History of Acworth, New Hampshire
From: tumbleweed@lisco.net - Sharon Franklin
Date: Saturday, July 31, 1999 4:09 PM 

Surname: ANGIER
Source:  History of Acworth with the Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary, Genealogical
         Records and Register of Farms by Rev. J. L. Merrill, Town of Acworth, 1869, page 181

Hon. Nedom S. Angier, like most of the natives of Acworth who have obtained a professional 
education, spent much time in teaching. Having access to the libraries of his uncle John and 
his brother Joel, his leisure hours were spent in the study of medicine.  In 1839 he went to 
Georgia and taught school there four years, still pursuing in the meantime his chosen study, 
enjoying the use of the libraries of Drs. Smith and Hunnicutt of Cowder County.  In 1843 he 
attended a course of lectures at the Medical University of New York.  In 1844 he commenced 
practice at the Court House of the Tenth District of Randolph County, Ga.  In 1847 he removed 
to Atlanta, then a "city in the woods," and opened a drug store in connection with his practice.
In 1850, with a party of adventurers, he went to California by the overland route.  In 1851 he
returned to become a successful speculator in real estate, abandoning his profession.  From the
first, he was opposed to the secession movements at the South, and from the breaking out of the 
rebellion he studied how to escape from rebeldom.  In 1863, with great hardship and peril, he 
passed the lines of both armies by way of Memphis.  Coming thus from the South, he was naturally 
watch and subjected to many inconveniences by the military detectives of the Federal Government,
and he acknowledges especially the kind offices of S. L. Bowers of Newport, and W. S. Moody, 
formerly of Unity, in these difficulties.  He now began to search for an opportunity to return 
South to rescue his family.  He soon found a "flag of truce" boat carrying only ladies from 
Annapolis, Md., to City Point for exchange, and by it returned to the South.  On reaching home 
he repaired to Florida under the plea of trading in salt, hoping, on that extensive and sparsely
settled coast, to find means of reaching Cuba.  After various adventures, and various expedients
devised and attempted at great peril, both by himself and wife, they at last found themselves on
board the blockade runner, "Little Leila," on the Suwannee River, through the efforts of his 
sagacious and brave wife.  Waiting until the "Yankees" retired for a New Year's frolic at the
"Keys," the vessel successfully run the blockade and landed them safely in Havana. His eldest 
son, a conscript in the rebel army about the same time, deserted, and with much suffering and
danger, reached the Union army nearly exhausted.  They finally took up their residence near 
Boston until the close of the war when they returned to Georgia. Appointed Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Third District of Georgia, for nine months, he resided at Augusta.  He then 
resigned and returned to Atlanta where he was elected delegate to the State Constitutional 
Convention, where he faithfully opposed all those schemes of repudiation which were afterwards
expunged from the Constitution by Congress. He was elected State Treasurer by the first General
Assembly under the new Constitution, which office he now holds.

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