History of Hanover, (Grafton County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Arthur Fairbanks, educator, was born at Hanover, N.H., Nov. 13, 1864; son of the Rev. Henry and Annie S. (Noyes) Fairbanks; and grandson of Thaddeus and Lucy P. (Barker) Fairbanks and of Daniel S. and Jane M. Noyes. His ancestor, Jonathan Fairbanks, with his four sons, immigrated to Boston about 1630 and built the Fairbanks house which was still standing in 1899 at Dedham, Mass. Arthur Fairbanks was graduated in 1882 at St. Johnsbury academy, which was founded by his grandfather, Thaddeus Fairbanks, and at Dartmouth college in 1886. He was tutor of Greek, 1886-87, and subsequently assistant professor of German at Dartmouth. He studied at the University of Berlin in 1889 and at the University of Freiburg in 1890, receiving from the latter institution the degree of Ph.D. He spent the year 1898-99 at Athens, Greece, as fellow of the American school of classical studies. He was instructor in comparative religion at Yale, 1894-98, and became acting assistant professor of Greek philosophy in Cornell university in 1899. He was married, May 2, 1889, to Elizabeth Leland, daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Lord) Moody. He published a translation of Riehl's Critical Philosophy (1892); also an Introduction to Sociology (1896, 2d ed., 1898); and First Philosophers of Greece (1898).

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

Charles Ransom Miller, editor, was born at Hanover, N.H., Jan. 17, 1849; son of Elijah Tenney and Chastina (Hoyt) Miller, and grandson of Elijah Tenney and Eunice (Tenney) Miller. He prepared for college at academies at Meriden, N.H., and South Woodstock, Vt., and was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1872. He engaged in journalism and was on the staff of the Springfield Republican, 1872-75, and on the New York Times, as telegraph and foreign editor 1875-81, editorial writer, 1881-83, and in 1888 became editor-in-chief and subsequently a director and vice-president of the New York Times Company. He was married, Oct. 10, 1876, to Frances, daughter of William H. Daniels of Plainfield, N.H. He was elected a member of the Century association, and of the Metropolitan, Lawyer's, and other clubs.

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

James Freeman Clarke, clergyman, was born April 4, 1810, at Hanover, N. H., during a brief residence of his parents in that town; son of Samuel and Rebecca Parker (Hull) Clarke; grandson of Samuel and Martha (Curtis) Clarke and of Gen. William Hull; great-grandson of Barnabas and Hepzibah (Barrett) Clarke and of Obadiah Curtis; great-great grandson of Nathaniel and Abigail (Hedge) Clarke; great-great-great grandson of Andrew and Mehitable (Scotto) Clark; and great-great-great-great grandson of Thomas (born in 1599) and Susanna (Ring) Clarke of Plymouth. When he was a few weeks old his parents returned to Newton, Mass., and there his early life was spent chiefly in the home and under the tutorship of the Rev. James Freeman, pastor of King's chapel, Boston, the second husband of his grandmother. At ten he was sent to the Boston Latin school, and at fifteen he entered Harvard college and was graduated in the famous class of 1829. He taught school at Cambridgeport, 1830-31, and was graduated at the Cambridge divinity school in 1833. He was settled over the Unitarian church in Louisville, Ky., 1833-40, and besides his pastoral work he edited while in Louisville the Western Messenger, and also was superintendent of schools. In 1839 he was married to Anna, daughter of Herman J. Huidekoper, of Meadville, Pa. In 1840 he resigned his pastorate, wishing "to preach in some free church, or to start a new society, speaking more to conscience than to intellect, more to intuitive reason than to speculative understanding, making morality and religion one, not two separate matters." In 1841 he removed to Boston and founded the Church of the Disciples, a society gathered together "to co-operate in the study and practice of Christianity," and this charge he held through life. He spent vacations in Europe in 1849, in 1852 and again in 1882. Dr. Clarke was prominent in all the reform movements of his time. His part in the anti-slavery crusade was pronounced and most effective. He advocated woman suffrage on the simple ground of her equality of gifts and needs with man, and hence her right to be represented equally in government with him. He was a staunch and tireless friend of temperance reform, of social reform, and of reforms in prisons, poorhouses and insane asylums. He had a conscientious interest in politics and took an active part in several political conventions. He was an overseer of Harvard college from 1863 to 1888 and many improvements in the conduct and management of that institution are directly traceable to him. He was professor of natural religions and Christian doctrine in the Cambridge divinity school from 1867 to 1871, and lecturer on ethnic religions in 1876-77. Harvard conferred on him the degree of S.T.D. in 1863. He was a member of the American philosophical society, of the Massachusetts historical society, a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, and a member of the Massachusetts board of education. He possessed a gift for poetry and wrote several hymns and religious poems, besides a volume of translations of French, German and Latin poetry "Exotics" (1876); he also compiled a service and hymn book for his congregation. He wrote an autobiography of his life up to 1840, and this, with selections from his diary and correspondence, was edited by Edward Everett Hale, and published in 1891. He was an enthusiastic student of astronomy, having inherited a taste for this branch of science from his father, and among the fruits of his interest in this direction were the invention of an astronomical lantern, designed to facilitate study of the constellations, and a little book, "How to find the Stars" (1878). Mr. Clarke had a catholic appreciation of the good in all persons and institutions, which disarmed hostility. The text of his first sermon was "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might," and he determined to adopt this text as his rule of conduct through life. Much of his successful accomplishment and influence on the community was due to the fact that he always earnestly applied himself to what at the time seemed to be the nearest duty. Among his works may be mentioned: a translation of De Wette's Theodore, or the Skeptic' s Conversion (1841); An Account of the Campaigns of 1812 and Surrender of Detroit (1848); Eleven Weeks in Europe (1852); The Christian Doctrine of Forgiveness (1852); The Christian Doctrine of Prayer (1854); Orthodoxy, Its Truths and Errors (1866); Steps of Belief (1870); Ten Great Religions (vol. I, 1871, vol. II, 1883); Common Sense in Religion (1874); Go Up Higher; or Religion in Common Life (1877); Essentials and Non-Essentials in Religion (1878); Self Culture (1880); Legend of Thomas Didymus, the Jewish Skeptic (1881); Anti-Slavery Days (1883); Ideas of the Apostle Paul (1884); Nineteenth Century Questions (1897); and several volumes of sermons. A memoir of Margaret Fuller (1852) was written in collaboration with Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Henry Channing. He died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 8, 1888.

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

Nathanael Kendrick, educator, was born in Hanover, N.H., April 22, 1777. He worked on his father's farm until 1797, when he divided his time between teaching a school and attending an academy. He joined the Baptist church with his brother, Clark, in 1798, and after studying theology he was licensed to preach in 1808. He supplied the pulpit at Bellington, Mass., 1803-04, and was ordained at Lansingburg, N.Y., in August, 1805, where he served as pastor and teacher, 1805-10. He was pastor at Middlebury, Vt., and also preached at Monkton, Bridgeport and New Haven, Ct., 1810-17, when he was called to the churches at Eaton and Morrisville, N.Y., serving there until 1822. He lectured in the Hamilton Literary and Theological institution, 1820-21, and became the first president and professor of systematic and pastoral theology there in 1822, being elected president in 1836, and remaining as such up to the time of his death, although never formally accepting the office. He was an overseer of Hamilton college, Clinton, N.Y., 1825-87; a member of the executive committee and corresponding secretary of the New York Baptist Educational society, 1834-48. The degree of A.M. was conferred on him by the University of Vermont in 1818, and that of D.D. by Brown in 1828. A sketch of his life appears in "Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit" (jubilee volume, Madison university). See also Nathanael Kendrick (Am. Bap. Pub. Sec.). He died in Hamilton, N.Y., Sept. 11, 1848.

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