History of Claremont, (Sullivan County) New Hampshire United States of America

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William Bell White Howe, sixth bishop of South Carolina, and 98th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Claremont, N.H., March 31, 1823; son of the Rev. James Blake and Mary (White) Howe; grandson of Abraham Howe and of Edward White, and a direct descendant of William Bell, colonel of the Ancient and Honorable artillery of Boston, just prior to the Revolution; and also of Abraham Howe, of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England, who settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1638. He was graduated at the University of Vermont in ; studied theology, and was ordained a deacon, April 9, 1847, and a priest, June 3, 1849. He was rector of the parish of St. John, Berkeley, S.C., 1847-60, and of St. Philip's church, Charleston, S.C., 1860-71. He was elected assistant bishop of South Carolina, May 13, 1871, and on Oct. 8, 1871, he was consecrated at St. Paul's church, Baltimore, Md., at the session of the general convention, by Bishops Smith, Whittingham, Davis, Atkinson and Gregg, of the American church, assisted by Bishops Selwyn, of Lichfield, England, and Bishop Venables, of Nassau, N.P., the bishop of Lichfield preaching the sermon. He was coadjutor to Bishop Davis in 1871, and on the death of that prelate, Dec. 2, 1871, became the sixth bishop of the diocese of South Carolina. During the civil war, as rector of St. Philip's church, he continued to minister to his congregation in the parish church until they were driven out by the shells of the Federal army during the siege of Charleston, With the Rev. Alexander Marshall he remained with his people until the city was evacuated, when he was ordered out by the federal authorities, but was restored to his parish after the war closed. In 1866 he founded St. Philip's church home, Charleston, as a refuge for old ladies. He received from the University of the South and the University of Georgia the degree of D.D. in 1871, and from Columbia college that of S.T.D. in 1872. He died in Charleston, S.C., Nov. 25, 1894.

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

Franceway Ranna Cossitt, educator, was born in Claremont, N. H., April 24, 1790. He was graduated at Middlebury college in 1813 and subsequently taught school and prepared for orders in the Protestant Episcopal church. He went to Tennessee where he joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church and was ordained to the ministry in 1822. In 1825 he was elected president of Cumberland college, Princeton, Ky., on its incorporation, and on July 9, 1842, when the institution was changed to a university and removed to Lebanon, Tenn., he was elected its first president, holding the office until Sept. 30, 1844. He founded and for ten years edited the Banner of Peace, Nashville, Tenn. In 1839 Middlebury college conferred on him the degree of D.D. He died in Lebanon, Tenn., July 3, 1863.

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

Constance Fenimore Woolson, author, was born in Claremont, N.H., March 5, 1838; daughter of Charles Jarvis and Hannah Cooper (Pomroy) Woolson; granddaughter of Thomas and (Peabody) Woolson, and great-granddaughter of Judge William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown, N.Y. Thomas Woolson (1777-1837) settled in Claremont, N.H., about 1813; invented and patented the first successful cooking stove in America, 1818; was a representative in the state legislature, 1825-26; state senator, 1828, and a presidential elector on the Adams and Rush ticket, 1828. Her mother was a niece of James Fenimore Cooper . Charles Jarvis Woolson, at one time proprietor and editor of The New England Palladium, assisted in the management of his father's iron foundry, established on Sugar River, N.H., and was established in a similar enterprise in Cleveland, Ohio, 1837-69. Constance Fenimore Woolson attended the Young Ladies' seminary at Cleveland, completing her studies at Madame Chegaray's school in New York city. Upon her father's death in 1869 she was obliged to use her literary talent to maintain her independence, and publishing her first story, "The Happy Valley," in Harper's Monthly in 1870, and also contributing to Appleton's Journal. She resided winters in St. Augustine, Fla., 1873-79, and after her mother's death in the latter year went to Europe, making her home principally in Italy. Mr. Stedman spoke of her as a realist with the transfiguring faculty of an idealist, and places her among the leading women in American literature of the century. She is the author of: Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880); Anne (1882); For the Major (1883); East Angels (1886); Jupiter Lights (1890); Horace Chase (1894); Mentone, Cairo and Corfu, published posthumously (1895). She died in Venice, Italy, Jan. 24, 1894, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery at Rome.

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

Charles Lafayette Macarthur, journalist, was born in Claremont, N.H., Jan. 7, 1824; son of Charles G. and Philena (Stearns) MacArthur and a descendant of Daniel MacArthur. He was graduated from the Black River institute, Watertown, N.Y.; learned the printer's trade, and removed to Carthage, N.Y., in 1840, where he established the Carthaginian. He was a reporter on the Detroit Free Press, 1841; went to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1842, and accompanied an expedition to the head waters of the Platte river to treat with the Sioux Indians, and the same year became senior editor of the Sentinel, the first daily newspaper published in Wisconsin. He was city editor of the New York Sun, 1846-47, and editor and proprietor of the Troy Daily Budget, 1847-59, and of the Troy Daily Arena, 1859-61. He was 1st lieutenant and quartermaster, 2d N.Y. volunteers, 1861-62, being present at the battle of Great Bethel and in the capture of Norfolk, Va. He was transferred to the regular amy as assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain in 1862; served as brigade and division quartermaster, and participated in all the battles from Fair Oaks, May 11-15, 1862, to Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862, and in the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 11-15, 1862. He was twice brevetted by Governor Fenton for gallant and meritorious services. When the slavery issue divided the Democratic party he affiliated with the Free Soil wing until the formation of the Republican party which he assisted in organizing. He founded and edited the Troy News, the pioneer Sunday newspaper in the state outside of New York city, in 1864, and sold it in 1866 to become an editor and proprietor of the Troy Daily Whig. The Troy Northern Budget, an extreme Democratic paper, was suspended in 1868, and Mr. MacArthur republished it as a Sunday paper in 1867, making it a Republican organ and a leader of the political sentiment of the party in that section of the state. Mr. MacArthur was a member of the Democratic state central committee; a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1856; city alderman, 1852-56; collector of the port of Troy for a number of years under Republican administration; was a Republican state senator, 1889-88, and as a member of the committees on commerce and navigation and canals introduced measures that resulted in the enlargement of the Erie canal and looked to the building of a ship waterway to complete the navigation of the great lakes in connection with the Erie canal. During his travels abroad he gave to the Budget a succession of letters. He was a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic; served as president of the Rensselaer County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument association, and principally through his efforts the $50,000 for the Troy monument was procured. He died in Troy, N.Y., Oct. 12, 1898.

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