Goddard, Nathan W. (1799-1887)

Name:

Goddard, Nathan W. (1799-1887)

Title:

Alderman, City of Nashua, NH, 1853
Member, Pilgrim Church, Nashua

Other Names:

Goddard, Nathan Willis / Gozard

Born:

11/05/1799

Birthplace:

Granby, CT

Died:

06/10/1887

Death Location:

Marblehead Neck, MA

Residence:

Granby, CT 1799, 1830
Nashua, NH 1827-1887

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith
Goldsmith
Jeweler
Watchmaker

Father:

Goddard, Nathan (1767-1834)

Mother:

Spring, Aurelia A.

Relations:

At this time, unknown relationship to Benjamin Goddard III, who's mark overstamps Nathan's on spoon 1986.108.38.
Grandparents: Rosanna Hayes and Nathan Gozard (1740-1814), Granby, CT.
Partnership, Goddard & Perkins, Nashua, NH 1831-1833.
(Nathan W. Goddard and Edward V. Perkins)
Partnership, N. W. Goddard & Son, Nashua, NH 1862-1871

Spouse:

Mary Berry Perkins (1806-1871), September 23, 1830, Newmarket

Children:

John Melvin, born July 29, 1831, Nashua; died July 31, 1921, Philadelphia, PA; watchmaker; m. Sarah Jane Brown.
Franklin Willis, born August 6, 1833; died July 6, 1837
Nathan William, born May 12, 1836, Nashua; died March 29, 1921, Swanee, TN; jeweler, worked with his father; also dealer in tailor trimmings; m. Emma __;
Mary Melissa, born November 15, 1838; died 1882
Aurelia Maria, born May 31, 1841 died August 30, 1841
Charles Vincent, born July 8, 1842; died May 14, 1891, Brooklyn, NY; jeweler
George Edward, born October 25, 1843; m. Maud Guthrie Scott, 1889; res. Pittsburgh, PA

Notes:

Louise Conway Belden, Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection. (Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1980), 194.

John W. Harms and Pearl Goddard Harms. The Goddard Book Volume I. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., 1984), 50.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Exeter, New Hampshire: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 103.

Caroline F. Sloat, Editor. Meet Your Neighbors: New England Portraits, Painters, & Society, 1790-1850. (Surbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village, 1992), 97-99.

Nashua Directory, 1841-1879.

New England Business Directory, 1875-77.

New Hampshire Buiness Directory, 1868-77.

Marriage Notice, Dover Enquirer, Dover, NH, October 5, 1830, 3.

"Goddard & Perkins" Advertisement, Nashua Gazette and Hillsborough County Advertiser, Nashua, NH, May 11, 1832, 2.

"Dissolution of Copartnership" Advertisement, Nashua Gazette and Hillsborough County Advertiser, Nashua, NH, May 24, 1833, 2.

"N. W. Goddard & Sons Jewelry Store Robbery," The Farmers' Cabinet, Amherst, NH August 23, 1871, 2.

Obituary, Nashua Daily Telegraph, Nashua, New Hampshire, June 10, 1887.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives.

Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashua, NH