Hope Lathrop Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: LATHROP
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 310-311

LATHROP, HOPE, was born in Tolland, Conn., about 1799. In his youth he learned the plater’s 
trade, in Westminster, Vt., and removed to Drewsville, N.H., in 1819, where he followed that business 
a few years. He was appointed deputy sheriff, soon after he came to Drewsville, and held the office for 
some time, while he also kept a hotel at the same place. He was one of the directors of the Connecticut 
River Bank at Charlestown for a long period, and was president of that institution at the time of his 
death. For a number of years he was postmaster at Drewsville, and a merchant at the same time. He 
was a man of more than ordinary intellectual ability, to which were added indomitable energy and 
persistency of character; he was cautious and sagacious in his business transactions, and, making the 
accumulation of wealth a paramount object of attainment, he succeeded in amassing a large property 
from a humble beginning. He married, first, Fanny, dau. of John Cooper, of Alstead, by whom he had 
three daughters:
I. Sarah E. B., m. Bolivar Lovell. (See Lovell.)
II. Lucia A., m; Norman Farr, of Bellows Falls, Vt., and resides there.
III. Fanny, d. in infancy.
Mr. Lathrop’s wife died June 4, 1837, and he married, second, Sarah E., widow of Joseph Bond, M. 
D., and daughter of Thomas C. Drew, of Drewsville. (See Drew.) Mr. Lathrop died Dec. 31, 1878, 
under the following lamentable circumstances. As he was going to Charlestown on business, driving his 
own team, in crossing the Vermont Central railroad track, or being upon it, near the Peter Evans house, 
he came in collision with the engine of the mixed downward train, and received such injuries as to cause 
his death in about five hours, in the mean time lying in an unconscious state. His kindred were 
immediately summoned and were present at his death.