James Elmer Stockbridge of Stratham, 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

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     JAMES ELMER STOCKBRIDGE is a representative of one of
the old and well known families of the town of Stratham, Rockingham
County, N. H.  He has a highly improved farm of one hundred acres,
and is now making a specialty of Dorset sheep, which he is introducing
in this neighborhood.  He was born in Stratham, January 29, 1867,
and is a son of Isaac M. and Lydia S. (Scammon) Stockbridge, and a
grandson of James and Olive (Lang) Stockbridge.
     Isaac M. Stockbridge was born in Stratham, Rockingham County,
and throughout his active life engaged in farming.  He was a Democrat
in politics.  Religiously, he and his wife were members of the Baptist
Church.  Mr. Stockbridge was united in marriage with Miss Lydia S.
Scammon, a daughter of Stephen and Myria (Gordon) Scammon, of

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the town of Stratham.  Isaac M. Stockbridge died in December, 1912,
and is survived by his widow, who resides in Boston.
     James Elmer Stockbridge, the only child born to his parents, at-
tended the public schools of his home community, and afterwards the
grammar and high schools in Exeter.  He then turned his attention to
farming and dairying, in association with his father, with whom, he con-
tinued until the latter's death.  He has since had the farm which con-
sists of one hundred acres and is the old Scammon home farm, which
has been in that family for many years.
     Mr. Stockbridge was united in marriage with Miss Nellie A. Rollins,
who was born in Stratham, and is a daughter of Albert N. and Ellen
(Scammon) Rollins, her father being a farmer of that town.  She is
one of two daughters, having a sister, May, who is wife of Frank San-
born and lives in Exeter.  Mr. and Mrs. Stockbridge are parents of two
sons: Earl R., who is teller in a bank at Exeter, and Carl D.  The for-
mer resides with his parents, and is serving out an unexpired term as
tax collector.  James Elmer Stockbridge is a Democrat in politics and
was tax collector for seven years; also agent for the New Hampshire
and Granite State Insurance Companies for several years.  He is a
thirty-second degree Mason, and is a member of St. John's Lodge, A. F.
and A. M. of Portsmouth; Junior Order United American Mechanics;
Knights of Pythias at Exeter; and the Patrons of Husbandry.  Re-
ligiously the family belongs to the Federated Church of Stratham, of
which Mr. Stockbridge is treasurer.