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CATALOG NUMBER HF 3049 A
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE July 20, 1885
AUTHOR Richard S. Maloney
RECIPIENT Mr. George B. [Hillard?]
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE John Molony, Richard S. Moloney, Professor Lucien Hunt, Dr. R.
D. Mussey, General Frank Pierce, Horatio Seymour, Winfield
Hancock, C. E. Tilton, Hon. Samuel Tilton
PLACES Humboldt, NE; Lincoln, NE; Merrimack Country, NH; Belknap
County, NH; Strattford County, NH; Litton, NH; Northfield, NH; Philips Exeter Academy, Dartmouth College; Belvidere, IL; Congress, Baltimore, MD; Tammany Hall, New York; Cincinnati;
EVENTS response to enquiry for history of Merrimack and Belknap counties
in New Hampshire, biography of John Molony, biography of Richard S. Molony,
No envelope
*Original spelling retained throughout work, content appears exactly as written.
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“Copy”
Mr. Geo. R. [Hillard] Humboldt, Richardson C[unrecovered]
July 20th 1885
Dear Sir, Your letter to me dated May 20th 1885 was forward/=ed to me from Lincon [Neb.] over one month ago, being much / our of health, I have delayed answering it until now, For the / last three years, my son RS Molony Jr. [inserted: + family] have been living at / Lincoln + I have been there a part of my time. But now we / all have our homes here, where my business is, being engaged / in improving a tract of land, that I own near this town. / I have carefully read your letter, and have no doubt that . your “History” of Merrimack + Belknap counties will be worthy / of the citizens of said counties + no doubt that you will be well / patronized when your History of said counties shall be ready / for distribution among your patrons, I would be pleased . to have you send to me one of your Books, by Express ad - / dressed to RS Molony in Humboldt, Richardson Co. [Neb.] / marked C. O. [ink blot] and on receipt of the same will send / to you the $12.50/100 which you say is the price of your / “History”. Upon the receipt of your “Book” and perusal / of it, [inserted: if] it meets my expectations, I shall order another copy / of it, if you shall have a surplus of them.
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I would send you, as requested, my photograph for an en - / graving, but the times are so hard, and the demands upon me / that I must meet are so numerous, that all my income is / absorbed, and cannot send the [$2.50?], the price of the steel / plate + engraving, which I suppose is reasonable, for the kind / of work that you will do. You say the Prof. Lucien / Hunt [inserted: will] write up the History of Northfield. Perhaps he would / be pleased to know something of my own History + that of / my father, both of whom were born in Northfield N.H. and / my father died + is buried there, A brief biographical notice / of us both I here with submit for him, John Molony / my father was born in Northfield N. H. and died there in . June [18832], 59 years old. He was a successful business / man, was a sheriff for 28 years in Merrimack + Strafford / counties appointed by the [crossed out: Gov] [inserted: High Sheriff] I think, was a large land / owner (improved farms situated not more than 2 or 3 miles from / his home which was, and is now near the village of [Litton]) / He began life a poor boy, but by great energy and decision / of character, he supported a large family and acquired an / independence His highest ambition was the education of / his children, to accomplish which he spent freely his / property which he had accumulated by a life of God / and good judgement /
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I was sent to Philips Exeter Academy when a boy of fifteen / (15) Entered Dartmouth College when 17 years old, spinal disease / caused by an injury compelled me to leave after 2 years ./ in 1834 I commenced the study of medicine, In 1835 I became / a private pupil of Dr. R. D. Mussey and gratuated / M. D. at Dartmouth College in 1837 after attending . 3 courses of public lectures [inserted: 3 ½ years as a pupil]. I think it will not be / deemed as egotistical if I should state a fact, showing / my standing as a medical [schollar], by that the medical / students, by a very large majority, requested me to [crossed out] / deliver the valedictory to the [grduating] class. Which / I declined with thanks, distrusting my ability / I came to Illinois in April 1838 settled at Belvidere / in the Rock River country, 80 miles west of Chicago. / practiced my profession there until 1850, when I was / elected to Congress from a District including Chicago, then having about 50000 people said District embra= / about ¼ of the territory of the state of Illinois and containing / 200000 [sic] people, the largest population of that time of any / Congress. district in the United States I believe.
Twice, while a citizen of Illinois, I represented partly my state / in national conventions. In 1852, at Baltimore, when / Gen. Pierce was nominated for President /
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And again in 1868 on Tammany Hall, N.Y. when Horatio / Seymour was nominated for Pres. /
In 1876, I came to Nebraska for the purpose of developing / a tract of land which I entered in 1860 / near this Town. In that work, I am spending the evening / of my days, very pleasantly and usefully to the communi - / ty and myself + family.
Since I came to Nebraska I was chosen unexpectedly / to me, as one of the delegates from Nebraska to the Demo - / cratic National Convention, which assembled in / Cincinnati in 1880 and nominated Winfield S’ott / Hancock for Pres. I am now 74 years old and / can truly say that my last days are among my best / I left N. H. in 1837 and never returned to it, until / 1884 after an absence of 47 years. How sadly / altered!! I shall never forget the kind attentions / of C. E. [Lilton] Esq. and of his very cultured and amiable wife / to me on my last visit to my native town. Mr. Tilton belongs / to a race of noble men and he eminently is an honor / to his family, his family + mine have always been / friends. His father the Hon. Samuel Tilton / whom I met for the last time 1852 in the Baltimore / convention that nominated Frank Pierce for Pres. / I loved as my fathers friend
Your etc
RS Molony Sen.
[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishTranscription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3049 B
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE July 20, 1885
AUTHOR Richard S. Maloney
RECIPIENT George R. [Hillard?]
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Emma Nicholas Moloney, Richard S. Moloney Jr., Anne Hoffman
Moloney Neely, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Ogden Hoffman,
PLACES
EVENTS marriage of Richard S. Maloney and Emma Nicholas
*Original spelling retained throughout work, content appears exactly as written.
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“Copy”
Mr. Geo. R. [Hillard] Humboldt, Richardson C[unrecovered]
July 20th 1885
Dear Sir, Your letter to me dated May 20th 1885 was forward/=ed to me from Lincon [Neb.] over one month ago, being much / our of health, I have delayed answering it until now, For the / last three years, my son RS Molony Jr. [inserted: + family] have been living at / Lincoln + I have been there a part of my time. But now we / all have our homes here, where my business is, being engaged / in improving a tract of land, that I own near this town. / I have carefully read your letter, and have no doubt that . your “History” of Merrimack + Belknap counties will be worthy / of the citizens of said counties + no doubt that you will be well / patronized when your History of said counties shall be ready / for distribution among your patrons, I would be pleased . to have you send to me one of your Books, by Express ad - / dressed to RS Molony in Humboldt, Richardson Co. [Neb.] / marked C. O. [ink blot] and on receipt of the same will send / to you the $12.50/100 which you say is the price of your / “History”. Upon the receipt of your “Book” and perusal / of it, [inserted: if] it meets my expectations, I shall order another copy / of it, if you shall have a surplus of them.
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I would send you, as requested, my photograph for an en - / graving, but the times are so hard, and the demands upon me / that I must meet are so numerous, that all my income is / absorbed, and cannot send the [$2.50?], the price of the steel / plate + engraving, which I suppose is reasonable, for the kind / of work that you will do. You say the Prof. Lucien / Hunt [inserted: will] write up the History of Northfield. Perhaps he would / be pleased to know something of my own History + that of / my father, both of whom were born in Northfield N.H. and / my father died + is buried there, A brief biographical notice / of us both I here with submit for him, John Molony / my father was born in Northfield N. H. and died there in . June [18832], 59 years old. He was a successful business / man, was a sheriff for 28 years in Merrimack + Strafford / counties appointed by the [crossed out: Gov] [inserted: High Sheriff] I think, was a large land / owner (improved farms situated not more than 2 or 3 miles from / his home which was, and is now near the village of [Litton]) / He began life a poor boy, but by great energy and decision / of character, he supported a large family and acquired an / independence His highest ambition was the education of / his children, to accomplish which he spent freely his / property which he had accumulated by a life of God / and good judgement /
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I was sent to Philips Exeter Academy when a boy of fifteen / (15) Entered Dartmouth College when 17 years old, spinal disease / caused by an injury compelled me to leave after 2 years ./ in 1834 I commenced the study of medicine, In 1835 I became / a private pupil of Dr. R. D. Mussey and gratuated / M. D. at Dartmouth College in 1837 after attending . 3 courses of public lectures [inserted: 3 ½ years as a pupil]. I think it will not be / deemed as egotistical if I should state a fact, showing / my standing as a medical [schollar], by that the medical / students, by a very large majority, requested me to [crossed out] / deliver the valedictory to the [grduating] class. Which / I declined with thanks, distrusting my ability / I came to Illinois in April 1838 settled at Belvidere / in the Rock River country, 80 miles west of Chicago. / practiced my profession there until 1850, when I was / elected to Congress from a District including Chicago, then having about 50000 people said District embra= / about ¼ of the territory of the state of Illinois and containing / 200000 [sic] people, the largest population of that time of any / Congress. district in the United States I believe.
Twice, while a citizen of Illinois, I represented partly my state / in national conventions. In 1852, at Baltimore, when / Gen. Pierce was nominated for President /
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And again in 1868 on Tammany Hall, N.Y. when Horatio / Seymour was nominated for Pres. /
In 1876, I came to Nebraska for the purpose of developing / a tract of land which I entered in 1860 / near this Town. In that work, I am spending the evening / of my days, very pleasantly and usefully to the communi - / ty and myself + family.
Since I came to Nebraska I was chosen unexpectedly / to me, as one of the delegates from Nebraska to the Demo - / cratic National Convention, which assembled in / Cincinnati in 1880 and nominated Winfield S’ott / Hancock for Pres. I am now 74 years old and / can truly say that my last days are among my best / I left N. H. in 1837 and never returned to it, until / 1884 after an absence of 47 years. How sadly / altered!! I shall never forget the kind attentions / of C. E. [Lilton] Esq. and of his very cultured and amiable wife / to me on my last visit to my native town. Mr. Tilton belongs / to a race of noble men and he eminently is an honor / to his family, his family + mine have always been / friends. His father the Hon. Samuel Tilton / whom I met for the last time 1852 in the Baltimore / convention that nominated Frank Pierce for Pres. / I loved as my fathers friend
Your etc
RS Molony Sen.
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X on the 28th of June 1839 (my birth day) I was married / to Emma Nicholas, who was born and raised in / the City of New York. She was grand daughter of / Judge Josiah Ogden Hoffman, and niece of / Hon. Ogden Hoffman, New York’s famous / Criminal lawyer. On the day of our marriage I was / 28 years olf, and Miss Nicholas in her 23 year of age / She in herited a rare gifts of her family and of / course was talented refined and above all a / self-sacrificing [inserted: Christian] wife and mother /
I have had many blessings in my life but the / crowning one [double underlined] of them all, was my marriage to Miss / Nicholas for which I shall never cease to be thankful / to my father in Heaven. _
She died on the 1st day of April 1866 after having / lived together 27 years, leaving a daughter, Mrs. Anne H. Neely and a son R. S. Molony now / surviving her.
The above should be inserted on 3 page of this biography - / cal sketch, nine lines from bottom of said page _ after / the words “West of Chicago” and before the words, “practiced my profession”
RS Molony Sen
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Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
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