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 DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 
 
 ITS HISTORY AND INDUSTRIES 
 
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 TWENTY - nrm ANNIVERSARY 
 
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 DESCRIPTIVE OP THE CITY 7WD ITS MANUFACTURING 
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 COMPILED BY A. C. 0. NYE. 
 
 CONTAINING : 
 
 Concise History; Old Landmarks; Present and Former Residents; Its Institutions; Buildings; 
 Picturesque Scenes ; Comfortable Homes ; Portraits and Biographical Sketches of 
 Active Men; Men noted in Public, Business and Professional Life; 
 Its Manufacturing and Commerce ; Statements of Resources 
 and Advantages of Locality; Its Growth, Pros- 
 perity and Future Possibilities. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 GEO. J. POSTER & CO. 
 
 1695.
 
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 1623... 
 
 ON a spring day in 1623, a vessel, 
 name of which is now lost, landed 
 upon the western shore of the Piscata- 
 qua, two parties sent out by the company 
 of Laconia. One party, consisting of Ed- 
 ward and William Hilton (brothers), with 
 a few other persons, took possession of 
 
 "* 1898 
 
 Possibly other settlers came over in the 
 years immediately following 1623 ; but, in 
 1631, there were only three houses in all 
 that part of the Piscataqua. In that year 
 Captain Thomas VViggin was sent over by 
 the patentees; in 1632 he returned to 
 England, and in 1633 he came back with 
 
 THE CITY HALL. 
 
 the beautiful neck of land lying between 
 the Newichawannock and Bellamy rivers, 
 some six miles up the Piscataqua ; and, 
 with the necessaries which they had brought 
 with them, began the settlement, which, in 
 
 1639, received the name of Dover; in 
 
 1640, that of Northam ; and, in 1641, that 
 of Dover again, which it has since borne. 
 
 " about thirty settlers," some of whom 
 were " of good estate and some account 
 for religion," and others of no particular 
 account for either. These settlers, land- 
 ing at Salem, from the ship fatties, Octo- 
 ber 10, 1633, proceeded immediately to 
 Dover, and took up small lots upon Dover 
 Neck, " where they intended to build a
 
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 compact town." Captain Wiggin, by 
 authority from the owners in England, 
 distributed these lots, recorded the titles, 
 transacted the com- 
 pany's business gen- 
 erally, and " had 
 the power of a gov- 
 ernor hereabouts." 
 In the same band 
 came Rev. William 
 - Leverich, " an able 
 and worthy Puritan 
 minister." The in- 
 habitants immedi- 
 a t e 1 y erected a 
 REV. HANSERD KNOLLYS. meeting- house ; 
 
 trading post. He himself became major, 
 commander of the New Hampshire forces, 
 counsellor, acting president of the prov- 
 ince, chief justice, representative, and 
 speaker of the Massachusetts general 
 court. 
 
 From 1633 to 1641, Dover, although 
 increasing in population, experienced a 
 succession of troubles. The original set- 
 tlers were Episcopalians; those of 1633 
 Puritans. To these discordant elements 
 was added the bad character of some men, 
 who, forced to leave Massachusetts, ac- 
 quired influence in this loose society. The 
 ill results soon appeared. Mr. Leverich 
 was forced to leave in 1635 for want of 
 
 DOVER, FROM THE SITE OF FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 
 
 and, with the tan pits, and other means 
 of practical crafts which soon followed, 
 Dover began its organized existence. 
 
 In addition to the original purposes of 
 the settlement (fishing), trade with the 
 Indians and the manufacture of lumber 
 soon followed. Both of these were mainly 
 in connection with the settlement of Rich- 
 ard Walderne (whose descendants bear 
 the name of Waldron), in 1640, or a little 
 earlier, at the lower falls of the Cochecho, 
 where the compact part of the present 
 city of Dover stands. He built a saw- 
 mill, and soon after a grist-mill ; and, for 
 half a century, his house was a frontier 
 
 support. Rev. George Burdett, who suc- 
 ceeded him in 1637, was able, ambitious, 
 unscrupulous, and profligate ; but, before 
 his character be- 
 came known, he 
 prevailed upon the 
 people to make 
 him governor ; but, 
 soon exposing him- 
 self, he fled to 
 Agamenticus. In 
 the ministry he was 
 succeeded by 
 Hanserd Knollys, 
 a good and pious DR> JEREMY BELKNAP.
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 man ; and by him the first church in Dover 
 was organized, in December, 1638. The 
 first meeting-house in Dover was erected 
 in 1634 or earlier, and stcod near the 
 Beck Cove, on the western slope of the 
 Neck. The second was built on the spot 
 where the remnant of the fortifications 
 once around it still remains. This house 
 was standing in a ruinous state in 1720. 
 The second meeting-house was probably 
 built a little after the year 1700, for 
 Mr. Sever, who was settled in 1711, and 
 dismissed in 1715, preached in both 
 
 The remainder of the house was subse- 
 quently taken down. The fourth and 
 present meeting-house was erected in 
 1829, and cost about $12,000. The par- 
 ish was incorporated as a parish district 
 from the town by an act of the Provincial 
 Assembly. 
 
 Jeremy Belknap D.D., eleventh min- 
 ister, was distinguished for his literary at- 
 tainments and beloved for his personal 
 character. He was an ardent patriot in 
 the Revolution, and by his writings and 
 correspondence did eminent service. He 
 
 WHITCHER'S FALLS ON COCHECO RIVER. 
 
 houses. This house was sold in 1759 and 
 taken down the following year. It stood 
 on Pine Hill, on land now inclosed in the 
 burying-ground, very near its northern 
 boundary, and a little west of north of the 
 tomb of the Gushing family. The third 
 edifice erected in 1758, stood where 
 the present house stands. In 1829, 
 the parish voted to sell the old meeting- 
 house. The northern end was taken off 
 and converted by the purchaser into a 
 dwelling house, and now stands on the 
 east side of Court Street, near the brook. 
 
 published numerous works, the best known 
 of which is his " History of New Hamp- 
 shire." 
 
 In civil office Burdett was followed by 
 Captain John Underbill, an old Euro- 
 pean soldier and a refugee from Mass- 
 achusetts, having a strange mixture of 
 enthusiasm, ability, and hypocrisy. Un- 
 derhill was deposed in 1640 for various 
 crimes. Knollys was eclipsed by the su- 
 perior talents of Thomas Larkham, an 
 emigrant of 1639 or 1640, and forced to 
 yield. The discordant elements now
 
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 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 broke out into disgraceful contests, ended 
 at last by the union of Dover with Massa- 
 chusetts, Oct. 9, 1641, which the better 
 
 BLOODY POINT. 
 
 part of the people adopted as the only 
 cure for their difficulties. It was gladly 
 welcomed by the latter power, who, in- 
 deed, claimed a latent right to the terri- 
 tory by virtue of their own patent. The 
 town was made part of old Norfolk coun- 
 ty, was represented in the general 
 court, and was subject to the laws of 
 Massachusetts until New Hampshire, 
 in 1679, was erected into a separate 
 province. 
 
 From 1641 to 1679 Dover had gen- 
 erally peace, ecclesiastically and civ- 
 illy. The Massachusetts government 
 bore lightly, and the clergymen were 
 able and excellent men. The only jar 
 in religious matters was that caused by 
 the coming of Quakerism, in 1662, 
 and the barbarous sentence upon 
 women of ten lashes upon the naked 
 back. Of course Quakerism flourished 
 with greater vigor in Dover than in 
 any other town in the province. In 
 business the town increased, having a 
 direct trade with the West Indies, ex- 
 porting principally lumber. In pop- 
 ulation it gained rapidly for a time ; 
 the tax-paying males increasing from 
 54 in 1648 to 142 in 1659, and 155 
 in 1 668. It then experienced a check, 
 falling to 146 in 1675, doubtless on 
 account of the Indian wars. In terri- 
 
 tory it embraced, in addition to its present 
 limits, Durham, Madbury, Lee, Somers- 
 worth, Rollinsford, and part of Newington, 
 all of which 
 were included 
 i n Dover i n 
 1641, when its 
 boundaries 
 were defined for 
 the first time, 
 and all of which 
 were settled be- 
 fore 1660. In 
 civil affairs it 
 enjoyed virtual 
 s e 1 f - g o vern- 
 ment. The only 
 disturbance was 
 that caused by 
 the royal com- 
 missioners i n 
 1665, who en- 
 deavored to find or create a public sentiment 
 in opposition to the government of Massa- 
 chusetts Bay ; but, so far as Dover was con- 
 cerned, entirely in vain. A greater cause of 
 disturbance was the occasional efforts of 
 the heirs of Mason to establish their pro- 
 
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 prietary claims, efforts which developed 
 themselves more fully at a later period. 
 During this period some town votes are 
 worthy of copying. One was that of the 
 27th of November, 1648, when "It is 
 this [day] ordered at publique Town 
 meeting that Richard Pinkame shall beate 
 the drumme on Lord's days to give notice 
 for the time of meeting." This method 
 continued for several years. In 1665 it 
 was " Ordered that mr. Fetter Coffin 
 shall be Impowered by this meitting to A 
 Gree with some workman to Build a Ter- 
 rett upon the meeitting house for to hang 
 
 until 1828. From 1679 to lne close of 
 the Indian wars Dover suffered extremely. 
 Population, it is true, largely increased 
 during the latter part of the period ; thus 
 the number of polls in 1675 was 131, and 
 in 1727, 466 (Newington in both cases 
 being excluded). Nor did any ecclesias- 
 tical troubles occur, beyond the efforts of 
 the present town of Durham to obtain 
 separate authority, in which they succeed- 
 ed in 1716 ; and the question whether the 
 proper site for a place of worship was not 
 at Cochecho, instead of Dover Neck, which 
 question was settled in 1711 by having the 
 meetings alternate, and, in 1720, by the 
 JJ entire removal to the newer but tar larger 
 place. But the Indian wars severely 
 
 the Bell wich wee have Bought 
 ofCapt. Walldern." In 1657 "Charles 
 Buckner chosen by voet A Scoellmaster 
 for this town." Other schoolmasters 
 followed, among whom, early in the next 
 century, was " Master Sullefund " (Sulli- 
 van), ancestor of the eminent family of that 
 name. In 1653 the second meeting-house 
 was built, which was " forty foot longe, 
 twenty-six foote wide, sixteen foote studd, 
 with six windows, two doores fitt for such a 
 house, with a tile covering, and to planck 
 all the walls, with glass and nails for it." 
 The third church was built in 1 7 14 (whose 
 bell was hung on a schoolhouse near by) ; 
 the fourth in 1758, which last was used 
 
 impaired, for a long series of years, the 
 prosperity of the place. 
 
 It was a frontier town, touching the 
 forests which stretched away to Canada, 
 defending an extensive frontier, and pos- 
 sessing but a scattered population. In 
 addition to the general causes of Indian 
 hostility, in their own jealousy and the 
 machinations of the French, local differ- 
 ences had grown out of trading operations. 
 Suspicions of hostility had been so far ex-
 
 DOVER J623-1898 
 
 cited, as early as 1667, as to lead, at that 
 time, to the fortification of the meeting- 
 house, by " intrenchments and flankarts," 
 
 ON LOCUST STREET. 
 
 in whose inclosure sentinels paced during 
 divine service, and whose ruins are still 
 visible. On the breaking out of the gen- 
 eral war of 1675, there commenced a 
 series of attacks upon the inhabitants, 
 which, with occasional and sometimes 
 protracted intervals of peace, did not 
 wholly end until the treaty of Aix-la-Cha- 
 pelle. As most of these were petty affairs, 
 and of the same general character, it is 
 unnecessary to narrate them particularly. 
 Exposed houses were captured and 
 burned, individuals at work were killed ; 
 inhabitants were waylaid and shot on their 
 way to church ; captives were carried to 
 Canada, to be ransomed at a , heavy ex- 
 pense, or, in repeated cases,' to live and. 
 die there, where the blood of Dover set- 
 tlers is still perpetuated. On the other 
 hand, Indians were often surprised ; their 
 stores of provisions were destroyed ; the 
 woods were scoured by rangers, especi- 
 ally by parties of exasperated young men ; 
 and sometimes severe blows were struck. 
 The most destructive affair, upon what is 
 now Dover soil, may be more particularly 
 noticed. 
 
 It occurred on the morning of the 28th 
 of June, 1689. Thirteen years before, at 
 a time when, although war had broken 
 out on the Kennebec, there was peace at 
 Piscataqua, 400 Indians were assembled 
 at Cochecho, 200 of whom were refugees 
 from the south of Massachusetts; and, 
 ignorant of the unity of the government, 
 thought themselves safe with Major Wal- 
 
 derne, who then commanded the forces 
 of that territory. Two companies of whites, 
 on their way to the Kennebec, stopped at 
 Dover, who brought with them 
 orders to seize all Indians re- 
 cently hostile, which they would 
 have proceeded by force to 
 obey ; but Walderne, knowing the 
 bloodshed which would follow, 
 dissuaded them, and contrived 
 a stratagem to seize them by 
 means of a sham fight. It was 
 successful ; the whole were dis- 
 armed, and the Southern In- 
 dians were sent to Boston, where 
 four or five were hung, and the 
 remainder sold into slavery. 
 Thirteen years passed away, dur- 
 ing which a relentless thirst for vengeance 
 was cherished. In the course of this 
 period former habits of trade revived, and 
 whites and Indians mingled freely. But 
 the old enmity was fostered by some of 
 those enslaved who had returned. On the 
 
 DR. EZRA GREE N, AT 101 YEARS OF AGE.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 27th of June, the Indians were noticed to 
 be gathered in unaccustomed numbers. 
 Many strange faces also appeared. Some 
 of the people hinted to Walderne their 
 suspicions. " Go plant your pumpkins, 
 and I will tell you when the Indians will 
 break out," was his merry reply. That 
 evening, a young man told him that the 
 town was full of Indians. " I know the 
 Indians very well," said Walderne, " and 
 there is no danger." The Indians told him 
 that a number of Indians were coming to 
 trade next day. " Brother Walderne," 
 said Messandowitt, as they sat at supper, 
 "what would you do if the strange Indians 
 should 
 come?" "I 
 could assem- 
 ble a hun- 
 dred men by 
 lifting up my 
 finger," was 
 his careless 
 answer. In 
 the evening 
 two squaws 
 applied a t 
 each garri- 
 s o n house 
 (Walderne's 
 H card's, 
 O t i s ' s, 
 P a i n e ' s, 
 the two 
 Coffins', and 
 G e r rish's), 
 for permis- 
 sion to sleep 
 before the 
 kitchen fire, as had often been done 
 before. It was granted at Walderne's, 
 Heard's, the elder Coffin's and Otis's. 
 In the hour of deepest quiet the doors 
 were opened ; the Indians in waiting en- 
 tered. Walderne, though seventy-four 
 years old, defended himself with vigor 
 until stunned by a blow on the back of 
 his head. The Indians then dragged him 
 into the hall, placed him in his chair 
 upon the table, with a derisive cry, "who 
 shall judge Indians now?" and cut him 
 across the breast in turn, each exclaiming, 
 " I cross out my account," and finally 
 killed him. A messenger sent from Bos- 
 
 BRACEWELL BLOCK, BEFORE THE FLOOD. 
 
 ton with warning of this very attack was 
 delayed a night at Newbury. When he 
 reached Cochecho the next morning, he 
 found four or five houses burned, four 
 garrisons destroyed, twenty-three persons 
 killed, and that twenty-nine were captives 
 on their way to Canada. Among these 
 was Christine Otis, whose romantic ad- 
 ventures a limited space forbids us to 
 recount. Other attacks were made 
 upon parts of what was then Dover, 
 disastrous still, but the intrepid settlers 
 never fell back for a day from their 
 frontier position. Among the various arts 
 to surprise the whites, tradition has pre- 
 served the 
 following : 
 The hay- 
 makers,hav- 
 i n g made 
 hay upon a 
 meadow a 
 mile or 
 more up the 
 river from 
 t h e falls, 
 had piled it 
 into cocks 
 and left it. 
 One warm 
 day, when 
 the men 
 were absent 
 from Wal- 
 derne's gar- 
 rison (a few 
 rods from 
 the lower 
 falls), and 
 the doors were open for air, the women 
 noticed the haycocks floating down the 
 stream. They exclaimed against this 
 wanton mischief; but none, save one, paid 
 any further attention to it ; and she, as she 
 sat carelessly looking, was suddenly sur- 
 prised to see the cocks edging towards the 
 shore. A close inspection revealed the 
 cause under every haycock an Indian was 
 swimming. She gave the alarm ; the doors 
 were hastily closed, and the house secured 
 Justin time against the baffled savages. 
 
 In the midst of other troubles, the 
 Masonian controversy revived. Several 
 cases were tried at Dover in 1683, Wald-
 
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 derne's being the first. He made no de- 
 fense, asserted no title, and gave no evi- 
 dence. Judgment was entered against 
 him, and other cases followed ; but in no 
 case could an execution be enforced. 
 Riots ensued, the attempt to enforce an 
 execution at Dover being ended by a 
 woman's knocking down the officer with a 
 bible. Against such a spirit nothing 
 could be done, and the suits were sus- 
 pended. They again came up in 1703, 
 pased through various courts, and were a 
 source of constant perplexity to the peo- 
 
 All through the war, in Rhode Island, at 
 Bennington, at Saratoga, at New York, 
 and on every field where northern troops 
 were found, Dover men were in active 
 service ; while at sea, not a few of its 
 hardy sons were the followers of John 
 Paul Jones. The last person known to 
 have served with him, Dr. Ezra Green, 
 surgeon on board the Ranger, died in 
 Dover, July 27, 1847, aged 101 years and 
 one month, being previous to his death 
 the oldest living graduate of Harvard 
 College. 
 
 From the close of the war of the Revo- 
 lution until the introduction of cotton 
 manufacturing, the town grew somewhat 
 slowly. Its population in 1 790 was 1,998 ; 
 
 
 pie, and great 
 complication i n 
 political affairs, 
 until 1746. 
 
 From the con- 
 clusion of the In- 
 dian wars to the 
 Revolution, noth- 
 ing peculiar marks 
 the history of 
 Dover. Its busi- 
 n e s s (including 
 s h i p b u il ding) 
 continued to increase. Its population in 
 1767 was 1,614, having already lost"Mad- 
 bury and Somersworth (including Rollins- 
 ford), Durham, and Lee. The population 
 of the original territory at that time was 
 5,446; of the present Dover 1,666, in- 
 cluding twenty-six slaves. During the 
 Revolution it bore its part of the burdens, 
 supplying largely both troops and money. 
 An entire regiment was enlisted at Dover 
 by Colonel John Waldron, under whom it 
 joined the army at Cambridge. The town 
 itself paid bounties to all who enlisted. 
 
 BRACEWELL BLOCK, AFTER THE FLOOD. 
 
 in 1800,2,062; in 1810, 2,228 ; in 1820, 
 2,871, which by 1860 had increased to 
 8, 1 86, the valuation at that time being 
 $3,629,442. It was, so far, a farming 
 and ship-building town. But, with the 
 erection of cotton mills a change came 
 over the place. The succession of saw- 
 mills, grist-mills, fulling-mills, oil-mills, and 
 nail factory, which had covered 181 years 
 ended in 1821, when the" Dover Factory 
 Company" was incorporated, by which, 
 and its successor, the " Cocheco Manu- 
 facturing Company," the present large
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 cotton factories and print works were 
 erected. To this enterprise alone must 
 be ascribed the steady growth and com- 
 mercial prosperity of Dover. 
 
 In 1841 the opening of the Boston and 
 Maine railroad, and the construction, a 
 few years after, of the Cocheco railroad 
 to Alton, to both of which Dover people 
 contributed liberally, had a marked effect 
 upon the business of the town. While 
 its local trade and interests were on the 
 increase, its importance as a distributing 
 point for interior trade declined. The 
 Dover- Packet Company, which had for 
 
 superseded by a city organization. With 
 the city government came in the use of 
 gas in lighting the streets and dwellings, 
 improved sidewalks, a police court, a 
 more efficient administration of the laws, 
 and other city institutions, quiet and or- 
 derly elections included. The act incor- 
 porating the City of Dover was signed 
 June 29, 1855, and was accepted by the 
 citizens at a town meeting held August 15, 
 1855. The first mayor, Andrew Peirce, 
 took the oath of office March 25, 1856, 
 and the city government was then inaugu- 
 rated. 
 
 VIEW ON SILVER STREET. 
 
 many years given life and activity to the 
 wharves and storehouses on the river, soon 
 discharged its last cargo, the Landing 
 ceased to be the centre of business, which 
 from this time gathered around the rail- 
 road station and the streets leading to it. 
 In 1847 the introduction of shoe manu- 
 facturing for the southern and western 
 markets added largely to the business of 
 the place, employing after a few years a 
 large capital, and in a good season more 
 workmen than any other industry. 
 
 In 1855 the town government, after an 
 existence of 222 years, or from 1633, was 
 
 During the Civil war the part borne by 
 the Dover companies has emblazoned their 
 names on the scroll of fame. On the 
 evening of the President's first call the 
 citizens met in the city hall. The mayor, 
 Alphonso Bickford, presided, and resolu- 
 tions were unanimously adopted, com- 
 mending the President's action and pledg- 
 ing their support to the government. 
 Companies were formed and the patriot- 
 ism ot the citizens was unbounded. On 
 Wednesday, April i7th, 1861, by author- 
 ity of the Governor of the State, George 
 W. Colbath opened a recruiting-office in
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 our City Hall. Oji Thursday he informed 
 the Governor that the first company was 
 full. He was directed to proceed with 
 enlistments. On the next Monday 150 
 men were on the muster roll. On Mon- 
 day, the 29th, tbe first two companies 
 were to leave home, to become Companies 
 A and B of the First New Hampshire. 
 The day before they had listened to a 
 stirring sermon in the old First Church, 
 from a successor of that minister who had 
 preached to the soldiers here on the same 
 spot as they were to take up their march 
 to Cambridge in 1775. At ten o'clock, 
 
 1 1 th of May the choice was given to each, 
 three years or be discharged. Seventy- 
 one on that day chose the three years, and 
 five days afterwards the number was 104. 
 On the 25th that company left the city to 
 become company D in the gallant second 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 Of how many men this city furnished 
 during the four years that followed the 
 record is not perfect. Even in the im- 
 perfect rolls there were Dover men in each 
 of the first fifteen regiments and in the 
 eighteenth, in the cavalry, the navy, and 
 the marine corps. From the call of July 
 
 CENTRAL AVENUE, LOOKING SOUTH. 
 
 Monday morning, they were in line in 
 Central Square, 145 men in the ranks. 
 Four thousand people witnessed the scene, 
 in the streets, from windows, from bal- 
 conies, from the house-tops. The women 
 had been working day by day to supply 
 needed clothing, some of them whose tears 
 dropped as they sewed. Prayer was of- 
 fered by one who soon after himself went 
 to serve in the navy, Rev. T. G. Salter. 
 
 A third company was meanwhile formed 
 from the excess of enlistments. Orders 
 now came, however, to receive only those 
 who would enlist for three vears. On the 
 
 2nd, 1862, 582 names are on record. 
 Prior to that were all the first men of the 
 first eight regiments, and of the sailors en- 
 tering the navy before that date which 
 should be added. Some examination of 
 the rolls shows that more than 800 enlist- 
 ments were made by this city of 8,500 
 inhabitants. Dover men served in the 
 Shenandoah and in the first disastrous 
 march to Bull Run ; they were in the 
 Peninsula battles and marches ; in the 
 several battles before Washington ; in the 
 bloody charge at Antietam bridge. They 
 were in the charge up the heights of St.
 
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 Marie. They were in the burning 
 woods of Chancellorsville. They were 
 where Lee hurled his legions against Ceme- 
 tery Hill at Gettysburg: in the long and 
 bloody march from the Wilderness to 
 Petersburg. They were in North Carolina. 
 They were with Burnside in Tennessee, 
 and with Sherman back of Vicksburg, and 
 they sailed the coast, and watched the 
 harbors, and manned the war boats on the 
 Mississippi. 
 
 To raise and put its quota of men into 
 the service, under the various calls which 
 were issued, the city advanced upwards of 
 $250,000, increas- 
 ing its expendi- 
 tures from $59,- 
 272, in 1860, to 
 $233.462 in 1865. 
 A soldiers' monu- 
 ment was erected 
 in the Pine Hill 
 bury ing- ground by 
 Charles \V. Sawyer 
 Post, G. A. R., 
 and dedicated 
 Sept. i 7) 1877. 
 
 In 1871 Con- 
 gress appropriated 
 $10,000 for the 
 purpose of remov- 
 ing obstructions in 
 the Cocheco 
 River. In 1872 
 an additional sum 
 of $ 1 0,000 w a s 
 granted, followed 
 by a like amount 
 in each of the two 
 succeeding years. 
 In 1875 the sum was increased to $2 5, ooo, 
 and later a further sum of $15,000, which 
 gave free access to vessels employed in the 
 coal and other freighting business upon 
 the river. 
 
 In November, 1872, ground was broken 
 for the construction of the Portsmouth and 
 Dover Railroad, an enterprise which had 
 been in contemplation for more than 
 twenty years. The road was built in that 
 and the following year, and opened for 
 travel in February, 1874, costing some 
 $800,000, of which sum the city, in its 
 municipal capacity contributed $258,000, 
 
 THE HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 while many of its citizens made lib- 
 eral private subscriptions for stock. 
 
 The " Dover Building Association " was 
 organized in March, 1875, with a capital 
 of $10,000. Since that time it has in- 
 vested between $30,000 and $40,000 in 
 real estate, building about thirty dwelling- 
 houses, many of which have already been 
 satisfactorily disposed of, affording hand- 
 some dividends to the stockholders, and 
 furnishing desirable tenements to a most 
 valuable class of population. 
 
 On the morning of March 22, 1889, the 
 old city hall was completely destroyed by 
 fire, which also 
 damaged the spire 
 
 f t h e Belknap 
 church adjoining. 
 The damage in all 
 amounted to 
 $100,000. The 
 county and city 
 had been joint oc- 
 cupants of the 
 building, and after 
 
 1 t s destruction 
 Rochester en- 
 deavored to obtain 
 the new county 
 building which 
 then became nec- 
 essary, but it was 
 decided to retain 
 the County seat in 
 Dover, and the 
 present handsome 
 building on Second 
 street was erected 
 Immediately after 
 the fire, steps were 
 
 taken to build another city hall and the 
 present site was chosen. The lot faces on 
 Central avenue and is bounded by Locust, 
 Hale, and St. Thomas streets. It formerly 
 contained the St. Thomas church, and old 
 Lafayette house the former of which was 
 demolished and the latter removed across 
 the street. The city sold the old site upon 
 which now stands the Masonic Temple. 
 The corner stone of the present city hall 
 was laid July 4th, 1890, and the new 
 building dedicated December r6, 1891. 
 The plans were drawn by George G. 
 Adams, of Lawrence, Mass., and the con- 
 
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 tractors were Mclntyre and Abbott who 
 subsequently sub-let the brick- work to 
 Mack Bros., of Salem, Mass. The build- 
 ing was however finished by the Building 
 Committee consisting of Hon. B. Frank 
 Nealley, Chairman ; John Holland, Joshua 
 L. Foster, Dennis Cash, Joseph T. Wood- 
 bur)', Charles M. Corson and Nathaniel 
 C. Wentworth. 
 
 March i, 1896, will long be remem- 
 bered by the citizens of Dover as the 
 " night of the flood." Considerable dam- 
 age was done to property. Six bridges with- 
 in the city's limits were demolished ; four 
 
 away in the distance, views may be had 
 of uncommon beauty. The Newichawan- 
 nock, the Bellamy and Cochecho, which 
 flow through the city in a southeast direc- 
 tion, not only add to its beauty, but also 
 to its wealth, by their direct and navigable 
 connection with the ocean. The city is 
 rich in historic land-marks ; old residences, 
 churches, business blocks and relics of the 
 past are to be seen on every hand. But 
 these have become very much obscured 
 by the palpable evidences of improvement 
 and progress everywhere throughout the 
 city, especially in the residential sections. 
 
 STRAFFORD GUARDS ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT. 
 
 stores with all their stock were swept away, 
 including the southern end of the Brace- 
 well block and the Central avenue bridge. 
 The situation of Dover is exceedingly 
 pleasant. Gentle elevations, easy swells 
 of land, and winding streams, characterize 
 its surface. From the high ridge between 
 the rivers Newichawannock and Bellamy, 
 and from another elevation overlooking 
 the waters of Great Bay with the Winni- 
 cumet, the Lamprey, the Swamscott, the 
 Shaukhassick, and the Newichawannock 
 (with its tributary the Cochecho), all 
 uniting to form the Piscataqua, rolling 
 
 The Strafford Guards. 
 
 COMPANY F. FIRST REGIMENT NEW HAMP- 
 SHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 At no period since the stirring times of 
 1861-65 has the patriotism of Dover peo- 
 ple reached such a height as when the 
 President called for 125,000 volunteers to 
 fight for the honor of our flag in our war 
 with Spain. The Strafford Guards was 
 the company chosen to go to the front, 
 and on Saturday, May yth, they left Dover 
 amid scenes of wild enthusiasm and went 
 into camp at Concord, 82 officers and
 
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 men strong. Their departure was wit- 
 nessed by thousands of citizens, and the city 
 was gaily decorated, the Sawyer-Rifles and 
 C. W. Sawyer Post, G. A. R. forming an 
 escort to the depot. On May i2th, they 
 were mustered into the United States ser- 
 vice, and on the lyth departed for Chick- 
 amauga Park, Georgia, where they were 
 stationed when this work went to press. 
 
 The Strafford Guards were permanently 
 organized at Dover, in October, 1822, and 
 in the spring of the next year the company 
 became a part < f the state militia, being 
 
 April 24, 1864, the company was mustered 
 into the service of the United States for 
 the period of sixty days and sent to Fort 
 Constitution, New Castle, to assist in re- 
 lieving the First Company New Hampshire '_ 
 Volunteer Heavy Artillery, which had 
 been ordered to the front. On July 28, 
 1864. it was mustered out of the United 
 States service. The company became 
 Company A, Second Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteer State Militia on 
 September 26, 1866. During the year 
 ending May 1878, the First and Second 
 
 COMMISSIONED AND NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, STRAFFORD GUARDS. 
 
 styled the First Company Light Infantry, 
 Second Regiment, Second Brigade, Sec- 
 ond Division, New Hampshire Volunteer 
 State Militia. During the summer of 
 1824, the company acted as escort to the 
 Marquis de Lafayette, on the occasion of 
 his visit to Dover. The Company was in- 
 corporated under the name of the Strafford 
 Guards by act of the Legislature, approved 
 June 27, 1835. O n May 5, 1864, in 
 pursuance of telegraphic instructions from 
 Major- General John A. Dix, command- 
 ing the Department of the East, dated 
 
 Regiments were re-organized, and the 
 Strafford Guards became Company A, 
 First Regiment New Hampshire National 
 Guard and continued so until recently 
 when it became Company F. The com- 
 pany has several times been one of those 
 selected to represent New Hampshire at 
 celebrations in other states. 
 
 The roster of the company in camp at 
 Concord, was as follows : Captain, Frank 
 E. Rollins ; First Lieutenant, Frank H. 
 Keenan ; Second Lieutenant, Lewis E. 
 Tuttle; First Sergeant, John J. Gailey ;
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 Quartermaster Sergeant, Herbert C. 
 Grime ; Second Sergeant, John Sunder- 
 land ; Third Sergeant, Joseph T. Cronin ; 
 Fourth Sergeant, Frank F. Davis ; Fifth 
 Sergeant, Joseph Connell ; Corporals, John 
 R. Maloney, Frank E. Russ, Edgar M. 
 Foss, Cassius B. Roberts, Alexander J. 
 McCabe, James McNally ; Artificer, Austin 
 E. Sanborn ; Wagoner, John P. Miniter ; 
 Musicians, John B. Hebert and William 
 Rossiter; Privates, Nelson E. Averill, 
 William Boudreau, Oliver Boudreau, Harry 
 E. Brooks, John Burley, Ben. R. Canney, 
 John Canney, John E. Carroll, Ralph R. 
 Cochrane (Somersworth), Wm. Connell 
 (Rochester), Edward W. Cordes, Wm. J. 
 Cormier (Somersworth), James Costello 
 (Manchester), James J. Cronin (Man- 
 chester), John R. Curran (Somers- 
 worth), Edward Doherty, Hugh Donnelly, 
 Jos. Drouin, James F. Duffy, Thos. Duffy, 
 Pearl Foss, Frank H. Glidden, Owen E. 
 Hanratty, R. Arnold Hill, Herbert B. 
 Houghton (Warner) , Henry Hughes, Fred 
 O. Jackson, Ignace Jean (Nashua), John 
 Kidney, Amay Lamire (Rochester), Pear- 
 lie E. Leach (Somersworth), Frank Lique 
 (Rochester), Wm. J. Mahoney, George 
 Marquis and Emil Marquis (Nashua), John 
 T. McDonald, Hugh E. McDonald 
 (Nashua), John J. McCooey, Arthur H. 
 Merchant, Chr. Morley, Owen J. Mooney, 
 Edward M. Murphy, Frank O. Mason, 
 Arthur M. Pingree (Rochester), Carroll 
 E. Pinkham, Alric W. Ramsey, James 
 Rodden, John W. Rogers, Frank A. Rowe 
 (Concord), Joseph W. Savoie, Almon H. 
 Stewart (Rochester), Fred W. Steuerwald, 
 James Sunderland, Frank H. Swain, Ralph 
 G. Tanner (Rochester), Albert A. Taylor, 
 Michael J. Trainor, Clarence R. Tiittle, 
 Wm. G. Webber, Clarence H. Whitehouse, 
 Irving L. Whitehouse, George W. Willey 
 (Somersworth) and Henry R. Wood. 
 
 The company is composed of men of 
 excellent physique who have been inured to 
 work which eminently fits them for their 
 arduous duties in the field. During their 
 stay in camp at Concord their high state 
 of discipline and their excellent conduct 
 won for them golden opinions. The 
 same is true of them at Camp Thomas, 
 Chickamauga, where despite the extreme 
 heat and the many privations incidental 
 
 to the massing at short notice of such a 
 large number of troops, their discipline 
 has been excellent. Constant drills, field 
 manoeuvring, tactics and sentry duty have 
 imposed a severe strain upon the men, 
 but their duties have but increased their 
 ardor, and when the order comes to go 
 to the front the gallant company F will 
 present as fine an appearance as any reg- 
 iment of regulars. They take pride in 
 these exercises and devote their earnest 
 attention to mastering every detail of a 
 soldier's duty. Captain Rollins, his of- 
 ficers and non-commissioned officers have 
 worked indefatigably to bring their men 
 to a state of perfect efficiency, and the 
 success which has attended their well di- 
 rected efforts is as pleasing as it is marked. 
 It is safe to assert that the company will 
 acquit themselves on the field in such a 
 manner as to reflect credit not only upon 
 themselves, but also upon the city of Do- 
 ver to which the majority of them belong. 
 The men have comported themselves in 
 true military style, and although chafing at 
 the delay in taking the field, their conduct 
 has been in every way most exemplary. 
 They are full of patriotism and keep in ex- 
 cellent spirits, the sick list being exceed- 
 ingly small. 
 
 The Sawyer Rifles. 
 
 CO. D. FIRST REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE 
 NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 The Sawyer Rifles was organized May 
 i, 1887, and was named for Hon. Charles 
 H. Sawyer. The officers are ; Captain, 
 David Y. Robinson ; First Lieutenant, 
 Charles H. Hanson. Their Armory is 
 located in Lowell's Hall, Third street, 
 where regular drills are held. About forty 
 men constitute the company, but during 
 the American-Spanish war it was recruited 
 to its full strength. The officers and men 
 were much chagrined at not being called 
 out for active service, and several volun- 
 teered and were accepted as recruits in the 
 Strafford Guards when they received orders 
 to go to the front. The company was de- 
 tailed as an escort for the Strafford Guards 
 and accompanied them from the armory 
 to the depot when they left Dover for 
 Concord, Saturday, May yth, 1898.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 Dover of To-day. 
 
 Dover is eligibly situated on the Co- 
 checo river, surrounded by fertile farms and 
 located in one of the most beautiful sec- 
 tions of the state. It is in the eastern part 
 of Strafford county, sixty-one miles from 
 Concord, and sixty-eight miles from Bos- 
 ton, on the main line of the great Boston 
 & Maine railroad, being the focal point of 
 several branches of that system, which 
 radiate from the city and cover the entire 
 contiguous territory. Boston can be 
 reached in two hours, there being numer- 
 ous passenger trains to and from the city 
 daily. Dover is bounded on the north by 
 Rochester and 
 So m ers worth, 
 on the east by 
 Some rs worth, 
 Rollin sf o rd 
 and the Salmon 
 Falls river, 
 which s e p a - 
 rates it from 
 the State of 
 Maine, on the 
 south by Mad- 
 bury, and the 
 Piscataqua riv- 
 er, and on the 
 west by Mad- 
 bury and Bar- 
 rington. The 
 Cocheco river 
 runs through 
 the heart of the 
 city and is navi- 
 gable to vessels of light draught from the 
 ocean to the landing, the scenery along its 
 banks, particularly at Dover Point, being 
 singularly beautiful. The falls are thirty-one 
 and one-half feet high and an abundance of 
 power is furnished to the great mills, much 
 of which is still available for manufactur- 
 ing purposes. The Cocheco and Salmon 
 Falls rivers join some distance below the 
 city. Dover is the recognized commercial 
 centre of Strafford county, being the shire 
 town and the seat of the county govern- 
 ment. The census of 1890 gave a popu- 
 lation of 12,841, representing 3,000 fami- 
 lies, and the present estimated population 
 is about 14,000. The assessed polls are 
 
 STRAFFORD COUNTY COURT HOUSE. 
 
 3,122 and the voting strength is' 2,700. 
 The latest assessor's figures give the city a 
 total valuation of $9,000,000 approximate- 
 ly, the tax rate being $1.95 per hundred. 
 
 RESIDENTIAL. 
 
 If beauty of situation, benefits of unex- 
 celled business opportunity, all that is wise 
 in conservatism, united with all that is 
 noble in the grand progressive movement 
 of the present age ; if surroundings eleva- 
 ting in influence, institutions helpful in an 
 honorable struggle with the vicissitudes of 
 practical life ; if health, wealth and happi- 
 ness are attractions in a place of residence, 
 then Dover truly recommends herself as 
 e s s e n t ially a 
 pleasant place to 
 live in. The 
 resident of Do- 
 ver, be he work- 
 man with hands 
 or brain, may 
 have his own 
 home, made 
 attainable by the 
 large industries 
 which readily 
 exchange money 
 for good service, 
 and by low rents 
 with room for 
 the garden. 
 These combined 
 with the cheap- 
 ness of the over- 
 flowing home 
 market relieve 
 him from an existence of mere animal 
 slavery to the common needs of life. 
 Thus the manufacturer and capitalist 
 seeking a home in Dover finds his interests 
 and the safety and well-being of society 
 resting on a sound, secure basis of well- 
 conditioned labor. A larger question and 
 one of greater import than the mere ques- 
 tion of labor to the man planting his busi- 
 ness here, is that the whole conduct of the 
 affairs of the city by the selection of its 
 officers, is in the hands of intelligent 
 people who make Dover their permanent 
 home, and do not leave us to the mercy 
 of a shifting population. Our building 
 facilities, too, are unexcelled. The best
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 of building stone, especially for 
 foundations, can be bought at little 
 expense, and good bricks are made 
 from the best of clay within our borders so 
 cheaply that we ship them in large quan- 
 tities to Boston and other places. The 
 river enables us to bring timber and lime to 
 our wharves at reasonable rates. The su- 
 perior system of public schools ; the ines- 
 tima b 1 e 
 bene fi t s 
 of the re- 
 ligious 
 p r i v i - 
 leges af- 
 f orded 
 by the 
 many 
 c h urch- 
 
 
 various requirements of the types of men 
 and women in whose lives the term and 
 place of home takes a predisposing part. 
 Dover's streets are wide, well kept and 
 lined with beautiful and luxuriant shade 
 trees. There are numerous pleasant resi- 
 dential streets, and the important business 
 thoroughfares are Central avenue, which 
 runs through the heart of the city, 
 Washington and Locust streets. There 
 are two important squares Central and 
 Franklin. 
 
 GOVERNMENT. 
 
 The City Government is vested in a 
 Mayor and Board of ten Aldermen, elected 
 annually, two by each ward, and a Common 
 Council, three members being elected annu- 
 ally from each of the five wards. The mayor 
 presides over the board of 
 aldermen, the president 
 of the council being 
 elected each year from 
 among the members. The 
 city hall, a massive and 
 stately building, faces on 
 Central avenue and cost 
 $225,000. 
 
 Religion, the recog- 
 
 A GROUP OF DOVER'S CHURCHES. 
 
 es ; the advantages of our free public library, 
 and the most charming social circles all 
 these advantages in location of healthful 
 climate and sanitary local influences, to- 
 gether with the business prospects and 
 opportunities of the city, make it, as it 
 were, a medley of substantial attractions 
 as a residence singularly suited to the 
 
 nition of God as an object of worship, love 
 and obedience, the corner-stone on which 
 our civilization rests, must occupy a place 
 in every man's thoughts. The churches of 
 Dover are widely distributed, and are con- 
 fined to no section. The ecclesiastical ed- 
 ifices are mostly of substantial and endur- 
 ing proportions and the condition of their
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 financial affairs attests the most skilful and 
 conservative direction. There are thirteen 
 churches : two Congregational, two Free- 
 will Baptist, two Roman Catholic, Friends, 
 Unitarian, Episcopal, Methodist, Second 
 Advent, Calvinist Baptist, and Universalist. 
 Some of the church edifices are beauti- 
 ful in architectural design and finish and 
 the pastors are zealous, efficient and im- 
 bued with a sense of their duties and re- 
 sponsibilities. The Christian sentiment of 
 the city is intelligent, earnest, watchful 
 and persistent, and is manifesting an activ- 
 ity that will secure to Dover abundant 
 church privileges, and well planted centres 
 
 ing chosen by the City Councils. Their 
 sanitation, heating and ventilation are care- 
 fully attended to, and the course of study 
 prescribed is judiciously selected to meet 
 the requirements necessary for the impart- 
 ing of a sound education to the pupils. The 
 High school is situated on Chestnut street 
 and its curriculum is of the highest order. 
 Its certificate of graduation entitles the 
 holder to step into Dartmouth college 
 without further qualification. There are 
 four Grammar schools : the Sawyer, Bel- 
 knap, Sherman and Pine Hill; five Prim- 
 ary schools, the Sawyer, Peirce, Varney, 
 Hale and Welch ; four Ungraded schools, 
 Garrison Hill, Back River, Upper 
 and Lower Neck; and two Pa- 
 rochial schools those of St 
 Joseph's and the Sacred Heart. 
 
 LOCUST STREET AND CENTRAL AVENUE. 
 
 of a healthy Christian influence in the 
 years to come. The Y. M. C. A., the 
 Salvation Army and numerous efforts in 
 the line of mission work also receive en- 
 couragement and support. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL. 
 
 The schools of Dover are regarded with 
 much favor by our citizens and large ap- 
 propriations are devoted to their use each 
 year by the city government. They are 
 under the control and direction of a School 
 Committee consisting of fifteen members, 
 each ward electing one member annually 
 for two years, the remaining members be- 
 
 The teaching force numbers forty-five, and 
 the total enrollment of pupils is 1,608, 
 exclusive of the Parochial schools. The 
 rule adopted by the committee October 4, 
 1897, that " In the election of new teach- 
 ers preference will be given to candidates 
 holding state certificates, or those who are 
 graduates of a normal school or a college, 
 other qualifications being equal," is likely 
 to be far-reaching in its influence, and to 
 exercise a constant tendency towards 
 raising the standard of the teaching force. 
 There is also a well managed and largely 
 attended business college, where pupils are 
 fitted for commercial pursuits.
 
 DOVER J623-J898
 
 DOVER J623-I898 
 
 FINANCIAL. 
 
 While reasonable conservatism has char- 
 acterized the management of Dover's bank- 
 ing institutions it is not to be presumed 
 that they are by any means lacking in en- 
 terprise or that safe and careful kind of pub- 
 lic spirit that stands ready to extend 
 proper assistance to public and private 
 movements based on correct principles for 
 development of resources, the prosecution 
 of improvements, the upholding of legiti- 
 mate business ventures and the establish- 
 ment and assistance of manufactures and 
 commerce. On the contrary, as will readily 
 be attested on all hands, these institutions 
 have frequently acted with liberality and 
 promptitude in cases of public and private 
 need and thus earned the respect 
 and confidence of the general 
 community. The officers and di- 
 rectors of these banks are men of 
 broad views, large capital and 
 capacity 
 iden t ified 
 with the city's 
 best interests 
 and prepared 
 at all times to 
 contribute of 
 their time, 
 labor and 
 means for her 
 material ad- 
 va n c ement. 
 The banks 
 
 comprise two National and two Savings 
 banks with a combined capital and de- 
 posits of over $7,000,000 and a co-oper- 
 ative bank founded in 1890 and since 
 most successfully operated. The large in- 
 surance companies, both home and foreign, 
 have representatives here and a substan- 
 tial and ever increasing business is car- 
 ried on. 
 
 MANUFACTURING. 
 
 The right place to successfully manu- 
 facture is evidently at a point where the 
 raw material accumulates naturally, and 
 where, at the same time, there are cheap 
 power and advanced and ample facilities 
 for marketing the product. Dover has 
 for many years furnished these conditions. 
 With the great railroad system of the 
 
 SCENE ON THE ROAD TO DOVER POINT 
 
 Boston & Maine connecting the city with 
 the markets of the north, east, south and 
 west and the Cocheco river, navigable from 
 the ocean to the landing, material necessa- 
 rily accumulates here and cheap power 
 and abundant skilled labor are amply pro- 
 vided and assured for all time. Opportuni- 
 ties can be had here by the manufacturer 
 superior to those of larger cities, for the 
 reason that while equal facilities are found 
 here, at the same time the best and most 
 central positions are available at compar- 
 atively little cost, and numerous sites on 
 the lines of railroad and on the river banks 
 are open for use. The manufacturer who 
 locates here will find everything at hand 
 for the successful furtherance of his en- 
 terprise, and 
 a friendly and 
 helping hand 
 will be offered 
 to him by our 
 citizens. 
 
 No city in 
 the world of- 
 fers more ad- 
 vantages t o 
 the small or 
 large manu- 
 facturer than 
 Dover. The 
 introductio n 
 of new enter- 
 prises will in- 
 crease the op- 
 portunities for the retail merchant to 
 establish successful mercantile operations. 
 The question has frequently been asked, 
 what can be manufactured in Dover to the 
 best advantage ? The simplest answer and 
 an absolutely true one is everything. The 
 textile interests are very extensive and 
 have been the chief factor in the upbuild- 
 ing of the city. Half a dozen boot and 
 shoe factories are at present operated here ; 
 a machine shop, manufacturing stoves, 
 ranges and large machinery ; one of the 
 largest belting concerns in the country; 
 wood working machinery shops; twelve 
 large brick yards, located on each side of 
 the river; two carriage factories; and nu- 
 merous other industries are successfully 
 carried on and afford constant employ- 
 ment to thousands at remunerative wages.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 The city escaped to a marked degree the 
 recent extended commercial depression, 
 and throughout the relations of employer 
 and employee have been amicable and no 
 strikes have paralyzed our great textile 
 industries or caused a moment's anxiety 
 to their proprietors. 
 
 RETAIL BUSINESS. 
 
 Capital and business enterprises have 
 given Dover good stores, wholesale and 
 retail, the stocks of merchandise and other 
 essentials being rich and varied, and, as 
 freight rates are comparatively low, prices 
 
 cess, and so long as the commercial inter- 
 ests of Dover are in the hands of such men 
 as its present merchants, a still larger 
 measure of prosperity is assured beyond a 
 peradventure of doubt. 
 
 TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION. 
 
 The transportation facilities of Dover 
 are largely in the hands of the Boston and 
 Maine and the Union Electric railway com- 
 panies. The Western Union and Postal 
 companies furnish telegraphic and cable 
 service to all the world. The New Eng- 
 land Telephone and Telegraph company 
 
 GUSHING STREET. 
 
 are quoted accordingly, so that people 
 from the surrounding districts come here 
 to buy, while the wholesale trade, espec- 
 ially in the leading staples, serves the sur- 
 rounding sections. The business men are 
 so fully alive and attentive to the wants of 
 the community that there is no necessity 
 for going outside to get anything, for here 
 everything that can be required by a 
 family can be had of the latest pattern or 
 fashion, and at prices which compare fav- 
 orably with those ruling in the great met- 
 ropolitan centres. These enterprises are 
 managed with considerable energy andsuc- 
 
 maintains communication with the sur- 
 rounding towns, and their long distance 
 service enables patrons to converse with 
 people in all the large cities of America 
 with ease. The American, Jackson and 
 Dover and Boston expresses, with a large 
 number of local carriers do a general 
 transportation business. 
 
 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 Gas and electricity are extensively used 
 by the citizens of Dover for lighting pur- 
 poses, being abundantly supplied by the 
 United Gas and Electric Company. Elec-
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 tricity is exclusively used for street light- 
 ing, the arc lamps numbering 130, and 
 are placed so as to afford the best pos- 
 sible results and effectively lighting every 
 part of the city. Among the most valua- 
 ble and necessary of our recent public im- 
 provements has been the installation of a 
 perfect system of water-works at an out- 
 lay of over $355,000, which are now self- 
 supporting. The water-takers number 
 1,745, and are supplied daily with an 
 average of 600,000 gallons. The pumping 
 station, with a capacity of pumping 2,000,- 
 ooo gallons a day is 
 located near Garrison 
 Hill. The supply is 
 drawn from Willand's 
 Pond which is aug- 
 mented by springs and I 
 artesian wells. The I 
 
 red brick structure, ranking relatively as 
 one of the finest public buildings in New 
 England. The streets and highways are 
 improved materially each year, the appro- 
 priations and additions last year being : 
 highways, $17,236.75 ; sidewalks, $2,000; 
 sewers, $3,650; street paving, $2,573.98. 
 These sums have been expended judicious- 
 ly and with most gratifying results to our 
 residents. A park commission of three 
 members care for the city park at Garri- 
 son Hill, which forms a pleasant retreat 
 during the summer months. Central park, 
 
 VIEWS ON CENTRAL AVENUE. 
 
 reservoir is on the summit of Garrison Hill. 
 The system has thirty miles of mains, and 
 sixteen miles of service piping. The city 
 hall, formally dedicated in 1891, contains 
 a beautifully decorated and excellently 
 equipped opera house, capable of seating 
 r, 800 people ; public library containing 
 22,714 volumes of the choicest literature ; 
 armory ; police station and court room, 
 with ample office accommodation for the 
 city officials. The building was erected 
 at a cost of $225,000, and is a stately 
 
 situated on the line of the Union Electric 
 railway, and containing twenty acres taste- 
 fully laid out as pleasure grounds is much 
 frequented, good boating being obtainable 
 at Willand's Pond. In the course of nature, 
 resting places for the dead must be set 
 apart. Pine Hill Cemetery was granted to 
 the city for burial purposes, March 29, 1731, 
 and is at present tinder the careful man- 
 agement and solicitous care of a board 
 of five trustees, one of whose members 
 is elected annually by the board of trustees
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 and board of aldermen in convention, the 
 mayor being a member ex-officio. The 
 other cemeteries are St. Mary's old ceme- 
 tery, on Stark avenue, and the new ceme- 
 tery of St. Mary's on the Dover Point road. 
 
 HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND SOCIAL INSTITU- 
 TIONS, ETC. 
 
 Among the most prominent of these may 
 be mentioned the Dover Historical Society, 
 the Public Library, the Young Men's 
 Catholic Literary Society and the Bellamy 
 Club. In the matter of secret, benevolent, 
 fraternal and social societies the various 
 degrees of Masonry, Odd Fellowship, 
 Knights o f 
 Pythias, Elks, ^~ 
 Red Men and 
 others are lib- 
 erally repre- 
 sented, and 
 have a large 
 mem bership. 
 There are 
 several social 
 clubs, and 
 numerous 
 musical, labor, 
 legal, frater- 
 nal, press, 
 medical, tem- 
 perance, po- 
 litical,military 
 and school 
 organizations, 
 Y. M. C. A., 
 G. A. R., Sons 
 of Veterans, 
 Women's Re- 
 lief Corps, etc. 
 
 CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 The buildings of the Wentworth home 
 for the aged have recently been completed 
 at a cost of $15,000. The home is named 
 for Hon. Arioch Wentworth, of Boston, 
 whose birthplace is in the immediate vi- 
 cinity, and who generously donated $ 1 0,000 
 for its erection and equipment and sub- 
 sequently gave $20,000 towards a per- 
 manent fund. It contains twenty-three 
 sleeping apartments, and seven other 
 rooms used as parlors, dining-room, pantry 
 and matron's room. The Hayes hospital, 
 for the endowment of which Mrs. Clara A. 
 
 THE MASONIC TEMPLE 
 
 L. McD. Hayes left $50,000 will shortly 
 be in operation. The Children's home re- 
 cently completed at an expenditure of 
 $15,000 will accommodate forty homeless 
 orphans and destitute children. There is 
 also the Orphan's home under the control 
 of St. Mary's parish church and in charge 
 of the Sisters of mercy. For those less 
 fortunate than their fellows the county 
 farm provides accommodation at the city's 
 expense, and is also used as a reformatory. 
 
 The police force of the city is under the 
 control of the Mayor and City Councils and 
 is under the 
 | direction of a 
 marshal and 
 assistant mar- 
 shal. The pa- 
 trol consists of 
 two day, and 
 six night men, 
 placed in the 
 business and 
 resi d e n t i a 1 
 sec t i o n s to 
 the best ad- 
 vantage. Al- 
 though the 
 tenure of the 
 entire force is 
 upon an an- 
 n u a 1 basis, 
 changes are 
 rarely made, 
 the services of 
 most of the 
 officers and 
 the patrol ex- 
 tending over a period of years. The able 
 and unbiased work for which the force is 
 noted has its reward in continued in- 
 cumbency of office. 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 The fire department is thoroughly 
 efficient, and reflects much credit upon 
 the city. It is under the control of the 
 city councils, who elect a chief engineer 
 and two assistants. There are three hose 
 companies, a hook and ladder company, 
 and the hydrant service is augmented by 
 three steamers, one of which is always in
 
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 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 commission. There are also three hose 
 wagons, one hose reel, one supply wagon, 
 and one hand engine which is located at 
 the city farm. The city is covered with 
 the fire alarm telegraph system, twenty- 
 nine alarm boxes, three tower strikers and 
 one steam gong being placed at con- 
 venient points throughout the city. There 
 are thirteen hydrants for steamers, and 
 twenty-six reservoirs and the water supply 
 is adequate to any demand made upon it, 
 ranging from 60 to 125 pounds pressure. 
 
 THE DOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
 
 Back in the days before the Declaration 
 of Independence, when New Hampshire 
 was still an English colony, there existed 
 in Dover a Social Library which numbered 
 among its membership the.best citizens of 
 the town. This Library was incorporated 
 in 1792, the only year that the Legislature 
 ever convened at Dover, and was the first 
 incorporated Social Library in the State. 
 It was the predecessor, if not the ancestor, 
 of the circulating libraries which later 
 served the reading needs of the people 
 and of the corporate body known as the 
 Dover Library, which was formed in 
 1850. 
 
 As early as 1856, the Boston Public 
 Library was founded only six years earlier, 
 the suggestion was made in the librari- 
 an's annual report, E. J. Lane being then 
 librarian, that the library should be made 
 public and " worthy of the city." Similar 
 suggestions followed as years went on and 
 public sentiment in favor of the change 
 increased until January, 1883, when in his 
 inaugural address as mayor of the city, Dr. 
 James E. Lothrop brought the matter ac- 
 tively before the city government. Action 
 was at once taken. A contract was made 
 by the city, with the Dover Library, under 
 the terms of which the city agreed to pro- 
 vide for the necessary expenses of the 
 Library perpetually, and the Dover Li- 
 brary turned over to the city about 5000 
 volumes and $2432.10 in cash. The 
 money was the principal and interest of a 
 bequest made by Mr. William N. Andrews, 
 a merchant of this city, who had hoped 
 that the gift might aid in the establishment 
 of a Public Library. The legacy was 
 placed in the hands of Mr. James W. 
 
 Bartlett as trustee and kept for the pur- 
 pose the giver desired. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the Dover 
 Public Library as first organized was as 
 follows : James E. Lothrop, Mayor, Trus- 
 tee ex-officio. John C. Pray, President of 
 the Common Council, Trustee ex-officio. 
 Jeremiah Smith, Joshua G. Hall, Z. S. 
 Wallingford, T. B. Garland from the Do- 
 ver Library. Joshua L. Foster, John T. 
 Welch, Martin S. Hutchings from the city. 
 President, James E. Lothrop ; Secretary', 
 John T. Welch ; Treasurer, Frank Freeman. 
 
 The first librarian was Mr. T. B. Gar- 
 land who after five months service resigned, 
 and his daughter, the present librarian, 
 until then acting as assistant, was ap- 
 pointed. Miss Beatrice M. Jenkins, who 
 had been temporary assistant was made 
 first assistant, a position which she still 
 holds. In 1887 the growth of the Library 
 demanded a second assistant, and Miss 
 Stella Smith received the appointment. 
 She was succeeded by Miss Alice O. Fol- 
 som, and in September, 1889, Miss Ida F. 
 Hollingvvorth, the present cataloguer, took 
 the place. A third assistant has now be- 
 come necessary and Miss Bessie I. Parker 
 has been promoted from temporary to 
 permanent assistant. 
 
 The story of the Library is a story of 
 steady growth. When it opened to the 
 public in January, 1 884, it contained about 
 5000 volumes. It has now 23,000 vol- 
 umes. During its first year 50,200 books 
 were loaned for home use, a number then 
 far in excess of any other library in the 
 State. Last year 73,500 books were 
 given out, and the proportion of fiction 
 and juvenile reading had decreased from 
 78 to 65 per cent. Systematic co-opera- 
 tion is kept up between the public schools 
 and the library, and in many schoo's 
 pupils are now trained to an intelligent 
 use of books as part of their education. 
 
 The Library has always been dependent 
 upon the city for its maintenance and each 
 year the City Councils reckon it in among 
 the necessary expenses and give to it as 
 large a sum as possible. In 1888 a be- 
 quest of one thousand dollars came to it 
 by the will of Dr. T. J. W. Pray and in 
 1896, one of two thousand by the will of 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Hale Jaques. Nearly four
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 hundred volumes of the Law Library were 
 the gift of the estate of Frank Hobbs. 
 
 The Historical room contains the local 
 history that the Library has been collect- 
 ing, comprising files of early newspapers, 
 nearly all the town histories of the State, 
 the Provincial Papers and many works of 
 great historical and genealogical value. 
 The Reading Room has on its tables about 
 a hundred periodicals and papers and to- 
 gether with the Reference Library and the 
 Law Library is open to all. 
 
 The Board of Trustees have always been 
 men of high standing in the community. 
 They have made as few restrictions as 
 possible in the use of the Library, deem- 
 ing it for the best interests of the city that 
 a policy of wide freedom should prevail. 
 Free access to books, excellent catalogue 
 facilities, and willing service are the prin- 
 ciples upon which the Library has been 
 conducted, and which will insure its use- 
 fulness in the future. 
 
 DOVER COMMERCIAL CLUB. 
 
 The Dover Commercial Club was or- 
 ganized in 1896, with a membership of 
 125, its first president being Colonel A. 
 T. Peirce. It is a body of representative 
 citizens who will gladly communicate with 
 those having unemployed capital and who 
 are interested in the establishment of 
 manufactories, and will aid all new enter- 
 prises of sterling worth that will advance 
 Dover's commercial prestige, increase her 
 population and benefit the community. 
 Seldom, if ever, has such an earnest de- 
 sire been expressed to direct capital and 
 manufacturing industries here as at present. 
 The objects of the (. ommercial Club are 
 to inculcate just and equitable principles 
 in trade ; to acquire, preserve and dissem- 
 inate valuable business information ; to 
 protect and foster the mercantile and 
 manufacturing industries ; to promote the 
 commerce of Dover and its general pros- 
 perity by the solicitation of manufacturing 
 and business enterprises to locate within 
 its boundaries : the continuous promulga- 
 tion of the advantages possessed by Dover 
 as a desirable place for the employment 
 of capital ; the extension of facilities for 
 transportation and the protection of the 
 trade of the city. They have actively and 
 
 practically encouraged the location of 
 manufacturing enterprises of all kinds by 
 offering to have exempted from taxa- 
 tion for a period of five years all manu- 
 facturing industries locating here. All 
 that is essential is that those who avail 
 themselves of these inducements be men 
 possessing thorough practical and techni- 
 cal knowledge of the business they propose 
 to undertake. The present officers of the 
 Commercial Club are : President, Thom- 
 as H. Dearborn ; Directors, Jas. E. Lo- 
 throp, Valentine Mathes, A. C. Place, 
 Henry Law, J. Frank Seavey, Frank N. 
 French and George E. Buzzell ; Secretary, 
 George D. Barrett. 
 
 DOVER NAVIGATION CO. 
 
 The Dover Navigation Company was 
 organized in 1878, with a capital stock of 
 $13,121.92 which was increased from 
 time to time until in 1889 it reached the 
 sum of $212, 6 26. 73. The company was 
 formed for the purpose of building vessels 
 and engaging in the coasting trade, and 
 their ships have since been carrying 'car- 
 goes between ports on the Atlantic sea- 
 board, the Gulf of Mexico, the West 
 Indies and South America. The original 
 board of management consisted of Colonel 
 John Bracewell, President, C. H. Trickey, 
 Thomas B. Garland, J. Frank Seavey and 
 B. Frank Nealley. A new vessel was built 
 each year until the company owned ten. 
 Of these three were sold, two lost and five 
 are still engaged in the coastwise carrying 
 trade, carrying mostly lumber and coal. 
 The capital stock of the company is at 
 present $104,522.21, and between July 
 1878 and July 1898, $238,110.66 has 
 been returned to the stockholders in divi- 
 dends. Of the original capital, $62,600 
 has been returned. The company has 
 done much to promote and stimulate the 
 commerce of the city which has derived 
 decided advantages from the success of 
 the undertaking. 
 
 DOVER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 
 
 The object of this institution, in brief, 
 is the promotion of the welfare and pros- 
 perity of the city by bringing to it valuable 
 industries which can not fail to be of in- 
 estimable value in building up its com-
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 mercial supremacy. Through its labors 
 two large shoe shops have been added to 
 the manufactories already in operation. 
 The pay rolls of these companies alone 
 amount to several thousand dollars a 
 month, and employment is given to a large 
 number of persons, thus adding consider- 
 ably to the prosperity and well-being of 
 the city. The Association had its incep- 
 tion in 1885, when it was organized with 
 a capital of $50,000. Hon. J. E. Lothrop 
 is president and Thomas B. Garland Sec- 
 retary and Treasurer. In 1885 the Asso- 
 ciation built the large five story brick 
 factory measuring 200x45, now occupied 
 by T- H. Ireland & Co. of Newburyport, 
 Mass., who hold it rent free for a term of 
 
 circumstances to arrest its growth, either 
 as a place of business or residence. The 
 past of Dover having furnished a record 
 of continuous and sustained growth it is a 
 fair presumption that the future will pre- 
 sent results of proportionate advance or 
 even accelerated expansion. In the util- 
 ization of all the resources which nature 
 has furnished or science unveiled, there is 
 every reason to believe that Dover will be 
 fully abreast with the most progressive 
 cities. It has no lack of men with busi- 
 ness sagacity equal to the improvement of 
 every opportunity, and it is safe to pre- 
 dict that the industries of the future will 
 be able to point back to those of today as 
 the auspicious beginnings of a greater 
 
 STRAFFORD COUNTY JAIL. 
 
 ten years. The second factory was built 
 in 1894, and is a four story wooden struc- 
 ture measuring 150x45, now occupied by 
 Charles E. Moulton, shoe manufacturer, at 
 a very low rental. The establishment of 
 this Association is an instance of the pro- 
 gressive and enterprising spirit which pre- 
 vails among our citizens, who are ever 
 on the alert to materially advance the 
 city's best interests and offer inducements 
 of a substantial nature to manufacturers and 
 capitalists to locate their business in Dover. 
 
 PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE. 
 
 The location of Dover is one which ren- 
 ders it impossible for any combination of 
 
 and brighter destiny. The present of 
 Dover is magnificent and full of promise. 
 Its natural advantages were never better 
 supplemented by its acquired resources 
 for the development of its progress than 
 they are today. It is the home of intel- 
 lectual vigor, wealth, manufactures and 
 commerce, with a past full of interest, a 
 present full of earnestness and a future full 
 of brightness and continued prosperity. 
 
 Wentworth Home for the Aged. 
 
 The Wentworth Home for the Aged, 
 that new and beautiful edifice, a most 
 modern structure situated in the northern
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 33 
 
 extremity of Central avenue, was dedi- 
 cated on Saturday afternoon, June 25th, 
 1898, with due ceremony and 
 exercises befitting the occasion. 
 It will stand as a monument for 
 generations to come to the 
 memory of that distinguished 
 philanthropist, Mr. Arioch 
 Wentworth of Boston, whose 
 munificent gift it was. The 
 citizens of Dover may well feel 
 proud of such a worthy institu- 
 tion, second to none of its kind 
 in the State where her citizens 
 when homeless and helpless, 
 with the infirmities of old age 
 creeping upon them, will have 
 as their home a place where 
 they can rest assured they will be well 
 cared for. Located as it is upon a health- 
 ful elevation, a spot where no better at- 
 mosphere can be desired, looking down 
 from its majestic height and in its absolute 
 quietness upon the busy city with sur- 
 roundings most delightful to the eye, it is 
 safe to say 
 that a more 
 a p propriate 
 site could 
 not have 
 been se- 
 1 e c t e d. 
 Lands cape 
 g a r d e n ers 
 through the 
 generosity of 
 Hon. Frank 
 Jones have, 
 with skilled 
 hands beau- 
 tified t h e 
 grounds and 
 added much 
 to their gen- 
 eral appear- 
 ance. The 
 Home in it- 
 self is a modest yet imposing structure 
 every room of which is now elaborately 
 furnished and ready for inmates. 
 
 The building is a three-story brick 
 structure with granite trimmings, and re- 
 sembles somewhat the colonial mansion so 
 common in this part of New England. 
 
 ARIOCH WENTWORTH. 
 
 WENTWORTH HOME. 
 
 The architect, Alvah T. Ramsdell of 
 this city, designed the building with spec- 
 ial reference to insuring the 
 ease and comfort of aged peo- 
 ple. The building is 70 by 53 
 feet in dimension and contains 
 30 rooms, besides toilet and 
 bathrooms. A hallway extends 
 through the entire length of the 
 building and opens on to broad, 
 sunny verandas at either end 
 and in front. 
 
 On the left of the main en- 
 trance is the matron's room and 
 library. This is furnished by 
 Miss Caroline Wendell. On 
 the right are the reception and 
 sitting rooms, furnished re- 
 spectively by the daughters of the late 
 Hon. Wm. S. Stevens and Mrs. Judge 
 Durell. On the further side of the hall 
 are the dining room and kitchen, each 
 1 6xi 2 feet, and pantry. 
 
 There are three sleeping rooms on the 
 first floor, and 1 1 each on the second and 
 third floors. 
 The fur- 
 nishings of 
 the sleep- 
 ing rooms 
 are all of 
 the same 
 pattern 
 though o f 
 different 
 shades o f 
 carpets and 
 u p h olster- 
 ing. They 
 were all fur- 
 nished by 
 residents as 
 m e m orials 
 to departed 
 relatives. 
 
 The build- 
 ing is fin- 
 ished in oak and sycamore and the walls 
 are tinted in warm colors. In the hall is 
 an old fashioned tall clock, presented by 
 C. W. Demeritt, and a piano, the gift of 
 Mrs. J. E. Lothrop. 
 
 Col. Daniel Hall in his introductory ad- 
 dress outlined the history of the movement
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 for establishing a home for aged people in 
 this city. He said in part, that through 
 the efforts of Col. Everett O. Foss an act 
 was passed by the legislature of 1883 in- 
 corporating " The Dover Home for Aged 
 Women." The first contribution was made 
 on Christmas day, 1885, when 14 mem- 
 bers of the Bachelor club gave Si each as 
 a Christmas offer to start a fund. Since 
 then gifts have been made by individuals 
 and societies, and one or two bequests. In 
 1897 a gift of $10,000 was made by Mr. 
 Wentworth for the purpose of building a 
 suitable home, and in recognition of this 
 generous aid the association voted to name 
 the building in honor of the donor, calling 
 it the 
 "Went- 
 worth 
 Home for 
 the Aged." 
 
 Before 
 concluding 
 his address 
 Col. Hall 
 a n nounced 
 that the as- 
 s o c i a tion 
 has just re- 
 ceived from 
 Mr. Went- 
 worth a n - 
 other gift of 
 20,000 to 
 be used as 
 a fund for 
 the support 
 of the home. 
 The news was received with the greatest 
 enthusiasm. 
 
 The contributions to a Permanent Fund 
 are as follows : Mr. Arioch Wentworth, Bos- 
 ton, $20,000 ; Mrs. S. K. W. Creighton, 
 Newmarket, $1,000; Mrs. Elizabeth W. 
 Stevens, Boston, $500; Mrs. Sarah E. 
 Drew, I )over, 8500 ; M iss Martha E. Han- 
 son, Dover, $500 ; Mrs. Deborah Dunn, 
 Dover, Sioo. 
 
 Mr. Arioch Wentworth was born in 
 Rollinsford, just over the Dover line, his 
 birthplace being less than a mile from 
 where the new home is situated. 
 
 The officers of the association in charge 
 of the home are : Joseph B. Sawyer, pres. ; 
 
 CHILDREN'S HOME. 
 
 Harrison Haley and Thomas B. Garland, 
 vice pres. ; Charles S. Cartland, sec. and 
 treas. ; Daniel Hall, auditor. 
 
 There is a board of twenty trustees of 
 which Elisha R. Brown is chairman, an ex- 
 ecutive committee of one hundred mem- 
 bers and a board of managers. 
 
 The Children's Home. 
 Few fathers and mothers situated in 
 beautiful and commodious homes with 
 their children playing about their knets 
 think of the many little waifs in this city 
 who know nothing of the pleasures of even 
 the most meagre home, I, or.' thr ir bene- 
 fit and in their honor the beautiful build- 
 ing on Lo- 
 cust street 
 was con- 
 structed 
 and the cit- 
 izens of this 
 city .realize 
 the grand 
 work tha t 
 the manag- 
 ers of the 
 Childre n ' s 
 Home have 
 been doing 
 for the past 
 few years . 
 The edifice 
 is beautiful 
 in both ex- 
 terior and 
 interior, ar- 
 ranged in 
 accordance with the best sanitary models, 
 commodious in loom and handsomely fin- 
 ished. The Home contains dining and 
 reception rooms, nursery, boys' and girls' 
 dormitory, matron's room and boys' and 
 girls' play rooms, bath rooms, and several 
 large sleeping rooms. On the third floor a 
 room has been finished so that in case of 
 any contagious disease breaking out among 
 the children it can be closed up and the 
 patient kept from the other children. 
 This room has been nicely fitted up for 
 sickness and has a bath room and many 
 other conveniences. 
 
 Several of the rooms at the Home have 
 been furnished by the following persons :
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 Reception room/Mrs. John P. Hale ; as- 
 sembly room, Mrs. John S. Glass ; dining 
 room, Miss Caroline Wendell. The nur- 
 sery room has been furnished by the Miz- 
 pah club of the First church. Many other 
 articles have been donated by generous 
 persons for the other rooms. 
 
 In the basement of the building is a 
 large store room and place for the coal. 
 At the rear is a well arranged laundry with 
 set of boilers and laundry heaters. The 
 building is heated by steam, there being 
 a radiator in every room. A. T. Ramsdell 
 was the architect who designed the build- 
 ing, the corner stone of which was laid on 
 Saturday, Oct. 9, 1897, with appropriate 
 ceremonies. The contract was given to 
 E. H. Frost on Aug. 30, 1897, for $9,849. 
 He has done an excellent piece of work on 
 
 sponded in accepting the keys. There 
 was then reading of the Scripture by Rev. 
 E. A. Hoyt, pastor of the Pierce Memo- 
 rial church, and singing. Rev. I. W. 
 Beard then formally dedicated the build- 
 ing using the Episcopal service provided 
 for such occasions. Prayer was offered 
 by Rev. George E. Hall, D. D., followed 
 by singing by the children of the 
 home. 
 
 Appropriate remarks were then made by 
 Rev. D. C. Babcock and Rev. R. E. Gil- 
 key, and the service closed by singing 
 the Doxology. 
 
 Among the gifts to the Children's 
 Home have been $5,000 from Mr. Arioch 
 Wentworth of Boston, $5,000 from W. 
 H. Morton, wife and daughter of Salmon 
 Falls, $500 from Mrs. David L. Drew of 
 
 CENTRAL SQUARE. 
 
 the structure. The building commit- 
 tee who have had charge of the work 
 have attended to their duties faithfully 
 and are deserving of much praise. The 
 committee is as follows : W. S. Bradley, 
 J. Herbert Richardson, Hon. James E. 
 Lothrop, Mrs. Susan E. Young, Mrs. 
 Lydia E. Jones, Mrs. Ellen F. Carter and 
 Mrs. Elizabeth G. Williams. The dedi- 
 cation occurred Saturday afternoon, May 
 28, 1898, and the exercises were very ap- 
 propriate, being of a religious character. 
 At four o'clock the exercises opened 
 with invocation by Rev. W. H. S. Hascall. 
 The keys of the house were then delivered 
 10 the president of the society by \V. S. 
 Bradley, the chairman of the building 
 committee, in a few appropriate remarks. 
 The president, Mrs. Susan E. Young, re- 
 
 Dover, and numerous lesser gifts from 
 persons interested in the institution. The 
 home is now in complete working order, 
 about thirty children being cared for and 
 trained to careers of usefulness. The 
 benefits of such an institution as this in 
 the community cannot be over-estimated 
 and it is safe to assert that the children 
 who spend their early lives in the Home 
 will acquire habits of thrift and honesty 
 which cannot fail to exercise a most, salu- 
 tary effect upon their future lives, "i". 
 
 The urgent need of such an institution 
 as this has long been felt in the city and 
 the carrying out of the project to erect 
 and maintain the Children's Home is one 
 which reflects the greatest credit upon 
 our citizens who have so liberally contrib- 
 uted towards this humanitarian work.
 
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 37 
 
 Foster's >aily Democrat. 
 
 GEO. J. FOSTER & Co., Proprietors. 
 DOVER, N. H., JUNE 18, 1898. 
 
 Twenty-five years ago to-day, the first 
 issue of Foster's Daily Democrat appeared 
 in Dover. It was a small four page sheet 
 22x25, a tul y beginner with a somewhat 
 dubious future before it, but plucky and 
 courageous, defiant and confident in the 
 face of all obstacles and determined to 
 succeed. 1 1 
 started with 
 140 subscrib- 
 ers and 150 
 copies were 
 sold to those 
 who chose to 
 buy them, 
 290 copies 
 comprised the 
 total circula- 
 tion. But 
 the editor, 
 Joshua L. 
 Foster was 
 not without 
 newspaper ex- 
 perience and 
 he thought he 
 could see 
 ahead clearly 
 enough a 
 much better 
 condition not 
 a great way in 
 the distance, 
 and the result 
 has been no 
 d is appoint- 
 ment. The 
 editor's salu- 
 tation to th'e 
 public in the 
 first issue June 18, 1873, was as follows : 
 
 " We have very little to say in ventur- 
 ing this daily experiment in Dover. It is 
 a new thing here, but not a new business 
 with us who take the risk and the respon- 
 sibility. It is an experiment which may 
 or may not prove a success, as this de- 
 pends upo n the energy and ability mani- 
 fested in i ts conduct, and the alacrity and 
 persistenc y with which the people come 
 
 JOSHUA L. FOSTER, EDITOR 
 
 up to its support. We shall strive to fulfill 
 our part, and expect the public to sustain 
 our efforts with their patronage. Dover 
 is the only city in New Hampshire that 
 has hitherto had no daily paper. Concord, 
 Nashua and Portsmouth each have about 
 the same population as this city, and each 
 supports two daily papers. It is certain 
 that Dover and its immediate vicinity 
 ought to support one. There is nothing 
 that can give so much life, pleasure and 
 real, substan- 
 t ial good 
 character to a 
 place as a 
 lively and well 
 con ducted 
 daily news- 
 paper. W e 
 shall devote 
 these columns 
 mainly to the 
 material and 
 vital interests 
 of Dover and 
 vicinity. 
 Whatever may 
 tend to bene- 
 fit this people 
 and enhance 
 their prosper- 
 ity, will re- 
 c e i v e our 
 warm and en- 
 thusiastic sup- 
 port. This 
 paper starts 
 with very flat- 
 tering pros- 
 pects, and if 
 we receive the 
 continued en- 
 courageme n t 
 which ought 
 to be given to a properly conducted en- 
 terprise of the kind, we shall make this 
 daily an enduring institution in Dover. It 
 is for the people to say how this shall be. 
 Our weekly is a success. Shall this be the 
 same? " 
 
 The experience of the paper the edi- 
 tor gives as follows: "Flattering pros- 
 pects " indeed ! Everybody laughed and 
 hooted at the idea, while pretty nearly
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 A CORNER IN THE EDITORIAL ROOM. 
 
 A SECTION OF THE BUSINESS OFFICE,
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 39 
 
 everybody hoped' for the success of the 
 venture, although they didn't believe it 
 would live over three months. The exper- 
 iment had been tried two or three times 
 before and failed. \Ve said it was because 
 the experimenters didn't know their bus- 
 iness. Our faith was a good deal like the 
 grain of mustard seed we had read about, 
 although rather faint at times. Flattering 
 prospects ! O yes, very flattering 140 
 subscribers, half of whom had not paid 
 a cent, and 
 150 more sold 
 for which we 
 got a cent 
 and a half 
 apiece 
 $2.25 ready 
 cash fro m 
 those sales. It 
 was a big 
 thing, a very 
 b i g thing, 
 with wonder- 
 fully " flatter- 
 i n g p r o s- 
 pects" ahead. 
 We had a 
 little advertis- 
 ing at prices 
 so small as to 
 be hardly 
 seen with the 
 naked eye. 
 The editor 
 was alone in 
 h i s calcula- 
 t i o n s and 
 management. 
 H e- had no 
 financial re- 
 sources, hav- 
 ing lost all in 
 a previous 
 venture. He had friends, some of whom 
 helped a little and others not a cent. He 
 had two sons, George J. and Charles G., 
 neither of them old enough to do the 
 business, but both had learned to set up 
 type and were very effective help in that 
 way. Notwithstanding the alleged " flat- 
 tering prospects " it was up hill work. 
 We had to hire help, buy paper, pay rents, 
 support a family and all that. 
 
 GEO. J. FOSTER, BUSINESS MANAGER. 
 
 The weekly paper started a year and a 
 half before was doing tolerably well, al- 
 though we had to trust nearly everybody, 
 get the pay when we could, and lots of it 
 we never got at all. Things went on how- 
 ever, gaining gradually on the whole, 
 barely perceptible, but still slightly mov- 
 ing ahead, hardly keeping square, but 
 doing the best we could. The circulation 
 improved slowly, kept on growing a little 
 larger, and we kept on pegging away. We 
 sent out can- 
 vassers and 
 they brought 
 in a few ducats, 
 but we had 
 awful hard 
 work for many 
 years ; some- 
 times ex- 
 tremely blue, 
 because the 
 help must be 
 paid, the 
 paper bills 
 must be met, 
 and we didn't 
 know how, nor 
 where to get 
 the money. 
 Although a 
 democrat i n 
 those days, we 
 h a d a con- 
 science and 
 were disposed 
 t o show i t 
 some respect. 
 Of course this 
 being the case, 
 we disagreed 
 with the party 
 leaders in 
 some things 
 and there was a rupture which at the time 
 boded no good to us. Still we spoke our 
 mind freely, just as though we didn't care 
 a pin, and told lots of homely truths about 
 the men who tried to put a ring in our 
 nose and run our thinking as well as 
 printing apparatus. They imported a 
 lurid warrior, bristling with flaming dag- 
 gers who started another paper to destroy 
 us, but new friends rallied around us,
 
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 COMPOSING ROOM. 
 
 PRESS ROOM, SHOWING GOS8 WEB PERFECTING PRESS.
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 more practical a'nd less selfish than those 
 we had before, and we " went for " the 
 false ones red hot which they soon found 
 out. Instead of going down, we took the 
 road up, and up we went. When that 
 fight was over and we had gathered up, 
 laid out and buried the dead, we had more 
 friends and a little more money than be- 
 fore. But still we were in the financial 
 swamp and had a struggle to keep head 
 above ground. And there we waded and 
 paddled o n 
 until the pres- 
 idential year 
 1880 came 
 along a n d 
 some of the 
 then oppos- 
 ing political 
 brethren 
 started a 
 compel ing 
 daily, the Re- 
 publican, to 
 divide with us 
 the enormous 
 profits w e 
 were gather- 
 i n g in. It 
 was only for 
 the campaign, 
 but when 
 that was over 
 i t changed 
 hands and 
 they con- 
 eluded to 
 keep it run- 
 ning. And 
 from this 
 point dates 
 the turn of 
 the tide with 
 the DAILY 
 DEMOCRAT. 
 
 Meanwhile, during those weary years of 
 anxiety and toil, for nothing but a bare 
 living without a dollar ahead for a rainy 
 day, the two sons had been getting along 
 to maturer years and had learned to do 
 the business. They too had been schooled 
 and had profited by it. A year or two 
 later all the financial and business affairs 
 of the concern were turned over to the 
 
 CHARLES G. FOSTER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 
 
 older one George J., while the younger, 
 Charles G., took charge of and superin- 
 tended the departments of the interior. 
 The paper had once been enlarged and it 
 was then enlarged again. They went to 
 business as the editor had never been able 
 to do, because editorial and business 
 duties could not all be properly attended 
 to by one man. The editor can write the 
 English language with reasonable accuracy, 
 run a tilt with an adversary in sufficiently 
 effective fash- 
 ion and make 
 himself under- 
 stood by the 
 common run 
 of intelligent 
 mankind, but 
 i n financial 
 and general 
 executive 
 management , 
 the two sons 
 take the lead. 
 The younger 
 of them has 
 for the past 
 two years 
 acted the im- 
 portant part 
 o f assistant 
 editor and 
 done good 
 work in that 
 capacity. 
 
 As we have 
 said, from the 
 establishment 
 of a compet- 
 ing paper and 
 the turning 
 over of the 
 business man- 
 agement t o 
 
 the sons of the editor, the paper took on 
 new life and soon bounded to the front. 
 The nominal competition put us all "more 
 on our muscle," as such things generally 
 do, and the circulation and advertising 
 showed it at once. The editorial de- 
 partment, the news department and the 
 business department were all better man- 
 aged and run, and have been ever since 
 as our success fully proves. Soon after
 
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 CYLINDER PRESS ROOM. 
 
 JOB PRESS ROOM.
 
 DOVER 1623-J898 
 
 43 
 
 these things happened, the democratic 
 party in 1885 succeeded to the executive 
 power in the nation, but with no honor 
 to itself or the country. So false and un- 
 American was its policy, so cowardly and 
 perfidious were its leaders that the con- 
 tinuance of our adhesion and support in- 
 volved the loss of the confidence of the 
 better portions of the community, and, of 
 more importance still, if possible, the sac- 
 rifice of our self respect. As was our 
 clearest right, we took our own course, 
 and the public support we have since re- 
 ceived is the best evidence that we made 
 no mistake. 
 
 The DAILY DEMO- 
 CRAT is the pioneer of 
 local newspaper work 
 in the State. The first 
 to adopt and make 
 conspicuous the 
 purely local feature 
 in that work, employ- 
 ing special local re- 
 porters to gather in 
 all home transactions 
 worthy of note, thus 
 securing and holding 
 the local attention and 
 support, it has lived 
 to see all others fol- 
 low its example and 
 adopt this feature 
 which they never 
 thought of before, and 
 it really gives the 
 most important and 
 essential value to the 
 local journals every- 
 where. Also the first 
 to bring into the state the telegraphic 
 news service of the American Press As- 
 sociation, it has seen all others follow on 
 until that too covers the entire field. To 
 this we have also added the very latest 
 Associated Press service which has become 
 the very conspicuous feature of our daily 
 editions, furnishing, as it does, the latest 
 telegraphic news possible for our people 
 to obtain and read at their homes each 
 night when the labors of the day are 
 closed. So now, being the most profi- 
 table and best newspaper property, with 
 one of the best office plants in the state, 
 
 FRANK P. WALDRON, CITY EDITOR. 
 
 on we go. There is no such word as fail 
 or halt in this concern. Nothing but the 
 best will ever satisfy us and that we shall 
 have, cost what it may. 
 
 From a very small beginning as we have 
 related, with second hand printing material, 
 presses and type badly worn, purchased 
 on credit and paid for in installments, as 
 best we could, and the one man sinews as 
 the power to turn the wheel about 400 an 
 hour, sweating, panting and foaming as he 
 applied his muscle at the crank ; from 
 this delightful state of things we have gone 
 on to what is seen today. Five times has 
 the paper been en- 
 larged and four times 
 have new presses and 
 additional steam 
 power been purchased 
 to do our newspaper 
 printing until we now 
 have one of the latest 
 improved, fast run- 
 ning web perfecting 
 stereotype presses, 
 capable of turning out 
 10,000 copies per 
 hour of perfect papers 
 printed on both sides 
 from stereotype plates, 
 cut, folded and 
 counted all at once. 
 And the paper has 
 grown in size and cir- 
 culation until it is 
 now an eight page 
 seven columns to the 
 page sheet, 35x47, 
 with supplements 
 when necessary, hav- 
 ing a daily circulation of from 3500 to 
 7000, depending on the character of the 
 news and the height of public excitement ; 
 on some occasions it goes as high as 10,000 
 copies. The circulation reaches out into 
 all the neighboring towns and cities in 
 New Hampshire and Maine, to a constit- 
 uency of some 60,000 people. It goes 
 into a large majority of the families in a 
 circuit of 25 miles, principally to the 
 north, east and west of the office of publi- 
 cation, and has come to be the chief re- 
 liance for local, city and county news. 
 The circulation is constantly increasing,
 
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 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 notably since the war with Spain has 
 been the chief topic of public interest. 
 From steam we have changed to electric 
 power, and it requires a 20 H. P. motor 
 to drive our machinery. There are con- 
 stantly employed in the office 18 persons, 
 and also connected with the paper are 
 eight reporters and correspondents, and 
 more when occasion requires. New type 
 has been several times provided and job 
 presses added until we have as well 
 equipped a printing office as any neces- 
 sity requires. A poor beggarly concern 
 has grown to be as robust and stalwart an 
 institution of the kind 
 as there is in the state 
 or anywhere northerly 
 or easterly of Boston. 
 It has all come from 
 hard work and earnest 
 persistent purpose to 
 meet the public de- 
 sires, to reach the 
 popular heart, t o 
 serve the people, to 
 build up Dover and 
 its near community, 
 and always champion 
 what seemed to be 
 the best interests of 
 the whole. Now here 
 we are this 25th 
 anniversary day. No 
 previous day of our 
 life ever saw the DAILY 
 DEMOCRAT in so good, 
 sound, healthy and 
 growing condition, as 
 
 serve and maintain it as the most precious 
 of all that is possible to enjoy in this world. 
 We append hereto a sketch prepared 
 by the late Dr. A. H. Quint for the His- 
 tory of Rockingham and Strafford coun- 
 ties recently published : 
 
 " Foster's Democrat," a weekly news- 
 paper, was established in the city of 
 Dover, N. H., in January, 1872, by 
 George J. Foster & Co., and has been is- 
 sued on Friday of each week ever since. 
 On the 1 8th of June, 1873, the same firm 
 issued the first number of Foster's Daily 
 Democrat. On these journals J. L. Fos- 
 ter is the editor, and 
 his two sons, George 
 |. and Charles G., are 
 the business man- 
 agers. The daily ven- 
 ture was made as an 
 experiment, the suc- 
 cess of which was at 
 that time generally 
 considered to be very 
 doubtful. But the 
 proprietors decided to 
 push it at all hazards. 
 They thought they 
 knew their business, 
 and the result has 
 proved that they were 
 not mistaken. Sev- 
 eral previous attempts 
 had been made by 
 other parties to es- 
 tablish and sustain a 
 daily newspaper in 
 Dover, but they had 
 
 it is today. Owning PATRICK MONE> SOMERSWORTH REPORTER, always failed for lack 
 
 this and other re- 
 sources free from the incubus of debt, it 
 is booming as never before, and is a con- 
 stant reminder of the rapid and important 
 progress which a quarter century can ac- 
 complish in these hurrying times. Dover 
 has grown and everything has grown al- 
 most beyond comprehension. This 
 country is the greatest and best on the 
 globe. We have liberties and privileges 
 such as nobody on the earth ever en- 
 joyed or saw before. A happy nation, 
 state and city, all are ours. A happy peo- 
 ple indeed. The sun never shone on the 
 like before, and God help us all to pre- 
 
 of experience and 
 business capacity of the projectors. But 
 the senior Foster in this case had seen a 
 good many years of editorial experience, 
 while the juniors were practical printers 
 and trained in the business management 
 of a daily newspaper. In these weekly 
 and daily enterprises the proprietors 
 started out full of pluck and energy, de- 
 termined, as they said, to make things 
 lively, and treat everybody and all sub- 
 jects fairly, squarely, and honestly, giving 
 all sides in all cases a chance to be heard, 
 and granting all shades of honest opinion 
 a medium of expression before the public.
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 45 
 
 These journal's are boldly independent, 
 running with no mere machine as such, the 
 organs of no ring, wearing nobody's col- 
 lar, and while ready to listen to all good 
 advice, will submit to no dictation in re- 
 gard to their conduct or management 
 Irom any source whatever. They have a 
 large and increasing circulation, their ad- 
 vertising support is liberal and generous, 
 and alike profitable to publishers and pa- 
 trons. The Senior Foster, assisted by 
 such local and other reporters as may be 
 necessary, devotes his whole time and at- 
 tention to the editorial conduct of the 
 papers, while the two sons have entire 
 
 They have an extensive reading and in- 
 fluence in the community. Starting with 
 very meagre means, the concern has 
 grown to yield a handsome income, and 
 is a very valuable property as well as an 
 important journalistic enterprise of the 
 city and state." 
 
 Such words of praise and commenda- 
 tion coming wholly unsolicited from a 
 man such as the Revd. Dr. Quint, whose 
 reputation as a literateur was far reaching, 
 is an eloquent tribute to the merits of the 
 paper not only as a means of disseminat- 
 ing news but also of inculcating those 
 principles of equity and justice upon which 
 
 RESIDENCE OF CHARLES G. FOSTER, WEST CONCORD STREET. 
 
 charge of the printing and business de- 
 partments, employing the competent sub- 
 ordinates necessary to meet all require- 
 ments. 
 
 Connected with these newspapers is a 
 large and well-appointed job printing 
 office, with good workmen constantly em- 
 ployed. The whole establishment is pro- 
 vided with the best modern machinery, 
 driven by electric power, and its several 
 departments are continuously engaged in 
 thrifty and profitable business. The suc- 
 cess of these newspapers proves that they 
 are well conducted and enterprising. 
 
 the well-being of the community at large 
 rest. 
 
 The high standard upon which the 
 foundation of Foster's Daily Democrat 
 was built has been rigidly adhered to and 
 will be always maintained. It has from 
 its inception aimed to be a journal of the 
 highest grade, giving the news of the 
 world, but sedulously avoiding the sensa- 
 tional and salacious now such a common 
 feature of papers less careful of their ut- 
 terances. A brilliant and prosperous past 
 and present predicts a splendid future for 
 the paper.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 RESIDENCE OF JOSHUA L. FOSTER, HANSON STREET. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF GEORGE J. FOSTER, HOUGH AND MOUNT VERNON STREETS.
 
 DOVER \ 623- 1898 
 
 47 
 
 The Cocheco Manufacturing Co. 
 
 There is no single interest in the city 
 of Dover that will at once so completely 
 represent the solid character of the city's 
 commercial growth and indicate the qual- 
 ity of its citizenship than what is to be 
 found under the roofs of the Cocheco 
 Manufacturing Company. 
 
 In 1810, two years before the establish- 
 ment of the cotton industry in Dover, the 
 population numbered but 2,228. The 
 embargo and the war of 1812 interfering 
 
 nearly doubled, the census of 1830 show- 
 ing it to be 5,449 ; that of 1840, 6,458 ; 
 of 1850, 8,168 ; and of 1860, 8,502. The 
 increase has been steadily maintained ow- 
 ing largely to the steady and remunerative 
 employment to be found in the factories. 
 The Dover Cotton Factory was incor- 
 porated December 15, 1812, with a capi- 
 tal of $50,000, which built in 1815 the 
 No. i factory at Upper Factory Village ; 
 it was a wooden structure and has long 
 since disappeared. The company had its 
 capital enlarged June 2 1 , 1 82 1 to $500,000, 
 
 COCHECO MFG. CO. '8 DAM. 
 
 with mercantile pursuits, the business men 
 of the town embarked in other industries. 
 In that year the Dover Cotton Factory 
 was incorporated, and as the lower falls 
 were supposed to be fully occupied by 
 other mills, the first factory was built two 
 miles up the river and was long known as 
 the upper factory. 
 
 The rapid advancement of the town in 
 wealth and population dates from the es- 
 tablishment of this great enterprise. In 
 1820 the population was 2,870. Within 
 the next ten years these numbers had 
 
 about the time when it bought up the ti- 
 tles of the Lower Falls. The capital was 
 enlarged June 17, 1823 to $1,000,000 
 and the name changed to the Dover Man- 
 ufacturing Company, but it was not suc- 
 cessful and a new company, the present 
 Cocheco Manufacturing Company, was 
 incorporated June 27, 1827, with a capi- 
 tal of $1,000,000, which purchased of the 
 old company all their works and property. 
 No. 2 mill was built in 1822 but this 
 building ceased to be called No. 2 when 
 the new No. 2 (first section), on the
 
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 north side of the river, was opened for 
 work in 1881. The old No. 3 was occu- 
 pied in 1823 and was superseded by the 
 new No. 2 (second section), which began 
 work in 1882. No. 4 was opened in 1825, 
 and No. 5 in its present form, which re- 
 placed the old printery in 1850. On 
 March 28, 1877 it was voted to build No. 
 i mill and increase the capital stock to 
 $1,500,000. The new No. i, standing 
 on the south side of Washington street, 
 was finished in 1878. 
 
 F. Curtis, who remained until 1834, when 
 Moses Paul became agent. He was suc- 
 ceeded August i, 1860, by Zimri S. Wal- 
 lingford, who had been superintendent 
 from 1849, and over the mechanical de- 
 partment for five years previous. Mr. 
 Wallingford was succeeded by John Hol- 
 land, the present agent, Charles H. Fish, 
 being appointed September i, 1895. 
 
 The first printing of calico in these 
 works was executed under the superinten- 
 dence of Dr. A. L. Porter, who was suc- 
 
 COCHECO MFG. CO., REAR VIEW OF NO8. 2, 3 AND 4 MILLS. 
 
 The manufacture of cloth began under 
 the care of John Williams, the first agent. 
 He was the founder of this industry here, 
 and thus of Dover's prosperity. It was 
 his indefatigable activity which turned 
 capital to these falls. Moses Paul was 
 clerk when the works came to the lower 
 falls ; John Chase, its first general mechan- 
 ical superintendent ; Andrew Steele, its 
 first master mechanic ; Samuel Dunster, 
 the builder of the first practical machinery 
 of the calico printery. 
 
 John Williams was succeeded by James 
 
 ceeded, before 1830, by John Duxbury, a 
 thoroughly experienced English printer. 
 His successors have been George Mathew- 
 son, John Bracewell, Washington Ander- 
 ton, James Crossley, and the present su- 
 perintendent, Howard Gray. The original 
 printery was in the present No. 5 mill and 
 other buildings near, but now removed. 
 
 It is not possible, in our limited space, 
 to trace in detail the growth of this indus- 
 try from its small beginning to its present 
 stupendous proportions, nor is that nec- 
 essary. Men of today are moved most by
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 contact with, and contemplation of, pres- 
 ent progressiveness, rather than influenced 
 save in sentiment by what has been. 
 
 The cotton manufacturing industry of 
 Dover was really a small affair prior to 
 1827. Up to that time it met with but 
 half-hearted treatment at the hands of 
 men whose foresight did not at once real- 
 ize the possibilities of the future for this 
 business. The first masterly grasp of the 
 situation which took hold in real earnest 
 to evolve fame for our city and wealth and 
 employment for its citizens was given the 
 
 one which in the day of their active privi- 
 lege labored with that degree of intelli- 
 gence which lifted not alone themselves, 
 but scores of others to place and fame and 
 comfortable circumstances in life, and pro- 
 vided employment and homes for thous- 
 ands more. 
 
 An idea of the magnitude of this con- 
 cern can be gleaned from the fact that 
 the plant alone covers an area of over 25 
 acres, the flo.ir space, devoted exclusively 
 to manufacturing, occupying 30 acres. 
 The company at present operates about 
 
 COCHECO MFG. CO. PART OF NO. 2 MILL AMD MACHINE SHOP. 
 
 cotton industry when the Cocheco Manu- 
 facturing Company assumed the control of 
 the mills in 1827. This gave such an im- 
 petus to the business that it then became 
 a settled fact that Dover's greatness as a 
 manufacturing centre was assured. From 
 that time dates a progressive march of 
 business prosperity for this company which 
 stands almost, if not entirely, alone in the 
 records of quickly successful response to 
 the intelligently guided methods of manu- 
 facturing goods. In years to come the 
 company will be gratefully remembered as 
 
 130,000 spindles in 2,800 looms and em- 
 ploys over 2, coo hands constantly. It 
 manufactures in its mills cloths of various 
 kinds, which they print in their extensive 
 print works. The print works contain 16 
 print machines, with bleachery and finish- 
 ing mills, with ample accommodation for 
 its product of over 65,000,000 yards of 
 finished cloth per annum. These cloths 
 are all the various printed fabrics now 
 called for by the trade. A large part of 
 the product during the past few seasons 
 has been the finest grades of lawns and
 
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 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 organdies, which are rapidly taking the 
 place of the fine imported fabrics. The 
 water-power of the Cocheco River furnish- 
 es about one-half the power used in the 
 works, the remainder being obtained from 
 steam, in the making of which about 
 20,000 tons of coal are used yearly under 
 the 45 boilers. In the construction of 
 the mills every care and attention has 
 been given to light and ventilation, and 
 every convenience has been provided for 
 
 of prosperity and usefulness even greater 
 than those of its proud record of the past. 
 The officers of the company are as fol- 
 lows : President, T. Jefferson Coolidge, 
 Boston ; Treasurer, Arthur B. Silsbee, Bos- 
 ton ; Selling agents, Lawrence & Company, 
 Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Chica- 
 go ; Resident Agent, Charles H. Fish ; Su- 
 perintendentof cotton millsjohn Browne ; 
 Superintendent of print works, Howard 
 Gray. 
 
 COCHECO MFG. CO. PORTION OF UPPER YARDS. 
 
 the well-being of the employees that mod- 
 ern scientific architecture and sanitation 
 has made possible. 
 
 The goods manufactured by the com- 
 pany are everywhere recognized as supe- 
 rior in all respects and are widely esteemed 
 by the trade and consumers, the different 
 qualities being standard in all sections of 
 the country. That this important indus- 
 trial enterprise has reached the zenith of 
 its career no one conversant with its ad- 
 vanced methods will admit, and its con- 
 stantly increasing reputation for superior- 
 ity of products gives promise for a future 
 
 Sawyer Woolen Mills. 
 
 The Sawyer Woolen Mills have been 
 indissolubly associated with the commer- 
 cial prosperity of Dover since 1824 when 
 Alfred I. Sawyer came from Marlboiough, 
 Mass., and established the business from 
 which the present large concern has sprung. 
 At that time the Great Falls Manufactur- 
 ing Company owned all of the water-pow- 
 ers in the Bellamy Bank River and had 
 also secured land covering the outlet of 
 Chesley's Pond, Barrington, upon which 
 now stands the reservoir dam. In 1845
 
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 54 
 
 DOVER J 623-1 898 
 
 Mr. Sawyer bought of the Great Falls 
 Manufacturing Company all their rights in 
 the property and continued the business 
 without interruption until his death in 
 1849. The business then passed to his 
 brother, Zenas Sawyer, 1849-50 ; Z. and 
 J. Sawyer, 1850-52 ; F. A. and J. Sawyer 
 (Francis A. Sawyer of Boston, and Jona- 
 than Sawyer of Dover), 1852-1873, when 
 Charles H. Sawyer was admitted, and the 
 concern incorporated as the Sawyer Woolen 
 Mills, with a capital of 600,000. Flan- 
 nels were exclusively made until 1862, 
 
 falls of which is controlled and utilized by 
 the company, as is also the reservoir at 
 Harrington, which was built in 1863-64 
 and enlarged in 1881, with a capacity of 
 about 450 acres. Tide water reaches to 
 the lower mill and is navigable for coal 
 barges and sloops of moderate capacity. 
 The Portsmouth and Dover branch of the 
 Boston & Maine R. R. has a station at the 
 mills, the freight of which can be dis- 
 charged directly into the warehouses. 
 
 The equipment of the mills is modern 
 and first-class throughout and it is what is 
 
 SPINNING ROOM SAWYER WOOLEN MILLS. 
 
 when the machinery was gradually changed 
 until 1866, since which attention has been 
 entirely devoted to the manufacture of 
 fine fancy cassimeres, cloths and suitings 
 in the production of which the mills have 
 earned a reputation for quality and dura- 
 bility of goods which is unsurpassed by 
 any similar concern. In 1891 machinery 
 for the manufacture of worsted yarn was 
 added. 
 
 The mills are located on the Bellamy 
 River, the water-power of the three lower 
 
 called a thirty-nine set mill. These thirty- 
 nine sets of machinery constitute an im- 
 mense plant. The output of the mills is 
 celebrated for uniformity of texture and 
 elegance of finish, commanding the high- 
 est price in the tailoring and clothing trade 
 markets throughout the country. The 
 officers of the company are thoroughly 
 conversant with every detail of the woolen 
 business, and are energetic and wide- 
 awake in advancing the interests of the 
 company.
 
 DOVER J623-I898 
 
 55 
 
 UPPER MILL AND OFFICES. 
 
 PORTION OF THE UPPER MILL.
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 This enterprise has made of Sawyers 
 named for the mills a neat and prosper- 
 ous village, the prosperity of the company 
 also meaning the prosperity of the com- 
 munity. On an average 600 hands are 
 employed consisting of an unusually high 
 class of operatives. 
 
 An average of S 2 0,000 a month is paid 
 out in wages to its employees. This means 
 many comfortable homes and happy fam- 
 ilies. Adjoining the mills and tastefully 
 laid out on graded streets the company 
 has erected fifty substantially built and 
 comfortable cottages for the families of 
 their employees. These tenements have 
 the best sanitary arrangements and are 
 kept in excellent repair. The company 
 does all in its power to make its employees' 
 lives comfortable and happy and have been 
 
 tion of the company and its business add- 
 ed to and conducted by this Company. 
 
 The capacity of these two plants prov- 
 ing insufficient for the demands of the in- 
 creasing business, a third and larger one 
 was erected at Dover, to which place the 
 Somersworth shop was transferred, there- 
 by giving the company two splendidly 
 equipped plants, within a radius of a few 
 miles and simplifying the management of 
 the business to a minimum. 
 
 To the Dover plant has been added the 
 extensive business of the John A. White 
 Co. of Concord, manufacturers of all kinds 
 of woodworking machinery, which has at- 
 tained an enviable reputation in all parts 
 of the world. This company is the most 
 extensive of its kind in the world and 
 through its agencies the machines are 
 
 SOMERSWORTH MACHINE COMPANY'S DOVER PLANT. 
 
 the prime factor in building up the grow- 
 ing and healthy village which bears its 
 
 The Somersworth Machine Company. 
 
 This Company was incorporated under 
 the laws of New Hampshire in 1848, as 
 the Somersworth Machine Company, and 
 located at Great Falls, now the City of 
 Somersworth. 
 
 From a limited business in general 
 jobbing work it soon acquired, under able 
 and progressive management, more than 
 a local reputation and was able to enlarge 
 and broaden all branches of its industry. 
 
 The purchase of the Salmon Falls Stove 
 Works was made soon after the founda- 
 
 shipped to England, France, Germany, 
 India, Japan, South America, Mexico and 
 Canada. The Japanese Imperial govern- 
 ment has purchased several machines and 
 they are also used extensively by the vari- 
 ous Japanese railroad companies. The 
 Wm. White Textile Machine Co. of Nashua 
 has also been added. The product of 
 this company is famous all over the coun- 
 try for its excellent wool washing machin- 
 ery, dusters, drying machines, steaming 
 and crabbing machines, and other special 
 textile machines. These machines are 
 used in every large and well equipped 
 woolen mill in the country and are also 
 extensively used on the continent of 
 Europe, India and Japan to which places 
 the shipments are increasing. The de-
 
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 57 
 
 mand for the machines is phenomenal 
 and keeps the works busy all the time fill- 
 ing the orders. 
 
 Besides the manufacture of ranges, 
 heating stoves, furnaces, sinks, hollow 
 ware, etc., at Salmon Falls, and wood- 
 working machinery and textile machinery 
 at Dover, thjs company are makers of 
 many different kinds of special machinery 
 and pulleys, hangers and shafting, etc. 
 
 The main shops of the company are 
 located in Dover and consist of ten build- 
 ings, foundry, machine-shops, storehouses, 
 pattern-shops, iron house, coal sheds and 
 stables. 
 
 The foundry and workshops are ideal 
 for their separate purposes, being unus- 
 ually well lighted and ventilated. The 
 buildings are of brick and are very spa- 
 cious, offering all the advantages to be de- 
 
 rooms as well as blacksmith shops, with 
 steam hammers, etc., in connection with 
 them. 
 
 The pattern shops, storehouses, coal 
 sheds, iron house and cleaning depart- 
 ment are all of sufficient capacity for 
 their respective needs, and the entire 
 plant is lighted by electricity, generated 
 by the company's own dynamos. A spur 
 track runs into the yards from the main 
 tracks of the Western Division of the B. 
 & M. R. R. which pass in the rear of the 
 buildings, thus affording every opportu- 
 nity for quick and inexpensive freight de- 
 livery. 
 
 The stove plant wherein are made the 
 world famed Somersworth stoves and 
 ranges is situated at Salmon Falls, three 
 miles from Dover on the Salmon Falls 
 River, about five minutes' walk from the 
 
 SOMERSWORTH MACHINE COMPANY'S SALMON FALLS PLANT. 
 
 rived from guarantees of safety and con- 
 venience for turning out all kinds of first- 
 class work. The equipment throughout 
 is of the highest order, none but the best 
 tools and appurtenances to be found in 
 the market being used. 
 
 The foundry is supplied with two large 
 cupolas, one of sixty inches in diameter 
 and another of forty-eight inches, with a 
 melting capacity of 25,000 Ibs. per hour, 
 core oven, cranes, and all the parapher- 
 nalia to be found in a well equipped es- 
 tablishment. The building proper meas- 
 ures 200 x 60 feet and in connection 
 with it are the core room, foreman's of- 
 fice and supply room, giving the foundry 
 altogether about 20,000 square feet of 
 available floor space. Each of the ma- 
 chine shops contains 15,000 square feet 
 of floor space and have tool and supply 
 
 B. & M. station. There are nineteen 
 buildings in all, and the work shops are 
 thoroughly equipped with all the latest 
 improvements for stove manufacture. The 
 quality of the productions in this depart- 
 ment being so well known it is useless to 
 elaborate upon them. 
 
 Throughout this great industry the plant 
 and appurtenances are of a high order and 
 the machinery comprises all the best and 
 most modern labor saving devices in all 
 departments, by which the expenses of 
 production are reduced to a minimum, 
 thus enabling the company to compete 
 successfully with others as regards quality 
 and also to offer substantial inducements 
 to the trade generally in regard to price, 
 which is always quoted at the lowest pos- 
 sible figure. The products of the com- 
 pany have reached a degree of perfection
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 as regards quality and finish which it is 
 impossible to imagine can be surpassed, 
 and the working of each department is 
 carefully supervised by thoroughly skilled 
 and capable men. With such unsurpassed 
 facilities and advanced methods it is not 
 to be wondered at that the most gratify- 
 ing success has been achieved, and that 
 the result obtained is of a permanent na- 
 ture cannot be doubted. 
 
 The officers of the company are : Pres- 
 ident, O. S. Brown ; Treasurer, E. H. Gil- 
 man ; Agent, James C. Sawyer ; Directors, 
 O. S. Brown, C. H. Sawyer, E. H. Gil- 
 
 Foss and his son, A. Melvin Foss, who 
 came to this city from Strafford where 
 they had been engaged in the grocery and 
 milling business. From its inception the 
 enterprise achieved a notable and well 
 deserved success, securing a firm hold on 
 the favor and patronage of the public 
 which has been greatly strengthened by 
 the lapse of time. 
 
 The premises occupied consist of a spa- 
 cious three story mill 100 x 75 in dimen- 
 sions fitted up with all the latest improved 
 woodworking tools, machinery and appli- 
 ances operated by steam power, while 
 
 D. FOSS AND SON'S MILL. 
 
 man, J. A. White, and J. C. Sawyer. These 
 men are thoroughly experienced business 
 men of undoubted standing, progressive, 
 enterprising and possessing all the attri- 
 butes so eminently necessary in the up- 
 building of this splendid industry. They 
 are men of honor and principle and in 
 financial, commercial and social circles 
 their names are honored and esteemed. 
 
 D. Foss and Son. 
 
 This business was established in Dover 
 in 1874 by the present partners, Dennis 
 
 connected with their mill is an extensive 
 box factory, one of the most complete 
 concerns of the kind in New England. A 
 specialty is made in this department of 
 large packing boxes for the Cocheco 
 Manufacturing Company, the various shoe 
 shops and the trade generally, and a large 
 and constantly increasing business is done. 
 All orders are turned out promptly and in 
 the best possible manner while their esti- 
 mates in all departments are as low as is 
 consistent with superior materials and 
 workmanship. The firm is a valued 
 feature of the industrial facilities of the
 
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 59 
 
 city and has a well earned reputation for 
 the ability, energy and honorable charac- 
 ter of its management. Mr. Dennis Foss, 
 the senior partner, was born in Strafford 
 seventy-nine years ago and since coming 
 to Dover has made and retained the 
 friendship of our most respected citizens. 
 Mr. A. Melvin Foss, who has the active 
 charge of the business, was born in Straf- 
 ford in 1847 an d received his education 
 at the public and high schools of his na- 
 tive town. He was for two years employed 
 in the grocery store of J. W. Jewell at 
 Strafford which he left to enter his father's 
 store where he remained for seven years, 
 co m i n g 
 to this 
 city with 
 his father 
 to found 
 the pres- 
 ent busi- 
 ness in 
 1874. At 
 that time 
 they en- 
 gaged in 
 the man- 
 ufactu r e 
 
 of boxes and did a gen- ffl 
 eral grain business to ^T 
 which was added, ten SB 
 years ago, the manu- li_>. ~~ 
 fictureof doors, sashes I 
 and blinds. Mr. Foss I 
 served several years as j 
 school committee and 
 was elected Mayor of 
 the city in 1893 by a 
 large majority, being re-elected two suc- 
 ceeding years by largely increasing major- 
 ities. There is no man in the city more 
 intimately acquainted with its needs and 
 resources, and his experience in pub- 
 lic affairs has equipped him with an ex- 
 ecutive ability sufficient to master every 
 exigency that may arise. He is a direc- 
 tor of the Dover Improvement Associa- 
 tion and of the Masonic Building Associ- 
 ation, Past Master, Strafford Lodge F. and 
 A. M., Past High Priest Belknap Chapter 
 R. A. M., Past Deputy Master of Orphan 
 Council, Eminent Commander St. Paul 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, and Ex- 
 
 alted Ruler Dover Lodge of Elks. Mr. 
 Foss is a man of progressive ideas, thor- 
 oughly reliable in all his dealings and the 
 success the firm has achieved is of a sub- 
 stantial and lasting character. 
 
 United Gas and Electric Company* 
 
 In 1887 Mr. H. W. Burgett founded 
 the Dover Electric Company on First 
 Street and in the fall of that year the Fan 
 Cookey Light Company, a small plant in 
 Rochester was also purchased. This was 
 at once changed over and remodeled 
 and the city of Somersworth was poled 
 and wired. In 1888 work 
 was commenced on the New 
 Dam Station on the Salmon 
 Falls river about a mile be- 
 low Somersworth and the 
 Consolidated Light and 
 Power Company, which su- 
 perseded the other compan- 
 ies was organized. It was 
 completed in twelve months 
 and at once poled and wired. 
 The same year the Roches- 
 t e r and 
 Somers- 
 worth sta- 
 t i o n s 
 were amal- 
 gam a t e d 
 with the 
 New Dam 
 Station 
 making 
 one power 
 house for 
 
 the entire system. The company was 
 formed for the purpose of lighting and fur- 
 nishing power to the contiguous cities and 
 towns, namely, Dover, Somersworth, Roch- 
 ester, Salmon Falls, Berwick, North and 
 South Berwick and Lebanon, all within a 
 radius of ten miles. In 1890-91 the com- 
 pany purchased the old horse railway which 
 ran from Sawyer's mills to Garrison hill 
 and in September, 1892 converted it into 
 a standard guage road and equipped it 
 with electricity, extending it to Berwick 
 Bridge in Somersworth, a distance of about 
 seven miles. In 1891 the company leased 
 the Dover Gas Light Company for a term 
 
 UNITED GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY'S PLANTS.
 
 6o 
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 of twenty years and furnished electricity 
 and gas light to its patrons. Owing to 
 financial difficulties the company was 
 placed in the hands of a receiver, Jan'y 27, 
 1894, Wm. F. Brewster being appointed 
 by the court. He was succeeded two 
 months later by H. C. Patterson who acted 
 as receiver for one year. The company 
 was obliged to relinquish the street railway 
 in the spring of 1895 but continued to 
 supply it with power. Hon. H. L. Shep- 
 herd of Rockport, Me., was appointed re- 
 ceiver, April i, 1895 and began the task 
 of straightening out the affairs of the corn- 
 
 companies in Maine and New Hampshire ; 
 John Kivel, Dover, attorney; C. A. 
 Davis, Boston, Mass., Eastern Manager 
 General Electric Co.; Hon. Fred E. 
 Richards, Portland, Me., President Union 
 Mutual Life Ins. Co., President Portland 
 National Bank, President Union Safe De- 
 posit and Trust Co. ; Hon. H. L. Shep- 
 herd, Rockport, Me., Vice President & 
 General Manager S. E. & H. L. Shep- 
 herd Lime Company. Subsequently Hon. 
 Albert Wallace of Rochester was elected 
 president of the company, Hon. H. L. 
 Shepherd, of Rockport, Me., treasurer 
 
 THE A. CONVERSE PLACE LUMBER CO.'S BROADWAY MILL. 
 
 pany, his first step being to take it out of 
 the hands of a receiver, which was accom- 
 plished March 6, 1897. The present in- 
 corporated company was then formed un- 
 der the laws of New Hampshire and 
 Maine and named the United Gas and 
 Electric Company. The following were 
 elected directors : Hon. Albert Wallace, 
 Geo. E. Wallace, Rochester, N. H., firm 
 of E. G. & E. Wallace; Hon. Geo. E. 
 Macomber, Augusta, Me., President of 
 Rockland, Thomaston & Camden Street 
 Railway, and prominently identified with 
 numerous Electric Light and Railway 
 
 and general manager and A. D. Rich- 
 mond, member of the Board of Aldermen 
 of the city of Dover, Gen. Supt. 
 The success of the company under the 
 new management has been most pro- 
 nounced. Strenuous and well directed 
 efforts have been made to secure new 
 contracts for lighting and the supplying 
 of power with pleasing success. Five 
 hundred arc and 3,000 incandescent 
 lights are now furnished in Dover and 
 surrounding towns and the company's 
 outlook for a future of prosperity is as- 
 sured. At a meeting of the board of di-
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 6 i 
 
 rectors held fh Dover in May last, it 
 was voted to purchase the extensive water 
 power plant known as the Portsmouth 
 Manufacturing Company of South Ber- 
 wick, to be utilized in connection with 
 the New Dam Station. This will con- 
 siderably augment the resources of the 
 company and make the plant one of the 
 best equipped in the state. It will con- 
 sist of one 2,000 horse-power water, 
 1,000 horse-power steam, eleven Thomp- 
 son-Houston fifty arc light dynamos, one 
 300 K. W. 500 Volt generator and three 
 350 K. W. three phase 3,120 Volts 
 generators. 
 
 the former being equipped with all the 
 latest modern machinery known to the 
 trade. A very heavy stock is at all times 
 carried of Western and Southern pine, 
 oak, ash, mahogany and cherry dressed 
 lumber and a large wholesale demand is 
 supplied, the annual output being between 
 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 feet, over fifty 
 skilled mechanics and laborers being con- 
 stantly employed. The company makes 
 a specialty of wood mantels and interior 
 finish and among the contracts they have 
 carried out may be mentioned the interior 
 decoration of Elisha R. Brown's resi- 
 dence, the Wentworth Home, the Chil- 
 
 A. CONVERSE PLACE LUMBER CO. S WHARF AND LUMBER YARDS. 
 
 The A. Converse Place Lumber Co. 
 
 The A. Converse Place Lumber Com- 
 pany was incorporated in May last, 
 succeeding the firm of Converse & 
 Hammond which was established by 
 Joshua Converse in 1870. The company 
 deals extensively in wholesale and retail 
 lumber and manufactures every descrip- 
 tion of interior and exterior finish, wood 
 mantels and stair work, their trade ex- 
 tending generally throughout New England 
 and adjoining states. Their offices and 
 yards are situated on Cocheco street and 
 cover an area of six acres with ample 
 wharfage facilities and all requisite con- 
 veniences for a successful and systematic 
 conduct of affairs. The mills and branch 
 yard occupy three acres on Broadway, 
 
 dren's Home, the Catholic church, 
 Newmarket, the Richardson Dormitory, 
 Hanover, the annex to the Wentworth 
 House, Portsmouth and several others. 
 The officers of the company are : Presi- 
 dent and General Manager, A. Converse 
 Place ; Secretary, Edward M. Home. 
 Mr. Place was born in Salmon Falls and 
 graduated from the South Berwick Acad- 
 emy in 1886, when he entered the employ- 
 ment of the firm of Converse & Hammond 
 in which he became a partner in 1889. He 
 is thoroughly conversant with every branch 
 of the extensive business he conducts, and 
 under his experienced and conservative 
 management a future of prosperity is 
 assured to the company. He is a Thirty- 
 second Degree Mason, a director of the 
 Co-operative Bank, a member of the
 
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 DOVER I623-J898 
 
 Security Company and represents Ward 3 
 in the Common Council. In business 
 and social circles he is highly esteemed 
 for his sterling integrity. He is an 
 active member of the Bellamy Club. 
 Mr. Home is a native of Somersworth and 
 a graduate of the High School of that 
 city. He was bookkeeper for the Dover 
 Clothing Company until 1894, in which 
 year he accepted a similar position with 
 
 Dover Furniture Co- 
 
 One of the best and most prominent 
 furniture establishments in this part of the 
 state, carrying the largest and most com- 
 plete stock, is that of the Dover Furniture 
 Company. The premises occupied for 
 the business embrace a substantial four- 
 story and basement building at the corner 
 of Third and Chestnut streets, opposite 
 
 DOVER FURNITURE COMPANY'S WAREHOUSE. 
 
 Converse & Hammond. In addition 
 to his secretarial duties Mr. Home repre- 
 sents the company on the road and has 
 established an enviable reputation for his 
 honorable dealings and business-like meth- 
 ods. He is most popular among a large 
 circle of friends who esteem him for his 
 many excellent qualities. Mr. Home is 
 Master Mason of Moses Paul Lodge arid 
 a member of the Bellamy Club. 
 
 the Boston & Maine depot, each floor 
 measuring 40x100 feet and of easy access 
 by means of the elevator. The stock 
 shown is as complete as modern methods 
 demand. It comprises all the latest 
 novelties and prevailing styles in artistic 
 home furnishings, parlor, library, dining- 
 room and chamber furniture ; carpets, 
 rugs, floor cloths, portieres, draperies, 
 pictures and everything, in fact, in high
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 grade and medium house furnishings for 
 the mansion or cottage. The success of 
 the house from its inception in 1892 has 
 been most pronounced and their trade is 
 very large, people coming from the ad- 
 joining towns, within a radius of thirty 
 miles to purchase their house furnishing 
 goods from this well known house. From 
 ten to twelve courteous assistants are con- 
 stantly employed and three teams are 
 kept busy delivering orders. 
 
 The business was founded, in 1892, by 
 the present partners, J. Everett Ewer, and 
 J. Eugene Mooney, both of whom are 
 
 Mr. Ewer was born at Week's Mills, 
 Me., and took a collegiate course at the 
 Gardner High School. During his school 
 days, and for a couple of years afterwards, 
 he engaged in journalism and then spent 
 ten years in the saddlery hardware fur- 
 nishing business in Providence, R. I., 
 which he left to form the present partner- 
 ship. He is a Thirty-Second degree 
 Mason, Moses Paul Lodge, A. F. and A. 
 M., a member of Providence Chapter, 
 Orphan Council, Dover, St. John's Com- 
 mandery, Providence, and Rhode Island 
 Consistorv, S. P. R. S. 
 
 AN INTERIOR VIEW DOVER FURNITURE COMPANY. 
 
 thoroughly conversant with its every de- 
 tail and are capable and progressive busi- 
 ness men who have made a close study of 
 successfully catering to the public require- 
 ments. In this lies the success they have 
 achieved. 
 
 Among the recent furnishing contracts 
 carried out by this firm may be mentioned 
 the complete furnishing of the Wentworth 
 Home for the aged, several cottages and 
 hotels' at York Beach, Wells Beach and 
 other seashore resorts, the hotels at Milton 
 Three Ponds, Gonic, Epping and the 
 Granite State Park Hotel. 
 
 Mr. Mooney is a native of Whitefield, 
 Me., where he was born in 1870. He was 
 educated in the public school of his native 
 town, afterwards taking courses at the 
 Pittston Academy and Augusta Business 
 College. Upon completing his education 
 he engaged in the furniture business with 
 Messrs. Preble and Keene, Gardner, Me., 
 where he remained three years, afterwards 
 accepting the position of manager for the 
 Portsmouth Furniture Company which he 
 left to engage in his present enterprise. 
 He is a member of the Bellamy 
 Club, a member of Moses Paul Lodge,
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 A. F. and A. M. and the Dover Lodge of 
 Elks. 
 
 Both partners are highly esteemed in 
 business and social circles, are young, 
 ambitious but conservative in their meth- 
 ods, and to this and their intimate 
 acquaintance with business methods may 
 be ascribed the success they have 
 achieved. 
 
 Thomas H. Dearborn & Co. 
 
 A history of the business interests of 
 Dover would not be complete without 
 
 nearly every business man in the city who 
 prognosticated that such an extensive es- 
 tablishment could not be made a success 
 in Dover but nothing daunted they took 
 the step. Five years later they added 
 nearly as much more room, and a well 
 equipped cloak room was opened. Two 
 years ago they took the basement in 
 which they opened a kitchen furnishing 
 department. The rapid growth of this 
 house can be attributed to the same 
 cause which has made the success of all 
 large concerns, perseverance, energy and 
 honest dealings combined with hard work, 
 
 RESIDENCE OF THOMAS H. DEARBORN, SILVER STREET. 
 
 reference to the dry goods and depart- 
 ment store of Thomas H. Dearborn & 
 Co. which was established by the present 
 partners Thomas H. Dearborn and Frank 
 N. French in 1884. From a small be- 
 ginning this establishment has grown to 
 be second to none of its kind in this sec- 
 tion. Upon first coming to Dover they 
 purchased the dry goods business located 
 in the store 470 Central Avenue. Two 
 years later an opportunity presented it- 
 self to secure what is now a part of the 
 present large concern. This step was 
 taken against the judgment and advice of 
 
 a liberal use of printer's ink and keeping 
 faith with the public. 
 
 Thos. H. Dearborn was born in North- 
 field, N. H., in 1860. He received his 
 education at Exeter and New Hampton 
 and upon leaving school engaged in the 
 dry goods business in Exeter. Subse- 
 quently he went to Texas and was en- 
 gaged in raising sheep and horses, finally 
 coming to Dover to engage in his present 
 business. He is a conservative but en- 
 terprising business man who has attained 
 his present position by merit alone. Mr. 
 Dearborn is a member of Moses Paul
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 THOMAS H. DEARBORN. 
 
 FRANK N. FRENCH. 
 
 THOMAS H. DEARBORN & CO.'S STORE.
 
 66 
 
 DOVER \ 623-1898 
 
 Lodge F. & A. M., the Royal Arcanum, 
 an Elk, and Redman, and is a deservedly 
 popular citizen of wide acquaintance and 
 great influence in the business life of the 
 city, being president of the Dover Com- 
 mercial Club. Frank N. French was 
 born in Exeter, in 1860 and graduated 
 from Exeter Academy, subsequently tak- 
 ing a business course at the New Hamp- 
 ton Commercial College. He was en- 
 gaged in the dry goods business in his 
 native city until he came to Dover and 
 formed the present partnership. Mr. 
 French is a Mason, a member of the 
 Bellamy Club and is most highly thought of 
 by the community at large. 
 
 Dover Business College. 
 
 With the young man of ambition the 
 question above all others is how to get a 
 start. In order to secure a foothold 
 somewhere he must be able to do some- 
 
 THOMAS M. HENDERSON, 
 Principal Dover Business College. 
 
 thing useful. The Dover Business College 
 course of study is designed to qualify the 
 prospective business man to cope with the 
 difficulties he is sure to meet. It gives 
 thorough and scientific training in those 
 
 things that the business proprietor and 
 manager should be thoroughly familiar 
 with, and without which he will be con- 
 stantly handicapped in his business career. 
 The College was founded on the principle 
 that permanent success in business, as 
 elsewhere, must be based upon adequate 
 preparation. The Dover Business College 
 furnishes the training and preparation 
 that fit young men and women to achieve 
 success which would otherwise be long 
 deferred if not actually unattainable. The 
 College has earned a reputation for effi- 
 ciency in helping young people on the 
 road to success. It puts them in posses- 
 sion of a practical business education ; it 
 assists its graduates to responsible and lu- 
 crative positions ; its course of study and 
 training and the association with its capable 
 teachers and energetic business students 
 give an incentive to effort and an impulse 
 to ambition. The College was founded 
 in October, 1896, by Bliss Brothers of 
 Conneaut, O., Mr. T. M. Henderson being 
 appointed principal. In July, 1897, Mr. 
 Henderson acquired the business which 
 he conducted under the original name un- 
 til last January when the title became as 
 at present. The class-rooms are located 
 in the Odd Fellows block and consist of 
 five spacious rooms excellently equipped 
 for business purposes, the main class-room 
 measuring 40x60 feet. The students have 
 the advantage of working in a well ap- 
 pointed business office which also con- 
 tains a First and Second National Bank 
 thus making them thoroughly conversant 
 with every detail of business life. The 
 prescribed courses of study are classed as 
 Commercial, Shorthand and Practical 
 English. The Commercial Course is de- 
 signed to furnish a thorough preparation 
 for a successful business career. It gives 
 a complete course in the science and me- 
 chanical work of bookkeeping and all its 
 collateral branches, the Williams and 
 Rogers System being adopted. In the 
 Shorthand classes the Dement-Pitman 
 System is used, being the very latest de- 
 velopment of the world-famed Pitman 
 method. This is a very strong feature of 
 the College as shown by the responsible 
 positions now being held by some of the 
 graduates in the Shorthand department.
 
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 68 
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 The department of business practice and 
 the Counting-room department are the 
 crowning features of the College those 
 which have contributed to its reputation 
 for thoroughness and efficiency. The 
 pupil here becomes in all essentials a 
 practical business man. Night sessions 
 are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and 
 Fridays at which the same course is 
 taken as in the day classes and students 
 are graduated on completing their 
 course. 
 
 Mr! Henderson was born in Pickering, 
 Ont., Canada, in 1861, receiving his early 
 education at the Whitly High School. 
 He subsequently took a course at Picker- 
 ing College and obtained a professional 
 teacher's certificate from the Toronto 
 Normal School. He afterwards graduated 
 from the Central Business College, Toron- 
 to. His teaching experience extends over 
 a period of twelve years, in both Public 
 Schools and Business College work. When 
 Bliss Brothers founded their School in 
 this city he was chosen principal and is 
 today sole proprietor of the Dover Busi- 
 ness College. Mr. Henderson is well- 
 grounded in and thorough'y familiar with 
 every particular of business as practiced 
 in the best Commercial offices, and the 
 success the College has attained under his 
 skilful and capable management is as 
 pleasing as it is pronounced. 
 
 Hon. John Tapley Welch. 
 
 Hon. John Tapley Welch, who assumed 
 charge of the Post Office May 24, 1898, 
 is widely known in this section, has held 
 many positions of trust and is recognized 
 as a man of abundant executive ability. 
 The appointment of Postmaster was se- 
 cured by Mr. Welch after a long and 
 exciting contest. 
 
 Mr. Welch was born in Dover, Decem- 
 ber 15, 1856, and was educated in the 
 public schools of Dover and at Dartmouth 
 College. After completing his education 
 he devoted many years to newspaper 
 work. He served as city editor of the 
 Whiteside Sentinel of Morrison, 111., the 
 Dover Daily Republican and Dover Daily 
 
 Times, and was for several years the Dover 
 correspondent of the Boston Globe. 
 
 He has had much experience in a cler- 
 ical capacity, having been clerk of the 
 Dover police court in 1881-1882, register 
 of probate for Strafford county from 1882 
 to 1887, five years a member and first 
 secretary of the board of trustees of the 
 Dover Public Library, and from February 
 1890, to July 1894, was chief time clerk of 
 the government printing office at Wash- 
 ington. Mr. Welch represented Ward 3 
 in the legislature of 1889, and served as 
 clerk of the committee on railroads. 
 
 He has always been an ardent Republi- 
 can and an active supporter of his party. 
 
 HON. JOHN T. WELCH, 
 
 Postmaster of Dover. 
 
 He has been a delegate to every Republican 
 state and district convention since 1882, 
 is at present a member of the republican 
 state committee and has been a member 
 of the Dover Ward 3 committee for several 
 years. He also served as supervisor of 
 elections during the presidental election 
 of 1884. 
 
 In 1896 he was unanimously nominated 
 for Senator in the 22nd Senatorial district 
 and was elected by the largest majority 
 ever given in the district. In the Senate
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 he was chairman of the committee on re- 
 vision of laws and also served on the com- 
 mittees on education,roads, bridges,canals, 
 and manufactures. 
 
 Mr. Welch is a member of the New 
 Hampshire Historical Society, the Dover 
 Historical Society, the Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution and the following secret 
 societies in Dover : Mt. Pleasant lodge 
 and Prescott Encampment, I. O. O. F. ; 
 Olive Branch Lodge, K. of P. ; Wanalan- 
 set Tribe of 
 Red Men ; 
 Co eur d e 
 Lion Castle. 
 K. G. E., and 
 Dover Lodge 
 184, B. P. 
 O. E. 
 
 The Late 
 Levi Gerrish 
 Hill, M. D. 
 
 For half a 
 century D r . 
 Hill was iden- 
 tified with 
 Dover; his in- 
 terest and ac- 
 tivity ne v e r 
 flagging from 
 the time of his 
 coming in 
 1848, to his 
 death in 
 1898. 
 
 To the 
 most remark- 
 able degree 
 he escaped 
 the infirmities 
 of age, con- 
 tinuing h i s 
 
 professional duties to within one month 
 of his decease. His tall figure and stately 
 courtesy seemed a part of Dover. 
 
 Dr. Hill was a thorough New Englander, 
 whose ancestors were conspicuous in the 
 early history of the colony : Elder Hate- 
 vil Nuiter, Thomas Leighton, John Hill 
 of New Hampshire, Henry Sewall, Stephen 
 Dummer and Captain William Gerrish of 
 Massachusetts were his grandfathers in the 
 1 7th century. Chief Justice Samuel 
 
 THE LATE DR. LEVI GERRISH HILL 
 
 Sewall was his kinsman, and also Lt. Gov. 
 William Dummer. He was the son of 
 Andrew Neal and Sally (Leighton) Hill 
 and was born in Strafford, N. H., July 
 7th, 1812. 
 
 His boyhood was spent on his father's 
 farm attending the district school till the 
 age of fifteen, after which he attended 
 Newmarket and Gilmantpn Academies. 
 
 Deciding upon the medical profession 
 he attended three full courses of lectures 
 a t D_a r t - 
 mouth Medi- 
 cal College 
 and was grad- 
 uated there- 
 from in 1838. 
 The degree 
 of A. M. was 
 conferred up- 
 on him by 
 Dartmouth 
 Co 1 1 e g e in 
 1883. 
 
 I m me di- 
 ately after 
 gradu a t i o n 
 Dr. Hill be- 
 gan practice 
 a t Salisbury, 
 N. H. Two 
 years later he 
 estab 1 i s h e d 
 himself in 
 Norfolk, Va., 
 where resided 
 his only 
 brother, Capt. 
 Andrew 
 Le i gh t o n 
 Hill. In Nor- 
 folk he ac- 
 quired a good 
 practice but 
 
 his fondness for New England impelled 
 him to return to New Hampshire. 
 
 The Medical Societies of the City, 
 County and State, had in Dr. Hill an ac- 
 tive and progressive member. He was 
 president of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society in 1869, and president of its 
 board of trustees from the establishment 
 of that Board. He was president of the 
 Dover Medical Society in 1854 ; president 
 of the Strafford District Medical Society
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 in 1862 ; permanent member of the 
 American Medical Association ; vice pres- 
 ident in 1 88 1 ; president of the Examin- 
 ing Board under the registration law of 
 New Hampshire during the first ten years 
 of its existence, 1878 to 1888; honorary 
 member of the Portsmouth Medical Soci- 
 ety, and of the Maine Medical Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 On November i3th, 1893, he was 
 elected president of the Dartmouth Alum- 
 ni Association of S. E. New Hampshire. 
 
 Dr. Hill was a Mason member of 
 Strafford Lodge since June, 1856. In 
 November, 1849, ne joined the Weco- 
 hamet Lodge of Odd Fellows. He joined 
 
 served on the field as captain of the 
 Thirty-fifth Massachusetts infantry ; Ade- 
 laide Shackford, wife of- Rev. James M. 
 Buckley, LL.D., of Morristown, N. J. ; 
 and Margaret Leigh ton, deceased, wife of 
 Seth M. Milliken of New York city. 
 
 Late Joseph Dame Guppey. 
 
 Capt. James Guppey was born in Bev- 
 erly, Mass., in 1732, and came to Dover 
 while young to be educated for a nautical 
 career, and at the age of twenty-one com- 
 manded a ship. He sailed from Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., and Salem, Mass., his fam- 
 ily residing in Portsmouth. In 1767 he 
 
 RESIDENCE OF THE LATE DR. HILL, WASHINGTON STREET. 
 
 the First Parish church of Dover, May 6, 
 1877. 
 
 Dr. Hill was married July 30, 1838, to 
 Abigail Burnham, daughter of the late 
 Samuel Shackford, Esq., a woman of re- 
 markable beauty and strength of charac- 
 ter, whose death on October 25th, 1895, 
 was deeply mourned by a wide circle. 
 
 Their children are : Clara A., wife of 
 the late George F. French, A.M., M.D., 
 of Minneapolis, Minn., surgeon United 
 State volunteers and personal staff sur- 
 geon of Gen. U. S. Grant ; Abby A., wife 
 of Maj. William N. Meserve, then in com- 
 mand of Forts Barnard and Albany, near 
 Washington, D. C., having previously 
 
 purchased the Capt. Heard farm in Dover, V-f ^ 
 and after repairing the house, which was/ 
 built in 1690, removed his family there.; 
 When our independence was established 
 he relinquished a sea- faring life and re- 
 tired to his farm. In August 1782, the , 
 government sent him to the friendly 
 French fleet on our coast as a competent 
 and trustworthy pilot. He piloted five of ! 
 the fleet to Portsmouth harbor and re- 
 mained with them three months as the 
 confidential business advisor of Marquis i 
 de Vandreuil. He died in 1826, aged \ 
 ninety-three years, leaving his farm to his j 
 son John, who was born in 1768 and died | 
 in 1855, a S e d eighty-seven years. John
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 had five sons ; two died in early manhood, 
 of the other three Gen. J. J. Guppey of 
 
 February 11,1823. He received a good 
 common school education supplemented 
 
 Wisconsin, a 
 grad u a t e of 
 Dart mouth, 
 died 5ril93, 
 aged seventy- 
 three years. 
 The next one, 
 Joseph D., 
 died in Dover 
 in 1890. The 
 youngest, Jer- 
 emy B., owns 
 the home- 
 stead farm, 
 and with his 
 two si s t e r s , 
 Mrs. Abby G. 
 Trafton and 
 Miss Hannah 
 G. Guppey, 
 occupies the 
 same house 
 built in 1690 
 that his grand- 
 fat h e r and 
 father occu- 
 pied so many 
 years. 
 
 J o s e p h 
 Dame Gup- 
 pey was born 
 in Dover, 
 
 THE OLD GUPPEY HOUSE (BUILT I690\ PORTLAND STREET 
 
 THE LATE EX-MAYOR JOSEPH D. GUPPEY. 
 
 by a special 
 academic 
 course in 
 mathematics . 
 He inherited 
 the family 
 physique, and 
 was a sound, 
 practical man, 
 always ready 
 to give a 
 strong, com- 
 m o n-s e n s e 
 opinion upon 
 any subject to 
 which his at- 
 tention had 
 been called. 
 In early life 
 he succeeded 
 as a sc h o o 1 
 teacher, and 
 his fellow- 
 citizens r e - 
 p e a t e d 1 y 
 showed their 
 confidence in 
 h i s integrity 
 and ability by 
 placing him 
 m positions 
 of public trust
 
 7 2 
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 and responsibility, auditor, moderator, 
 school committeeman, county, commis- 
 sioner, member of the Constitutional con- 
 vention and mayor in 1879-1880. He 
 retired from each office with honor and 
 credit. It may be briefly added that ex- 
 Mayor Guppey was a good type of that 
 useful class of citizens who are always safe 
 advisors in critical times or in an emer- 
 gency of any kind. 
 
 Hon. Hose a 
 Ballou 
 Perkins. 
 
 Hon. Ho- 
 sea B a 1 1 o u 
 Perkins was 
 born in Dover 
 August 4, 
 1819, and is 
 the son of 
 Robert Per- 
 kins and Re- 
 lief Earle. He 
 has the dis- 
 tinc t i o n of 
 belonging to 
 one of the old- 
 est and most 
 honored fam- 
 ilies of New 
 Hamps hire. 
 His ancestors 
 were men who 
 made history 
 and there are 
 in Dover to- 
 day the old 
 mansions 
 built by these 
 men, which 
 are now some 
 
 of our time-honored reminders of days 
 and people that have passed from all but 
 memory. 
 
 Mr. Perkins received his education in 
 the public schools of New Hampshire and 
 throughout his school days showed the 
 greatest aptitude for acquiring knowledge 
 and improving his opportunities. 
 
 Leaving school at the early age of 
 fourteen, he divided the remaining years 
 of his boyhood between farm and clerk 
 
 HON. HOSEA BALLOU PERKINS. 
 
 life, going to New York City when seven- 
 teen years old with no capital save his na- 
 tive energy and tact, and without an ac- 
 quaintance in the metropolis except a 
 poor colored man. 
 
 He began his business life in New York 
 as a clerk in the well-known carpet establish- 
 ment of Shaw & Carter. At the end of his 
 second year he refused a liberal salary 
 from this company and embarked in busi- 
 ness for him- 
 self, taking for 
 a partner his 
 younger 
 brother, 
 James P. Per- 
 kins. For 
 twen ty-fi v e 
 years the ca- 
 reer of this 
 firm of carpet 
 me r c h a n t s 
 was one con- 
 tinued success 
 in spite of the 
 financial crisis 
 through which 
 our country 
 passed during 
 that time. 
 
 During the 
 last year of 
 Fernando 
 Wood's may- 
 oralty of New 
 York the 
 nomin a t i o n 
 for the assem- 
 bly i n t h e 
 Twelfth Ward 
 was tendered 
 Mr. Perkins 
 and declined. 
 
 Later, under the leadership of John Kelly, 
 he was nominated for State Senator, but 
 refused the nomination, much to the re- 
 gret of his party. 
 
 Mr. Perkins has been a life long Dem- 
 ocrat, efficient and active on the stump, 
 during many campaigns. He never sought 
 any political office, but was content to 
 serve the educational interests of the city 
 for more than thirty years as Commissioner 
 and Inspector of Public Schools.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Perkins received the hon- 
 orary degree of Master of Arts from Bpw- 
 doin and in 1875 from Dartmouth College. 
 It was in the fall of '75 that he delivered 
 to the Dartmouth students his popular 
 lecture on Robert Burns, the Scottish 
 poet, which was repeated two years later 
 at the request of the faculty. Mr. Perkins 
 has delivered many addresses before agri- 
 cultural societies, colleges, political and 
 other gatherings, also before lyceums in 
 different parts of the country. As an 
 after-dinner speaker he has always been in 
 great demand. During the Civil War he 
 represented his native state in the New 
 England Relief Association, pleading elo- 
 quently the cause of the Union. 
 
 When the Second New Hampshire reg- 
 iment arrived in New York under the 
 command of Colonel Marston, Mr. Per- 
 kins was selected by the sons of New 
 Hampshire, resident in this city, to make 
 the address of welcome, which he did on 
 the Battery in the presence often thousand 
 people, and the address was published in 
 several of the New England papers. 
 
 The following is an extract from one of 
 Mr. Perkins' addresses before the Board 
 of Education of New York City : " I had 
 hardly been in this Board one month when 
 a gentleman well known in this commun- 
 ity, holding a high social position, but not 
 especially noted for his liberality, said to 
 me : ' Commissioner, I think public ed- 
 ucation is a failure.' I answered him that if 
 he entertained such an idea it was a delu- 
 sive dream that enwrapped his senses, an 
 idle fancy sporting with his fears. And 
 let me say here, to-night, in the presence 
 of this Board and of the intelligent mem- 
 bers of the press and of all, that the com- 
 mon school here in this great city, amid 
 the bleak hills of New England, or on the 
 broad prairies of the far distant west, is 
 no more a failure than ' popular liberty, 
 constitutional law, or the Christian relig- 
 ion.' The past is full of its great achieve- 
 ments, the future will acknowledge its 
 sovereign power. 
 
 The common school a failure ! Why, 
 sir, you might as well attempt to dam up 
 the waters of Niagara with cobwebs as to 
 try to fetter the feet of the noble men and 
 women who are engaged in the grand 
 
 work of popular instruction in this great, 
 free and prosperous republic, whose very 
 foundations rest upon the intelligence and 
 virtue of the people. 
 
 From our public schools and our col- 
 leges are to go out into the world the men 
 and the women who are to make states 
 and form our national strength, who are 
 to still further illustrate the grand idea 
 that man is capable of self-government, 
 endowed by his Maker with natural rights 
 older than the sceptre of the king, and 
 that can be taken from him only by that 
 Omnipotent Power ' to whom a thousand 
 years are but as yesterday when it is past,' 
 and who controls the destinies of men and 
 nations. 
 
 Look back, oh illiberal and misguided 
 opponent of public education, through 
 the mist and haze of the past, and tell 
 me if you can what paintings of Apollos, 
 what statutes of Phidias, what poems of 
 Homer or Virgil are half as noble, or have 
 contributed half as much to the general 
 welfare and prosperity of mankind as the 
 humble little temple of learning em- 
 bosomed amid the pine forests of Maine, 
 or standing upon the bleak shores of Erie 
 or Ontario. 
 
 Lord Bacon suggested to the people of 
 Great Britain a system of public educa- 
 tion, but the titled, tinselled and courtly 
 throng of that period did not think it safe, 
 under their form of government, to edu- 
 cate the masses, and they rejected Bacon's 
 plan, and ' like the base Judean, they 
 threw a rich pearl away.' But to-day has 
 changed the picture ! the people of Great 
 Britain are proud of their public schools, 
 and public education engrosses the atten- 
 tion of her best and brightest intellects. 
 If people living under a monarchical gov- 
 ernment are taking so much interest in 
 the education of the masses, why talk of 
 public education being a failure in this 
 glorious land of ours, where every man 
 can rise in the majesty of his own intel- 
 lect and where the avenues to knowledge, 
 distinction and power are clear and broad 
 for all. 
 
 But, Mr. President, if our great system 
 of education be ever destroyed by antag- 
 onists of whatever name (I allude to no 
 particular sect or faction), I, for one, can-
 
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 not but think its light will linger even 
 when its sun is set, gilding the loftiest 
 spires of our land with the departing glo- 
 ries of a system that now commands the 
 admiration of the young, the generous and 
 the good. 
 
 Our public schools, to-day, are better 
 organized and equipped and are doing 
 better work than at any previous period 
 in their history. Let us then, whether in 
 this Board or out of it, give to them our 
 counsel, our means and our best efforts. 
 Let us plead for education in all lands 
 and among all people, and when educa- 
 tion shall have become 
 universal, may we not 
 hope for that happy 
 epoch for which the 
 good have so long 
 prayed, and the war- 
 rior's battered panoply 
 shall be laid aside. 
 Then will peace, the 
 blessed angel of peace, 
 be crowned with tri- 
 umphant garl a n d s ; 
 then, in the eloquent 
 language of another 
 ' will dim Meroe shout 
 freedom from beyond 
 the fountains of the 
 Nile, and lips as stony 
 as the sphinx will 
 preach the Gospel ' of 
 the better day." 
 
 Mr. Perkins is a 
 member of the Tam- 
 many society, Demo- 
 cratic club, Fordham 
 club, and has been 
 president of the Wash- 
 ington Heights Century club for the past 
 ten years. 
 
 On November 9, 1843, Mr. Perkins 
 was united in marriage to Harriet Louise 
 Hanmer and their children were Edwin 
 Earle, who died in 1893, Harriet Ida, 
 Helen Hanmer, James P., Jr., who died 
 in 1851, Lucy Charlotte, died in 1853, 
 Mary Grace and Robert Randolph. 
 
 Probably no man in New York is bet- 
 ter known in society or among the habitues 
 of the rides and drives than is Mr. Perkins. 
 Although he has attained more than the 
 
 JAMES E. HAYES, 
 
 Sheriff, Stratford County. 
 
 usual number of years allowed to the aver- 
 age man, of even the most robust health, 
 Mr. Perkins is active, energetic and 
 sparkling with the spirit of vigorous man- 
 hood. No social gathering is quite com- 
 plete without his presence. He has en- 
 joyed the friendship of some of the great- 
 est men of the metropolis, past and pres- 
 ent, and his beautiful residence amid the 
 trees of Washington Heights is fragrant 
 with memories of these men who have 
 from time to time enjoyed the stately but 
 cordial hospitality which is a pleasing fea- 
 ture of his home life. _ 
 
 James E, Hayes. 
 
 James E. Hayes 
 was bom April 13, 
 1840, on the old 
 homestead at Fajrming- 
 ton, which his great- 
 grandfather, Daniel 
 Hayes, cleared from 
 the wilderness. The 
 homestead was also the 
 birthplace of Daniel 
 Hayes, Jr., the grand- 
 father, and of his son, 
 Richard Hayes, the 
 father of the subject of 
 this sketch. Richard 
 Hayes married Martha 
 A. Edgerly of Far- 
 mington, who bore him 
 two children, Annie 
 M. Hayes, who mar- 
 ried Alvah M. Kimball, 
 and James E. Hayes. 
 In 1882 Mr. Hayes 
 erected, in his native 
 town, a factory for the 
 manufacture of heels for boots and shoes, 
 which is now in charge of his son, Eugene 
 B. Hayes. The marked popularity of Mr. 
 Hayes was attested in the flattering vote 
 by which he was chosen to his present re- 
 sponsible position in 1895. For many 
 years he had served as a Deputy Sheriff 
 and his appointment to the position of 
 Sheriff of Straff ord County was but 
 a just tribute to his merit. Although prac- 
 tically a stranger to public functions, Mr. 
 Hayes' incumbency of the sheriff's office 
 has been an eminently able one, the many
 
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 75 
 
 problems constantly arising in connection 
 with his multifarious duties being handled 
 with care and discretion. Mr. Hayes also 
 acts as Keeper of the Jail. In politics he 
 is a firm supporter of Republican princi- 
 ples, having cast his first vote for Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. He represented the town 
 of Farmington in the state legislature in 
 1872 and in 1887 was elected selectman 
 of the town. He was married Nov. 24, 
 1870, to Miss Mary E. Peavey of Far- 
 mington, a daughter of John L. and Emily 
 Furber Peavey, and has two sons, Eugene 
 B. Hayes, deputy sheriff, and manager of 
 his heel factory at Farmington, and John 
 R. Hayes, a student. 
 
 Union Electric Railway. 
 
 This company which now controls the 
 street transportation of passengers in Do- 
 ver and vicinity is well worthy of extended 
 notice in this work. Its growth has been 
 marvellous and in complete harmony with 
 the progress of the age, providing unri- 
 valled facilities for public pleasure and 
 convenience. 
 
 When in the early part of 1882 the 
 idea of a street railway was first conceived 
 by. Mr. Harrison Haley it was looked upon 
 as a wild scheme, too much for the little 
 city of Dover, but, notwithstanding the 
 opposition and ridicule of the enterprise, 
 by the perseverance of Mr. Haley the nec- 
 essary capital, $20,000, was subscribed by 
 liberal and public-spirited citizens who at 
 that time had no assurance of ever receiv- 
 ing any return for the money subscribed, 
 but were confident it would be a great 
 public good. It did, however, pay dividends. 
 
 The building of the road between Saw- 
 yer's and Garrison Hill was commenced 
 in the spring of 1882 the work being 
 pushed on so rapidly that by the follow- 
 ing July the first cars were run over the 
 new road, a distance of two and one-half 
 miles. 
 
 The old road succeeded for some years 
 and was greatly appreciated, but the great 
 development of electricity showed the fu- 
 tility of attempting to run cars on anti- 
 quated principles while the new power of 
 electricity could be procured upon fa- 
 vorable terms. The consequence has 
 
 been that the horse-cars have given place 
 entirely to the modern and expensively 
 fitted trolley-cars ; and the application 
 of electricity as a motive power has 
 contributed much to the convenience of 
 the traveling public. 
 
 Since the formation of the present com- 
 pany the management has been constantly 
 making improvements and the change has 
 been decidedly beneficial to Dover. The 
 entire roadbed between Sawyer's Mills 
 and the city of Somersworih, the termi- 
 nals of the line, has been rebuilt and new 
 sixty-foot bixty-pound steel rails laid. In 
 the city limits a steel girder rail has been 
 employed which can be paved with granite 
 blocks between the tracks. The cost of 
 this improvement, including labor and 
 auxiliary expenses, has been very great. 
 But the inestimable benefits derived from 
 a well-equipped railway like ours are 
 practical as well as sentimental. Suburbs 
 are opened up and made more accessible 
 from the city, thereby diffusing the popu- 
 lation, improving the health of the people 
 and largely increasing the number of 
 house owners. 
 
 One of the greatest attractions of the 
 road is Central Park, which is situated on 
 the line of the Union Electric Railway, mid- 
 way between the cities of Dover and 
 Somersworth, and contains twenty acres 
 of hill and dale, woodland and plain. 
 Bounded on the west by Lake Wiljand, a 
 body of water called in the land grants 
 " The Great Pond," and as early as 1674 
 named " Cochecho Pond," or " the pond 
 of the Cochecho." The Indian tribe who 
 massacred Maj. Waldron and burned the 
 garrison over his body at Dover, June 27, 
 1689, often tented around this sheet of 
 water as a fishing ground. 
 
 The air at the Park is of the purest and 
 best. A good, cool breeze can be enjoyed 
 there in the hottest of weather. The 
 scenery around the lake is beautiful. A 
 fleet of boats is there, and a party can 
 spend an hour in pleasure rowing and 
 sailing about the lake, or, if they do not 
 care to row or sail, they can charter a 
 steam launch at a very small expense, and 
 the trip around the lake is a most delight- 
 ful one. 
 
 This Park has all of the accompani-
 
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 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 ments required for first-class grounds for 
 picnic or excursion parties. There is a 
 large Casino building, 50x150 feet, two 
 stories, containing a large banquet hall 
 and kitchen on the lower floor, and a fine 
 exhibition hall above. Also a Pavilion, 
 50 x 150 feet, which can be used for meet- 
 ings, entertainments, dances, etc. A 
 lawn tennis ground, suitably enclosed, 
 and a base ball and foot ball ground, with 
 an amphitheatre of 1500 seats, gives a 
 splendid opportunity for either of these 
 popular games. There is also a fine track 
 for bicycle races. The grounds are 
 
 than this delightful resort. It is of easy 
 access, and excursion parties over the 
 Boston & Maine R. R., Portsmouth and 
 Dover, and Northern divisions of the Bos- 
 ton & Maine can be furnished with elec- 
 tric cars from Dover and Somersworth to 
 the Park. The proprietors of the Park 
 have expended large sums to make it the 
 most attractive possible. Arrangements 
 can be made for reduced transportation 
 over all the divisions of Boston & Maine 
 road for picnics and excursions. The use 
 of the Park is free to all picnic and ex- 
 cursion parties. Information relative to 
 
 INTERIOR FURBER AND WIGGIN'S STORE. 
 
 lighted by electricity, are furnished with 
 seats, swings, picnic tables, etc. Ice wa- 
 ter tanks are well distributed over the 
 grounds throughout the summer season. 
 The walks and grounds are in fine condi- 
 tion. No liquors are sold in or around 
 the Park. An efficient police will also see 
 to it that no disorder is permitted. 
 Churches and societies in the surrounding 
 towns which are to hold picnics the com- 
 ing season should not forget that Central 
 Park is one of the most delightful spots 
 to be found in New England. Here every 
 convenience is supplied, and there is no 
 place better adapted for pleasure parties 
 
 the Park and Electric Railway can be ob- 
 tained of H. C. Weston, Superintendent. 
 The following are the directors of the 
 company : Sumner Wallace, Albert Wal- 
 lace, Geo. S. Wallace, James E. Lothrop, 
 Harrison Haley. President, Sumner 
 Wallace ; Vice President, Geo. E. Wallace ; 
 Treasurer, Harry Hough ; Superintendent, 
 H. C. Weston. 
 
 D. L. Forber and Wiggin. 
 
 The manufacture of ladies' and gents' 
 fine hand-sewed boots and shoes in Dover 
 was begun by Mr. D. L. Furber in 1884
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 77 
 
 in his present factory, rear of 101 Wash- 
 ington Street, and under his intelligent 
 direction the enterprise has been guided 
 on to a highly successful and prosperous 
 career, the output increasing annually and 
 keeping fifteen hands constantly employed. 
 Mr. Furber is the inventor of Furber's 
 Patent Elastic Band Bicycle shoes which 
 have become so popular with wheelmen 
 and also manufactures golf, football 
 and sporting footwear for the trade. He 
 personally 
 supervises all 
 the processes 
 of construc- 
 tion and his 
 practical ex- 
 perience i n 
 the business 
 enables him 
 to secure per- 
 fect produc- 
 t i o n. The 
 best materi- 
 a 1 s, leather, 
 findings, etc. 
 are utilized 
 and the entire 
 output of the 
 factory is cus- 
 tom work and 
 u n e x c elled 
 for genuine 
 merit, being 
 unsurpa s s ed 
 for finish, 
 style and last- 
 ing qualities. 
 The factory 
 measures 60 
 x 20 feet and 
 is well 
 equipped 
 with heel- 
 finishing and other special machinery for 
 the proper carrying on of the business, 
 and is lighted by electricity. In March 
 last Mr. Furber admitted Mr. C. F. Wig- 
 gin to partnership when the style of the 
 firm became as at present. In the retail 
 store located at the same address and fac- 
 ing on Washington Street, the products of 
 the factory are retailed and an excellent 
 and ever growing demand has been cre- 
 
 ated for these goods. The partners are men 
 of large business capacity and practical 
 experience who have made the shoe indus- 
 try a life study. They are highly esteemed 
 in trade circles for their skill and just 
 methods and have built up a business alike 
 creditable to their industry and enterprise. 
 
 THE E. MORRILL FURNITURE CO.'S STORE. 
 
 The E. Morrill Furniture Co. 
 
 For over half a century the name of 
 Morrill has 
 been associat- 
 ed with the 
 fu r n i t u r e 
 trade in Do- 
 ver, the orig- 
 inal business 
 having been 
 founded by E. 
 Morrill in the 
 same building 
 where the 
 present con- 
 cern is loca- 
 ted. 
 
 In 1886 
 Henry J. 
 Grimes and 
 Charles E. 
 Gate ac- 
 quired the 
 business 
 which is cen- 
 trally located 
 in the five 
 story building 
 93 Washing- 
 ton str e e t , 
 four buildings 
 in all being 
 utilized with 
 a total floor 
 space of 29,- 
 house bears an 
 the superiority 
 
 900 square feet. The 
 excellent reputation for 
 of its goods and the honorable character 
 of its management. Through the energy 
 and application of the partners in catering 
 to the requirements of their patrons they 
 have developed and retained a patronage 
 of the most desirable nature, extending 
 throughout this and the surrounding coun- 
 ties and each year sees their popularity
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 and entire trade increase. The establish- 
 ment is fitted up in the most approved 
 style, with every convenience for the ac- 
 commodation and display of goods and 
 the reception of customers. The im- 
 mense stock carried is well worthy of ex- 
 amination, representing as it does the 
 products of the leading manufacturers of 
 the kind in the country. The assortment 
 embraces elegant parlor suits, chairs and 
 lounges, chamber suits in profuse variety, 
 hall, library, office and kitchen furniture, 
 draperies, carpets, mattings, rugs, and up- 
 holstery goods. The firm make a specialty 
 of the manufacturing and upholstering of 
 fine parlor furniture, ten skilled men be- 
 ing constantly employed. Both a jobbing 
 and retail trade is carried on and cus- 
 tomers can at all times depend upon re- 
 ceiving the best goods at the lowest price 
 the market affords. 
 
 The partners are both natives of this 
 city where they also received their edu- 
 cation, Mr. Gate subsequently taking a 
 course at the New Hampton Business Col- 
 lege. They have both received a thorough 
 and practical business experience which 
 they apply intelligently in the furthering 
 of their patrons' interests. Mr. Grimes 
 is a member of the Dover Lodge of Elks 
 and Mr. Gate belongs to the I. O. O. F. 
 
 The Shoe Industry. 
 
 The making of shoes for the Southern 
 and Western markets has come to be 
 recognized as a leading and fast growing 
 industry in the city. Employment is af- 
 forded to several hundred of our citizens 
 in the different shoe shops and their lo- 
 cation in our city has added to its prestige 
 as a great manufacturing centre. 
 
 Almost every variety of footwear is 
 manufactured here, and every device that 
 would add beauty to appearance or com- 
 fort in the wearing has been studied out 
 and adopted by the local manufacturers. 
 
 The concentration of skilled labor at 
 certain points, in obedience to forces that 
 cannot always be defined, but which can 
 never be successfully opposed, has made 
 possible the origin and growth of the in- 
 dustrial centres of New England. The 
 business of shoemaking once well estab- 
 
 lished here, the dictates of convenience, 
 economy and good business management 
 alike suggest to the manufacturer the ad- 
 vantage of pursuing it in Dover. 
 
 J. H. IRELAND & CO. 
 
 The business of this representative con- 
 cern was founded in 1894 by J. H. Ire- 
 land, E. P. Dodge and H. B. Little and 
 under their intelligent direction the en- 
 terprise has been guided to a successful 
 and highly prosperous career. The fine 
 building occupied for the business was 
 erected by the Djver Improvement Asso- 
 ciation. It is a five story brick building 
 measuring 250 x 50 feet and is equipped 
 in admirable style with modern improved 
 machinery, operated by steam power, and 
 in the various departments of work em- 
 ployment is given to 400 skilled hands. 
 The company manufactures women's and 
 misses' shoes of medium grade, the ca- 
 pacity of the factory being seventy-five 
 sixty-pair cases a day. Mr. Wm. H. Mathews 
 is superintendent of the factory and his 
 practical experience as a shoemaker en- 
 ables him to secure perfect production in 
 all departments. The trade of the con- 
 cern extends generally throughout the 
 United States and the annual volume of 
 transactions shows a steady increase each 
 succeeding year. 
 
 CHARLES H. MOULTON i CO. 
 
 Thirteen years ago this business was 
 inaugurated in Dover by L. W. Nute & 
 Co., but upon the death of Mr. Nute in 
 1888 Mr. Charles H. Moulton became 
 proprietor and about one year ago admit- 
 ted Mr. W. H. Moody into partnership. 
 The premises occupied were built by the 
 Dover Improvement Association. They 
 are spacious in size, the factory being a 
 four story wooden structure measuring 
 150 x 50 feet, with a storehouse 100 x 
 50 feet in dimensions. The various de- 
 partments are equipped with the latest 
 improved tools, machinery and appliances 
 known to the trade. Two hundred hands 
 are employed in turning out men's heavy 
 pegged and nailed shoes, creedmoors and 
 ties which find a ready market in the 
 south and west. The products of the 
 shop are all of the best quality and work-
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 manship and none but first class hands 
 are employed in their manufacture. Mr. 
 F. J. Boyden is superintendent of the 
 factory and is a thoroughly practical man 
 who is acquainted with every detail of the 
 business. He has resided in Dover for 
 the past thirty-three years and is deserved- 
 ly popular. 
 
 THE BRADLEY-SAYWARD SHOE CO. 
 
 This company are manufacturers of 
 men's, youths' and boys' shoes, and can 
 justly lay claim to the careful attention of 
 the trade throughout the country. The 
 company was incorporated in November, 
 1897, under the above title, the previous 
 firm name, since its inception twenty years 
 ago, having been Bradley & Sayward. 
 The present officers are J. Bradley, Hud- 
 son, Mass., president, and H. S. Sayward, 
 Cambridge, Mass., secretary and treasurer. 
 The company has met with pleasing suc- 
 cess, owing largely to the fact of their 
 producing all the latest and most approved 
 styles in boots and shoes including men's 
 heavy work, bals, creedmoors and ties, and 
 the introduction of better methods in 
 their manufacture. The factory consists 
 of a four story building measuring 40 x 60 
 feet, thoroughly equipped with the latest 
 machinery and appliances, and having a 
 productive capacity of 600 pairs of shoes 
 a day. Constant employment is given to 
 a force of between fifty and sixty skilled 
 operatives. The product of the factory 
 finds a ready market, being noted for 
 superior workmanship and finish, having 
 all the elements of durability with the 
 added advantage of easy fit and attractive 
 appearance. Mr. E. I. Bennett is superin- 
 tendent and is a thoroughly practical shoe- 
 maker, conversant with all the details of 
 the business. 
 
 j. H. HURD & SON. 
 
 This business was originally established 
 at Farmington in 1850 by Jojrn H. Hurd, 
 who subsequently removed it to Dover 
 over a quarter of a century ago. The 
 partners are John H. Hurd and Clarence 
 I. Hurd, who personally superintend the 
 details of the business. The firm manu- 
 facture split and grain brogans, plow 
 shoes, creedmoors and Dom Pedros, all 
 
 their work being standard screw and 
 pegged, for which they possess every fa- 
 cility in the way of special machinery and 
 equipment. The plant comprises a three 
 story building 100 x 50 feet in dimen- 
 sions and the output is 500 pairs a day, 
 fifty hands being employed. Mr. J. H. 
 Hurd is much esteemed in business cir- 
 cles and is a trustee of the Strafford Sav- 
 ings Bank. The house ships its goods to 
 the southern and western markets and also 
 exports to South Africa. 
 
 DOVER HEEL COMPANY. 
 
 This concern does a large business in 
 the manufacture of heels for men's boots 
 and shoes. The premises are ample for 
 the requirements of the business and are 
 equipped with all the latest and most ap- 
 proved machinery known to the trade. 
 About twenty hands are constantly em- 
 ployed and the output of the shop in- 
 creases yearly. 
 
 The Boston & Maine Railroad. 
 
 The importance of railroads cannot be 
 ignored in this era of progressiveness, nor 
 can they be relegated to a minor position 
 by any community aspiring to modern 
 methods. In its intermediate relations 
 with the Union at large, a city must grant 
 railway communication equal considera- 
 tion with all other systems of transporta- 
 tion, for to this medium more than all 
 others yet devised by man's ingenuity is 
 due the present advanced state of civiliza- 
 tion throughout the world. 
 
 The Boston & Maine Railroad was 
 originally chartered in 1833 as the Ando- 
 ver and Wilmington R. R. and was com- 
 pleted between these towns and opened 
 for operation, August 8, 1836. It then 
 made a connection with the Boston and 
 Lowell R. R. at Wilmington, that being 
 the only railroad in that vicinity at the 
 time. The Andover and Wilmington R. 
 R. was extended to Bradford in 1837, to 
 Exeter in 1840 and to a connection with 
 the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth R. R. 
 at South Berwick Junction in 1842. The 
 lines in the several states through which 
 the road passed were under different 
 names and separate charters. These
 
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 81 
 
 roads were afterwards consolidated under 
 the name of the Boston & Maine Rail- 
 road. The business still continued to be 
 transferred to the Boston & Lowell R. R. 
 at Wilmington for Boston and intermedi- 
 ate points. About the time that the road 
 was completed to South Berwick Junction 
 a charter was obtained to extend it to 
 Boston independently of the Boston and 
 Lowell R. R. the change in line being 
 made at what is now called Wilmington 
 Junction. The extension passed through 
 the towns of Reading, Melrose and Mai- 
 den and was opened for business to the 
 Haymarket Square Station, Boston, July 
 i, 1845. The original passenger station 
 in Boston was located on ground now oc- 
 cupied by the Union passenger station, 
 but the charter compelled the railroad to 
 build to Haymarket Square and they were 
 obliged to do so, but would gladly have 
 avoided that expense if possible to do so 
 as the company was poor and could not 
 get money easily, and the business was 
 not enough to pay interest on money al- 
 ready expended. 
 
 Dover was opened up to railroad com- 
 munication in 1841, and is now entered 
 by the Western, Eastern and Northern 
 Divisions of the great Boston and Maine 
 system and is afforded with passenger and 
 freight facilities befitting its immense and 
 growing interests. The management of 
 the road has ever been alive to the needs 
 and demands of the city, and to this, in a 
 great degree, can be credited the position 
 in which the city now finds herself among 
 the municipalities of this and the adjoin- 
 ing States. On the Western Division 
 there are twenty-four passenger trains in 
 and out of Dover daily, and twelve on 
 the Eastern Division (Portsmouth and 
 Dover Branch). Those on the latter 
 stop at Folsom street and Sawyer's, both 
 within the city limits, and at Dover Point 
 and Cushing's before reaching Ports- 
 mouth, a distance of 10.88 miles. In 
 1847, an act was passed by the State of 
 New Hampshire authorizing the construc- 
 tion of the Cocheco Railroad from Dover 
 to Alton Bay. The road was opened to 
 Farmington in 1848 and to Alton Bay in 
 1851. It was reorganized in 1862 under 
 the name of Dover and Winnipiseogee 
 
 Railroad. An operating contract was en- 
 tered into with the Boston & Maine Rail- 
 road in 1863 for a term of fifty years. 
 The road was purchased by the Boston & 
 Maine Railroad in 1892, and is now op- 
 erated with the Lake Shore Branch of the 
 Concord & Montreal road as the Dover 
 & Lakeport Branch (Northern Division). 
 This road has been the prime factor in 
 opening up this delightful region to tour- 
 ists and pleasure parties of which the 
 number increases with each succeeding 
 year. Two trains run daily each way be- 
 tween Dover and Lakeport and one to 
 Alton Bay. 
 
 The present station was erected in 
 1874. It is built of brick and contains a 
 comfortable and well-appointed waiting- 
 room, toilet rooms, offices, news stand, 
 and baggage room. A projecting roof 
 protects passengers from the inclemency 
 of the weather in boarding trains. 
 
 The freight house is conveniently lo- 
 cated on Broadway about one mile east 
 of the passenger station and is a two story 
 brick building measuring 250 x 50 feet in 
 dimensions. There are also a carpenter 
 shop and round house and about thirty- 
 five men are employed. The immense 
 business transacted in the freight depart- 
 ment is shown by the average monthly 
 figures as follows : local and foreign 
 freight forwarded 3,336,577 Ibs. ; local 
 and foreign freight received, year ending 
 June 30, 1898, 9,406,872 Ibs. George F. 
 Mathes is the general agent of the com- 
 pany at Dover; S. H. Bell, ticket agent; 
 T. L. Berry, freight cashier ; B. A. Dow, 
 baggage master and C. H. Pemberton, 
 assistant roadmaster. 
 
 The management of the road is con- 
 stantly improving the rolling stock and 
 equipment and making the main and 
 and branch lines as perfect as modern 
 science in railroad building will permit. 
 During the present season there will be 
 laid in all about 100 miles of new rail, 75 
 and 85 Ib. pattern. 
 
 Passengers traveling over the lines of 
 the Boston & Maine are carried to all 
 points in the Lake and White Mountain 
 regions and to St. John, Halifax and Mon- 
 treal in elegantly appointed vestibuled 
 drawing room and sleeping cars, without
 
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 change, and the accommodations provided 
 are equal to those of any railroad in the 
 world. 
 
 The company employs about 15,000 
 men, one thousand at the Union Station, 
 Boston. The pay roll averages $8,600,000 
 yearly. 'It owns and operates 700 loco- 
 motives, 1,200 passenger cars and 13,000 
 freight cars. Six hundred regular trains 
 are run daily in and out of the Union 
 Station, carrying 100,000 passengers, 
 6,000 pieces 200 truck loads of bag- 
 gage, 22,000 Ibs. of daily papers and 800 
 bicycles. The general officers located in 
 Boston are as follows : Lucius Tuttle, 
 President; T. A. Mackinnon, ist Vice- 
 President and Gen. Mgr. ; Wm. F. Berry, 
 2d Vice-Pres. and Gen. Traffic Mgr. ; 
 Frank Barr, Asst. Gen. Mgr. ; A. Blan- 
 chard, Treasurer ; H. E. Fisher, Asst. 
 Treas. ; Wm. ]. Hobbs, Gen. Auditor; 
 D. J. Flanders, Gen. Passenger and Ticket 
 Agent ; Geo. E. Sturtevant, Asst. G. P. & 
 T. Agt. ; F. E. Brown, Asst. G. P. & T. 
 A., Concord, N. H. ; Geo. \V. Storer, 
 Asst. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.; M. T. 
 Donovan, Gen. Freight Agent ; D. W. 
 Sanborn, Gen. .Superintendent ; T- A. 
 Farrington, Purchasing Agt ; Henry Bart- 
 lett, Supt. Motive Power : Wm. Merritt, 
 Supt. Western Division ; J. W. Sanborn, 
 Supt. Northern Division, Sanbornville, N. 
 H. ; W. T. Perkins, Supt. Eastern Divi- 
 sion ; W. G. Bean, Supt. Southern Divi- 
 sion ; C. E. Lee, Supt. Wor. Nash. & 
 Port. Div., Nashua, N. H. ; H. E. Cham- 
 berlin, Supt. Concord Div., Concord, N. 
 H. ; H. E. Folsom, Supt. Connecticut 
 and Passumpsic Division, Lyndonville, 
 Vt. ; G. E. Cummings, Supt. White Mtns. 
 Div., Woodsville, N. H. ; H. E. Howard, 
 Supt. Car Service ; H. Bissell, Chief En- 
 gineer; O. W. Greeley, Gen. Baggage 
 Agent ; A. C. Varnum, New England 
 Passenger Agent ; A. P. Massey, Travel- 
 ing Passenger Agent. 
 
 YORK HARBOR AND BEACH R. R. 
 
 A sketch of the Boston & Maine Rail- 
 road would not be complete without a 
 reference to the York Harbor & Beach 
 R. R. which has done so much to pro- 
 mote the comfort and convenience of the 
 many thousands in this section who annu- 
 ally avail themselves of the opportunity to 
 
 visit these delightful summer resorts, 
 made possible by the enterprise of this 
 road. Prior to the construction of the 
 Eastern Railroad from Boston to Ports- 
 mouth and of the Portland, Saco and 
 Portsmouth Railroad between Portsmouth 
 and Portland, York was on the direct line 
 of the " Eastern Stage Route " from Port- 
 land to Boston, which originally crossed 
 York river from the point of land on 
 which the Marshall House now stands and 
 was called "Stage Neck." When the 
 Boston & Maine Railroad was built 
 through Wells and Kennebunk in 1872 
 and 1873, tne old stage line was discon- 
 tinued and a daily line established from 
 Cape Neddick to Portsmouth. Early 
 pilgrims to York well remember the con- 
 veniences of travel in those days. 
 
 In the autumn of 1882 a public meet- 
 ing was held in York to discuss the ques- 
 tion of better facilities for transportation, 
 which the growing business of the town 
 seemed to demand. A statement of the 
 business of the town was prepared and 
 John E. Staples, Edward S. Marshall, 
 Henry E. Evans and John C. Stewart 
 were chosen a committee to wait upon 
 President E. B. Phillips of the Eastern 
 R. R., present the statement and urge the 
 advisability of that company extending a 
 line from Portsmouth to York. 
 
 Subsequently efforts were made to in- 
 duce the Boston & Maine Railroad com- 
 pany, which had obtained control of the 
 Eastern, to aid in constructing the line. 
 Hon. Frank Jones of Portsmouth, then a 
 director of the Boston and Maine, be- 
 came personally interested in the matter. 
 He had subscribed to the stock of the 
 road and through his influence Mr. H. 
 Bissell, the chief engineer of the B. & M., 
 was sent to examine the various routes 
 which had been surveyed. After carefully 
 examining them all he reported to Mr. 
 Jones and the company upon the feasi- 
 bility of each line. 
 
 October 22, 1886, the specifications 
 were completed and bids asked for the 
 construction of the line. The bids were 
 to be opened Monday, November ist. 
 These specifications were for a narrow 
 guage railroad from York Beach to a 
 point on the line of the B. & M. about
 
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 86 
 
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 half a mile east of Kittery Depot, now 
 Kittery Junction. 
 
 When Mr. Jones saw the prospect of a 
 narrow guage road fast becoming a cer- 
 tainty he at once telegraphed the Direc- 
 tors to postpone all contracts until a con- 
 ference could be had between the Direct- 
 ors of the two companies. This was 
 done. A committee of the directors of 
 the Y. H. & B. met a similar committee 
 of the B. & M. and the result was an 
 agreement 
 that the Y. H. 
 & B. R. R. 
 Co. would 
 give a right of 
 way from Kit- 
 tery Junction 
 to the termi- 
 nus of the 
 road and take 
 $50,000 of 
 the stock. 
 The B. & M. 
 would furnish 
 the balance 
 of the money 
 to complete 
 the road and 
 take the stock 
 certificates 
 as bonds were 
 to be issued 
 also furnish 
 all rolling 
 stock and 
 equipments at 
 actual cost, 
 give the Y. H. 
 & B. R. R. 
 the free use of 
 the main line 
 from Kittery 
 Junction to 
 
 Portsmouth, together with all terminal fa- 
 cilities in Portsmouth until the Y. H. & B. 
 stock should pay a dividend of five per 
 cent, and construct a standard guage road. 
 
 The first contract was let December 6, 
 1886. Work was immediately begun. 
 August 8, 1887, the first train was run to 
 Long Beach. The next week it reached 
 the terminus at York Beach. The entire 
 cost was something over $300,000. 
 
 GEORGE F. MATHES, GENERAL AGENT B. & 
 
 The road is eleven miles long and 
 passes through some of the most beauti- 
 ful and picturesque scenery in the world. 
 Its route is along the seashore which it 
 skirts at places to the water's edge. 
 Twelve round trips are made between 
 Portsmouth and York Beach daily, the 
 fare being but forty cents for the round 
 trip. During the summer season from 
 8,000 to 27,000 passengers are carried 
 each month. The present managers of 
 this road are 
 Lucius Tuttle, 
 Pres i d e n t ; 
 Samuel W. 
 T u n k i n s , 
 Clerk; W. F. 
 Berry, Gen. 
 Traffic Mgr. ; 
 Amos Blanch- 
 ard, Treasur- 
 er ; W . J . 
 Hobbs, Audi- 
 tor ; Dana J . 
 Flanders, 
 General Pas- 
 senger and 
 Ticket Agent; 
 M, T. Don- 
 ovan, Gen. 
 Freight 
 Agent ; and 
 Wins 1 o w T. 
 Perkins, Su- 
 perintendent. 
 
 George F. 
 Mathes. 
 
 George F. 
 Mathes, gen- 
 eral agent of 
 the Boston & 
 Maine Rail- 
 road at Dover, was born in Rochester in 
 1856, and received his education at the 
 Rochester High School. Upon the com- 
 pletion of his studies he went railroading, 
 obtaining employment with the old Ports- 
 mouth, Great Falls & Conway Railroad as 
 brakeman, and was subsequently promoted 
 to be baggagemaster. Always faithful in 
 the performance of his duties it was not 
 long before he was appointed conductor, in
 
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 87 
 
 which capacity he served up to the time 
 of receiving his present important and 
 responsible position in May, 1893. Mr. 
 Mathes has proven himself to be a man 
 of excellent executive ability, and dis- 
 charges the duties of his office in a man- 
 ner that has won for him the confidence 
 of the great company he so ably repre- 
 sents. He is also much esteemed by the 
 traveling public who appreciate his un- 
 failing courtesy and the despatch with 
 which all business matters are attended 
 to. Adding per- 
 sonal merit to the 
 influence of place, 
 he may well be ac- 
 corded a position 
 among our repre- 
 sentative business 
 men. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. 
 Mathes was elect- 
 ed a member of the 
 Const i tu tion al 
 Convention which 
 assembled at Con- 
 cord. Four years 
 later he represent- 
 ed Wolfboro in the 
 legislature, serving 
 on various com- 
 mittees, and dis- 
 playing consider- 
 able ability which 
 won him high 
 praise from his 
 constituents. Mr. 
 Mathes married in 
 1874, Fanny A. 
 Parker, daughter 
 of the late Charles 
 Ff. Parker, editor 
 
 of the Granite State News, and has one 
 son, Charles A. Mathes, now twenty-two 
 years of age and a young man of much 
 promise. Mr. Mathes has a pleasant home 
 at 26 Sixth street and has a large and ever 
 increasing circle of friends. 
 
 W. F. CARTLAND. 
 
 William F. Cartland. 
 
 The number of men who succeed in 
 life, although they start in without or al- 
 most without any capital is really wonder- 
 
 ful and must be primarily ascribed to a 
 wonderful determination to overcome the 
 numerous obstacles which impede the 
 pathway to prosperity. A notable exam- 
 ple of a self made man whose energy, per- 
 severance and sound judgment have 
 placed him in the front rank of successful 
 business men, is William F. Cartland, the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Cartland was born in Parsonfield, 
 Me., January 5, 1860, and acquired his 
 education at the district school. Upon 
 leaving school he 
 worked on his 
 father's farm, his 
 arduous labors em- 
 inently fitting him 
 for the many vi- 
 cissitudes which 
 are to be encoun- 
 tered by the young 
 man beginning life 
 with only an in- 
 domitable will 
 power and an ac- 
 tive brain as his 
 capital. At eigh- 
 teen years of age 
 he came to Dover 
 and entered the 
 employment of his 
 uncle, William P. 
 Tuttle, where he 
 remained for three 
 years when he en- 
 tered the employ 
 of J. Frank Rob- 
 erts and devoted 
 himself assiduous- 
 ly to learning the 
 grocery business. 
 From Mr. Rob- 
 erts' he went to work for W. S. Wiggin, 
 but the spirit of enterprise which is one of 
 his characteristics was strong within him 
 and his ambition led him to seek broader 
 fields of usefulness than come within the 
 scope of a grocery clerk. He yearned to 
 have a business of his own where he could 
 develop his latent powers and it was not 
 long before the opportunity presented it- 
 self. In 1885 Mr. Cartland bought out 
 Mr. John Kimball, of the firm of Kimball 
 & Tasker, which was then located in the
 
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 Freeman Block where now stands the 
 Strafford Bank building. The firm of 
 Tasker & Cartland was formed July i, 
 1885, and continued until January i, 
 1898, when Mr. Cartland became sole 
 proprietor of the great business which had 
 been built up by the perseverance and 
 energy of the firm. In 1892 the business 
 was moved from the Freeman Block to a 
 portion of the present premises, but the 
 growing demands made upon the re- 
 sources of the firm speedily compelled 
 them to secure larger premises with the 
 result that two years later the adjoining 
 
 lighted by electricity. The exceptionally 
 heavy stock carried, which is the largest in 
 southern New Hampshire, embraces a 
 complete assortment of fine groceries and 
 foreign delicacies of every description, and 
 a specialty is made of family flours, coffee, 
 tea and canned goods of the choicest 
 brands. None but strictly first class goods 
 are kept in the store, everything is guar- 
 anteed to be exactly as represented, and 
 the prices which obtain are uniformly rea- 
 sonable. Mr. Cartland being a large cash 
 purchaser is enabled to undersell others 
 who deal in smaller quantities and offers 
 
 RESIDENCE OF W. F. CARTLAND. 
 
 store was added, making this the largest 
 grocery store in the city. The largely in- 
 creased volume of trade which has result- 
 ed from these increased facilities has 
 proven how sound was the judgment which 
 prompted the move. The premises are 
 located at 41-43 Locust street on which 
 they have a frontage of forty feet, the 
 floor space occupying 3200 square feet, 
 with basement, making a total of 6400 
 square feet, with a large storehouse on 
 Washington street. It is neatly fitted up 
 and excellently arranged throughout, fitted 
 with handsome plate glass windows and 
 
 to his customers the benefit of the dis- 
 counts obtained by his wholesale transac- 
 tions. Ten courteous assistants attend to 
 the requirements of customers and four 
 delivery teams are in active service deliv- 
 ering goods. Mr. Cartland's business has 
 steadily increased until it has become the 
 largest of its kind in the city of Dover. 
 The trade of the house extends not only 
 throughout the city limits but reaches out 
 to Rochester, Somersworth, Exeter, New- 
 market and Berwick, Me. The purchas- 
 ing and distribution of the stock show 
 that it is selected with the care character-
 
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 89 
 
 INTERIOR VIEW OF GROCERY STORE OF W. F. CARTLAND. 
 
 INTERIOR VIEW OF GROCERY STORE OF W. F. CARTLAND.
 
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 istic of a prudent, wide awake and thor- 
 ough business man, catering for a strictly 
 first class trade and anxious to meet the 
 demandsof his patrons. 
 Mr. Cartland is a 
 good type of the self 
 made man, who rises 
 by his own exertions 
 from a moderate be- 
 ginning to a foremost 
 place in his particular 
 trade. He has a 
 handsome residence 
 on Highland street, 
 surrounded by tasteful- 
 ly laid out grounds and 
 is looked upon as one 
 of Dover's ablest and 
 most successful busi- 
 
 George D. Barrett. 
 
 The steady growth 
 of Dover has rendered 
 active the operations 
 in real estate, and the 
 development of the in- 
 
 GEORGE D. BARRETT. 
 
 and conducts the largest fire insurance 
 business in the city, representing fifteen 
 of the largest American and English com- 
 panies, whose com- 
 bined assets are over 
 $50,000,000. He 
 makes a specialty of 
 the general manage- 
 ment of estates, taking 
 the entire charge, se- 
 curing responsible ten- 
 ants, effecting repairs, 
 and in every way 
 maintaining the prop- 
 erty up to the highest 
 productive standard. 
 Mr. Barrett has always 
 upon his books the best 
 available bargains in 
 lands, houses, stores, 
 etc. He also effects 
 exchanges of real es- 
 tate, secures loans to 
 any amount on bond 
 or mortgage security, 
 and sells administra- 
 tors, executors and all 
 kinds of suretv bonds 
 
 G. D. BARRETT'S OFFICE. 
 
 dustries of the city are constantly increas- 
 ing the value of property and making its 
 possession most valuable. Mr. Barrett is 
 the acknowledged leading real estate agent 
 
 at a very small cost. The extent of his 
 business and his splendid facilities enable 
 him to meet all demands made upon his 
 resources in a thoroughly satisfactory
 
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 manner. Mr. Barrett was born at Ed- 
 meston, N. Y., December 4, 1864, and 
 was educated at Colgate University. He 
 engaged in the insurance business in 
 Rome, N. Y., for some years, coming to 
 Dover in July, 1894. His office is loca- 
 ted in the Masonic Temple. During his 
 residence in Dover he has proved himself 
 a thoroughly public-spirited citizen, and 
 has always given a hearty support to every 
 measure best calculated to advance the 
 city's interests. Mr. Barrett is secretary 
 of the Dover Co-operative bank and of 
 the Dover Commercial club, and works 
 diligently to promote the welfare of both 
 organizations. 
 
 rooms for guests are provided with all the 
 improvements of modern hotel life, in- 
 cluding electric call bells, gas and electric 
 lights and steam heat. 
 
 The American was opened in June, 
 1867, by Peirce and True, the present 
 partnership of A. T. Peirce and Thomas 
 K. Cushman being formed ten years later. 
 Both the partners have had an extended 
 experience in the hotel business and know 
 how to minister to the requirements of 
 their guests so as to insure their comfort. 
 
 Col. Adams T. Peirce, who was chairman 
 of the legislative Committee on County 
 Affairs and a member of the Committee 
 on National Affairs, was born in 1844 at 
 
 THE AMERICAN. 
 
 The American. 
 
 The American under the direction of 
 A. T. Peirce & Co. is one of the best 
 known hotels in this section. Situated on 
 Central avenue, facing Franklin square, in 
 the commercial centre of the city and 
 within two minutes walk of the B. & M. 
 station, its location is singularly conven- 
 ient for the requirements of the traveling 
 public. The building is a handsome three 
 and a half story brick structure, originally 
 erected as a private residence and since 
 considerably enlarged by its present pro- 
 prietors. It is furnished and decorated 
 throughout in a tasteful manner and the 
 
 North Yarmouth, Me., receiving his edu- 
 cation at the South Paris Academy. He 
 is chairman of the Republican City Com- 
 mittee and ex-president of the Dover 
 Commercial Club, a member of the Amos- 
 keag Veterans, Manchester, and of the 
 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
 pany, Boston. Colonel Peirce served as U. 
 S. Marshal from the district of New Hamp- 
 shire from 1890 to 1894. He was a mem- 
 ber of the staff of the late Governor Weston, 
 with the rank of Colonel. He is a mem- 
 ber of several secret orders, among them 
 Mt. Pleasant Lodge I. O. O. F., Wana- 
 lanset Tribe of Red Men and has been 
 commander of Canton Parker No. 3, P. M.
 
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 Thomas K. Cushman is a native of 
 New Gloucester, Me., and received his 
 education at the High school there. Upon 
 leaving school he learned the trade of 
 carriage maker at New Haven, Conn., 
 which he followed until 1862 when he 
 enlisted in the Fifteenth Connecticut In- 
 fantry from which he was transferred 
 to the Eighth Conn. Regiment and 
 saw service at Fredericksburg, Peters- 
 
 Colonel Daniel Hall. 
 
 Daniel Hall was born in Barrington, 
 February 28, 1832. His first known 
 American ancestor was John Hall, who 
 appears to have come to Dover in 1649 
 with his brother Ralph from Charlestown, 
 Mass. Mr. Daniel Hall's life as a boy 
 was on the farm. He attended the dis- 
 trict school and when about sixteen years 
 
 COLONEL DANIEL HALL. 
 
 burg and Richmond. Upon leaving 
 the army he went to the Tontine 
 House, Brunswick, Me., then kept by 
 Colonel Peirce and subsequently spent 
 two years at the Kimball House, Atlanta, 
 Ga. He left the Kimball House to 
 enter into partnership with Colonel Peirce 
 at Claremont and from thence came to 
 Dover in 1877 to form the present 
 partnership. 
 
 of age secured two terms in the Strafiford 
 academy. In 1849 he spent one~term at 
 the New Hampshire Conference Semi- 
 nary, Northfield, N. H., after which he 
 prepared himself for Dartmouth College, 
 which he entered in 1850. In i8~54 he 
 graduated at the head of his class and was 
 valedictorian. 
 
 In the fall of 1854 he was appointed a 
 clerk in the New York Custom House
 
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 93 
 
 and held this position until March, 1858, 
 when he was removed from office on ac- 
 count of his marked antipathy to the Kan- 
 sas-Nebraska bill. While in New York 
 he entered upon the study of the law and 
 continued his studies, upon returning to 
 Dover, in the office of the late Hon. Dan- 
 iel M. Christie, being admitted to the bar 
 irf the May term, 1860. He opened an 
 office at Dover and commenced practice. 
 In 1859 he was appointed by the Gov- 
 ernor and Council School Commissioner 
 for Strafford County and re -appointed in 
 1860. He was appointed secretary of 
 the United States Committee to investi- 
 
 himself, but in 1863 his health suffered 
 and he was forced to leave the front in 
 December, 1863. In June, 1864, he 
 was appointed provost-marshal of the First 
 New Hampshire District at Portsmouth 
 where he remained until the close of the 
 war, when he resumed the practice of law 
 in Dover. He was appointed clerk of the 
 Supreme Court of Strafford County in 
 1866 and Judge of the Police Court in 
 1868, an office he acceptably filled until 
 1874. In the meantime he had been 
 Judge Advocate with the rank of major in 
 the military of New Hampshire under 
 Governor Smythe and held a position on 
 
 RESIDENCE OF COLONEL DANIEL HALL. 
 
 gate the surrender of the Norfolk Navy 
 Yard in 1861. Afterwards he was ap- 
 pointed clerk of the Senate Committee on 
 Naval Affairs at Washington in which ca- 
 pacity he served until March, 1862, when 
 he was commissioned aide-de-camp and 
 captain in the regular army. He was as- 
 signed to duty with General John C. Fre- 
 mont who, however, retired from his 
 command, and Captain Hall was trans- 
 ferred to the staff of General A. W. Whip- 
 pie. During his service Captain Hall 
 participated in the battles of Antietam, 
 Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys- 
 burg, and others, winning distinction for 
 
 the staff of Governor Harriman which 
 gave him his usual title of Colonel. 
 Colonel Hall was president of the Repub- 
 lican State Convention at Concord in 
 1873. He had been for some years a 
 member of the Republican State Com- 
 mittee, when in 1873 he was selected as 
 chairman of that committee continuing so 
 until 1877. He was also chairman of 
 the New Hampshire delegation to the 
 Republican National Convention at Cin- 
 cinnati in 1876, and in 1876-77 was, by 
 appointment of Governor Cheney, report- 
 er of the decisions of the Supreme Court 
 of New Hampshire. In 187 7 he succeed-
 
 94 
 
 DOVER I 623- I 898 
 
 ed Governor Harriman as naval officer at 
 the port of Boston, an office co-ordinate 
 with that of collector, and was upon the 
 expiration of his term re -appointed by 
 President Arthur for a further term of 
 four years. He is at present a director 
 of the Strafford National bank, trustee of 
 the Strafford Savings bank and trustee of 
 the Dover Public Library, and has ever 
 used his great influence to advance the in- 
 terests and prosperity of the city. Colonel 
 Hall has manifested a deep interest in the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, passing 
 through all its chairs. He was Depart- 
 ment Commander of New Hampshire in 
 1892 and is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
 United States. Colonel Hall married 
 January 25, 1877, Sophia, daughter of 
 Jonathan T. and Sarah (Hanson) Dodge 
 of Rochester and has one son, Arthur 
 Wellesley Hall, born August 30, 1878. 
 The beautiful residence erected by him at 
 the corner of Summer and Belknap streets 
 and adorned with cultivated taste, has 
 not its least charm in a splendid library 
 of carefully selected literature. 
 
 Public addresses have, as occasions de- 
 manded, exhibited the thoughtful political 
 student, a patriotic love of country, and 
 the ripeness of the accomplished scholar. 
 Some permanent evidence of his power 
 as a scholar and orator may be found in 
 a volume published by him in 1892, en- 
 titled " Occasional Addresses," and con- 
 taining addresses on Abraham Lincoln, 
 Ulysses S. Grant, Daniel M. Christie, John 
 P. Hale, John B. Gough, Governor Ed- 
 ward F. Noyes, and other topics. 
 
 Fidelity to every engagement, good 
 faith to every principle espoused, firm- 
 ness in determination, great industry and 
 usefulness in every work undertaken have 
 insured him success. 
 
 Colonel Hall enjoys the admiration of 
 his fellow citizens at large for unusual 
 gifts as a scholar and public speaker, 
 while the strength and sincerity of his po- 
 litical convictions, the influence he has 
 uniformly exerted for the triumph of poli- 
 cies which he deems essential for the good 
 of the state and nation, and his integrity 
 in public and private life, entitle him, in 
 the opinion of his numerous friends, to 
 
 higher honors than any he has received. 
 
 Hon. J. W. Jewell. 
 
 Hon. John Woodman Jewell, General 
 Agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company of Springfield, Mass., 
 was born in Strafford, N. H., July 26, 1831. 
 In early life he learned to labor, being put 
 at work in his father's tanyard and curry- 
 ing shop where he mastered all its details, 
 but not liking the business, at the age of 
 eighteen, with his father's consent, he 
 hired out on a farm not being physically 
 strong, in a short time was taken sick with 
 hemorrhages of the stomach and was 
 obliged to remain quiet for a long time. 
 After his recovery, having had but limited 
 school privileges, averaging not more than 
 six weeks a year in the town schools, he 
 entered Strafford Seminary (now Austin 
 Academy) and afterwards attended Gil- 
 mantoji__Academy for several terms, 
 teaching school winters. In 1853 he en- 
 tered a store in Newmarket as clerk 
 where he remained about a year when he 
 returned to his native town and entered 
 the employ of the late Hon. Benning W. 
 Jenness as clerk in his store with whom he 
 remained for ten years, until Mr. Jenness 
 removed to Cleveland, Ohio, when he 
 succeeded him in business. He was suc- 
 cessful, did a large business and was the 
 leading business man of the town for 
 thirty years. In politics he was a Demo- 
 crat and took an active part in all politi- 
 cal questions, and was frequently honored 
 by his townsmen with different offices in 
 their gift, serving as moderator, superin- 
 tendent of schools, selectman, and repre- 
 sentative in the legislature, and was post- 
 master for ten years. He was sheriff of 
 Strafford County for two years, from 1874 
 to 1876, and a member of the Governor's 
 Council two years, from 1885 to 1887, 
 serving on the State Prison Committee, 
 committee to audit the State Treasurer's 
 accounts and committee to look after the 
 expenditures of the money appropriated 
 by the state for repairs of the highways in 
 the northern part of the state. In 1891 
 Mr. Jewell came to Dover and took charge 
 of the business of the Massachusetts Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Company as agent and
 
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 RESIDENCE OF HON. J. W. JEWELL, COR. HAM AND EAST CONCORD STREETS.
 
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 in January, 1892, he was appointed Gen- 
 eral Agent of the company. His office is 
 at 32 Masonic Temple. In the life insur- 
 ance business he has been quite as suc- 
 cessful as he was in mercantile affairs. 
 By earnest, honest effort he has built up a 
 very lucrative business. In 1853 Mr. 
 Jewell married Miss Sarah Folsom Gale 
 of Upper Gilmanton (now Belmont). 
 By this union three children were born to 
 them, one son and two daughters. The 
 
 and Maria (Goodhue) Trickey, was born in 
 Brookfield, Carroll County, August 14, 
 1833. His mother was a descendant of 
 Governor Thomas Wiggin and is now living 
 with Mrs. Trickey and in full possession of 
 all her faculties, although ninety-three years 
 of age. Mr. Trickey received his educa- 
 tion at the district school and the academy 
 at.Wakefield, and at the age of seventeen 
 taught school at New Durham where he 
 received five dollars a month more than 
 
 THE LATE CHARLES HENRY TRICKEY. 
 
 son, a bright, active and popular business 
 man, who was associated with his father 
 in business at Strafford under the firm 
 name of J. W. Jewell & Son, died in 1893. 
 One daughter lives at home, the other 
 is married and resides in Manchester. 
 
 The Late Charles Henry Trickey, 
 
 any other teacher on account of his suc- 
 cessful methods in imparting instruction 
 to his pupils. In 1853 he came to Dover 
 as clerk to John E. Bickford, merchant 
 tailor, subsequently becoming a partner 
 and finally buying out the business which 
 he successfully conducted until 1870 when 
 he sold it. Mr. Trickey then bought out 
 the coal, wood and lumber business of M. 
 
 Charles Henry Trickey, son of Lemuel D. Page and also secured an interest in
 
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 97 
 
 the'teaming and hay enterprise of G. W. 
 Avery, in which he remained until his de- 
 mise February 2, 1896. In his business 
 dealings he was singularly successful, ow- 
 ing largely to his close personal attention 
 and the foresight he displayed. During 
 his lifetime the sales of coal increased 
 from 600 to over 10,000 tons per annum. 
 He had a keen, quick perception of busi- 
 ness, an intuitive knowledge of cause and 
 effect and a steady determination to do 
 exactly as he agreed, keeping his word in 
 
 through Mr. Trickey's influence and at his 
 suggestion that the river channel was 
 straightened and deepened by the govern- 
 ment, which resulted in a considerable in- 
 crease in the tonnage entering the port. 
 In politics Mr. Trickey was an ardent Re- 
 publican. Quiet and unostentatious, he 
 shrank from political honors and prefer- 
 ment, neither caring for nor seeking office, 
 although frequently urged to do so by his 
 friends. In private life he was character- 
 ized by modest and unassuming ways and 
 
 II II II II 11 II II lil 
 
 THE STRAFFORO BANKS BUILDING. 
 
 all /matters pertaining to business. Mr. 
 Trickey did not remain an idle spectator 
 of events but largely interested himself in 
 all matters concerning the improvement 
 and development of the community. He 
 worked zealously for the public welfare 
 and many important public improvements 
 were instigated by him. He was one of 
 the charter members and a director of 
 the Dover Navigation Co., and one of 
 their vessels was named for him. It was 
 
 a great attachment to home and the home 
 circle. He was married Dec. 25, 1869, 
 to Ada, daughter of ex-Mayor Albert 
 Bond, and had two children, Marion Ger- 
 trude, married to Rev. George A. Alcott, 
 and Lola Maude, now a teacher in Con- 
 necticut. Mr. Trickey was again married 
 April 28, 1886, to Georgietta Hanson, two 
 children of this marriage surviving him, 
 Charles Lemuel and Mabel Grace. Upon 
 Mr. Trickey's demise his widow under-
 
 9 s 
 
 DOVER J623-1898 
 
 took the conduct of the large business of 
 her late husband and has since capably 
 managed it. 
 
 The Strafford National Bank. 
 
 The first bank in Dover was incorpo- 
 rated by the Legislature, by an act ap- 
 proved June n, 1803, under the name of 
 " The President, Directors, and Company 
 of the New Hampshire Strafford Bank," 
 the charter being for twenty years. A 
 new act extending its charter was accept- 
 ed July i, 1822. 
 
 John Currier, Moses Paul, Ezekiel Kurd, 
 Nathaniel Young, and Eleazer Davis 
 Chamberlain. William Woodman, presi- 
 dent ; Asa A. Tufts, cashier. 
 
 On July i, 1865, the Strafford Bank 
 surrendered its state charter and accept- 
 ed a charter from the United States, un- 
 der the name of the Strafford National 
 Bank, the old officers being re- chosen to 
 the same offices in the new bank. The 
 capital at that time was $150,000, but 
 has since been increased to $200,000. 
 There is at present a surplus of $120,000 
 and the deposits average $500,000. 
 
 INTERIOR STRAFFORD NATIONAL BANK. 
 
 The Strafford Bank was incorporated 
 by an act passed July 9, 1846, to continue 
 to June i, 1867. The incorporators were 
 Daniel Osborne, William Hale, John H. 
 Wheeler, Daniel M. Christie, Nathaniel 
 Young, George Andrews, William Hale, 
 Jr., Moses Paul, John Currier, Joseph 
 Morrill, Jeremy Perkins, and William 
 Woodman. They organized October 1 7, 
 
 1846, to commence business January 4, 
 
 1847, the capital to be $100,000, which 
 was increased to $120,000 by vote July 7, 
 1857. The first board of directors were 
 William Woodman, Daniel M. Christie, 
 
 This bank now occupies the beautiful 
 building erected by it in connection with 
 Strafford Savings Bank in 1895. It stands 
 on the corner of Washington street and 
 Central avenue and is one of the city's 
 most notable architectural features. 
 
 Woodbury & Leighton of Boston were 
 the builders and Mr. A. T. Ramsdell of 
 Dover the architect. The structure is of 
 Milford pink granite, four stories in height 
 and having a frontage of 115 feet on 
 Washington street. The offices occupied 
 by the bank are handsomely furnished 
 and finished in quartered oak and mahog-
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 99 
 
 any, commodious and well lighted. A 
 prettier bank office could not be desired. 
 It is fitted up in the most modern design, 
 and with all conveniences for the dispatch 
 of business. In the rear of the banking- 
 room is a large and handsomely furnished 
 directors' and president's room and a 
 small room for the use of depositors and 
 customers. The safety deposit vaults are 
 large and are marvels of strength and 
 safety, embodying all the latest devices 
 known to modern scientific safe building. 
 From the hour when its doors were first 
 opened for business to the present, the 
 
 wrecked less wisely directed institutions. 
 
 The Strafford bank enjoys unsurpassed 
 facilities for the transaction of general 
 banking in all its branches the care of 
 deposits, discounts of reliable paper, the 
 issue of drafts and letters of credit on all 
 American and foreign monetary centres, 
 the making and forwarding of collections, 
 etc. Especial attention is given to indi- 
 vidual, firm and corporation accounts, and 
 to the collection of dividends of all kinds, 
 which service is performed for depositors 
 free of charge. 
 
 The officers and board of directors em- 
 
 INTERIOR STRAFFORD SAVINGS BANK. 
 
 course of this institution has been one of 
 the most careful and conservative manage- 
 ment, combined with a liberal policy 
 toward all responsibly conducted, legiti- 
 mate enterprises in behalf of which its aid 
 has been invoked. Nothing of a doubtful 
 or risky character has ever received the 
 sanction of its officers or directors, and, 
 as a consequence, the Strafford Bank, 
 both before and since its enrollment among 
 the national banks, has ever borne the de- 
 served reputation of absolute reliability 
 a fortress of finance unaffected by the 
 storms which from time to time have 
 
 brace such well known and responsible 
 citizens as Elisha R. Brown, President; 
 Directors, Ex-Governor Charles H. Sawyer, 
 Colonel Samuel C. Fisher, Judge George 
 S. Frost, James W. Bartlett, Charles S. 
 Cartland, and Colonel Daniel Hall Cash- 
 ier/Charles S. Cartland. 
 
 The Strafford Savings Bank* 
 
 On the ayth of June, 1823, a charter 
 was granted for incorporation of the Sav- 
 ings Bank for the County of Strafford, the 
 fifth savings bank in the United States,
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 and January 31, 1824, a meeting of the 
 corporators was held at the old Court 
 House, Tuttle square, to accept the char- 
 ter. On February 7th, John Wheeler 
 was chosen President and its Vice-Presi- 
 dents were John Williams and Stephen 
 Hanson, with John W. Mellen, Clerk. Its 
 Trustees were Jesse Varney, James Bart- 
 lett, Joseph Smith, Jacob Kettredge, John 
 B. Odiorne, Wm. Flagg, Barnabas H. 
 Palmer, Wm. Woodman, George Piper, 
 Joseph W. Clary, Moses Paul, and Wm. 
 Palmer. 
 
 The bank was first located in the brick 
 building on Central avenue now owned by 
 Dr. John R. Ham. At first it was open 
 for business on Friday afternoon of each 
 week from 3 to 6 o'clock. The first de- 
 posit was made by Stephen Hanson for 
 his son, Wm. R. Hanson, on Feb. 28, 
 1824. 
 
 In 1846 the Strafford Bank erected a 
 bank building on Washington street (its 
 present location) and in 1847 the Savings 
 Bank moved into rooms on the same floor 
 of said block, with separate vault facilities. 
 The growth of business during the next 
 decade was such that more room was 
 needed, and the entire second story was 
 fitted up and there the bank continued 
 until July, 1895, when they were tempo- 
 rarily located in the Cocheco Corporation 
 next to their counting rooms, while the 
 old bank building was removed and the 
 new block now known as Strafford Banks 
 Building was erected by this bank in con- 
 nection with Strafford National Bank, and 
 in which fine, commodious quarters were 
 made for the increasing needs of such an 
 institution, and occupied by it in July, 
 1896. Its corporate name was changed 
 by act of Legislature in June, 1891, to 
 Strafford Savings Bank. 
 
 In 1849, 2 5 years after its books were 
 open for business, its deposits were $400,- 
 461, with 2500 depositors. 
 
 In 1874, at completion of its half cen- 
 tury, the deposits were $2,088,369, num- 
 ber of depositors 4963. 
 
 In 1898 the number of depositors is 
 970.0, and amount to credit of said ac- 
 counts is $5,000,000, with a guaranty 
 fund of $300,000. 
 
 This remarkable growth of the Savings 
 
 Bank had back of it something more than 
 the generally prosperous condition of the 
 section it drew upon, and that important 
 something was the confidence in its 
 methods and condition that had been es- 
 tablished by its years of careful and con- 
 servative management. Its officers have, 
 from the beginning, been men of this 
 class. Its trustees and boards of invest- 
 ment, its presidents and treasurers have 
 been persons who earned and commanded 
 public confidence. From its inception 
 until now it is truthfully claimed for the 
 Strafford Savings Bank that there is no 
 provision the state has made for the safety 
 and advantage of savings bank depositors 
 that this bank has not willingly, zealously 
 and to the utmost of its ability applied 
 and carried out. And it has had its re- 
 ward in the ever increasing volume of its 
 deposits which now reach the sum of 
 $5,000,000. 
 
 The present officers of the bank are 
 Elisha R. Brown, President ; Ex-Governor 
 Charles H. Sawyer, First Vice President ; 
 Colonel Samuel C. Fisher, Second Vice 
 President ; Trustees, Elisha R. Brown, Ex- 
 Governor Charles H. Sawyer, Colonel 
 Samuel C. Fisher, John Holland, John H. 
 Hurd, Hon. B. Frank Nealley, Colonel 
 Daniel Hall, and A. G. Whittemore, Esq. ; 
 Executive Officer, Elisha R. Brown ; Treas- 
 urer and Secretary, Albert O. Mathes. 
 
 The First (Congregational) Church. 
 
 This is the fifth and present house of 
 worship of the First Church in Dover. 
 Two hundred and sixty-five years ago, in 
 October, 1633, Rev. William Leverieh, a 
 graduate of Emmanuel College, Cam- 
 bridge, England, began preaching in the 
 settlement at Hilton's Point on Dover 
 Neck, and the First Parish may be said 
 to date from that event. During his 
 ministry of about two years, the first 
 meeting-house was erected. In Decem- 
 ber, 1638, Rev. Hanserd Knollys, the 
 third minister of the First Parish, organ- 
 ized the First Church. A generation 
 later, the second meeting-house was 
 erected on the well known site where are 
 to be seen at the present time remnants 
 of the ancient fortification. During more
 
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 101 
 
 than half a century the church worshipped 
 in that fortified meeting-house ; then, 
 moving still further north, made its third 
 home, during almost another half century, 
 on Pine Hill. The fourth house of wor- 
 ship stood upon the site of the present 
 one, and opened its doors to the congre- 
 gation in 1758. The present meeting- 
 house was dedicated December 31, 1829, 
 and a half century later, after undergoing 
 a radical reconstruction at an expense of 
 about twenty-three thousand dollars, was 
 rededicated on Thanksgiving evening, 
 Novem ber 
 28, 1878. A 
 large and 
 conve n i e n t 
 chapel, con- 
 necting with 
 the church in 
 the rear, and 
 costing over 
 thirteen 
 thousand dol- 
 lars, was dedi- 
 cated in April 
 1889. This 
 an c i e n t 
 church, the 
 oldest in New 
 Hampsh ire, 
 stands for 
 spiritual life, 
 and liberty, 
 and progress, 
 for all that is 
 true and 
 good. In pa- 
 triotic devo- 
 tion its influ- 
 e n c e has 
 been marked 
 since the days when Jeremy Belknap did 
 so much to inspire and guide the Revolu- 
 tion. In missionary zeal and work this 
 church takes a leading position. One of 
 its honored pastors said on the occasion 
 of the two hundred and fiftieth anniver- 
 sary of the First Parish, " The church so 
 feebly born has strengthened its stakes 
 and enlarged its borders, untouched by 
 time, asserting itself with an ever-clearer 
 utterance in the community and state, 
 more vigorous and strong in every last 
 
 stage of its growth, and, like the tree 
 planted by the ever- running waters, 
 ' bringing forth fruit in old age.' But 
 its prolific life has not been kept within 
 itself. This church has been rightly called 
 a 'mother church.' She has established 
 from her membership nearly every Con- 
 gregational church in this vicinity, and 
 strengthened from it almost every Con- 
 gregational church in the state. And 
 more than this, she has sent forth from 
 her inexhaustible loins children who have 
 built up, even in her very presence, 
 churches o f 
 other or ? 
 
 THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 
 
 REV. GEORGE 
 
 E. HALL, 
 
 D. D. 
 
 George 
 Edward Hall, 
 D. D., pastor 
 of the First 
 church in 
 Dover, was 
 born in Ja- 
 maica, West 
 Indies, Feb- 
 ruary 23, 
 1851, son of 
 the Reverend 
 H e m a n B. 
 and Sophro- 
 nia (Brooks) 
 Hall. In the 
 paternal line 
 he traces his 
 descent from 
 John Hall of 
 M edf or d, 
 Massachusetts, who was born in England 
 in 1627. He was fitted for college at the 
 preparatory school in Oberlin, Ohio, and 
 graduated from Oberlin College in 1872, 
 beginning the study of theology in Yale 
 Divinity school in that year, and graduat- 
 ing in 1875. He was ordained pastor of 
 the Congregational church in Littleton, 
 Massachusetts, September 2, 1875, resign- 
 ing that pastorate March i, 1877, to ac- 
 cept a call to the Congregational church 
 in Vergennes, Vermont, where he was in-
 
 DOVER J623-J89S 
 
 stalled May 2, 1877. His pastorate in 
 Vergennes was highly successful, but he 
 resigned in October, 1883, to accept a 
 call to Dover, and was installed over the 
 First church on January 2, 1884. Dr. Hall 
 is the twenty-third on the roll of pastors 
 of this historical church. His pastorate of 
 more than fourteen years, continuing with 
 unabated strength, has been very success- 
 ful and happy. In January of 1895, the 
 church voted Dr. Hall six months' vaca- 
 tion to visit 
 Egypt and 
 the Holy 
 Land, and a 
 further man- 
 ifestation of 
 regard was a 
 testimo n i a 1 
 by voluntary 
 gifts of eight 
 hundred dol- 
 lars, present- 
 ed to him on 
 the eve of his 
 depar t u r e . 
 Mr. Hall has 
 been fi v e 
 times a mem- 
 ber of the 
 National 
 Council (Tri- 
 e n n i a 1) of 
 Cong r e g a - 
 tionalchurch- 
 es. He is a 
 Trustee and 
 one of the 
 Exe c u t i v e 
 Commi ft e e 
 of the New 
 Hamps hire 
 Home Mis- 
 sionary Soci- 
 ety. He is a corporate member of the 
 American Board of Commissioners for 
 Foreign Missions. He received the de- 
 gree of Doctor of Divinity from Dart- 
 mouth College in 1893. He is a member 
 of the School Committee of Dover. He 
 has been for five years chaplain of the 
 First Regiment New Hampshire National 
 Guard. He holds membership in the 
 Winthrop club of Boston and the Monday 
 
 club of Boston. Mr. Hall was married 
 June 20, 1877, to Alice Monroe, daughter 
 of the late James Monroe Peabody of 
 Lowell^ Massachusetts. Mrs. Hall died 
 April 6, 1883, leaving two children, Alice 
 Miriam and Henry Monroe. Mr. Hall 
 married April 16, 1890, Elizabeth Knee- 
 land, daughter of the late William McFar- 
 land of Salem, Massachusetts, whose father 
 was the Rev. Asa McFarland, D. D., of 
 Concord. They have two children, John 
 McFarland 
 and George 
 William Hall. 
 
 St. John's 
 Methodist 
 Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 REV. GEORGE E. HALL, D. D. 
 
 From the 
 establishment 
 of the " First 
 Church " in 
 1 638 no other 
 church exist- 
 ed in Dover 
 though there 
 was " Soci- 
 e t y " of 
 Friends, till 
 the introduc- 
 tion of Meth- 
 od ism . In 
 1819, the first 
 Methodist 
 meetings for 
 worship were 
 held at a small 
 village which 
 then existed 
 some two 
 miles up the 
 river from the 
 
 present city proper, called the Upper 
 Factory, where was located a small 
 manufacturing establishment. Rev. John 
 Lord, afterward a prominent minister in 
 Maine, then traveling on the Rochester 
 Circuit, visited this village in 1819 and 
 preached to the people and organized a 
 "class" and a Sunday school. The late 
 venerable Solomon Gray and the late 
 George W. Wendell of Somersworth, then
 
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 103 
 
 resided at the 'Upper Factory and were 
 pioneers of Methodism in Dover. 
 
 From this begin- 
 ning in 1819 to 1823 
 when Dover was made 
 a separate charge the 
 records are very mea- 
 gre. The first preach- 
 ing at the village was 
 in the old Court 
 House. Rev. Jotham 
 Horton was the first 
 regularly stationed 
 preacher at Dover. 
 
 As the work grew, 
 it became evident that 
 better accommoda- 
 tions were needed, 
 and measures were 
 taken in 1824, Mr. 
 Morton's second year, 
 for the erection of 
 a house of worship. A 
 lot of land (that on 
 which the present 
 house stands) , was 
 procured of the 
 heirs of the cel- 
 ebrated Major 
 Richard Wal- 
 dron, whose 
 grave is in the 
 immediate yi- 
 cijnji_ty. The 
 committee ap- 
 pointed to con- 
 duct the build- 
 ing enterprise 
 were among 
 the most sub- 
 sta n t i a 1 citi- 
 z e ns . They 
 were Dr. Jos- 
 eph Smith, 
 Robert Rogers, 
 George Piper, 
 William Pal- 
 mer, Jeremy, H. 
 Titcomb, Lewis 
 B. Tibbetts,and 
 Rev. Jotham 
 Horton, the 
 pastor. The 
 first Board of 
 Trustees were 
 Joseph Smith, 
 
 REV. DR. BABCOCK. 
 
 ST.~JOHN'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 
 
 Lewis B. Tibbetts, Barnabus H. Palmer, 
 Richard Walker, George Piper, Geo. W. 
 Edgerly, and Theodore 
 Littlefield. No one of 
 these is now living. 
 This church answered 
 its purpose very well 
 till when in 1828 an ad- 
 dition was built on the 
 rear end, of sixteen and 
 one-half feet. This 
 church has always been 
 a vigorous body, and 
 has been served by 
 some of the ablest min- 
 isters of the denomina- 
 tion. The present 
 church edifice was erec- 
 ted on the site of the 
 original one, in 1875. 
 It cost without the lot 
 about $40,000. That 
 includes the organ and 
 the chime of nine bells. 
 Its seating capacity is 
 about one thousand. 
 From the be- 
 ginning this 
 church has al- 
 ways main- 
 tained a vigor- 
 ous Sunday 
 school. The 
 present pastor 
 is Rev. D. C. 
 Babcock,D.D. 
 
 REV. D. C. 
 BABCOCK,D.D. 
 
 Rev. Dan- 
 iel Clark Bab- 
 cock, D. D., 
 was born in 
 Bla n d f o r d , 
 Mass., May 
 3ist, 1835. 
 His fat her, 
 Russell Bab- 
 cock, and his 
 mother, Susan 
 A. (Clark) 
 were natives of 
 So. Kingston, 
 R. I. He was 
 the second of 
 four sons, but
 
 104 
 
 DOVER \ 623-1 898 
 
 is now the only member of the family liv- 
 ing. His mother died when he was nine 
 years of age and his father before he was 
 twenty. The youngest brother died in in- 
 fancy. The oldest was lest at sea when a 
 young man, and the other died in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., in 1887. 
 
 Mr. B. took his academic training in the 
 East Douglas, Mass., High School, at the 
 Providence Conference Seminary, East 
 Greenwich, R. I., and at the Vermont 
 Conference Seminary, then at Newbury, 
 now at Montpelier. He graduated from 
 the school of 
 theo logy of 
 the Boston 
 Unive r s i t y , 
 then at Con- 
 cord, N. H., 
 in June,i864. 
 The Honor- 
 ary Degree 
 Doctor of Di- 
 vinity, was 
 conferred by 
 the American 
 Tempera nee 
 University in 
 1896. 
 
 Mr. B . 
 joined the 
 New Hamp- 
 shire Confer- 
 ence of the 
 Me t h o d i s t 
 Epi s co pa 1 
 church in 
 April, 1 86 1, 
 having served 
 four years pri- 
 or to that as 
 a "Local 
 Preacher." He served as pastor in the 
 following order, at Bow, Fisherville, now 
 Penacook, Salem Depot, High Street, 
 Great Falls, now Somersworth, Claremont, 
 St. Paul's, Manchester, and Chestnut St., 
 Nashua. While at Nashua he was G. C. 
 T. of the Good Templars of New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 As the result of over work he found 
 rest a necessity, and took a nominal ap- 
 pointment after one year at Nashua, 
 spending much of the year in traveling. 
 
 PIERCE MEMORIAL CHURCH (UNIVERSALIST). 
 
 During that year he was elected Corre- 
 sponding Secretary of the Pennsylvania 
 Temperance Union, and entered that 
 field in March, 1872, with headquarters 
 in Philadelphia. He served in that ca- 
 pacity until May, 1888. During the last 
 eight years of that period he was also 
 District Secretary of the National Tem- 
 perance Society and Publication House. 
 Mr. B. returned to pastoral work in the 
 spring of 1888, and has served at Clare- 
 mont, Lancaster and Whitefield. In April, 
 1896, he consented to give a year to the 
 field work of 
 the Law and 
 Order League 
 of New Hamp- 
 shire, of which 
 he is Sec-Treas. 
 He was ap- 
 pointed pastor 
 of St. John's 
 church, Dover, 
 in April, 1897, 
 by Bishop W. 
 X. Ninde, and 
 for a second 
 year in April, 
 1898, by Bish- 
 op W. F. Mal- 
 lalieu. 
 
 He united in 
 marriage with 
 Miss Clara A. 
 Parkman of 
 Sutton, Mass., 
 in April, 1860. 
 They have two 
 daughters, Miss 
 Susie Parkman, 
 who is with 
 them, and Mrs. 
 Mary A., wife of Rev. J. Roy Dinsmore, 
 pastor at North Haverhill, N. H. 
 
 Peirce Memorial Church. 
 
 (UNIVERSALIST). 
 
 The Universalist Church, known as the 
 Peirce Memorial, on Central avenue, was 
 organized in 1837. 
 
 There was preaching of Universalism' in 
 Dover some years previous to that date. 
 At first the society worshipped in a hall.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 105 
 
 About 1838 a church edifice was built by 
 the society on Third street. The build- 
 ing was enlarged in 1847. 
 
 This was the place of worship until 
 about 1880 when the church was sold 
 for business purposes. In 1883 the 
 present substantial and beautiful brick 
 edifice was dedicated. The building, 
 costing $30,000, was the gift of Thomas 
 W. Peirce in memory of his parents. 
 
 Since the present society was reorgan- 
 ized in 1883, these pastors have been set- 
 tled. Rev. S. H. McCollester, D. D., 
 Rev. Walter Scott Vail, Rev. Fred W. 
 Dillingham, Rev. Royal T. Sawyer, and 
 Rev. Ezra Almon Hoyt 
 the present pastor, 
 who began his work in 
 this city in 1891. 
 
 REV. E. A. HOYT. 
 
 Rev. Ezra Almon 
 Hoyt, pastor of Peirce 
 Memorial Church, was 
 born in Hanover, 
 Maine, October 31, 
 1855. His boyhood 
 and youth were spent 
 on a farm. His early 
 education was in the 
 district school. When 
 eighteen years old he 
 went to the village 
 school for the first 
 time. From that time 
 his real education dat- 
 ed. Teaching school 
 in winter he earned 
 money to attend He- 
 bron Academy and 
 Westbrook Seminary, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1878. In the fall of that year 
 he entered Tufts College, graduating with 
 class of '82. He was ordained to the 
 ministry at Thompsonville, Conn. His 
 pastorates since ordination have been in 
 Skowhegan, Maine, St. Johnsbury, Ver- 
 mont, and his present pastorate in Dover, 
 which began in 1891. 
 
 REV. E. A. HOYT. 
 
 St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 Mass was first said in Dover in the 
 winter of 1826 by Rev. Virgil H. Barber, 
 
 S. J. Among the prominent pioneer 
 Catholics in Dover were William Ashcroft, 
 John Burns, Francis G. O'Neill, Philip F. 
 Scanlan, and Wm. McDevitt. 
 
 Services were first held in the Court 
 House. May 17, 1828, the corner stone 
 of the first Catholic church was laid and 
 was completed and accepted in June, 
 1829. It cost $2800. The church was 
 consecrated September 26, 1830, by Rt. 
 Rev. Dr. Dominick Fenwick of Boston. 
 The rapid growth of the church demand- 
 ed a more commodious edifice and in 
 1872 the present building was completed. 
 The first regular pastor of the church 
 was Rev. Father 
 French, in 1827, who 
 remained two years 
 after the erection of 
 the first church edifice, 
 and was succeeded by 
 Rev. Father Lee, M. 
 D., D. D. He re- 
 mained three years and 
 was followed by Rev. 
 Father McNamee, M. 
 D., D. D. He offici- 
 ated until 1839 and 
 was succeeded by Rev. 
 Father Conovan, who 
 stayed until 1855. 
 Father McShanecame 
 next, succeeded by 
 Father Brady. Next 
 came Father Niccolo, 
 who was followed by 
 Father Drummond, 
 assisted by the Rev. 
 Father Blodgett, a con- 
 vert, who was given full 
 charge of the parish before he had been 
 here a year, on account of the feebleness 
 of Father Drummond. 
 
 Father Blodgett was one of the most 
 able and enterprising priests that ever 
 presided over this parish. It was through 
 him that the New Hampshire House prop- 
 erty and the new Catholic cemetery were 
 secured, and had he lived, he would have 
 erected upon this property one of the 
 finest churches in the State. Father 
 Blodgett died May 15, 1881, and was the 
 first priest to be buried in Dover. Rev. 
 Father Murphy succeeded and was soon
 
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 DOVER \ 623-1898 
 
 given the entire charge of the parish. 
 REV. DANIEL W. MURPHY. 
 
 Father Murphy assumed the charge of 
 St. Mary's parish in 1881. He was born 
 in Liscarroll, Ireland, Nov. 24, 1838, 
 studied at the classical school of Charle- 
 ville and at the college of Middleton, and 
 took his philosophical and part of his the- 
 ological courses at All Hallows, finishing 
 his studies for the priesthood in the Grand 
 Seminary of Montreal. He was ordained 
 in Portland, Aug. 21, 1861, by Bishop 
 Bacon. After 
 serving a short 
 time as assist- 
 ant at the Port- 
 land cathedral, 
 he was made 
 pastor of Houl- 
 ton, Maine, at 
 the end of 1861 
 coming to take 
 tempora ry 
 charge of Dover 
 in 1 86 2, and re- 
 turning to 
 Houlton after a 
 few months, 
 where he organ- 
 ized a school. 
 While in that 
 charge, he at- 
 tended Bene- 
 dicta. He be- 
 came pastor of 
 Bath, Maine, in 
 1864, and while 
 there built a 
 new rec t o r y , 
 and established 
 a school. In 
 October, 1865, 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
 he was transferred to 
 He went to Keene in 1869, 
 to which parish twenty-one out-missions 
 were then attached. He built a rectory 
 and remodeled the church in Keene, built 
 churches at Peterboro and Ashuelot, 
 bought the Episcopal church in Walpole, 
 and instituted church-building funds in 
 Claremont and Charlestown. In 1877, he 
 was appointed pastor of Augusta, Maine, 
 and while there enlarged the Augusta 
 church and built a church in Hallowell. 
 
 From Augusta he removed to Dover. 
 In the September of his first year here 
 Father Murphy began erecting, on the lot 
 purchased by Father Blodgett, the Sacred 
 Heart School (for girls), opening it in 
 1883, under a community of the Sisters 
 of Mercy from Manchester, and remodel- 
 ing for convent uses the large building 
 which stood on the property ; and, during 
 the latter year, he also virtually rebuilt the 
 rectory, adding the present front, deepen- 
 ing the building by thirty- five feet, and 
 putting on a Mansard roof, the expense 
 of the improve- 
 ment being 
 $6,000. In 1884 
 he frescoed the 
 church, furnished 
 it with new gas 
 fi x t u r e s and 
 steam heating 
 apparatus, and 
 erected three new 
 altars. Three 
 years later, he 
 purchased an es- 
 tate on Court 
 street, convert- 
 ing the house 
 which stood 
 thereon into an 
 orphanage ; i n 
 1888, he built 
 St. J o s e p h' s 
 School (for boys) 
 on Centralavenue 
 putting it at first 
 in charge of the 
 Sisters of Mercy ; 
 during the- fol- 
 lowing year he 
 secured as teach- 
 ers of the boys a band of Christian Broth- 
 ers ; and in 1890 he erected a fine resi- 
 dence for the Brothers, and put stained- 
 glass windows into the church. In 1891, 
 he built the church tower, hanging there- 
 in a fine bell. In 1892, the county au- 
 thorities entrusted to Father Murphy's 
 care all the little Catholic girls of the 
 county farm ; and he was obliged, conse- 
 quently, to enlarge the orphanage, this 
 enterprise costing $5,000. Later, two 
 houses, on the same square with the
 
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 107 
 
 Sacred Heart School, were bequeathed to 
 the parish for the benefit of the orphan- 
 age. Father Murphy has been a member 
 of the Bishop's council since the organi- 
 zation of the diocese ; and he is also a per- 
 manent rector. 
 
 St. Mary's parish, with its splendid de- 
 velopment, has no debt ; and, in point of 
 organization, it is one of the best parishes 
 in New England. 
 
 PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 St. Joseph's School, under the instruc- 
 tion of four Christian Brothers (Brother 
 Jerome, supe- 
 rior), has 230 
 boys on its 
 rolls, besides 
 accommodat- 
 ing the young- 
 er girls who 
 1 ive in the 
 northwestern 
 part of the city 
 and who are 
 taught by two 
 Sisters of Mer- 
 cy. The school 
 and the 
 Brothers ' 
 house are on 
 a splendid lot, 
 the former 
 building being 
 well arranged, 
 containing six 
 class-roo m s , 
 and showing a 
 brick base- 
 ment and an 
 open cupola. 
 
 The Sacred Heart School is located on 
 Church street. Its lowest story is of 
 brick, the other two being of wood. Its 
 exterior is tastefully ornamented, the ba- 
 rocco work under the eaves being espec- 
 ially praiseworthy. It contains eleven 
 rooms and a recitation hallway, every 
 class having its own cloak-room. A pa- 
 rochial library is in this building. The 
 school is heated by steam, is furnished 
 with hot and cold air ventilators, and is 
 well lighted. Fifteen Sisters of Mercy 
 (Mother Fidelis, superior) from the Man- 
 
 REV. FATHER MURPHY. 
 
 Chester mother-house, teach 415 girls, 
 instructing also, up to the fourth grade, 
 the boys who live in the southern section 
 of the city. In the grammar grades his- 
 tory is treated topically, and diagram 
 work is used in language analysis. A 
 special course is given in vocal music. 
 The high school curriculum, extending 
 through three years, includes algebra, 
 stenography, typewriting, literature, 
 French, Church history, physics, civil gov- 
 ernment, and bookkeeping (single and 
 double entry). Both schools are of the 
 very first order. 
 
 SACRED HEART 
 CONVENT. 
 
 The Sacred 
 Heart Convent 
 fronting on 
 Central avenue, 
 is bright and 
 c o m m o dious, 
 every Sister 
 having her own 
 room ; and it 
 has a pretty 
 chapel, fur- 
 nished with 
 stain e d-g lass 
 windows, a 
 tasteful altar, 
 and chaste 
 frescoing. 
 
 . The orphan- 
 age for girls is 
 cared for by 
 three Sisters of 
 Mercy, and can 
 be made to ac- 
 commodate a 
 hundred children. It is heated by steam, 
 and is noticeable by reason of the neat- 
 ness and sweetness of its dormitories. 
 The orphans attend the Sisters' school. 
 
 The Central Avenue Baptist Church. 
 
 The church now known as the Central 
 Avenue Baptist church, was constituted 
 with thirteen members and recognized in 
 the usual manner by a council on the 
 twenty-third day of April, in the year of 
 our :Lord, one thousand eight hundred
 
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 and twenty-eight. It was composed of 
 persons who had been accustomed to 
 worship with churches of the Baptist 
 faith, but not finding those of their own 
 belief and order in Dover, they took 
 measures for the organization of a regular 
 Baptist church. Of the thirteen persons 
 who were active in this movement, seven 
 were men and six were women. In March, 
 1828, Rev. Duncan Dunbar of New York 
 was invited to preach to this body of 
 Baptist friends, and as the result of a 
 few Sundays' labor, three were baptized 
 upon the pro- 
 f e s s i o n of 
 their faith. 
 The fi r s t 
 meetings o f 
 these breth- 
 ren were held 
 in the hall of 
 a building 
 which was at- 
 tached to the 
 block which 
 now stands on 
 Second street, 
 familiarly 
 known as the 
 " Old Board- 
 ing House," 
 and which 
 once stood on 
 the spot now 
 occupied by 
 the brick 
 block known 
 as the Morrill 
 Block. The 
 first pastor, 
 Rev. Elijah 
 Foster, w a s 
 
 settled in October, 1829, and on the same 
 day the present church edifice was dedi- 
 cated to the worship of Almighty God, it 
 having been erected largely by the ardu- 
 ous and persistent labors of the pastor 
 with the cheerful co-operation of all the 
 members of the church. It is worthy of 
 remark, as indicating the labors of the 
 pastor of that day, that on the first Sun- 
 day after the dedication of the church, he 
 preached three sermons, baptized and 
 gave the hand of fellowship to one new 
 
 CENTRAL AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. 
 
 convert, administered the Lord's Supper 
 and joined a couple in the bands of wed- 
 lock. Mr. Foster continued as pastor 
 of the church till 1831, long enough to 
 see it quite firmly established and increas- 
 ing in numbers and spiritual strength 
 through the faithful and earnest labors he 
 made for it in its early days of weakness. 
 From the year of its formation, now sev- 
 enty years ago, to this present day, the 
 church has maintained, through seasons 
 of great trial as well as through seasons 
 of great prosperity, a succession of godly 
 ministers who 
 have contrib- 
 uted their 
 share to the 
 advancemen t 
 of this city in 
 all good 
 words and 
 works, and as 
 it looks back 
 and reviews 
 the past it can 
 well thank 
 God and take 
 courage. ^.^ 
 During 
 the seventy 
 years of the 
 church's life, 
 it has r e - 
 ceivedinto its 
 fel 1 o w s h i p 
 nine hundred 
 and twenty- 
 two members. 
 Its present 
 membersh i p 
 is two hun- 
 dred and for- 
 ty-four, and its pastor is the Rev. W. H. 
 S. Hascall, 4 Ham street. 
 
 REV. W. H. S. HASCALL. 
 
 W. H. S. Hascall is a native of Rutland 
 County, Vermont, but while he was still a 
 lad his father moved to Durham, Me., 
 where he resides, though the boy spent 
 much of his time in the city of Portland at 
 the home of an uncle whose namesake he 
 was. In addition to his other studies, he 
 learned the printer's trade, and was called
 
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 109 
 
 by the American Baptist Missionary Union 
 to assist in their large Publishing House 
 in Rangoon, Burma. He was soon trans- 
 ferred to the charge of the important sta- 
 tion of Maulmain where the oversight of 
 eighteen native churches, the direction of 
 the evangelists and the supervision of 
 several large schools, besides city and 
 jungle preaching, devolved upon him. 
 After eight years he returned to the 
 United States for a period of rest, for a 
 time serving as pastor of the Baptist 
 church in Farmington, Me. 
 
 He returned with his family to Burma 
 in 1883 and took charge of the Henzada 
 mission until the Brit- 
 ish occupation of Up- 
 per Burma, when he 
 was asked to found a 
 new station in that 
 dangerous locality. 
 Land was purchased, 
 mission buildings erect- 
 ed and a small church 
 gathered, when he was 
 obliged on account of 
 the severe illness of his 
 entire family to relin- 
 quish his work and re- 
 turn to America. After 
 spending a year in rest- 
 ing and giving mission- 
 ary addresses in various 
 parts of the country 
 he accepted a call to 
 Fall River, Mass., 
 where he remained six 
 and one half years ; 
 from thence coming 
 to Dover in October, 
 1896. 
 
 REV. W. H. S. HASCALL 
 
 St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. 
 
 The first services in Dover in accord- 
 ance with the doctrine and ritual of the 
 Protestant Episcopal church of America 
 were held by Rev. Henry Blackaller of 
 St. Paul's church, Great Falls in Feb., 
 1832. The permanent establishment of 
 this church in Dover is not due entirely 
 to or chiefly, however, to the efforts of 
 Mr. Blackaller, but rather to the Rev. 
 Thomas R. Lambert, D. D., who in 1839 
 
 began the regular services of the church 
 in what was then Belknap school, a 
 wooden building then situated on Church 
 street. On Sept. 2, 1839, gentlemen in- 
 terested in the formation of a church met 
 in this schoolhouse and entered into an 
 association for this purpose. On Dec. i, 
 1839, Rev. William Horton, before rector 
 of Trinity church, Saco, became rector of 
 St. Thomas' church. In 1840 a lot of 
 land was bought on what is now the corner 
 of Central avenue and St. Thomas st. A 
 church building was erected and finished 
 January, 1841, at the cost of $5800. The 
 first service was held in the new church 
 January 17, 1841. 
 The church was con- 
 secrated by Bishop 
 Griswold, March 17, 
 1841. InAug., 1841, 
 the parish consisted of 
 sixty families and forty 
 communicants. Rev. 
 Mr. Horton resigned 
 his rectorship Nov. 10, 
 1847. The Rev. 
 Thomas G. Salter be- 
 came rector Dec. 12, 
 1847. In 1860 gas 
 was put into the 
 church and the church 
 bell was hung. On 
 July i, 1 86 1, Mr. Sal- 
 ter resigned his rector- 
 ship and Sept. i, 1 86 1, 
 Rev. Edward M. 
 Gushee became the 
 rector. During our 
 late civil war Mr. 
 Gushee was chaplain 
 of the Ninth New Hampshire Regiment, 
 and in his absence Rev. Charles Wingate 
 officiated as rector. Mr. Gushee resigned 
 in April, 1864. On Dec. i, 1864, the 
 Rev. John W. Clark became the rector, 
 but resigned Sept. 16, 1866. The follow- 
 ing February, Rev. George G. Field was 
 chosen rector. Mr. Field resigned Aug. 
 1 6, 1868. Rev. John B. Richmond be- 
 came rector Nov. 8, 1868. During the 
 rectorship of Mr. Richmond the church 
 building was altered inside and out, and 
 its seating capacity increased. Mr. Rich- 
 mond resigned April 29, 1876, and the
 
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 present incumbent, the Rev 
 Beard was chosen rec- 
 tor and entered upon 
 his duties Nov. 5, 
 1876. 
 
 REV. ITHAMAR W. 
 BEARD. 
 
 Ithamar Warren 
 Beard was born in 
 Pittsfield, N. H., Feb. 
 23, 1840. He fitted 
 for college at the Low- 
 ell public schools, the 
 Brimmer school in 
 Boston, the Lawrence 
 academy in Grjoton, 
 Mass., and the Cam- 
 bridge High school 
 from which he was 
 graduated in 1858. 
 He entered Harvard 
 college the same year 
 and was graduated in 
 the class of 1862. 
 During the civil war 
 he was lieutenant 
 in the igth Mass. 
 Reg., but was 
 obliged to resign 
 his position on ac- 
 count of his 
 father's failing 
 health. He stud- 
 ied law in the of- 
 fice of D. S. and 
 G. F. Richardson, 
 Lowell, Mass., and 
 was admitted to 
 the bar of Middle- 
 sex county, Oct. 
 17, 1864. He was 
 Secretary of the 
 State Mutual Fire 
 Insurance Com- 
 pany, Boston, in 
 1865. He prac- 
 ticed law in Low- 
 ell in 1866. He 
 was Register of 
 Deeds in Lowell 
 in 1867 and was 
 reelectedin 1870. t 
 
 Dec. ist, 1869, 
 he married Marcy Foster 
 
 Ithamar W. 
 
 REV. ITHAMAR W. BEARD 
 
 He was baptized by the Rev. Theo- 
 dore Edson, D. D., of 
 Lowell, March 25th, 
 1866. He was con- 
 firmed by the Rt. Rev. 
 Manton Easttrom, D. 
 D., April 5th, 1 866. He 
 was President of the 
 Loweliy.M.C.A.'the 
 first two years of its 
 existence. He was 
 graduated B. E. from 
 the Cambridge Theo- 
 logical school June 
 1 8th, 1873. He was or- 
 dained Deacon by the 
 Rt. Rev. Henry Vealy, 
 D.D., June isth, 1873. 
 He was ordained Priest 
 by the Rt. Rev. B. H. 
 Paddock, D.D., June 
 21, 1874. He was rec- 
 tor of St. James church, 
 South Groveland, 
 Mass., from July 28th, 
 1873, to Nov. ist, 
 1876. He was 
 r e c t o r of St. 
 Thomas' church 
 from Nov. i st, 
 1876, to the pres- 
 ent date and he 
 is still the rector. 
 He has been a 
 member of the 
 Dover School 
 Board, is chap- 
 lain of Moses 
 Paul Lodge, Sen- 
 ior Pastor of the 
 city, presiding 
 o ffi c e r of the 
 Ministers' Asso- 
 ciation, a dele- 
 gate to the gen- 
 eral convention 
 of his own church 
 and he has been 
 chaplain of the 
 County Farm for 
 ten years and 
 more. 
 
 The old church 
 occupied the 
 northeast corner of the present site of the 
 
 THOMAS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 
 
 of Nashua.
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 City Hall and faced on Central avenue. 
 This building was of wood and was torn 
 down in 1891 and the new stone church 
 was built. The new church was opened 
 for use the first Sunday in September, 1 892. 
 Wm. H. Ward of Lowell was the contrac- 
 tor for the mason work, Tibbetts & Clark 
 for. the carpenter work, Henry Vaughan, 
 Boston, was the architect. 
 
 Washington Street Freewill Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 The Washington street church was or- 
 ganized Feb- 
 ruary 4, 1840, 
 with thirteen 
 members, 
 most of them 
 having been 
 members of 
 the First 
 Freewill Bap- 
 tist church, 
 organ i zed 
 seven years 
 before. For 
 nine months 
 meetings and 
 S u n d a y - 
 school were 
 held every 
 Sabbath in a 
 small upper 
 room at No. 
 246 Central 
 avenue, with 
 preaching 
 part of the 
 time. The 
 first pa s t or 
 was settled in 
 No v e m b e r 
 and the congregation so increased that 
 the Sabbath meetings were soon removed 
 to the Belknap schoolhouse, then on 
 Church street and afterwards to the 
 Court House. 
 
 The first house of worship was built in 
 connection with an office for the publica- 
 tion of the Morning Star at a cost of 
 $1600, and was dedicated September 21, 
 1843. The church then changed its 
 name from Central street to Washington 
 
 street and the number of its members was 
 one hundred and fifty. The vestry, part- 
 ly under ground, was afterwards finished 
 and occupied for twenty years, and then 
 abandoned as it was damp and unhealth- 
 ful. In 1852 the house was enlarged, 
 and the next year an organ was purchased 
 at S8oo. 
 
 The printing establishment needed en- 
 larged accommodations, and the church 
 sold its interest in the house and held its 
 last service there January 26, 1868. A 
 large brick edifice was erected, at a cost 
 of $24,000, its vestries were occupied in 
 the autumn, 
 and the house 
 was dedica- 
 ted October 
 28, 1869. 
 The payment 
 of its debt 
 was complet- 
 ed in April, 
 1882, but on 
 the morning 
 of May 2d a 
 fire in an ad- 
 joining build- 
 ing extended 
 to the church 
 and in one 
 hour all was 
 in ruins. In 
 the afternoon 
 a terrific wind 
 blew in a part 
 of the stand- 
 ing wall, bury- 
 ing five per- 
 sons, four of 
 whom were 
 taken out 
 badly injured 
 and one was instantly killed. 
 
 Sympathy was kindly offered, and the 
 Belknap church, being without a pastor, 
 tendered the use of its house, which was 
 gratefully accepted and occupied till 
 December 24, when the vestries were 
 completed, and the audience room was 
 dedicated March 22, 1883. The cost of 
 rebuilding was $13,000, including the 
 cost of the organ, which was $1300. The 
 debt incurred by the rebuilding was 
 
 WASHINGTON STREET FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH.
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 bravely carried by the church until 1893, 
 when the church received $1000 by be- 
 quest from the estate 
 of Robert Cristie. 
 By faithful effort and 
 noble sacrifice over 
 $2000 was raised 
 among its friends and 
 on Feb. 4th, 1896, 
 they gathered in the 
 church to witness the 
 burning of the mort- 
 gage. Since then all 
 pews have been free, 
 and the running ex- 
 penses of the church 
 have been met by free- 
 will offering. 
 
 The church is thor- 
 oughly evangelical in 
 its spirit and methods, 
 loyal to the Free Bap- 
 tist faith and doctrine, 
 and a firm supporter ot 
 denominational benev- 
 olences. In Oct., 1897, 
 there were 170 resident 
 members of the church and 58 non-resi- 
 dent making the total membership, 228. 
 
 REV. R. E GILKEY. 
 
 sor Co., Vermont, March 2ist, 1857. He 
 is the son of John and Ann T. (Currier) 
 Gilkey. He was brought 
 up on a farm where he 
 had the advantages of 
 a common school edu- 
 cation. At the age of 
 eighteen he entered 
 Lyndon Institute, Lyn- 
 don Centre, Vt., to 
 prepare for college. In 
 the fall of '77 he en- 
 tered Bates College, 
 Lewiston, Me., gradu- 
 ating in '8 1. For three 
 years he worked as a 
 druggist, one year in 
 Audubon, Iowa, and 
 two years in Saco, Me. 
 He then entered Cobb 
 Divinity School in Lew- 
 iston, Me., graduating 
 in 1887. He has held 
 four pastorates. The 
 first of one year in New 
 Gloucester, Maine, the 
 second of two years in 
 the Corliss Street church, Bath, Me., the 
 third of four years in the Brown church, 
 
 FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE. 
 
 REV. R. E. GILKEY. 
 R. E. Gilkey was born in Sharon, Wind- 
 
 Richmond, Me. He entered upon the 
 labors of the fourth and present pastorate 
 May ist, '92.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 Society of Friends. 
 
 The first mention we find of any Quak- 
 ers in Dover is in 1662 when three travel- 
 ing sisters were whipped out of town by 
 order of Major Walderne. Dr. Belknap 
 remarks in his " History of New Hamp- 
 shire " that the Friends once comprised 
 a third part of the population of the town. 
 Their numbers now are quite respectable. 
 The first " meeting" of Friends in Dover 
 was established at Dover Neck as early as 
 1680, where their first meeting-house was 
 built prior to the year 1700. It 
 stood about 
 half a mile north 
 of the one built 
 by the First 
 Parish two hun- 
 dred years ago, 
 and was taken 
 down about the 
 year 1770. The 
 one now occu- 
 pied by the so- 
 ciety was erec- 
 ted about the 
 same time. 
 Previous to this, 
 however, they 
 had a small 
 house on Silver 
 street, which 
 was built prior 
 to 1720, for it 
 appears by their 
 records that in 
 December o f 
 that year they 
 " agreed to re- 
 pair their house 
 at Cocheco." 
 
 This house 
 
 stood where the residence of Jacob K. 
 Purington now stands. At that time they 
 held meetings at Dover Neck as well as 
 at Cocheco. The first "Monthly Meeting" 
 was set up in 1702, and this record ex- 
 tends back to that time. The first " Quar- 
 terly Meeting" was established in 1708. 
 
 ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 
 
 Advent Christian Church. 
 
 The Advent Christian church was or- 
 
 ganized May 4, 1881, by a body of Chris- 
 tians who had worshipped in houses and 
 halls since 1843, having been literally 
 without a resting-place during that pe- 
 riod. At a meeting of the society and 
 its friends in the spring of 1881, George 
 E. Durgin, John Brooks and William H. 
 Vickery were appointed to contract for 
 the building of a house of worship. 
 
 It was built from the plans and under 
 the direction of George Brown, the ar- 
 chitect, at a cost of $5000. The seats 
 are free and the church is supported by 
 free-will offerings. The building contains 
 an audience- 
 room, 36 x 48 
 feet, and a ves- 
 try in the base- 
 ment. The 
 house was ded- 
 icated April 1 6, 
 1882, by a ser- 
 mon preached 
 by Elder John 
 Couch, of Law- 
 rence, Mass. 
 
 The First 
 Unitarian 
 
 Society 
 
 of Christians 
 
 in Dover. 
 
 The fi r s t 
 meeting for 
 forming this so- 
 ciety was held 
 Aug. 28, 1827, 
 the society be- 
 ing organized 
 on the 4th of 
 September fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 The first meeting for public worship 
 was holden at the Court House, Nov. 4, 
 of the same year, when Rev. Henry Ware, 
 ]r., then pastor of the New Brick church, 
 Hanover street, Boston, and afterwards 
 Professor of Pulpit Eloquence in Cam- 
 bridge Divinity school, officiated. The 
 house was built of brick in the year 1828, 
 situated on Locust street and cost $12060. 
 It was dedicated and Rev. Samuel Kirk- 
 land Lothrop ordained Feb. 17, 1829.
 
 DOVER J623-1898 
 
 FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. 
 
 square feet, stood two 
 houses, one of which he 
 moved away, converting the 
 other to rectory uses at an 
 additional expense of $ 1 2 oo . 
 Father Richard began 
 building St. Charles' Church 
 May i, 1896, and said the 
 first Mass therein on the 
 eighth day of the following 
 November. The church 
 cost, to build, 9400, the 
 fittings and furnishings run- 
 ning the total expense up 
 to $12,000. 
 
 REV. JULIAN J. RICHARD. 
 
 Father Richard was born 
 at St. Maurice, P. Q., March 
 24, 1856, studied at the 
 college and seminary of 
 Three Rivers, and was or- 
 dained Sept. 19, 1880, by 
 Bishop Laflesche, for the 
 diocese of Three Rivers. For 
 seven years after ordination 
 he was a professor in the 
 
 The dedicatory services 
 were performed by Rev. 
 Dr. Nichols, of Portland, 
 and ordination sermon by 
 Rev. Dr. Parker, of Port- 
 land. The church was 
 gathered the evening pre- 
 
 St. Charles Roman 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 The parish of St. Charles, 
 consisting of the French- 
 Canadians of Dover, was 
 organized in 1893. Rev. 
 Julian J. Richard was ap- 
 pointed first pastor, Nov. 
 5, of the same year, saying 
 Mass the following Sunday 
 in Lowell Hall, where he 
 officiated regularly. Aug. 
 17, 1894, he bought, for 
 $6500, a fine lot on the cor- 
 ner of Third and Grove 
 streets. On this property, 
 which contains 10,000 
 
 ST. CHARLES CATHOLIC CHURCH.
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 college of Three Rivers, afterwards spend- 
 ing a year on duty at the cathedral. He 
 came to the diocese of Manchester June 
 23, 1888, and was thereupon stationed 
 at St. Augustine's, Manchester, where he 
 remained until April 17, 1890, when he 
 was transferred to St. Mary's Church, in 
 the same city. April 3, 1893, he was 
 made administrator of St. Francis Xavier's 
 Church in Nashua, the pastor being in 
 Europe. From the latter city he came 
 to Dover. 
 
 retary, Burton T. Scales ; Auditor, Ernest 
 B. Folsom ; and Board of Directors, Chas. 
 E. Gate, Rev. W. H. S. Hascall, Alfred 
 E. Faye, Frank E. Meserve, E. H. Frost, 
 T. M. Henderson, H. H. Burley, E. A. 
 Crawford ; E. B. Read, General Secretary. 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 The Dover Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation was organized 
 in 1888 and first occu- 
 pied rooms in Ham's 
 Block on Washington 
 street. Soon after the 
 increased membership 
 demandrd larger quar- 
 ters and the association 
 moved to Odd Fellows' 
 Block. In December, 
 1896, the new Union 
 Block was completed, 
 the entire second floor 
 of which was fitted up 
 for the Association, 
 with reading and recre- 
 ation rooms, parlors, a 
 well equipped gymna- 
 sium, with baths, and 
 a hall with seating ca- 
 pacity of about two 
 hundred. The rooms 
 are open every week 
 day from 9 A. M. to 10 
 p. M. and on Sunday 
 afternoons, and the strange young man 
 from out of town always receives a cordial 
 welcome. Through its reading-room, li- 
 brary, mock- congress, camera club, gym- 
 nasium, pleasant, social life, religious ser- 
 vices, the Association seeks to elevate 
 men, mentally, physically and morally. 
 Membership is open to all young men of 
 good moral character. At the present 
 time the Association has a membership of 
 nearly 200 with officers as follows : 
 
 President, William C. Ogden : Treas- 
 urer, Frank E. Garside ; Recording Sec- 
 
 REV. JAMES THUR8TON. 
 
 Rev. James Thurston. 
 
 Rev. James Thurston is of the seventh 
 generation from the common ancestor of 
 the Thurstons of New England Daniel 
 Thurston, who immigrated to old New- 
 bury, Mass., in 1635. 
 
 He was born in Buxton, York County, 
 Maine, March 12, 1816. His parents 
 removed to Danville, 
 now Auburn, Me.,when 
 he was quite young. 
 His early life was 
 spent on the farm and 
 he enjoyed such edu- 
 cational advantages as 
 were found in the 
 cou ntry common 
 schools of that day. 
 He subsequently com- 
 pleted a course of 
 studies in the Maine 
 Wesleyan Seminary at 
 Readfield, Me. He 
 commenced his career 
 as a minister of the 
 Methodist Episcopal 
 church in 1838 and 
 remained in that work 
 in Maine when he was 
 " transferred " by the 
 venerable Bishop Hed- 
 ding to the New 
 Hampshire conference. 
 His first appointment in New Hampshire 
 was at Portsmouth in 1 848. He has served 
 some of the principal churches in the state 
 and had two terms as Presiding Elder. 
 He has twice been chosen as delegate by 
 his brethren to the general conference. 
 He was appointed as pastor of the 
 church in this city in 1869 and served two 
 years when he was disabled by nervous 
 prostration. During all the period of his 
 ministerial life he preached twice on ev- 
 ery Sabbath and often three times. He 
 never had the benefit of a vacation, which
 
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 was something quite unknown in those 
 days. In all the earlier years of his ser- 
 vice he received but a meager compensa- 
 tion for his labors. He was married in 
 1840 to Miss Clara A. Flint of Lubec, 
 Me., who was always a most worthy helper 
 in all his labor. She died in 1890. Mr. 
 Thurston has made Dover his home for 
 nearly thirty years, and is now the oldest 
 resident clergyman in our city. He has 
 served the New Hampshire Legislature as 
 chaplain two 
 t e r m s , the 
 only minister 
 who had that 
 distinction. 
 H e w a s a 
 member of 
 the House of 
 Represen ta- 
 tives in 1885, 
 from Ward 
 two in this 
 city and a 
 member of the 
 constitutional 
 convention in 
 1889, serving 
 as chaplain to 
 that body. He 
 has performed 
 such ministe- 
 rial service 
 as his strength 
 would allow, 
 having been a 
 Class Leader 
 and Trustee 
 of St. John's 
 church. He 
 has acted as 
 corr e s p o n - 
 dent for sev- 
 eral newspa- 
 pers. He is a member of Strafford Lodge 
 of Free Masons and an honorary member 
 of St. Paul Commandery Knights Templar. 
 He is the oldest Mason in this vicinity, 
 having been made one in 1844. In poli- 
 tics he is a conservative Republican. 
 
 HARRISON HALEY. 
 
 Harrison Haley. 
 
 Harrison Haley is a son of John and 
 
 Sally (Butler) Haley and was born at 
 Lee. He received his education in the 
 schools of Lee, Newmarket and Ports- 
 mouth. Upon leaving school he entered 
 his brother's grocery store at Newmarket 
 as clerk and later accepted a position as 
 salesman in a dry goods store at Lowell. 
 In the fall of 1849 he came to Dover and 
 opened a dry goods .store in which busi- 
 ness he continued until the fall of 1870 
 when he was chosen cashier of the Co- 
 checo Nation- 
 al Bank, which 
 pos i t i o n he 
 has since 
 filled. Mr. Ha- 
 ley has ever 
 been most ac- 
 tive in the va- 
 rious enter- 
 prises of the 
 city, always 
 ready to do his 
 part to pro- 
 m o t e any 
 cause that was 
 for the good 
 of our citizens. 
 His public 
 spirite d n e s s 
 and persever- 
 ance have 
 been manifest 
 in many of the 
 public enter- 
 prises of Do- 
 ver. Through 
 his energetic 
 efforts a street 
 ra i 1 w a y was 
 built, adding 
 considera b 1 y 
 to the conven- 
 ience of the 
 
 public. The introduction of the City 
 Water Works, the establishment of a Chil- 
 dren's Home and a Home for Aged Peo- 
 ple are among the movements which en- 
 gaged his interest and zeal. The erection 
 of an Observatory on Garrison Hill from 
 which thousands of people have greatly 
 enjoyed the grand views, was also an en- 
 terprise of his. He has been a member 
 of the City Government and of the Board
 
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 117 
 
 of Education. In religious persuasion he is 
 a Methodist and has been for seventeen 
 years Superintendent of the St. John's 
 Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school. 
 
 Hon. Charles H. Sawyer. 
 
 Charles Henry Sawyer was born in 
 Watertown, N. Y., March 30, 1840. He 
 is eldest son of Jonathan and Martha 
 (Perkins) Sawyer. His ancestry on both 
 the paternal and maternal sides were 
 among the 
 early settlers 
 of Massachu- 
 setts. Heat- 
 tended the 
 schools of 
 Watertown 
 until he was 
 ten years of 
 age, when the 
 family re- 
 moved to Do- 
 ver, and he 
 completed his 
 education in 
 this city. He 
 entered the 
 Sawyer Wool- 
 en Mills at the 
 age of seven- 
 teen, the 
 plant then be- 
 ing engaged 
 in the manu- 
 facture of 
 flannels. He 
 had become 
 thor o u g h 1 y 
 
 was delegate to the National Republican 
 Convention in Chicago. In 1886 he was 
 elected Governor of New Hampshire, 
 and during his term of office he repre- 
 sented the state in many centennial cele- 
 brations that were held during that pe- 
 riod, particularly at Philadelphia on the 
 occasion of the celebration of the one 
 hundredth anniversary of the promulga- 
 tion of the Constitution of the United 
 States. Another centennial was that in 
 New York of the inauguration of Presi- 
 dent Wash- 
 
 proficient in 
 the business 
 at the age of twenty-six and was then ap- 
 pointed Superintendent of the Mills. In 
 1 88 1 he became President of the com- 
 pany and since then the general manage- 
 ment of the mills has been in his hands. 
 Throughout his business career Mr. Saw- 
 yer has been markedly successful. He 
 has held many public offices. He served 
 in both branches of the City Councils, was 
 Representative to the Legislature in 1860- 
 '76-'? 7, a member of the staff of Governor 
 Charles H. Bell in 1881, and in 1884 he 
 
 HON. CHARLES H. SAWYER. 
 
 ington. Mr. 
 Sawyer is a 
 Director of 
 the Strafford 
 National 
 Bank, a Trus- 
 tee and Vice- 
 President of 
 the Strafford 
 Savings Bank 
 and a Direc- 
 tor of the 
 Dover Gas 
 Light Com- 
 pany. He 
 has held the 
 positions of 
 President of 
 the Dover 
 Horse Rail- 
 r o a d Com- 
 pany, Direc- 
 tor and Exec- 
 utive Member 
 of the Gran- 
 ite State In- 
 surance Com- 
 pany, Presi- 
 dent of the 
 Elliot Bridge Company, a Director of 
 the Dover and Portsmouth, the Dover, 
 Great Falls and Conway, and the Wolfe- 
 boro Branch Railroads. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Congregational Society of Do- 
 ver. He is a Mason and has been twice 
 chosen Master of the lodge and for many 
 years was Eminent Commander of St. 
 Paul Commandery, Knights Templar. 
 Mr. Sawyer was married February 8, 1865, 
 to Susan Ellen, daughter of Dr. James W. 
 and Elizabeth Cowan of this city. Their
 
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 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 children are, William Davis, who married 
 Susan Gertrude, 
 daughter of Hon. 
 Joshua G. Hall; 
 Charles Francis, 
 who married Ger- 
 trude C hild, 
 daughter of Hon. 
 Henry W. Sever- 
 ance of San Fran- 
 cisco; James 
 Cowan, who mar- 
 ried Mary Pep- 
 perell, daughter of 
 Judge George 
 Seward Frost ; 
 and Edward and 
 Elizabeth Coffin 
 Sawyer. 
 
 The Dover 
 Clothing 
 Company. 
 
 The Dover 
 Clothing C o m - 
 pany was estab- 
 lished in 1880 and 
 has built up a bus- 
 
 WINFIELD S. BRADLEY. 
 
 iness which is remarkable alike for its 
 magnitude and 
 scope. The com- 
 pany's popularity 
 lies in the fact 
 that all classes of 
 trade are catered 
 to with equal care 
 and ability. They 
 will make you as 
 choice a custom 
 garment as any 
 tailor in New Eng- 
 land, and they 
 will furnish you 
 with a strong, dur- 
 able garment at a 
 very low price, for 
 working wear. 
 Their custom 
 made garments 
 are absolutely cor- 
 rect in fit, style 
 and finish and the 
 assortment of pat- 
 terns kept in stock 
 embraces all the 
 well known cloths, 
 woolens and cas- 
 
 DOVER CLOTHING COMPANY'S STORE 'INTERIOR'.
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 119 
 
 simeres manufactured 
 Woolen Mills. 
 
 Mr. W. S. Bradley, 
 the proprietor of this 
 representative estab- 
 lishment, is a native of 
 Fairfteld, Vt., and is 
 widely and favorably 
 known in business cir- 
 cles throughout this 
 section of the state. 
 He gives close super- 
 vision to the various 
 departments of the 
 undertaking, and has 
 the business thorough- 
 ly systematized. From 
 six to ten assistants 
 are employed in the 
 store, and from twen- 
 ty-five to fifty in the 
 workrooms, thus assur- 
 ing prompt attention 
 to the needs of pat- 
 rons. The premises 
 comprise two floors 
 
 by the Sawyer sisting of a heavy stock of ready to wear 
 clothing, hats, caps, and all the latest fash- 
 ionable novelties in 
 gentlemen's furnish- 
 ings. 
 
 Since the opening 
 of this establishment it 
 has met with splendid 
 success on account of 
 the unusually fine 
 stock of goods carried 
 and the excellent and 
 refined taste shown in 
 iheir selection. 
 
 CHARLES E. HODSDON. 
 
 Charles E. Hodsdon. 
 
 Charles E. Hods- 
 don was born and ed- 
 ucated in Dover. At 
 the age of fourteen 
 years he entered the 
 store of C._E J _ Bacon 
 to learn the jewelry 
 business and served 
 eleven years perfecting 
 
 INTERIOR HOD8DON JEWELRY STORE. 
 
 and a basement at 436-438 Central av- 
 enue and are well adapted for displaying 
 the excellent stock of goods carried, con- 
 
 himself in its every detail. Ten years ago 
 Mr. Hodsdon opened a modest store in 
 the vicinity of the Democrat office, and
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 at the time occupied by Alexander Frazier. 
 Six months later he moved into his present 
 magnificent store in the National Block, 
 444 Central avenue. The premises are 
 excellently fitted up, the furnishings benig 
 of a substantial nature. Handsome plate- 
 glass show cases show to perfection the 
 rare assortment of cut and uncut gems 
 and precious stones, diamonds, solid gold 
 rings, watches, chains, and ornaments all 
 tastefully arranged and bearing evidence 
 of the splen- 
 did patronage 
 the store en- 
 joys from the 
 best class of 
 our citi zens 
 and those of 
 the surround- 
 ing towns. Mr. 
 Hodsdon also 
 carries a line 
 of rare art pot- 
 tery, solid sil- 
 ver and silver- 
 plated ware 
 and an exten- 
 sive line of 
 gold and silver 
 watches and 
 chains, silver 
 toilet articles, 
 bronzes, onyx 
 and marble 
 clocks, cut 
 glass, specta- 
 cles, bric-a- 
 brae, etc. 
 Special atten- 
 tion is devo- 
 ted to watch 
 and jewelry 
 repairing and 
 the mounting 
 
 of gems. Everything carried in stock 
 is of an exceptionally fine quality suitable 
 for the most fastidious class of customers. 
 Mr. George R. Hodsdon, a graduate of 
 the Bucklins School of Optics of New 
 York, who has been constantly associated 
 with Mr. Charles E. Hodsdon, is in charge 
 of the optical and engraving departments. 
 He makes a specialty of fitting spectacles 
 for weak or defective sight. 
 
 In addition .to his jewelry business, 
 Mr. Hodsdon conducts one of the largest 
 retail bicycle stores in the state, handling 
 the Stearns, Victor, Waverly, Lovell Dia- 
 mond and other high class wheels. In 
 the rear of the store are the workshops 
 where every class of repair is attended to 
 by skilled workmen at short notice. 
 
 HON. JOSHUA OILMAN HALL. 
 
 Hon. Joshua G. Hall. 
 
 Joshua Gil- 
 man Hall is a 
 lineal descen- 
 dant of Dea- 
 con John Hall, 
 who lived on 
 the land now 
 cultivated by 
 John Wesley 
 Clements on 
 Dover Neck. 
 The Hall 
 spring which 
 has been 
 known by that 
 name for over 
 two hundred 
 years is on the 
 Clements 
 farm near the 
 river. It has 
 been used by 
 man and 
 beast since 
 the day that 
 Deacon Hall 
 discovered it. 
 On the ma- 
 ternal side 
 Mr. Hall is 
 descended 
 from Capt. 
 Jeremiah Gil- 
 man of Wakefield, who was one of Stark's 
 officers at Bennington, having raised a 
 company for the campaign when over 
 sixty years of age. Report says he was 
 the first man in the fight after Gen. Stark 
 who led the column. 
 
 Mr. Hall is the son of Joshua G. and 
 Betsy (Plummer) Hall of Wakefield, where 
 he was born Nov. 5, 1828. He gradu- 
 ated at Dartmouth college in July, 1851,
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1855. 
 Since 1857 he has resided in Dover. His 
 public services have been practically con- 
 tinuous from June, 1862, to March 4, 
 1 88 1, having been Solicitor for the County 
 of Strafford from June, 1862 to June, 
 1874 ; Mayor of Dover, 1866, 1867 ; City 
 Solicitor, 1868, 1869; member New 
 Hampshire Senate i87i-'72; Represen- 
 tative to New Hampshire Legislature, 
 1874; Attorney of the United States for 
 the district of 
 New Hamp- 
 shire from 
 April, 1874, 
 to Feb., 
 1879; elec- 
 ted to the 
 forty -sixth 
 Congress and 
 re-elected to 
 the forty- 
 seventh as a 
 Rep ublican, 
 receiving 16,- 
 310 votes 
 against 15,- 
 047 for John 
 W. Sanborn 
 of Wakefield. 
 In these vari- 
 ous offices he 
 has been dili- 
 gent in the 
 discharge of 
 his public du- 
 ties and the 
 confidence of 
 his fellow cit- 
 i z e n s has 
 been shown 
 by continued 
 advance- 
 ment. He is 
 a deacon in the First Parish Congrega- 
 tional church in Dover of which his an- 
 cestor, John Hall, was first deacon, and 
 where, in the words of the old Dover 
 records for the year 1671, he " agried 
 with the selectmen to sweep the Meeting- 
 House and ring the bell for one hole yier 
 & to have for that serves the sum of ten 
 pounds." On Nov. 16, 1861, he was unit- 
 ed in marriage to Miss Susan Elizabeth 
 
 Bigelow of Boston, Mass. Their chil- 
 dren have been Grace Bjgelow, who mar- 
 ried Wm. H. Cook of Florida, Susan Ger- 
 trude, who married Gen. William D. Saw- 
 yer of Dover, and a son, Dwight Hale, who 
 graduated at Dartmouth College 1894 and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1897. 
 Mr. Hall died Oct. 31, 1898. 
 
 GEN. WILLIAM D. SAWYER. 
 
 Gen, William Davis Sawyer. 
 
 William 
 Davis Sawyer 
 was born No- 
 vember 22, 
 1866. He is 
 the eldest 
 son of Hon. 
 Charles H. 
 and Susan 
 Ellen (Cow- 
 an) Sawyer. 
 General Saw- 
 yer was edu- 
 cated in the 
 p u b 1 i c 
 schools and 
 grad u a t e d 
 from the 
 PJiJJJL i_p s 
 Academy, 
 Andover, in 
 1885.' He 
 pursued his 
 st u d i e s at 
 Yale Univer- 
 sity and re- 
 ceived the 
 degree of A. 
 B. from that 
 institution in 
 1889, imme- 
 diately tak- 
 ing up a bus- 
 iness career in connection with the Saw- 
 yer Woolen Mills, in which he has held 
 the responsible position of Treasurer since 
 1891. Gen. Sawyer is a Director of the 
 Portsmouth & Dover R. R. and was Quar- 
 termaster General on the staff of Governor 
 John B. Smith, with the rank of Brigadier 
 General. He has always taken a deep in- 
 terest in politics and has been a delegate 
 to the Republican National Convention
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 of 1896, member of the committee to 
 notify President McKinley of his nomina- 
 tion, member of the Republican State 
 Committee since 1890 and of the Exec- 
 utive Committee of same in 1896. Gen. 
 Sawyer is also a member of Moses Paul 
 Lodge No. 96 A. F. and A. M., Belknap 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Orphan 
 Council, St. Paul Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, and of the Amoskeag Veterans 
 of Manchester. He is also a member of 
 the following 
 clubs : B e 1 - 
 lamy Club, 
 Dover ; Der- 
 ryfield Club, 
 M a n Chester ; 
 Pise a t a q u a 
 Yacht Club, 
 Kittery ; Uni- 
 versity, Yale 
 and Wool 
 Clubs of New 
 York city. 
 Gen. Sawyer 
 married Susan 
 Gertrude, 
 dang h t e r of 
 Hon. Joshua 
 G. Hall and 
 has two chil- 
 dren, J o n a - 
 than and Eliz- 
 abeth Bige- 
 low. 
 
 Charles 
 Henry Fish. 
 
 Charles H. 
 Fish, Agent of 
 the Cocheco 
 Man ufactur- 
 ing Company, was born in Taunton, 
 Mass., a son of Captain F. L. and Mary 
 (Jarvis) Fish. After receiving his edu- 
 cation Mr. Fish entered the machine 
 shops of the Amoskeag Manufacturing 
 Company in Manchester, and from that 
 time has been actively engaged in manu- 
 facturing. He was appointed agent of the 
 Cocheco Company's Mills and Print 
 Works September ist, 1895, succeeding 
 Mr. John Holland. 
 
 CHARLES H. FISH. 
 
 Colonel George H. Peirce. 
 
 Colonel George H. Peirce was a native 
 of this city, where he was born February 
 15, 1829, and always had his home. 
 Educated among us, early identifying him- 
 self with the business interests of Dover, 
 growing with its growth, and always ac- 
 tively interested with whatever in his 
 view tended to its prosperity and progress, 
 few men became better known, and few 
 acquired and 
 retained 
 through life a 
 wider per- 
 sonal popular- 
 ity and influ- 
 ence. A man 
 of generous 
 impulses, lib- 
 eral and open- 
 hearted, not 
 without his 
 faults, but pos- 
 sessing many 
 marked excel- 
 1 e n c i e s and 
 sterling traits 
 of character. 
 Possessed of 
 excellent judg- 
 ment, great 
 energy, and 
 rare business 
 qualifications , 
 he was a thor- 
 oughly active, 
 enterpri sing 
 and progres- 
 sive man. In 
 his opinions 
 he* was out- 
 spoken, and 
 no one ever had reason to doubt his po- 
 sition on any question. Nevertheless he 
 retained the regard of those whom he 
 opposed, and seldom lost his friends while 
 continually drawing new ones around him. 
 From his early youth he was actively 
 engaged in business, commencing in 
 partnership with his brother, Andrew 
 Peirce, now of St. Louis, and the late 
 Thomas Stackpole of this city, as whole- 
 sale merchant on Dover Landing, and
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 123 
 
 afterwards continuing the firm with Elisha 
 Jewett, of South Berwick, Me. His at- 
 tention, however, was early called to rail- 
 road construction, in which he first en- 
 gaged, as early as 1850, on the extension 
 of the Cocheco Railroad from Farmington 
 to Alton Bay. In 1852, in company with 
 Elisha Jewett and William Flynn, he took 
 a large contract on the Southbridge and 
 Blackstone Railroad, now a part of the 
 Air Line from New York to Boston ; and 
 about the 
 same time he 
 became en- 
 gaged in the 
 Saratoga and 
 Sackett's Har- 
 bor Road, 
 running large- 
 ly through the 
 wilderness of 
 Northern 
 New York. 
 He afterwards 
 became inter- 
 ested in many 
 large con- 
 tracts on va- 
 rious roads, 
 including 
 among others 
 the Fall River 
 and Newport, 
 the extension 
 of the Con- 
 cord & Ports- 
 m ou t h to 
 Manchest e r , 
 the Little 
 Rock and 
 Fort Smith, 
 Ark. Railway, 
 the extension 
 of the Boston 
 
 & Maine to Portland, and the Portsmouth 
 and Dover. In the last two he had as 
 partners Messrs. Flynn and Charles B. 
 Gardner of this city. Colonel Peirce's 
 largest contract was for the construction 
 of the European and North American, at 
 a cost of $7,500,000. He subsequently 
 sold out his interest in this. He had 
 nearly completed the Portsmouth & Do- 
 ver road at the time of his decease, Sept. 
 
 COLONEL GEORGE H. PEIRCE 
 
 !3> l &73- Had he lived he would un- 
 doubtedly have had the contract for the 
 Great Falls and Conway extension from 
 Great Falls to Dover. In politics Col- 
 onel Peirce was always a Democrat, yet 
 he often voted independently and never 
 blindly followed party dictation in the 
 support of bad nominations. He was 
 twice the candidate of his party for Rail- 
 road Commissioner, running ahead of his 
 party in both elections. He also repre- 
 sented Ward 
 3, in which 
 there was an 
 a n t i - Demo- 
 cratic major- 
 ity of 162 a 
 result that 
 was due in 
 part to his 
 well- known 
 views on rail- 
 road questions 
 i den t ifie d 
 with the pros- 
 perity of Do- 
 ver, but alto- 
 gether more 
 to his great 
 personal pop- 
 ularity. 
 
 Charles 
 Francis 
 Sawyer. 
 
 Charles 
 Francis Saw- 
 yer,second son 
 of Charles H. 
 and Susan E. 
 (Cowan) Saw- 
 yer, was born 
 in Dover Jan. 
 
 1 6th, 1869. He was educated in the 
 Dover public schools, at Phillips Academy, 
 Andover, Mass., and Yale University. He 
 entered the employ of the Sawyer Woolen 
 Mills in 1889 and is now superintendent 
 and director of that company, has served 
 in both branches of the Dover City Gov- 
 ernment, also in the New Hampshire Na- 
 tional Guard as 2nd Lieutenant of Com- 
 pany D, ist Regiment and Captain and
 
 124 
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 Commissary on the Brigade Commander's 
 staff. He is a member of the First Par- 
 ish (Congregational) church, also a mem- 
 ber of Moses Paul Lodge, Belknap Chap- 
 ter, Orphan Council, and St. Paul Com- 
 mandery K. T. ; is a Past Eminent Com- 
 mander of St. Paul Commandery and is 
 at present an officer in the Grand Com- 
 mandery of New Hampshire. Mr. Saw- 
 yer is a member of Dover Grange and 
 of the Bellamy Club. He married Jan. 
 2gth, 1895, 
 Gertrude 
 Child, daugh- 
 ter of Hon. H. 
 W. Severance 
 of San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 Granite 
 State Park. 
 
 Granite 
 State Park was 
 purchased in 
 the spring of 
 1896 from the 
 St r a ff o r d 
 County Agri- 
 cultural Soci- 
 ety by Frank 
 A. Christie for 
 Hon. Frank 
 Jones. Mr. 
 Jones is Pres- 
 ident of the 
 Granite State 
 Park Associa- 
 tion and is also 
 largely inter- 
 ested in the 
 Readville and 
 Rigby tracks. 
 In May of the same year Mr. Christie be- 
 gan making improvements. Two feet 
 of thoroughly ground and fine-screened 
 loam was spread on the track which is 
 now such that horses and colts can be 
 worked out without any possibility of 
 getting sore feet. Three hundred new 
 horse sheds have been built providing the 
 most excellent conveniences for the sta- 
 bling of horses. A steel water tower 93 
 feet high with a tank holding 30,000 gal- 
 
 CHARLES FRANCIS SAWYER. 
 
 Ions of water has been erected, thus en- 
 suring a plentiful supply of pure water 
 which is conveyed throughout the Park 
 by means of four inch pipes. Mr. Jones 
 has also remodeled and enlarged a capa- 
 cious house within the park and has fur- 
 nished and equipped it as a first-class 
 hotel and clubhouse. The Park Tavern 
 as it has been named, has become most 
 popular with horsemen and its success is 
 assured. It is lighted by electricity and 
 heated by 
 steam 
 thro u g h o u t 
 and every at- 
 tention is paid 
 to the require- 
 ments of own- 
 ers and train- 
 ers of horses. 
 The " fi r s t 
 race meeting 
 was held in 
 August, 1897. 
 On the first 
 day it was 
 used, Gentry 
 went a mile 
 over it in 
 2.04 3-4, the 
 last half in 
 i .01. T h e 
 Horse Review, 
 in speaking of 
 the horse 
 " G a z e t te," 
 says : " Last 
 season he 
 paced a suc- 
 c e s s i o n of 
 staunch and 
 game races. 
 At Portland, 
 Me., August 20, he won a great six-heat 
 contest, taking the last three heats in 
 2. 1 1 1-4, 2.09 1-4, 2.10 1-4, beating 
 seven horses. This he followed up by a 
 wonderful eight-heat victory at Dover, 
 beating the pacing queen Lottie Loraine, 
 and four others in a tremendous contest, 
 and taking the third, fourth and eighth 
 heats in 2.09, 2.10 1-2, 2.10 3-4. His 
 eighth heat in 2.10 3-4, driven by Tom 
 Marsh at Dover, stands as the best on
 
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 126 
 
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 record. In this race Lottie Loraine paced 
 a mile in 2.07 3-4, which was at that 
 time within one second of the world's 
 record for mares." Marion Mills paced 
 a mile over this track in 2.06 1-4. The 
 track measures 7 inches over a mile, and 
 has one of the finest hub rails of any 
 track in the country. 
 
 Granite State Park is without doubt to- 
 day, all points considered, the best mile 
 track in the world over which to condi- 
 tion and race 
 horses. There 
 is a decided 
 change in the 
 grade of each 
 quarter which 
 is thought very 
 desirable for 
 con ditioning 
 horses. The 
 roads in four 
 different di- 
 rections are 
 perfect for 
 road work. 
 The track is 
 on high land 
 bordering on 
 a beau t i f u 1 
 sheet of water 
 known as 
 " W i 1 1 a n d s 
 Pond." Frank 
 A. Christie, 
 the Treasurer 
 and Manager 
 of the Associ- 
 a t i o n , has 
 done much to 
 bring about 
 the pr e s e n t 
 excellent state 
 of affairs. He 
 
 has worked indefatigably to make the 
 track as near perfection as possible, and 
 the success which has attended his capa- 
 ble management is best evidenced by 
 the large list of entries at each meeting. 
 
 Directed by an executive staff em- 
 bodying experience, energy and wealth, 
 with a track having a record as one of 
 the fastest in the land the association has 
 acquired a reputation which they will al- 
 
 ways sustain. The purses are generous, 
 and the conduct of its affairs, the results 
 of its gatherings, the importance of the 
 events, and the interest attending them 
 together with the achievements upon the 
 speedy and magnificent one mile track 
 are guarantees of the honorable and pro- 
 gressive management which is character- 
 istic of Hon. Frank Jones in all his 
 affairs. 
 
 HOWARD GRAY. 
 
 Howard 
 Gray. 
 
 Howard 
 Gray, Super- 
 intendent of 
 the Cocheco 
 Man ufactur- 
 ing C o m - 
 pany's Print 
 Works, was 
 born at Dor- 
 chester, Mass. 
 In 1883 he 
 became con- 
 nected with 
 the M e r r i - 
 m a'c k Print 
 Works at 
 Lowell, Mass., 
 and spent 
 thirteen years 
 there learning 
 the business 
 in all its 
 branches. He 
 came to Do- 
 ver in 1895 
 to enter the 
 e m ployment 
 of the Coche- 
 co Manufac- 
 turing Com- 
 pany and was appointed Superintendent 
 of their Print Works in February, 1896. 
 
 John Drowne. 
 
 John Drowne, Superintendent of the 
 Cocheco Manufacturing Company's Mills, 
 was born at Eaton, N.H., and received his 
 education at the district and high schools 
 of his native town. At the age of eigh-
 
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 127 
 
 teen he enlisted in the Eighteenth New 
 Hampshire Regiment and saw service 
 with the Ninth Army Corps in front of 
 Petersburg. In July, 1865, at the close 
 of the war, he received an honorable dis- 
 charge. The following year he entered 
 the -employment of the Atlantic Cotton 
 Mills at Lawrence, Mass., where he re- 
 mained until 1869 when he went to Hous- 
 ton, Texas, to start the weaving in the 
 Houston Mills. A year later he returned 
 to the Atlan- 
 tic Mills at 
 Lawrence and 
 remained until 
 1874 when he 
 went to New 
 Hartford, 
 Conn. In 
 1876 he en- 
 tered the ser- 
 vice of the 
 Wamsutta 
 Mills, New 
 Bedford, re- 
 maining until 
 1880 when he 
 ret u r n e d to 
 New Hartford 
 Conn., as Su- 
 perintend e n t 
 of Greenwood 
 C o m p a n y's 
 Mills. He 
 came to Dover 
 in March, 
 1896, as Su- 
 perintend e n t 
 of the Coche- 
 co Company's 
 Mills, a posi- 
 tion which he 
 has since most 
 capably filled. 
 
 Mr. Drowne is a Thirty-Second Degree 
 Mason, Lafayette Consistory, Bridgeport, 
 Conn., a member of Amos Beecher Lodge 
 No. 121, New Hartford, Conn., and of 
 Washington Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plar, Hartford, Conn. He is also promi- 
 nently associated with the I. O. O. F., 
 being a member of Monadnock Lodge, 
 No. 145, Lawrence, Mass., and of Anna- 
 warn Encampment No. 8, New Bedford, 
 
 Mass. He is a member of Charles W. 
 Sawyer Post, G. A. R., Dover. 
 
 JOHN DROWNE. 
 
 Arioch Wentworth. 
 
 ^Aripch Wentwqrth was born in Rollins- 
 ford, just beyond the Dover boundary, 
 June 13, 1813. He is the son of Bar- 
 tholomew and Nancy (Hall) Wentworth 
 and a direct descendant of Elder William 
 from whom have sprung the Colonial 
 Governors of 
 New Hamp- 
 shire and the 
 other illustri- 
 ous men who 
 bear that 
 name. Elder 
 William came 
 to Dover from 
 England in 
 1639 and his 
 ancestry can 
 be traced back 
 to the year 
 1066, when 
 William t h e 
 Conqueror 
 subdued Eng- 
 land. Mr. 
 Wen t w o r t h 
 was born in 
 the old home- 
 stead which 
 was granted 
 to Elder Wil- 
 liam 250 years 
 ago and still 
 remains in 
 possession of 
 the family. 
 He received 
 his early edu- 
 cation in the schools at Dover and Rol- 
 linsford and at the age of fourteen attend- 
 ed the Franklin Academy, spending five 
 winter terms acquiring knowledge. In 
 the summer months he worked on his 
 father's farm. Although urged by his 
 father to prepare for college he decided 
 to go to Boston. He felt a craving for a 
 broader life with larger opportunities and 
 carried out his determination. He was 
 fortunate in securing work in a granite
 
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 yard. Subsequently he went to work in 
 a soapstone factory and received good 
 pay. He was temperate and frugal, and 
 having saved a little money went home in 
 the fall, and added a little to it by teach- 
 ing school through the winter. 
 
 He returned to Boston in the spring, 
 leased the place which belonged to Mr. 
 Blunt, his former employer, who had 
 failed, worked energetically and entered 
 upon and 
 pros e c u t e d 
 with vigor the 
 soapstone 
 business, then 
 new and un- 
 tried. He suc- 
 ceeded and 
 made money. 
 He had me- 
 chanical gen- 
 ius, industry, 
 t e mperance, 
 and economy 
 and devoted 
 his time to a 
 fast growing 
 business. Mr. 
 W e n t w orth 
 not only had 
 health and 
 good habits 
 but had a 
 quick and 
 clear insight 
 into machin- 
 ery. He in- 
 vented or im- 
 proved many 
 of the ma- 
 chines, tools 
 and processes 
 he had to use 
 in his business and thus nearly doubled 
 his profits. 
 
 Mr. Wentworth next took on the mar- 
 ble business and imported and worked 
 about all the foreign arid domestic mar- 
 bles, 300 men being employed in his 
 yard. He kept increasing the business 
 until it became the largest and most im- 
 portant marble works in Boston. Even 
 in his early days he foresaw the develop- 
 ment and destiny of the city of Boston, 
 
 ARIOCH WENTWORTH. 
 
 and rightly judged that property could 
 not decline in a city of such promise, 
 and already the literary and commercial 
 metropolis of New England. And so he 
 began at an early day to invest in real es- 
 tate in Boston. His first purchase was a 
 $3,000 dwelling house and he subsequent- 
 ly purchased land for his business which 
 then covered an acre of ground. 
 
 As fast as his money accumulated he 
 invested it in 
 real estate 
 and held and 
 improved it. 
 He has never 
 lost faith in 
 real estate 
 and today he 
 is the^ largest 
 real estate 
 holder and 
 pays the larg- 
 est city tax 
 of anyone in 
 Boston who 
 earned his 
 own money. 
 Mr. Went- 
 worth has cir- 
 cumnavigated 
 the globe. 
 He has 
 crossed the 
 Atlantic sev- 
 eral times 
 and with his 
 family has 
 visited the 
 principal con- 
 tinental cities 
 of Europe. 
 Fart of a win- 
 ter he spent 
 
 in Egypt going up the Nile and visiting 
 all the ruins and inspecting the antiqui- 
 ties of that historic land. When he was 
 over eighty years of age he started with 
 his family, five in all, for a tour of the 
 world, via San Francisco, Japan, China 
 and the principal countries and cities of 
 Asia, returning via the Red Sea and Suez 
 Canal, visiting Rome and from thence 
 through Europe to England, sailing from 
 Liverpool home. Mr. Wentworth saw
 
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 129 
 
 nothing in his 'travels to compare with 
 our own country which he terms " God's 
 Country," and declares there is no other 
 like it. 
 
 Mr. Wentworth has shown by his ac- 
 tions that his heart is alive to early asso- 
 c.iatigns and friends. The Wentworth 
 Home for the Aged, erected within a 
 rifle-shot of his old homestead is a lasting 
 monument to his munificent charity. He 
 has donated $30,000 to this purpose 
 alone and has 
 also liberally 
 endowed out 
 of his abun- 
 dance th' 1 
 C hi Idre n's 
 Home. These 
 institutions re- 
 ceive extend- 
 ed notice in 
 another part 
 of this work. 
 
 It may be 
 truly said that 
 Mr. Went- 
 worth is a ben- 
 efactor of his 
 race. He is a 
 ready giver to 
 those private 
 charities 
 which enlist so 
 deeply the 
 sympathies of 
 true men. He 
 gives cheerful- 
 ly and without 
 oste n t a t i o n 
 and this has 
 sometimes led 
 him to veil a 
 generosity of 
 character and a tenderness of feeling which 
 are among his most striking traits. He is 
 one of the firmest of friends, and one of 
 the most thoroughly honest and upright 
 of men. Well may we be proud to claim 
 such a man as a citizen and future gener- 
 ations will remember and revere the 
 name of him who has done so much to 
 ameliorate the sufferings of the virtuous 
 poor and solace the declining years of our 
 aged and impecunious citizens. 
 
 George E. Schultz. 
 
 George E. Schultz was born in Alsace, 
 Germany, coming to this country when 
 six years of age. Upon completing his 
 education he entered the laboratory of 
 the Eddystone Print Works near Phila- 
 delphia and learned textile printing and 
 coloring. While gaining a practical 
 knowledge of the business he studied 
 chemistry under private tuition and at 
 the Philadel- 
 phia College 
 of Pharmacy. 
 While occu- 
 pying a re- 
 sponsible po- 
 sition at Ed- 
 dystone, he, 
 in 1894, ac- 
 cepted the ap- 
 pointment of 
 chemist at 
 the Cocheco 
 Print Works 
 and was 
 shortly after- 
 wards promo- 
 ted to the po- 
 sition of col- 
 orist. 
 
 George R. 
 Smith, M.D. 
 
 GEORGE E. SCHULTZ. 
 
 George R. 
 Smith, M. D., 
 was born at 
 Barnard, Vt., 
 July 7, 1859, 
 the son of 
 Rufus B. and 
 Mary J. 
 Smith. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Gaysville, Vt., and prepared for 
 college at Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. 
 He entered Tufts College, class of '84 
 and studied medicine at the Hahnemann 
 Medical College, Chicago, graduating with 
 the class of '88, and receiving his degree 
 of M. D. from that institution. Dr. 
 Smith began the practice of his profes-ion 
 in Dover in June, 1888, opening an office 
 at 378 Central Avenue, but upon the
 
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 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 completion of the Masonic Temple he 
 removed his office to 
 the present handsome 
 suite of rooms in that 
 building, where he has 
 since remained. His 
 patients have grown 
 yearly more numerous, 
 and his standing among 
 his professional asso- 
 ciates has been an- 
 nually enhanced. In 
 the community Dr. 
 Smith stands high. 
 He is a member of 
 the New Hampshire 
 Homoeopathic Medi- 
 cal Society, the Na- 
 tional Society of Elec- 
 tro-Ther apeutics, 
 Moses Paul Lodge, A. 
 F. and A. M., St. Paul 
 Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, and of the 
 Knights of Pythias. 
 His time has been 
 
 freely given in reply to public demands 
 and the alleviation of 
 disease and suffering. 
 Dr. Smith is still in 
 the prime of life and 
 for him the future 
 presents i n s p i r in g 
 views of hope crowned 
 with the reward ^that 
 follows faithful, meri- 
 torious work in any 
 line of life. 
 
 
 DR. GEORGE R. SMITH. 
 
 I. B. Williams 
 & Sons. 
 
 In their line of pro- 
 duction there is prob- 
 ably no other concern 
 in the country so well 
 and favorably known, 
 and none whose pro- 
 ducts are in more uni- 
 versal use and demand 
 throughout the United 
 States, Canada and 
 
 RESIDENCE OF DR. GEORGE R. SMITH.
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 Europe than I. B. Williams & Sons. 
 Their leather belting, strapping and 
 lace leather have attained a world- 
 wide reputation and the various 
 brands of the firm are everywhere 
 recognized as the highest standard 
 of quality. 
 
 The foundation of the present 
 business was laid by the senior 
 partner, Isaac B. Williams, in 1842. 
 At that time the business was con- 
 fined to the manufacture of belting 
 for the Cocheco Manufacturing Co. 
 and the workshops of the concern 
 were located in the Cocheco Mills. 
 In 1871 Frank B. Williams was ad- 
 mitted to partnership with his father 
 and the firm became I. B. Williams 
 & Son. From its inception the in- 
 dustry prospered. The attention 
 of manufacturers was attracted to 
 the superior quality of belting 
 turned out by the firm and the de- 
 mand for their products became so 
 great that in 1874 it became neces- 
 
 GEORGE H. WILLIAMS. 
 
 FRANK B. WILLIAMS. 
 
 sary to acquire more commodious 
 premises to meet the demands of 
 the trade. A large and valuable 
 property on Orchard Street was pur- 
 chased and was added to and re- 
 modeled so as to afford the desired 
 facilities. George H. Williams was 
 taken into partnership in 1878, the 
 style of the firm then becoming as 
 at present, I. B. Williams & Sons. 
 
 In 1882 the premises were found 
 to be wholly inadequate for the ever 
 increasing output and the factory 
 was torn down and entirely rebuilt 
 on a much larger scale. The firm 
 purchased an adjoining property 
 and erected a substantial four story 
 brick building, with a tower five 
 stories high, containing elevators, 
 stairways, etc. Ten years later, in 
 1892, another four story brick build- 
 ing was added, and in 1896 this was 
 supplemented by another two story 
 building and a separate boiler house 
 measuring 40 x 50 feet. The factory 
 faces on Orchard street, with an ell,
 
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 133 
 
 having a frontage of 100 feet and on 
 Waldron street of 165 feet. 
 
 The motive power is supplied by two 
 200 horse power upright boilers and one 
 225 horse power Corliss engine thus in- 
 suring abundant power for the various 
 machines 'operated. The first floor of 
 the factory is occupied by offices and the 
 shipping department, on Orchard street. 
 In the rear of the same is the modern 
 machinery for the tanning of lace leather 
 anrl currying of leather. The second 
 story is occupied by the superintendent's 
 office, store room for finished lace leather, 
 
 the new Washington light and is steam 
 heated throughout. Sanitation and ven- 
 tilation are carefully looked after and 
 each room is lightsome and kept in ex- 
 cellent order. None but thoroughly 
 skilled mechanics are employed in all de- 
 partments. 
 
 The output of the factory is as follows : 
 1000 to 1 200 butts weekly, which is 
 manufactured into leather belting. Three 
 tons of shoulders daily, which are curried 
 and worked into stock for Goodyear in- 
 ner soling, saddle flaps, welting leather 
 and strapping and from 1200 to 1500 
 
 CURRYING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 lace finishing room, belt stretching room, 
 straightening room, and rough leather 
 room. The entire third floor of the 
 building is occupied by the belting and 
 strapping departments ; the fourth floor 
 by the lace drying rooms, belting and 
 leather stuffing and drying rooms. 
 
 The mechanical equipment of the fac- 
 tory is of the highest order. Every de- 
 vice and machine looking toward perfec- 
 tion in the production of leather belting 
 lace leather, Goodyear inner soling, strap- 
 ping, welting, etc., is utilized. The build- 
 ing is lighted by gas, electricity and by 
 
 hides per week are tanned and worked 
 into lace leather. In January, 1883, the 
 firm commenced the manufacture of 
 tanned and raw hide lace leather in a 
 small way, and its superiority over other 
 makes soon became apparent by the in- 
 creased demand. Their raw hide lace 
 gave such good satisfaction the 
 firm decided that some distinguishing 
 mark or pattern would be of advantage 
 and adopted the trade mark " Cocheco." 
 They speedily began to feel the benefit 
 of this, consumers all over the country 
 called for Cocheco lace, and their trade
 
 134 
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 ROUGH LEATHER ROOM. 
 
 commenced to double from year to year 
 until today Cocheco lace has the widest 
 and best reputation of any raw hide lace 
 on the market, and is more extensively 
 used. The firm now makes several times 
 as much lace as the next largest concern 
 in the 
 coun try. 
 In addi- 
 tion to side 
 lace they 
 m a nufac- 
 ture and 
 sell mil- 
 lions of 
 feet of cut 
 raw hide 
 lace every 
 year. 
 
 TheCo- 
 c h e c o 
 Short Lap 
 belting is 
 u n e x - 
 celled, be- 
 ing made 
 from pure 
 white oak 
 bark 
 tanned 
 
 stock and 
 extra 
 heavy. 
 For use in 
 co 1 1 o n, 
 woolen, 
 paper, 
 pulp and 
 saw mills 
 and fo r 
 main driv- 
 ers it has 
 no equal. 
 The next 
 grade 
 Short Lap 
 is made 
 from the 
 same qual- 
 ity stock 
 only a 
 little 
 lighter in 
 weight. 
 
 Superior, Defiance, Buckeye, Cairo. 
 Special Light Double, Light Double 
 and Gilt Edge Solid Round Belting, 
 constitute the other grades made by this 
 firm, with one exception, Dynamo. 
 This last mentioned belt, as its name in- 
 
 SECTION OF BELT ROOM.
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 dicates, is for 
 use in driving 
 electric light 
 machinery and 
 is of special 
 cons truction, 
 being made of 
 the choi c e s t 
 pure oak 
 tanned leather, 
 thoroughly 
 stretched, 
 water- proofed 
 and nothing 
 but center 
 stock is used 
 in its construc- 
 t i o n . This 
 brand of belt- 
 ing is known 
 all over the 
 country for its 
 superior excel- 
 lence in dura- 
 bility, steady and true running qualities. 
 They are also one of the largest manufac- 
 turers of Solid Round Belting in the coun- 
 try, the goods being of the highest quality. 
 The productions of the factory are 
 sold not only all over this country but a 
 
 SECTION OF BELT ROOM. 
 
 BELT ROOM LOOKING SOUTH. 
 
 considerable export business is done with 
 Europe, Australia, China, and Japan. 
 The firm has a large store in Chicago for 
 the distribution of its goods throughout the 
 northwest, also a smaller one at Cleve- 
 land, while agencies are established in all 
 the i m p o r - 
 tant cities in 
 the Union. A 
 com p e t e n t 
 corps of trav- 
 e 1 i n g sales- 
 men are em- 
 ployed,cover- 
 ingthe north, 
 east, south 
 and west. 
 
 No similar 
 house in the 
 country occu- 
 pies a more 
 promising po- 
 sition in the 
 commerce of 
 the country 
 and with ev- 
 e r y advan- 
 tage that 
 large facili- 
 t ie s, ample
 
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 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 resources and experienced management 
 can providers future growth and advance- 
 ment may confidently be predicted to be 
 fully in accord with its past record of use- 
 fulness and influence. 
 
 Hon. James E. Lothrop. 
 
 James Elbridge Lothrop, son of Daniel 
 and Sophia (Home) Lothrop was born in 
 Rochester Nov. 30, 1826. His first 
 American ancestor, on his father's side, 
 Mark Lothrop, was 
 jounger brother of 
 Rev. John Lothrop 
 the first minister 
 of Scituate, Mass., 
 and grandson of 
 John Lowthorpe, 
 of L o w t h o r p e, 
 Yorkshire, Eng- 
 land. Mark was 
 in Salem, Mass., 
 in 1643, but re- 
 moved to Dux- 
 bury, and thence 
 to Bridgewater in 
 1656, where he 
 died in 1686. 
 His grandson, 
 Mark, married 
 Hannah Alden, a 
 great-granddaugh- 
 ter of John Alden, 
 of the Mayflower, 
 by his wife, Pris- 
 cilla Mullins, com- 
 memorated in his- 
 tory and in Long- 
 fellow's charming 
 poem. The one 
 
 who said, " Why not speak for yourself, 
 John?" was the direct ancestress of 
 James E. Lothrop. On the maternal 
 side, Dr. Lothrop is descended from Wil- 
 liam Home, of Home's Hill in Dover, 
 who held his exposed position in the In- 
 dian wars, and whose estate has been in 
 the family name from 1662 until the pres- 
 ent generation ; but he was killed in the 
 massacre of June 28, 1689. Through 
 the Home line, also, came descent from 
 Rev. Joseph Hull^ minister at Durham in 
 
 Cambridge, England ; from John Ham, 
 of Dover ; from thejsmigran t John Heard, 
 and others of like vigorous stock. It 
 was his^ jancestresS; Elizabeth .(Hull). 
 Heard, whom the old historians call a 
 " brave gentlewoman," held Jier garrison- 
 house, the frontier fort in Dover in the 
 Indian wars, and successfully defended it 
 in the massacre of June 28, 1689. 
 
 Dr. Lothrop received his education at 
 the Rochester Academy, and at Strafford 
 Academy, Dover, and taught school at 
 the age of sixteen. 
 In 1843 he took 
 up the study of 
 medicine with his 
 uncle, Jeremiah 
 Home, M.D., at 
 Fall River, and 
 also acquired a 
 practical knowl- 
 edge of the drug 
 business in his 
 uncle's drug store. 
 At the age of nine- 
 teen he came to 
 Dover and en- 
 gaged in the drug 
 business, subse- 
 quently admitting 
 his brothers, Dan- 
 iel and John C., 
 into partnership, 
 under the style of 
 D. Lothrop & Co. 
 Drug stores were 
 opened at New- 
 market, Meiedith 
 V i 1 1 a ge, Great 
 Falls and Ames- 
 bury Mills, Mass. 
 These were afterwards sold and the busi- 
 ness became concentrated in Dover. Dr. 
 Lothrop took the degree of M. D. at Jef- 
 ferson Medical College in 1848, but re- 
 linquished his practice of medicine to 
 devote his entire attention to the drug 
 business. So largely had the business 
 grown that it was necessary to increase 
 the working force and a half interest in 
 the drug store was conveyed to Mr. 
 Alonzo T. Pinkham, the firm name be- 
 coming Lothrop & Pinkham. The firm 
 
 HON. JAMES E. LOTHROP. 
 
 1662, a graduate at the university o of D. Lothrop & Co. next engaged in
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 the clothing business, admitting their 
 father, Daniel Lothrop, into partnership, 
 under the style of 1). Lothrop & Sons, 
 and established branches at Rochester 
 and Great Falls, now the city of Somers- 
 worth.. That at Rochester was sold out 
 and the firm purchased the clothing busi- 
 ness of Joshua Varney which was removed 
 to the home store on Franklin square. 
 The death of Daniel Lothrop, senior, 
 occurred in the year 1872, and a 
 brother, M. Henry Lothrop (at one time 
 President of the Dover Common Council), 
 after eight years' service as salesman, in 
 1877 took one half interest in the cloth- 
 ing business, D. Lothrop & Co. retaining 
 the other half. Since 1870 they have 
 been in the new, lofty, spacious store 
 which forms the centre of Merrill's block. 
 In 1880, M. Henry Lothrop was trans- 
 ferred to the Boston department and the 
 firm entered into partnership with Charles 
 H. Farnham & Co., who took one third 
 interest in the clothing business, under 
 the firm name of Lothrops, Farnham & 
 Co. 
 
 To the Dover business was also added 
 in 1873 another department, consisting 
 of musical instruments, music, pianos and 
 organs, sewing machines and musical 
 merchandise, which has since grown to 
 immense proportions, being now one of 
 the largest houses of the kind in the state. 
 
 The name of D. Lothrop & Co. has 
 even more than a national reputation. 
 In 1850 they purchased the stock of 
 books held by Elijah Wadleigh and began 
 business as booksellers. In 1852 they 
 purchased the entire building. In addi- 
 tion to their retail business they built up 
 a good jobbing trade, and did some pub- 
 lishing. In a few years they sold the 
 Dover book business and Daniel Lothrop 
 went to Boston and opened a store D^ 
 Lothrop & Co. at Cornhill. This was a 
 success and in 1876 they took the whole 
 four story double store on Franklin street 
 corner of Hawley and fitted it elegantly. 
 The great success of their publishing 
 work necessitated the leasing of a five- 
 story building on Purchase street for 
 manufacturing purposes. 
 
 The sudden decease of Daniel Lothrop 
 in 1892 left the whole control and man- 
 
 agement of the immense publishing busi- 
 ness in the hands of Dr. J. E. Lothrop 
 and Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, and it was ably 
 conducted by them for about two years. 
 In the meantime the whole business and 
 property of D. Lothrop & Co. had been 
 purchased by Dr. J. E. Lothrop, includ- 
 ing the drug and music stores and real 
 estate (John C. Lothrop afterwards re- 
 purchasing the property at Great Falls). 
 These were of such magnitude and im- 
 portance that with his increasing years 
 Dr. Lothrop deemed it wise, even with 
 great pecuniary sacrifice to reorganize the 
 D. Lothrop Co. corporation, and with the 
 consent and assistance of Mrs. Daniel 
 Lothrop and John C. Lothrop a new cor- 
 poration was established in 1894 under 
 the style of the Lothrop Publishing Co., 
 with the condition that it should conduct 
 business upon the same principles and 
 carry out the purpose and designs of the 
 founders. By adopting this course he 
 has been relieved of the enormous labor 
 attending the personal conduct of the 
 Boston business and is enabled to add 
 greater force and vigor to all his Dover 
 enterprises. 
 
 Dr. Lothrop has in addition to his 
 business the entire care of real estate, 
 comprising many stores and tenements, 
 including the Merrill estate. He has 
 been a director in the Cochecho Na- 
 tional bank from 1858, was chosen 
 Vice-President in 1873, and has been its 
 President since 1876. In 1871 he be- 
 came a director in the Cocheco Aqueduct 
 Association, its clerk in 1872, and from 
 1875 its president. He was also a direc- 
 tor in the Portsmouth and Dover R. R., 
 in the Eliot Bridge Company, and has 
 been President of the Dover Board of 
 Trade. In 1872, Dr. Lothrop represent- 
 ed the city in the Legislature and served 
 two terms, 1883-1884, as Mayor of the 
 city. He married Mary E., daughter of 
 the late Joseph Morrill. In politics he 
 is a Republican, and his religious persua- 
 sion is that of a Methodist. 
 
 In promoting all manufacturing and 
 industrial interests he has always taken a 
 most prominent, active, unselfish and 
 successful part, and the general manufac- 
 turing and mercantile interests of the
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 city and state have been elevated and 
 held at a higher standard by his indomi- 
 table energy, sterling integrity, untiring 
 and persistent efforts and constant devo- 
 tion to the public welfare. As a financier 
 his judgment has been sound and his 
 views of the most healthy character. As 
 chief magistrate of the city and in the 
 legislature his influence was ever used in 
 behalf of progressive enterprise and ju- 
 dicious expenditure. It is to his en- 
 deavors that the Dover Public Library 
 
 music trade, none enjoy a higher leputa- 
 tion than the Oliver Ditson Company of 
 Boston. Dr. J. E. Lothrop has for several 
 years been associated with this company 
 in the sale of pianos, in New Hampshire 
 and Massachusetts, in connection with his 
 large music store. The wareiooms of 
 J. E. Lothrop & Co. are in the Mot rill 
 block and are conveniently appointed. 
 They contain a complete assortment of 
 pianos and organs and an excellent line 
 of mandolins, banjos, guitars, violins, 
 
 CLOTHING DEPARTMENT, LOTHROPS, FARNHAM & CO. 
 
 owes its origin. Now in his seventy- 
 second year, after fifty-three years de- 
 voted to business, he is active in body, 
 clear and vigorous in mind and success- 
 fully conducting enterprises in this city, 
 Somersworth and Rochester of a magni- 
 tude and importance, the labors and re- 
 sponsibilities of which few even younger 
 men would be willing to assume. 
 
 James E. Lothrop & Co. 
 
 Of those who devote attention to the 
 
 music boxes, reed instruments and in fact 
 everything usually associated with a first 
 class music store. A large stock of musi- 
 cal merchandise is always to be found 
 here, including sheet music, music books 
 and musical instrument fittings. All the 
 latest popular songs are put on sale as 
 soon as published. The celebrated But- 
 terick's patterns are also kept in stock. 
 In the department of second hand pianos 
 and organs may be found an excellent 
 and varied lot of second hand instru- 
 ments, which will either be sold at mod-
 
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 140 
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 erate prices or rented subject to purchase. 
 In the sewing machine department will 
 be found all the standard makes of new 
 and second hand machines, containing 
 all the latest styles and most modern im- 
 provements. On account of taking other 
 machines in exchange for the celebrated 
 New Home, a large number of various 
 makes are constantly for sale at merely 
 nominal prices. The trade of the house 
 is large and extends generally throughout 
 this state and Massachusetts and patrons 
 
 Daniel Lothrop & Sons in 1855 an< ^ con- 
 tinued so until 1872 when, upon the death 
 of Daniel Lothrop, Senior, the name was 
 changed to D. Lothrop & Co. In 1883, 
 Charles H. Farnham became a partner, the 
 style becoming Lothrops, Farnham & Co. 
 The premises occupy a splendid position 
 in the Morrill block, two handsome stores 
 being utilized for the purposes of the busi- 
 ness. Branches are maintained at Roch- 
 ester and Somersworth. The Rochester 
 store was opened in April, 1886, and the 
 
 SHOE DEPARTMENT, LOTHROPS, FARNHAM &. CO. 
 
 are assured of receiving every advantage 
 of quality and price when dealing with 
 this representative concern. 
 
 Lothrops, Farnham & Co. 
 
 The house of Lothrops, Farnham & Co. 
 has contributed in a most important way 
 to the material prosperity of Dover. Its 
 resources are ample and it leads in its line 
 of trade throughout a large amount of ter- 
 ritory. The business was established by 
 Dr. James E7 Lothrop under the name of 
 
 Somersworth store in Aug., 1895. In all 
 thirty-one courteous and thoroughly com- 
 petent salesmen are employed. They carry 
 at all times a vast and seasonable stock of 
 clothing in all grades, stylish in cut, of ex- 
 cellent make and finish, neat, substantial, 
 and sold at remarkably low prices. In 
 the hat and furnishing goods department 
 the display is always a tempting one, 
 comprising all that is desirable in shirts, 
 collars, cuffs, neckwear, underwear, hos- 
 iery, gloves, bags, hats, caps, etc. The 
 shoe department is replete with all the
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 141 
 
 latest standard makes of shoes for both 
 sexes and a large stock of children's and 
 misses' footwear is kept on hand. This 
 department will bear favorable compari- 
 son with any store of the kind in New 
 England, being elegantly furnished and 
 carpeted. , It is safe to assert that a more 
 comprehensive, elegant or desirable as- 
 sortment of goods appropriate to the va- 
 rious departments cannot be found in the 
 state. The store itself is the handsomest 
 and one of the largest in the city, perfect- 
 
 Somersworth and Boston, pushing with 
 vigor the interests of the firm. 
 
 Lothrops & Pinkham. 
 
 For over half a century the name of 
 Dr. Lothrop has been associated with the 
 drug business in Dover. It was he who, 
 in 1845, established the concern from 
 which has sprung the present large busi- 
 ness. The firm at its inception was D. 
 Lothrop & Co., but in 1868 it became 
 
 FURNISHING GOODS DEPARTMENT, LOTHROPS, FARNHAM & CO. 
 
 ly lighted and ventilated and is a pleasant 
 place to visit. Polite and obliging sales- 
 men give the same attention to rich and 
 poor alike and the prices of all the goods 
 are uniformly low. Built upon a solid 
 foundation with no misrepresentation 
 the firm has worthily earned the reputa- 
 tion of reliable outfitters and hopes to 
 still further augment its trade by con- 
 stantly studying the wants of their pat- 
 rons. Mr. Farnham is the active partner 
 and manages the entire business. He 
 spends one day each week in Rochester, 
 
 necessary to add to the working force 
 and Mr. Alonzo T. Pinkham was given a 
 half interest. From the very start the 
 business was a success. In 1870 the 
 store, which is located in the Morrill 
 block, was enlarged and now measures 
 25 x 75 feet with about 1000 feet of 
 cellar space. In compliance with the 
 popular demand the firm added a wall 
 paper department which has become a 
 leading feature of the house. The store 
 is well and tastefully fitted up with large 
 plate-glass show cases and cabinets, and
 
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 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 complete stocks are carried of the freshest 
 and purest drugs and chemicals, articles 
 for the toilet, fancy 
 goods, soaps and per- 
 fumes of domestic and 
 foreign manufacture, 
 cigars, druggists' sun- 
 dries, etc. A specialty 
 is made of compound- 
 ing family recipes and 
 physicians' prescrip- 
 tions with accuracy and 
 care, only the purest 
 drugs being used. 
 Pure soda and mineral 
 waters are dispensed, 
 all syrups being the 
 choicest the market 
 affords. Mr. Pinkham 
 is a thoroughly expert 
 pharmacist and is held 
 in high esteem by his 
 fellow professionals 
 and the community at 
 large. Several assist- 
 ants are employed and 
 patrons are at all times 
 assured of receiving courteous and prompt 
 attention. In 1888 the Wheeler store at 
 the corner of Central avenue and Silver 
 
 it was moved across the street into a 
 building especially constructed for it, 
 where under the effi- 
 cient management of 
 Mr. Geo. F. McFar- 
 land a successful busi- 
 ness has been estab- 
 lished. 
 
 AUREN W. HAYES. 
 
 A. W. Hayes, 
 
 Mr. A. W. Hayes 
 was born in South 
 Newmarket in 1852 
 and as a boy attended 
 the district school of 
 his native town. He 
 came to Dover in 1868 
 and entered the em- 
 ployment of James A. 
 Home (jeweler), in 
 September, 1869, to 
 learn the watchmaking 
 business, remaining 
 until February, 1874. 
 During this period he 
 had worked assiduous- 
 ly to master his chosen calling m[ which 
 he soon became an expert, and upon 
 leaving Mr. Home he accepted employ- 
 
 A. W. HAYES' JEWELRY STORE. 
 
 street, was purchased and thoroughly re- 
 fitted and stocked as a modem pharmacy, 
 meeting with such success that in 1894 
 
 ment as watchmaker with the large and 
 well known jewelry firm of Charles W. 
 Kennard & Co. of Boston, where he re-
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 143 
 
 mained for 'ten years. In 1884 he re- 
 turned to Dover and purchased the jew- 
 elry business conducted by C. S. Kingman 
 at 424 Central avenue. The store is taste- 
 fully appointed, fitted with handsome 
 plate-glass show windows and possesses 
 every facility for displaying to the best 
 advantage the magnificent and valuable 
 stock. This embraces fine American and 
 European watches, diamonds and precious 
 stones, both mounted and loose, jewelry, 
 sterling silver and silver plate, clocks, 
 bronzes, art novelties, and many articles 
 of use and ornament, all of which have 
 
 quality. Mr. Hayes is most popular with 
 his fellow citizens and is a member of 
 Moses Paul Lodge of Masons and of 
 Wecohamet Lodge, Order of Odd Fellows. 
 He was also parish clerk of the Peirce 
 Memorial church three years. In addi- 
 tion to his jewelry business Mr. Hayes 
 makes a specialty of handling standard 
 makes of bicycles, including the celebra- 
 ted Sterling and Orient wheels. In this 
 department a large business is done and 
 every facility is afforded patrons to ac- 
 quire a wheel that will stand the test of 
 time. 
 
 BYRON F. HAYES' STORE. 
 
 been selected with a refined taste and 
 judgment that meet with the approval of 
 all customers. A watch and jewelry re- 
 pairing department is among the facilities 
 of the house, and the most costly watch 
 may be confidently left here with the as- 
 surance that it will be returned in perfect 
 running order. Mr. Hayes has devoted 
 a lifetime to the jewelry business, is prac- 
 tically proficient in all its details, and is 
 fully conversant with the requirements of 
 patrons. He is progressive in his methods 
 to secure the choicest goods and supply 
 them at as low prices as is consistent with 
 
 Byron F. Hayes* I 
 
 This house was originally founded by 
 IraW. Nute & Co. in 1872. In iS^y 
 Mr^JByroiL JL. Hayes became manager 
 and in 1887 entered the firm as a partner, 
 the style being changed to Nute & Hayes. 
 Mr. Hayes continued as the managing 
 partner of the firm until Mr. Nute's death 
 in March, 1896. Three months later he 
 acquired the business and has since con- 
 ducted it under his own name. The 
 store is located in the Merrill block and 
 has ample accommodation for the recep-
 
 144 
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 tion of customers and for displaying the 
 large and costly stock which is always kept 
 on hand. This embraces everything in 
 the way of staple and fancy dry goods and 
 notions, ladies' and children's furnishings, 
 underwear, hosiery, gloves, corsets, skirts, 
 waists, ladies', misses' and children's gar- 
 ments and everything associated with a 
 first class store of the kind. A specialty is 
 made of fine imported dress goods, silks, 
 velvets, cloaks, capes and suits, all of the 
 latest styles and fashion. The house caters 
 to no particular class, but provides for all 
 and quotes prices which will compare fa- 
 vorably with any similar concern in the 
 
 BYRON F. HAYES. 
 
 large cities. All goods are carefully se- 
 lected and are the products of the leading 
 manufacturers of the country. 
 
 Mr. Hayes is a native of Milton, where 
 he was born Nov. 30, 1854, coming to 
 Dover in 1872 and entering the employ- 
 ment of Ira VV. Nute & Co. He is con- 
 versant with the dry goods business in 
 all its details and has conducted the af- 
 fairs of his house with judgment and 
 vigor, advancing the interests of his cus- 
 tomers in every legitimate manner, and 
 at the same time developing a business 
 that is most creditable. He is a member 
 
 of the I. O. O. F. and of the Royal Ar- 
 canum. Mr. Hayes was married Novem- 
 ber 30, 1887, to Miss Mary F. White- 
 house of this city and has a charming 
 residence at 28 Mount Vernon street. 
 He is a member of the Methodist church 
 and of the Official Board of that body. 
 
 Daniel H. Wendell. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in 
 Dover July 25, 1814, and resided in this 
 city during a long and useful life, depart- 
 ing on Dec. 26, 1895. Mr. Wendell's 
 ancestry dates back to 1640 when Evart 
 Jansen Wendell emigrated from Germany 
 to this country and settled in Albany, N. 
 Y. This ancestor had three sons, Abra- 
 ham, Isaac and Jacob. One of these 
 remained in Albany, another removed to 
 Portsmouth, N. H., and a third to Boston. 
 The subject of this sketch came from the 
 Boston branch, and numbered among his 
 relationships Wendell Phillips and Oliver 
 Wendell Holmes. Mr. Wendell's occupa- 
 tion was principally that of insurance agent 
 and manager of real estate, and in this field 
 he built up a large and prosperous business. 
 He was also Justice of the Peace, Insur- 
 ance Commissioner and member of the 
 Legislature prior to the city charter. 
 
 Mr. Wendell was married on Sept. 16, 
 1837, to Huldah Jenness, daughter of 
 Deacon Solomon Jenness. Of their chil- 
 dren, three lived to maturity, one son 
 and two daughters. The son, D. A. 
 Wendell, M. D., died in 1871, from a 
 disease contracted in the civil war, 
 throughout which he served as an assis- 
 tant surgeon. One daughter, Ellen E., 
 died in 1874, while the remaining daugh- 
 ter, Caroline R., survives. 
 
 Mrs. Wendell, the wife and mother, 
 was a woman of great intellectuality, with 
 a strong grasp of affairs, and was always 
 intent on doing the utmost possible good 
 in her journey through life. Very philan- 
 thropic, her charities were many and va- 
 ried. Her death in 1885 was a sad blow 
 to her family and friends. Miss Caroline 
 R. Wendell, the surviving daughter, has 
 been President of the Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Union since 1892, and pre- 
 vious to that time for thirteen years was
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 secretary of the same institution. She is 
 also connected with several other philan- 
 thropic institutions of a similar character. 
 Miss Wendell's efforts in behalf of temper- 
 ance and purity have been very marked 
 and she is an active influence for good in 
 her chosen calling. 
 
 Mr. Wendell may be said to have 
 grown up with Dover. He was familiar 
 with its scenes from early boyhood and 
 his reminiscences < f old Dover were the 
 delight of 
 family and 
 friends. He 
 could relate 
 by the hour 
 the various 
 changes time 
 has wrought 
 in the physi- 
 cal aspects of 
 this ancient 
 town and his 
 remembrance 
 of occurren- 
 ces and men 
 of 60 to 70 
 years ago was 
 very vivid. 
 
 He was a 
 man of 
 marked indi- 
 viduality, with 
 firm convic- 
 tions and the 
 co u r a g e to 
 express them. 
 Perhaps the 
 most notable 
 feature of his 
 life, however, 
 was his high 
 regard for in- 
 tegrity. He was a practical example of 
 the fact that business can be conducted 
 successfully and with honor. His benev- 
 olence was large but discriminating and 
 much of it found its way through the 
 hands of his family in the upbuilding of 
 the cause of temperance and the rights 
 of woman. His bearing upon the street 
 was striking and attractive. Courteous 
 in demeanor with lithe step and graceful 
 yet dignified carriage, he reminded one 
 
 of a gentleman of the old school. 
 Intensely devoted to his family, kindly 
 in his nature, with strong religious con- 
 victions, he has passed away with a firm 
 belief that God had a strong hold upon 
 him and the future, and that He would 
 adjust all things well. 
 
 DANIEL H. WENDELL. 
 
 Charles L. Howe* 
 
 Charles L. Howe belongs to one of 
 the oldest 
 and most 
 honored fam- 
 ilies of New 
 England. He 
 is a son of 
 the late Dr. 
 A. W. Howe 
 whose mother 
 was sister to 
 Ex- Governor 
 Leyj_JVood- 
 bury of New 
 H a m p s hire, 
 and is a direct 
 d e s c e ndant 
 on the mater- 
 nal side of 
 President 
 Dunster, the 
 first president 
 of Harvard 
 College, ap- 
 point e d in 
 1638. It was 
 in President 
 Dunster 's 
 house that 
 the first print- 
 ing press used 
 in the West- 
 ern h e m i - 
 sphere was set up, being used in those 
 early days to print the college pamphlets. 
 Mr. Howe's love for flowers began in 
 his early childhood, and eveu then he 
 was the proud possessor of lovely plants. 
 He embarked in the nursery business 
 when he was quite young, the present 
 being the third set of greenhouses he 
 has owned. Mr. Howe sold out his busi- 
 ness in Nashua in 1891 and came to 
 Dover, having purchased the site until
 
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 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 A CITY HALL GROUP.
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 then occupied by Henry Johnson, whose 
 greenhouses had been entirely destroyed 
 by fire. Mr. Howe rebuilt them on a 
 larger and more elaborate plan and two 
 years later upon his marriage to Miss 
 Nellie A. Vittum, daughter of Mr. B. F. 
 Vittum, he erected his present fine resi- 
 dence adjoining the conservatories. 
 
 The entire plant has been constantly 
 enlarged and improved until it is today 
 the largest establishment of its kind in 
 the state. There are twelve large glass- 
 houses covering an area of nearly an 
 acre of ground, the entire nursery occu- 
 pying over five acres. The nurseries are 
 on the slope of Garrison Hill facing the 
 south and are particularly well adapted 
 
 tablished under the style of Tilton & 
 Hanson, remained so until March last 
 when Mr. Frank W. Hanson became 
 the sole proprietor. The salesrooms 
 are elegantly and attractively appointed 
 and the stock carried embraces all the 
 most stylish goods of both home and for- 
 eign production required by gentlemen, 
 and includes fine neckwear, collars, dress 
 and negligee shirts and all of the many 
 indispensable articles which make up the 
 wardrobe of a well-dressed and refined 
 man. While Mr. Hanson has always 
 made it a point to provide all the latest 
 novelties and goods of the kind in the 
 market for the most exacting and dis- 
 criminating customers, he has with com- 
 
 CHARLE8 L. HOWE'S NURSERY. 
 
 to the requirements of the business. 
 Every description of ornamental trees 
 and flowering shrubs are cultivated and in 
 the greenhouses the most exquisite and 
 delicate flowers are grown the year round. 
 Mr. Howe makes a specialty of floral de- 
 signs for weddings and funerals, his trade 
 extending throughout all eastern New 
 England. In the summer fifteen garden- 
 ers are employed, including one of the 
 most expert landscape gardeners in New 
 England. Six delivery teams are neces- 
 sary to distribute the products grown. 
 
 Frank W. Hanson. 
 The clothing business originally es- 
 
 mendable enterprise provided for the re- 
 quirements of the masses, by carrying a 
 complete stock of medium grade goods 
 at popular prices. A specialty is made 
 of gentlemen's, youths' and juvenile 
 clothing which cannot be surpassed for 
 excellence both as to style and quality. 
 Those desiring custom-made garments 
 can have their needs attended to prompt- 
 ly and have a wide range of materials from 
 which to select. All goods are procured 
 direct from the manufacturers and have 
 a reputation for novelty, variety, high 
 character and tasteful selection, while the 
 prices are based on liberal and fair dealing 
 methods. The premises are centrally lo- 
 cated in the Masonic Temple, the store
 
 148 
 
 DOVER J 623- J 898 
 
 running from Central avenue to Locust 
 
 street, on both of which thoroughfares 
 
 there are entrances. 
 
 The trade of the 
 
 house, while largely 
 
 among the citizens of 
 
 Dover, is by no means 
 
 wholly confined to 
 
 this city, but extends 
 
 to the surrounding 
 
 cities and towns. 
 
 Mr. Hanson was 
 born August ist, 1865, 
 at Charlestown, this 
 state, and came to 
 D o ve r when three 
 years old. He re- 
 ceived his education 
 at the public schools 
 and afterwards gradu- 
 ated from the Bryant 
 & Stratton Commer- 
 cial School, Boston. 
 Altogether he has 
 spent fourteen years 
 in the clothing and 
 
 Farnham & Co. Mr. Hanson is progress- 
 ive and enterprising and is ably assisted 
 in his business by a 
 competent and cour- 
 teous staff of assistants. 
 
 FRANK W. HANSON. 
 
 J. H. Randlett. 
 
 The carriage business 
 founded by Mr. Rand- 
 lett in 1864 and its 
 subsequent prosperous 
 development has been 
 commensurate with 
 the enterprising activ- 
 ity and superior skill 
 which have ever char- 
 acterized its manage- 
 ment. Mr. Randlett 
 is a native of Lee, and 
 in the early fifties went 
 to California where he 
 remained seven years. 
 Upon his return to the 
 east he engaged in 
 business in Newmar- 
 
 INTERIOR FRANK W. HANSON'S STORE- 
 
 furnishing business, ten of which were 
 passed in the employment of Lothrop, 
 
 ket, coming to Dover to found the present 
 business in 1864. At that time the prem-
 
 DOVER J 623- \ 898 
 
 149 
 
 ises were located on Locust street, but 
 the ever increasing volume of business 
 demanded larger 
 premises and facilities 
 and two years later 
 the present commodi- 
 ous quarters in the old 
 Belleview Hall on Cen- 
 tral avenue were ac- 
 quired and remodeled 
 to suit the require- 
 ments of the business. 
 Mr. Randlett is an ex- 
 pert in all the branches 
 of his vocation of a 
 carriagemaker and as 
 he personally over- 
 sees all the labors of 
 his assistants he is en- 
 abled to secure the 
 most satisfactory re- 
 sults. The factory is 
 eligibly located and is 
 equipped with all the 
 necessary tools and ap- 
 pliances that can con- 
 tribute to the produc- 
 tion of the most effi- 
 
 are unexcelled for strength, durability, 
 soundness of every individual part, ease 
 of draught, fineness o 
 finish and beauty of 
 appearance. A ful 
 stock is carried, special 
 attention is given to 
 order work and the 
 prices are as low as is 
 compatible with the 
 highest class of mate- 
 rials and workmanship. 
 The trade of the house 
 is throughout New 
 England principally, 
 but orders are con- 
 stantly received from 
 every part of the 
 Union. Mr. Randlett 
 has been elected twice 
 as representative, serv- 
 ing two terms in the 
 legislature and also two 
 years in the Com- 
 mon Council. 
 
 J. H. RANDLETT. 
 
 Alfred Chase Faye. 
 
 cient, stylish and reliable work. Thirty Mr. Faye was chosen to his present po- 
 highly skilled mechanics are employed in sition of principal of the Dover High 
 
 the several 
 departments, 
 and the range 
 of production 
 embraces fine 
 carriages of 
 every descrip- 
 tion, wagons 
 and sleighs. 
 These are all 
 constructed 
 of the best 
 and most 
 thoroughly 
 seasoned 
 woods and 
 the standard 
 makes of 
 steel and iron, 
 while the up- 
 h o 1 s t e ring, 
 trimming, 
 painting and general finish could not be 
 
 RANDLETT'8 CARRIAGE FACTORY 
 
 school from 
 among a 
 large list of 
 worthy can- 
 didates two 
 years ago, 
 coming here 
 from Chill i- 
 cothe, Ohio. 
 From the 
 first, the in- 
 terest of the 
 new princi- 
 pal in the 
 school and 
 in the city 
 has been 
 deep and 
 sincere. He 
 is a thorough 
 educator and 
 to his credit 
 may be placed a great portion of the 
 
 surpassed for style and elegance. They praise for the high standing enjoyed by
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 this time-honored institution during his 
 incumbency of the office. Mr. Faye was 
 born in Natick, Mass., April 4, 1867, and 
 has taught schooTsmce he was seventeen 
 years of age. Among the places where he 
 has led the thought of youth are Marion, 
 Wrentham and Quincy, Mass. He then 
 entered Harvard college, where his stand- 
 ing as a 'student was very high and he 
 graduated with honor. Upon leaving 
 college the celebrated Lawrenceville 
 school of Lawrenceville, N. ]., made him 
 a tempting offer 
 and he remained 
 at that institute 
 for one year, from 
 thence going to 
 Chillicothe, Ohio. 
 He spent two 
 years there and 
 it speaks well for 
 the appreciation 
 and esteem in 
 which he was held 
 that last year he 
 was offered the 
 sup erintendency 
 of the Chillicothe 
 public schools. 
 He pr ef e r red, 
 however, to re- 
 main in Dover and 
 fortunate indeed 
 was the city to 
 retain in her ser- 
 vice this able ed- 
 ucator. Mr. Faye 
 was also superin- 
 tendent of the 
 Sudbury, Mass., 
 public schools. 
 
 The principals of our High school have 
 always been men of rare intelligence and 
 possessed of more than usual educa- 
 tional abilities, able to impart instruction 
 to our youth in such manner that they 
 will retain the knowledge gained. Mr. 
 Faye is no exception to the rule and his 
 success and pleasing popularity with his 
 pupils proves that his selection to this 
 important position was a wise one. There 
 are at present from 180 to 190 pupils of 
 both sexes attending the school and two 
 male and three female instructors are em- 
 
 ployed under Mr. Faye's able guidance. 
 
 ALFRED CHASE FAYE 
 
 John B. Stevens* 
 
 Early in the century, John B. Stevens, 
 senior, made Dover his permanent resi- 
 dence. He was of that ardent band of 
 Dover abolitionists so much in evidence 
 fifty years ago. His eldest son, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was born in Dover 
 May 29, 1836. He was educated in the 
 Dover High School, SouthJ3erwick Acad- 
 emy, Franklin 
 TTcademy, New 
 Hampton Literary 
 Institute, and Co- 
 mer's Commercial 
 School. He taught 
 school for a short 
 time in 1856. He 
 has always lived in 
 Dover, except dur- 
 ing a short resi- 
 deuce in New 
 York. From 1864 
 to 1894 he was 
 City Clerk of Do- 
 ver. In 1865 he 
 was City Treasurer. 
 He succeeded the 
 Hon. Jeremiah 
 Smith, as Trustee 
 of the Dover Pub- 
 lic Library in 1886 
 and acted as Sec- 
 retary of the Trus- 
 tees for four years. 
 For many years 
 he was prominent- 
 ly identified with 
 the public school 
 system of this city, being successively a 
 member of the Prudential Committee of 
 District No. 2 ; of the Superintending 
 School Committee of the city; of the 
 Board of Education, Board of Instruc- 
 tion and School Committee of the Con- 
 solidated City District ; his vote and in- 
 fluence were ever for progress. No man 
 did more, few as much to make possible 
 our present system and methods. Our 
 city High school, our graded schools, our 
 superintendency, may all be traced to the 
 period of Mr. Stevens' participation in
 
 DOVER \ 623- J 898 
 
 school government, and to him more 
 than to any other is due their existence 
 at this time. He was an active member 
 of the House of Representatives in 1897. 
 
 Mr. Stevens belongs to the B. P. O. E. 
 and is a member and clerk of the Dover 
 Sportsmen's Association. His literary 
 contributions upon this subject have been 
 extensive and have won for him among 
 sportsmen more than a local reputation 
 as an author. 
 He has a very 
 decided liter- 
 ary talent and 
 is graphic in 
 his descrip- 
 tion of places 
 and events; 
 clear and co- 
 gent in the 
 p r e sentation 
 of his views 
 and ideas, 
 and possessed 
 of a keen, 
 disc riminat- 
 ing liter ary 
 taste which 
 enables him 
 to add grace 
 and beauty to 
 the strength 
 and vigor of 
 his writings. 
 
 He early 
 foresaw the 
 value and 
 need of a pure 
 and abundant 
 water supply. 
 He was iden- 
 tified with the 
 movement 
 
 started in 1887 in this direction and 
 grasped the project in all its details at 
 the outset, explaining and advocating 
 the wisdom of the enterprise and ever 
 using his influence with the official repre- 
 sentatives of the citizens to enlist their 
 support of the financial measures required 
 in the carrying on of the work. The 
 many resolutions, orders and contracts 
 passed and accepted by the City Council 
 and its committees, calling for large ex- 
 
 JOHN B. STEVENS. 
 
 penditures of money, were drafted or 
 reviewed by him with such fidelity and 
 skill that legal entanglements were avoid- 
 ed and the city treasury saved from re- 
 visionary measures and readjustments. 
 The city of Dover owes much to him for 
 this successful administration of the com- 
 plex duties of the office of City Clerk and 
 for his insistent method of doing things 
 right. His present position on the 
 Water Board 
 fitly recog- 
 nizes his abil- 
 ity to judge 
 wisely, steer 
 safely and act 
 promptly, at 
 all times in 
 the interest of 
 the city and 
 for the pro- 
 tection of his 
 fellow citi- 
 zens. 
 
 Mr. Ste- 
 vens has two 
 sons of whom 
 he may be 
 justly proud. 
 Col. Frank B. 
 the elder, 
 went through 
 the Dover 
 High school 
 and Phjllips 
 academy, Ex- 
 e t e r , and 
 graduated 
 from Yale 
 College, 
 thence enter- 
 ing the field 
 of journalism 
 
 as city editor of the Troy (N. Y.) Tele- 
 gram. Later he was called to a desk in 
 the Boston Globe Office, and is now con- 
 ducting a successful advertising business 
 of his own in Boston. He is a member 
 of Governor^Wolcott's staff with the rank 
 of Colonel. Hermon W., the younger 
 son, attended the common schools of Do- 
 ver and Phillips Academy, Exeter, and 
 then became a Harvard graduate, finish- 
 ing his academic training at Heidelberg
 
 152 
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 University. He is now a writer in Boston. 
 
 Harris M. Shaw. 
 
 Harris M. Shaw was born at East An- 
 dover in 1854. He 
 at t e n d e d school at 
 Gor ham, Me., and 
 when sixteen years of 
 age went to Boston to 
 learn the trade of a 
 carpenter and builder. 
 He returned to Dover 
 in January, 1875, an( i 
 the following year 
 formed a partnership 
 with William Beetle, 
 under the style of 
 Beede and Shaw. Sub- 
 sequently Mr. Pike 
 was admitted a part- 
 ner and the firm be- 
 came Beede, Shaw and 
 Pike. This firm built 
 the Moulton shoe shop 
 on Sixth street for a 
 steam mill and carpen- 
 ter shop. Mr. Shaw withdrew from the 
 firm in 1883 and has since been engaged 
 in general contracting and building at 16 
 Hough street, and from his advanced 
 methods and the 
 close personal at- 
 tention given to 
 all contracts he 
 has succeeded in 
 securing some of 
 the most impor- 
 tant building con- 
 tracts for private 
 residences in -Do- 
 ver and the sur- 
 rounding towns. 
 He completed the 
 planning and re- 
 modeling of the 
 house at the cor- 
 ner of Hough 
 street and Central 
 avenue, at present 
 
 occupied by Dr. Blanchard, but a short 
 time ago. Only skilled workmen are em- 
 ployed and the best materials used, and 
 all work entrusted to him is carried out 
 
 HARRIS M. SHAW. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF 
 
 under his own close personal supervision. 
 Mr. Shaw also attends to general house 
 repairing and contracts for every class of 
 building work. His figures will always 
 be found reasonable, being based upon 
 the fundamental prin- 
 ciple that the best 
 workmanship is at all 
 times the cheapest. 
 
 Theodore W. y= 
 Woodman. 
 
 Theodore W. Wood- 
 man is a native of 
 Dover and has become 
 a vital part of the 
 city's life, being among 
 its most substantial 
 citizens. He is a son 
 of Samuel Woodman, 
 of the Durham branch 
 of the family, and Ly- 
 dia E. (Rollins) 
 Woodman, daughter 
 of Captain James Rol- 
 lins of Somersvvorth. 
 From his parents he inherited habits of 
 industry and prudence and has proved 
 himself to be abundantly endowed with 
 those sterling qualities which constitute 
 the successful 
 man. Mr. Wood- 
 man has always 
 been an ardent 
 believer in the 
 value of real es- 
 tate and no one in 
 the city has done 
 more towards its 
 development. He 
 has for many years 
 been largely inter- 
 ested in realty. 
 In 1898 he erec- 
 ted the imposing 
 Woodman block 
 at the corner of 
 H. M. SHAW. Central avenue 
 
 and Hale street 
 
 and has been instrumental in providing 
 good tenements for the masses at low 
 rentals. At the present time over one 
 hundred tenants occupy his buildings and
 
 DOVER J623-J898 
 
 he well sustains the reputation he has ac- 
 quired of being a 
 just and liberal 
 landlord. 
 
 During the civil 
 war Mr. Wood- 
 man occupied a 
 responsible posi- 
 t i o n with the 
 Freedman Bureau, 
 under Gen. O. O. 
 Howard at Wash- 
 ington, and had 
 charge of a large 
 number of men. 
 He has devoted 
 much of his time 
 to public affairs, 
 serving in various 
 capacities in the 
 interests of the 
 city. He has been 
 selectman, coun- 
 cilman and alder- 
 man of Ward 4, 
 which he repre- 
 sented in the Leg- 
 islature for four 
 years. His entire 
 legislative career 
 
 was most acceptable 
 
 THEODORE W. WOODMAN. 
 
 to his constituents 
 who frequently ex- 
 pressed their ap- 
 preciation of his 
 services. Mr. 
 Woodman has al- 
 so served on the 
 Board of Educa- 
 tion, has been 
 President of the 
 Board of Trade 
 and of the Bellamy 
 club, and was one 
 of the incorpora- 
 tors and is now a 
 trustee of the 
 Wentworth Home 
 for the Aged. He 
 was also chairman 
 of the Building 
 Committee and it 
 is largely owing to 
 his foresight and 
 clear judgment 
 that this elegant 
 building was erec- 
 ted at such a 
 small outlay. He 
 has been marked- 
 ly succesbful in 
 
 WOODMAN BLOCK.
 
 DOVER \ 623- \ 898 
 
 business and while still in the prime of 
 life has acquired a competence. He owes 
 his entire success to his business ability, 
 application, perseverance and singleness 
 of purpose. He is a man cf many resources 
 and shows what can be accomplished by 
 enterprise, coupled wilh integrity and fair 
 dealing. He is the surviving member of 
 his branch of the Woodman family, hi> 
 brothers, Charles S. and James R., and 
 sister, Lizzie C. having deceased, t 
 
 Tasker and Chesley- 
 
 There is probably no profession in 
 which a greater delicacy of feeling is ne- 
 cessitated than in that of the funeral di- 
 rector. It is asserted that the above firm 
 is possessed of all the necessary requisite s 
 to successfully carry on their business as 
 funeral directors and embalmers. The 
 firm was formed July i, 1897, succeeding 
 Mr. A. N. Ward. They are both energetic 
 young men, thoroughly acquainted with 
 the duties of their profession, and possess 
 a courteous demeanor. Their rooms, lo- 
 cated at 12-14 Third street, are fully 
 stocked with high grade goods suitable for 
 occasions where bereavement occurs, 
 
 T. T. CHESLEY. 
 
 H. B. TASKER. 
 
 meeting the requirements of all classes of 
 patrons. They furnish everything requi- 
 site for funerals, are prompt in meeting 
 their engagements and can always be im- 
 plicitly relied upon in all matters relating 
 to interments. They make a specialty of 
 embalming and possess the necessary nat- 
 ural endowments, as well as the technical 
 knowledge so peculiarly needful in this 
 business. Mr. Tasker was born at New- 
 market in 1870, receiving his education at 
 the public schools. Upon leaving school 
 he entered the undertaking business with 
 his father and gained a thorough and 
 practical knowledge of it. He came to 
 Dover in 1897 to form the present part- 
 nership. He is a member of Rising Star 
 Lodge, No. 47, A. F. and A. M. and of 
 Pioneer Lodge, No. i, K. of P., Newmar- 
 ket. Mr. Chesley was born in 1869 at 
 Hutchinson, Minn., but went to Newmar- 
 ket at the age of twelve years. He re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools 
 and at the New Hampton Literary Insti- 
 tute. He was Town Treasurer of New- 
 nmket for two years and is a member < f 
 Rising Star Lodge, No. 47, A. F. and A. 
 M. and Pioneer Lodge, No. i, K. of P., 
 Newmarket.
 
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