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