Charles F. Folsom of Exeter, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 859

     CHARLES F. FOLSOM, who is now living retired at No. 81 High
Street, Exeter, N. H., was born in Exeter, N. H., December 3, 1832, a
son of James and Judith (Morrow) Folsom.  He was born in a house
which formerly stood on the spot where his fine residence now stands.
The parents of our subject were natives respectively of Exeter and
Pittsfield, N. H., the father being a carpenter by trade.  They were
members of the Congregational church. Both are now deceased and are
buried In Exeter.  They had a large family numbering twelve chil-
dren, all of whom are now deceased but two-Mrs. Martha A. Head
and Charles F.  The father, James Folsom, was a veteran of the War
of 1812.
     Charles F. Folsom was educated in the common schools of Exeter
and at Phillips Exeter Academy.  He then went to Boston, where he
was clerk in a grocery store for five years.  Returning at the end of
that period to Exeter, he found employment here as a carriage painter
and also for a time worked in a brass foundry.  He then went to what
was then South Newmarket, now Newfields, where for a while he was
engaged in different lines of industry.  Subsequently returning to Exeter he
went into the oyster business here and continued in it from 1860 to 1913,

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a period of fifty-three years, keeping the well-known oyster house known to
the students from all over the United States who attended Phillips Exeter
Academy.  Few men could show a record for more steady work, as in the
last fourteen years he never lost even half a day from his place of business.
     He was married in 1855 to Miss Mary Ellen McNancy, who was born
in Ireland, a daughter of James and Ann (McBride) McNancy.  Her
father dying when she was a young woman, she soon after accompanied
her mother to America.  There were seven children in the McNancy
family, all of whom are now supposed to be dead.  Mr. and Mrs. Fol-
som became parents of a daughter, Emma Frances.  Mrs. Folsom passed
from this life in 1898.  The family attend the First Congregational
church.  Mr. Folsom is a Republican in politics.