Allen M. Gosselin Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

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

Page 919

  ALLEN M. GOSSELIN, general agent for the Boston and Maine
Railroad at Haverhill, Rockingham County, N. H., is a thorough rail-
road man, having worked his way from a lowly position in his boy-

Page 920 

hood to the responsible one he now fills. He was born in Plaistow,
N. H., December 3, 1867, and is a son of Damas and Heloise (De-
noncour) Gosselin.
  Damas Gosselin was born in Nicolet, Province of Quebec, Canada,
April 24, 1842, and in the spring of 1863 came to New Hampshire and
located in Plaistow, where he engaged as a brickmaker until 1881.
In that year he purchased a grocery store which he conducted until his
death. He married Heloise Denoncour and they became parents of
children as follows: Allen M. ; William, born August 2, 1869 ; Rebecca,
born March 30, 1871; Elfege, born September 18, 1872; Emelie, born
January 8, 1874; Edonge, born March 31, 1876; Philip, born April 7,
1878; Henry 0., born October 9, 1879; Alfred, born March 26, 1881 ;
A. Edmund, born April 16, 1882, and Rebecca, born February 23. 1884.
  Allen M. Gosselin received his education in the public schools, and
when a mere boy began work in the brick yard. He afterward clerked
in his father's store until the spring of 1889, which year marked the
beginning of his railroad career. He was first crossing tender for the
Boston and Maine, and in the fall of 1889 went to New Market Junction
as night telegraph operator, and later was transferred to Newton Tunc-
tion as day operator. He then successively filled the following posi-
tions, the duties of which began at the time mentioned: in June. 1893,
operator and ticket seller at Andover, Mass. ; in September, 1894, freight
clerk at Haverhill; in May, 1901, station agent at Plaistow; August 28, .
1905, station agent at Melrose, Mass. ; in September, 1906, station agent
at Reading; in November, 1912, general agent at Salem, Mass. ; and in
July, 1913, general agent at Haverhill. He has always been interested in
public movements wherever he has been located and during the years
1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904 Was selectman of Plaistow and in 1905 was
treasurer. On June 3, 1896, Mr. Gosselin was married to Miss Hattie
E. Denoncour, a daughter of George and Mary (Newcomb) Denoncour,
and they have one son, Harold G., born in 1897.

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