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bascall

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iconnumber posted 02-15-2009 03:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From what I'm seeing in the U S Federal Census's the tentative identification for John Mooar as a Manchester, New Hampshire jeweler and the son of John Mooar of Hollis, New Hampshire is correct. The younger John's brother Jacob W is with John in Manchester in 1870. Jacob W was a physician.

John married Lucinda A Dodge 17 December 1846. Lucinda died in 1859. John married Hattie A Sayles 6 February 1868. John's daughter Ella Augusta born 10 June 1852 married Charles L Moulton.

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iconnumber posted 02-16-2009 02:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Two more Mooars, Humphrey and Lot who were both younger brothers of Johns were jewelers and watchmakers together in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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iconnumber posted 02-16-2009 09:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for wev     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What year? 1850? Lot probably did not stay in trade long, but returned to Hollis and took up the family farm at Mooar's Hill.

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I find Lot in the 1857 and 1859 directories for Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is the U S Federal Census's for Hollis, Massachusetts in 1850 and 1860, so his time in the business must have been short. It may even have been a short lived apprenticeship, but he is listed as a jeweler only in the directories.

And then Jacob W shows up in the 1860 U S Federal Census for Lawrence, Massachusetts as a jeweler. He is not in any directories as a jeweler that I have access to.

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iconnumber posted 02-16-2009 01:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for wev     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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And then Jacob W shows up in the 1860 U S Federal Census for Lawrence, Massachusetts as a jeweler. He is not in any directories as a jeweler that I have access to.

If that is true, he must have taken up medicine soon after, as he was well-known as a doctor in Manchester NH.

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He was still in his twenties in 1860 and as noted above he was a physician in Manchester in 1870.

Just a quick glance on line, if this is believeable, revealed that in the mid nineteenth century residency was not seen as necessary for general practice.

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iconnumber posted 02-16-2009 02:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for wev     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Perhaps he was changed by his experiences in the Civil War -- he enlisted in Stark's New Hampshire Regiment in 1861.

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iconnumber posted 02-18-2009 12:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Jacob Washington Mooar was born on 7 March 1831. He enlisted as a private in Company I, New Hampshire 5th Infantry Regiment on 15 October 1861.

He was commissioned an officer on 10 February 1864, promoted to Full Assistant Surgeon on 27 February 1867, and mustered out 21 October 1868.

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