Greenleaf, Charles Henry (1841-1924)

Name:

Greenleaf, Charles Henry (1841-1924)

Title:

Delegate, Republican National Convention 1888
Member, New Hampshire State House of Representatives 1895-1896, 1901-1902
Member, New Hampshire State Senate 1897-98
Member, New Hampshire Governor's Council 1905-06
Colonel, Military Aide to Gov. Benjmain F. Prescott, 1877
Director, Littleton National Bank, 1888-1903
Treasurer and Manager, Profile & Franconia Notch Railroad.

Born:

07/23/1841

Birthplace:

Danville, VT

Died:

04/08/1924

Death Location:

Pinehurst, NC

Residence:

Danville, VT
Concord, NH 1860
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Boston, MA
Franconia, NH 1870, 1800, 1900, 1910, 1920

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Hotel Proprietor, Profile House, White Mountains, 1865 to at least early 1900s. (business names included "Taft, Tyler & Greenleaf," "Taft & Greenleaf" in 1868, then sole charge from the death of Mr. Taft in 1881.)
Hotelier in other places: Washington, DC, New York, and Boston.

Father:

Greenleaf, Seth (1812-1880)

Mother:

Burnham, Lydia Hall (1810-1903)

Relations:

Partnership, Taft, Tyler & Greenleaf 1865-1868
Partnership, Taft & Greenleaf 1868-1881
Partnership, C. H. Greenleaf & Company 1886-
Franconia Notch Company

Spouse:

(1) Abby Frances Burnham (1841-1914), 1867
(2) Mabelle Furst (1873-1966), 1915

Children:

Edith, born April 6, 1916; died April 6, 1916, Pennsylvania

Notes:

Text from 1,000 New Hampshire Notables on Charles Henry Greenleaf (1919): "Hotel proprietor..; ed. public and private schools, Concord, N.H.; commenced hotel life in the summer of 1857 at the Profile House, White Mtns., remaining there 4 seasons, then 2 seasons at the Crawford House, then 2 years in New York and Washington, returning to the Profile House in 1865 as a member of the firm of Taft, Tyler & Greenleaf, succeeded in 1868 by Taft & Greenleaf, which continued until 1897, although Mr. Taft died in 1881. In 1897 a stock company was formed, with Mr. Greenleaf as president and general manager, which has continued to the present time. Since 1886 Mr. Greenleaf has also been a member of C. H. Greenleaf & Co., operating Hotel Vendome, Boston.

BEQUESTS:
It appears from the will that the disposition of objects was left to the discretion of the executors, including his wife, Mabelle Furst Greenleaf. Bequests of money were left to numerous organizations, including:
Trinity Churchyard Cemetery, Holderness, NH, where both Seth Greenleaf and Dennison R. Burnham are buried;
First Calvinist Baptist Church, Concord, NH;
Methodist Episcopal Church, Plymouth, NH;
Baptist Church, Franconia, NH;
Congregational Church, Franconia, NH;
Applachian Mountain Club, to establish the "Greenleaf Trail;"
Dartmouth College Outing Club;
Society for the Protection of N.H. Forests, "Greenleaf Fund," for acquisition and maintenance of forest reserves in N.H.;
New Hamphsire Orphans' Home, Franklin;
Littleton Hospital;
Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, NH

Sources:

James E. Greenleaf, Compiler. Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family. (Boston, Massachusetts: Frank Wood, 1896), 483-486.

Marion Howard, "New Hampshire Men as Boston Landlords," The Granite Monthly, 14(June 1892)6, 175-176.

James R. Jackson, History of Littleton, New Hampshire, in Three Volumes. Volume II. (Cambridge, Masschusetts: Printed for the Town of Littleton by the University Press, 1905), 81-82, 641, 646-647.

Henry H. Metcalf, Editor and Compiler. One Thousand New Hampshire Notables. Biographical Sketches of New Hampshire Men and Women, Native or Resident, Prominent in Public, Professional, Business, Educational, Fraternal or Benevolent Work. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Printing Company, 1919), 139-141.

Trinity Churchyard Cemetery, Holderness, NH