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

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Jonathan Glidden Hunton, governor of Maine, was born in Unity, N.H., March 4, 1781; son of Josiah and Hannah (Glidden) Hun-ton; grandson of Charles Hunton; great grandson of John Hunton, and great2 grandson of Philip Hunton, who immigrated to America from the Isle of Jersey, and married Elizabeth Hall, of Exeter, N.H., in 1687. His father was a major in the Revolutionary army, and town clerk of Unity, N.H. Jonathan was educated in the public schools, studied law in the office of his uncle, Samuel P. Glidden, at Readfield, Maine, was admitted to the bar in 1806, and practised in Readfield, 1806-37. He was a member of the executive council of Maine, 1829; was elected governor of Maine in 1829 by the Republican party, and served one term, as successor to Enoch Lincoln, and was defeated for re-election in 1830. He was the first governor of Maine to advocate an asylum for the insane, and it was largely through his influence that one was established. He was state senator in 1833. He removed to Dixmont, Maine, about 1837, and engaged in the practice of law. He was married to Betsey Craig, who died, Nov. 7, 1819; and secondly to Mrs. Mary (Mitchell) Glidden, widow of his uncle, Samuel P. Glidden. He died in Fairfield, Maine, Oct. 12, 1851.

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

Nathan Burnham Webster, educator, was born in Unity, N.H., June 13, 1821. He attended the Kimball Union academy, Meriden, N.H.; taught school, 1838-39, and matriculated at Norwich university in 1839, being engaged at the same time as tutor in Greek in that institution. He left Norwich in November, 1840, to accept a position in the newly established Virginia Literary, Scientific and Military academy at Portsmouth, Va.; was put in sole charge in 1842, and resigned in 1843. He was married, Aug. 7, 1844, to Isabella Hobday of Portsmouth, Va., and that same year again became principal of the academy at Portsmouth, resigning in 1846 to become principal of a preparatory school in Richmond, Va., and lecturer on physics, chemistry, astronomy and biology in Richmond college, receiving the appointment of civil engineer of the Gosport navy yard in 1848. He established a classical scientific and military school in Portsmouth, Va., after the military academy had gone out of existence. The new school continued until the civil war necessitated its closing in 1862, when Webster removed to Canada. In Ottawa he founded a school similar to the one just closed in Virginia; was also a founder of the Ottawa Historical society, and its president, 1863-67. He returned to Virginia in 1867, and at Norfolk established the Webster institute, conducting the same successfully until the death of his wife in 1885, which event influenced him to seek a new home. On July 26, 1894, he was married, secondly, to Phanie M. Cowper of Norfolk, Va. He is the author of: Outlines of Chemistry (1883). He died in Vineland, N.J., in 1900.

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