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Source: New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette
(Concord, NH) Volume: XXI Issue: 1077 Page:
3
Dated: Jan. 8, 1868
DEATHS:
In this city, Jan. 8,
Mr. George Wilkins, aged 68 yrs.
At Loudon, Dec. 30, George W. B. Robinson,
youngest son of E. H. and M. A. Robinson, aged 5
years, 10 mos. and 5 days.
At Epping, Dec. 36, of dropsy, Capt. Benjamin
Richards, aged 76 years and 7 months.
At Plainfield, Dec. 21, Edwin C. Jordan, aged 19
At Plainfield, N. J., Dec. 16, Mrs. D. Gilman,
aged 87 years widow of Benj. Gilman. A
native of Gilmanton.
At Lebanon, Dec. 13, Seth Blodgett, aged 78.
The deceased was a man to be remembered by all who knew
him. He possessed a strong mind, a superior
judgment and an honest purpose, which, with great
industry and perseverance, made him one of our most
successful farmers and most worthy and respected
townsmen. As a husband and father, a good citizen,
a kind neighbor, and as a friend in need and a friend
indeed." he has been "weighed in the balance and never
found wanting." For worthy objects, he always had
a generous heart and an open hand; and the latch-string
at his homestead was never pulled in. As one of
the oldest members of the Universalist Society, he lived
and died in the faith he professed. In politics,
he was a fine, unwavering Democrat through life, and it
is worthy of remark that he was a constant subscriber
for the New Hampshire Patriot from about its first issue
to the present time. |
Source: Springfield Republican (Springfield, MA)
Page: 6
Dated: May 20, 1875
DIED.
In this city, 19th, Eliza, 74 years and 9 month
wife of Luther Gilson.
Funeral, 62 Broad street, to-morrow (Friday), at 2
p.m. Relatives and friends are invited.
At Northampton, 18th, WILLIAM H. BOWMAN,
formerly of Boston, 45.
Funeral at his residence at Northampton, today
(Thursday), at 2:30 p.m., instead of the South church,
Boston. Friends and relatives are invited to
attend.
At South Hadley Falls, 14th, MARTHA ANN, 52,
wife of C. A. Wiggin.
At Amherst, 16th, MRS. LOUISA S. BEAMAN, 23,
daughter of Robert Ingram of South Hadley Falls.
At Lunenburg, 18th, Maj. FRANK DAVIS, ex-mayor
of Lawrence and an overseer of the Washington mills.
At West Brookfield, 19th, HENRY NORCROSS, 79.
At Hancock, N. H., 15th, DAVID PATTEN, and
landlord for over 50 years, and members of both branches
of the Legislature and of the council.
PITTSFIELD.
At a meeting of the Berkshire district
medical society, May 17, 1875, the following resolutions
were unanimously passed: -
Whereas, God in His infinite wisdom has seen fit to
remove by death our beloved brother, Dr. Henry
Eastman;
Resolved, That we deeply mourn the loss of one who,
by pureness of life, earnestness and sincerity of heart,
devotion to duty, and by his upright Christian life, has
been an honor to the profession of which he was a
member.
Resolved, That we take pleasure in recognizing the high
which he held in his profession, and the faithfulness
and ability with which he discharged his duty to his
patients, and filled the various honorable offices to
which he was appointed; all of which gave promise of a
distinguished and successful career.
Resolved, That we also remember with pleasure his value
as a member of this society; ever showing thoughtfulness
and sound sense in discussion, kindliness and geniality
in his personal relations with his brethren and seal and
integrity in performing the duties of treasurer, which
office he held for the past three years.
Resolved, That we offer our tenderest sympathy to his
afflicted friends, especially to his wife and his
mother, into whose hearts we pray that the comfort to
his family, to both papers of Pittsfield and to The
Springfield Republican. |
Source: New Hampshire Sentinel (Keene, NH) Page 2
Dated: Dec. 3, 1875
Funeral of Henry Wilson
The funeral of Vice President Wilson took place at
Washington on Friday. In spite of the weather many
thousand people were drawn to the Capitol and thousands
more thronged the line of the procession, though the
rain was pouring down heavily all the time. The
arrangements and ceremonies were in unusually good
taste, and though no expense was spared by those in
charge of the funeral, the display was plain and
unostentatious, and such as Mr. Wilson himself
would have desired. The President and members of
the Cabinet, and the few senators and members of the
House who are in the city were in the Senate Chamber.
At 10:22 the body was taken from the rotunda to the
Senate Chamber, preceded by Rev. Dr. Sunderland,
Chaplain of the Senate; Sergeant-at-Arms French, the
Committee of Arrangements, and the pall-bearers, and
followed by the relatives of the relatives of the
deceased, among them his brother, Mr. Colbath,
and wife. The casket was carried by twelve
soldiers and placed on a catafalque in front of the Vice
President's table, where two privates of the Marine
Corps took a position at the head and foot and stood "at
rest" throughout the service. Many crosses and
crowns of white flowers, sent to the Capitol by friends
of the deceased, were placed on teh coffin. As the
body was brought into the chamber all arose, and Rev.
Dr. Sunderland read the passage beginning, "Lord
make me to know Thy ways," and other selections from the
Scripture, after which Rev. Dr. Rankin delivered
the discourse.
Dr. Rankin took for his text a portion of the
fourteenth chapter of Revelation: "And I heard a voce
from Heaven saying unto me, 'Write, Blessed are the dead
who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their
works do follow them'" The speaker began by giving
an analysis of the dead statesman's character.
Henry Wilson, he said, was the product of New
England. If there was iron in his blood, if there
was strength in his muscle, if there was backbone in his
frame, he owed it in part to the tuition of the sterile
and rocky soil, to the cold and inclement weather, the
stern and serious aspects of his native New England;
aye, more, Henry Wilson was the product of hte
New England idea that a man is a man and nothing can be
greater, and that when God made man in His own image He
made him to have dominion, first over himself, and then
over just as vast an empire among men as under God he
could subject to himself. He was ambitious; but
his ambition was to serve, to assume responsibility, to
bear hardship, to be in the front rank of workers.
While he was hammering away upon his lap stone in
Natick, he was maturing his mind for the arrying out of
those grand principles which marked his career.
Dr. Rankin next compared the late Vice President
with his former colleague, Charles Sumner, and
showed that whereas the former was born and reared in
poverty and hardship, and the latter in affluence, both
became bosom friends, labored in the same fields, and
fought side by side for human liberty. The one was
a man of books, the other a man of men; the one a man of
ideas, the other a man of facts; the one a man of the
few, the other a man of the many; the one sometimes
almost losing himself in his distance of advance before
the nation, the other always keeping step with the grand
movement of the people, going forward only so fast as
his true popular instinct taught him that the people
were ready to follow. In these two men, so unlike
and yet so representative of the extremes in American
society, was the New England idea incarnated and
represented on the floor of the Senate. Mr.
Wilson was a man of conviction. He never could
advocate any measure unless he believed in it.
When, as a delegate from Massachusetts to the National
Convention at Philadelphia in 1848, he repudiated the
action of the convention, standing, as he did, almost
alone resisting the complimentary attentions of such a
man as Daniel Webster, and the other great
leaders of the Whig party, these were his words to his
constituents: "No hope of political reward, no
fear of ridicule or denunciation will deter me from
acting up to my convictions of duty." Whig they
knew and Democrat they knew, but what of this?
Here was a new faction in politics - conviction of duty.
Mr. Wilson espoused
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Source: New Hampshire Sentinel (Keene, NH) Page 3
Dated: Jan. 20, 1876
DEATHS:
In this city, Jan. 16,
REUBEN H. NEWCOMB, aged 34 years 7 months and 10
days.
In Hindsdale, Jan. 9, suddenly, at the house of her son
John B. Davidson, MARY, wife of Benjamin Davison
of Holyoke, Mass., aged 62 years 8 months and 8 days.
In Harrisville, Jan. 4, FANNY S., daughter of
Chauncey and Lura B. Bowker, aged 17 years 9 months
and 15 days.
In Marlboro, Dec. 28, ORREN L. MASON, twin
brother of Orson Mason, aged 26 years.
In Nashua, Jan. 11, of congestion of the lungs,
SARAH A. NEWCOMB, widow of the late Gideon
Newcomb, aged 78 years.
In Walpole, Jan. 2, of diphtheria, GEORGE O.,
youngest son of James and Eliza
Comstock, aged 21 years 3 months and 22 days. |
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