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• Also Known As: Stevie

Stephanie married William D. ELLIOT in 1978 in New Hampshire. William (son of Howard W. ELLIOT and Esther MUNSTER) was born on 29 Nov 1943. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Porter W. ELLIOT was born on 22 Nov 1978.
2. Lewis ELLIOT was born in 1980 in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana.
3. Blair A. ELLIOT was born about 1982.

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• Residence: 2012, Alva, Lee, Florida

Notes:

From The Bedford Animal Hospital — Jonathan S. Lewis Jr. founded the Bedford Animal Hospital in 1944. Dr. Lewis, a New Hampshire native, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1943. He returned to New Hampshire and practiced briefly in Peterborough before establishing his veterinary practice in Bedford. The original hospital was a small frame building on Bedford Center Road near the present day Water Center.
 Bedford was a rural community with mainly dirt roads in the 1940’s, with many dairy farms that made up the bulk of Dr. Lewis’s practice. The telephone operator lived not far from the animal hospital. If a phone call for Dr. Lewis went unanswered (34 was the clinic’s number), she would look for his car in the driveway. If he were away on a farm call, she would take a message and give it to him when he returned.
 In 1953, Dr. Lewis was called to duty in the Air Force. He returned in January 1955 and purchased the property on Old Bedford Road where he built the present hospital. During his absence, many of the dairy farms had ceased operation, and the focus of veterinary medicine was changing from farm animals to companion animals. The present hospital was built primarily for treatment of small animals.
 By 1972, much of the farmland in Bedford was undergoing residential development. Dr. Lewis hired Carl T. DePrima DVM as an associate veterinarian in June 1972 to help care for the influx of new pets in the community. The practice grew, as did the need for additional veterinarians. In 1983, Dr. Lewis hired William L. Sofield DVM, PhD. to join the staff. Dr. DePrima and Dr. Sofield, still the current owners, bought the Bedford Animal Hospital from Dr. Lewis in December 1983 when Dr. Lewis retired.
 The house adjacent to the hospital was built in the late 1700’s. It was originally known in Bedford as the Old Cabinet House because the owner David Atwood was a cabinetmaker. He also made the best ox yokes in the area, an important skill as most farm work was done with teams of oxen. The house was rebuilt in 1958 after a fire destroyed most of it.

Jonathan married Janet Porter CARLETON on 24 Dec 1951 in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Janet (daughter of John Porter CARLETON and Alicia Prescott SKINNER) was born on 20 Jan 1933 in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 2012, Alva, Lee, Florida

Notes:

Source: Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention
AMHERST. – Jonathan S. Lewis, Republican; born in Boston, Mass., November 14, 1864; educated at the Newton Theological Institution; Baptist minister; married, four children; member of the A.O.U.W. and patrons of Husbandry; president of Amherst Athletic Association, trustee of town trust funds and of town library; member of the House of Representatives in 1915 and 1917; President N. H. Anti-Saloon League; appointed state agent for the enforcement of the Prohibitory liquor law whose enactment he was foremost in securing and which was known as the “Lewis Bill.”

Source : The Simmons Quarterly, 1911.
A son, Frederick Woodward, was born in August to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Lewis (Pearl Woodward).

Source : The Simmons Quarterly, 1919.
Rev. and Mrs. J. S Lewis (Pearl Woodward) of Amherst, NH, announce the birth of a second son, Jonathan Snow, Jr.

Jonathan married Pearl Luella WOODWARD on 27 Jul 1910 in Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Pearl was born on 22 Dec 1884 in Tyngsborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 30 Sep 1975 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Groton Cemetery, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Political Graveyard: Carleton, John P. of Bedford, Hillsborough, N.H. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1948. Still living as of 1948.

U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum: John P. Carleton was a true skiing pioneer in the north eastern United States. He captained the Dartmouth Ski Team, and later the Oxford University Ski Team, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. A lawyer he was also a veteran of both World Wars. He was on the first U.S. Olympic Ski Team, competing in Chamonix in 1924 in the cross country and nordic combined events. With Charles Proctor he was, in 1931, the first to climb and ski the Tuckerman headwall. In 1932 he competed in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association’s first downhill race on Mount Mooselauke. He also was successful in obtaining Civilian Conservation Corps funds for the development of 15 ski trails in New Hampshire.

— Register of Rhodes Scholars, 1903-1945 – p. 188
from Rhodes Trust (Oxford, England), University of Oxford Rhodes Scholarships, C. K. Allen - 1950 - 290 pages
Carleton, John Porter (New Hampshire)., b. 13 Sept. 1899. Hanover HSc. [...] Phillips Acad., Andover, Mass., & Dartmouth Coll. AB Magdalen 1922-5. Jurispr. 3rd CI. B.A. 1925.. L.T. v. Camb. 1923–5 (Capt. 1925). 1925– : Practice of Law, Manchester, N.H. ; 1928–9: Asst. Attorney-Gen. for N.H. 1939–45; Capt. to Maj., U.S. Army Air Corps; European theater; Bronze Star Medal. m. Alicia Prescott Skinner. One s. Two d. 40 Stark St., Manchester, NH

— A Genealogical and Biographical Record Concerning Amos Reed and Annie (Webb) Reed and All Their Descendants to January 1, 1955.
Worrall Dumont Prescott, 1956 (ISBN:1417300841)
Children of Dr. Elmer Howard Carleton and Louise Porter Carleton.
1. John Porter Carleton (only child).
Born, Sept. 13, 1899, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Married, Alice Prescott Skinner, July 1, 1931, Paris, France.
Alice Prescott Skinner, daug. of Ord Prescott Skinner and Alice Van Loan Carrick Skinner.
John graduated from Hanover High School; Phillips-Andover Academy; Dartmouth College, with a B.A. Degree, in 1922; Oxford University, England, with a B.A. and B.C.L. Degree. During his Junior year at Dartmouth he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a practicing attorney in Manchester, New Hampshire and a member of the Law Firm of “McLane, Carleton, Graf, Green & Brown.” In World War I he served as a Sergeant in the US Army and in World War II was a Major in the US Air Corps, 1942-1945. Alice attended Hanover High School; Northampton School for Girls; and Smith College. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa while at Smith. She also attended University of Grenoble and Sorbonne University in France.

Children of John Porter Carleton and Alice Prescott Skinner Carleton. John a son of Dr. Elmer Howard Carleton and Louise Porter Carleton. Dr. Elmer a son of Amanda T. Perkins Carleton and Leonard Carleton.
1. Anthony Wayne Carleton
Born, Jan. 22, 1935, Manchester, New Hampshire.
He is a Senior at Dartmouth College (Class of 1956)
2. Janet Porter Carleton
Born, Jan 20, 1933, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Married, Dr. Jonathan Snow Lewis, Jr., Dec. 24, 1951, Manchester, New Hampshire. Dr. Jonathan Snow Lewis, Jr., son of Jonathan Snow and Pearl Woodward Lewis. Born Mar. 14, 1919, Concord, New Hampshire. They live in Bedford, New Hampshire. Their children: (1). Stephanie Lewis, born, May 13, 1953, Ayer, Massachusetts. (2). Jonathan Snow Lewis, III, born, Oct. 13, 1955, Ayer, Massachusetts. Janet attended Manchester High School, Manchester, New Hampshire; Saint Mary’s, Littleton, New Hampshire; Saint Mary’s, Littleton, New Hampshire; and the University of Colorado.
Dr. Jonathan attended Concord High School, Concord, New Hampshire; New Hampshire University; and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Veterinary. He served two stretches in the U. S. Army. The last being in North Africa. He held the Rank of Major.
3. Alice Prescott Carleton
Born, Sept. 5, 1941, Manchester, New Hampshire.

John married Alicia Prescott SKINNER on 1 Jul 1931 in Paris, Seine, France. Alicia (daughter of Prescott Orde SKINNER and Alice Van Leer CARRICK) was born on 10 Dec 1909 in New Hampshire; died in Dec 1981 in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1910, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1920, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1930, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire

Notes:

She went to Smith College in Northampton, Mass.

Notes:

From The American Oxonian, Association of American Rhodes Scholars, 1931
J.P. Carleton, (New Hampshire and Magadalen) according to indirect but reliable news, was married in Paris, on July first, to Miss Alicia Prescott Skinner. He is a member of the law firm of McLane, Davis, & Carleton, Manchester,

Notes:

He was a physician, specialist in diseases of eye, ear and throat. He came to Hanover in 1893.

Elmer married Louise PORTERTroy, Rensselaer, New York. Louise (daughter of John Foster PORTER and Mary Blair) was born in Jul 1874 in New York; died after 1952. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1870, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1920, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1930, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1940, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire

Notes:

Letter from Prescott Orde Skinner to Mitia Olga Skinner:

[Mitia Olga is Prescott’s niece. First two pages of this letter are lost. Date is unknown]
 “[…] her aunt Alice (my wife) is most attractive. They are all coming up to Hanover to pass the Christmas. Alicias’s family with her husband’s (John Carleton) family, and John Skinner and Helen with us.
 “Now as to the Skinners, I will tell you what I know. The family in the late 17th or early 18th century, sailed from Chichester, England, settling in Colchester, Connecticut. Alice got a lot of the early history of our family from my mother who got it in turn from my father. Alice will write this early period to you. The Skinners that I descend from were all professional men, mostly ministers.
 “My grandfather Joseph Churchill Skinner was a Baptist minister in Nova Scotia and then in New Brunswick. I have his portrait taken in the 1840s or 1850s; an impressive looking man, dignified in his white shirt, and the dress ot his time.
 “At the beginning of the Revolution War, my ancestors Skinners were Tories (my father was not proud of this). They, with a few other of the same attachment to England, got into a large open boat and amidst all the perils of the sea, sailed north along the New England coast to Nova Scotia. I think they settled in what is known as the Evangeline country – but Alice will tell you about this.
 “My grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Churchill was called to New Brunswick and lived and preached for many years in a town on the Washademoak Lake, about fifty miles from the City of St. John up the St. John river.
 “My father was the second of seven children, born in Nova Scotia about two months before the family left for New Brunswick (1825). My father worked hard under difficulties, and finally entered Fredericton Academy (in New Brunswick) thence to Harvard University. He studied in the Harvard Medical School under such men as Professor Stones and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. My father used to tell us a great many anecdotes about Dr. Holmes in the classroom. My father was in the 1850s or 1860s interim in Mass. General Hospital.
 “For a number of years, my father practiced in St. John, New Brunswick. He made some money there, then went to Boston in Tremont Street, near the Common where I was born, then to the South End where he bought a house and made his office there. Later he sold the house, and our family moved to Roxbury a sort of suburb of Boston.
 “The story of my father’s marriage, Alice will tell you about. My mother, the best of women, insisted on us four boys having the finest opportunities for education. Macy and I in Harvard University, Vernon in Law School, and your father in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he stood well as a student.
 “Later I studied at the University of Paris – Harvard graduate School, and taught for 38 years at Dartmouth College where I am now a professor emeritus on a pension.
 “I don’t know but I think that the Daughters of the America Revolution insist on the ancestors being a native patriot. My own sympathies are all with the American cause, and in spite of my father’s ancestrial party membership, my father from boyhood always was in sympathy with the American cause.
 “But ask me some more and I will try to answer. Your Aunt Alice and I congratulate you on your engagement most heavily. As you write it, it seems a perfect match. By the way your aunt Alice is very fond of you.
 Love – Uncle Orde.”

From the “Harvard College, Class of 1896 Fiftieth Anniversary Report”:

Prescott Orde Skinner (1908)

PRESCOTT ORDE SKINNER took his A.M. at Harvard in 1897, and continued graduate study at Harvard and in Paris until 1900, whe he was appointed instructor in French at Dartmouth College. He served as professor of Romance Languages at Dartmouth until he became emeritus in 1938.
 “After my childhood which was spent in one of the pleasanter (no longer so) parts of the South End in Boston,” he writes, “I passed eight long profitable years at the Public Latin School in Boston. After an interval of several years, I entered Harvard. My two years in the Graduate School were a great revelation to me under the inspiration of Professors Grandgent an Sheldon. there I formed lifelong friendships with other students, many of whom entered a profession similar to my own.
 “My graduate studies were continued at the École des Hautes Études in Paris under world-famous scholars. I revisited Paris and other parts of Europe off and on – long enough each time to get the foreign atmosphere, cultivate some knowledge and love of the arts, and make some lasting friends, especially in France. Then followed thirty-seven years of teaching at Dartmouth College.
 “Since my promotion (ironic user of the word) to the status of professor emeritus at the age of seventy, I have missed somewhat my old classroms, but have not suffered too much from boredom. I have always loved long walks along the open road, through fields, woods, and over hills – deambulare per amoena loca. Today the length and speed of these walks are considerably curtailed. I have enjoyed frequent sojourns with my married children and find my grandchildren most attractive.
 “Locally, I frequent our splendid Dartmouth Library, have coffee down town with old cronies, and can appreciate the restfulness of my home life in our ancient Webster Cottage. Webster roomed in this house in his freshman year.
 “As I no longer have to keep to my former professional specialties, I indulge in the most miscellaneous reading an rereading, generally but not always of a high order. I might add that I follow Harvard’s athletic activities and am still a confirmed Harvard rooter.”
 Skinner was born April 28, 1867, at Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Skinner and Jennie Reid (Terwilliger) Skinner. “The Public Latin School in Boston,” he writes, “offered an eight-year course of study. We had Latin twice a day regularly, five years of Greed, plenty of modern and ancient history, and mathematics, English, and French in addition. From this training I gained a lifelong love for these subjects which was further stimulated by my Harvard teachers. Today I am reviewing with great pleasure the works of Horace”.
 On July 10, 1901, Skinner married Alice Van Leer Carrick at Boston, Massachusetts. Their children are: Margaret Van Leer (Mrs. Hancort), born August 12, 1902; John Carrick, born October 21, 1905; and Alicia Prescott (Mrs. Carleton), born December 10, 1909. There are five grandchildren. Skinner’s brother, Macy Millmore Skinner, received an A.B. from Harvard in 1894, an A.M. in 1895, and a Ph.D. in 1897.
 In World War II Skinner’s son, John, was a lieutenant in the New York National Guard.
 Skinner has written textbooks on his field. In 1937 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Litt. D.

Source: Notes toward a Catalog of the Buildings and Landscapes of Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Webster Cottage 1780 –

“

Webster Cottage – Dartmouth College

[…] P.O. Skinner owned the house by 1905; Alice Van Leer Carrick (his wife) wrote The Next-To-Nothing House about the cottage and its antiques collection in 1922. The College bought the building from Skinner in 1928 and moved it for Silsby Hall to a site at 27B North Main Street across from the Gamma Delta Chi House. Now the house faced the Choate House, the other Ripley dwelling. The College moved the house again c.1966 to the site in front of Cutter Hall where it now stands, again facing the Choate House. The building now houses the Hanover Historical Society. The c.1997 faculty residence that the College attached to Cutter/Shabazz stands in line with Webster Cottage and follows its appearance.[…]”

Occidental College Library Author: Dow, Louis Henry, 1872-
Title: Quelques contes des romanciers naturalistes; Pub info: Boston, D.C. Heath & company, 1907
Add author: Skinner, Prescott Orde Descript ix, 244 p. 17 cm.

Prescott married Alice Van Leer CARRICK on 10 Jul 1901. Alice (daughter of Samuel Pulsifer CARRICK and Mary Florence CLARK) was born on 1 Aug 1875 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee; died on 26 Nov 1961 in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1920, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1930, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1940, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire

Notes:

Source: New Hampshire Authors — Carrick, Alice Van Leer (Mrs. Prescott Orde Skinner) (1875–); lived in Hanover, NH; antiques expert

Source: Collectors Luck in France, 1924 by Carrick, Alice van Leer.

Source: Collector’s Luck, 1937 DeLuxe edition Garden City Pub 207 pp. Collector’s Luck, 1919 possible 1st Atlantic Monthly Press Pub 207 pp.

Source: Collector’s luck in England, Little Brown and Co. Boston 1926 inscribed by author, a good copy.

Source: A History of American Silhouettes – A Collector’s Guide, Charles E Tuttle Co.

Source: Shades of our Ancestors, Little, Brown and Co. Boston 1928. Red cloth with gilt lettering and silhouette on cover. Inscribed First Edition Condition: Previous owners’ signature on front fly endpaperand spine fading. otherwise, Very Good.

Source: Interview with A. Hyatt Mayor (march 21, 1969) Simthsonian Archives of American Art
[...]
HM: Yes. A number of silhouette collections came in. There was a little Mary Martin (not the actress), another one who, out of the blue, bequeathed us her silhouette collection. I don’t know who she was, never met her, have no idea.
PC: Just a letter came one day.
HM: Just a letter came one day from the lawyer saying it’s yours if you want it. It was a very good collection. Then I was able to get Glen Tilley Morse to bequeath his collection which was the next biggest American collection. And I was able to buy a lot of the ones out of a collection formed by Mrs. Hill in Charlottesville. Those were the three greatest American collections. Then there was Alice Van Leer Carrick whose collection went to the Smithsonian. But we got three out of the four great American collections of silhouettes.
[...]

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 — Name: Alice van Lear Skinner; Arrival Date: 2 Sep 1923; Port of departure: Glasgow, Scotland; Ship Name: Columbia.