History of Sandwich, (Carroll County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Dixi Crosby, surgeon, was born in Sandwich, N.H., Feb. 8, 1800; son of Dr. Asa and Betsey (Hoit) Crosby. He was graduated M.D at Dartmouth in 1824, and practised his profession at Gilmanton and Laconia, N.H., 1824-38. In the latter year he removed to Hanover and held the chair of surgery and surgical anatomy in the medical department of Dartmouth college until 1841. He was professor of surgery, obstetrics and diseases of women and children, 1841-68; professor of obstetrics and diseases of women, 1868-70, and in 1870 was made professor emeritus of surgery, thereafter giving only occasional lectures. In 1861 he volunteered his services to the state and gave his days to the provost marshal's office, attending to his medical practice at night. He was married in 1827 to Mary Jane, daughter of Stephen Moody of Gilmanten, N.H. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1867. He died in Hanover, N.H., Sept. 26, 1873.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Albert Harrison Hoyt, editor, was born in Sandwich, N.H., Dec. 6, 1826; son of Benjamin Ray and Lucinda(Freeman) Hoyt, and grandson of Benjamin and Lydia (Joslyn) Hoyt. He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1850, and studied law in Portsmouth, N.H. He was one of the state school commissioners of New Hampshire, 1852-53; clerk of the supreme judicial court, 1853-56; lawyer in Portsmouth, N.H., 1856-62, and paymaster in the army, 1862-66, with rank of major, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. 1565. He resided in Boston, Mass., 1866-78, where he devoted himself to literature. He was elected a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical society, and was editor of the Register, 1868-76. He resided in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1878-82; returned to Boston in 1882, and in 1887 he accepted a clerkship in the U.S. sub-treasury, Boston. He is the author of valuable papers relating to the early history of New England, and edited for the New England Historic Genealogical society Vol. IV. of Memorial Biographies (1885), and, in part, other volumes of the series.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles Augustus Peabody, jurist, was born in Sandwich, N.H., July 10, 1814; son of Samuel and Abigail (Wood) Peabody; grandson of Capt. Richard Peabody (born April 13, 1731), and of Jonathan Wood, and a descendant of Lieut. Francis Peabody (1641-1697) of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, who came to New England in the ship Planter in 1635, and settled at Topsfield, Essex county, Mass., in 1667. He received a private education; studied law at Baltimore and at the Harvard Law school; was admitted to the bar, and began practice in New York in 1839. He became interested in politics; was a member of the convention tbat organized the Republican party in New York state in 1855; was a justice of the supreme court, 1855-57; was appointed commissioner of quarantine in 1858; was judge of the U.S. provisional court of Louisiana, 1862-65, and chief justice of the supreme court, 1863-65. He declined the appointment of U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana in 1865 and returned to his profession in New York city. He was vice-president of the association for the reform and codification of the laws of the nations, and was chosen a delegate of the U.S. government to the international congresses of commercial law in 1885. He was married in 1846, to Julia Caroline Livingstone; secondly, in 1881, to Mary E. Hamilton, and thirdly, in 1889, to Athenia L. Bowen. He died in New York city, July 3, 1901.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Nathan Crosby, jurist, was born in Sandwich, N.H., Feb. 12, 1798; son of Dr. Asa and Betsey (Holt) Crosby; a brother of Dr. Dixi, Prof. Alpheus, and Drs. Thomas Russell and Josiah Crosby; and sixth in descent from Simon Crosby of Lancashire, England, who came in the Susan and Ellen to Cambridge, Mass., in 1635. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1820, was admitted to the bar in 1823 and practised law in New Chester and Gilmanton, N.H., and in Salisbury, Newburyport and Lowell, Mass., being justice of the police court in Lowell, 1846-85. In 1845 he negotiated the purchase for the Lowell manufacturing corporation of the vast territory in New Hampshire, controlling the water supply for that city. His first wife, Rebecca Marquand, daughter of Stephen and Frances (Coffin ) Moody, died in 1867, and he was married in 1870 to Mrs. Matilda (Pickens) Fearing of Providence, R.I. He received the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1833 and that of LL.D. in 1879. He published First Half Century of Dartmouth College; Recollections of the Essex Bar, and eulogies on Tappan Wentworth and I. S. Wilde of the supreme court. He died in Lowell, Mass., Feb. 9, 1885.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor