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HISTORY OF SULLIVAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE |
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While doing some genealogical research on my family, I purchased a CD that contained the following book. Some of you may wonder what this is doing on a web site dealing with AMERICA'S JUDEO CHRISTIAN HERITAGE. Let me explain. This web site has numerous articles and links to a variety of official governmental documents that highlight AMERICA'S JUDEO CHRISTIAN HERITAGE. The excerpts from this book show what role the religious faith of our common citizens played in their lives. I am sure this book never made it to the NY Times Best Sellers List. I have excerpted several sections for this series of articles. Local and Family Histories: New England, 1600-1900s A History of the Town of Sullivan New Hampshire 1777-1917 In its original form, this page included an image. By Rev. Josiah Lafayette Seward, D.d. Volume I Copyrighted 1921. J. L, Seward Est., Keene, N. H. All Rights Reserved. CHAPTER I.|Pages CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY|1-76 Preliminary Meeting The Celebration Program Opening Address Reading of the Town Charter Oration Poem Luncheon Postprandial Exercises.
CHAPTER II. NATURAL HISTORY|77-96 Situation and Extent Districts and Villages Physical and Astronomical Features Geology and Mineralogy Archaelogy Plants and Animals.
CHAPTER III. GENERAL HISTORY|97-177 Settlement and First Settlers The Incorporation Municipal Annals John Sullivan Referendum Votes Public Lands.
CHAPTER IV. CIVIL LISTS|178-249 Town Officers County Officers State Officers
CHAPTER V. ROADS, BRIDGES, POUNDS AND COMMONS|249-286 Roads Bridges Highway Surveyors Superintendents of Highways and Road Agents Railroad Pounds Commons.
CHAPTER VI. CEMETERIES|287-357 Old Four Corners Cemetery Meetinghouse Cemetery East Sullivan Cemetery The Tomb Near Meetinghouse Cemetery The Soldiers' Monument Additional Cemetery Facts Farm Burials Sextons for the Cemeteries Coffin Makers Superintendents of the Cemeteries Cemetery Trust Funds and Their Custodians.
CHAPTER VII. CASUALTIES|358-382 Deaths Under Unusual Circumstances Personal Casualties Not Fatal Calamities Defective Classes Fires The Great Gale. CHAPTER VIII. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY|382-452 First Congregational Church Baptist Church Union Evangelical Church Methodists Universalists Unitarians Protestant Episcopalians Spiritualists Roman Catholics Other Sects Present Church-Goers State of Morals in Town. CHAPTER IX. MARRIAGES|452-480
CHAPTER X SCHOOLS|480-505
CHAPTER XI. MILITARY HISTORY|505-534 The Revolution War of 1812 Mexican War The Old Militia Company The Civil War Spanish-American War Philippine War Modern Militia.
CHAPTER XII. INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY|534-558 Census Municipal Government Appropriations Taxation Lawsuits Solicitors Care of the Poor Philanthropies Societies Offences Against Law and Order Warning Out of Town Means of Communication Telephone Home Comforts. CHAPTER XIII. INDUSTRIES|558-576 CHAPTER XIV LITERATURE AND ART|576-589 Library Languages Literature Art. CHAPTER XV. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES|589-628 CHAPTER XVI. FAMILY HISTORIES|628-654 District No. 1. CHAPTER XVII. FAMILY HISTORIES CONTINUED|654-686 District No. 2. CHAPTER XVIII. FAMILY HISTORIES CONTINUED|686-715 District No. 3. CHAPTER XIX FAMILY HISTORIES CONTINUED|715-731 District No. 4. CHAPTER XX FAMILY HISTORIES CONTINUED|731-757 District No. 5. CHAPTER XXI. FAMILY HISTORIES CONTINUED|757-779 District No. 6. HAPTER XXII. EXPLANATION OF THE OUTSIDE NUMBERS|779-786 Gilsum Numbers Keene Numbers Roxbury Numbers Nelson Numbers Stoddard Numbers. CHAPTER XXIII. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS|787-811 CHAPTER XXIV. APPENDIX|812-816 THE WORLD WAR|816a INDEX OF PERSONS. INDEX OF PLACES. GENERAL INDEX.
Prefatory Note The History of Sullivan was begun by Rev. Josiah L. Seward before 1887, and was unfinished at the time of his death in 1917. Thirty years of unremitting, thorough, and painstaking labor was generously given to the preparing of a reliable, accurate and interesting history. It is a memorial, a magnificient one, to his native town. The work has been completed and indexed by Mrs. Frank B. Kingsbury, Surryn Road, Keene, N. H., to whom all correspondence, additions and corrections should be sent. The price of the History in two volumes of over 800 pages each is $16.00 postpaid, and may be obtained of Mrs. Kingsbury or of the Executor of Dr. Seward's estate, J. Fred Whitcomb, 45 Central Square, Keene, N. H. "Let me live in my house by the side of the road and be a friend to man." April 17, 1845 JOSIAH LAFAYETTE SEWARD July 14, 1917 A Minister of the Gospel and Preacher of the Word. "Sixty-one years ago I tarried for a night in a real New England home, in the town of Sullivan, in which resided a brainy farmer and a noble wife and two promising sons. It was an ideal dwelling-place, where snow drifted deep in winter and the clover blossomed sweet in summer. Here I saw for the first time the son, Josiah Lafayette Seward, a robust boy of twelve years old. I was there as a school commissioner of New Hampshire to visit on the morrow their district school, in the little red school-house. As the morning came I went into the school of some twenty pupils and here I really saw Josiah. The next fall he came to Westmoreland to attend the Valley Seminary, which was under my charge, taking up higher English branches and ranking well in them all. He was highly esteemed by teachers and scholars. He was with me several terms, ranking high in all respects. After this he went to Exeter Academy, and ranked among the best in scholarship and deportment, and graduated with honors. In 1871 he graduated from Harvard Divinity School with title, S. T. D., and the professors spoke of him as a learned preacher and wise man. For a year after leaving the Divinity school he preached most acceptably to a church in Springfield, Mass., when he was called to settle over the First Unitarian church in Lowell, Mass., where he remained fourteen years, making himself known and felt as an eloquent preacher, a good pastor and an enterprising citizen. From Lowell he was called to settle in the college town of Waterville, Maine. Here he remained ten years and became popular as a religious teacher, and as he mingled with the students of Colby University, he was often asked to address them, in the different departments, on various subjects. While he remained here he was loved and honored. From Nov. 26, 1893 till Oct. 8, 1899 he was pastor of Unity Church, Allston, Mass., doing successful work in and out of the pulpit. But now, as his hair was becoming somewhat silvered, his heart waxed warm for his native state, his beloved New Hampshire, and this induced him, against the wishes of his church, to break off his connection with them as pastor and to the Granite State turn his steps for his last settlement. Really New Hampshire had become somewhat of a Holy Land to him. Keene seemed his New Jerusalem; Ashuelot River his Jordan; Sullivan his Nazareth; Dublin his Mount Zion, and Monadnock his Mount Sinai. He had scarcely got settled in his home at Keene before he was urgently requested to supply the Unitarian pulpit in Dublin, which he did to the great delight of the people there, and faithfully served them up to the time of his illness--some fourteen years--preaching to them many an able sermon and giving them an abundance of large hearted sympathy in their sorrows. He was a broad minded, consecrated christian, wishing to help everybody. He built upon the solid rock, while on earth, a monument to himself out of kind and noble deeds, which remain intact when bronze has corroded into dust and granite dissolved to ashes. His character must be beautiful in the mansions above. He believed intensely in the Fatherhood of God, the Sonship of Christ and the Holy Spirit. As he dropped his sickle, 72 years old, he was still an intense almoner in blessing others religiously, educationally and socially. He was a remarkably wise and cultured man, wishing to help all souls, believing most devoutly that one is to reap just what he sows. "So, friends, let him not be lifeless, But more alive and active henceforth Then ever while in mortal mold Doing works of very high worth."
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