Greenleaf, Seth (1812-1880)

Name:

Greenleaf, Seth (1812-1880)

Title:

Member, Republican Party
Member, Blazing Star Lodge, F. A. M., 1861

Born:

06/28/1812

Birthplace:

Lancaster, NH

Died:

09/03/1880

Death Location:

Plymouth, NH

Residence:

Lancaster, NH 1812
Haverhill, NH 1837, 1839, 1841-1848
Danville, VT 1841
Plymouth, NH 1850
Concord, NH 1860
Littleton, NH 1865-1880

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Stage coach driver, 1826-1848
Conductor, Boston, Concord, Montreal Railroad (B.C. M.), 1848-1865
Mine and Furnace Operator, Lisbon, 1865-1870

Father:

Greenleaf, David (1753-1835)

Mother:

Stockwell, Ruth (1778-1856)

Relations:

Great-grandson: Seth Greenleaf Smith, donor of 1948.9.4.
Father: David Greenleaf served in the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord, and at Bunker Hill. David Greenleaf married 4 times, and had 19-21 children.

Spouse:

Lydia Hall Burnham (1810-1903), November 13, 1836

Children:

Harriet Newell, born September 3, 1837; died February 23, 1840
William Henry, born July 24, 1839; died
Charles Henry, born July 23, 1841; Died April 4, 1924

Notes:

James R. Jackson, Editor. History of Littleton, New Hampshire.Volume III. Genealogy. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published for the Town of Littleton by the University Press, 1905), 238.

Henry H. Metcalf, "A Leading Man in a Leading State Interest," The Granite Monthly, 38(March 1906)3, 69, 71, 72.

"Minerals of the State," New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, July 1, 1868.

"Death of Seth Greenleaf, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, September 9, 1880.

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

Trinity Churchyard Cemetery, Holderness, NH