History of Marlborough, (Cheshire County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Sullivan Holman McCollester, educator, was born at Marlborough, N.H., Dec. 18, 1826; son of Silas and Achsah (Holman) McCollester; grandson of Samuel and Silence McCollester, and a descendant of Scotch ancestors. He was graduated from Norwich university, Northfield, Vt., A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854; studied theology at the Harvard Divinity school and was pastor of Universalist churches at Swanzey, 1853-58, and Westmoreland, N.H., 1858-62. He was president of the state board of commissioners, 1854-58; was principal of a seminary at Deering, Maine, 1862, and in 1864 he founded a female college there and was its president, 1864-72. He was president of Buchtel college, Akron, Ohio, 1872-78; and founded and was pastor of the Universalist church at Bellows Falls, Vt., 1878-83, and of that at Dover, N.H., 1883-86. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by St. Lawrence university, 1874. He was superintendent of schools in New Hampshire in 1901. He is the author of: After Thoughts of Foreign Travel in Historic Land (1880); Round the Globe in Old and New Paths (1891); Babylon and Nineveh through American Eyes (1892); Mexico, Old and New (1897).

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

Rufus Smith Frost, representative, was born in Marlborough, N. H., July 18, 1826; son of Joseph and Lucy (Wheeler) Frost, and a lineal descendant from Elder Edmund Frost, who came from England in 1635 and settled in Cambridge, Mass., where he became the ruling elder of the first church. In 1833 he removed to Boston, Mass., with his widowed mother. He entered into mercantile business first as clerk and afterward on his own account, and later engaged in the manufacture of woolens. He was mayor of Chelsea, Mass., 1867-68; a state senator, 1871-72, and a member of Governor Washburn's council. 1873-74. He was a representative from the 4th district of Massachusetts in the 44th congress from Dec. 6, 1875, until July 28, 1876, when he was superseded, Josiah G. Abbott being given the seat by the house. In 1867 he presented a library and building to his native town and afterward added to this gift the sum of $5,000, the interest from which was to be used for the purchase of new books. He was president of the Congregational club of Boston in 1873; president of the American congregational association for several years; a trustee of Wellesley college, 1876; president of the Boston board of trade, 1879-81; president of the New England conservatory of music, Boston, in 1882; president of the North national bank, Boston, 1891-94, and president of the Massachusetts homeopathic hospital. He established a general hospital in Chelsea, Mass., which he presented to his fellow citizens upon condition that no human being should ever be denied treatment because of poverty, race or color, and that every patient should choose by which school of medicine he should be treated. He was twice married, first to Ellen M., daughter of the Hon. Charles and Amelia (Ripley) Hubbard; and secondly, June 18, 1879, to Catherine Emily, daughter of Benjamin C. and Catherine (Matthews) Wickham of Corning, N.Y. He died in Chicago, Ill., March 6, 1894.

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