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Submitted by: Glenn Campbell grc1@charter.net Date: March 3, 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 XI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIFE AND TIMES IN HOPKINTON, N.H. __________ IN THREE PARTS __________ Section XI **************************************************************************** Edgar T. Farrill, a former pastor of the Hopkinton Congregational church, was born in Providence, R.I., August 21, 1854, being a son of Andrew Farrill and Susan W. Harrington. He was educated at the Mowry & Goff Military, English, and Classical high school, Providence, at Brown University, and at Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary. He resided in Providence till 1879, in Andover till 1882, in Hopkinton till 1885, having been ordained pastor of the Congregational church September 27, 1882, and dismissed November 20 of the last year of his residence here. Since 1885, the Rev. Mr. Farrill has resided in Lebanon, being pastor of the church there. He has compiled a manual and history of the Lebanon church; has for four years been president of the Grafton County Sunday-School Union and of the West Grafton Bible Society; has been for two years chairman of the Lebanon board of education, operating under a special act; has been for three years a trustee of Kimball Union Academy, is on its committee to dispense scholarships and on that for securing teachers and determining the course of study; has served on the examining board of Dartmouth college; is on the executive committee of the State Temperance Union. He also organized the Lebanon Village Improvement Association, for supplying water, laying concrete walks, etc. In 1883, July 8, the Rev. Mr. Farrill married Mary Alice Fenner, daughter of Sullivan Fenner and Mary C. King, of Providence. They have children, --Edgar Powers, Ethel Alene, Harold Fenner. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Farrington, who appears to have given its name to Farrington's Corner, was the son of Stephen Farrington, and appears to have been born in Concord, August 16, 1748. He married Marion Eastman, and moved to Hopkinton in 1770. The following were their children,--Apphia, born 1772; Benjamin E., born August 8, 1773; Patty, born 1775; Samuel, born 1776; Philip, born 1778; Stephen, born 1781; Lois, born December 25, 1793. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel P. Farrington, the son of Benjamin E. Farrington and Pricilla Allen, was born in Hopkinton, January 29, 1819. He resided in Boston, Mass., from 1837 to 1850; in 1850, he went to Chicago, Ill., where he resided at last information, being a merchant. He has been president of the Merchants' Exchange of Chicago, president of the Commercial Exchange of the same city, president of a missionary society, etc. He passed through the great Chicago fire, and saw $150,000 worth of goods consumed in fifteen minutes, though in twenty-eight days he was selling goods in a store 100 by 50 feet in size and built in three weeks, his stock of goods being full. In 1841, September 8, Mr. Farrington married a lady named Perkins, daughter of James Perkins, of Wakefield. They had children,--Samuel Leroy, Fannie E., James B. Mrs. Farrington died January 22, 1848, and July 7, 1853, Mr. Farrington married a lady named McKay, daughter of Benjamin McKay, of Chicago. They have had children,--Florence L., Luther H. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ignatius Webber Fellows, was born in Hopkinton, December 22, 1805, being a son of Benjamin Fellows and Betsey (Woodman) Ladd. He was a jeweler and farmer by occupation. From 1833 to 1837, he resided in Lowell, Mass., where he pursued the calling of a jeweler, as he did also in Hopkinton in his earlier manhood. Mr. Fellows was noted for his transactions in real estate and securities. After 1843, he was the treasurer of Hopkinton academy. He lived many years in the house now occupied by his widow in Hopkinton village. IN 1830, June 30, Mr. Fellows married Jane Copps, daughter of Moses Copps and Mary George, of Hopkinton. They had children,--Sarah E., Mary F., Charles F., Georgia B., Harriet E., James E., Clara M., Emma S. Mr. Fellows died February 21, 1887. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- James K. Fellows, the son of Benjamin fellows and Betsey (Woodman) Ladd, was born in Hopkinton, August 5, 1809. Since 1831, he has lived in Lowell, Mass. He is a watch-maker and jeweler. He has been in the Massachusetts legislature in 1837 and in 1838, and in 1851 and 1852. he was a member of the Lowell city council in 1837 and 1857. He was in Europe in 1848 and 1851, being at the world's exhibition the latter year. In 1839, February 22, he married Mary C. Ordway, daughter of Thomas Ordway and Jerusha Currier, of Lowell. They had children,--J. Marcus, Mary E., Ellen S., Alice J. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Fellow, the son of Stevens Fellows and Miriam Tewksbury, was born in Salisbury, September 12, 1821. He was educated at Salisbury academy and Livonia Institute, in New York. By calling, he is a merchant and farmer. Mr. Fellows has lived in Salisbury from 1821 to 1857; in Concord, from 1857 to 1859; in Hopkinton, from 1859 to 1866; in Henniker, from 1866 to 1872; in Andover, from 1872 to 1875; in Boston and Hubbardston, Mass., from 1875 to 1878; in Henniker, from 1878 to the present time. The subject of this sketch has held many public offices. He was captain of the Salisbury Grenadiers from 1845 to 1848; selectman of Salisbury from 1851 to 1855; register of deeds for Merrimack county from 1857 to 1859; county commissioner from 1865 to 1868; state justice of the peace from 1853 to the present time; moderator of town-meeting in Salisbury, Hubbardston, and Henniker, thirteen years in all; superintending school-committee in Salisbury and Henniker, three years each; selectman of Henniker from 1860 to 1887. Mr. Fellows is a man of much nerve. While at work in a mill in Dorchester, a hand was caught in the machinery and drawn in nearly to the elbow. Knowing he would bleed to death unless immediately released, and the workmen being stupefied with alarm, he coolly took a knife from his pocket and separated the hand, leaving it in the machinery, and then drew a belt lacing from a pocket and put a ligature about the mangled arm. When the surgeon amputated and dressed the stump, Mr. Fellows it out without the movement of a muscle, taking no anaesthetic for relief of pain. When Franklin Pierce was a candidate for the presidency, he made a visit to Concord, and an immense flag was suspended across the street in his honor. During the day, a violent squall arose, the flag was torn, and threatened with destruction. Some one was needed to ascend a flag-staff 160 feet high and cut a rope, loosening the flag, which presented a surface 120, by 85 feet to the wind. A sailor tried, but grew faint and descended. Mr. Fellows then took off his coat, ascended to the gilded ball, cut the rope, and descended. When the rope was cut, the staff rebounded from its fixture a distance of thirty feet. The cheers of the multitude rewarded Mr. Fellows for his feat. In 1843, June 15, Mr. Fellows married Jane Stevens, daughter of Daniel Stevens and Dolly Peaslee, of Salisbury. They had children,--Clara Adelia, Marion Arvilda, John Stevens, Wilfred Dunbar, James Fred, Nellie Stanwood, John Henry. Mrs. Fellows died July 8, 1885, and, in 1886 August 22, Mr. Fellows married Amelia Melissa Chandler, daughter of Jacob Chandler and Lovina Connor, of Hillsborough. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ephraim Fisk, a nonagenarian of Hopkinton, was born in Concord, April 17, 1798, being a son of Ephraim Fisk and Abigail Sawyer. He is a clothier and wool-carder by trade. From 1823 to 1825, he lived in Chichester; since 1835, his home has been in Contoocook. He is now with his son in Lowell, Mass. During his active life, he was station-agent in Contoocook eighteen years. Mr. Fisk married Margaret Dow, daughter of Moody Dow and Anna Hoyt, of Concord. They had children,--Cyrus Mentor, George Lewis, Mary Jane Tyler, Mary Jane. Mrs. Fisk died March, 1870. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Franklin Woodbury Fisk, an eminent Congregational minister and theological professor, was born in Hopkinton, February 16, 1820, being a son of Ebenezer Fisk and Hannah Proctor. He remained in Hopkinton till he was thirteen years old, and then went to Lowell, Mass., remaining a year and a half. From 1835 to 1841, he was at Philadelphia (Pa.) academy, varying his occupation by teaching at times; from 1845 to 1849, at Yale college; theological student at Yale Divinity School and tutor in college till 1852, being licensed to preach July 19th the same year; was a student in Andover Theological Seminary from January to May, 1853. In 1853, he made a trip to Europe, traveling there from May till November. An infirmity of the eyes compelled him to give up the ministry, and he accepted a professorship of rhetoric and English literature in Beloit college, Wisconsin, being appointed while abroad. He continued at Beloit from April, 1854, till July, 1859, and then became Wisconsin professor of Sacred rhetoric in the Chicago Theological Seminary, Illinois, being appointed in January, 1857, inaugurated in April, 1859, and entering upon the duties of his position in October following. On the 28th of April, 1859, Professor Fisk was ordained into the ministry. In June, 1865, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Olivet college, Michigan. In June, 1871, Professor Fisk revisited Europe and the East, remaining till August, 1872, three months of the time being occupied in attending lectures at Berlin. He was made president of Chicago Theological Seminary in 1887. In 1888, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity form Yale college, and the same year that of Doctor of Laws from Beloit college. In 1884, he published a Manual of Preaching, which has passed through two editions. In 1854, March 29, Professor Fisk married Mrs. Amelia Allen Austin, daughter of Ezra Bowen and Lydia Walcott, of Woodstock, Ct., who died May 10, 1881. They had three children,--Franklin Proctor, Amelia Maria, Henry Edward. In 1885, December 23, Professor Fisk married Selinda Jennette (Gardiner) Hitchcock, of Chicago, being a daughter of Elijah R. Gardiner and Rebecca Powell. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luther J. Fitch, the son of Paul Fitch and Mary Jaquith, was born in Jaffrey, September 3, 1792. IN the course of his life he resided in Rindge, Fitzwilliam, and Hopkinton. He was widely known as a school-teacher of the olden days, being occupied in teaching more or less of the time for thirty years or more. He at one time taught a high school in Dunbarton. While in Hopkinton, Mr. Fitch lived many years in the house now occupied by George H. Elliot, on the south road. In 1822, November 14, Mr. Fitch married Jane Hoyt, of Hopkinton. They had one daughter,--Sarah J. Mr. Fitch died February 5, 1872; his wife, April 1, 1867. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Flanders, the son of Richard C. Flanders and Rachel Colby, was born in South Hampton, August 30, 1786. When seventeen years old, he came to Hopkinton, locating on the so called Jewett road, where he lived until his death, being by occupation a farmer. In 1834, he was a selectman of Hopkinton. In 1815, April 11, Mr. Flanders married Sarah Smith, daughter of Moody Smith and Hannah Quimby, of Hopkinton. They had five children,--Parker M., born January 26, 1816; Hannah born January 30, 1818; Sarah Ann, born June 3, 1821; Jonathan, born October 16, 1823; Philip, born September 24, 1827. Mr. Flanders died November 13, 1872; his wife, March 19, 1883, aged 96. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parker M. Flanders, the son of Philip Flanders and Sarah Smith, was born in Hopkinton, January 26, 1816, and always resided in his native town, being a farmer. His home was where his son, Parker Flanders, now lives, on the Jewett road. Mr. Flanders was justice of the peace for fifteen years, lieutenant of the militia two years, clerk of his school-district over thirty years. In 1858 and 1859, he was a selectman. In 1851, February 19, Mr. Flanders married Hannah C. Connor, daughter of Abel Connor and Hannah Whitney, of Henniker. They had three children,--Mary L., Sarah A., Parker. Mr. Flanders died August 24, 1889. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathaniel Flanders, noted for being the oldest man in town, was born in Hopkinton, January 20, 1794, being a son of Jeremiah Flanders and Miriam George. From 1819 to 1827, and from 1828 to 1841, he lived in Bradford. The rest of his life has been spent in Hopkinton. He is a shoemaker by trade, but has spent much of his life on the farm. His home is with his son, Sullivan Flanders, in the Hatfield district. In 1820, November 9, Mr. Flanders married Betsey Wright, daughter of Joshua Wright and Mollie Chadwick, of Sutton. They had children,--Melissa, born August 12, 1821; Sullivan, born October 6, 1822; Lydia W., born April 20, 1824; Joshua W., born December 28, 1826; Nathaniel, born December 27, 1828; George, born April 18, 1832. Mrs. Flanders died February 16, 1867. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Flanders, the son of Timothy Flanders and Martha Hoyt, was born in Hopkinton, September 25, 1799. With the exception of four years in Manchester, his life was spent in Hopkinton. In militia days he was an orderly sergeant, an ensign, a lieutenant, and a captain of rifles. He at one time kept a store in the Stumpfield district. He kept a hotel a few years in Hopkinton village. He was a farmer and a carpenter. In 1825, July 7, Mr. Flanders married Mary Eliza Lerned, daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Lerned and Mary Hall, of Hopkinton. They had children,--Margaret Lerned, Timothy Brooks, Mary Hall, Ebenezer Lerned, Martha Jane, Leigh Richmond, Daniel Richmond, Charles Henry, Louisa McQuesten, Ann Joynes, Horace Clinton, Charlotte Elizabeth, Matthew Harvey, Alice Catharine, Frank Lerned. Mr. Flanders died August 10, 1886. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rufus P. Flanders, the son of Israel Flanders and Olive Holmes, was born in Dorchester, and in the course of his life resided in Salisbury, Goffstown, Weare, Amesbury, Mass., and Hopkinton, dying in Contoocook, February 22, 1880, aged 66. He was the first driver of the present Hopkinton and Concord stage line, which at first was continued through Hopkinton village to Contoocook. In 1884, he married Mary C.N. Gale, daughter of Israel Gale and Anna Nichols, of Hopkinton. They had children,--Mary Ann, Sarah B., Loren H., Israel N., Hattie B., Fred, Willis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Flanders, the son of Israel Flanders and Olive Holmes, was born in Hopkinton, February 23, 1825. He has always lived in this town, being a farmer and lumberman. Mr. Flanders is of intellectual tastes, being one of the best read citizens of the town, particularly in historical matters. In 1854, November 30, Mr. Flanders married Melissa J. Dow, daughter of Squire Dow and Cynthia Page, of Henniker. They have had children,--Frank H., Emma J., Walter H.