Transcription of Dover’s Spanish-American War Memorial

In front of Dover City Hall (288 Central Ave., Dover, NH) stands a Spanish-American memorial.  A similar sight can be found in many New England towns.  Although largely ignored by passersby, the inscribed plates on the statue base contain quite a lot of information of interest to genealogists, including a list of Dover residents who served in this conflict, as well as their ranks.  I am not aware of this information being online anywhere else, so I am providing this transcription to make these names more readily available to other genealogists.

Plate on front of statue base with town seal

CITY OF DOVER INC. 1855 
TOWN SETTLED 1623

Text on ribbon in seal

INDUSTRIA ET COPIA

Plate on reverse with dedicatory inscription

DEDICATED BY THE CITY OF DOVER TO THE HONOR OF HER SONS WHO SERVED
IN THE ARMY AND NAVY OF
THE UNITED STATES
DURING THE
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION
AND
CHINA RELIEF EXPEDITION
1898 1902

NOT A WAR FOR CONQUEST OR FOR
MILITARY GLORY, BUT A RIGHTEOUS WAR
FOUGHT BY AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS TO
SUCCOR THE WEAK AND OPPRESSED
AGAINST FOREIGN TYRANNY AND TO
GIVE TO CUBA AND THE PHILIPPINES
A PLACE AMONG THE FREE PEOPLES
OF THE EARTH.

"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT
A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."

Plate on left side of base

PRIVATES

NELSON E AVERILL
OLIVER BOUDREAU
WILLIE BOUDREAU
JOHN J BRENNAN
JOHN BURLEY
GUY M COURSON
BENJAMIN R CANNEY
JOHN CARNEY
ELMER CHEVALT
FRANK CARREGHER
EDGAR A DAVIS
HUGH DONNELLY
JOSEPH DROUIN
JAMES F DUFFY
PETER J DUFFY
THOMAS J DUFFY
PEARL FOSS
FRANK H GLIDDEN
OWEN E HANRATTY
HERBERT E HILL
R ARNOLD HILL
HENRY HUGHES
JOHN P HUGHES
FRED O JACKSON
WILLIAM J MAHONEY
JOHN J MCCOOEY
JOHN F MCDONALD
ARTHUR H MERCHANT
RICHARD MANNIX
OWEN J MOONEY
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
EDWARD M MURPHY
FRANK O NASON
CARROLL E PINKHAM
JOHN W ROGERS
JOSPEH W SAVOIE
FRED W STEUERLAND
JAMES SUNDERLAND
ALBERT A TALYLOR
CLARENCE R TUTTLE
CHARLES W VICKERY
CHARLES G WALDRON
WILLIAM G WEBBER
IRVING L WHITEHOUSE
HENRY R WOOD
GEORGE W WILLEY

Plate on rear base

MONUMENT COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY GOVERNMENT
HON. JAMES P. KEENAN — MAYOR
CARROL G CROUCH — ALDERMAN
MARK J PILGRIM 
RAYMOND B PEABODY } COUNCILMEN [bracket around all three names]
JAMES P KIDNEY

Additional plate in front of statue, with personified liberty, mourning, wearing Phrygian (liberty) cap, one arm outstretched, the other holding shield with Union Shield emblazoned

IN MEMORIUM

U.S.S. MAIN
DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR
FEBRUARY 15TH 1898
THIS TABLET IS CAST FROM METAL RECOVERED FROM THE USS MAINE

© 1913 Jno. Williams Inc
                     N.Y.

Plate on right side of monument base

CAPTAIN
FRANK E ROLLINS

CAPTAIN QM.
HALDIMAND P YOUNG

LIEUTENANTS
FRANK H KEENAN
LEWIS E TUTTLE

SERGEANTS
JOHN H GAILEY 1ST
JOHN SUNDERLAND JR.
JOSEPH T CRONIN
FRANK F DAVIS
JOSEPH CONNELL
HERBERT C GRIME QM.

CORPORALS
JOHN R MALONEY
FRANK E RUSS
EDGAR M FOSS
CASSIUS B ROBERTS
ALEXANDER MCCABE
JAMES J MCNALLY
CLARENCE H WHITEHOUSE
JOHN KIDNEY
HARRY E BROOKS
MICHAEL J TRAINOR
FRANK H SWAIN
ALRIC W RAMSEY
EDMUND W CORDES

COOKS
JOHN E CARROLL
JAMES RODDEN

ARTIFICER
AUSTIN E SANBORN

WAGONER
JOHN P MINITER

MUSICIANS
JOHN B HEBERT
EDWARD DOHERTY
WILLIAM ROSSITER

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