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SOURCE: Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1706-1886 by Hamilton Child
Posted 28 Mar 2011 by shamarie1949
ARTHUR LATHAM, LIBEUS WASHBURN, RUFUS, DAVID AND SOLOMON CONANT, -- MITCHELL, DAVID WHITMAN and ZENAS STETSON, from Bridgewater, Mass., located here in 1780.
ARTHUR LATHAM was a carpenter and brought some tools with which he began work at his trade. The settlements were then rapidly increasing, and he was very successful. In May 1782, he married Mary, daughter of Peter Post, and settled upon a farm in the east part of the town and built a house and carpenter shop.
RUFUS CONANT, who had been a peddlar in Massachusetts, included him to join in buying a stock of merchandise, which they placed in the carpenter shop for sale. This was the first store in Lyme east of the river road. About 1790 they removed to Lyme Plain, and, in what is now a part of D.C. Churchill's warehouse, established the first store here, under the title of Latham & Conant. In 1800 the firm dissolved, Conant retaining the stand, and Latham opening in a building near by. Conant afterwards built a store at the southeaster corner of the common, and Latham, in 1810, took the old meeting-house of the town, agreeing to furnish a town hall, fitted the ground floor for a store, in which he continued to trade until 1828, when, being seventy years of age, he retired. He died in 1843, the wealthiest man in Lyme. He possessed a kind heart, sterling character, and was honored and trusted far and near. In 1824 Bezer Latham and Arthur Jr., his sons, had formed a partnership in trade, and when he retired they took the whole business, which they continued until 1847. Bezer then removed to Missouri, where he died in 1863. Arthur removed to White River Junction VT, erected shops and engaged in the manufacture of cars and locomotives for the Central Vermont and Passumpsic railroads, in which he continued until 1855. He then removed to Missouri, but in 1871 returned to White River Junction, where he still lives. He was a vicil magistrate, and representative five years in Lyme, and also in Missouri. He was born September 7, 1802, graduated at Middlebury college, married Caroline, daughter of Col. Oramel Hinckley, had ten children, three now living, all at White River Junction--Arthur, W.C., Caroline H wife of Noah B. Safford Esq., and Mary L. wife of James M. Wilson, ex-consul to Milan. The other children of Arthur Latham Sr. were Robert, born in 1783, who spent his life, except eight years, in Lyme, and died in 1871; William Harris, born in 1788, and died in 1868, was a farmer and merchant in Thetford VT, and reared seventeen children; Mary, born in 1790 and died in 1814, married Dr.Thomas Kendrick, had one daughter, who married Rev. Erdix Tenney, and their son, Allan Tenney, became secretary of state, of New Hampshire, now resides at Norwich, Conn.; Allen, born in 1792, died in 1871, graduated at Dartmouth College, and was a lawyer at Cincinnati, Ohio; Bela, born in 1794 and died in 1848, was a lawyer, bank commissioner and postmaster in Ohio, and one of his sons, Milton S., was governor of California, and a United States senator; and Nehemiah, born in 1796, died in 1818.
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U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
SOURCE: Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1706-1886 by Hamilton Child
1709-1886
Lyme, Grafton, New Hampshire
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- In May 1782, he married Mary, daughter of Peter Post, and settled upon a farm in the east part of the town and built a house and carpenter shop.
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