Charles A. Downs came to Lebanon July 5, 1848, as a candidate for the pastorate of the Congregational Church, to succeed Rev. Phineas Cook, who had served the church for nineteen years; he was installed as pastor November 22, 1845, and continued in that office for twenty-five years, when, at his own request, the connection was dissolved. He continued to reside in Lebanon, but for a few years was the acting pastor of the church at Hanover Centre.
He served the state as superintendent of public instruction, and the town as selectman, representative, police judge, superintendent of schools, precinct clerk and treasurer, and town clerk, and spent much time and labor in the preparation The History of Lebanon, N.H., 1761-1887 (printed 1908). For fifty-eight years Mr. Downs was known to every citizen of Lebanon, and he left this earth without an enemy. He once said "I have tried to live so my obituarist would have nothing to say."
His children were:
Charles A. Downs, Jr
(one child Carrie Anita)
Anna K. Downs Durkee my great grandmother (her child Winona Laura Downs Durkee was my grandmother)
Eugene Seymour Downs (children Helen and Beatrice)
Clarence H. Downs
Marion T. Downs
Alan Burritt Downs
Bio by dnl his gr gr granddaughter.
He served the state as superintendent of public instruction, and the town as selectman, representative, police judge, superintendent of schools, precinct clerk and treasurer, and town clerk, and spent much time and labor in the preparation The History of Lebanon, N.H., 1761-1887 (printed 1908). For fifty-eight years Mr. Downs was known to every citizen of Lebanon, and he left this earth without an enemy. He once said "I have tried to live so my obituarist would have nothing to say."
His children were:
Charles A. Downs, Jr
(one child Carrie Anita)
Anna K. Downs Durkee my great grandmother (her child Winona Laura Downs Durkee was my grandmother)
Eugene Seymour Downs (children Helen and Beatrice)
Clarence H. Downs
Marion T. Downs
Alan Burritt Downs
Bio by dnl his gr gr granddaughter.
Charles A. Downs came to Lebanon July 5, 1848, as a candidate for the pastorate of the Congregational Church, to succeed Rev. Phineas Cook, who had served the church for nineteen years; he was installed as pastor November 22, 1845, and continued in that office for twenty-five years, when, at his own request, the connection was dissolved. He continued to reside in Lebanon, but for a few years was the acting pastor of the church at Hanover Centre.
He served the state as superintendent of public instruction, and the town as selectman, representative, police judge, superintendent of schools, precinct clerk and treasurer, and town clerk, and spent much time and labor in the preparation The History of Lebanon, N.H., 1761-1887 (printed 1908). For fifty-eight years Mr. Downs was known to every citizen of Lebanon, and he left this earth without an enemy. He once said "I have tried to live so my obituarist would have nothing to say."
His children were:
Charles A. Downs, Jr
(one child Carrie Anita)
Anna K. Downs Durkee my great grandmother (her child Winona Laura Downs Durkee was my grandmother)
Eugene Seymour Downs (children Helen and Beatrice)
Clarence H. Downs
Marion T. Downs
Alan Burritt Downs
Bio by dnl his gr gr granddaughter.
He served the state as superintendent of public instruction, and the town as selectman, representative, police judge, superintendent of schools, precinct clerk and treasurer, and town clerk, and spent much time and labor in the preparation The History of Lebanon, N.H., 1761-1887 (printed 1908). For fifty-eight years Mr. Downs was known to every citizen of Lebanon, and he left this earth without an enemy. He once said "I have tried to live so my obituarist would have nothing to say."
His children were:
Charles A. Downs, Jr
(one child Carrie Anita)
Anna K. Downs Durkee my great grandmother (her child Winona Laura Downs Durkee was my grandmother)
Eugene Seymour Downs (children Helen and Beatrice)
Clarence H. Downs
Marion T. Downs
Alan Burritt Downs
Bio by dnl his gr gr granddaughter.
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