Henry Forrest interview – schooling

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File information: Sound recording
Recorded by: Peter Stevens
Equipment used: Tascam DR-07
File type: mp3
Files edited by: Edie Simpson
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Interview information
Date of interview: February 26, 2015
Name of interviewee: Henry Forrest
Name of interviewer: Peter Stevens
Other people present at interview: none
Place of interview: Peter Stevens’ kitchen
Topic of interview: School days in Madison

Item information: This interview of Henry Forrest conducted by Peter Stevens is edited into 3 parts. Henry Forrest grew up in Madison, and graduated from Madison High School in 1947.

Notes from interview by Peter Stevens: First to sixth grade in Silver Lake School on High Street. Six grades in one room. Mrs. Whiting teacher. 36 seats. Baseball. Discipline. Lighting fire. Plus some comments about Frost family, military draft, and college at UNH.

Henry Forrest interview – Donation, etc.

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File information: Sound recording
Recorded by: Peter Stevens
Equipment used: Tascam DR-07
File type: mp3
Files edited by: Edie Simpson
Links to files:

Interview information
Date of interview: February 18, 2015
Name of interviewee: Henry Forrest
Name of interviewer: Peter Stevens
Other people present at interview: none
Place of interview: John F. Chick Room, Madison Library
Topic of interview: Madison Church Donation, etc.

Item information: This interview of Henry Forrest conducted by Peter Stevens is edited into 4 parts. The interview topics were the Madison Church Annual Donation, the Madison Church, the Odd Fellows, and Old Home Week. Henry Forrest grew up in Madison, and graduated from Madison High School in 1947.

 

Forrest Family

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Forrest Family photo

The people in the photo as marked by my grandmother Arvilla  F. B. Warren Nickerson.  Back Row left to right:  Ina (my grandmother’s sister), Earle, Aunt Jennie, Aunt Addie, Aunt Rose, Irving, Aunt Frances, Nano (Arvilla’s boy’s name for their grandmother Harriette Forrest Warren.)
Front Row, left to right:  “young Isa” (sp), Newell (who with David Knowles I believe built the Peak House on Chocorua), Arvilla (my grandmother), Aunt Emma (I have some of her writing), Uncle David (Knowles?), Mabel, Uncle Isa (Isaiah).

File information:

File name: Forrest Family 15.jpg
File format: JPEG, 300 dpi, 1.46 MB
File size: 2867 x 2217 pixels

Item information

Black and White Photograph
Date: undated, est. 1890s
Size: unknown

The digital file of this photograph was provided by Dan Nickerson, a direct descendant of the Forrest family. Scanned by Dan Nickerson, July 15, 2014 from original photo in private collection.

Silver Lake Association 1948-1963

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Report written by Anne Holmes Filson, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Silver Lake Association of Madison (SLAM) on July 11, 2009.

Link to file: SilverLakeAssociationHistory1948-1963

File information

File name: SilverLakeAssociationHistory1948-1963.pdf
File format: PDF (portable document format), 1906K
File size: 7 page document, page size 8.5 x 11

Item information

Printed document on file in Madison Library archives.

 

Committee Report between the Towns of Eaton and Madison

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Link to file: Madison_Eaton Town committee

File information

File name: Madison_Eaton Town committee.pdf
File format: PDF (portable document format), 380K
File size: 4 pages, 1966 x 2494 pixels

Item information

Handwritten document, collection of Dan Nickerson
Date: August 1853
Size: Approximately 6.5 x 8.5″

This document is in a private collection, scanned image provided by Dan Nickerson, a direct descendant of Isaiah Forrest.

Transcription:

Jonathan F. Chase, Elias Rice and E[liphalet] Cloutman the above named Committee met at the Inn of Samuel Atkinson in the Town of Madison [(several words obscured under fold in paper)] August AD 1853 according to Adjournment Robinson Blaisdell, Isaiah Forrest, Nathaniel Quint Selectmen of Madison and Eli C. Glines, William R. Thurston and Lucian Danforth Selectmen of Eaton were all present and did not object, and after a full hearing of both parties the Committee agree to make the following report and they do Report, that the Town of Madison shall pay their proportion of all the debts, dues and [liabilities] that the Town of Eaton were bound to pay at the time of the division according to their proportion of publick Taxes, and that the state proportion for the Town of Madison shall be one dollar and thirty four cents. And that proportion for the Town of Eaton shall be one dollar and sixteen cents. That the Town of Eaton pay the Town of Madison for their part of the Town House one hundred Dollars. That said Town of Madison have the Pound, and the Town of Eaton have all of the Town Books in full pay for their Interest in said Pound. Said one hundred dollars for the Town House to be paid in one year from the first day of October next, and the Town p[aupers to be divided in the following manner that is to say Town of Madison shall Take and maintain the Widow Laymon, the Widow Kennett, Rachel [Pottle], the Widow Carlton, and Sylvester Harriman. [The Town] of Eaton shall take and Maintain Louisa Drew, the Widow Folsom, John Hill, Cynthia Durgin and [remainder of line obscured by fold in paper] pay their Equal share of the expenses of this Committee which is fourty [sic] three Dollars in the same proportion as other debts. The Town of Madison is further to pay in the same proportion above named their full share of the support of all the paupers belonging to both Towns up to the first day of September 1853 and also to pay their proportion of six Dollars paid Cyrus K. Drake for damages of a horse. And the Town of Madison is to sustain their share in the same manner the abatement of all Taxes that has non or can not be collected, in said Town of Eaton up to March last, and also to share their part of the loss if their [sic] shall be any on an obligation from William Mason for about fourteen dollars, And the Town of Eaton is to pay in the same proportion their share of four Dollars and fifteen cents which was paid for serving [(unreadable word)]. It is the opinion of the Committee that both Towns shall pay their Just and Equal proportion according to their State and County Tax made from their State proportion above named of all the cost of laying out and the land damages and of making if it shall be made by virtue of the acts of the road commissioners whose report was accepted at the last term of the Court of common pleas in the County of Carroll a road laid out on the petition of Nathaniel J. Palmer and others. And also the cost land damages and cost of making if it shall be laid out and made by Virtue of the petition of Nathaniel Currier and others now pending in the Court of Common Pleas, in the same proportion.

August 30th 1853

Jonathan F. Chase
Elias Rice
Eliphalet Cloutman

Committee fees

J T Chase $14.00
Elias Rice 15.00
Elip’t Clout, 14.00
$43.00

The Committee understand that the Town Standard of Weights and measures, a desk and chest and a [pull? pew?] cloth belonging to the old Town of Eaton be set up at auction and the Town that will pay the highest price in the same proportion above named shall them.

J F Chase
Elias Rice
Elip’t Clout~

 

[transcription by Mary Cronin]

NOTE: Census records from 1850 and 1860 show that Jonathan F. Chase, Elias Rice, and Eliphalet Cloutman were residents of Conway, Freedom, and Conway respectively.

Isaiah Forest (Forrest) Ensign Appointment

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Link to file: Isaiah Forest Ensign Appointment 1814

File information

File name: Isaiah Forest Ensign Appointment 1814.pdf
File format: PDF (portable document format), 137K
File size: 2316 x 2940 pixels

Item information

Military document, collection of Dan Nickerson
Date: June 26, 1814
Size: Approximately 7.75″ x 9.75″

This document is in a private collection, scanned image provided by Dan Nickerson, a direct descendant of Isaiah Forrest.

Madison High School Diploma, 1924

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MHSDiploma1924

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File name: MHSdiploma1924.jpg
File format: JPEG, 180dpi
File size: 3072 x 2304 pixels

Item information

Framed Diploma, collection of Philip A. Angell, Jr.
Date: 1924
Size: 19 ” x 15″

This diploma was brought to the Madison Library by the family of Philip Angell on July 23, 2013. They graciously allowed us to take a photograph to share on this website. See Madison High School yearbooks 1921-1924 to see documentation of Philip Angell’s time at Madison High School. His son pointed out that, though the June 1924 yearbook states that Philip was headed to Durham to attend UNH, he had to leave UNH shortly after starting because he couldn’t afford to eat, despite receiving a scholarship. Angell went on to go to college and law school in Vermont, becoming successful in law and in government.

Lucy (Phillips) Nickerson

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Lucy (Phillips) Nickerson

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File name: Lucy (Phillips) Nickerson.jpg
File format: JPEG, 72 ppi
File size: 2304 x 3072 pixels

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Black and White Photograph
Date: ca. 1855
Size: unknown

This photograph is in the private collection of Lois C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Nickerson Family of Madison, NH. Ms. Jenkins scanned and provided this image, which we have permission to share here.

Here is her description of the photo: “This [photo] is of Mark Nickerson’s mother, Lucy (Phillips) Nickerson, b. 1783 Bridgewater, MA.  She m(1) 1807, in Bridgewater, Smardus Snell; they moved to Madison (then Eaton) shortly after that, & had two sons, including Nathan Snell, who married Julia Blaisdell and raised a large family in the Madison area.  Smardus died in 1813, then Lucy married my ggg-grandfather, Joshua Nickerson, in 1814.  She died 1866 in Madison, is buried in the Eaton Center Cemetery.  I would guess the photo to be ca. 1855.

If you look closely, you’ll notice Lucy is wearing a set of [rose gold] beads around her neck.  Joshua gave them to her when they were married; they were passed down through the generations, and I now have them.”

Mark & Caroline (Kennett) Nickerson

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Mark & Caroline (Kennett) Nickerson

File information:

File name: Mark & Caroline (Kennett) Nickerson #2_edited-1.jpg
File format: JPEG, 500 ppi
File size: 2001 x 2847 pixels

Item information

Black and White Photograph
Date: ca. 1880
Size: unknown

This photograph is in the private collection of Lois C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Nickerson Family of Madison, NH. Ms. Jenkins scanned and provided this high-resolution image, which we have permission to share here.

Here is her description of the photo: “Mark & Caroline (Kennett) Nickerson, my gg-grandparents.  They lived on the Maple Grove Road.  Mark was a selectman in Madison for several years.  He went on a 5-month whaling trip out of New Bedford, MA, in 1842 when he was 19 years old.  I have a trancscribed copy of a letter he sent to his parents, Joshua & Lucy (Phillips) Nickerson, after he returned, which describes the trip.  Fascinating.”

Madison High, Class of 1933

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Madison High, Class of 1933

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File name: Madison High, Class of 1933.jpg
File format: JPEG, 72 ppi
File size: 3072 x 2162 pixels

Item information

Black and White Photograph
Date: 1933
Size: unknown

This photograph is in the private collection of Lois C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Nickerson Family of Madison, NH. Ms. Jenkins scanned and provided this image, which we have permission to share here.

Here is her description of the photo: “[This photo shows] my mother’s graduating class at Madison High, class of 1933. L-R: Bill (William) Savary; my mother, Caroline Nickerson she was then; Christine Johnson Hidden; Helen Lyman; Marion Elizabeth Johnson; & Bertwell P. Gerry.”

This photo was likely taken in front of the Madison Church, which was the location for Madison High School’s Commencement ceremonies. The bronze plaque on the monument shown in the background was relocated the Veterans’ Monument in front of Madison Town Hall in 2012.