Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . \Cy\;/IIITTHR BROTHICRS, of Hopkin-ton, comprising Nahum MiltonWhittier and Leon Dayton Whit-tier, who are extensively engaged in sawing,planing, and the manufacture of shingles andother forms of lumber, are^sons of Jacob andHarriet (Sanborn) Whittier. The father wasborn in Hock, now I_)an\ilk, , in was a son of James VVhillier, a cousin ofJohn G. Whittier, the jioet, and his wife,Hepsibah (Hunt) Whittier, both of J. LEAVITT CAIN. mOGKAIIIKAt.
Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . \Cy\;/IIITTHR BROTHICRS, of Hopkin-ton, comprising Nahum MiltonWhittier and Leon Dayton Whit-tier, who are extensively engaged in sawing,planing, and the manufacture of shingles andother forms of lumber, are^sons of Jacob andHarriet (Sanborn) Whittier. The father wasborn in Hock, now I_)an\ilk, , in was a son of James VVhillier, a cousin ofJohn G. Whittier, the jioet, and his wife,Hepsibah (Hunt) Whittier, both of J. LEAVITT CAIN. mOGKAIIIKAt. 79 Reared in his native town, Jacob lived thereuntil he was about thirty years of age. Thenhe removed to IIo[)kinton, locating on theJewett road. In I cS6o lie bought the presenthome farm, and was here engaged in farmingand shoemaking for a time. On October 24,1S62, he enlisted fiu the Civil War in New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry,going at once with his comrades to New Or-leans, where he was stationed for the most ofthe time he was in the service. With hishealth undermined by the enervating climateand the privations of army life, he was honor-ably discharged ; and he returned to his familyjust three days prior to his death, which oc-curred August 18, 1863. In August, in 1843,he married Miss Harriet Sanborn, daughter ofTeter and Lucinda (C(dlins) Sanborn, of Dan-ville. They became the ])arents of five chil-dren, namely: Nahuni Milton, one of thc-subjects of this sketch, who has never married ;Ausebia Angeline, now the wife of Sidney S
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