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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stimulus mind" data-source="post: 26263149" data-attributes="member: 577135"><h2>EARL OF CHESTER</h2>Despite his drinking, Dexter still had business sense. Irving Wallace noted Timothy Dexter founded his fortune on sobriety and a hangover. He never drank in the morning and he never conducted business in the afternoon.<img src="https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Chester_Street_Chester_NH.jpg" alt="street" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Chester Street, Chester, N.H.Marquand speculated he moved to Chester, a thriving mercantile town, to invest in real estate. Whatever the case, he took to calling himself the Earl of Chester. A child who called him “Lord Dexter” could expect a quarter, an adult, perhaps dinner and drinks.He continued to pursue women, possibly the reason a lawyer waylaid him and beat him savagely.<h2>LORD DEXTER</h2>After his assault, Lord Dexter returned to Newburyport. He bought a princely estate once owned by Jonathan Jackson, Nathaniel Tracy’s business partner.<a href="https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lord-timothy-dexter-house-color.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lord-timothy-dexter-house-color.jpg" alt="The Lord Timothy Dexter House" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>The Lord Timothy Dexter HouseHe created an outdoor museum on the grounds with 40 garishly painted wooden statues of such diverse figures as Louis XVI, Adam and Eve, Toussaint Louverture and John Hancock. The first three U.S. presidents stood astride a giant arch. Dexter had at least one statue of himself, with the motto, “I am the first in the East, I am the first in the West, and the greatest philosopher in the western world.”Marquand believed Dexter’s madness had a method. He had invested in the Essex-Merrimack Bridge, and traffic was falling off. Dexter, thought Marquand, was trying to increase traffic across the bridge with his “outdoor museum.” It did attract many visitors, including pretty young damsels with whom Dexter tried improper liberties.As his drinking and tempter worsened, Lord Dexter turned to eccentrics and sycophants for praise and comfort. Madame Hooper, for example, had a double set of teeth and a chicken for a companion. She told his fortune. Jonathan Plummer, a fishmonger and purveyor of pornography, wrote poems about Dexter’s greatness. He also had a little dog, probably a Mexican hairless, who never left his side when he was drunk.In 1802, Dexter published a 24-page book that criticized the clergy, politicians and his wife. Full of misspellings, it had no punctuation. He called it A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (you can read the whole thing here). He handed the book out for free, but it grew popular and went through eight reprintings. In the second edition, Dexter added a page that consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks with instructions the readers could distribute as they pleased.Wallace described it as ‘an egotistical, opinionated, coarse defence of Dexter, by Dexter, against all “Enemys” who were anti-Dexter.’<h2>FUNERAL</h2>Shortly before Dexter died, he staged his own funeral, bribing his family to go along with the ruse. He wanted to see how people would react. He beat his wife afterwards because she didn’t cry enough.Lord Timothy Dexter died at age 59 on Oct. 26, 1806, leaving money for the care of Newburyport’s poor. The storm of 1815 damaged the statues, and they sold for a few dollars at auction. Those that weren’t sold were burned.The Timothy Dexter house became a tavern and then went through a series of owners. Marquand noted that several wealthy families lived in it and added Victorian embellishments. It was hard, he wrote, to tell where Dexter left off and the Victorians started.In 1988, painters set it on fire by removing paint with a torch. The fire destroyed the cupola and golden eagle on the roof, but the Society for the Preservation of New England Architecture (now Historic New England) had the original blueprints. The house was rebuilt and is now privately owned.Years after he died, Sarah Anna Emery described Dexter in Reminiscences of a Newburyport Nonagenarian. “Though ignorant and illiterate, and doubtless somewhat indebted to luck for his good fortune, still it is evident the man was both shrewd and sagacious,” she wrote.<a href="https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lord-timothy-dexter-mansion.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lord-timothy-dexter-mansion-300x198.jpg" alt="lord timothy dexter mansion" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Source :   newenglandhistoricalsociety.com</blockquote>

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