History of Goffstown, (Hillsborough County) New Hampshire United States of America

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William Hadley Eaton, clergyman, was born at Goffstown, N.H., Sept. 4, 1818; son of David and Betsey (Hadley) Eaton; and a descendant in the seventh generation from John Eaton who emigrated from England to America about 1634 and settled at Salisbury, Mass. He was prepared for college at the New Hampshire literary institution at New Hampton, was graduated from Brown university in 1845, and from the Newton theological institution in 1848. He was licensed to preach in the same year and on Aug. 10, 1849, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Second Baptist church at Salem, Mass. He resigned his pastorate in 1854 and for two years was agent for the academy at New London, N.H., afterward Colby academy, raising $100,000 for the institution. He was pastor at Nashua, N.H., 1856-70; was financial agent of the Newton theological institution, 1870-71, raising for it $200,000; was pastor at Keene, N.H., 1871-89, and at Nashua, N.H., 1889-96. He was a trustee of Colby academy, 1860-91; of Newton theological institution, 1868-88; and of Brown university, 1875-96. Brown university conferred Upon him the degree of D.D. in 1867. He published: Our Fathers' God Our God (1865); The Baptist Church of Keene, N. H., its Conflict and its Victory (1886); Memorial of the Rev. E. E. Cummings (1886); and left unfinished a genealogical work, The Descendants of John and Anne Eaton, 1640-1890. He also contributed valuable historical, genealogical and biographical sketches to current periodicals. He died at Nashua, N.H., June 10, 1896.

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

Andrew Jackson George, educator, was born in Goffstown, N.H., Feb. 16, 1855; son of Amos and Dorothy (Turner) George; grandson of Samuel and Mary Turner; and great-grandson of the Rev. David and Sarah (Howard) Turner. The Turners came to America from Devonshire, England, in 1666-70, and Sarah Howard was great, great-granddaughter of John Winslow, whose mother, Mary Chilton, is said to have been the first woman who stepped on Plymouth Rock at the landing of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower. He was prepared for college at Francestown (N.H.) academy, and was graduated at Amherst, A.B., 1876, and A.M., 1879. He was master of the high school at Ashland, Mass., 1876-82; sub-master of the high school at Brookline, Mass., 1882-88, and in 1888 became head of the English department, Newton high school. He studied English literature abroad during three summers, and lectured on English literature at Dr. Gannett's private school, at Boston university and before the students of Yale university. He was elected a member of the Twentieth Century club of Boston in 1894. He was married, July 12, 1888, to Alice Nelson Vant, and had one son, Robert Hudson George, born Dec. 25, 1889. His published works consist chiefly of classics with notes and include: Wordsworth's Prelude (1887); Selections from Wordsworth and Prefaces and Essays on Poetry (1889); Coleridge's Principles of Criticism (1890); The Ancient Mariner (1893); Select Poems of Burns (1895); Select Speeches of Daniel Webster (1894); The Bunker Hill Oration (1894); Burke's American Orations (1895), and Oration on Conciliation with America (1895); Tennyson's Princess (1897); The Shorter Poems of John Milton, including the two Latin elegies and an Italian sonnet to Diodati, and the Epitaphium-Damonis (1898); From Chaucer to Arnold (1898); and Byron's Childe Harold (1899). Many of these became popular as school text-books.

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