The Barnstead Reunion: Celebrated at Barnstead, N.H., August 30, 1882

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Horace Nutter Colbath
I.C. Evans, 1884 - Barnstead (N.H.) - 132 pages
 

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Page 37 - How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view ! The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild-wood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew...
Page 62 - Tuttlc. to the adjoining town of Pittsfield, where he attended the public schools and Pittsfield Academy, while the latter was under the charge, successively, of IF Folsom, Lewis W. Clark, and Prof. Dyer H. Sanborn. After having been engaged in several vocations, in all of which he showed industry and faithfulness, at the age of seventeen years he became connected with the clothing establishment of Lincoln & Shaw, of Concord, where he remained several years. The ability and zeal which he exhibited...
Page 23 - With ma/y curves and wayside charms' our young feet to beguile. Till, at the wall, another path met it beyond the stile. What pleasant people came and went through those remembered ways! There was no dearth of uncles, aunts, or cousins, in those days. And Oh. the dear old grand-parents, with hearts so warm and true! So mindful of each childish want in all our noisy crew! • In that old town all things were bright within its ample lines. Xo bn"fs were on the roses then, no lilight upon the vines.
Page 55 - Officers and enlisted men who, in their own right or by right of inheritance, are members of military societies of men who served in the armies and navies of the United States in the War of the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion...
Page 62 - Davis family from four generations have represented that town in the four great wars in which our country has been engaged. When Mr. Tuttle was nine years of age, he moved with his father's family to the adjoining town of Pittsfield, where he attended the public schools and Pittsfield Academy, while the latter was under the charge successively of IF Folsom, Lewis W. Clark, and Prof. .Dyer H. Sanborn. After having been engaged in several vocations, in all of which he showed industry and faithfulness,...
Page 23 - AVhile from their banks rings out the clear, wild laughter of the loon; Her streamlets glide down grassy slopes with merry song and Hash ; Her waterfalls leap from her heights with frantic plunge and dash. And though her sons and daughters roam through all the big, round earth. A goodly company still fills the home that gave them birth. And younger ones are coming up to join the thinning band, While peace and plenty, side by side, make glad the pleasant land. Then here 'sa cheer for Barnstead town,...
Page 64 - ... presented to him, and is very hospitable in his pleasant home. Mr. Tuttle' accepts the Christian religion, and worships with the Congregational church. While he contributes very liberally for the support of the denomination of his choice, he does not withhold a helping hand from the other religious sects in his town. In his domestic relations he has been very fortunate. He married, in 1859, Miss Mary C., the only child of John L. French, Esq., formerly cashier of the Pittsfield bank. Their only...
Page 22 - ... freed, wild creature from the wood e'er sped to its abode More gladly than we bounded home through that long, winding road. With dinner-pails that swung and flashed at every joyous turn, And gleaning lessons all the way that were not hard to learn. Our father's fifty-acre farm ! How full of nooks 't was stored ! Oh! it seemed larger than this town, with regions unexplored. We never saw such bees and birds as joined us at our play, Nor fields so full of sweet wild flowers. You call them weeds...
Page 22 - t was stored ! Oh! it seemed larger than this town, with regions unexplored. We never saw such bees and birds as joined us at our play, Nor fields so full of sweet wild flowers. You call them weeds to-day. No modern mower e'er was seen through those fair fields to pass. Scaring the merry bobolinks from homes deep in the grass; Nor one of all the clanking things that these new farms infest Went clattering across those vales, like demons of unrest. A slender pathway, like a thread, now hidden, and...
Page 22 - Ab, now. when every passing hour is full to overflow, The thinking on those taskless times is the best rest we know ! No freed, wild creature from the wood e'er sped to its abode More gladly than we bounded home through that long, winding road. With dinner-pails that swung and flashed at every joyous turn, And gleaning lessons all the way that were not hard to learn. Our father's fifty-acre farm ! How full of nooks 't was stored ! Oh! it seemed larger than this town, with regions unexplored. We never...

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