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Mary E. Masse, a public school teacher, aged forty-four years (b. MA), and Alice L. Patterson, a music teacher, aged thirty-two years (b. MA), and her granddaughter, Mildred P. Masse, aged seventeen years (b. MA). Catherine C. Patterson rented their house at 86 Brook Street. Catherine C. Patterson was the mother of six children, of whom four were still living. Mary E. Masse was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Alice Louise Patterson married in Brookline, MA, August 24, 1910, Lewis Walter Harriman, both of Brookline. He was a custodian, aged thirty years, and she was a teacher, aged thirty-two years. He was born in North Conway, NH, November 2, 1879, son of Ezra C. and Alice M. (Burbank) Harriman.
Lewis W. Harriman, a box board co. engineer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Wayland, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Alice L. Harriman, aged forty years (b. MA), and his mother-in-law, a widow, aged eighty years (b. Ireland (Eng.)). Lewis W. Harriman owned their house at 49 Plain Street.
Lewis W. Harriman, a box factory machinist, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Wayland, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty years), Alice L. Harriman, aged fifty-two years (b. MA). Lewis W. Harriman owned their house at 49 W. Plain Street, which was valued at $7,000. They had a radio set.
Lewis W. Harriman died in Wayland, MA, April 26, 1939.
Alice L. Harriman, a widow, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a Wayland, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Alice L. Harriman owned her house at 49 W. Plain Street, which was valued at $1,800. She had resided in the same house in 1935.
Miss Whitaker – 1905-06
Miss Whitaker remains elusive. At this point all that is known is that she hailed from Conway, NH, and had relatives in Boston, MA. A Miss Helen E. Whitaker from Conway, NH, graduated from Nute High School with the Class of 1916, but she would have been too young to teach at the Hare Road school in 1905-06.
WEST MILTON. The Hare road school opened this week for the winter term, with Miss Whitaker as teacher. She is from Conway (Farmington News, December 8, 1905).
WEST MILTON. Miss Whitaker, teacher of the Hare road school, spent the Christmas vacation with relatives in Boston (Farmington News, January 5, 1906).
WEST MILTON. Washington’s birthday was observed Friday afternoon at the Hare road school by appropriate exercises (Farmington News, March 2, 1906).
Hare Road School Not in Session – 1908-09
The Milton directory of 1909 did not mention any Hare Road school teacher (although those for Plummer’s Ridge, Nute’s Ridge, and the South Milton schools, as well as those teaching in the Milton Grammar school, were all identified).
Alice M. (Brownell) Canney – 1916-17
Alice M. Brownell was born in Dover, NH, November 2, 1886, daughter of William A. and Sarah S. (Brown) Brownell.
Alice M. Brownell married (1st) in Dover, NH, June 28, 1911, Carl B. Canney, she of Dover, and he of Milton. He was born in Milton, July 11, 1884, son of George D. and Addie B. (Hatch) Canney.
Mrs. Alice M. Canney taught the Hare Road school in the Spring term of 1916-17 academic year. Her usual place was at the nearby West Milton school, from which she brought also her West Milton students for this term. (A fuller account of her life and career may be found in Milton’s West Milton Teachers, 1885-23).
West Milton. The Hare Road school was reopened last Monday with Mrs. Alice Canney as teacher and an initial enrollment of eight pupils. Mrs. John Grace will transport the pupils from the West Milton district (Farmington News, April 20, 1917).
West Milton. The Hare road and Nute Ridge schools close this Friday for the summer vacation (Farmington News, June 15, 1917).
Marion I. Dixon – 1917-18
Marion Irene Dickson was born in Shirley, MA, August 1, 1895, daughter of William A. and Hattie M. (Newell) Dickson.
William A. Dickson, a leather-board mill superintendent, aged thirty-five years (b. MA), headed a Milton [“Milton-Town”] household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of sixteen years), Hattie Dickson, aged thirty-four years (b. MA); his children, Marion I. Dickson, aged fourteen years (b. MA), Hazel M. Dickson, aged five years (b. NH), and Carlyn P. Dickson, aged two years (b. NH); and his in-laws William V. Newell, aged sixty-six years (b. MA), and Lucy H. Newell, aged sixty-six years (b. MA). William A. Dickson rented their house. Hattie M. Dickson was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living. The Newells had been married forty-six years, during which time she had been the mother of five children, of whom four were still living. They resided next-door to the Spaulding workers’ hotel or barracks, with its numbered immigrant workers.
Marion I. Dickson graduated from Nute High School with the Class of 1911.
Mrs. Hattie M. (Newell) Dickson died in Milton, December 20, 1914. William A. Dickson advertised for a housekeeper to care for his family of five in August 1915. He married (2nd) in East Rochester, NH, May 21, 1918, Grace E. Harwood, a teacher at the Milton Grammar school.
Marion I. Dickson, appeared in the Milton directory of 1917, as a student at the Plymouth Normal school, with her home at W.A.D.’s, on South Main street. William A. Dickson, superintendent at Spaulding’s, had his house on South Main street, in the third house beyond the railroad crossing.
WEST MILTON. Improvements are being made on the Hare road school buildings (Farmington News, October 17, 1917).
WEST MILTON. Miss Marion Dixon, teacher at the Hare Road school, gave her pupils a delightful Hallowe’en party, Wednesday afternoon (Farmington News, November 2, 1917).
WEST MILTON. The Hare road school is in session and Miss Marion Dixon of Milton has returned as teacher (Farmington News, April 12, 1918).
West Milton. Miss Marion Dickson of South Milton, who closed a very successful school year here in June, is to teach the 4th and 5th grades in the Milton Grammar school (Farmington News, August 23, 1918).
William A. Dickson, a leather-board mill superintendent, aged forty-five years (b. MA), headed a Milton [“Milton-Town”] household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of sixteen years), Hattie Dickson, aged thirty-six [forty-five] years (b. MA); his children, Marion I. Dickson, a grammar school teacher, aged twenty-four years (b. MA), Hazel M. Dickson, aged fifteen years (b. NH), and Carlyne P. Dickson, aged twelve years (b. NH); and his servant, Isabel H. Mansfield, a private family servant, aged fifty-four years (b. ME). William A. Dickson rented their house on the Wakefield Road, i.e., White Mountain Highway, in South Milton. They resided still next-door to the Spaulding workers’ hotel or barracks.
Marion I. Dickson appeared in the Annual Report of Conway, NH, of 1926, as a school teacher, with a salary of $1,050. She taught grades 7 and 8 (Conway Annual Report, For the Year Ending January 31, 1926).
Scituate. Yesterday Harold A. Wingate, former superintendent of schools at Center Ossipee, N.H., assumed his newly appointed position as superintendent of schools here. He met the teachers for instructions. Schools opened today with a record enrollment. Owing to resignations several new teachers were added to the staff. New principals will have charge of both grammar schools. At the Jenkins School Le Roy Fuller, for 10 years teacher in Belmont Junior High School, will be principal. Miss Marion Dickson, former principal of Conway, N.H., grammar school; Miss Florence Toomey of Bridgewater and Miss Helen Pearl of West Boxford have joined the Jenkins School staff. At the Hatherly School the new principal is George W. Burrill of Newport, Me, and Miss Helen Knox of Exeter, N H, Is a teacher (Boston Globe, September 26, 1926).
James T. Larkin, a chain store manager, aged forty-five years (b. Irish Free State), headed a Scituate, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty years), Annie E. Larkin, aged thirty-nine years (b. MA), and his boarder, Marion I. Dickson, a public school teacher, aged thirty-four years (b. MA). James T. Larkin rented their house on First Parish Road, for $30 per month. They had a radio set.
Marion I. Dickson appeared in the Annual Report of Boscawen, NH, of 1933, as a school teacher, with a salary of $1,050 (Boscawen Annual Report, For the Year Ending January 31, 1933).
Marion I. Dickson appeared in the Annual Report of Boscawen, NH, of 1939 as its grammar school principal, and teacher of grades 7 and 8, with a salary of $1,100 (Boscawen Annual Report, For the Year Ending January 31, 1939).
Marion Irene Dickson married in Northfield, NH, May 2, 1941, James Harry Sanderson, both of Boscawen, NH. He was a widowed leather worker, aged fifty-four years, and she was a teacher, aged forty-five years. He was born in Columbia, NH, son of Gilbert D. and Lillie (Prince) Sanderson.
Marion I. (Dickson) Sanderson died in 1969. James H. Sanderson died in 1977.
Lizzie M. (Whittier) Drew – 1918-20
Lizzie M. Whittier was born in NH, circa May 1877, daughter of George and Nancy A. (Moody) Whittier.
Lizzie M. Whittier married in Farmington, NH, September 9, 1899, Charles E. Drew, she of Farmington and he of Alton, NH. He was born in Alton, NH, circa 1875, son of Charles G. and Hannah (Watson) Drew.
Nancy A. Whittier, a widow, aged seventy-one years (b. ME), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Mary E.A.C. Whittier, aged forty years (b. NH), and her boarders, Ernest C. Drew, a blacksmith, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and Lizzie M. Drew, a teacher, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). Nancy A. Whittier owned their house at 25 Orange Street, free-and-clear.
Charles E. Drew, a box shop boxmaker, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of ten years), Lizzie M. Drew, a school teacher, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and his sister-in-law, aged fifty years (b. NH). Charles E. Drew owned their house on North Main Street, free-and-clear. They shared a two-family dwelling with the household of their tenant, Henry J. Sheehan, a shoe factory shoe finisher, aged twenty-five years (b. MA).
West Milton. The Hare road school is to re-open August 26, with Mrs. Lizzie Drew of Farmington as teacher (Farmington News, August 23, 1918).
West Milton. Pupils from West Milton and Downing hill are attending the Hare road school, there being none in the above mentioned districts (Farmington News, September 6, 1918).
West Milton. Several pupils of the Hare road school have been victims of the prevailing colds and the attendance has been correspondingly small (Farmington News, October 4, 1918).
On the afternoon of the WW I armistice, the Hare Road school teacher and students adjourned to attend a parade in Farmington, NH.
West Milton. There was but one session of the Hare road school Monday as teacher and pupils attended the parade and celebration at Farmington in the afternoon (Farmington News, [Friday,] November 15, 1918).
WEST MILTON. After six weeks’ vacation, the Hare Road school reopened Monday for the Spring term, with Miss [Mrs.] Lizzie Drew of Farmington as teacher (Farmington News, April 4, 1919).
WEST MILTON. The Memorial was fittingly observed with appropriate exercises by the teacher and pupils of the Hare Road school on Thursday afternoon of last week. The schoolroom was tastefully decorated with wreaths of evergreen, flags, and crepe paper in the national colors, while bouquets added their beauty and fragrance. It was evident that time and labor and thoughtful interest had been combined in preparing for this day of commemoration. The teacher and pupils from Nute Ridge were in attendance, together with parents and neighbors, and the hour was pleasantly and profitably spent in giving attention to the program of songs and recitations which was very creditably given, At the close of the exercises, refreshments of assorted cake and fruit punch were served, and the pleasant little affair was concluded with the taking of a group picture of the school by Miss McGregor (June 6, 1919).
WEST MILTON. The interior of the Hare road schoolhouse has been newly painted during the last week. School reopens Tuesday, with Mrs. Lizzie Drew of Farmington as teacher (Farmington News, September 5, 1919).
WEST MILTON. The Hare road school reopened on Monday, after a holiday recess of one week (Farmington News, January 2, 1920).
Mary E.A.C. Whittier, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her cousins, Lizzie M. Drew, a school teacher, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and Ernest C. Drew, a shoe factory edge trimmer, aged forty-four years (b. NH). Mary E.A.C. Whittier owned their house on Prospect Street, free-and-clear.
WEST MILTON. There was no session of the Hare road school Friday, as the teacher, Mrs. Lizzie M. Drew, was in Rochester in attendance at the meeting of the Strafford County Teachers’ association (Farmington News, February 6, 1920).
WEST MILTON. The Hare road school re-opened Monday, after an extended vacation with an enrollment of 18 scholars (Farmington News, April 23, 1920).
WEST MILTON. The Hare road school closed Friday for the usual summer vacation. No program of closing exercises bad been prepared, but by request, Floyd Hall, who has recently come into this community to reside, gave a short but interesting talk to the school, concerning means and methods employed in war overseas, where Mr. Hall saw service as lieutenant in the 26th division. In connection with this he exhibited several articles, reminders of the great world struggle, in which he had participated. There was manifest appreciation on the part of those whose privilege it was to hear Mr. Hall, and the hours was concluded with the serving of fancy wafers, fruit punch and candy (Farmington News, July 9, 1920).
Cora B. Whittier, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her cousin-in-law, Charles E. Drew, a shoe factory shipper, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and her cousin [his wife of thirty years], and Lizzie M. Drew, a general practice practical nurse, aged fifty-two years (b. NH). Cora B. Whittier owned their house at 7 Prospect Street, which was valued at $3,500. They did not have a radio set.
Charles E. Drew died in Farmington, NH, October 5, 1931.
Lizzie M. Drew, a private nurse, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. She owned her house at 7 Prospect Street, which was valued at $3,000. She had attended four years of high school.
Lizzie M. (Whittier) Drew died in 1960.
Clara B. (Tozier) Miller – 1920-21
Clara B. Tozier was born in Fairfield, ME, February 4, 1871, daughter of Nahum and Julia B. (Holt) Tozier.
Clara Belle Tozier married in Rochester, NH, July 1, 1918, David Cameron Miller, both of Milton. She was a teacher, aged forty-seven years, and he was a farmer, aged forty-seven years. He was born in Clinton, MA, in 1870, son of William A. and Janet L. (Cameron) Miller.
WEST MILTON. Mrs. David Miller has accepted a position as assistant teacher in the Nute high school in Milton (Farmington News, September 12, 1919).
David C. Miller, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included Clara B. Miller, aged forty-eight years (b. ME). David C. Miller owned their farm on the Hare Road, free-and-clear. The census enumerator recorded them between the households of Llewellyn D. Garland, a farmer, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), and Ira W. Hayes, a farmer, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH).
WEST MILTON. The fall term of the Hare road school opened Monday, with Mrs. David Miller as teacher (Farmington News, September 3, 1920).
WEST MILTON. There will be a vacation of one week beginning December 29 at the Hare road school (Farmington News, December 24, 1920).
WEST MILTON. The school on the Hare road opened again for the winter term Monday morning of this week (Farmington News, January 7, 1921).
WEST MILTON. School opened again at the Hare Road schoolhouse after a vacation of four weeks. A mighty fine idea it was, too, through the mud season (Farmington News, April 8, 1921).
David C. Miller, aged fifty-nine years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twelve years), Clara T. Miller, aged fifty-nine years (b. ME). David C. Miller owned their house on the Hare Road, which was valued at $1,000. They had a radio set.
David C. Miller died in Milton, April 20, 1930, aged fifty-nine years. Clara B. (Tozier) Miller died in Milton, June 19, 1946.
IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Clara Tozier Miller. One of the best known residents of the Hare road, Mrs. Clara Tozier Miller, passed away suddenly at her home last week, Wednesday, June 19. Naturally a very energetic person, she had been about her usual pursuits until a brief time before her death. The deceased was born February 4, 1871, in Fairfield, Maine. After completion of her education she became a school teacher and her last engagement in the profession was in Fitchburg, Mass. In 1918 Mrs. Miller came to her home on the Hare road with her late husband, David Miller, whom she survived for a number of years. She was quite well known about Farmington from her frequent visits to town, but found her chief interests in the affairs of her home. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Vera Gerrish of Groton, Mass., and several nieces and nephews. One niece, Mrs. Homer Lothrop of Oakland, Maine, was with her at the time of her passing, having arrived the previous day for a visit. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Otis funeral home and the remains were taken to Fairfield, Maine, for committal services Friday (Farmington News, June 28, 1946).
Unknown Teacher(s) – 1922-26
WEST MILTON. The Hare Road school opened last Monday for the fall term. The Nute Ridge school will open next Monday and it is expected that the West Milton school will open later (Farmington News, September 1, 1922).
WEST MILTON. A meeting was called by the school board of Milton last week to discuss the matter of consolidation of the several schools in this corner of the town. Nothing was done except to discuss the pros and cons. A goodly number was in attendance, but matters were left as they stood before, with two schools, one at Nute Ridge and the other on the Hare road. The outside scholars will be conveyed as heretofore. All expressed their views and a vote was taken which soon decided the matter in favor of the two schools (Farmington News, August 3, 1923).
WEST MILTON. Schools in this part of the town closed last week for a vacation of three months. Nute Ridge and the school on the Hare road had joint exercises at the close of the term (Farmington News, June 13, 1924).
WEST MILTON. The teachers in Nute Ridge and Hare road districts are having a month’s vacation (Farmington News, April 3, 1925).
No subsequent newspaper reports have come to hand as yet that mention any Hare Road schoolteacher after 1924-25. (There might have been a 1925-26 academic year). No Town Reports have come to hand prior to that of 1928, in which the 1926-27 School report did not mention any salary for a Hare Road school teacher. Nor was any such allocation ever made in subsequent reports.
Hare Road Schoolhouse Aftermath
The Milton School District warrant for the March 1937 election sought authority to sell the disused Hare Road schoolhouse building.
To see if the District will authorize the School Board to sell the Hare Road schoolhouse (Annual Report for the Year Ending January 31, 1937).
It would appear that a former Hare Road teacher, Mrs. Clara B. (Tozier) Miller, acquired the Hare Road schoolhouse, which she conveyed later to the Borack family after the loss of their house by fire in October 1938.
Peter Frederick Boorack was born in Alexandroka, Russia, November 23, 1893. He registered for the WW I military draft in Boston, MA, June 5, 1917. He was a Boston Elevated R.R. motorman, Div. 5, South Boston, aged twenty-three years (b. Alexandroka, Russia, November 23, 1893). He was a “declarant,” i.e., he had declared his intent to become a citizen. He claimed an exemption as being the support of his parents. He was a tall, stout man, with blue eyes, and light brown hair. He enlisted in the U.S. Army, September 22, 1917, and was discharged March 3, 1919.
Peter F. Boorack, aged twenty-seven years, a motorman, resident at 671 Broadway, South Boston, and Helen F. Quinn, aged twenty-five years, same address, filed marriage intentions in Boston, MA, September 23, 1920 (Boston Globe, September 24, 1920).
Peter F. Boorack, a building trades lather, aged thirty-seven years (b. Russia), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of ten years), Helen F. Boorack, aged thirty-five years (b. MA), and his children, Frederick Boorack, aged seven years (b. MA), and Paul E. Boorack, aged six years (b. MA). Paul F. Boorack rented their house at 671 East Broadway, for $25 per month. They did not have a radio set.
Fred and Peter Boorack participated in the Nute Ridge school’s exercises concluding the 1933-34 academic year on Wednesday, June 20, 1934 (Farmington News, June 29, 1934).
FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE AT WEST MILTON. A fire that was discovered around two o’clock last Sunday morning destroyed the home of Peter Borack and family on the Hare road at West Milton, at the same time depriving Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson and family, tenants of the Borack premises, of most of their furniture and personal belongings. The blaze was discovered by Mr. Borack, who was awakened by the sound of the crackling flames, and he was barely able to awaken the members of the sleeping household, composed of his own family, visiting relatives from Massachusetts, and Mrs. Wilson and children, who occupied the ell part of the house. None of the occupants were able to salvage anything but a meager supply of clothing and a very few of their household effects. The neighborhood was quickly aroused by telephone and the fire company summoned from Milton village but before assistance could arrive the house was in flames. Efforts of the neighborhood and fire company were directed successfully to saving a large hay-filled barn across the road. Consequently, there was no loss of livestock or poultry and this is about all that Mr. Borack has left on which to reconstruct his future. Early the following morning the Wilson family accepted succor in Milton village, and Mr. Borack, his family and guests went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nute. The same afternoon Mrs. Borack and two sons left for Massachusetts, where they will find temporary quarters with relatives. Mr. Borack will remain at the home of Mr. Nute until readjustments are completed, on the outcome of which, his future plans will be determined. Both the Borack and Wilson families have lived in West Milton for several years, and have made many friends who express heartfelt sympathy in their loss (Farmington News, October 14, 1938).
WEST MILTON. Peter Boorack has purchased from Mrs. Clara Miller the Hare Road schoolhouse and is having it moved to the site of the house destroyed by fire in October 1938 (Farmington News, December 8, 1939).
Peter Boorack, a shoe shop assembler, aged forty-six years (b. Russia), headed a Milton, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Helen A. Boorack, aged forty-four years (b. MA), and his children, Fred Boorack, aged seventeen years (b. MA), Paul Boorack, aged sixteen years (b. MA), and Helen Boorack, aged five years (b. MA). The parents had graduated from grade eight, while the two sons had also two years of high school. They were supposedly living in the “same house” as in 1935. That would seem to have been impossible, given the fire, and must have meant the same location, perhaps in the relocated schoolhouse.
Peter Frederick Boorack registered for the WW II military draft in Milton, NH, April 27, 1942. He was an employee of the Rondeau shoe company in Farmington, NH, aged forty-eight years (b. Alexandroka, Russia, November 23, 1893). He resided in Milton, NH, but had an R.F.D. Farmington, NH, mailing address. He was 5′ 11½” tall, weighed 210 lbs., and had blue eyes, gray hair, a light complexion, and a scar on his left knee.
FOR SALE. Two Guernsey milkers, third calf, both fresh, two Guernsey heifers, first calf, one fresh, one due. Peter Boorack, Hare Road, West Milton, P.O. address, R.F.D. Farmington (Farmington News, March 9, 1945).
Joseph Mary Plunkett, a leader of the Irish Easter Rising (April 1916) and a signatory of its Proclamation, married his fiancée, Grace Evelyn Gifford, in the chapel of Kilmainham Gaol, just hours before he was executed by a British firing squad in May 1916. (All of the Proclamation’s signatories were shot). She brought the ring, they had only ten minutes together.
There would be a guard there, and you could not talk. … I was just a few moments there to get married, and then again a few minutes to say good-bye that night; and a man stood there with his watch in his hand, and said: ‘ten minutes’.
Plunkett’s companion Padraic, who in the song calls him from his post-operative sickbed, was Padraic Pearse, president of the proclaimed provisional republic. He would be shot too, as was Grace’s brother-in-law (her sister’s husband). The General Post Office (G.P.O.) was the headquarters of their weeklong rebellion. (I See His Blood Upon the Rose was a poem written by Joseph Plunkett).
During the 2016 centenary of the Easter Rising, musicians Róisin O. [O’Reilly], her brother, Danny O’Reilly, and their cousin, Aoife Scott, gave a moving rendition of this much-covered song about Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett, which they performed in the Kilmainham Gaol where the Plunketts had married a century earlier. (They conclude their performance by quoting the last words of consolation of another signatory, James Connelly, as spoken to his wife Lillie shortly before he was shot).
Grace was imprisoned in Kilmainham herself for some months in 1923 by the Irish Free State, during the Irish Civil War. (She was an anti-Treaty adherent).
Grace by James McCann
As we gather in the chapel, here in old Kilmainham Gaol, I think about these past few weeks, oh, will they say we failed? From our school days, they have told us we must yearn for liberty, Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me.
[Chorus]
Oh, Grace, just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger, They’ll take me out at dawn and I will die. With all my love, I’ll place this wedding ring upon your finger, There won’t be time to share our love, for we must say goodbye.
Now I know it’s hard for you my love to ever understand The love I bear for these brave men, my love for this dear land, But when Padraic called me to his side, down in the G.P.O. I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go.
[Chorus]
Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too On this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of you And I’ll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know I loved so much that I could see His Blood Upon The Rose.
[Chorus]
Oh, there won’t be time to share our love, for we must say goodbye.
The BBC would not allow Rod Stewart to sing this song on their airwaves in October 2018.
Many of the merchants that had paid extra in the prior directory for bolded uppercase entries, or supplementary advertisements on the advertisement pages, scaled back their expenditure in this directory.
Many have multiple entries, due to having multiple product lines or lines of business listed in different categories.
MILTON BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1917
Twenty miles northwest of Dover. R.R. stations at Milton, Union and Hayes, on B.&M. R.R. northern division. Milton Mills four miles from Union, stage twice daily. It was originally a part of Rochester. Incorporated June 11, 1802. Farming and manufacturing are the principal employments. Area 25,000 acres. Population, 1,640; Bass & Co, 1,684.
Agricultural Implements.
MURRAY, D., Milton Mills – See p. 835. PLUMMER, B.B., Plummer’s Ridge – See p. 833.
McIntosh, R.A., 35 Main. SUNSET GROCERY CO. (supplies), 43 Main – See p. 832.
Bakery (Agents.)
Maddox, J.H. & Son, M. Mills. Pinkham, C.E., Main, near p.o.
Blacksmiths.
DUNTLEY, IRA W. ESTATE, 17 Main. OAKES, E.P., n. bridge Leb. side, M. – See p. 832.
Rudd, Alfred A., 20 Main, Milton Mills.
Blanket Mfr.
TOWNSEND, JAMES E. ESTATE, 1-2 Main, M. Mills – See pages 735 and 12.
Boarding Houses.
Brock, J.B. Mrs., 45 Charles, n. Toppan.
Finegan, H.F. Mrs., (lodging), 7 So. Main.
Greek, 44 Charles n. Toppan and So. Main n. Spaulding’s Mills.
Hodgdon, E.A. Mrs., 22 South Main. HURLBURT, C.N. MRS., 52 Main – See p. 834.
Kimball, R.M. Mrs., 6 Kimball. PINFOLD, WM. MRS., 43 Main, M. Mills – See p. 835.
Regan, J.J. Mrs., So. Main at Spaulding’s.
Boats to Let.
Brown, Everett E., B.&M. depot.
Boot Blacks.
Collias, Christ, 26 Main.
Boot and Shoe Dealers.
Horne, J.E., 12 Main, M. Mills. McINTOSH, R.A., 28 Main – See p. 832. WILLEY, J.D., 31 Main – See p. 834.
Boyd, Joseph, 20 Highland, M. Mills.
Flye, A.M., 20 Main, M. Mills. HARRIMAN, EUGENE B., 95 No. Main – See p. 832. HARRIMAN, F.L., 97 No. Main – See p. 832.
Hayes, Guy L., 7 Far. rd.
Rines, Mark, Union, cor. School, M. Mills.
Simes, E.S., 25 School, M. Mills.
Tanner, H.E., 30 Charles.
Webber, Royal K., So. Main.
Wentworth E.A., 103 No. Main, M. Mills.
Carriage Repairers.
OAKES, E.P., n. bridge, Leb. side, M. – See p. 832.
Churches and Clergymen.
Cong., 17 So. Main, Milton.
F. Bap., A.T. Everett, pastor, 31-33 So. Main, Milton.
F. Bap., Geo. B. Southwick, pastor, Milton Mills.
Methodist, L.E. Alexander, pastor, 8 Highland, M. Mills.
Union Nute Chapel, D.A. Gammon, pastor, Nute Ridge, Milton.
Cattle Breeders.
HAYES, L.C., (Holstein), So. Milton, near Hayes station – See p. 833.
Cider Mill.
Canney, Geo. D., Mid. rd., W.M., Leb. side, at bridge.
Cigars and Tobacco.
EMERSON’S PHARMACY, 44 Main, M. Mills – See p. 834. LORD, F.H., 39 Main – See p. 834. MUCCI, N., 46 Main, Milton Mills – See p. 835. WILLEY, J.H., 2 Main, Milton – See p. 832.
Horne, J.E., 12 Main, M. Mills. McINTOSH, R.A., 28 Main, Milton – See p. 832.
Coal and Wood.
TOWNSEND, J.E. ESTATE, Milton Mills.
Confectionary and Fruit.
EMERSON’S PHARMACY, 44 Main, M. Mills – See p. 834. KNIGHT, W.C. Mrs., 6 Toppan – See p. 833. LORD, F.H., 39 Main – See p. 834. MUCCI, N., 46 Main, Milton Mills – See p. 835. WILLEY, J.H., 2 Main – See p. 832.
AVERY & ROBERTS, Main – See p. 832.
KNIGHTS, W.C., 6 Toppan – See p. 833. MARSH, M.T. MRS., 40 Main, M. Mills.
McIntosh, Ada C. Mrs., 4 Charles, near So. Main. WILLEY, J.D., 31 Main – See p. 834.
American Express Co., H.A. Beaton, agt., Milton depot.
Fish and Oyster Dealer.
Horne, C.A., 32 Main. SUNSET GROCERY CO. (oysters and clams), 45 Main – See p. 833.
Wentworth, E.L., 14 Mill, n. Charles.
Flour and Grain.
BUCK, H.L., Springvale rd., M. Mills – See p. 835. SUNSET GROCERY CO., L.O. Stetson, 45 Main – See p. 833.
WHITEHOUSE, H.F., Main – See p. 832. WILLEY, J.D., 31 Main.
Garage.
McINTOSH, R.A., 28 Main, M. – See p. 832.
Gasoline, Oils, Etc.
KNIGHTS, W.C., 6 Toppan – See p. 833. McINTOSH, R.A., 35 Main – See p. 832. SUNSET GROCERY CO., 43 Main – See p. 833. WHITEHOUSE, H.F., 19 Main – See p. 832.
General Stores.
KNIGHTS, W.C., 6 Toppan – See p. 833.
Maddox, J.A. & Son, 7 Main, M. Mills. WHITEHOUSE, H.F., 19 Main – See p. 833. WILLEY, J.D., 31 Main – See p. 834.
Gent’s Furnishings.
McINTOSH, R.A., 28 Main – See p. 832.
Grain and Feed.
BUCK, H.L., Springvale rd., M. Mills – See p. 835.
Laskey, A.J., Milton Mills and Union rd. WILLEY, J.D., 33 Main – See p. 834.
Grocers.
KNIGHTS, W.C., 6 Toppan – See p. 833.
Maddox, J.A. & Son, M. Mills. MUCCI, N. (fancy,) 46 Main, M.M. – See p. 835. SUNSET GROCERY CO., L.O. Stetson, 45 Main – See p. 833. WHITEHOUSE, H.F., 19 Main – See p. 832. WILLEY, J.D., 31 Main – See p. 834.
Hairdressers.
Burke, Chas. L., 23 Main at C. dam, Milton.
Page, Robert, 16 Main, M. Mills.
Hardware.
MURRAY, DANIEL, Milton Mills – See p. 835. WILLEY, J.D., 31 Main, Milton – See p. 834.
Horne, J.E., Milton Mills. McINTOSH, R.A., 28 Main – See p. 832.
Horseshoers.
DUNTLEY, IRA W. Estate, 17 Main. OAKES, E.P., n. bridge, Leb. side, M. – See p. 832.
Rudd, A.A., 20 Main, M.M.
Hotels.
Central House, Fred Rowe, M. Mills. LAKE VIEW HOUSE, Mrs. C.N. Hurlburt, prop., 52 Main – See p. 834. MILTON HOTEL, G.F. Downs, Toppan – See p. 833.
Sampson The, Main near depot (closed).
Ice Cream and Soda.
EMERSON PHARMACY, 44 Main, M. Mills – See p. 834. LORD, F.H., 39 Main, Milton – See p. 834. MUCCI, N., 46 Main, corner Church, M.M.- See p. 835. WILLEY, J.H., Main, corner Silver – See p. 832.
Milton Free Public Library, John U. Simes, librarian (1700 volumes,) M. Mills. NUTE LIBRARY, Mrs. S.P. Haley, librarian, 15 Farmington rd., Milton – See p. 831.
Lumbermen.
AVERY & ROBERTS, Main – See p. 832. Chamberlin, M.G., 1 mile south of Milton Mills.
Edgecomb, C.R. (dealer and sawyer), Milton Mills.
Plummer, G.L., 1 mile south of Union depot (p.o. Union).
Lunch Rooms.
YE RAGGED ROBIN TEA SHOP, Austin & Wallace, props., Plummer’s Ridge, 3 miles north Milton depot – See p. 833.
Manufacturing Companies.
MILTON LEATHER BOARD CO. (leather board), S.F. Dawson, Jr., mgr., Mill, at R.R. track, ⅛ mile So. of depot – See p. 833. SPAULDING, J. & SONS CO., (leather board and counters) – See p. 17. Timson Shoe Mfr. Co., off 55 Main, M. Mills. TOWNSEND, JOHN E. Estate, (blankets,) Milton Mills – See pp. 835 and 12.
Marble and Granite Monuments.
SMALLEY, HOBBS & HUNTER, 5 Signal opp. Union depot, Rochester, N.H. – See p. 518.
Masons and Plasterers.
HARRIMAN, F.L., 97 North Main – See p.832.
Milkmen.
Doe, James F., Plummer’s Ridge, M.
Lord E.B., Leb. side, M.
Plummer, Moses P., Plummer’s Ridge, M.
Reynolds, E.E., A.S., M. Mills.
Stanley, Edwin S., Leb. side, M.
Tibbetts, C.H., Leb. side, M.
Millinery.
Horne, Olive A. Mrs., M.M.
McIntosh, A.C. Mrs., 4 Charles.
Music Teachers.
Anderson, H.E. Mrs., M. Mills.
Getchell, G.M. Miss (piano), 15 Charles.
Jones, F.P. Mrs. (piano), Plummer’s Ridge, Milton. Jones, I.W. Mrs. (piano), Leb. side, Milton.
Keddie, Mary A. Mrs. (piano), 35 Church, Milton Mills.
Whitehouse, Edith M. (piano), Leb. side, M.
Newspapers and Periodicals.
Pinkham, James D., 15 Main, at the dam.
Notaries Public.
AVERY, H.L., 28 Main, Milton – See p. 832.
Finegan, H.F., 7 So. Main. Fox, E.F., Milton Mills.
Looney, Walter E., 54 South Main, Milton. MARSH, FORREST L., 30 Main, M. Mills – See p. 834.
Wentworth, G.C.S., Main, M.
Oysters, Clams, etc.
Horne, C.A., 32 Main, opp. Leb. bridge. SUNSET GROCERY CO., 45 Main – See p. 833.
Wentworth, E.L., 14 Mill, M.
Painters (Carriage, Automobile and Sign.)
SCHULMAIER, H.R. & SON, 15 Allen, Berwick, Me. – See Somersworth, p. 324.
AVERY & ROBERTS (portable) – See p. 832.
Edgecomb, C.R., 41 Leb. rd.
Plumer, G.L., near Union.
Schools.
Milton Grammar School, R.M. Looney, principal, 8 Church, Milton. Milton Mills School, 15 School, M. Mills. NUTE FREE HIGH SCHOOL, F.H. Manter, principal, 15 Far. rd., M. – See p. 831.
Stables.
Mills, W.F., 66 Main, M. Mills.
Stock Farms.
Chamberlin, M.G., M.M. and U. rd. HAYES, L.C., So. Main, So. Milton (Holstein cattle) – See p. 833.
Nute, George E., N. Ridge. PLUMMER, B.B., Plummer’s Ridge – See p. 833.
Columbus, O.W. , 26 Charles.
Corson, John M., 23 Silver. HURLBURT, CHARLES N., 52 Main – See p. 834.
Laskey, A.J., M.M. rd. junc. Union rd. LASKEY, C.H. MRS., Lebanon, M. Mills.
Telephone Company.
N.E. Telephone & Telegraph Co., 30 Main opp. Leb. bridge.
FOX, CHARLES D. Estate, 10 School, Milton Mills – See p. 835.
Upholsterer and Carpet Work.
Jenness, C.G., 41 So. Main. M.
Wagon and Cart Builders.
OAKES, E.P., n. bridge, Leb. side, M. See p. 832.
Wheelwrights.
DUNTLEY, IRA B. Estate, Main.
OAKES, E.B., n. bridge, Leb. side, M. – See p. 832.
Rudd, A.T. (iron work,) 20 Main, M.M.
Wood Dealers.
AVERY & ROBERTS, Main, M. – See p. 832.
Hayes, L.C., So. Milton. HURLBURT, CHAS N., 52 Main. Jones, C.A., So. Main.
Jones, F.P., Plummer’s Ridge.
Wood Sawyers.
Beede, D.W., Leb. side, M.
Columbus, A.N., 7 Kimball.
Ford, L.J., Silver, 2 m. out. HURLBURT, CHAS. N., 52 Main.
Woolen Goods Mfr.
TOWNSEND, JOHN E. Estate (blankets) – See pp. 835 and 12.
MILTON SOCIETIES.
Milton Woman’s Club, Mrs. Edith A. Dawson, Sec.; Eli Wentworth Post, G.A.R., James W. Johnson, Adjt.; Woman’s Relief Corps, Mrs. J.B. Hart, Sec.; Strafford Lodge, A.O.U.W., John W. Avery, Rec.; Lewis W. Nute Grange, P. of H., Mrs. Alta D. Chipman, Sec.; Friendship Lodge, K. of P., Samuel W. Blaisdell, K. of R. and S.; Madokawando Tribe, I.O.R.M., William T. Wallace, C. of R.; Minnewawa Council, D. of P., Mrs. S.E. Drew, K. of R.
Milton Mills Societies – Miltonia Lodge, I.O. of O.F., Forest L. Marsh, R.S.; Rising Sun Lodge, D. of R., Mrs. J.C. Townsend, Sec.; Morning Star Lodge, K. of P., Charles L. Stevens, K. of R. and S.; Pleasant Valley Grange, P. of H., Mrs. D. Philbrick, Sec.
WEST MILTON. The Sunset Grocery Co. of Milton, which has covered the local delivery route the last eight years, has discontinued this branch of its service. A feature which will be missed almost as much as the good service which the route has furnished its patrons will be the semi-weekly calls of the popular driver, Dana Tuttle, who recently resigned his position to enter the employ of the Spaulding & Sons Mfg. Co. at North Rochester. Mr. Tuttle has been in the employ of the Sunset since immediately after his graduation from Nute high school some nine years ago and during his connection with the store has made many friends who wish him the best of future success (Farmington News, February 16, 1917).
Many of the merchants that had paid extra in the prior directory for bolded uppercase entries, or supplementary advertisements on the advertisement pages, scaled back their expenditure in this directory.
Many have multiple entries, due to having multiple product lines or lines of business listed in different categories.
MILTON BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1912
Twenty miles northwest of Dover. R.R. stations at Milton, Union and Hayes, on B.&M. R.R. northern division. Milton Mills four miles from Union, stage twice daily. It was originally a part of Rochester. Incorporated June 11, 1802. Farming and manufacturing are the principal employments. Area 25,000 acres. Population, 1,640; Bass & Co, 1,684.
JONES, I.W., Main, opp. Leb. bridge, Milton – See p. 832.
Dressed Beef.
DOWNS, GEO. F. (wholesale,) Silver, M. – See page 832.
Dressmakers.
Bishop, W.P. Mrs., 5 School, Milton.
Dixon, S.E. Mrs., 7 Toppan, Milton.
Hayes, J.H. Mrs., So. Main, M.
Stevens, C.L. Mrs., Union rd., near School, Milton Mills.
Dry and Fancy Goods.
AVERY & ROBERTS, Main – See page 832. FOX, ASA & SON, M. Mills – See page 835.
Hart, Lena M., Main, n. p.o. MARSH, M.T. MRS., 40 Main, M. Mills.
McIntosh, Ada C. Mrs., 4 Charles, near So. Main.
Embalmer.
FOX, ASA A., 10 School, M. Mills – See page 835. FOX, CHARLES D., 10 School, Milton Mills – See page 835.
BURKE, CHAS. L., Main at C. dam, Milton – See page 832. Hartford, Fred S., Main, Milton. MATTHEWS, O.S., 5 Main, M.M. – See page 835.
Page, Robert, Milton Mills.
Hardware.
FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 835. MURRAY, DANIEL, Milton Mills – See page 835. Willey, J.D., Main, Milton.
FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 835.
Horne, J.E., Milton Mills.
McIntosh, R.A., Main
Hay Dealers.
Whitehouse, D.A., Main, Milton.
Horseshoers.
DUNTLEY, IRA W., Main – See page 833.
Moody, H.B., 71 Main, M. Mills.
Rudd, A.A., 20 Main, M.M..
Hotels.
CENTRAL HOUSE, Fred Rowe, M. Mills – See page 834. Milton Hotel, C.A. Jaffrey, prop., Toppan. SAMPSON THE, J.F. Quinlan, prop., Main near depot – See page 833.
Here we learn of the 1912 acquisition of a Farmington store by the enterprising Carl E. Pinkham of Milton. He added it to his “chain” of existing grocery stores in Lynn, MA, and Milton. The description of his Farmington store and the goods on offer there likely serves to describe also his Milton store.
SUNSET GROCERY CO. This is the corner grocery store recently purchased from L.B. Foster by the above company and added to their rapidly growing chain of stores. Under the direction of the enterprising new proprietor, C.E. Pinkham of Milton, this store has assumed a most orderly and attractive interior. The goods are very neatly and artistically displayed and the new store is receiving a liberal and highly appreciated share of patronage. Many Christmas specials are being offered here at low prices. Among these are the famous “Angelus Brand” of canned goods, celery, cranberries, pop corn, nuts, fancy biscuit crackers, figs, dates and grapes. This is also the exclusive agency for the well-known “Meadow Gold” butter and eggs. The store is neatly kept and handsomely decorated and should not be forgotten when you make up the Christmas dinner list (Farmington News, [Friday,] December 20, 1912).
The Milton entries for this Milton section of the Dover business directory began to be much more comprehensive than those published previously.
Some merchants paid extra for bolded uppercase entries, and still more for supplementary advertisements on the advertisement pages (“See page …”).
Many have multiple entries, due to having multiple product lines or lines of business listed in different categories.
These entries may be compared with Milton Automobiles of 1909-10. The Carl E. Pinkham listed here under both the Bakery and Grocers categories would hire Dana Tuttle as a delivery driver at about this time. (Pinkham’s business would be called the Sunset Grocery Co. in subsequent years). Drug store clerk George N. Corson likely made Apothecary deliveries for J. Herbert Willey’s drug store on his Indian motorcycle.
MILTON BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1909
Twenty miles northwest of Dover. R.R. stations at Milton, Union and Hayes, on B.&M. R.R. northern division. Milton Mills four miles from Union, stage twice daily. It was originally a part of Rochester. Incorporated June 11, 1802. Farming and manufacturing are the principal employments. Area 25,000 acres. Population, 1,401.
Benoit, Leon, Lebanon side. DUNTLEY, IRA W. – See p. 812. MOODY, H.B., 71 Main, M. Mills – See page 815. RUDD, ALFRED A., 20 Main, Milton Mills – See page 814.
AVERY, JONES & ROBERTS – See page 812.
Harriman, F.L., 97 No. Main. HAYES, GUY L., 7 Far. rd. – See page 812.
Rines, Mark, Milton Mills.
Simes, Geo. E., Milton Mills. WEBBER, ROYAL K., So. Main – See page 813. WENTWORTH, HIRAM, 31-35 Church, Milton Mills – See page 814.
Carriage Repairers.
DUNTLEY, IRA M., Main, M. – See page 812. RUDD, A.A., 18 Main, M.M. – See page 812.
Churches and Clergymen.
Cong., 17 So. Main, Milton.
Cong., ——, pastor, M. Mills.
F. Bap., Geo. H. Grey, pastor, 4 Church, Milton.
F. Bap., E.W. Churchill, pastor, Milton Mills.
Methodist, W.A. Hudson, pastor, Milton Mills.
Union Nute Chapel, Robert M. Peacock, pastor, Nute Ridge, Milton.
Cider Mill.
WHITEHOUSE, D.A., Leb. side, at bridge – See p. 813.
Knight, W.C. Mrs., 6 Toppan.
Libby, E.T., 17 Main, Milton Mills. MILLS DRUG CO. THE, 44 Main – See page 816. MUCCI, N., 46 Main, Milton Mills – See page 814. WILLEY, J.H., 2 Main – See page 813.
Woodman, M.C., Main, opp. Lebanon rd.
Conveyancer, Claim and Collection Agents.
FOX, E.W., Milton Mills – See page 815. MARSH, F.L., Milton Mills – See page 816.
Crockery and Glassware.
FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 815. WHITEHOUSE, H.F., Main – See page 812. WILLEY, J.D., Main – See page 812.
Deputy Sheriff.
REMICK, CHARLES E., 42 Main, over The Mills Drug Co., Milton Mills – See p. 815.
Designer of Water Power Plants.
JONES, I.W., Main, opp. Leb. bridge, Milton – See p. 812.
Dressmakers.
Stevens, C.L. Mrs., Union rd., near School, Milton Mills.
Dry and Fancy Goods.
FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 815. FOX, CHAS D., 10 School, M. Mills – See page 815. HART, LENA M., Main, n. p.o. – See page 813. Jones, C.D. (estate,) Main.
McIntosh, Ada C. Mrs., 4 Charles, near So. Main.
Embalmer.
FOX, ASA A., 10 School, M. Mills – See page 815. FOX, CHARLES. D., 10 School, Milton Mills – See page 815.
Engineer (Civil).
JONES, IRA W., Main, opp. Leb. bridge – See page 812.
Express Company.
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., H.A. Beaton, agent, Milton, C.H. Fox, M.M. – See page 818.
Fish and Oyster Dealer.
Wentworth, E.L., 14 Mill, n. Charles.
Flour and Grain.
WHITEHOUSE, H.F., Main – See page 812. WILLEY, J.D., Main – See p. 812.
Furniture.
FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 815. MILLER, W.S., Main, M.M. – See page 814.
General Stores.
FLYE, ARTHUR M., 41 Main, Milton Mills – See page 816. FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 815. WILLEY, J.D., Main – See p. 812.
FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 815. FRYE, A.M., 41 Main, M.M. – See page 816. [FRYE being a typographical error for FLYE] MURRAY, DANIEL, Milton Mills – See page 815. WILLEY, J.D. – See p. 812.
Benoit, L., Leb. side, Milton. DUNTLEY, IRA W., Main – See page 812. MOODY, H.B., 71 Main, M. Mills – See page 815. RUDD, A.A., 20 Main, M.M. – See page 814.
Hotels.
CENTRAL HOUSE, Fred Rowe, M. Mills – See page 814. Chamberlin Hotel, Mrs. C.E. Chamberlin, prop., Main, opp. depot. MILTON HOTEL, H.C. Grover – See page 813.
“The Sands” (summer,) Milton Pond, Mrs. C.E. Chamberlin.
Boston Ice Co., No. Main.
Downing Ice Co., No. Main.
Lynn Ice Co., Leb. side, Milton.
Marblehead Ice Co., No. Main.
Union Ice Co., Leb. side, M.
Insurance Agents.
Gage, J.M., Main, opp. drug store. MARSH, FORREST L., 30 Main, M.M. – See page 816.
Jewelry and Watches.
Libby, E.T., Main, M. Mills.
Justices of the Peace.
Avery, B.F., 21 South Main. AVERY, H.L., Main – See page 812. FOX, E.F., Milton Mills – See page 815. FOX, E.W., Milton Mills – See page 815.
Goodwin, G.H., West Milton. JONES, CHARLES A., South Milton, 1 mile out – See page 818. MARSH, F.L., Milton Mills – See page 816. PLUMMER, B.B., Plummer’s Ridge – See page 813.
Wentworth, L.H., W. Milton.
Ladies’ Furnishings.
HART, LENA M., Main, near p.o. – See page 813.
McIntosh, Ada C., 4 Charles, near South Main.
Laundry Agents.
HARTFORD, FRED S., Main, Milton – See page 812.
Libby, E.T., Milton Mills.
Page, Robert, 23 Main, M.M. WILLEY, J.H., Main, corner Silver – See page 813.
SALMON RIVER PAPER CO., fine box board and specialties, at R.R. track, opp. Toppan. SPAULDING, J. & SONS CO., (leather board and counters) – See page 17. TOWNSEND, JOHN E., (blankets,) Milton Mills – See page 815.
Masons and Plasterers.
Page, Geo. W., 6 Remick ave., Milton.
Milkmen.
Avery, B.F., 21 South Main.
Buck, Herman L., Springvale rd., Acton side, Milton Mills.
Drew, Samuel E., 80 Main.
Millinery.
Foss, Gertrude M., 24 So. Main, Milton.
Fellows, Nettie E., Jones blk., Main, Milton.
Horne, Olive A. Mrs., M.M.
Jones, Nettie W., at I.J.W., Lebanon side, Milton.
Libby, E.T., at p.o., Milton Mills.
Pinkham, James D., Main, at the dam.
Notaries Public.
FOX, E.F., Milton Mills – See page 815. FOX, E.W., Milton Mills – See page 815.
Looney, Walter E., 54 South Main, Milton. MARSH, FORREST L., 30 Main, M. Mills – See p. 816.
Wentworth, G.C.S., Main, M.
Oysters, Clams, etc.
Horne, C.A., Main, n. p.o.
Wentworth, E.L., 14 Mill, M.
CONNOLLY, T., 88 Main, M. Mills – See page 814.
Libby, A.D., 17 Main, M.M.
Gilmore, C.A., 14 So. Main.
Pinkham, Thomas H., Main, M.
Smith, J.L., 29 South Main. THOMPSON, MARK L., Milton – See page 818.
Paints and Oils.
FLYE, A.M., 41 Main, M.M. – See page 816. FOX, ASA & SON, Milton M. – See page 815. WHITEHOUSE, H.E., Main – See page 812. WILLEY, J.D., Main – See page 812.
The Salmon River Paper Company mill burned down on Thursday, June 10, 1909. (See under Paper Mfrs.). One hundred men were thrown out of work.
Fire at Milton. The plant of the Salmon River Paper Company at Milton belonging to William S. Lowe of Portsmouth was destroyed last Thursday night and the loss is estimated at $100,000. The fire is supposed to have originated from the big chimney in the boiler house, but nobody was in the building at the time the fire was discovered. As a rule the mill employed a day and night shift but the mill was not running Thursday night. The mill was the principal industry in the town, with a weekly payroll of from $500 to $800, and its destruction will be a serious blow (Farmington News, [Friday,] June 18, 1909).
Milton’s Nute Ridge schoolhouse stood on the Nute Ridge Road, between the Nute Ridge chapel and the home of F.A. Nute. (The Hare Road schoolhouse was quite close to it).
Location of Nute Ridge School, 1892
The Nute Ridge school was Milton’s last active one-room schoolhouse, and Miss Ferne C. McGregor was its last one-room school teacher.
The Nute Ridge School, at an earlier period (the 1880s) (Per Sarah Ricker).
The academic year seems to have been divided into three terms. School began its Fall term in early September and ran through late December or early January (including a week’s vacation at Thanksgiving). The Nute Ridge school depicted in the 1880s photograph has a chimney, probably for a pot-belly stove, but these one-room schools were notoriously cold. So, from late December or early January, there was then a month or six weeks off, with school resuming in late February or early March for its Winter term. The Spring Term ran from April or May until late June.
There was no Kindergarten anywhere in town (or anywhere else). Rural students attended such schools from their first year (Grade I) through their seventh year (Grade VII). In this period, they would have gone on to complete their eighth and final year (Grade VIII) at the Milton Grammar School.
The teachers lived usually in close proximity to their schools. Some towns – not including Milton – kept a “teacherage” residence close to or even attached to the school in which they might reside. Those teachers not originating locally would board usually with someone in the neighborhood.
The NH Board of Education reported on the existing NH rural, village, city and high schools in 1920. They were particularly interested in the teachers, especially their educational attainments, ages, turnover rates, and salaries. Suffice to say, they were not impressed with what they found. (The authorities would have classed the Nute Ridge school as a “rural school”).
One hundred forty two of these schools are taught by immature girls and nearly all of these schools are rural schools. It must be apparent to all that few girls of 16 to 19 have sufficient education, maturity and judgment to hold the responsible position of teacher of a school. It will be seen that the majority of the teachers, 62 per cent, in all classes of schools are young women 20 to 34 years of age and the number of elderly persons is surprisingly small. It is assumed that the 158 teachers who have furnished no record of their age are doubtless between 35 and 44.
… It can be seen that the least stability is among rural and high school teachers. The overturn is high among rural teachers because in these most vacancies are filled by young girls with but a few weeks of training. They are unprepared for their work and the many who fail quickly seek other occupations. It is large among high school teachers for a similar reason. Vacancies are usually filled by untrained graduates from institutions in other states. Their interest in New Hampshire is small and if they succeed they seek schools nearer home or at least in larger cities than those in New Hampshire (NH Board of Education, 1920).
And yet, most of the people who built Milton – and New Hampshire – did so with eighth-grade educations, or even less.
The Nute Ridge School teachers of this 1897-1947 period were: Laura S. Huckins (1897-99), Fannie I. Hayes (1901-02), Hattie M. Campbell (1902-04), Emily C. Davis (1904-05), Hattie M. Campbell (1905-07), Miss Hayes (1907-08), Josie M. Calkins (1908-09), Georgia A. (Gerrish) Wentworth (1911-12), Oscar G. Morehouse (1912-13), Ferne C. McGregor (1914-15), Ferne C. McGregor (1916-17), Georgia A. (Gerrish) Wentworth (1919-20), and Ferne C. McGregor (1924-47).
(The sources for this list have lacunae for the years 1900-01, 1909-11, 1913-14, 1915-16, 1917-19, and 1920-24. These gaps might represent other teachers not yet identified, or they might be explained simply through longer tenures of the teachers identified. Revisions will be made if additional source material comes to hand).
Miss Laura Susan Huckins – 1897-99
Laura Susan Huckins was born in Farmington, NH, March 24, 1868, daughter of John I. and Abbie W. (Whitehouse) Huckins.
She worked for the Rochester Courier newspaper in 1893, and taught the South school in New Durham, NH, in the 1895-96 academic year.
LOCALS. Miss Laura Huckins, an employe in the Rochester Courier office, is ill at her home in South Farmington (Farmington News, September 1, 1893).
LOCALS. The fall term of schools in New Durham are all to commence Tuesday, September 3rd, with teachers as follows: Plains school, Miss Ella N. Bickford of Farmington; South school, Miss Laura Huckins of Farmington; Ridge school, Mrs. Mary Young of New Durham; Corner school, Miss Georgia O. Berry of New Durham; Centre school, Miss Nellie E. Mitchell of New Durham; Rines school, Miss Myra J. Davis of New Durham; Powder Mills school, Miss Emma C. Varney of Alton (Farmington News, August 30, 1895).
Miss Huckins taught at Milton’s Nute Ridge school in at least the 1897-98 and 1898-99 academic years. Milton employed her as a school teacher also during the 1899-00 year, likely also at Nute Ridge, and she continued as a school teacher up to the time of her June 1901 marriage.
LOCALS. The roll of honor of the Nute Ridge school, Miss Laura A. Huckins, teacher, for the term ending January 10, was: Clyde R. Wallace, Harold L. Peacock. For the whole year: Clyde R. Wallace, Harold L. Peacock (Farmington News, January 14, 1898).
LOCALS. The roll of honor for Nute Ridge school, Laura A. Huckins, teacher, for term ending June 30: Luella Tanner, Helen E. Ward (Farmington News, July 7, 1899).
NEWS OF THE STATE. The Friends’ church at Meaderboro has a new pastor, Albert Syze of New York, who has been in the Malone training school in Cleveland, Ohio (Farmington News, December 29, 1899).
Laura A. Huckins appeared in the Farmington directory of 1900, as a Milton teacher, with her house at Merrill’s Corner.
John I. Huckins, a widowed farmer, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his son, John A. Huckins, a farm laborer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), his daughter in law (John A. Huckins’ wife of fourteen years), Ethel M. Huckins, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), his grandchildren, Everett G. Huckins, at school, aged twelve years (B. NH), Laura E. Huckins, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH), Mary E. Huckins, at school. aged ten years (b. NH), and Alden D. Huckins, at school, aged nine years (b. NH); and his daughter, Laura S. Huckins, a school teacher, aged thirty-two years (b. NH).
Laura S. Huckins married at Merrill’s corner in Farmington, NH, June 12, 1901, Albert Syze, she of Farmington and he of Yorktown Heights, NY. Rev. R.M. Peacock of Milton performed the ceremony. She was a school teacher, aged thirty-three years; he was a clergyman, aged thirty-three years. He was born in Baldwin Place, NY, November 30, 1867, son of James T. and Martha B. (Griffin) Syze.
Happy Occasion. Wednesday afternoon, June 12, a pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John I. Huckins, at Merrill’s Corner, which was an occasion of interest not only to Farmington and Rochester people but to the people of neighboring towns. The bride was Laura S., only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Huckins. The bridegroom was Rev. Albert Syze, pastor of Friends’ church at Merrill’s. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R.M. Peacock of Milton and was witnessed by about twenty-five couples. After a short visit to Portland, Me., Mr. and Mrs. Syze will take up their residence at Merrill’s (Farmington News, June 21, 1901).
MARRIAGES. SYZE-HUCKINS. At the house of the bride’s father, Rochester, N.H., Albert Syze, a minister of Yorktown Meeting, NY, to Laura S. Huckins, daughter of John I. Huckins and a member of the Rochester Meeting, N.H. (American Friend, Sixth Month 20, 1901).
Laura S. Huckins appeared in the Farmington directory of 1902, as Laura S. Huckins, now Mrs. Albert Syze.
Dexter. Mrs. Laura Syze of Merrill’s Corner is visiting relatives at Dexter (Farmington News, May 16, 1902).
OUR BLUE MONDAY CLUB. (Any clergyman admitted to membership who will send us at least one original story a year which will help to dissipate the Monday blues). I was confined to my house for several weeks by an injury from which I was rapidly recovering. I was in the habit of receiving, each week during my illness, the gift of a generous bouquet from the Junior Christian Endeavorers. One was received with a Scripture text attached which was expected to be one of comfort, and a few days later the mother of the chairman, a little miss of twelve summers, gave the history of the finding of the text. “And what have you found?” inquired the mother as she noticed her little girl writing after some searching. “I won’t tell,” she replied. But the mother read, “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.” “Well, you won’t send that.” “I will too.” But searching again this resulted, “They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.” Certainly comforting, very comforting, being yet far from old age, and, I must confess, being tall, slender, and angular. The final result, however, was Psalm xciv:22. ALBERT SYZE, Bolton, Mass. (Funk, et al., 1903).
Laura S. Syze (b. NH) received an appointment as a substitute letter carrier for Bolton, MA, in 1905.
Albert Syze, an R.F.D. mail carrier, aged forty-two years (b. NY), headed a Bolton, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nine years), Laura S. Syze, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and his children, Carl I. Syze, aged seven years (b. NY), and Clyde A. Syze, aged one year, four months (b. MA). Albert Syze owned their farm in the Quakerville District, with a mortgage. Laura S. Syze was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
Albert Syze, a rural delivery mail carrier, aged fifty-two years (b. NY), headed a Bolton, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Laura S. Syze, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and his children, Carl I. Syze, aged sixteen years (b. NY), and Clyde A. Syze, aged eleven years (b. NY [SIC]). Albert Syze owned their farm on the Berlin Road.
Albert Syze, an R.F.D. rural delivery mail carrier, aged sixty-two years (b. NY), headed a Bolton, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Laura S. Syze, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), and his son, Clyde A. Syze, aged twenty-one years (b. MA). Albert Syze owned their farm on the Berlin Road, with a mortgage. They had a radio set.
Albert Syze, no occupation given, aged seventy-two years (b. NY), headed a Bolton, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Laura Syze, aged seventy-two years (b. NH). Albert Syze owned their house, which was valued at $2,800.
Laura S. (Huckins) Syze died in Rochester, NH, February 7, 1947. Rev. Albert Syze died in Rochester, NH, November 11, 1954.
Fannie Isabel Hayes – 1901-02
Fannie Isabel Hayes was born in Milton, August 22, 1881, daughter of Charles and Nellie M. (Parmenter) Hayes.
Nellie M. Hayes, a widow, aged forty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Fannie I. Hayes, a school teacher, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Florence A. Hayes, at school, aged seventeen years (b. NH), George W. Hayes, at school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Charles T. Hayes, at school, aged nine years (b. NH), and Nellie W. Hayes, at school, aged seven years (b. NH). Nellie M. Hayes owned their farm, free-and-clear; she was the mother of six children, of whom six were still living.
WEST MILTON. Miss Fannie Hayes, having finished a successful term of school at Nute Ridge, has gone to Farmington to teach the Depot school (Farmington News, February 7, 1902).
Fannie I. Hayes married (1st) in Milton, June 29, 1909, Harry W. Pinkham. He was born in 1872, son of William H.H. and Sarah A. Pinkham. He died in Milton, June 8, 1917.
W.H.H. Pinkham, a farmer, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-six years), Sarah Pinkham, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), his son, Harry W. Pimkham, a [farm] laborer, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), and his daughter-in-law (of one year), Laura Pinkham, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH). W.H.H. Pinkham owned their farm, free-and-clear. Sarah Pinkham was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
Fannie I. Pinkham, a farmer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Winston H. Pinkham, aged nine years (b. NH), Shirley Pinkham, aged eight years (b. NH), and Winona Pinkham, aged six years (b. NH). Fannie D. Pinkham owned their farm on the Hare road, free-and-clear.
Fannie I. (Hayes) Pinkham married (2nd) in Milton, March 18, 1926, George Albert Downing. He was born in Farmington, NH, May 31, 1872, son of Rev. George T. and Anna R. (Aikens) Downing.
George A. Downing, a B&M R.R. section foreman, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Fannie I. Downing, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), his daughter, Alice J. Downing, a shoe factory sorter, aged thirty-two years (b. RI), and his step-children, Winston Pinkham, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Shirley Pinkham, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Winona Pinkham, aged sixteen years (b. NH). George A. Downing owned their hours at rear 9 High street, which was valued at $2,000. They did not have a radio set.
George A. Downing died in the Farrington hospital in Portland, ME, October 16, 1940, aged sixty-nine years. (He had been a patient there for six weeks). Fannie I. ((Hayes) Pinkham) Downing died in Farmington, NH, April 24, 1942.
IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Fannie Isabel Downing. Many people in Farmington and vicinity regret to learn of the death of Mrs. Fannie I. Downing, aged 60, who died in her home on Maple court, last Friday evening following a long illness. Mrs. Downing, who was a native of Milton, was the daughter of Charles T. and Nellie (Parmenter) Hayes. For over twelve years she taught school in Milton and was a member of Advent Christian church. She was also a member of Fraternal Order, O.E.S., Henry Wilson Grange, Eastern New Hampshire Pomona Grange, and the New Hampshire Grange. She had been a resident of Farmington for many years and had acquired many friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Downing is survived by one son, Winston Pinkham of this town, two daughters, Mrs. Clyde Horne and Mrs. Ralph Parent, also of Farmington, two step-daughters, Mrs. Marion L. Roberts of Cumberland Center, Me., and Miss A. Josephine Downing of Providence, R.I., two sisters, Mrs. Elvah Kelley of West Milton and Mrs. Clyde Hannant of Winchendon, Mass., and two brothers, Charles T. Hayes of West Milton and George W. Hayes of Farmington. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Advent Christian church, with Rev. E.E. Pender officiating, and burial was in Farmington cemetery (Farmington News, May 1, 1942).
Hattie May Campnell – 1902-04, 1905-07
Hattie M. Campnell was born in Sanford, ME, May 1, 1870, an apparent daughter of Susan S. Campnell (and definitely a granddaughter of Daniel and Hannah (Burbank) Campnell). (The family name was rendered variously as Campernell, Campnell, and Campbell).
Daniel Campnell, a farmer, aged fifty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Hannah Campnell, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), Susie Campnell, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and Hattie May Campnell, aged two months (b. NH (March)). Daniel Campnell had real estate valued at $300 and personal estate valued at $2,093.
Susie S. Campnell married in Wakefield, NH, October 1, 1870, Leander G Abbott, she of Wakefield and he of Boston, MA. She died in 1872; her daughter (and Hattie’s apparent half-sister), Susie H. Abbott, was born in 1872 and died in 1873; and her mother Hannah (Burbank) Campnell died in 1873.
Daniel Campernell, a farmer, aged sixty-six years (b. ME), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his granddaughter, Hattie M. Campernell, at school, aged ten years (b. ME), and his servant, Lizzie Simons, a housekeeper, aged sixty-four years (b. NH).
WEST MILTON. Schools began Monday. Miss Hattie Campnell has her same school at Nute Ridge. Miss Jessie Butler of Berwick teaches on the Hare road and Miss Daisy Davis of Rochester the West Milton school (Farmington News, September 12, 1902).
WEST MILTON. The school at Nute Ridge began this week with the same teacher, Miss Campbell. The Hare road school will begin next Monday. Miss Pratt from Bow Pond will teach. The West Milton school will be discontinued, the scholars being conveyed to Nute Ridge (Farmington News, April 3, 1903).
WEST MILTON. The exercises at the Hare road schoolhouse Friday were very impressive and well attended. They were in charge of the two teachers, Miss Perry and Miss Campbell. Appropriate remarks were made by Rev. R.M. Peacock, and by Messrs. Jordan and Johnson, who represented the G.A.R. Post of Milton (Farmington News, June 5, 1903).
WEST MILTON. School began Monday with the following teachers: Miss Ora Dickey at West Milton; Miss Hattie Campbell, Nute Ridge school. Mr. Doughty convoys the students from Downingville and the Hare road to the West Milton school (Farmington News, September 18, 1903).
WEST MILTON. Robert Jones, a former teacher at Nute’s Ridge, is teaching at Milton Ridge, Miss Campbell is taking the Nute Ridge school (Farmington News, December 8, 1905).
WEST MILTON. Miss Campnell closed the winter term of school at Nute Ridge last Friday (Farmington News, March 16, 1906).
WEST MILTON. G.H. Hurd is conveying the scholars of the Hare road to Nute Ridge school (Farmington News, May 4, 1906).
WEST MILTON. Miss Hattie Campnell and Miss Maude Boroughs recently visited the latter’s aunt, Mrs. Abbie Hayes, at the Branch (Farmington News, November 16, 1906).
WEST MILTON. Nute Ridge school is closed for one week (Farmington News, December 28, 1906).
WEST MILTON. School began at Nute Ridge last week with the same teacher, Miss Campbell (Farmington News, April 12, 1907).
Hattie M. Campbell died of cerebrospinal meningitis (and cancer) on Branch Road, Milton Mills, August 31, 1907, aged thirty-four [thirty-seven] years, three months, and thirty days.
The last will of Hattie M. Campbell, of Wakefield, NH, dated July 17, 1907, and proved in Carroll County Probate court, November 5, 1907, devised $75 to her friend, Mary S. Wentworth of Melrose, MA, a gold watch to Master Gordon Brown, 6/11 of the remaining estate to Rebecca Skillings of Saco, ME, and the remainder to Abbie L. Hayes of Milton, who was also named as executrix. N.M. Lord, N.L. Littlefield, and J. Frank Farnham signed as witnesses.
Master Gordon N. Brown was the ten-year-old grandson of George E. and Abbie M. (Russell) Nute (see him in their household with Oscar G. Morehouse (below)).
Emily Christina Davis – 1904-05
Emily Christina Davis was born in NH, September 13, 1883, daughter of Charles A. and Ida E. (Junkins) Davis.
Charles A. Davis, a candy manufacturer, aged forty-four years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of seventeen years), Ida E. Davis, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), his children, Emily C. Davis, at school, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Gladys R. Davis, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH), Wayne E. Davis, at school, aged nine years (b. NH), Roger H. Davis, at school, aged eight years, and Horace J. Davis, at school, aged seven years (b. NH), his father-in-law, Henry Junkins, a day laborer, aged sixty-six years (b. ME), his mother-in-law, Emily M. Junkins, a canvasser, aged fifty-nine years (b. ME), and his servant, Mary Hartigan, a servant, aged forty-nine years (b. NH). Charles A. Davis owned their house at 9 Myrtle Street, with a mortgage. Ida E. Davis was the mother of five children, of whom five were still living; her mother, Emily M. Junkins, was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
WEST MILTON. Schools began Monday morning. Miss Alice Patterson of Brookline, Mass., teaches the Hare road school, Miss Davis of Rochester at Nute Ridge, West Milton has the same teacher, Miss Daisy Davis (Farmington News, December 2, 1904).
Press Comment. The names of three New Hampshire girls appear in the list of Bates college graduates this year. They are Ethel J. Davis of this city, Emily C. Davis of Rochester and Fannie G. de Rochemont of Newington. When Dartmouth opens her doors to women and Durham gets a dormitory for their accommodation, our girls will not be compelled to go out of state to receive a college education. The latter arrangement is understood to be on the way. – Portsmouth Times (Farmington News, July 5, 1907).
E. Christina Davis appeared in the Rochester directory of 1909, as a teacher, with her home at 9 Myrtle street. (Her father, Charles A. Baker, kept a wholesale and retail confectionary, bakery, and ice cream parlor at 37 North Main street in Rochester, and had his house at 9 Myrtle street).
C. Charles A. Davis, an ice cream and confectionary manufacturer, aged sixty-two years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ida E. Davis, aged fifty-five years (b. ME), his children, E. Christine Davis, a high school teacher, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), Gladys A. Davis, a bookkeeper, aged thirty years (b. NH), Morris J. Davis, a Dupont chemist, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Dorothea Davis, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and his boarder, Bernice E. Frye, a grade school teacher, aged twenty-four years (b. NH). C. Charles A. Davis owned their house at 9 Myrtle Street, free-and-clear.
Teachers Appointed. Christine Davis was appointed instructor in history at the B.M.C. Durfee high school. vice F. Winifred Given, resigned, and she was placed upon the academic schedule, fifth year. Miss Davis is a graduate of Bates College, class of 1907, and has attended summer schools at Boston University and Harvard University. She taught in various high schools, including Natick, Mass., from 1913 to 1918, Rochester, N.H, from 1918-21, and last year was in the Forest Park junior high school in Springfield. Her home is in Rochester, N.H. (Fall River Daily Evening News [Fall River, MA), September 6, 1922).
Christine Davis, a public school teacher, aged forty-six years (b. NH), was a roomer in the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census of Fall River, MA, She resided at 88 Prospect street.
Obituary. Mrs. Ida E. Davis. Ocean Park, Me., Aug. 22. (AP) – Mrs. Ida E. Davis, 74, of Rochester, New Hampshire, active in the Rochester WCTU, died yesterday in the summer home of her daughter, Miss Christine Davis (Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), August 23, 1937).
Minnie Glendon, a widow, aged seventy years (b. Irish Free State), headed a Fall River, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her partner, Catherine Cooney, aged seventy-one years (b. MA), and their lodgers, Laura Wood, aged sixty-seven years (b. MA), Christine E. Davis, a public school teacher, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), and Helena Withrow, a public school teacher, aged forty-nine years (b. Canada (Eng.)). Minnie Glendon owned their house at 89 Prospect street, which was valued at $5,000.
Emily C. Davis died in MA, December 15, 1967.
Miss Hayes – 1907-08
The Miss Hayes of Nute Ridge’s 1907-08 academic year was probably the same Fannie I. Hayes from above. However, her older sister, Miss Elvah M. Hayes, was also a schoolteacher, although usually in Wakefield, MA. Both of them lived – when not boarding near their respective schools – with their mother, Mrs. Nellie M. (Parmenter) Hayes, on the nearby Hare road.
WEST MILTON. School began at Nute Ridge last Monday with Miss Hayes of Milton as teacher. School was one week late on account of the sudden death of Miss Hattie Campbell, who was a most successful teacher there for a number of years (Farmington News, September 12, 1907).
Elvah M. Hayes was born in Farmington, NH, December 22, 1878, daughter of Charles and Nellie M. (Parmenter) Hayes.
WEST MILTON. Miss Elvah Hayes, the popular young teacher, has a vacation this week. Reviews and Thanksgiving recitations were given last week, and parents and friends invited. An essay by May Harriman was well written (Farmington News, December 4, 1896).
HERE AND THERE. Miss Agnes L. Berry, Miss Isa Wood, and Miss Elvah Hayes are the bright young women from this neighborhood who are teachers in Wakefield, Mass., under the superintendency of Mr. Charles E. Hussey, formerly of Farmington and Rochester (Farmington News, April 15, 1898).
WEST MILTON. Miss Elvah Hayes is to return to Massachusetts this week, where she is to teach (Farmington News, September 8, 1898).
Elvah M. Hayes appeared in the Milton directories of 1902, 1905, and 1909, as a teacher, with her house at Mrs. Nellie M. Hayes, on the Hare road. (Sisters Fannie I. Hayes and Florence A. Hayes resided there too). However, it was not unusual for teachers to claim or maintain a permanent residence somewhere, while boarding during the school year in the town where they taught. In this case, Miss Elvah Hayes, teacher, appeared also in the Wakefield, MA, directories of 1902, 1905, 1907, and 1909.
Delia A. Day, a widowed housekeeper, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a Wakefield, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her son-in-law, Elmore C. Temple, a tank and pump salesman, aged thirty-six years (b. MA), her daughter, Edith E. Temple, aged thirty-four years (b. MA), and her boarder, Elvah M. Wentworth, a public school teacher, aged thirty-one years (b. NH). Delia A. Day owned their house at 12 Richardson Avenue, with a mortgage. She was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living. Her daughter had been married for eight years; she was the mother of one child, of whom none were still living.
Elvah Wentworth married in Wakefield, MA, May 27, 1916, Edward H. Kelley. He was born in Plymouth, CT, January 10, 1858, son of Henry R. and Sarah J. (Bloss) Kelley. (His previous wife, Harriet (Bristol) Kelley, had died in March 1915).
Edward H. Kelley, a brass foundry foreman, aged sixty-one years (b. CT), headed a Lynn, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Elvah Kelley, aged forty years (b. NH). Edward H. Kelley owned their house at 115 Euclid Avenue, free-and-clear.
Edward H. Kelley, a farmer, aged seventy-two years (b. CT), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Elvah Kelley, aged fifty-one years (b. NH). Edward H. Kelley owned their house on the Hare Road (at its intersection with Kings Highway), free-and-clear. They had a radio set.
Edward H. Kelley died in Milton, October 27, 1934. Elvah M. (Wentworth) Kelley died in Farmington, NH, February 5, 1948.
IN MEMORIAM. Elvah H. Kelley. Many people in this vicinity were deeply saddened by the death of Mrs. Elvah H. Kelley, aged 69, which occurred last Thursday morning, February 5, at a Farmington convalescent home, following a long period of failing health. She was born in Farmington in 1878, the daughter of Charles and Nellie (Parmenter) Hayes, and was the eldest of six children. She attended the Farmington schools and was graduated from the Farmington high school with the class of 1896, following which she attended Simmonds college in Boston. After receiving her schooling, she taught school for a number of years in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York state. In 1916 she was united in marriage with the late Edward H. Kelley, and for some time they resided in Lynn, Mass., before returning to this section about 25 years ago, where they made their home on Nute Ridge in West Milton. Her husband passed away a number of years ago and during her later years the deceased lived with her brother, Charles T. Hayes. Mrs. Kelley was a member of the Farmington Congregational church and a regular attendant as long as her health permitted. She was wholeheartedly interested in church work and was leader and organizer in the Ladies’ Aid Society. She was also a member of Nute Ridge Grange. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Nellie Hannent of Winchendon Springs, Mass., two brothers, George W. Hayes of Barnstead and Charles T. Hayes of West Milton, also three nieces and one nephew. Funeral services were held in the Congregational church, Sunday, February 8, with Rev. Myles D. Blanchard officiating. Remains were taken to Lynn, Mass., for inter[ment] (Farmington News, February 13, 1948).
Josie Mabel Calkins – 1908-09
Josie Mabel Calkins was born in Milton, February 20, 1891, daughter of Henry G. and Emma M. (Lancaster) Calkins.
MILTON. Miss Jossie Calkins is spending her vacation with friends in Rochester (Farmington News, April 5, 1901).
Josie M. Calkins appeared in the Milton directory of 1909, as being the Nute Ridge school teacher (as of October 1, 1908).
She married in Milton, November 23, 1909, Joseph S. Garland, she of Lebanon, ME, and he of Wakefield, NH. He was a surveyor, aged twenty-six years; she was a teacher, aged eighteen years. Joseph N. Walker performed the ceremony. Garland was born in Wakefield, NH, August 20, 1883, son of Alvah S. and Priscilla L. (Lothrop) Garland.
Joseph Spinney Garland of Milton, NH, registered for the WW I military draft in Waterville, ME, in June 1917. He was a contractor’s superintendent, employed by the Sanders Engineering Co. of 112 Exchange Street, Portland, ME, aged thirty-five years (b. August 20, 1883). His nearest relative was his wife, Mrs. Josie M. Garland, 50 Pleasant street, Waterville, ME. He was of tall height, with a slender build, hazel eyes, and brown hair.
Joseph S. ([with wife] Josie M.) Garland appeared in the Portland, ME, directory of 1920, as a superintendent, with his house at Elsmere avenue, S.P. [South Portland].
Joseph S. Garland, a construction superintendent, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), headed a South Portland, ME, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Josie M. Garland, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and his daughter, Jessie P. Garland, aged nine years (b. NH). Joseph S. Garland owned their house at 68 Elsmere Avenue, with a mortgage.
Joseph ([with wife] Josie) Garland appeared in the Amsterdam, NY, directory of 1921, as a foreman, boarding at 239 Market street.
Joseph S. Garland, a construction superintendent, aged forty-one years (b. US), headed an Amsterdam, NY, household at the time of the NY State Census of 1925. His household included his wife, Josie Garland, a houseworker, aged thirty-three years (b. US), his daughter, Priscilla Garland, at school, aged fourteen years (b. US), and his cousin, Waide Lishe, at school, aged sixteen years (b. US).
Joseph S. Garland, a construction superintendent, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Schenectady, NY, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-one years), Josie Garland, a clothing dept. saleslady, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), and his daughter, Priscilla Garland, an office work stenographer, aged nineteen years (b. NH). Joseph S. Garland rented their house at 110 Barrett Street. They did not have a radio set.
Joseph S. Garland, a civil engineer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Josie M. Garland, aged forty-nine years (b. NH). Joseph S. Garland rented their house in the Willey district, for $5 per month. Joseph S. Garland had attended eight years of school, while Josie M. Garland had attended also four years of high school. They had both lived in Schenectady, NY, in 1935.
Joseph Spinney Garland of Sanbornville, Wakefield, NH, registered for the WW II military draft in Center Ossipee, NH, May 4, 1942. He was self employed, aged fifty-eight years (b. Wakefield, NH, August 20, 1883). His nearest relative was his wife, Mrs. Josie M. Garland, Sanbornville, NH, R.F.D.. He stood 6’4″ in height, weighed 185 lbs., with hazel eyes, gray hair, and a sallow complexion.
Joseph S. Garland died March 19, 1961. Josie M. (Calkins) Garland died in Pinellas County, FL, October, 5, 1980.
Georgia Anne (Gerrish) Wentworth – 1911-12, 1919-20
Georgia Anne Gerrish was born in Lebanon, ME, September 7, 1865, daughter of Elisha P. and Elizabeth M. (Hersom) Gerrish.
Georgia A. (Gerrish) Wentworth, c1893
She married in Rochester, NH, November 20, 1886, Martin G. Wentworth. He was born in Milton, in June 1863, son of John A. and Hannah E. (Grey) Wentworth.
Martin G. Wentworth, a farmer, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-eight years), Georgia Wentworth, aged forty-five years (b. ME), and his children, G. Myron Wentworth, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Herbert A. Wentworth, aged thirteen [twenty-three] years (b. NH), and Russell G. Wentworth, aged eleven years (b. NH). Martin G. Wentworth owned their farm, free-and-clear.
WEST MILTON. The West Milton and Nute Ridge schools were reopened Monday after the annual spring vacation. The West Milton school government held its election of officers for the third term on the opening day, and during the last week of the recess and up to the hour when the ballot box was set out there was some campaigning that would have done credit (in its straightforward respect at least) to older politicians. The various officers were all closely contested, and especially those of postmaster, chief of police and selectmen. The meeting was called to order during the noon recess by moderator, Lula V. Grace, who, after reading the minutes of the last meeting, and outlining the duties incumbent on each office, declared the ballot open for first selectman. Until the adjournment the voting was very close and showed the following results for choice: Board of selectmen, Carrie Grace, Raymond Horne, Marguerite Swinerton; postmaster, Jacob Swinerton; town clerk, Luis Grace; town treasurer, Clara Hurd; tax collector, Ulfrida Ray; chief of police, Clyde Horne; police officer, Reginald Swinerton. The slip ballot system was used and perhaps it is well to say that the above choice was nominated and elected on a citizens’ ticket. The Nute Ridge school has also adopted this form of a pupils’ government and held its initial election on the same day with no less enthusiasm manifested than at the former school. Hazel Perkins was appointed moderator and presided at the ballot box. The result of the voting was as follows: Board of selectmen, Emma Barber, Clementine Barber, Eva McGregor; town clerk, Vivian McGregor; town treasurer, Hazel Perkins; postmaster, Bernice Varney; chief of police, Wilbur McGregor; police officer, Irving Gray; tax collector, Annie Perkins (Farmington News, April 4, 1912).
WEST MILTON. O.G. Moorehouse has recently been elected to fill the teachership at Nute Ridge school, made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. Georgia Wentworth, School will begin Monday, September 9 (Farmington News, September 6, 1912).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. Georgia Wentworth and Fern McGregor were in Dover Saturday (Farmington News, February 19, 1915).
WEST MILTON. Nute Ridge school has reopened with Mrs. Martin Wentworth as teacher, and Miss Ferne McGregor has the South Milton school (Farmington News, September 19, 1919).
Martin Wentworth, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Georgie G. Wentworth, a grammar school teacher, aged fifty-five years (b. ME), and his children, Herbert A. Wentworth, a leatherboard laborer, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), George M. Wentworth, a United Shoe Co. machine inspector, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and Russell G. Wentworth, a groceries wagon driver, aged twenty years (b. NH). Martin G. Wentworth owned their farm on Nute Ridge road (at its intersection with Hare Road), free-and-clear. They appeared in the enumeration between the households of John P. Hayes, a farmer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), and Edwin E. Nute, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH). (Close to that of Fred McGregor below).
Georgia A. (Gerrish) Wentworth died in Milton, March 4, 1940. Martin G. Wentworth died in Milton, January 17, 1947.
IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Georgia G. Wentworth. Relatives and friends in Farmington, Milton and Rochester and neighbors of the West Milton section were grieved to learn of the sudden death of Mrs. Georgia G. Wentworth, wife of Martin L. Wentworth, which occurred at her home at Nute Ridge late Monday evening. Mrs. Wentworth became ill while abut her household duties the previous Friday. She was 77 years of age, a native of Lebanon, Me., and one of two daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. Elisha P. Gerrish. Before and subsequent to her marriage to Mr. Wentworth she lived in Farmington, the family having moved to Nute Ridge nearly fifty years ago. In church, community and Grange affairs Mrs. Wentworth was an active figure. For many years she sang in the Nute Ridge chapel choir, was a charter member and organist of the Nute Ridge Grange and to the end of her life contributed helpfully of her talents to all of these sources. She was devoted wife, a loving and indulgent mother, a friend and neighbor who spared neither herself or resources in extending charity and sympathetic help in every worthy quarter. She is survived by her husband, three sons, Herbert A. Wentworth and Russell G. Wentworth, of the home circle, and Russell G. [error for Myron B.] Wentworth of Beverly, Mass., one grandchild, a sister of St. Louis, Mo., and a niece of South Bend, Ind. Funeral services were held from Nute chapel this Thursday afternoon, with the pastor, Rev. E. Lincoln Bigelow, officiating. The remains were taken to Farmington (Farmington News, March 8, 1940).
Oscar Guymont Morehouse – 1912-13
Hiram Oscar Morehouse was born in Highgate, VT, May 11, 1887, son of Herbert E. and Mary E. “Nellie” (Guymont) Morehouse. He apparently did not care much for the name Hiram, which he dropped, and used instead his mother’s maiden name as a middle name: Oscar Guymont Morehouse.
Geo. E. Nute, a farmer, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-seven years), Abby M. Nute, aged forty-seven years (b. MA), his daughter, Edith M. Brown, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), [married eight years to] his son-in-law, Fred L. Brown, a farm laborer, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), his grandson, Gordon N. Brown, aged two years (b. NH), and his boarder, H. Oscar Morehouse, at school, aged thirteen years (b. MA [SIC]). Geo. E. Nute owned their farm, but with a mortgage. Each of the women were mothers of one child, each of whom was still living.
Oscar G. Morehouse graduated from Nute High school with its class of 1906.
WEST MILTON. Oscar Moorehouse, of Boston, returned home this week after spending two weeks at George Canney’s (Farmington News, August 30, 1907).
Oscar G. Morehouse appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1908, as a clerk at 208 Newbury street [New England Telephone & Telegraph], who boarded at 53 Temple street. He resided at 706 Huntington avenue in 1909 and 1910.
Oscar G. Morehouse appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1912, as a clerk at 208 Newbury street [New England Telephone & Telegraph], who boarded at 706 Huntington Avenue, Roxbury.
WEST MILTON. O.G. Moorehouse has recently been elected to fill the teachership at Nute Ridge school, made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. Georgia Wentworth. School will begin Monday, September 9 (Farmington News, September 6, 1912).
WEST MILTON. The Nute Ridge school commenced last Monday morning with O.G. Morehouse as teacher and thirteen pupils enrolled. This is an unusually large number for this district (Farmington News, September 13, 1912).
WEST MILTON. O.G. Moorehouse and Mrs. C.B. Canney, teachers of the Nute Ridge and West Milton schools, gave a Hallowe’en party to their students at the home of Mrs. Annie Cook. The little guests were summoned to appear at 8 o’clock, and with hardly an exception were all present on time, each carrying a jack o’ lantern. The yard was shimmering in the light of several Hallowe’en illuminations, and as each little group arrived it added a little more to the grotesqueness of the scene of dancing shadows. The children were admitted to the hall, where a huge jack o’ lantern beamed on them, and thence to the living room where an old-fashioned fire-place presented a typical Hallowe’en appearance from behind its fenders and andirons trimmed in the season’s colors, where burned the king of jack o’ lanterns. The room was very artistically embellished with tasty decorations. Here all sorts of mystic games were in progress throughout the evening. To add to the spooky surroundings, weird music was furnished by Mr. Moorehouse, who is an accomplished artist on the piano. At 9.30 the pupils were formed in line and marched through the hall into the dining room, where Hallowe’en plate favors were laid on the plate each child was to occupy according to a name rotation which had been previously arranged. The table was very tastefully laid with dainty napkins and dishes, and was decorated with festoons and streamers of yellow and black which hung from the ceiling. The ice cream, assorted cakes and confections were served by the host and hostess, after which all repaired to the living room again where new games and contests were indulged in until a late hour. Before departing each child did not forget to thank their teachers and Mrs. Cook, to whom much credit is due, for their delightful entertainment (Farmington News, [Friday,] November 8, 1912).
West Milton. The West Milton and Nute Ridge schools held union memorial exercises at the latter schoolhouse last Thursday afternoon. Forty visitors were present, including representatives from Eli Wentworth Post, G.A.R., Milton, and the Sons of Veterans. An excellent program of exercises was rendered by the pupils, under the direction of O.G. Morehouse, teacher of the Nute Ridge school (Farmington News, June 6, 1913).
Oscar Morehouse appeared in the Brookline, MA, directories of 1912, 1913, and 1914, as a telephone operator in Boston, MA, boarding at 20 Roberts street in Brookline, MA. (This would seem to suggest a certain amount of back and forth between greater Boston and Milton).
Oscar G. Morehouse’s advertisement (Farmington News, February 27, 1914).
WEST MILTON. Oscar Morehouse has been ill recently with an attack of acute appendicitis. He has now recovered sufficiently to resume work (Farmington News, December 18, 1914).
WEST MILTON. The many friends of Oscar Morehouse will be glad to hear of his return from the Dover hospital, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis. He is doing well (Farmington News, February 19, 1915).
West Milton. Oscar Morehouse has so far recovered from his recent operation as to be out (Farmington News, March 19, 1916).
Oscar G. Morehouse appeared in the Milton directory of 1917, as an shoe opr. [operative], boarding with Mrs. Annie Cook, on Middleton road.
Oscar Guymont Morehouse registered for the WW I military draft in Milton, June 5, 1917. He was a shoe operative, employed by J.F. Cloutman & Co. of Farmington, NH, aged thirty years (b. Highgate, VT, May 11, 1887). His mailing address was Farmington R.F.D. #1, i.e., he lived in West Milton. He was of medium height, with a slender build, brown eyes, and dark brown hair.
The last will of Oscar G. Morehouse of Milton, dated Farmington, NH, March 30, 1918, and proved in Strafford County Court, April 15, 1919, skipped over his brother, Herbert E. [“Eugene”] Morehouse (and any other heirs), and devised his estate to Herbert B. Swinerton of Milton, who was also named as executor.
U.S. Army private Oscar G. Morehouse of Union, NH, died of pneumonia in France, February 7, 1919. (He might be considered to be yet another Milton victim of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19).
IN MEMORIAM. Private Oscar G. Morehouse, Co. G, 302 Inf., A.E.F. Out of the lifting cloud of conflict that has enveloped two continents, there emerge the daily emissaries of unbounded joy and poignant grief. Among the latter there came to this community last Friday an official telegram from the war department at Washington announcing the death of Private Oscar G. Morehouse, which occurred while on active duty with the American expeditionary forces in France, as the result of pneumonia, February 5. As is customary, no other details accompanied the official dispatch and leaves the mind to conjure up a pathetic picture of this soldier passing to his reward thousands of miles from the caress of loved hands at home. Relentless are the fortunes of war and accustomed as we are to reading the grim details of casualty lists, we cannot but feel particularly depressed on hearing this news, as we have but to recur to almost any one of the letters that have come to local friends from the deceased to apprehend the deep yearning that he entertained for the sights of familiar faces and the clasp of the friendly hands that awaited his coming in vain. Private Morehouse was one of the national army draftees inducted into the service May 18, 1918, and subsequently stationed at Camp Devens, a member of the 302d infantry until September 4, when his unit was shipped enroute to France. He was stationed with the reserve troops just back of the front until the hostilities ceased with the signing of the armistice. Since that time it is learned that he was transferred to the 302d and that his division was gradually being withdrawn to the coast in preparation for transportation home. Private Morehouse was 31 years of age and a native of Vermont, the son of Herbert and Nellie (Guymont) Morehouse, both deceased. He came to Milton with his father and an older brother when a small boy and most of his life had been passed in that town. He received his elementary education in the public schools and graduated from Nute High school in the class of 1906, after which he was employed in Boston with the New England Telephone Co. for a number of years, returning to this locality in 1912 and remained, teaching school and working as an operative in the J.P. Cloutman factory until he was inducted into the service of his country. He was a bright, honest and upright young man and made a host of long and lasting friends who are deeply afflicted at the sad news that has shadowed the community. The deceased was a member of the Nute High School Alumni association and a past officer of the Nute Ridge Grange. Memorial services will be held at Nute chapel, West Milton, sometime in the near future. A brother, Eugene Morehouse, whose location is unknown, is the only surviving relative (Farmington News, February 28, 1919).
Milton’s American Legion post was named for Oscar G. Morehouse and its members turned out for his funeral in November 1920. (His name is now attached to American Legion Post 61 in Dover, NH).
PRIVATE OSCAR G. MOREHOUSE SERVICES. Funeral services of a most touching nature were held at Nute chapel last Sunday at 12:00 over the remains of Private Oscar G. Morehouse who died in France, February 5, 1919. His body was among those of the 2,800 overseas soldiers returned to New York a week ago last Thursday and it was not until Saturday noon that it arrived in town, under military guard. The flag-draped oak casket, enclosing a metallic shell which safe-guarded the heroic remains during the long sea voyage, was taken in charge at once by relatives and friends and the guard released. Well before the hour appointed for the service the church was well filled with devoted friends, officers and members of Oscar G. Morehouse Post, American Legion of Milton, officers and members of Nute Ridge Grange, of which the deceased was a member, and a few of the Legion boys from Farmington. Promptly at the hour announced, the Legion delegations filed into the church in military order and surrounded the casket that was almost hidden under the massive flag and a profusion of beautiful offerings. After a brief form of tribute they retired to a reserved section in the front of the house and Rev. D.A. Gammon, a former pastor and personal friend of the deceased, took the pulpit. Inasmuch as a previous service had been performed in the memory of Private Morehouse, his remarks were of a simple order, including touching quotations from Tennyson’s poems. Yet, in their very simplicity, they reached down into the heart to sound responsive chords of awakened and tender memories. The Three Links quartet sang two beautiful selections and with the prayer and benediction, the service was concluded. Tender hands of former comrades of former comrades in arms bore the casket to the hearse and faithful feet followed it to its resting place, a beautiful spot in the Lewis Nute cemetery. As the body was lowered into the grave the quartet sang a last selection and a firing squad from the Legion fired a salute over the open grave. In the echo flung back from the nearby woods and distant hills there sounded the valor of America and may it keep an eternal vigil over the resting places of our nation’s dead (Farmington News, [Friday,] November 12, 1920).
Jennie E. Jewett and Annie E. Cook published a “Card of Thanks” in the same issue of the Farmington News. Annie E. (Davis) Cook had been his landlady during his time on Nute Ridge and Mrs. Jennie E. Jewett of Boston was his sister.
But the body buried in the Lewis Nute cemetery was not actually that of Oscar G. Morehouse. The War Department discovered its error two years later and made a substitution.
EXCHANGE OF BODY OF AN UNNAMED SOLDIER FOR THAT OF PRIVATE MOREHOUSE. The arrival of a soldier’s body in his flag-draped coffin on the noon train Saturday caused the usual inquiries to follow such an incident. At the time, although the body was convoyed by military guard, a lieutenant in civilian costume, and was ordered placed in the tomb, little or nothing could be learned. Later in the day the body was taken to the Hayes cemetery at West Milton and, acting under a permit obtained from the authorities at Milton, the grave containing the remains of Private Oscar G. Morehouse was opened, the box and casket exhumed and replaced by the later arrival. Although the ceremony, which was marked with reverence, was significant to those that observed it, information at that time was vouchsafed by the custodian of the body to the extent that the exchange was necessitated owing to the discovery of a mistake and that the identity of the body of Private Morehouse had been established beyond any question, also that it had been buried under orders from the war department at Washington and that the lieutenant that accompanied it was an attaché of that department. The name of the soldier buried in the Morehouse grave since November 7, 1920, was not revealed. It was brought to this village and shipped to New York, accompanied by the guard, on the morning train Sunday. Inasmuch as this was one out only four similar instances in handling 35,000 bodies, and the government went to enormous expense and pains, showing the finest spirt of respect and good attitude to relatives and all concerned, when it could, so far as anyone would have ever known, have compounded the error by forwarding the remains of Private Morehouse, which landed at Hoboken on Tuesday of last week, to the perhaps waiting relatives of the other soldier, the United States government is to be highly commended rather than censured in this and other few instances of fallibility. Private Morehouse died in France, February 5, 1919. His supposed remains were forwarded here November 6, 1920, and the following day were interred with funeral services at Nute chapel and full military honors by Oscar G. Morehouse Post, American Legion, of Milton, and Clarence L. Perkins Post of this town (Farmington News, December 29, 1922).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. Jennie Jewett of Boston visited at the home of Mrs. Annie Cook over the weekend. She is the sister of the late Oscar Morehouse. She returned to her home Monday. She was conveyed to Rochester by Mr. and Mrs. John Dorr and made a few hours’ visit at their home (Farmington News, October 17, 1924).
PERSONAL. Mrs. Jennie Jewett of Boston, sister of the late Oscar G. Morehouse, was called here last Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Annie Cook (Farmington News, May 20, 1927).
Miss Ferne C. [Gilmartin] McGregor – 1913-15, 1916-17, 1924-47
Ferne C. Gilmartin was born, probably in Lowell, MA, January 24, 1894, daughter of William J. and Roseltha S. (Chesley) Gilmartin. Her mother married (2nd), in Boston, MA, February 28, 1901, Fred McGregor, a B&M railroad engineer. Ferne took his surname.
Fred McGregor, a steam railroad engineer, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nine years), Roseltha S. McGregor, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and his step-daughter, Ferne M. McGregor, aged sixteen years (b. MA).
For a number of years the McGregor family spent their summers at Nute Ridge, and in 1918 moved from Charlestown, Mass., to their present [Nute Ridge] home (Farmington News, March 27, 1942).
Miss Ferne McGregor had charge of the Nute Ridge schoolhouse in the spring term of the 1913-14 academic year, and the whole of the 1914-15 academic year.
West Milton. Nute Ridge school will reopen for the spring term on next Monday, March 30, with Miss Elizabeth Jones of Plummer’s Ridge as teacher (Farmington News, March 27, 1914).
West Milton. The Nute Ridge school began last Monday with Miss Ferne McGregor as teacher. It was announced in last weeks’ News that Miss Elizabeth Jones of Plummer’s Ridge would continue the school, but owing to later arrangements Miss Jones was given a school nearer her home (Farmington News, April 3, 1914).
West Milton. The winter term of the Nute Ridge school has closed and the teacher, Miss Ferne McGregor, is absent on vacation (March 19, 1915).
West Milton. The closing exercises of the Nute Ridge school were attended by relatives and friends of the pupils and teacher and were a credit to all participating (Farmington News, June 23, 1916).
Miss Ferne McGregor had charge of the Nute Ridge schoolhouse in the 1916-17 academic year.
West Milton. The Nute Ridge school opened Tuesday (Farmington News, [Friday,] September 8, 1916).
West Milton. The Christmas tree and exercises given at the chapel Monday evening were well attended. A fine literary and musical program was furnished by pupils of Nute Ridge school under direction of the teacher, Miss Ferne McGregor. Presents were distributed among the children of the Sunday school (Farmington News, [Friday,] December 29, 1916).
Ferne C. McGregor appeared in the Milton directory of 1917, as teacher of the Nute’s Ridge school.
Miss Ferne McGregor had charge of the South Milton schoolhouse in the 1918-19 academic year (Farmington News, September 19, 1919).
WEST MILTON. The Memorial was fittingly observed with appropriate exercises by the teacher and pupils of the Hare road school on Thursday afternoon of last week. The schoolroom was tastefully decorated with wreaths of evergreen, flags, and crepe paper in the national colors, while bouquets added their beauty and fragrance. It was evident that time and labor and thoughtful interest had been combined in preparing for this day of commemoration. The teacher and pupils of Nute Ridge were in attendance, together with parents and neighbors, and the hour was pleasantly and profitably spent in giving attention to the program of songs and recitations which was very creditably given. At the close of the exercises, refreshments of assorted cake and fruit punch were served, and the pleasant little affair was concluded with the taking of a group picture of the school by Miss McGregor (Farmington News, June 6, 1919).
Fred McGregor, a Boston & Maine R.R. steam engineer, aged forty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Rose S. McGregor, aged fifty-three years (b. MA), his daughter, Fern McGregor, a grammar teacher, aged twenty-five years (b. MA), and his mother-in-law, Mary E.W. Place, a widow, aged seventy-six years (b. MA). Fred McGregor owned their house on Nute Ridge road (near its intersection with Hare Road), free-and-clear. They appeared in the enumeration between the households of Edwin E. Nute, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and Henry B. Hayes, a farmer, aged sixty-six years (b. NH). (Close to that of Martin G. Wentworth above).
WEST MILTON. A meeting was called by the school board of Milton last week to discuss the matter of consolidation of the several schools in this corner of the town. Nothing was done except to discuss the pros and cons. A goodly number was in attendance, but matters were left as they stood before, with two schools, one at Nute Ridge and the other on the Hare road. The outside scholars will be conveyed as heretofore. All expressed their views and a vote was taken which soon decided the matter in favor of the two schools (Farmington News, August 3, 1923).
WEST MILTON. Miss Fern McGregor started to school last Monday morning in her auto, but owing to the depth of the snow was obliged to leave her car at the home of John Hayes and make the rest of the trip on foot (Farmington News, December 5, 1924).
WEST MILTON. Herbert Wentworth is transporting the school children by auto to the Nute Ridge schoolhouse. The two schools have been consolidated which makes a little larger school with Miss Ferne McGregor as teacher (Farmington News, August 28, 1925).
Ferne C. McGregor had twenty-one students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1926-27. She received an annual salary of $825.00. She received also an additional $72.00 for providing her own janitorial services. Her stepfather, Fred McGregor, received $60.25 for providing fuel, likely firewood for the school (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1928).
(The South Milton school, which was the only other one-room school remaining in operation, had nine enrolled Milton students (under Cora McD Hayes), but that school and its expenses were shared with Rochester, whose students were not included in its head count).
WEST MILTON. Miss Fern McGregor. teacher of the Nute Ridge school, was hostess of a delightful box party given at Nute chapel on Tuesday evening, in aid of a fund which will be used to pay for a new organ that recently has been installed in the school. The community was well represented and the sale of boxes netted a tidy sum. The children of the school deserve much credit for a very fine program of exercises (Farmington News, June 10, 1927).
Ferne C. McGregor had nineteen students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1927-28. She received an annual salary of $850.00. She received also an additional $72.00 for providing her own janitorial services (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1929).
Ferne C. McGregor had twenty students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1928-29. She received an annual salary of $900.00. She received also an additional $72.00 for providing her own janitorial services (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1930).
Ferne C. McGregor appeared in the Milton directory of 1930, as a teacher, with a mailing address of Farmington R.D. (rural delivery).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. Martin Wentworth and Mrs. Agnes Goodwin motored to Massachusetts with Miss Ferne McGregor this week in the latter’s car. Mrs. Goodwin will make an extended visit in Boston, while Mrs. Wentworth and Miss McGregor will return this week, bringing with them Miss McGregor’s grandmother, Mrs. Mary Place, who at present is staying with relatives in Milton, Mass. (Farmington News, May 2, 1930).
Fred McGregor, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-eight years), Roseltha McGregor, aged sixty-five years (b. MA), and his daughter, Ferne McGregor, a public school teacher, aged thirty-six years (b. MA). Fred McGregor owned their house on Nute’s Ridge. They had a radio set. They appeared in the enumeration between the households of Douglas Blanchard, a farmer, aged thirty-six years (b. NY), which household included the Henry B. Hayes of 1920, and Martin Wentworth, a farmer, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH). (Just beyond the Wentworth house was that of Nute Chapel’s Rev. E. Lincoln Bigelow).
NUTE RIDGE. Miss Edith Ball Sampson was a recent guest of Miss Ferne McGregor (Farmington News, August 1, 1930).
WEST MILTON. Miss Ferne McGregor spent the week-end with her parents and has returned to Keene for the last week of summer school (Farmington News, August 14, 1931).
Ferne C. McGregor had twenty-four students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1931-32. She received an annual salary of $900.00. She ceased providing her own janitorial services (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1933).
WEST MILTON. Miss Ferne McGregor and Mrs. Martin Wentworth were in Laconia to attend the teachers’ convention last Friday (Farmington News, October 23, 1931).
Ferne C. McGregor had twenty-four students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1932-33. She received an annual salary of $900.00 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1934).
Ferne C. McGregor had twenty-three students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1933-34. She received an annual salary of $810.00 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1935).
Ferne C. McGregor had an average of 23.25 students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1934-35. She received an annual salary of $810.00 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1936).
WEST MILTON. Ferne McGregor attended a convention of rural teachers held at Chocorua, Tuesday, and found herself booked for a talk on “Public activities in a rural school.” She was accompanied by Mrs. Lizzie Fall of the Milton school board and Miss Alice Dennison of Boston (Farmington News, November 2, 1934).
Ferne C. McGregor had twenty-three students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1935-36. She received an annual salary of $810.00 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1937).
Ferne C. McGregor had twenty-nine students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1936-37 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1938).
Ferne C. McGregor had fourteen students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1937-38 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1939).
Ferne C. McGregor had eleven students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1938-39. She received an annual salary of $900.00 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1940).
Ferne C. McGregor had ten students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1939-40. She received an annual salary of $945.00 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1941).
WEST MILTON. As guests of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Schmeltz of Wayland, Mass., Russel Wentworth and Ferne McGregor spent several days motoring in Quebec (Farmington News, September 8, 1939).
Fred McGregor, a farm laborer, aged sixty-five years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Roseltha McGregor, aged sixty-five years (b. MA), and his daughter, Ferne McGregor, a public school teacher, aged forty-four years (b. MA). Fred McGregor rented their house on Nute’s Ridge. They appeared in the enumeration between the households of Guy R. Smith, a farm laborer, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and Horatio Butters, a farmer, aged seventy-one years (b. ME). Fred McGregor and Ferne McGregor had completed four years of high school, while Roseltha McGregor had completed eight years of grammar school.
Ferne C. McGregor had twelve students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1940-41. She received an annual salary of $945.00. Her stepfather, Fred McGregor, received $74 for janitorial services (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1942).
Roseltha S. ((Chesley) Gilmartin) McGregor died in Milton, March 25, 1942, aged seventy-five years, ten months, and three days.
Ferne C. McGregor had seventeen students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1942-43. She received an annual salary of $978.16. Her stepfather, Fred McGregor, received $74 for janitorial services (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending January 31, 1944).
PERSONAL. Local friends of Fred McGregor of Nute’s Ridge regret to learn that he is confined to his bed by illness (Farmington News, June 20, 1947).
Ferne C. McGregor had seventeen students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1943-44. She received an annual salary of $1,025 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending December 31, 1944).
Ferne C. M’Gregor had fifteen students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1944-45. She received an annual salary of $1,175 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending December 31, 1945).
Ferne C. McGregor had eighteen students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1945-46. She received an annual salary of $1,250. She was reimbursed $5.00 for minor repairs and expenses (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending December 31, 1946).
FOR SALE. 1935, two-ton international dump truck. Can be seen Monday through Friday after 4 o’clock, and Saturday and Sunday, or see Ralph Colomy. Fred McGregor, Nute Ridge (Farmington News, May 9, 1947).
Fred McGregor died in Milton, June 10, 1947, aged seventy-four years, five months, and twenty-one days.
Ferne C. McGregor had fourteen students enrolled at the Nute Ridge school for the academic year 1946-47. Her school covered grades 1-7. (Grade 8 students went to the Milton Grammar school) (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending December 31, 1947).
The Nute Ridge School, with a total enrollment of fourteen children in grades 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, has seven children in the seventh grade. As these seven children are transported to the village school next year for the eighth grade, it would seem that the other seven Nute Ridge children might more effectively be transported to the grammar school than to continue to educate them at the one-room Nute Ridge School (Milton Town Report, For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1947).
The 1946-47 academic year seems to have been the last for the Nute Ridge school. Miss McGregor taught thereafter at the Milton Grammar school, i.e., what is now called the Milton Elementary school, until her retirement after the 1960-61 academic year.
Another Party for Miss McGregor Retiring After 45 Years of Teaching. Milton. – Miss Ferne McGregor will be honored will be honored in a testimonial party in the Nute gym Friday evening sponsored by the P.T.A. Executive Board and the School Board. People of all ages will be welcome. Former pupils who cannot be present are urged to send greetings. Miss McGregor has been teacher of the 4th and 5th grade pupils at Milton Grammar school for the past 13 years. She had taught the Nute Ridge school before it was closed, at So. Milton and at Hare Road. She retires this month after 45 years of teaching here. Miss McGregor received a silver keyring inscribed from the Union 44 Teachers Association. Her second recognition and surprise came from her colleagues Friday evening, when the Milton Teachers Guild gave a surprise party in her honor in the Home Economics Room following the Night of Singing program. President Nelson Dionne of the Guild presented Miss McGregor with a watch. Several Milton teachers also attended the Nute Ridge Grange meeting when her fellow Grangers honored her (Farmington News, [Thursday,] June 8, 1961).
MILTON. Miss McGregor Feted. Milton. – Miss Ferne McGregor was honored on Friday evening at a public testimonial party at Nute High. The affair was sponsored jointly by the Milton P.T.A. and the Milton School Board. Rev. Bradley T. Lines, P.T.A. president, spoke for the P.T.A., expressing the gratitude of the parents for Miss McGregor’s dedicated life of teaching. He read a letter from former Supt. of Schools, Jonathan Osgood, now Professor of Education at Plymouth Teachers College. John B. Folsom, principal here, paid tribute to Miss McGregor, and in his capacity as a member of the Executive Board of the New Hampshire Education Association, presented her with a certificate from the association and a life membership in the New Hampshire Retired Teachers Association. Sup. Ramon Martineau of Union 44 spoke of Miss McGregor’s faithful devoted service over a period of 45 years. Llewellyn Scott, Milton School Board Chairman, spoke briefly then read a poem appropriate to the occasion. All former pupils were asked to stand and about a third of the audience rose. The only two generation family represented was Mrs. Milford Galerneau and son Peter. Principal Folsom presented a money tree which held 45 silver dollars and an envelope with nearly double that sum. Miss McGregor expressed her appreciation. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Amadon of Montpelier, Vt., and their two children, David and Muriel, came the greatest distance to honor Miss McGregor. Mr. Amadon was her former principal and Mrs. Amadon a former teaching colleague. Mrs. Leslie O. Chase presented the guest book. Refreshments of ice cream and cookies were served by Mrs. Ernest Pierce, Mrs. Nelson Dionne, Mrs. John Folsom, Mrs. Cecil Brakeville and Miss Judah Brakeville (Farmington News, June 15, 1961).
Ferne C. Gilmartin McGregor died at Frisbee Hospital in Rochester, NH, June 23, 1970.
Miss Ferne C. McGregor. MILTON. – Miss Ferne C. McGregor, 76, died yesterday morning in the Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester after a long illness. She was born in Milton [SIC], Jan. 24, 1894, daughter of Fred [SIC] and Roselda (Chesley) McGregor. She taught in the Milton school system for 44 years. She was a charter member of the Nute Ridge Grange of West Milton, the Rebecca Lodge of Farmington, the Eastern Star of Farmington, and the Milton Women’s Club. Also the Mary Torr Chapter, DAR, of Rochester. There were no immediate survivors. Funeral services will be held at the Davenport Funeral Home Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Greta Dow, pastor of the Center Effingham Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Fore-Father’s Cemetery, Chelmsford, Mass. (Farmington News, [Thursday,] June 25, 1970).
Milton 3-Ponds’ automobile owners and drivers of 1910 were: George E. Jordan, a shoe factory cutter; Wilbur C. Knight, a machine man [a machine repairman] for United Shoe Machinery; and James J. Buckley, a general practice physician. The single motorcyclist was George N. Corson, a drug store clerk. (His Indian-brand motorcycle would have been more like a motorized bicycle than a modern motorcycle).
REO Advertisement (Portsmouth Herald, February 23, 1909)
Milton Mills’ automobile owners and drivers of 1910 were: Arthur M. Flye, a dry goods and grocery merchant; Asa A. Fox, an undertaker; Forrest L. Marsh, a general practice attorney; R. Seth Pike, a butcher; John C. Townsend, a farmer; and John E. Townsend, a woolen blanket manufacturer. Frank D. Stevens was a general farm laborer and, apparently, a chauffeur (without automobile), perhaps for the elderly John E. Townsend.
Nordyke & Marmon’s Marmon Model 32 (Indianapolis Star, February 7, 1909)
Automobiles were relatively expensive items at this time. Most of those listed above had some business use for an automobile, such as deliveries or travel, or were wealthy men, or both. For example, one may imagine Milton Mills manufacturer John E. Townsend sending an automobile to pick up business associates or clients at the Union railroad station. (See also Milton Businesses in 1909).
Elmore Model 36-B Touring Car (Boston Globe, May 28, 1911).
The automobile registration numbers below would have appeared with the prefix “N.H.” on license plates.
Automobile Registrations, September 1, to December 31, 1909
Forrest L. Marsh, Milton
New Hampshire Automobile Registrations, January 1, 1910, to September 1, 1910
Asa A. Fox of Milton Mills took his friends for a drive whose route passed through Farmington.
PERSONAL. On Wednesday, Mr. A.A. Fox of Milton Mills was in [Farmington] town with a party of friends, in his automobile (Farmington News, August 24, 1906).
Some tourists stopped over at Milton Mills’ Central House on their automobile trip to Bretton Woods.
PERSONAL. A distinguished party from Brookline, Mass., were guests at the Central House Tuesday night. They included Mrs. J.M. Longyear, her two daughters and one son, Miss Margaret Glum of Columbus, Ohio, and Countess Hedda Levenhaupt of Stockholm, Sweden, and their chauffeur. They were enjoying a trip to Bretton Woods in their touring car (Farmington News, September 20, 1907).
There were no driving tests or automobile inspections at this time. Licenses and registrations were a by-mail process. Apparently, one could even learn to be a chauffeur through taking a correspondence course.
WANTED – Young men to learn automobile business by mail and prepare for positions as chauffeurs and repair men. We make you expert in ten weeks; assist you to secure position. Pay big; work pleasant; demand for men great; reasonable; write for particulars and sample lesson. Empire Automobile Institute, Rochester, N.Y. – ch-hm28-29 (Portsmouth Herald, May 29, 1909).
Wind chill was a factor when driving an open car. One would want to have a driving coat (with a turn-up collar), a cap and gloves. Goggles and a scarf would be useful too.
Automobile Toggery. We can fit you out in anything you may wish for in this line. We have a large variety and all the latest things in Coats, Caps and Gloves. Lothrops-Farnham Co., 21-23 No. Main Street, Rochester, N.H. Tel 123-3 (Farmington News, June 18, 1909).
Coastal motorists jammed Portsmouth roadways on weekends even as early as 1909.
CITY BRIEFS. It is estimated that three hundred automobiles passed through here [Portsmouth] on Sunday (Portsmouth Herald, August 2, 1909).
LOCAL DASHES. The Overland touring cars are handsome, reliable, quiet running and the equal of any $2000 car on the market. No extra charge for “fore door” bodies (Portsmouth Herald, February 13, 1911).
Here we find some Wakefield ladies out for a weekend drive through Milton Mills and Milton.
UNION. Mrs. Ernest Walker and Miss Mary Horne were given an auto ride through Milton Mills and Milton Saturday, kindness of Mrs. E.F. Hamlin (Farmington News, July 28, 1911).
Just after the 1910 registration period mentioned here, the number of New Hampshire’s automobile registrations rose from 2,100 in 1911 to 3,000 in 1912.
Interesting Items. New Hampshire registration of automobiles has reached nearly 3,000, which is about 900 over last year’s figures at the same time, and most of the auto dealers report larger sales of new cars than ever before (Farmington News, May 10, 1912).
Mechanics – blacksmiths, H. Duntley & Son; carpenters Joseph Mathes, E.H. Hersom; painter, G.F. Hodgdon; wheelwrights, Joseph Matthes, Daniel Jenness.
Merchants – Looney & Avery, G.A. Gilmore, J. Hart, Daniel Plummer, Jas. R. Horne; — fancy goods, Mrs. Ira L. Knox, Mrs. J.F. Hart; millinery, Mrs. C.M. Roberts.
The Boston Globe reported a Milton Mills factory suspension in this year:
MILL SUSPENDED. GREAT FALLS, N.H., Aug. 10 – Brierley’s felt mills, at Milton, N.H., have suspended, throwing forty hands out of employment. Cause assigned, no sale for the goods already on hand (Boston Globe, August 11, 1875).
BARNSTEAD. The Coran Davis Farm shown against the sky is an historic landmark reported to be the oldest building still standing in the township, unfortunately, the timbers are weak and the old building is to be dismantled. Note the two chimneys with fireplaces at the two ends of the main house (Farmington News, April 28, 1966).
The Victor Water Wheel was invented by Jones’ employer, Stilwell-Bierce Manufacturing Company (prior to its merger with the Smith-Vaile Company).
Santa Monica Mayor Held on $2500 Bond. (Associated Press Leased Wire). LOS ANGELES. Oct. 11. —Mayor Claude C. Crawford of Santa Monica and his associate, Paul C. Murray, 48, have been held for Superior Court trial under $2500 bonds each on a charge of failing to obtain a state permit to sell interests in a Tuolumne county mining lease. Mrs. Maude Wetzel, a Santa Monica widow, testified at yesterday’s preliminary hearing she invested $6500 in the mine. Other witnesses testified they had invested in it as follows: Mrs. Ethel Flick, $1500; Mrs. Vienna H. Foss, $1500; Mrs. Mary L. Wood and William C. Lundberg, $500 each; Mrs. Mary Rizzo, $250. All said they had received no return on their money (Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, CA), October 11, 1941).
IN MEMORIAM. Private Oscar G. Morehouse, Co. G, 302 Inf., A.E.F. Out of the lifting cloud of conflict that has enveloped two continents, there emerge the daily emissaries of unbounded joy and poignant grief. Among the latter there came to this community last Friday an official telegram from the war department at Washington announcing the death of Private Oscar G. Morehouse, which occurred while on active duty with the American expeditionary forces in France, as the result of pneumonia, February 5. As is customary, no other details accompanied the official dispatch and leaves the mind to conjure up a pathetic picture of this soldier passing to his reward thousands of miles from the caress of loved hands at home. Relentless are the fortunes of war and accustomed as we are to reading the grim details of casualty lists, we cannot but feel particularly depressed on hearing this news, as we have but to recur to almost any one of the letters that have come to local friends from the deceased to apprehend the deep yearning that he entertained for the sights of familiar faces and the clasp of the friendly hands that awaited his coming in vain. Private Morehouse was one of the national army draftees inducted into the service May 18, 1918, and subsequently stationed at Camp Devens, a member of the 302d infantry until September 4, when his unit was shipped enroute to France. He was stationed with the reserve troops just back of the front until the hostilities ceased with the signing of the armistice. Since that time it is learned that he was transferred to the 302d and that his division was gradually being withdrawn to the coast in preparation for transportation home. Private Morehouse was 31 years of age and a native of Vermont, the son of Herbert and Nellie (Guymont) Morehouse, both deceased. He came to Milton with his father and an older brother when a small boy and most of his life had been passed in that town. He received his elementary education in the public schools and graduated from Nute High school in the class of 1906, after which he was employed in Boston with the New England Telephone Co. for a number of years, returning to this locality in 1912 and remained, teaching school and working as an operative in the J.P. Cloutman factory until he was inducted into the service of his country. He was a bright, honest and upright young man and made a host of long and lasting friends who are deeply afflicted at the sad news that has shadowed the community. The deceased was a member of the Nute High School Alumni association and a past officer of the 
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