Nicholas Emory Soule Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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

Page 780

     NICHOLAS EMORY SOULE, who has the distinction of being the
oldest man now living in the town of Exeter, was born in this town June
13, 1825, during the administration of our sixth. President, John Quincy
Adams. His parents were Gideon L. and Elizabeth (Emory) Soule,
the father being a native of Freeport, Me., and son of Moses and Martha
(Lane) Soule.

Page 781

     Gideon L. Soule was a noted educator, following that vocation for
fifty-two years. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at
Bowdoin College, and he subsequently became connected with the Acad-
emy as a member of the faculty. In 1838 he succeeded Dr. Abbot as its
principal and held that office continuously until 1873, a period of thirty-
five years. He was of a progressive but retiring disposition, and a mem-
her, with his wife, of the Congregational church. The latter, a daughter
of Noah and Jane (Hale) Emory, bore her husband three children:
Charles, who is now an attorney in New York; Nicholas Emory, whose
name appears at the head of this sketch, and Augustus L., now de-
ceased, who was for some time justice of the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts.
     Nicholas E. Soule, after beginning his education in the common
schools, in 1835, at the early age of ten years, became a student in
Phillips Exeter Academy. From there he went to Harvard College,
where he was graduated in 1845. He then entered the educational field,
but after teaching a few years, gave up that occupation temporarily and
studied medicine. He was graduated M. D. and for a short time prac-
ticed as a physician. He then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for
twenty-five years he taught a private school. After continuing as a
teacher until 1875, he gave up that profession and has since been prac-
tically retired. For three years, however, he served as a member of
the Sanitary Commission of the United States during the Civil war.
     Mr. Soule was married in 1866 to Lucy Weaver, a native of Prov-
idence, R. I., and daughter of Lucius and Francis Ormond (Rhodes)
Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Soule have been the parents of one child, a son,
William Emory, who was born in Worcester, Mass., August 8, 1890.
He is now a student in the Episcopal Theological SChOol at Cambridge,
Mass., and will graduate in the class of 1916. Mr. Soule and family attend
the Episcopal church in Exeter, which the former has served for a num-
ber of years as vestryman. Their friends are found among the most
cultured residents of the city and their interests lie wherever there is
work to be done for the service of God or humanity.