Joseph W. Marden Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Betsy Webber - betsy@megalink.net

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

Page 1130

     JOSEPH W. MARDEN, a prosperous contractor and builder of Ports-
mouth, N. H., was born in Massachusetts, February 10, 1840, a son of 
George and Sarah (Page) Marden. The father and mother of our subject
were natives respectively of Portsmouth, N. H., and Stoughton, Mass. Both
are now deceased and are buried in Stoughton. The father, George Marden,
was in early life a boot maker and later a railroad man. They were both
members of the Universalist church and were popular in the locality where 
they resided. Their children were: George W., Sarah Helen, Joseph W.,
Massena, Charles, Martha Louise, Simeon and Edward L.
     Joseph W. Marden acquired his education in the common schools and
subsequently served a three years' apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade.
After the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted for three years in Com-
pany I, Twelfth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, and served twenty-
one months, being then honorably discharged on account of disability. On
returning home he resumed work at the carpenter's trade, working for awhile
as journeyman but later starting business on his own account. He has since
continued in this line of industry--a period of thirty-three or thirty-four
years--and is conducting a prosperous business, giving employment to about
five men. He does considerable business in tar and gravel roofing, being the
oldest roofer in the state. A republican in politics, he takes a good citizen's
interest in local affairs, and served the town four years as assessor. He is a
member of the Union Veteran Union and of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lic. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Golden Eagle,
Junior Order American Mechanics, Pilgrim Fathers, Daughters of Liberty,
Joy Temple Auxiliary branch 0£ Eagles and Pythian Sisterhood, which he
attends with his wife. Mr. Marden has been twice married: first to Mary P .
Hammond of Eliot, Me., who died leaving five children-Carrie C., Paul,
George, John and Sarah. He married secondly Mrs. Lydia D. Merri1l, whose
maiden name was Lydia D. Watterman, she being the widow of Charles W.
Merri1l. Of this marriage there have been no children.

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