James Cushing Lydston of Portsmouth, 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 1090

   JAMES CUSHING LYDSTON, a respected citizen of Portsmouth, N.
H., is a boat builder and a shipwright identified with the navy yard at Kittery,
Maine.  He was born in Eliot, Maine, December 7, 1841, and is a son of
Daniel and Almira (Freeman) Lydston.
   Daniel Lydston was born in Eliot, Maine, and was also a shipbuilder by
occupation.  He was buried at South Eliot, as was his wife, who was a native
of York, Maine.  They were parents of the following children: William A.;
Laurence K.; James C.; and Almira, wife of Albert A. Fernald, of Newbury-
port.  Religiously, they were Methodists.  Mr. Lydston was a Democrat in
politics.
   James C. Lydston attended the public schools until he was seventeen years
old, and then served an apprenticeship as ship builder, his father binding him
out to the government for a period of four years.  With the exception of
four years spent in the employ of the Boston and Maine Railroad, he has
always been employed at the navy yard.
   In January, 1872, Mr. Lydston was united in marriage with Miss Harriet
Josephine Remick, who was born in South Eliot, Maine, and is a daughter of
Washington and Sarah (Chase) Dorr Remick.  Her mother was twice mar-
ried, her first union being with Charles Dorr by whom she had a son, Charles
C. Dorr.  Washington Remick was a large land holder.  A part of his farm
consisted of the grants of land taken up by Christian Remick, who emi-
grated from Remick in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourge in 1651.  Mr. W.
Remick being a direct descendant of C. Remick, these grants became his by
inheritance, and have been in the Remick name and are now owned by his
grandson.  Mr. Remick gave much money and time for the uplift of religious
interests.  He was three times married.  The children of his first union were:
Mary Ann, wife of Samuel Warren, and Augusta.  The following were born
of the second union: Samuel, Joseph B. and John Wesley.  The third union
resulted in the following offspring: Frances Adelaide, Harriet Josephine
(Lydston), Sarah Augusta, and Carrie Bell.

Pages 1091 and 1092 contained a portrait for a different biography.

Page 1093

   Mr. and Mrs. Lydston have one daughter, May Ella, who married Dr.
Fred P. Webster of Portland, Maine, and has two children, Eleanor Cushing
and Eliot Webster.  Mr. Lydston is a Republican in politics.  Fraternally, he
is a member of St. John's Lodge, A. F. and A. M.; New Hampshire Lodge,
No. 17, I. 0. 0. F.; and Strawberry Bank Encampment, No. 6, I. 0. 0. F.
In religious attachment they are members of the North Congregational
Church.