William W. Wilcome, son of Charles L. and Harriet A. Wilcome, was born in Chester in 1864. He began the practice of his profession in Suncook in March, 1891, with good prospects of establishing himself eventually in a large and lucrative practice. He died in December, 1892.

CHAPTER XXV.

BIOGRAPHICAL-AUTHORS, LAWYERS, AND OTHERS.

Richard Bartlett, son of Caleb and Ruthy (McClintock) Bartlett, and grandson of Richard and Abigail (Belknap) Bartlett, was born in Pembroke January 8, 1792, in the house afterwards owned by Boswell Stevens, Esq., which stood on the site of the present residence of George P. Little. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1815; read law with Colonel Carrigain, and began practice in Concord in 1818. He was deputy secretary of state, 1818-23; aide-de-camp and acting division inspector upon Major-General Timothy Upham's staff, 1820; aide to Gov. Samuel Bell, 1821-22; assistant clerk of the senate, 1821-22; secretary of state, 1825-28; and representative from Concord to the legislature, 1830–31. He was for a time editor and proprietor of the New Hampshire Journal, now Statesman. Went into practice in New York city in 1834. He was fond of historical research, and furnished articles for publication in the New Hampshire Historical Society's collections, and made valuable donations to its library. He died October 23, 1837, in New York city.

Henry Chamberlain, son of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was born March 17, 1824. He was a student in the Pembroke “Gymnasium" in 1841; clerk in his father's store, Concord, most of the time, August, 1836-43, save at Ashby, Mass., awhile, 1840-1; went with his father's family to Michigan, 1843, and worked on his father's farm till 1850. He then went to Three Oaks, Mich., where he has since resided. There he cleared a large farm, dealt in general merchandise and real estate, laid out and named the village and township of Three Oaks; has taken great interest in opening highways, building schoolhouses and churches, and the material improvement of the country; held most offices in the school district, village, and township; many years a member of the board of control of county affairs; member of the legislature, 1849; and member of the state board of agriculture, having control of the Michigan agricultural college, since 1883. He was grand master of the Masons in Michigan in 1872; and member of the Michigan semi-centennial commission, 1885.

A Democrat in political affiliations, he has been the candidate of his party for state senator, member of the constitutional convention, three times for congress, three times for United States senator, and once for governor.

He married (1) Sarah Jane Nash, January 16, 1851; (2) Mrs. Rebecca (Ames) Vandevanter of Marion, Ind., November 19, 1856.

Mellen Chamberlain, LL.D., son of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was bornin Pembroke, June 4, 1821. His early life was spent on the farm, in his father's store, and teaching district schools. He fitted for college at Pembroke Academy, and the Literary Institute; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1844; was principal of the Brattleborough (Vt.) high school, 1844-7; member of the Dane law school, Cambridge, Mass., and librarian, 1847-8; lawyer, Boston, Mass., January, 1849-66; judge of the municipal court, Boston, and several years chief justice, 1866-78; and librarian of the Boston public library, 1878-90. He represented the Thirteenth Suffolk district in the legislature, 1857-8, serving on the special committee for the revision of the statutes; state senator, 1863-4, the last year chairman of judiciary committee. He had previously served on the school committee, as alderman, and city solicitor, He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical society; corresponding member of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen, Denmark, and other historical societies; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has now in preparation a history of Chelsea, Mass., of which he has been a resident since 1849. LL.D. from Dartmouth college, 1885. The following is a list of his publications: History of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh and Pullen Point, 1880; Daniel Webster as an Orator, 1882; John Adams, the Statesman of the Revolution, 1884; Samuel Maverick's Palisade House of 1630, 1885; The Authentication of the Declaration of Independence, 1881; Address at the Dedication of Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, 1885; Notes to Sewall's LetterBook, 1886; The History of the United States: A Review of McMaster's History, 1886; Landscape in Life and Poetry, 1886; Remarks at the Dedication of the Statue of Daniel Webster, Concord, 1886; Address at the Dedication of the Brooks Library Building, Brattleborough, Vt., 1887; Constitutional Relations of the American Colonies to the English Government at the Commencement of the Revolution, 1887; The Revolution Impending: With a Critical Essay, 1888; Josiah Quincy, the Great Mayor, 1889; Remarks on the New Historical School, 1890; Governor Winthrop's Estate, 1838-9, 1891; The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town and Town Government, 1892.

He married Martha Ann, daughter of Col. Jesse Putnam, of Danvers, Mass., June 6, 1849.

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Moses Chamberlain, son of Maj. Moses and Rebecca (Abbott) Chamberlain, was born in Loudon, February 7, 1792. Till about twenty-one, his time was spent in the common schools, about his father's farm and mills, and as clerk for Hon. Stephen Ambrose, merchant of East Concord. About 1815 he went to Pembroke, and engaged in trade "on the hill," as partner of Col. Jacob Elliott, and a year or two later, of Dr. Abel Blanchard till his death, the store standing on the west side of the street, half way between the meeting house and Pembroke academy. He was executor of Dr. Blanchard's will, and on his suggestion the bequest which led to the establishment of the academy was made. Mr. Chamberlain was its treasurer till he left town. About 1819, having purchased the land, he had a store on the east side of the street south of the "Fisk tavern," till, after a few years, he built one on the opposite side of the street. Selling his house and store to Capt. Daniel Sawyer in 1835, and leaving his family in Pembroke, he spent nearly a year in Ohio and Michigan, purchasing in the latter state a large tract of unimproved lands. Returning he was in trade in Concord till the fall of 1843, when with most of his family he moved to Michigan to improve his estate, now in Three Oaks, where the rest of his life was spent.

He was deeply interested in religion, schools, and reforms; like all traders of his time, sold liquors, till convinced of its wrong, and in 1829 gave it up, the first one in the state to do so, it is said, from principle; with others, organized a Congregational church at Three Oaks, which is now the oldest, largest, and strongest of that denomination in southwestern Michigan. He died Feb. 12, 1866, at Three Oaks, Mich.

He married Mary Foster of Canterbury, June 18, 1817.

William Chamberlain, son of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was born in Pembroke, February 17, 1834. He went to Michigan with his father's family, and cultivated the homestead farm till 1864, when he moved to the village of Three Oaks, Mich., and engaged in mercantile business till 1892, but still carrying on his farm.

He has been an active worker in church and Sabbath school, and deacon of the Congregational church many years; has acceptably filled many local offices; was many years one of the county superintendents of the poor, and later a member of the board of inspectors of Michigan state prison; president of the Michigan State Agricultural society in 1888, and many years one of the executive committee; member of house of representatives, 1871-3, and senate, 1879-81; member of the commission for revision of the state laws of taxation, 1883; and since April, 1893, warden of the Michigan state prison.

He married Caroline S. Chamberlain at Canterbury, March 20, 1857.

John Milton Cochran, son of Martin Head and Miriam M. (Rowell) Cochran, was born April 11, 1849. He was educated at Pembroke Academy; read law with Hon. Ira Eastman of Concord; was admitted to the bar in 1870, and a partner with Hon. James G. Allen of Palmer, Mass., one year; then opened an office at Southbridge, Mass., where he has since remained, and acquired an extensive practice. He is counsel for half the manufacturing corporations of Southbridge, and handles many trust funds. He has served his town as moderator thirteen years; as auditor, three years; library committee, thirteen years; as solicitor; and representative to the legislature in 1880, where he was made a member of the committee on constitutional amendments, woman's suffrage, and dispatch of public business; and chairman of the committee on elections. He was commissioner of insolvency for Worcester county nine years; is a trustee of the Southbridge savings bank; director of the Southbridge Gas and Electric company; president and director of Edwards Hall company; director of the Providence Extractor company; and director and solicitor of the Southbridge, Sturbridge, & Brookfield Railroad company. He has been captain of Company K, Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer militia; district deputy grand master of the eighteenth and nineteenth Masonic districts of Massachusetts; master of Quinebaug lodge, F. and A. M.; high priest of Doric chapter, R. A. M.; and district deputy grand high priest of Fourth Capitular district; member of the Worcester County commandery of Knights Templar; has been regent of Phoenix council, Royal Arcanum, and an officer of the Grand council for the state.

He married Mary Lizzie Whitehouse of Pembroke, May 12, 1875.

Asa Fowler, son of Benjamin and Mehitable (Ladd) Fowler, was born in Pembroke, February 23, 1811. He fitted for college at Pembroke Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1833. Afterwards he taught briefly the academy at Topsfield, Mass., and later entered the law office of James Sullivan at Pembroke. In March, 1834, he entered the office of Hon. Charles H. Peaslee in Concord, and there completing his studies, was admitted to the Merrimack County bar in February, 1837. He was partner with Gen. Frank Pierce, 1838-45; clerk of the senate, 1835-40; United States commissioner for New Hampshire, 1846-71, and 1874-83; representative five years, and speaker of the house, 1872; associate justice of the supreme court, 1853-61; solicitor of Merrimack county, 1861-5; for twenty years prudential committee, or member of the board of education; director of the State Capital and First National banks, and president of the latter; and director, and several years president, of the Manchester & Lawrence railroad. He was deeply interested in the estab

lishment of the asylum for the insane, the high school, and public library of Concord. As chairman of the judiciary committee in the legislature, he probably drafted more bills than any other man, living or dead." He died April 26, 1885, in San Rafael, Cal.

He married Mary Dole Cilley, daughter of Robert and Polly Dole (Cilley) Knox, July 13, 1837.

Col. David Gilman, son of Israel and Deborah (Thing) Gilman, was born at Newmarket, June 9, 1735. He came to Pembroke prior to 1764, possibly some years earlier. While a citizen of the town he

enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citizens, and was honored with various offices of trust. He served as moderator of the town meeting, selectman, member of the committee to publish the names of persons whose behavior, in the judgment of the majority, raised the suspicion of hostility to the cause of the patriotic colonists, and was delegate to the Continental Congress at Exeter. When General Washington called for a draft to raise troops to garrison Forts George and Ticonderoga, July 4, 1776, the next day he was appointed colonel. regiment was a body-guard to General Washington, and Washington gave him a sword.

His

April 21, 1779, he deeded to David Dexter of Haverhill, Mass., sixty acres of land in Pembroke with the buildings thereon of lot No. 6, and seventy-eight acres in Allenstown, his mill built prior to 1767, also grist mill and privilege, and three fourths of a saw mill, mill yard, dam, and privileges.

After leaving Pembroke in 1777, he located in Tamworth, and lived there till death. He represented the town of Tamworth several years between 1783 and 1805 in the legislature. One who knew him says he has no doubt that he was the most noble and talented man that ever lived in Tamworth.

He married Sarah, daughter of Col. Joseph Smith, and widow of Lt. Winthrop Hilton, of Newmarket, July 21, 1778. Descendants are still living in Tamworth.

Lt. Col. Jeremiah Gilman was a brother of Col. David, and born December 14, 1740. He came to Pembroke prior to 1764, settling on what is known as the Hardy road. February 21, 1772, he deeded land on the east side of Pembroke Street to Jonathan Dix. He served in the Revolution as captain of one of the companies of the Fifth Massachusetts regiment, Col. John Nixon commanding, early in the campaign of 1775, and so continued till the close of 1776, when he was made captain in the First New Hampshire regiment, under Col. Joseph Cilley. April 2, 1777, he was appointed major of the same, joining the regiment at Ticonderoga and remaining till July 5, when