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Cottage erected, i n May

1893

Property owned by S.S.Parlcer and
Ned L.Parlcer of Farmington,K.H,

Present owners(1930)
S.S.Parlcer of Farmington,S.H.
and
S.P.Bate of Detroit.Michigan.

�The o r i g i n a l r e g i s t e r i s copied
f o r e a s i e r reference and reading
and s i n c e t h e p r i n c i p a l items to
he preserved were the names of
gaests and dates and memo of time
when a d d i t i o n s , a l t e r a t i o n s and r e p a i r s
were made,this copy omits much
i n t h e way of comment on the weather
and pleas\ire of the guests.
s,p,]y,
1930

�TREES ON OUR COTTAGE LOT
Ash.
Beeoh
Bi3?ch,white
Birch,gray
Birch,yellow
Cherry,v;ild
F i r balsam
Hemlock
l&amp;iple, s t r i p e d
Uaplc,rock
Maple,red
Maple.white

Jane 85,1923

Oak,red
Oak,-/hite
Poplar
Pine,Norway
Pine,white
Spruce
Shad Bark or Jane B e r r y
Sugar Plum
Hornbeam or Ironbush
Mountain Ash
Alder
Scrub Oak

SHRUBS OH OUR COTTAGE LOT
Blueberry,high
Blacksnap
v/ild c u r r e n t
V7itoh Hazel
Ground j u n i p e r
Laurel
Sweet F e r n

V/hite Ironbush
Blackberry
Willow
Wild rose
diittaoh

The rocks on our l o t a r e granite,mioa s h i s t
and hornblende,all transported by g l a c i e r s .

�R3C0RD Am

REGISTER

OF
PIHS BIIJFF COTTAGE
OWNERS: SAMUEL S.PARKER
AND NED L.PARKER

1893-May-Cottage completed by F.R.Copp.
1 8 9 3 - J u l y End- t o 5 t h
Cottage f i r s t o c c u p i e d by p a r t y c o n s i s t i n g
of
W i l l Herring
E d i t h Pinkham
Ned L.Parlcer
Minnie Hussey
Mr. &amp; Mrs. S . S . P a r k e r
1893- D a r i n g summer and f a l l season the f o l l o w i n g
v i s i t e d t h e camp:
Harry S.Parker
James F.V/oodward
E l v i r a Voodward
Miss A l i c e Abbott
Rev.J.S.Harrington
Mrs. J . O . H a r r i n g t o n
L e o r a F.Horne
Mrs. C.E.Newman
Mrs. Almon L e a v i t t
C.W.Tibbetts
Mrs. M.l!].Tibbetts
Mr. &amp; Mrs. C.3.Home
Edna Home
Florence Colbath
John Haynes

M i s s E l l e n Varney
B l a n c h a r d Hayes
R.S.Colbath
John L . C o l b a t h
Llay C.Colbath
N e l l i e A.Sdgerly
Frank S.Edgerly
Mr - Mrs.F.Hussey
Amanda Home

1893-Oct.IE-Mr &amp; Mrs. S . S . P a r k e r and John &amp; i!ay
Colbath.
1893-Nov.E-Mr. &amp; Mrs. S . S . P a r k e r and Mrs. N e l l i e
D a v i s . I n d i a n implements and camp s i t e found
on h i l l s o u t h of camp.

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9 4

1894
l i y E &amp; S - K r s R.B. /hite,II.B.White.Mr. &amp; Mrs. S.S.
P a r k e r . Took deed o f Jones l a n d w e s t o f u s .
May-

F r a n k Swett and S . S . P a r k e r spent two
days on improvements. l a k e t r o u t about.

J u l y 4th-Hed P a r k e r , M n n i e Hussey,MR. &amp; Mrs. F r a n k
Hussey,Amanda Home and Mr. &amp; Mrs. S.S.
P a r k e r . S.S.P. and P.Hussey b u i l t causeway
l e a d i n g t o B i g Rock.
J u l y 15-Harry S . P a r k e r , E l v i r a 'foodvmrd,Agnes B e r r y ,
Winnie B e r r y , U e d P a r k e r , J l i n n i e Hussey and
Mr. &amp; ICrs. S . S . P a r k e r spent few dt^ys.
P e r c y S a f f o r d and W i l l Lougee c a l l e d .
J u l y 2 5 - A l i c e B l a i s d e l l , M r s . S.G.v/aldron,Hed P a r k e r
Amanda Horne,ITell E d g e r l y , L e o r a Home and
Mr. &amp; Ivlrs. S . S . P a r k e r camped t i l l A u g . l s t ,
P i c k e d 1 1 q.ts, h i g h bush b e r r i e s on P e r k i n s
Beach.
Aug.14- E.P.lute,S.P.Nute,Harry N u t e , N e l l i e Nute,
H a r r y S . P a r k e r and J,1r. &amp; Mrs. S . S . P a r k e r .
J o s i e Rast c a l l e d .
Aug.

Mr. &amp; Mrs. J . F . K e i t h o f Lynn and John Roberts
and wife,Ned P a r k e r and Minnie Hussey and
Dena P e r k i n s .

Aug.

F r a n k E . E d g e r l y and w i f e and S.S.t'arker &amp;
w i f e . Oscar iilmerson a n d Elmer G i l e s c a l l e d .

Oct.

W . L . B e r r y , C a l i s t a B e r r y and Mr. &amp; Mrs. S.S.
P a r k e r spend fern d a y s .

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9 5

1895
IEy~10-H.S.Parker,H.B.White and w i f e and S.S.Parker
and w i f e .
1 1 - Ditto,Hed P a r k e r and ^ a r l P r e n t i s a r r i v e .
l£-Ditto.
12-Heard l o o n . C l o s e d earnp and rov/ed t o B a y .
May E5-C."7.Tihbetts,George F . B e r r y and S.S.Parker.
26-D.L.Furher and w i f e , M r . C l a r k , v / i f e and daughter
of Dover c a l l .
E7-Cl03ed oamp.
May E 9 - B . F . P e r k i n s , w i f e and Dena w i t h L e o r a Home,
S.S.Parker and w i f e , l e d P a r k e r and Mr.
^ a r t w e l l a r r i v e and go f i s h i n g .
30- D i t t o . Follov/ing f r i e n d s e a l l e d |
Agnes L . B e r r y . E v a I f u t t e r
Ora Whitney
Ralph P a r k e r
P.H.Safrord
Arthur- R.S.M.Berry
Miss J . a . K i l e s
3 1 - P a r t y l e a v e s f o r home Mrs.Jferker and Leora
Horne r e m a i n i n g t o s u p e r i n t e n d b u i l d i n g o f
s t a i r s on the p o i n t and b r i d g e o v e r brook,
Jane 1-3.S.Parker j o i n s camp,
E-Close camp,
June 9-ned P a r k e r and ^ a r l P r e n t i s , J o e B r e c k e n r i d g e
and O h a r l e s and John Cooke c a l l e d ,
Junel5-Mr. &amp; Mrs, ^ a r l Blake,Mr,&amp;Mrs,Horatio Gate
and sons and MR, &amp; Mrs, S,S,-t'arker,E.S.Berry
C h a s . P e r k i n s and S.S.Parker s u r v e y and
e s t a b l i s h l i n e between P a r k e r l a n d and P e r k i n s
land,
June 1 6 - D i t t o , Saw l o o n ,
June 17-Closed camp.
June 26-Mr.Colbath,Mrs.Berry,F.A.Colbath and Mrs.
S . S . P a r k e r . l a t e r Mrs/ Haddock w i t h t h r e e
c h i l d r e n and Leora Horne.Howard Haddock
Mrs. C.E.Home and S.S.Parker.
June B 7 - D i t t o
June S 8 - D i t t o
June E 9 - D i t t o
June 3 0 - D i t t o
July 1-Closed camp.

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9 5

1895
Tuly 3 -H.S.Parker,Mr. &amp; Mrs. 3.S.Parker,3.P.Ifate
and L e o r a Horne.
July 4th-Hed L . P a r k e r a r r i v e d . W i l l i a m Moore and v/ife
Mrs. . / i l , L e a v i t t and ^imanda Home and Mrs.
Rock Jones c a l l e d .
The f o l l o v / i n g a l s o c a l l e d d u r i n g the day:
Mr. &amp; Mrs. A r t h u r R . B e r r y
George ?/hite
Percy Safford
Misn L e i g h t o n
Ora / h i t n e y
P i t t Roberts
Joe B r e c k e n r i d g e
Agnes B e r r y
N e l l i e Cloutman
Jaines Bowditch
Ralph P a r k e r
V/innie Beri'y
Eva M t t e r
A l b e r t Wallace
Addie Newman
SPORTS
Tub Race

1st Arthur Berry-prize - s a l t f i s h
2nd S.S.Parker
"
./elcorae soap

Swimming r a c e - l s t A . R . B e r r y - p r i z e - s a r d i n e s
2nd Joe Breckenridge-almanac
'

Double s c u l l - l a d i e s
Ist-AgQos Beri'y and Addie Newman
(cookie medallion)
2nd-Mary i^arker and V/innie B e n y
(badge o f honor)
Doable s c u l l - g e n t l e m e n
I s t - G e o r g e Joimson 8i S . s . - ^ a r k e r
( C o n g r e s s i o n a l Documents)
2nd-Arthur B e r r y &amp; P i t t Roberts
(badge o f honor)
Single seull-l&amp;dies
Ist-lft^es Berry-Prize-sardines
2nd-Addie Newman- "
almanac
Single scull-gentlemen
I s t - 3 . S.-i-'arker-Prize-goId medal
2 n d - P i t t Roberts "
Cong.document

July 5 t h - c l o s e d camp

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9 5

1895
Tuly 12-Frank Hussey and Minnie Iluaaey and Mrs,3.3.
l a r k e r . P o u n d r e c o r d t h a t ilioauda Horne,Mrs,
i l l L e a v i t t , M r s , H a r r i e t t Moulton and Mrs,
N.B.Hussey h a d i n v a d e d c o t t a g e , F r a n k Hussey
w o r k i n g on c o n s t r u c t i o n o f p a n t r y ,
July 13-Ned P a r k e r who came i n l a s t n i g h t r e t u r n e d home,
July 14-'7ork p r o g r e s s e s on p a n t r y ,
July-18-Ciosed camp,
July 31-Mr. &amp; Mrs, S . S . % r k e r , E l v i r a "/oodward,H.S.
P a r k e r , N e l l i e Hute.Stan Bute a n d H a r r y B u t e ,
Caught two p i c k e r e l i n Boat Cove,
Aug, 2-Heard a l o o n , H e l l i e E d g e r l y v a n d Mother a r r i v e ,
Aug, 3-Bute f a m i l y l e a v e , J,F,Woodward a r r i v e s .
Aug, 4-Bed P a r k e r and Minnie Hussey c a l l , v/e v i s i t
Loon Cove where F.R.Copp r e a d y t o b u i l d h i s
own c o t t a g e t h e r e ,
Aug, 5-3.S.Parker r e t u r n s home.
Aug, 6-Mr. Si Mrs. J.P.Woodward l e a v e w i t h E . S . P a r k e r .
S.S.Parker and L i n d l e y Palmer a r r i v e .
Aug. 7-Mr3. E d g e r l y and Mrs, Home go t o Gilnumton,
Aug, 8-Close camp,
Aug.l7-Mr, &amp; Mrs, J,F.Hussey,Minnie Hussey,Mrs. D.E.
C h e s l e y and Hed L . P a r k e r a r r i v e .
Aug.l8-Built b a n k i n g on E a s t s i d e o f house.Mr. Hussey
leaves u s .
Aug.l9-To B a y f o r p r o v i s i o n s .
Aug.20-Ditto
Aug,21-Ditto
Aug.22-Ditto
Aug,23-Cut a number o f sroall t r e e s . A l o n z o F r e n c h and
w i f e and Master George F u r b e r o f Haver h i l l , M a s s
c a l l on u s ,
Aug,24-Break camp,
Aufe,30-Lin Palmer H e l l Edgerly,Mary -^'arker and S.S.
Parker a r r i v e .
Aus,31-Ditto,
Sep. 1 - A d d i t i o n s today a r e C l a r e n c e Horne,Agnes Home
Edna Home.Hervey P e a r l and I n a P e a r l ,
Sep, 2-6Iose camp,
Oct, 2-Mrs, Henry D a v i s and Mr, &amp; Mrs, S.S,Parker.Shot
a t t h r e e ducks a l s o a t p a r t r i d g e on woodpile
but no c a s u a l t i e s .

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9 5

1895
oot,3 - H,S.Parker a r r i v e s , 3 . 3 , P a r k e r l e a v e s ,
Oct,4 - 3,3.-^arkor back v;ith u s a g t i i a ,
Oct,5 - Mr A Mrs, C a r l B l a k e a r r i v e , M r s . U.S.Davis
aiid H.S.Pai'ker l e a v e ,
Oct.6 - P.Ju.Mooney and w i f e and W i l l H e r r i n g , A l s o
I J a f a y e t t e '^voodnoan and \7ife,Samuel C o l b a t h ,
Miss G e r r i s h c a l l on uo,
Oct.7 - C l o s e camp h a v i n g h8.d rom-arkable f i n e wca,ther
and b r i g h t moonlight o v e n i n g s ,
Oct. 1 1 - Surveyed l o t f o r L..7oodman.
DtiC.19-S.P.Itote and S.S.Parker.About s i x i n c h e s
of i o e .
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May 16-Mr. * Mrs. S.S.-'^'arker open camp.Water v e r y
h i g h , C o l b a t h &amp; v/oodman c o t i age n e a r l y completedk
May 17-Heard l o o n . Y i s i t e d George B e a r d and a t Loon Cov&lt;
May 18-Closed camp.

May 29-James Hayes and w i f e , G r a c e Hayes,n.S.-^arker,
S.S.Parker and tlary E . P a r k e r a r r i v e d .
May g o - V i s i t e d B l a c k P o i n t and Ghesnut Cove f i s h i n g
but no l u c k . Sav l o o n a t F o r t Point.Ned P a r k e r
and w i f e a r r i v e . I I e d o a u ^ t v t h r e e brook t r o u t .
Picked d i s h of s t r a w b e r r i e s .
May 31-Mr,liayes and feunily r e t u r n from Loon Cove S t a t i o i
t o Fa. mington,
June 1-Snov/ on Sandwich Mountains, Close camp,
June 2 1 - l I r , a Mrs, l e d L . P a r k e r spend day. Brought
p a i r spoon o a r s .
July 3-H.3.i'arker,3.S.Parker,Mary P a r k e r and S.P.Nute
and Leorp Home a r r i v e .
July 4-E.D.Roberts and \7ife,Ned P a r k e r and w i f e , C y r u s
T u t t l e and ?/ife.ilmandit Horne a r r i v e , Mr.Thayer
and v/ife of Hadley,MEiSs camp on h i l l behind
c o t t a g e , voodman C o l b a t h camp completed.

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1896
July
July

5-VisitecL a t J.F.Cloutm;in»s c o t t a g e . Towed.
bctcic by Dr.v/heatiey.
6-Closett camp.

J u l y 11-S.3.Parker,Mary P a r k e r , R a l p h i'arker and
B e s s i e F e r n a i d . H a r d r e ? from Bay a g a i n s t
s t r o n g v'ind.Display of N o r t h e r n L i g h t s .
July 12-v'ent to Loon Gove and G e r r i s h J^oint.
Measured o l d h a r d pine stump.S^jft i u d i a .
July 13-Closed
o-mp.
J u l y 19-Mr.&amp; Mrs. ' . . ' i l l Herring.Mr.^c Mrs. Ned P a r k e r .
I X i r i n g day f o l l o w i n g C c t l l e d : Mr. &amp; Mrs.
j.ai;.ii]dgerly,Mr. &amp; Mrs. C h a r l e s P r i c e and
c h i l d r e n , M r . &amp; Mrs, W i l l Gate and ^ . y H u c k i n s .
July E2-Mr. d Mrs, E.D.Roberts and Mr. &amp; Mrs. Ned
P a r k e r , Mr.ThJs,yer s t i l l i n camp.
J u i ^ 2 3 - ? a r k 3 r and Roberts have rough passage t o
^ay and go to Farmington. iteturn a t n i g h t
and w a l k t o cainp. ? e r y y/indy,
July 24-Quiet,
J u l y 35-H.S.Parker a r r i v e s . Ned and Roberts d r i v e
up a f t e r s t o r e c l o s e s r e a c h i n g camp a t 12:40AM
July 26-Beautifu3- day.
J u l y 27-Break oamp,
Aug.
Aug.

6 - V i r a /oodwp.rd.P.s.tTrker.lvir, &amp; Mrs. S.S.Parker
7 - V i r a i l l . D r . / h e e l S r c a l l e d to see h e r .
3,3,
H.3. -^arker go to Farmington.Return
w i t h I-lr. A Mrs. Ned P a r k e r .
Aug,
8-Veryhot,
Aug.
9 - V i s i t e d Loon Cove and Echo P o i n t .
Aug, 10- Cl0i?ed cejnp,

Aug,
Aug,
Aug.
Aug,
Aug.

12-Miss i U i c e B l a i s d e l l o f % v e r h i l l , N e l l i e
E d g e r l y of C a m b r i d g e , N e l l i e Hayes o f M i l t o n ,
Ai'i£indii Horne,Mr, &amp; Mrs,
SaS.^'arker.
l a - A l i c e B l a i s d e l l and Mrs. Horne p i c k f o u r
q.uartr&gt; of b l u e b e r r i e s .
1 4 - N e l l i e Hayes r e t u r n s home,
1 5 - P a r t y c h a r t e r s D r . / h e a t l e y ' s boat f o r voyage
to Bay f o r s u p p l i e s , L i n Palmer and S.S.Parker
r e t u r n w i t h them.
16-Sxplore C a s c a d e . C a l l on H o r a t i o Gate a t B e a r d
Cottage.

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1896
Aog. 17-n.L.Cate and Mrs. Shepard c a l l on U3« Palmer
builds r u s t i s seat,
Aug, 18-Kate •^arleer,Belle B r e w e r , C h a r l i e B r e w e r ,
S , P . I I u t e , l e l l i e Nut(g,S,P.Itute,Harry M t e and
M o l l y Ilutc and 3,3, arlcer a r r i v e , f i n d i n g
Mary Parlcer i n charge o f camp.
S,P,Ifate l e a v e s i n P.M. S.S.Parlcer and S.P.
l u t e and C h a r l i e Brewer c a t c h f i v e p i c k e r e l .
Aug. 19-Measured l o t . E , 3 . % r l c e r a r r i v e s . O t h e r g u e s t s
leave.
Aug, 20-Spont dfiy c l e a r i n g up t h e l o t .
Aug, 2 1 - E u i l t p l a t f o r m around B i g Rock, C l o s e d camp ^.
ana rov/od t o B a y ,
Aug, 2b-H,S,Parker,Hed P a r k e r , M i n n i e Parker,Mrs.&gt;C h a r l e s Holmes ?/ith Gordon and Ralph Holmes,
Aug, 27-Hed l e a v e s .
Aug, 26-Quiet.
Aug, 29-H.S, &amp; Hed P a r k e r remove two U-rge r o c k s t o
foot of s t a i r s from heaeh.Chas. Gate o f Hamraond.La.
d i n e s v/ith u s .
Aug, 3 0 - C a l l e r c wore: Mr, &amp; Mrs, E.I).Roberts,G. 7.
Holmes,C.H.Pitman and \/eston G a r l a n d &amp; w i f e .
Aug, &amp;l-Gloae caup.
Oct.
Oct,
Oct,
Oct,
Oct.

9-Mrs. K,3,Gate,Robert and Rex Gate and 3,S,Park'
and Maiy P a r k e r ,
10-Ice i n brook,Forest b e a u t i f u l i n c o l o r s ,
11-Sav/ l o o n , F i s i t e d K e l l y s h o r e and found p i e c e s
of I n d i a n p o t t e r y .
12-Amanda Horne a r r i v e s . H.S.Cate and S . S . P a r k e r
hunt p a r t r i d g e s .Ho l u c k .
l a - C l o s e camp.

Dec, 3 0 - S . 3 . ^ a r k e r slsated t o camp from B a y ,
EHB

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Apr, 2 S - S»P,Iu.te Jind S . S . - ^ a r k e r v i s i t camp. I c e
n e a r l y gone,Water a f o o t above f o o t of
s t a i r s , a n d c o v e r s b r i d g e toward C o l b a t h
cottage,
Apr, 2 5 - Mr, &amp; M r s , W . I . l a t t e r and Hed &amp; M i n n i e
Pa,ri:er.Ga.ught t e n l a r g e s u c k e r s i n Jones
b r o o k . B i s h e d foi* shs,d,Ho l u c k . R e t u i ' n e d home.
%y
May
May
May
May
llay
Miiy
May

May

15-Ea.lph Pai^ker and 3 , S . P a r k e r , W a t e r Itj f e e t
from f o o t of s t a i r s , Su^';fir plum and c h e r r y
t r e e s i n bloom.
16-Quiet,
17- C l o s e camp.
21-S.S.Parker,Mary Parker,'//.L.Berry,Mr3. J . P .
H a l l l ^ S r r o l l H a l l . Bioy n£ye£&gt; a r r i v e s w i t h
housei-old goods i n evoniiii^.
S E - C a l i s t a P e r r y and J . i 3 . 3 , K a l i a r i i v e . p:'ishing
but caught o n l y p e r c h a c c o u n t of h i g h w i n d ,
2 Z - E . D . R o b e r t s and a i f e and l e d P a r k e r and w i f e
r e a c h camp,
24-I)eparted v i a Loon Gove s t a t i o n .
3 G - H , 3 . P a r k 3 r a n a lied aiid M i n a i e P a r k e r open
camp, B''ollowing c a l l e r s : P e r c y S a f f o r d ,
Ora lYhitnoy, R a l p h P a r k e r , M a u d B a r k e r ,
I f i i l i a r a H o y e s , 3 t h e l D o w,Fr ed Brown and
ICitty IXirgin,
31-ClosG ccrap,

June l l ~ 3 , S . P &amp; r k e r and H a r r y AmaKeen a r r i v e and
s u r v e y M i s s Day»s l o t . Lake v e r y h i g h .
June 19-Mr. &amp; M r s , n,B,White and C a r l "7hite and
M r , &amp; M r s , 3 , S . % . r k e r . B r i d g e from C o l b a t h
c o t t a g e s t i l l under w a t e r ,
June EO-Hed P a r k e r and Frejak Hussey a r r i v e . I ^ a i d
corner stohe of s t a b l e ,
June 21-Our boat t u r n e d o v e r a^nd s e a t s vmshed away
by h i g h w i n d s . C l o s e camp,
July
July

3 - E , 3 . P a r k e r , M i n i i i e Parker^Mr, &amp; Mrs, J,P.Hussey.1
4 - l e d P a r k e r and F i r , &amp; M r s , S . D . R o b e r t s a r r i v e .
Mr.Hussey and 3 . D . R o b e r t s and w i f e l e a v e .
Work p r o g r e s s i n g on s t a b l e .

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July

5Keeping
6o o o l and
7working
8on
9stable,
J u l y lO-Breaic camp,
J u l y 21-Re"r,3.I!.Goodwin,Mr,3 Goodwin,Mrs,Quinby,
Lena ^^uiaby,Amanda Home,Leora Home and
Mrs, S.S.-parker a r r i v e . To A i k e n * s f o r i c e ,
July 2E-Cniiet,
July 23-Mr,Goodwin t a k e s p i c t u r e s , G o to B a y f o r
supplies,
J u l y 24-25-26-Same p a r t y , C l o s e camp,
Aug, 7-Minnie Parker,Agnss B e r r y , B e s s i e P e r n a l d ,
and Ralph P a r k e r ?,rrive,lQd P a r k e r and
P e r c y S a f f o r d drove up a t 12:30 Afl,
Aug, 8-Had el's.ms b3.ksd i n t h e sand,
Aug, 9-Closed camp.
Aug, 15-Vfaldo O.Vamey and H a t t i e Kurd o f A l t o n
and Hed P a r k e r and Minnie P a r k e r . F i r s t
corn r o a s t of season.
Aug, 19-H,S,''^arker,S.S,-^arker and Maiy P a r k e r a r r i v e
Also H e l l i e Sdgerly.
Aug. 2GAug, 21-S.P,Nute a r r i v e s . Caught two p i c k e r e l , B r i d g e
no?/ open t o t r a f f i c ,
Aug, 22-Hed P a r k e r and Minnje P a r k e r a r r i v e . S p r i n g
w a t e r drin?CHble f o r f i r s t time t h i s y e a r ,
Aug, 23-CloBed camp,
Sep, 25-H,S.Parker,S,S,Parker and ifery P a r k e r a r r i v e
F i n d Cfunp b u r g l a r i z e d and irBiisaoked,Entrance
e f f e c t e d by b r e a k i n g west f r o j t window on
second f l o o r . Ho s e r i o u s l o s s ,
Sep, 2C&gt;-Hed P a r k e r and Minnie P a r k e r a r r i v e , v/e see
gray s q u i r r e l s t a r t t o swim the Bay but
tui'ned back when we went to h i s r e s c u e ,
Sep, 27- Closed camp,
Oct,
Oct.

5-3,S.Parker,Mary P a r k e r and Edna Horne,
G-Captured a b l u e j a y &lt;?jnd a p i c k e r e l ,
ifevving b o u l d e r s a t l a n d i n g s p l i t out,Aggie
Horne a r r i v e s . Hew r o a d a c r o s s Bay b e i n g
finished.

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1897
UcTT 7 -.lent
to Indian Camp on G e r r i s h Point,
Fo\md large p e s t l e on beach, oottery
fragments and part o f p i p e , a l s o o l d
f i r e p l a c e , Dr,.7heatley and A.ii;,i\itnara
take l a d i e s f o r r i d e ,
Oct, 8- Took p i c t u r e s , C l o s e d camp and returned home.
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UP. E6-Ned a r k e r came to camp,to p a i n t boat.
Arah Jones did the work.
ft,

9-Rev.S.E.Sinclair,3.S.-^arker and S.P.Nute
Lake f u l l of r o t t e n i c e .

ly

1-Mr. 8c LIrs. .V.I.Nutter and Mr.c'i Itrs.Ned
Parker,

y

5-3.S.5arker and Mary Parker a r r i v e and
launch the boat.

U

13-S.3.Parker v i s i t e d camp a f t e r c a l l i n g a t
the Beard cottage purchased y e s t e r d a y .

ly

18-S,3.Parker and Mary Parker c a l l a t camp.

May
May
May
May
May

27-3.3.Parker,Mjary Parker and S.P.Nute a r r i v e .
28-J.M.Davis and N e l l i e Davis of H a v e r h i l l
and H.S.Parker,Minnie Parker and Ned Parker
arrive.
29-7i3ited C r y s t a l F a l l s and G e r r i s h P o i n t .
Hed and compunion c a t c h 30 t r o u t . look
pictures.
30-Built a wharf .S.P.Nute went home.
31-/.F.Baston takes b r e a k f a s t w i t h us having
ridden 90 m i l e s yesterday from Lynn on h i s
wheel. Close oamp.

June 16-3,3.Parker,l,tery Parker,Leora Home,Imogene
St rat ton, Edna Home,i)jnanda Horne, Rev. Siho l a i r
wife and son arrive.&lt;^aught f i v e p i c k e r e l and
t\70 (luarts of s t r a w b e r r i e s .
Jane 17-Vi3ited Cascade and G e r r i s h Cove f o r b e r r i e s .
June 18-Caught four p i c k e r e l . Hew road completed.
Closed camp.
July
July
July
July
July

2-H.3.Parker,E.P.Nute,Hed ^arker,S.S.Parker,
S.P.Hate,Harry Nute.Vira
Voodward,Hellie
S.Nute,Mary Parker,Minnie Parker a r r i v e d .
3-Hottest day ever experienced a t l a k e .
4-News of d e s t r u c t i o n of Cervera»s f l e e t o f f
Santiago received.High wind,no fiirworks.
5-E.P.Nate and ffamily,S.S.Parker and Ned and
Minnie r e t u r n home.
6-Provisions gone i n c l u d i n g 19 loave^j of bread
so we c l o s e camp.

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Tilly 20-Mp. &amp; Mrs. Ned Parker and Mrs.J.F.Hussey.
July 21-Ned went home hut returned.Cyclone i n
Famincton.Only l i g h t shower h e r e .
July 22-Cruiet.
July 23-H.3.Parker and J.F.Hussey a r r i v e . N e d gets
in a t 1 Ail.
July 24-v';uiet.
July 25-.,'e depart.
July 27-2.H.Cook and wife,Ltrs.Agnes Home and Edna
Home,Nellie Edgerly,S.S.Parker and Mary
Parker a r r i v e .
July 28-Cook and Parker c a t c h s i x f i n e p i c k e r e l .
July 29-Hot and q u i e t .
July 30-auiet.
July 31-Clarenoe Home and Mrs. Amanda Home a r r i v e .
AUg. 1 -Entire party v i s i t Bay and walk back,
y.ug, 2-Blackberrie3 and high bush b l u e b e r r i e s r i p e n i n g .
Aug, 3-Close camp.
Aug.
i
'Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
^ug.
AUg.
. Aug.
I Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.

12-1^. &amp; Mrs. Ned Parker,H.S.Parker and Harold
Tibbetts a r r i v e .
13-Ned walked to Bay f o r p r o v i s i o n s .
14-P.H.Safford and George F.Berry c a l l .
15- Nothing but r e s t .
16-More of same.
17-Ralph T.Parker and h i s c o u s i n Fred Jood of
Lawrence,Kansas a r r i v e .
18-;uiet.
19-Ned caught t e n t r o u t i n Jones Brook.
20-Rest.
21-Go to Campmeeting.Ride to S t r a f f o r d Club i n
steamer Farmington.
22-Close camp.

Aug. 25-Slvah Hayes,Fannie Hayes,S.P.Nate,Mary Parker,
and S.S.Parker a r r i v e .
;, 26-Y/elcome Jones catches s t r i n g of whiting o f f
Big Rock.Leaves them on porch and a c a t t n k e s
them away.
27- Bessie F e m a l d a r r i v e s . J o h n Cloutman c a l l s .
28- V i s i t Cascade and I n d i a n Gove. Set b i g f e r n
i n tub.
;• 29-Cl03e camp.
. 13-S.S.Parker and Mary Parker v i s i t camp and
close i t f o r t h e w i n t e r .

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ZprT
I

15-iJ.F.Nute and S.S.Parlcer v i s i t camp.
I c e i s 25" t h i c k .

Hay

22-t'Ir. • Mrs. S.S.Parker.Found peewee with
nest and four eggs under p i a z z a .
23-Roturn home.

IMay

!fey
Mr
May

May

25-Rev. O.K. Sine l a i r and wife,TIorris S i n c l a i r
Mrs. Home,Judge Shute and Mrs. Shute of
Exeter,Dick Shute and s i s t e r N a t a l i e and
S.S.Parker and Llarj Parker.
26-Men rowed to Chesnut Cove find f i s h e d f o r
t r o u t . Shute f a m i l y r e t u m by afternoon
t r a i n to Rochester where they w i l l take
c a r r i a g e to E x e t e r .
27-Chesnut Cove again.Catch two t r o u t . Close
camp i n the PM.

June lO-Charles /.Tibbetts and S.S.Parker v i s i t
camp,stopping a t Rocky Point Cottage.
Jtoe 30-R.S.Parker,E.P.Nute,S.P.Nute and S.S.Parker
July
1-Nellie Nute,Harry Nute and Molly Nute
a r r i v e , E . P . Nute having gone down f o r them.
My
2Jtily
3-Ned Parker and Minnie P a r k e r , V i r a Voodward
and S.S.Parker and I/Iary Parker a r r i v e .
Caught s i x p i c k e r e l v/eighing nine pounds
E.P. c a t c h i n g liirge3t(2%V l b . ) Best c a t c h
yet made by our campers.
4-Usual Fourth w i t h f i r e w o r k s .
July 5-Nute feunily depart. Leora Horne a r r i v e s .
July
66Ned and Miimie r e t u r n home.Catch two p i c k e r e l .
July
7-Pick b l u e b e r r i e s . Close camp.
July
July
Jaly
July

10-Ned Parker,Minnie Parker and Mrs.Hussey.
11-J.F.Hussey a r r i v e s .
12-H.S.Parker a r r i v e s .
13-H.D.Parker c o n s t r u c t s s e r i e s of steps i n
banking a t l e f t of house.Returns home.
Jtly 14-Close camp and go home.
26-E.&lt;].Cook and w i f e , F . P . P i e r c e and w i f e ,
S.S."*'arker and Mary Parker.
WLy
2728-'&gt;7.A.iamball,y/ife and son Join p a r t y .
July 29-Cold and wind^-.
July 30-

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Toly 31-Klraball3 depart,
|B£. 1-Edith A.Gowen a r r i v e s ,
ing, 2- N e l l i e Sdgerly l e a v e s . Vie break camp,
ing.
Aug.
Aug.

5-F, 7.Doring,3,3,Parker and S,?,Nute a r i v e ,
6-Visit Barr l a n d , P i c k b l u e b e r r i e s . F i n d stone
of Indian rafg,on h i l l behind cottage,
7-Break camp,

Aug, 19-H,3,-^arker,S,3,-t'arker,Mary P a r k e r , N e l l i e
Edgerly,S,P,Nute and Leora Home l a n d ,
.ug, 20-Q:aiet,
21-H,3,Parker and 3,P.Nute r e t u r n home,Nell
Roberts,Agnes Home and Edna Pome a r r i v e .
Also Fannie F a l l ,
Aug, 2EAug, 23-3,P.Nute r e t u r n s to camp,
Aug, 24-3,P,N, walks to Bay f o r s u p p l i e s ,
Aag, 25-CrO to campmeeting, Fannie F a l l goes home,
Aug, 26- H,3,Parker and 3,3,Parker j o i n p a r t y ,
Aag, 27-jJrs, Augusta Rose and E z e k i e l Hayes c a l l ,
Aag. 28-Close camp.
Oct, 5-S,3,Parker v i s i t s camp f i n d i n g water lower
than ever before.
5oT. 11-H,S,Parker and S,S,JParker c a l l a t camp,
snowstorm p r e v a i l i n g .
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0 0

y-Ked Parker,i.lianie Parker.I.Iary Parker and
S.O.Parker walk up from Bay.Ice 1 6 . C u t
fourteen holes f o r f i s h i n g .
tl, 8-Measure distance a c r o s s Bay from B i g Rock
at 1295 feet.V/ater l &amp; ^ f t from B i g Rock,
lb. 9-Mary and Minnie leave f o r home. H.S.'^arker
and Ned take i n l i n e s . Catch only one cusk.
Close camp.
5-S.S.-'^arker c a l l s a t camp. F i n d s wharf and
bridge to B i g Rock badly damaged by i c e ,
Mayflowers i n bloom, V/ater a s high a s l a s t y e a r .
17-S,S.Parker

c a l l s a t camp.

25- H.S.Parker and S.S.Parker open camp,
2627- Find peewees i n o l d nest,under p i a z z a roof.
Repair platform and bridge.Mary J'arker a r r i v e s ,
V/e v i s i t G e r r i s h Cove shore.
28- Set out small spruce t r e e on l o t .
29- Cl03e camp.
2-S,3,-*-arkor and S.P,Nute,Fished and caUjght two
p i c k e r e l . Perch too p l e n t i f u l , F r e d Perce of
Dover a r r i v e d . Mosquitoes very annoying,
le 3-Visited upper cottage and shore near AikenJ's.
le 4-Pearce l e a v e s f o r Lover awheel,'Ve walk to *ay
at 6 JiK c l o s i n g camp.
e21-3.3,'^'^&amp;rker,Mary Parker and Minnie Parker a r r i v e .
Could not uailock door so forced r e a r window.
Jto.22-CtLUght 2^ l b picker-vl, Mr,&amp; Mrs, augene Foss
arrive.
^,23-H,S.'^arker a r r i v e s . S,S,
Mary Parker leaveo
Foss catches four t r o u t , L a d i e s p i c k a quart
of strav/berries.
Jto.24-Ned Parker a r r i v e d from Rochester on a wheel
with S.P,Nute from Farmington,
Jta,25-Close camp, H,S, a r k e r goes to Volfboro to
soe Uncle Dock. Jul. 3-H,3.Parker,S.S.Parker and Ifery P a r k e r . L a t e r
Ned Parker sjid Minnie Parker and Byron Home
and wife a r r i v e on t h e Greyhound,
W.. 4-Breezy and oool,
Jtd. 5-Hic;h wind. Close camp.

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woe
Tdy 27-h,Lj.parlcer,3.?.ITute and S.3,•'•arlcer,advance
guard a r r i v e . L a t e r 3,?,Hnte,iJdllie Ilute
Mary Parlcer,P.F.-barker,Harry Hute and Molly
Hate a r r i v e . C.V/.Tibbetta brings up wood stove.
My 28-LIinnie Parlcer and V i r a 'Voodward ai'rive.P.F.
Parker and S.P.Hute b u i l d an I n d i a n teepee and
3lee|) i n i t .

My 29-Ned Parker a r r i v e s ,
July 30-Rebuild wharf. P.F.Parker puts up r a i l around
Big

PvOek.

My 31-Seven quaj^ts of b l u e b e r r i e s picked.
Aug. l-P.F.'^'^arkGr,]Ied ^'arkor and S.P.Hute go up
Mt .Major,
Aug, 2-Remnved boulders from our harbor,
lug. 3-3.P.Nute walks to Bay f o r p r o v i s i o n s ,
ing, 4-nunt for Indijin pottery on opposite shore.
ing, 5-Part of p^irty go to Bay to s e r v i c e s .
ing, 6-Nute f a m i l y a l s o H.S.,Mary,S.S,Parker and V i r a
V/oodward depart.
Aug. 7-S.?.Nute r e t u r n s with news that Perce i s to
leave f o r Y/est so we c l o s e camp.
Aug.

9-H.S.Parker,Ned Parker and Minnie Parker r e t u r n
to oamp. Lay f l o o r around stove i n shed.
Aug. 10-Minnie fJnds four mice i n i c e box.Arah Jones
comes up and c a t c h e s f i v e n i c e p i c k e r e l f o r u s ,
Aug. ll-Close camp. Daring t h i s s t a y a game of b a l l
was played i n back f i e l d ,
Aug, 17-Mr. &amp; Llrs. C.E.Home,Leora &amp; Edna a r r i v e . P i c k
three quarts of bla.ckberries.
Aug, 18-Mr. ^5 Mrs. Byron Giliiiaii arrive.More blt;ckberries.
Aug, 19-Leo C i l n a n and Hai-ry P u l s i f e r a r r i v e . H i g h v;inds.
Aug. 20-A11 go to Loon Cove by team. S.S.Parker and
Mary Parker a r r i v e .
Aag. 21-Bernice GiLiian a r r i v e s .
Aug. 22-Party come and go,some l e a v i n g f o r home others
returning to camp.
Aug, 23-Frank Webster,Leo Oilman,Orrin i'all,Mrs. Chips
Fletcher aro now of the p a r t y ,
tag. 24-Vi3ited Club House a t West Alton,
lag. 25-Portion of party went over lake on the Mount.
ftDgt 26-Harry Puis i f or and Roy Armstrong a r r i v e .
Close caiap.

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3ep726-H.3.Parker,C. /.Roberts and v/ife,S.S.Parker
and v/ife open camp,
3ep.27-Kunting but no l u c k ,
Sep.28-Saw seven ducks,too high to shoot. Close camp,
»t,22-3,S.barker c a l l s a t camp.
JOT, 7-H,S,Parker and S,J,Parlcer c a l l a t camp,
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^ Bay" 4-S,3,Parker and 3,P.Nute c a l l a t oamp but are
unable to get i n ,
lay 16-H.3.Parker,3.S.Parker,Mary
Parker and 3.D.
Roberts open camp,
lay 17-HeBair wharf, H,S,Parker s e t apple and plum t r e e ,
liy
Close camp,
Jin, 5-ij:,D,Robert3 and S,S,'^arker c a l l a t camp,
Jta,24-n,3,Parker,3.3.Parker,Mary m r k e r and Leora Home
Caught good pickerel.Peewee has b u i l t nev/ n e s t .
Am.25-w'ork on bridge to B i g Rock,3,S.P, goes home,
Jtta.26-3,3,Parker back. Repair w o r k . V i s i t B a r r ' s It-nd,
Jttn,27-Abbie L i n s c o t t and Mr,Colemaa c a l l . C l o s e camp,
M, 2-H,3,Parker,S,S,Parker,Nell Noyes and Mr,Clark
a r r i v e to d r i v e a w e l l .

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1901
3-Driving w e l l . Pound tvo f e e t water a t 21 f e e t .
Started at 6:30 m found water a t 8:00
AM.
Mary Parker,Minnie Parker and Edna Horne a r r i v e .
Jaly 4-Repair causev/ay and v i s i t Mrs, K e l l y . F r e d Pearce
and S.P.TIute a i r i v e ,
ftily 5-Close ca.mp,
Jaly 6-Mr, &amp; l i r s , L.R.Browne of Melrose and H.B.White
arrive v i a Jenness staamer
July 7- ,uiet,
July 8-Iirs, V/m, Tings.te and Mrs, H.B. Vhite a r r i v e ,
July 9-/ra,.'/ingate a r r i v e s , C a t c h eleven p i c k e r e l ,
/ingates l e a v e f o r home,
JulylO-Uuiet,
Jttl,ll-R.B.;7hite and w i f e depart,
Jal.l2-Quiet,
Jtil,13-.7ent over laJce on the Mount,
Jal,14-Mr. &amp; Mrs, C,H,Brovm of Farmington v i s i t u s ,
Jtil,15-Close camp. Boh t a i l e d red s q u i r r e l mentioned,
Jttl,22-H.S,Parker,3,3,Parker,P,F.Parker,Hed
Parker
S,P.Nate,3.P.Hute.Harry Hate,Mary Parker,
Minnie Parker and H e l l i e Hute and Mollie Hute.
Harry Hute catches 3 bass,2 whiting,6 s u n f i s h ,
Wt.23-Repair v/harf and b u i l d r u s t i c s e a t ,
M.24-Vira 'Joodward a r r i v e s ,
Jal.25-?i3it Sandy Bay,Catch 2 p i c k e r e l , P i c k b l u e b e r r i e s
Uncle Joe Drew c a l l s ,
Jtil.26-Vi3it Sandy Bay again and f i n d arrow head and
bits of pottery,
Jal.27-R.De'.7itt Burnham takes o n r p a r t y on Greyhound
to Rattlesnake Island,See baldhead eagle and
two l 0 ) n s , H a r r y catches a p i c k e r e l , E,P,Nate
constructs r u s t i c s e a t on lov/er p o i n t ,
Jalt28-P.F.Parker l e a v e s f o r Hew York,
Jttl,29-'7e close camp,
, 8-S.S,''^arker and Mary Parker, V i s i t Sandy Bay,
, 9-Again v i s i t Sandy Bay cottage,
Aag,24-H.S,Parker,3,S,l'arker,Mary Parker and Edna Horne,
C a l i s t a Berry and '.Vill Berry a r r i v e l a t e r ,
Aug.25-Visit Sandy Bay and Echo Point,Cascade very f i n e ,
V/ater h i ^ - v / i t h i n foot of s t a i r s ,
in£.26-V/e close camp.

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1901
^ep7-7-3,3,Parker,Mary Parker,Rev•.'c Mrs• A,L.Colder
and Ilarold a r r i v e . Took a number o f p i c t u r e s
with 3.3.P. camera,
S«p.28-Caught p i c k e r e l f o r b r e a k f a s t , P a i n t e d r u s t i c
seat r e d , V i s i t e d Parker cottage No,3 and Echo
point,Clpsed camp,
Oot, 17-3.3.Parker,Mary 'arker and E.3.Parker.
Oot,18-Shot tv/o p a r t r i d g e s b£.ok of 3am Colbath's
High wind and c o l d . Retnnned home.
HOT,21-Rev,ft.,L.Colder and 3,3.Parker v i s i t camp.
Some snow on ground.

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1902:L'ir.l3-Rev,A,L.(T0lder and w i f e and S.S.-t'arker
and v/ife v i s i t camp.Ice 18" deep.Mr.Colder
remained over night and caught one cusk,
Apr, 17-3.3. and tTary Parker a t oamp, Rlayflov/^rs
in bloom,Ice went out Apr,2nd &amp; 3rd,Very e a r l y .
May 1-Rev,A,L.Colder and wife and S.S.Parker and
wife and Harold Colder.
May 2-Caught one bass.Peewee i n nest a g a i n .
May 3-Return home.
Hay 20-Dick Shute of E x e t e r w i t h Frank Swett and
S,S,^arker i n camp.

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Itey 21-Fi3h0d f o r trout, but no lucic.aimnubciBtaip.
May 22-Fi3hing again,Return home.
May 29-H.3.Parlcer,3,3.Parker,Mary Parker and
Fannie Hayes open camp.
May 30-Peev/ee has n e s t f u l l of young,3,P.Nute
a r r i v e s . P a i n t i n g and r e p a i r i n g .
Kay 31-Caught f i v e perch i n Boat Cove.
Jun, 1-K.S.Parker and Stan go to Bay,others to
Cascade.
Jm, 2-Retum home.
Jul. 3-Rev, A,L.Colder fuad wife,and Harold and
S.S.Parker find Mary Parker a r r i v e ,
Jul. 4-Mr.Colder p a i n t s view of lake,A,£,Putnam
given our party a r i d e ,
, 5-Dean Knox and v/ife and Mrs, Mooney c a l l ,
,22-Annual outing of family-H,3,-barker,3,S,Parker
Ned Parker,Mary Parker and Minnie Parker,
E,?,Nute,Nellie Nute,3.?.Nute,Harry Nute
and Molly Nute and Edna Home, Molly and
Edna both f a l l i n , Dr,Patten'a house n e a r l y
completed,
Ja.l.23-Harry catches f i v e f i s h ,
Jui.24-(iuiet,
Ju.l.25-Ned and Arah Jones c a t c h 13 large p i c k e r e l ,
Arthur Waldron and wife c a l l , A l s o F r e d Pearce
and wife End i^^ugene Ogden of Dover.
Jul.2C-Ned and Arah go to Oilman's pond i n E a s t Alton
and c a t c h seven pickerel,;lrah c a t c h i n g tv/o
on one hook a t once, Mrs, S.S.Parker b i r t h d a y ,
Ju4.37-Georgo Davis,George Roberts and Clarence
lYoodman c a l l ,
,28-E,P,Nute and Ned Parker f i n i s h r u s t i c fence
and E,P.Nute completes f i n e r u s t i c seat near
s t a i r s f S,P.Nute goes home,
Jtil.29-Close camp,

Aug.l6-H.S,Parker,S,S,Parker,Mary
P a r k e r , V i r a v/oodward
and Mrs, Natt Roberts a r r i v e ,
Aug.l7-S.?.Nute c a l l s on u s , iJLsoA.E,Putnam.William
v/entworth and Harry Horton c a l l .
Aug.l8-.7omen v i s i t campmeeting,John F , H a l l , w i f e and
daugliter c a l l ,
Aug.l9-Measure land a c r o s s the l a k e ,
Aag,20-Iieora Home a r r i v e s . Vis i t Patten's i n new home,
Aug,21-Return home.

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1902

Oot, 25-C,F,Tovrae and S,S,par]cer c a l l a t camp.

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1902

Jan. 14-Ued -'^arlcer a r r i v e s alone and s e t s a number
of l i n e s , I c e 12" t h i c k ,
15-Caught four cusk. Went home.
Mar. 7-Rev,E,D,Disbrow,v/ife and daughter and S , S ,
Parker and Mary Parker v i s i t camp,walking
down on the i c e from Loon Cove,Ice 18" t h i c k .
Walked on i c e to Bay,
Mar. 27-Rev,S,D,Disbrow,S.P.Nute and S.S.Parker i n
oamp. Lake s t i l l i c e covered.
Apr, 22-Mr3,Ned Parker, S.S. park er and Mary Parker
open camp. Water lower than a y e a r ago,
Apr, 23-Ned Parker a r r i v e s , F , P e a r c e and Harry Horton
call,^Peewee j u s t f i n i s h i n g n e s t ,
Apr, 24-Return nome,Saw t h r e e loons. Beard cottage
s o l d today.
May 14-H,S,Parker,3,S,farker and Mrs, S.S.Parker
row to camp from Loon Cove a f t e r having to
put i n a t C o l l i n ' s during bad shower.
May 15-Selected s i t e f o r new c o t t a g e , V i s i t e d Stodard
a t Sandy Bay,Three eggs i n Peev/ee n e s t .
May 16- Leave f o r home.

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1903
SajTSO-n.S,Parker,Ned Parker,Minnie Parker,
May 31-John 0,-7,Jones c a l l e d , L a k e Tory low, Peewee
nest f u l l of yoxing,
JUl. 2-n,3,Parker,S.3,4*arker,Mary Parker.Find peewee
with second brood of young,Boat r i d e i n Dr,
Patten's boat to K e l l y cottage and b r i n g back
our brown boat,
J u l . 3-C.0,York drove w e l l a t our nev7 cottage,Water
at 21' but w e l l driven 26»,Ned and M n n i e
arrive,
Jol, 4-Boat r a c e s from Cambridge Club to Sandy Point,
Fred Pearce and wife,Ed Cook emd w i f e , . / i l l
Kimball,wife and son a l l of Dover c a l l ,
S,P.Nute j o i n s us a t 8 PM.
JUL, 5 - V i s i t B a r r ' 3 f o r milk.Sing a t Pearce cottage.
Jul. 6-Heard a loon t h i s morning.Close camp,
Jal,13-Martha Manning Disbrow,Katherine Ruth Smith
of NY,Mrs, F,Conger Smith,NY,Edward D.Disbrow,
Maud B.Disbrow a r r i v e . S.P.Nute guided the
party i n over C h i l c o o t P a s s ,
JtJ.,14©Party v;ent over lake on the Mt,7/ashington,
Jtil.l5-The Dominie and the Doctor climb Mt,Major,
Jul.l6-Party retiirns home,
Jul,16-H.S.Parker,Mr. &amp; Mrs, S,S.Parker,Leora and
Edna Home and S.P.Nute a r r i v e to look over
and f a m i s h the new cottage the "Lookout".
Jul.l7-Laboring around the Lookout.
J u l . l 8 - S t i l l a t v;ork.Albert Otis j o i n s u s ,
Jul,19-Return home,
Jttl.27-Mary P a r k e r , C a l i s t a B e r r y , K a t r i n a Nau and
Mary F,Colbath of .7ashington,D,C,
Jul.31-H,S,Parker,MR,(5: Mrs, E,P,Nute,Molly and
Harry Nute,S,S,Parker and Ned Parker a r r i v e .
Had to break i n r e a r door,E.P.Nate,S.S.Parker
and Ned r e t u m to Farmington.
Aug. 1-Vira V/oodward j o i n s us,Mr, &amp; Mrs, Towns and son
C a r r o l l call,E,P,Nate r e t u r n s v/ith basket of
hot l o b s t e r s ,
Aug, 2-Quiet,
Aug, 3-Ned P a r k e r goes to Bay f o r white i r o n bed,
Aug. 4-Re V, Dish row. Prof ,Towne and Ned Parker climb
Mt,Major and p i c k 25 qts blueberries,Htirry
Nute c a t c h e s Ifirge p i c k e r e l ,
Aug, 5-Rainy,
Aug. 6-S,P.Nate back with us.Prof.Arah Jones and
Ned Parker c a t c h f i v e p i c k e r e l , S.S. &amp; Mary
Parker a r r i v e .

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190S

Hg.'
Aug.
Aug,
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
'Aug.
Aug.
^Aug.

7-E.?.Ifate goes to Concord,S.S,Parker to
Farmington,Four more p i c k e r e l caught, H,S,
Parker and Ned s p l i t wood,
8-E,P,Nttte b u i l d s a length of r u s t i c fence i n
f r o n t of cottage,
9-Mary and Minnie go to Campmeeting, S,P.Nute
Miss Maude Drew,Kenry Browne and Miss Minnie
H a l l v i s i t us during the day.
10-::.P.Nute f i n i s h e s r u s t i c fence.atgjcBJganxgxaii.
11-Most of party l e f t yesterday.H.S.x-arker
a r r i v e s . C h a s , P e r k i n s gathered his'^hay i n f i e l d
near the cottage,
12-Quiet,
13-Mrs, Hussey a r r i v e s , H , S , r?- Ned Parker s p l i t
l a r g e l o g and placed i t a t l e f t corner of
cottage,
14-!;Ir, &amp; Mrs, Towne c a l l , Towne and Ned go to
F a l l s brok f o r l i v e b a i t but k i l l good s i z e d
p i c k e r e l w i t h an oar,
15-S,S,Parker and J,F,Hussey a r r i v e ,
16-Quiet, S,S,Parker l e a v e s f o r home by wheel,
17- Close camp,

5, ? -Mrs, L o i s A,Manning of Andover,Mass. Mr, &amp; Mrs.^
John H.Manning of Croton^Mervyn M.Manning,
Mr, &amp; Mrs. a.D.Disbrow and Maud B.Disbrow
spent HHB two weeks a t camp. Took p i c t u r e s
of cottage and c h i l d r e n i n boat,
Sep. 1£-S,3,Parker and Mary Parker a r r i v e to v/atch
p a i n t e r s on camp Lookout,Painted s t a i r s
and platform. Returned home,
^Sep. 28-H,S,Parker,MR, &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker,Trimmed out
new l a n d a t fooji of h i l l ,
Jot.

10-Albert O t i s and v/ife,Mrs, C,E,Home and Edna
and Mirs, S.S,Parker c a l l e d a t oamp.

Hot.

2-S,S,Parker v i s i t s cottage.

Hot.

4-S,S,Parker drops i n a g a i n .

Hot. 11-Mr A Mrs, A l b e r t Otis,Fir, &amp; Mrs, S.S.Parker
and i U b e r t LaBounte b u i l d bridge over s p r i n g
stream,
loT. 12-n,S,Parker and E,P.Nute a r r i v e and s u r p r i s e
u s . Bridge f i n i s h e d , .7e c l o s e camp f o r season,
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1904
Jan,
Jan,
Jan,

0 4

7-7alcLo C.Varney PM a t A l t on, Byron H.Horn of
Rochester and Ned Parker a r r i v e to f i s h ,
8-Dr,Stokes of Rochester a r r i v e s ,
9-Rough weather,Poor f i s h i n g , R e t u r n home,

Aprl. 8-Mr, &amp; Mrs, S.S.Parker v i s i t camp,Ice over
e n t i r e Bay but open round s h o r e s .
May 7-I.Ir,&amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker and Mrs,Randall v i s i t
camp but stop a t Lookout cottage.H.S.Parker,
A l b e r t LaBounte and Whitehoues are f i n i s h i n g
road begun l a s t f a l l .
May 27-Llr,&amp; Mrs, S.S.Parker v i s i t Camp Lookout
and c a l l a t Pine Bluff.Some g l a s s broken by
heavy h a i l storm previous day. Stopped a t
Camp Lookout, re turning home May 3 1 s t ,
June 4-S,S,'^arker i n camp,
Jtine 5-Fred Pearce and Harry Horton a r e a t L a k a i r ,
Jane 6-Closo camp,

June 22-Mr,
Mrs, S.S.Parker and S.P.Nute a t camp,
Jun. 24-7ent to Sandy Bay, Prof .Bering a r r i v e s a t
Lookout, Retum home.
Hoard
Jun.28-Mrs.J.G.5toraxd o f S.Dak.,Ralph D.Hoard,ditto,
Mrs,Thomas T . S u l l i v a n of Chicago,S.D.Disbrov;,
Mrs, Disbrow and Maud Disbrow.Enjoyed s e v e r a l daj
climbing Mt.Major J u l y 1st and 2nd, Returned
home J u l y 2nd.

Jul. 2-H.S.Parker,E.P.Iftite,Mrs.E.P.Nute,Harry Nute
Molly Nute,!to. &amp; Mrs. S.S.Parker open camp.
Jul. 3-(&gt;aiet.
Jul. 4-Sports a t Pine B l u f f .Contestants included
F r e d Pearce,Harold Kimball,Ernest Day,Dr.
Charles Patten,S.P.Nute,S.S,Parker,7ill Kimball
Mr.Yeaton,Herbert Emerson,Al Vamey,Mrs. E.Day,
Miss Johnson,Merrill Patten,David Patten,
Harry Nute,James Planner and L a f a y e t t e .7oodman
were r e f e r e e s . P r o f . D o r i n g a l s o attended.
Jul. 18-Joseph Loud,Mrs.Loud,Harry and Marion Loud,
and David Loud of j\ndover,Mass. and H.S.Parker
S.S.Parker and Mary Parker open camp,
Jul. 19Jul.20-

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Jul,2I-Molly jRUte Joins u s . a blueberry t r i p to
Mt.MaJor r e s u l t s i n tv/enty q u a r t s .
Jul.22-Celebration of S t e l l a Loud's birthday.
Jul.2S-Aunt E l v i r a /oodward a r r i v e s .
J u l . 2 4 - V i s i t Sandy Bay.
Jul.25-B6rt Stevens,Belle Stevens,Mildred Stevens
and George 11.Stevens a r r i v e f r o a L i t t l e t o n .
JU1.26-Celebrate Maiy Parker's birthday.
Jul.27-Joseph Loud goes home.Party goes to Bay i n
rowboats.
Jul.28-Birthday of Dana J.Loud,8 years o l d , V i s i t
Farmington,dinner w i t h N e l l i e N u t e , v i s i t
Mr,Doring i n evening.
Jul,29-Bert Stevens l e a v e s u s . Prof.Doring c a l l s ,
Jul,30-Close camp,
Aug.14-H,S,Parker,Ned Parker,S,P,Hute and Harry
Hate a r r i v e a t camp,
Aug,15-n;aiet,
Aug,lb-Qaiet,
Aug,17-K,P,Nute,C,;7.T,V/illson and Mrs,Hed Parker
arrive,
Aug,18-K.S.Parker,E.P.Nate and Hed Parker depart,
E,D,Dlsbroiv and B u s t e r Manning spend night
w i t h u s a f t e r climbing *lt,MjiJor,
Aug,19-Arah Jones c a l l e d , E,P,Hate b u i l t r a i l i n g
up the path,n,S &amp; Ned Parker l e a v e ,
Aug,20-Close camp,
Sep,18-Mrs, J.M.Davis,S.S.barker
a t camp f o r the day,
Oct, 7-Mr,

&amp;

hira,

and w i f e , c a l l e d

S.S,Parker a t camp f o r the day,

Hov,10-Mr,&amp; Mrs, Ned Parker and Mary Parker v i s i t
camp and care f o r bedding e t c ,
Dec, 8-H.S.Parker and S.S.Parker a t camp. F i n d
lake f r o z e n to Aiken's P o i n t . I c e four
inches a t oamp.
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�1905
itar.lG-Red Parlcer and S.S.Parlcer v i s i t camp.Two
f e e t of ioe and heavy snow.
Apr,

Albert Otis.lfery Parlcer and S.S.Parlcer
at camp. I c e over lake but open near s|^ore,

Apr,S8-IvTr. &amp; l-Irs. Nod Parker v i s i t cejap, Water low.
Find Mayilov/ers.
:!ay 13-S,S,Parker a t cottage,Water lowest i n 20 y e a i ^
May 24-Ned Parker and S,S,Parker and Mary Parker
a t camp f o r day. Painted boat and r u s t i c work,
Jan,ll-IAr &amp; Mrs, Ned Parker spend day a t camp. F i n d
sweet peas,creepers £tnd vegetables growing
finely,
Jun.22-Carpenters and masons begin work on k i t c h e n ,
Jun,23-H,S.Parker,Ned Parker and Mary Parker a r r i v e ,
Jan.24-Chimney completed,Good s t a r t on k i t c h e n .
Jul. 4-H.S.Parker,Vira •,Yoodward,S.P.Nate,Mrs.a.P.
Nute,Stanley and Harry Nute Ned and Minnie
P a r k e r , F r a n k l i n Parker,S.3.-^'arker,Mary Parker
A.N.Lin'Joln,v/ife and s i x children,Robert
Taiuier 8.nd v/ife,L.'.Voodman and w i f e , F r e d
Pearce and w i f e , , / i l l ICimball,wife and son
Harold,Mr.Bradley and Miss Gov/an,i^.yeaton
wife and tv/o daughters. Dr. Pa tten,v/ife and
t h r e e children,Mr.Wheeler,wife and two
children,Dr.Garland and wife,Smma H a l l and
Minnie H a l l , F r e d Patch and Don Patch,Miss
B u t l e r and o t h e r s . A l l enjoyed the day v/ith
v/ater races and about f o r t y s a t down to a
p i c n i c dinner,
Jal.l2-Mr .^c Mrs. Ned Parker and F r a n k l i n a r r i v o .
Stay a month during v/hich we have among other
callers,H.S,-i-'arker,Vira Woodward,Mr, c?; lAra
J,F,Hussey,Miss Maude Drew,3,P,Nute,Etta
T i b b e t t s and Harold T i b b e t t s . M r . M r s ,
C,/,Holme3 and sons,Ralph and Gordon Ocunp oh
the beach f o r a f o r t n i g h t .
Aug. 16-Close camp.

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1905
Iig72&lt;i-Mp &amp; Mrs. S.S.parker/7,L,Berry and C a l i s t a
Berry open oamp,
Aug. 27Aug,2Q-^//e leave f o r home*
Sep, 6-S,P,irate i n quest of Aunt C a l i s t a ' s s p e o t a c l e s ,
Oot, 6-Mr &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker,Paint back door,
Hov, 3-Nsd Parker and S,S,Parker c a l l e d .
SSD OF T H E SEASON

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1906

7eK7 1-H,S,Parker,S,S,Parker,Mary Parker and Ned
Parker open oamp, Borrcv/ed Pearce c a r t and
hauled ^ c o r d v/ooft up from the swamp,
Apr,19-D,J,Blli3on,Jtiliet P,Zimmerman,Eleanor F ,
Sander,Maud B,Pisbrow,Leora F,Otis,Mary
Parker,S,S,Parker,
16-Mary Parker catches 3 j[ I b . l a k o t r o u t i n
our f r o n t door yard,
y 17Hay 1819-S,S,Parker,Mary Parker and Florence Fayes
leave f o r home a f t e r s t a y i n g a t Lookout,
lay 30-Mr &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker,D, J , E l l i s o n and J u l i e t
P,Zimmerman
31-Close oamp.

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190C

Mr26-Mr
isra, 3.3.Parlcer,S.P,Nute and Molly Nute
at oottage,
Jun.2?d[ir^SjLsa,ry_begln3 e r e c t i o n of h i s cottage,
,28-C,S,IIorne»s coTtage coiSpleTed t h i s month.
Close camp and r e t u r n home,

r

Jul. ?-H,3,Parlcer,;:Ir &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker and S,J,'.Voodward
arjbire,
Jul. 4-Nute familj' a r r i v e d . T e r r i f i c thunder shower
drove us i n s i d e . I n evening went to Pearce
cottage to hear graphophone concert,
Jul. 5-John P,IIurd,Dena Perkins,Grace Hayes,Roy
Fraser,M£iude Drew and S,P.Nute stopped a t
camp,took boat and spent day a t the Cascade,
..Jul. 15-Maude Drew,Ellio Cloutman,iiilva Pike,S,P.Nute
at the cottage f o r the day,

Jal.l8-H.S.Parker,3.3,Parker.Vira Woodv/ard,Mary Parker
Maude Drev/ and S,P,Nate a r r i v e d ,
ftil.l9-TJp a t d£iybreak. Shingled p i a z z a roof,Ned a r r i v e d ,
Jal.20-S,P.Nute continues on the roof,
M.21-Stella Jjoud and Dana Loud j o i n u s ,
JUl,22-Find n i c e piece of I n d i a n pottery a t B i r c h Landing
ftil,23-Vira,Father,Stan and Maude r e t u r n hoae,
ftil.24-Cl03e up camp,
Aug. 4-Mr3, F.J,V/oodward,Lir ?c Mrs, 3,3,Parker,H,S,Parker
and S,P.Nute i n cajup.
ittg. 5-Vi3ited Home's cottage.Rode i n t h e i r boat,
in^'. 6-K.3,Parker and S.P.Nute board the wharf over,
ing. 7-Hed,Minnie ana F r a n k l i n and Leora a r r i v e ,
ing. 8-3,P.Hute responding to Dr,Patten's c r y f o r help
discovered Dr,badly burned i n h i s bof.thouse and
boat a f i r e from gasoline explosion. Put f i r e out
v;ith wet canvas,S.P.N, rowed to Bfiy i n 20 minutes
^HP
and phoned f o r Dr. / h e e l e r , F r a n k l i n got h i s head
stuck i n s l a t s of p i a z z a r a i l ,
^Y"?' 9-S,S.,H,S, Parker and S,P.Nate extend r u s t i c fence
I
to stairs,Two war oanoes passed today,
liag.lO-Took p i c t u r e s of F r a n k l i n , L e o r a and S,P,H, go
home,3,P.N, painted m s t i c fence,
11-Quiet,
^ K , 1 2 - H e d and Stan a r r i v e i n Dean A l l e n ' s steamer.
Very c o l d n i g h t ,
^ • g . l S - S a u i r r e l s very tame,at l e a s t eightbof them,Old
T
Bob T a i l s t i l l on deck. Close oamp.

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1906
-Mr,
Mrs, E,D.Disbrow and Maude Disbrow
enjoy the cottage and l a k e , Also E t h e l A,Hoard
of South Dakota.
U 6-H,3,rarker,Mrs,E,J.v/oodward,Mr * Mrs. S.S.Parker
i n oamp.
et, 7-JvIi^
Mrs. Day c a l l e d . A l s o Mr,Pearoec
Oot, 8-Aunt V i r a goes home. S.3.•'='arker goes gunning
on other shore but b r i n g s back only R . R . t i e s .
rt,26-S.S.Parker

v i s i t s cottage.

r,I£-Harry Hute and S.S,Parker v i s i t cottage.
EHD

OP

THE SEASON

mm
19

0 7

E'x'728-I,lr3. S.S,Parker,Holly Hute,Florence Hayes
and S,S.Parker.About 16" of i o e ,
ipr,23-Mr &amp; Mrs. S.S.Parker open up oottage. And
c l e a n up the upper cottage. I c e breaking up.
v/ater v e r y low,
lay
lay
lay
lay
lay

223tMr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker,Leora O t i s and Fred Pearce.
22-Severe f r o s t . ButaraxJamg.Leora goes home,
23-Trout f i s h i n g a t Red Rock Brook with some l u c k ,
24-v;ent to ^ a y , T r o l l e d f o r t r o u t , S e v e r a l b i t e s ,
25-,7ater f r o z e l a s t n i g h t , Retum home.

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1907

7un7 8-Mr &amp; l i r a . 3,3.Parker../ater very low.Season
about two weeks l a t e t h i s y e a r ,
Jta, 9-Go to Chesnut Cove and L i t t l e Mark I s l a n d
with K.O. i n h i s boat, l/innepeesaukee Yacht
Club house being e r e c t e d . F i s k e cottage near
Dr.'.Yheeler Just completed,
Jun.lO-Retum home,
Jto,20-H.S,Parker,S.S.Parker and Mary Parker a r r i v e .
Spent day i n r e p a i r work,S,P.Nute a r r i v e s ,
Jtin.21-Ned a r r i v e s , D o r i n g v i s i t s u s f b r i n g i n g w i f e
and daughter,All go home except H,S. &amp; Mary P,
J\m,22-Close camp,
J\il, 3-H,S,Parker,S,S, &amp; Mary Parker a r r i v e ,
hU 4-Repair v;ork, Savary fam_ily_ visitL_U8,Savary
Just c o n p l e t i n g ^ h i s camp,Strawberries p l e n t i f u l ,
M. 5-Edna Horne Joins u s ,
hi, 6-'.7ill Woodman takes u s w i t h Mrs,Pearce,Mrs,
W i l l Kimball and Miss Cowan to the Club House
to see the r a c e s ,
Jol, 7-Go to Bay v/ith Harry -Waldron,
hi, 8-Return home,
•o

-Ned,Minnie,Franklin,Stan and Ifaude spend day,

M.SO-Neliie Hayes and daughter N e l l i e , M o l l y Nute
and Mr &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker,
Jal,31-Ned a r r i v e s , P i c k b l u e b e r r i e s , P e a r c e s c a l l ,
'.u,'^, 1-A quiet day,
.j, 2-Wind and storm w i t h h a i l ,
;, 3-Go to Cascade and M r s , L i n c o l n ' s , P i c k b e r r i e s ,
Llrs,Hayes,dciUghter and Molly r e t u r n home,
J, 4-Pearces gave us a clam dinner i n Patten's t e n t .
About twenty f i v e persons present,
Aug. 5-Break oamp,
:,11-Maude Drev/ and S.P.Nute here f o r the day,
j,28-Leora,Edna and Mrs,Parker c a l l a t camp,
Sep. 8-3,P.Nute and R,T.Pearl having stayed overnight
leave e a r l y t h i s morning i n rowboat f o r tour
of the l a k e .

�1 9 0 f
1907
^SpTia- S.P.imte and R . T . P e a r l r e t u r n t o oamp a f t e r
making c i r c u i t o f t h e l a k e v i s i t i n g Vfolfhoro
M e l v i n V i l l a g e , C e n t r e Harbor and W e i r s ,
Sep.21-lCr &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker,Measuj?e beach a t B i g Rock,
F i n d i t f i v e f e e t toward P a t t e n ' s ,
Sep,22-Hed,Minnie and F r a n k l i n a r r i v e d . Saw f l o c k
of t w e l v e ducks toward A i k e n ' s , S.P,Hute c a l l e d ,
Oot,12-S.S.t*arker and Mary P a r k e r a r r i v e d and went
a c r o s s t o l a n d on othe s i d e of l a k e ,
Oct, 1 5 - H , S , P a r k e r , E l v i r a v/oodward,S.S.Parker and w i f e .
C.W.Tibbetts a r r i v e d t o h e l p b u i l d r o a d on o t h e r
side of lake,
Oot.l6-Qaiet,
Oct.l7-Parker and T i b b e t t s meet r o a d w o r k e r s a c r o s s l a k i
Oct.lS-Parker and T i b b e t t s complete road.H.S.Parker
r e t u r n s home.Tough time r e t u r n i n g account h i g h
w i n d a n d w a t e r . % d t o t u r n back once,Close camp.

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1908

7fin722-Mr &amp; Mrs, S.S.Parker v i s i t both c o t t a g e s ,
i c e about a f o o t t h i c k . C a t c h S&gt;-'^ l b c u s k .
Also large perch,
Apr,143.S.Parker i n camp. I c e b r e a k i n g u p ,
A p r , l a - S . S . P a r k e r . I c e out i n Broads but c o n s i d e r a b l e
i n the B a y ,
Hay

3-!ffi &amp; Ivlrs. S . S . P a r k e r v i s i t camp.Lake a t h i g h
w a t e r mark.

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1908
fcy 19-l.lr So lara, S . S . P a r k e r i n ec.mp.
May E O - F i s h i n g b u t no f i s h .
May a i - V i s i t A i k e n ' s P o i n t . R e t u m home,
Jun. 3 - S l v i r a Woodward,H.S,Parker,Mary P a r k e r ,
and S . S , P a r k e r open c a m p . A s s i s t e d by C.v/,
Whitehouse b e g i n work on new w h a r f .
Jun. 4-Hed,Mlnnie and F r a n k l i n Iferkor J o i n u s , F r e d
B e r r y b a n d X s a Peavey v i s i t u s ,
Jun, 5 - S t i l l a t work on w h a r f ,
Jun, 6-Wharf f i n i s h e d ,
Jan. 7-(&gt;uiet,
Jan, 8-Minnie and F r a n k l i n ^ t o v i s i t L e o r a a t
Home c o t t a g e ,
J a n . l l - L e o r a and Minnie e n t e r c o t t a g e and f r i g h t e n e d
by a mouse,
Jon, 18-Mr &amp; Mrs S , S , P a r k e r a n d Mrs, Ben R a n d a l l ,
Smv f l y i n g s t i u i r r e l ,
Jun,Sl-I)epart t o Lookout Cottage,Heard l o o n ,
J a l , 3-Mr &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker,Dana Loud a n d M o l l y Hute
a r r i v e s t o p p i n g f o r f i r s t time a t o\ir new
f l a g s t a t i o n Keewaydin,
J u l , 4-Rev,J.D.Smiley,wife and son and two daughters
t a k e d i n n e r v/ith u s .Hed,Minnie iind F r a n k l i n
a r r i v e . M r , L i n c o l n and f a m i l y c a l l e d on u s ,
Jul. 5 - ^ i e t ,
Jul, b - D i t t o . V e r y h o t ,
Jul. 7-90 degrees,Hed a r r i v e s ,
Jul, 8-Minnie goes t o A l t o n f o r I c e , S,P,]rate
a r r i v e s , M o l l y goes home,
Jul. 9-S.?,Hute goes t o Hampton Beach f o r t h e day.
F o r e s t f i r e on Mt.MaJor,
Jul.lO-Maude Drev/ a r r i v e s ,
Jul. 11-Mr &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker go home,
J u l , I S - K . S . P a r k e r a r r i v e s , R e g i s t e r s 92 d e g r e e s ,
Jul,13-Hed and f a m i l y l e a v e , A u n t 7 i r a a r r i v e s ,
Jul. 14©
Jul, 15-H.S.Parker d e p a r t s , F i r e on Mt,Major under
c o n t r o l a f t e r burning since J u l y 9th,
JUl.16-Close camp.

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1908
logT 7-Mlss I f e r g a r e t E l l i s o n , H i s a B e s s i e H a r t , H i s s
C l a r a Snov/,Mis3 Terepa Perlcins,Mis3 C a r o l i n e
S m i l e y and Mrs. S.S.Parlcer. A r r i v e d by boat
c o u r t e s y o f A.E.initnam.S.S.Parker a r r i v e d
i n evening. L i n c o l n s c a l l ,
ing, 8-George and / i l l E l l i s o n j o i n p a r t y . E n t i r e p a r t y
Journeyed t o l a k e Shore P a r k i n L i n c o l n l a u n c h
the /innecon and s a ; rfiees and enjoyed clambake
• 9 - E l l i s o n boys d e p a r t . P a r t y w a l k s t o Bay.
'11 &gt; 10-Break camp,
iog. 16-S.P.Iftite,Mrs. C.G.Rowell and Maude Drew.S.S,
P a r k e r v i s i t s camp d u r i n g t h e day,
lug. l Y - V e r y r a i n y - P a r t y r e t u r n s home,
. £S-John 3 . L o c k e vnd w i f e , S l v a t i and F a n n i e Hayes
S . S . P a r k e r and w i f e .
, 22-Attended bajiJptism a t Sandy P o i n t ,
jhg* 24-Closed camp.
, 30-Mr &amp; Mrs. B,Baston,i'lis3 C l a r a Heal,Miss H a t t i e
Thayer,Miss Gladys Oilman and Mr &amp; blrs, Hed
P a r k e r and F r a n k l i n spend t h e day.
irigyt#y8-8li »l?aTkw isxtwygKBgDrstimigyWaJ^^
Sep. 7-Guests i n attendance a t L a d i e s A i d P i c n i c .
/.E.Howard
D.E.Edgerly
'/.F.Thayer
J.D.Smiley
L.E.Foster
J.R.Kelly
A.S.Putnam
E.H.Thomas
John C.Hay
C.W.Tibbetts J . B r e c k e n r i d g e S . 3 . f a r k e r
Hed P a r k e r
H e l l i e Hayes
H e l e n A.Roberts
Abbie Putnam H a t t i e F u r l o n g Mary E . P a r k e r
Annie F o s t e r F r a n k l i n P a r k e r Mary A.Parker
C c r d e l i a Cook (Los j i n g e l e s )
ICyra S d g e r l y
i«p. 8-?jir &amp; Mrs. S . S . P a r k e r , F r a n k l i n and Mrs. Hed
P a r k e r b r e a k camp.
Sep, 26-Hr &amp; Mrs. S . S . P a r k e r w i t h H.L,Edgecombe and
S . P . H u t e . V i a i t Sandy Bay and Mountain View
c o t t a g e and Red Rock B r o o k , P a i n t r u s t i c f e n c e .
See f l y i n g s q u i r r e l a g a i n ,
Sep. 27'-Q,uiet and h o t ( 8 5 degrees) C l o s e camp.

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1908
IJoU 1 0 - S , 3 . P a r k e r i n eamp a l o n e , Water v e r y lov7,being
n i n e f e e t from west s i d e o f B i g Rook,
Oet. 11-Return home,
„ , ,
it. 17-Mr &amp; Mrs S . S . P a r k e r i n camp. ? e r y h o t . V i s i t
Sandy Bay, Get l o a d o f wood,
Oot, 18-Fiud sjjone implement a t B i r c h Lanfi^ing,
loT,

8 - S . 3 . P a r k e r and S.P.Hiite b e g i n work on i o o house
and t a k e boat out of w a t e r ,

!o7» 11-S.S.Parker and Hed P a r k e r w o r k i n g on i c e house,
C.v/.Tibbetts a r r i v e s w i t h l o a d o f f u r n i t u r e ,
f a t e r so I o n S . S , v i a l k s around be&amp;.eh t o upper
cottage,
V, 2 1 - S , S . P a r k e r v i s i t s eai^ip, Water now 17 f t l O i n ,
from w e s t c o r n e r o f I t g x t g B J c o u r b i g b o u l d e r .
mm

O F lEE'SSASOM

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1909

i ? r 19-Mr &amp; Mrs, S . S . P a r k e r w a l k i n g from Bay on 2 f t
of i c e . Walked back t o Bay.
16-Mr &amp; Mrs a S . S , P a r k e r . I c e
bottom of b o a t ,
ipr, I 7 - R a i n y , g o home.

J u s t gone o u t . P a i n t

ipp, El-Had P a r k s r , l i i n n i e P a r k e r and F r a n k l i n ,
22-3.3,Parker and Mary i ^ r k e r a r r i v e ,
ujjs, 23-Close camp.
Hay-

5-S.S. &amp; Hed P a r k e r a t eamp f o r day.Hed c a t c h e s
2ii l b l a k e t r o u t .

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1909

Hafld-Mr A Mr a. S.S.Parlcer a r r i v e .
May 15-10 luclc f i s h i n g so r e t u m home.
Kay 29-U.S. P a r leer, S.S. Parker,Mary P a r l c e r , Minnie Parlcer
and F r a n l c l i n a r r i v e ,
Kay 30-Maude Drew,i&lt;a.tty Durgin,Mis3 M e r r i l l , M i s s Dunlap
and V e l s o r a Lfethews v i s i t e d u s from t h e Bay.
Maude l o s t h e r glasses,blov;ai o f f by win.l,
31-3.S.Parlcer found t h e glfi.sses,Mrs, S a v a x x ^ a j ^
.Olive c a l l e d ,
8 10-L.B.Foster,W.P.Thurber and Hed P a r l c e r , F i s h e d
d u r i n g day and r e t u r n e d home,
Am.24-lCr &amp; Mrs, S.S.Parlcer stop a t camp f o r t h e day.
Jim.27-3.S.Parker
hU

and Hed P a r k e r a t camp.

7-Mr Sz Mrs, Hed P a r k e r . F r a n k l i n , J . B r e c k e n r i d g e ,
S d i t h Pinkham H e r r i n g and A l i c e Pinkham spend
the day at eamp,

, 2 1 - H . S . P a r k e r , P . P . P a r k e r , S l v i r a Woodward,Harry,
and M o l l y Hute,l.lrs,Hed P a r k e r and F r a n k l i n
and Mrs, 3.S.Parker.Hed a r r i v e s l a t e r ,
Jul,22-S.S.Parker a r r i v e d ,
Jal.23-Harry goes t o Sdgeeomb's.Vira goes home,
,24-Rainy and c o o l ,
.25-S,P.Hute and H e l l i e Hute,Hed P a r k e r and S.S.
P a r k e r J o i n p a r t y . A . 2 . C a r t e r , w i f e and daughter
o a l l . A l s o Chas.'7.!rhompson,wife and dfiughter,
a l s o C h a r l e s H . L e r r y , H a r r y Hute goes home,
Jiil,26-Mary P a r k e r ' s b i r t h d a y observed,
tel,27-P,F.Parker and Hea P a r k e r v i s i t Mt.MaJor and
pick t e n quarts of b l u e b e r r i e s .
Jal, • ;-p£irt o f p a r t y r e t u m t o Farmington and din.e
M^lth Mrs, S.P.Nute,
• 29-Kot and q u i e t ,
lal»30-Party goes t o vj'olboro aboard t h e F o x and v i s i t
U n c l e C h a r l e s and C o u s i n K a t e ,
111,31-Hothing t o r e c o r d ,
lag, 1-Molly and Atint V i r a r e t u m home. P a t t e n boys
37/in a c r o s s t h e l a k e ,
lug, 2-Molly back i n camp,
3-Mrs,Lincoln c a l l s ,
liig, 4 - V i s i t L i n c o l n caup i n e v e n i n g ,
, 5 - P r o v i s i o n s short.Hed and Sam go home,
, 6 -Close camp.

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1909

I!ug7l7-Tl,S.Parker,P.F.Parker and E l v i r a /oodward open
camp, S . P , l u t e and Maude Drew a r r i v e i n p o u r i n g
rain,
Aug. 18Aug, 19Aug.EO-Stan and Maude d e p a r t , H a r r y l u t e a r r i v e s ,
Aag.£l-Mr &amp; Firs S . S , P a r k e r w i t L C.Roberts and w i f e
a r r i v e an^. go t o upper oaiwp,
Aug.EBAug.23-Ned and Minnie P a r k e r go home, S.S.Pr.rker and
Mary P a r k e r raove dOY»'n from upper o o t t a g e ,
Aug,24-P.F.Parker catohes f o u r b l a c k b a s s ,
Aag,25-Yery v/arm,
Aag,S6-Close oamp,
Sep, 4-Arthur Jones and w i f e , S t a e e y and w i f e and two
o t h e r couples occupy c o t t a g e o v e r Labor Day,
Sep,25-Mr &amp; I t r s , S . S . P a r k s r ,
Sep,26-FrGd P e a r c e d i n e s w i t h u s . S t a t i o n a t
nearly constructed,

ICeewaydin

Sep,30-Mr &amp; Mrs, S.S.Parker a t eamp and Sandy
Oct,
Oct,
Oet,
Oet,

Bay,

6-Mr A Mrs 3.S.Parker a t oamp,
7-led,Minnie and F r a n l c l i n P a r k e r J o i n u s ,
8-Go t o r i d e w i t h F r e d P e a r c e .
9-We c l o s e camp,

Nov, 17-S.S.Parker a t eamp. Water 1 7 f t 6 i n . from
n o r t h c o r n e r of b i g b o u l d e r .
SICD OF THE SEASON

�1 9 i 0
1910
iiP?. fi-iChe Ned P a r k e r s spend day h e r e , I c e went out
y e s t e r d a y , v/ater v e r y l o w ,
Apr,14:-Mr &amp; l l r s , S . S . P a r k e r p a i n t boats and do
o t h e r odd j o b s ,
Apro28-Mr &amp; !.Crs, S.S.Parkor a t camp.
Water f r o z e l a s t n i g h t .
Apr, 29-V/ent home.
Hay 1-Hed P a r k e r and f a m i l y a n d Mr &amp; &amp;Irs,'7inslow
Thompson,l/Ir &amp; Mrs,Byron Horn and Miss Connor
of R o c h e s t e r ,
toy 28-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker open camp,
lay 29-Hed and f a m i l y come up f o r t h e day. Have r i d e
i n C l a r e n c e Homo's b o a t . S e c K a l l e y Comet,
By 3 0 - ? a i n t s e t t e e , s e t g l a s s , g o home,
fcl, 2-Mr A Mrs. S.S.Parker i n camp,
hi, 2-Tho Hed P a r k e r s a r r i v e *
Jid, 4 - f ) u i e t .
hi, 5-Return home.
fcl, 13-H,S.Parker suid Mr &amp; Mrs. S . S . P a r k e r i n eamp,
fta,14-Aunt V i r a and Mrs, Dolbreen w i t h two c h i l d r e n
v i s i t u s f o r t h e day,
Jal,15-Gatch a b a s s and a p i c k e r e l , H e d and F r a n k l i n
j o i n I'.s,
Jul.lGto
Have had b e a u t i f u l v/aather and f i n e t i m e .
M.24ftil,24-?oyagG i n F o x up t h e l a k e .
Jtil.PS-Return home,

iug, 2-iiIaude Drew tmd M o l l y Nute and S t a n Hute r e g i s t e r .
log. 3 - L a z y ,
tog, 4-Rain a l l d a y ,
. 5-Benjamin Sanbom and H a r r y K.Rogers a r r i v e d a t
1 AM by auto l o f t a t O.E.Horne's cottage.lfciude
sind. M o l l y l e a v e f o r homo. E n i e u t T r x c k e y and
H a r r y Nute a r r i v e , R e u n i o n Thornton H a l l Gang.
, 6'-Departure o f T r i c k e y , S a n l ; o r n and R o g e r s , a l s o
S.P.Nute ;7ho dropped i n t o see u s , H a r r y Ifute
leaves,Maude Drev? and S.S. &amp; Mary P a r k e r r e t u r n .
Maude and S t a n row t o Bay t o danee a t Oak B i r c h
Inn,

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1910
H i 7 7- S t a n goes t o Farmington but r e t u r n s ,
Aug. 8.•Trimmed t r e e s a t upper c o t t a g e , C l o s e camp.
Sep, 5-Mr &amp; £Ir3,IXvig]it Sdgerly,Mr &amp; Mrs, S,S.Parker
Mrs,19'ed P a r k e r , F r a n k l i n , i n camp,
Sep,£2-S,S,Parker c a l l e d a t oamp,
?,23-Mr &amp; Mrs, S.S.Parker i n camp,Water 1 7 f t 5 i n ,
out from b i g b o u l d e r ,
'S«p,24Sep,25-Retum home,
llOT, 8~3.S.Pa.rker and Hed P a r k e r a t Kjajnp, v/ater now
26 f t 6 i n , out from o u r b i g r o c k ,
EHD OF THE SEASOH

19

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911
720-Hed P a r k e r and S.S.i^arker i n camp. A s s i s t i n
s t o r i n g 42 c a k e s 0 ^ 1 7 i n , i c e ,
pr,21-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker
open around s h o r e ,

i n cajnp. I c e i n l a k e but

p, 2 6 - S , S c P a r k e r , I c e s t i l l

here,

p, 2S-Mr 3y iCrs, S . S . P a r k e r . I c e s t i l l

here,

jr, 30-The Hed P a r k e r s i n camp. I c e going o a t today,
6-S.3,:^rker a t camp. I c e went out May 1 o r 2nd.
10- S.S.Parker and I r a t i u i n t a t camp,
11- R e t u m home.

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1 1

1911
Jfey 16-Harry Ifute and Hed Parlcer i n earap.
May E3-H«3.Parlcer and Mr &amp; Mrs. S.S.Parlcer.
May 24-Parlcer and A l l e n extend S a s t s i d e r o a d ,
fey 2 5 - R a i n y , R e t u r n home.
Jan.

4-S.S.Parlcerat camp. Jlr.Tanner v e r y

ill.

Jun.20-H.S.Parker a^d the Hed P a r k e r s a r r i v e .
Mr &amp; Mrs. S.S.Parker a r e a t camp Lookout,
Jun. 2 1 - Cool and b r e e z y
Jun,22Ditto
Jtin,23Ditto
Jun. 24Ditto
Jun,25Ditto
J a n . 2 6 - ? i 3 i t E a s t shore and p i c k s t r a w b e r r i e s ,
J u l . 3-Mr
. Mrs, 3.S.Parker.George and S a d i e
Varney w i t h u s o v e r n i g h t ,
J u l , 4 - " f i t h C.E.Horne and Edna we v i s i t Lake Shore
and have p i c n i c d i n n e r .
J u l . 5-Return home.
J u l . 9-Mr &amp; Mrs. B e r t S t e v e n s , M i l d r e d S t e v e n s ,
George Hiram S t e v e n s a l l o f L i t t l e t o n
w i t h H.S. P a r k e r and Mr &amp; Mrs, S . S . P a r k e r .
J u l . l O - A l l but H.S.Parker go t o Wolfboro i n
steamer Fox and v i s i t U n c l e C h a r l e s ,
Jul,11-92degrees,Return home,
Aug. 1-Mrs.Hatt Robets,n.S.,S.S. &amp; Mary P a r k e r .
P i c k h i g h bush b e r r i e s i n A i k e n ' s swamp,
Aug, E-Hed,Minnie and F r a n k l i n J o i n u s ,
Aug, 3 - Q a i e t ,
Aug, 4-Mrs,Home,Iaora and G e r a l d O t i s and Miss
S c h l e n k e r c a l l , S . S . - t ' a r k e r b u i l d s bank w a l l ,
Sep, 4-C.T.Hayes,S.M. &amp; H.W.Hayes w i t h i,lrs,
P a r k e r a t camp f o r the day.
Sep,24-S.3.Parker
boulder,

S.S.

i n camp, / a t e r 1 9 f t from b i g

Oct,25-S.S.Parkers ajtid Hed P a r k e r s a t camp, ./ater
now 20 f t from b o u l d e r .
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�1 9 1 E
1912
Ip?7l7-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S. P a r k e r , I t r &amp; lirs.Ned P a r k e r
and F r a n k l i n . L a k e c o v e r e d w i t h i c e .
Apr.l8-Saw f l o c k o f d u c k s , r a i n y . R e t u r n home.
A p r , 2 7 - S . S . P a r k e r a n d l e d P a r k e r w i t h two men
c u t hrown t a i l moth n e s t s from t r e e s .
I c e went out A p r , 2 2 n d ,
M?.y 1-Mr &amp; Mrs,

S.S.Parker p a i n t

hoats.

Hay 18-Mr &amp; M r s , S . S , P a r k e r i n eamp, .
Eay 19May 20-Return home,
Ifey 2 9 - V i r a Woodward,Leora O t i s , G e r a l d O t i s ,
Mr &amp; Mrs, S . S . P a r k e r a t c a m p . S r n e s t
Day o c c u p i e s Lookout.
May 30-C.E.Home moves o u r f u r n i t u r e from depot
t o Lookout Caa^.
Ifey 3 1 J u a . 1-Return h o m e .
Jun, 3-Mr &amp; Mrs S . S . P a r k e r a t oamp, Mrs P a t t e n
stops overnight w i t h u s *
J u n . 9-'v'e c a l l on C l a r e n c e Home.
Jun.lO-Spend dtiy a t Lookout. R e t u r n home,
Jun, 1 7 - 3 , S . P a r k e r v i s i t s camp, and w i t h p a r t y
a t C.E.Home's i n c l u d i n g George V a m e y
and w i f e , l e d F r o s t a n d w i f e .
Jun. 1 8 - F i s h i n g t r i p and g e t somp n i c e b a s s .
Jun. 19-Company d e p a r t s and we move t o P i n e B l u f f .
Jun.20-The l e d P a r k e r s j o i n us.We measure G.M.
B y a r d ' s l o t n e a r Red Rock Brook,
JUl. 3-Mr &amp; Mrs, S.S.i'arker
J u l . 4-Mr &amp; Mrs, E . P . l u t e a n d Molly,Mr &amp; Mrs.
l e d P a r k e r and F r a n k l i n . R e v . J . D . S m i l e y
and son c a l l .
J u l . 5-See l o o n a l s o l a r g e b l u e h e r o n . H e l l i e
Hute and M o l l y r e t u r n .
J u l . 6-Hot,
JUl. 7 - H o t , F r a n k l i n l e a r n s t o swim. We have r i d e
w i t h C.E.Home.
Ju.1. 8-Hot. We r e t u r n home.

�1912
I5r724-Mr &amp; Mrs. S.S,Parker v i s i t camp,
Jal.25-Mrs,E,J,Wooclward,Ii[rs,Harris Dolbeare and
two sons C y r a s and R i c ^ r d and daughter
H a r r i e t , ! l r &amp; Mrs,Hed P a r k e r and F r a n k l i n
v i s i t u s f o r t h e day. A t n i g h t we row
a c r o s s and p i c k elevOTi q u a r t s o f b l u e b e r r i e s
i n an hour,
Jal,E6-Cool,
Jal,27-v7ork on s t o n e w a l l . P i c k t e n q u a r t s o f
b l u e b e r r i e s i n an h o u r , F r e d t a k e s u s a c r o s s ,
Aug, 3-Mr &amp; Mrs, S.P.Hute and Mol?^,Mrs,Minnie P a r k e r
and F r a n k l i n i n camp,
Aug, 4-Mr 8s M r s , S . S , P a r k e r and Hed j o i n p a r t y ,
Aug, 5-Cool,
Aug, 6Aug,12-Aunt Y i r a j o i n s u s ,
Aag, 13-Charter F o x and a l l a t t e n d r a c e s a t B a y ,
Aug,16-E,P, and H e l l i e Hute,Molly,Hed and F r a n k l i n
r e t u r n home. F r a n k l i n swims twenty s t i r o k e s ,
Aug,18-Mr &amp; Mrs S,S.Parker and E l v i r a c l o s e camp,
Sep, 8-Mr &amp; Mrs, S,S,Parker,Mrs C , E . S i n c l a i r and
daughter K a t h e r i n e open camp,
Sep, 9 - C a l l e d on F r e d P e a r c e and Mr,Doring,
Oct,2S-Bagene H,Cory and S.S,Parker,Water aboutb
f i v e f e e t out from b i g r o c k .
Dec, 5-Harry Hute and S , S , P a r k e r a t camp.'Water about
s i x f e e t out from b i g r o c k b e i n g h i g h e r
than u s u a l .
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13

1913
JSnTH6-Mild.0nly 6 i n . of ice.Wed P a r k e r , M i n n i e
and F r a n k l i n spend the day h e r e ,
jipr,17-ilr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker a t camp,
Apr,23-Mr &amp; Mrs, S.S.Parker,LIr &amp; Mrs.Ned P a r k e r
and F r a n k l i n a t camp f o r t h e de^y.
Apr,E4"-Franklin c a t c h e s e i g h t w h a r f t r o u t o r
suckers x ^ e i ^ i n g 19* I h . F r e d Pearce takes
u ^ t o Sandy B a y f o r M a y f l o w e r s ,
Apr,S5-Return home.
Hay 15-Mr !c i a ? s . S . S . P a r k e r i n camp t o p a i n t h o a t ,
Ifey 16-Rainy,Return home.
Jun, 1-Ned,Minnie and F r a n k l i n P a r k e r here f o r t h e
day.Water a t h i g h mark,
Jan. 4-Ha.rry Nuto and Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker a t camp.
Jon. 5-Work around Lookout Gamp .Ned v i s i t s u s and
H a r r y and Ned go home.
Jim.l5-!I?he Ned P a r k e r s h e r e f o r the day,
Jttn,28-Nute f a m i l y - E . P . and N e l l i e , S . P . and Maude,
and Haryy and M o l l y .
Jan.29-Ned and Minnie and F r a n l c l i n a r r i v e . Mr &amp;
Mrs
N a t t R o b e r t s spend the day i t h u s .
Jtan,30-S,"'.Nute went to Concord r e t u r n i n g w i t h two
r o a s t c h i c k e n s , c l a m s e t c , S,H.!rrickey and
J . B e n n i s o n and daughter c a l l , a l s o Mr &amp; i i r s
Coleman from B a y . A l s o H a r r y Rogers.
hi, 1-Tery h o t . B i g f i r e o b s e r v e d up the l a k e ,
Jul. 2-Smoky and o v e r c a s t ,
Jul, 3-/e c l o s e csimp,
Jtil,13-The Ned P a r k e r s a t camp, Mr &amp; Mrs,F.R.Copp,
M r s . P u r i n g t o n and Mr &amp; Mrs C.W.Marston d i n e
w i t h u s , Sam &amp; Mary P a r k e r a r e i n C a l i f o r n i a ,
ftd.30-She Ned P a r k e r s a r r i v e ,
JtLl,31-5?o Bay f o r grub s a i l i n g home ?/ith u m b r e l l a ,
Aug. 1-Arthur !I?wombly p a i n t e d E a s t end o f c o t t a g e ,
V/e go home.
Aug. 10-Ned,Minnie and F r a n k l i n P a r k e r h e r e f o r day

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Hg;E9- -Mi* &amp; Mrs,S.S,Parlcer i n camp.
Aug,30.-Attend r a c e s i n Kayo ¥;ith C.S.Home.Forty
to f i f t y power boats i n a t t e n d a n c e .
Aug. 31- •Ked,Minnie and F r a n k l i n a r r i v e , F o u n d arrow
head,the b e s t y e t , P a r t y r i d e s t o Chesnut
Cove i n S&amp;yo. V i s i t V / i l l Hodgdon a t Mt.View.
Sep.25-•Mr &amp;. Mr S.S. S . P a r k e r and Mr &amp; Mrs l e d P a r k e r
and F r a n k l i n .
Sep, 26- •See a l o o n . R e t u m home.
Oct, 5 - l e d P a r k e r and family.Saw
our bay on a r r i v a l .

t h r e e ducks i n

Get, 9-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker a r r i v e ,
'Oct.IO-Repairs a t Lookout Camp,
Oct.ll-ClOw^G camp,
Nov. 6-S,S.Parker and l e d P a r k e r c u t S40 b r o w n t a i l
n e s t s from our b i g b i r c h ,
^l07,2O-Mr Si Mrs S.S.Parker v i s i t camp coming by
motor boat w i t h F r e d A r c h i b o l d ,
Dec, 13-S.S,l&gt;arker a t camp,Ground b a r e , l a k e open,
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I ipr, 18 -S . S. P a r k e r and E.J.Schock work on b r o w n t a i l s .
[ipr,25-Mr &amp; Mrs.S.S.Parker a t camp.Ice went out
Apr, 2 0 t h ,
3 - l e d Parker and family here f o r t h e day.

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l a j ~ 1 4 - l ! r &amp; Mrs S.S,Parlcer.Lake e x t r e m e l y h i g h .
Kay 15-nigh w i n d s .
May 16-Mr,Randall comes t o h e l p u s . R e t u r n home.
J/Isy 28-Mr ft Mrs,S.S.Parker i n cajap.
Bay S9-Geo, /.Vamey and \7ife and A.Home p i t c h
t h e i r t e n t -with u s ,
Kay 30-C,E.Horne t a k e s u s f o r r i d e ,
Sfey S l - T T i s i t R a t t l e s n a k e I s l a n d w i t h C.E.Home.
Jun, 1-Close eamp.
Jto. 6-Hed P a r k e r and f a m i l y and Mr &amp; Mrs
Reed spend day a t oamp.

Sari

J a l . 3-Mrs E . P . m t e , M o l l y mite,Mr &amp; Mrs Ned P a r k e r
F r a n k l i n Parker,Mr &amp; Mrs
S.S.Parker.E.P.
Nute a r r i v e s l a t e r ,
J u l , . 4 - B e a u t i f u l day, G e r a l d and L e o r a O t i s c a l l ,
J u l , 5-E,P. and M o l l y Nate go t o Bay f o r g r u h ,
S,S,,NED,and F r a n k l i n P a r k e r go to B i r c h
Landing and f i n d p o t t e r y and a n c i e n t k n i f e ,
J u l . 6-Men l e a v e f o r b u s i n e s s ,
J u l , 7-S,P,l!ate J o i n s u s a ^ i n ,
J u l , 8-Cloud;'' and w a r n ,
J u i , 9-'I)itto.
J a l . l O - M r s Bor.ing and daughter a r r i v e a t Lookout,
Jul,11-Thunderstorms,
Jal,13-Quiet,
J u l , 1 3 - R e t u m home,
Jul,H2-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S,Parker and liIrs,Natt Roberts
a r r i v e i n camp,
Jt»l,23-Rainy but p i c k e d some b l u e b e r r i e s ,
J \ i l , S 4 - R e t u m home,
J t t l , 2 6 - l e d P a r k e r and f a m i l y , A r t h u r Jones
f a m i l y spend the day h e r e ,
Aug,
Aug.
Aag,
Aug,
Aug,
Aug.
Auga

and

E-Mr &amp; Mrs Joseph Loud,Rev,Harry Loud,Bana
Loud,Mr &amp; } i l r s , S . S . P a r k e r open camp.
3-Blueberrying,
4-Joe and f a m i l y go by a u t o to M i l t o n M i l l s ,
5-At home a l l day,
6-Joe,Harry and Dana Loud and S.S.Parker c l i m b
Mt.MaJor,Picking e i g h t q u a r t s of b e r r i e s .
7-Loud f a m i l y go t o Wolfboro by a u t o . I n PH
C.E.Horne g i v e s them a boat r i d e .
8-Loud f a m i l y s t a r t f o r L i t t l e t o n . P e a r c e t a k e s
P a r k e r s t o Bay t o parade o f motor boats and
races.

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1914
'Mgi' 9-Ne4 ParJcer and f a m i l y a i * r i v e . A l l r e t u r n home*
Aag.E5-lfed P a r k e r and f a m i l y i n camp.
Aug.Se-Minnie and F r a n k l i n go t o Bay w i t h Horne,
Aug,27-Quiet,
Aug,E8-Rain, C l o s e C8jap,
Sep, 6-The Hed Parkers w i t h Mr * Mrs, ?/alter Sheiraan
end E t h e l he3?e f o r t h e day.
Sep,22-Hed P a r k e r and f a m i l y , M r &amp; Mr3,S,3.Parker,
Sep,24-Warm and f i n e .
S0p,25-Close camp.
Oet, 2-Minnie P a r k e r and F r a n k l i n , M r &amp; Mrs. S,S,
P a r k e r i n oamp .Mary T i h h e t t s J o i n s u&amp;.
Oot. 4-S,S,Parker and w i f e a r r i v e , v / e a l l r e t u m home.
Oet,12-Mr &amp; JArs,S.S.Parker c a l l on way t o upper oamp.
Nov. 1-Mj' &amp; Mrs S . S . P a r k e r , F r a n k l i n , H . S . P a r k e r and
F r e d Wiggin a s d r i v e r o f t h e new autoraohile
c a l l end c l a s e earap f o r t h e y e a r .

1915
Jten, 17-Mr &amp; Mrs Hed P a r k e r and F r a n k l i n and Mr &amp; Mrs
W a l t e r Sherman and E t h e l spend t h e d a y ,
Mar.24-Mr &amp; K r s , S . S , P a r k e r v i s i t oamp. Lake l o w .
F o o t o f ice.We w a l k t o Lookout on i c e .
May

5-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker and H a r r y Hute come
t o oamp w i t h auto f o r f i r s t t r i p .

�1 9 X 5
X915
EyTlO-Sdna.Arthur

and Mary 3 , P a r k e r open oamp,

Jon. Z-YLT
Rlrs Hed P a r k e r , F r a n l c l i n , H a r r y Nute
and Fir &amp; Isirs S . S . P a r k e r i n eamp on a
r e n o v a t i n g t r i p . F o r e s t f i r e i n r e a r o f Joe
K e l l y * s n e a r S i n e l t i i r ' s eamp.Harrow escape
f o r hoth ctimps.
Jon.ES. •Mrs S.P-Hute,Molly,Harry,Stan andMaude.
Jim.29. •MR &amp; Mr S.S. S . P a r k e r a r r i v e by^auto b r i n g i n g
f o o d and r e a d i n g m a t t e r . H a r r y d r i v e s c a r home.
Jun. 30-E.P.Nate a r r i v e s . M r &amp; Mrs Benjamin Eugene
Sanborn were m a r r i e d a t Wolfboro today and
me.de t h e i r f i r s t s t o p a t oamp where we gave
them a weddJLng b r e a l c f a a t of b o i l e d p o t a t o e s ,
r o a s t beef and o n i o n s . They had a e h a u f f e d r
and were en r o u t e t o t h e mountains.
J a l . 1.•Rain.
J a l . 2.•Rain. Boston r e p o r t s 4.33 f a l l , g r a e t e s t i n 20 y]
J u l . 3- •Rain.E.P.Hute r e a c h e d eamp b r i n g i n g M i s s M.
H i l l o f Concord, Maude and S t a n row t o Bay.
'Fine
and c l e a r .
J o l , 4.
R
a
i
n
.
hi.
5.
J u l . 6- •E.P.Nute and M i s s H i l l l e a v e . A l s o Mr &amp; Mrs.
S . S . P a r k e r . E t h e l E d g e r l y and t h r e e c h i l d r e n
a i ' r i v e f o r t h e day..Lincoln boys c a l l , a l s o
C a r r o l l P i p e r and MisB D a v i s from I'lolfboro.
Have h a d f i r e e v r y evening i n s t o v e .
JUL 7.•E.P.ITute went to Concord.Minnie P a r k e r and
H a r r y Nute t o Farmington.
JUl. 8.•Rain ag'ain. We l e a v e f o r home.
Jal,31-Mjp &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker,J.lrs Hed P a r k e r and F r a n l c l i n ,
Aug. 1-The f o l l o w i n g members and f a m i l i e s from t h e
Farmington C o n g r e g a t i o n a l Church C h o i r v;ere
here f o r t h e day:
F r a n k Hayes
B u r t o n Hess
Pansy Peavey
Addie C a r t e r
H a r r y Knox
Crace Clements
Fred.Clements

C h a r l e s L.Eayes
lArs J.H . L e i g h t o n
E r n e s t Peavey
C a r r o l l Peavey
L i l l i a n Currier
H a z e l Ie i g h t o n
Grace E .Coats

Mrs,F.Hayes
Stan D o i l i v e r
Grace Ham
Ray C u r r i e r
J.E.Leighton
E.E.iamball
E.W.Coats

Aug. 2 - R a i n , Hed and F r a n k l i n c a t c h 1 7 i n , p i c k e r e l ,
Aug. 3 - F a i r , W a t e r r i s i n g .
Aug, 4 - q u i e t .

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Bg7 5 - R a i n ,
Aug. 6 - ? i s i t Sanfi|f B a y . P i c k b l u e b e r r i e s ajad b l a c i c b e r r i e
Lake i s a * l e a s t 15 i n c h e s h i g l i e r t h a n on J u l y 1
Aug, 7-Rain and f o g . C l o s e camp,
Aug,14-lir &amp; Ivtrs S . S , P a r k e r i n oajnp. Buy t h e Mendota,
Lake s t i l l r i s i n g ,
Aug,15-Har:by a n d M o l l y Hute a r r i v e i n o a r t o t a k e u s
home,
Aug,21~Mr &amp; Mrs,S,S.Parl:erAlttiiiii« ttM. F r p n k l i n a r r i v e ,
Aug,E2-Hed P a r k e r a n d Don S c o t t a r r i v e . L e , k e r i s i n g .
Aug.23-Hed r e t u r n s t o b u s i n e s s ,
Aug,24-Piek l a r g e q u a n t i t y o f b l u e b e r r i e s a c r o s s l a k e ,
Aug.ES-'iforked on nev; b o a t ,
Aug,26-Ladi®B a t t e n d campmeeting,Mr Jesse.n h e l p s me
w i t h t h e new b o a t ,
Aug,27-S.S.Parker goes t o Dover,Marion,Ralph,Florence
and E a r l A l l e n v i s i t u s ,
Aug,E8-Cold 8Jid windy,
Aug,29-Same, •Je r e t u r n home,
3ep,12-Harry Bute ?;ith Mr &amp; M r s . S . S , P a r k e r a t Lookout,
T r y out t h e new b o a t ,
Sep, 18-S,8,Parker a t carap,Mr Whitehoues l o o k s o v e r
s i t e f o r Doathouse,
Sep,19-Hed,MiAnie and F r a n k l i n , M a r y P a r k e r and H a r r y
Hate a r r i v e i n o a r f o r t h e d a y ,
Oot,12-S.S.Parker.Young Mr Savary»s f a m i l y a t t h e i r
camp. S t a r t up p a r t r i d g e n e a r our f r o n t door.
Oot.l7-In S . S . P a r k e r ' s auto corner S . S . , M a r y , F r a n k l i n ,
Minnie and Hed P a r k e r ,
(tet,22-Harry Hute b r i n g s S , S . P a r k e r a n d v / i f e i n a n t e .
Oct,23-Mr V/hitehouse b e g i n s work on f o u n d a t i o n f o r
boathouse.Stim a n d F r e d learao
t a k e boat out
o f TO,ter.Pearce»s s t a y a l l n i g h t w i t h u s .
Wind blows a g a l e ,
Oet,E4-ltiraber a r r i v e s from P e r l e y B a r r , R e t u r n home,
Dec, l - S . S . P a r i c e r v i s i t s camp.
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Jan*26-Harry HU-te and S.S.Parlcer v i s i t cottage
and have hoat c r a d l e d f o r moving.
Jan.Sl-Boathouse moved today over the i c e to
new location.S.S.Parlcer a t camp.
Apr, 6-Mr

&amp; Mrs S.S.Parlcer. I c e not s a f e f o r t r a v e l .

Apr.l8-Ioe reported to have gone out today.
May

7-Sed Parker.H.S.Parker and S.S.Parker.Water
h i g h . Trout Jumping a l l day.

May 25-Mr &amp; Mrs,S,S,Parker,Paint rov/boat,
Jan,

6-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker,Mr &amp; Mrs Ned Parker,
H.S.Parker,
Jun, 7-Repair vrok,
Jon, 8-Iarge loon n e a r our p o i n t ,
Jun, 9-&amp;ray s q u i r r e l i n r e a r of oamp, Retum home,
Jun,14-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S,Parker and H a r r i s Pike,Work
on boathouse,
Jun,15-Pinish work and r e t u r n home,
Jun,24-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S,Parker.Find wharf and end of
s t a i r s badly damaged,
Jun,25-Hed and Franlclin Parker a r r i v e w i t h P r e s c o t t
and work on boat and boathouse.In evening
Mt .Washington went dovra by l i g h t e d and V7ith
band on board.
Jan.26-Close camp.
J a l . 4-S.S.,Mary,Hed,Minnie and F r a n k l i n i n camp.
Rainy,windy and c o l d . Lawrence Y.M.G.A.
boys i n camp on Day's P o i n t .
J a l . 5-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker go home.
J a l . 6-Close camp.
Jul.17-Mrs.S.P.Hate,Molly,and Mr &amp; Mrs.S.P.Hute,
J u l . 18-3.S.Parker and S.P.lMte work on boat and
f i n a l l y get i t going.S.P.Hute a r r i v e d .
Jal.19-Hot.Pat new b a t t e r i e s i n Mendota.
J a l . 2 0 - H o t . A l l i n bathing.
J a l . 2 1 - I n Mendota to L i t t l e Mark and back. "Repaired
pomp and s c r e e n doors.
Jul,22-S,P.Hate and Harry a r r i v e from fConcord.

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916
JaI723-Meadota running f i n e . P r e a c o t t looked i t over.
S t a i n e d the hoatfeoaae.
.E4-S.P. and Harry went to Concord,Mendota goes
to Bay twice »also t o Sandy Bay v/here ?/e
s t a l l e d and were towed home,
,25-S.S.Parker,Mr,Savary and Stan went to Sandy
Bay and picked "berries and a boat load of
dead pine limbs. Trimmed boathouse,
,26-Closed camp,
"1.29-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker i n camp.
1.30l-,31•, 1-Mr &amp; Mrs F r e d Pearce J o i n u s and we a l l
occupy Pine B l u f f t i l l Aug,14th,
,12-Minnie Parker and F3?anklin J o i n u s ,
,13-Hed Parker a r r i v e s .
,14-Retum home.
ittg,19-Wiil B e r r y and Mother,Fred Pearce and S.S,
Parker.Very hot,.7ater has f a l l e n 14 inches
since Spring,
,26-Mr &amp; Mrs,S,S.Parker,Minnie and F r a n k l i n
Parker i n oamp, Pearces s t a y overnight with u s ,
tag,27-Helt J o i n s u s v/ith F r e d e r i c k Clement,v/ife and
c h i l d r e n and Frank ]fe.yes and w i f e ,
isig,E8-Retm'n home.

p, 2-Mr &amp; Ivlrs S.S,Parker,x^,Minnie Parker and
F i u n k l i n open caii\p,Mr,Doring,wife and
daughter open Camp Lookout,
• 3-Hed Parker and Mr &amp; HPS,Fred Pearce a r r i v e .
, 4 - A l l go t o Odd F e l l o w s P i c n i c a t Lake Shore Fark.j
p.22-S,S.Parker,Hed Parker and F r a n k l i n s h i n g l e
west roof of cottage.
f,E8-Mr &amp; Mrs.S.S,Parker h e r f o r the day,
t,28-Fred Pearee and S.S.Parker here to look over
the boat.
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I p r 7 l 9 - s . S , P a r k e r anfl. Leon Rioharclson i n earap.
I c e m e l t i n g arotmd s h o r e s .
18-S,S.-i^arker,Ned P a r k e r , H . S , P a r k e r p a i n t boat,
I Hay E6-S,S,Parker and Leon R i c h a r d s o n p a i n t b o a t ,
\jm,

8-JJIr &amp; Mrs. S.S.Parker .Molly Nute and Leon
R i c h a r d s o n open camp.
I . 9-Repair v#ork a t Lookout and p a i n t i n g b o a t ,
u l O - G l o s e camp.
U20-Mr &amp; Mrs.3.S.Parker nnft Leon.Water h i g h .
F r a n k B u t l e r and Norman H a r t f i e l d c a l l .
I , E l - R e t u r n home.

\hl»

4-Mr &amp; Mrs.S.S,Parker,Mr &amp; Mrs, Ned P a r k e r
F r a n l c l i n and Leon i n camp. L o t s o f s t r a w b e r r i e s
We v i s i t Loon Cove and Sandy B a y , F i r e w o r k s
viewed by S a v a r y s and S k i n n e r s ,

|ftil.l7-Mr &amp; Mrs 3.P,:^te,Molly and Leon R i c h a r d s o n
a r r i v e by auto t o back door.J/Ir &amp; Mrs S.S.Par
ker a r r i v e by t r a i n ,
L.18-We t a k e F r e d P e a r c e t o Bay i n Mendota.
L,19-Shov;ers,
iJtil.EO-Close camp.
L,E6-John S,Gilraan,Maude Oilman v/ith John J r , and
B a r b a r a a l s o l e d , M i n n i e and F r a n k l i n P a r k e r ,
hl.E7- •Hot
ftll.ES- •Hot,led goes t o town,
|ita,E9- •Hot,
L,SO. •Mr John Rhodes and f a m i l y and Mrs,Cora G a r l a n d
spend day w i t h u s . John Gilmfui goes t o L a c o n i a ,
L,31. •Whole c o u n t r y s u f f e r s w i t h h e a t ,
J. 1- •Minnie P a r k e r c e l e b r a t e s h e r b i r t h d a y .
E- •Showers.
345 -Break eamp,
7-Mr &amp; Mrs S , S , P a r k e r , I i e o i ^ O t i s and G e r a l d ,
8-Heard l o o n , P i c k e d up M o l l y Nute and N e l l i e
Hayes a t the B a y ,
9- P i c k e d l o t s o f b l u e b e r r i e s i n p a s t u r e n o r t h
of Red Rock Brook, And g o t soaked by shower,
iag,10-Molly goes home.

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Hgril-Mra C.E.Home a r r i v e s , / e go to B i r e h Landing
and Sandy Bay,Leon p i t c h e s a tent and s l e e p s
in i t ,
iUg,12-Pick W e l v e quarts of b l u e b e r r i e s a t Red Rock
Brook p a s t u r e ,
Aug,13-Cluiet,
ittg,14-Ileliie Hayes,Otises and Home r e t u r n home,
tog,15-C±HKH3aBaiBii,Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker alone,
ittg,16taig,17©gtch three p i c k e r e l , B i n e w i t h Jewels a t
the Horne cottage,
lag,18-Fair and cool,
liig,19-C,W,!I?ibbetts c a l l s , A l s o L e s l i e and eight
Boy Scouts,
,E5-Harry Ifate brings Mr &amp; Mrs,S,S.Parker to camp.
Also Leon Richardson, Edna Peavey and C a r r o l l
Peavey c a l l ,
,E6-Congregational Choir of Farmington P i c n i c ,
Frank Hayes and w i f e
F r e d e r i c k Clements,v/ife,and c h i l d r e n
Mrs,E.S,Adams and daughter
I ^ o r a and Gerald O t i s
Arthur Jones,wife and daughter
Herbert Brome,Ernest Kimball,Pansy and C a r r o l l
Peavey,John and Blanche Leighton,Mrs R , C u r r i e r
and F l o r a B,Huntress c a l l upon u s .
P a r t y i s photographed on the wharf,
,S7-Cold,'We depart f o r home,
,14-IIed Parker and S.S.Parker a t camp. See f l o c k
of S9 ducks. Water f i v e f e e t from b i g rock.
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1918
IS1730-S.S,r€«i»ker and Leon Richardson,Lake
low, l e e teo f e e t t h i c k ,
Ivlaj

very

3 - 3 , S , P a r k e r and Leon Rieha,rdson.Paint boat.
F i n d d r y beach about s i x f e e t outside of
b i g r o c k . I c e r e p o r t e d a s going out iipr,24-25.

Kay 11-Mr &amp; lira S.S.Park®r,Iulf,?arker'Minnie Parlcer
and Leon R i c l i a r d s o n
May 1 2 - l e d a r r i v e s , D e s t r o y e d many ^ p s y moth n e s t s .
May

18-Mr &amp; Mrs,3.3.Parker,Leora O t i s , G e r a l d O t i s
and Leon Richardson, f o r the day,

Jun, 3-Mr &amp; Mrs,Natt F.Roberts,Mr &amp; Mrs,3.S.Parker
and Leon a r r i v e . C ^ t o h 3 t r o u t and gather
strawberries,
J\m,2b-Mr &amp; i i r s S . S . P a r k e r and Leon R i c h a r d s o n ,
Jun,E6-lfork a l l day a t Lookout,Y,M,G.A, boys i n camp,
Jun,E7-Worked on boat and boathouse,
J u l , 3-Mr &amp; Mrs, S, B.Parker .Minnie and F r a n k l i n Parlc»r
and Leon Richardson.
J i l l , 4-Hed a r r i v e s , S . S . P a r k e r and I^on get stuck i n
the sand a t iCeewaydin s t a t i o n , G o to Bay aad
to RedcRock region i n Mendota,
J a l , 5-Close oamp,
JUI,30-Mr &amp; M2?s,3.S.Parker a t camp,
J i i l , 3 1 - G e r f i l d O t i s and S.S,Parker p i c k b l u e b e r r i e s ,
Aug, l ~ P a r t y v i s i t Sandy Bay and Red Rock Brook,
Aug. E-We v i s i t LibbybMuseua w i t h Leon,Gerald and
Leora,
Aug, 3 - H o 2 ^ n O t i s a r r i v e s ,
Aug, 4-2?ake D r . K e l l e y and f a m i l y and Dr,Huntress
and f a m i l y f o r r i d e i n Mendota a l s o E v e r e t t
Walker and wife,Horman o t i s . w i f e and two
c h i l d r e n , L e o r a and G e r a l d , F r e d Pearce,Mrs.
Pearce,Miss Gowan and Miss Osborn c a l l ,
Aug. 5-Retum home,

Aug.lO-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S,Parker and F r a n k l i n a t camp,
A u g , l i - D r , K l l l o r y and family leave Lookout,Dr•Huntress
moves i n w i t h h i s f a m i l y ,
Aug, 12-C|pcrikdy w i t h mist,
Aug,13-Dr,Pierce the d e n t i s t occupies Lookout,

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1918
*" . - .
•
'ka£:.i4-Tery h o t .
tog.15-Franklin
and S.S.Parker c u t l e a n i n g p i n e a t
foot of s t a i r s .
Aug.l6-Repair f e n c e s on Red Rock Brook l o t ,
Aug. 17-Windj^.Franlclin goes home,
Attg,18-Li^ht f r o s t ,
Aug,19-Glose eamp,
Aug,S4-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker and M o l l y i f u t e .
Aug,E5-Return home,
Sep, 2-Mr &amp; Mrs,3,3,Parker a t camp,
Oct, 8-lflr &amp; Mr3,S.S,Parker,Leon R i c h a r d s o n and
Raymond Moore,fake h o a t s out o f w a t e r .
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1919
Ipr7l9-S.S.Parker and Leon R i c h a r d s o n a t camp,
Kay 24-S.S.Parker,F3?anklin and Leon a t eamp.Painting
hoats .Water h i g h , Gypsy moths ha.tching,
Kay i51-10p &amp; Mrs,S,S,Parker,Leon and F r a n k l i n , W a t e r
very high.
Jun, l ~ R e t u m home.Leon and F r a n k l i n w a l k i n g a s
a Scout t e s i ,
Jun,

7-Mr &amp; M r s . S . 3 , P a r k e r , G e r a l d O t i s , M o l l y Hute
and Leon R i c h a r d s o n i n camp f o r t h e d a y .

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1919
"^ST.lS-IAr &amp; l i r a S . S . P a r k e r , M o l l y Nute,Leon i n ofirap.
J a n . 1 4 - F i s h i n e but no l u c k .
Jim.l5-&amp;;eturn home.
Jan.29-Mr &amp; Mrs.Alonzo I . D a v i s and Ned P a r k e r a r r i v e
t o v i s i t A l b e r t Davis,VM.Nelson,Leon R i c h a r d son and F r a n k l i n P a r k e r who a r c camping w i t h
Fi^uak B u t l e r .
J u l . S-Mr &amp; Mrs S . S , P a r k e r , L e o r a O t i s , G e r a l d O t i s ,
and I ^ o n R i c h a r d s o n ,
J u l , 4-Harold T i b b e t t s and Mi',Bro\ c a l l ,
J u l , 5-Close oaiap,
J u l , 2 4 - S , S , P a r k e r and Mary,Ned P a r k e r and M i n n i e ,
Jul,25-Ned and Minnie r e l s i r n , L e o r a &amp; G o r a l d a r r i v e ,
Jul.26-Mary*d b i r t h d a y , L o o r a &amp; G e r a l d go home,
Franliiin arrives.
J u l , 2 7 - 3 . S . &amp; F r a n k l i n go i n B/Iondota t o Aiken»s
Point f o r blueberries,
J u l , 2 8 - G e r a l d and Ned r e t u i ' n ,
Jul,29-To Sandy Baj'' bluebQrryiiig.Leon goe^ home.
J u l . 3 0 - C l o s e oamp,
Aug.l4«41rs.S.P,Nute,Molly,feude,Stan and Leon a r r i v e ,
Aug.15-Rain. To Bay i n Mendota,
Aug,16-Mr &amp; Mrs.3,S.Parker imd E . P . B i t s a r r i v e . S t a n
paints r u s t i c r a i l i n g .
Aug.l7-Several c a l l e r s .
Aug.l8-ar ^5 Mr S.S, 3 . P a r k e r l e a v e . H a r r y Nute a r r i v e s ,
Aag.l9-S,P, and H a r r y Hate l e a v e . R a i n .
Aug.20-S.P.Hate r e t u r n s t o camp,
Aug.21-Brok9 camp.
Aug,31-Mr &amp; Mrs S,S.Parker and Leon R i c h a r d s o n ,
Sep, 1 - Y i s i t Red Rock Brook end b a r ^ i n w i t h PIr,
Neivhall f o r more l i i a d . R e t u r n hoaie,
Oct,IB-Mr &amp; Mrs.S.S.Parker,Leon £ind P r a n i c l i n i n camp*
Dee.23-S.3.Parker,Franid-in
and Leon enjoy
skating.Ice 6 inches.

fine

Dec,29-"Ms 1^ Mrs J.G.Haigb.,George H a i g h , L e o r a , G e r a l d ,
Franklin,Rosa leys,Catherine Oilman,Yiolet
Howard,Doris Card,SiGhard Udal3.,Slaie B e r r y ,
Leon R i c h a r d s o n , A r t h u r Gcnlc^j.James T h a y e r ,
C a r r o l l Peavey a n d S . S . P a r k e r s k a t i n g ,
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1930
Apr, 3 - 3 , S . P a r k e r , F r a n k l i n and Leon i n camp,
Apr,18-S,3,r'arker
tlay

a t camp,

9-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker,Leora

I'r'y^ E 6 - S , S . P a r k e r , H e d , F r a n k l i n

and Leon i n camp,
and Leon p a i n t boat,

^oi^mVii'-Mr &amp; Mr&amp;,S,S,Parker and Leon R i c i u i r d s o n ,
J u l , 1-Ifed ? a r k e r , 3 , S . i * a r k 0 r , L e o n and Oeorge Haigh
r e p a i r i n g wharf,
J U l , 3-Mr &amp; M r s , S . S . P a r k e r , L e o r a and G e r a l d O t i s ,
J u l . 4-Mr &amp; Mrs.Hed Parker,Mr &amp; M r s . 7 , J . E n g l i s h
and two c h i l d r e n ,
J U l , D - F r a n l i i i n P a r k s r and Rapiond Moore J o i n u s ,

J u l , I E - M r &amp; Mrs,S.P.Ifute and F r a n k l i n P a r k e r a r r i v e
by B .3; M.S.S.Parker b r i n g s Mrs.E.P.Hute and
M o l l y by a u t o .
Jul,13-Hed a r r i v e s . Hot,
J u l . l ' i - S . P . H u t e b u i l t a m a i l box and a f f i x e d i t t o
p o s t n e a r boathouse f o r w a t e r d e l i v e r y o f
m a i l , Hed r e t u r n s t o F a r m i n g t o n ,
JuI,15-E,P.HutG a r r i v e s from C o n e o r d e P i r s t m a i l
r e c e i v e d by R.L.D, b o a t ,
Jul,16-I'oo oool tOi s'.irim,
J u l o l 7 - B r i t e and f a i r , /ent t o Bay and took Har3?y,
Helen and Eugene F , Hute from t r a i n . T h i s
week we have c l e a n e d out i e o house and made
i t i n t o a wood shed,painted t h r e e c h a i r s ,
r e p a i r e d and p a i n t e d pump,Franklin goes home,
Leon a r r i v e s ,
J U l o l S - A l l t h e Ilute f a m i l y t o g e t h e r , S t a n a n d I f e r r y
alimbod h J . l l a c r o s s t h e l a k e and p i c k e d
b l u e b e r r i e s . H a r r y Hutes went home.
Jul,19-S,P.Ifute l o r e f o r Concord,
JuJ.,20-Painted c l o t h e s post,I.Iade and p a i n t e d garbage
box and s t a n d ,
Jci3.,21-Picked b l u e b e r r i e s a c r o s s l a k e , i n p a s t u r e ,
Ju.l,E2-S,P.Hute r e t u r n s t o oamp,
Jul#2S-Broke camp,
Jal,2G-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S,Parker and G e r a l d O t i s ,
Jal.29-Picking blueberries.
Jul,S0-Vi3it Bay.
Jul.31-Quiet,

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1920
Aug, 1-Leora O t i s and Leon Richardson a r r i v e ,
Aug, 8-S,S,Parlcer,Leon Richardson,Ernest Kirahall
and Raymond Moore i n camp,
Aug,21-Rev,Harry L o u d , S t e l l a Loud,Mr &amp; Mrs S,S,Parker
and Leon Richardson,
Aug,22-Cloudy and v/amn,
Aug,23-Attend campmeeting,
Aug,24-Sntire p a r t y w i t h Mr Skinner and d a u ^ t e r
and O l i v e SavJiry go i n lona ( S k i n n e r s hoat)
to /olfhoro to c e l e h r a t i o n of 150th a n n i v e r s a r y
of the town,
Aug,25-E,D,Roberts,v/ife and daughter c a l l . Catch one
hass a t Red Rock,
Aug,2€-Leon catches seven hompout,
Aug,27-See hydroplane,
Aug,28-Q]aiet,
Aug,29-Ned and Minnie arrive,?/e c l o s e camp,
Oct,10-Rev,J.G.Haigh,S,S.Parker,Franklin
a t cottage.

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2 1

1921PeErr20-S.S.Parker,Fred Pearce and Leon a t camp.
To look a f t e r the Mendota,
Mar,13-F.P.Pierce,Hed Parker,Leon Richardson,and
S,3,Parker a t eamp. I c e thawing.

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1921
Mar,30-Ioe went out Maroh ^8th t h i s year.Leon
Richardson and S.S,"^arlcer i n camp,Find
r e a r of hoathouse four f e e t under water,
the two outside supports having heen
destroyed hy ice,Mendota had s l i d hack
through door and n e a r l y a l l of i t under
water,We gather a c c e s s o r i e s but are unable
to move boat,
Apr, 2-Engineer F.P.Pierce,Capt,Geo,lynch with h i s
steamer,Leon,Raymond Moore and S.S.Parker
to rescue of Mendota.Tov/ed i t around to the
beach.Propeller,shoe and anchor and t o o l s
lost.Otherwise boat i n good aMhpe,
Apr, 3-Haul Mendota i n l a n d a||d block i t up.
May

6-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.:^rker,Leon and F r a n k l i n at camp,
•faint rowboat. Creosote gypsys a t Doring
camp f o r I^Jr,Doring,

toy 15-S.S.Parker,Ned and Leon spend day.
May 30-Ito &amp; Mrs.S.S.Parker,Mr &amp; Mrs Ned Parker
Leon Richardson and Raymond Moore a t camp.
Jun,15-Mr
Mrs,S.S,Parker,Franklin and Leon a r r i v e
to rescue one s i d e of boathouse which had
f a l l e n into the v;ater,Blov7ing a ^ l e . C a n n o t
s t a y out i n rowboat,

Jan,24-Mr &amp; M r s , S . S . % r k e r , F r a n k l i n and Leon i n camp
Jun,25-Painting and r e p a i r s ,
Jun,26-Hed and Minnie a r r i v e . P e a r c e s c a l l . Launch
the Mendota,
Jan,E7-Find p r o p e l l e r of Mendota, Return home,
J u l , 3-Mr &amp; Mrs,S.S.Parker,Leon and Mrs. N e l l i e
Hayes,Leon c a t c h e s 12 hompout,2 t r o u t ,
J a l , 4-Ned Parker a r r i v e s . Hot,
J u l , 5-Cooler,Close camp,
J a l , 2 S - E l i z a Colbath of Los Angeles and Mr &amp; Mrs
S.S.Parker and Leon Richardson
Jal,22-Quiet,
Jul,23-Hydroplane g i v e s us an e x h i b i t i o n ,
Jal,24-Mr &amp; Mrs C.E.Home call,v/e r i d e to Wolfboro,
Jul,25-Hot,
Jal,26-QuiBt,

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7iir727-pioic blaoicberries.Ned,Minnie and Capt,Sevan
and ¥/ife a r r i v e by a u t o ,
Ail,E8-Frank:lin J o i n s u s ,
JUl,29-Heavy t h u n d e r s t o r m s ,
Jal,30Mss f i s h i n g b u t no l u c l c .
|;til,31-Glose camp.
Aug.21-Molly Bute,Maude Hute and S t a n Hute a r r i v e ,
Aug,22-CouldnH s t a r t Mendota,Fire i n s t o v e f o r comfo
iiig,23-3.P.H. t o F , t o see h i s f a t h e r , B r o u g h t E r l e i e
E d g e r l y bade,also D o r i s and E l e a n o r , P u t up
s t a g i n g o n e a s t s i d e o f house and s t a r t e d t e a r ing o f f the s h i n g l e s .
.24-Bdgerly g i r l s went home.Franlclin a r r i v e s ,
S.P.H, l a i d t h r e e bundles o f s h i n g l e s ,
,25-Hed J o i n s u s ,
,26-Hed r e t n r n s home, Leon a r r i v e s ,
,27-Steamed c l a m s , S , P . H . and Leon b r i n g up 2500
s h i n g l e s from t h e B a y ,
, 2 8 - F r a n k l i n went home,
Jtag,29-Leon goes home,Ben Sanborn,R.K.Rogers w i t h
w i v e s v i s i t u s , P a i n t e d west w a l l o f k i t c h e n ,
Aug,30-Closed camp,
Oct, 7-Hed and M i n n i e and Sam and Mary P a r l c e r ,
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1922

l y T . 4 - M r &amp; Mrs S,S,Parlcer,Agnes Home,Arthur J e w e l l
C l a r e n c e J e w e l l and G e r a l d O t i s i n camp.
, 4-Mr &amp; lira S.S. and Mr &amp; lira, H.L. Parlcer,
Bought ne\ rov/boat o f L y n c h ,

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.2-Mr &amp; Mrs Hed P a r k e r and F r a n l c l i n . G a l e b l o i v i n g .
|Jan.l3-Mr &amp; Mrs S . 3 . P a r k e r a r r i v e . ; / e r e p a i r r u s t i c
f e n a e n e a r s t a i r s b u i l t by S.P.Bute i n J u l y
1902 and i n t a c t t i l l now.
|Jim.l4-Rainy.
1.15- Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.'^arker depart.Hed and F r a n k l i n
shingled the k i t c h e n .
1.16- C l o s e oamp.
1.27- F r a n k l i n P a r k e r and John F.Dame i n eamp.
1.28- R a i n ;
1.29- To Bay.Heavy shower d e l a y i n g Mt.V/ashington.
iJun.SO-iass life,pgaret H i l l and George Haigh c a l l e d .
P l a y e d c o r n e t a n d Jews h a r p but they d i d not
hamonize,
i l , 1-To t h e B a y a g a i n , i ? a i n ,
2- Mr &amp; iJIrs Hed P a r k e r , Mrs, E l m e r Knox, L o r en
H m m r d ^ d V i o l e t Howard a r r i v e d , L a t e r L e o ^
l^iiox,Elmer Knox and J e s s iOaox a r r i v e d ,
a , 3 - H a r r y , H e l e n , E u g e n e F , , C h a r l o t t e Hate and
Mrs,S,P.Bate,Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker and Leon
Richardson a r r i v e ,
4-A p l e a s a n t day,Lake h i g h e r than any y e a r
s i n c e 1857,
'Jal, 5-Cloudy, A l l hands a t work,
i J a l , 6-^Aary P a r k e r and H e l l i e Hate p a i n t t h e b o a t ,
7-Close oaiiip,
:,20-Mr c% Mrs,S,S,Parker,Mr C". I;Ir3,Hed P a r k e r and
F r a n k l i n , V f o r k on f o u n d a t i o n s f o r g a r a g e ,
|fol.21-All busy,
.,22-Return home,
a,29-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S,Parker,!.iEr &amp; Mrs A r t h u r J e w e l l
and t h e s m a l l J e v / e l l s ,
.,3a-rir &amp; I^Irs Hed P a r k e r , i l r
Mrs C,'^,Floyd
and c h i l d r e n , F r a n k l i n , L e o n , G e r a l d O t i s a n d
Alex Katcsky v i s i t u s ,
3- Mr &amp; J I r s S , S , P a r k e r , H e l l i e Hute,Molly Hute,
and Hed P a r k e r a r r i v e , S t a r t work on garage
v ; i t h Erasmus E l l i s , B o s s C a r p e n t e r ,
4&lt;-Molly p a i n t s t h e f e n c e ,
5- F r a n k l i n a n d M o l l y s h i n g l e garage,Mary p a i n t s
i t and t h e work i s done.

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Aug. 6- Leon,Alex K a t o s l s y , G e r a l d O t i s and L e o r a
O t i s j o i n us.Harry,Helen,Eu^eneF. and
C h a r l o t t e B a t e v i s i t us d u r i n g t h e day.
A|Eg. 7 - R a i n .
Aug. 8 - S h i n g l i n g and p a i n t i n g g a r a g e . A l l a t work.
Aug. 9-Mr &amp; Mrs Bed P a r k e r d e p a r t . R e s t o f p a r t y
l e a v e l a t e r c l o s i n g eamp.
Aug.20-Hed,Minnie and F r a n k l i n P a r k e r a r r i v e and
s t a y a v/eek.
Sep. 2-Mr &amp; Mrs.S.S.Parker,Leon and A l e x K a t o s k y .
Sep. 3-Mrs A l b e r t O t i s and Mr &amp; airs D o r i n g c a l l .
Sep. 4 - C a l l on Mrs B u t l e r a t Loon Cove.At Sandy
Bay measure l o t s f o r Mr A l l e n and F r a n k
Lougee.Paint a n d s t a i n garage,
Oct, 1-Mr &amp; Mrs C,W,Floyd,Madeline,Charlotte
and C a r o l i n e Floyd,Mr &amp; Mrs Bed P a r k e r ,
Oot,20-S,S,Parker,Franklin,Leon,and Hed P a r k e r
c l o s e up eamp f o r t h e w i n t e r ,
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Jifay 20-Mr &amp; llrs S.S.Parker,Leon R i c h a r d s o n ,
Mrs.Rohama Hayes.Lake low.Ten f e e t o f beach
from f f i o t of s t a i r s . F r e d Pearce d i n e s w i t h \
May 29-Mr &amp; airs l e d Parker,Mr &amp; Mrs S . S . P a r k e r ,
Leon R i e h a r d s o n . A l l e n F o l e y and F r a n l c l i n
P a r k e r . Cool w i t h s l i g h t f r o s t .

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f a y 3 0 - P a i n t boats,!,irs.Aiinie Korwood and Miss Ann
HoKTOod v i s i t u s .
May S i - l e d aad Sam f i n i s h new l e n g t h o f f e n c e .
C l o s e oamp,
Jun,20-Mrs.lorwood,Er's,led P a r l c e r , F r a n k l i n and
J.F.Dame,
J u n ^ E l - S t a n Ilute,M8.,\jde l n t e , M o l l y l u t e , M r s E.P,
m i t e , l e d Parlcer,Mr &amp; Mrs S . S . l ^ r l c e r and
Leon aiGhardson. Leon and Hed r e t u r n t o F ,
F o r s e t f i r e s ap the l a k e ,
Jun,22Jim,23-FrtmlLLin c a l l s on u s , S t a n p a i n t s f e n c e .
See f i v e young d u c k s ,
Jun,24-Harry,Helen,G-ene and C h a r l o t t e a r r i v e w i t h
l o a d of food i n c l u d i n g clams.Sam P a r k e r s
and Hed P a r k e r s d e p a r t ,
Jun,25-Breezy,
Jun,26-Harry Hates l e a v e . S t a n s p r e a d g a l l o n of
r a r e o l d r a i l r o a d r e d p a i n t which S.S.P.
dug up and d e c l a r e d t o he 20 y r s e l d .
P a i n t e d hoth s t a i r s , p i a z z a on e a s t and n o r t h
and g r e e n f o r the pump,Both chipmunk and
r e d s q u i r r e l s came t o s t e p s f o r f o o d ,
Jan,27-Break camp,
J u l , 3-Mrs, S.S,Parker,Mrs.Hed P a r k e r , L e o n
Riehardson,Ruhama Hayes and F r a n k l i n Parker.
J u l , 4-S.S.Parker and l e d a r r i v e .
J u l , 5 - F l o y d f a m i l y c a l l . A n d Mr Savarjr,
J u l , 8-The Hed P a r k e r s and F l o y d f a m i l y . A . 3 . C a r t e r s
call,Rode to G i l f o r d i n Floyd's ear,
J i l l , 9 - C a l l e d a t C a r t e r s and t h e y dined w i t h u s ,
A p a r t y o f e l e v e n aro\md the t a b l e ,
J u l . 1 0 - F r a n k l i n p a i n t e d the r a i l g r e e n , P i c n i c a t
the C a r t e r s .
J u l , 11-71 i n d y ,
J u l . l S - T ^ v c deer seen n e a r P e r k i n s barn,Ride around
l a k e i n F l o y d auto v i s i t i n g Sunset H i l l
n e a r Thomas P l a n t e s t a t e .
iug.

5-4Ir &amp; JIrs Hed Parker,Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker
L e o n , I ^ o r a dnd G e r a l d O t i s , A l e x Xatosky
and W i l l i a m Hayes,

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6-Freaiicliii Parlcer and G e r a l d O t i s J o i n u s .
Mrs i S l s i e H u n t r e s s v/ith u s .
Aug. 7-v/ork on stone w a l l on beach.
Aug. 8-Pranjcliri aad Ger&amp;ld go horae.
i u g . 9-Mr &amp; Mrs S.H.ICelly,Laura Loclce and H e l l i e
Hayss c a l l .
A u g . l O - Y i s i t Sandy B a y . S e t out s p r u c e and s t r i p e d
raaple on our l o t ,
A u g . l l - V i s i t e d E i r e h I^mding.Worked on v m l l ,
iUig.lS-Broak eamp,
Aug,23-C,v/.Ployd and f e j a i l y and Mr Sa Mrs Hed P a r k e r
spend t h e day,
Sep, 7-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker,Mrs.Ifery T i b b e t t s , L e o n
E i c h a r d s o n and A l o x i C a t o s k y . S e l l Mendota,
0©t,ll-led,Fr£mklin and S.S.Parker and Leon v i s i t
Qimrp aiid put b o a t s away. Lake v e r y lov/,
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Jon,22-Mr &lt;&amp; Mrs Hed Parker,Mr ft Mrs George L . P e r k i n s
Mr &amp; Mrs M e l v i n E a r l e J r . and daughter,
Jan,25-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Iferker,Mr &amp; Mrs Hed P a r k e r ,
and H a r r y I l u t e . P a i n t boat,Set out mountain
a s h g i v e n by Mr G e r r i s h ,
J u l , 3-?Ir &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker,Mr &amp; ?lrs,!fed P a r i e r and
F r a n I c l i r i , L a k e low , t h e r e b e i n g f o u r o r f i v e
feet, o f beach a t f o o t o f s t a i r s .

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HT," 4-i:i0d oovery p i a z z a r o o f v/iljL p a r o i d r o o f i n g ,
J a l , b-Hed goes home,Franklin cUid S.S,P. p a i n t ,
J u l , S-Ued rstui'na t o earap, V i s i t Saaclir B a y , F l o y d
f a m i l y , L e o n and Alerc c a l l . Close camp,
J u l , 7 - l l r s 3.P.Ilute and S t a n and l^aude a r r i v e , No
p a t t e r n s i n t h e guard hoiiee. S k i n n e r s a r r i v e
f o r season and f i n d dead duck under the bed,
Jul, 3-ouiot,
fcl. 9-nobody d i d n o t h i n g ,
Jul,10-ScrGened f r o n t door,lied a r r i v e d ,
J u l . l l - N e d goes homu,
J a l , 1 2 - H a r r y Iluto and f i i m i l y b a n d H o l l y Ilute f t r r i v e .
Also S.S.Parker.
J u l , 1 3 - Y e s t o r d a y ' s gueats d e p a r t i n r a i n ,
Jtil,l&lt;'»Flre i n t h e s t o v e was c o n f o r t ! i b l e ,
Jul,15-Plugged l e a k s i n b o a t , P a i n t e d i n s i d e o f same,
J u l , i f . - B r o k s sarap,
Jul,18-Med P a r k e r and S,P.Hute a t camp f o r a sweater
and a swim,
Jul.E7-Hed P a r k e r and w i f e , S . S . P a r k e r and w i f e ,
J u l , 2 8 - P i c k 3 Ciuarts o f r a s b e r i i e s on n o r t h s h o r e ,
J u l . 2 9 - / o r k around camp,
Jul,39-C&gt;uiet,
Jal,31-Cooler,
Aug, 1-Rev,a,D.Disbrow c a l l s .
Aug, 2-Hed goes t o town.
Aug, 3-Agnes I l o r n e , L e o r a O t i s , C l a r e n c e J e w e l l and
l e o r a J e v / o l l -with F r a n k l i n P a r k e r spend d a y ,
Aug, 4-Cloae camp,
Aug,27-J.F.Dame and F r a n k l i n P a r s e r , R o b e r t
and A l e x Katoslcjr c a l l on u s ,
Aug,28-Visited '7hitehouse c o t t a g e ,

Bennett

Oct, 5-Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parker and Mr &amp; lUra Ned P a r k e r
Leore. Otis,£iKsidtbsLeon and A l e x v i s i t cam_ ,
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JlmZ a - Mr &amp; Mrs S.S.Parlcer,Rev.p.H.Reissig,Leon
aaci. A l e x T i a i t Ciimp.
j t e l l , 3-Mr &amp; Mrs S . S . P a r k e r , M o l l y
Ruiia,ma Hayes i n oamp,
Jujk, 4-QuiGt F o u r t h ,
J u l , 5-.7a r e t u r n home,

Nute,Leon R i c h a r d s o n

Jul,l'7-Poi'ce P j i r k e r ano. A d r l n n Cooper o f C a l i f o r n i a
x ^ r a n k l i n and S . S , P a r k e r , P e r c e and A d r i a n p i t c h
t e n t and s l e e p i n i t ,
J u l , 1 0 - R e p a i r i n g b r i d g e near S a l a r y ' s ,
J a l , 1 9 - l i 3 i t j3as&amp; shore f o r m s p b e r r i e s and b l u e b e r r i e s
F r e d Poarce and Mrs Pea; c e v i s i t u a ,
J a l , 3 0 - f i l r &amp; Mrs'Stan Nute,MrB a,P.Nute and H a r r y a r r i v e
J t i l . P . l - P e r o e , A d r i a n a n d Ned P a r k e r t a k e t r i p on Mount,
J u l , 3 2 - H a i n y and o o o l ,
J u l , 2 3 - T o Farming-ton and ^acfc,
J a l , 2 4 - S . 3 , , N 3 d L,Perce F . P a r k e r w i t h A d r i a n Cooper
and S.P.Nute climbed S t a r i g h t Back and p i c k e d
t h i r t y quarts of f i n e b l u e b e r r i e s ,
JftLl,25-Maude cana 17 p i n t s o f b e r r i e s t o t a k e t o D e t r o i '
A d r i a n and M o l l y go t o Bay w i t h O l i v e S a v a r y ,
J u l , 2 6 - R a i n , H a r r y Nut3 w i t h G-ene a n d C h a r l o t t e a r r i v e d ,
Fr4iL P e a r c e c a l l e d w i t h Horn Deaf born P.M. a t
Dover and ffm.Roberts o f R o l l i n s f o r d . M o l l y and
Stan cleaned barn of r u b b i s h ,
3WL,27-Ralki, IvIra,31izabGth Drew a r r i v e d i n e v e n i n g ,
Jul,20-Mr&amp;,Drew r e t u r n e d home, Mr &lt;?; Mrs S.S.Parker
arrived,
J u l , 2 9 - S . S . and P e r c e P a r k e r , A d r i a n Cooper and S.P.Nute
c l i m b e d Ht.Mr.Jor and p i c k e d 28 q u a r t s o f b e r r i e s
FoLlDwing them Maude ar^d M o l l y v/ith H e l e n Nute
and h e r two s i s t e r s and M i s s J^iavls v/ent up
S t r a i g h t Back and p i c k e d about 50 q u a r t s . I n
e v e n i n g Maude canned 12 q u a r t s f o r Perce and
and f i n i s h e d 24 p i n t s f o r h e r s e l f , .
Jul,30-Mr &amp; Mrs S.P.Nate and Mrs E.P.Nute q u i t camp.
Jul,31-Moll5',Perce,S.S.-i-'arker and A d r i a n a g a i n c l i m b
Mt.Major and p i c k 30 q u a r t s ,
Aug, 1-A.R.Beck and w i f e o f Roxbury stop w i t h u s ,
Aug, 2-I.eon a n d A l e x v i s i t u s ,
Aug, 3-Clohe camp except t h a t A d r i a n s t a y s t o work
for
Mr,Skinner,
Sep. 5-Mr &amp;Mi's,S.S,Parker,Nellie
Leon a t camp,

Nute and M o l l y and

Sept-S.P.Nute o f D e t r o i t p u r c h a s e s i n t e r e s t o f Ned
3?arker i n t h i s p r o p e r t y .

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5 ^ . 1 5 - H a r r y J h i t e ^ S t a n Nute and Gene a r r i v e d b r i n g i n g s t o v e and o t h e r f u r n i t u r e , T h e n r e t u r n e d .

, ^ . 1 7 - l f l r &amp; Mrs S.P.lJute i n camp,Snow a t Rochester
Ny y e s t e r f l ^ r and two d i e d o f c o l d a t C l e v e l a n d , F r o s t a t Farmington June 1 6 t h ,
Jtoi,18-Cool,Lock camp so Maude c a n be i n F , tomorrow
and S t a n goes deep s e a f i s h i n g ,
Jun,£8-Mr 6 I ^ s S.P,m^te,l'Irs,K.P.Nute and M o l l y ,
i l r r i v e i n e v e n i n g , S t a n w i t h H a r r y and t e n
o t h e r s went f i s h i n g o f f Y o r k H a r b o r . P a r t y
caught 284 f i s h w e i g h i n g above 1600 pounds,
S , P , I I , and H a r r y caught 34 f i s h v/eighing 114 l b
Jan,20-Molly l e a v e s , Mr &amp; Mrs S.S,Parker a r r i v e , C o o l ,
Jun,21J o n , 2 2 - V a r i o u s r e p a i r s raade, Molly r e t u r n s t o camp,
Jan,23-l;Irs Drew and Gene a r r i v e , S t a n b u i l d s forms f o r
concrete r e t a i n i n g w a l l .
Jun,24-Harry Nute and C h a r l o t t e a r r i v e . H a r r y and S t a n
completed c o n c r e t e w a l l . Saw p a i r o f l o o n s ,
Mr &amp; Mrs S , S , P a r k e r , H a r r y and C h i l d r e n l e a v e ,
Jan,£5-Took Mrs Drew t o Bay f o r h e r r e t u r n home,
Jun,26-To F , and back w i t h M o l l y ,
J u n , 2 7 - S t a n made cement s t e p on s i d e o f h i l l and
painted part of r u s t i c fence,
Jun,28-Stan,Molly,Maude and Mother Hute d r i v e t o
?/olfboro,03sipee,Union,Milton a^d F a r m i n g t o n
and back t o camp,
Jun,29-Harry and Helen l e f t c h i l d r e n w i t h u s and
t a k i n g Nash drove t o I f a n c h e s t e r w i t h H e l l i e
\?lllson,Mr3,V/adleigh and Mrs,Shapleigh,Harry
and Helen r e t u r n e d t o camp a t 9PM
Jun,30-The Harry.^Butes r e t u r n home,
J u l , l - P a i n t i n g and r e p a i r w o r l : , E a r l i n e E d g e r l y a r r i v e s
J u l , 2 - A d j o i n i n g c o t t a g e s w i r e d f o r e l e c t r i c i t y ?;hich
has j u s t been t u r n e d on. C l o s e eamp,
•
Jul,
H a r r y Hute and f a m i l y and Wadleigh s i s t e r s
occupy camp f o r unnamed p e r i o d ,
J u l , 2 1 - S t e l l a Loud and Mr &amp; Jirs
S.S.Parker i n camp.
J U l , 2 2 - S t e 11a's b i r t h d a y . Hot w i t h w i n d and re.in,
J u l , 2 3 - F r a n k l i n , J o h n Dame and F l o y d g i r l c a l l ,
Jal,24-^/ork on Gulch r o a d ,
J u l , 2 5 - M o l l y Hute j o i n s u s ,
Jul,26-lvlary P a r k e r ' s b i r t h d a y . F i n e day,
J u l , 2 7 - A r t h u r J e w e l l j o i n s u s t o work on s t a i r s . M e l l i e
Sanders c a l l s ,
J u l , 2 8 - J e w e l l and P a r k e r v;ork a l l day on s t f t i r s ,
J a l , 2 9 - H e l l i e Sanders l e a v e s . S t a i r s completed,
J u l , 3 0 - T e r r i f i e storm l a s t n i g h t r o c k e d t h e c o t t a g e ,
J u l , 3 1 - J e v / e l l goes home, F r e d T h a y e r and p a r t y p i c k
18 q u a r t s o f b e r r i e s on Mt,Majol?,

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5« l-¥laiBi and f a i r . We move out and c l o s e camp,
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^r,20-S,S,Parker,Hed P a r k e r and He.rry Hute,12 f e e t
o f beacli from f o o t of s t a i r s .
14-Mr "z l i r a , S.S,Par k e r , M o l l y I l u t e , G e r a l d O t i s
"
and C h a r l o t t e H a t e ,
fey 15-Cool and rainy,7/e r e t u r n home,
lay 28-Leon R i c h a r d s o n , R i c h a r d M i l l e r , I i r &amp; , S t a r r e t t ,
R i c h a r d J r , , H a r v e y and George M i l l e r ,
lay 29-C4aiGt,
lay 3 0 - P a r t y l e a v e f o r l y n n ,
f a l , 1-Mr&amp;
M r s , S . S , P a r k e r and Gene Hute,See many
s q u i r r e l s , h o t h r e d and chipmunks,
l a l , 2-Mr &amp; i i r s . H a r r y Hute w i t h C h a r l o t t e and Rhoda
ji
Have f i n e v i e w o f hoat r a c e s a s t h e y t u r n e d
"
a t huoy n e a r our p o i n t ,
JUl, 3-Ed and I r v i n g J e h s t e r and George P i k e c a l l ,
JUl, 4 - ? e r y c o l d ¥/ith h i g h w i n d p r e v e n t e d b o a t i n g
I
and c e l e b r a t i o n s ,
r a l . 7 •Mr &amp; Mrs.S,P,Hate r e a c h camp i n e V e n i n g , R a i n ,
J u l . 8 • F a i r and c o o l ,
M l . 9 •Molly Hate a r r i v e s i n e v e n i n g .
J a l . l O - D o r i s E d g e r l y c a l l s a l s o F r a n k Copp and Mr &amp;
Mrs.ClementS.Harry Hate and f a m i l y and Mother
B i t e spend the day w i t h u s . S ^ r l i n e and Leon
I^lmer c a l l .

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2?

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J u l ' . l l - F i n e and warm,Water splendid,Had 3 chipiminlcs
g a t h e r i n g doughnuts,Stan made cement s t e p f o r
porch s t a i r s ,
•
J u l , i 2 - H o t . D r o v e t o F , and l e f t M o l l y and Mother,
S t a n and Maude r e t u r n e d a l o n e ,
J u l , 13-Ho t , S eve r e thunder showe r •
J u l , i 4 - n o t , S h o w e r s , The H a r r y Ifutes drove up i n t h e
e v e n i n g b r i n g i n g w i r e announcing death i n
I
D e t r o i t o f W,J,Reineke,partner of SPH.
b a l , 1 5 - S u l t r y and damp. Worked on r o o f of b a m «
RUl,16-Vory h o t , Showers.Molly i n oamp,
Jul,17-Hot and showers a g a i n ,
J u l , 1 8 - C l o a r warm day,
Jul,19-StgJi f i n i s h e d * a s t roof of barn,
Jul,20-Mr &amp; Mrs,S,S,Parker a r r i v e , S t a n and La.ude t o F,
Jal,21-Mr &amp; Mrs Hamlin and c h i l d r e n and Mrs,Chandler
spend day v/ith u s ,
J u l , 22-S t a n Uute, C h a r l o t t e V/adleigh,Miss D a v i s and
S . S , P a r k e r went b e r r y i n g on S t r a i g h t b a o k and
s e c u r e d 55 t o 60 q u a r t s o f b l u e b e r r i e s ,
•
Julo23-Fog and r a i n ,
J u l , 2 4 - ? i s i t Fred Pearce,
J u l , 2 5 - R e p a i r v;ork,
J u l , 2 6 - C h a r l o t t e Wadleigh,Joe Wadleigh and M o l l y l u t e
J o i n our p a r t y .
J u l . 2 7 - l t r s . F r a n c i s V/adleigh J o i n s u s .
J u l . 2 8 - C l o s e camp.

19

2 8

J u n , 16-Harry and M o l l y Hate xvith Gene and U n c l e Sam
and Aunt Mary v i s i t camp f o r second time t h i s
s e a s o n , l a k e h i g h vm h i n g o v e r l o w e s t p a r t of
our w h a r f . P a i n t b o a t .
J a l , 3-The H a r r y Hutes and M o l l y w i t h Mr &amp; Mrs
Parker.Mosquitoes t e r r i b l e .

S.S

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2 8

4-F r a n ] c \ i n P a r k e r , G e r a l d O t i s , A l l e n Twombly,
and O l i v e S a v a r y c a l l on us.The H a r r y Ifutes and
M o l l y r e t u r n home. The S . S . P a r k e r s st^.y t o
f i g h t mosquitoes.
5- 03.0se oamp*

4-Mr &amp;. M r s . S . S . P a r k e r and Gene Ilute i n camp.
5-Harry,Helen,lihoda and M o l l y Hute a r r i v e .
6-BreaJc camp.
1 - Mr &amp; Mrs.S.S.Parker,Miss V i r g i n i a Harmon and
Clarence J e w e l l .
2-B l u e b e r r i e s a n d b l a c k b e r r i e s .
3- P;; i n t s t a i r s and make g e n e r a l r e p a i r s .
4-More r e p a i r work.
5-A f t e r b l a c k b e r r i e s on o p p o s i t e s h o r e .
Aug.16-Return home.
Sep. 5-Maude and S t a n Hute open camp.
Sep. 6-To F . f o r steamed clam supper.
Sep. T-'-Mrs
S k i n n e r and daughter c a l l e d , Maude f e d
chipmunks r e p e a t e d l y from h e r hand.Saw f i v e
ducks c l o s e i n s h o r e .
Sep, 8-Mr &amp; Mrs Leon Palmer c a l l e d . M o l l y i s brought
up from F .
Sep, 9-Harry Hute and f a m i l y and E t h e l C h i l d spend
day w i t h u s ,
Sep,10-SPH b u i l d s t h r e e cement s t e p s ,
Sep,ll-y/ent t o Gilmanton t o v i s i t E a r l i n e Palmer,
u n c r a t e d and s e t up l i b r a r y t a b l e ,
Sep,12-Fed g r a y s q u i r r e l on f r o n t porch,He h a s wounded
f r o n t leg,Chipmunks a l l t h i t j u g h t h e house and
t a k e peanuts from our l a p , 8 s h e l l e d n u t s a r e
normal load.Have f e d drj l b s , o f n u t s t o C h i p ,
C l o s e camp,
Oct, 4-Harry Hute and Mr &amp; Mrs S . S , P a r k e r t o eamp
to p u t up boat and make snug f o r w i n t e r .
EHD

OF

TEE

SEASOH

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2 9

1929
Maj "30-Mr Si Mrs S.S.Parlcer .Molly Hate and Gene
H u t e . l ^ e h i g h e r than usual.Vlhaitf somewhat
damage4.6ene and Sam p a i n t boat £md i n s t a l l
the pump.
Jun,13-Mr &amp; Mrs Harrjr lu.te,lihoda and Mr &amp; Mrs
S.S.Parlcer v i s t t oamp and p u t boat i n w a t e r .
J u n , 25-Harr^T,Helen,Gene ( C h a r l o t t e ,Rhoda ®ite
S i e l c i e and Mr &amp; Mrs S,S.Parlcer r e p a i r w h a r f
and r o o f on shed.
Jul.16-Mr &amp; Mrs S . S . P a r k e r , V i r g i n i a Haa^oiRaal.
C l a r e n c e J e w e l l i n camp,
Jal,16«Fair and wam.
J a l , l ? - R e p a l r work,
J a l . l a - T i s i t B±mh
Laming.
J r t i , i 9 - C i f m d y and o o o l ,
J u l . 2 0 - C l o s e camp,
J a l » E 2 - ^ &amp; Mrs S.P.Kate open oarap.VVaim.
J a l . 2 3 - H o t , Hed P a r k e r and Harrjr Hute and familyv i s i t l i s f o r a swim,
J u l , 2 4 - E l e a n o r E d g e r l y and two g i r l f r i e n d s c a l l ,
Jul,25-MrS.Drew w i t h t h r e e l a d i e s c a l l , H e d ctnd
H a r r y come up f o r t h e a f t e r n o o n . C a l l on
the Savarys.
J a l . 2 6 - P i n e . Maude anci S t a n made t r i p around t h e
l a k e on t h e Mt,Washington.
Jui,27-Hot,'JPo P, r e t u r n i n g w i t h Helen,Molly,Rlioda,
and Charlotte,Gene and H a r r y i n F o r d brought
l a r g e c r o c k f o r pump,
J u l , 2 8 - H o t , H a r r y and S t a n i n s t a l l orook about pump.
A l l i n swimming,Severe shower w i t h wind i n
the H i compelled Mt.vfashington t o swing i n t o
Loon Cove f o r s h e l t e r . H a r r y Hutes and M o l l y
r e t u r n home.
J u l . 2 9 - E a r l i n e Palmer and baby w i t h u s a l l day.
B u i l t a n o t h e r cement s t e p , P a i n t e d p a r t o f
r u s t i c fence,
Jul,30-!!!o F , and brought M r s , C h a r l e s C h i l d , S t h e l
and lames C h i l d , S t a n , J a m e s , G e r t r u d e ejid
L o u i s e and E d i t h Decker and Edna M i l l e r
went up Mt,M8,Jor f o r b e r r i e s , M e t Rev,
Disbrow on mountain,Took C h i l d f a m i l y back
to F ,
J u l , 3 1 - l e d P a r k e r saystwo o l d s e t t e e s a t camp came
from o l C Farmington s c h o o l w h i c h was moved
away when p r e s e n t H.S, was b u i l t i n 1875,

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2 9

1929
TaXTSl-ReT.Blsljpow and ^ r t y c a l l e d and went
swimratng.
Fine and warm,
Aug, l-Bare f e d two chipraonks d a i l y . We c l o s e
csaap and r e t u r n to F a m i n g t o n ,

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                    <text>HISTORICAL

NEW H A M P S H I R E
A
Issued

occasionally

by

P U B L I C A T I O N
the

N E W HAMPSHIRE

H I S T O R I C A L

SOCIETY

in the interest o f service to people w h o would broaden their knowledge
of N e w H a m p s h i r e ' s long and enduring history through an evergrowing understanding o f its collected books and papers and
its objects o f art and craftsmanship w h i c h are here preserved for safe-keeping, reference and inspiration.

October 1952
I N T H I S NUMBER:

" N e w Hampshire

Indians," by Robinson V . Smith.

Vol..

VIII

Remembers T h e
No. 2

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H A M P S H I R E H I S T O R I C A L
C O I V C O R D ,

BMEW

S O C I E T Y

H A M P S H I R E

President
Huntley
N.
Spaulding.
Vice
Presidents
Louis
S.
Cox,
E l w i n L . Page. Secretary
Elmer M.
Hunt.
Treasurer
Dudley W . Orr.
Trustees
Huntley
N.
Spaulding,
Louis
S.
Cox, E l w i n
L.
Page,
Dudley
W . O r r , Foster
Stearns,

James
W . Jameson, Herbert W .
H i l l , Richard W . Sulloway, Archibald
M.
Peisch,
Harry
Merrill,
Robert W . U p t o n , L a u r e n c e F . W h i t temore, P h i l i p M . M a r s t o n , S h e r m a n
Adams,
William
G.
Saltonstall.

E L M E R MUNSON H U N T ,

Director

New Hampshire Remembers the Indians
BY

Member

Loo\ed
shire

at historically

have

ever

to see events
land

quite

religion

should

parts

of New

from

the Indians,

done

with
In

compiling

by

were

i6oo's
that

the

these

ijoo's.

woods,

fields,

It has been
Englanders,

as

out or ma\e
in some

New

Ossipees

the
and

permanent
of

the

fishing,

you

wish

fish

on these
and

It all.

right

some

Indians
and

shores

no other's.

There

guns

more

laid
But

fur

are

and

many

probably

and

here

cannot

more

we at least

deadly

way

wanted

The

in mapped

of these

squares

for

than

to stop

to roam

the

settlers
Indian

that

the

New

had

to

drive
Hamp-

time

and

they

that
receded

the

from.

Penacooks,

be

considered
have

of

as\ed

'aggression?

use for
both

our

out"

came

hunting

of

us

but

arrows,

so

we

you."

the countryside
Englishman

squares
have

on

roamed

might

an act
land

the

not "driven

tribes

is enough

in

from

ivho

originally

they

he

places

of the

advanced,

committing

deer-meat.

out his land

New

is true in New

of them

which

and

Penn's

however,

ingenious

in

a section

record

latter

Indians

return,

to this land,

have.

being

First

and

students

colonization

not

ta\en

is

Hampshire

here

were

coastwise

you

undoubtedly

game,

they

the

many

history

of the tribes

William

the

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in

many

of

"Are

as you

a general

a good

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settlers,

contrive
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of

the

as much

and
must

exception

in

and. Indians

Indians

them.

English

where

land-owners.

new

We have

As

and west

the
over

been

more

of times

by some

the

But

since

to research.

of New

memory

as occurred

Yorl{.

Hampshire.

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with

just

in New

to the north

given

assumption

treaties

prevails

he has added

mountains.

cases,

of the Dutch

this

captures

found

over

churches

of Indian

weel^s

colonists

rivers

elsewhere,

shire

To

and

still

account

the

casual

induced

the Indians
French

has long

account

the

has then

Hamp-

been

did.

to perpetuate

the

them

of

he

in Neu/

that not much

many

between

numerous

and

at times

a chronological

in

that remain

jaith

concise

to the late

Indians,

names

French

has devoted

resulted

and

the land

the Indians

contests

affairs

and

The

Society

has usually

England

while

and

Smith
to give

there

events

a new

Mr.

reader

the settlers

be said

of it than

has endeavored
early

prevail.
and

of Indian

The

the New

it might

some

records

sense.
between

Hampshire

Hampshire,
which

jetv

between

SMITH

Hampshire Historical

made

as a quarrel

or a quarrel

which

ROBINSON V .

New

which

never

in

who
would

been

built

search
arrived
be
on

his
to

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N E W

HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL

N E W

HAMPSHIRE

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this day.
Was there room enough
for both the white
man and
the
Indian?
This is one of the questions
raised by this
article.
Another
is the question
of colonization.
The Indians
were
free
from the domination
of a European
civilization
they had never
known.
The white man was not free from it and has never quite been to this
day.
He was a colonizer,
forced to pay tribute ta his native land.
His
traditions
were brought
from another continent.
The Indian
knowing
no other native land than this one paid no such tribute either in money
or sentiment.
The white
man in 7776 broke
off his relations
with
Europe,
apparently
forever,
only to become forced to return to them as
now.
This provocative
account of the New Hampshire
Indians
raises
the question
as to whether
the natives were not, in fact, nearer to what
we call "freedom"
than the colonists then were, and have since
become.
The New Hampshire
Historical
Society Library
is rich in
Indian
lore which has been drawn upon extensively
by the writer of this
article.
No less than three hundred
and twenty books on the American
Indian
are available
for research,
devoted
to such topics as Indian
treaties,
captivities,
wars and other general
headings.
The entire subject
has
long since needed to be explored,
explained
and organized
as Mr.
Smith
has now attempted
to do.
That the predominant
"captive"
element
found
here is unique
in
American
histcrry is evident.
In no other state in the union has such a
motive
on the part of the Indian
appeared
to such an extent.
The
native Indian
does not appear to have sought
primarily
to
annihilate
the aggressor
or scalp him.
He desired to capture and sell him just as
he did a deer or beaver skin.
His customers,
the French,
wished
to
buy the English
colonists in order to absorb them into their own
settlement project and to convert them to their religion.
It was not
necessary
for the French to tell the Indians this.
There was a vastly larger
market
for captives than for scalps and they k^ew
it.
Only with the
which
might better
these raids to obtain
of New Hampshire's
and slaughter,
but
captives,
who were

ending
of the so-called
French
and Indian
War,
have been called the French
and English
war,
did
captives
subside.
With rare exception
the
history
first
two hundred
years is not one of
"massacre"
one of Indian
treaties,
trading
and the taking
of
ultimately
ransomed.

In their desire to capture the settlers alive and then sell them,
the
Indians,
however,
defeated their own purpose.
For the white man survived and brought
a civilization
in which the Indian
way of life
could
not survive.
The Indian
names of rivers, trails, mountains,
lakes,
and
towns remain,
with here and there an exhibit
or tivo preserving
the
noiu almost forgotten
Indian relics in our
museums.
EDITOR.

f

I ^ H i s year ( 1 9 5 2 ) m a r k s the a n n i v e r s a r y of G e n e r a l J o h n S t a r k ' s e x p l o r a I
tory visit to R u m n e y , N e w H a m p s h i r e , the point on the B a k e r R i v e r
\r w h e r e he w a s c a p t u r e d by the I n d i a n s a n d t a k e n to C a n a d a . I t is
a n u n u s u a l c o i n c i d e n c e , s e l d o m r e c o g n i z e d by h i s t o r i a n s , that the
B a k e r R i v e r is n a m e d for T h o m a s B a k e r , w h o w a s also c a p t u r e d forty years
e a r l i e r a n d l i k e w i s e t a k e n to C a n a d a .
J o h n S t a r k w a s r a n s o m e d soon after his c ap t u re , t h r o u g h the efforts of
C a p t a i n P h i n e h a s Stevens a n d M a j o r N a t h a n i e l W h e e l w r i g h t , g r a n d s o n of the
f o u n d e r of the t o w n of E x e t e r , both ambassadors to the F r e n c h g o v e r n m e n t of
C a n a d a sent to negotiate the e x c h a n g e of p r i s o n e r s .
T h u s is i n v o l v e d a series of i n t e r e s t i n g h i s t o r i c a l c oi n c i de n c e s, a l l r e l a t i n g to
the N e w H a m p s h i r e I n d i a n tribes a n d t h e i r n e i g h b o r s , to the efforts o n the part
of the colonies to become safe f r o m a t t a c k s , a n d to the w h o l e c o l o n i z a t i o n efiFort
of p r e - R e v o l u t i o n a r y days.
T h e first of these coincidences is as before stated, that T h o m a s B a k e r , J o h n
S t a r k a n d C a p t a i n Stevens h a d a l l been prisoners of the I n d i a n s . B a k e r not only
has a N e w H a m p s h i r e r i v e r b e a r i n g his n a m e , but received a g r a n t of l a n d , a
p a r t of w h i c h is n o w S a l i s b u r y , n a m e d B a k e r s t o w n i n his h o n o r .
O r i g i n a l l y a n a t i v e of N o r t h a m p t o n , Massachusetts, b o r n i n 1682, T h o m a s
B a k e r w a s t h i r t y years o l d w h e n he became a n " I n d i a n s c o u t " i n c o m m a n d of
a c o m p a n y of t h i r t y m e n o n a n e x p e d i t i o n agai n st the I n d i a n s i n the " N o r t h
C o u n t r y " u n d e r orders f r o m G o v e r n o r D u d l e y of Massachusetts.
H e undoubtedly received this a p p o i n t m e n t t h r o u g h h a v i n g been c a p t u r e d some ten years
e a r l i e r , a n experience w h i c h t a u g h t h i m I n d i a n modes a n d m e t h o d s . H i s other
i m p o r t a n t experience w a s his m e e t i n g i n C a n a d a , w h i l e a c a p t i v e , w i t h M a d a m e
C h r i s t i n e L e B e a u w h o , vi'hen three m o n t h s o l d , h a d been c a r r i e d there as C h r i s tine O t i s by the I n d i a n s .

�HISTORICAL
GENERAL
JOHN
STARK
was born
in Londonderry
1728.
When he made
his famous hunting trip and when captured
in 1752,
he was
ttnenty-fotir.
He served with Rogers's
Rangers
and
under
General
Amherst
at
Ticonderoga and Crown
Point.
John
Stark's
greatest
fame
was
achieved
at the Battle of
Bennington,
fought
largely on New
Yor/i soil at
Waloomstic.
There
he and his New
Hampshire
soldiers
intercepted
the
southern
march of Burgoyne's
army
and
defeated
it.
The occasion
was
said to be a turning
point in the
American
War of Independence.
Starli
was made a Brigadier
General.
He
was the author of New
Hampshire's
State Motto,
"Live
Free or
Die."

N E W HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL

N E W HAMPSHIRE

5

shire H i s t o r i c a l Society's Collections,

T h u s C a p t a i n B a k e r became i n v o l v e d i n
one of the f e w r o m a n c e s g r o w i n g out of the
French and Indian W a r s . Christine L e B e a u
w a s the d a u g h t e r of R i c h a r d O t i s of D o v e r ,
and his w i f e M a r g a r e t W a r r e n . H e r father
had been k i l l e d a n d h i s house b u r n e d i n the
I n d i a n r a i d on D o v e r i n 1689, the r a i d w h i c h
w i t n e s s e d the s l a y i n g of M a j o r R i c h a r d W a l d r o n , one of the l e a d i n g figures i n the early
h i s t o r y of the c o l o n y .

II.

C . A l i c e B a k e r , i n her

New

England

this

Captives,

volume

True

has

Stories

also

of

described

affair.

Mr.

K e t c h u m is not c e r t a i n w h e t h e r

Cap-

t a i n B a k e r met h i s w i f e i n C a n a d a or

after

her r e t u r n to D o v e r , but he l e a r n e d that their
m a r r i a g e w a s a h a p p y one a n d that they h a d
six

children.

One

of

these,

Colonel

Otis

B a k e r , had a daughter, L y d i a , w h o married
Colonel A m o s

A r r i v i n g i n C a n a d a w i t h her m o t h e r , the
d a u g h t e r , C h r i s t i n e , h a d been b a p t i z e d i n the
F r e n c h C h u r c h a n d at s i x t e e n m a r r i e d to a
F r e n c h g e n t l e m a n , L e B e a u , w h o appears to
have d i e d soon after. T h u s she m i g h t legally
t a k e a d v a n t a g e of the p l a n for the e x c h a n g e
of prisoners a n d r e t u r n to D o v e r .

C o g s w e l l of D o v e r .

Another

L y d i a , b o r n of this m a r r i a g e , m a r r i e d P a u l
Wentworth

of

Sandwich

and

became

the

m o t h e r of the H o n o r a b l e J o h n ( " L o n g J o h n " )
W e n t w o r t h , first m a y o r of C h i c a g o .
Christine
Captain

T w o interested h i s t o r i a n s h a v e set d o w n
the events w h i c h o c c u r r e d i n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h
the m a r r i a g e of M a d a m e L e B e a u to C a p t a i n
Baker.
One
was
the
Reverend
Silas
K e t c h u m , l o n g P r e s i d e n t of the N e w H a m p shire A n t i q u a r i a n Society, a n d a m e m b e r of
T h e N e w H a m p s h i r e H i s t o r i c a l Society to
w h i c h he left his l i b r a r y .
T h e Reverend
K e t c h u m ' s article appears i n the N e w H a m p -

Baker

Baker,

lived

her

to

be

husband,

Massachusetts

i n the l e g i s l a t u r e a n d d i e d i n

These

of

first

of

aged

town

the

representative
'753'

the

eighty-four.

was

Brookfield,

seventy-one.

were

not

the o n l y

captives.

The

I n d i a n h i s t o r y of N e w H a m p s h i r e i n fact is
m o r e a history of persons t a k e n to C a n a d a by
the I n d i a n s t h a n a history of battles or scalpings.

W h i l e other states w e r e the scenes of

e x c i t i n g battles
tured

in

with

books

and

the I n d i a n s , l o n g
legend

as

counters w i t h the n a t i v e s i n t h e i r f u l l
giving forth
INDIAN BORDER DECORATION. ENSIGN &amp; THAYER'S
MAP
IN T H E N E W
HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY'S
COLLECTION.

war-whoops

tomahawks, N e w

and

pic-

bloody

en-

regalia

waving

their

H a m p s h i r e has to be c o n -

tent w i t h p e a c e - m a k i n g e n c o u n t e r s , occasional
"massacres,"

and

the

various

captivities

in

w h i c h a considerable n u m b e r of settlers w e r e
t a k e n to C a n a d a , a n d later r e d e e m e d .
I n d i a n h i s t o r y i n this state b e g a n w i t h the
coming

of

the colonists

i n the

1620's

and

lasted u n t i l the close of the so-called F r e n c h
and

I n d i a n W a r i n the

about

a century and a

1760's, a p e r i o d
half.

The

of

territory

w h i c h is n o w N e w H a m p s h i r e w i t h its l a k e s ,
rivers, mountains and
I n d i a n habitation.

valleys

was

ideal

for

F i s h and game abounded,

p r o v i d i n g both food a n d c l o t h i n g .

T h e tribes

w e r e by no m e a n s large a n d u s u a l l y content
to stay w i t h i n l i m i t e d areas.
F r a n c i s P a r k m a n , the h i s t o r i a n , has w r i t t e n
a d e s c r i p t i o n of the I n d i a n s to the n o r t h i n
A c a d i a w h i c h seems to a p p l y e q u a l l y w e l l to
New

GENERAL JOHN STARK.
FROM A
P R I N T IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

Hampshire.

I n l a n d A f a d i u , he says, w a s a l l forest, a n d
vast tracts of it are a p r i m e v a l forest s t i l l .
Flere r o a m e d the A b e n a k i s w i t h their k i n d r e d
tribes, a race w i l d as their haunts. I n habits
they were all m u c h a l i k e . T h e i r villages w e r e
on the waters of the A n d r o s c o g g i n , the Saco,

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HISTORICAL

"LONG
JOHN"
Wentworth
graduated jrom Dartmouth
in tlie Class oj
i8j6.
He was a member
of New
Hampshire's
distinguished
Wentworth
jamily.
After college he went to Chicago
and
became
editor
of
"The
Chicago
Democrat."
He served
as a
Representative
in Congress
and was
first elected Mayor of Chicago in 18^7.
He was the author of the
Wentworth
Genealogy.

N E W HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL

N E W HAMPSHIRE

tlic K e n n e b e c , the Penobscot, the St. C r o i x ,
anil the St. J o h n ; here i n spring they planted
their c o r n , beans, a n d p u m p k i n s , a n d t h e n ,
leaving them to g r o w , w e n t d o w n to the sea i n
their birch-canoes.
T h e y returned towards the e n d of s u m m e r ,
gathered their harvest, and w e n t again to the
sea, w h e r e they lived i n abundance on d u c k s ,
geese, a n d other w a t e r f o w l .
D u r i n g winter,
most of the w o m e n , c h i l d r e n , a n d oltl m e n

7

r e m a i n e d i n the villages; w h i l e the hunters
ranged the forest i n chase of moose, deer,
caribou, beavers, a n d bears.
T h e i r s u m m e r stay at the seashore w a s perhaps the most pleasant, a n d certainly the
most picturesque, part of their lives. B i v o u acked by some of the i n n u m e r a b l e coves a n d
inlets that indent these coasts, they passed
their days i n that alternation of indolence a n d
action w h i c h is a second nature to the I n d i a n .
H e r e i n w e t weather, w h i l e the torpid w a t e r
was d i m p l e d w i t h rain-drops, a n d the u p turned canoes lay idle o n the pebbles, the listless w a r r i o r smoked his pipe u n d e r his roof
of b a r k , or launched his slender craft at the
d a w n of the J u l y d a y , w h e n shores a n d
islands were painted i n shadow against the
rosy east, ancl forests, d u s k y a n d cool, lay
w a i t i n g for the sunrise.
T h e w o m e n gathered raspberries or w h o r t l e berries i n the open places of the woods, or
clams a n d oysters i n the sands a n d s h a l l o w s ,
a d d i n g their shells as a contribution to the
shell-heaps that have accumulated for ages
along these shores. T h e m e n fished, speared
porpoises, o r shot seals. A priest w a s often i n
the c a m p w a t c h i n g over his flock, a n d saying
mass every day i n a chapel of b a r k . T h e r e w a s
no lack of altar candles, made by m i x i n g t a l l o w w i t h the w a x of the bayberry, w h i c h
abounded a m o n g the rocky h i l l s , a n d w a s
gathered i n profusion by the squaws a n d
children.
The

white

men

of

England

came

to

the

s o u t h e r n shores of t h i s t e r r i t o r y a n d the w h i t e
m e n f r o m F r a n c e to the n o r t h e r n
The
INDIAN
PIPE.
NEW
HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY'S
COLLECTION.

T H E HONORABLE JOHN W F X T W O R I I I ,
FIRST MAYOR o r ("HICAOO. FROM A
PHOIOGRAPH IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

boundaries.

colonists of these t w o n a t i o n s differed

in

t h e i r r e l a t i o n s to the o r i g i n a l n a t i v e s , a l t h o u g h
both asserted
conversion

publicly that their purpose

was

a n d c i v i l i z a t i o n , not a n n i h i l a t i o n .

SECTION OF MURAL I N THE MASCOMA SAVINGS B A N K , LEBANON, BY BERNARD F .
CHAPMAN.
FROM ' T I E T Y - T H R E E YEARS
OF PROGRESS" I N T H E N E W H A M P SHIRE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY'S LIBRARY.

�s

HISTORICAL

HISTORICAL

N E W HAMPSHIRE

K i n g J a m e s I for i n s t a n c e , Jiad said p i o u s l y
w h e n the colonists
the early

i6oo's

first

began to e m b a r k

that he

hoped

the

in

venture

" w o u l d result not o n l y i n profit but t e n d to
the g l o r y of G o d i n p r o p a g a t i n g the C h r i s t i a n
faith among

infidels a n d savages a n d

t h e m to h u m a n i t y a n d c i v i l i t y . "

bring

T h e French

colonists, l i k e w i s e , w e r e a l m o s t u n a n i m o u s i n
t h e i r z e a l to t u r n the I n d i a n s i n t o C h r i s t i a n s ,
a supreme

example

being Father Rasle

the priests associated
It cannot
the early

be a s s u m e d

New

and

with him.
by a n y m e a n s

Hampshire

colonists

here a n d b e g a n i m m e d i a t e w a r f a r e
to d r i v e the I n d i a n s out.

that

landed
intended

T h e r e w a s m u c h to

be l e a r n e d f r o m t h e m .

T h e science of t r a p -

p i n g , the habits of a g r i c u l t u r e a n d e v e n
skills

of

fishing

were

largely

the

unknown

to

t h e m a n d the I n d i a n s , as they t r a d e d , c o u l d
teach

them

a

great

p e r i o d of f r o m

deal.

1623

Thus

to 1675

the

first

w a s a t i m e of

peace-treaties a n d l a n d purchases, the agreements m a d e by the E n g l i s h b e i n g to a i d the
I n d i a n s against other tribes a n d to a l l o w t h e m
full h u n t i n g and
the

fishing

newcomers

privileges.

might

without molestation.

occupy

I n return

their

villages

T h a t this p l a n

worked

to a degree for a l m o s t a n e n t i r e g e n e r a t i o n

is

significant.
W h i l e there w a s a w a r against the I n d i a n s
INDIAN ARROW W I T H SIONK
ARROW-HEAD.
FROM T H E
N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

i n the first h a l f c e n t u r y of A m e r i c a n c o l o n i z a t i o n i n N e w E n g l a n d it d i d not occur i n N e w
Hampshire.
conducted

I t w a s against the P e q u o t s

l a r g e l y by C o n n e c t i c u t .

torian,

Belknap,

period.

Darby

reports

Field

h a v i n g discovered
sent there

who

is

to l o o k

the

the

savages except

with

gold

short

and

There
quarrel

war

and

Captain

a leading

figure

who

John

were

direct

effects

on

New

1643

of the N a r r a g a n s e t t

nomo,

enemy

i r e of

the

capture
of

the

had

and

Indians

a n d a treaty

was

m a d e by

with
success-

which

New
almost

t w o decades.
It

is

significant

that

during

this

period

o c c u r r e d one of the great events i n A m e r i c a n
h i s t o r y , the active

attempt

at c o n v e r s i o n

of

the A m e r i c a n I n d i a n s to the C h r i s t i a n f a i t h ,
i n k e e p i n g w i t h the professed a i m s of K i n g
J a m e s a n d his c o l o n i z e r s C a p t a i n J o h n S m i t h
and

Captain

New

John

Mason,

the

pioneers

of

Hampshire.

O b v i o u s l y , h o w e v e r , n o n e of these

gentle-

m e n h a d the o p p o r t u n i t y to do a n y t h i n g v e r y
p r a c t i c a l about i t , but J o h n

Eliot did.

He

" e n g a g e d i n the great w o r k of p r e a c h i n g u n t o
the

Indians,"

according

established

thus

in N e w

to

was

the

the

who

historian

forerunner

the

next

of

century

H a m p s h i r e as the

same

H o w m u c h the t h i r t y years of peace f r o m the

in

history.

against

Connecticut

the

other i n -

aroused

of

H a m p s h i r e w a s assured protection for

Wheelock,

in

Chieftain, Mianto-

Pequots,

Narragansett

ful

Eleazer

affairs

execution

Winthrop

U n c a s , C h i e f of the M o h e g a n s , w e r e

in

afterward

Hampshire

ill-advised

Governor

to

do

with

E l i o t ' s e n d e a v o r s is a m a t t e r

1630's to the

of

speculation,

i66o's

had

John

but c e r t a i n it is that there w a s peace i n those
years,

which

colonists

war, however,

The

E f f o r t s to p r e v e n t a w a r m a d e by R o g e r W i l l i a m s of R h o d e I s l a n d a n d a c o u n c i l h e l d by

and

h a d served i n t h a t w a r .
T h e Pequot

Samuel Eliot Morison,
in his admirable essay on John
Eliot,
sums
up
Eliot's
achievement
by
saying
that
"Indian
converts
could have
grasped
none oj the intellectual
subtleties
of
Puritanism,
hut if the mental
attitude
of prayer is worth anything Eliot
performed
a great and noble
work-"

JOHN E L I O T PREACHING TO T H E INDIANS.
FROM A P R I N T IN T H E N E W H A M P SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

Gookin

part

subdued

Hampshire

While preaching to the Indians
many
significant
questions
were
asked
by
them
oj the preacher,
among
them:
"Why is sea-water salt and land
water
jresh?"
To which Eliot replied,
"Why
are strawberries
sweet and
cranberries
sour?"
Another question was, "Ij God could
not be seen with their eyes, how
could
He be seen tvith their sotds
within?"
Eliot's answer was, "If they saw a great
wigwam
wotdd
they think
that raccoons or foxes had built it that had
no wisdom?
No, hut they would
believe
some
wise
workman
made
it
though
they
did not see him.
So
should
they believe
concerning
God
when they looked up to Heaven,
Sun,
Moon and Stars, and saw this
great
house he hath made though
they do
not see him with their
eyes."

sort of preacher i n a s t i l l m o r e p r a c t i c a l w a y .

with

Underbill,

in N e w

JOHN
ELIOT
was horn in
England
in 1604, coming to America
in
1631.
As a minister at Roxhury
he met an
Indian prisoner jrom whom he learned
considerable
0/ the Indian
language.
He began preaching
to the Indians
in
1646.
He established
a mission
in
Massachusetts
jor "praying
Indians,"
and
with
his friend
Major
Daniel
Gookin extended his activities
throughout
New
England
prior
to
King
Philip's
War.

was
had

9

with

w h o d w e l t i n the southeastern

Connecticut

1637."

credited

w i t h the I n d i a n s .
remarkable

of

that

for

been, he s a i d , " n o
Pequots

T h e his-

during

the W h i t e M o u n t a i n s

i n part

p a r t to trade

that

and

N E W HAMPSHIRE

an

gave

the

opportunity

New
to

Hampshire

establish

them-

selves i n the n e w l a n d a n d b u i l d u p the protection they needed against
The

days

of

n o n e too l o n g .

preparation,
B y 1665

the

future.

however,

were

the g r o w t h of

New

the

E n g l a n d a n d the coast t o w n s of N e w

all

s h i r e h a d i n d i c a t e d a need for e x p a n s i o n

Hampto

N e w E n g l a n d of w h i c h N e w H a m p s h i r e w a s

the n o r t h w a r d .

a

T h e y h a d n o ideologies l i k e the m o d e r n ones

part

and

open

warfare

was

theatened.

T h e I n d i a n s k n e w this too.

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HISTORICAL N E W HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL N E W HAMPSHIRE

II

K i n g P h i l i p ' s W a r i n 1676,
dron's

settlement

in

on M a j o r W a l -

Dover.

After

three

years of neglect of their c r o p s , h o w e v e r , the
Indians discontinued their attacks.
New

Hampshire

commemorated

King

P h i l i p ' s W a r h a l f a c e n t u r y later w h e n G o v ernor

Jonathan

Governor
Hampshire

John

Belcher

and

Wentworth

grants

to

the

Lieutenantmade

New

descendants

of

soldiers i n that w a r , m o s t l y f r o m M a s s a c h u setts: N a r r a g a n s e t t N u m b e r T h r e e , n o w A m herst;

Narragansett

Goffstown;

Number

and Narragansett

Four,

now

Number

Five,

now Bedford, were all named i n commemor a t i o n of the great N e w E n g l a n d w a r w h i c h

SMITH (MKRISON HOUSE. DOVER. FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTIXC
IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

CAPTAIN
JOHN
LOCKE,
of Rye,
whose sword and the sickle with
which
he defended
himself against an attack
by Indians
who took his life, are
among the most valued possessions of
The New Hampshire
Historical
Society, came to America from
England
in the early i6oo's.
Settling in Dover
and later near Locke's
Neck i" Ry^,
he was reaping his fall harvest
when
several Indians attacked and killed him
but not before he had slashed one of
them with his sickle and cut of) his
nose.
Sickle
and sword
were
given
to The Society many years ago by The
Locke
family
Association,
to
which
they
descended
through
successive
generations
of Lockes.

of

" e n c r o a c h m e n t " or " a g g r e s s i o n "

resented

the

occupation

of

their

b u t they
coastwise

l a n d , their f i s h i n g w a t e r s a n d t h e i r i n t e r v a l e s
by

strangers

whose

civilization

seemed

to

m a k e t h e m p e r m a n e n t o w n e r s a n d not m e r e
tribal

transients as

the I n d i a n s h a d

always

been.
The

r e s u l t w a s a n occasion of f a r - r e a c h i n g

consequence

to

New

Hampshire.

King

P h i l i p ' s W a r w a s d i r e c t e d p r i m a r i l y at M a s s a chusetts, C o n n e c t i c u t a n d R h o d e I s l a n d b u t
it w a s a n a c t i o n by a great C o n f e d e r a t i o n of
Indian

tribes, w h i c h

England

i n c l u d e d a l l the

natives except

the P e n a c o o k s ,

Ossipees a n d the P e q u a w k e t s .
t i m e the

F o r the

w a r r i o r s i n c l u d e d the tribes

New
the
first
from

the n o r t h , w h i c h t o o k i n the M o h a w k s a n d
others later to be k n o w n as the " F i v e

Na-

tions."
The

colonists

blockhouses

h a s t i l y b u i l t stockades

and

a n d d i d a l l they c o u l d to erect

fortifications.

Nevertheless

there

were

I n d i a n attacks on B r o o k f i e l d , Deerfield a n d
Northfield

i n Massachusetts

and,

following

K I N G P H I L I P . FROM A PRINT IN T H E N E W
HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

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HISTORICAL

THE
NARRAGANSETT
WAR had
other indirect
effects on New
Hampshire, in addition
to tlie naming
oj
its towns.
In this war tlie
wealthy
Captain
Thomas
Howard
was
killed
and his widow
later married
a Connecticut jarmer,
William Moor.
Upon
his death, liis son, Joshua Moor,
finding himselj
with more property
than
he needed, deeded land and
buildings
near Lebanon,
Connecticut
jor the
jounding
oj Moor's
Indian
Charity
School, which ajterward
became
Dartmouth
College.

HISTORICAL

N E W HAMPSHIRE
completely

annihilated

the

on t h e i r t r a d i n g .

Narragansett

Waldron

W i t h a n u n s e t t l e d peace r e i g n i n g i n most
New

death,

England

the

New

following
Hampshire

King

killed.

Philip's

I n s t e a d the occasion t u r n e d

colonists

ginning
Indian

blockhouses

s c o u t i n g parties

sent out.

were
A

built,

defense

leader

of

the

colonists

fight

and

was
others

w e r e c a p t u r e d a n d t a k e n to C a n a d a , the be-

em-

north.

More

the

M a n y d i e d i n this

b a r k e d on a p o l i c y of a r m e d e x p a n s i o n to the
and

of

a long

attacks

series

of

such

continued

at

Salmon

E x e t e r , a n d the n e a r b y t o w n s .

force

captures.
Falls,

Y o r k , Maine,

w a s o r g a n i z e d i n a l m o s t every t o w n a n d v i l -

was

lage.

Exeter

ham, Rye, in N e w Hampshire, and Haverhill

were

declared

and

Haverhill,

the

frontier

Massachusetts
and

in

bounties

w e r e offered for I n d i a n scalps.
THE
FRENCH
had early reasons to
distrust the Colonists.
Belknap
points
out that the English,
under the Treaty
oj Breda
had ceded the land
jrom
the Penobscot
to Nona Scotia to the
French in exchange
jor the Island oj
St.
Christopher.
"On these lands," says Belknap,
"the
Baron de St. Castine had jor
many
years resided
and carried on a large
, trade tvith the Indians.
In the spring
'• oj i68S,
Governor
Andros
oj Massachusetts went in the jrigate Rose, and
plundered
Castine's
house and
jort,
leaving
only
the ornaments
oj his
^chapel to console him jor his loss oj
arms and goods.
This base action provoked Castine to excite the Indians to
King William's
War."

13

out to be a n a r m e d conflict i n w h i c h M a j o r

Indians.
of

N E W HAMPSHIRE

In

1680

New

b u r n e d a n d the I n d i a n s a t t a c k e d

Massachusetts.
Peace w a s m a d e w i t h the I n d i a n s by G o v -

H a m p s h i r e became a r o y a l

e r n o r D u d l e y i n 1703,

p r o v i n c e a n d the people left w i t h o n l y t h e m -

of

selves to l o o k to for p r o t e c t i o n . T h u s they c o n -

Anne.

t i n u e d u n t i l the o u t b r e a k of a n e w difficulty

themselves

k n o w n as K i n g W i l l i a m ' s W a r .

did

No

longer

w a s it against the s o u t h e r n I n d i a n s b u t the
fierce

tribes f r o m the N o r t h , the

William

the year of the d e a t h

I I I a n d the accession of

The

Indians,
at

St.

considerable

however,

Francis

in

trading

with

Canada
the

in N e w

H a m p s h i r e history a " t r a d i n g

at N a s h u a , c a l l e d Q u e e n ' s G a r r i s o n .

1689

meantime

allies

the

A i d e d i n A m e r i c a by t h e i r A b e n a k i

who

Penacooks,

in

turn

were

Cochecos

and

allied

with

the

Pequawkets,

the

of

there o c c u r r e d the

prisoners

and

the

lines

first
of

post"
I n the

exchange

towns

were

g r a d u a l l y e x t e n d e d to the n o r t h w a r d .
B e l k n a p , the h i s t o r i a n , says of this p e r i o d

F r e n c h a n d I n d i a n s w e r e a l l u n d e r the i m -

that " t h e g o v e r n o r of C a n a d a h a d e n c o u r a g e d

p l i c i t d i r e c t i o n of F r o n t e n a c at Q u e b e c .

the I n d i a n s w h o i n h a b i t e d the borders of N e w

T h e first o u t b r e a k o c c u r r e d at D o v e r w h e r e

England

the N e w H a m p s h i r e tribes h a d come to c a r r y

to r e m o v e

to

Canada"

where,

INDIAN
TOMAHAWK.
FROM
T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE H I S l O R i o A L SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

INDIAN T R I B A L CHIEF'S BEADED V E S T ,
W I T H H I S L I F E HISTORY ( F R O N T ) .
FROM
T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

and
New

E n g l a n d e r s , w h o established for the first t i m e

Abenakis.

a n d F r a n c e soon d e c l a r e d w a r o n

Queen

established

W i l l i a m I I I h a d become K i n g of E n g l a n d i n
English.

Dur-

INDIAN T R I B A L CHIEF'S BEADED V E S T ,
W I T H H I S L I F E HISTORY ( B A C K ) .
FROM
T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

he

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HISTORICAL

FOREMOST
among the French
missionaries
to the Indians
was
Father
Sebastian
Rasle, a much loved
Jesuit
priest, who apparently
possessed a great
personal
magnetism
in contrast to the
enthusiastic
but
comparatively
unimaginative
John
Eliot.
Father Rasle is said to have
hunted
and fished
with the Indians,
"always
erecting a chapel of bark that he might
say a daily mass."
His first church in
the colonies
was destroyed
by the
settlers in 170$ while
he was absent.
He built another,
adorned
with
paintings done by himself, and
maintained
an Indian
choir of forty voices
with
home-made
bayberry
candles
at the
altar which were said to have made a
"blaze
of
light."
Sebastian
Rasle compiled
a
French
dictionary
of Indian
terms which
has
been preserved.
He was killed
{1724)
near a cross he had erected
at Norridgewock
in Maine during
Lovewell's
War.
Many
years later a group
of
Protestants
and
Catholics
joined
to
erect
a monument
over
hts
grave
\
celebrating,
as his
biographer
• says, the "patient
toils of the
missionary and love of the darkened
soid of
*,the Indian,
placing the names of Eliot
and Rasle in a fellowship
which
they
indeed
would
both have rejected,
but
which we may regard as hallowed
and
true."

N E W HAMPSHIRE

adds, "they
the affairs

HISTORICAL

became

more

firmly

attached

of t h e F r e n c h a n d c o u l d be

N E W HAMPSHIRE

to

more

easily d i s p a t c h e d to the f r o n t i e r s . "
Thus
the

the conflect b e t w e e n

red

men

Indians

took

engaged

on

a

almost

the w h i t e s

new

wholly

seldom i n open w a r f a r e .

and

aspect.
in

The

"raids,"

C o m p a n i e s of

New

H a m p s h i r e v o l u n t e e r s often r e t u r n e d w i t h o u t
meeting
sudden

any,

w h i l e , as

attacks

by

in

1706,

small

there

bodies

on

were

Dover,

O y s t e r R i v e r a n d the t o w n s to the east.
the I n d i a n s descended
and

Great

Boar's

on E x e t e r ,

Head,

Later

Kingston,

taking

scalps

and

that

prevailed

prisoners.
Such

was

the c o n d i t i o n

the accession of K i n g G e o r g e I i n 1713.

at

The

s i g n i n g of the Peace T r e a t y of U t r e c h t i n that
year b r o u g h t a cessation of E u r o p e a n

hostili-

ties for a p e r i o d of t w e n t y - s i x years a n d
Hampshire

benefitted

accordingly.

New
INDIAN CHILD'S SNOWSHOES. N E W H A M P SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

There

w e r e s e v e r a l e x c e p t i o n s , h o w e v e r , as far as the
Indians were concerned.
shire's t h i r d

I n 1722

New Hamp-

I n d i a n w a r occurred, k n o w n

as

L o v e w e l l ' s W a r , made famous through w i d e l y
circulated ballads a n d
The
Francis

first

serious

Indians

pamphlets.

attacks

at

were

Dover

in

by

the

1724.

St.

Cap-

t a i n J o h n L o v e w e l l of D u n s t a b l e i m m e d i a t e l y
o r g a n i z e d a c o m p a n y a n d m e t t h e m the n e x t
year at P e q u a w k e t , n o w F r y e b u r g .

Jonathan

F r y e , w h o s e n a m e the t o w n s bears, w a s C h a p lain

in

Maine,

F r y e b u r g w a s settled l a r g e l y by N e w

of

Hamp-

shire
Paugus
to

the

the

company.

people.

The

Indians

w e r e defeated
colonists.

Although

under

Chief

w i t h considerable

Chaplain Frye

was

i n the battle as w a s C a p t a i n L o v e w e l l .

loss

killed
The

N e w H a m p s h i r e t o w n of S u n c o o k , n o w P e m broke, was granted
years after

the

to L o v e w e l l ' s

men

three

fight.

B e l k n a p has d e s c r i b e d this p e r i o d i n I n d i a n
history v i v i d l y .
To
account, he says, for the frequent
w a r s w i t h the eastern I n d i a n s , u s u a l l y called
by the F r e n c h , the A b e n a q u i s , a n d their
unsteadiness both i n w a r and peace; w e m u s t
observe, that they were situated between the
colonies of t w o E u r o p e a n nations, w h o w e r e
often at w a r w i t h each other, antl w h o pursued
very different measures w i t h regard to t h e m .
As the lands o n w h i c h they l i v e d w e r e c o m prehended i n the patents granted by the c r o w n
of E n g l a n d , the natives were considered b y the
E n g l i s h as subjects of that c r o w n .
I n the
treaties a n d conferences held w i t h t h e m they
were styled the k i n g ' s subjects; w h e n w a r w a s
declared against t h e m , they w e r e called rebels;

PAUGUS
was one of the Chiefs of
the Pequawket
tribe.
He is said to
have organized
many of the
Indian
raids which brought on Lovewell's
War
in 172^.
His warriors
were
attacked
by Captain
Lovewell
on the
border
between
Maine
and New
Hampshire
near Fryeburg,
as they were about to
leave on an expedition
carrying
much
ammunition
together
with spare
blankets and moccasins for the use of captives.
Paugus
and all his men
were
killed in this attackA verse composed
the occasion
begins:

to

commemorate

'Twas Paugus led the Pequ'k't
tribe:
As runs the fox, would Paugus
run;
As howls
the wild
wolf, would
he
howl;
A huge bear-skin
had Paugus
on.
But Chamberlain,
of
Dunstable,
One whom
a savage ne'er shall
slay.
Met Paugus
by the
water-side.
And shot him dead upon that day.

and w h e n they w e r e compelled to m a k e peace,
they subscribed a n a c k n o w l e d g m e n t of their
perfidy a n d a declaration of their submission
to the g o v e r n m e n t w i t h o u t a n y j u s t ideas of
the m e a n i n g of those t e r m s ; a n d i t is a difficult point to determine w h a t k i n d of subjects
they w e r e .
Besides the patents derived f r o m the c r o w n
the E n g l i s h , i n general, were fond of obtaining f r o m the I n d i a n s , deeds of sale for tho.se
lands o n w h i c h they were disposed to m a k e
settlements.
Some of these deeds w e r e executed w i t h legal f o r m a l i t y , a n d a valuable
consideration w a s paid to the natives for the
purchase; others were obscure a n d u n c e r t a i n ;
but
the
memory
of
such
transactions
WAS soon lost a m o n g a people w h o h a d no
w r i t t e n records.
L a n d s h a d been purchased of the I n d i a n
chiefs on the rivers K c n n e b e c k a n d St. George
at a n early period; b u t the succeeding I n d i a n s
either h a d no k n o w l e d g e of the sales m a d e by
their ancestors, or had a n idea that such bargains were not b i n d i n g o n posterity w h o h a d
as m u c h need of the lands, a n d c o u l d use t h e m
to the same purpose as their fathers. A t first,
the I n d i a n s d i d not k n o w that the E u r o p e a n
m a n n e r of c u l t i v a t i n g lands a n d erecting m i l l s
and tlams w o u l d drive a w a y the game a n d
fish, and thereby deprive them of the means
of subsistence; a f t e r w a r d , finding by e x p e r i ence that this w a s the consec]uence of a d m i t ting foreigners to settle a m o n g t h e m , they
repented of their hospitality a n d were i n c l i n e d
to dispossess their n e w neighbors, as the o n l y
w a y of restoring the country to its pristine
state a n d of recovering their u s u a l mode of
subsistence.
T h e y were e x t r e m e l y offended by the settlements w h i c h the E n g l i s h , after the peace of

�i6

HISTORICAL

JEREMY
BELKNAP,
was horn
in
Boston,
IJ44,
entered
Harvard
at
fifteen, graduating
in 1762.
He tatiglit
sc/iool in New Hampshire
and
hecame
pastor
of the Dover
Congregational
Church.
He was the author
of the
first definitive
"History
of New
Hampshire"
in three volumes
and was one
of the founders
of The
Massachusetts
Historical
Society.
He died in
lygS.

N E W

HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL

17

It was i n the power of the E n g l i s h to supply them w i t h provisions, a r m s , a m m u n i t i o n ,
blankets and other articles w h i c h they w a n t e d
cheaper than they could purchase them of the
French.
G o v e r n o r Shute hat! promised that
t r a i l i n g houses should be established a m o n g
t h e m , and that a s m i t h should be provided
to keep their a r m s and other i n s t r u m e n t s i n
repair; but the u n h a p p y contentions between
the governor and assembly of Massachusetts
|)revented a compliance w i t h this engagement.
T h e I n d i a n s were therefore obliged to submit to the impositions of private traders, or
to seek supplies f r o m the F r e n c h w h o failed
not to j o i n w i t h them i n reproaching the
E n g l i s h for this breach of promise, a n d for
their a v i d i t y i n getting a w a y the l a n d .

GOVERNOR SAMUEL SHUTE. FROM
A P R I N T IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

SAMUEL
SHUTE
was governor
of
New
Hampshire
and also
Massachusetts from 1716 to 1724.
Through
his
influence
and that of his hrother
fohn
Slitite,
Earl of Barrington,
tlie
Scotch
settlers in the north of Ireland
were
welcomed
to America
in 1718,
where
they
settled
in
Londonderry,
New
Hampshire.

INDUS- SIGNATURKS OX E A R L Y M A P OF
N E W HAMPSHIRE " N O R T H COUNTRY."
FROM
THE
NEW
HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

HAMPSHIRE

K i n g of F r a n c e ; and solitary traders resided
w i t h , or occasionally visited t h e m ; but no
attempt was made by any c o m p a n y to settle
on their lands.

U t r e c h t , inatle on the hmths to the eastward
and by their b u i l d i n j ; forts, block houses and
n u l l s ; whereby their mode of passing the rivers
and carrying-places was i n t e r r u p t e d ; and they
could not believe, though they were told w i t h
great solemnity, that these forufications w e r e
erected for their defence against i n v a s i o n .
W h e n conferences were held w i t h t h e m on this
subject, they either denied that the lands h a d
been sold, or pretended that the sachems h a d
exceedetl their power i n m a k i n g the bargains;
or had c o n v e j e d lands beyond the limits of
their tribe; or that the E n g l i s h had t a k e n
advantage of their d r u n k e n n e s s to m a k e t h e m
sign the deeds; or that no valuable consideration had been g i v e n for the purchase.
No
arguments or evidence w h i c h could be a d duced w o u l d satisfy them unless the lands w e r e
paid for a g a i n ; antl had this been done once,
their posterity after a few years w o u l d have
renewed the d e m a n d .
O n the other h a n d , the F r e n c h d i d not i n
a f o r m a l m a n n e r declare them subjects of the
c r o w n of F r a n c e but every tribe, h o w e v e r
s m a l l , w a s a l l o w e d to preserve its independence.
T h o s e w h o were situated i n the heart
of C a n a d a kept their lands to themselves,
w h i c h were never solicited f r o m t h e m ; those
w h o d w e l t on the rivers a n d shores of the
A d a n t i c , though distant f r o m the F r e n c h
colonies, received a n n u a l presents f r o m the

N E W

T h e inhabitants of the eastern parts of N e w
E n g l a n d were not of the best character for
religion and were ill-adapted to engage the
affections of the I n d i a n s by their e x a m p l e .
T h e frequent hostilities on this quarter, not
only kept alive a spirit of jealousy a n d revenge i n i n d i v i d u a l s , but jirevented a n y e n deavors
to propagate religious
knowledge
a m o n g the I n d i a n s by the g o v e r n m e n t ; though
it was one of the conditions of their charter;
and though m a n y good men w i s h e d it might
be attempted.
A t length. G o v e r n o r Shute, i n his conference w i t h their sachems at A r r o w s i c k , i n t r o duced this i m p o r t a n t business by
offering
thcni i n a f o r m a l m a n n e r , an I n d i a n bible,
and a protestant missionary; but they rejected
both, saying " G o d hath g i v e n us teaching a l ready, and if we should go f r o m i t , we should
displease h i m . " H e w o u l d have done m u c h
better service and perhaps prevented a w a r ,
if he had complied w i t h their earnest desire
to fix a boundary beyond w h i c h the E n g l i s h
should not extend their settlements. . \m a n , i n conversation w i t h one of
their
sachems, asked h i m w h y they w e r e so strongly
attached to the F r e n c h , f r o m w h o m they
could not expect to receive so m u c h benefit
as f r o m the E n g l i s h ; the sachem g r a v e l y a n s w e r e d , "because the F r e n c h have taught
us to prav to G o d , w h i c h the E n g l i s h never
did."

A considerable n u m b e r of prisoners h a v i n g
been t a k e n d u r i n g these t i m e s . N e w H a m p s h i r e , i n 1725, m a d e its first overtures to the
C a n a d i a n a u t h o r i t i e s for t h e i r r e t u r n .
The
F r e n c h g o v e r n o r at M o n t r e a l a r r a n g e d a
m e e t i n g of the C o m m i s s i o n , of w h i c h T h e o dore A t k i n s o n of N e w H a m p s h i r e w a s one,
w i t h the I n d i a n chiefs of the A b e n a k i tribe.
S i x t e e n captives w e r e r a n s o m e d as the result
of this m e e t i n g .

�HISTORICAL

N E W HAMPSHIRE

The

province

blessed

with

HISTORICAL

of

New

Hampshire

comparative

peace

I n d i a n s for the n e x t decade.

the

Settlements

i n tiers a n d n a m e d

ber, one, t w o , three a n d four.

by

19

was

with

ad-

v a n c e d to the n o r t h as t o w n after t o w n
g r a n t e d , often

N E W HAMPSHIRE

was
num-

N o t u n t i l the

accession of K i n g G e o r g e I I I i n 1741

d i d the

I n d i a n s a g a i n become a threat to N e w

Hamp-

shire.
T h e w a r s b e t w e e n the w h i t e m e n a n d
red

men

affairs.

had

heretofore

With

hostilities

been

purely

between

the
local

England

a n d S p a i n , i n w h i c h the F r e n c h a l l i e d t h e m selves against

the

began.

Hampshire

New

English, a world
would

conflict

be

drawn

i n t o this conflict, since it lay on the

border-

line between F r a n c e and E n g l a n d .
B y the year
between

1 7 4 4 there w a s open

the N e w

E n g l a n d colonies

warfare
and

the

F r e n c h to the n o r t h , s a i d to be to protect the
fishing

interests at C a p e B r e t o n but

to b e g i n

probably

a n e w series of attacks against

the

I n d i a n tribes c o n s i d e r e d to be a l l i e d w i t h the
French in

Canada.

T h e extent to w h i c h this w a s t r u e is u n certain.

As

early

as

1725

Vaudreuil,

the

F r e n c h G o v e r n o r of C a n a d a h a d i n s i s t e d t h a t
his g o v e r n m e n t

" h a d neither encouraged

or

s u p p l i e d t h e m for the purpose of w a r . " T h e y
were,
INDIAN M A L L E T . FROM T H E
N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

"an

he

asserted

independent

(meaning

the

Abenakis),

n a t i o n " a n d s a i d that

war

w a s " u n d e r t a k e n by t h e m i n defence of t h e i r
l a n d s w h i c h h a d been i n v a d e d by the people
of N e w

('oi.oNiAi. l^LocK HOUSE AND Situ.KADI,.
FROM A P R I N T IN
T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL S o c i E ' r Y ' s COLLECTION.

England."

INDIAN BEADED MOCCASINS IN T H E N E W
HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

ONE of the New Hampshire
forts,
or "garrisons"
at Concord is
described
in a printed address given in i8go hefore Tlie
New
Hampsliire
Historical
Society.
It was htiilt, according to this
address: "of hewed logs, which lay flat
upon each
other."
The ends, heing fitted for the purpose, it continues,
ivere inserted
in
grooves
set in large posts, erected at
each corner.
They enclosed an area of
several square rods, were raised to the
height
of a common
dwelling-house,
and at two or more of the
corners
were placed hoxcs where sentinels
kept
watch.
In some cases, several
small
huildings,
erected
for the
temporary
accommodation
of families, were
within the enclosure.
Houses
not
connected with garrisons were all
deserted
hy their owners, and tire furniture
removed.
In the day-time
men
went
forth
to tlieir labors
in
companies,
always carrying their guns with
them,
and one or more of tlieir
number
placed on guard.
If the Indians
were
discovered
approaching,
alarm
guns
were fired, and the report
answered
from fort to fort.
On the Sabbath tJie
men went armed to the Iwuse of worship, stacked their guns around a post
in tile middle,
and sat down
with
bullet-pouch
and potvder-liorn
slung
across
their
shoulders,
while
their
pastor, the Rev. Timothy
Walker,
who
is said to have had the best gun in
the parish, prayed and preached
with
his gun standing in the
ptdpit.

Mr.

Atkinson,

shire

at

claimed
outside

the

representing

conference

t h a t the N e w
their

province

New

held

in

HampMontreal,

England

lands

and

the

that

were
whites

h a d as m u c h r i g h t there as the I n d i a n s .
is c e r t a i n that the N o r t h e r n I n d i a n s
o n l y a total of a f e w
Hampshire
One

square

It

occupied

m i l e s of

New

agreed

upon

territory.

thing

is a p p a r e n t

and

by h i s t o r i a n s : that the w a y to the a t t a c k
Cape

Breton

by

the N e w

Englanders

on

asso-

ciated as they w e r e w i t h the E n g l i s h C r o w n ,
lay t h r o u g h I n d i a n c o u n t r y a n d that the I n d i a n tribes there m u s t be o v e r c o m e

first.

appears,

another

however,

that

there

was

It

route a n d the battle of L o u i s b o u r g , the c i t a d e l
of C a p e
on

the

Breton, w a s actually fought
sea.

Most

of the

New

largely

Hampshire

v o l u n t e e r s w h o took p a r t i n it n e v e r s a w a n y
I n d i a n s , except those c o m p a r a t i v e l y

few

who

helped to m a n the forts p r o t e c t i n g the F r e n c h
c i t i z e n s of a n o t h e r w i s e
New

England

volunteers

clergy

peaceful

city.

had, according

to h i s t o r y ,

m o t i v e s ; first to protect the N e w
countryside
second
vaders,"

to

against
move

who

"aggression,"

the

had

t h i r d to

the
no

several

Hampshire

Northern

against

probably
and

The

w h o e n c o u r a g e d these

Indians;

French

"in-

i n t e n t i o n of

instigate

a

reli-

g i o u s " c r u s a d e " ostensibly opposed to that of
the F r e n c h , w h i c h w o u l d , as the

Reverend

G e o r g e W h i t e f i e l d p u t i t , be " u n d e r the l e a d -

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HISTORICAL

NEW
BRETON
was the name of
a New
Hampshire
town granted
by
Governor
Bcnning
Wentworth
in
ly^i
in honor of those w/io fought at Cape
Breton.
Among
the
applicants
for
land were Captain John Ladd and Captain Ebenezer
Webster, father of Daniel
Webster.
In lyyg
the town was renamed
Andovcr.

N E W

HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL

N E W

21

HAMPSHIRE

e r s h i p of C h r i s t , " a n d i n the w o r d s of P a r s o n

the

M o o d y of P o r t s m o u t h , " h e w d o w n the a h a r s

C h a r l e s t o w n i n his h o n o r .

i n the F r e n c h c h u r c h e s . "

Indian

W h a t e v e r a c t u a l l y o c c u r r e d , the F r e n c h a n d
I n d i a n s d i d not t h e n i n v a d e N e w
since

Louisbourg

siege,

with

Shirley

was

subdued

Colonel

and

settlement
attacks

subsequently

similar

to

C h a r l e s t o w n , but a p p a r e n d y

England,

following

was

i n by the F r e n c h forces,

a

named

the

one

at

not p a r t i c i p a t e d

also took

place

at

R o c h e s t e r a n d at C o n c o r d ( t h e n called R u m -

Pepperrell,

Governor

f o r d ) d u r i n g the same p e r i o d .

Lieutenant-Governor

Vaughan

attack

in

1746,

known

T h e Concord

i n history

as

"The

e m e r g i n g as heroes, n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g the fact

B r a d l e y M a s s a c r e , " r e s u l t e d i n the s l a y i n g of

that

five

i n the r e s u l t i n g treaty

of A i x - l a - C h a p -

citizens, whose

names

are i n s c r i b e d

on

pelle the E n g l i s h r e t u r n e d L o u i s b o u r g to its

w h a t is k n o w n as " T h e B r a d l e y

Monument"

original F r e n c h proprietors.

i n the w e s t e r n p a r t of the t o w n .

T h e monu-

T h e L o u i s b o u r g i n c i d e n t , h o w e v e r , w a s not
w i t h o u t its I n d i a n repercussions.
naki

The

tribes, bitter at the a p p a r e n t

t h e i r F r e n c h patrons, soon b e g a n

ment

Abe-

defeat

was

deeded

of

erected

to T h e

in

New

1837

and

was

Hampshire

later

Historical

Society.

retaliatory

A t the b e g i n n i n g of the S e v e n Y e a r s ' W a r ,

w a r f a r e i n earnest against N e w E n g l a n d a n d

k n o w n i n A m e r i c a as the F r e n c h a n d I n d i a n

New

W a r , N e w H a m p s h i r e v o l u n t e e r troops p a r t i -

Hampshire

in particular.

Forts

at once erected by Massachusetts
Four

or

Charlestown;

Great

at

were

Number

Meadow

W e s t m o r e l a n d ; G r e a t F a l l or W a l p o l e ;
Dummer

or

Hinsdale;

Upper

Ashuelot

H a m p s h i r e fortifications

Souhegan

East

or

or
The

Indian
these

places.

against

T h e encounters

do

most

ticut R i v e r

from

Canada

Indians,

directly
the

New

a

Johnson.
campaign

Hampshire

T h e f r o n t i e r t o w n s of S a l i s b u r y ,

not

down
and

the

seem

Connec-

preyed

located b e t w e e n the

panies of " R a n g e r s "
BRADLEY MONUMENT. D E E D E D TO T H E
N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Robert
interest.

Rogers

of w h i c h that of

T h e a c c o u n t of R o g e r s ' s R a n g e r s is

upon

Connec-

I n 1747, h o w e v e r . C a p t a i n P h i n e h a s Stevens
h a v i n g o r g a n i z e d w h a t w a s p r o b a b l y the
of

"Rangers,"

a r r i v e d at

t o w n f r o m D e e r f i e l d a n d set u p

first

Charles-

headquarters

i n the F o r t k n o w n as " N u m b e r F o u r , " u n d e r
the j u r i s d i c t i o n of M a s s a c h u s e t t s .

F o r almost

the first t i m e a n I n d i a n " b a t t l e " o c c u r r e d o n
N e w H a m p s h i r e s o i l , i n w h i c h the a t t a c k i n g
force

was composed,

diers.

Although

i n p a r t , of F r e n c h sol-

this force

apparently

out-

n u m b e r e d the g a r r i s o n t h e i r a t t a c k w a s u n successful.
a

sturdy

plan

The

fort,

four-sided

b u i l t i n the f o r m
log

of w h i c h has been

ported

to

be

the

best of

stockade,
preserved,

an

of

exact

was

re-

its k i n d i n

New

E n g l a n d a n d a m o d e l for other t o w n s .

Ad-

miral Sir Charles Knowles, in command

of

the E n g l i s h fleet at B o s t o n m a d e the g a r r i s o n
a gift of a h a n d s o m e

gold-hiked

sword

and

Major

c l a i m s the greatest h i s t o r i c a l

t i c u t a n d the M e r r i m a c k .

company

extent

the I n d i a n s

a n d captives t a k e n .

of

to h a v e been by l a r g e bodies of I n d i a n s , but

the settlements

not

T h e s e i n c i d e n t s l e d to the f o r m i n g of c o m -

recurred

small groups w h o came

the

was

W a l p o l e , H i n s d a l e and Keene were all raided

Rochester.

attacks

against

t h e i r allies.

Souhegan

W e s t or A m h e r s t a n d at L o n d o n d e r r y , C h e s ter, E p s o m a n d

this

to w h i c h the F r e n c h h a d m a d e

Hopkinton,

Merrimack,

While

soldiers h a d reason to l e a r n soon the

w e r e b u i l t at

Pcnacook, Suncook, Contoocook,

i n the a t t a c k on C r o w n P o i n t

u n d e r the d i r e c t i o n of S i r W i l l i a m

Fort

K e e n e a n d L o w e r A s h u e l o t or S w a n z e y .
New

cipated i n 1754

or

S I R W I L L I A M IOHNSON.
FROM A
P R I N T IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

�22

HISTORICAL

N E W HAMPSHIRE

SIR WILLIAM
JOHNSON
was tlie
nephew of Admiral
Sir Peter
Warren,
tvho bore the same name as the New
Hampshire
town of Warren and who
received
a grant of land in the Mohawk Valley from the English
government.
Sir William
came to
America
and settled on this land in iJsS.
In
I74y it was largely through
his efforts
that the Mohawk
Indians
remained
peaceful
during
the
war
betiveen
England
and
Prance.
He held numerous
councils with the
tribes,
with whom
lie traded in furs
and othei- articles
and in 7755 was
given the "sole management
and direction of the affairs of the six nations of
Indians and their allies."
In this position he commanded
a force of some
two thousand
colonial
militia and two
or three
hundred
Indians.
In
iy6o
with a force of several hundred
Indians
lie joined
General
Amherst
in the
attack on
Montreal.
After the death of his first wife he
married
Molly
Brant,
a Mohawk
Indian and sister of Chief Joseph
Brant,
, whose Indian
name was
Thayendanegea and who was among the
Indians
educated
at Moor's
Indian
Charity
School at Lebanon,
Connecticut,
which
later hecame Dartmouth
College.

ROBERT R t x j E R S . FROM A P R I N T
IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE H I S TORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.
told i n c o n s i d e r a b l e
in

his

which

Journal
The

of

d e t a i l by R o g e r s h i m s e l f
Major

New

Robert

Hampshire

ciety L i b r a r y has s e v e r a l
ing
is

first

Rogers

his

re-told

by

Rogers

T h e story

K e n n e t h Roberts

h i s t o r i c a l n o v e l , Northivest
Major

So-

editions i n c l u d -

the r a r e D u b l i n copy of 1770.
admirably

of

Historical

collected

in

Passage.

a group

of

excel-

l e n t m a r k s m e n , a l l m e n w e l l - e q u i p p e d to face
severe

hardships,

ments

i n the v i c i n i t y of F o r t E d w a r d , F o r t

William

and

Henry

after

and

several

Crown

engage-

Point,

the

R a n g e r s w e r e o r d e r e d by G e n e r a l A m h e r s t to
destroy
The

the I n d i a n v i l l a g e of S t . F r a n c i s .
march

took

T h e y were ordered
to k i l l w o m e n

them

twenty-one

and children.

They

the m e n , t a k i n g

and

returned

down

the
the

remainder

This

is t h e last n o t a b l e

New

Hampshire

history.

most

prisoners

Connecticut

G e n e r a l J o h n S t a r k w a s one of the

not

attacked

the v i l l a g e d u r i n g the n i g h t , d i s p a t c h e d
of

days.

by G e n e r a l A m h e r s t

River.

Rangers.

I n d i a n encounter

in

CAPTAIN JOSEPH BRANT, "THAYENDENEGEA." FROM AN ENGRAVING
IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

�24

HISTORICAL N E W HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL N E W HAMPSHIRE

EMMA
COLEMAN,
in her
fine
study of "New England
Captives
Carried to Canada,"
says:
"Our Indian enemies
in the Intercolonial Wars were almost without exception from the missions, from
those
established
on the rivers of Maine by
priests going
to Indian
villages
and
from those in Canada, near
Montreal,
Three Rivers and Quebec, to which Indians from New England
and New
York had been urged to migrate.
And
back to their mission-homes
they carried our people, where today many of
their kin are
living."

SECTION OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH BLAXCHAUD'S MAP^ SHOWING ROUTE OVER
W H I C H INDIAN CAPTIVES W E R E T A K E N TO CANADA.
FROM T H E
ORIGINAL IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

I

or the I n d i a n s , c a m e
to A m e r i c a f r o m

they c o u l d h a v e w h a t they f o u n d h e r e , w h e t h e r

fish,

'America

h a d a precedent f r o m the S p a n i a r d s .
and brought

back

treasure

i n gold

and

E n g l a n d colonists k n e w there w a s n o g o l d a n d s i l v e r to be f o u n d .
is t o l d t h a t at one t i m e , l o n g after, a gifted
t h e e a r l y colonists of N e w
secution."
make

a

from

collected

considerable
either

South

the

New

The

story

speaker h a d t o l d h i s hearers

that

H a m p s h i r e " h a d c o m e here to escape r e l i g i o u s

per-

c a p t u r e a n d the events l e a d i n g u p to it.
Why
and
of

these people w e r e t a k e n to C a n a d a ,

h o w they w e r e treated a n d w h a t became
those

who

never

r e t u r n e d is w o r t h c o n -

s i d e r i n g at the outset.
of

colonization

was

T h e religious
as

important

H a m p s h i r e is u n i q u e i n h i s t o r y because of the fact
and

P u r i t a n of N e w E n g l a n d .
far

U n f o r t u n a t e l y for

H a m p s h i r e settlements
greater success

among

the

The

Indians

French

the F r e n c h

i n their
not

missionary

than
only

did

T h i s is one of the strange

M a n y of these captives w e r e t h u s

T h e s e prisoners

were

e l s e w h e r e , b u t of greater i m p o r t a n c e

the F r e n c h f a i t h , a d d i n g each t i m e , they h o p e d , to the s t r e n g t h of their

the F r e n c h . T h e i r v a l u e to the F r e n c h w a s
at

least

captures

threefold.
weaken

Not
the

only

would

E n g l i s h colonies,

over
to

own

c o l o n i z a t i o n i n C a n a d a a n d d i m i n i s h i n g that of the E n g l i s h colonies.
The

New

H a m p s h i r e H i s t o r i c a l Society's L i b r a r y has one of the best col-

lections i n A m e r i c a of " c a p t i v e " I n d i a n accounts.

S o m e are m e r e m a n u s c r i p t s .

MODEL OF BIKCH-BARK CANOE IN T H E N E W
HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

to the

I n d i a n w a s the o p p o r t u n i t y of s e l l i n g t h e m to

paradoxes

carried back

adopted

i n t o the tribes at S t . F r a n c i s i n C a n a d a a n d

A g a i n a n d a g a i n the I n d i a n s descended f r o m the n o r t h o n a N e w H a m p s h i r e
prisoners."

for

m a s t e r y of N o r t h A m e r i c a .

an

r i v e r s a n d m o u n t a i n s to be sold to the F r e n c h , not as slaves but as converts

them

allies i n the great s t r u g g l e

of h i s t o r y .
t o w n or v i l l a g e to " t a k e

the

converted

e n t i r e l y n e w p r i n c i p l e ; they treated the settlers as they d i d furs a n d fish s e e k i n g
p r i m a r i l y to c a p t u r e t h e m a n d sell t h e m .

the

F r e n c h C a t h o l i c of C a n a d a as i t w a s to the

that i n s t e a d of

k i l l i n g the " i n t r u d e r s " the I n d i a n n a t i v e s of the soil adopted

aspect
to

money."

fighting

or

a u t o b i o g r a p h i c a l g i v i n g the story of a specific

i n t o effective

first.

are

biographical

" N a y , " r e p l i e d someone i n the a u d i e n c e , " t h e y c a m e here to fish a n d

New

docu-

number

t h e m to t h e i r f a i t h but also c o n v e r t e d

England

H a d they not gone to
B u t soon

pamphlets,

English.

or g a m e or m i n e r a l s

silver!

printed

labors

or m e r e l y soil to be c u l t i v a t e d .
They

fragments

And

had

N T H E C O N T E S T W i t h the I n d i a n s i n N e w H a m p s h i r e the p r o b l e m before the
T h e s e settlers h a d been t o l d that i f they c a m e

are

ments.

the N e w

New Hampshire Persons T a k e n as Captives
by the Indians
settlers as to w h o s h o u l d h a v e the l a n d , they

Others

25

INDIAN D O L L .
N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

these
but

�HISTORICAL N E W HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL N E W HAMPSHIRE

THE
NEW
HAMPSHIRE
clergy
were particularly
irritated to find that
captives taken to Canada hy the Indians
had been given special protection
hy
the
French
Government.
Governor
Penning
Wentworth
voiced this concern when he wrote Lord
Holderness
in iy54 that "the young people
(captives)
are exposed
to the craft
oj
Romish clergy and are in great
danger
oj heing corrupted
with the
pernicious
principles oj the Church oj Rome, who
are assiduous in pro.^elytizing
them to
their own
religion."

The

first

27

captives to be t a k e n to

Canada

by the I n d i a n s w e r e those f r o m H a t f i e l d a n d
D e e r f i e l d , Massachusetts
of

King

Major

i n 1677

Philip's W a r .

Ebenezer

One

at the e n d

of

Hinsdale, from

these

was

whom

the

N e w Hampshire town was named.
w h o escaped,
Indians
apiece

for

though,
were

brought

expected
at

their
the

back news that

to

receive

captives

eight

in

at w a r

with

these

pounds

Canada

time, E n g l a n d

not openly

Another

and
one

even
France

another.

T h e C a n a d i a n I n d i a n s , it w a s b e l i e v e d , w o u l d
j o i n the n e x t r a i d i f this one p r o v e d

finan-

c i a l l y successful.
All

the captives w h o s u r v i v e d the t r e k to

C a n a d a w e r e redeemed

the f o l l o w i n g s p r i n g

i n c l u d i n g t w o infants aptly n a m e d
Waite

and

" C a p t i v i t y " Jennings.

"Canada"
In

order

to a c c o m p l i s h t h i s forty-six t o w n s c o n t r i b u t e d
344

p o u n d s , 3 s h i l l i n g s a n d 6 pence.

i n t e r e s t i n g to note

that the t o w n of

I t is
Ports-

m o u t h m a d e the second largest c o n t r i b u t i o n
to t h i s f u n d .

T h r e e h u n d r e d p o u n d s of the

total w e n t to C a n a d a as r a n s o m

money.

W h e t h e r or not these I n d i a n s f o u n d
trade i n N e w
creasing

Englanders

number

of

such

profitable,

this

an in-

depredations

oc-

c u r r e d d u r i n g the n e x t eighty years w i t h N e w
H a m p s h i r e l o s i n g its share of m e n ,
INDIAN WAMPUM B E L T .
FROM
T H E NEW
HAMPSHIRE HISTORCAL
SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

women

INDIAN C H I L E .
FROM A PAINTING
FORMERLY OWNED BY SAMUEL G .
D R A K E , HISTORIAN. N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.
they w e r e u s e f u l for prisoner e x c h a n g e s
for r a n s o m m o n e y .
be e m p l o y e d
sparsely

to bolster the labor

populated

and

F u t h e r m o r e they m i g h t
New

France.

supply

of

To

the

c l e r i c a l interests it w a s c e r t a i n l y w o r t h w h i l e
to convert

these

heretics

to

what

they

be-

l i e v e d to be the t r u e f a i t h , a n d this w a s done
w h e n e v e r possible.
thorough-going
Francis

T h e r e f o r e , they set u p a

bounty system.

P a r k m a n , w r i t i n g of

King

Wil-

l i a m ' s W a r , points out that
" T w e n t y crowns iiad been offered for each
male w h i t e , ten crowns for each female, a n d
ten crowns for each scalp, whether I n d i a n or
E n g l i s h . T h e bounty o n prisoners produced
an excellent result, since instead of k i l l i n g
them the I n d i a n allies learned to b r i n g them to
Quebec. I f c h i l d r e n , they were placed i n the
convents; and if adults, they were distributed
to labor among the settlers. T h u s though
the royal letters show that the measure w a s
one of policy, it acted i n the interest of
humanity."

SECTION o r MURAL IN T H E MASCOMA
S . w i N G S BANK, LEBANON, BY BERNARD
F . CHAPMAN. FROM "FIFTY'-THREE YEARS
OF PROGRESS" IN T H E N E W FIAMPS H i R E HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S LIBRARY.

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HISTORICAL

JOHN
WHEELWRIGHT,
the
founder of Exeter, came from
Lincolnshire, England,
where he was a vicar
in
a country
cliurch.
Sailing
for
America
in about i6^^ he
purchased
land at Exeter from the Indians
who
are said to have given
him a
deed.
The matter was widely publicized
but
the deed
was never authenticated
as
genuine.
Mr. Wheelwright
was pastor of the Exeter Church,
later
moving
to
Maine.

N E W HAMPSHIRE

and

children,

"captivated"

T h e settlement
next

by

u p captives

the r a i d here

brutally

Indians.

to C a n a d a .

in which Major

W a l d r o n , I n d i a n trader a n d
of the l e a d i n g

the

at C o c h e c o ( D o v e r ) w a s the

to d e l i v e r

was

HISTORICAL

figures

It

Richard

fighter,

a n d one

i n the colony, w a s so

murdered.

T h e H a n n a h D u s t a n episode is a m o n g the
first

records to appear i n p r i n t e d f o r m .

and

Mary

Neff

Haverhill,
set

were

taken

Massachusetts,

off i n the d i r e c t i o n

She

prisoners

DEERFIELD
teas protected
by a
Palisade
with
twenty
soldiers,
who
however,
were not alert, and
considerably hampered
by a deep snow.
Miss
Baker, in her book says "The
Indians
came in at niglit like a flood
upon
them, and tlie morning
dawned
on a
scene of horror."
Emma Lewis
Coleman gives a total of one hundred
and
twenty
captives
taken to Canada
in
noi
from Deerfield
alone.

N A R R A T I V E
o r, T H B

C

captors

Merrimack

River,

of C a n a d a .

They

a n d there
most

Mrs.

is celebrated

the t w o places.

Mas.

V

I

T

Y

J O H N S O N .

An A C C O U N T i f IJCI r\.y:

i;P.IN'.N

during Four 'r'ears » I'l 1".- I . '

were

and F R E N c H .

a n d t a k e n to C a n a d a , the latter re-

t u r n i n g to become the m o t h e r
dren.

at

of H a v e r -

h i l l , a n d H a n n a h E a s t m a n of C o n c o r d
captured

I

while

by m o n u m e n t s

H a n n a h Bradley

T

Dustan

of the p a r t y

they slept, r e t u r n i n g by canoe to H a v e r h i l l .
H e r memory

P

o ?

stopped for the n i g h t near P e n a c o o k o n the
k i l l e d a n d scalped

A

at

a n d their

29

N E W HAMPSHIRE

Samuel

Gill

of n i n e

of S a l i s b u r y ,

chil-

Massachu-

setts, w a s t a k e n i n 1697 at the age of n i n e ,
growing

up i n Canada

English girl.

ferred to r e m a i n a m o n g
students

and marrying

at D a r t m o u t h

I n the Histoire

the I n d i a n s .
were

des Abena\is,

Indian

of

Samuel

Abbe

Gill

of

d a u g h t e r of the R e v e r e n d J o h n
seven

Quebec.

at

Wells,

Purchased

Maine
from

J i . , :

.

.KTSlURf.,

C A R L 1 S L E, jun.

and

grand-

Wheelwright,
and

AT

D A V I D

fifty-two

white

blood.

f o u n d e r of E x e t e r , w a s c a p t u r e d

P R I N T E D

By

Maurauk

I n 1703 E s t h e r W h e e l w r i g h t , great

of

Three

his grandsons.

records a total of n i n e h u n d r e d a n d
descendants

an

H e never r e t u r n e d , h a v i n g pre-

at the age
taken

to

the A b e n a k i I n -

T i i T . E PACE OE T i i t JOHNSON- N A R RATIVE. I N T H E NE-W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY'S
LIBRARY.

d i a n s by a F r e n c h priest, she b e c a m e a governess i n the f a m i l y of the F r e n c h g o v e r n o r ,
V a u d r e u i l a n d later entered a n U r s u l i n e
C o n v e n t , e v e n t u a l l y to become M o t h e r S u perior of the U r s u l i n e s at M o n t r e a l , d y i n g
i n 1780 at the age of eighty-four.
She was
the o n l y E n g l i s h w o m a n ever to be so elected.
A n o t h e r instance of the u n u s u a l o u t c o m e
of I n d i a n c a p t i v i t y is that of E u n i c e W i l l i a m s d a u g h t e r of P a r s o n J o h n W i l l i a m s of
D e e r f i e l d w h o w a s c a p t u r e d i n 1704 f o l l o w i n g the I n d i a n a t t a c k there a n d t a k e n to
Canada.
R e f u s i n g a l l entreaties o n the part
of h e r parents t o be r a n s o m e d a n d r e t u r n e d ,
she b e c a m e the w i f e of a n I n d i a n w h o h a d
been b a p t i z e d by the n a m e A m b r o s e .

HKAD o i - HANNAH Du.srAN'.s TO.MAHAWK.
FROM A P R I N T I N T H E N E W H A M P SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

T h e r e w a s also the case of the R o l l i n s
f a m i l y of E x e t e r , w h e r e a m o t h e r a n d h e r
t w o d a u g h t e r s w e r e c a p t u r e d , a n d the m o t h e r
r e d e e m e d , w h i l e the d a u g h t e r s r e m a i n e d to
marry into F r e n c h families.

�HISTORICAL

N E W

HISTORICAL

HAMPSHIRE

In
1725
the
Hanson
household
was
a t t a c k e d by eleven I n d i a n s .
T h e husband
a n d a d a u g h t e r escaped, but M r s . H a n s o n ,
her m a i d a n d several of her c h i l d r e n w e r e
c a r r i e d off. M r s . H a n s o n , the m a i d a n d three
of her c h i l d r e n w e r e e v e n t u a l l y r a n s o m e d ,
the youngest c h i l d h a v i n g r e m a i n e d as the
w i f e of a F r e n c h n a t i v e . T w o other c h i l d r e n
d i e d at the h a n d s of the I n d i a n s at the t i m e
of the c a p t u r e .
I n 1754, j u s t at the b e g i n n i n g of the S e v e n
Y e a r ' s W a r , the I n d i a n s r a i d e d the c o u n t r y Hamp-

s h i r e , t h e n a n e w l y settled f a r m area k n o w n
as S t e v e n s t o w n .
Scribner,

H e r e they c a p t u r e d S a m u e l

Robert

Barber,

Enos

Bishop

and

N a t h a n i e l M e l o o n w i t h his w i f e a n d several
children.

J E I I R Y , LORD AMHERST.
FROM
A P R I N T IN T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

T h e M e l o o n s w e r e t a k e n to C a n a d a , a l o n g
w i t h the others, a n d sold to a F r e n c h priest
aboard

Intercepted
BEADED B E L T
MADE BY
RACHEL
MELOON
WHILE
S H E W A S AN INDIAN C A P TIVE IN CANADA, AND S E N T
lo P E T E R K I M B A L L AT BOS-

CAWEN.

ORIGINAL IN T H E

N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

by

a vessel b o u n d
an

for

Arriving

of the d a u g h t e r s ,

reluctantly

returning

where

married

New

she

Hampshire

remained in
to

Salisbury

" a d o p t e d . " M r s . Johnson's h u s b a n d w a s t a k e n

Reuben

to M o n t r e a l w i t h t w o others of the

Canada,
in

Greeley.

H i s t o r i c a l Society

purchased

The
a

for

seven

hundred

of her d a u g h t e r s j o i n e d the f a m i l y of the L i e u t e n a n t G o v e r n o r .

for

mistreated.

whose

Peter

Kimball

of

d i a r y is also i n the L i b r a r y , w r i t t e n

w h i l e he s e r v e d i n the w a r .
S a l i s b u r y captives w e r e
Of
New

Boscawen,

a l l the accounts

A l l the

other

of I n d i a n captives i n

H a m p s h i r e t a k e n to C a n a d a , the story

of the " J o h n s o n C a p t i v i t y " is perhaps

among

the best k n o w n .

A r a r e copy of the " N a r r a -

tive"

Walpole, N e w

by

printed i n
David

Narrative

oj the

containing
ing
is

four
in

Carlisle,

Jr.,

Captivity

an account
years

The

with

New

1796

Hampshire
and

oj Mrs.

of her

the Indians

Hampshire

sufferings
and

called
Johnson:
durFrench,

H i s t o r i c a l So-

ciety's L i b r a r y .
A c c o r d i n g to this record C a p t a i n J a m e s
J o h n s o n became a resident of
"Number
F o u r , " n o w C h a r l e s t o w n , i n 1750,
having

, ,

the

T h e y w e r e not

, .

C a p t a i n J o h n s o n w a s released on parole to enable h i m to secure a r a n s o m
of one h u n d r e d a n d fifty p o u n d s , w h i c h he obtained f r o m the N e w
government.

redeemed.

l i v r e s by

F r e n c h g o v e r n m e n t a n d placed i n the f a m i l y of G o v e r n o r D u q u w n e w h i l e one

b e a d - w o r k belt m a d e by her w h e n a c a p t i v e ,
Captain

group.

L a t e r , she says, she w a s also t a k e n there a n d

1763
has

learned

into w h i c h appropriate ceremonies they w e r e

were

r e t u r n e d to N e w H a m p s h i r e . R a c h e l M e l o o n ,
one

at St. F r a n c i s the party

that the I n d i a n s w e r e of the S t . F r a n c i s tribe

France.

E n g l i s h ship, they

31

W h e t h e r their m o t i v e w a s to get these
articles a w a y f r o m J o h n s o n or not is u n c e r t a i n f r o m the account, but M r . J o h n s o n a n d
a l m o s t his entire household w e r e c a p t u r e d
on the n i g h t of his r e t u r n by a b a n d of seventeen I n d i a n s w h o took t h e m to C a n a d a w i t h
s u c h of t h e i r belongings as they c o u l d seize.
T h e a c c o u n t of the j o u r n e y c o n t a i n s a n u m ber of i n t e r e s t i n g i n c i d e n t s , a m o n g t h e m the
fact that the I n d i a n s d i d not t o r t u r e or m o lest t h e m a n d that one of the c h i l d r e n w a s
placed for the n i g h t b e t w e e n t w o I n d i a n s
a n d covered by a rope h e l d d o w n at each e n d
by a n I n d i a n w h o l a y on i t , so t h a t i f she
attempted to escape they w o u l d be a w a k e n e d .
D u r i n g the j o u r n e y a d a u g h t e r w a s b o r n to
M r s . J o h n s o n , w h o m she n a m e d " C a p t i v e "
Johnson.

w h o later placed M r s . M e l o o n a n d t w o of the
children

HAMPSHIRE

come u p the C o n n e c t i c u t R i v e r f r o m L u n e n burg
Massachusetts.
His
business
was
largely t r a d i n g w i t h the I n d i a n s , a n occupat i o n he seems to have enjoyed a n d profited
by. I n 1754 he left home to tour the c o u n t r y side i n .search of t r a d i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s .
He
appears a l w a y s to h a v e been o n f r i e n d l y
t e r m s w i t h the I n d i a n s a n d r e t u r n e d w i t h a
good stock of n e w articles he h a d p u r c h a s e d .

T h e H a n s o n c a p t i v i t y has been w i d e l y p u b l i c i z e d by a n a u t o b i o g r a p h y by M r s . E l i z a b e t h
H a n s o n of D o v e r w h i c h appeared i n several
e d i t i o n s , a n u m b e r of rare copies b e i n g i n
The New
H a m p s h i r e H i s t o r i c a l Society's
L i b r a r y . M r s . H a n s o n w a s the w i f e of J o h n
Hanson, a Quaker.

side i n the v i c i n i t y of S a l i s b u r y , N e w

N E W

A f t e r a year a n d a h a l f i n C a n a d a M r s

t v i t h her sisters a n d t w o d a u g h t e r s r e t u r n e d to the C o l o n i e s .
released after three years of c a p i v i t y .
a n u n in M o n t r e a l .
Ticonderoea.

Hampshire

J o h n s o n w a s released, a n d
M r . Johnson

was

O n e of the d a u g h t e r s r e n a m e d a n d became

C a p t a i n Johnson

later enlisted a n d w a s k i l l e d

M r s . J o h n s o n d i e d i n 1810.

j t-

m
,

1758
,

W i t h ^ t h e l ^ g i n n i n g of open w a r f a r e b e t w e e n F r a n c e a n d E n g a n d ,

^

at
,,

finally

r e s u l t i n g in the t a k i n g by the E n g l i s h of M o n t r e a l a n d Q u e b e c , the I n d i a n raids
on N e w

H a m p s h i r e cam'e to a n e n d , a l t h o u g h there w e r e

b e t w e e n the N e w

requent

encounters

E n g l a n d e r s a n d the I n d i a n s i n the v i c i n i t y ot the C a n a d i a n

border u n t i l after the close of the R e v o l u t i o n .

�HISTORICAL

32

New

N E W HAMPSHIRE

HISTORICAL

Hampshire Indians H a v e Gone but

N

EW

HAMPSHIRE,

as

well

as

all A m e r i c a ,

may

it

might

have

gone

far

f o u g h t i n the R e v o l u t i o n .

PASSACONAWAY
was the
most
famous of the Penaeoot^ Indians
whose
lands bordered on the Merrimack
river
north of Concord, and their chief.
He
is said to have lived to be a
hundred
and tiventy years old. His dying
words
are recorded to have been; "Take
heed
how you quarrel with the English
for
though
you may do them much
mischief, you will be destroyed and rooted
of} the earth if you do."
Passaconaway's daughter is said to have
married
Winnepurkit
or Winnepocket
also of
the Penacook
tribe.

diflerendy

with

well

pay

tribute

to

the

H a d it not been for t h e m
soldiers

who

I t w a s i n the I n d i a n w a r s they l e a r n e d to

New

England

fight.

F o r m o r e t h a n t w o decades p r i o r to 1775,
m e n w e r e t r a i n e d here, t h a n k s to the I n d i a n s , to protect t h e i r h o m e s a n d g u a r d t h e i r
liberty.
O n e has but to r e a d the r e c o r d of
G e n e r a l John S t a r k a n d his fellow-patriots,
to sense the i m p o r t a n c e of the events that
preceded the w a r for the i n d e p e n d e n c e of
this c o u n t r y .

T h e early settlers h a d as m u c h difficulty i n
p r o n o u n c i n g the I n d i a n n a m e s as the I n d i a n s
d i d i n a t t e m p t i n g to m a k e t h e i r s p r o n o u n c able.
T h e y d i d , h o w e v e r , g i v e us
Coos
w h i c h they p r o n o u n c e d C o w a s h or C o w a s s ,
a n d w h i c h became the n a m e of a N e w
H a m p s h i r e c o u n t y . C o c h e c o w a s as near as
the colonists got to w h a t w a s
afterward
named Dover.
S u n a p e e the I n d i a n s apparently p r o n o u n c e d Soo-ni-pee, a s p e l l i n g s t i l l
occasionally to be seen o n old signs.
Occum
is the n a m e of a f a m o u s D a r t m o u t h I n d i a n
graduate.

.
WONOLANCET
was tlie son of
. Passaconaway.
Although
the
settlers
are said to have burned
one of his
•fenacook
villages in 167;, during
King
Philip's
War, the Penacooks
did
not
retaliate,
fohn Eliot,
writing
to his
friend
Sir Robert
Boyle, in
England,
calls
Wonolancet
"a sachem
of
tiie
greatest blood of the
country."
CHOCORUA. FROM A P R I N T I N
THE
N E W HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

CHOCORUA
is thought
to
have
been a member
of the Pequawket
or
Ossipee tribe,
but whatever
tribe Ite
was, he has always been New
Hampshire's favorie Indian.
In the earliest
records,
the Mountain
named for him
was
called
feckoyva
and
Chocorua
himself
is thought
to have spent a
good part of his life in the
vicinity
of Tamworth
and "died on the mountain, presumably
as a residt of a fall
from a
cliff."
Mr. Lawrence
Mayo, a life
member
of The New Hampshire
Historical
Society,
who
did considerable
research
on the "Legend
of Chocorua."
fhe
name of his monograph,
says,
"There
is a tradition
that Chocorua was killed
by white men and that his dying
curse
was responsible for a mysterious
bovine
malady in that region of New
Hampshire."

PASSACONAWAY. FROM A P R I N T IN T H E N E W
HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

33

L i k e w i s e w h i l e the n a m e s of our places
are l a r g e l y of E n g l i s h o r i g i n . N e w H a m p shire got m a n y of t h e m f r o m the I n d i a n s .
The
n a m e s of P e n a c o o k , Ossipee a n d P e q u a w k e t ( P i g w a c k e t ) are d e r i v e d
directly
f r o m the I n d i a n tribes.
O t h e r tribes w e r e
the N a s h u a s , the S o u h e g a n s , the N a t i c o o k s ,
the M o h a w k s , the N a m o s k e a g s ( A m o s k e a g ) ,
the N a r r a g a n s e t t s , the S u n c o o k s , the W i n n i pesaukees, a n d the P i s c a t a q u a s .
F r o m the
N e w H a m p s h i r e I n d i a n C h i e f s come our
n a m e s of P a s s a c o n a w a y , W o n o l a n c e t , C h o corua, Kancamagus, Waternome and Paugus.

T h e i r Names at Least R e m a i n
m e m o r y of the I n d i a n s for at least one t h i n g .

N E W HAMPSHIRE

SAMSON
OCCOM
(or Cecum)
was
an early Indian convert to the
Christian
faith, coming from the Mohegan
tribe
in Southern
Connecticut
of which,
in
1742, at the age of nineteen,
he had
become one of the
leaders.
Selected
by the Reverend
Eleazer
Wheelock
to attend his "college"
for
Indians
at Lebanon,
Connecticut,
then
called
Moor's
Indian
Charity
School,
and afterward
Dartmouth
College,
he
first became a school-teacher
and later
an ordained
minister
oj the
Gospel.
In 1764,
following
the close of tlie
French
and English
War, he was sent
by Wheelock to accompany
the
Evangelist,
George
Whitefield,
to
preach
and solicit contributions
to the
school
in England
and Scotland.
He is said
to have been instrumental
in
raising
a large endowment
fund, estimated at
twelve thousand pounds.
In his admirable book, "Samson
Occom,"
Harold
Blodgett
says that "without
Occom,
Dartmouth
wotdd
never
have
been
foimded."

C e r t a i n e n d i n g s o n our I n d i a n n a m e s fall
i n t o r e c o g n i z a b l e classes, s u c h as A n n a h o o k set ( H o o k s e t t ) , P e m i g e w a s s e t a n d N i t t i s s i t ,
a k i n to other n a m e s e n d i n g i n sit or set.
T h e e n d i n g coo\r 0 0 ^ ) finding itself i n
a g r o u p i n g of P e n a c o o k , P o n t o o c o o k , S u n cook,
Ahquedaukee,
Cowissawashook
( K e a r s a r g e ) , Aroostook, A m m o n u s u c , C o n toocook, M o o s i l a u k e , M o n o m o n o c , B a b o o s u c ,
U n c a n o o n u c , A s h u e l o c k ( A s h u e l o t ) , Massabesic, W a l o o m s u c , N e w i c h w a n n o c k , M e r r i m a c ( o n c e called M o n i a c k , M o n o m a c
or
M o n o m o c ) , has caused m u c h
speculation
a m o n g p h i l o l o g i s t s , some of w h o m consider
the e n d i n g oo\o m e a n m e r e l y at.
S i n c e there w e r e as m a n y different
ages or dialects a m o n g

the N e w

I n d i a n s as there are a m o n g
tions

the v a r i o u s

attached

there m i g h t

that w i t h

have

been

w o r d s to w h i c h the syllable at w a s
meaning
The

sec-

of the U n i t e d States, it is difficult

go f u r t h e r t h a n to conjecture
ooh

langu-

Hampshire

at

the

philologists

at g o i n g

mountain
seem

or

to h a v e

at

to
the

many

attached,
the

been

river
balked

further.

A n o t h e r g r o u p of N e w H a m p s h i r e I n d i a n
n a m e s a l l c o n t a i n the syllable squatrt.

Asquam

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HISTORICAL

HISTORICAL

N E W HAMPSHIRE

N E W HAMPSHIRE

35

ljut w e r e at least i n use by the settlers w h i l e the I n d i a n s w e r e here.

THE HUTCHINSONS,
Indson,
John,
Asa and Abhy, of the "Tribe
of fesse"
were famous
in tlie annals of
New
Hampshire
history as America's
foremost family of singers.
They were a
choir
of thirteen
at the
beginning,
growing
up in Milford,
New
Hampshire.
Later as a quartet, they
toured
America from the 1840's to the
iSyo's.

shire n a t i v e s , but g i v e n i n h o n o r of great A m e r i c a n

T h e f o r e g o i n g l i s t of N e w H a m p s h i r e I n d i a n n a m e s is by no m e a n s c o m p l e t e ,
they w e r e

M a n y other tributes h a v e been p a i d to the N e w

England Indians.

Our evening
dance is seen no more.
Its sound has ceased to flow.
And each one sings a mournful
dirge
In accents sad and
slow.
The whites have swept our
friends
away,
Beneath the turf our fathers
lay,
We soon must join them in
death's
sleep
And leave our homes to mourn
and
weep.
Shall I the bravest of the
chiefs.
On this isle make my bed?
0 no! the whites' polluted
feet
Shall ne'er tread o'er my
head.
I've buried my hatchet 'neath the turf,
But I will rest beneath the
surf;
The foaming billows shall be my
grave,
For I'll not die a white man's
slave.

T h e col-

lege s o n g of A m h e r s t a n d m a n y a n o t h e r b a l l a d a n d story, a l l tell of the part they
p l a y e d i n our early h i s t o r y , of w h i c h the verses of L o n g f e l l o w
James F e n i m o r e

C o o p e r are e x a m p l e s .

a n d the books of

M o s t p o p u l a r a m o n g the

compositions

of a decade or t w o ago w a s a s o n g c o m p o s e d a n d s u n g by the H u t c h i n s o n s
"Glide O n , My Light Canoe," a

fitting

H i s t o r i c a l Society's L i b r a r y .

13

SAMSON- OCCUM. FROM A P R I N T IN T H E NE-W
HAMPSHIRE HISI-ORICAL SOCII:TY'S COLLECTION.

(Squam

Lake, mountain and river), W i n n i -

squam,

Asquam-Schumake

JVIonascon

or

Mascoma,

necticut)

Quampeagin,

(Baker

one they m i g h t

These names

do

the same tribe, so t h a t to

have meant something

different

f r o m another.

meaning

of squam

the n a m e S q u a m

(Con-

Squamannagonic,

(CJonic), and Squamscott.
not a l l c o m e f r o m

River),

Quonekticut

Several

quite

indicate

the

to be l a k e , i n w h i c h case
L a k e might, in

become L a k e L a k e !

translation

O t h e r squams

are

said

to be r i v e r s .
T h e n a m e s e n d i n g i n qua,
Piscataqua,

Pequawket,

a n d ]{et s u c h as

Wataqua,

Winni-

p a u k e t t , seem to i n d i c a t e w a t e r or r i v e r s also,
while

the

influence

of

the

French

may

be

t r a c e d , p e r h a p s , to the t r a n s l a t i o n of C h e b u c t o
to C h e b e a q u e , the n a m e F r a n c o i s
wa

(Plausua

Mountain),

p r o n o u n c e d t h e i r jr
Winnicoultt.

as pi,

since
and

to P l a u s a -

the

Indians

Winnicot

to

St. John Baptist was Sabbatis.

O d d n a m e s , s u c h as P a r m a c h e n e , A t t i l h a ,
Catamount, Mahomet, Monadnock, and Opechee are difficult to trace to I n d i a n o r i g i n .

called

t r i b u t e to this v a n i s h e d , b u t never-to-be-

forgotten race, a copy of w h i c h is one of the treasures i n T h e N e w

Glide on my light canoe, glide
on,
The morning
breeze is free,
I'll guide thee far, far out upon
The wild and troubled
sea.
Howl on ye blasts with all your
might.
Hide, hide thyself thou orb of light,
y.Roll on ye mountain
billows
roll.
The wonders of the deep
unfold.

And on the waves we're forced
to
roam;
There's
none to pity, none to save
The red man jrom the ocean
grave.

that

"here."

One of the most popular songs was
called "Glide
On, My Light
Canoe"
by J. W. Hutchinson
with these
words:

Glide on and bear me from the sight
Of yonder
shady
vale;
For oh! there is a with'ring
blight
Spread o'er my native
Isle;
The whites have driven
us from
our
home.

Hamp-

Indians.

but indicates some of the p e r m a n e n t records they h a v e left b e h i n d , s h o w i n g

They sang many popular songs and
popularized
others,
usually
on
such
subjects
as temperance
and
freedom,
calling
themselves
the Aeolian
Vocalists and singing
such ballads as
"The
Old Granite
State,"
"Let
My
People
Go,"
"What
Are
the
Wild
Waves
Saying,"
"The
Good Time
Coming,"
"The
Spider
and
the Fly,"
"Kind
Words Can Never Die" and many of
their own
compositions.

'l
~
, t
•

T h e names

T e c u m s e h a n d Osceola are late c o m e r s , not, of c o u r s e , related to the N e w

COVER OF INDIAN SONG, SUNG IJY T H E HUTCHINSON F A M I L Y .
FROM T H E N E W HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

Hampshire

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N E W HAMPSHIRE

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OF

HAMPSHIRE

COLLECTION

DAUGHTERS

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OF PORTRAITS

RESIDENTS

REPRESENTATIVES

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THEIR

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THE
SEX

CONDITIONS

WOMEN.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

GRANITE
IN
OF

THE

STATE,

WHO

VARIOUS

LIFE.

CONCORD, N. H.:
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLISHING CO.
J. G. Uattekson, Jr., President.

ARE

WALKS

WORTHY

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�PREFACE.

THIS volume was designed, in its inception, as a companion vol
ume to " New Hampshire Men," published two years since.
Its production has been effected under difficulties interfering greatly
with its completeness, chief among which is the very general and often
unconquerable aversion of woman to assent to anything which can in
anyway be interpreted as the manifestation of a desire for publicity on
her part. This aversion has not only greatly delayed the preparation
of this volume but has absolutely prevented the presentation of many
subjects that should have been among the most conspicuous in its
list.
Nevertheless, incomplete as it may be, the book presents a goodly
number of portraits and sketches of representative New Hampshire
women, at home and abroad, some of whom are the most eminent

daughters of the state, while all are worthy representatives of New
Hampshire womanhood in its best estate, whether in literature, music,
art, education, in professional, business, public, social and domestic
life, or as laborers in the broad fields of charity and benevolence.
The compilation and preparation of the volume has been in charge
of Henry H. Metcalf of Concord, who acknowledges his obligations
for material assistance to Miss Marion H. Brazier of Boston, Mrs.
Adelaide Cilley Waldron of Farmington, Miss Frances M. Abbott of
Concord, Mrs. Emma H. Cass of Bristol, Mrs. Urania E. Bowers of
Nashua and many others, who have taken a deep interest in the suc
cess of the work.
The New Hampshire Purlishing Co.
Concord, N. H., December, i, 1895.

��LIST

OF

SKETCHES

AND

PORTRAITS.

Arrott, Frances M
Alexander, Jane Grace
Aspinwall, Ada M
Atwood, Minnie Edwards
Ayers, Clara Maria Kimrali

177
199
73
Ill
205

Cole, Dr. Anna B. Taylor
Collins, Mrs. O. M
Crafts, Katherine Prescott
Currier, Mrs. Moody

Beuky, Winnifred Helen
Bingham, Hattie M. Q
Blair, Mrs. Henry W
Boody, Mary Helen .
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Bowers, Urania E.
.
Bradford, Mrs. Mary J
Bristol, Augusta Cooper
Brown, Emma E
Brown, Mrs. F. P
Bruce, Emily A., M. L)
Bryant, Florence Runnells
Busiel, Mrs. Ciiaki.es A

133
149
215
227
235
125
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55
223
225
123
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Dame, Harriet P
Danfortii, Mary A
Danforth, Mary S., M. D
Daniels, Harriett E
Downs, Mrs. Clara 1
Dunn, Mrs. L. M
Dyer, Mrs. Micah, Jr

Cadle, Mrs. Ruth Lamprey
Carpenter, Mrs!. George
Chandler, Mrs. William E
Cheney, Mrs. Person C
Colry, Mrs. Frederick Myron

01
18:i
43
65
77

Eastman, Maria L
Eddy, Rev. Mary Baker
Edgerly, Mrs. M. V. B
Farr, Mary Noyes
Farr, Mrs. EvartsW
Fife, Miss Mary D
Filley, Mary A. (Powers)
Flanders, Martha J., M. D.
Folsom, Mrs. Frederick K.

5

137
207
221
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35
15
187
189
241
87
211
99
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47
155
219
127
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195

�Foster, Miss. H. Lizzie
Fowler, Laura Wentworth

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Miller, Ida Farr
Minot, Mrs. James
Morey, Ellen Beal
Mosheu. Frances Stewart
Moulton, L. Agnese

Gile, Mary Margaret
Greeley, Mary Isarel
Griffin, Mrs. S. G.

69
118
191

Hale, Mrs. John P
Hall, Mrs. Daniel
Hall, Francina D.
Harriman, Mrs. Walter
Harris, Hattie Mae Bai.cii
Houck, Edna Little
Howard, Ada L
Howe, Emma S
Hoyt, Fannie Packard
Hoyt, Jane Elizareth, M. 1)
Huntley, Emma Manning

41
113
249
179
159
203
29
105
101
161
91

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Johnson, Sophia Orne

147
115
139

Larry, Evangeline
Leavitt, Mary Clement
Lirrey, Mrs. Henry C.
Locke, Mrs. Nathaniel C
Locke, Belle Marshali
Long, Hattie Bond

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33
233
135
153
49

Marshall, Mhs. Annis G
McClTTCHEON, ABB1E J
McDoigall, Elizareth
McKinney, Mrs. Luther F.

105
93
95
71

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173
143
17
217
31
193
141
21

Remich, Mrs. Daniel C
Reynolds, Mrs. Sarah S
Richards, Mrs. Dexter
RlCKER, MAR1LLA M
Rorinson, Annie D
Runnells, Mrs. Sarah E. Farley

85

Knapp, Mrs. William D
Knowi.es, Miss Ella L.
Knowlton, Mrs. Mary Frances

157
151
213
39
117

Parker, Mrs. Charles
Perkins, Mrs. A. A
Pillsrury, Margaret Sprague
Poole, Mrs. Fanny H. R
Porter, Mrs. Howard L
Prescott, Mrs. Benjamin F
Price, Mrs. Evannah S
Proctor, Edna Dean

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Safford, Martha A. Hayes
Salvini, Mrs. Alexander
Sanrorn, Frances B
Sanrorn, Kate
Sanrorn, Mary It
Sawyer, Mrs. Charles II
Scott, Lydia A
Shaw, Mrs. E. M
Shepard, Martha Dana
.
Small. Lucy A. Ricker
Smith, Mrs. John B
Spalding, Mrs. Isaac
Stark, Elizareth Page

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121
15
81
37
59
167
201
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�Stearns, Mrs. Onslow .
Streeter, Li i,lian Carpenter
Thask, Clara Augusta
Tuj.loch, Mrs. Thomas L.
Tuttle, Mrs. Hlram A.
Waldron, Adelaide Cii.ley
Wallace, Mrs. Elizalleth H. A
Wason, Mrs. George A.

Wendell, Caroline B.
White, Armenia S.
Wiley, Rerecca Weeks, M. D.
Wilkinson, Emilie Grant
Wilson, Moroia Pouter
Wilson, Li ella M.
Woodworth, Mary Parker
Worthen, Augusta (Harvey)
Zerley, Mrs. John F. .

��FEW names are better known in connection with reform and phil
anthropic work than that of Armenia S. White, wife of the late
Nathaniel White, of Concord. Born in Mendon, Mass., November 1,
1 8 1 7 . of Quaker parentage, her father. John Aldrich, being of the fifth
generation from Moses Aldrich, the English Quaker preacher, who
settled in Rhode Island in the seventeenth century, while her maternal
ancestry is traced directly to Edward Doten, a Pilgrim of the Mayflower,
she removed with her parents to Boscawen, in 1830, and at the age of
nineteen married Nathaniel White, a young stageman, who through
industry, sobriety, and business sagacity, aided always by his chosen
life-companion, won success and fortune, and made the same a blessing
and a benediction to needy and oppressed humanity. Like her hus
band, she was an ardent friend of the anti-slavery cause, and their hos
pitable home welcomed the fugitive slave as freely as the most notable
personage in the land. The temperance and woman suffrage causes
she espoused with enthusiasm, and has ever labored zealously for their
success. She has long been the friend and co-worker of such women
as Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore, and Frances E.
Willard. The charitable and benevolent institutions of the state have
ever been the objects of her fostering care. Mrs. White was the first
president of the New Hampshire W. C. T. U., has been president of
the New Hampshire Woman Suffrage association since its organization,
and largely through her efforts was secured the legislation enabling
New Hampshire women to vote and hold office in connection with
school affairs. She is a member of the board of trustees of the New
Hampshire Centennial Home for the Aged, of the Orphans' Home,
Franklin, and the Mercy Home, Manchester, was active in their estab
lishment, and has been a liberal supporter of each. The Universalist
church in Concord and at iarge, and manifold charities, local and gen
eral, have ever commanded her earnest sympathy and generous aid.

MRS. NATHANIEL WHITE.

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MRS. ISAAC SPALDING.

ON the eighth day of December, 1893, in the city of Nashua, a
woman whose name had been a household word in that city for
nearly half a century, departed this life, at the great age of ninetyseven years. Lucy Kendall, daughter of Nathan Kendall of Amherst,
was born in that town, December 13, 1796. She married Isaac
Spalding, of Nashua, May 1, 1828, and was the affectionate helpmeet
of that worthy and honored citizen until his decease, May 14, 1876.
Two sons, born in the early years of their married life, died in child
hood, and, thus left without children, and favored with ample means
for ministering to the comfort and welfare of others, they necessarily
looked beyond the confines of home for the objects of their considera
tion and regard. Mr. Spalding was an enterprising business man and
a public spirited citizen, and was closely identified with the growth
and progress of Nashua, from a struggling village to the second city
in the state, and in all his work and purposes his wife was an earnest
sympathizer. Though personally of a retiring disposition, modest
and unassuming, Mrs. Spalding, through all her long life, was an
active promoter of every deserving charitable cause and benevolent
work to which her attention was called in the community, and her
generous contributions of money for various worthy objects, as well
as her devoted personal service, will be remembered to her credit for
long years to come. She was actively identified with the First Con
gregational church of Nashua, and deeply interested in all lines of its
work. During the year 1892 her gift of twenty-three thousand dollars
for the purchase of a site made it possible for the society to erect the
new and commodious house of worship, one of the finest in the state,
which it now occupies. Among her other prominent benefactions
were ten thousand dollars to the New Hampshire Orphans' Home,
of which institution she was ever an earnest friend, and ten thousand
dollars to Dartmouth college.

��MRS. ONSLOW STEARNS.

A conspicuous figure in the social life of New Hampshire's capital
city, the true and worthy helpmeet of one eminent alike in busi
ness and public life, thecenter of a delightful family circle, whose guests,
often among the most distinguished, never forgot its charming influence,
no woman in the state has been more favorably known during the past
thirty years than Mrs. Onslow Stearns. Mary A. Holbrook, daughter
of Aden and Polly Holbrook, was born in Athol, Mass., February 10.
1819. She was educated in Mrs. Burrill's school at South Boston and
united in marriage with Mr. Stearns June 27, 1845. They removed to
Concord in 1847, where they ever after had their home. Mr. Stearns
became a dominant spirit in the railroad operations of the state, and a
strong factor in its political life, receiving the highest honor in the gift
of the people, having been encouraged in his career by the sympathy
and devotion of a wife ambitious for his success and proud of his
achievements, and by her womanly tact and grace of manner contrib
uting to the same in large degree. Mrs. Stearns not only met all the
requirements of domestic life, the demands of an enlarged hospitahty,
and the responsibilities of social leadership, but gave time and effort in
abundant measure to the cause of benevolence. During the War of
the Rebellion she was active in every work for the aid and encourage
ment of the Union soldiers. She was vice-president of the Home for
the Aged in Concord, from its organization until her death, July 27,
1895 ; was a director of the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital, of the
Concord Female Benevolent Association, and an earnest worker in the
interests of the Unitarian church and society, with which she was asso
ciated. Above all and embracing all, it may be said, she was a true
woman in the fullest sense of the term. Mrs. Stearns left a son,
Charles O. Stearns of Boston, and four daughters, Mary, wife of Gen.
John R. Brooke, U. S. A.; Margaret, wife of S. W. Ingails of New
York; Sarah, and Grace, wife of Col R. H. Rolfe of Concord.

��LOUISA FRANCES RICHARDS, daughter of Dr. Mason and
Apphia (Andrews) Hatch, was born in Hillsborough, April 10,
1827, and married Hon. Dexter Richards of Newport, January 27,
1847. Her father had a successful professional career of more than
forty years in Newport, where he was a valuable citizen, prominent in
town affairs. There was a vein of original humor about him, delight
ful to all, which was largely inherited by his daughter, Mrs. Richards,
whose pleasant face and genial presence are welcomed in every circle.
She has been the mother of six children, but three of whom survive,—
Col. Seth Mason Richards, a leading business man of Newport, well
known throughout the state, Josephine, wife of Prof. M. C. Gile of
Colorado Springs college, and William Francis, also a Newport busi
ness man. There are also seven grandchildren in whom Mrs. Richards's youthful spirit finds never-failing joy. Those who know Mrs.
Richards best are acquainted with her many private benevolences,
as she is always ready to help those who are in need, or to put them
in a position to help themselves. She is a trustee of the Mercy Home
at Manchester, and trustee and vice-president of the Woman's Hos
pital Aid Association, in Concord. She was one of ten ladies to
give $ 1 ,000 each to erect a building for the infant department at the
Orphans' Home, Franklin. She belongs to the Manchester chapter of
the Daughters of the Revolution, her maternal grandfather, Maj.
Isaac Andrews, having fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In church
and society Mrs. Richards is an acknowledged power, while her
delightful hospitality is a thing long to be remembered by those who
have enjoyed it. Emerson says. — ' There is no beautifier of com
plexion, or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain,
around us." In the use of this cosmetic she is accomplished, as all
can testify who have felt the sweet influences of her kindness.

MRS. DEXTER RICHARDS.

15

��MARGARET SPRAGUE PILLSBURY.

MARGARET SPRAGUE, daughter and fifth child of Henry
and Holly (Greeley) Carleton, was born in Bucksport, Me.,
September 20, 1817, but removed, with her parents, in 1823, to their
former home in' Sutton, N. H., where she was educated in the public
schools. May 10, 1841, she married George A. Pillsbury of Sutton,
removing with him to Warner, where he was in trade ten years.
They removed to Concord in 185 I, and in 1878 to their present home,
Minneapolis, Minn., where their son, Charles A., is the head of the
greatest flour manufacturing firm in the world. Fred C., another
son, died there in 1892. An infant daughter died in Warner. Min
nie Chamberlin, a relative of Mrs. Pillsbury, left an orphan in early
childhood, was taken into their family, and has ever held the place
of a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Pillsbury celebrated the golden anni
versary of their happy union in 1891, making it a golden year for
others, also, by giving to Sutton a soldiers' monument, to Warner
a public library, and uniting in the gift to the Hospital Association
at Concord of a spacious and costly edifice, appropriately named
"The Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital." Through all her life,
wherever she has been, Mis. Pillsbury has been felt and recognized
as a power for good, and the bestowal of her name upon such an institu
tion marks no new development in her character. It simply makes her
known publicly for what she has always been, a philanthropist—to gain
and merit which distinction is the highest earthly honor. This admi
rable Christian woman possesses a happy combination of qualities
which her full and rounded life has afforded abundant opportunity to
exercise, at home and abroad. Keenly perceptive, considerate, and,
though pitiful, strictly conscientious, she is seldom wrong in estimating
character or motive. She is a faithful friend, a judicious adviser to her
husband in their mutual business affairs, a wise mother, a kind and
capable ruler in her own household.

��THE giver of all good, very wisely and justly, bestows upon some
of his children especial powers and gifts, that the world shall be
made better, and the arts developed for the improvement and entertain
ment of mankind. Such a child was born in New Hampton, N. H.,
in 1842, daughter of Dr. John A. and Sarah J. Dana. From earliest
childhood it was evident her life would be devoted to music, her pref
erence being the piano. Her father and mother were both musical,
the latter being her first instructor. When eleven years old she went
to Boston for instruction from eminent teachers. At the age of fifteen
Martha Dana made her debut as a soloist. From that time until now
her life has been one of unbroken triumph, appearing at more festivals
and concerts throughout the Union than any other living pianist. Her
ambition and efforts were always of the highest character, having early
in life mastered the oratorio scores of the great composers. In 1864
she was married to Allan B. Shepard of Holderness, now Ashland,
residing there until 1881, when they removed to Boston. Two sons
were born by this happy union —Frank Edward and John Dana, in
whom a mother's fondest hopes are realized. Martha Dana Shepard
was New Hampshire's first great pianist. She has done more to
improve the art than ail others. She is a noble woman, whose name is
held in respect throughout the Union, an honor to her native state,
and a blessing to the legion who call her " friend." Her name and
career, when fully written, will be referred to by coming generations as
one of the bright stars, shedding its light to the glory and for the
example of others, in the musical firmament of the old Granite state.
MARTHA DANA SHEPARD.

19

��EDNA DEAN PROCTOR, eminent among American poets, is a
native of Henniker. Her name is known throughout the land,
the result of her pen alone, for she avoids publicity, preferring to be
known by her works. The Proctor family removed from Manchester,
Mass., to that picturesque town near the close of the last century, and
settled upon a high hill overlooking " Contoocook's bright and brim
ming river." Here was the birthplace of this gifted daughter, whose
mother, Lucinda Gould, was a descendant of the Hiltons and Prescotts
of Portsmouth and Hampton. Early in life she developed marked
poetic talent, and when the Civil War came, arousing her patriotism to
a white heat, her national poems, such as " The Stars and Stripes,"
"Compromise," "Who's Ready?" and others, stirred the hearts of
the boys who wore the blue to deeds of valor in the great struggle for
country and freedom. She has enjoyed the friendship of Whittier,
Longfellow, and other famous poets. Of her poem "New Hamp
shire" Whittier said it was one of the noblest produced in this coun
try. Longfellow showed his appreciation of her descriptive poems by
including them in his "Poems of Places," and greatly praised her
" Russian Journey," which won high commendation in two conti
nents. Two of her later poems, "Columbia's Banner," and "Colum
bia's Emblem," are exceedingly popular. The latter is a ringing, spirited
appeal for maize as our national floral emblem, and has received the en
dorsement of multitudes throughout the country. Her "Song of the
Ancient People " is universally conceded to be the grandest poem ever
written of the aboriginal Americans. The late Mary Hemenway was
so inspired with its depth, pathos, and historical significance that she
gave $2,500 to have it illustrated. Miss Proctor resides in Framingham, Mass., but spends much time in Boston and Washington in win
ter. She has traveled widely, and never fails to visit her native town
and state when opportunity offers.

EDNA DEAN PROCTOR.

21

��EUNICE ELISABETH PRESTON, daughter of Worcester and
Nancy (Evans) Preston, is a native of Concord. Her grand
father, John Preston, a brother of Capt. William, and Benjamin Pres
ton, Revolutionary soldiers, of Rumney, married Eunice Carpenter of
Coventry, Conn., of direct Revolutionary descent. In November, 1864,
Miss Preston was united in marriage with Charles Albert Busiel of
Laconia, present governor of New Hampshire. They have one daugh
ter, Frances Evelyn, now the wife of Wilson Longstreth Smith, of
Germantown. Pa., a member of an old Quaker family of distinguished
lineage, and a direct descendant of James Smith, one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one child,
Charles Busiel Smith. Although naturally of domestic habits, Mrs.
Busiel has entertained freely, and since her husband's election to the
gubernatorial office has worthily filled the position of " first lady" of
the state. Modest and unassuming in manner, bright and cheery, with
a pleasant word for all, she has a happy way of making friends, and
enjoys a wide acquaintance. She is active in benevolent and charitable
work and a member of the society of the North Congregational church.
The New Hampshire Daughters" Club of Boston has her name on its
membership roll, and she is also one of the board of commissioners
from New Hampshire to the Woman's department of the Cotton States
and International Exposition at Atlanta.

MRS. CHARLES A. BUSIEL.

�L

�KATE SANBORN.

TF it be true that '-a merry heart doeth good like a medicine, " the
X Granite state is to be credited with much tonic, distributed through
out the land in the writings of cheerful, helpful, practical Kate San
born, which are alive with her sparkling individuality. Miss Sanborn
is a descendant of the Revolutionary hero, Capt. Ebenezer Webster,
who aided strongly in the adoption of the constitution, and claims
Daniel Webster as her great uncle, her mother, Mary Ann Webster,
being the favorite niece of the great statesman. Her father was the
late honored Prof. Edwin David Sanborn, of Dartmouth College, and
Edwin W. Sanborn of New York city, well known in legal and literary
circles, is her brother. She has also a sister, Mrs. Paul Babcock of
New York. Kate Sanborn's home was her school-room. At the age
of nineteen she was a teacher in the Mary institute, connected with
Washington university, at St. Louis, Mo. Later, she taught a day
school in Hanover. Subsequently she was for two years teacher of
elocution in Packer institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., and for a year in the
home of the late Mrs. Anna Lynch Botta, where she met many of the
most distinguished personages of the day. After this she filled the
chair of professor of literature at Smith College for a term of five years.
During all this time she issued books and calendars, delivered lectures,
and arranged classes in literature, besides writing for leading papers in
large cities. Kate Sanborn is a teacher, reviewer, compiler, essayist,
lecturer, author, housekeeper, and farmer. She resides at Metcalf.
Mass., surrounded by the dumb creatures she loves so well. She is
thoroughly domestic in her tastes, and a visit to her adopted farm is a
treat, indeed. Among her best books may be mentioned, "Wit of
Women, " "Adopting an Abandoned Farm," "Round Table Scries of
Literature," "A Truthful Woman in Southern California," "Abandon
ing an Adopted Farm," and her " Hen Book by a Hen Woman."

��MARTHA J. FLANDERS, one of the pioneer woman physicians,
was born in Concord, Jan. 15, 1823, the daughter of David and
Martha (Straw) Flanders. At the age of three she attended a district
school in Hopkinton, and afterwards was a pupil at Miss Susan Ela's
noted school in Concord. Later she was graduated from the New
Hampton Seminary. After teaching some years in the West and
South she began the study of medicine with the late Dr. Alpheus Mor
rill of Concord, one of the first physicians to perceive that " woman
needed the profession and the profession needed woman." She
gained her diploma at the New England Female College, now merged
in the Boston University School of Medicine. She practised in Con
cord in connection with Dr. Morrill from 1861 to 1863, and both
women and men of her native state gave her kindly encouragement and
support. She was the first woman physician in Concord. She finally
located in Lynn, Mass., where she has ever since resided. No people
could have been more kind and loyal than have been her patrons in
that Quaker city of radical reformers. She has had the pleasure of
seeing the barriers against women thrown down by medical societies,
being herself a member of county, state, and national societies, also
for several years lecturer in a co-educational medical school.

MARTHA J. FLANDERS, M. D.

��ADA L. HOWARD.

MISS ADA L. HOWARD, the beautiful woman whose skilful
hand guided Wellesley College the first seven and most diffi
cult years of its existence, is the daughter of William Hawkins How
ard and Lydia Adaline (Cowden) Howard, and was born in Temple,
December 19, 1829. Three of her great-grandfathers were officers in
the War of the Revolution, and one of these was an officer in the siege
of Louisburg. Her father was a fine scholar, an able teacher, and a
scientific agriculturist. From him she inherited marked characteristics,
and also from her mother—a gentlewoman whose sweetness, strength,
and high womanhood illuminated and unified the home. Miss How
ard received her education from her father, in private schools, New
Ipswich Academy. Lowell High School, Mount Holyoke College, where
she was graduated. Post-graduate study followed under private teachers.
She was, for several years, teacher at Mount Holyoke, the Western,
Oxford, O., and the accomplished and beloved principal of the
Woman's Department, Knox College. Illinois, and of Ivy Hall, her pri
vate school at Bridgeton, N. J., whence she was called to the presidency
of Wellesley College, founded by Mr. and Mrs. Durant. She was the
first woman president of a college in the world. Mr. Durant said, " 1
have been four years looking for a president. She will be a target to
be shot at, and for the present the position will be one of severe trials.
I have for sometime been closely investigating Miss Howard. I look
upon her as appointed to this work not by the trustees, but by God for
whom the college was built." Miss Howard wisely furthered the plans
of the founders, and held the position with great success till health
failed in 1882. She retains her love and enthusiasm for the college,
and every good work. In appreciation of her life at Wellesley, in
1890 the alumnae placed in the art gallery a life-size portrait of their
first president. In her honor a scholarship has been given for Wellesley College, called the Ada L. Howard scholarship.

��MRS. HOWARD L. PORTER.

ALICE ROSALIE (HAMMOND) PORTER was born in Con
necticut. Her ancestors, both on the paternal and maternal
side, were prominent in Revolutionary and colonial days. She was
graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1880. Later she studied at Dr. Sauveur's School of Languages at Amherst college and at the N. E. Con
servatory of Music in Boston. She went abroad in 1881. For three
years she was the efficient and devoted associate principal of Northfield Seminary, the school founded by D. L. Moody. The "Hand
book of Northfield Seminary" says,— "To her example, love, and be
lieving prayers, many a pupil owes the most valuable experience of her
life." Since her marriage to Gen. H. L. Porter she has continued her
Bible classes at Lynn, Mass., and Concord, N. H. For ten years
she taught in Concord probably the largest Bible class for women in the
state. Mrs. Porter has been president of the Concord Seaman's Friend
society, the Union Missionary society, the Foreign Missionary and
Charitable societies of the First Baptist church, and is connected with
almost every local philanthropic work. She has served on important
committees for the state Soldiers" Home at Tilton and the N. H. Or
phans' Home. She was the first president of the N. H. Mt. Hol
yoke Alumnae Association, and is a vice president of the Students' Aid
society of Wellesley College. The beautiful home of General and Mrs.
Porter at Concord is noted for its refined hospitality, and there is
scarcely a religious, benevolent, or educational cause in the state that
has not felt their generous support. Mrs. Porter is a most persuasive
speaker, and an excellent presiding officer. She is also gifted with the
pen, as various periodicals attest. She belongs to the Warwick Shakes
peare club, N. H. Historical society, and Concord Woman's club. As
a mother, she has been deeply interested in the public schools, from
which the two eldest of her four children, William and Carrie, have
graduated and are now members of Harvard '98 and Wellesley '99.

��MRS. MARY CLEMENT LEAVITT, honorary life president of
the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union, daughter
of Rev. Joshua and Eliza (Harvey) Clement, was born in Hopkinton,
September 22, 1830. She studied at the Thetford, Vt., Academy,
and prepared for teaching at the Framingham, Mass., Normal School,
graduating, class valedictorian, in 1851. She taught in Boston be
fore and after her marriage, and was a frequent contributor to the
leading papers of the day. Always actively interested in missions
and reforms, she helped to organize both the Massachusetts and Bos
ton W. C. T. Unions, working and speaking zealously for the latter
while still in the schoolroom. The demands for her services upon the
platform became so numerous that she closed her school and devoted
herself to lecturing. At the call of the National W. C. T. U., she gave
up the brilliant openings before her, and started out alone to encoun
ter the privations and dangers of a pioneer journey around the world
to organize W. C. T. Unions. This she accomplished with heroic
courage and persistence, visiting nearly every country on the globe,
speaking, through interpreters, in forty-seven languages, winning the
confidence and support of the best people, and often of royalty itself.
She organized men's temperance societies, and introduced the White
Cross movement into many lands. Without remuneration she under
took the work, raising nearly all of the seven thousand dollars ex
pended on this remarkable journey. Her " Round the-World " series
of letters was for eight years a most interesting feature of the Union
Signal. Mrs. Leavitt combines a high spiritual nature and good prac
tical ability with a strong, clear intellect, and is a logical, effective
speaker. At sixty-five, with unabated powers, enabling her to give one
hundred lectures in ten consecutive weeks during her 1894 California
tour, and promising great future usefulness, she is still ardently work
ing for God and humanity.

MARY CLEMENT LEAVITT.

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��MARY A. DANFORTH.

NO list of noted New Hampshire women would be complete with
out the name of Mary A. Danforth born beyond the White Hills,
in the town of Colebrook, in 1867. Nature was generous in the be
stowal of " good gifts " upon her. She had, and still has, a strong
body and a healthy, hopeful mind, with apparently unlimited powers
of extension and enlargement. Her education in the higher schools
began in the academy of her native town, where she passed through
the tangled labyrinths of the sciences and classics with ease and accu
racy, where many faltered and fell. She afterward took a course in
the New Hampshire Seminary and Female College, from which she
graduated in 1884. Nobody who heard her graduating essay—
"What Next?"— will ever forget the essay or the writer. It was
thoughtful and broad, intellectual and polished, and many then pre
dicted for her the splendid career, something of which has since been
realized. After graduation she spent four years at home in study
and hard work, occasionally appearing before delighted audiences as
lecturer and preacher. Some of her papers before ministerial conven
tions are still thankfully remembered by all who were inspired and
helped by her practical interpretation of every-day gospel. In the
autumn of 1888 she sailed for Japan. Here, under hardships and
difficulties, she founded the Ladies' Seminary in Nagoya, and was its
successful president for five years. In the terrible earthquakes that
during her stay partially destroyed the city, her experiences were haz
ardous and thrilling. Miraculously escaping from instant death when
her boarding house was demolished, through the perilous days and
weeks that followed, the hand of God led her, saving her life for her
friends and the world. Since returning to her native land she has
lectured with much success in New England and the West. And still
God "takes thought" of her life, guides her steps, and makes the
world brighter and better for her words and her works.

��TV /TARIAN DOUGLAS (Mrs. Annie D. Robinson) is peculiarly
J-VX a child of New Hampshire, as not only all her life has been
spent within sound of the Pemigewasset, but she is indebted to the
state for her parents, her father, William, and her mother, Harriet
(Kimball) Green, having been natives of Concord, with the history of
which town her earlier ancestors were identified. She was born in
Plymouth, but since her early childhood has resided in Bristol. As
with many other writers of verse, her first published poem appeared
when she was fifteen, and from then till now her poems, irregularly
published and widely scattered, have filled a place of their own in cur
rent literature, being possessed of a certain individual quality, which
the New York Evening Post once characterised as "delicious in its
artistic simplicity.''

I
ANNIE D. ROBINSON.

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��FRANCES STEWART MOSHER, A. M., Professor of French
and History in Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., is the daugh
ter of the late Rev. I. D. Stewart, for many years connected with the
New Hampton Institution, and afterwards with the Morning Star
Printing Establishment at Dover, a well known clergyman of the Free
Baptist denomination, and Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Isaac Rice,
Esq., for thirty years postmaster of Henniker, N. H. She was gradu
ated from New Hampton Institution in 1864, attended Mrs. Hodges's
finishing school in Boston, and spent two years at Mt. Holyoke Semi
nary. She was a teacher in Dover from 1868 to 1871, when she was
united in marriage with Hon. George F. Mosher, LL. D., then editor
of the Morning Star of that city, subsequently United States Consul in
France, and later in Germany ; but for several years past President of
Hillsdale College. Possessed of strong and well-cultivated literary
tastes, Mrs. Mosher had charge of the young people's papers, The
Little Star and The Myrtle, issued under the auspices of the Free Bap
tist denomination, and assisted on the Morning Star from 1872 till
1 88 1, when she accompanied her husband abroad, still contributing to
several newspapers.
In 1887 she accepted her present position in
Hillsdale College. She was one of the committee of three for organ
izing the F. B. Woman's Missionary Society in 1873, in which Society
she has constantly held responsible offices, and was a delegate to the
World's Congress of Representative Women in connection with the
Columbian Exposition in 1893. She is also a trustee of Storer College,
West Virginia, and a member of the Woman's Commission of Hills
dale College. Her two daughters are Misses Freida and Bessie Mo
sher. As a successful educator, a graceful writer, and an earnest
worker in behalf of the religious denomination with which she has
been associated from childhood, Mrs. Mosher has done splendid ser
vice, and is still in the maturity of her powers.

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�MRS. JOHN P. HALE was Miss Lucy Hill Lambert, a native of
Somersworth, N. H., the daughter of William and Abigail
(Ricker) Lambert. She was married to Mr. Hale at Berwick, Me.,
and resided in Dover, as her home, at Washington when Mr. Hale was
in the United States senate, and at Madrid when he was United States
minister to Spain. Her only brother was the Rev. Thomas R. Lam
bert, who was first a lawyer in New Hampshire, next a chaplain in the
United States navy, and later for many years rector of the Episcopal
church at Charlestown, Mass., and was also a distinguished member of
the Masonic order. Mrs. Hale has proved herself a lady, kindly, cour
teous, and dignified, in all the relations of life, public and private.

MRS. JOHN F. HALE.

��MRS. WILLIAM E. CHANDLER was Miss Lucy Lambert
Hale, second daughter of Senator John P. Hale, and was a
native of Dover, N. H. She married Mr. Chandler at Dover in 1874,
before he became secretary of the navy and United States senator, and
in her connection with official life is well known as a spirited and gra
cious helpmate and hostess. Her son, John P. Hale Chandler, born
in Washington, D. C., in March, 1885, is the only male descendant of
her distinguished father.

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��AUGUSTA (HARVEY) WORTHEN.

MRS. AUGUSTA (HARVEY) WORTHEN, of Lynn, Mass.,
is a representative of one of the most noted New Hampshire
families. She was born in Sutton, September 27, 1823 ; daughter of Col.
John and Sally (Greeley) Harvey. Her father was a younger brother
of Hon. Jonathan Harvey, and Hon. Matthew Harvey, both of whom
served the public in Congress, and the latter as governor of the state,
and for thirty-five years was United States judge for the District of
New Hampshire. In the family of this uncle Mrs. Worthen spent sev
eral years of her later chiidhood, enjoying the advantage of tuition in
Hopkinton Academy. Later she became a student in Andover Acad
emy, and a catalogue of that institution for 185 1 shows her name
among the teachers. February 15, 1855, she married, in Danvers,
Mass., Charles F. Worthen of Candia, N. H., and in 1858 removed
with him to Lynn, where Mr. Worthen was for several years engaged
in shoe manufacturing, and where he died February 15, 1882. Lynn
is still Mrs. Worthen's home, where she is engaged, more or less, in
literary work. She is sister to the late Matthew Harvey, of Newport,
who, for a long term of years, was, in connection with his partner,
Henry G. Carlton, co-editor of the New Hampshire Argus and Spec
tator. It was mainly through the aid of this partial brother that her
literary efforts were first brought before the public. She is repre
sented by poems of especial merit in "New Hampshire Poets," in
.' Poets of America," " Poets of Essex County," and several later col
lections, and also by a portrait and biography in "A Woman of the
Century." But the great labor of her life has been the preparation of
a history of her native town of Sutton, a work of over eleven hundred
pages, published in i89o-'9i, on which she had been engaged, more or
less diligently, for twenty years. It is the first town history in the
state prepared by a woman, and has been much and worthily com
mended for thoroughness and literary finish.

��MARY NOYES FAKK.

T\ If ARY NOYES FARR is a woman of rare attainments and culXVJ. ture, and inherited great executive ability from her father,
Rufus H. Noyes, who for many years was a prominent merchant of
Landaff, her native town. She is one of the best products of that
hardy New England stock, which has done so much for the progress of
our country. Her great common sense and Scotch tenacity of purpose,
inherited from her mother, Patience Gordon Noyes, make her success
assured in all she undertakes. She was graduated from Miss Philena
McKeen's school, Andover, Mass., in 1874, and filled prominent posi
tions as an educator in New Hampshire, Iowa, and Washington, D. C,
.through the influence of the late Hon. James W. Patterson, a life-long
friend of the family. In 1882 she married Col. Edward Payson Fari
of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and went with her husband and brother, Frank
Pierce Noyes, to make a home in Dakota, where they have accumu
lated many fertile acres in the state of their adoption. Their home is
now in Pierre, the capital city of South Dakota, where Colonel Farrisa
successful banker. Mrs. Farr has identified herself with the educa
tional interests of the state, and for several years has had charge of
the art department of the Pierre University. She is at present princi
pal of the Lincoln schools in that city, and chairman of the National
Floral Emblem Society for her state. The World"s Fair commission
of South Dakota was much indebted to Mrs. Farr for her superior
installation of their educational exhibit at the World's Fair, and her
efficient work as juror of awards in the Liberal Arts Department.
Young, vigorous, and enthusiastic, achieving a distinction second to
none, she made the commission proud of the endorsement of her
claims to recognition, and won an enviable position in a new state of
progressive ideas and brains. New Hampshire also takes due pride in
her achievements, since it was among her hills and her people that the
elements of this woman's character originated and were developed.

��TO attain high position in Boston musical society, where the taste
is pure and classical, is no easy task ; yet this gifted daughter of
New Hampshire has long held it, on account of rare vocal powers, a
pleasing personality, and generous heart. Born in Lyme, she removed
with her parents, Thomas and Aurilla Bond, both musicians, to the
city of Nashua, at the age of fourteen, where she commenced her
musical career, though as a child she had sung in the choir with her
mother, who was a leader. At fifteen she was leading soprano in a
large Nashua church. She here attracted the attention of C. B. Hill,
a man of rare discernment and philanthropic spirit, who provided for
her musical education, and secured her a position as choir leader in a
prominent church in Lowell, at a high salary for those days. At eigh
teen her cherished ambition to sing in Boston was gratified, on the
occasion of a great festival under the direction of B. F. Baker, where
she made a happy " hit " Here she began study with the renowned
Signor Corelli. She was three years soprano at Dr. Miner's School
Street church, and fourteen years leader in Trinity choir, singing also
continuously in concert and oratorio. She has appeared with the most
noted singers of the day; for six successive seasons sang "The Mes
siah '' for the Handel and Haydn society : made her farewell appearance
as a public singer in that capacity, and has since devoted her talents to
teaching, with eminent success, many of her pupils having already
entered upon brilliant careers. At the age of twenty she married J. H.
Long, a rising business man of Boston, now deceased, a popular offi
cer of the Handel and Haydn society, and an excellent musical critic.
She is a true and loyal woman, as is evidenced by her loving care of
her aged mother and the younger members of her family. Mrs. Bond,
at eighty-nine, is living at her daughter's residence on Holyoke street,
summering at the old colonial home in Lyme, which Mrs. Long has
modernized and beautified for herself and dear ones.

HATT1E BOND LONG.

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��MRS. HANNAH A. CURRIER was the youngest daughter of
Enoch Slade, Esq., a distinguished citizen of Thetford, Vt.,
and sister of Gen. Samuel W. Slade, an eminent lawyer of St. Johnsbury, in the same state. She received her early education in Thetford
Academy, at that time one of the most famous institutions in New
England. Here many of the sons and daughters of New Hampshire
and Vermont resorted to prepare for college, or to obtain a higher
degree of cultivation in English studies than could be obtained else
where. In this celebrated school Miss Slade early found herself rank
ing among the foremost, not only in the ordinary studies, but also in
the higher branches of Greek, Latin, and mathematics, which she pur
sued far into the college course. After leaving the academy, with the
highest reputation for scholarship. Miss Slade went to Boston, where
under distinguished teachers she continued her studies in music, French,
and other branches of polite literature, thus adding a metropolitan finish
not easily acquired in rural institutions. In 1869 Miss Slade was married
to Hon. Moody Currier, a distinguished banker in Manchester, N. H..
who afterwards, in 1885 and 1886, was governor of the state. The
accomplishments of Mrs. Currier added greatly to the dignity and
popularity of his administration. Since her marriage, in connection
with her husband she has continued her literary and scientific pursuits,
keeping up with the progress of the age, adopting in their broadest
and most liberal sense the best thoughts of modern research.
Although she has never given to the public any of her literary produc
tions, her education and critical tastes would warrant success in such
an undertaking. She does not seek distinction by a display to the
world of her charities and benefactions, which are many, and known
only to those who receive them. She believes that the proper sphere
of woman is her home, which she renders happy and adorns, by devot
ing to it the best energies of her life.

MRS. MOODY CURRIER.

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��THE New Hampshire Department President of the Woman's Relief
Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, Hannah
Elizabeth (Wallace) Foster, daughter of Charles B. and Elizabeth R.
(Lovejoy) Wallace, was born in Milford, Feb. 4, 1853, her parents being
descended from Scotch-Irish ancestors, who were among the first set
tlers of Amherst, and possessed of rare intelligence and great executive
ability. She is also of lineal Revolutionary descent and a charter mem
ber of the local Council of Daughters of the American Revolution. She
was educated in the public schools and at Maplewood Seminary, Pittsfield, Mass. , December 3 1 , 1874, she was united in marriage with Oliver
H. Foster, a prominent business man of Milford, and a leading member
and Past Commander of O. W. Lull Post, G. A. R., of that town. She
early espoused the cause in which the W. R. C. is engaged, and was a
charter member of O. W. Lull Relief Corps No. 5, organized June 6,
1 88 1, two years before the order became a national organization. She
has served continually on committees of the corps, from the least to the
most important, having been three years chairman of the executive
committee. She served as corps treasurer six years, and two years as
President. In 1881 she was made Department Guard. In 1891 she
was chosen Senior Vice President, and in 1892 held the responsible
office of Department Inspector, having also served two years as Assis
tant Inspector. She has served many times as a delegate in the
Department Convention and has also represented the Department in
National Convention, and was appointed on the staff of National
President Sue Pike Saunders in 1892. While deeply interested and
always well posted in Rehef Corps work, her energies have not all been
given in that direction, church and mission work having also claimed
her attention for many years. She has four sons, the eldest a member
of the Freshman Class at Dartmouth College.

��» "I") E. E." is a familiar signature, especially to people of literJ3. ary inclination. These letters are the reversed initials of
one of the most notable daughters of the Granite state—Emma Eliza
beth Brown, a native of Concord, and a daughter of John F. Brown,
from whom she inherited her literary tendencies, as well as her love for
painting and for nature. Her mother was a woman also gifted in many
ways, and from both parents she is endowed with talents that have been
faithfully cultivated and modestly displayed. She began writing for
the press while a school-girl, in her native city, and early in life gained
recognition through her poem, "The Legend of Chocorua," published
in the Concord Monitor. From that time to the present she has con
stantly contributed to leading papers and magazines, besides writing
many books of a religious, biographical, and poetical nature, her biog
raphy of the late James Russell Lowell being one of her latest efforts.
Miss Brown went to Boston to reside about the year 1875, and not
long after became art critic for the Boston Advertiser. She studied
painting with Samuel L. Gerry, and for a time had charge of the art
department at the Maplewood Institute, Pittsfield, Mass., and at St.
Catherine's Hall, Augusta, Me. Her "Child Toilers of Boston,"
"A Hundred Years Ago," " From Night to Light," and her Azorean
stories have been widely read. She now resides with her sister, Mrs.
Treadwell, in a charming old house at Newton Highlands, Mass., sur
rounded by her books, her own beautiful water-colors, and the dear
ones she loves so well. She is a woman of broad culture, having read
much and traveled extensively. She belongs to the New England
Woman's club, the Castillian, and Unity Art club. She possesses a
slender, graceful figure, gentle and unassuming manners, and is a
woman to know and honor for her many lovable qualities.

EMMA E. BROWN.

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��AMONG the many noble women whose lives and work have been
a power for good in the moral and social atmosphere of New
Hampshire's "Queen City" for the past twenty years is Elizabeth H.
(Allison) Wallace, a daughter of James Allison of Dunbarton, in
which town she was born, March 24, 1825. She is of the fifth genera
tion from Samuel Allison, one of the first sixteen settlers of London
derry, and a prominent man in the early history of that old town.
Securing a thorough education (she was the first graduate of the Man
chester High School, and valedictorian of the class of 1848), she entered
upon the work of imparting instruction to others, and was engaged as
a teacher for more than twenty years, with marked success—six years
in New Hampshire, in the Concord High School and in the Pinkerton Academy at Derry ; thirteen years in Ohio, at the Ohio Female
College, six miles from Cincinnati ; and the last three years at Bennet
Seminary, in Minneapolis, Minn. In 1874, she was united in marriage
with the late Rev. C. W. Wallace, O. D., pastor of the First or Han
over Street Congregational church of Manchester, where she still re
sides in the house which her husband built in 1845. Mrs. Wallace
always sympathized with her father and her husband in their strong
anti-slavery principles, as well as in their earnest temperance views.
She has been an active member of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union since its organization. By the payment of $100 she has had her
late husband's name inscribed on a marble tablet in Willard Hall, in
the famous Temperance Temple in Chicago,—a memorial to his lifelong
devotion to the temperance cause. She was for many years Home and
Corresponding Secretary of the N. H. Branch of the Woman's Board
of Missions. She is a devoted member of the First Congregational
church of Manchester, and is doing what she can for the suppression
of evil and the advancement of Christ's kingdom in the world.

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��MRS. SARAH E. FARLEY RUNNELLS.

THE Farleys and Hardys of Hollis were among the noted families
in the early history of the town. Sarah E. Farley, daughter of
Enoch and Abby (Hardy) Farley, born in Hollis, June 9, 1834, comes
of an ancestry of which any American woman may well be proud.
Her two great-grandfathers, Lieut. Benjamin Farley and Phineas
Hardy, were among the first soldiers of the Revolution, and fought at
Lexington and Bunker Hill. In the latter contest, also, two great
uncles on the maternal side, Joseph and Nathaniel Wheat, were killed.
Miss Farley was educated in the Hollis schools and at the Milford semi
nary, then under charge of Gilbert Wadleigh. She taught success
fully in the village school at Hollis, and at Dunstable, Mass., for five
years, and on September 9, 1858, was married to Daniel F. Runnells.
a successful merchant of Nashua, where she has since resided, and has
been active and prominent in society, church, and organized charitable
and benevolent work. She is an interested member of the W. C.
T. U., and of the ladies' organizations connected with the Pilgrim
church, but her efforts have been more especially directed to the work
of the Nashua Protestant Home for Aged Women and the Woman's
Relief Corps. She was a member of the board of managers of the
former institution for ten years, and for several years past has been
president of the same, and has contributed largely to its success. She
has been president of the local Woman's Relief Corps, and was
department president of the order for New Hampshire in 1 891 , one
of the most prosperous years in its history. She was a member of the
National Council, W. R. C., in 1892-'93, and has been urged to allow
the use of her name as a candidate for national president. She has
been identified with various other public and private charities, and has
kept abreast with the times in all matters of social, literary, and edu
cational interest. She has two daughters, Florence and Katherine,
educated at Wellesley, and one son, Frederick D., a graduate of Dart
mouth, class of 1893.

��MRS. RUTH LAMPREY CADLE.

THE record of a very busy and useful life is recorded in that of
Ruth Lamprey Cadle, who was born in the town of Orford,
N. H., January 16, 1820. Her parents, Samuel Lamprey and Anna
Johnson, were among the early settlers who moved from Hampton to
Orford in 181 1. After finishing her educational course at Canaan
academy, then under the principalship of the late Chief Justice Sar
gent, and being ambitious for some new field, in response to a call for
a teacher, she moved to the then far western town of Muscatine, Iowa,
in 1847. After teaching acceptably two years she married in 1849
Cornelius Cadle, and of this union were born one son, Henry, now of
Bethany, Mo., and one daughter, Abbie A., the wife of Col. Frank W.
Mahin, of Clinton, Ohio. At the time of her marriage Mr. Cadle had
four sons, who still survive. Col. Cornelius, Edward F., Capt. Will
iam L., and Charles F., all of whom served their country in the late
war. The cholera epidemic that raged through the Mississippi valley
in 1852 witnessed her ministrations, and families are still living who
remember her with gratitude. But the great event which developed
her ability to manage and control large movements was the late War of
the Rebellion, during the whole period of which she served as president
of the Muscatine County Soldiers' Aid Society, and during which she
helped to manage a fair at Muscatine that netted $25,000 for the Sani
tary Commission. After the war her next attention was given to the
orphans of the soldiers, and she was one of the incorporators of the
Iowa State Soldiers' Ophans' Home, and as a fitting finale to her
efforts in service and memory of the loyal defenders of the nation Mrs.
Cadle was one of the chief solicitors of the fund with which was
erected at Muscatine the first soldiers' monument in the state. She
also kept up her church and temperance work and her interest in sci
entific studies until the final summons came April 12, 1885.

��MARY HELEN (DAVISON) SHAW was born on Prince
Edward Island, at Charlottetown. March 22, 1840, a daughter
of Charles C. and Nancy (McNeil) Davison. Her paternal ancestors
came to this country in the early history of its settlement. About the
commencement of the Revolutionary war they went to the provinces
from Connecticut, being among those who remained loyal to the
crown. Her maternal ancestor, McNeil, a Scotchman, married a
daughter of the Duke of Argyle. From both her father's and mother's
ancestors she has derived that inflexible adherence to what she believes
to be right, which has so characterized her in all of the relations of life.
In early life she came to this country, and in 1867 became the wife of
Capt. E. M. Shaw of Nashua, so well known as a successful manufact
urer, and more especially as the executive commissioner from this state to
the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Religiously she
is a Baptist, and active in all church and auxiliary denominational work. '
Her especial work is that of the W. C. T. U., and this she follows
unfalteringly. She has repeatedly held the office of president of the
local union of Nashua, and was a delegate at large to the national con
vention of the W. C. T. U. at Chicago in 1893. She is now one of
the trustees of the W. C. T. U. Mercy Home at Manchester. Her
•only child, a son, Elijah Ray, is now a member of the class of 1897 atthe New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, at
Durham.
MRS. E. M. SHAW.

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��SARAH WHITE CHENEY, the accomplished wife of ex-Governor,
and ex-U. S. Senator, Person Colby Cheney of Manchester,
late U. S. Minister to Switzerland, is a representative New Hampshire
woman of old Colonial stock, her family having been in this country
since 1636. She is a daughter of Jonathan White and Sarah Bathrick
Goss, born in Amherst, having five lineal ancestors serving in the
War of the Revolution. She is Honorary Regent for New Hampshire
for the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and
a member of the Colonial Dames. Her father was one of the earliest
manufacturers in Lowell, Mass., removing there when Mrs. Cheney was
three years of age. She was a graduate of the Lowell High School,
and completed her education at the New Hampton Literary and Scien
tific Institution. She was married to Mr. Cheney in May, 1859. She
is a woman of great executive ability, superior qualities, fine conversa
tional powers, and has been much in public life, always leading, and gra
ciously extending hospitalities incidental to the various public positions
to which her husband has been called. Modest in her nature, yet of
commanding presence, she manifests a warm devotion for home life,
yet has been her husband's adviser and helpmeet in political and
business life. Her sympathies and charities are wide and far reaching,
though unostentatious. She has been for many years President of the
Woman's Aid and Relief Society of Manchester. Her fondness for
architecture has led her to give much time in planning various im
provements, not only in her own home, but also in connection with
her husband's affairs. She has a large circle of distinguished friends,
both at home and in Europe, whom she often visits. Governor and Mrs.
Cheney have one daughter, Agnes, the wife of Mr. Charles H. Fish, and
Mrs. Cheney's chief delight is in her two little grand-daughters. The
three generations are members of one household, contributing to the
social pleasure of Manchester, in their hospitable home.

MRS. PERSON C. CHENEY.

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��AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL.

AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL, poet and lecturer, the youngest
of ten children of Col. Otis and Hannah (Powers) Cooper, was
born in Croydon April 17, 1835. Her poetical taste was manifest in
childhood, her first verses being written when she was eight years of
age. She excelled in mathematics and early manifested an aptitude
for logical and philosophical reasoning. Educated in the public
schools and Canaan and Kimball Union Academies, she began teach
ing at fifteen, and was thus employed until her marriage at twenty-two,
with G. F. Kimball, from whom she was divorced five years later. In
1866 she married Louis Bristol, a lawyer of New Haven, Conn., remov
ing to Illinois. In 1869 she published a volume of poems, and, the same
year, gave her first public lecture, which circumstance seems to have
changed the course of her intellectual career. In 1872 she removed to
Vineland, N. J., her present home, whence she has been frequently
called before the public as a speaker. She was four years president of
the Ladies' Social Science class in Vineland. In 1880 she gave a
course of lectures before the New York Positivist Society on "The
Evolution of Character," and another before the Woman's Social Sci
ence Club. In June, following, she went to Europe and spent several
months studying the equitable association of labor and capital at the
Familistere, founded by M. Godin, in Guise, France, also representing
the New York Positivist Society in an international convention of
liberal thinkers in Brussels, before which body she gave a lecture upon
the "Scientific Basis of Morality." Returning home she published
the " Rules and Statutes " of the association in Guise. In 1881 she
was chosen lecturer of the New Jersey State Grange and was employed
on a national lecture bureau of the Patrons of Husbandry. Since her
husband's death in 1882, she has seldom appeared upon the platform,
but was one of the speakers in the Congress of Representative Women
at the World's Fair in Chicago.

��MARY MARGARET GILE

MISS MARY MARGARET GILE was well bom and happily
endowed. Family traditions increased this inheritance, and
her early life among the New Hampshire hills made it rich indeed.
Her ancestors fought in the most noted battles of the Revolution.
Her father, the late Alfred A. Gile, was a man of fine integrity, who
held his children to strict account, both for their morals and their
manners, while the quiet Christian influence of the mother supple
mented that of the father. After a thorough training in the schools
of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Miss Gile entered upon her
life work as preceptress of the Clarence Academy, Clarence, N. Y.,
where she was associated with her brother, Joseph Gile. She next
became Preceptress of the Warsaw Academy, at Warsaw, N. Y.,
where she remained nine years. In each of these positions she dis
played that skill which has brought her such signal success. After
short terms at Cleveland, O., and Worcester, Mass., she began her
work at East Orange, N. J., where she now resides with her youngest
brother, Dr. Francis A. Gile. Many a successful man and woman
owes much to Miss Gile for the mental and moral impetus received
from her in the high school of this town. Here she closely identifies
herself with her surroundings, being an active member of Christ
church and its Sunday-school, also of the Daughters of the Revolution,
the Woman's Club of Orange, and the Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A.
Besides her articles for the newspapers and her essays, Miss Gile con
tributed an article entitled, " Individual Influence upon our Nation,"
to the New Jersey scrap-book for the World's Fair. Her paper on the
History of Education, written for the school of Pedagogy of the Uni
versity of the City of New York, received favorable comment from our
best educators. She has recently graduated from this university, and
may truly be considered one of the progressive women of our time.
Her personality is quiet but strong ; her life, noble, true, and effective.

��THE Pine Tree State is the birth-place of many women whose in
fluence has subsequently been felt in the social, intellectual, and
moral life of New Hampshire. Among the number is Mrs. Luther F.
McKinney. born Sharlie P. Webb, in Raymond, Me., July 7, 1852—
a daughter of Josiah P. and Elizabeth D. (Witham) Webb, and a
descendant of Paine Wingate, also of the renowned Hugh de Payens,
her father's ancestors coming from England in the early history of the
country. She received her early education in the common schools
and at the North Bridgeton Academy, and completed the same at
Carlisle, Pa. She was united in marriage with Rev. Luther F. McKin
ney, then pastor of the Universalist church at North Bridgton, August
1, 1 87 1 . In 1873 they removed to South Newmarket, now Newfields,
N. H., and three years later to Manchester, where he was for ten
years the eminently successful and popular pastor of the Universalist
church. The marked success of Mr. McKinney's professional career
was due in no small degree to his wife's efficient aid and cooperation.
Endowed with tact, discrimination, and social graces of a high order,
with great energy and executive ability, she was thoroughly at home
in parish and society work, while she entered heartily into all her
husband's plans and purposes, proving at all times a safe counsellor and
ready helper. In his political career, also, she has been of much assist
ance, her ready judgment proving a safe reliance in many emergencies.
In the household she has ever presided with grace and dignity, whether
in her modest home in New Hampshire, at Washington, where Mr.
McKinney was a representative in congress for two terms, or in the
ministerial residence at Bogota, where he now represents the United
States government. A true and faithful wife, she is also a devoted
mother, and to her care and guidance their two sons, Frank and Harry,
the former a graduate of St. Lawrence University and Baltimore Law
School, owe the foundation for future careers of honor and usefulness.

MRS. LUTHER F. McKINNEY.

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��IF it be true that "poets are born, not made," the same is true of
artists in music or otherwise ; yet the highest natural gifts require
constant and careful training in order to obtain the best results. In
old-world lands, with their history, legends, and myths, children are
born breathing the very air of poetry and music. That great artists
should there develop is natural, for the influence of centuries is upon
them. In our land we are fed upon the stern realities of life, and our
history is of no aid to the student in art; yet we have in New Hamp
shire a source of inspiration in our wonderful mountain and lake
scenery, and in our midst there have been, and yet will be, born poets
and musicians, whose uplifting words and work will be felt for genera
tions to come. Miss Ada M. Aspinwall, though yet in her youth, has
gained distinction as a pianist second to that of no woman now residing
in the state. She was born and has ever lived in the city of Concord,
and its people take due pride in her reputation and success. Born of
the sturdy New England type, endowed with a musical nature manifest
ing itself in infancy, ambitious to excel, and blessed with adequate
physical powers, she has been a student of the piano from early child
hood, her instruction, commencing at eight years of age, being the
best in the city for several years, followed by private lessons for five
years with the best instructors at the New England Conservatory,
while for three years past she has enjoyed the tutelage of the noted
Milo Benedict. As accompanist for the Concord Choral Union she
has won more than local favor, in festival work in and out of the state
has been highly commended, and as a soloist she has developed much
ability. She has done good work as a teacher of the piano, nor has
her attention been confined to that instrument ; for four years past she
has been organist at the White Memorial church of Concord.

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�MARY S. DANFORTH. M. D.

MARY SHEPARU DANFORTH is a native of the town of Derry,
a daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Batchelder) Danforth, born
May 1 8, 1853. She was educated in the public schools of Manchester
and in Pinkerton academy, Derry, graduating from the latter institution
in 1869. She commenced teaching at a very early age, and had taught
twenty-one terms before she was as many years of age. Immediately
after her graduation at Derry she went as a teacher to Danielsonville,
Conn., where she had charge of a school of 200 pupils, and won an
enviable reputation as instructor and disciplinarian. Having deter
mined to enter the medical profession, she pursued her studies in that
direction with Dr. Alfred R. Dearborn of East Weare, Dr. Isaac Hovey
of Atkinson, and Dr. William Hammond of Philadelphia, Pa., and at
the Woman's Medical college of Pennsylvania, graduating from that
institution March 25, 1875. In May following she commenced prac
tice in Manchester, where she has continued with marked success,
establishing a large general practice and gaining a ieputation for skill
and judgment which has caused her services to be sought frequently
in consultation in places many miles away. She was made a member
of the Manchester Medical society in April, 1877, and shortly after
elected its secretary, being the first woman in America to hold such
an office. At the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Medical
society in June, 1878, she was admitted to membership in that organ
ization, being the first female member, and this without application
on her part. She was a delegate from the New Hampshire Medical
society to the International Medical Congress at Washington, in 1884,
of which the renowned Dr. Austin Flint was president, and attracted
marked attention by her emphatic opposition to unlimited vivisection,
which gave rise to the extended discussion of that question. Dr.
Danforth is outspoken in her recognition of the kindness and courtesy
ever manifested toward her by the gentlemen of her profession.

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�MRS. H. MARIA GEORGE COLBY was born in Warner,
N. H., October i, 1844. She is the daughter of Gilman C.
and Nancy (Badger) George, and is of English descent on both sides
of the family ; the Georges, in fact, have a coat of arms that dates
back to the ancient days of chivalry. Mrs. Colby is a social leader
and an authoress. She early developed strong literary tastes, and
while in her teens wrote a number of novelettes that were published InNew York and Philadelphia houses. Later she paid more attention
to the magazines and newspapers, and she became an acknowledged
authority upon domestic topics. Circumstances have rendered it impos
sible for her to give her whole time to literary work, but her articles
have appealed in the Housewife, the Housekeeper, the Housekeeper's
Weekly, the Christian at Work, DemoresCs Monthly Magazine,
Arthur s Home Magazine, Youth's Companion, the Congregationalist,
the Portland Transcript, Ladies' World, Good Cheer, the Philadelphia
Press, the Chicago Ledger, the Golden Rule, Good Housekeeping, and
St. Nicholas. She was for five years the fashion editor of the House
hold. She has made use of various pen names, but is best known to
editors and the public by her maiden name, H. Maria George.
A stanch advocate of temperance, and equal rights for both sexes, she
furthers these as well as every other good work by her pen. In
December, 1880, Miss George was united in marriage to Frederick
Myron Colby, the well known litirateur. Their pleasant home is in
Warner.
MRS. FREDERICK MYRON COLBY.

��REBECCA WEEKS WILEY, M. D.

THE ancestral lines along which Rebecca Weeks Wiley is able to
trace her kindred reach back through families distinguished for
education, patriotism, and statesmanship. These include Horace
Greeley on one side and Daniel Webster on the other. Many unpub
lished incidents in the early history of these noted men are held as
family heirlooms. Her immediate relatives were characterized by quick
discernment, executive ability, and sterling integrity. Her father, John
Gale Weeks, was a hatter in Gilford when Rebecca was born, March 20,
1848. She was educated at Laconia academy. New Hampshire female
college, and Boston University School of Medicine, graduating from
the latter in the class of '82. Dr. Wiley at once began practice in
Laconia, "The City on the Lakes," and thus became the first woman
physician in the state north of Concord. Some of the best families in
the city and adjacent towns took early opportunity to express joy over
her settlement. Her practice, at first good, gradually increased, until
at times she has been overwhelmed with professional work. It was a
great relief to her when her only son, Maurice G. Wiley, graduated
from medical college, and in June, 1894, opened an office adjoining her
own. She is a member of the New Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical
society, and the American Institute of Homceopathy. Dr. Wiley has
been called much in council, and her relations to the profession have
been uniformly pleasant. The dream of youth was a prophecy of
which the practice of medicine is a fulfillment, and she is an enthu
siast in her profession. To some extent she has complied with re
quests to address public assemblies on education and hygienic subjects,
but fidelity to a growing practice has compelled her to decline many
such calls. In church relations she is a Free Baptist. She is sympa
thetic and co-operative with her husband. Rev. Frederick L. Wiley, in
his literary and philanthropic pursuits. They are mutually happy in
their respective departments of work and sacrifice for human good.

��MARILLA M. RICKER.

MARILLA MARKS, daughter of Jonathan B. and Hannah D.
(Stevens) Young, was born in New Durham in 1840. Her father
was an ardent Whig, the New York Tribune was the family paper, and
its close perusal gave her the decided political convictions which make
her now an earnest Republican. Educated in the public schools and New
London academy, she taught with much success for several years. In
1863 she married John Ricker, Esq., of Madbury. They made their
home in Dover, where Mr. Ricker had a large real estate business. He
died in 1868, leaving her a good property. In 1872 she went to
Europe, resided for a long time in Germany, and thoroughly mastered
the German language. Returning, she went to Washington, where she
read law with Albert G. Riddle and Arthur B. Williams, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1882, being examined with eighteen young men and
outranking them all. She was the first New Hampshire woman to become
a lawyer, and practised successfully in Washington many years, being
admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1892.
For some time past she has been United States commissioner and
examiner in chancery for the District of Columbia. In 1890 she
applied for admission to the New Hampshire bar. This raised the
question of woman's right to admission to the bar in this state. After
due consideration by the full bench Chief Justice Doe rendered a deci
sion to the effect that she could be admitted the same as any man who
is a practising attorney in another state. Mrs. Ricker early became a
believer in equal rights for men and women under the constitution, and
offered her ballot at the polls in Ward Three, Dover, in 1870, with her
reasons for demanding a voter's privilege, being the first woman in the
state, and probably in the country, to attempt to vote. She has spoken
effectively on the stump in national campaigns for the Republican party.
She is frank, generous, and open hearted, a friend of the unfortunate,
a champion of many reform causes, a hater of sham and hypocrisy.

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�MISS HARRIET PATIENCE DAME, the Florence Nightin
gale of New Hampshire, was born in North Barnstead, January
5, 1 8 1 5 . She was the youngest of the six children of James Chadbourne and Phebe (Ayers) Dame. Her father was a farmer and
teacher, and of her mother Miss Dame writes, She was the grandest
woman in the world." The future heroine of the Civil War early
showed a self-reliant and helpful spirit, and after receiving a good edu
cation she engaged in various occupations in New England and the
West. She was living in Concord at the time the war broke out.
Miss Abbott in the New England Magazine for June, 1895, pays this
tribute to her distinguished career: " Perhaps Concord's most valua
ble contribution to the Civil War was Miss Harriet P. Dame, an army
nurse, whose record is without a parallel. For four years and eight
months, from April, 1 86 1 , to Christmas, 1865, Miss Dame cared for
the soldiers, most of the time as field nurse for the Second New
Hampshire Volunteers. She endured all the privations of the troops,
marched and camped with them, being oftentimes the only woman
among a thousand men. She has nursed her 'boys' through small
pox, she has worked all night on the field caring for the wounded, and
she has buried the dead. In her eighty-first year she is still at her
post in the Treasury Department at Washington, where she has been
for the last quarter of a century. A woman absolutely free from selfseeking, she has earned the gratitude of all who know her, and she
cares little for any other reward."
HARRIET P. DAME.

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�MRS. SOPHIA ORNE JOHNSON, better known as "Daisy
Eyebright," for many years a resident of Bath, was born at
Springfield, Mass., June 1, 1826. Her parents were Elisha and
Eunice (Lombard) Edwards. She was educated at Prof. William
Wells' school at Cambridge, Mass., and early in life showed a great
fondness for literature. In November, 1847, she married Col. James H.
Johnson, of Bath, N. H., who was a member of the twenty-ninth and
thirtieth congresses. She met much fine society in Washington at that
time. In 1869 a severe freshet in northern New Hampshire carried
away in ten minutes all the lumber mills of Colonel Johnson, destroying
his chief income. Mrs. Johnson began to write for the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, the Country Gentleman, Albany, N. Y., and the
New England Farmer, Boston, Mass. In 1871 she began a serial,
" Daisy Eyebright's Journal," for the Country Gentleman, which ran
sixteen months. In July, 1872, Mrs. Johnson joined a press party
going across the continent. In this way she became connected with
many new papers, the Prairie Farmer of Chicago, the Horticulturist,
Hearth and Home, Independent and Tribune of New York city, and the
Saturday Evening Journal, of Philadelphia. For the Prairie Farmer
she wrote a serial, " Letters of Sophie Homespun," and for the Country
Gentleman, " Horace and I." The year after her return from San Fran
cisco, she earned $1,200 by her pen, which was of great help in educat
ing her children. In 1873 she joined another press party, visiting the
Mammoth cave and Pike's Peak, and in 1889 she again visited Colo
rado. She has written thousands of newspaper articles, and her pub
lished books are " Every Woman Her Own Flower Gardener," " Hints
Upon Etiquette" (Putnam's), and "Hints for the Household." She
wrote nearly half of " Window Gardening," edited by Henry T.
Williams.
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SOPHIA ORNE JOHNSON.

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��JULIA KNOWLTON is the maiden name of one of Boston's noblest
women, born in Deerfield, Aug. 25, 1829, near the birthplace of
Benjamin F. Butler. She has a rare heritage indeed, for upon
Bunker Hill monument are inscribed the names of two ancestors, her
grandfather, Thomas Knowlton, and her maternal great grandfather,
Gen. Nathaniel Dearborn, the friend and comrade of General Washing
ton. Her parents, Joseph and Susan (Dearborn) Knowlton, are now
deceased. Her early life was spent in Concord and Manchester, and
her education was obtained in private schools. She was a pupil in the
boarding school of Miss Ela, and later in the New Hampton Institute,
where she was graduated at eighteen. For a year she taught lan
guages and mathematics in Manchester, and then " met her fate " in
the person of Micah Dyer, Jr., a young Boston lawyer, whom she mar
ried in May, 1 8 5 1 , and with whom she has led a most happy life. For
nearly forty years they have occupied a fine old estate in Dorchester.
Three children have blessed their home, one, a daughter, dying at an
early age. Two sons survive, one a physician, Dr. Willard Knowlton
Dyer, the other, Walter Richardson Dyer, follows his father's profes
sion and resides with his young wife at the home of his parents. Mrs.
Dyer's domestic life is beautiful, yet she finds time to shed her kind
ness in other homes in various ways. She is a club woman, belonging
to more than a score of organizations, charitable or literary. She is
best known for her w ork for the Soldiers' Home, as organizer and presi
dent of the Ladies' Aid Association, though the Charity Club is among
her favorite organizations. She is a member of the Castilian club, the
Educational and Industrial Union, Helping Hand society. New Hampton
Institute association, the Wintergreen club, the Daughters of the Rev
olution, and first vice president of the New Hampshire's Daughters.
She has fine literary ability, and a wonderful command of language.
Everybody loves her and everybody trusts her.

MRS. MICAH DYER, JR.

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��AMONG the women of New Hampshire whose lives and charac
ters are deserving of remembrance and a place in the memorial
annals of the state was Alvina Barney, wife of Colonel M. V. B.
Edgerly. Mrs. Edgerly was descended from two of the oldest and best
known families in the state—the Barneys and Prescotts—and was the
daughter of Jedediah Barney and Eliza Prescott. She was born in
Grafton in February, 1834. Her marriage to Colonel Edgerly took
place in March, 1854, and her home was in New Hampshire until
1 88 1, when the family removed to Boston; in 1885 they went to
Springfield, Mass., which was her home up to the time of her death.
This occurred June 9, 1894, at the summer home of the family at
Beverly Farms, Mass. Mrs. Edgerly was a woman of notable charac
ter and refinement, and of sweet and patient disposition. These attri
butes were strikingly exemplified in her cheerful endurance of an illness
which covered nearly fifteen years of her life, and finally brought it to a
close. Although restricted, from this cause, in her social life, Mrs.
Edgerly had a large circle of friends who delighted in her society and
friendship; she was a woman of fine presence and charming conversa
tional gifts, a wide general reader, and a thoughtful critic of literature
and of passing events, and her intelligent criticisms and comments were
most entertaining and instructive. She was a devoted member of the
Episcopal church for many years, and it may be truthfully said that her
life was a conscientious striving after a religious ideal which was well
nigh attained. Mrs. Edgerly left, besides her husband (since de
ceased) a son and daughter, Clinton J. Edgerly and Miss Mabel C.
Edgerly.
MRS. M. V. B. EDGERLY.

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��THE power of expression, in voice and movement, is one of
Nature's greatest gifts to man, and upon the proper development
and culture of that power depends in large measure his usefulness and
influence in the world at large. The competent and faithful teacher of
elocution and physical culture in our institutions of public instruction,
fills, therefore, a position of no small importance. Among the most
eminent of this class is Mrs. Emma Manning Huntley, daughter of
Isaac and Harriet (Chapin) Manning, who was born in the city of
Nashua, Sept. 7, 185 1. Her great-great-grandparents on her mother's
side were James and Mary (Gibson) McColley. who were the first white
children born in the town of Hillsborough, N. H., and to whom the
Governor of the state gave the tract of land which is now Hillsborough
Bridge, upon condition that they would marry. Their parents were
among the first Scotch- Irish settlers of Londonderry, N. H. Her
grandmother on her father's side was Mary Miller of Portsmouth, a
descendant of Governor Wentworth. Mrs. Huntley received her early
education in the Nashua public schools and the Nashua Literary Institute.
She began study of elocution in Boston in January, 1877, and since then
has devoted her whole time to reading and the teaching of elocution
and physical training, and was for several years well known in New
England as a public reader of well merited popularity. At present she
is teacher of these branches of study in the Lowell High School,
Rogers Hall School for Young Ladies, Lowell, Mass., and at Mitchell's
Boys' School, Billerica, Mass. Prior to this she had charge of these
special branches in the public schools of Nashua. She also devotes
considerable time to private pupils. She is an active member of the
National Association of Elocutionists, the American Association for
the Advancement of Physical Education, and the Middlesex Women's
Club of Lowell, Mass.

��THE village of Loudon, near Concord, is the birth-place of Miss
McCutcheon, her parents being Moses and Mary (Stevens)
McCutcheon, the former dying in 1882, while the latter survives at the
age of seventy-seven. She was educated at the "Home School" in
Hanover, Penacook academy, New London academy, of which her
uncle, General Luther McCutcheon, was for many years a trustee, and
Abbot academy, Andover, Mass., from which she graduated with high
honors in 1882. After a year of travel came a year of teaching in the
Gilmanton academy, of which her brother was preceptor, followed by
three years as teacher and preceptress at Kimball Union academy. In
1886 she went to New York and to Florida, where she remained until
1 891, when with her aged mother and brother she removed to Charlestown, where she still resides, occupying a substantial home in Dexter
Row, which they purchased at the time. Miss McCutcheon is regarded
as one of the brightest and most energetic young women of the Bunker
Hill city. The Norumbega club, an organization of phenomenal growth
and high standing in the Federation, was formed largely through her
efforts. She is a charter member and its president, being one of the
youngest to hold so prominent a position in club circles. She is an
active memberof New Hampshire's Daughters, corresponding secretary
of the Abbot Academy club, and interested in the All Around club of
Charlestown, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, her
paternal great grandfather, Frederick McCutcheon, being one of the
nineteen with Stark at Bennington. The family home in Dexter Row
is a center for all interests affecting the social and literary welfare of the
women of the community. Miss McCutcheon is aided greatly in hos
pitality by her mother, who still interests herself in all the questions of
the day. Mr. McCutcheon, who is treasurer of the highly exclusive
Charlestown club, aids his sister in her work, and finely supplements
the genuine hospitality of this transplanted New Hampshire family.

ABBIE J. McCUTCHEON.

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��AMONG the successful teachers of New Hampshire Elizabeth
McDougall, a native of Goffstown, daughter of William and Lydia
(Gregg) McDougall, will be kindly remembered by the many who have
enjoyed her instructions. A true daughter of New Hampshire, she
received all her mental training in the public school and academy in
her native state. She entered the Literary Institute and Gymnasium
at Pembroke, at an early age, and was graduated with honors as a
thorough scholar and versatile essayist. Soon after, she was elected
principal of the female department of that institution, and entering
upon her work with an enthusiasm that could not fail of success and
with methods that were new and efficient, she brought the school to
a high degree of excellence. Health failing, she was obliged to give
up her chosen work but, not content with a quiet life, made a new
business for herself along mercantile lines at St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
where, by her rare business acumen, after a few years of prosperous
activity she acquired a competence. Manchester is now her home and
she enjoys her retirement in study and in keeping up her interest in
educational and literary matters. She has been all her life a close
student of social, political, and religious questions, and with a knowl
edge of history rarely equalled, she is a just critic of the various move
ments of to-day, and good authority upon their final results. Miss
McDougall is a person of vigorous intellect, great perseverance,
unaffected dignity, and native refinement. She is a kind friend, a
generous patron of good works, and a most womanly woman. She
is an appreciated member of the Manchester Shakespeare club, having
been director of its literary work for several years.
ELIZABETH McDOUGALL.

��MARY C. F. TUTTLE, wife of ex-Governor Hiram A. Tuttle
of Pittsrield, was a daughter of the late John L. French, Esq.,
and Mary B. M. French. She was born in the town of Loudon but
removed with her parents at an early age to Pittsfield, and was edu
cated at the Pittsfield Academy. She married Mr. Tuttle in March,
1859. They have one daughter, Harriet French, wife of Frederic
K. Folsom of Dorchester, Mass. Mrs. Tuttle is a true and womanly
woman, a devoted wife and mother, a worthy daughter of the old
Granite State and a member of the New Hampshire Daughters' Club
of Boston.

MRS. HIRAM A. TUTTLE.

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��THE REVEREND MARY BAKER EDDY, discoverer and
founder of Christian Science, was the daughter of Mark and
Abigail B. Baker. Attending the old Academy at Sanbornton, at six
teen years of age she began a successful literary career. Her "Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is the text-book of Christian
Science, now in its ninety-seventh edition. A distinguished LL. D.
writes : —"The author of ' Science and Health ' wields more power with
her pen than any other writer at this period." She is also the author
of "Retrospection and Introspection," "Pulpit and Press," "Christ
and Christmas," "Unity of Good," " Rudimental Divine Science,"
"No and Yes," "Christian Healing," and other works. Mrs. Eddy's
system is based on the Scriptures, her life consecrated to God and
humanity, rigidly eschewing whatever lures therefrom. Her interpreta
tion of Scriptures being more spiritual than is common to the age, met
with strenuous 6pposition, but she has maintained throughout an
exalted Christian character, laboring only for the upbuilding of a full
and perfect religion. As a practitioner, demonstrating her pathological
system, she did marvellous cures. She began teaching Christian Sci
ence in 1867 ; in 1878 accepted a call to the Baptist Tabernacle Pulpit,
Boston; in 1881 she opened and was president of the Massachusetts
Metaphysical college, Boston ; was founder and pastor of the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston ; founder and president of the first
Christian Scientist Association ; publisher of her own works ; editor
and proprietor of the Christian Science Journal. In 1889 she donated
to the Boston Church a building lot worth $40,000.
In 1895 this
church has 5.000 members, and a magnificent edifice, a TESTIMONIAL
to Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, costing over 8250,000. She owns a mansion
on Commonwealth Ave., Boston; in Roslindale a house and two acres
handsomely ornamented; in Concord, N. H., "Pleasant View," a
house with thirty-six acres, overlooking her birthplace.

REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, AT 66.

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��THE beautiful town of Newington, near Portsmouth by the sea, is
the birthplace of Fannie Packard Hoyt, the well-known violinist.
Miss Hoyt was born May 20, 1869, and is the daughter of Joseph S.
and Martha Hoyt. When a child she one day came across an old vio
lin and became so fascinated with its strings that an overpowering
desire came over her to master the instrument, which she did by ear,
and later under competent instruction. Her first teacher was Mr.
Henry Harlow, of Portsmouth, and before twelve years of age she
made her debut, in Music Hall in that city. At thirteen she went to
Boston, entered the Boston Conservatory, then under the direction of
the late Julius Eichberg, and later continued her studies with the wellknown violin virtuoso, Bernard Listemann. This was supplemented
by a course with Herr C. M. Loeffler. Miss Hoyt developed her musi
cal ability rapidly, and for some years has acted in the capacity of
teacher, although studying faithfully, all the while, toward perfection.
For five successive summers she led the orchestra at the Isles of
Shoals, a portion of whose members were of the male sex. During
the season of 1893 Miss Hoyt filled an engagement at Lakeview dur
ing the Chautauqua assembly, and in the summer of 1894, she organ
ized an orchestra and played with great success at Sorrento, Me., the
rival resort to Bar Harbor. While at this place she had many private
pupils, and was much in demand. She is noted beyond the limits of
New England, and fills many engagements for concert work in New
York. In person she is quite tall, and has a thoroughly honest, intelli
gent face, with fine, expressive eyes, and the sensitive mouth and chin
so often characterizing musicians. She has a cheery nature and has a
happy faculty of making and holding her friends. Miss Hoyt is a
cousin to Mrs. Phcebe Jenks, Boston's eminent artist—a native of
Portsmouth.

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��MORGIA PORTER WILSON.

PROMINENT among the song birds of the Granite state, is Morgia
Porter Wilson of Laconia. Her voice was noted in childhood for
remarkable beauty of tone and timbre. Before she was sixteen she sang
leading roles in operettas, and soon began a remunerative career as a
choir singer in Concord, Manchester, and Lawrence, which continued
until her marriage. At twenty-two she accompanied John W. Hutchin
son, of the famous Hutchinson family, an uncle by marriage, on a con
cert tour, at which time her voice attracted the attention of the late
John B. Gough, who manifested a strong interest in her. Through
his assistance she began study in Boston under Mrs. J. H. Long. She
made rapid progress in her art, and at the expiration of a year engaged
for a season with Father Kemp's Old Folks' Company. Subsequently
she resumed her studies with Mrs. Long, continuing for three years,
and, later on, taking the Rudersdoff method of other teachers, and estab
lishing a high reputation as a concert soloist in New Hampshire and
Massachusetts. She had studied with profit. Carl Zerrahn said of her
that she was one of the most promising singers in New England, there
being no perceptible change of quality in the whole compass of her
voice, which comprised two and a half octaves. Morgia Porter is a
native of Manchester, the daughter of Charles C. P. Porter and Caro
line (Patch) Porter. She married, in 1 373, Mr. Julius E. Wilson,
now the successful manager of the Wardwell Needle Co., in Laconia.
where they have resided for the past nine years. Mrs. Wilson is heard
occasionally in concert, though most of her time is devoted to vocal
teaching. Her annual recital, in which she participates vocally, is a
musical event in the community, anticipated with interest. Her work,
the value of which is attested by the proficiency of her pupils, has been
heartily commended by the New England Conservatory of Music. Mrs.
Wilson blends a cultured and intellectual mind with a most gracious
and charming personality.

��MRS. ANNIS (;. MARSHALL.

ANNIS GAGE, daughter of Solomon and Dolly (Chase) Gage,
was born in Bedford, August i, 1832. She received her educa
tion in the district school and the institutes at Nashua and Reed's
Ferry, and was for some time successfully engaged in teaching, until
her marriage, January 23. 1853. with Enoch P. Marshall of Dunbarton, which town was subsequently her home until after Mr. Marshall's
decease, in September, 1891. Of an active temperament, and en
dowed with strong mental powers, she realized thoroughly the social
and intellectual limitations of life in our farming communities, especi
ally so far as woman is concerned, and when the Grange movement
began to be developed in the state, she was among the first to realize
its importance, and the advantages which it offered her sex in com
mon with the other. She became a charter member of Stark grange,
of Dunbarton, organized in 1874, and was ever a devoted laborer for
the success of the organization, and the order at large, serving seven
years, altogether, as lecturer, and occupying other official positions.
An earnest and eloquent speaker, gifted also with poetic talent of no
mean order, she has often been heard effectively, not only in grange
gatherings, public as well as private, but at general agricultural
meetings, in addresses and poems. The cause of temperance, also,
has ever found in her an ardent friend and champion, and at all
proper times and occasions she has spoken freely and forcibly in its
interest; yet never neglecting, in the slightest degree, the paramount
duty of wife and mother. In 1892, after her husband's decease,
she removed to the beautiful village of Milford, where, in a cosy cot
tage, with attractive surroundings, and a beautiful outlook, her home
is now established in companionship with her daughter Jessie, a
teacher in the Milford schools. Lydia. another daughter, for a time
engaged in departmental work in Washington, is now a teacher in that
city, while Bertha, the third, is the wife of L. (). Goodhue of Bow.

��T T TOMAN long ago won recognition in the domains of literature
V V and education, and in certain professional lines had competed
successfully with man ; but, until recently, had not demonstrated
capacity for success in the business world. Of late there has been a
tendency among American women to engage in business lines, and
they have furnished therein many notable examples of successful
work. Among those in New Hampshire who have succeeded in
this direction is Elizabeth Kilburn, wife of Daniel C. Remich, and
daughter of B. 'vV. Kilburn of Littleton, the noted landscape photogra
pher, and leading American manufacturer of stereoscopic views. A
descendant of John Kilburn, the pioneer settler of Walpole, whose
heroic defence of his home against four hundred savages during the
incursion of the Canadian Indians in 1755 made the name immortal,
she inherited the energetic and self-reliant spirit of her ancestry, and,
on the completion of her school course, instead of devoting herself
mainly to fashionable hfe and social pleasures, she chose to direct her
attention to the increasing demands of her father\s business, in which
she had ever taken interest, and was soon able to assume full oversight
of the departments of manufacture and sale, in the management of
which she has developed large business sagacity, while her taste and
judgment have proven of constantly increasing value with reference to
new plans and lines of work. Meanwhile she has neglected none of
the just demands of society or the claims of humanity. She is at home
in the drawing room, the literary circle, or in private and organized
charitable work. She is a trustee of the Littleton Public Library,
actively interested in church as well as educational affairs, enters heart
ily into her father's plans for beautifying the town and promoting
the comfort and enjoyment of the people, is in full sympathy with her
husband in his reform work and other activities, and neglects no move
ment in the community where her power for good may be exercised.

MRS. DANIEL C. REMICH.

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��IN the annals of American patriotism, no name shines more brightly
than that of New Hampshire's gallant son, John Stark, and among
the representative women of the Granite State to-day there is none
more worthy of regard than Elizabeth Page Stark, great-granddaugh
ter of the hero of Bunker Hill and Bennington, who was born and
has ever lived on the old Stark homestead in Manchester, over-looking
the valley of the Merrimack, where five generations have lived and died
whose remains now repose in the family burial place in " Stark Park"
close at hand. Here was the dwelling-place of the brave old soldier,
of his son, John Stark, 2d, his grandson, John Stark, 3d, father of
Miss Stark, whose wife was Sarah Fletcher Pollard, daughter of
Thomas Pollard, all now passed "over the river;" and here the
great-granddaughter now presides, and has for years past, with true
womanly dignity in this old mansion, which must ever be regarded as
one of the sacred shrines of American liberty, filled as it is with relics
and mementoes of the Revolutionary period and of him who was a
leader in the "days that tried men's souls." Miss Stark is a member
of Grace Episcopal Church of Manchester. She is also a member of
the King's Daughters, of the Woman's Relief Corps, the N. H. His
torical Society, the Colonial Dames, and vice-president of the society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in all of which organi
zations she takes a deep interest. She greets with cordial welcome all
who care to visit her home and its historic treasures, and worthily
wears the honored name of Stark.
ELIZABETH PAGE STARK.

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��MINNIE EDWARDS ATWOOD unquestionably stands as the
representative lady embalmer of New Hampshire, being the
first to receive a diploma from the " United States School of Embalm
ing'' under the tuition of Professor A. Renouard, who for many years
llas been acknowledged as the leading demonstrator of this science.
He writes of Mrs. Atwood, " I found her an able, intelligent, and
refined lady, of keen perceptions and clear reasoning faculties." For
six years she has unflinchingly shared the duties of her husband, Wil
liam H. Atwood, a progressive funeral director of Lisbon. As a con
tributor to the undertaking journals she labors for the higher education
of the fraternity, believing it the only means whereby an honorable pro
fession can be established for those engaged in the sacred and impor
tant work of caring for the dead; that they should be compelled to
prove by examination and registration that they are competent to
preserve dead bodies from decay and protect the living from infection ;
that good moral character, refinement, and culture are as necessary for
those who must enter the home under such peculiar and close relations,
as for the physician. Also that it is only fitting and proper for a
woman to attend the bodies of women and children. In order to make
herself a peer of any of the opposite sex in her profession, she
matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Boston for a
special course in anatomy. Mrs. Atwood is the only daughter of George
Kinsman Edwards and Harriet Kinsman (Howland) Edwards, and
was born in East Landaff (now Easton) at the base of Mount Kins
man, a peak of the Franconia Range, which took its name from Nathan
Kinsman, her great-great grandfather. Here amid the uplifting, soul
stirring grandeur of New Hampshire's natural scenery has this family
lived for five generations, until they may perchance have imbibed some
of the characteristics of the old granite hills, so dear to the subject of
this sketch whose passionate love of nature is intensely developed.

MINNIE EDWARDS ATVVOOD.

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��SOPHIA DODGE HALL, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Han
son) Dodge, was born in Rochester, N. H., where her early Hie
was passed. She was educated in the public schools of Boston and at
Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass. In January, 1877, she married
Hon. Daniel Hall of Dover, where she has since resided. In February,
1890, Mrs. Hall was elected department president of the New Hamp
shire Woman's Relief Corps, which trust she discharged with fidelity
and success. During her administration the Soldiers' Home at Tilton
was built, and under her supervision was furnished by money con
tributed by the Woman's Relief Corps throughout the state. This
work was performed with marked energy, zeal, and executive ability.
In June, 1890, Mrs. Hall was appointed one of the Board of Lady
Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition, and to this position
brought unusual enthusiasm and intellectual grasp. She was also
made chairman of woman's work in New Hampshire, in which capacity
she collected many interesting specimens of women's work, which were
displayed in the Woman's Building. Every one who visited the New
Hampshire house will recall the attractive colonial relics and articles
of historic interest, all of which were secured by her after much effort,
and always by pledges of personal responsibility. In 1895 she was
appointed by Governor Busiel a member of the Woman's Board for
the Atlanta Exposition. Mrs. Hall has one son, Arthur Wellesley
Hall, born in 1878. She presides over a well-ordered home, and is
generous, sympathetic, public spirited, and progressive, a woman who
counts no endeavor too arduous if it is for the betterment of her family,
city, state, or country.
MRS. DANIEL HALL.

��MISS ELLA LOUISE KNOWLES, the noted lawyer of Mon
tana, was born at Northwood in 1860. Her parents were
David and Louisa (Bigelow) Knowles. Her father is still living at the
old homestead on land occupied by the family for one hundred and
twenty years. Miss Knowles was educated at the district school and
by her mother, a cultivated and accomplished woman, who died when
her daughter was fourteen. At fifteen she graduated from Northwood
Seminary, and at sixteen from the N. H. State Normal School. She
fitted for college while teaching country schools, and in 1884 was
graduated from Bates college with high honors. She paid for her en
tire education by teaching and other work. In 1884 she began read
ing law with Burnham &amp; Brown of Manchester, but her health being
poor she was advised to go West. In the territorial legislature of
1888-'8o, she introduced a bill to permit women to practise law in Mon
tana, which was passed after strong opposition. On Dec. 28, 1889,
she was admitted to practice before the supreme court of Montana.
In April, 1890, she was admitted to practice before the U. S. District
and Circuit Courts. June 15, 1892, she was nominated for attorneygeneral of Montana by the Populist party. She made a strong can
vass, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, Hon. H. J. Has
kell, who in February, 1893, appointed her assistant attorney-gen
eral. She appears in most of the state cases, but continues her exten
sive private practice. She has been employed in mining cases where
millions of dollars were involved, and in October, 1893, she appeared
before the Department of the Interior at Washington as state attorney
in a case involving Montana school lands valued at over $200,000
which she won. She has a large and lucrative civil and criminal prac
tice. She is the only woman lawyer in Montana, but by her ability and
dignity of character she has won an enviable position, not only in the
state, but the country.

��L. AGNESE MOULTON.

MANY leading spirits in the world of human endeavor have had
their birthplace in Northern New Hampshire. Among
those worthy of special mention is L. Agnese Moulton, of Leadville,
Col., a native of the town of Lyman, daughter of William and
Maria (Stephens) Little, born January 4, 1845. She was educated in
the public school and at Newbury (Vt.) Seminary ; married James M.
Moulton. November 10, 1866, and resided in Boston, Mass., till 1875,
when she removed to Des Moines, Iowa. During the great "rush"
for the mining regions, in 1879, she went to Leadville, the greatest
mining camp in the world, where she has since resided, and where she
immediately entered upon what has proved a most successful business
career, engaging as a broker in real estate and mining stocks, in com
pany with Caryoline Finch from New York. It was an unusual line for
women to pursue, at that time, but courage and persistency won them
favorable recognition at an early day, and substantial results have fol
lowed. Mrs. Moulton is a member of the "Association for the Ad
vancement of Women," the "Women's American Protective Asso
ciation" (having been president of the Leadville Council), "The
Patriotic Order Daughters of America," " The Hermetic Brotherhood
of Luxor," and the " Colorado Woman's Suffrage League." She points
with no little pride to her efforts in behalf of the cause of woman suf
frage in Colorado, and received a measure of recognition in the first
nomination for the legislature accorded a woman by the Republican
party of the state, failing of an election only because her party in Lake
county was outvoted by the Populists. Mrs. Moulton is a ready
writer and forcible speaker and her public addresses have commanded
attention and commendation. Her highest aspiration is to be identified
with the progressive and reform movements of the age, especially for
the advancement of woman.

��MARY ISABEL GREELEY, daughter of Samuel P. and Mary
Wheeler Greeley, is a native of Manchester, but most of her
life was spent in Concord, from whose High school she graduated, and
where she was interested in musical and literary lines, her taste in the
latter direction being inherited from her mother. Miss Greeley is a
very unassuming woman, with a remarkably sweet disposition, a great
lover of nature, and a fondness for study. Her public life began with
her appointment as commissioner from New Hampshire to the New
Orleans Exposition in 1884. by Governor Hale. Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, President of the Woman's Department, writing of her says :
My acquaintance with Miss Isabel Greeley dated from the autumn of
1884. She passed the winter with me in New Orleans. From the
first I had been impressed with Miss Greeley's intelligence and
efficiency. She soon became both secretary and treasurer of the wom
an's department, and I can only speak of her services as invaluable.
As a secretary she was prompt and exact, and her minutes never stood
in need of correction. As a treasurer her work was no less satisfac
tory. In addition to the duties of her two-fold office she exercised a
general supervision over the various exhibits comprised in our depart
ment. Although careful and exact in all her dealings she was always
patient and never gave offense by any inconsiderate or ungracious word.
Later, she compiled the detailed report of the department, which was
published. In 1886 she accepted the position of matron to the Kin
dergarten for the Blind at Jamaica Plain, the first of the kind estab
lished in this country. She still remains at the head of this institution,
in which she has endeared herself to children and teachers by her
affectionate care for all under her charge. Miss Greeley has the rare
gift of not only enjoying her work, but of making it pleasant for her
associates to work with and under her, while a deep interest in the wel
fare of others goes with her through all the varied ways of life.

MARY ISABEL GREELEY.

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��SARAH S. BEAN, daughter of Joshua and Mary L Rean, was born
in Salisbury, March 30, 1828. When she was six months old
the family removed from Salisbury and established their home in
Woodstock, Vt. Her parents were musical people, her mother being
noted as a " counter " singer (which means an octave above the present
alto). She also evinced great aptitude for music, and was a singer
from childhood. At the age of eighteen she went to Manchester, where
she has ever since had her home, becoming the wife of William Rey
nolds of that city in January, 1849. In 1 8 5 2 she began musical cul
ture with Prof. George Wood of Concord. Subsequently she studied
with Prof. Kreissman of Boston, and later with Prof. J.J. Kimball.
Before and after the commencement of her musical studies she sang in
different churches in Manchester, particularly at the Unitarian church,
with which she was identified. She also sang for five years at the First
Baptist church in Concord. Aside from this she sang extensively in
concerts and conventions until 1875. In 1876 she commenced the
study of elocution in a class of six, often called, by friends, the " Im
mortal Six." September 22, 1877, her husband died at Magnolia-bythe-Sea. In November, 1879, the "Immortal Six," desiring to read
and study Shakespeare, joined unto themselves six other kindred
spirits and organized the "Shakespeare Club." This organization, of
which Mrs. Reynolds was the first president, was the first Shakespeare
club of Manchester, and the first woman's club of any kind maintaining
a continuous organization in that city up to the present time. She re
mained actively identified with the club until 1891, since when she has
been an honorary member. In 1886 she began the study of Christian
Science, but remained in the Unitarian Society until February. 1891,
having been superintendent of its Sunday school the previous year.
Her reason for giving up church and club, which had formerly been so
dear to her, was that Christian Science had become dearer than all else.

MRS. SARAH S. REYNOLDS.

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��FEW young women in New Hampshire or the country have made
a record in scholarship equal to that of Florence Runnells, eldest
daughter of Daniel F. and Sarah Farley Runnells of Nashua. Born in
that city, March 20, 1863, she attended the public schools, passing
over the intermediate grades from the primary to the fourth grammar,
entering the high school at twelve years of age and graduating at
sixteen, the valedictorian of the class and receiving the Noyes medal
for highest record in scholarship and deportment for the four years'
course. She entered Wellesley college, upon examination, with the
class of 1879, being the first Nashua student at that institution, and
completed the classical course, graduating B. A. in June, 1883, at
twenty years of age. During her thirteen years of school attendance,
she never missed a recitation, nor was she once absent or tardy-—
thanks to an active mind, good health, and a vigorous constitution.
For two years after graduation she studied vocal music in Boston
and the French language at home, with private tutors. Subsequently
for three years she taught classes in Greek, French, history, and
literature in the Nashua high school, and assisted private pupils in
fitting for college. July 18, 1888, she married Edward F. Bryant,
a native of Woburn, Mass., manager of the Pullman Loan and Savings
bank at Pullman, 111., a suburb of Chicago, where she has since resided.
While in Nashua she was prominent in society and in charitable work,
and was an active member of the well-known literary organization, the
" Fortnightly Club," of which she was also a secretary for several years.
Her interest in these lines is continued in her present home where she
is a member of the Chicago Wellesley club. Inter-collegiate Alumnae
association, and the History and Art club of Pullman, and is also a
member of the Plymouth Congregational church of Chicago —Dr. F. W.
Gunsaulus, pastor,—and interested in its charitable and benevolent
work. She has two children, Donald Runnells and Dorothea Frances.

��MRS. MARY J. BRADFORD.

AMONG the successful business women of the country no one has
a more honorable record than Mrs. Mary J. Bradford of Clare
mont, who, though not a native of New Hampshire, has resided here
since childhood. She was born in Hartford, Vt., March 12, 1843,
removing with her parents, William and Irene French, to Claremont,
in 1856, where she attended the village schools. Subsequently the
family removed for a time to Ashburnham, Mass., where she met and
married Rufus Choate Bradford, himself a native of the Granite State.
Immediately after the marriage they returned to Claremont and estab
lished themselves in the old home on Sullivan street, where she has
ever since resided, and where her aged mother also lives. After the
death of her youngest son, Mrs. Bradford's health failed, and, being
advised to keep out of doors as much as possible, and being also
ambitious and industrious, she commenced, in a small way, the manu
facture of extracts and perfumes, disposing of the same to the public,
until, from a small beginning, and with improving health, she estab
lished a large, lucrative, and constantly increasing business, her goods
being superfine and unrivalled. In 1883 she originated a process for
making extracts from fruits instead of oils, thus securing for her pro
ductions the first place in the markets. Her husband, and eldest son,
Fred W. R. Bradford, are now joined with her in business. In 1887
Mrs. Bradford exhibited her goods at the Mechanics' Fair in Boston,
receiving a silver medal and diploma. In 1890 a gold medal and
another diploma were awarded her. The tasty display which she
makes at state fairs, and the courteous attention given all interested
visitors, is an attractive feature of the exhibitions. She has a large
manufactory in Claremont, with a Boston office at 156 State street.
Mrs. Bradford has one daughter, Minnie Bell, a graceful and talented
girl of twenty. She is herself of refined and modest bearing, and is
highly respected in business circles throughout New England.

��MARY A. (POWERS) FILLEY.

MARY ANN, daughter of Jonathan and Anna Kendall Powers,
was born in Bristol, December 12. 1821. Her earliest recol
lections are of the falling waters of Newfound river, and rugged Ken
dall hill, her grandfather's home, in Hebron. In her early childhood
the family removed to Lansingburg, N. Y., where her mother died
when she was eleven years of age, leaving six little children, and she,
being the eldest daughter, filled, for a time, a mother's place. Later
she went to reside with Mrs. Deborah Powers, an aunt; but soon, im
pelled by a desire for independence, she went to Newark. N. J., to
learn tailoring. Becoming proficient, she returned to Lansingburg.
where she was engaged until her marriage, in 1851, with Edward A.
Filley, a native of that city, then a prosperous merchant of St. Louis.
Mo., where they made their home, (though coming to New England
lor the summer,) and where a son and two daughters were born.
Living a quiet life, though in full sympathy with the reform movements
of the day, Mrs. Filley felt no call to work in them until the fall of
1872, when the passage of a bill legalizing houses of prostitution,
aroused the spirit of womanly indignation, and, with other prominent
women of St. Louis, inspired by a desire to save their city and their
sons from resulting disgrace, she labored with voice and pen until the
repeal of the law was secured. Espousing the cause of woman's suf
frage, she has also labored in its interest, going once before the United
States Senate committee, with Susan B. Anthony and others, to urge
the enfranchisement of women. Temperance, and the higher moral
life have been subjects ever near her heart, and earnestly discussed in
the New England home which she bought in 1880, in the town of
Haverhill, where, for many years, she has resided, caring for the large
farm, yet taking due interest in every movement for the betterment
and uplifting of her townspeople, of womankind, and of the world
at large, and rejoicing in the progress that is made.

��1 ''MILIE GRANT has been a favorite name in musical circles for
X_-/ many years. A native of Nashua, Miss Grant spent her childhood
in Rhode Island, but returned to her birthplace at the age of eleven.
She had a natural ear for music and played the piano intuitively. She
studied the organ with Eugene Thayer and George Whiting, now of
the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in Boston. Meanwhile
her education in other directions was completed at Stanwix Seminary,
Rome, N. Y. In December, 1870, she went abroad, remaining tourteen months, studying the organ in Berlin, with the noted August
Haupt, and piano with Robert Radecke, director of the Royal Opera ;
later with Mademoiselle Schiller and Carl Baerman. She had before
been pianist of the Nashua Choral Union, and continued after her re
turn, serving in that capacity at the second great "Peace Jubilee" in
Boston, as she had previously done at the first. She was the pianist
of the celebrated "Orpheus Club" of Nashua during its entire
existence, and was for several years organist at different churches in
that city. Removing to Boston she has filled extended engagements
at prominent churches, including the Dudley St. Baptist and Union
Congregational, Columbus Avenue; but for some years past has
been organist at Berkeley Temple. Meanwhile she has continuouslv
and successfully given instruction upon piano and organ, both in
Nashua and Boston. She excels as an accompanist, and has marvel
ous power in reading and mastering the most difficult music at sight.
This was demonstrated in a notable manner, when, in February, 1892,
she substituted for Arthur Nikisch, director of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, at the presentation of Brahm's great historical cyclus,
" Zigeunerlieder," for which weeks of preparation had been made,
being called in at the last moment through his sudden illness and
winning a brilliant triumph. In November, 1894, Miss Grant was
united in marriage with Mr. George Ware Wilkinson of Boston.

EMILIE GRANT WILKINSON.

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��MRS. JOHN F. ZEBLEY.

MRS. JOHN F. ZEBLEY, maiden name Nellie Bean, daughter
of Loammi and Sarah Bean, born at Weirs, near beautiful
Lake Winnipiseogee, is one of the old Granite State's most loyal
daughters. After her public school education, she pursued a two years
course at a commercial college in Boston, and has had her home in
New York city since eighteen years of age. She has traveled exten
sively at home and in foreign countries, studying art, of which she is
an enthusiastic devotee, in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna,
Dresden, Munich, Rome, and Venice. She is also an accomplished
linguist, being able to read, write, and speak five different languages.
She is a member of various charitable organizations, and of the socie
ties for the prevention of cruelty to children and to animals. She
married John F. Zebley, a New York banker, at Laconia in 1883.
Her summer home, " Nestledown," Zebley Farm, near Weirs, is noted
far and wide for its tasty surroundings, choice antique furnishings,
and the open hearted hospitality there dispensed. This is the ances
tral farm where her father left his family, when he departed for the
front as a member of the Eighth New Hampshire Volunteers in the
early days of the Rebellion. He was killed at George's Landing, La.,
October 27, 1862. But the old home and the father's memory have
ever been held dear by the daughter, and in honor of the latter she
erected and gave to the Eighth Regiment Association the fine granite
and bronze drinking fountain and soldiers' monument near the railway
station at Weirs, which was dedicated with impressive ceremonies at
the Veterans' reunion in August, 1894. Her mother's memory has
also been duly honored by Mrs. Zebley's presenting an elegant memo
rial window to the M. E. church at Weirs. Mrs. Zebley spends three
months during the heated period each season at her summer home,
and her presence, her hospitality, and her interested public spirit, are
essential factors in the social life and prosperity of the lake region.

��WINNIFRED HELEN

THIS bright brunette is the younger of the very talented daughters
of Mr. John M. and Mrs. Leah (Roberts) Berry of Farmington,
where she was born February 5, 1871. Of excellent New England
ancestry, a quick wit, energy, and an attractive manner, Miss Berry
makes success her willing servant in whatever she undertakes, whether
it be in entertainments for worthy local purposes, in teaching, in crayon
portraiture or landscape sketching, or in quaint and vivid pen-and-ink
miniatures, of a startling likeness to their subjects. Miss Berry was
graduated in her seventeenth year from the Farmington high school and
began teaching in her native town in the autumn of the same year, in
the primary department, filling her position with unusual ability, until,
in the course of time, her merits caused her to be called to Concord,
where she was assigned to the Penacook school building. An advan
tageous summons to Massachusetts led her to relinquish the Concord
school in the course of her first year of residence in that city, and to go
to Watertown, where she finds not alone an habitual success in teach
ing, but also the many opportunities for culture which can be obtained
only in the vicinity of a large city. Thus in her few hours of freedom
from school duties she pursues artistic work under skilled supervision,
and develops her fine gift for portraiture. As a teacher Miss Berry
devotes her talent and experience to little children, making a specialty
of primary work, instead of changing to one or another of different
grades, and this is one of the secrets of her success as an educator. It
need hardly be said that she is regarded with the fondest affection by
her classes and with cordial appreciation by their parents and the
school officers. Possessed of many resources for recreation, Miss
Berry finds music chief of them, and plays the piano with a dramatic
and poetic sense of her subject, which gives exceptional charm to her
rendering of a composer's conception.

��BORN of good old New Hampshire stock, and directly descended
from David, Prince of North England, Mrs. Nathaniel Chase
Locke, of Salem, Mass., is well worthy a place among the representa
tive daughters of the Granite state. She is a daughter of John Thomp
son and Sallie (Lewis) Felch, of Francestown, N. H., born March 1,
1837. The first Felch to come to America, from North Wales, was
Henry, who settled in Gloucester, Mass., in 1641. A son located in
Reading, whence a grandson, Daniel Felch, removed to New Hamp
shire, where his descendants have since resided. Three of her ances
tors served in the Revolution, and another, John Felch, was a soldier
in the War of 181 2. On the maternal side she is also well connected,
the Lewises pf Greenfield, originally from France, being among the
best people of the town. Other ancestors, the Thompsons, were
among the first settlers of Francestown, and cleared the first land.
Miss Felch, though reared on a farm, had good educational advan
tages, finishing at the noted Francestown Academy, where Franklin
Pierce was fitted for college. At the age of twenty-one she was united
in marriage with Nathaniel C. Locke, now head of the Locke Regulator
Company of Salem. They resided for a time in Concord, but subse
quently removed to Salem, which has since been her home. She has
two children, Albert N. and Sarah A. Locke, both talented and accom
plished. Mrs. Locke is a member of the -New Hampshire's Daugh
ters" club of Boston, and the Salem .. Thought and Work" club, and
has held high office in the United Order of the Pilgrim Fathers. She
has a taste for painting, as is indicated in her pleasant home in Salem.
MRS. NATHANIEL C. LOCKE.

��DR. ANNA B. TAYLOR-COLE.

VI / HEN the bead-roll of New Hampshire women who have proven
V V their power to overcome obstacles to accomplish desired
objects, is made up, the name of Anna B. Taylor will be found therein.
Born in northern New Hampshire, passing her girlhood upon a Whitefield farm, she breathed the spirit of self-reliance with the pure moun
tain air. A bright, ambitious girl, the tenth in a family of twelve
children, she longed for educational advantages beyond the limited
scope of the Whitefield schools. Her wish for a broader life was a
prophetic desire, and she made her opportunity. It became possible
for her to attend the Western Massachusetts Normal school. Rather
than accept the aid which would place her under lasting obligations,
she worked for her board during the course and graduated in a dress
which she had worn nearly three years, rather than go into debt for a
new one. Following graduation she taught school three years, then a
crushing sorrow came upon her. Watching long weeks at the bedside
of suffering, at the death of the loved one she passed as it were into
another life, devoted to the relief of human suffering. She studied
medicine at Boston University, meeting her expenses in part by
nursing and hospital work. During her course an attack of diphtheria
left her partially deaf, but, undaunted by the hindrance, she persevered
and graduated with honor in 1884. Settling in Charlestown, she con
tinued her study while awaiting patients, who came not tardily. In
1 890 she removed to Somerville, where she has established an exten
sive practice. Her heart is in her work and her success nobly earned.
In 1894 she married Herbert A. Cole of Somerville and unites a
happy home life with her professional duties. Mrs. Cole is a petite
woman of slender figure, and retiring, gentle manner. Only when her
face is studied is seen the strength of character which has won the
love of friends, the respect of those who disagree with her, and high
rank in her profession.

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�MRS. MARY FRANCES KNOWLTON

MARY FRANCES, eldest child of William H. and Mary G.
(Hart) Marshall, was born in Hopkinton, November 19, 1837.
In 1840 the family removed to Sutton, where their early beginnings
partook somewhat of the hardships of pioneer life ; but where industry,
energy, and perseverance, the father being a wheelwright and farmer,
soon made for them a comfortable home. Mr. Marshall was a man of
more than ordinary ability, fond of scientific research, and few men in
town were as well informed as he on both scientific and general topics.
Frances, from her first school days, manifested rare application, and
made such progress in her studies, that at the age of fifteen she taught
a private school in the old brick schoolhouse on the hill at the western
outskirt of Sutton village. Her literary efforts, both in prose and
poetry, undertaken solely for the pleasure of neighbors and friends on
occasions of public entertainment, have won for her just commendation.
January 9, 1855, she married James Knowlton of New London, a car
penter and farmer, with whom she is still living, their lengthening
years being cheered by the filial affection which their children have
demonstrated in countless ways. Since her marriage, Mrs. Knowlton"s
time has been fully occupied with domestic affairs, she having reared a
family of eight children. No truer, nobler mother ever lived, and her
self-sacrifice and devotion to her children, her parents, and her friends,
constitute a luminous record to the honor of womanhood. Her chil
dren are: Edgar J., born August 8, 1856, a resident of Manchester,
journalist by profession, four years mayor of that city, and its present
postmaster; George H., a graduate of the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, and a successful druggist in the same city ; Nellie G. ; Alice
1i. ; May F. ; Charles R., and Ray F., the latter now fifteen years of age,
and a student at New London Academy. Her fourth child, Wesley
J., an estimable young man, who learned the printers' trade in the
Mirror office at Manchester, died, deeply mourned, in 1890.

��THE youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stiles was born
in Strafford Centre, November 25, 1862, and inherits from both
parents the sterling qualities of the pioneers of New England. After
attending the district school and Austin academy she studied through
the course of four years at the Putnam high school in Newburyport,
Mass., where she was graduated in 1881. The two years succeeding
were spent in Farmington teaching, whence Miss Stiles went to the
schools of Merrimac, Mass., remaining until 1888, when on Christmas
day she was married to Mr. Osborne W. Price, formerly of Gilmanton
but then of Farmington, where the home of the happy couple was made
until a short time ago. Their residence is now in Manchester, where
Mr. Price is in business. While a student in school, and when occu
pied in teaching, Mrs. Price studied and taught drawing and painting,
and after her marriage she found opportunity for farther development
of her talent in these pursuits, giving strict attention to the instruction
of excellent masters, and adding to previous accomplishments those of
painting on china, with her own firing, and of practical designing, in
advanced study of which she spent several months in New York before
her removal to Manchester. All her work is characterized by a dis
tinct originality, and a delicate yet spirited conception and execution
in both outline and color, and her charming sketches and exquisite
china have found a ready market, while manufacturers of silk and other
fabrics have seized at once upon her graceful designs, Many favorite
patterns in silkoline, and similar goods all over the country, are of
Mrs. Price's designing, one especially adapted to decorative purposes
being the thistle pattern, and should her health permit of close devo
tion to the work which is her true vocation, laurels will be added with
every year to those already acknowledged as hers by the unquestioned
authority in art. in recognition of her genius and the patient diligence
which alone gives to natural gifts a sphere of usefulness.

MRS. EVANNAH S. PRICE.

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��MR. MOSES AND MRS. ELIZA (PERKINS) BATES were
among the most notable residents of Great Falls, where on
Sept. 1o, 1847, was born Harriet, the youngest of their talented chil
dren. She was educated in the public schools and by private tuition,
and, showing in childhood a marked talent for music, she was given
careful training in instrumental and vocal branches, one of her teachers
in singing for several years having been Madame Rametti of Boston.
In 1870 Miss Bates married Edgar B. LeGro, a captain in the Second
Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, who had served for four years
in the Civil War, and died in 1879. One daughter, Edith Maude,
graduated recently from the Boston University, was the fruit of the
union. On Nov. 10, 1892, Mrs. LeGro married the Hon. Albert A.
Perkins, president of the Great Falls National bank and treasurer of
the Somersworth Savings bank. Mrs. Perkins has been always actively
interested in church work, and has held many responsible positions in
beneficent bodies. She is president of the Strafford County W. C. T. U.,
secretary of the local union, has been a delegate-at-largc to national
conventions of the society, and is president of the Dover District Mis
sionary association, giving the aid of her talents to all good works.
She has kept in touch also with the world of art and literature, and was
for several years a member of the Browning club of Boston. It is in
daily intimacy with people that their characteristics are learned most
thoroughly, for this reason the words of one familiar with the life of
Mrs. Perkins have a special weight: " She was a girl of very sweet dis
position, and became early a Christian. Well known in musical, lit
erary, and philanthropic circles, she has been not less a devoted wife
and mother, and in her late marriage to a man of position and wealth
she finds increased opportunities for usefulness, instead of living in idle
ease. Her chief charm lies not so much in her attractive person as in the
fact that she studies to do good and to make happy every one about her."

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�MEN and women without number have won distinction in special
lines of effort ; others, far less numerous, have proven tqual
to all emergencies—masters of every situation—men and women of
affairs in the full sense of the term. In the latter class is Lydia A.,
daughter of Hon. John L. and Lydia (Carlton) Gray, born in China.
Me., who in her 19th year married Albert M. Scott, of Augusta,
where their only child, Hattie Isabelle, was born in 1862. Her
husband joined the Union army, and Mrs. Scott, nothing daunted,
taught school in his absence to support herself and child. After their
removal to Manchester in 1872, where their home has since been, she
continued her contributions to the press, commenced in the Kennebec
Journal, under the editorship of James G. Blaine ; and for five years she
edited the "Fireside" department of the Manchester Union. Long
an active member of the Manchester Shakespeare club, she is, and has
been for the last four years, its president. Deeply interested in the
welfare of the Union soldier, she has been active in Relief Corps work,
was a charter member of Louis Bell Corps, two years member of
department council, twice delegate-at-large in National convention,
chief-of-staff of National President Sarah E. Fuller, and a member of
the National Pensions committee with E. Florence Barker, Kate B.
Sherwood, Mary A. Logan, and Clara Barton, in 1886; but her best
work has been done through individual effort in aiding numberless old
soldiers in securing pensions. For several years Mrs. Scott has been
engaged in business lines, developing a maivellous capacity. She is
now and has been for some time past engaged in the sale of western
real estate. With all her multiplied activities she has met every just
social demand, every requirement of wide and loyal friendship, and
been especially faithful to every form of domestic duty. Her chief
delight is in her four-years old grandson, Edward Scott Swazey, of
Kansas City, an honorary member of the Manchester Shakespeare club.

LYDIA A. SCOTT.

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��THE fine farms of Barrington have given to the advancement of
the world some very bright men and women, and a notable one
of the latter is a daughter of Dea. Thomas and Mrs. Susan (Hale)
Hussey. Her studies in the country schools were supplemented by
terms at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Gilmanton
Academy in the spring and autumn, the alternating seasons being
occupied by teaching. In 1854 Miss Hussey entered the State Normal
School at Framingham, Mass., from which she graduated in July, 1855.
Following a season of teaching in her native town, she became an
assistant in the Great Falls high school, but resigned her position in
1858, for one more lucrative in Stoneham, Mass., whence she was
called in 1861 to become the first assistant in the high school named,
where she taught with marked success until 1865. After teaching a
select school in her own town, she married in 1866 the Hon. William
D. Knapp, a distinguished lawyer of Somersworth, where she has
since resided. Mrs. Knapp, a member of the Pascataqua Congrega
tional Club, and trained to good deeds from her childhood, has been
prominent in religious work, and in the many avenues by which
women of like mind and culture may aid in the progress of civilization.
The love and admiration of everyone associated with her have been
deservedly hers. From 1885 to 1893-'94, she was president of the
Strafford Conference of the New Hampshire Branch of the Woman's
Board of Missions, and her resignation of the office was received with
the strongest reluctance on the part of the conference. She has been a
frequent contributor of poems and sketches to both secular and religious
papers and magazines, and has delighted readers of her home publica
tion by " Old Time Stories,'' and by reminiscences of the high school.
A history in rhyme, written for the first reunion of alumni of the school
in 1877, was published later in book form. Her literary work is most
refined and charming, in keeping with her whole life and character.

MRS. WILLIAM D. KNAPP.

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��THE most popular and successful teacher of music in northern
New Hampshire is Mrs. Hattie M. Q. Bingham, of Littleton.
She is the daughter of William K. and Mary Meserve Quimby, of
Whitefield, and was born in that town October 15, 1864. She was
educated at the Whitefield high school, and studied music— for which
she had a passionate love from childhood—with J. M. Sartwell of
Whitefield, Martha Dana Shepard and B. J. Lang of Boston, Mass.,
received instruction in harmony from Stephen J. Emery of Boston, and
fitted for teacher of vocal music in public schools with Professor Holt
of Boston. She commenced teaching instrumental music in Whitefield
sixteen years ago, and continued until her marriage with Charles F. Bing
ham, of Littleton, January 3, 1884, when she removed to the latter town
and has since been engaged as instructor in vocal music in the public
schools of both towns, and her work in this direction has been pro
nounced by competent judges as second to that of no other teacher in
the state. She also teaches large classes of private pupils in instru
mental music, having scholars from all the towns in that vicinity. In
addition to her recognized skill as a pianist, she is also an accomplished
organist, and officiates in that capacity at the First Congregational
church in Littleton. Mrs. Bingham is favored with physical health and
endurance commensurate with her professional equipment and ambition,
hence her ability to accomplish so much work and meet all the varied
demands upon her time and skill. Her best efforts are put forward at
every proper time and place to advance the Art of Music and educate
the masses.
HATTIE M. O. BINGHAM.

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��IN the preface to the genealogy of the Pickering family are these
words concerning their first American representative : " Many true
and distinguished men and accomplished women now living, can claim
John Pickering as an ancestor worthy of them." He went from
Massachusetts to Portsmouth (then Strawberry Bank), N. H., as early
as 1633, having originally emigrated from England. Fanny Elizabeth
Pickering, daughter of Hazen and Martha (Drew) Pickering, was born
in Barnstead, but early in life moved with her parents to Concord,
where she was educated. She was graduated from the high school in
1865, as valedictorian of her class, and was also valedictorian of the
class of '67 at Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass. This was the last
class at the seminary taught by Lucy Larcom. Since graduation she
has been actively connected with the New England Wheaton Seminary
Club. In 1874 Miss Pickering was married to James Minot, a veteran
of the 140th New York Volunteers, and cashier of the Mechanicks'
Bank in Concord, the city where they have since resided. Mrs.
Minot's sympathies were early enlisted in the work of the Woman's
Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army, and when E. E. Sturtevant
Relief Corps was organized, she became a charter member, and was its
first treasurer, and has also served as president. She was elected presi
dent of the Department of New Hampshire in 1893, having previously
been department secretary and instituting and installing officer. In
the national organization, she has served as assistant inspector, and
was a member of the National Executive Board, W. R. C., in 18o4-'95.
She has been officially identified with various other charitable and mis
sionary organizations, and is much interested in educational and
literary matters.

MRS. JAMES MINOT.

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��BELLE MARSHALL LOCKE.

ONE of the most successful of the few worthy teachers ot expression
and vocal culture in New Hampshire is Belle Marshall Locke, a
native of Lancaster, wife of City Marshal G. Scott Locke, of Concord.
In her early school days she was noted for the facility and power which
she manifested in recitation. Favored also with fine musical gifts, she
was a prominent figure on the local operatic stage when a mere child.
She also early developed decided literary talent, and was a prolific con
tributor to popular publications while yet in her teens. After her mar
riage, which was an early one, she determined to thoroughly fit herself
for the field of labor toward which her natural endowments so strongly
impelled her. A year of study under the celebrated Edna ChaffeeXoble was followed by a complete course and graduation with the high
est honors from the N. E. Conservatory College of Oratory, under Prof.
S. R. Kelley, in 1884, and this supplemented by a year of special
instruction by the renowned Leland T. Powers. With such equip
ment, it is not strange that Mrs. Locke should win the remarkable suc
cess which has characterized her labors as a teacher of dramatic and
elocutionary art. Aside from her numerous pupils in Concord and
vicinity, she has taught large classes for several years in Lawrence,
Mass., and is now similarly engaged in Haverhill. Many of her pupils
in elocution have won wide public favor, and some of her dramatic pupils
are sustaining leading parts in popular companies. Last season she was
engaged at Hanover in "coaching" the prize-speaking contestants, and
was the instructor of the Dartmouth Dramatic club, which acceptably
presented " David Garrick" under her direction, as she has also suc
cessfully directed the presentation of numerous plays and operas in
various places in the past few years. Nor has her pen been neglected.
She has written ballads, operas, and comedies, her last important pro
duction, "A Modern Desdemona," being pronounced by the best critics
one of the brightest of American comedies.

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�MRS. EVARTS W. FARR.

ELLEN FRANCES BURPEE FARR was born in New Hampton,
November 14, 1840, and was the only daughter of Augustus and
Sarah Glines (Robinson) Burpee. She was educated in the New Hamp
ton Institution and at Thetford (Vermont) Academy, returning at the
age of eighteen to fill the position of teacher of drawing in the New
Hampton Institution. The 19th of May, 1 861 , she was married to
Capt. Evarts W. Farr of the Second Regiment Volunteers, then in
camp at Portsmouth, and in a few days he marched to the field of
battle where the next four years were spent, with only occasional
visits home on account of disabilities. His record for bravery and his
distinguished services for his state are well known, and his early death
while a member of congress was widely mourned. As a resident of
Littleton, Mrs. Farr was actively interested in every movement for the
social, educational, and material improvement of the people, and con
tributed largely for their advancement. She inherited literary and
artistic talents of a high order, and during her residence in Washing
ton was a pupil of L. M. D. Guillaume, the celebrated French artist,
and other noted instructors, and after the death of Major Farr she
adopted the profession of an artist and has been recognized as a
superior painter in her line. She has been a resident of Pasadena,
Cal., for ten years, and her originality and poetic talent, added to
her artistic ability, have made her a leader in social affairs. She
is especially proud of having translated the letters and papers from
the French engineers that were of great assistance to Mr. Marsh
while building the Mount Washington Railway. She was officiallv
connected with the California Board of Lady Managers of the Chicago
Exposition, and her pictures in the California building won high praise.
Mrs. Farr has been the mother of three children, all born in Littleton :
Ida Louise, now Mrs. Edwin C. Miller; Herbert Augustus: and Edith
May, whose sudden death in June, 1 89 1 , caused so much sorrow.

��IDA FARR MILLER.

IDA LOUISE FARR MILLER is the eldest daughter of the late
Hon. Evarts Worcester Fair, of Littleton, and Ellen Frances
Burpee, his wife. She was born in Littleton, April 26, 1863, and is
a descendant of many of the early settlers and Revolutionary heroes
of her native state and Massachusetts, among them Presidents Dunster
and Willard of Harvard College, and Major Simon Willard, whose
name is inscribed on the famous Endicott stone at The Weirs. She
is also proud of being a descendant of Susannah Johnson, of Charlestown, N. H,, who wrote the sketch of "The Captivity by the
Indians and French of James Johnson and Family," which took place
in Charlestown, N. H., in 1754. Her education commenced in the
schools of her native town, was continued at the Convent of Mercy,
Manchester, N. H., and subsequently special courses were taken in art
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at Wellesley College. Resi
dences at Washington during the congressional career of her father, and
in the south, as well as Boston, have given her social advantages that
are especially valuable in her present club work. Although artistic
and literary in her tastes, Mrs. Miller is best known as a club woman,
and possessing tact, graciousness, and executive ability, she has held
high offices and is a power wherever associated. She is an hereditary
life member of the National Mary Washington Association in Wash
ington ; a Daughter of the American Revolution ; member of the
Woman's Relief Corps ; president of the Melrose Woman's Club; was
the originator and is a vice-president of the society of '. New Hamp
shire's Daughters;" associate chairman of the lecture committee of
the Women's Industrial and Educational Union, Boston ; the Cosmos
Club, Wakefield ; Wellesley Record Association, and many other organ
izations. In 1884 she married Edwin C. Miller, son of Henry F. Miller,
the celebrated piano manufacturer, and now resides in Wakefield, Mass.
There are two children, Barbara and Henry Franklin, 2d.

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HATTIE MAE BALCH HARRIS.

** RINGERS are born not made." Hattie Mae Balch Harris,
vj when very young, showed remarkable musical talent, inher
ited from her Balch ancestors, several of whom were public singers.
At the age of sixteen she received vocal instruction with Mrs. Annie W.
Porter, of the New England Conservatory. Her progress was rapid,
and she had a fervent desire to make music a profession. In 1886.
in Concord, she began her study in earnest, singing frequently in
public, always receiving the warmest applause and most flattering press
notices. Desiring the best, in 1888 she went to Boston and studied
with Madam Hall, George L. Osgood, and Gertrude Franklin. While
there she received a position in the First Baptist church in Concord,
where she was very warmly received. During this time she sang in
Clinton, Mass., in a ladies' quartette, of which she was first soprano,
and was received so well that a large class was formed for her and an
offer of the position as soprano in the First Congregational church,
which she successfully filled for two years, when she engaged with the
Pilgrim church of Worcester. With many regrets and kind words from
the Worcester church, she returned two years later to her former posi
tion in Clinton, which was now her home, she having been married to
Dr. Edwin L. Harris, of that place. Mrs. Harris is a very successful
teacher, combining the best points in the different methods she has
studied. As a soloist she ranks very high, sacred music being her
specialty. She has an unusual attraction for children and young peo
ple. All religious bodies find in her a ready helper. She is a wholesouled, happy woman, busy, yet giving her time, talent, and one tenth
of all her income in charity. She was born in Groveton, November 1 1,
1866, the daughter of Austin A. and Mary (Whipple) Balch. She is
a credit alike to the musical profession, the cause of Christ, and the
women of the old Granite state.

��JANE ELIZABETH HOYT, M. D.

THE first thoroughly equipped woman physician, " native and to
the manner born,'' to establish a permanent location in practice in
New Hampshire's capital city, is Jane Elizabeth Hoyt, daughter of Sewell
and Elizabeth (Nichols) Hoyt. Few physicians, even of the male sex,
have commenced their professional work with so complete preparation,
or attained such high measure of success in a corresponding period of
time, as has characterized the opening of Dr. Hoyt's career. After
attending the Concord public schools and passing four years at Wellesley, she completed the full four years' course at the Woman's Medical
College of the New York Infirmary, a course, it may be stated, so
exacting in its requirements that of eighteen students entering with
her but five were graduated. Dr. Emily Blackwell is dean of the fac
ulty of the institution, and the noted Mary Putnam-Jacobi one of the
members. During the last year of her course she enjoyed the special
advantage of being second assistant in the New York Infant Asylum.
Graduating in 1890, she spent the following summer abroad, visiting
the noted hospitals of Great Britain. On her return she became house
physician at Laselle Seminary, Auburndale, Mass., and at the same
time had the advantage of daily clinical instruction at the hands of
Harvard professors at the Boston dispensary. After a year's expe
rience here, she was for another year interne at the New England
Hospital for Women and Children. Following this, she spent a
year in continental Europe, with close study of practice in the best
hospitals of Paris, Vienna, and Italy, enjoying the instruction of the
best living physicians and surgeons. With such equipment as this,
she commenced practice in June, 1893, in the fine old home on State
street where she was born, and, as might naturally be expected, has
won success and established a reputation far superior to that of most
older practitioners. Although in full general practice. Dr. Hoyt nat
urally gives special attention to the diseases of women and children.

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�LAURA WENTWORTH FOWLER.

N" O woman is belter known in Boston's musical and club circles
than Laura Wentworth Fowler, daughter of Amasa and Susan
(Nowell) Wentworth, born in Somersworth, June 1 1, 1837. She is a
descendant of Elder William Wentworth, from whom LieutenantGovernor John, and Governors Benning and John, Wentworth also
descended. Four of her ancestors fought at Bunker Hill, which admits
her to the Daughters of the American Revolution. She early displayed
rare musical ability, and at the age of eleven began to play the organ
in church. Graduating from Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., in
1860, where she taught music during her course, she took charge of
the musical department of Lagrange Female College, Tennessee, but
returned North in a year on account of the war, and became teacher of
mathematics, languages, and music in the Concord (N. H.) High
School. During her second year here, she was called to the musical
department of Monticello Seminary, Illinois, remaining four years.
Returning East she took charge of the departments of music and
painting in Elmira College, New York, which she directed successfully
until her marriage, six years later, with William Fowler, a gallant
officer of the Union army during the war, who died November 26,
1874. Subsequently she taught eight years in Kentucky. Mrs. Fowler
has superior literary as well as musical abilities, and is a prominent
member of the N. E. W. P. A. She is a life member of the Bostonian Society, being the first woman admitted ; a member of New Hamp
shire's Daughters, director of the Massachusetts Federation of Wo
man's Clubs, and vice-president of the General Federation of Clubs
of America. She is also connected with a score of other clubs and
organizations, among which her favorite is the Abbot Academy Club,
of which she is president and founder. Mrs. Fowler is endowed with a
charming personality, and her chief characteristics are tact, will, en
ergy, and enthusiasm.

��EMMA S. HOWE, known throughout New England as a gifted
singer, a superior teacher, and a most charming young woman,
was born in Wolfeborough, and is a loyal daughter of that beautiful
lakeside town, though her parents, Thomas Wentworth and Abbie
(Nutter) Howe, were from Rochester, the former having died in 1890.
At eight years of age she began to study the piano, and later, at the
New England Conservatory, her vocal powers were developed so thor
oughly as to warrant a request from the faculty for her appearance at
the commencement concert. On this occasion she rendered the diffi
cult Polonaise from Mignon with marvellous effect, and from that time
her success was assured. While in New York the following spring,
then barely eighteen years of age, she accepted the position of leading
soprano in Plymouth church. Here she won warm friends and admir
ers, who deeply regretted her determination to reappear in concert
work. In 1882 she toured New England with Gilmore's band, making
a decided success. Colonel Mapleson pronounced her voice one of
rare sweetness and accuracy, saying: "She is the only American
singer I have heard who can sing the part of the Queen of Night in
the Magic Flute. Miss Howe has been teacher of vocal music for
seven years at Wellesley College, and three years at Wheaton Semi
nary, at the same time giving private instruction at home to large
numbers of pupils. She also sang for five years in the choir of the
Union Congregational church, Boston. In the summer of 1895, Miss
Howe and her mother travelled in Europe. In London and Paris her
voice gave much pleasure to well-known musicians. In Austria she
visited Baroness Von Wallhoffen (Pauline Lucca), who was warm in
her praise upon hearing her sing, and while there she was invited to
sing in opera before the emperor, but the time of her departure ren
dered this impossible. Miss Howe is a valued and interested member
of " New Hampshire's Daughters."

EMMA S. HOWE

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��MARTHA A. HAYES SAFFORD.

NOT often are towns able to retain the more distinguished of their
daughters to the years of their womanly prime, but this good
fortune is given to Farmington by Mrs. Safford, the well-known artist.
She is a daughter of Israel and Anne (Edgerly) Hayes, and descended
from notable people, of whom one was Col. Thomas Tash of the Rev
olution. At the age of eighteen she was married to James Fearing
Safford, formerly of Maine, a veteran of the Civil War. One son, now
arrived at manhood, blesses the happy union. Inheriting refined and
artistic tastes, and encouraged by her husband, she devoted close
attention to painting and crayon portraiture, under excellent teachers,
for the years succeeding her marriage, and has become one of the best
instructors in her specialties, in New Hampshire, and one of the
most respected of the skillful artists counted as children of the old
Granite state. She sketches from nature almost invariably, and adds
to her unusually correct drawing a fine sense of the fitness of things,
and an enviable eye for color. With the magic of her brush, a scene
which has pleased us is set again before us, in outline true, and in its
own beauty of tint : still may we feel the charm of flower and leaf,
the glowing sphere from the willing tree, and the lesser globe and oval,
from shrubs here and there invite us, and still does the fruit of the vine
hold the delicacy of its virgin bloom: while every accessory of a pic
ture has received its meed of attention from the conscientious artist.
Yet not through all these comes her chief pleasure, for more than
the simple delight of the eye is the recalling of the features of those
whom we "have loved long since, yet lost awhile," in which Mrs.
Safford is especially gifted, working often from the faint shadows of
some old and imperfect portrait, and completing a likeness which
is priceless. Any good artist may portray well from life, but one
whose intuition of the spirit is allied to the skill of eye and hand
offers to us the gift of genius.

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�WHEN we affirm that one possesses the soul of genius, we have
touched the foundation on which greatness is built. Evange
line Larry possesses in a large degree, both by nature and education,
the elements which combine to make the true and successful musician.
To know her and understand her temperament, is to recognize that
she belongs to the class of artists who win honor and fame. Though
born in Weston, Mass., in 1872, she removed to Penacook, N. H.,
soon after, where her father, Rev. John Hale Larry, was actively inter
ested in educational work, and it was in the Granite state that she took
her first violin lessons, when eight years of age, and commenced the
development of her wonderful musical powers. Subsequently the fam
ily removed to Providence, R I., where her study became methodical,
earnest work, her parents deciding to fit her for a professional career.
For several years she has been a student with Herr Kneisel of Boston,
and to-day she is the most prominent violin teacher in Providence.
As a concert violinist she fills many engagements ; she plays with fine
artistic taste and finish, possessing to an unusual degree that rare qual
ity, soulfulness. Her musical insight and interpretation lend great
charm to her rendition of the classics, while her coloring of some deli
cate bits of composition, is wonderfully dainty and exquisite. Miss
Larry is modest and unassuming, with a sweet graciousness of manner
which wins many warm friends. Musically considered, she is doing a
phenomenal work for one so young. Strongly devoted to her art, it is
her plan to broaden her culture by study in Europe. She has the ideal
home environment, where she has been carefully nurtured and edu
cated. Her musical ability has been used in pleasant cooperation with
her father in his ministerial duties. Her summers are spent with the
family at " The Manse," their summer home at Penacook.

EVANGELINE LARKY.

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��MRS. SMALL presents a signal instance of the sterling qualities
of the genuine daughter of the Granite state. She was born
in Alton. November 12, 1837, of parents descended from the early
settlers, and from soldiers of the Revolution. She has been married
twice; first to George Jones, who died in 1864, at Hilton Head, S. C.,
while acting as wagon master in the Fourth Regiment, N. H. Vols.,
leaving one son, who resides with his mother in a charming home in
Farmington ; and second to Edmund B. Small, formerly of Maine,
and a veteran of the Civil War. Mr. Small suffered from the effects
of army life, and died in 1887, to the regret of a wide circle of friends.
Mrs. Small conducts an extensive business in millinery and fancy
goods, and also has charge of the imposing Small block, with its
stores and public halls. With home duties always first, she has been
not only an excellent daughter and sister, a conscientious wife and
mother, a generous and loyal friend, and an enterprising woman of
business, but has been prominent in various beneficent orders, and is a
charter member in nearly all to which she belongs. She has served as
state superintendent of work with soldiers and sailors in the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union: as grand vice templar in the Good
Templars ; upon the executive board of the Woman's Relief Corps in
the Department of New Hampshire, and has been the junior and
senior vice-president of the organization, although refusing absolutely
to become president, and has been a delegate to the national encamp
ment, beside filling various other positions. She acts as past noble
grand in the degree staff of the Daughters of Rebekah, and for five
years has been the mistress of exchequer in the supreme assembly of
the Pythian Sisterhood, whose gatherings she has attended in distant
cities. In the performing of her many duties Mrs. Small is dignified
and earnest, giving to them a sagacious and devoted attention.

LUCY A. RICKER SMALL.

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�THERE are diverse types of admirable womanhood in New Hamp
shire, but the one that is perhaps the most truly representative,
is the woman who " looks well to the ways of her household," who is
a sympathetic wife and mother, yet who keeps in touch with the out
side world by intelligent reading, and is always ready to lend a hand
for the good of the community in which she lives. This characteriza
tion, so especially applicable to the subject of this sketch, fits many a
daughter of the commonwealth who deserves a place in any record of
New Hampshire women. Amelia E. Bennett was born October 26,
1827, in Dummerston, Vt., to Aden and Angeline (Houghton) Bennett,
but in early childhood she came to New Hampshire with her widowed
mother and two brothers. She had the best education then obtain
able, and being an exceptionally bright pupil, she grasped everything
within her reach. She taught most successfully from the time of leav
ing school till her marriage, October 24, 1847, to Charles Parker of
Lisbon. Although Mrs. Parker was never physically strong, she has
dispensed a generous hospitality through a long married life, not only
to friends but to strangers, and those in need. Of her four children,
three are now living, Mrs. A. B. Woodworth, Harry E. Parker, and
Mrs. T. J. Walker. These children will never forget the lessons they
learned in human rights from the household discussions of the mother
and father, who ardently embraced the anti-slavery cause when it was
an unpopular one. Mrs. Parker's fondness for intellectual improvement
is evinced by the fact that after her children were married and gone
from home, she took up the Chautauqua literary course for four years,
doing more than the prescribed work, thus enjoying late in life the
means of culture longed for, but impossible of attainment at an earlier
time. Mrs. Parker is not only benevolent and friendly, but she is of a
deeply religious nature, being an active and influential member of the
Congregational church.

MRS. CHARLES PARKER.

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��MARY PARKER WOODWORTH.

WHEN a full collegiate training for women was an unproved
experiment, and Vassar college had just opened its doors for
their benefit, the first New Hampshire girl availing herself of its advan
tages was Mary Parker, daughter of Charles and Amelia (Bennett)
Parker, of Lisbon, born at Sugar Hill, May 3, 1849. With a strong
ambition for intellectual attainment, she made early advance in study,
and was greatly encouraged in her purpose to secure the best obtainable
education by that great New Hampshire educator, the late Prof. James
W. Patterson. She fitted for college at St. Johnsbury (Vt.) academy,
the only girl in a class of nine, six of whose members entered Dartmouth,
and became a member of the Sophomore class at Vassar in 1867, grad
uating in 1870 with the first class honor. After graduation, she taught
in St. Johnsbury academy and at St. Agnes Hall, Bellows Falls, Vt.
September 30, 1873, she married Albert B. Woodworth. a prosperous
young merchant, then just established in business at Concord as head
of the since successful firm of Woodworth &amp; Co. where she has since
resided. Neglecting in no degree the duties of domestic and social
life. Mrs. Woodworth has done much literary work, has been an ardent
patroness of art and music, was actively instrumental in the organization
of the Concord Choral union of which she is vice-president, is a mem
ber of the Vassar and Collegiate Alumnae associations, has been twice
president of the Boston Branch of Vassar Alumna.', and is an active
member of the Concord Woman's club. She is chiefly distinguished,
however, as the first and only woman member of the Concord school
board, to which she was elected for three years in 1890, and re-elected
in 1893, and in which position she has demonstrated the peculiar
fitness of woman for participation in educational affairs. She is a
devoted member of St. Paul's Episcopal church, and the mother of
three children, two sons and a daughter, the eldest, Edward K.. being
a member of Dartmouth college, class of '97.

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�THOROUGH, conscientious, and excellent literary work has made
the name of Frances Matilda Abbott conspicuous upon the roll
of prominent New Hampshire women. Miss Abbott is the eldest
child and only daughter of John and Matilda (Brooks) ADbott, and
was born in Concord, in the house where she now lives. Her fathers
family were among the pioneers of the town, and on her mother's side
she is a descendant of the Brookses, Boylstons, and Cogswells of
Massachusetts. Her father, familiarly known as "Honest John
Abbott," was six times elected mayor of Concord. Her mother
was a woman of superior intellectual ability, who received a part of
her education at Brook Farm under the tutelage of George Ripley and
other eminent men and women associated with that movement. Miss
Abbott was graduated from the Concord High School in 1875. She
took freshman college work with Mr. Moses Woolson, and entered the
sophomore class of Vassar college, from which institution she was
graduated in 1881. She early gave evidence of literary ability, and at
the age of fourteen was a paid contributor to Our Young Folks, at that
time the leading juvenile monthly in the country. Since then her
articles have been accepted by the Forum, New England Magazine,
Cosmopolitan, Wide Awake, Frank Leslie's, and other periodicals of
national repute. She has contributed extensively to New Hampshire,
Boston, and New York newspapers. For the past six years she has
been the guest of Vassar college during commencement week, report
ing the exercises for the Poughkeepsie and New York papers. She
belongs to the Association of Collegiate Alumnae and to the Boston
branch of Vassar Alumnae. She is a life member of the historic Con
cord Female Charitable Society and the Woman's Auxiliary to the
Y. M. C. A., and is active in many forms of local club and philanthropic
work. She is prominently identified with the Shakespeare clubs of
Concord, and is much interested in historical matters.

FRANCES M. ABBOTT.

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��IN the retirement of pleasant homes in Concord and Warner,
Almira R. (Andrews) Harriman divides the seasons of her latter
years. Warner is the town of her nativity, where, as the daughter of
Noah Tyler and Sally Bean Andrews, she was born, November 8,
1819. Nurtured amid healthy influences, she grew up to be a brave,
modest, amiable woman, of mental culture, well-poised judgment, and
a congenial spirit, conducive to happy companionship. She had
adaptation to the work of instruction, and won success as a teacher.
In 1844 she became the wife of Walter Harriman. She was the grace
and strength of his home, —that home in which the husband, amid all
his high achievements and honors in civil and military life, ever found
his best enjoyment. Though her retiring disposition has always
strongly prompted the avoidance of publicity, yet she has lent a gracetul compliance with social requisitions reasonably made upon her, as
the wife of a distinguished orator, general, and governor. During the
dark days of the Civil War, when husband, son, and brothers were
at the perilous front, she bore her part in the trying hours with that
undaunted courage which was conspicuous even in her childhood.
With an unfaltering faith in the triumph of the Union cause, she lighted
up the gloom of many a home, and cheered by her presence the hearts
of Union men around the midnight camp-fire. With the quiet service
of affection—that supreme thought and purpose of her life—has
abounded a wisdom, whose salutary counsel has ever been sought and
prized by all within her range of influence. Self-forgetfulness is the
key-note of her existence. With her, the chief privilege and pleasure
of living has been in serving others.

MRS. WALTER HARR I MAN.

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��LILIAN CARPENTER STREETER.

IN the choice of Lilian Carpenter Streeltr as its first president, the
New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs acted wisely and
well. An accomplished and thoroughly womanly woman, she is a fit
leader of the movement, which, involving no aggressive campaign for
further rights and privileges for her sex, contemplates the best and
highest development of woman's powers in every legitimate direction.
A native of the town of Bath, daughter of Associate Justice Alonzo P.
Carpenter of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and Julia Goodall,
a descendant of one of the most noted families of Northern New
Hampshire, she has been a resident of Concord since her marriage, in
1877, with Mr. Frank Sherwin Streeter, now a leading member of the
New Hampshire bar. During all these years, while faithful to every
requirement and situation of an exceptionally happy home life, every
worthy social, educational, and philanthropic movement brought to her
attention has commanded her earnest sympathy and active support.
As the prime mover and organizer of the Concord Ramabai Circle, as
a trustee of the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital, as leader of an
earnest band of " King's Daughters," as a devoted member and
teacher of the Unitarian Sunday-school, and as founder and the first
president of the Concord Woman's Club, she has given true, devoted,
and unselfish service in every relation, at the same time fulfilling
every demand of the social life of the capital city, of which she is one
of the brightest ornaments. A leader in the Woman's Club move
ment, Mrs. Streeter was also the first New Hampshire woman to labor
for the cause of federation, and was state chairman of correspondence
for New Hampshire with the General Federation of Women's Clubs
for two years. She was appointed by Governor Busiel, in 1895, a
member of the New Hampshire Commission to the Atlanta exposition.
Mrs. Streeter is the mother of two children, Julia and Thomas Winthrop, the former now a student at Bryn Mawr.

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�THE Whitcomb family is one of the most notable in the history
of southwestern New Hampshire, has figured conspicuously in
the civil and military history of the state, and has been especially
prominent in the old town of Swanzey. A worthy representative of
this family is Lucy J. Whitcomb Carpenter, daughter of Col. Carter
Whitcomb, born during his temporary residence at Saxton's River,
Vt., March 9, 1834, but removing to his native town of Swanzey two
years later, where she has ever since resided. She was educated at
Mount Caesar Seminary, in Swanzey, under the instruction of Prof.
Joseph C. Barrett, and Rev. S. H. McCollister, D. D. June 14, 1864,
she was united in marriage with George Carpenter, of Swanzey, since
prominent in political circles in the state as a leader of the Greenback
and Labor party organizations. Soon after the Chautauqua literary
and scientific course of study was instituted both Mrs. Carpenter and
her husband took up the course and were members of the Ashuelot
C. L. S. C. for eight years, graduating with many seals attached to
their diplomas. Subsequently they pursued the University course of
study in the People's College, under able professors. Mrs. Carpenter
has fine literary ability and poetic talent. She was a leading spirit in
the organization of the Mount Caesar Library Association, which occu
pies the old seminary building, purchased and donated to the associa
tion by Mr. Carpenter. She is an active member of the order of
Patrons of Husbandry, has held various offices in Golden Rod Grange
of Swanzey, and served efficiently as lecturer of Cheshire County
Pomona Grange. She is an interested member of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, claiming eligibility from her illustrious great
grandfather, Col. Jonathan Whitcomb, who fought at Lexington and
Bunker Hill. Her kindly greeting and gracious manner add a charm
to the generous hospitality of " Valley View," their pleasant farm
home on the slope of Mount Caesar, overlooking Swanzey Plain.

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�MONG the practical, helpful lives, illustrating the character of
£\_ New Hampshire womanhood, is that of Mary R. Sanborn of
Laconia, daughter of Rev. Abram and Mary (Harriman) Sanborn,
born in Sanford, Me., but a resident of the old Granite state, in which
her father was born, since infancy, her childhood's home being in the
town of Ossipee. Her great-grandfather, Daniel Sanborn, Jr., was a
Revolutionary soldier, and one of her brothers—a heroic youth, not
fifteen years of age when he enlisted in the Sixth New Hampshire Reg
iment—lies buried at Arlington ; hence her warm interest in the wel
fare of the soldiers of the republic. Educated at North Parsonfield,
Me., and the Masonic school at Drake's Corner, Effingham, she taught
successfully several years, but subsequently adopted the occupation of
writer and copyist, in which capacity she has been actively engaged at
Laconia for twenty-five years, the last five years as policy writer in the
insurance office of Melcher &amp; Prescott. She is one of the few women
in the state holding the office of notary public, having been commis
sioned by Governor Tuttle in 1 891 . Miss Sanborn is a member of
John L. Perley, Jr., Relief Corps; has represented the corps in
department convention, and the department in national convention.
She was the first New Hampshire woman obligated in the Relief
Union, auxiliary to the Union Veterans' Union; was appointed
national installing officer; instituted Rosanna W. Beaman Relief
Union, No. 1 , of Laconia, of which she was the first president ; was a
delegate to the national convention in Boston, and elected national
president in August, 1893; labored with great zeal and efficiency for
the welfare of the order, and was reelected president at Rochester,
N. Y., in 1894. Throughout her busy, unostentatious life Miss San
born has ever been mindful of the needs of others, and many a young
girl, through her sympathy and encouragement, has found the way to a
career of usefulness and success. In religion she is a Unitarian.

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�HARRIETT E. DANIELS.

IN these days of progress, when women are engaging in all lines of
business activity, the woman who gives practical business instruc
tion to others is especially worthy of recognition. Miss Harriett Eliza
Daniels, of the Daniels and Downs private school for shorthand, book
keeping, etc., at Manchester, though a native of Massachusetts, has
been a resident of Manchester since early childhood. She is the daugh
ter of Joel and Eliza (Roach) Daniels, one of her ancestors being Asa
Walker, of Ashby, Mass., a soldier of the Revolution. She was educated
in the Manchester public schools, graduating from the High school with
excellent rank. With a strong liking for business she became book
keeper in her father's store, but left this position for that of moneyorder clerk in the Manchester postoffice under Postmaster J. G. Dear
born, during President Cleveland's first term, where she served effi
ciently and made many friends. While here engaged she took up the
study of shorthand in her leisure moments, thoroughly mastering the
Pitman system. On leaving the postoffice she took desk room with
A. J. Lane, and opened an office for general stenographic work and
typewriting. Her success was marked, and she determined to open a
school of stenography and typewriting in connection with her business,
receiving both young ladies and gentlemen as pupils, and in the spring
of l892, Mrs. Clara Bennett Downs was associated with her, and the
present successful school established, giving thorough instruction in
stenography, typewriting, bookkeeping, and general business. It has
been largely patronized, and many of its graduates are expert stenog
raphers and accountants. Miss Daniels is characterized by remarkable
energy and enterprise, and has been extensively engaged in court and
general stenographic work.
She was a founder of the Manchester
Shorthand Club, has been secretary from its foundation in 1892, and
was a member of the World's Fair Auxiliary Corps, Congress of Sten
ographers. She is secretary of Ruth Chapter, No. 16, Order of the
Eastern Star.

��MRS. CLARA L. DOWNS.

MRS. CLARA LOUISE (BENNETT) DOWNS, of the firm
of Daniels &amp; Downs, proprietors of the Daniels &amp; Downs pri
vate school, at Manchester, is New Hampshire born and bred, being a
native of the town of Milford, the youngest of a large family of the late
Rhodolphus D., and Mary (Woodward) Bennett, highly respected citi
zens of that town. She comes of good old Revolutionary stock, her
father being a direct descendant of the famous Captain Job Shattuck,
who during the entire war evinced great courage and bravery, and gave
both money and service for the patriot cause. She attended the Milford schools, graduating with honor from the high school after a four
years' course. She engaged for a short time in teaching in her native
town, but, impelled by a strong desire for business life, and possessing
an aptitude for the work of an accountant, she went to Manchester,
where she was employed in important positions as accountant, in the
service of different firms, always giving the highest satisfaction; so
that Superintendent Buck in writing of her, says : "Mrs. Downs, by
vears of practical service as accountant for leading business houses in
the city, has attained an enviable reputation as an expert in her depart
ment." During her business career she had sought to advance herself
as far as possible in her line, studying with Professor Bacon, a French
teacher, Prof. H. F. Morse, expert accountant, and Prof. N. L.
Hickok, of Boston. She is one of the original members of the
National Organization of Accountants, started in Detroit, Mich. In
April, 1892, a partnership was formed, for the purpose of conducting
a private school, for book-keeping, shorthand, etc., with Miss Harriett
E. Daniels, this being the first of the kind managed by women in this
section of the country, and one of the most successful, while their
general office work is highly commended. She married Capt. Frank
L. Downs, of Manchester, October 20, 1885.

��MRS. MARGARET LAMSON GRIFFIN is a typical New Eng
land woman, of good old English stock, counting among her
ancestors William Wood, one of the first settlers of Concord, Mass.,
author of that very bright book, "New England's Prospects,'' published in
London in 1 635 ; Major Simon Willard, another of the distinguished men
of Concord in the early days, and a celebrated Indian fighter; Major
Thomas Henchman, of Pawtucket Falls (now Lowell), a distinguished
warrior in King Phillip's time ; Lieut. James Richardson, who was killed
by the Indians in battle, in 1675, and other men of note. Her grand
father, William Lamson, came from Charlestown, Mass., to Keene in
1787, established a successful business which was continued by his
son, Charles, father of Mrs. Griffin, and built in 1804 the house where
she was born, where she still lives, and where her children were born,
her grandchild being of the fifth generation of one family living in the
same house. On the first day of January, 1863, in the midst of the
dark days of the war, she married Colonel, afterwards Brevet Major
General, S. G. Griffin, and they have two sons. Mrs. Griffin is a
woman of great executive ability, presides with tact and dignity, has
been president of the Ladies' Aid Society in her parish for twenty
years, secretary of the Charitable Society of Keene for about forty
years, is active in the W. C. T. U., is one of the trustees of the
"Mercy Home," at Manchester, and president of the "Woman's
Auxiliary" of the diocese of New Hampshire, which she represented at
the General Triennial Convention at Minneapolis in 1895. It is said
of Mrs. Griffin, by those who know her well, that she presides over one
of the most charming homes in that charming little city, Keene.
MRS. S. G. GRIFFIN.

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��MARY L. (NOYES) PRESCOTT, wife of the late ex-Governor
Benjamin F. Prescott, is a native of the town of Atkinson, a
daughter of Jefferson and Nancy (Peart) Noyes. She removed with
her parents to Concord in early childhood and her home was in that
city until her marriage. She was educated in the Concord schools and
at Atkinson academy. Her marriage occurred June 10, 1869, since
when her residence has been at the Prescott ancestral home in Epping.
Mrs. Prescott is a thoroughly domestic woman, and her life work has
not been directed in public lines, except that during her husband's
term of office as chief magistrate, there were many important public
and social occasions of note in which she necessarily participated,
maintaining her position with dignity and grace. Notable among
these occasions was the visit of President Rutherford B. Hayes and
family, with several members of his cabinet, and other distinguished
persons, to this state, in August, 1877, when a four days' trip among
the New Hampshire lakes and mountains was made. In the spring of
1878 Governor and Mrs. Prescott visited Washington, and were enter
tained at dinner at the executive mansion, as well as by Secretary of
State Evarts, and other notables. They received much attention
while at the capital, especially from New Hampshire people there. In
November, 1878, they visited Montreal, attending the reception and
ball in honor of the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise, and being
specially honored, as the only Americans present. At the centennial
celebration at Bennington, in 1877, and at the dedication of the Ben
nington Battle monument in 1891, they were also present. Governor
Prescott in his official capacity as president of the Bennington Battle
Monument association. Since Governor Prcscott's death in Febru
ary, 1895 (his burial occurring at Concord February 26), she has
lived quietly in the Epping home. Their only child, Benjamin F.
Prescott, Jr., is a member of Phillips Exeter academy, class of 1897.

MRS. BENJAMIN F. PRESCOTT.

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��LIKE most New Hampshire women Mrs. Frederick K. Folsom
(Harriet French Tuttle) is essentially a home-maker, and she
cares little for public life, though her connection with the New Hamp
shire's Daughters Club, of which she is the efficient corresponding
secretary, has brought her somewhat prominently forward as a daughter
of the Granite state in Boston, where she resides in the Dorchester
district. Mrs. Folsom is the daughter of ex-Governor Hiram A., and
Mary C. (French) Tuttle, and was born in Pittsfield January 17, 1861.
She is directly descended from John Tuttle, who came to New Hamp
shire from England in 1 641 . Her grandmother, Judith Mason Davis,
was a descendant of Samuel Davis, a Revolutionary soldier. The
family on both sides have had their home in New Hampshire for gen
erations. Miss Tuttle was thoroughly educated, was a student of
Wellesley college, and has travelled extensively in our own and other
countries, having spent the year 1888 abroad. In the following year
she married Mr. Frederick K. Folsom of Dorchester, Mass., where
she has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Folsom have one child, a bright
and handsome boy named for his honored grandfather— Hiram Tuttle.
Mrs. Folsom is talented in many directions. She is a fine reader and
has entertained the public in that capacity most acceptably upon many
occasions. She has also a taste for painting and has studied the art
with J. J. Enneking. Her summers are always spent at the old home
in Pittsfield.
MRS. FREDERICK K. FOLSOM.

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��MRS. JOHN B. SMITH.

NEW HAMPSHIRE has had many ladies who have graced official
life, but no one has occupied a more ideal place in the public
eye than Mrs. John B. Smith, of Hillsborough. Miss Emma Lavender
(Mrs. Smith) was born at Lansingburg, N. Y.. on the banks of the
Hudson, February 20, 1858. She was the daughter of Stephen and
Sarah Butler (Millis) Lavender. The Lavenders are of direct English
descent, Mr. Lavender's parents having come from Kent county, Eng
land. Miss Lavender received a fine education in the public schools
of Chelsea, Mass., and at the seminary for young ladies at Plainfield,
N. J. She is a woman of well-trained mind, and broad general cul
ture. On November first, 1883, she was married to Hon. John B.
Smith, of Hillsborough Bridge. Their three children are Butler Lav
ender, who died at St. Augustine, Florida, at the age of two years;
Archibald Lavender, and Norman. In early life Mrs. Smith became a
member of the Ruggles Street Baptist church, Boston, and she has
ever been active in all good works. She belongs to New Hampshire's
Daughters, and the Charity Club, of Boston, to the Merrimack
Valley Congregational Club, the New Hampshire Historical Society,
and the W. C. T. U. For many years she was president of the latter
organization. She is a trustee of the Mercy Home, at Manchester,
and superintendent of the primary work in the church at Hillsborough.
Those privileged to know Mrs. Smith in her delightful home have long
been aware of her accomplishments and amiable qualities, but in 1893
and 1894, during Governor Smith's term of office, these qualities were
brought into wide public recognition. Never has more charming hos
pitality been dispensed by a chief magistrate and his wife. In a public
way, at the capital, and at their own beautiful home at Hillsborough
the Smiths have entertained hundreds of friends from all parts of the
state. Of tall and graceful figure, gentle and gracious manner, Mrs.
Smith adorns any position which the state or nation can offer.

��JANE GRACE ALEXANDER, daughter of Edward and Lucy
J (Capron) Alexander, and direct descendent, in the fourth genera
tion, of Reuben Alexander, who was a Captain in Colonel Ashley's regi
ment, which marched to Ticonderoga in October, 1776, was born in
Winchester, October 26, 1848. She received her education in her
native town, and was a successful teacher for several years. Early in
life she commenced keeping books in her father's office and, later on,
was active in the management of his business. She entered the Win
chester National Bank as general assistant, in 1871, but soon after
assumed the duties of assistant cashier, which position she has filled
for twenty-two years. So fully did she win the confidence of the peo
ple, by her integrity, capacity, and good sense, that in 1881 she was
elected treasurer of the Security-Savings Bank of Winchester, which
office she now holds, and is believed to be the first woman to occupy
this responsible position. Miss Alexander bears the burdens of a man,
yet is as broad and charitable in her ideas as the best of women, true as
steel in her friendships, and allows no small gossip to interfere with
her work or her life. She is a member of the Universalist church, ever
ready to sustain and support its interests with her sympathy and gen
erous aid. She has been superintendent of the Sunday-school fifteen
years, and considers it her best and happiest field of labor. She is
also treasurer of the school district, trustee of the public library, and
first Worthy Matron of Electra chapter, No. 19, O. E. S. Her home
is one of the landmarks of Winchester, a large white manor house, in
the colonial style, set many rods back from the street, and noticeable
for its antiquities, its avenue of fine maples, and its beautiful deep
lawn. Miss Alexander is devoted to the interests of her home and
spares neither tune nor money in the preservation of the homestead, of
which she is justly proud.

JANE GRACE ALEXANDER.

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��MRS. ALEXANDER SALVIN1.

T~)RETTY little Maud Dixon" is the manner in which this clever
\- young actress is spoken of, and a dainty bit of femininity she
is in every-day life. Maud Dixon (now Mrs. Alexander Salvini) although
born on the other side of the ocean, was brought to this country when
an infant, and therefore knew no other home than Concord, where she
was reared and educated. When very young she developed rare musical
abilities, and was sent to the New England Conservatory of Music, where
she came directly under the care of the late Dr. Eben Tourgee, who
greatly encouraged her to adopt the operatic stage. Her first appear
ance in public was in 1882 in " Iolanthe," when that opera was given its
first production in America at the opening of the Bijou theatre in Boston.
Then followed a season in the same company on the road in repertoire,
when she was under-study for the leading soprano roles. She soon ex
perienced a desire to enter the legitimate drama, and, much against the
advice of her teacher, discarded singing for the attractions at the Union
Square theatre. New York, where she appeared in several metropolitan
successes. Here she remained for several seasons when an opportunity
presented itself to enter the company of the elder Salvini, in which she
acquitted herself successfully in each role. Young Salvini was a member
of the same company, and the acquaintance thus formed ripened into a
happy marriage October 7, 1893, in Cleveland, O. For many seasons Miss
Dixon, in the support of that versatile, romantic actor, Alexander Salvini.
from Maine to California, has made friends and admirers by her consci
entious work and her pleasing personality. In the summer of '93 she
made her first visit to the home of her ancestors in Leeds, Yorkshire,
England. She is connected on both sides with notable personages, Sir
Rupert Kettell. well known in British court circles, being a near relative
of her father. In 1894 Mrs. Salvini accompanied her husband to his
Italian home. The elder Salvini is delighted with the marriage of his
son to this charming New Hampshire girl.

��ENDOWED with rare personal charms, a fine stage presence—tall
and "most divinely fair."—an exquisite voice and gracious man
ner, few women of her years ever more delighted an audience than the
gifted young reader and elocutionist, formerly Edna L. C. Little of
Nashua, now Mrs. Houck of Penn Yan, N. Y. Miss Little is a native
of Lisbon, but resided in Nashua from childhood until her marriage
some two years since to E. S. Houck, a prosperous young business man
of Penn Yan. She is the daughter of Milo Little, a Union soldier
and member of Post 7, Nashua, and Maria (Carleton) Little, a worthy
woman and an active worker in the cause of the veterans. Graduating
from the high school at the age of seventeen she began the life of a
teacher; but, her health not warranting its continuance, she took up
the study of music and elocution, as well as painting under the best
teachers in Boston. To her study of elocution and physical culture,
faithfully practised, she owes her present excellent health. She gradu
ated with honor, and the degree of O. Ii., from the Emerson School ot
Oratory in 1 89 1 , and soon became a successful teacher and popular
public reader, commanding engagements throughout New England, and
in the state of New York, and receiving the hearty commendation of
press and public wherever heard. Although offered important posi
tions in other states, she declined them all, retaining her Nashua home
with her parents until her marriage ; pursuing her study, teaching
classes in physical culture, and filling her constantly increasing public
engagements. Possessed of marked dramatic ability she has frequently
been urged to adopt the stage and though her inclination has not been
in that direction, she might have done so with every prospect of bril
liant success. Loving her public work, she has continued the same,
and extended her field of labor, with commensurate reward, since her
marriage and settlement in the wealthy old town of Penn Yan, in
whose social life she is already a bright adornment.

EDNA LITTLE HOUCK.

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��CLARA MARIA KIMBALL AYERS.

THE Kimball family, descendants of Joseph Kimball, of Exeter,
who settled in Canterbury in 1793, have long been conspicuous
in central New Hampshire. One of the most prominent representatives
of this family is John Kimball, four times mayor of Concord, president
of the state senate in 1881,and incumbent of various other positions
of honor and trust. Clara Maria, only child of Hon. John and Maria
H. (Phillips) Kimball, was born in Lawrence, Mass.. March 20, 1848,
but has passed most of her life in Concord, removing there with her
parents in childhood. Graduating from the Concord high school in
1865, she entered Wheaton seminary, at Norton, Mass., in September
following, and was graduated in 1868. June 4, 1873, she married
Augustine R. Avers, many years engaged in mercantile business
in Concord, but now an extensive farmer and dairyman at North
Boscawen. They have five children living, and two died in infancy.
The eldest, Ruth Ames, is now a student in Cornell University. While
faithfully attending to the multiplied duties of home life, Mrs Avers
has been active in social and benevolent organizations, and has never
failed cheerfully to respond to any reasonable call for assistance in
any worthy work or cause. She is a member and has been senior
vice-president of E. E. Sturtevant Relief Corps, of Concord : has been
treasurer of the New Hampshire department, aide of the national
president, and assistant national inspector W. R. C. She has also
served as secretary and treasurer of the lloscawen Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, vice-president of the Merrimack County Woman's
Board of Missions, lecturer of Capital Grange P. of H., and secretary
of Ezekiel Webster Grange, Boscawen. In February, 1895. Mrs.
Avers accompanied her father on a trip through the Mediterranean,
visiting Egypt and the Holy Land and the southern countries of
Europe. Her observations upon the journey have been delightfully
given in addresses before various organizations and assemblies.

��OCTAVIA M. (FARNSWORTH) COLLINS, daughter of
Cephas and Eunice Farnsworth, is a native of Androscoggin
county, Me., where her father was early identified with the manufactu
ring interests of the community. She is of English ancestry, the
seventh in direct descent from the Matthias Farnsworth who came to
this country from Farnsworth, Kent county, England. The family is
one of the oldest, the crest on the coat of arms indicating service under
the Plantagenets. On the maternal side she is a descendant of Hugh and
Bryce McLellan, of Portland and Gorham, Maine, representatives of an
old Scotch family. To Sir Hugh McLellan of Argyle was given its coat
of arms in 1645. The McLellans came to America from Londonderry
Ireland, about 1730, and became well known for their sterling integ
rity, enterprise, and thrift. Rev. Elijah Kellogg, a cousin of Mrs.
Collins's mother, has told their story in the " Struggles of my Grand
father for a Homestead." She received a thorough education at
private schools, in Norridgewock and Brunswick, Me., at Bates college
and the Massachusetts Normal Art School, and was for years principal
of a grammar school in the city of Worcester, Mass. Subsequently
she was engaged in teaching for some time in Newton, Mass., mean
while contributing to the columns of various educational publications.
For the last fifteen years Mrs. Collins has been a resident of Franklin,
and for seven years past, has been editor and manager of the Merrimack
Journal newspaper, giving to the work a measure of industry, energy
and intelligent enterprise seldom equalled in that line of effort; greatly
improving the paper, and giving it a standing and circulation superior
to most papers of the same rank in the state. She is the Franklin
agent of the Associated Press, and she is an active member of
the New England Woman's Press Association. She has one son,
Farnsworth, fourteen years of age, in whose education she is deeply
interested.

MRS. O. M. COLLINS.

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��MRS. CHARLES H. SAWYER.

SUSAN ELLEN, daughter of Dr. James Wellington and Elizabeth
(Hodgdon) Cowan, descended from Peter Coffin who came to
Dover in 1636, and Major Caleb Hodgdon of Revolutionary fame, was
born in Dover, August 13, 1839, educated in the public schools of her
native city, and at Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass. She was mar
ried February 8, 1865, to Charles Henry Sawyer, governor of New
Hampshire 1887-89. Their children are William Davis, married
Gertrude, daughter of Hon. Joshua G. Hall of Dover; Charles
Francis, married Gertrude, daughter of Hon. Henry W. Severance,
of San Francisco; James Cowan: Edward; Elizabeth Coffin. The
three elder sons are alumni of Yale University. William and Charles
are associated in business with their father. James is taking post-grad
uate studies at Harvard, Edward is an under-graduate at Yale, and
Elizabeth is a member of Mrs. Stearns's School at Amherst, Mass.
Few women have been so blessed and happy in their domestic life as
Mrs. Sawyer. She is a generous and delightful hostess, welcoming
many guests in her home in Dover, and during the summer months she
is the center of happy companies in the cottage on the beautiful heights
at York. She is a devoted member of the First Church, president of
the Woman's Auxiliary to the Y. M. C. A., in which position she has
been remarkably efficient and helpful ; Regent for the Dover Chapter
of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a
member of the Colonial Dames. Mrs. Sawyer has traveled widely,
and is happily conversant on topics of home and foreign interest. She
combines great strength of character with rare womanly sensibilities.
She reminds one of the saying of Ruskin : "The best women are
indeed necessarily the most difficult to know: they are recognized
chiefly in the happiness of their husbands and the nobleness of their
children : they are only to be divined, not discerned by strangers."

��A RARE combination of tact and ability, in Maria Louise Eastman,
made her one of the most successful teachers in the country.
Although not a native of the Granite State, she was essentially a New
Hampshire woman, her father, Robert Eastman, being a native of Con
cord, and the great-grandson of Ebenezer Eastman, one of the first set
tlers of the town, and an officer of the colonial forces at the siege of
Louisburg, while her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Lee, was of the best
Southern blood, and a kinswoman of the Virginia Lees. Miss East
man was born in Brunswick, Me., and enjoyed superior educational
advantages, attending the excellent young ladies' school there, con
ducted by Miss Chapman, and being specially favored otherwise
through her father's connection with Bowdoin College. The family
subsequently removed to the ancestral home in East Concord, and Miss
Eastman engaged in teaching, first in the town of Newport, and later
in Concord, where she conducted a private school several years, estab
lishing an excellent reputation. Securing a fine position as teacher in
a young ladies' school near Media, in that state, she removed to
Pennsylvania, and entered upon a career which proved remarkably suc
cessful. She was instrumental in the establishment, and was for a
time associated in the management of the famous Brooke Hall school
at Media, but subsequently became sole proprietor and principal of
this institution, which, under her management, became one of the
most noted young ladies' schools in the country, and which she
conducted until a few years before her death, February 17, 1895.
An efficient teacher. Miss Eastman was also endowed with great
business capacitv. She made her school profitable, and acquired a
large property; but her benevolent nature impelled her to contribute
largely for the benefit of worthy causes, and her total benefactions are
said to have exceeded $100,000. She was a devoted Episcopalian, and
a zealous worker for the Union cause during the late war.

MARIA L. EASTMAN".

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��ELLEN BEAL MOREY.

ABBIE ELLEN BEAL, or Nellie Beal, as she was familiarly
called, was born in Orfordville, N. H., of parents who were
descended, on both sides, from Pilgrim stock, while the family lineage
has been traced back for several generations in England. When a
mere child she evinced that passion for music which has been the
dominating influence in her life, playing from memory at four years of
age selections from one of Palestrina's masses, which she had heard
her father perform upon the pipe organ, then, as now, a part of the
family establishment, and becoming, at eleven, organist of the village
church. Before fifteen she had fitted herself, with her mother's assist
ance, to enter one of the best schools in Massachusetts, which she did
one year in advance of the usual course. At eighteen she commenced
the study of music with Junius W. Hill of Boston. In 1874 she mar
ried Mr. Herbert E. Morey of Maiden, going abroad two years later
to pursue her studies in piano forte, organ, and theory, with Paul and
Reinecke of Leipsic, and Dr. Theodore Kullak of Berlin. Subsequent
seasons were spent in Rome, Florence, Milan, and London, in the
study cf vocal music and instrumentation. Returning to America,
Mrs. Morey organized a chorus and orchestra, which she herself con
ducted, being the first woman in America to use the conductor's baton.
For 20 years she has played the organ and had charge of church
music, teaching unremittingly during tl.e week. Her extensive travel
has brought her thoroughly in touch with the musical and artistic
centres of Europe, while her intense disinclination to the life of a
public performer has caused her to give up many opportunities which
would have made her name a famous one. She has five children, the
eldest being at school in Europe. Mrs. Morey is in the very prime of
life, a vigorous, handsome woman, entirely free from self-conscious
ness. Her summers are generally spent among the Alps, yet her heart
is loyal to her own "Switzerland of America"—New Hampshire.

��MRS. HENRY W. BLAIR.

DURING the eighteen years' service of ex-Senator Henry VV.
Blair in the congress of the United States, wherein he initiated
and championed various measures of commanding importance while
neglecting none of the calls of his constituents in other directions, he
was encouraged and sustained in his public work, as in his ready
response to the demands of social and professional life, by a loyal and
devoted wife, who had also given him strength and inspiration in his
previous years of service in the Union army in the war against rebel
lion. Eliza Nelson Blair is a native of Plymouth, daughter of Rev.
William and Dolly Sumner (Elliott) Nelson. Her father was a Metho
dist clergyman of great ability, one of the early "circuit-riders,'' who
settled in Plymouth when he retired from active ministerial labor.
She was educated in the Plymouth schools and at Newbury (Vt.) Sem
inary. While the one great fact in which Mrs. Blair takes pride, and
which she deems the honor of her life, is that she has been her hus
band's wife, sharing his desire to help the people—all the people,
regardless of race, sect, or condition, and encouraging him in all his
efforts to that end, she has a distinct individuality, and is a power
for good in the social and intellectual world. She has been an active
member of the "Woman's Anthropological Society," the "Garfield
Memorial Hospital," and the "National Association for the Advance
ment of Science" at Washington, of the " Interrogation" and " His
toric Art'' Clubs of Manchester, and the " Manchester Federation of
Women's Clubs," and is the first vice-president of the New Hamp
shire Federation, recently organized. A year ago she gave to the
world, through Lee &amp; Shepard, the now famous novel, " Lisbeth Wil
son," which has been generally pronounced one of the best and most
wholesome stories of New England life and character ever produced.
She has one son, Henry P. Blair, a graduate of Dartmouth and a law
yer in Washington.

��FANNY HUNTINGTON RUNNELLS POOLE is directly de
scended from the early Huntingtons of Connecticut, who have
given us Governor Samuel Huntington, Jedediah Huntington in poetry,
and Daniel Huntington in art. She was born in Orford, and is the
daughter of Rev. M. T. Runnells, well-known as pastor and historian.
In June, 1895, she published the successful book of verses entitled, "A
Bank of Violets,'' which has already secured the favorable considera
tion of forty reviewers in America and England. She has received
appreciative letters from several of the literati, among them Pierre Loti,
I. Zangwill, and John Gilmer Speed, who is a grandnephew of John
Keats—one of her favorite poets. Mrs. Poole attended the seminary
at Tilton two years. She is a musician ; much of her early life
having been devoted to piano study begun under her mother's guid
ance. Eleven years were spent in music study and teaching in Boston,
New York, Frankfort (Ky.), and at the Parkesburg (Pa.) Classical
Institute. Her repertoire is extensive; Beethoven and Chopin are
her especial delight. Indeed, had it not been for her absorbing love for
literature she would have chosen the profession of pianiste. But the
poetry and charm of a quiet life appeal more directly to Mrs. Poole. In
1 89 1 occurred her marriage with Allan A. Paul Poole, a nephew of the
English historical painter, Paul Poole, R. A. Mrs. Poole and her
children have spent the last few summers near her fathers home at
Newport. Although Boston is her winter home, the long bright days
from May to November have usually found her, from earliest youth,
among the beautiful New Hampshire hills she loves so well.
MRS. FANNY H. R. POOLE.

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��MISS MARY D. FIFE.

ONE of the best known firms in Manchester is that of M. D. Fife
&amp; Co., dealers in pianos and organs, occupying spacious quar
ters in the new Weston building. The head of this firm, Mary Doro
thy, daughter of John D. and Mary (Fowler) Fife, was born in Fenacook, educated at Penacook Academy, studied music with Professors
Jackman and Morey of Concord, and commenced teaching and playing
the organ in church at fifteen years of age. Subsequently she went
West, studied voice culture with her aunt, Mrs. L. M. Dunn, long
one of the most noted teachers of Chicago, piano with celebrated
German instructors, and taught for three years. Returning to New
Hampshire, she engaged for a time in teaching but her services
were soon sought by a piano and organ house at Laconia, on
account of her musical ability and knowledge of instruments. Accept
ing this position, and also playing the organ in church, teaching
music, accompanying at concerts, etc., she remained at Laconia until
1885, when she went to Manchester and established the firm of M. D.
Fife &amp; Co. Her father was for a time associated with her, but for
several years the business, which is the largest in the state, and the
only one in this line conducted by a woman, has been managed
entirely by herself. Meanwhile she has pursued her piano studies in
Boston, with Warren A. Locke, exponent of the Deppe Method, and
taught the same extensively in Manchester. Her practical knowledge
of the piano and the merits of the various makes, is of great ad
vantage to herself and patrons, and by her persistent efforts to
induce the purchase of the best instruments, she has contributed
greatly to the elevation of the musical taste of the community. Miss
Fife has been an earnest supporter of all measures promotive of musi
cal culture and progress, and first gave impulse to the movement
culminating in the recent symphony concerts in Manchester, and the
organization of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Society.

��AMONG the musically gifted daughters of New Hampshire, Katherine Prescott Crafts may justly claim a place in the foremost
rank. On her father's side she is a direct descendant of Col. William
Prescott of Bunker Hill fame, and on the side of her mother, claims
kinship to Mary Scudder, immortalized in the " Minister's Wooing."
The talent that has been her best heritage, and aided by her great
energy has given her an enviable place in the musical world, comes
from no remote ancestry. Her father, David Porter Prescott, was
long conspicuous in musical circles, possessed a voice of great com
pass and sweetness, and was recognized as one of the best tenors New
Hampshire has known. By the death of her mother, when she was
but four years of age, Katherine was left to the care of her father.
Singing as naturally as the birds in spring, but one career was sug
gested for her. She received her early education in the public schools
in Bristol, her native town, and studied French and German later with
private teachers. She began the study of music in Boston in 1885,
receiving the best instruction the city afforded. Obstacles were pre
sented but they were quietly but firmly overcome. Her voice, a high
soprano, became with cultivation one of rare purity and sweetness. She
declined flattering opportunities to sing in concert and opera, preferring
the excellent church positions offered. Among these may be noted
the First church. Maiden: the Unitarian, Concord, N. H. ; and the
First Congregational. Melrose, while her last engagement was with the
Union Congregational, Boston. To study her art abroad has been a
dream of her life that she hopes yet to realize. June 17, 1895, in the
little home church in Bristol, Katherine White Prescott was married to
William Howard Crafts of Boston, and their home is in that city. Mrs.
Crafts is one of "New Hampshire's Daughters," and takes a very
active interest in the Association.

KATHERINE PRESCOTT CRAFTS.

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��KATE HOWARD BROWN, daughter of Nathaniel Bennett and
Lydia Wardwell Crockett, was born in the town of Andover.
Maine, July 17, 1853. Her family descended from good old New Eng
land stock. Her great-grandfather, Joseph Wardwell, was an officer
in the Revolutionary War, and a personal friend of General Lafayette,
who presented him with a sword. Both grandfathers fought in the
War of 18 1 2. In her young womanhood her parents moved to Boston,
Mass., where she commenced the study of art, which she has pursued
with much diligence since. In August, 1874, she was united in mar
riage with Gen. F. P. Brown, a merchant of Whitefield, N. H., where
they have since resided. She was converted in 1880, since which time
she has been active in all lines of Christian work. She is a Chautauquan of the class of '86. For many years she has been actively con
nected with the W. C. T. U., has several times been reelected Cobs
county president ; was delegate to the National Convention at New
York in 1888; the World's W. C. T. U. Convention at Chicago in
1893; and the Third Biennial Convention held in London in 1895,
at which time she made a tour of Europe. She has been trustee of
the Mercy Home in Manchester since its establishment.
Being
blessed with robust health, she has been enabled to accomplish
a great deal in her domestic life which is her chief delight.
MRS. K. P. BROWN.

��OTH paternal and maternal grandsires of Emily Allen Bruce, Rev.
were among the early
settlers of Wolfeborough, N. H. Here she was born and received her
early education, becoming proficient in French and Latin, as well as
the higher English branches. While yet very young, through the in
fluence of her elder brother, then a student in Harvard Theological
school, she was appointed teacher in the Dudley school, Roxbury,
where she taught until her marriage with George E. Bruce in 1866.
Five prosperous and happy years followed, during which two beautiful
boys came to perfect the home. Two years later Mrs. Bruce was
childless and a widow ; and the great Boston fire of 1872 had destroyed
her husband's flourishing business. Happiness being denied her, she
resolved to be useful, to fill her life with intense activity. To this end
she received into her family a number of young people of literary and
artistic tastes, and made for them a veritable home : took up the study
of the German language, drawing, and painting, pursuing these studies
with undiminished zeal until 1881, when, feeling that still greater use
fulness was possible to her, she resolved to study medicine, and the
same year entered Boston University School of Medicine, from which
she graduated with honors in June, 1884. A month later found her in
Paris, where, in hospitals, clinics, and medical lecture rooms, two most
busy and fruitful years were passed. Soon after her return home Dr.
Bruce settled in Boston and has since devoted herself with unabated
enthusiasm to her large and ever increasing practice. Possessing by
nature the instincts of the scholar and philanthropist, she has from
early life identified herself with scientific, literary, and charitable asso
ciations ; is at present member of the Educational and Industrial Union,
Associated Charities of Boston, New England Woman's Club, National
Society of Electrotherapeutists, Societi Francaise d'Electrotherapie,
and various other medical and non-medical organizations.

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��THE daughters of New Hampshire have had many worthy repre
sentatives among the verse-writers of America, none of whom
has manifested a deeper insight into nature and the human heart with
all its longing aspirations, or a closer touch with the Infinite, than
Mary Helen Boodey, "the sweet singer of Laconia," whose life song
ended here, on the twenty-ninth day of April, 1880, but the pure,
spiritual beauty of whose verse will touch the heart of the reader for
many a year to come. Miss Boodey was born in Dover, December 11,
1847, and subsequently resided in Alton, but passed the greater por
tion of her life in Laconia, where her father, the late Jacob P. Boodey,
whose death preceded hers but a few weeks, was many years register
of deeds for the county of Belknap. Her poems, written at intervals
from her fifteenth year till the close of her life, appeared in various
publications in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the first in the
Boston Home Journal. The later productions of her pen, both in
verse and prose, were presented through Ballou's Monthly, of which
she was an assistant editor from 1871 until compelled to retire from ill
health. Although a strain of sadness often pervaded her verse, there
was also a deep well-spring of joy in her soul, the stirring of whose
waters by some tender emotion carried good cheer to other hearts,
while her trust in the Eternal was ever-abiding, as strikingly manifest
in the beautiful poem, "After I Die." Her sensitive nature was
burdened and oppressed by the sight and sound of the world"s harsh
experiences, which eventually crushed out her young life ; yet the
same chord which shuddered and trembled at the cry of pain was as
sensitive to the sweet note of the song-bird, and as easily attuned to
joy as to sadness. It is the hope of many that the scattered produc
tions of this sweet singers pen may yet be collected and preserved in
enduring form. No worthier contribution could be made to the per
manent literature of the state.

MARY HELEN BOOUEY.

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��MISS C. R. WENDELL has always resided in Dover, the place
of her birth. On the paternal side she is of Dutch ancestry,
her father, Daniel H. Wendell, Esq., being of the same stock as Wen
dell Phillips and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Wendell family is
contemporaneous with the old Knickerbocker families of New York,
Evert Jansen Wendell, the original ancestor in this country, having
emigrated from Holland and settled in Albany about 1640. Her
mother, who was a woman of remarkable strength of character, was
descended from the English family of Jennings. In early womanhood,
Miss Wendell's life was heavily shadowed by the death of an only
brother and sister. The former was a prominent surgeon in the War
of the Rebellion, and died a few years after its close from the over
work and exposure of army life. Inheriting a strong love for benevo
lent and reform movements, Miss Wendell's life has been a busy one.
She is a woman of strong individuality and progressive thought, pos
sessing keen perception and fine executive ability, combined with quick
sympathy, broad charity, and a consecrated spirit. For thirteen years
she was corresponding secretary of the New Hampshire Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, and devoted herself with untiring zeal to
the work of the organization, much of its steady and successful growth
being due to her efforts. She was chiefly instrumental in securing the
passage of the Scientific Temperance School law and has labored earn
estly for its enforcement. In 1892 she was elected state president which
position she still holds ; and she is also president of the trustees of
the W. C. T. U. Mercy Home for girls at East Manchester. Miss
Wendell is an active member of other philanthropic societies, a thor
ough believer in equal suffrage and always ready to aid any cause that
has for its object not only the advancement of her sex but the better
ment of humanity.

I
CAROLINE R. WENDELL.

229

��MRS. FRANCES B. SANBORN, one of the most scholarly,
cultured, and intellectual of the daughters of New Hampshire,
was born in Littleton, November 15, 1 841 . From her parents, Henry
Adams Bellows, late chief justice of the supreme court of the state, and
Katherine Walley Bellows, the daughter inherited an estate in literary
and intellectual gifts, in refinement of character and taste, in a sympa
thetic nature, and delicacy of moral perception. Her father removed
to Concord in 1850, and Mrs. Sanborn attended the public schools in
that city. In 1861 she entered the sophomore class of Antioch Col
lege, Ohio, of which her uncle, the late Thomas Hill, D. D., was
president. Under his instruction she went through the course of study,
and made up the work of four terms in one, and graduated in 1863.
In 1872 she was married to Hon. Chas. P. Sanborn, a brilliant lawyer,
once speaker of the house of representatives, and identified with the
political interests of the state. Mr. Sanborn died in 1888, leaving
three children. With an indomitable will, with wide learning, and an
extraordinary gift at inspiring the love of learning in others, and a
happy facility of imparting knowledge from her own abundant stores,
Mrs. Sanborn has for fifteen years conducted a private school in Con
cord, given instruction to private pupils, and carried on classes for
ladies in history, literature, and art. Her classes have represented the
best culture in the city, and her personal influence has been far-reaching
for good. In 1894 she began giving talks on subjects of literary, his
torical, and social interest in Concord, Keene, Franklin, Manchester,
and other places. These talks grew out of a demand, consequent on
her success with her classes for ladies, and now meet with steadily in
creasing appreciation.

FRANCES 1i. SANBORN.

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��ELLEN THOMAS LIBBEY, daughter of Henry and Eveline
Thomas, was born at Littleton, September, 1843. From girl
hood she was possessed of rare common sense, —a gift heaven born.
She also combined that gentleness and strength of character which go
to make up our finest women. For some years she was a teacher in
the public schools of Whitefield, where she met, and. in 1865, married
Mr. Henry C. Libbey of that town, who is extensively known as one
of the foremost lumber merchants of the state. In 1890 they came
to Lisbon, where they now reside. Their home is one of the finest
residences in New Hampshire. Mrs. Libbey has been actively
engaged in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
and at the present time she occupies the position of trustee of the
"Mercy Home," in Manchester. Her generous giving of time and
money for the uplifting of humanity, has endeared her to the affec
tions of many a lowly, suffering soul. She has travelled extensively
in her own country, and many of her friends have listened with pleas
ure to her description of Yellowstone Park. Pike's Peak, and other
places, as seen by her during a recent extended journey through the
West. Mrs. Libbey is seen at her best in her own home, where she
presides with rare gentleness and dignity. Those who have shared
her hospitality, and felt there the tender warmth of her genial nature,
realize best the true woman she is. Her marriage has been blessed
with four children—Mrs. Blanche Langford of Littleton, Herman
Libbey of the same town, Miss Grace, a student in Tilton Seminary,
and Miss Ethel, who is still at home.
MRS. HENRY C. LI BUY

233

��FEW lives have been deeper and stronger in reform and philan
thropic work than Urania E. (Brackett) Bowers. She was born
in Amherst, Mass., September 13, 1835, the daughter of Charles and
Lucy Brackett. Her ancestors came from Scotland, and settled in
North Haven, Conn. John Brackett, her grandfather, was for six
years in the Revolutionary war, and was at Saratoga when Burgoyne
was taken. Mrs. Bowers's youth was passed in Holyoke, and her early
education received in the public schools of that city. Later she entered
Williston Seminary at Easthampton, residing in the family of Hon.
Payson Williston, a relative by marriage. Desirous of becoming a
teacher, she entered the Normal school at Westfield. Her success in
teaching in the Holyoke public schools proved the wisdom of her
choice. In 1858 she was married to Dr. George Bowers of Nashua, a
man who stood high in his profession, and whose noble principles
made him a wise counsellor and assistant in all her work for humanity.
Mrs. Bowers is one of the most active women of Nashua in the ad
vancement of morality and religion. She was president of the
W. C. T. U. of Nashua for five years, and was successful in establish
ing a reading-room for young women. It was largely through her
efforts that a matron was secured on the police force. She went be
fore both branches of the city government to present the necessity of
such an appointment. She has been superintendent of the literature
department in the state W. C. T. U. for three years, and local seven
years, and was delegate to the Chicago World's Fair convention as a
representative of the county of Hillsboro. As a church member she
is active, serving for several years as deaconess on the board of
stewards in Pilgrim church. Her firm adherence to principle and de
termination to do what is right have made her successful in all her efforts
for character-building. Her only child. Dr. G. A. Bowers, is a graduate
of a university in Pennsylvania, and a successful dentist in Nashua.

235

��MRS. MIRANDA TULLOCH, daughter of Ahira and Eliza
beth Pillsbury Barney, was born in Grafton, December 18,
1835. Her great-great-grandfather, Aaron Barney, with five others,
bought the entire township of Grafton ; and her grandfather. Jacob
Barney, was the first child born in the place. Her great-great-grand
father, Edward Evans of Salisbury, was a graduate of Oxford Univer
sity, England, and a distinguished officer in the Revolutionary War.
His commission as Adjutant, 2d Reg., N. H. Militia, is dated July 18,
1777, and signed by Meshech Weare, President of the State Council,
at Exeter. Miss Barney studied at the Fisherville, Andover, and Ca
naan academies, and finished at Sainte Marie, Canada. She was mar
ried to Charles R. Swain of Belmont, who died in 1862. In 1863 she
went to Washington in the service of the New Hampshire Soldiers'
Aid Association, and labored earnestly until the close of the war.
She married in 1866 Hon. Thomas L. Tulloch of Portsmouth, one
of the most prominent citizens of her native state, and continued to
reside in Washington, where her husband held prominent government
positions. Mr. Tulloch died in 1883, and their child. Henry V.
Tulloch, is now a student at Princeton University. Mrs. Tulloch
passes her winters in her pleasant home in Washington, and her
summers in travel, of which she is very fond. She has been several
years President of the Ladies' Aid Association of the Metropolitan
M. E. Church, of which she is a member; President of the District
Home Missionary Society ; officially connected with the Garfield Me
morial Hospital ; Deaconess, Home and Sibley Hospital ; Children's
Hospital: Training School for Nurses; Woman's Christian Associa
tion ; Old People's Home : Foreign Missionary Society, etc. ; Vicepresident-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and
an active member of the Anthropological Societies. Mrs. Tulloch is
a woman of strong character and marked executive abilities.

MRS. THOMAS L. TULLOCH.

237

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�CLARA AUGUSTA JONES was born in Farmington, N. H.,
within a half mile of the childhood's home of the late Vice-Presi
dent Henry Wilson, and was the daughter of Jeremiah Jones, and his
wife, Tamson Roberts. Her grandmother on her father's side was the
accomplished daughter of Col. Crane, an officer in the British army,
and a lineal descendant of Henry, Earl of Surry. Her maternal
grandfather served in the Revolution and at the close of the war walked
home from Charleston, S. C.. barefooted, with a handful of worthless
Continental money to recompense him for long years of hard and
perilous service. Clara Augusta was the child of her father's old age,
and a very precocious child, as well. Her first published article ap
peared when she was but thirteen years of age. and since that time she
has written continuously, for newspapers, magazines, and periodicals
without number. Perhaps her best known articles are the "Kate
Thorn " papers and essays, which have been copied widely, as well as
translated into several languages for use in foreign periodicals. The
Lippincotts of Philadelphia published a volume of her poems some
years ago, and she is the author of several humorous books, the most
noted of which is "The Adventures of a Bashful Bachelor." Nearly
eighteen years ago she was married to Mr. Elbridge S. Trask, and
resides in Framingham Centre, Mass., in one of the old historic
mansions of that charming suburban town. Mrs. Trask is a member
of the New England Woman's Press Association, of the Daughters of
New Hampshire, of the Gen. J. G. Foster W. R. C., of the Framingham Woman's Club, and a well-known worker in the order of the
Patrons of Husbandry. She is still in the literary harness, and finds
herself often pressed for time to meet her numerous engagements.

CLARA AUGUSTA TRASK.

239

��MRS. L. M. DUNN was born in Pembroke, daughter of Joel
and Lois (Morgan) Fife. Her father had a remarkable tenor
voice, and led the choir in his native town for thirty years. From him
she inherited her great musical gift, possessing a grand soprano voice,
which musicians will readily recall. At ten years of age she stood
beside her father in church and carried the soprano, and at fourteen
was one of the leading sopranos in Dr. Bouton's church in Concord.
During ex-President Bartlett's ministry at the Franklin Street church,
Manchester, she was the soprano for a term of years, and subsequently
at Church Green, Dr. Dewey's in Boston. She inherited from her
mother literary and artistic tastes, and received diplomas for crayon
work in three states. She studied with the most eminent vocal
teachers in this country, and spent two years abroad, investigating the
vocal methods there. The climax of her studies was with Madam
Cappiani, unquestionably the greatest teacher in this country, whose
instruction she enjoyed for three years. She has been twice married :
first, to George Bradley, a son of the late Hon. Richard Bradley of
Concord; and later, to Hon. James F. Dunn, of Galesburg, 111. This
was at the breaking out of the Civil War, and Mr. Dunn, being a per
sonal friend of Governor Yates, they were invited to go down to the
battlefield of Shiloh, immediately after the battle, and Mrs. Dunn was
the first woman on that field. She went as a guest of Governor Yates,
but the suffering of the wounded soldiers enlisted her sympathies to
such a degree that she nursed them during the passage up the river to
the hospitals. She was president of the Soldiers' Aid Society, and
her grand voice was heard weekly in entertainments to raise funds to
send supplies to the hospitals. Since the death of Mr. Dunn, she has
lived in Chicago, and is one of the noted vocal teachers in that great
western metropolis.

��THE daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Plumer Cilley, Mrs.
Waldron, was born in her father's pastorate in Manchester.
Early removal to Boston, Mass., caused her to be educated almost
wholly in that city, through schools, private tutors, and the paternal
study full of books. To descent from the well known Plumers and
Cilleys, she adds that from Frosts, Sherburnes, and Pepperells of colo
nial note, through her mother, formerly Miss A. A. Haines, a favorite
preceptress in the Parsonsfield, Me., and Strafford Academies. She is
a charter member of the D. A. R., a state officer of the YV. C. T. U.,
belongs to the club of N. H. D., the N. E. W . P. A., and the Pascataqua Congregational Club. Her marriage to John Waldron, Esq.,
of Farmington, took place in 1871, and of their two daughters the
elder, Adelaide Cecil, survives. Since her first poem appeared, in
Lippincott's Magazine, while she lived in North Carolina, her work has
been printed in many periodicals, from Harper's Magazine to first-class
daily papers, and by publishers of holiday books. Mrs. Waldron,
lacking the aggressiveness of many less gifted, is a woman of unusual
abilities and most versatile talent, writing well always, whether in verse
for special occasion, a hymn, a strong sonnet, a story for children, let
ters for newspapers, or articles carefully compiled for educational and
historical journals. She craves the best in everything, —music, art,
literature, life,—yet never refuses tasks incident to a country home.
With a splendid ancestry of gallant soldiers, her record is the brav
est of them all, for with the exquisitely sensitive temperament of a true
poet and accomplished musician, yet handicapped in many ways, she
battles patiently where others would lose courage. Full of kindly
thoughts and gentle humor, sincere to the core, a working club wo
man, a faithful friend, as a writer never lowering her standard for
popularity or pay, true always to her highest ideals, she is an honor to
New Hampshire, and a constant delight to those who know her best.

ADELAIDE CILLEY WALDRON.

243

��WOMAN'S superior capacity for imparting instruction to the
young, or stimulating the \outhful mind in the search for
knowledge, has long been recognized, and women have been more
generally employed than men as teachers in our public schools, But
woman's capacity for administration, whether in school management or
otherwise, has not been so generally conceded. A female member of a
board of education was an anomaly but a few years ago, and the selec
tion of a woman for superintendent of schools, in any large town or city,
would have occasioned universal surprise. One of the first women in
the gauntry to occupy the latter position was Mrs. Luella M. Wilson, a
native of New Hampshire, then of Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Wilson
was born in Lyman, daughter of William and Maria (Stephens) Little.
She was educated in Providence, R. 1., and at the Methodist Semi
nary and Female College at Newbury, Vt. She commenced teaching
at an early age, being engaged in country schools in northern New
Hampshire and Vermont. In November, 1866, she married Dr.
Adams B. Wilson, of Bradford, Vt., who settled in Littleton. Three
years later he died, and Mrs. Wilson removed to Des Moines, where
she engaged as a teacher in the public schools, Her first position was
in the primary grade, but her marked ability was soon recognized and
she was rapidly advanced till she became principal in the Irving build
ing, and demonstrated such capacity for school management that she
was soon made superintendent of the city schools, a position which she
filled with great success until June, 1889, when she resigned to spend
a year in travel and study in Europe. Returning to America in 1890,
she located in Chicago, where she established, and still conducts, the
Stesiin school, a first-class private boarding and day school for young
ladies, at 4106 Drexel Boulevard. Mrs. Wilson is a member of the
Illinois Woman's Press Club, and has written extensively for the press
on educational and miscellaneous topics.

LUELLA M. WILSON.

2 45

��CLARA LOUISE WASON was born in New Boston, and was the
only daughter of Sydney and Louisa (Trull) Hills. Her early
education was obtained in the country district schools, and was supple
mented by a course at Appleton academy. New Ipswich. When a
school girl she developed a taste for music, and after leaving the
academy she was a student of music at the New England Conservatory
in Boston, and became an excellent singer. In September, 1863, she
married Hon. George A. Wason, and lived upon a farm in her native
town until 1885, when she and her husband removed to Nashua, where
they have since resided. For four years Mrs. Wason was Ceres of the
New Hampshire State Grange, and has always been a devoted and con
scientious worker in this order, and many religious and missionary
societies. She is a woman of culture, and possesses rare foresight
into the future, keenly observing the problems of the day, and doing
whatever she undertakes with vigor and dispatch. Her life has been
one of activity, and her influence for the right. Her example and
accomplishments may well be pointed out as the achievement of a selfmade woman, She has three sons : Edward H. Wason, a well-known
lawyer in Nashua; George B., one of the firm of Wason, Pierce &amp; Co.,
Boston, Mass., and Robert S.,a student in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Boston.

MRS. GEORGE A. WASON.

247

��FRANCINA

THE woman who, under the adverse conditions of restricted
country life, resolutely determines to make the most of the
powers with which she is endowed, and labors persistently to that end,
despite all obstacles, is entitled to greater credit than many who, under
favoring conditions, win fame and distinction. Francina D. Smith,
born in Springfield, December 13, 1844, was one of eight children of
William P. and K. Maria Spooner Smith. Ambitious for an educa
tion, endowed with a musical nature which she longed to cultivate,
though encouraged by a kind father and true and loving mother, she
had to depend mainly upon her own efforts. While aiding her parents
largely, both in the house and on the farm, she made the best of the
limited advantages of the town school, often walking miles to attend
the same. At sixteen she commenced teaching, and in seven years had
taught eighteen terms, meanwhile securing for herself the benefit of a
few terms' attendance at Colby Academy. During one term, while
teaching, she walked three miles every Saturday to take a music lesson,
practicing all day. Another term, while " boarding 'round,'' she hired
an instrument, moving it from place to place and practicing all her
leisure time. At twenty-three she married Rufus Hall of Grantham,
receiving an organ as her husband's wedding gift, which was afterwards
exchanged for a piano. When thirty-five, and the mother of three
children, she took her first and only term of piano lessons, to secure
which she drove ten miles to meet the class, the teacher coming an
equal distance. When eleven years old, Mrs. Hall was a singer in the
choir, and for more than twenty years has been organist in the M. E.
Church at Grantham, and teacher in the Sunday-school, and for three
years superintendent. She is the mother of four children, whom
she has taught music, and has given lessons to others for many years.

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