Jeremiah Dow
(1774-1847)
Keziah Sessions
(1776-)
Lucius Harmon Dow
(1821-1892)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Lucelia Smith

2. Isabella M. Tracy

Lucius Harmon Dow

  • Born: 5 Aug 1821, Milton, Chittenden, Vermont
  • Marriage (1): Lucelia Smith on 29 Mar 1851
  • Marriage (2): Isabella M. Tracy on 6 Mar 1866
  • Died: 10 Jan 1892, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire at age 70
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1860 Cornish, Sullivan County, NH
Lucius H. Dow age 39 (c1821)
Lucelia S. age 27 c1833
Abby F. age 7 c1853
Wm D. age 2 c1858
Fred H. age 8 mos c1859

1870 Cornish, Sullivan County, NH
L H Dow c1821
Isabelle c1840
Abbie 1853
Willie c1857
Fred 1861
Martha 1864

1880 Cornish, NH
L. Harmon Dow59
Isabelah Dow40
William D. Dow22
Fred H. Dow20
Martha L. Dow16


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Lucelia Eleanor DOW was born on 31 MAR 1904 in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Parents: William Deming DOW and Nora E. CROSBY
Lucius Harmon DOW was born on 5 AUG 1820 in Salisbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He appeared on the census in 1880 in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
Lucius H Dow spent a few years in Cleveland but came back and bought a Cornish farm near the Plainfield border. The death of his brother-in-law left a much better farm without a cultivator, so Uncle Harmon sold his own, lived on the other until his death. General farming was still the rule when he began. A farm once mortgaged never gets free, in New Hampshire. One cannot compete with hand labor on rocks and thin soil with the level prairies where steam plows handle a thousand acres. So, after sundry vicissitudes, Uncle Harmon devoted his farm to butter-making only and achieved some success. He was a founder of the Cornish creamery which took 1st prize at 1893 Chicago World's fair. He also had agencies for the sale of farm machinery and acted as local wool buyer for several Vt mills until a democratic tariff drove them into bankruptcy. He m Lucilla A Smith of Grantham b 1832, d Mch 2, 1863, dau of Cyrus and Hannah (Abbott); 2nd Mch 6, 1866, Isabella M Tracy b 1846, d Mch 2, 1894, a remarkable woman who at 28 became stepmother of five children, all of whom lived long to revere her memory.

The 200-acre farm in Cornish was a second home to the Author, who knew and loved every acre from the beech grove at the highest point, across the hay meadow, with its brook too small for aught but fingerling trout, up the bare pasturage on the north side. Beyond that lay the earliest cemetery of Cornish. In 1880 many stones were readable, but by 1909 not a single stone showed inscription. There were three fine seasons in Cornish, -maple sugar time, autumn, when it was lawful to shoot partridges, and midsummer. In sugar time all had to work carrying sap buckets, but in the boiling shed one might make sugar wax in the snow as much as 'he liked. In midsummer one had to work quickly to get in the hay, if a shower threatened, but there was always raspberry pie for breakfast. The highway was a side road up a. very long steep hill, a passing wagon such a rarity that all invariably stopped to see whose it was; but the land was good and the hay stood high.

At supper Uncle Harmon read aloud from the semi-weekly paper and commented with a breadth of knowledge which seemed marvelous to the Author. The labor and devotion of Aunt Belle never flagged. Sometimes there was extra. help in the kitchen, sometimes not. In hay time there were always many extra hands to cook for. Around the barns there was a host of pigeons, ownerless parasites on the grain bins. The Author suggested the desirability of a pigeon potpie but was always put off by Aunt BeIle with an indefinite "some other time." Venturing one day to disobey, he brought in a score of pigeons carefully plucked, cleaned and larded with salt pork, of which there was always an unlimited supply in a barrel. Aunt Belle smiled and thereafter pigeons, squirrels, partridges were always welcome. Many years later the Author realized that to keep a house clean, cook for ten, wash and care for five children and pluck pigeons might crowd the daylight hours. Aunt Belle felt like going to bed at 8 P.M.

Sunday was a great day in Cornish. Food for the entire day was cooked Saturday, leaving only coffee to be boiled at sunset. The minister took a day off from farming and conducted two services, with Sunday school and an hour for dinner between. In the Author's day the minister was Mr Brick House Jackson, to distinguish him from the White House Jacksons, unrelated and further down the road. He believed in predestination, but was always ready to pray for rain. The high-backed pews were ample to hide in and play our innocent games unseen. At midday the men swapped cattle and women discussed affairs of great moment. Toward sundown we drove home realizing what is the end of a perfect day.
Source: The book of Dow : genealogical memoirs of the descendants of Henry Dow 1637, Thomas Dow 1639 and others of the name, immigrants to America during Colonial times, also the allied family of Nudd Claremont, N.H.: Robert Piercy Dow, 1929, 1012 pgs.
He was married to Lucilla A SMITH about 1852. Children were: Abbie Frances DOW , William Deming DOW , Fred Henry DOW , Mary Ella DOW , Martha Lucretia DOW .


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Lucius married Lucelia Smith, daughter of Cyrus Smith and Hannah Abbott, on 29 Mar 1851. (Lucelia Smith was born on 9 Mar 1832 in Meriden, Sullivan, New Hampshire and died on 5 Sep 1863 in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.)


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Lucius next married Isabella M. Tracy on 6 Mar 1866. (Isabella M. Tracy was born in 1840 in Vermont and died on 2 Mar 1894.)




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