Charles E. Gove Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

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

Page 1170

     CHARLES E. GOVE, who owns and operates the largest farm in the
town of Seabrook, consisting of 106 acres, and is also proprietor of a sum-
mer hotel, was born in this town December 23, 1870, a son of Edward L.
and Anna (Maxfield) Gove. His paternal ancestors have been settled in
New England since early colonial days. Among them was Edward Gove,
who, in 1683, organized a rebellion against the provincial government and
was sentenced to be hanged for high treason. He was sent to England by
order of Charles II, and confined in the tower of London three years, but
was not executed. The original Gove farm was obtained by grant from King
George I in 1715.
   On September 15, 1792, was born Edward Gave in Seabrook, on the
same farm where his grandson, Charles E. Gove, now lives. He died Sep-
tember 3, 1877, at the age of nearly eighty-five years. He was one of Sea-
brook's leading farrmers and was a prominent man in the Society of Friends.
He married Elizabeth Morrill, and their children were: Stephen M., born
September 5, 1821, and Edward L., born in Seabrook, N. H., March 18,
1826. The former married Lydia Locke, and had four children, namely:
Otis M., born May 3, 1851; Henry M., born February 24, 1845; Horas N.,
born March 23, 1849, and Melvin L., born September 9, 1846.
   Edward L. Gove, the date of whose nativity is given above, was one of
Seabrook's representative men, a successful farmer and selectman of the
town. He. first married Mary Thorndyke, of which union there were two
children, William H., now a resident of Plymouth, Ind., and Lucy T ., who
married George C. Herbert. The mother of these children died September
27, 1865, and Mr. Gove married for his second wife, Anna Maxfield, daugh-
ter of Clark Norton Maxfield. Of this second union there were also two
children, Charles E., subject of this sketch, and Mary A., who is now one
of the leading teachers in the Boston public schools. Edward L. Gove died
March 12, 1891.
  Charles E. Gove was educated in the public schools of Seabrook, the Oak
Grove Seminary , and the Moses Brown school at Providence, R. I. He sub-
sequently took up farming on the old homestead and has since followed that
occupation very successfully, his farm, as above stated, being the largest, and
one of the finest, in the town. He also does a prosperous business at his

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summer hotel, which is located at Seabrook, N. H. Mr. Gove served as
selectman for five consecutive years, rendering efficient service in that posi-
tion. He is a member of the Friends' church and belongs to the Junior Order
of American Mechanics, and the Grange."
   In 1898 he married Miss Faoline KimbaIl, of Kensington, N. H., a daugh-
ter of Stephen M. and Mary Kimball. He and his wife are the parents of
two children: Edward K., born October 22, 1899, who is a student at Oak
Grove Seminary; and Alice M., born October 20, 1904, who is being educated
in Boston, Mass.

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