Arthur Greenough of Derry, N.H. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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

Page 1288

     ARTHUR GREENOUGH,* head of the Arthur Greenough Company,
of Derry, N. H., manufacturers of lumber, box stock, etc., which concern he
established here about thirteen years ago, was born in Chester, Rockingham
County, N. H., December 20, 1856, a son of William and Harriett (Parker)
Greenough. The father of our subject was born in Chester, Pa., where his
active years were spent in conducting a general store. He was the son of
Smith Greenough, who was a farmer and died at the age of thirty-one years.
The latter also was a native of Chester.
     Mrs. Harriett Parker Greenough was a daughter of Nathaniel Parker,
who was the first deacon of the Derry village Congregational church, and
brother of the Rev. Edward Parker, pastor for many years of the Congrega-
tional church of East Derry, the Parkers being one of the old settled families
in this section.
     Mr. and Mrs. William Greenough reared a family of five sons and one
daughter, namely: William S., Lucy Parker, Augustus O., Charles N.,
George A. and Arthur. William S. Greenough raised a company for service
in the Civil war and went to the front with it, doing good service as a soldier.
During his latter years he was engaged in business in Boston, Mass. He died
at Wakefield, Mass., in 1913. Lucy P. Greenough died in 1901. Augustus
O. Greenough is engaged in farming at Southboro, Mass. Charles N. Green-
ough is a retired lumberman residing in Derry, N. H. George A. Greenough
is paymaster at the Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N. H.
     Arthur Greenough resided in Chester. N. H., until he was seventeen years
old. He then went to California, where he was engaged in the cattle business
and farming for five years. At the end of that time he returned to Wake-
field, Mass., and engaged in the grocery business, in which occupation he con-
tinued for twenty-two years. In 1902 he came to Derry and built his pres-
ent large lumber plant, which he has since operated very successfully. He
also operates a portable saw-mill in the woods, buying tracts of timber and
turning it into lumber on the ground where the trees are felled. He Owns a
considerable amount of real estate in Derry, including business blocks and
residences which he built. A public spirited citizen, he has served on the
board of selectmen (two years) and was chairman of the board.

Page 1289

     Mr. Greenough was married in 1897 to Miss Julia L. Hopkins, a daughter
of Sumner E. Hopkins, of Wakefield, Mass., a farmer. Mr. Greenough is
a cousin of Chief Justice Parsons, of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire,
the latter's mother being a Parker. He affiliates with the Central Congrega-
tional church of Derry village.