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BERNARD B. WHITTEMORE, OF NASHUA, N. H. 81
Regiments of Missouri Volunteers in tlie late w.ar, and commanded
the 2d Brigade, Ttli Div. of the 17th Corps in General
Grant's campaign against Vicksburg; was engaged in the
battles at Corinth under General Rosecrans, and at Jitbra,
Jackson, and Champion Hills, and with the 40th Missouri
Regiment was in the battles at Franklin and Nashville, under
General Thomas, and was afterwards sent to Mobile, and,
after the capture of that city, was stationed at Montgomery,
Ala., at the close of the war. At Champion Hills he received
an injury on the left knee from the kick of a horse, which gave
rise, some years afterwards, to a tumorous growth of bone in
the joint, which was removed bv a surgical operation in May,
1889, but had not healed up before the 16th of February, 1890,
when the leg had to be amputated above the knee, and he
recovered his health; he received a pension. After the war
he was appointed judge of the land commissioner's court of
the city of St. Louis, Mo., having jurisdiction of tlie condemnation
of land for public streets, and held the place till 1872.
He spent much time in reading and study, and indulged in
writing. He d. of apoplexy in St. Louis, Jan. 5, 1892, and was
buried with his relatives in Peterborough, N. H.
5. Sarah Smith Holmes, ° b. at Springfield, Vt., Sept. 4, 1825; m. Horatio
Kimball, of Nashua and Keene, N. H., Sept. 16, 1847. Child:
1. Samuel Holmes Kimball," b. at Nashua, N. H., May 28, 1848; enlisted
at sixteen in the N. H. Cavalry, and served a campaign in Vir-
ginia; res. Keene, N. H.
2. Edward Perry Kimball, '
b. at Keene, Oct. 21, 1855; printer; res,
Keene N. H.
6. Frances Sophia Holmes,' b. Oct. 20, 1829; d. Febrviary,
18.31. She
was an only child by second wife, Fanny (Moore), widow of
Dr. Jabez B. Priest, of Peterborough.
75. Jane Holmes,^ b. July 14, 1792; d. July 9, 1882; m., Dec. 25, 1815,
Bei'nard Whittemore, mercliant. He d. at Nashua, Aug. 8,
1846, aged 58 years, 11 months. Children:
1. Bernard Bemus Whittemore, ° b. in Boston, May 15, 1817; fitted for
college at Phillips Exeter academy (class of '82), and graduated;
Harvard College in 1839; studied law in the Harvard
Law School in 1840-'41, and was admitted to the Bar in Hillsborough
County, N. H. ; practised at Palmer, Amherst, and
Nashua, and in 1846 became, with his brother, F. P. Whittemore,
proprietor and editor of the Nashua Gazette^ imtil 1890.
He was a member of the state senate in 1852-53, alderman of
the city of Nashua in 1860, and city treasurer in 1801. He d.
in 1893.
2. Katherine Holmes Whittemore,^ b. July 12, 1819; m., Oct. 8, 1840,
General Israel Hunt, of Nashua; he d. Jan. 11, 1889. Children:
I. Israel Thorndike Hunt," b. Oct. 12, 1841 ; M. D. of Harvard Medical
College in 1870, and medical examiner for insurance companies
in Boston; m. Evangeline Foisee, of Nashua, in 1883. Child:
Katherine Evangeline Hunt,' b. Aug. 13, 1886; res. Chelsea,
Mass.
II. Frank Whittemore Hunt,« b. April 26, 1849;
res. Nashua.
3. Eloise C. Whittemore,'^ b. Aug. 28, 1822; m., June 8, 184:^, David F.
McGilvrav; merchant, of Boston. He d. Aug. 30, 1871. Children:
I. Alice E. McGilvray," b. Jan. 26, 1845; d. Feb. 22, 1869.
II. Jacob Bernard McGilvray," b. Aug. 13, 1850.
III. Katherine Holmes McGilvray,* b. May 19, 18.55; d. Nov. 7, 1879.
IV. David F. McGilvray," b. Oct, 5, 1858. Two sons and one dau, d, in
infancy.
4. Francis Parkman Whittemore, s b, March 29, 1825; printer; m., Jan,
27, 1851, Angeline H. Parks, of Palmer, Children:
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