Elmer J. F. Littlefield Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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

Page 748

ELMER J. F. LITTLEFIELD, one of Portsmouth's most progres-
sive business men, is sole owner and proprietor of the Littlefield Lum-
ber Co., an enterprise with an established reputation throughout this
region. Mr. Littlefield was born August 4, 1865, at Wells, Maine,
where many of his relatives have long lived, there having been five gen-
erations of the family there before him.
     Oren H. Littlefield, father of Elmer, is a native of Wells, Maine, as
is his wife, and farming has been his life work. He married Annie E.
Thompson by whom he has four children: Elmer J. F.; Horton T.;
Bertha E.; and Helen, wife of Albert J. Talpey.
     Elmer J. F. Littlefield received eductional training in the district
schools of Wells, and early learned the trade of a carpenter. This was to
be his work during the succeeding twenty-seven years, the last eleven
years of which time were employed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
With Mr. N. A. McKenney, he embarked in the lumber business in
Portsmouth, their business being incorporated under the name of the
McKenney-Littlefield Lumber Co. The enterprise flourished and the
business has been carried on since without interruption, although after
an association of eleven years Mr. McKenney retired, leaving Mr. Lit-
tlefield sole owner and proprietor.
     August 2, 1892, the subject of this record married Helen Rowe, who
was born in Berwick, Maine, and is a daughter of George W. and Jane
(Robinson) Rowe. Her father was in his younger days a shoemaker by
trade, but later took to farming which the thereafter was his principal occu-
pation. Mr. Rowe was a member of Company F, 4th Reg., N. H. Vol.
Inf., and served throughout the entire Civil War. Mrs. Littlefield has
the following brothers and sisters: George A.; Wallace J.; John A.;
Mabel F., wife of Harry Perkins; Frank; Jennie, wife of E. H. Corey;
Della; and William. Helen was the fourth in order of birth. Mr. and
Mrs. Littlefield have three children: Harold A., who in 1914 was grad-
uated from Portsmouth High School; E. Kenneth; and Edith H. Relig-
iously the family attends the First Congregational Church.
     Mr. Littlefield is a Republican in politics, and is affiliated with the
Order of Odd Fellows.