Loisanne Foster
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Location: Marlow, NH
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: Prominent Marlow Men of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries |
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Our volunteer researcher, Robert Nichols, located photographs of some of Marlow's most prominent citizens. Here they are with his note to MHS. Robert is currently researching Marlow's Original Proprietors for MHS. These men, of course, are long after those founders of Marlow, but they were of great importance in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
| Quote: | | Came across an article on Marlow that had some photos/illustrations of some Marlow men that we "know." Scanned them into the computer and have enclosed a few for you. No date associated with any photos but the book they were in was published in 1911. All photos from The Granite Monthly, Vol. 43, Concord, NH, The Rumford Press, 1911. |
To see these gentlemen, copy and paste this URL to your address line which will take you to their photographs in Marlow's unofficial website:
[url]http://www.marlow-nh.org/Clubs_Organizations/HistoricalSociety/MHSForum_Photos/Marlow's%20most%20famous/most-famous.htm
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Amos Fiske was proprietor of a dry goods store on Marlow Hill which he bought from his father-in-law, Frank Ellis. Mid-nineteenth century he moved the store to the present village. He played an important role in opening Marlow Academy in 1838 and was instrumental in having Marlow's meeting House (now Jones Hall) moved to the village in 1845. He and his family appear on the famous 1876 Medfield, MA Bride's Album Quilt with Marlow signatures.
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Dr. Marshall Perkins married Harriet, one of several daughters of Amos Fiske. He served as Assistant Surgeon in the N.H. 14th Regiment during the Civil War. He and his wife left their several children with Dr. Perkins' parents and sister in Croydon where he was born so Harriet could travel with the regiment. We have copies and transcripts of some of the letters Harriet and Marshall wrote to their Croydon family while they were stationed in Washington, DC and Virginia. We have Harriet's impressions of living in an officer's tent and of President Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Dr. Perkins returned to live and work in Marlow.
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Elgin Jones, who wrote The History of Marlow, New Hampshire, died in 1937. He had been the proprietor of the Forest Inn or the Marlow Inn which burned in a disastrous fire in 1916 (not in the more famous fire of 1941). He was an amateur botanist and geologist as well as a historian. He was a fine carpenter. He was a traveler. He named New Hampshire's Camp Takota after the wise and friendly Takota (Dakota) people he met in his travels to the West. He gave the building which we call the Chapel today to Marlow's Temperance Society after the original Temperance Society building burned in 1916. His wife was a member, and he gave it in her honor. When the Temperance Society ceased to exist, the building became the property of the Methodist Ladies' Aid Society and it still belongs to the women of the Methodist Church today. It was his parents who gave Jones Hall (Marlow's old meeting house) to the Town.
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James Burnap, originally from Nelson, N. H., came to Marlow and purchased a saw mill, a tannery, and a furniture mill. He served for years as a Marlow Selectman and served the State of N. H. as a representative and on the Governor's Council. His original Marlow home on Mill Street is the one that MHS is currently negotiating with Audio Accessories to preserve. It had originally been scheduled to be burned in the spring of 2008. We have high hopes of saving this fine example of a Victorian home. Later he purchased the Farley home which we now know at The Christmas Trees Inn or PC Connection. He is Marlow's "Horatio Alger" story, even Marlow's little Carniege.
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Perley Fox is most famous for his Tin Shop beside the Village Pond which burned in the 1916 fire, and for his Granite State Evaporator which sold well throughout New England and must have boiled down literally tons of maple syrup and maple sugar. Fox also married one of Amos Fiske's daughters. With Jones and Fiske, he worked to promote Marlow's manufacturing industry and tourist industry. Together they signed the manifesto of "The Marlow Improvement Society" in 1892. With them, he also served early on the Board of Directors of Marlow Academy. |
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