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COL. WILLIAM S. PILLSBURY. 379

Lavinia Hobart, was born Novembers, 1818. She married Samuel Andrews, of Sutton, N. H., June 6, 1852 ; he died March 14, 1875 ; she died at Sutton, N. H., September 30, 1871. She was a lady possessing rare sweetness of nature. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews left two daugliters, Sarah and Annie. Sarah married George L. Brown, Esq., who resides in Sutton. He is in the drug business in Concord, and has represented Sutton ably in the State legislature.

Josiah Hobart was born Aug. 15, 1821. He married Elnorah Pevear, April, 1853. She died July 15, 1868. Hon. Josiah H. Pillsbury was for sometime one of the proprietors of the " Eagle," a reform paper published in New York city. -He had been previously engaged on the "Anti-Slavery Standard," was a close friend to Garrison and Horace Greeley, and took an active part in the historic struggle to make Kansas a free State. He was one of the nioneers and founders of Kansas, was an early senator in the local government, and a civil engineer and farmer by profession. He established the "Manhattan Independent" newspaper, editing and publishing it several years; was county surveyor, deputy collector of internal revenue and postmaster at the city of Manhattan, where he died, greatly lamented, November 5, 1879. A more unselfish man can hardly have lived ; he was a graceful and remarkably ins ruc- tive public speaker, a ready and vigorous writer, a deep thinker, and true phil- anthropist. A son, Arthur Judson, is a lawyer in California ; a daughter is postmistress at Manhattan.

Stephen, jr., born Jan. 25, 1824, married Sarah Annie Bailey, of Andover, N. H., March 7, 1852. Mr. Pillsbury was at one time an extensive manufac- turer of shoes at Andover. Subsequently he studied for the ministry and became a Baptist preacher. He was located at Dunbarton, N. H., Mt. Holly, Vt., Lee, Mass., and at Manhattan, Kansas. While at Lee, Mass.. his only son, a very promising young man, died. Mr. Pillsbury's health so failing at Manhattan as to prevent public speaking, he reluctantly left the ministry, and is now a dealer in shoes in that thriving citv.

Edwin, born March 26, 1826, married Mary Ann Reed, of New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 7, 1847. He is a farmer and trader at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was for several years a mariner, and one of his voyages was around the world. He was long engaged in the transportation business across the great plains of the "far west," before the opening of railroads there.

Ann Judson, born July i, 1828. She was a popular and successful public school teacher, and married William B. Marshall, of Weare, N. H., Feb. 26, 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall settled at Zeandale, Kansas, where she died, Feb. 28, 1856.

" None knew her but to love her, Xone named her but to praise." These words are literally true in her case.

Adoniram Judson, born June 11, 1830, died Sept, 18, 1851 ; an earnest student and the possessor of strong intellectual powers. His death occurred just as he was beginning an active and promising life of usefulness.

William Staughton, born March 16, 1833, at Sutton, N, H., married Sarah A. Crowell, of Londonderry, May 8, 1854. She was born Jan. 29, 1833, and died June 22, 1854. April 15, 1856, Mr. Pillsbury married Martha Silver Crowell, of Londonderry. She was born Sept. 27, 1836. His children are Anne Sarah, born March 16. i860 ; died Julv 30, 1861. A son, born I^'ebruary 6, 1S62 ; died May 3, 1S62. Rosecrans Wilham, born September 18, 1S63. Charles Hobart, born March 16, 1866. Hattie Lavinia, born Oct. 27, 1870. Ulysses Grant, born Nov. 24, 1876.

Leonard Hobart, born December 25, 1S35, ni'in-ied August 23, 1862, Evelyn F. Sanborn. Early in the war of the rebellion Capt. Leonard H. Pillsbury

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