m 1899
CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1899 Jan 11 - Arthur T York ae 22 b Kensington NH s/o John W York & Marcia E
Godfrey, married, Bessie H Blake ae 21 b Kensington NH d/o Thomas H Blake &
Cybthia Batchelder [Birth & Marriage Index for NH, FHL 1001321].
1899 Jan 11 - Arthur T York ae 22 farmer of Kensington NH (b Kensington NH
s/o John W York ae 48 b Kensington NH & Marcia E Godrey ae 44 b Hampton NH)
marr at Exeter NH by George E Street of Exeter NH clergyman to Bessie H Blake
ae 21 of Kensington NH (b Kensington NH d/o Thomas H Blake ae 63 painter b
Kensington NH & Cynthia Batchelder ae 61 of Kensington NH b East Kingston NH),
1st marr for both [NHVR].
1899 Nov 20 - Dorothy York b Kensington NH 1st c/o Arthur T York ae 23
farmer b Kensington res Kensington & Bessie H Blake b Kensington [NHVR].
1916 Sep 30 - Marcia Evelyn Yorke b living Exeter NH 5th c/o Arthur T Yorke
b Kensington & Bessie Blake b Kensington [Exeter Town Report].
m 1899
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS:
Jasper Hazen York - b Lee 27 Feb ...; d Dover 7 Apr 1874. When he was two
years old his parents moved from Lee to Rochester, which place remained his
home till he made one for himself in South Boston. He was the third son of
John & Rebecca York. His father was a successful farmer, retiring in his
disposition, but widely known and respected for his honesty, integrity, and
good common sense. His mother was a woman of great strenth of character and
wonderfully successful in impressing her own superior mental power upon her
children.
In early boyhood he was noted for his love of books and studious habits. As
he grew older the passion for an education took complete possession of him, and
nothing short of a profession would satify his ambition. His father used every
inducement to have him remain on the farm, but when he became convinced that
this was utterly repugnent to the boy's desires, he reluctantly gave his
consent that this son should chose his own life work.
After leaving the public schools he continued his studies at Phillips Exeter
Academy. Then for several years he taught school in Kittery, Me., Dover, N.H.,
and in other places. As a teacher he was wonderfully successful, not only in
the public schools but in after years when he had a continuous succession of
medical students in his office. He always took great interest in educational
affairs, serving with signal success on the school committee in Boston for many
years, proving himself one of the most efficient men that board ever had.
He graduated from Harvard Medical College with honor in the year 1845. He
soon settled in South Boston and immediately acquired a good practice. He was
early noted for his surgical skill - in fact he had nearly all the surgery in
South Boston - and also for his skill in diagnosis, seeming to arrive at
correct conclusions almost intuitively. In every way he proved himself an
able, skillful physician, winning the cnfidence of his patients and the respect
of other medical men. Soon after he settled in South Boston he entered
heartily into the anti-slavery movement, using freely his influence and his
money to advance the interest of the cause, and ardently supporting Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, and Theodore Parker in their warfare upon the
great evil of slavery.
His parents were Free Will Baptists and he had been brought up in that
faith, but about this time he religious thought underwent a change, so that he
connected himself with the society over which Theodore Parker was pastor.
When the Know-Nothing party sprang into its ephemeral existence, and the
Roman Catholics of Boston and elsewhere endeavored to put it down, Dr. York
took strong sides with that party, because he believed in free thought, free
speech, and absolutely free government, and did not believe in uneducated,
irresposible men from other countries dominating and ruling native-born
citizens. For the active part he took in this he came near being mobbed by the
Catholics. He was fearless to the highest degree, a man of decided
convictions, and always ready to defend them, with his life if necessary.
A large number of medical students graduated from his office with homor both
to themselves and to him, among whom may be mentioned his nephew, Dr. John
Colby York, Dr. W. H. Page of Rochester, Dr. William Sprague, Dr. J. F. Frisbie
of Rochester, Dr. S. C. Whittier, Dr. W. H. Westcott, and others.
When the Covil War broke out he was intensely loyal, believing the end of
slavery would result. Having offered his services to the United States
government, he was stationed at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, Va., and Armory
Square Hospital in Washington, D.C.
In 1865, following a too close application to his professional work, he was
prostated with disease of the stomach from which he never recovered. Several
times he relinquished practice and partly regained his health, but his active
disposition would not long allow him to rest, and a return to his work brought
back the disease, and after a lingering and painful illness he died in Dover,
He had removed to that city several years before, where he purchased a small
farm, hoping the out-door life might prove beneficial. For a short time his
difficulty to some extent abated, but the disease proved too deeply seated to
be easily eradicated. In 1860 he married Mary Elsie Watts, daughter of Charles
S. Watts, Esq., of South Boston, who, with one daughter, survives him
[McDuffee, History of Rochester NH, p402ff].-------------------
Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover NH - Lot 181:
1) Jasper H York MD - d 7 Apr 1874 ae 58.
2) Mary E Watts York - d 15 Aug 1915 ae 73.
4) Harry Ball.
6) Edward Ball.
7) Chas. Watts.
8) Sarah Watts.
[info provided by Judy Dufour, 12/1999].
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Jasper Hazen York - b 27 Feb 1816 Lee NH; s/o John York; student at
Phillips' Exeter Academy; read medicine with Calvin Cutter MD of Dover; grad
1843 Harvard Medical College; began practice 1843 in So Boston MA; left Boston
1870 & came to Dover where he d 7 Apr 1874 [Hurd, Hist of Rockingham &
Strafford Co NH, 1882, p850].
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Dr Jasper Hazen York - s/o John York & Rebecca Stevens Durgin; d Dover 7 Apr
1874 ae 58y. Child:
a) dau -.
[Wm M Sargent, The York Family, Maine Hist & Geneal Rec (1885) II:2:217ff].
--------------------CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1826 - Roll of Union Sabbath School:
Jasper York - class 1.
Hannah York - class 9.
Maria York - class 11.
[A Book of Records of the Church Of Christ, Rochester NH, AD 1766,
p571-2].
1874 Apr 6 - will of Jasper H York mentions wife Mary Elsie York, dau Aura
Hazen York, nephews Jesse F Frisbie MD, Solomon AWood of Boston & David F
Meader of Dover; nephews to support wife and dau until married; nephews
executors [Strafford Co NH Probate File].
m 1861
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS:
Manson R York - b Holderness 1832 s/o Stephen York; came to Plymouth as a
youth and remained there; marr 1861 Catherine Fadden of Franconia d/o James
Fadden & Emily Rowles. Children:
a) Orissa A -
b) Effie E -.
[Child, Gazetteer of Grafton Co NH, 1886, 1/593].
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Plymouth NH Directory 1886:
York, Catherine - r 5 (Mrs Manson R).
York, Manson R - r 5, sone mason, h and lot.
York, William - laborer.
[Childs, Gazetteer of Grafton County NH, 1709-1886, 1886, 2/283].CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1850 - New Hampton NH census:
York, Manson - BELK 096 New Hampton.
[Jackson, New Hampshire 1850 Census Index, p267].
1850 Oct 26 - New Hampton, Belknap Co NH census roll 426 p96 fam 177/190:
Nathaniel Norris household includes:
Manson York 18 m cabinet maker b NH
1861 Nov 28 - Manson R York ae 28 (b Holderness NH s/o Stephen York & Nancy)
marr Catherine Fadden ae 21 (b Franconia NH d/o James Fadden & Emily) [NH Birth
& Marriage Index FHL #1001321].
1861 Nov 28 - Manson R York ae 28 farmer of Plymouth NH (b Holderness NH s/o
Stephen York b Lisbon NH farmer & Nancy ___), marr in Franconia NH by Simeon
Spooner JP, Catherine Fadden ae 21 housewife of Franconia NH (b Franconia NH
d/o James Fadden farmer b Norfolk NY & Emily ___), 1st marr for both [NHVR].
1880 Mar 31 - Ellie York b Plymouth NH during the year ending this date c/o
Manson R York b Holderness NH carpenter res Plymouth NH & Catherine York b
Franconia NH [NHVR].
m 1861
FAMILY RECORD:
Capt Warren Noyes - b 1832; s/o Bela Noyes & Honor Prince of Norway ME; m
1856 Mary Elizabeth York d/o Joseph York & Abigail Cummings of Norway ME; liv
Gorham ME. Children:
a) Abbie F -
b) Fred M -
c) Harry G -
[Hist Coos Co NH, 1888, p 929].
FAMILY RECORD:
Asa Shaw - s/o Moses Shaw of Holderness; m Diodama York. Children:
a) William H - m Charlotte E Marden d/o Timothy Marden & Esther Cox;
b) eight others.
[Child, Grafton Co NH Gazetteer, 1886, p215].