Thomas Dearborn Little was born in Salisbury, N.H., August 14, 1823. He is a son of Thomas Rowell Little, a native of Newburyport, Mass., and Nancy (Webster), daughter of John Webster, one of the early settlers of Salisbury.
   He married, first, November 27, 1851, Susan E., daughter of Robert Smith, M.D. She was born October 2, 1828, in Amesbury, Mass, and died January 31, 1875.
   He married, second, Lucy L., daughter of Andrew Davis, of Rutland, Vt. She was born December 26, 1844.
   Mr. Little received his education principally at Salisbury Academy, and he subsequently taught school in winter for ten years.
   Having a liking for mathematical studies, he studied surveying with his uncle, Rev. Valentine Little, and assisted in the preliminary survey and location of the Northern New Hampshire Railroad, in 1845. He has continued the practice of surveying since that time, as his services have been required.
   Although he desired to enter college and get a more liberal education, he yielded to the wish of his parents and remained at the old homestead as a farmer and mechanic.
   He was appointed postmaster, under President Lincoln, in 1861, and held the office until he resigned, in 1869.
   In 1864 he spent some time in Virginia, in the service of the United States Christian Commission, having charge of Christian Commission headquarters of the Tenth Army Corps, being located on the Bermuda Hundred, about two miles southeast of Dutch Gap.
   He has served on the Board of Selectmen several times. In 1860 he was chosen a deacon of the Congregational Church, which office he continues to hold, and has identified himself with the moral and religious interests of the community.
   Mr. Little's home is the same that was occupied by his father and grandfather, who came here from Newburyport, Mass., in 1801. It is pleasantly located in the South village, near the Congregational Church with which Daniel Webster united in 1807, and was near the old academy in which Mr. Webster attended school. Such a location, amid the varied and beautiful scenery of these hill-tops, is a fit place for the development of physical and mental powers. They had the following children:
I. Thomas Rowell, born September 19, 1853; married, April 29, 1876, Carrie B., daughter of Lewis A. Hawkins.
II. Charles Webster, born December 20, 1855; died May 6, 1870.
III. Susan Paulina, born July 8, 1858; married, July 13, 1882, Rev. Samuel H. Barnum, son of Rev. S. W. Barnum, of New Haven, Conn.
IV. John Webster, born January 21, 1861, married, November 26, 1884, Hannah M., daughter of the late H. C. W. Moors.
V. Alice Maria, born June 4, 1866.
VI. Robert Smith, born May 7, 1870.
VII. William Dearborn, born January 11, 1874; died November 15, 1874.
VIII. Edwin Dearborn, born September 14, 1778.