{"1": {"fulltext": "F\\n.LnWi\\naj\\nx^\\n,6X\\\\ca\\nSketcl of \\\\-\\\\tt\\\\eton..\\nf\\n^^4,\\n^^^A", "height": "3265", "width": "2376", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class _XAA_\\nBook LlW", "height": "3255", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Republic\\nW XXXXXXX) X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX CXXXXXXXXXXXXX C C XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\\n^fi An Historical Sketch of Littleton. Its Rise and Development. The Men Who Made and Are Making Its Historr. Vf\\nX C X O XXXXXXXX XX O XXXXXX 5 XXXXX 0 XXXXXXKXXXXX C\\nLittleton, N. H., Friday, Decembek 24, 1897. 3^\\nHistopieal Introduction.\\nEarly Settlement,\\nliater Conditions.\\nRelations With Vermont\\nJWanufaeturers and Trade.\\nLiittleton of To-day.\\nBiographical Sketches.\\nThe Business JVIen.\\niii iti ii iliir ili iii Jii Ji^ iti\\nPRICE 10 CENTS.\\nCdopci Sparrow, Publishers. Compilnl li.\\\\ j. H. W albridgc.\\n^W\u00c2\u00a3.i\\nv\\nXv\\nr\\nTa", "height": "3255", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "22358\\n.L7WI", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "SUPPI-EMEN T TO\\nRepublic\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Journal\\nAn Historical Sketch of Littleton. Its Rise and Development. The Men Who M;ide and Are Making Its History. Compiled by J. H. Walbridge.\\nVol. 31.\\nLittleton, N. H., Friday, Decemuer 24, 1897.\\nNo. 16.\\nH\\nISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.\\nThe town is the natural unit of Xew\\nEngland political institutions. No-\\nwhere else on this planet is the idea of\\npure democracy, of government of the\\npeople, for the people and bj the peo-\\nple, so fully realized and attained, hence\\nthe study of the origin and formation\\nof those institutions logically begins in\\nthe history of the town. Here we can\\nbest trace the\\nformative influ-\\nences of heredi-\\nty, and of social\\nand physical en-\\nvironment ti at,\\nin the course of\\ntime, have crys- I\\ntalized into char- j\\nacter, a character\\nat once so per-\\nvasive and com-\\nmunicative that\\nit has leavened\\nthe whole mass\\nof alien and com-\\nposite citizenship\\nand shaped and\\ndominated the\\ndestinies of the\\nnation. The gaze\\nof the typical\\nA m eric a_n i s\\nsteadily forward.\\nHis mood is that of forecast ratli-\\ner than retrospect, and his motto\\nis Time past is gone for ages beyond\\nrecall the future is not mine and may\\nnot be the living present is the time\\nfor me. It is a busy and fast age, and\\nyet our fast express trains sometimes\\nstop thirty minutes for refreshments.\\nPerhaps from the historic part of Lit-\\ntleton we can ga.in some lessons that\\nwill help us in the tasks of the present,\\nand enable us to reach our future goal\\nmore surely. We propose to write a\\nsketch of the town of Littleton, as com-\\nplete as the limits of time and space\\nwill permit, and as faithful and realis-\\ntic as our limited opportunities and\\nability can furnish. We shall not hunt\\nfor missing links of microscopic size,\\nnor trace family genealogy through sev-\\nen generations. The business man and\\nthe student of today are busy men, not\\nthe progress of the town. A town is\\nlargely the product of its citizens, and\\nin representing the Littleton of today\\nwe shall present snap-shot sketches of\\nrepresentative men in all the various\\nwalks of life.\\nTHE FIRST TOWN BUILDING-From nn Old Dr.i\\\\vinK.\\nantiquarians, and liave not the time to\\ndissect the mass of immaterial facts of\\nearly biography and history, but may\\nbe interested in the salient and outline\\nfeatures, freshly presented in the col-\\numns of their favorite ])a])er. Such an\\narticle, while not aspiring to the dig-\\nnity and completeness of the forth-\\ncoming town history of Littleton, may\\nyet contain many representative facts\\nthat serve to illustrate the times, and\\nCARLY SETTLEMENT.\\nOne of the most essential requisites\\nto the prosperity of early settlers is a\\nclear title and\\nundisturbed pos-\\nsession of their\\nlands. The ear-\\nly pioneers of\\nt Littleton did not\\npossess this as-\\nsurance. The\\nland which form-\\ned the present\\ntown, like near-\\nly all the north-\\nern New Hamp-\\nshire and Ver-\\nmont towns, was\\noriginally grant-\\ned by Governor\\nBenning Went-\\nworth, of New\\nHampshire, un-\\nder authorltj of\\nKingGeorge III,\\nand subject to\\nvery interesting\\nand important conditions, non-compli-\\nance with which resulted, by the terms\\nof the charter, in the forfeiture of the\\nland and reversion to the crown. The\\nhistory of this great real estate enter-\\nprise, which involved momentous pol-\\nitical interests and the destiny of states,\\nhas never been adequately written. It\\nwas the policy of King George and his\\nministers, in connection with their sys-\\ntem of colonial taxation, to adopt a", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\ngeneral i)lan of laml donation to actual\\nsettlers, which would disperse the rath-\\ner rebellious citizens of the large towns\\nof the older settlements, and at the\\nsame time attach them to the throne\\nby ties of gratitude and self interest.\\nGovernor Wentworth was the favored\\nagent to conduct that fruitful scheme,\\nand that thrifty patriot, realizing that\\ncharity begins at home reserved for\\nliiinself five hundred acres bordering\\non the Connecticut in each of the river\\ntownships, besides certain cash perqui-\\nsites and ample allowances for his\\ntains, ponds and rivers, but many of\\nthem, in fact, exceeded these limits.\\nThe fiist towns granted in this section\\nwere Haverhill, N. H., and Newbury,\\nVt., in 17(;i, known as the Lower\\nCohos, Cohos was the Indian word\\nfor crooked, and referred to the course\\nof the river at the Ox Bow Meadows).\\nChiswick was granted to James Avery,\\nof Connecticut, and his associates, Jan-\\nuary 31, 1767. TJie conditions of the\\noriginal charter are of historic interest.\\nOne provision was that as soon as fifty\\nfamilies slidiild be I csident and settled\\nthe royal navy be preserved that a\\ntract of land in the center of the town-\\nship be reserved and marked out for\\ntown lots, each grantee to have one of\\none acre in size. One ear of corn\\nand one shilling for each one hundred\\nacres of land were to be paid on the\\n25th of each December as rent by the\\ngi-antees, but these, like other terms of\\nthe grant, were not lived up to, and the\\ncharter of Chiswick was declared for-\\nfeited for non-settlement. Benning\\nWentworth was succeeded as govei nor\\nby his ncpliew, Joliti W. WentWDrlli,\\naa II\\nBBHI\\nfriends. The township of Chiswick,\\nas it was then called, was a sort of\\nHobson s choice, a tract of land\\nsandwiched in between earlier and\\nmore favored townships above, and be-\\nlow, and containing a large proportion\\nof broken and stony ground covered\\nwith a dense growth of pine, it was re-\\ngarded with disfavor. These town-\\nships were six miles square, containing\\n23,000 acres, with an allowance of 106 i\\nacres free, for highwaj s and lands un-\\nimprovable because of rocks, nioun-\\nMAIN STRKET. LOOKING EAST\\nin town, they should have the piivilege\\nof holding two fairs each year, also that\\na market may be opened and kept\\nopen one or more days in each week,\\nas may be thought most advantageous\\nto the inh.abitants. These privileges\\nwere incontinently slighted, but others\\nnot expressed in the charter were util-\\nized. The charter demanded that each\\ngrantee jdant and cultivate, within five\\nyears, five acres for every fifty con-\\ntained in his share, on penalty of for-\\nfeiture that all trees fit for masting\\nwho was not reluctiuit to grant requests\\nfor a new charter, more ready, perhaps,\\nbecause of the liberal fees attached.\\nCol. Moses Little, of Newbury; Gen.\\nIsrael Morey, of Orford, and Alexander\\nPheli)s purchased of John Avery, the\\nprincijial grantee under the Cliiswick\\ncharter, forty-two of the Chiswick\\nclaims for a nominal sum. They ap-\\nplied to Col. John llurd, special friend\\nof the governor, to aid them in jirocur-\\ninsr a renewal of the Chiswick charter.\\nA new charter was granted, covering", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN KEPUBLIC-.IOURNAL.\\nmainly the old giouiul aiul 10,UUO aorcs\\nwhich had formerly, by mistake, been\\ngranted to Lancaster. Col. John Hiud\\nat once received the title to the 10,000\\nacres as his share of this ground floor\\nspeculation. The new town wa.s named\\nApthorp, for George Apthorp, a Lon-\\ndon merchant, one of the grantees, and\\nthe charter was dated January, 1770.\\nThe proprietors of Apthorp, more en-\\nterprising than their predecessors, soon\\nprevailed on Nathan Caswell, tlie first\\nsettler, to hazard his fortunes in ihe\\nAmmonoosuc wilderness. With his\\nily floated down the river to the fort\\nat Salmon Hole. Caswell returned a\\nfew d;iys later to find the birn burned\\nby Indians. A log hut was built, where\\nthey made their home for ten or twelve\\nyears. The distuibcil conditions dur-\\ning the Revolution hindered the settle-\\nment of the town, and as late as 1784\\nthere were but eight families and twelve\\nvoters in Apthorp. There is reason to\\nbelieve that this was one of the sixteen\\nNew Ilarnpsliire towns that were rep-\\nresented in the legislature of Vermont.\\nThe record made by these pioneers in\\nrace, Robert Churlton and James Ran-\\nkin.\\nI ITTLETON.\\nIn 1788, Trustam l^alton and Na-\\nthaniel Tracey ac(]uired the 10,000\\nacres of Col. Hurd, and petitioned to\\nhave this, with 6,000 acres obtained\\nfrom Moses Little, erected into a new\\ntown. In November, 1784, the towns\\nof Littleton and D ill on were created,\\nand each named for its leading propri-\\netor. The town grew sturdily and\\nwife and four children, he left his\\nhome at Orford, April 9, 1770, with all\\nof his household gooils on the back\\nof one horse. He passed the first night\\nat Bath, where be left the horse, and\\nat dusk on the second day arrived at\\nhis destination, a rude baiii built by\\nthe Chiswick proprietors. That night\\nanother son was born to these sturdy\\npioneers, and he was named Apthorp,\\nas the first-born of the new settlement.\\nBut Indian signs were too plenty, and\\nhastily constructing a dug-out the fam-\\nMAIN STREET. LOOKING WEST\\nthe struggle for independence is re-\\nmarkable. We find the infant settle-\\nment, with but three men sul)ject to\\nmilitary duty, sending to the front with\\nthem five boys, who served through the\\nweary contest with credit. Space for-\\nbids more than a mere reference to\\nthese brave pioneers. Prominent\\namong them were Jonathan Hopkinsoii\\nand his four sons, Capt. Caswell and\\nliis sons, and Capt. Pelig Williams.\\nOther prominent pioneers were Thom-\\nas Miner, ])rogenitor of a numerous\\nsteadily. Slowly, and with infinite\\ntoil the stalwart pioneers hewed down\\nthe giant pines, let in the sunlight on\\nthe virgin soil, and wrung from their\\nstumpy and stony fields a scanty sub-\\nsistence. Of money there was almost\\nnone, and no way of obtaining it, for\\nthere were no passable roads by which\\nthe crude products of the soil could be\\ntransported to the southern markets.\\nOf the urgent needs of the case, we\\nmay cite the statement of the town\\nagent, Capt. Pelig Williams, in his pe-", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\ntition to the Icgislaturo. He says:\\nAlthough it is eighteen years since the\\ntown began to settle, there is but nine\\nfamilies in it at this time, and there are\\nno mills in said town, nor can we get\\nat any under fifteen miles. The jiub-\\nlick road that runs through said town\\nis eleven miles in length,\\nand almost impossible to\\npass in the same, which\\nroad your petitioners have\\nto travel to get to mill, to\\nmarket, to courts, and to al-\\nmost every kind of busi-\\nness, so that your petition-\\ners have got under such\\npoor and difficult circum-\\nstances, that we can neither\\nlive in the said town nor\\nmove out of the same, ex-\\ncept your honors will inter-\\npose in our behalf. The\\ntown was authorized to tax\\nnon-residents for the pur-\\npose., and a road was built\\nby a committee, from Dalton\\ndown the Ammonoosuc val-\\nley to the town line, and another was\\nconstructed from near fabyan s to\\nconnect with the first.\\nThose primeval necessities, a grist\\nmill and saw mill, were first located in\\n1787-8 by Jonathan Eastman, on Kan-\\nkin s brook, near the present site of\\nthe saw mill and grist mill at Patten-\\nville. They were soon purchased by\\nJames Rankin, a thrifty Scotchman,\\nand later successfully operated nearly\\nhalf a century by his son. Gen. David\\nRankin. The second saw mill was lo-\\ncated at North Littleton, and. the third\\nnear the present mill of the Littleton\\nLumber Co. The second grist mill,\\nand the one which has been the main\\nreliance of the town for almost a cen-\\ntury, was built by Solomon Mann, in\\n1799. It has been renovated and re-\\npaired until very little is left of the\\noriginal mill, and is now operated by\\nJames Brown.\\ncan only offer a few dull generalities\\nto cover a long period of the later his-\\ntory. After the location of good roads\\nand mills, the nineteenth century ush-\\nered in a great influx of popiilatioii,\\nand a steady expansion of agriculture,\\ntrade and manufactures. The nianu-\\nTHE LITTLETON CREAMERY.\\nfacture of lumber and the clearing up\\nof farms were the prominent features\\nduring the first half of the century.\\nSince that ])eriod the lumber business\\nhas been continued with much greater\\nprofit by reason of railroad facilities,\\nand to this has been added some very\\nimportant specialized manufactures\\nThe cultivation of the soil has, from\\nthe earliest times, been the leading\\navocation in Littleton. Nature was\\nnot especially lavish in her agrictdtural\\ngifts. While there is a fine belt of\\nAmmonoosuc meadows, the Connecti-\\ncut affords comparatively little first-\\nrate meadow, and the larger\\nportion of the hill land is\\nrather stony and not very\\nproductive. Yet there are\\nmany good grass farms in\\ntown, and the farmers have\\nalways enjoyed a very su-\\nperior local market at the\\nvillage for all kinds of farm\\nproduce. Successive gener-\\nations have cleaned the\\nstones from the fields, to\\nadmit of the use of machin-\\nery. Less help is required\\nthan formerly to conduct the\\nfarms, and better teams,\\ntools and dwellings, more\\nleisure for books, papers\\nand music, and better social\\nconditions are the order of\\nthe day. Under the stimulus of a good\\nlocal market, dairying under improved\\nconditions is rapidly coming to the\\nfront.\\nR\\nELATIONS WITH VERMONT.\\nl]?J|Mli III iij\\nATER CONDITIONS.\\nHaving outlined as fully as space\\nwould permit the more interesting\\nfeatures of the earliest settlement, we\\nNEW TOWN BUILDING,\\nsuch as the iiroductioii of scythes, car-\\nriages and sleighs, slereosco])ic views,\\nthe Saranac gloves, shoes, and the usu-\\nal local enterjirises of a New England\\nvillage.\\nThe settlement of neighboring com-\\nmunities on both sides of the Connec-\\nticut river was so nearly contempor-\\naneous, their relations so intimate and\\ninterdependent, that it seems highly\\nappropriate to bestow a paragraph on\\nthis topic. Thetford and Lyme, Fair-\\nlee and Orford, Newbury and Haver-\\nhill, Littleton, Waterford and Concord\\nhave always been connected by the\\nmost interesting and important associ-\\nations of kinship and lousiness relations.\\nThe land grants of Gov. Benning Weut-\\nworth constituted the legal tenure on\\nwhich the earlier pioneers of Vermont,\\n(earlier called New Hampshire Grants),\\nrelied for the possession of their lands,\\nand in the defense of those titles against\\nthe counter claims set up by New\\nYork, the Green Mountain Boys con-\\ntributed the most romantic and heroic\\npage of the Revolutionary era. After", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPrBLIC-JOXRNAL.\\nthe close of the old French war, the\\nrich agricultural lands among the\\nGreen Mountains were rapidly settled\\nby the choicest and most adventurous\\nspirits from the southern communities\\nof New England, and this Norseman\\nspirit of adventure was continually re-\\ninforced by the necessity of a constant\\nand vigilant defense of their homes\\nagainst the adverse claimants from\\nNew York, as well as the common foes,\\nthe British and Indians. Neighboring\\ntowns on both sides of the Connecticut\\ntunes in this more prugrcssive town.\\nNearly one half of the active business\\nmen of Littleton today are Vermonters\\nor sons of Vermonters, and a large\\nshare of the business and professional\\nmen of the past seventy-five years\\ncame here from the Green Mountain\\nstate.\\nR\\nAILROAD FACILITIES.\\nThe railroad facilities of Littleton\\nare of the best, and the town has long\\ntion, it went under the control of the\\nB., C. M. in ls5n, and became a part\\nof that road in 1873. The extension\\nof the road from Littleton to Lancaster\\nwas completed in 1870, and two years\\nlater connected with the Grand Trunk\\nat Groveton. The line called the Mt.\\nWashington Branch was constructed\\nto Fabyan s in 1874, and completed to\\nthe base of Mt. Washington in 1876,\\nthus making the connection with the\\nroad to the summit in the centennial\\nyear, and constituting the only all rail\\nunited in this defense, and also for the\\nsupport of preaching. Vermonters of\\nthe eastern townships largely marketed\\ntheir surplus products in Portland,\\npassing through Littleton in their\\npungs and bringing back many a\\nload of good Littleton shingles and\\nother wares. The sons of the sturdy\\nVermont farmers saw here a more ac-\\ntive field, in mercantile and professional\\nlife, than their fertile farms affordeil,\\nand many of them sought their for-\\nRESIDENCE OF MR. C. F.EASTMAN.\\nbeen known as the Gateway of the\\nWhite Mountains. Nature marked\\nout the Connecticut and Aininonoosuc\\nvalleys as the great arteries of travel\\nand commerce. The Boston, Concord\\nMontreal railroad was completed to\\nWoodsville in 1853. The charter of\\nthe White Mountains railroad was ob-\\ntained in 1848, to connect with the B.,\\nC. M. at Haverhill and pass via Lit-\\ntleton, Whitefield and Dalton to Lan-\\ncaster. After several years of litiga-\\nroute to that point from Boston. Syl-\\nvester Marsh, then of Littleton, was\\nthe master spirit in the construction of\\nthe cog road to the summit of Mt.\\nWashington, and the project at first\\nmet with ridicule. Construction be-\\ngan in 18(58, and was pushed with in-\\nvincible energy until its completion in\\n1876. Previous to 1870, all travel to\\nthe mountains was by stage from\\nLittleton, but the construction of the\\nroads above referred to, and later the", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN KKI ITBLK -.IOURNAL.\\nbranch roads to Bethlehem and the\\nProfile House, practically put an end\\nto this lucrative business. Since the\\ncontrol of all these roads has passed\\ninto tlie hands of the Boston Maine,\\nthe excellent summer schedule of trains\\nallows tourists from Littleton to visit\\nany of the prominent resorts and re-\\nturn the same day by a comfortable,\\nall-rail route.\\nT\\nHE MANUFACTURERS.\\nOn the occasion of the celebration in\\n1884 of the centennial of Littleton Hon.\\nD. C. Remich made the following state-\\nment, Littleton is not, strictly speak-\\ning, and never was a manufacturing\\ntown that is to\\nsay the business\\nand prosperity of\\nthe tiiwu does not\\ndepend and never\\ndid upon the man-\\nufacturing inter-\\nests alone. Be-\\ncause of its situa-\\ntion, it has been a\\ncommercial center\\nof importance and\\nhas large and val-\\nuable agricultural\\nresources. P^or\\nthese reasons it has\\nnot been material-\\nly affected by de-\\npression in any\\nparticular branch\\nof industry Owing to the division of\\ncapital and business the town has been\\nmuch more rapid and continuous than it\\notherwise would have been, and\\nthere has been no long and serious de-\\npression in its manufacturing inteiests\\nsuch as have affected olhercommuni-\\nties. If one man failed, there were oth-\\ners arising from its commercial, pro-\\nfessional or agricultural classes, ready\\nto step into his shoes, and prosecute\\nthe business, or start something else in\\nits place equally benelicial to the com-\\nmunity. This ever present demand in\\nour midst has rendered our progress\\ncontent, and to day we boast of our\\ntown and its manufacturies as among\\nthe soundest, best and most complete\\nin New England and, what is better,\\nthey are substantially owned and con-\\ntrolled by men born and reared among\\nus, or who have been identified with the\\nhistory of the town from an early date.\\nThis statement is largely true as ap-\\nplied to the manufacturers of Littleton\\ntoday, although they are relatively lar-\\nger and fewer than they were thirteen\\nyears ago. The tendency here, as well\\nas elsewhere in New England, has been\\nsteadily toward concentration and con-\\nsolation of capital, introduction of cost-\\nly labor-saving machinery, and the di-\\nvision of labor the net result, an in-\\ncreased out put and cheapened product.\\nThis aggregation of capital and labor\\nhas in too many places resulted in\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^n antagonism between the two elc-\\nthorp, just outside the Littleton border,\\na considerable lumber business is be-\\ning conducted, for which Littleton\\nlargely furnishes the supplies. The\\nsame time other industries have come\\nto take their places. Tlie granite\\nworks, and the shoe factory at Apthorp\\nare illustrations. All of the glove\\nworks in town are now consolidated in\\nthe Saranac. An opposite tendency is\\nshown in the carriage business which\\nis now in the hands of three different\\nfirms. We may safely make this sum-\\nmary never before in the history of\\nthe town were as many people steadily\\nemployed and at wages of ci|u;d pur-\\nchasing value as are lo-dav.\\nT\\nRADE.\\nMAIN STREET, From in From of the JOURNAL Office.\\nments and has eventuated in strikes\\nbut so ideal are the conditions in Little-\\nton, so friendly and mutually helpful\\nare the relations existing between em-\\nployer and employed, that strikes are\\nunknown, and shut downs are only\\n]iartial and temporary. The millenial\\nhas not yet arrived however. Several\\nindustries have become obsolete, nota-\\nbly the tannery. Others continue on a\\nhealthy though restricted basi.s, as for\\nexample, the sash and blind shop. The\\ninanufactuie of lumber in town is year-\\nly diminishing on account of the dimin-\\nished sujjply of stock. The mills of\\nthe Littleton Lumber Co., at South\\nLittleton, will do comparatively little if\\nany l)usiness during the ensuing season.\\nAt Alder Brook, a station nearest Ap-\\nI) u r i n g fully\\nthree quarters of a\\ncentury, Littleton\\nhas been foremost\\nfor its hotels and\\nstores. We will\\nnot refer at length\\nto the primitive\\nestablishments of\\nLarned .Jackson\\nand T. Wheeler at\\nNorth Littleton.\\nThe Old lied Store\\nof Maj. Curtiss\\nwas par excellence\\nthe home of the\\nstore court, and\\n^I a j o r Bell o w s\\ngives a glowing account of the\\nhilarities of the evening sessions,\\nwhere the alternative was present-\\ned to sing a song, tell a story, treat\\nthe crowd on toddy, or drink a pint of\\nsalt and water. William lirackett,\\ncommencing a year later, in IJSO.\\nbuilt the large and then imposing\\nhouse still standing in the Ainmonoo-\\nsuc valley, a mile and a half below the\\nvillage, and for nearly forty years con-\\nducted a rushing trade in the store op-\\nposite. He invested his faith and cour-\\nage and cash in Littleton s future, and\\nretired a wealthy man. He was also in\\ncompany with his brother, Maj. Aaron\\nBrackett, in a store at the village.\\nGeorge Little, a broad gauge but ec-\\ncentric son of the original proprie-", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\ntor, Moses Little, was many years a\\nprominent factor in trade and in gen-\\neral business. The Keddington s,\\nGeorge B. and Henry C, who came to\\nLittleton in 1830 and enfratjed in sen-\\neral trade, were men of notable enter-\\nprise and ability, and for nearly forty\\nyears were prominent financiers. The\\nEastmans and Tiltons from Danville,\\nVt., were among the most pushing and\\nsuccessful men who have figured upon\\nthe stage of mercantile life. Later\\nmerchants were Francis Hodgman,\\nJohn Farr, R. D. Kounsevel, C. VV.\\nBrackett, J. W. Bakh, William Bailey,\\nH. H. Southworth, Charles Eaton, Nel-\\nson C. Farr, Charles Farr, Tilton Bros.,\\nDow Bros., and Bellott s it Son, Tiiis\\nis only a partial list of former mer-\\nchants. The pioneer merchants opei at-\\ned at a time when money was very\\nscarce, and were compelled to conduct\\na large barter trade and give extended\\ncredits. At present trade is well organ-\\nized, and goods well classified, competi-\\ntion active, profits in most lines moder-\\nate, but the sales are for spot cash or\\nshort credit.\\nw\\nATER AND LIGHTS.\\nLittleton was one of the earliest\\nof the smaller New England towns to\\nadopt the electric lights. The water\\nsupply of the Apthorp Water Co. was\\npurchased by Coffin Stanton of New\\nYork in 1887. They put in a pump,\\nand instituted an electric light plant\\nwith a dynamo of 750 light capacity of\\nthe incandescent system. They are\\nnow iii,corporated a s the Littleton\\nWater and Electric Light Co. In\\n1896 important improvements were\\nmade introducing a new dynamo, elec-\\ntric lights and water supply, with a\\ncapacity of I iOO lights. The Bri.stol\\nRecording volt meter is used, and most\\nof the patrons use the meter system\\npaying for what they actually use, at a\\nvery moderate rate. All of the stores\\nand public buildings and many of the\\nresidences use the electric lights. A\\nvery ingenious water gauge shows the\\ndepth of ^water in the reservoir. Col.\\nB. H. Corning is the superintendent of\\nthe company and Mr. Iluiikins is treas-\\nurer and Coming s insurance office is\\nthe headquarters. The water sup])ly is\\ntaken from pure mountain springs\\nbrought into a reservoir about the town.\\nSUMMER RESORT.\\nThousands of tourists visit Littleton\\nevery year, attracted by its superior\\nadvantages as a sanitarium and its con-\\nvenience as a rendezvous while enjoy-\\ning the unparalleleil attractions of the\\nWhite Mountains. They find here all\\nthe advantages of rural life, and are at\\nthe same time in touch with the great\\nworld by train, telegraph and tele-\\nphone. The burning of the Oak Hill\\nHouse in 1894 was a great misfortune,\\nbut Thayer s Hotel, the 3Iaples, the\\nMountain Home and the Chiswick Inn\\nremain, and the new hotel of I. C.\\nRichardson will afford ample accom-\\nmodations for tourists and the traveling\\npublic. The view from some of the\\nhigher points near the village can hard-\\nly be surpassed.\\nM\\nARSHALL SANDERS POST.\\nMarshall Sanders Post, No. 48, G.\\nA. R., was organized October 25, 1879,\\nwith the following officers Major E.\\nW. B arr, commander; W. R. Whiting,\\nQ. M. George W. Hall, S. Y. B. F.\\nWells, J. Y. The organization has\\nsteadily increased in members and in-\\nterest, although many comrades have\\nbeen mustered by the grim destroyer\\nThere are now 93 members in good\\nstanding. In the G. A. R. hall is a\\nfine meinorial record, presented with\\nan appropriate address by Hon. Harry\\nBingham. The present officers are\\nH. E. Currier, Commander B. F.\\nWells, S. Y. John Miller, J. Y. II.\\nB. Burnham, Q. M. Solon Simonds, O.\\nD. A. C. Gaskell, Adjt. W. W. Love-\\njoy, Chap.\\nW\\nTE MOUNTAIN GRANGE.\\nWhite Mountain Grange was organ-\\nized February 19, 1875, with 40 char-\\nter members, with C. W. Bedell lectur-\\ner and Abijali Allen as the first master.\\nHe tilled that position eight years. The\\ngrange made a steady progressive\\ngrowth. It had its periods of weak-\\nness but maintained its organization.\\nIt contains at present about 150 mem-\\nbers. Mrs. J. W. Farr, master Mrs.\\nC. R. Allen, lecturer Mrs. George\\nBartlett, secretary. J his year the new\\ndeparture was made of electing a full\\nboard of lady officers. Since 1877 the\\nmeetings were held iu Grange Hall but\\nare now held in Odd Fellows Hall. The\\nGrange has proved itself a potent so-\\ncial and educational factor in the com-\\nmunity.\\nT\\nHE BAR OF LITTLETON.\\nThe limits of time and space forbid\\nanything more than a cursory reference\\nto the former lawyers of Littleton. The\\nfirst practicing lawj er was Joseph\\nEmerson Dow, a son of Hon. Moses\\nDow of Haverhill. He located at\\nNorth Littleton in 1807. Elisha Hurds,\\nH o n. Henry A. Bellows, Edmund\\nCarleton, Hon. Cilvin Ainsworth, Hon.\\nWilliam Burns, William J. Bellow.s,\\nHon. Charles W. Rand, John Farr,\\nHon. Edward D. Rand were more or\\nless prominent members of the legal\\nprofession before and during the war.\\nThe Littleton Bar during the last\\nquarter of a century has ranked among\\nthe ablest in the state. Hurry and\\nGeorge A. Bingham, many years in\\ncompany, the Farrs, John and Major\\nEvarts W., John S., and W. II. Mitch-\\nell, D. C. and J. W. Remich, Hon. A.\\nS. Batchellor, and Hon. Edgar F. Al-\\ndrich, have been the principal legal\\nlights during this period. All of the\\npresent active members of the bar are\\nrepresented by sketches.\\nQO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY.\\nThe Littleton Co-operative Cream-\\nery, a cut of which is presented on a\\npreceding page, is one of the most val-\\nuable institutions of the town, and has\\na future of still wider usefulness. In\\n1887, Dow it Dalton built the creara-\\nerj building, which was exempted ten\\nyears from town taxation, and beg;ui\\nwork. The creamery company was\\norganized in December, 1889, with Mr.\\nDow as treasurer and general manager,\\nwho conducted it for three years.\\nThese wore the transition years of the", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nmovcnieiit, during whioh public senti-\\nment was ripening in favor of a co-\\noperative creamery, which was organ-\\nized in 189-J, with Cliarles W. Bedell,\\npresident M. C. Dodge, vice-presi-\\ndent and Daniel S. Johnson, treasur-\\ner. In October, 1895, a branch skim-\\nming station was erected at Dalton,\\nwhich has largely increased the output\\nof the creamery. The creamery has\\nabout 75 patrons, and during the best\\nof the season produces about 8,000\\npounds of butter a month. It is sup-\\nplied with a modern equipment, and\\ncost, including the separator station,\\nabout ^7,000. The present butter-\\nmaker, Mr. O. M. Moseley, is an expert\\nwith seven years experience, which is\\nturned to good account. The reputa-\\ntion of the Littleton Creamery butter\\nis well established. It took first pre-\\nmium on prints at the New Hampshire\\nState Grange Fair, and the second pre-\\nmium on tubs, and has taken other\\npremiums. The butter made by Mr.\\nMoseley for the Lj man Creamery took\\na second prize at the Chicago Exposi-\\ntion in 1893. The Littleton Creamery\\nhas come to lift the burden from the\\nshoulders of the housewife, and it has\\ncome to stay. Mr. C. W. Bedell, pres-\\nident of the co-operative creamery, is\\na leading and public-spirited citizen\\nand farmer, who for thirty years has\\nresided in the north part of the town.\\nMr. H. H. Southworth, the treasurer,\\nis a retired merchant, long and favor-\\nably known to the business public.\\nThe creamery is now conducted on\\nthe most scientific principles, and\\nonly needs a more extended patronage\\nto cheapen the cost of production and\\nincrease the sales, as it is unable to\\nsupply its orders.\\nWILSON TUTTLE.\\nIt is well known that Littleton is a\\nnotable emporium in the clothing trade.\\nThe large amount of business that the\\nfour great houses enjoy can be account-\\ned for by two reasons first, the large\\nnumber of young men who are regular-\\nly employed here at fair wages sec-\\nond, the very extensive and judicious-\\nly selected stocks, and the close prices\\nat which they are offered, attract an\\nextensive trade fi oni the surrounding\\ntowns. Wilson Tuttle is the jun-\\nior firm, but although eleventh-\\nhour men, they are getting full wages\\njust the same. Anything can here be\\nhad that is usually found in a first-class\\nclothing store, but the special features\\nin wiru h they excel are men s under-\\nwear and pants. These prime necessi-\\nties are offered at prices that command\\ncustomers. Mr. Wilson is a veteran\\nclothing dealer of Concord, N. H., with\\nTpR jimitr^Aj^-\\nSn maltrr iiit nmiim ft.M niol tffl\\nyour fiirm, h*c j(\\npn-iiv !otj Mil. im and up\\nbranch housi-s elsewhere, and is able\\nto secure the best prices from jobbers\\nand manufacturers. Mr. Tuttle is a\\nyoung man, with an old head on his\\nshoulders, a sharp eye for selecting\\ngoods, and a breath for talking about\\nthem that exceeds the continuance of\\nthe trade winds. Seriously, he is a\\nvery judicious and reliable salesman,\\nand stands by his sales every time, a\\nfact duly appreciated by the. public.\\nHe is ably assisted by Eddie Asselin,\\nformerly of St. Johnsbury. Wilson\\nTuttle conduct a strictly one-price\\nstore.\\nS. OSCAR PARKER.\\nThe subject of this sketch is a ver-\\nsatile charactei- and has enjoyed a\\nremarkable varied business experience.\\nHe was born and bred a tanner, a\\nbusiness that has engrossed at some\\ntime the attention of his father, Silas\\nBarker, of his grandfather and each of\\nhis seven brothers. Mr. Parker has\\nsince been a merchant, a glove maker,\\na traveling salesman and a real estate\\nagent and is now conducting the laun-\\ndry business. As a young i7ian he\\nbegan his mercantile experience with\\nParker it oung at Lyman aiid later\\nhad charge of stores at Sugar II ill and\\nLancaster. lie came to Lisbon in\\n187 2 and engaged with his brother,\\nIi a, as a glove maker and later became\\na pai tner. In the winter of 1S90 he\\ntravelled extensively in the South and\\nWest as a salesman of Saranac gloves.\\nIn December, 1893, he founded an\\nagency for the sale and exchange of\\nreal estate, which he has widely adver-\\ntised and has proved an important\\npublic convenience and which he still\\nconducts with considerable success.\\nIn 1S94 he urchased an interest in\\nthe Littleton Steam Laundry and later\\nthe whole business. With his usual\\nenterprise he has put in six new ma-\\nchines of the latest pattern, which\\nenable him to finish his work with\\nneatness and despatch. Ilis patronage\\nextends for a hundred miles up and\\ndown this valley and has increased\\none-third during the past year. Tlie\\nlaundrv employs 12 hands in the\\nsummer and seven in the winter. }ilr.\\nParker has evolved another fruitful\\nidea, the White Mountain Bureau of\\nEmployment which successfully fills a\\nlong felt want. The Bureau is\\nwidely advertised and procures con-\\ngenial and remunerative employment\\nfor parties who can furnish reliable\\ntestimonials. Mr. Parker mariied in\\n1860, Emily R., sister of H. H. Porter\\nof this town. They have three sons,\\nHarry C, George P. and Carl I., all of\\nwhom are residents of the town, and\\nare assisting their father in his varied\\nand extensive business.\\nUREKA HOSE CO. NO.\\nA thoroughly well equipped institu-\\ntion is the Eureka Hose Co., at once a\\nsocial and a business organ i/.:ition.\\nDuring the past eighteen years, Little-\\nton has enjoyed I he benefit of an efiici-\\nent fire department, at present consist-\\ning of 1-i experienced firemen, with K.\\nC. Young, chief and H. D. Wilkins\\nand A. E. Strain, assistants. The hose\\ncart, hook anil ladder wagon, and e(|uip-\\nments are stored in the basement of the\\ntown building, and just beyond is a\\ncosy and neatly furnished firemen s\\nclub and riading room. Here the", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOXRNAL.\\nboys while away inany a social evL iiiiig\\nhour, with chat, games and reading, for\\nthere is a small hut well selected libra-\\nry, and eight standard magazines. They\\nhold a regular monthly meeting from\\nNovember to May, and a fortnightly\\nmeeting from May to November. They\\nreceive at present a liberal compensa-\\ntion, twelve dollars each per year, one\\ndollar per hour for the first hour S])ent\\nat a fire, and .50 cents per hour each\\nadditional liour they work, and 50\\nvillage, antl Apthorp, and with a pres-\\nsure of from 100 to 1 20 lbs. per inch.\\nTwelve fire alarm boxes are suitably\\nlocated and connected with the Metho-\\ndist bell, in the east, and the Congre-\\ngational bell in the west part of the\\nvillage. The Eurekas are not spring\\nchickens, but regular fighting cocks\\nwith their spurs on when the alarm\\nsounds. They have always been equal\\nto every emergency, and fully confident\\nof their ability to knock out a first-\\nnious and original turn, he became a\\ncarpenter and builder, erecting several\\nhouses. He took up the trade of\\nprinting while on the farm, at first\\nwith a small hand press, and as a recre-\\nation. But the typical Yankee, (of\\nwhich Mr. Wallace is a good specimen)\\nis able to turn his hand to almost any-\\nthing. In 1883 we find our amateur\\nprinter running a job office and editing\\na newspaper, the Woodsville Enter-\\nprise. Mr. Wallace resided in Woods-\\ncents when called on false alarm. y\\nan annual fireman s ball, and other\\nsocial entertainments, they have put\\naway a little sum in their treasury.\\nThey have good rubber suits and hel-\\nmets. They have a Bangor extension\\nladder, 50 feet in length, 2500 feet of\\nhose, and a chemical outfit. They\\nhave three hose carriages, a supply\\nwagon and an abundant supply of lad-\\nders. The water supply is carried to\\n63 hydrants located in all parts of the\\nclass blaze, at short metre, which\\njustified by their record in the past.\\nELI B. WALLACE.\\nMr. Wallace, though comparatively\\na young man, is one of the senior mer-\\nchants in continuous business in Lit-\\ntleton. He was born some 41 years\\nago upon the farm of his father, Luther\\nWallace of Bethlehem, and farming\\noccupied his principal attention in\\nearly life. Being of a somewhat inge^\\nville a yeai then came to Littleton\\nand started his job printing office here,\\nbut continued to conduct the Enter-\\nprise some j ear and a half longer,\\nwhen he sold it to Mr. F. W. Bittinger.\\nSince 1885 Mr. Wallace has occupied\\nhis present convenient and handsome\\nrooms in Tilton block. He carries the\\nbest assortment of stationery and blank-\\nbooks in town, and a full line of maga-\\nzines, also some specialties in fancy\\nand Christmas goods. Mr. Wallace", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nlias three printing presses, and with\\nliis dozen or more years of experience\\nis an artist, and secures a liberal pat-\\nronage, in fact all he is able to do\\nhinisflf. He married Miss Myra M.\\nlUirt of Bethlehem, who is a cheerful\\nhfljimect in the store and home. Their\\nk asaiit home is located next the\\nNational Bank on Main street.\\npONGREGATIONALISM.\\nThe first statement in the records re-\\ngarding religious matters, indicates\\nthat in 1790, six years after the in.\\ncorporation at Littleton, Rev. A. Kin-\\nson ministered to the people six\\nmonths. A decade later, March 18,\\n1 silO, it was voted to choose a com-\\nmittee to direct the selectmen in fixing\\na center place in town, to hold meet-\\nings, and hold meetings for preaching.\\nVoted Capt. Williams, Capt. Haskins,\\nAndrew Rankin, and Mr. Robins be\\nthe committee aforesaid. In 1802\\nthe town voted $100 for preaching.\\nhouse. The site for the building,\\nabout two acres of land, was donated\\nby Col. Moses Little, and the building\\nwas located near the center of the\\ntown, about two miles from the present\\nvillage. The meeting house was not\\nfully completed until 1815, it being\\npractically a union church. The nu-\\ncleus of the present handsome Con-\\ngregational church was erected in\\n1834, at an expense of $2000, and a\\nvestry was built underneath it in 18.58.\\nIn 1874 both the interior and exterior\\nof the church were remodelled, and as-\\nsumed its present appearance. In\\n1883 the present spacious chapel was\\nerected, and the handsome parsonage,\\non High street, was built in 18SS, at a\\ncost of about $6000. The ehurcli was\\norganized in 1803, and the original\\nmembership was slowly increased un-\\ntil it numbered 35 in 1830. The en-\\ntire resident and non-resident member-\\nship is now about 240.\\nchair of elocution at several institu-\\ntions of learning, aifd is well known on\\nthe lecture platform. He married in\\n187t), Miss Elena L. Gordon, of New\\nCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nIn 1802 or 1803 Rev. John Lord, a\\ngraduate of Dartmouth, preached here\\nfor a time. In 1811 the town voted\\n1^200 toward the erection of a meeting\\nREV. JOHN HENRY HOFFMAN\\nwas born in 1847 and reared on a hill\\nfarm in Lyndon, where he remained\\nuntil he was 21. He then developed\\na good physique, and the aptitudes for\\nmental and social enjoyment. During\\nan attendance of two terms at New-\\nbury Seminary he experienced religion.\\nHe then spent nine years at N e w\\nHampton Institute, Bates College, and\\nAndoverand Bangor Theological Semi-\\nnaries. He is a minister of long\\npastorates, was for seven years\\nat Ilenniker, live years at Shel-\\nburn Falls, and five at Peterborough.\\nAn experience of a year in Nebraska\\nattached him more thoroughly to New\\nEngland. Mr. Hoffman has been presi-\\ndent of several local unions, of both\\nthe Evangelical Alliance, and the\\nChristian I^ndeavor bodies. As a\\nl reacher he gives free expressions to\\nvery positive opinions. He has filled\\nthe pastorate at Littleton since 1894,\\nand since that time has added sixty\\nmembers to the church, and a debt of\\n$2500 has been liquidated. He has\\naccomplished considerable literary\\nwork as editor of the Inkhorn, a reli-\\ngious periodical devoted to religious\\ninterests. Mr. Hoffman has filled the\\nHampton. Their children arc Catli-\\nelena V. and John William Hoffman.\\nMETHODISM.\\nPrior to 1843 there was no stated\\nMethodist preaching in town, altlmugh\\nLittleton, as a part of the great L iiidaff\\ncircuit, was occasionally visited by itin-\\nerants. Services were held pait nf\\nthe time by Elder Burkley and dtl er\\nlocal preachers. As early as ls:i2iU(\\nmemlsers were reported. Rev. J. P.\\nWilliams, a presiding elc r rcsid.n-- at\\nNorth Littleton, preachtd in scliool\\nhouses, and formed a class, sn that in\\n1844 Littleton and Whitetield togctiuT\\nreported 140 members. Littleton was\\nunited either with Whitcfield or lieth-\\nlehem until 1860, when it became a full\\ncharge. The church was built soon\\nafter, and dedicated by Rev. .1. E.\\nKing. A chapel was built in isydby\\nRev. G. W. Ruland, pastor. The\\nchurch was remodelled in the winter of\\n1881 at a cost of \u00c2\u00a7400(1, and again in\\n1888. The parsonage was built in\\n1887. The church has every accessory\\nfor successful work. The fiourishing\\nLadies Aid society has expended about\\n\u00c2\u00a7400 on the parsonage since 1891.\\nThere is an active Epworth League\\nand a Sabb.ath school with an average\\nattendance of 115 and a chur h mem-", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nbership of nearly 200. A debt of\\nabout $.5000 was lifted during Mr.\\nHoward s second year.\\nnji-\\nRev. C. M. Howard.\\nThe position of Kev. Charles M.\\nHoward as a useful minister of the\\ngospel, is the logical out-\\ncome of his heredity and\\nenvironment. He was\\nborn in Union, Ct, in\\n1S60, son of Rev. Mellen\\nHoward, now of East\\nHaverhill. C. -M. How-\\nard gi aduated from Phil-\\nlips Exeter Academy in\\nthe class of !^3, and for\\ntiiree years attended the\\nHoston University Theo-\\nlogical School. The same\\nyear he joined the New\\nHampshire Conference,\\nhe found in Miss Mabel\\nBickf ord of Dover a suit-\\nable helpmate, and made\\nhis first settlement at\\nRaymond, N. H., where\\nhe remained four years.\\nAfter preaching for one\\nyear at Hampton, N. H.,\\nhe settled for three years\\nat Woodsville. Since\\n1894 he has ministered\\nvery acceptably in Lit-\\ntleton adn has added 41\\nfull members and six pro-\\nbationers to the church.\\nThe latch- string of the\\nparsonage is always out,\\nand callers receive a\\nkindly welcome. The\\nfireside of Rev. and Mrs.\\nHoward is cheered by\\nthe presence of two sons.\\npointed as resident pastor and re-\\nmained more than three years, and dur-\\ning this period the rectory was bought.\\nHe was succeeded by Revs. H. M. An-\\ndrews, J. S. Kent, H. H. Haynes, Isaac\\nPeck, and L. R. Waterman.\\nThe present incumbent came in\\nhas organized a vested choir of .34\\nmembers, the largest and the only one\\nof mixed voices in the diocese. The\\nchurch is in a prosperous condition.\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2PISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nThe first regular ser-\\nvices of this church were\\nheld by Rev. J. B. Good-\\nrich, then stationed at Lancaster, June\\n6, 1875, at the Town hall. The fol-\\nlowing July Bishop Niles laid the cor-\\nner stone of the church edifice, and the\\nchurch was consecrated November 19,\\nwith about thirty members. In Jan-\\nuary, 1877, Rev. A. R. Graves was ap-\\nEPISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nMarch, 1894, in the capacity of lay read-\\ner, and was ordained to the priesthood\\nabout one year later. Mr. Davis, with\\nhis various attainments and wide ex-\\nj)erience unites personal qualities which\\ninspire confidence. He has a Sunday\\nschool of more than 50 members and\\nRev. EDGAR FOSTER DAVIS\\nis a scion of good old Revolutionary\\nstock. His great-great\\ngrandfather, Col. Ben-\\njamin Foster, original-\\nly of Greenland, N. H.,\\nwas the first to capture\\na British vessel, the\\nbrig Margaretta, sent to\\nMachias after supplies\\nby Gen. Gage.\\nMr. Davis was born\\nat East Machias, Me.,\\nin 1851. He fitted for\\ncollege at Washington\\nAcademy, and graduat-\\ned from Bowdoin Col-\\nlege in the cla.ss of 71.\\nFor four or five years\\nMr. Davis was engaged\\nin teaching, as princi-\\npal of the High schools\\nat Thomaston, Me., and\\nat Middletown, Ct., and\\nas professor of classics\\nat De Garmo Institute,\\nRhinebeck, N. Y. In\\n1879 he graduated from\\nYale Theological Semi-\\nnary. After filling pas-\\ntorates in JIaine, New\\nBrunswick, at Hamil-\\nton, Mass., and Wolf\\nboro, N.H., he wa*\\ncalled to the chair\\nEnglish of the Stat-\\nCollege of Pennsylvan-\\nia, and filled this posi-\\ntion for four years. In\\nMarch, 1894, he took\\nbarge of the Episcopal\\nmission at Littleton,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0and in .Vugust, 1895,\\nhe organized the mis-\\nsion in Whitcfield. In\\n1895 he was ordained to the priesthood\\nat Littleton. Under his able care the\\nnumber of communicants has doubled.\\nIn 1874, Mr. Davis married Elmira\\nScott, daughter of Hon. S. H. Talbot,\\nof East Machias, Me. Two daughters\\nare the issue of this union, Grace Ham-", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\niiiond, and Clara Louise, both recent\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rraduatcs of the Littleton High school.\\nJlr. Davis made the tour of Europe in\\n1881, his parishioners at St. Stephen,\\nX. B., defraying his expenses. He has\\nfurnished many meritorious contribu-\\ntions to current literature in prose and\\npoetry. He was chosen as poet at the\\nAndres celebration, at Ipswich, Mass.,\\nJuly 4, 1886, and two of his shorter\\npieces were read at the G. A. K. reun-\\nion in Boston several years ago.\\nR\\nOMAN CATHOLIC.\\nSt. Rose of Lima parish was organ-\\nized January ft, 1882, Rev. J. H. Noi-\\nseux being the first pastor. Previous\\nto its organization it had been a mission\\nof the parish of Lebanon, N. XL, with\\nL. M. Laplante, pastor. Littleton was\\nattended at various times as follows:\\nPrevious to 1853 by Rev. Hector Dro-\\nlet, of Montpelier, Vt., and Rev. Fr.\\nO Callaghan, of Burlington, Vt., and\\nvisited about once a year for about five\\nor six years. In 1853, Rev. John\\nBrady, then residing in Claremont, N.\\nH., was the first regular missionary in\\nthe Connecticut Valley, visiting Little-\\nton five or six times a year. In 1856\\nthese missions were divided and Rev.\\nJ. IL Noiseux visited here monthly for\\n10 years and twice a month for four\\nmore years. In 1876 missions were\\nagain divided and Rev. F. H. Trudel,\\nof Lebanon, was charged with the\\n(irafton County missions. He visited\\nhere for a year and built the church.\\nThe church was dedicated by Rt. Rev.\\nJ. A. Healey, Bishop of Portland,\\nAugust 30, 1880. Fr. Brann, of New\\nYork city, preached the dedicating ser-\\nmon. In August, 1881, Rev. L. M.\\nLaplante was appointed to Lebanon\\nwith charge of Littleton until January\\n4, 1882, when Rev. J. H. Noiseux took\\ncharge of Littleton and remained in\\ncharge until 1886, when he was suc-\\nceeded by Rev. Dennis Hurley, who re-\\nmained until 1893. During his pastor-\\nate he bought the land and house next\\nto the church, also a tract of land for\\na burj lng ground. Fr. Hurley was re-\\nmoved to Penacook, N. H., in Novem-\\nber, 1893, and was succeeded by the\\npresent pastor. Rev. C. J. Paradis.\\nREV. C. J. PARADIS\\nwas born in the city- of Quebec, Canada,\\nand went to Manchester with his fam-\\nily in 1866. In 1873 he entered the\\nSeminary of Quebec for his classical\\ncourse, then tlic (Trand Seminary, and\\nafter four j-ears of theology he was or-\\ndained to the ]iriesthood by Cardinal\\nLachereau in May, 1885. After his\\nordination he was appointed as assist-\\nant to Rev. A. Chev.alier, at Manches-\\nter. After 16 months service he was\\nappointed pastor al Lebanon, X. H.,\\nwhere he remained for seven years.\\nWhile in Lebanon he had charge of\\nall the missions from Hanover to\\nFranklin. He built a church in Han-\\n)ver, one in Canaan, bought a tract of\\nland from the town of Lebanon for\\nburying purposes, and repaired the\\nchurch and houses. In November,\\n1893, he was called to Littleton to take\\ncharge of the parish of St. Ro.se of\\nLima. Since his appointment in Little-\\nton he built one church at the Wauni-\\nbek, which is a beautiful building and\\nnearly paid for. He put new pews in\\nthe church of Littleton, bought many\\nthings that were needed, and paid off\\nthe debt of the church jjroperty. Dur-\\ning his pastorate, the membeiship has\\nincreased so that the church is hardly\\nlarge enough to accommodate tiie\\nworshippers.\\nTHE BAPTISTS.\\nIn tlie earlier years of the century,\\nthe Baptists in town usually attended\\nthe Baptist church at Waterford. In\\n1840 a small Baptist church was built\\nat what was called the Scythe Factoi-y\\nVillage. The first pastor was Rev.\\nNicholas Bray and the second and last\\nwas Rev. William Lovejoy. There\\nwere 20 members, with Anson Alexan-\\nder, deacon, and Barnet H. Smith,\\nclerk. The church was lisorganized\\nby removals and other losses. After\\nservices were discontinued the few\\nBAPTIST CHURCH.\\nmembers connected themselves with\\nthe Bethlehem church until 1869, when\\nthe present church was built, and since\\nthat time the Baptist interests of the", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\ntwo towns have consolidated here. At\\nthe time of the reorganization the\\nmembership was 27, which has since\\nmore than doubled. Rev. Elisha\\n(iuilford was the first settled pastor,\\nand remained four years. The pastor-\\nate of the Rev. J. B. Merrill during the\\nl)ast six years has been a period of re-\\nvived interest and active work, and the\\nparish is now united and free from\\ndebt, aud owns a good church and par-\\nsonage. A biographical sketch of Mr.\\nMerrill appears on another page.\\ntwo years. Rev. W. C. Litchfield came\\nas a supply in November, 1896. The\\nsociety is out of debt, a prosperous\\nSunday school has been organized, also\\na Voung People s Ileligious Union, and\\na renewed interest is manifested.\\nTH\\nE UNITARIANS.\\nWhile the old Union church was\\nused by the several denomina-\\ntions alternately, according to\\ncompact, the Unitarian preachers\\nfrequently occupied the pulpit,\\nand added zest to the controver-\\nsial character of the discourse of\\nthe period. At a later period,\\nowing to deaths and removals,\\nthe Unitarian sentiment was less\\npronounced. An organization\\nwas effected June 14, 1873, as\\nthe Liberal Christian Society of\\nLittleton, and a board of trustees\\nwas elected, Rev. J. P. Kinson\\n(LTniversalist) and other clergy-\\nmen officiating from time to time.\\nRev. J. B. Morrison, pastor at\\nLancaster, began preaching in\\nwhat was then called Union Hall\\nin 1881, and continued in charge\\nof the movement seven years.\\nThe present LTnitarian society\\nwas organized September 13,\\n1884, by twelve persons, at the\\nhome of J. S. Frye. Porter B.\\nWatson was elected clerk, and at\\na subsequent meeting, Gen. George T.\\nCruft, J. S. Frye, and Rev. J. B.\\nMorrison, were elected a building\\ncommittee, and erected the present\\nand modern handsome Unitarian\\nchurch. In April 1893, Rev. Samuel\\nB. Cruft, of Boston, presented the\\nciiurch with a tine pipe organ. The\\nfirst settled pastor, Rev. L.D.Cochrane,\\nwas ordained August 18, 1889, and re-\\nmained four years. He was succeeded\\nby Rev. Mr. Mitchell for one year, and\\nRev. L. Fletcher Snapp, who remained\\nRev. w. C. Litchfield\\nwas born in South Scituate, Plymouth,\\nMass. His boyhood was strongly im-\\npressed by the historic associations of\\nthe stern and rock bound coast. His\\nmaternal ancestry was of Revolution-\\nary stock, and his grand-father was a\\nsoldier in the war of 18ri. He attend-\\ned the Hanover Academy, and pre-\\npared to enter the Meadvillc Theologi-\\ntive in the general assembly. In May\\n1879 he was ordained at llobart, Ind.\\nHe was engaged in mission work and\\nwas pastor four years at Berlin, and\\nsix years at Gardner, Mass. Mr. Litch-\\nfield was callcil to the Littleton charge\\na year ago, and has won the esteem and\\nrespect of his parishioners and of the\\ncommunity.\\nUNITARIAN CHLKCH.\\ncal school, when the advent of the civil\\nwar in 1861 opened another path of\\nduty. He first enlisted in the 18th\\nMassachusetts but was not accepted,\\nand then enlisted in the first Massa-\\nchusetts heavy artillery, and served\\nuntil the discharge of the regiment at\\nthe close of the war. He then engaged\\nin mercantile pursuits. In 1878-9\\nhe read theology under the direction of\\nProf. F. H. Hedge of the Harvard Di-\\nvinity school. During his course of\\nstudies he served his town as select-\\nman and in 1878-9 was its representa-\\nrev. fredk. George Chutter\\nis well known to the people of Little-\\nton and vicinity, as he was three years\\npastor of the Congregational church.\\nAfter the close of this pastorate he\\nmade the tour of Europe, visiting\\nGreece, Asia Minor, the Holy Land,\\nand Egypt. Returning to Eng-\\nland, he took a post graduate\\ncourse at Oxford and Edinburgh\\nUniversities. He was called to\\nthe pastorate of a church at\\nLowell, Mass., after his return\\nfrom Europe, but ill health,\\ncaused by too close study, com-\\npelled him to resign his charge,\\nand seek a change of employ-\\ny ment. He returned to Littleton\\n?.i in 1893, bought Dow Brothers\\nstock, and a year later the White\\nStore. Under his management\\nit is a scene of bustling commer-\\ncial activity, employing several\\nclerks. The store is an exposition\\nof dry goods, ladies furnishings,\\nand fancy goods. Ladies gar-\\nments and fur goods are a spec-\\nialty. Elegant imported rugs are\\ngiven to customers on the coupon\\nsystem. Mr. Chutter strives to\\nmake the nimble penny worth\\nmore than the dull shilling.\\nRev. F. G. Chutter was born in\\nthe south of England and came to Bos-\\nton in 1872, where he was engaged in\\nmercantile life. He began to preach\\nthe gospel at nineteen, and prepared\\nhimself more fully for the sacred call-\\ning by a collegiate course at Colby\\nUniversity, Waterville, Me., which was\\nfollowed by a course at Andover Theo-\\nlogical Seminary, from which he grad-\\nuated in 1887. During all of these\\nstudent years he continued to preach\\nregularly, a strain of effort that some-\\nwhat undermined his naturally robust", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN kEPUBLlC-JOttRNAt.\\nconstitution. Thus Mr. Chutter has\\ncome to be known in the dual capacity\\nof merchant and preacher. lie has\\nlectured quite extensively, and is pre-\\nparing a literary work in the ethics of\\nart architecture, that may some day\\nfind its way to the press. lie is a\\nversatile and engaging personality, and\\na power in any field of effort, and with\\nreturning health may again engage in\\nministerial work. He married Caro-\\nline, daughter of Hon. Eben\\nCutler, of Boston, and their\\nfireside is brightened by the\\npresence of two lovely chil-\\ndren.\\ngoods from New York and Boston,\\nunder the firm of Tilton Cady. Re-\\nturning to Littleton in May 1854, after\\nan absence of three and a half years,\\nhe soon became a member of the firm\\nof C. and F. .1. Eastman Co., and\\nretired from the firm in 1859 after five\\nyears of active and successful trade.\\nWe can here only refer to some of the\\nmore important of the many financial,\\nindustrial, and mercantile institutions\\nHENRY L. TILTON.\\nIn H. L. Tilton, we rec-\\nognize one of the most dom-\\ninant and pervasive person-\\nalities that have figured in\\nthe business life of Littleton\\nduring the past quarter of\\na century. A mere enum-\\neration of the enterprises\\nhe has projected and of the\\nfirms and corporations in\\nwhich he has been an im-\\nportant factor, would trans-\\ncend the usual limits of a\\nnewspaper sketch.\\nHenry L., son of Joseph\\nand Sally B. Tilton was\\nborn in the grand old town\\nof Danville, Vt., May 8,\\n18 2S. His boyhood was\\nspent upon the fine paternal\\nfarm at North Danville.\\nAt the age of fifteen, he\\nmoved with his father s\\nfamily to Danville Green,\\nwhere, at the age of 19, he\\ncompleted his education at [/V-y/-c^\\nPhillips Academy. The fol-\\nlowing spring, 1848, he en-\\ntered as clerk in the store of East-\\nman, Tilton Co. With the well saved\\nearnings of three years of faithful ser-\\nvice, he started in December, 1850, for\\nthe Golden Gates in company with five\\nof his young fellow townsmen. He\\nfirst sold water in the streets of San\\nFrancisco for a bit a bucket, was\\nthen a salesman of hardware at 1200 a\\nnmntli, and soon became an importer of\\nHENRY L. TILTON.\\nwith which Mr. Tilton was potentially\\nidentified in his later career. He was\\nconnected with Leavitt \u00c2\u00abfc Brackett in\\nthe buihling of the mills and the handl-\\ning of extensive lumber interests in\\nCarroll, with Brackett Tilton, deal-\\ners in flour and with J. R. Kilburn\\nSon., in real estate, and was a factor\\nof the building operations of the ex-\\npanding village. The firm known later\\nas H. L. Tilton it Co., and including\\nW. J. Bellows and C. W. Brackett, at\\none time owned about 2.3,000 acres of\\nvaluable timber land. In 1870 he com-\\npleted Tilton Block on Main street,\\nwhere he was engaged in the banking\\nl)usiness, which a year later was con-\\nverted into the National Bank, of which\\nMr. Tilton has since been a director,\\nand vice-president ten years. He was\\nalso a large owner and treasurer of the\\nUnion Hall. At the same\\ntime he served the public as\\ntreasurer of the Union\\nSchool District and as a di-\\nrector and treasurer of the\\nLittleton Fair Ground Co.\\nIn 1S72, in company with\\nW. H.Stevens, he purchased\\nthe Gile property of 125\\nacres in Littleton village,\\nlaid out streets and promot-\\ned village improvement and\\nextension. In 1881 he was\\nthe projector and builder\\nof that handsome brick\\nstructure, Tilton s Opera\\nBlock. The winter of 18S5-ti\\nwas spent by Mr. Tilton in\\ncompany with Ira Parker\\non a tour of inspection in\\nthe! North West, where at\\nSpokane Falls he made large\\ninvestments. Here this man\\nof boundless energy and op-\\ntimistic views became a\\nleading factor in developing\\nthat growing city, being ex-\\ntensively and for a time\\nvery successfully engaged\\nin banking and real estate\\noperations, interests which\\nwere large!} depreciated by\\nthe financial revulsion of\\n93-96. The interests of H.\\nL. Tilton and family are now\\nsteadily appreciating with improving\\ntimes. While not an active politician,\\nMr. Tilton was a delegate to the Na-\\ntional Republican convention of 1880,\\nwas an elector on the Garfield ticket,\\nand in 1884 was one of Littleton s re-\\npresentatives in the legislature. He is\\nan out spoken temperance man, and of\\nkindly social impulses. He married\\nCaroline A., daughter of William", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOUHNAL.\\nBraokett in 1855, and their only sur-\\nviving child is George II. Tilton. Mr.\\nTilton possesses to a rare degree that\\ncombination of practical foresight, sa-\\ngacity and energy which have enabled\\nhim to take the initiative in great busi-\\nness enterprises.\\nGEO. H. TILTON.\\nMr. George IT. Tilton was born in\\nLittleton in ISCiO, and educated in the\\nHigh school. At the age of 17 he went\\ninto his father s office and has since\\nbeen closely identified with this exten-\\nsive business as book-keeper and gen-\\neral manager. He was treasurer of the\\nI nion Hall Co., and of the Opera\\nlilock Co. He is a member of the\\nboard of education, and treasurer of\\nLittleton Musical Association, also a\\ntrustee of the public library, and sec-\\nretary of the board. He is a member\\nand treasurer of the Episcopal church.\\nHe is one of the charter members of\\nthe Cohashauke Club, He married\\nCora IL, daughter of J. S. Frye and\\nthe future junior partner is George II.\\nTilton, Jr.\\nBENJAMIN WEST KILBURN.\\nThe subject of this sketch is in everj\\nsense a representative man of Littleton.\\nHe is a native of the town, and has\\nhere built up an enterprise which con-\\ntributes to its aesthetic culture and its\\nmaterial prosperity. He has always\\nbeen a staunch friend of moral reform fense, and later was a faithful soldier\\nand public improvement. He was of the Union. Mr. Kilburn is one of\\nthe town s representatives to the (Gen-\\neral Court.\\niC\\nl)orn in Littleton in 1827 and in early\\nlife was a founder and machinist in\\ncompany with his father, Josiah Kil-\\nburn. In 1858 he was united with\\nCaroline F. Burnham, and of this\\nunion there is one daughter, Mrs. D.\\nC. Remich. About 1855 Mr. Kilburn\\nbegan to devote considerable time to\\nthe camera, and soon after formed a\\npartnc ship with his brother, Edward,\\nin the manufacture of stereoscopic\\nviews, which continued a score of\\nyears. His field of effort for many\\nyears was the making of negatives\\nrepresenting the scenic wonders of the\\nWhite Mountains, and he is an artist\\nof a high order. He has travelled\\nextensively on the continent, and his\\ncollection of nearly 100,000 views\\nrepresents scenes in every quarter of\\nthe globe. His great stereoscopic\\nworks, .36 by 120 feet, four stories, is\\na bee hive of industry and employs\\nabout 60 hands in the busy season.\\nThis great enterprise is the largest of\\nits kind in the world, and has many\\nimitations but no e(|uals. Mr. Kilburn\\nis a man of quiet domestic tastes, but\\nbroad gauge in his affinities and of\\nresolute energy. When the nation s\\nCapitol was in peril in 1861, Benjamin\\nKilburn, with his trusty rifle, at his\\nown expense, volunteered for its de-\\nHON. HENRY F. GREEN.\\nThe career of Henry V. (ireen is\\nlike an open book, and h:is been read\\nand approved by the people of this\\ntown and county. He was burn in\\nLyndon, Vt., in 1841. ()i)ilianc(l by\\nhis father s death he early leariieit the\\npower to pay his~clieerful self reliant\\nway. His earlier educational advan-\\ntages were very limited, but by dili-\\ngence and economy he ohtained a term\\nor two at the Poughkeepsie Business\\ncollege, that he later turned to good\\naccount. At the age of 24 he went to\\nIndianapolis as the book-keeper of a\\nlarge flouring business, but soon be-\\ncame general manager, and retained\\nthat position some ten years. He\\ncame to Littleton in 1877, and was in\\ntrade four years with Charles Eaton,\\nand twelve years book-keeper at the\\nSaranac Glove factory. Mr. Green\\nserved the town on its school board\\nand as a member of the building com-\\nJP^\\nV\\n1^\\n^^1\\nH\\nm\\nmittee to erect the high school build-\\ning. A large share of his time during\\nthe past decade has been absorbed iu\\nthe discharge of various pul)lic duties.\\nHe is serving his sixth term as select-\\nman, five terms as chairman of the\\nboard. During his administration the\\nfine town building and the new steel", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nbridge were erected. Ho was a town\\nrepresentative in 1883-4. Mr. Green\\nis the chairman of the board of county\\ncommissioners of Grafton county and\\nis overseer of the poor of this town.\\nHe married Jennie M. Smith in 1^7 2.\\nMr. Green has been in a large sense\\nthe architect of his own fortunes and\\ndeservedly possesses the esteem and\\nconfidence of his associates.\\nT\\nHE LITTLETON SCHOOLS.\\nThe replacement of the\\nold Academy by the mod-\\nern High School, though\\nnot an unmixed blessing,\\nhas its substantial com-\\npensations. The town of\\nLittleton, prior to 1867,\\ndid not enjoy any sys-\\ntematic and thorough\\ncourses of study for its\\nadvanced students, who\\nwere compelled to seek\\nelsewhere for academic\\nt;-aining. In 1867 a char-\\nter was obtained for the\\npresent Union district, a\\nconmiittee of nine of the\\nmost prominent citizens\\nbeing elected, who chose\\nthe site and erected the\\npresent excellent school\\nbuilding on High street.\\nFrom that day there has\\nbeen a steady improve-\\nment in school methods\\nand school standards,\\nuntil to-day the High\\nschool of Littleton occu-\\npies a position second\\nto no other in the state.\\nThere has been a constant\\nand growirig interest\\namong the parents, prob-\\nably more marked during the past\\nthree years than ever before.\\nThis is shown in various ways\\nin laiger appropriations, better equip-\\nment, more teachers, but is perhaps\\nmost fully shown in the largely in-\\ncreased number of students who pui-\\nsne a regular collegiate course after\\nleaving the school. During the decade\\npreceding 1894 there were only two\\nin the classes of 95 and 96 there are\\nno less than seven now in college, and\\nthere are several in each of the present\\nhigh school classes preparing for a col-\\nlege course. The classes of 95 and\\n96 each numbered 11 members, all of\\nwhom were prepared to enter some of\\nthe college courses. During the last\\nthree years a third teacher has been\\nadded to the High school, which has\\nmade it possible to offer a more com-\\nplete course to its students than any\\nother school in Northern New Ilamp-\\nof some of Littleton s citizens the School\\nlaboratories are splendidly equipped\\nfor the study of physics, chemistry and\\nphysiology, and a liberal amount of\\ntime is given to experimental and prac-\\ntical work in these subjects. That\\nthese facts are becoming known out-\\nside of Union District seems to be in-\\ndicated by the fact that there is an in-\\ncrease in the number of tuition schol-\\nars in the high school alone of sixteen\\nover last term, making a total regis-\\ntration of eighty-one for the present\\nterm. W. H. Mitchell is\\n-;(\\\\^^5\u00c2\u00bb7j^ chairman of the school\\nboard, George H. Tilton\\nis secretary, and George\\nC. Furber is treasurer.\\nTHt; KILBURN SCHOOL.\\nshire. The course has been much ex-\\npanded, and in fact, the same can be\\nsaid of the courses in Latin, Greek, and\\nthe sciences. Anticipating the in-\\ncreased requirements in mathematics\\nfor the scientific course in colleges, ad-\\nvanced algebra and trigonometry have\\nbeen added this year to the Eniflish\\ncourse. l y the profit of school enter-\\ntainments and the generous liberality\\nFRANK B. PELTON,\\nthe present principal of\\nthe Littleton High School,\\nis a young man of unus-\\nual energy, culture and\\ncharacter, and thoroughly\\ndevoted to his work. He\\nis a native of Lyme, N.\\nII. Early thrown upon\\nhis own resources, and\\nimpelled by a strong de-\\nsire to obtain an educa-\\ntion, he pursued his pre-\\nparatory studies with\\nvery little tuition, and\\npassed his entrance ex-\\namination at the early\\nage of fifteen, in a very\\ncreditable manner. He\\npaid his own way through\\nDartmouth College, by\\nteaching and numerous\\nother business engage-\\nments, and graduated\\nwith honor from the\\nclassical course in the\\nclass of 93. Three years\\nlater Dartmouth conferred u])on him\\nthe master s degree. Mr. Pelton took\\ncharge of the Littleton High School in\\nSeptember, 1894, and has initiated\\nmany important improvements, and in-\\nspired in his pupils a measure of his\\nown enthusiasm. He is a member of\\nBurns Lodge, F. and A. M. During\\nthe present yc^ai he has been ajjpoint-\\ned by the State Department of Public", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nInstruction a member of the State\\nJJoard of Examiners of Teachers. Mr.\\nPeltoii s efficient service lias been i r()-\\nductive of such excellent results that\\nit is hoped he will long remain at the\\nhead of Littleton s educational institu-\\ntions.\\nA. D. WRIGHT Co., HARDWARE.\\nMr. Wright was born in Middlebury,\\nVt., in 1864. After graduating from\\nthe high school, he enjoyed ten years\\nof valuable experience as clerk in a\\nhardware store. Mr. Wright came to\\nLittleton in Januarj 189(3, and estab-\\nlished himself in the hardware business\\nin Tilton block. He carries a good\\nline of shelf hardware, mechanics sup-\\nplies, fine cutlery, tin, iron and hollow\\nware, agricultural implements, stoves\\nand ranges. He shows an especially\\nfull stock of paints, oils, varnishes, and\\nbrushes. Heating and plumbing is\\nmade a specialty. Mr. Wright is an\\nenergetic and reliable young man.\\nHis motto is Live and let live. Re-\\nturning his thanks tor a liberal and in-\\ncreasing patronage, he strives to de-\\nserve and receive a (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ontinuance of the\\nsame.\\nJAMES BROWN, MILLER.\\nThe old Eastman Edson grist mill\\nis one of the landmarks of the town.\\nIt was successfully conducted for many\\nyears by Curtis, and later by Ezra\\n(iates, of East St. Johnsbury, and now\\nis run by another man from that vil-\\nlage. Jim Brown was born in\\nthat burgh ;JS years ago, but has given\\nabout halt of those years to Littleton.\\nHe worked seven years for Ezra Gates\\nand then ran a mill for lilanchard\\nCo. at Lisbon four years. Seven years\\nago he rented this mill, which had re-\\ncently been fitted up in good shape\\nwith new water wheels, etc., and is\\nbuilding up a good trade. Last year\\nhe ground and sold some 54 qar-loads\\nof loose grain, corn and oats, besides a\\nlarge custom trade. He also sold more\\nthan 800 barrels of flour, and more\\nthan a dozen car-loads of feed. The\\nmill is provided with elevators, has a\\nstorage capacity of 10 car-loads, and a\\ncar-load per day can be ground all\\nright. Mr. Brown is a hard working,\\nsquare dealing man, and he numbers\\namong his customers such patrons as\\nThayer s hotel, the Profile, English it\\nBond, and other leading firms.\\nCharles H. Applebee.\\nDear reader, with your permission,\\nwe will spend a pleasant evening hour\\nin the hospitable home of Charles II.\\nApplebee, soldier, mill man, and black-\\nsmith. Jog our subject s memory, and\\nhe will conjure up his recollection of\\nprimitive Littleton, the straggling\\ncountry village of 40 years ago he\\nwill recount the scenes of camp, and\\nfield, and hospital, and with his vision\\nwe shall see the brave lines of blue\\ncross the deadly pontoons of Fredricks-\\nburg, and challenge death on many a\\nbloody field of strife. Miss Grace\\nApplebee will evoke for us the magic\\ncharm of song, and music from the\\npiano as bj the stroke of an enchantress\\nwand. The subject ot our sketch is\\na native and life-long citizen of Little-\\nton, where his beaming countenance\\nand rotund figure are as welcome and\\nfamiliar as the rising sun. In August,\\n18()2, he enlisted in the 13th New\\nHampshire regiment, and serving much\\nof the time for nearly three years on\\ndetached duty in the ambulance corps,\\nsaw many of the varj ing phases of\\ngrim visaged war. Before going\\nsouth he married Harriet Randall, of\\nLyndon, t., who died in 187.S. His\\npresent wife was Mrs. Mary Osgood\\nRanlett, and their only child is Grace\\nA., a graduate of Littleton High school,\\nand an accomplished musician. After\\nreturning from the tented field, Mr.\\nA])plebee was for many years engaged\\nin the lumber business in this vicinity,\\nalone, in company with others, and as\\nforeman of the Waumbek Lumber Co.\\nHe purchased the old stone blacksmith\\nshop in 1883, repaired it, and has since\\nbeen engaged in blacksmithing. The\\nstone shop is a landmark, the leading\\nshop in town, with horse shoeing as a\\nspecialty. Mr. Applebee is agent for\\nthe Walter A. Wood mowing machines.\\nStalwart, sturdy, and industrious, he is\\nthe impersonation of Longfellow s\\nillage Blacksmith. His substantial\\nresidence is located above the shop.\\nHe has served ou the village police", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nforce about a dozen years. He joined\\nlinrns Lodge, F. A. M., in 1867, was\\nknighted in St. Gerard Cominandery in\\n68, in which he has since continnoiisly\\nheld office, and was twice eminent\\ncommander. He is also a member of\\nthe G. A. R.\\nTHE LITTLETON BANKS.\\nThe Littleton National Bank was\\norganized in October, 1871 has a\\ncapital of \u00c2\u00a7150,000, with a surplus and\\nuiidivide.l profits of S53,444. The\\npresent officers of the bank are Oscar\\nHatch, president; George T. Cruft,\\nvice-president Henry E. Richardson,\\ncashier Charles E. Smith, book-keep-\\ner Charles O. Parker, clerk. The\\nili rectors are O. C. Hatch, C. F. East-\\nman, G. T. Cruft, C. H. Greenleaf, Ira\\nParker, W. H. Bellows, .L H. Bailey.\\nThe Littleton Savings Bank has on\\ndeposit $1,02;?,751.00, with a surplus\\nand undivided profits of \u00c2\u00a791,965.00.\\nIts oflScers are Charles F. Eastman,\\npresident Ira Parker, vice president\\nOscar C. Hatch, secretary and treas-\\nurer Henry O. Hatch, teller. The\\ndirectors are Oscar V. Hatch, Charles\\nF. Eastman, Ira Parker, George T.\\nCruft, William H. Bellows, Henry F.\\nGreen and James H. Bailey.\\ned cashier of the Nationid Bank of\\nChelsea, Vt., and served efficiently for\\ntwo years, when, in 1 872, he was elect-\\ned cashier of the National Bank and\\ntreasurer of the Savings Bank of Lit-\\ntleton. In 1887 he was elected presi-\\ndent of the National Bank and has\\nsince filled that position with eminent\\nsuccess. Mr. Hatch is a Knight Tem-\\nplar and a 33d degree Mason, A. S. R.\\nAn active and influential Republican,\\nhe represented Littleton in 1892-3.\\nHON. OSCAR C. Hatch.\\nMr. Hatch is a native of Wells River,\\nVt., and after a valuable training of\\nfour years as general clerk in the Na-\\ntional Bank of Newbury, he was elect-\\nFRANK C. ALBEE.\\nAmong the genial and cultured rural\\nhomes of Littleton, there are none\\nmore hospitable than that of F. C.\\nAlbee, who resides on the Peabody\\nfarm a mile below the new bridge.\\nMr. Albee comes of good native stock,\\nhisgrandfather being Alexander Albee,\\nan early settler. Curtis Albee married\\na daughter of Laban Tift, a pioneer\\nblacksmith, and Frank was the eldest\\nof four sons. He was born in 1844,\\nand at the age of 20 married Amanda,\\ndaughter of Horace Buck. The latter\\nsoon after purchased the Peabody\\nfarm which has since been the home of\\nV)0th families until the death of Mr.\\nand Mrs. Buck. The farm contains\\nabout 325 acres, of which nearly one-\\nthird is in mowing and tillage. Mr.\\nAlbee has a fine sugar orchard of 1 300\\ntrees, but the dairy is the leading\\nfeature. He has served six years on\\nthe school board, and is now for the\\nsecond year the efficient road com-\\nmissioner. Frank C. and Amanda Al-\\nbee have two children, Grace and Hor-\\nace Buck.\\nC. TROMBLEY.\\nThe occupation of barber is not fully\\nappreciated. He is a conservator of\\ndomestic happiness. It is his business\\nto keep the masculine phiz in pre-\\nsentable condition to receive the delec-\\ntable good bye kiss of wife or sweet-\\nheart. .Just imagine for a moment\\nwhat would soon become the appear-\\nance of the stern sex, and what results\\nwould be sure to follow, were it not\\nfor the faithful use of shears and\\nrazor. For sixteen years Mr. Trorabley\\nhas industriously plied them in Little-\\nton, and if the natives go unshaven and\\nunshorn, it isn t his fault. Well, they\\ndon t, to any extent. INIr. Trombley\\nenjoys a good digestion, and a clear\\nconscience, and entertains his custom-\\ner with such a lively flow of cheerful\\nchat, that be rises from the chair with\\nrefreshed spirit, and a benevolent feel-\\ning toward all mankind. If billards is\\nyour forte, Trombley will let you shine\\nand take your cash. If you want a\\ngood cigar, a plain or fancy pipe, or a\\nrailroad mileage, Trombley will make\\nyou happy. Call and see him in his\\nbran new quarters. No. 78 Main Street.\\nI. C. RICHARDSON.\\nwas born in Littleton some 41 years\\nago. His father, Henry Richardson,\\nwas a farmer and liveryman and his\\nson naturally followed in his footsteps.\\nHe attended the village graded and\\nhigh schools and remained at home\\nuntil he was 22 and then purchased the\\nGranite block, and the livery connect-\\ned. It was then a light outfit with\\nonly five horses, but Mr. Richardson\\ndeveloped the business so successfully\\nthat in 95 he sold the rolling stock to\\nG. F. Burkard for a trifle of $8000.\\nHe has recently re-purchased it. A\\nprudent audacity has marked his\\nventures. He built, bought, remodelled\\nand rented tenement houses, at titnet^", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nhaving as many as forty tenants. In\\n1890 he bought the old B. W. Kilburn\\nfoundry and machine shop of Tilton\\nOoodell, and converted it into a grist\\nmill, and is doing a land office busi-\\nness, handling from 75 to 100 car loads\\nmile from the village. lie has re-\\nmodelled and constructed a handsome\\nfront to Granite Block, which is de-\\nsigned for a hotel, with 45 guest rooms\\nabove the ground floor. The building\\nis four stories, with an observatory 20\\ncompleted next spring, and Mr.\\nRichardson will rent it on easy terms\\nto the right man. The guest rooms\\nare large, and its central location as\\nwell as its modern conveniences, will\\nenable a live man to secure a handsome\\nof flour and feed per annum. Mr.\\nRichardson is a dealer in horses, live\\nstock, pressed hay, wood, in fact almost\\neverything, except millinery, hair\\ngoods and musical instruments. He\\nhas a good hundred acre farm onlj^ a\\nI. C. RICHARDSON S NEW HOTEL\\nby 23 feet, which commands a fine\\nview of the valley and mountains. It\\nwill be heated by steam, lighted by\\nelectricity, and will be provided with\\nspeaking tubes, electric bells and an\\npJevO tor. The bwiWing -^ill ])e ful^\\npatronage from tourists and the com-\\nmercial public. Mr. Richardson mar-\\nried Nellie Williams, of St. Johnsbury,\\nand they have two children living. He\\nis a Knight Templar and in 1891-2 he\\nrepresented Littleton in the legislators,", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIIS REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nDi\\nDr. t. e. Sanger.\\nSaiiLTer is not only the [lioiiecr,\\nand the most distinguished exponent\\nof his school in northern New Hamp-\\n.shii o, but he has left the impress of his\\nstrong personality on the social and\\npublic life of the community. He\\nconies of staunch English stock, his\\nfirst American ancestor, Hichard Sanger,\\nemigrating to this country in 1636,\\nsettling in Ilingbam, Mass. Eleazer,\\nthe great grandfather of Dr. Sanger,\\nfought in the old French war and in\\nthe War of the Revolution. Eleazer,\\nhis grand sire, was the .pioneer settler\\nat St. .JohBSl5H\u00c2\u00aby*^ ntre. Ezra, the\\nfather of Dr. T. E. Sanger, became a\\nmerchant and manufacturer at Troy,\\nN. Y., where our subject was born in\\n1832. Dr. Sanger completed his aca-\\ndemic course at the St. .Johnsbury\\nAcademy at the age of 18, going from\\nthere to Toledo, O., where he accepted\\na position in a drug store, applying\\nhimself most assiduously for two years\\nin the study of medicine. He then\\nattended medical lectures in Philadel-\\nphia and also studied in the offices of\\nDrs. Stone and Sanborn of St. Johns-\\nbury and Darling of Lyndon. He\\ngraduated from the Homeopathic Col-\\nlege of Philadelphia in 1856, locating\\nat Hardwick, Vt. He came to Little-\\nton in 1858, where he has since enjoyed\\na most notable professional career.\\nHis reputation as a most skillful prac-\\ntitioner was soon established, in a\\nclientage at first very, adverse to his\\nschool, and his counsel has been widely\\nsought in critical cases by members of\\nboth schools. In 1870 he became a\\nmember of the American Listitute of\\nHomeopathy, has held all of the high-\\nest offices of the N. H. Medical Society,\\nand was the first president of the\\nConnecticut Valley Homeopathic Med-\\nical society. Li 1871 he was appoint-\\ned pension surgeon of the U. S. Pen-\\nsion Bureau, resigning on the advent\\nof the Cleveland administration. He\\nis at present medical examiner in the\\nK. of H. He became a member of\\nBurns Lodge in 1870 and later of St.\\n(lerard Commandery, has attained the\\nthirty-second degree of Scottish Rile\\nMasonry and in 1892 was elected G. C.\\nof the Grand Commandery of N. H.\\nHe was united in 1856 to lanthe C.\\nKneeland and three daughters have\\nblessed their union Ellen I., wife of\\nDr. E. K. Parker Lillian E., Mrs. F.\\nE. Green, and Catherine F. Dr. San-\\nger has been actively interested in\\nseveral semi-public enterprises of the\\nvillage and his unfailing good nature\\nand brilliant social qualities have won\\nhim a host of friends, and his perse-\\nverance and ability have secured the\\nhighest professional reward.\\nN. W. RANLETT\\nis well known as the veteran carriage\\nand sleigh manufacturer of Littleton.\\nA tour of the mountains by coach or\\ncarriage is by far the most healthful\\nand enjoyable method of seeing the\\ncountry, but the enjoyment is largely\\ndependent upon the vehicle used, for\\nmountain roads are liable to be rough\\nand steep in places, and considerations\\nof safety as well as of comfort demand\\nthat the vehicle be strong, light, and\\neasy, and especially adapted to moun-\\ntain travel. N. W. Ranlett has been\\nengaged in the manufacture of moun-\\ntain vehicles since 1860, and the nat-\\nural presumption is that he knows his\\nbusiness thoroughly, and is prepared\\nto turn o.ut work that will give ex-\\ncellent satisfaction. Such indeed is\\nthe fact, and the desirabilitv of the re-\\nsults attained is not due to experience\\nand skill alone, but also to the excellent\\nfacilities available, the plant being\\nvery complete and of the most ap-\\nroved type. There is one shop 50\\nfeet square, and another 30 by 85 feet,\\nl)oth of four floors. A large stock of\\ncarriages, wagons, and sleighs is carried\\nand a thoroughly well-made vehicle of\\nmodern style may be bought here at a\\nlow figure. Carriage painting and all\\nother work connected with the busi-\\nness, will be done in a superior man-\\nner at short notice, and repairing of\\nall descriptions will be done to order\\nat moderate rates, the repairing of\\ncoaches and mountain wagons being a\\nspecialty. The extensive facilities at\\nhand enable repairs to be neatly and\\ndurably carried out at remarkably\\nshort notice, when haste is essential, a\\npoint which touring parties will do\\nwell to remember. Mr. Ranlett is a\\nnative of Lancaster, and founded his\\npresent business more than a third of\\na century ago. He is naturally proud\\nof the reputation his establishtnent has\\nso long enjoyeJ, and spares no ])ains\\nto maintain it in every dc])artmeiit.\\nE. THORNTON SANDERSON.\\nA thing of beauty is a joy forever.\\nA whole cotnmunity enjoys a certain\\nproprietory right in a beautiful resi-\\ndence or a stately public building;", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nhence the desisiner and buikler is in a\\nlarge sense a public benefactor. lie is\\nalso an educator of the jniblic taste.\\nPleasant homes are conservators of\\nprivate and public virtue. The skill-\\nful architect is a moral as well as\\nindustrial factor and deserves encour-\\nagement. In Jlr. Sanderson, Littleton\\nhas a desirable acquisition. He is a\\nnative of Massachusetts, born in 1S75,\\nand received his preliminary training\\nat the well known Cambridge Manual\\nTraining School, from which he gradu-\\nated in the class of 91. He then\\nentered the office of Shepley, Rutau\\nCooledge, successors of the famous\\narchitect, H. II. Hichardson. This is\\none of the most notable firms in the\\nUnited States, with offices in St. Louis\\nand Chicago, and Mr. Sanderson here\\nenjoyed exceptional advantages for\\nstudying high art. He settled in Lit-\\ntleton in 1895 and his office is in Uob-\\ninson Block over the White Mountain\\nPharmacy. We may observe Mr. San-\\nderson s work in the L^nion Congrega-\\ntional church at Bartlett, the new\\nHaverhill Academy, the new school\\nbuilding at Apthorp, several cottages\\nat Bethlehem, H. E. Kenney s resi-\\ndence on Pleasant street, Parker s\\nCohashauke block, and the new Rich-\\nardson hotel. Mr. Sanderson has a\\nbrilliant future before him in his chos-\\nen profession.\\nMRS. E. C. YOUNG.\\nMrs. Young began to learn the\\nmilliners trade at the age of 16. She\\nworked 18 years for Mrs. J. A. Stevens\\nat Littleton and seven years for the\\n]iopular milliner, E. H. Phillips, now\\nof Manchester. With this extensive\\nexperience Mrs. Young unites natural\\ntact and a pleasing address. Her stock\\nof millinery and fancy goods in Mc-\\nCoy block merits attention. During\\nthe busy season she always employs an\\nexpert trimmer from the city.\\nNoah Farr,\\nOne of the most successful farmers in\\nthe state.\\nThe above illustration of the farm buildings and home of No.ih F.irr, with the accompanyinj; p )rtrait of that\\ngentleman, were received too late to be printed with the biographical sketch, which ai)pears on anotlier pajci\\\\", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOUENAL.\\nM\\nODERN LITTLETON.\\nThe history of a town or a nation is\\nlike the current of a river; a continu-\\nous, inseperable movement, sometimes\\nrapid and tutnultuous, during the ju riod\\nof some moral or political upheaval,\\nsometimes creeping with sluggish, al-\\nmost imperceptible movement, through\\nthe swamps of industiial depression,\\nanon rushing forward with increased\\nvolume and accelerated velocity, as it\\nassimulates some great tributary indus-\\ntry. Each generation is the heir of\\nothers that have preceded it, and this\\nfixed capital of heredity is moulded by\\na constantly changing environment.\\nLittleton has ever been the gateway of\\nmountain travel, and in late years guests\\nhave tarried within her gates. She\\nhas been saved from the moral and\\nmental inertia, the narrow and self-\\nsatisfied provincialism which incrusts\\nan isolated town. Her citizens annu-\\nally enjoy the social contact, the whole-\\nsome criticism and sage suggestions of\\ncultured and travelled tourists from all\\nsections of our great republic. The\\nresult is a liberal cosmopolitan spirit,\\nwhich is not lacking in local pride and\\npatriotism. Her wealthy and success-\\nful men have all sprung from the rank.s,\\nand assume no superior style of dress\\nor erjuipage, and are kindly and ap-\\nproacliable to all. This universal good\\nfellowship and republican simplicitj is\\na charming feature of Littleton society.\\nThere is no cod-fish aristocracy, and\\nour set is a very inclusive term.\\nThe Cohasbauke Club, the great fra-\\nternities, and the church societies, in\\nwhich rich and poor mingle freely in\\nsocial intercourse, are the solvents\\nwhich dissolve all artificial social dis-\\ntinctions. During the past dozen\\nyears there have been no politics in\\nthe election of town and village otfieials,\\nfor a citizens caucus names a ticket,\\nselected with reference to individual\\nmerit and fitness. The result is a clean,\\nable, responsible administration of local\\naffairs, and the adoption of the policy\\nof pernianent impi-ovements and the\\nretention in office of men of proved\\nfitness. The community is governed\\nby moral and intellectual instead of\\nspirituous forces.\\nDuring the past decade the material,\\nthe educational and the religious inter-\\nests of the town have moved grandly\\nand harmoniously forward as never\\nbefore. Of the six religious societies\\nall have provided new accessories\\nor improvements and added to their\\nmembership all are out of debt, and\\nall are working harmoniously and effec-\\ntively for the regeneration of society.\\nThe history of the Littleton Musical\\nAssociation is unique. It has existed\\na quarter of a century, and has never\\nfailed to hold a successful annual win-\\nter convention. It is strong financially\\nand a permanent institution. No\\nRev. w. C. Litchfield.\\nsimilar instance of musical persistence\\nis on record in this state. Martha\\nDana Shei)ard has been the pianist at\\nthese festivals for 25 consecutive years,\\nand Carl Zerrahn was its patron saint.\\nAnother flourishing musical organiza-\\ntion is the Saranac Band. The rural\\nresidents, as well as the villagers,\\nshare in these privileges and the for-\\nmer are in closer touch with the\\nserene and unseen influences of nature\\nthat descend like a benediction from\\nthe eternal mountains. Then ask not\\nwhy to these bleak hills they cling as\\nclings the tufted moss, to bear the\\nwinter s lingering chills, the mocking\\nspring s perpetual loss For sweet\\nhomes nestle in these dells, and perch\\nalong these wooded swells, and blest\\nl)eyond Arcadian vales, they hear the\\nsound of Sabbath bells.\\nLittleton is a beautiful village. It\\nhas a peculiar individuality, in the\\ncharming variety of color, architecture\\nand local situation of its residences.\\nSpacious old colonial villas, with por-\\nti^jos and Doric columns, are fronted\\nor flanked by cosy, modern cottages,\\nor handsome Queen Anne mansions.\\nI he business blocks are centred prin-\\ncipally on the south side of Main street,\\na long and handsome boulevard, with\\nconcrete pavement and granite curbing\\nthrough its entire length. Here also\\nis located the elegant town building,\\nThayer s and Richardson great hotels,\\nand four of the seven churches. The\\nslopes fronting the Ammonoosuc val-\\nley and the mountain sentinels of\\nFranconia, are crowned with pretty\\ncottages and elegant mansions, and\\ntowering above these rise the Littleton\\nand Kilburn school buildings, and the\\nsummer hotels, The Maples and\\nChiswick Inn. The Ammonoosuc is\\nspanned by a fine steel bridge, with\\nmassive granite buttresses, and just\\nbeyond are the tasty passenger and\\nfreight depots, Edson Bailey s gen-\\neral store, Kilburn s Stereoscopic View\\nfactory, and the residential suburb\\nknown as the South Side. The past\\nhalf-dozen years have seen a wonder-\\nful transformation in the exterior of\\nLittleton. A thoroughly concrete and\\nmacadamized street has taken the place\\nof a former mud-hole, plank, brick and\\ndirt sidewalks have been replaced by\\nconcrete, the steel bridge has been\\nconstructed with a more uniform street\\ngrade, and scores of the best private\\nresidences have been erected, more\\nduring this year than ever before.\\nTrade is well organized on the scale of\\nadequate to the public needs. There\\nare two general stores, three drug\\nstores, three jewelers, a half-dozen\\ngrocery stores, one furniture store, two\\nmeat markets, a fish market, three\\nhardware stores, four milliners, three\\nboot and shoe stores, four gent s cloth-\\ning stores, two dry goods stores, two\\nstationers, three restaurants, a bakery,", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nthree dentists, two pliotogra]ilKTs, three\\nbarbers, four liveries, three liotels,\\nthree summer hotels. The manufac-\\nturies are represented by the Saranac\\nglove factory, the Littleton shoe shop,\\ntwo stereoscopic view shops, one steam\\nsaw mill, bobbin and quill mill, marble\\nand granite works, two machine shops,\\nthree carriage firms, two sash and\\nblind and lumlier establishments, four\\nblacksmiths, and three tin shops and\\nplumbers.\\nFive lawyers are busily employed in\\ntying and untying legal knots, six\\nministers are empowered to tie mat-\\nrimonial knots, and to conserve\\npublic morals, eight physicians facil-\\nitate births, defer deaths, and pre-\\nserve the public health so faithfully\\nthat only one firm of undertakers is\\nsemi occasionally employed in pre-\\nparing funeral supplies for an ex-\\necptionally healthful community.\\nThe population of the town will\\napproximate four thousand, of\\nwhich nearly three thousand are in\\nthe village and suburbs. The great\\npillars which support the fabric of\\nLittleton s prosperity are agricul-\\nture, rewarded with an excellent\\nhome market local trade, which also\\ncaters to an extensive and prosper-\\nous farming community, the great\\nspecial manufactures of Saranac\\ngloves, stereoscopic views, the Lit-\\ntleton shoe factory, and the minor\\nlocal manufactures, and last but\\nnot least the summer travel that\\npays a lucrative tribute to Little-\\nton, as the gateway, the capital, and\\nthe treasury of this Switzerland of\\nAmerica. All of these industries,\\nwith the coming revival of general\\nbusiness, will soon enjoy the noontide\\nof abundant prosperity.\\nThe lumber business, a must im-\\nportant factor in the past, will be\\ncontinued, but with diminished vohuni\\nLittleton possesses all of the essential\\nresources for a healthy and continuous\\ngrowth. The village streets, all busi-\\nness houses, and many residences, are\\nwell lighted by electricity. A good\\nwater supply and a live tire department\\nhave hitherto secured almost complete\\nimmunity from destructive fires. .Vn\\nexcellent sewerage system is one of tiie\\nrecent improvements. The town li-\\nbrary, endowed with a beautiful home,\\nwill be progressively increased. Hand\\nin hand with its material development\\nwill go those social, intellectual and re-\\nligious institutions that conserve so-\\nciety, and make life worth living. Its\\nbanks, railroads, factories, stores and\\nhotels are supplemented by its seven\\nreligious societies, representing differ-\\ning phases of religious belief, bj its\\ngreat fraternal, patriotic, and benefit\\nsteadily forward to the opportunities\\nof the future.\\nTHI; AM.WOM )OM 1.- K IWi M-^l. LlirLhlli.N\\nsocieties, by its excellent public school\\nsystem, its instructive lecture courses,\\nlibrary and reading rooms. The tools\\nare for those who can use them. In-\\ndustry clasps hands with opportunity.\\nThe citizens of Littleton extend the\\nright hand of fellowship alike to cajii-\\ntal and labor tiiat may here seek a con-\\ngenial field. ^lindful of the worthy\\nexamples of the pioneers, thankful for\\ndangers averted and acliievments won,\\nbut intent on the duties and responsi-\\nbilities of the present, their gaze is\\nHON. ISAAC Calhoun\\nis one of the leading business men and\\nreal estate owners of Grafton County.\\nHe was born in Lyman in 1882, son of\\nJames and I hilena Robbins Calhoun.\\n.James Caliioun was a prosperous far-\\nmer, in early life a teacher, and an\\noriginal anti-slavery man. Isaac was\\nthe eldest child and only son of a fam-\\nily of seven children. He was early\\ninured to the cares and labors of\\nthe farm, and his education was\\ncompleted at Newbury Seminary.\\nHe began life as a f.inner but later\\nengaged in the lumber business in\\nLisbon, adding the produce and\\nbutcher business in which he carried\\non an extensive trade, and soon ac-\\nquired a handsome competence. He\\ncame to Littleton and bought the\\nFlanders plaie in 1?68 and again\\nembarked in the butcher and prod-\\nuce business. At length he disposed\\nof this business and gave his lead-\\ning attention to the management of\\nhis extensive landed interests. He\\nwas also financially interested in\\nthe South Littleton Lumber Co., and\\nin a starch factory in Maine, and\\nowns several blocks and houses in\\nLittleton village. His residence\\nand grounds on Main street are ele-\\ngant and sightly, and a fine meadow\\nis conveniently located. Mr. Cal-\\nhoun is a man of keen, practical\\njudgement, and makes farming pay.\\nlie married Miss Ldiyaett Hildreth\\nof Lisbon, and after her early death,\\nFlora, daughter of Prescott and\\nLucy Young uf Lisbon. They have\\nan adopted daughter, Alice M., 17\\nyears of age. In religious belief,\\nMr. Calhoun is by religious faith a\\nCongregationalist. He is a member of\\nPurns Lodge, F. A. \\\\I. He is an\\nactive and infiuential Republican,\\nserved three years as selectman, and\\nas a representative in the State Legis-\\nlature of lSS9- 90. He takes an active\\nand abiding interest in all the public\\nand progressive movements of Little-\\nton, and is one of the town s most in-\\nfluential citizens.", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOIJNTAIN REPUBLIC-.IOUKNAL.\\nParker Brothers Co.\\nIt is seliUim that a firm ent!;ages in\\nbusiness wliere each ditt erent nien)l)er\\nseems so fully adapted to his special\\nwork as is the case in this firm. The\\nfirm was founded in 1S91, and Charles\\nParker, T. E. Parker, and II. II. Porter\\nare the jiresent memhera. The busi-\\nness is the sale of standard gloves and\\nmittens to retail merchants, and their\\ntrade is now well established all over\\nNew England and Northern New\\nYork, for si.x salesmen are usually on\\nthe road. The office and warehouse of\\nthe company are on the second fioor of\\nOpera block. The Parkers originated\\nin Lisbon, but for many years three of\\nthe brothers have been residents of\\nLittleton, where they have been best\\nknown to the outside public as manu-\\nfacturers and salesmen of gloves of the\\nbest quality, although they have suc-\\ncessfully managed other lines. Cliarles\\nParker is a son of Silas Parker, of\\nLisbon, and his youth was spent there.\\nlie came to Littleton in 1864. Mr.\\nParker became treasurer and general\\nmanager of the Eureka Glove Co. soon\\nafter its organization in 1876, and thus\\ncontinued until that company was con-\\nsolidated in the Saranac in the fall of\\n89, in which corporation he then be-\\ncame and has since been a director.\\nA large share of the stock of Parker\\nBrothers Co. is obtainsd of the\\nSaranac Co., which is a sufficient guar-\\nantee of its merit. Charles Parker,\\nwith his ample experience, is an expert\\nof rare skill, and with deft hand and\\npracticed eye selects, classifies, and\\nships the orders received by the house.\\nlie is building for the future, on a\\nbasis of the most scrupulous careful-\\nness and business integrity, and fills\\nthe position of treasurer and general\\nmanager. His son, Walter H. Parker,\\nis now a successful salesman, and\\ndoubtless will soon become a member\\nof the firm. H. A. Merrill is now the\\nefficient book-keeper. T. E. Parker,\\nthe veteran salesman, came here from\\nLyndon, Vt. about 12 years ago, where\\nhe was engaged in the jewelry busi-\\nness. H. H. Porter has been a resi-\\ndent of Littleton a score of years, and\\nconstantly in the glove business. He\\nhas invented a patent glove fastener\\nand is a first class saksman.\\nTHE Littleton Lumber Co.\\nis one of the oldest and most widely\\nknown of the business enterprises ot\\nLittleton, and has been an important\\nfactor in the up building of the town.\\nThe pioneer of the enterprise was Ariel\\nHolmes, and later Deacon Tarbell and\\nCharles Eaton were for many years\\nthe leading partners. The main office\\nand retail sheds have for many years\\nbeen located near the passenger depot\\nand the mills are at South Littleton.\\nIn June, 1896, A. W. Bean and H. D.\\nGreen, both active young men of this\\ntown, formed the present firm. They\\nare engaged in the sale of all kinds of\\nhard and soft wood lumber, doors,\\nwindows, sash and blinds, lath, clap-\\nboards and shingles. They obtain\\ntheir spruce and hemlock largely from\\nmills in this vicinity, their hard pine\\nfrom the South, and the sash and\\nblinds from the West in car-load lots.\\nTheir storage sheds, located near the\\ntrack, are extensive and convenient.\\nMr. Bean is the owner of the large\\ncoal and wood sheds located above the\\nfreight depot. The coal shed is 100\\nfeet long and has a capacity of 1500\\ntons of coal and ever^ facility for\\nscreening and handling the same. A\\ncar-lo.ad of coal can be unloaile l here\\nin 20 minutes. The wood shed, con-\\ntains a large supply of all kinds of\\nhard wood. Mr. Bean is in the true\\nsense a self made man. He is a native\\nof Bethlehem, born in 1861, and was\\nearly thrown upon his own resources.\\nHe obtained a good practical education,\\nkept books, and became a fourth owner\\nin the Littleton Lumber Co. for several\\nyears. He also was book-keeper three\\nyears at the Saranac, and five years at\\nZealand, and was three years superin-\\ntendent of the mills of the Littleton\\nLumber Co. at South Littleton. He\\nmarried Estelle A. Chandler of Little-\\nton. Harry I). Green was born in\\n1872, and is a son of Henry Green.\\nAfter completing his education at the\\nLittleton High school Mr. Green was\\nengaged in the grocery business. He\\nmarried Persis A., daughter of T. E.\\nParker of Littleton. The Littleton\\nLumber Co., under the management of\\nthese active and able young men, offers\\nvaluable facilities to the building trade.\\nJohn w. Farr.\\nTwo and one-half miles northwest-\\nerly from Littleton is Maplewood\\nFarm, whose owner, John W. Farr,\\nhas long been well known am )ng the\\nfarmers of northern New Hampshire,\\nand also prominent among grange cir-\\ncles. This is the original homestead,\\nsettled in 1802 by Ebenezer Farr, of\\nChestci-field, to whose son Joseph it\\ndescended. John Wilder Farr, son of\\nJoseph and Betsy (Daiifoi-lh) Farrj", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "White mountain republic-journal.\\nwas born iii the I aim, May 26, 18 25,\\nand has spent his entire life here, vvitli\\nthe exception of ten years devoted to\\nrailroading in MassachusettSjNewYork\\nand Ontario. In 1857 he retni-ned to\\nLittleton, took charge of the farm, and\\nhas since successfully pursued the agri-\\ncultural calling. There are 175 acres\\nof land, of which about 50 acres are\\nmowing and tillage. The annual hay\\nproduct is about 35 tons, which is sup-\\nplemented by oats and corn, llixed\\nfarming is followed, but dairying is a\\nleading feature, the butter from eight\\nor ten cows, mostly grade Jerseys,\\nbeing generally sold to private custo-\\nmers. Mrs. Farr s reputation as a\\nbutter-maker is first-class, her butter\\nhaving commanded first premiums at\\nstate and local fairs, and her exhibit at\\nthe World s Fair, Chicago, in 1898,\\nhaving been awarded a medal and di-\\nploma. Mr. Farr first married Eliza\\nD. Phelps, of Merritton, Ont., who\\ndied in 1861, leaving two daughters,\\nEtta P. and Nellie E., of whom the\\nlatter, a trained nurse, only survives.\\nHis present wife was Miss Alwilda P.\\nLane of Lancaster, by whom he has\\nhad four children. E lward C, the\\neldest son, is a farmer in the town of\\nOrange Myra L, is a teacher in Lit-\\ntleton, and, as well as the youngest son,\\nJohn W. Fan-, Jr., resides at home.\\nMr. Farr was one of the charter mem-\\nbers of White Mountain Grange and\\nhas served seven years as overseer and\\nfive j ears as master, and has been a\\nfaithful and devoted member of the\\nsubordinate and state granges, having\\nbeen four years a member of the execu-\\ntive committee in the latter body. He\\nwas a charter member of Northern\\nNew Hampshire Pomona Grange, and\\nits chaplain in 1890. Mr. Farr was a\\nmember of the advisory council of the\\nWorld s Congress Auxiliary, on Farm\\nCulture and Cereal Industry, at Chi-\\ncago in 1893, and has been vice-presi-\\ndent of the New Hampshire Horticul-\\ntural Society, since its organization,\\nbeing an extensive and successful fruit-\\ngrower. He has also been a director\\nand one of the executive committee of\\nthe Grafton and Coos Grange Fair\\nAssociation, and a ill rector of the\\nGrange State Fair. He is a Congrega-\\ntionalist in religion, and a KepubliL-an\\nin politics, and was one of the repre-\\nsentatives from Littleton in the legis-\\nlature of 1895- 96.\\nA PTHORP.\\nThe Tiame of Apthorp is historic. It\\ndesignated at one time the present\\nto vn of Littleton and the first child\\nborn in town was named Apthorp.\\nThe thriving village of Apthorp is\\nlocated about a mile from the business\\ncenter of Littleton village, with which\\nit is closely identified by business in-\\nterests and will within a quarter cen-\\ntury be united by cordon streets and\\nan electric road and thus become a\\nconstituent part of greater Littleton.\\nFor many years the scythe factory was\\nthe leading enterprise and gave its\\nname to the village, bnt the principal\\nindustry which has infused new life\\ninto the village is the Littleton Shoe\\nCo. The village has grown steadily\\nand solidly during all of these years of\\nbusiness depression and public im-\\nprovements have followed, which in-\\nclude water supply, new school house,\\ndelivery of mails twice a day, and\\nothers of minor importance. The\\ngrowth of Littleton village will almost\\nnecessarily be toward Apthorp. To-\\npography largely determines location\\nof residence and business, and in this\\nvicinity the valley spreads out, giving\\nexcellent building sites and good drain-\\nage. A succession of gaod water priv-\\nileges on the Ammonoosue are easily\\navailable for the location of manufactur-\\ning plants. Apthorp is yet in its\\nswaddling clothes it has a future of\\ngrowth and prosperity.\\nEDWARD HALE WELLS\\nis best known as the genial merchant\\nand post master of Apthorp, and he is\\nclosely identified with all of the pro-\\ngressive public movements of that\\nthrifty burgh. He is one of Littleton s\\ngood and true men who were cradled\\nat Sugar Hill, Lisbon. His boyhood\\nwas spent at Franconia, and in 1879 at\\nthe age of 19, he came to Littleton as\\nclerk for Eaton ife Green. In 1882 he\\nmarried Miss Hattie L. Phillips of Con-\\ncord, Vt. In 1884 he engaged in tlie\\nb.ikery business and conducted the\\nOpera dining hall very successfully.\\nFour years later he came to Apthorp\\nand bought his present store, and he\\nwas post master in 1887. Mr. Wells\\nnearly douliled his stock of goods the\\nfirst year, adding the new features of\\ndry goods and foot wear, and soon de-\\nveloped a lively but conservative trade.\\nHis clerk is A. J. Brooks, also assist-\\nant post master. Mr. Wells is active\\nand public spirited and was largelv in-\\nstrumental in securing and building\\nthe handsome new school house at Ap-\\nthorp, and is one of the town school\\ndirectors. He has one son, Harry A.\\nWells. His present wife was formerly\\nElizabeth Barnham, of Lawrence, Mass.\\nSmith Brothers.\\nThe members of this firm, E. J. and\\nG. W. Smith, are natives of Littleton,\\nsons of Rufus Smith, the veteran gran-\\nite cutter. They are both practical\\nartizans, and E. J. has enjoyed valuable\\nexperience in Massachusetts, where he\\nwas foreman four years for the Rock-\\nport Granite Co., and last year was\\nforeman of the stonework in the con-\\nstruction of the great Holyoke lam.\\nThe firm was formed last January and\\ntheir shop and power plant were rented\\nof the Littleton Shoe Co. A large\\nshare of their granite comes from the\\ncelebrated Wetmore Jk .Morse quarry\\nof Harre, Vt. Smith Brothers are pre-\\njiared to do all kinds of monumental\\nand building work promptly, in a\\nworkmanlike manner, and at prices to\\nsuit the times. The peoi le of this\\nvicinity will show enlightened self-in-\\nterest by patronizing this valuable\\nhome industry.", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAINS REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nThe Littleton Shoe Co.\\nThis corporation was organized in\\nSeptember, 1896, with the following\\nofficers: D. C. Reraich, president;\\nIra Parker, vice-president; John G.\\n])ent, treasurer A. D. Nute, general\\nmanager. The above gentlemen with\\nHon. Oscar C. Hatch, president of the\\nFirst National Bank, J. H. Bailey, F.\\nH. English and W. 11. Bellows\\nconstitute the board of directors.\\nThe factory is 40 by 100\\nfeet, four stories and basement,\\nand is located on the Ammonoosuc\\nriver at Apthorp. It is run by water\\npower with an adequate steam power\\nattached, is provided with all modern\\nconveniences, and is owned by the\\ntown. The company manufacture a\\nvaried line of men s, boys and youths\\nsatin calf shoes, and a full line of col-\\nored goods in their season. More than\\n200 hands are employed, principally\\nnatives of this section. The present\\noutput is about 100 dozen pairs of\\nshoes per day, with a constantly in-\\ncreasing demand and production. Un-\\nder the present able and conservative\\nmanagement, the factory is the latest\\nand most important acquisition to the\\nin lustrial prosperity of Littleton.\\nGeorge C. Patten.\\nWhere the Rankin brook leaps from\\nthe hills to join the broad Connecticut,\\nnestles the little hamlet of Pattenville.\\nIt was at or very near this point, that\\n.Jonathan Eastman, about 110 years\\nago, located the first grist and saw\\nmills that supplied bread and shelter\\nto the hardy pioneers of Littleton. In\\ndue time Solomon Whiting became the\\nowner of what was known as the MuUi-\\nken mills, and his son, Robert, suc-\\nceeded him, but u])on the latter s death\\nfrom an accident received in the mill\\nin 1874, George C. Patten, grandson\\nof Solomon Whiting, succeeded to the\\nproperty. George C. Patten was born\\nin Boston in IS. i i and is a son of\\nGeorge C and Melissa Whiting Patten.\\nOur subject s father came from New\\nBrunswick to Boston and was engaged\\nin the publishing of books, but his life\\nwas cut short at the early age of 28 by\\nconsumption and his wife followed him\\nto an early grave. The orphaned child\\nfound a home with his grandfather,\\nSolomon Whiting. Mr. Patten has in-\\nvoked the aid of modern invention.\\nIn 189.3 he put in a large cider press,\\nstyled the Mt. Gilead ])ress, operated\\nby hydraulic pressure, and which\\ngrinds about 750 bushels of apples per\\nday, and it receives an extensive pat-\\nronage from the apple producers of the\\nvicinity. He has enlarged and re-\\nmodeled the mills, and in 1895 put in\\na 60-horse power boiler and engine as\\nan emergency fund in a time of low\\nwater. Mr. Patten manufactures all\\nkinds of bill timber, shingles, and but-\\nter tubs. He has in view improve-\\nments which will enable him to finish\\nflooring and house finish. His farm is\\na convenient adjunct to his lumber\\nbusiness. Mr. Patten married Jennie\\nE., daughter of Madison Sanl)orn of\\nLittleton, who died in her eighteenth\\nyear, leaving one son, Frank T. Mr.\\nPatten is a Republican and liberal in\\nhis religious views. He exhibits a per-\\nsevering industry, and rectitude of pur-\\npose, that commands the respect of his\\nassociates.\\nTHE REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nThe first number of the White Moun-\\ntain Republic was issued October 4,\\n1867 by Chester E. Carey, who had\\npurchased in the September preceding\\nof L. W. Rowell the printing material\\nof the Littleton Gazette, which was\\ndiscontinued. The Republic ofllce was\\nlocated in Union Block, then recently\\nerected. It was a seven column ])a])er,\\n23 by 35 inciies. Democratic in politics,\\nprinted on a hand press, and the sub-\\nscription price was 2.00 per annum,\\nwhich seems like a large price at the\\npresent time. Henry H. Metcalf was\\neditor for the first six months, after\\nwhich Mr. Carey took full charge un-\\ntil September 1871. In April, 1868,\\nMr. Carey moved the office to Smith s\\nblock, where he remained until Feb-\\nruary, 1871, when he again moved into\\na building he had purchased near the\\nold brick store and fitted up for an\\noffice and dwelling. September 15,\\n1871, he sold the paper and material,\\nto which he had added a Guernsey\\npower press, to Henry H. Metcalf, who\\nagain moved the office to the second\\nfloor, last end of Union block. Mr.\\nCarey left town and was afterward\\nconnected with various papers. He\\ndied in Hanover, September 25, 1896.\\nMr. Metcalf conducted the paper until\\nApril 27, 1874, when he sold the paper\\nand material to George C. Furber. It\\nwas then located in two small rooms\\nand the- material from which it was\\nprinted was not worth more than i5i800.\\nLarger and more commodious quarters\\nwere soon needed and January 1, 1880,\\nthe office was moved to the ground\\nfloor of L. P. Parker s building, corner\\nof Main and Pleasant, a modern power\\npress and steam power added and the\\nplant made one of the best in Northern\\nNew Hampshire. In 1880 Mr. Furber\\nstarted the White Mountain Record in\\nNorth Conway, dividing his time be-\\ntween the two, and sold a half interest\\nin the Republic to D. O. Wallace. In\\n1882 or 83 Mr. Wallace sold back his\\ninterest to Mr. Furber, who from that\\ntime continued sole editor and pro-\\nprietor until 1891. January 1, 1881,\\nthe good will of the Haverhill Herald\\nwas purchased and the subscription list\\nmerged with that of the Republic. In\\n1886 larger quarters were needed and\\nthe office was moved into the Nelson\\nC. Farr block where it remained ten\\nyears, tin til it was moved to its present\\nlocation in 1896. September 7, 1889,\\nMr. Furber purchased of .John D.\\nBridge the Littleton Journal and the\\ntwo papers were consolidated under\\nthe name of Republic-Journal, and the\\nsize increased from four to eight pages.\\nOctober 1, 1891, on account of poor\\nhealth Mr. Furber sold a two-thirds\\ninterest and the active management of\\nthe paper to Willis H. Colby, and a", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOXJRN At.\\nyear later sold Mr. Colby the remain-\\ning third.\\nIn January, 1895, D. B. Pluiner\\nCo. bought the office from Mr. Colbj\\nand A. W. Emerson assumed control.\\nIn tlie spring of 1896 the office was\\nmoved to its present handsome and\\ncommodious quarters, and new machin-\\nery was added, placingthe equipment far\\nahead of that of any other office north\\nof Concord. The following November\\nthe Plumer Publishing Co. was incor-\\nporated, Mr. Emerson continuing as\\neditor and manager until May of the\\npresent year, when James M. W. Coop-\\ner assumed charge of the business\\ndepartment. October 1, Mr. Cooper\\nand Allan F. Sparrow leased the\\nplant from the Plumer Publish-\\ning Company. Last July a new\\npublication was started, The White\\nMountain Life, a summer weekly devo-\\nted to the resorts of the White Mount-\\nains. Its success was assured from the\\nfirst number, and throughout the coun-\\ntry it was pronounced the handsomest\\nand newsiest resort magazine published.\\nMuch new material has been added\\nduring the past three months, and fur-\\nther improvements are contemplated\\nin the near future that will more thor-\\noughly equip the office for rapid and\\nperfect work. An idea of the present\\ncapacity of the office may be had from\\nthis special number, which was com-\\npleted in less than three weeks from\\nthe receipt of the first installment of\\ncopy, besides carrying on the regular\\nwork of the office in both newspaper\\nand job departments.\\nTHE SOUVENIR.\\nThe first shall be last, and the last\\nshall be first, is sometimes true, but\\nin this case the last shall be in the\\nmiddle, for this is the last page to be\\nprinted, yet is the middle of the book.\\nIn preparing this special edition, we\\nhave been greatly hampered by failure\\nof the engraving company to furnish\\nthe illustrations promptly, and we go\\nto press with this form without three\\nlarge cuts of the shoe shop, of Hon.\\nIsaac Calhoun s residence and Warren\\nW. Lovejoy s farm. We have waited\\nuntil further delay means that the\\nedition will not be printed to circulate\\nat the advertised time, so these excel-\\nlent features must be omitted.\\nIn other ways the work has lieen\\nhindered, yet the paper is out on time,\\nand is, we believe, as handsome a sou-\\nvenir as has ever been issued from a\\ncountry office. More than a ton and\\na half of fine book paper has been used\\nto print the five thousand copies, and\\nthe expense can best be realized by\\nthose who have had done work of a\\nsimilar nature; A copy of this souve-\\nnir goes to each of our subscribers,\\nand many extra copies will be sent out\\nby those who are included in the\\nsketches. We have left about one\\nhundred copies, which can be had at\\nten cents each, which barely covers the\\nactual cost. With best wishes for a\\nmerry, meri-y Christmas, and trusting\\nthat this will not be the least of your\\nholiday blessings, we are, most cor-\\ndially. The PriiLisHERS.\\nE. C. GLEDHILL, D. D. S.\\nis located in Parker building next door\\nto Kennsy Co s drug store. Office\\nhours from eight a. m. to five p. m.\\ndaily. Dr. Gledhill has received a di-\\nploma from the Baltimore College of\\nDental Surgery, also holds a certificate\\ngranted by the state board of examiners\\nin dentistry of New York, and also of\\nthe state board of New Hampshire.\\nHaving taken a special course in crown\\nand bridge work and being provided\\nwith latest improvements for doing\\nthis kind of work he feels confident of\\ngiving satisfaction. All operations are\\ncarefully and scientifically treated.\\nPainless extraction by the use of all\\nknown aniesthetics. All examinations\\nfree.\\nBURNS Lodge, F. A. M.\\nRegular communications of Burns\\nLodge, No. 66, F. A. M., are held\\nThursday of the week in which the\\nmoon fulls, in Masonic hall, Union\\nBlock. The officers are H. K. Hal-\\nlett, W. M. W. F. Robins, S. W.\\nA. W. Coburn, J. W. C. F. Eastman,\\ntreasurer; F. H. English, secretary;\\nJ. F. Tilton, chaplain W. M. Silsby,\\nSr. Deacon W. A. Beebe, Jr. Deacon.\\nLafayette Lodge, I. O. O. F.\\nwas organized about 20 years ago with\\nseven charter members, and that nuin-\\nber has increased twenty fold. The\\nOdd Fellows Block is a monument to\\nthe enterprise of the Lodge. The\\npresent officers are B. H. Pennock,\\nN. G. John Woodward, V. G. Au-\\ngust Huron, secretary; O. AV. Hunk-\\nins, treasurer.\\nTHE CONGREGATIONAL PARSONAGE.", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nC. F. HARRIS iV CO.\\nThe traveler will scarcely fail to\\nnotice the Harris carriage works, lo-\\nI aleil just above the village on tlie\\nAnmionoosuc river. The main build-\\ning is o5 by 100 feet, two stories, not\\nincluding the elevator and two large\\nbuildings for storage. It occupies the\\nformer site of the scythe factory. This\\nbusiness was founded by C. F. Harris\\neight years ago, and in 1S92 Henry\\n-Merrill becan\\\\e a partner, giving his\\n]ierson;il attention to the outside busi-\\nness antl the care of the books. The\\nfollowing March the building was\\ndestroyed by tire, ami the present build-\\nings were erected the same season.\\nSince that time the most improved\\nmachinerv has been introduced, and\\nCourt. Harris Co. is a strong and\\nreliable tirin, and their business is one\\nof the important recent acquisitions of\\nLittleton.\\ni lie store has a long distance telephone\\nand is connected with the ottices of the\\nleading physicians, A handsome soda\\nfountain is well patronized in its sea-\\nson.\\ntlie business has greatly expanded, em-\\nploying a force of ten men most of the\\ntime. The specialities of the firm are\\nthe manufacture of the popular Harris\\nsprins sleigh and mountain wagons.\\nThese wagons are strong, convenient,\\nstylish and safe, being provided with\\neffective breaks, and are just the thing\\nfor a four or six-in-hand turnout for\\npleasure parties. The firm also manu-\\nfactures heavy farm and job wagons,\\nstandard l uggies and sleighs and their\\ngoods and prices warrant careful in-\\nspection. Mr. Harris was born in\\nlS5t and for 26 years has been en-\\ngaged in the work of making carriages.\\nThe products of his skill need no\\nrecommendation in this vicinity. The\\nHarris spring sleigh receives a good\\nendorsement and patronage from the\\nbest trade. Mr. Merrill is a life-long\\ncitizen and an honorable and success-\\nful business man of Littleton. He was\\nformerly a merchant tailor and has\\nrepresented the town in the General\\nTHE OPERA DRUG STORE\\nis one of the most popular of the busi-\\nness houses of Littleton. The hand-\\nsome stock is displayed in the most\\nartistic and convenient style, in fact\\nthe store is an object lesson of classi-\\nfication and arrangement. The stock\\ncomprises almost everything in the line\\nof drugs, chemicals, specifics and pro-\\nl rietory medicines, a large line of\\ndruiruists sundries, confectionery, per-\\nfumes and cigars. Callers may always\\ndepend uj^on receiving prompt and\\npolite attention, and upon articles\\nproving just as represented in every\\ninstance. Charles F. Davis, the senior\\njtartner, is a native of Whiteiield, and\\npurchased this business a year ago.\\nHe has had a dozen years experience\\nin the drug business in Whitefield and\\nPlymouth, and is a registered pharma-\\ncist. Mr. Davis wife was nee Hattie\\nJI. Brown of Whitefield. He is a\\nmember of St. Johns Lodge, No. 58 of\\nAVhitetield, and of North Star Com-\\nmandery of Lancaster. Frederick E.\\nGreen, the junior member of the firm,\\nfirst saw the light of day at Portland,\\nMich., lb years ago. He received his\\neducation at the High school in that\\nplace after which he obtained a posi-\\ntion with the Littleton druggists, Rob-\\ninson Bros. He continued in their em-\\nploy for four years, leaving there to\\ncomplete his pharmaceutal studies at\\nthe Massachusetts College of Phar-\\nmacv. He received his diploma about\\na vear ago and, previous to November,\\nwas engaged in Manchester and Bos-\\nton drug stores. On the latter date he\\nbouirht an interest in the drug store of\\nC. F. Davis \u00c2\u00ab.t Co., the new firm being\\nknown as Davis ifc Green. Mr. Green\\nhas a superior claim on Littleton from\\nthe fact that he married December 26,\\n189.5, Lillian Edith, daughter of Dr. T.\\nE. Sanger, by whom he has one child,\\nWayne Sanger. Their affable head\\nclerk, William C. Spencer, is also ex-\\nperienced in the business, and pre-\\nscriptions are accurately compounded.\\nMARSHALL C. DODGE.\\nSituated on the Littleton rOid, jus\\nabove the great steel bridge which\\nspans the Connecticut river, stands a\\ngreat square house and barns which,\\nthough in good repair, were built more\\nthan four-score years ago by Jonas\\nLewis as a stage tavern. In tje old\\ndays many a stalwart Vermonter, his\\npung- loaded with produce for Port-\\nland, put up for the night, toasted his\\nshins before the ample fire-place, and\\nsipped his mug of flip while jest and\\nstory went the rounds. Fred Cross,\\nnow a lusty veteran of 90, residing in\\nWaterford, and, later, Horace Buck\\nwere landlords. The house has not\\nbeen used as a tavern for about thirty\\nyears, and for the past sixteen years\\nhas been the home of Marshall C.\\nDodge and his father, Levi Dodge, un-\\ntil the death of the latter last year at\\nthe age of 75. LeviDodge was widely\\nknown as a horse doctor, or veterinary.\\nSimeon Dodge, the father of Levi,\\nwas an early settler. Levi was born\\nin Littleton, and always lived here, ex-\\ncept a few years in early life spent in\\nVermont. His two children were Mar-\\nshall C. and Ellen C, deceased, who\\nmarried Carlos P. Day. M. C. Dodge\\nis an excellent representative of the\\nfrugal, honest, industrious, shrewd, yet\\nliberal minded and open handed Yan-\\nkee. farmer. His farm contains about\\n150 acres, some of it excellent interval,\\nand is conducted mainly as a dairy\\nfarm with ten good grade Jerseys.\\nThree years ago Mr. Dodge introduced\\na Sharpless hand separator, which he\\nhas just replaced by one of the same\\nmake using steam power, which tills\\nthe bill perfectly as the butter shows.\\nHe has recently built a silo. Mr.\\nDodge is a Republican, but doing well\\nhis part in tiie ranks, has never aspired\\nto the rewards of office. He is at\\npresent one of the school directors of\\nthe town. He was a charter member\\nof the Grange, and a leading stock-", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nbolder and a director in the creamery.\\nHe is also a stock-holder and clerk of\\nthe Littleton Biidge Co. His word is\\nhis bond, and his conduct is anchored\\nto moral principle. He married Miss\\nMartha A. King of Landaft They\\nhave three daughters, Ellen M., Alice\\nF., and Katie E. The two eldest are\\nstudents at the High school, and all are\\nexceptionally good scholars.\\nDR. W. C. E. NOBLES,\\nThe joungest of the physicians of Lit-\\ntleton, has already won the good opin-\\nion of the people by his strict attention\\nto business and his affable manners.\\nDr. Nobles received his earliest educa-\\ntion in the High School of Rochester,\\nN. Y. He resolved to prepare himself\\nthoroughly for the medical profession,\\nand accordingly entered the Cleveland\\nUniversity of Medicine and Surgery,\\nthe first university to allow ladies to\\nenter its medical and dental depart-\\nments on the same conditions as men.\\nIt also possesses the distinction of\\nbeing the oldest Homeopathic college\\nin the world with an unbroken history.\\nFor two years Dr. Nobles was connect-\\ned with the gynecological and general\\nsurgical clinic of the above institution,\\nwhich gave him an opportunity to be-\\ncome a competent and skillful opera-\\ntor, he being associated with the most\\nbrilliant physicians and surgeons of\\nthe west. He was for one season in\\ncharge of the Good Samaritan Dispen-\\nsary at Cleveland, which afforded him\\nexcellent advantages, as about 20,000\\nprescriptions were issued through the\\nseason. Dr. Nobles has also had ex-\\ntensive obstetrical practice in a mater-\\nnity hospital at Cleveland. He also\\nspent one summer in practice in Roch-\\nester, N. Y. Last April, Dr. Nobles\\nestablished himself in practice in his\\nspacious apartments in Opera Block,\\nand is able to promptly answer calls\\nin person or by telephone. His office\\nhours are from 10 to 12 a. m., 1 to 3\\nand 7 to 8 p. ra., and during these\\nhours he is always to be found in his\\noffice. With such a varied and care-\\nful preparation for work, united with\\na high and steady purpose, a useful ca-\\nreer seems open to thisyoungphyslcian.\\nS. C. SAWYER, D. D. S.\\nThere is no other calling or pro-\\nfession where the personal element\\ncounts more than in dentistry. The\\ndentist should be not only expert, but\\na good judge of human nature, and\\nabove all, agreeable and sympathetic.\\nSawyer beguiles the patient s attention\\nwith such a flow of interesting chat,\\nthat he forgets the pain and the punch-\\ning and is almost reluctant to leave\\nthe chair. S. C. Sawyer was born in\\nBethlehem in 1845, but as an infant\\ncame to Whitefield with the family of\\nhis father, W. H. Sawyer. He left\\nhome at the age of 17, and four years\\na superior preparatiorj f ir the preser-\\nvation of the teeth and gums, entirely\\nfree from all injurious acids which is\\nwell received. Dr. Sawyer is a mem-\\nber of the State Dental Association\\nalso of both the great fraternities. He\\nis a deacon of the Congregational\\nchurch and in politics a third party\\nProhibitionist, and has been the nomi-\\nnee of that party for both the Senate\\nand House. He married in 1868,\\nLizzie J. Burns, a granddaughter of\\nMaj. John Burns, an otticer of the\\nRevolution. They have two children,\\nFred Burns, a dentist of Lisbon, and\\nGertrude Prince.\\nlater began the study of dentistry in\\nthe oflice of Dr. A. W. Howland of\\nLawrence, Mass. He soon after took\\na course of study in the Philadelphia\\nDental College, and settled in his pro-\\nfession at Lakeport, N. IL, where he\\nremained four years. He came to Lit-\\ntleton 25 years ago and has built up a\\nlarge and successful practice. Dr.\\nSawyer keeps in touch with advanced\\nideas and the latest improvements in\\npractice. He wholly discards the use\\nof cocaine, using instead ouehozo which\\nis approved by French and German\\nscientists, and contains none of the\\npoisonous ingredients of the former\\nsubstance. Dr. Sawyer has prepared\\nand placed upon the market Sawj ei s\\nGolden Detergent and Magic Powder,\\nE. K. PARKER, M. D.\\nEdwin K., son of Hullis M. and\\nSarah Bronson Parker, was born in\\nLyndon, Vt., in 1868. When he was\\nten years old the family moved to\\nLittleton where he attended the Little-\\nton High school. After leaving school\\nhe entered the Saranac glove factory\\nwhere he became an expert workman.\\nHe spent several years in that employ-\\nment in Littleton and Warner, N. H.\\nHe determined to adopt the medical\\nprofession and accordingly entered the\\noffice of Dr. T. E. Sanger. By the aid\\nof his skill as a glove maker he worked\\nhis way through the medical school\\nand graduated with honor from the\\nNew York Homeopathic Medical Col-\\nlege and Hospital in 18S8. He then\\nsettled in West Cornwall, Vt., where\\nhe worked up a flourishing practice\\nand gained many devoted friends\\namong his patients during the eight\\nyears he remained among them. While\\nthere he filled the position of post-\\nmaster, but after a post graduate course\\nin New York he decided to return to\\nLittleton and settled here in the sum-\\nmer of 96. Last June he married\\nEllen Ingeborg, daughter of Dr. T. E.\\nSantrer. Amid the cherished surround-\\nings of his early home, and with friends\\nwho appreciate his sterling qualities,\\nDr. Parker is winning a good position\\namong the people of Littleton. He is\\na member of the Vermont Homeo-\\npathic Medical society, the I. O. O. F.\\nand K. of P. His residence and office\\nare No. 168 Main street.", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nHarrington Co.\\nUnder the present system of order\\nand delivery of goods, the grocery man\\nis bruuglit into close contact with all\\nthe people, and his success largelj de-\\npends upon his personal qualities. That\\n.1. ,1. and T. W. Harrington have not\\nmistaken their vocation is shown by\\nthe steadily increasing volume of their\\nbusiness during these hard times, and\\nin the face o f a close competition.\\nThey are natives of Loudon, N. H.\\nOrphaned in childhood they became\\nthe architects of their own fortunes\\nand cultivated a natural aptitude for\\nmercantile life. James clerked seven\\nyears for a merchant in his native\\nwho furnish them with a good sup-\\nplj of fresh butter, eggs, maple sugar\\nand vegetables. Littleton has a hospi-\\ntable welcome for such men as the\\nHarrington s who win success by merit.\\nWOODRUFF BROS.\\nThe scriptural injunction, man can-\\nnot live by bread alone, is a recognized\\nfact as applied to material affairs. The\\nman who daily supplies a choice and\\nreasonable variety of meats at the\\ndoors, and at reasonable rates, is really\\na public benefactor. The city market\\nis centrally located in Bellows Block,\\nnear Thayer s Hotel, and the samples\\nin its show window are enough to\\nWARREN W. LOVEJOY.\\nThe subject of this sketch is a srion\\nof a formerly very numerous family in\\nLittleton. His father, Jonathan\\nLovejoy, was a life-long resident of\\nLittleton, and here reared a family of\\nseven children. Three of the sons\\nwere gallant soldiers of the Union,\\nCharles W. and Warren W., in the\\nso-called First Rhode Island cavalry,\\nand Ira W. in the 33d Massachusetts.\\nWarren Lovejoy enlisted at the age of\\n17 and served steadily until in the\\nbattle of Rapidan Station, a spent\\nshell blew off his right arm and a por-\\ntion of his hip, inflicting almost mortal\\ninjuries. With an amputated arm and\\n,f^,.^\\\\\\ntown, came to Littleton in September\\n94 and engaged in the grocery trade\\nwith H. D. Green in the old South-\\nworth store. After a year and a half\\nli e bought his partner s interest and\\nsoon after formed the present firm. T.\\nW. Harrington had the benefit of sev-\\neral years experience with the great\\nBoston house of Cobb, Bates Yerxa.\\nHarrington Co. occupy a large sales\\nloom in McCoy lock, and carry a\\ngood stock of general groceries, fruits,\\nfarm produce and provisions, which\\nare sold at 97 prices. They run two\\ndaily delivery teams to all parts of the\\nvillage and Apthorp. They conduct a\\nlarge barter trade with the farmers,\\nHARRINGTON CO. S GROCERY STORE.\\ntempt the appetite of an epicure. It is\\nconducted by J. E. and D. L. Wood-\\nruff, who are natives of Burke, Vt. J.\\nE. Woodruff has had 15 years experi-\\nence in the meat business, mostly in\\nthe west, and started the business here\\ntwo years ago. D. L. has travelled\\nquite extensively in the south and came\\nto Bethlehem two years ago, where he\\nmarried a daughter of Landlord Rowe\\nof the Central House. He opened a\\nfish market, and a daily fish cart is run\\nin the season which largely supplies\\nthe summer hotels. Woodruffs handle\\nthe best western beef, and their order\\nand delivery wagons are daily visitors\\nin the homes of Littleton.\\nmangled hip he lay three days in a\\ntent almost uncared for, and for four\\nmonths his strong constitution fought\\nwith death, at close quarters, and\\nfinally conquered. He returned to the\\npaternal farm where he has lived\\nalmost half a century, and where he\\nattended the declining years of his\\naged parents. Four years ago he\\nbegan selling milk from one cow, now\\nhe has 18 grade Jerseys. His little\\nfarm of 30 acres, with eight acres of\\nmowing, cuts about 24 tons of hay.\\nMr. Lovejoy and his excellent wife,\\nnee Emma E. Brooks, of this town, are\\nhighlj esteemed in this community\\nHe i.s a member and past comnumde", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nof the G. A. R., a member of the Con-\\ngregational church and superintemlent\\nof the Sunday school, and withal a\\ngenial, true hearted gentleman.\\nA. A. ONTHANK\\nhas recently moved a nice fresh stock\\nof boots and shoes into Boylston block,\\nMain street, and proposes to sell\\nstraight goods at close prices. He has\\nbeen engaged in the manufacture and\\njobbing of boots and shoes for fifteen\\nyears, and of course is a keen con-\\nnoisseur of foot gear, and well posted\\nin every feature of the business. Our\\npeople will find him a genial gentle-\\nman, and an obliging salesman. His\\nclaim upon the public is strictly one of\\nbusiness interest, and he will offer a\\nclean stock with a large variety, at bed-\\nrock prices. Mr. Onthank is a son-in-\\nlaw of Solon Simonds, chief of police,\\nand Mrs. Simonds will occupy one half\\nof the store with her select stock of\\nmillinery and fancy goods.\\nChiswick lodge, K. of p.\\nThis lodge was instituted in 1895\\nwith 36 charter members, but has now\\nabout twice that number. Regular\\nconventions are held every Tuesday\\nnight in their Castle Hall in Tilton\\nBlock. The officers of the lodge are\\nHarry F. Howe, C. C. Arthur W.\\nGilbert, V. C. L. ,T. Crane, prelate\\nA. J. Bedell, M. of A. J. A. Fogg, M.\\nof W. E. B. Lynch, M. of E. E. G.\\nRansome, M. of F. L. J. Crane, K. of\\nR. S.\\nNew subscribers may have the Jour-\\nnal from now until April, 1899. for\\nonly $1. News that is news ()rinted\\nwhile it is fregh.\\nm\\n^i:\\n4\u00c2\u00ab-\\n4\u00c2\u00ab-\\n4\u00c2\u00ab-\\n4\u00c2\u00ab-\\nCLOUGH BROS.,\\nCatcvcve,\\nBahcvs,\\nIRestauvatitcurs\\nNo. 3, Opera Block:\\nMakers of\\nHome Made Bread\\nRolls and Buns\\nCakes of all kinds\\nDoughnuts\\nPies\\nSteamed Brown Bread\\nBaked Beans\\nHome Made Candies\\nC. C. CLOUGH,\\nF. L. CLOUGH,\\nProprietors,\\nNBD J. KIDDKR,\\nCook:.\\n4^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r r\\n45^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i^\\n-r^\\n-^r\\n-m-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i^\\n-^T\\n-^T\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2m-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f r\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a284-\\nr^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a284-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a284-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i r\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a284-\\n454-\\n4 r\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a27 i-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r r\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a284-\\n454-\\n4\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a284-\\n4^\\n4 i-\\n4 i-\\n454-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2JW-\\n^J-\\n4^\\n4\u00c2\u00bbr\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a284-\\n4^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a20T\\n4^\\n4\\n4 r\\nr\\n434-\\n454-\\n454-\\n454-\\n454-\\n4^\\n454-\\n4 r\\n4^\\n4 J-\\n4 r\\n4*\\n4\\n4\\n4^\\n4*\\n4^\\n454-\\n4 r\\n4 i-\\n454-\\n^4\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2m", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JONRNAL.\\nEdson Bailey.\\nThe old depot store is one of the\\nprominent local landmarks which con-\\nnect the past generation with the\\npresent. For nioie than sixty years\\ntills store has been a great center of\\niieneral trade, a scene of bustling com-\\nmercial activity. The main building\\nwas erected, and the business founded\\naway back in 1836 by Col. Cyrus East-\\nman and Mr. Colby, and for iiearly\\nlialt a century the name oi Eastman\\nwas at the head of this great house,\\nt l rough several changes in membership\\nof the firm. In 1S8 2 ihe firm\\nbecame Edson, Bailey ct Kat-\\noii, and four years later Edson\\nBailey. The stock is tlie\\nmost coiiipreliensive of any in\\ntown and in many of its\\nfeatures is both wholesale and\\nretail. It includes Hour, grain,\\ngroceries, general hardware,\\nblacksmiths supplies, paints\\nand oils, stoves, wooden and\\nhollow ware, agricultural im-\\nplements, salt, lime and ce-\\nment. In 1S91 a grist mill\\nwas put in, which, under the\\nefficient management of A. V.\\nCutting, is a great convenience\\nin the grain business. The\\ndemands of the business re-\\n(juire the constant use of two\\ndelivery teams. The main\\nbuilding, 50 feet square, util-\\nizes four stories, giving a floor\\nspace of over 10,000 feet. All\\nheavy goods are orderd in car-\\nload lots.\\nGeorge A. Edson is a son\\nof Samuel -Alden Edson, many\\nyears a ])roniinent business\\nness man of Littleton. Mr. Edson was\\nborn in Littleton 45 years ago, has\\nalways resided here, and is in every\\nsense one of the solid men of the town.\\nHe began clerking for his father, later\\nengaged in the boot and shoe trade,\\nand in the meat business with J. S.\\nP rye. For several years Mr. Edson\\nhas been town treasurer. He married\\nClara M. Longley of Massachusetts.\\nJames Henry Bailey was born in Lit-\\ntleton in LS44, but moved in early\\nchildhood witli his j)arciits to Concord,\\nVt. lie left home at 16, came to Lit-\\ntleton, and clerked for his uncle, AVill-\\niam Bailey. Later he was engaged in\\nthe same capacity at Danville and\\nWells Itiver, Vt., and Lebanon, and at\\nLittleton, from 1874 to 188 2 for C.\\nC. F. Eastman, when he became a\\nmember of the firm of Edson Bailey.\\nHe married Maiy M. Clough in 1881.\\nMr. Bailey has been called by his fel-\\nlow townsmen to the positions of\\nselectman and town treasurer, and is\\nat present village treasurer and a ,ij.\\nCATHOLIC CHURCH.\\nrector in the Savings and National\\nbanks. He has climbed the golden\\nstairs of masonry, is a member of\\nBurns Lodge, St. Andrews Clia])ter,\\nOmega Council, St. Gerard Conimand-\\nery and E. A. Kaymond Consistory.\\nThe tirm name, Edson Baih y, is a\\nsynonym for business capacity and in-\\ntegrity.\\nMRS. T. E. PARKER.\\nThere are several millinery estab-\\nlishments in Littleton, but no one of\\nthem is belter known than thiit of Mrs.\\nParker. The business is of long and\\nhonorable standing, was founded by\\nMrs. J. A. Stevens, but since 1889 has\\nbeen conducted by Mrs. Parker. Her\\nstore is centrally located, has an area\\nof about 1000 square feet, and contains\\na very attractive assortment of tine\\nmillinery and fancy goods, made up of\\na full selection of staple articles, as\\nwell as a tastefully chosen stock of the\\nlatest fashionable novelties. Mrs. Par-\\nker is a careful and experienced buyer,\\nand her patrons are sure to obtain\\ngoods at as low a rate as can\\nbe named on articles of equal\\nmerit. The leading depart-\\nment of the business is that\\ndevoted to custom work, em-\\nployment being given to three\\nassistants during the season.\\nMrs. Parker gives particular\\nattention to ladies hair work,\\nand is prepared to take orders\\nfor the same. She gives her\\ncareful, personal attention to\\nall work, and is deservedly\\nsecuring an excellent patron-\\nage. This is due very largely\\nto a well grounded confidence\\nin her taste, ability and fair\\ndealing, attested by a long and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0vtended experience. No ef-\\nfort is spared to keej) in touch\\nw ith the latest styles and best\\nmodels in every department.\\nMild with what success is\\nliowii by the appreciation of\\nwideand select patronage.\\nJ. D. Campbell.\\nMr. Campbell came to Lit-\\ntleton last April. He served\\na regular apprenticeship at the tail-\\nor s trade, has had over twenty years\\nexperience, much of the time in city\\ntrade, keeps in touch with the latest\\nstyles, and is prepared to guarantee\\nsatisfaction in workmanship and ma-\\nterials. The ])ul)lic is cordially invi-\\nted to call and inspect his stock and\\nwork, in handsome quarters in Rounse-\\nvel Block, under the Kki UBLIc-.Iouk-\\nXAL office, Main street. No better ser-\\nvice can be had in this section.", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nRemly S. Sidelinger\\nWasboin in llocklaiid, Me., January\\n14, 18.58, of German stock that landed\\nin Waldoboro in 1743. He came to\\nthe Granite State in 1892 as editor of\\nthe Gorham Mountaineer. His life as\\ncraftsman, soldier, journalist, and\\npreacher would be interesting reading,\\nbut, with true modesty, he refrains\\nfrom appearing before our readers as\\na hero. He is known here chiefly as\\nproprietor of Side-\\nlinger s German Lo-\\ntion. It is a wonder-\\nful article for the hair,\\nscalp, skin, and com-\\nplexion, discovered by\\nhis grandmother half\\na century ago. Many\\nof Littleton s best\\nknown citizens join\\nwith him in saying\\nthat her discovery has\\nbeen a boon to human-\\nity, as it is found to\\nbe almost an indis-\\npensable toilet article,\\nwhen one has mce\\niven it a trial.\\ndences of good management and pros-\\nperity evinced by their neat and hand-\\nsome carriages and harnesses, and\\nstj lish well groomed horses. They are\\nnatives of Concord, Vt., sons of Jacob\\nRichardson, a highly respected citizen\\nof that town. Fred E. married Letie,\\nand Frank M., Theda, daughters of L-a\\nLewis of Concord. F. M. Richardson,\\nafter a successful e.^perience of one\\nyear as clerk in the Stewart house at\\nIsland Pond, and two years in the\\nLittleton house, wa\u00c2\u00bb for a j ear manager\\nof the Littleton house. The present\\nfirm was formed in 1891 when they\\npurchased their stable and also for two\\nyears conducted the Littleton house.\\nDuring the past four years they have\\ngiven their entire attention to the\\nlivery business with increasing success.\\nThey conduct one of the largest and\\nbest appointed livery stables in New\\nEngland, employing 25 horses through-\\nout the year, and 35 during the sum-\\nmer season. In carriages they are\\nprepared to furnish anything from a\\nsix-in-hand tally-ho coach to a light\\nsingle sulky. They have some very\\nstylish hitch ups, including a pair of\\nRocky Mountain drivers. They have\\ncharge and furnish teams for the town\\nstraw. They own a ICU-acre farm in\\nConcord. F. .M. Richardson is one of\\nthe village commissioners and secretary\\nand treasurer of the Littleton Driving\\nPark Association, of which F. E. is a\\ndirector.\\nL. E. Bedell\\nIs a Jeffersonian by birth, a Littletonian\\nby choice, and a liveryman by occupa-\\ntion. He was not always tlius. For\\nmany years Mr. Bedell perambulated\\nthe hills and valleys of nortliern New\\nL. E. BEDELL S LIVERY STABLE.\\nHampshire, in the employ of A. L.\\nBailey and others, gladening the hearts\\nand relieving the pocket books of the\\npeople, by the introduction of pianos\\nand organs. Do you\\nwant a good livery\\nteam for pleasure or\\nprofit? Bedell will be\\npleased to furnish you\\na single or double rig,\\na three seated surrey,\\nor a four or six-in-\\nhand at reasonable\\nrates. He has five\\nwell groomed spans in\\nhis stable on Jackson\\nstreet, near the Re-\\nPUBLIC-JoUKX AL of-\\nfice.\\nF. E. F. M. RICHARDSON.\\nIt was with feelings of genuine\\npleasure that we strolled through the\\nwell appointed stable of the liichard-\\nson Brothers, and noted the many evi-\\nF. E. F. M. RICHARDSON-S LIVERY STABLE.\\nhearse. They are perfectly familiar\\nwith all points of scenic and historic\\ninterest, and have recently engaged\\nthe services of M. A. Eaton, who is\\nwell known to the traveling public.\\nThey take boarders, and sell hay and\\nJ. B. KITCHEN.\\nJ. B. Kitchen has\\nbeen nine years in\\nthe photograph business in Littleton,\\nand his \\\\vork speaks for itself and for\\nhim. He has had 22 years experience,\\nand can furnish pbolograplis of all\\nstyles and grades. He is located in\\nTilton Block, over the postoffice.", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOUBNAL.\\nCARANAC buck glove CO.\\nBuckskin gloves, an Anu rican prod-\\nuct, liave buen extcnsivcl^y in;iniifac-\\ntiu-i il in several states, but tlie leadinu;\\nand representative iirni now engaged\\nin their pcoduction in this country is\\nunquestionably tiie Saranac Buck\\n(tIovc Co., of Littleton. It has grown\\nin a few years from tlie most humble\\nl)eginnings to its present ample dimen-\\nsions, as the most important industry\\nof the village, with an annual produc-\\ntion of 50,000 dozen pairs of gloves.\\nThis unparalleled success has been\\nachieved by the enterprise of the pro-\\nprietors in the adoption of improved\\nglove far superior to all others in the\\nre(juisites of pliability, durability ami\\nstrength. They are inpervious to\\nwater and will not stiffen by wetting.\\nTliis company has the entire control of\\nthe right to manufacture by the patent\\nprocess called Saranac, and their goods\\nare 8hi|)ped diiect from the factory.\\nThey also make a glove by a somewhat\\nrlifferent process that is heat resisting\\nand is not affected by steam or hot\\nirons, and is particularly adapted to\\nthe use of railroad men. H. H. Porter,\\na former employe, invented and paten-\\nted a convenient glove fastener which\\nis a snap. Ira Parker has been the\\nmaster spirit of this enterprise from its\\ncame to this country 20 years ago.\\nHe commenced at the bottom of the\\nladder, and by industry and capacity\\nworked his way n\\\\) step by step, be-\\ncoming so thoroughly mastei oi every\\ndetail of the business that on the re-\\ntirement last year of Ira Parker, the\\nfounder of this enter])rise, from the ac-\\ntive management and suj)ervision, Mr.\\nLangford was appointed by his special\\nrequest. He is a representative Eng-\\nlish American, and emphatically a self-\\nmade man. He married Miss Blanche\\nLibbey, daughter of II. C. Libbej\\nThe location of this great industry on\\nthe Ammonoosuc, near the center of\\nthe village, is on the site of the large\\nM^\\nmethods, which have secured superioi-\\nproductions. Jiy the new method of\\ntanning, which preserves the excellent\\n(juality of the skins, a soft, pliable\\nglove is produced which surpasses for\\ndurability any ever before made. In\\nthe old method of tanning, the grain\\nwas removed. The process adopted\\nby this company has overcome the for-\\nmer ditliculties, and bids fair to revolu-\\ntionize all previous methods.\\nIn 1866, Ira Parker, of Littleton,\\nbegan experiments to test the adapt-\\nability of the Page process to the\\npreparation of leather for gloves. His\\nresearches were rewarded with great\\nsuccess, and he was able to produce a\\nSARANAC GLOVE WORKS.\\ninception. He was the proprietor un-\\ntil 1875, when the firm of Ira Parker\\nCo. was formed which was suc-\\nceeded in 1889 by the Saranac Glove\\nCo., incorporated with a capital of\\n8125,000, with Ira Parker as general\\nmanager. The present officers are\\npresident, II. C. Libbey, an extensive\\nlumber dealer of Lisbon, N. II. vice-\\njiresident, Dr. T. E. Sanger treasurer,\\nIra Parker; general, manager, Robert\\nLangfoid. The directors are the offi-\\ncers already named and Charles Park-\\ner, Lewis H. Parker, and George K,\\nArmstrong, one of the salesmen. Rob-\\nert C. Langford, the efficient general\\nmanager, is a native of England, but\\nwoollen mills which burned in 1888\\nThe present tannery was built the next\\nyear, and is 65 by 200 feet, three stories\\nand a basement. The glove manufac-\\ntory is 75 by 175 and three stories\\nin height. The propelling powers of\\nthis great plant consist of a 210 horse-\\npower engine of Cycloidal Atlas make,\\nof a 135 horse-power water wheel for\\nthe tannery, and of a 40 horse-power\\nwheel for running the stitching ma-\\nchines, also two 100 horse-power boil-\\ners.\\nThe company has an electric light\\nplant that supplies 700 lights, running\\ntwo dynamos. It is highly interesting\\nto enter the great tannery where 40", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "White mountain republic- journal.\\nmen are employed, observe the laby-\\nrinth of powerful machinery, and trace\\nthe successive processes by which crude\\nhides are converted into elegant and\\ndurable gloves, but space forbids more\\nthan an outline. The skins arc first put\\ninto vats containing water, and soaked\\nuntil thoroughly soft when they are\\nwhirled in great revolving drums and\\nstill further softened before going into\\nthe lime vats. After tanning they are\\npassed through a splitting machine,\\nwith a daily capacity of 1200 skins,\\nwhich leaves them of uniform thick-\\nness. They are then smoothed on buff-\\ning wheels, colored by various chemi-\\ncals and analine dyes, and elevated to\\nthe drying rooms which are thoroughly\\nequipped with steam pipes to facilitate\\nthe drying. The tanning and coloring\\nprocess occupies from two to three\\nweeks, and the principal of several in-\\ngredients used in tanning is gambler,\\nan eastern product. They are staked\\nor stretched when they reach the cut-\\nting room, then classified and cut by a\\nworking force of 40 men, using dies\\nintroduced about 1880. The stitching\\nis largely performed by ladies. The\\nstitching machines for making gloves\\nwere introduced in 1885. Formerly all\\nof the cutting and stitching was done\\nby hand. After making, the gloves are\\nbuttoned, laid off and treed on brass\\nhands filled with steam. Each glove\\nis carefully inspected by an expert to\\ndetect imperfections, when they are\\nassorted and classified according to\\nstyle, quality, and size, and packed in\\npasteboard boxes, which are manu-\\nfactured by the company, and are ready\\nfor shipment direct to dealers. Fully\\nthree-fourths of the gloves are made of\\nbuck skin, many of which are lined\\nwith lamb skin of different styles which\\nare obtained from Europe.\\nThe plant is thoroughl} equip])ed\\nwith every modern convenience. A\\nwell filled store house capable of hold-\\ning 5000 skins is near the mill, to\\nwhich annually come about two-thirds\\nof all the deer skins produced in the\\nWest and North-west, besides many\\nfrom other localities. Deer from India,\\notter from British America, lamb skins\\nfrom Europe thus the ends of the\\nearth arc brought together to make\\nSaranac gloves. The facilities of the\\ncompany enable them to promptly fill\\nall orders, some amounting to many\\nthousand dollars. The entire output\\nis handled by the jobbing trade. The\\nimportance of this great industry to\\nthe business interests of Littleton is\\nseen in the wide reputation of the\\nSaranac and steam proof goods, and\\ncan scarcely be over estimated.\\nRENFREW Bros.\\nProminent among Littleton s hus-\\ntling young business men are the\\nRenfrew Brothers, dealers in men s\\nand boys clothing and furnishings,\\nhats and caps. John S. and Irvin C.\\nRenfrew, sons of .John and Maria\\nHarvey Renfrew, are natives of Cale-\\ndonia county, Vt. The Renfrews\\nRENFREW BROS. STORE.\\nwere among the earliest of the staunch\\nScotch settlers of Ryegate, Vt. John\\nS. took a course at the Troy Business\\ncollege and then received two years of\\npractical experience in the clothing\\nstore of Bellows Son. He was then\\nengaged for two years with a large\\nclothing house in Boston, after which\\nhe was head clerk for Bellows it Son.\\nI. C Renfrew attended Peacham Acad-\\nemy under Hon. C. A. Bunker, and at\\nthe age of 17 opened a job printing\\noffice and stationery store at South\\nRyegate, which he conducted success-\\nfully for five years. He then recuper-\\nated his somewhat impaired health by\\nservice as porter at the Oak Hill house.\\nRenfrew Bros, engaged in the clothing\\nbusiness in September, 1890, at first,\\nand for five years, in the Smillie block.\\nIn 1895 they located in their present\\nspacious quarters in the Bugbee block.\\nTheir business has steadily increased\\nand their stock has doubled till it is now\\none of the largest and best in northern\\nNew Hampshire. They have adopted\\nthe policy of closing out all unsalable\\ngoods each year at prices that command\\na sale. John S. married Luella, daugh-\\nter of Levi Barnard of Lunenburg,\\nand Irvin C. married Ilattie J., daugh-\\nter of Henry G. liollins of Newbury.\\nBoth families are blessed with two\\ndaughters and a son.\\nbenj. f. page. M. D.\\nThe subject of this sketch is a Little-\\ntonian by birth, and later a resident\\nand practitioner, but his boj hood and\\nschool days were spent in Burke, Vt.\\nHis father was Benj. Page, and Hon.\\nS. B. Page, of Woodsville, is an elder\\nbrother. Dr. Page completed his\\nacademic training at Newbury Semin-\\nary, then in its palmy days. He be-\\ngan reading medicine in the office of\\nDr. H. L. Watson, then of Newbury,\\nand continued his reading with Dr.\\nCharles H. Boynton, of Lisbon, whom\\nhe also assisted in practice. Dr. Page\\nenjoyed the wholesome experience of\\nteaching, which also contributed largely\\nto his educational expenses. He pur-\\nsued three courses of medical study at\\nU. V. M., from which he graduated in\\n18t)7 at the age of 24. He married\\nCaroline, daughter of John, and sister\\nof Maj. Evarts Farr, and settled in\\npractice in Lisbon for about five years.\\nHe then moved to East St. Johnsbury\\nwhere he practiced nine years, build-\\ning up quite an extensive clientage\\nsome of w hich he still retains. Since\\n1881 he has practiced and resided in\\nLittleton. Dr. Page is a member of\\nthe White Mountain Medical Society,\\nand also of Burns Lodge, F. it A. M.\\nHe has two children living, Dr. .John\\nM. Page of this town, and Elizabeth\\nC. Page, a student at .Mount Holyoke\\nSeminary.\\nDR. JOHN M. PAGE.\\nJohn M. Page was born in Lisbon\\nin 1871. He is a son of Dr. B. F., and\\nCaroline Farr Page of this town, and", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nhis later school days were spent in the\\nLittleton High school from whicli he\\ngraduated with credit, lie began read-\\ning medicine with his father, and pros-\\necuted his studies at the medical de-\\npartment of U. V. M. with such ability\\nthat at his graduation in 1893, he won\\nan honorary degree as making one of\\nthe five best records of scholarship of\\nhis class. He naturally chose his native\\ntown as the scene of his professional\\nlabors. His office is in the Robinson\\nbUick. Ur. Page is only on the thresh-\\nold of his career, but with an excellent\\nheredity, a buoyant temperament and\\ntiiorough scholarship we predict for\\nhim a successful career. He is a mem-\\nber of the White Mountain Medical\\nSociety and of Burns Lodge F. A. M.\\nas a thoroughly reliable and skillful\\nworkman, and his line of business is a\\ngreat convenience to the wheelmen of\\nG. H. Merrill\\nIs a good representative of the ingen-\\nious, industrious Yankee mechanic.\\nHe was born in Landaff, X. H., 48\\nyears ago, and his early life was spent\\nin that town. He married a daughter\\nof ,T. F. iSIorse of Easton, and in com-\\npany with his tather-in-law erected a\\nsteam saw mill and operated it several\\nyears. Some 20 years\\nago he came to Little-\\nton and for several\\nyears conducted a ma-\\nchine and repair shop.\\nWhen the Saranac\\n(iiove company intro-\\nduced their machinery,\\nMr. Merrill s services\\nwere secured for tak-\\ning charge of the ma-\\nchinery, and the in-\\nstruction of new hands\\nin its operation, where\\nhis services were ac-\\nceptably retained some\\ndi.zen years. In 1893\\nhe started his present\\nbusiness of general\\nmachine and repair\\nshop for light work,\\nnear Opera Block,\\nMain street. He does\\nalmost everything in this line but\\nhis specialty is tiie repair of bicycles,\\nsewing machines, guns and revolvers.\\nNaturally ingenious, he is well known\\nthis section. lie carries a full line of\\nbicycle supplies, thus being able to\\nrepair wheels at short notice and sav-\\ning the expense of sending them away.\\nHis only child, Harry A., is the efficient\\nbook-keeper for Parker Bros. Co.\\njust completed at a cost of $!3 2,000.\\nThe proprietor is a Hollander by de-\\nscent, a native of So. Framingham,\\nMass., and about 30 years of age. He\\nwas born and bred a gardener. After\\nleaving the high school of his native\\ncity he went to Holland, and graduated\\nin .1889 from the agricultural college.\\nHe returned to Massachusetts and en-\\ngaged in the gardening and green-\\nhouse business with his father until in\\n1895 he came to Littleton and took\\ncharge of the greenhouses of Ira Par-\\nker for one year, and then bought (he\\nG. W. Richardson homestead and has\\nhere erected his two greenhouses,\\neach 20 bj 100 feet. His specialties\\nare cucumbers, asparagus, celery and\\ntomatoes. He has just commenced to\\nsell his cucumbers, which are sent\\ndirect and by express to the jobbing\\ntrade. He personally supervises the\\npacking and guarantees safe delivery.\\nIt is an interesting sight, in this sub-\\narctic winter, to see those luxuriant\\njjlants, bending with their ripening\\nfruitage, ready to supply the epicurean\\ntables of the great cities.\\nA. A VOORNEVELD S GREENHOUSES.\\nA. A. VOORNEVELD.\\nThe most recent, and certainly a\\nmost valuable enterprise in Littleton,\\nthe greenhouse of A. A. Voorneveld, is\\nE. FLINT, JEWEJLER.\\nMr. Flint is today\\nthe senior merchant of\\nthe town of Littleton\\nwho has been continu-\\nously in the same\\nbusiness. He is a na-\\ntive of Massachusetts,\\nborn in 1845, and\\ncommenced learning\\nthe watch-maker s\\ntrade at the age of\\nseventeen. In 1870\\nhe located in business\\nin Littleton, beginning\\nwith a small stock but\\nadding new features\\nfrom time to time as\\nhis trade and capital\\nincreased, until he has\\nnow established a sub-\\nstantial business. In\\n1882 he entered his\\npresent handsome^; and spacious quar-\\nters in the then newly erected Tilton\\nOpera Block. Mr. Flint s extensive\\nstock of watches, jewelry and silver", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nware is very tastefully and convenient-\\nly displayed in elegant cases. He also\\ncarries a good line of camera goods,\\npocket cutlery and optical supplies,\\nhavingsuitable arrangements fortesting\\neyesight, guns, ammunition and sports-\\nmen s supplies. The range of articles\\nin each line is from the plainest to the\\nmore elaborate and elegant with cor-\\nresponding prices to suit the times.\\nMr. Flint has a costly regulator and\\nhis store is the place to ascertain the\\nstandard time. The repair of watches\\nand clocks is promptly attended to\\nwith Mr. F. M. Hunker as a skillful\\nassistant. Mr. Flint s long and suc-\\ncessful experience has made him es-\\npecially familiar with the public taste\\nand the requirements of trade, and the\\npublic have learned to rely implicitly\\non his judgment and integrity. He is\\nidentified with both of the great frater-\\nnities and is the Chief Patriarch of\\nLittleton Encampment, I. O. O. F.\\nFITZGERALD BURNHAM.\\nAt Fitzgerald is a native and life-\\nlong resident of Littleton, and for 45\\nyears has followed the same business\\nat his present stand, and is without\\ndoubt the senior continuous business\\nman in the village. When a young\\nman of 23 he bought the sash and blind\\nfactory of Kimball ifc Wallace, and was\\nin company with L. T. Dow 2 2 years.\\nThey ilid a very extensive business,\\nemploying nearly 30 hands, and fur-\\nnished the doors, sash and blinds for\\nthe White Mountain hotels. The mill\\nwas burned in G J, but the present\\nbuilding, 40 by 55, was soon erected.\\nH. B. Burnham became a partner in\\n1881. They manufacture and deal in\\ndoors, sash, blinds, and window frames,\\nand make to order mouldings, brack-\\nets, eave spouts, hard wood flooring\\nand sheathing, and do planing, match-\\ning, and scroll sawing. They keep on\\nhand a stock of stair newels, banisters\\nand stair rails. H. B. Burnham is a\\nnative of Littleton, a carpenter and\\njoiner by trade, and served three years\\nin the Civil War in the 13th New\\nHampshire regiment.\\nJAMES H. SMALLEY\\nis one of the live progressive mer-\\nchants of Littleton, and his store is\\nheadquarters in this section for every-\\nthing in the line of straps and buckles,\\nand horse and carriage furnishings.\\nHe has for sale the finest lot of strictly\\nfirst class hand-made driving harnesses\\nwe have seen for many a day. He also\\nhas a cheaper grade of sale harnesses\\nand an extensive stock of trunks and\\nvalises which he is prepared to ex-\\nchange for silver certificates, or gilt\\nedge promissory notes on short time.\\nHe conducts a harness shop assisted by\\nworkmanlike manner, and at call again\\nprices. James H. Smalley was born\\nin Lebanon in 1838, where he attended\\nschool and learned the harness busi-\\nness. He is a railroader from way\\nback. He rode the locomotive up to\\nWells River and for two years did the\\nswitching in the yard. In the days of\\nthe old White Mountain railroad he\\nwas a fireman for Ike Sanborn on the\\nMountain Maid and other machines of\\nblessed memory. Later he was in the\\nharness business with Truenian Stev-\\nens. In the season of mountain travel\\nSmalley was many years the dauntless\\nadmiral of the fleet on Echo Lake.\\nDuring the past dozen years he has\\ngiven exclusive attention to the har-\\nness business. He has enlarged his\\nblock on Main street to the three-story\\naltitude, and is all ready for the boom\\nwhich is sure to come. Mr. Smalley\\nworks and deals upon the square.\\nhis son, Edwin B., and a couple of\\ngood workmen, and is pi epared to do\\nnew work or repairing in prompt,\\nLane Bailey.\\nCentrally and conspicuously located\\nin Opera Block is the Opera Cloth-\\ning Company, conducted by Lane \u00c2\u00abfe\\nBailey. This business was founded in\\n1881 by G. E. Lane, a brother of the\\npartner, who sold to the present pro-\\nprietors in 1890. They carrj a heavy\\nstock of men s clothing, furnishings,\\nhats and caps. Both partners are keen\\nconnoisseurs of clothing, reliable deal-\\ners and accomplished salesmen. Lane\\nBailey are to be reckoned with by\\ncompetitors as well as customers.\\nCharles M. Lane was born and bred\\non a strong and stony Lunenburg farm,\\nwhere he learned the value of time\\nand money, but concluded that he\\ncould better employ his time and earn\\nhis money, and fulfill his mission of\\ndoing good, elsewhere. Accordingly\\nhe went to Lancaster and clerked in a\\nlarge clothing house from 1879 until\\nthe formation of this firm.\\nE. C. Bailey was born in Newburj\\nVt., in 18fi 2, a son of E. F. Bailey, and\\nwas reared upon a farm. His groat,\\ngreat grandfather was General Jacob\\nBailey, the original proprietor of the\\ntown, and the bright particular star in\\nNewbury s galaxy of Revolutionary\\nheroes. His son. Col. John Bailey,", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN EEPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nwas a distiiiguishod olticer of the Green\\nMountain Boys, and the family con-\\ntributed largely to the patriotic cause.\\nE. C. Bailey does not bank on ancestry,\\nbut on clothing, and stands squarely\\nabout 200 pounds on his own shoe\\nleatlior. lie also sought employment\\nin Lancaster, at first in telegraphy, but\\nlater and for seven years with the\\ngreat firm of Kent it Son.\\n.Messrs. Lane ife Bailey are too well\\nknown to the business public of Little-\\nton and vicinity to need any special\\nrecommendations. Their motto is\\nSquare dealing and fair prices, and\\nthey live up to it, too.\\nF. A. WATSON Co.\\nLittleton has long been known as an\\nadvantageous purcliasing center, and\\nthe town is now rapidly increasing its\\nreputation in this respect, for at pres-\\nent new and standard goods can be\\nbiiught here cheaper than ever before.\\nNone of the recently added enterprises\\nin town is more worthy of praise and\\nsupport than F. A. Watson Co., and\\nwe are pleased to say that they are\\ngetting both. They occupy spacious\\nand newly finished quarters in Parker\\nlilock, next door to Thayer s Hotel.\\nThey carry a choice and fresh stock of\\nstandard and fancy groceries, fruits,\\ntobacco, canned goods and confection-\\nery, and tiieir store is as neat and tidy\\nas a lady s parlor. Both Mr. Watson\\nand his partner, Mr. Ide, are live men,\\nand devote themselves closely to busi-\\nness. Their cfhcient clerk is Mr. E. E.\\nPiurnham.\\nF. A. Watson is a native of Littleton\\nand is a son-in-law of Mr. Ide. Joseph\\nide was a well-known tanner and citi-\\nzen of Waterford, and the Ides are an\\nextensive and very prominent family\\nof Tioitliern Vermont.\\nH. A. JACKMAN.\\nThe people of Littleton can have no\\ncause for complaint in the service of\\ntheir meats, for the two markets are in\\nthe hands of hustling young men. H.\\nA. Jackman is a native of Bath, but\\nhas been a resident of Littleton most\\nof the time for the past fifteen years.\\nHe has had six or eight years experi-\\nence in the meat business, and uiuler-\\nstands it to the tenth decimal point.\\nHe started his present market last\\nJanuary, in Opera Block, and is doing\\na lively business on the basis of large\\nsales, quick returns, and small profits.\\nHe handles both native and western\\nbeef, and every variety of meat usually\\nfound in a first-class market. He is\\nprepared to cater successfully to all\\nkinds of trade, and is in a position to\\nfill all orders at short notice, and at\\nthe lowest market rates. His cart\\nmakes the daily circuit of Littleton\\nand Apthorp, under the able care of L.\\nF. Bean.\\nchurch. He has made a specialty of\\nsurgery. He has been health officer of\\nthe town and is a member of the K. of\\nP. and of Burns Lodge, F. A. M.,\\nand readily adapts himself to all classes.\\nWilliam J. Beattie, M. D.\\nThe subject of this sketch was born\\nin Ryegate, Vt., in 1864, a son of Rev.\\n.James M., and Margaret Nelson Beattie.\\nHe is of thorough bred Scotch lineage,\\nand inherits the powerful physique,\\nmoral fibre, and inflexible perseverance\\nof the race. His father, though born\\nin Newburgh, N. Y., received bis theo-\\nlogical training at Edinburgh Univer-\\nsity. Lie became a prominent theo-\\nlogian of the Covenantes faith, and en-\\njoyed in Ryegate a continuous pastorate\\nof more than 40 years. He was also\\nintimately identified with the educa-\\ntional interests of his section as a\\ntrustee of Peacham Academy and as\\ntown superintendent of the schools of\\nRyegate for many years. William J.\\nBeattie is one of a family of six child-\\nen, of whom a V)rother, Wilson, and a\\nsister survive, and with them at Rye-\\ngate resides his mother. William J.\\nwas educated at Peacham and St.\\nJohnsbury Academies. He commenced\\nreading medicine in 18S4, while at-\\ntending the Academy, in the office of\\nDr. Xewell, of St. Johnsbury. The\\nnext year he entered Bellevue Medical\\nIIosj)ital College, of New York, from\\nwhich he graduated in 1889, mean-\\nwhile serving one year in the hospital\\nby appointment. He came to Littleton\\nin April, 1890, soon married Elizabeth\\nR., daughter of the late Dr. C. M.\\nTuttle, and has since pursued his pro-\\nfession here with great energy and suc-\\ncess. His office is in his handsome\\nresidence next to the Congregational\\nFRANK I. Parker.\\nIn this age of unrest and dismem-\\nberment, it is rare to find a family\\nwhose successive generations have\\nenjoyed the solid advantages of a per-\\nmanent home. Frank I. Parker is the\\nbest, if not the only representative in\\ntown of that idea. His great grand-\\nfather, Jonathan Parker, came to Lit-\\ntleton in 1802, from Wetherstield,\\nConn., and settled on the fine Amnio-\\nnoosuc valley farm, which has since\\nbeen the home of four generations of\\nhis descendents. Isaac, the son of the\\npioneer, Luther Adams the grandson,\\nand Frank I., the present euterprising\\nowner of the homestead and his child-\\nren have here found a home. Isaac\\nmarried Anna, daughter of Elkanah\\nIloskins, a Revolutionary soldier. Lu-\\nther A. married Lydia W. Chamberlain,\\nand their two children are Frank I.\\nand Ann Elizabeth, Mrs. Frank Shej)-\\nard. Frank I. was born in ISTiO, and\\nmarried Susan E. Jones and after her\\ndeath Harriett C. Orr, by whom he\\nhas two children, Albert L. and Susie\\nMay. Mr. Parker is one of the lead-\\ning farmers of Littleton, and conducts\\na large milk ranch with about 85 cows.\\nHe has a tine sugar orchard of 1100", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN EEPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\ntrees, and puts up a lirst-class article\\nof maple honey, which retails well in\\nthe village. His farm of 300 acres,\\nwith a 100 acre back lot, is located\\none mile from the village, and contains\\nsome 75 acres of the best meadow land\\nin town, lying on both sides of the\\nriver. Grass is king although several\\nacres are usually in corn. The farm\\nbuildings are commodious and pleas-\\nantly located. Mr. Parker is on the\\nalert for improvements and keeps\\nthings moving on the old homestead.\\nHe is a Congregationalist, and a Re-\\npublican in politics. Mr. Parker has\\navoided rather than sought public\\niiffice, but has served as supervisor and\\nis one of the town s representatives to\\nthe General Court.\\n1*v\\nTHE FARR family.\\nFor nearly a century the name of\\nFarr has been familiar and prominent\\nin the annals of Littleton. John Farr\\nwas a son of Noah, one of the half-\\ndozen brothers who came to Littleton\\nearly in the century from Chesterfield,\\nN. H. He was live years deputy sher-\\niff, where he obtained some knowledge\\nof letjal forms, and late in life read law,\\nand practiced with Charles W. Rand,\\nwith William J. Bellows, and, later,\\nalone. He united good legal judgment\\nwith sterling integri-\\nty, and ;lministered\\non manj estates. He\\nwas thfc first presi-\\ndent of the Little-\\nton National Bank, a\\nposition which he\\nheld for many years,\\nlie reared a family\\nof seven children,\\ngave them all good\\neducations, and died\\nin 1 !9 2 at the mature age of 82 years.\\nOf the four sons, two are living: John,\\nnovs of Orlando, Fla., and Charles A.,\\na former merchant of Littleton.\\nGeorge Farr enlisted and was made\\ncaptain of Cor D., 13th New Hamp-\\nshire Volunteers, and was severely\\nwounded at the battle of Cold Harbor.\\nHe returned to Littleton after nearly\\nthree years service, and tor 21 years\\nwas connected with the Oak Hill\\nGEORGE FARR.\\nHouse, where he died suddenly in 1895.\\nIn 1886, Capt. Farr was commander of\\nthe Department of New Hampshire, G.\\nA. R.\\nMaj.EvartsW. Farrwasborn in 1840.\\nHe was educated at the Thetford Acad-\\nemy. At the age of 20 he enlisted, the\\nfirst volunteer from Littleton, and was\\nelected lieutenant and then captain of\\nhis company, and lost an arm at Wil-\\nliamsburg. He was later commissioned\\nmajor in the 11th New Hampshire\\nVolunteers. After three years gallant\\nservice he returned to Littleton, where\\nhe won a high standing in the legal\\nprofession, served as county solicitor,\\nas assessor of internal revenue, and in\\nthe governor s council, was elected to\\nthe 46th congress and re-elected from\\nthe third district, but his brilliant\\ncareer was terminated by his early\\ndeath at the age of forty.\\nCharles A. Farr, the youngest son,\\nwas born in 1.S48,\\nand was educated at\\nKimball Union Acad-\\nemy. He clerked\\nseveral years in this\\nvicinity, and was in\\ntrade in Littleton,\\neither by himself or\\nwith partners, for\\nmore than a score of\\nyears until 1898. He\\nis now representing\\nthe National Life Insurance Co., of\\nMontpelier, Vt., and the Manufactur-\\ners and Merchants and German Fire\\nInsurance companies, of Pittsburg, Pa.\\nMr. Farr is a genial and obliging gen-\\ntleman, and a loyal son of Littleton.\\nCHAS A. FARR.\\n1869 aiid made his first settlement at a\\nmission which he had organized at\\nSouth Kingston. After preaching two\\nyears each at Candia, and Newfield, he\\nwent to Old Orchard to recuperate his\\nwife s health, and there carried on gos-\\npel work for three and a half years in\\nhis own charge, meanwhile serving as\\npostmaster and conducting a printing\\nbusiness. Two flourishing churches\\nhave been formed from this field. Mr.\\nREV. J. B. Merrill\\nwas born at Atkinson, N. H., in 1846.\\nNaturally ingenious, he picked up in\\nhis boyhood a working knowledge of\\nthe carpenter s trade, which he used as\\na stepping stone to higher efforts. He\\nfitted for college at Atkinson Academy,\\nand later took lessons from a Harvard\\ntutor, and attended a summei- school at\\nHebron under Prof. W. K. Harper, of\\nChicago. He began liis work in the\\nMaster s vineyard at the age of 19 in\\nthe lowly fields of mission work in\\nBoston. He was ordained in May\\nMerrill was then engaged in evangels-\\ntic work in Maine, and filled pisturat s\\nat Hampton and Epsom, N. H. -Com-\\ning to Littleton in 1S9I, lie f.iuiul a\\nfruitful field for his active energies.\\nHe raised money to repair the clmrcli,\\ntook charge of t 3e work, ra sed I lie\\nstructure one story and )iut in a good\\nvestry with good steam heat and refur-\\nnisiied the audience room. Rev. .Mr.\\nMerrill married Salzena Merrill, of\\nMethuen, Mass., who passed away\\nlast January, leaving two daughters,\\nAgnes and .Addie.\\nTHE Littleton Courier\\nwas founded in 1889 by Phincas R.\\nGoold and W. F. Andrus. It is largely\\ndevoted to local interests, is mildly\\nDemocratic in its political creed, an l\\nin connection with cheap clubbing\\nrates has attained a circulation of about\\n2000. Mr. Goold is a native of the\\ntown, an old time printer, and a very\\nfamiliar figure about the streets. He\\nis a son of Marquis L. Gould and was\\nborn in 1^42. He liarned the printers", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\ntrade of John 1!. Kodding in the oflice\\nof the old Haverhill Republican, and\\nsuV)seqiiently worked as a journeyman\\nat Lebanon, Littleton, Newport, and at\\nLynn, Mass. Since 1864 he has re-\\nsided continuously in this town, and\\nwas *23 years connected with the post-\\noilice either as clerk or postmaster,\\nhaving held the latter office 18 years.\\nMe became a resident of Littleton in\\n1862 and in 67 married Selvia Dan-\\nforth of Lisbon. In 1881, in company\\nwith B. F. Robinson, Mr. Goold estab-\\nlished the Littleton Journal as a Re-\\npublican newspaper. It was located\\nin the post office building where Mr.\\n(tooM had already established a job\\nprinting business. Mr. Goold has had\\na very busy career and enjoys a very\\nwide personal acquaintance in this\\nsection.\\nSOLON L. SIMONDS, POLICEMAN.\\nThe subject of this sketch, by birth\\nand long residence, belongs to Little-\\nIon, but his youth, early manhood and\\nmilitary service are identified with\\nN ermont. He was born in 1842. In\\nDecember, 1861, he enlisted in the 8th\\nVermont Infantry, Col. Stephen Thom-\\nas, and was with that gallant regiment\\nduring Butler s Louisiana campaign\\nand Bank s Red River expedition, and\\nwas with Sheridan during the famous\\nShenandoah campaign, being promoted\\nthrough every grade to orderly ser-\\ngeant, and at Cedar Creek was in\\ncharge of an advanced picket line,\\nwhich he brought back by a wide de-\\ntour, when almost surrounded. After\\na re-enlistment. Sergeant Simonds was\\nhonorably discharged after nearly four\\nyears service. He then bought a\\nfarm and hotel at Lunenburg in cora-\\n](any with his half brother, Lieut.\\nGeorge A. Hill. In 1869 he conducted\\na sash and blind business at Lisbon\\nseven years, and the same business\\nthree years at Lancaster. After a tour\\nof observation of about six months at\\nLeadville and the Black Hills, Mr.\\nSimonds came to Littleton in October,\\n1S79, and engaged as a jiacker and\\nshipping clerk with Iia Parker in the\\nglove factory. His failliful services\\nwere retained in tills cajiacity about 17\\nyears. He had meanwiiile been in the\\npolice force at Lisbon, Lancaster, and\\nLittleton, and last April was engaged\\nas chief of police of Littleton, and\\njanitor of the Town building, having\\nthe sole care of public property to the\\nvalue of about $40,000. During his\\npolice experience of about 16 years he\\nnever received a blow, and never but\\nonce gave one with his club, yet never\\nlost an arrested man. Mr. Simonds\\nhas passed all of the stations and chairs\\nof Burns Lodge and attended 1 26 con-\\nsecutive meetings always on time. He\\nis also a member of St. Gerard Com-\\nmandery. In politics he is a Republi-\\ncan. He has one daughter, Mrs. J. L.\\nOiithank, by a first marriage. In 1888\\nhe married Mrs. Mary E. Hutchinson.\\nMrs. Simonds keeps a choice and well\\nselected stock of millinery and fancy\\ngoods in the Boylston block, and is\\nrecognized as an experienced and artis-\\ntic trimmer.\\nSIMPSON S Variety Store\\nis a domestic exposition. Here the\\nthrifty housewife can find any of the\\nthousand and one articles of con-\\nvenience and necessity, that save time\\nand temper, and at prices that compel\\nanother call. Simpson keeps almost\\neverything from a paper of pins to an\\nelegant china set. He has recently re-\\nturned from Boston with a full assort-\\nment of household goods, and Christ-\\nmas specialties, which will soon gladen\\nmany a home. He has had the aid of\\nhis predecessor, Mr. C. J. Willey, in\\nthe purchase of the goods, which are\\nmostly obtained at wholesale jobbers\\nprices, and will be sold accordingly.\\nIn the store he is ably assisted by Mrs.\\nCarpenter, who is very familiar with\\nthe trade. In so extensive and multi-\\nfarious a stock it is impossible to par-\\nticularize, but we will call special at-\\ntention to the five and ten-cent count-\\ners, and to the handsome stock of plain,\\nfancy, and antique china. This is\\nheadquarters for Santa Clans. Mr.\\nSimpson is widely and favorably known\\nto the traveling public as the former\\npopular station agent at Scott s. He\\nis a native of West Rumney, N. H.,\\nwhere he learned telegraphy in his\\nfather s store at ten j ears of age. At\\nthe age of 14 he became station agent\\nat West Rumney, the youngest station\\nagent in New England. He was in the\\nemploy of the railroad companies 16\\nyears in that capacity, and during that\\ntime for five different corporations.\\nMr. Simpson bought his present stock\\nof goods last April, and the Littleton\\npublic have learned to appreciate his\\nprompt, genial, business like qualities.\\nWHITE MOUNTAIN PHARMACY.\\nThis institution is the oldest drug\\nstore in town, founded away back in\\n1831 bj Mr. Hodgtnan. It has always\\noccupied a prominent place, was suc-\\ncessfully conducted many years by\\nliobinson Brothers, and is fully main-\\ntaining its prestige and efficiency under\\nthe skillful management of the present\\nproprietor, Mr. H. K. KenneJ^ It is\\ncentrally located near the great hotels,\\nand the residences of the leading phy-\\nsicians, with whose offices it was the\\nfirst, and for a long time the only\\ndrug store to be connected by tele-\\nphone. It is also the telephone ex-\\nchange of the village. The premises,\\n25 by 125 feet, are handsomely fitted\\nup, and well stocked with a full line\\nof standard goods, which includes pure\\ndrugs and chemicals, proprietary medi-\\ncines, candies, confectionery, cigars,\\ntoilet articles ami fancy goods, with", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nan especially fine stock of perfumes.\\nThe White Mountain Headache cure\\nand White Mountain Cough ure, both\\ncompounded exclusively at this phar-\\nmacy, are proving their merits. Mr.\\nKenney is a native of Littleton, son of\\nL. C. Kenney and grandson of Gcr.\\nE. O. Kenney. His mother was Mar-\\ntha D., daughter of Col. Cyrus East-\\nman. Mr. Kenney was born in 1868,\\nand is a graduate of the Littleton High\\nSchool, and the Massachusetts College\\nof Pharmacy. In 1885 he entered the\\ndrug store of F. B. Hatch Co. as a\\nclerk, where he remained four years,\\nand later was in a drug store in Taun-\\nton, Mass., two years. Mr. Kenney is\\na registered pharmacist, both in New\\nHampshire and Massachusetts. He\\nhas an excellent social standing and is\\na member of St. Gerard Commandery\\nand is also a 32d degree Mason. He\\nhas recently completed a beautiful\\nresidence on Pleasant street that com-\\nmands an expansive view of the White\\nMountains. He married in 1895, Liz-\\nzie, daughter of R. W. Bailey of Lan-\\ncaster.\\nWells Bingham.\\nFUNERAL UNDERTAKERS.\\nOne of the oldest and most widely\\nand favorably known establishments\\nin this region is that of Wells it Bing-\\nham. Devoting themselves exclusively\\nto their undertaking business they have\\nequipped their establishment with a\\ntine funeral car and undertaker s wagon\\nand every convenience pertaining to\\ntheir work. They strive to conduct\\nall occasions placed under their charge\\nin a gentlemanly and professional\\nmanner. Capt. B. F.Wells is a native\\nof Sugar Hill, Lisbon, but for 25 years\\nhas been a resident of Littleton. In\\n1861 he enlisted in Co. IL, 8th N. H.\\nIJegt., as a first lieutenant, and was\\npromoted to captain. The regiment\\nfirst saw active service under Gen. B.\\nF. Butler in the Louisiana campaign,\\nwhere, at George s Landing, Capt.\\nWells was wounded. He re-enlisted\\nin the 1st N. H. heavy artillery, and\\nwas for a time stationed in the defenses\\nat Washington, where he was again\\npromoted to be captain, and with his\\ncompany did valiant service in repell-\\ning Early s raid upon the Capital.\\nHe was honorably discharged witli his\\nregiment in September, 1865, and re-\\nturning to Lisbon engaged in the car-\\nriage business until 187H, when he\\nmoved to Littleton. For 80 years he\\nhas made undertaking a specialty.\\nWhen modern embalming was first\\nintroduced Capt. Wells perfected him-\\nself in the art, which he has since suc-\\ncessfully practiced. He married Har-\\nriett S. Parker of Lisbon, and after\\nher death, Ellen M. McKean. He has\\nan excellent standing in every relation\\nof life. He is a member of Marshall\\nSanders Post, G. A. R., and is treas-\\nurer of St. Gerard Commandery, K. T.\\nIn 1891 Capt. Wells took as a partner\\nMr. Charles F. Bingham.\\nMr. Bingham is a native of Michigan\\nand came to Littleton in 1879 at the\\nage of 21 years. He was engaged in\\nnewspaper work in Michigan and also\\non the White Mountain Republic with\\nMr. G. C. Furber. Realizing that the\\nundertaking business in the future\\nwould demand much more of its oper-\\nators and conductors than in the past\\nhe immediately began to fit himself for\\nthe general duties of this calling. He\\nis a graduate of the Massachusetts Col-\\nlege of Embalming and has had exper-\\nience with some of the best embalmers\\nof Boston. Mr. Bingham s kindly\\nnature and genial personality eminently\\nfit him for this profession. He not\\nonly stands well among his associates\\nbut ranks high in ^Masonic relations,\\nbeing for two years Master of Burns\\nLodge, A. M., was 1). G. M.\\nof this Masonic jurisdiction, and is the\\npresent Eminent Commander of St.\\nGerard Commandery. He married, in\\n1884, Miss Hattie M. Quimby of White-\\nfield, an accomplished musician and\\ninstructor.\\nC. F. Nutting.\\nThis great dry goods house is a mer-\\ncantile exposition. It occupies com-\\nmodious and elegant quarters in Union\\nBlock with about 6UU0 feet of floor\\nspace, and carries a 20,000 stock in\\nfact, one of the finest and most varied\\noutside of the large cities, and six\\nclerks are kept actively at work. The\\nstock bears evidence of careful selec-\\ntion, is exceptionally desirable and\\ncomprehensive, and clean, in the\\ntrade sense, being almost absolutely\\nfree from old style or unpoimlar goods\\nof any kind. Mr. Nutting buys in\\nlarge (luantities, in connection with his\\nbrother, an extensive merchant at\\nBrandon, Vt., securing practically job-\\nbers prices, and offers his goods to his\\ncustomers as low as an equal quality can\\nbe obtained anywhere in New England.\\nHe calls special attention to liis varied\\nand handsome stock of carpets, drap-\\neries, rugs and mattings, which are\\nshown on the second floor. The stock\\nof dry goods, dress goods and ladies\\ngarments on the first floor is too exten-\\nsive for enumeration, and must be seen\\nto be appreciated.\\nMr. Nutting was born at Bakersfield,\\nand educated at the Bakersfield Acad-\\nemy. He enjoyed a valuable experi-\\nence of seven years in the large mer-\\ncantile house of E. A. Thomas, at West\\nliandolph, Vt., and was two years with\\nhis brother, W. D. Nutting, at Bran-\\ndon, Vt. He married Miss Flora New-\\nton, of Randolph, and Littleton became\\ntheir home in January, 1889. Mrs.\\nNutting for several years assisted in\\nthe store after his purchase from Dow\\nBrothers.\\nHe has more than doubled the vol-\\nume of his trade, which is now one of", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPtTBLlC- JOURNAL.\\nthe largest in tlic state, in the face of\\na close competition. Extendinti his\\nthani s to tlie public for this lihcraj\\npatronage, he will strive earnestly to\\ndeseive and receive a continuance of\\nthe same.\\nW. W. BROWN,\\nOptician anil Jeweler. The down\\ncasters have a national reputation as\\nearly starters and good stayers, and\\nMr. Brown is an excellent type of his\\nclass. He was born in Bremen, Me.,\\nin 1859. His grandfather and all his\\nuncles were seamen, and the dream of\\nhis childhood was a life on the ocean\\nwave, but a terrible experience during\\na three days terrific gale, which strewed\\nthe coast with wrecks and in which\\nhis good ship barely weathered, deter-\\nmined young Brown to be a landsman.\\nAt the age of 14 he left home and\\nwent to Massachusetts to challenge\\nfortune. Alone and unaided, he took\\nthe first chance that offered, learned\\nthe trade of rattan-maker and followed\\nit most of the time for ten years, be-\\ncoming a stockholder and director in a\\ncorporation. Meanwhile, at the age of\\nIS, he began to employ spare time in\\nlearning the watch-maker s trade,\\nwhich better suited his mechanical\\ntaste. Some 14 years ago he deter-\\nmined to make this his life work, and\\nfor the past dozen years has been en-\\ngaged in this work in the princi|ial\\nfactories of New England, and thor-\\nougldy familiarized himself with every\\ndetail and feature ot watch-making.\\nHe was employed several years as in-\\nspctor at the Waltham watch factory.\\nHe attended all the optical schools in\\nWaltham, and received private instruc-\\ntion from a distinguished professor of\\noptholimics in that city, and for\\nthe past three years he has taught\\nthat branch at Waltham, done work\\nfor the trade, and conducted optical\\nwork. Owing to ill health there, Mr.\\nBrown sought a change of climate, and\\ncommenced in Littleton last Aj)ril in\\nthe Ilodgman store with a small but\\nwell-Selected stock of watches and jew-\\nelry. His specialties are optical work\\nand fine repairing of watches, and he\\nenjoys an excellent and deserved pat-\\nronage.\\nGhorge C. FURBER.\\nTiie editor of the country newspaper,\\nv.\\\\u\\\\e commenting on the actions of\\nothers, is himself also amenable to crit-\\nicism. Mr. Furber will pass from un-\\nder this ban as unscathed as any one\\nwho has so long been in the editorial\\nharness. He was born in Woodstock,\\nVt., in 1847, and was educated in Can-\\naan Union Academy and Eastman s\\nBusiness College. From 1870 to 1874\\nhe was one of the editors of the AUe-\\nghan County (Mich.) Democrat. In\\n1874 he came to Littleton as editor of\\nthe White Mountain Republic, and two\\nyears later married Hattie D., daughter\\nof Gen. G. P. Meserve. When Mr.\\nprincipal work since 1893 has been the\\ncollection and compilation of facts for\\nthe foitlicoming town history.\\nFurber took charge of the paper its list\\nwas not more than 800, but during the\\nnext sixteen years it was quadrupled.\\nThe Kepublic was conservatively Dem-\\nocratic, but took high ground in favor\\nof temperance and moral reform. In\\n1890 it was merged with the Journal\\nunder its j)resent style of Beihtblic-\\nJouuNAi.. In isyi Mr. Furber, by\\nreason of impaired health, sold the\\npa|)er to Willis II. Colby, but the next\\nyeai became business manager of the\\nConcord People and Patriot. For a\\ndozen years or more he did valuable\\nservice as recording and corresponding\\nsecretary of the Littleton Musical As-\\nsociation. Since 1894 he has been an\\nactive member of the board of educa-\\ntion of Union School District. His\\nNOAH Farr.\\nIn the heart of the Ammonoosuc val-\\nley, one mile below Littleton, is the\\nresidence of Noah Farr. It was on\\nthis farm that the first settlement was\\nmade within the town limits, elsewhere\\ndescribed. Mr. Farr was born on\\nFarr Hill, Littleton, in 1836, a son of\\nGilman and Philena Allen Farr. When\\n18 years old, he moved with his fath-\\ner s family to this farm, which has\\nsince been his home. He worked with\\nhis father until 30 years of age, and\\nthen, in company with his brother-in-\\nlaw, purchased the farm. Two years\\nlater he bought out this interest, and\\nhas since been sole proprietor of this\\nhandsome 225-acre farm, of which .iC\\nacres is mowing and tillage, most of\\nthis being Ammonoosuc meadow of\\ngreat fertility. Dairying is Mr. Farr s\\nspecialty. He was for a time engaged\\nin retailing milk in the village, when\\nhe kept as many as 30 cows. At pres-\\nent he is selling cream to the White\\nMountain Creamery, and has reduced\\nhis number of cows. He also has a\\nnumber of fine horses. For the past\\nfew years he has had a number of sum-\\nmer boarders, for which his hand-\\nsome home is nicely equipped. He\\nhas a new barn 47 by 90 feet, with en-\\ntire cellar. House, stable and base-\\nment are all supplied with pure run-\\nning water. There is also a shop which\\nprobably contains the best equipment\\nof mechanical tools possessed by any\\nfarmer in the state, and in which Mi-.\\nFarr spends much time both pleasantly\\nand profitably. This is one of the best\\nsets of farm buildings in the country.\\nMr. Farr is an admirer of Ilolstein\\nstock, and was the first to introduce\\nthis favorite milk producing breed in-\\nto Littleton, and by the purchase of a\\nfine l)looded bull has greatly improved\\nthe stock of the neighborhood. He\\nmarried first Mary B. Griggs, of this\\ntown, and after her death was united\\nto Sarah, daughter of Jedediah Farm-\\ner, of Bethlehem. Thej have two sons,\\nArtiiur N., of West Milan, and Albert\\nL., living at home. Mr. FaiT is a man", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "WHITK MOUNTAIN REPUBLlC-JOtJKNAL.\\nof grciit industry and iiiactical good\\nsense. lie has lor many years been\\nidentified with the Grange, as treasurer\\nof both local and state bodies. He has\\nalso been treasurer of the town school\\ndistrict. He is a Republican, and in\\nreligious faith a Congregationalist.\\nM. D. COBLEIGH\\nComes of good, staunch Littleton stock.\\nHis father was Ashbell W. and his\\ngrandfather, for whom he was named,\\nwas Marshall D. Cobleigh,a well-known\\nformer merchant and deputy sheriff of\\nthis town. His mother was Hannah,\\nmother of Rev. Hugh Montgomery, a\\nstaunch temperance worker and preach-\\ner. A farmer bred boy, Mr. Cobleigh\\nsoon decided that he could best fulfill\\nhis misson of doing good by re-produc-\\ning the luiman face divine. Accord-\\ningly, in 1888 he commenced work in\\nthe studio of George H. Aldrich, and\\nat his death purchased and has since\\nconducted the business. Mr. Cobleigh\\nis on the alert to appropriate and use\\nfor his patrons all of the latest im-\\nprovements in art. He is an accommo-\\ndating gentleman, and mixes a due\\nproportion of the milk of human kind-\\nness with his chemicals, and usually\\nsecures a comfortable and pleasant look\\non the faces of his victims. Mr. Cob-\\nleigh has built up a thriving business,\\nand his collection evinces good\\nworkmanship. He makes a specialty\\nof carbonette photographs. He has\\ntaken an active interest in puV)lic af-\\nfairs, es[)ecially in tcm] erance work.\\nHe has been chairman of the board of\\nsupervisors since 1894, and is in jioli-\\ntics a Republican.\\nClough brothers.\\nClough Brothers conduct the Cohas-\\nhauke Cafe, furnishing warm meals at\\nall hours. In the room under their\\nsalesroom is the bakery where the\\nbread, pastry, and a thousand and one\\ngoodies are made just like mother\\nused to cook. They employ a skilled\\ncook, make home-made candies in the\\nwinter and cater to balls and parties at\\nall times. They also keep canned\\ngoods and light groceries, and as their\\nroom is open later than the others this\\nis a real convenience to the public.\\nThey strive to lighten the burdens of\\nhousewives in warm weather, and sup-\\nply daily about 180 loaves of bread.\\nBoth Charles C. and Frank L. Clough\\nhave been connected in the past with\\nthe Republic-Jouuxal, and formerly\\nconducted the job department of that\\nestablishmeut. They have been in the\\nbakeiy business since July, 1895.\\nMrs. F. L. Clough conducts a milli-\\nnery business in the Snowden Build-\\ning. She has had five years experi-\\nence and is securing her share of\\npatronage by her good taste and\\nclose attention to business.\\nHON. Edgar aldrich.\\nThe bar of Littleton has been not-\\nable for nearly half a century, and\\none of its ablest exponents is Judge\\nEdgar Aldrich. He is a native of\\nPittsburg, born in 1848, the son of\\nKphraim C. and Adeline Ilaynes\\nAldrich. His academic training was\\niil)tained at Colebrook Academy.\\nHe entered upon the study of law\\nwith Ira A. Ramsey of that town,\\nand graduated from the law depart-\\nment of the University of Michi-\\ngan and was adtuitted to the bar\\nat Colebrook at the August term, ISOS.\\nHe remained there in practice until\\n1881, when he located at Littleton,\\nwhere he has since resided. He was\\nsolicitor of Coos county from October\\n10, 187-2, to June 4, 1S79, with the ex-\\nception of the interim from 74 to 76.\\nHe was a representative from Littleton\\nin 1SS.5, and speaker of the house. In\\n1891 he was numinated by President\\nHarrison to be judge of the district\\ncourt, on the unanimous recommenda-\\ntion of the bar, and has developed an\\nexceptiimal aptitude fur the duties of\\nhis station. This is fully attested in\\nhis frequent service in the important\\nlitigation that finds what may be termed\\nthe legal storm center in the L^nited\\nStates court at Boston. Judge Aldrich\\nhas long been recognized as a jtublic\\nspeaker of unusual ability, and has de-\\nlivered several notable addresses upon\\nspecial and anniversary occasions, on\\nlegal and historical subjects. In 1891\\nhe received the honorary degree of\\nMaster of Arts from Dai tmouth Col-\\nlege. Judge Aldrich was united in\\n1872 to Louise M. Remiek. They have\\ntwo children Florence M., a graduate\\nof Andover Academy, and Ephraim\\nFred, a student in Dartmouth College.\\nBINGHAM, Mitchell Batchellor\\nConstitute a legal triumvirate in which\\neach member contributes some peculiar\\nmental resource or aptitude, and the\\nfirm is widely recognized as one of the\\nstrongest of the New Hampshire bar.\\nHon. Harry Bingham, the grand old\\nman of New Ham])shire, after\\nmore than half a century of distin-\\nguislied practice, is now devolving the\\nmore active labors upon his juniors,\\nwho are well qualified to maintain the\\nprestige of the firm.\\nHon. Harry Bingham was l)orn in\\nConcord, Vt., March 30, 18 J1, being", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "WHITt: MOUNTAIN KEPUBLIC-JOUHNAL.\\nthird son of Wancn aiitl I.iu y Whei l-\\ner Bingham, lie attended the publie\\nschools of his native town and tilted\\nfor college at Lyndon, Vt., academy,\\nlie entered Dartmouth College at the\\nage of 18, and graduated with credit in\\n1843. He enjoyed the formative ex-\\nperience of teaching district schools^ be-\\nfore and during his college course. He\\nbegan reading law with Daniel Hib-\\nbard of Concord, continued with Geo-\\nCahoon of Lyndon and completed with\\nHon. Harry Hibbard of Bath, another\\ndistinguished son of Concord. He was\\nadmitted to the bar in the spring of\\n184(5, and the next fall settled in Little-\\nton. His career during the past half a\\ncentury has been a mutual heritage of\\nrenown to Vermont, his native state,\\nand Now Hampshire, the state of his\\nadoption. He was alone in practice\\nuntil 18. )2, when he formed a partner-\\nship with his younger brother, George\\nA. Bingham, afterwards twice a justice\\nof the supreme court of the state,\\nwhich continued for about 22 years.\\nHON. IIARKV lilNullAM.\\nSince that time Mr. Bingham has had\\nassociated with him several young men\\nwho have received their legal education\\nin his office. The piesent firm is Bing-\\nham, Mitchell it Batchellor, the junior\\npartners being W. H. Mitchell and A.\\nS. Batchellor, both able lawyers in\\ntheir several spheres. Space forbids\\nmention here of any of the important\\ncases of both civil and criminal prac-\\ntice in which Mr. Bingham has been\\nengaged. In brief it may be said that\\nhe has been connected usually in the\\ndefense with all the capital cases tried\\nin Nortlierii New Hampshire during\\nhis professional career, and his services\\nand counsel have been sought in Ver-\\nmonlin the federal courts. Mr.Bingham\\nhas always been an uncompromising\\nDemocrat. He first represented Little-\\nton in 18t)l, and soon became the un-\\nquestioned leader of his party on the\\ntloor of the house, a position which he\\nhas steadily held during his legislative\\nexperience of sixteen terms in the low-\\ner house, and two terms in the senate.\\nHe was the nominee of his party for\\ncongress in 1865 and in 1867. In 1870-\\n72-79-83-85-87 and 89 he was the\\nchoice of the Democracy for United\\nStates senator, a position for which his\\nstrong mental endorsement and ripe\\nscholarship eminently fitted him. He\\nwas nominated by Gov. Weston i n\\n1874 for chief justice, but certain cor-\\nporate influences prevented his con-\\nfirmation by the council. He has re-\\npresented his state in National Demo-\\ncratic conventions for more than 25\\nyears. In the last campaign he sup-\\nported Palmer and Buckner and was\\nchairman of the convention to ratify\\ntheir nomination. He has, notwith-\\nstanding the exacting duties of his pro-\\nfession, been a wide and judicious\\nreader. This habit with a capacious\\nmemory has made him a man of exten-\\nsive information and mature culture,\\nwith liberal and philosophic views.\\nHon. W. H. Mitchell needs no card\\nof introduction to the people of North-\\nern New Hampshire. He is one of the\\nhalf a score of Vermonters who have\\nfound a congenial field of legal effort\\nin Littleton. He was born in Wheel-\\nock, Vt., in 1856. His academic train-\\ning was obtained principally at Derby,\\nVt, academy and the Littleton High\\nSchool. He began reading law with\\nHon. Harry Bingham in 1877 a n d\\nthree years later was admitted to the\\nbar and became a member of the firm.\\nAs a lawyer Mr. Mitchell has risen to\\nthe level of his rare opportunities and\\nhas contributed his full (juota to the\\nsuccess of the firm. He has shown ex-\\ncellent judgment in the application of\\nlegal principles to special cases and\\nconscientious thoroughness and abilitv\\nin preparaing cases for trial. This\\ncharacteristic was especially marked\\nin liis very at-ceptable service as Coun-\\nty Solicitor. Since 1888 he has served\\nas a trustee of the State Normal\\nschool. For many years he has been\\nthe efficient chairman of the school\\nboard. His interest in educational af-\\nairs expressed itself in the New Hamp-\\nshire Senate bv the introduction of the\\nHON. WILLIAM H. MITCHELL\\nbill for free books which was enacted\\nlargely by his efforts. He there did\\nyeoman service for the Normal School\\nand the Soldier s Home. Mr. Mitchell\\nmarried Delia, daughter of Hon. Ed-\\nward F. Bingham, and their beautiful\\nhome is on South street.\\nThe natural ancestry of Hon. Albert\\nStillman Batchellor can be traced to\\nThomas and Mary Allerton Cushman,\\nof the Mayflower, and there were sev-\\neral representatives of the family in\\nthe llevolutionary army. His mother\\nwas Mary Jane Smith, of Bennington,\\nVt., and his father Stillman Batchellor,\\na soldier of 1812 and a life-long resi-\\ndent of Bethlehem and Littleton. The\\nsubject of our sketch was born in Beth-\\nlehem in 1850, the youngest of eight\\nchildren. His father died while he\\nwas but a child, leaving the family to\\nwrest a subsistence from the stubborn\\nsoil of a Bethlehem farm. Mr. Batch-\\nellor inherited an active, buoyant tem-\\nperament, and an insatiable love of\\nlearning, and bent every energy to the", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL.\\nattainment of a liberal education, lie\\ngraduated from Dartmoutli College\\nwith credit in the class of IST i, and\\nimmediately entered the law office of\\nHon. Harry Bingham was admitted to\\ntlie bar of Grafton county in 1S75, and\\nsoon became a member of the present\\nwell-known firm. More than twenty\\nyears association with Mr. Bingham,\\nas pupil and partner, is a voucher for\\na good lawj er, and Mr. Batchellor has\\nnever discredited his credentials. lie\\npossesses a quick, sure grasp of the\\nsalient points of law and evidence, to-\\ngether with a (juaint humor and ready\\nrepartee which at once illustrates and\\nbrightens the tedious details of the\\ndullest case. As a result of natural\\naptitude, superior training, a large ex-\\nperience and an abundance of strong\\ncommon sense, Mr. Batchellor stands\\ntoday among the leading lawyers of\\nnorthern New Hampshire. In politics\\nhe has achieved an enviable reputation\\nand ranks with the younger leaders of\\nthe Democratic party in the state, and\\nhas modestly and worthily borne a lib-\\nHON. A. S. BATCHELLOR.\\neral share of such honors as the party\\nhas had to bestow. He was county\\nsolicitor two years represented Little-\\nton in the legislature three terms was\\na member of the governor s council in\\n1887-8, and was for several years an\\nable member of the board of trustees\\nof the state library, which he recently\\nresigned. In local offices he has ably\\nand faithfully discharged his luties,\\nand his influence has been felt in edu-\\ncational matters in this town, and as an\\nactive alumnus of Dartmouth College.\\nNotwithstanding the great demands of\\nhis professional and public life, he has\\ndevoted much time to literary pursuits,\\nbecoming especially interested and well\\nversed in the early history of the town\\nand state. He has served Burns Lodge\\nas W. M., has been D. D. G. M. of the\\nMasonic district, is a Knight Templar\\nand has attained the .32d degree, A. S.\\nR. Withal, he is one of the most so-\\nciable and companionable of men. In\\n1880 he married Miss Harriett A. Cope-\\nland, and their hearth is shared and\\nbrightened by two sons and a daughter.\\n\\\\ipon the sluiiiji in successive cam-\\npaigns have l)een highly appreciated.\\nHe marrieil .Miss Mary S. Pendleton of\\nHON. James w. Remick.\\nHon. J. W. Remick is a son of L.\\nR. and Sophia Cushman Remick. His\\nfather was widely known as a land-\\nlord. The Cushmans of Caledonia\\nCounty, were endowed with strong\\nmentality and several of Mr. Remick s\\nuncles won distinction at the bar. J.\\nW. Remick was educated in the com-\\nmon schools, and at nineteen years of\\nage began the study of law under B.F.\\nChapman, of Clockville, N. Y. Later\\nhe was a student in the office of Aid-\\nrich Parsons, at Colebrook, and fo\\nBingham Aldrich, at Littleton. He\\ngraduated from the Michigan Univer-\\nsity law school in lSS-2, and was soon\\nadmitted to the bar at Concord, N. IL\\nHe was two years in practice in Cole-\\nbrook, and subsequently in the employ\\nof Aldrich Remich at Littleton. In\\n1886 he formed a partnership with\\nHon. Ossian Ray, of Lancaster, and\\nopened an office for the firm at Little-\\nton. In 1890, at the age of thirty, he\\nwas appointed United States district\\nattorney for New Hampshire, the\\nyoungest incumbent of that position in\\nthe history of the state. Mr. IJeniick\\nhas won the respect of his associates,\\na7id shown himself a thorough student,\\na judicious counsellor, and an eloquent\\nadvocate. A man of literary tastes, lie\\nis an omniscient reader, and has won\\nan enviable reputation on the lecture\\nplatform. Mr. Remick is an able ex-\\nponent of the principles and policies of\\nthe Republican party, and his efforts\\nHartford, Conn., in 1888 and they have\\na little daughter, Gladys, six years of\\nage.\\nHON. Daniel C. Remich.\\nDaniel C. Remich is one of the most\\naggressive and original characters on\\nthe recent stage of public life in Little-\\nton and hasfigured soprominentlj inre-\\ncent public movements, that an extend-\\ned sketch of his career is hardly nec-\\nessary. He was born in Ilardwick,\\nVt., in 18.52. His earlier educational\\nadvantages were limited, and for near-\\nly four years after he was eighteen\\nyears of age he worked in the cotton\\nmills at Lawrence, Mass. In 1875 he\\nbegan to read law in the office of Edgar\\nAldrich, in Colebrook, and continued\\nliis studies in the offices of Aldrich and\\nParsons, and of J. II. Dudley, in that\\ntown. He graduated from the law\\nsciiool o f Michigan University i n\\nMarch, 1878, and the following April\\nwas admitted to the Coos bar. After\\nabout four years practice at Colebrook\\nas a member of the firm of Dudley\\nRemick, he came to Littleton as the\\njunior member of the firm of Bingjiam,\\nAldrich \u00c2\u00abfc Remich. In February, 1879,\\nMr. Remich married Miss Belle Lover-\\nin of Colebrook, and after her death he\\nmarried Lizzie M., daughter of B. W.\\nKilburn. The strong characteristics of\\nD. C. Remich of strong common sense\\nand indomitable courage and energy\\nhave been manifested in every field of\\neffort he has entered. During the past", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nlialf dozen years he has very largely\\nwithdrawn from aelive legal practice,\\nami devoted his attention to the stere-\\noscopic view business, and the care of\\nreal estate interests in town. lie is\\nmost widely known in connection with\\ntile iiiforcement of the priihiliitorj law\\nand his able efforts in 1894, as a mem-\\nber of the legislature, to secure more\\nstringent temperance legislation. His\\nname is also identified with several im-\\nportant puV)lic enterprises, notably\\nwith the adoption of a system of street\\nimprovements, which he championed\\nin the face of the most letermined op-\\nposition.\\nHARRY M. MORSE, ESQ.,\\n.Mlhough a recent resident, is not un-\\nknown to the people of Littleton. He\\noffers as a hostage of his loyalty and\\ngood conduct, the fact that he married\\na Littleton girl, Helen, daughter of\\nJolin N. Oakes. Mr. Morse was born\\nin Haverhill in 1859, son of John F.\\nand Susan Johnson IVIorse. His boy-\\nhood was spent upon the farm and in\\nattendance on the common schools of\\nHaverhill and Lisbon. His law stud-\\nies, after one year with John L. P osfer,\\nwere completed by two years with the\\nlate Judge Edward D. Kand, of Lisbon.\\nHe was admitted to the bar in ISSO,\\nand soon after formed a partnership\\nwith Judge Rand which continued till\\nthe latter s death in 1885, when Mr.\\nMorse succeeded to the law business\\nof the firm. In 1881 he formed a jiart-\\nnershi]! with (Jeorge F. Morris, and a\\nyear later sold his interest to the latter.\\nIn 1895 he visited California on a tour\\nof observation, and remained until last\\nMaj He has opened an office in Op-\\nera Block, and will now resume the\\nactive practice of his profession. Mr.\\nMorse is a genial, companionable gen-\\ntleman, a devoted and intelligent stud-\\nent of literature, with good natural\\ngifts. He is a lover of out-door exer-\\ncise, an excellent horseman and a good\\njudge of horses. In politics a stalwart\\nl^epnblican, he has given active and\\nvaluable service to his party, but has\\nnever sought nor accepted the rewards\\nof oHicial life.\\nTHE BELLOWS FAMILY.\\nFor nearly three quarters of a centu-\\nry the name of Bellows has been prom-\\ninently and honorably associated with\\nthe hg;il, mercantile, manufacturing\\nand public interests of Littleton. Judge\\nHenry A. Bellows was the most dis-\\ntinguished member of the earlier bar\\nof Littleton until his removal in 1850\\nto the wider field of Concord, where\\nhe was soon appointed to the bench\\nand eventually became chief justice.\\nWilliam Joseph Bellows was born July\\n3, 1817, in the town of Rockingham,\\nN t., on his father s farm on the Connec-\\nticut river. He has a vivid recollec-\\ntion of the burning of his father s four\\nlarge barns, which were struck by\\nlightning, when filled with the bounte-\\nous crops of the 400-acre farm, a mem-\\nory impressed still more deeply by the\\ngreat pecuniary loss and especially from\\nthe fact that his father then received\\ninjuries which resulted in his early\\ndeath. In 1831, as a youth of fourteen,\\nhe came to Littleton, where he resided\\nabout a year with his brother, Hon.\\nHenry A. Bellows, when he went to\\nSpringfield, Vt., as a clerk, and in 1834\\nwent to Boston, before he was twenty\\nyears old becoming head salesman in\\nthe large wholesale house of Blanchard\\nBlodgett at a salary of SlflOO a year.\\nAfter several years of valuable experi-\\nence and extensive acquaintance, he\\nreturned in 1841 to Littleton, which\\nhas since been his home. He immedi-\\nately began the study of law with his\\nbrother, and was admitted to the bar\\ni f (irafton ci unty in 1844. lie then\\nentered into partnership with his broth-\\ner, which was continued with a very\\nlarge ])ractice until the latter moved\\nto Concord in 1850. He was married\\nin 1847 to Caroline I., daughter of\\nSani]ison Bullard, of Concord. After\\nhis brother s removal, he continued in\\npractice alone until the late Hon. John\\nFarr, a student in his office, became a\\nlaw partner and remained until 1860.\\nMr. Bellows continucMl in practice sev-\\neral years longer, though much of his\\ntime was absorbed by other important\\nundertakings. In 1861 he became\\nowner and editor of the People s Jour-\\nnal which, during the Rebellion, was\\nuncompromisingly devoted to the en-\\ncouragement of patriotism and the sup-\\nport of the administration. He was\\nappointed postmaster of Littleton in\\n1861, unsolicited on his part, a position\\nwhich he held seven years. He has\\nbeen identified as a director, clerk or\\npresident of several mining companies,\\nall at one time important enterprises.\\nWilliam J. Bellows.\\nlie lias served in the State militia on\\ntlie staff of Gen. (Tuernsey, with the\\nrank of major. He was largely in-\\nstrumental in ])ronioting the giowth of\\nLittleton by a fortunate pureliase of 50\\nacres of land, then unoccupied but now\\ncontaining a large number of fine resi-\\ndences and the Littletun Hitili ScIkkiI", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nImilding, many of which were erected\\nby himself and ]iartners. He was a\\nmember of the school board eleven\\nyears, its president eight years, and\\nwhile the location of the school build-\\ning was under consideration, with a\\nl rospect of delay, he purchased the 60\\nacres off-hand and deeded the desired\\nsite to the committee. About 186.5 he\\nbecame a partner with W. W. How-\\nLand and Henry L. Tilton in the lum-\\nber business at .\\\\pthnrp, and Victory,\\nt. In 1868 he became a mercantile\\npartner with Henry L. Tilton and\\nCharles W. Brackett, under the firm\\ntitle of H. L. Tilton Co. They con-\\nducted very extensive operations in ad-\\ndition to a large mercantile business,\\nand among other things acquired and\\nsold a tract of timber-land of about\\n23,000 acres in tlie vicinity of the White\\nMountains. From 1870 to 1878 the\\nstyle of the firm was liellows, Brackett\\nit Co. On the dissolution of the latter\\nfirm, Mr. Bellows, in conned ion with\\nhis son, William H., established their\\n|)resent meicantile house of Bellows\\nSon, which is one of the most wide-\\nj^S^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21*-.\\n0^^\\nA\\\\\\ni\\n.^^HK:..\\nf\\nr\\nt\\nL 1\\nI\\n^:.f: j6\u00c2\u00a3^s i^\u00c2\u00abtss\u00c2\u00a3-^. ]!Hi\\nWiLiiAM H. Bellows.\\nly known and successful mercantile\\nenterprises in this section. It is, in\\nfact, a department store, the principal\\nfeatures being men s clothing and fur-\\nnishings, and house furnishings. It is\\nalso headquarters for carpets and the\\nsale of standard bicycles.\\nThe junior partner of Bellows\\nSon, William H. Bellows, for the last\\ntwelve years has been the active man-\\nager of the firm s business. He is a\\ndirector in the Littleton National and\\nSavings Banks, has been many years a\\nmember of the school board of educa-\\ntion and of the Littleton board of\\ntrade. He is also a member of Burns\\nLodge, A. F. and A. M., No. 66, and\\nSaint Gerard Conunandery, Knight\\nTemplars, and is a 3 2d degree Mason,\\nA. A. S. Rite, N. M. J., holding the of-\\nfice of M. E. Senior Grand Warden of\\nWashington Council Princes of Jeru-\\nsalem, of this town. He was elected a\\nrepresentative from this town to the\\nNew Hampshire legislature of 1897-8,\\nand was appointed chairman of the\\ncommittee on banks.\\nIn 1883, William H. and George S.\\nBellows acquired the stereoscopic view\\nbusiness which was established by F.\\nG. Weller, and have carried on the\\nsame extensively under the style of the\\nLittleton View Co., George S. Bellows\\nbeing the manager.\\nMr. Bellows and his sons are thor-\\noughly identified and actively interest-\\ned in all helpful public enteiprises, and\\nare universally esteemed and respected\\nby the community.\\nwith all the modern improvements\\nwiiich are expected in a first-class ho-\\ntel. Frank Thayer, with the advan-\\ntages of heredity and environment, and\\nwith twenty years experience, is fully\\nTHAYER S Hotel.\\nThere is probably no other hosteli y in\\nnorthern New H mpshire whose fame\\nis so widely established with two gen-\\nerations of the traveling public as\\nThayer s Hotel. The hotel was erect-\\ned and the business established nearly\\nhalf a century ago by Henry L. Thayer,\\nwho came here as an active young man\\nfrom Danville, Vt. 3Ir. Thayer was\\nan attractive and original character, an\\nideal landlord of the old school, of such\\nkindly and paternal manners that he\\nwas familiarly called Dad, and his\\npersonality and that of his amiable wife\\nwere potent factors in making Littleton\\nthe Mecca for thousands of tourists\\nand travelers. He represented the\\ntown in the assembly. The manage-\\nment of the hotel has been liberal and\\nprogressive, readily adapting itself to\\nthe changing sentiments and conditions\\nof modern life, yet always maintaining\\nthe early home-like cordiality and hos-\\npitality which anticipates every want.\\nThe hotel has been repeatedly re-fur-\\nnished and repaired, and is provided\\nmaintaining the prestige and traditions\\nof this famous hostelry. He is ably\\nassisted by the popular clerk, Charlie\\nAndrus, and a well-trained corps of\\nwaiters. The bill of fare is seasonable\\nand well selected, the cuisine is of high\\nand uniftirm excellence, and the table\\nservice attentive and accurate. The\\nhotel is centrally located on Main\\nstreet, fronted by handsome residences\\nand expansive lawfts, and commands a\\nbeautiful view of the Ammonoosuc val-\\nley and the mountains from many of\\nits seventy-five guest rooms. A well-\\nkept livery, barber s saloon and prin i-\\npal stores in town are within elbow\\ntouch of the guests. Very few travel-\\ners enter the gateway of the White\\nMountains without spending some time\\nat Thayer s Hotel, and it has been a\\nfactor in establishing the prosperity of\\nLittleton.\\nTHE LITTLETON HOUSE.\\nThis hotel is one of the familiar land\\nmarks of the town, is owned by Hon.\\nD. 0. Reinich, and conducted by Mr.\\nand Mrs. J. W. Gray. It contains 27\\nrooms, is centrally located, and re-\\nceives a handsome local patronat;e of a\\nscore or more of regular guesis. While\\nnot aspiring to the pretence of being a\\nfirst-class hotel, it is a quiet, home\\nlike, well kept house, with an excellent\\nbill of fare, and good room and table\\nservice. The prices are so reasonable", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "//7}i\\n//b^/T^V\\nWHITE MOUNTAIN EEPUBLIC- JOURNAL.\\nand tlu soivico so uniformly satisfac-\\ntory, that it receives a considerable\\ntransient i)atronage. ]\\\\[rs. Tray, nee\\np]niily Betlell, of Jefferson, lias the\\nnianatcemcnt of the Littleton House,\\nand is a pleasant landlady. Mr. Gray\\nis a native of Jefferson, a veteran of\\nthe late civil war, and a member of the\\n14th New Hampshire regiment. Tie\\nenlisted in August ISttl, took part in\\nthe Banks Louisiana campaign, and\\nwas with Sheridan in the valley and in\\n(.leorgia campaign. He was four times\\nwounded, but never entered the hospi-\\ntal and was honorably discharged after\\nmore than three years of faithful ser-\\nand six regular freights. I nlikc many\\n])assenger stations, it outlooks tidy\\nhomes, elegant residences and well-ke|it\\nlawns. Both the passenger and freight\\ndepots are handsome and well equipped\\nand Depot Master F. E. Wadleigh\\nkeeps everything in apple pie order.\\nHe is ably assisted by R. H. Harris,\\nfreight clerk George P. Gonyer, bag-\\ngage master a messenger boy and a\\nspare hand during the summer season,\\nwhile Mrs. Wadleigh assists in the tel-\\negraphing and other routine work of\\nthe office. The business of the station\\nis very extensive, the receipts being\\nfrom $70,000 to $75,000 a year.\\n\\\\t. His father. B. F. Wadleigh, was\\na highly respected citizen, a represent-\\native, aTid for many years prior to his\\ndeath, town clerk. His mother, nee\\nElvira Chase, a descendent of one of\\nthe oldest fanulies, is a cai)able ami es-\\nteemed lady, and still discharges the\\nduties of town clerk. Eugene began\\nto learn telegraphy at West Concord\\nwith Hon. S. E. Grout, and was then\\noperator at Wing Road about a year\\nand a half. After pursuing a course\\nat the Foughkeepsie Business College,\\nand some months practice at the Lit-\\ntleton station, he went to Bethleiicm\\nJunction as operator and remained\\nvice. He is a carpenter and joiner by\\ntrade and for about ten years has been\\ncontinuously in the employ of Hon.\\nD. C. Kemi( h. Mrs. Gray is assisted\\nin tlie matiagcmcnt of the hotel by her\\ndaugiiter, Mrs. \\\\Varren Gregorj Mrs.\\nGray is social, active and thorough-\\nly conversant with all the details of\\nhotel management.\\nyHE STATION.\\nLittleton station is one of the most\\nimportant ])oints this side of Concord,\\nand especially during the summer sea-\\nson is a scene of bustling activity with\\nits fourteen well-filled passenger trains\\nTHE LITTLETON STATION.\\nF. Eugene wadleigh.\\nThe position of depot master is one\\nof the most respon-\\nsible and exacting.\\nI This official must\\nI^L^ needs be careful,\\njHHp methodical, alert,\\nagreeable, self-pos-\\nsessed and absolute-\\nly lionest, |ualities\\nwhich will win suc-\\ncess in any busi-\\nness career. A\\nlong accpiaintaince with the subject of\\nthis sketch justilies the statement that\\nEugene Wadleigh possesses these qual-\\nities. He is a native of West Concord,\\nthere five years. He then^iilled the\\nposition of ticket agent and freight\\nclerk at Plymouth two years and a\\nhalf, and in May, 1S91, was promoted\\nto his jiresent responsible ])osition. It\\nis evident that the management of the\\nroad are aware that the best goods are\\nsometimes jjut up in small jiackages.\\nJn May, 1S91, :\\\\Ir. Wadleigh married\\nMiss Lillian May Adams, who is well\\nknown as the genial and accomplished\\no])erator. Mr. Wadleigh has (diarge\\nof both the passenger station and the\\nfreight otiicc, and is one of the busiest\\nmen in town, especially so in the sum-\\nmer, when his duties keep him from\\nearly morninij; till near midnight.", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "4f--V:\\njKr\\\\\\nr^\\ni\\nJ.-t\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n013 984 751 9\\n^WV\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^i f^-\\n^i\\n^i", "height": "3260", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00walb_0062.jp2"}}