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On Page 75 of the book he wrote in 1949 , HERE AND THERE IN THE FAMILY TREE [op.cit.], Albert Boyden writes:
"My grandfather, Moses Hoag, was known to me only in his old age, his kindly countenance deeply lined and furrowed with the years. He seemed to me of a nature unworldly and without guile, a thought which is perhaps borne out by the fact that he is said to have had such a degree of kinship with his bees that he managed them, their hives and their honey bare-handed with impunity, like a child of nature. He had an oil of his own for clocks etc. which was well known in his community. He also prepared a salve of his own prescription, which quite widely sold through the countryside. We still have one of his advertising cards -- Hoag's Celebrated Adhesive Balm Salve."
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After the death of his first wife, Lydia, Alvin wrote to his cousin, Moses J. Hoag in Edmeston, Otsego County, New York. A typed copy of that letter (dated 20 February 1842) and another letter that he had written earlier, is in the Sandwich (NH) Historical Society Collection. Following are portions of that 1842 letter:
"I have been separated from her for causes hid in His own counsel. I have never doubted but that His designed it for my good to show me on whom I must look for happiness. that there is nothing sure nor durable here. Yes we have been separated. She has suffered the pains of sickness but death to her had no sting. and she is now a shining star in that mansion where sorrow is not known, singing praises to Him that has so early delivered her....
Thou knowest I have had one good wife and she has been taken from me and according to my doctrine I may look for another. Perhaps I have not been slothful in this. I hope in a few months to be placed in that state of almost perfect happiness I once was in possession of. But i have learned from the past not to place too dependence upon any thing in this world. We are placed here as social beings, and I for one was never made for a hermit and had almost as lief became (one) as to be a bachelor....
Father & Mother constitutes our family this winter. Merci has been ten weeks keeping school, her work & Levi has been at upper end of town 3 months in his school. They both will be home this week & then we share a decent family again. Levi will go to PA in the spring. Father and Mother are as well as usual for them. Mother wants to be remembered to you & Uncle and Aunt in particular. Moses family well as usual. Sarah's health has been better this winter. Uncle J__ health is very poor - does not go out much this winter in consequence of his lameness. Aunt C. you know is always sick when the rest are. She is not very smart."
In his 1949 book, HERE AND THERE IN THE FAMILY TREE (page 66), Albert Boyden writes:
"As far as I know, Alvin's sole title to fame was in the wealth of silken, silvery hair which crowned his old age. I never hear of 'Uncle Alvin' referred to without praise of his 'wonderful hair'. It appears in correspondence that Alvin was at one time living among the emigrant Frys in Iowa, but I am very sure that he returned to live out his latter days in Lynn, Mass."
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Abel was a farmer in Danville, New Hampshire. He and Caroline had no children.
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James served in the Civil War as a Private in Co. C of the 10th New Hampshire Infantry. He enlisted 11 August 1862. Battles in which he took part (all in Virginia) were at White Sulphur Springs, Fredericksburg and the Siege of Suffolk. He died of disease on 3 March 1863.
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Abigail, or "Abbie" as she was better known, was educated at Mount Holyoke Seminary, graduating in 1863 at age 13. She began teaching school at 15, and taught at different times for 10 years, before her marriage to Dr. Brown. She, like her mother before her, read widely and was a well-educated woman. Abbie is said to have had "remarkable insight into the most abstruse mathematical problems, and with an equal love for geography, languages and history. Her mind was very keen, and she had great determination of character. . . . At times students came to the town to study, or prepare themselves for college, with her, and, notwithstanding the heavy demands upon her time, she kept up her acquaintance with the best authors and reading Latin at sight" (Sinnett, THE HISTORY OF THE SCRIBNER FAMILIES [op. cit.], 51-52]. The family moved to Manchester about 1885. Abbie became very involved there in all kinds of charitable work among the inner-city missions, prisons, the Congregational Church and other organizations. She was a staunch supporter of Equal Rights for men and women. "Her heart was ever larger than her means and strength, and when she suddenly passed away the loss was most deeply mourned."