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Submitted by: Glenn Campbell grc1@charter.net Date: January 21, 2002 **************************************************************************** From a book called "Life and Times in Hopkinton, N. H. in three parts" by C. C. Lord published 1890 LIFE AND TIMES IN HOPKINTON, N.H. SECTION I. ADAMS--ANNIS Samuel R. Adams, the son of David Adams, was born in Newton, Mass., July 24, 1814. His mother’s maiden name was Walker. In the course of his life he has resided in Boston, Marblehead, and Danvers, all in Massachusetts. He has resided in Hopkinton about fifty- five years. He is a shoemaker. He has been an officer of the Episcopal Church forty or more nearly or quite consecutive years. Mr. Adams’s first wife was Margaret Story, daughter of Moses Story, of Hopkinton, who bore him one son, ---Thomas S. Mrs. Adams died June 25, 1849, and Mr. Adams married Mary (Evans) Chase, of Hopkinton, who died in July, 1874. Joseph H. Adams, son of Henry Adams and Betsey Maxon, was born in Sutton, July 11, 1836. In the course of his life, he has resided in New Orleans, La., Iowa, Newbury, Weare, Bradford, and Hopkinton. He spent a year on the Mississippi river. He served in Company D, 1st Regiment N.H.V., during the late war. In 1862, August 24, Joseph H. Adams married Judith (Sargent) Currier, daughter of John and Miriam Sargent, of Hopkinton. They have had children, ---Lillian Iona, Leola Hortense, Claud Delno, Lindsey Warren. Myron Winslow Adams, was born in Gilsum, November 27, 1860, a son of Rev. Ezra Adams and Alice M. Ware. The subject of this sketch was educated at Wilberforce University, Ohio, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, and at Dartmouth college, graduating in the class of 1881, being valedictorian of the class. Resolving to devote his life to the ministry, Mr. Adams spent a year at Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary and two years at Hartfort (Ct.) Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1884. The same year he became the minister of the Congregational Church at Middle Haddam, Ct., where he remained two years, being ordained January 16, 1885. He was installed pastor of the church in Hopkinton, December 2, 1886, and was dismissed August 30, 1888. He next spent a year in the post-graduate course in Andover Theological Seminary, and then accepted an appointment as teacher of Greek in the University of Atlanta, Ga., where he now resides. In 1884, May 29, Mr. Adams married Nellie B. Davis, of Denmark, Me. She was a daughter of William F. Davis and Parmela Travis. Willard Allen, a native of Cornish, was born September 3, 1811, being a son of John Allen and Hannah Goldthwait. The subject of this sketch was at first a brickmaker, living in Chelsea, Mass., and Croydon before he came to Hopkinton. Not far from 1853, he came to Contoocook, and , in company with Warren M. Kempton, established a manufactory of mackerel kits in the building now used as a saw-mill by Frank I. Morrill & Co. Business was also done at the later period in the building once used by the Patterson brothers as a woollen factory. One or more brothers Morrill were also interested in connection with Mr. Allen for a time. In all, Mr. Allen was engaged about twenty-five years in manufacturing in Contoocook. In 1838, November, Willard Allen married Elvira Stone, of Grantham, she being a daughter of Daniel Stone. Two children were the offspring of this marriage;Olive Amanda and Walton Perkins. Mr. Allen died June 21, 1882; Mrs. Allen, October 17, 1881. Marshall Bullard Angier was born March 22, 1819, in Southboro’, Mass., being a son of Calvin Angier and Mira Parker. He was educated at Leicester (Mass.) academy, Yale college, Union Theological Seminary (N.Y.), and Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary. Devoting his life to the Congregational ministry, he spent six months as a licentiate at Princeton seminary, being afterwards three years a home missionary in Massachusetts. In 1853, he was ordained pastor of the church in Hopkinton, remaining pastor till 1860. He has since been a minister in Dorchester, Sturbridge, and Plymouth, all in Massachuestts. During the war of 1861, he was connected with the Union army, being at the front when Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. Being in Washington, D.C., he heard the last speech of President Lincoln from the executive mansion on the Tuesday evening previous to his assassination. On the Sunday evening, the subject of this sketch was one of the speakers in Rev. Albert Barnes’s church, in Philadelphia, Pa., the meeting being called to consider the nation’s great bereavement. He regards this as one of the most signal events of his life. In 1881, he was a delegate from the Congregational Union of the United States to the Congregational Union of England and Wales, which celebrated its jubilee in Manchester, Lancaster. During his stay abroad, Mr. Angier visited the continent of Europe, and made quite an extended tour. His travels in the British isles were also extensive. While in England, he made the acquaintance of Master Bradley, of Trinity college, Oxford, who succeeded Dean Stanley at Westminster Abbey, which acquaintance resulted in Mr. Angier’s admission to an eligible seat in the abbey at Master Bradley’s installation as Dean. Mr. Angier was also present at the service including Dean Bradley’s inaugural sermon, occupying a seat between two canons of the established church. In 1864, September 29, the subject of this sketch was married to Emma Smith Brewster, daughter of William Henry Brewster and Mary Young Allen, at Newburyport, Mass., the bride’s home. Mrs. Angier is the ninth generation from Elder William and Mary Brewster, of the Mayflower. One child has been born of this marriage, --Mary Brewster, June 23, 1868. The present address of the Rev. Mr. Angier is North Granville, Washington Co., N.Y. Daniel Annis, an early proprietor of the township of Hopkinton, appears to have come to New Hampshire from Massachusetts, and located at Concord, then in Hopkinton, and afterwards in Warner, where he and his son-in-law, Reuben Kimball, also from Hopkinton, appear to have been the first settlers. Under the Mason grant of Hopkinton, Daniel and John Annis were allotted two rights. By the nature of the record, made in 1762, it would appear that they owned these rights in partnership. According to Harriman’s "History of Warner," Daniel Annis and Reuben Kimball visited Warner in 1761, and the next year went there to stay. Annis settled near the residence of the last Paine Davis, in the Dimond Corner district, and Kimball eventually a third of a mile to the south-west, on what was afterwards a part of the old Origen Dimond farm. Daniel Annis brought his daughter Hannah, wife of Reuben Kimball, with her husband, to his new home in Warner, and she is said to have been the first white woman that ever lodged in that town. Daniel Annis had at least four sons,--Daniel, Thomas, Moses, Solomon and three daughters,--Hannah, Rachel, Ruth. Reuben Kimball was twenty-four years old at the time of his settlement in Warner, and his wife twenty- two. Daniel Annis lived twenty-eight years in Warner, and died in 1790. Daniel Kimball, the son of Reuben Kimball and Hannah Annis, born October, 1762, was the first white child born in Warner. Reuben Kimball died May 2, 1811 aged 73. He was a son of Jeremiah Kimball.