“He would never even refuse to assist a neighbor in the roug…

“He would never even refuse to assist a neighbor in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolicks for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them…” refers to which character?