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

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Horace Morrison Hale, educator, was born at Hollis, N.H., March 6, 1833; son of John and Jane (Morrison) Hale; grandson of David and Elizabeth (Holden) Hale of Hollis, and of John Morrison of Petersborough, N.H.; great grandson of Col. John Hale, a surgeon on the staff of Colonel Prescott in the Revolutionary war; and a descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas and Thomasine Hale, who settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1635. His father was an inventor and mechanic and the son was employed in the machine shops until his father's death in 1852. He attended the district school about three months each year and by teaching school winters he was enabled to pay his way through college, graduating front Union, A.B., in 1856. He taught school at West Bloomfield, N.Y., 1856-57, and at Nashville. Tenn., 1857-61. In 1859 he was married to Martha Eliza, daughter of Leonard and Hannah (Reed) Huntington. Their only son, Irving, was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1884 with the highest honors that had ever been gained at that institution. In 1861 they removed to Detroit, Mich., where Mr. Hale taught English in a German school and read law. In 1863 he was admitted to the bar and removed to Colorado. He was principal of the Central City, Col., public schools, 1868-73; territorial superintendent of public instruction, 1873-76, and again principal at Central City, 1877-87. In 1878 he was elected regent of the State university of Colorado for a term of six years. He was mayor of Central City in 1882 and 1883; and in 1887 became president of the University of Colorado. He resigned the presidency of the university in 1892 and retired from the professional world. He received the degree of LL.D. from Iowa Wesleyan university. He died in Denver, Col., Oct. 24, 1901.

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

Noah Worcester, author, was born in Hollis, N.H., Nov. 25, 1758; son of Noah Worcester; grandson of the Rev. Francis Worcester, pastor at Sandwich, Mass., 1735-45, and later at Hollis, N. H., and great2-grandson of the Rev. William Worcester, who emigrated from Salisbury, England, and was the first minister of the church at Salisbury Mass., in 1638. Noah attended the common schools until 1775; was fifer in the Continental army in 1775, being present at Bunker Hill; taught school in Plymouth, N.H., 1776-77; was fife-major, 1777-78, taking part in the battle of Bennington, Vt., and in September, 1778, purchased the remainder of his minority from his father and settled as a farmer and schoolteacher in Plymouth, where he was married in 1779, to Hannah Brown of Newburyport, stepdaughter of his uncle, Francis Worcester. He served as town clerk and justice of the peace of Plymouth: removed to Thornton, N.H., in 1782, and was a representative in the state legislature. He studied theology; was licensed to preach in 1786; ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1787, and was pastor at Thornton, 1787-1802. His wife died in November, 1797, and he was married secondly, at Hanover, N.H., in May, 1798, to Hannah Huntington of Norwich, Conn. He was first missionary of the New Hampshire Missionary society, 1802-10; supplied the pulpit at Salisbury, N.H., 1810-13, and in the latter year removed to Brighton, Mass., where he edited the Christian Disciple, 1813-18. He was also editor of The Friend of Peace. 1819-29, the honorary degree of A.B. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth, 1791, and that of A.M., 1795, and D.D. by Harvard, 1818. He founded the Massachusetts Peace society in 1815, serving as its secretary, 1815-28. He is the author of: Familiar Dialogue between Cephas and Bereas (1792); Solemn Reasons for Declining to Adopt the Baptist Theory and Practice (1809); Bible News (1810), (which was censured by the Hopkinsonian association as unsound); Impartial Review of the Testimonies in Favor of the Divinity of the Son of God. (1810). Respectful Address to the Trinitarian Clergy (1812); Solemn Review of the Custom of War by Philo Pacificus (1814); The Atoning Sacrifice (1829); The Causes of Contentions among Christians (1831); Last Thoughts on Important Subjects (1833). He died in Brighton, Mass., Oct. 31, 1837.

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