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Various Town Tax Receipts & Misc. Receipts of Stephen Bennett
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Various Farmington tax receipts & misc. receipts of Stephen Bennett, dating back as far as 1856. Sizes vary, but are roughly 8"x3".
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Memorial
ON
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Exercises
THE DEATH O F
WILLIAM McKINLEY
P R E S I D E N T O F T H E UNITED
HELD AT T H E OPERA
STATES
HOUSE
F A R M I N G T O N , N. H,
Thursday, September 19, 1901
TWO
O'CLOCK.
�N E A E E E , MY GOD TO
THEE.
Nearer, m y G o d , to thee, nearer to thee!
E ' e n t h o u g h i t be a cross that raiseth me;
S t U l a l l m y song shall be. Nearer, m y G o d , to
thee.
Nearer, m y G o d , to thee! N e a r e r to thee!
T h o u g h like the wanderer, the s u n gone down.
D a r k n e s s be o r e r me, M y r e s t a stone;
Y e t i n m y dreams I ' d be. Nearer, m y G o d ,
to thee.
Nearer, m y G o d , to thee! N e a r e r to thee!
T h e r e let the w a y appear, steps unto heaven;
A l l t h a t t h o u sendest me, I n mercy g i v e n ;
A n g e l s to beckon me. Nearer, m y G o d , to
thee,
Neaj:er, my God, to thee! Nearer to thee!
�AMERICA.
M y country, 'tis of thee.
Sweet l a n d of liberty.
Of thee I sing;
L a n d where m y fathers died.
L a n d of the pilgrims' pride,
P r o m every mountain side.
L e t freedom r i n g !
M y native country, thee.
L a n d of the noble free.
T h y name I love;
I love t h y rocks and r i l l s .
T h y woods a n d templed hOls;
M y heart w i t h rapture thrills
L i k e that above!
O u r fathers' G o d to thee.
A u t h o r of liberty.
T o thee we sing;
L o n g may our l a n d be bright
W i t h freedom's holy l i g h t ;
P r o t e c t u s by t h y m i g h t ,
Gxeat G o d , our K i n g !
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Program- Farmington Memorial Exercises On The Death Of President William McKinley September 19th 1901
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A program covering the local memorial exercises held in Farmington on the death of President of the United States, William McKinley. The memorial was held at two o' clock on Thursday, September 19, 1901 at the Opera House on main Street. The program includes this information and the words of two songs, presumably to be sung at the memorial.
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another proof of the superiority of New Hampshire men.
The preparation of such a volume as this is necessarily attended
with much collaboration, and to all who have in any way assisted in
the work the editor desires to express his heartiest thanks, particularly
to Hon. A. S. Batchellor, Hon. James O. Lyford, Hon. Charles R.
O single volume can contain even a list of New Hampshire's
eminent sons, much less recount their achievements.
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one without climax, for each day adds a chapter. This volume, there
fore, makes no claim to completeness. It is presented as a manifestly
imperfect work, yet with the belief that it is far superior to anything of
a similar nature yet issued.
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is illimitable. It is impossible to cover it thoroughly; or even, perhaps,
to make judicious selection from it. Yet in this book the projectors
believe they present the results of discriminating comparison, showing
New Hampshire men of this generation in every walk of life. The
book has been long in preparation, yet no one connected with the enter
prise feels that the result does not justify whatever delay has been entailed.
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Corning, Mr. Allan H. Robinson, Mr. H. H. Metcalf, Mr. George W.
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who, among others, have been an invaluable source of aid in the com
pilation of the letter-press of the book.
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��S O closely is Hon. John B. Smith connected with New
Hampshire
and her interests that one is loath to credit another state with his
birth; yet it was in Saxton's River, Vt., April 12, 1838, that he was
born. At nine years of age, with his family, he removed to Hills
borough, where he was educated in the common schools, supplemented
by a course at Francestown academy. In 1854 he became a shop hand
in a peg-mill at Henniker, afterward was employed in Manchester, was
then a clerk in a country store at New Boston, and afterward became
proprietor of a drug store in Manchester, a year later establishing a
small factory at Washington for the production of knit goods. Soon
after he leased the Sawyer woollen mills at Weare. Encouraged by
his success in these ventures, he went to Hillsborough Bridge in 1866
and built a small mill that was the beginning of the extensive plant of
the Contoocook Mills Co., of which he is president. Until 188o Mr.
Smith made his residence in Manchester; since then he has lived at
Hillsborough Bridge, where he has just built a residence that is ranked
among the finest in the state. His wife is Emma E., a daughter of
Stephen Lavender, of Boston. In politics Mr. Smith has always been
an active Republican, though it was not until 1884 that he held office,
being in that year a member of the electoral college. Two years later
he was elected a member of the executive council, and in 1888 was a
candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, missing the honor by a
slight margin. In 1892 this honor came to him by acclamation, and
was followed by his election by the people, being the first governor
thus chosen since 1884.
GOV. JOHN B. SMITH.
As a business man, his career has been
marked by success. As an employer of labor, he has never met a
difficulty, though his employés are numbered by the hundreds. In
politics, his record is bright, and New Hampshire may well waive the
credit of his birth, since to her belong the fruits of his manhood's
endeavor.
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�H
ON. TRUE. L. NORRIS, member of Governor Smith's council
from the First district, was born in Manchester. He was edu
cated in the public schools of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and
fitted for Harvard college, but the call of his country echoed the voice of
duty, and he forsook a college course to enter the army, and saw service
with the Fifth Massachusetts volunteers.
At the conclusion of his mili
tary service, the youthful soldier took up the law as a student in the office
of his father, Col. A. F. L. Norris, in Boston, and was admitted to the
bar on the day that he attained his majority. Several years of practice
followed, until the allurements of a newspaper career drew him away
from the law to follow a more jealous mistress, journalism. With the
zest of a born journalist, Colonel Norris entered upon his work. For
several years he was stationed at Concord, where he represented the
AVew York //erald, the Boston Globe, and the l/anchester (7tton.
HON. TRUE L. NORRIS.
His
correspondence for these papers during the years of his service ranks
among the most brilliant of newspaper productions in the last ten years
in New England. The years covered by Colonel Norris at Concord,
were exciting in politics, and crowded with important events. In hold
ing up a daily mirror to this panorama, Colonel Norris displayed a ver
satility, a piquant originality, and a correctness and minuteness of de
scription that called attention to his work as among the best of its kind.
In 1887, Col. Charles A. Sinclair bought The Daily / vening Times,
and weekly States and (Whion, and Mr. Norris at once assumed the po
sition of editor and manager of both papers, thereupon transferring his
residence to Portsmouth. As an editor, he sustained the reputation he
had made as a correspondent; and as a manager, he has developed bus
iness qualities equal to his journalistic skill. As a result of this rare
combination, Colonel Norris has the satisfaction of presiding over a
bright paper, that in point of circulation and influence is second to.
none.
�ON. JOHN C. RAY of Manchester, member of Governor Smith's
council from the Second district, was born in Hopkinton, and is
66 years old, and through all the years of his life has been an active,
influential, and honored citizen. His parents removed to Dunbarton
when he was but seven years of age, and from this town, when he had
but barely become of age, he was sent as representative in the legisla
ture. His youth did not prevent his influence, however, and he was
gladly elected a second and a third time. His fellow-citizens afterward
honored him by election as chairman of the board of selectmen, and
superintendent of schools, and here, too, his service was eminently sat
isfactory. He was chosen superintendent of the state industrial school
at Manchester, July 2, 1874, and succeeding years have witnessed his
unanimous re-election by the trustees, despite his desire for release from
the duties. Mr. Ray's administration of this important public institu
tion has been marked with great success. A rigid disciplinarian, he
has tempered justice with mercy, yet never relinquishing his firmness.
Compelling respect, he has won also affection, and in dealing with those
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thrown under his care he has continued to make the influences of his
own personality a factor in the formation of the character inculcated
by the training of the school. Under him the state industrial school
has become a reformative, not a penal, institution. In addition to the
duties of this position, Mr. Ray also sat in the legislature during
HON. JOHN C. RAY.
the session of 1881 as a representative from Ward 2, Manchester, and
served as a trustee of the state normal school at Plymouth. He is
greatly interested in stock raising, and at Dunbarton he owns one of the
best stock farms in New Hampshire. On taking his seat in the council
he resigned his position as superintendent of the industrial school, but
the trustees of the institution, with full recognition of the value of Mr.
Ray's services, have steadfastly declined to accept his resignation.
�H E family of Hon. Edward O. Blunt have been honored in
In that city, Mr. Blunt was
born, forty-five years ago. He was educated in the public schools and
became a member of the firm of J. G. Blunt & Son, a firm that suc
ceeded to a business established by Mr. Blunt's grandfather in 1836.
T Nashua through three generations.
Of this business Mr. Blunt became owner in 1883, when his father died,
HON. EDWARD O. BLUNT.
after forty-nine years of active mercantile life. Mr. Blunt's great interest
in public affairs in the city of his birth and residence led him soon to
office, and he was made a member of the board of aldermen during the
administrations of Mayors Williams and Holman, being with one excep
tion the only man that has ever served three years as alderman from
Ward 6. In this position Mr. Blunt's years of service were given to
various important committees, and under his championship and direc
tion a part of the present sewerage system of Nashua was built. In a
larger field of politics Mr. Blunt has also won renown. For many years
he was a member of the Republican state committee. In 1881 he was
a representative in the legislature. In 1886 he was elected to the state
senate, serving in the session of 1887 as chairman of the committees
on labor and incorporations, and as a member of others. The first
named committee was an especially important one during the session of
1887, by reason of the large amount of labor legislation that was pro
posed or enacted in that year. In 1892 Mr. Blunt was again called to
office by an election to Governor Smith's council, where he sits as the
representative from the Third district, elected by a large majority on the
popular vote. His knowledge, gained by a varied experience in local,
municipal, and legislative bodies, and state administration, is gauged by a
personal acquaintance that extends over all New Hampshire, among
which acquaintance there are none to gainsay the honor, the courtesy,
the ability, and more than all, that unfailing and modest liberality that
endears him most to those who know him best.
�ON. FRANK N. PARSONS of Franklin, member of Governor
H
Smith's council from the Fourth district, is one of the later gen
eration of New Hampshire men who have achieved prominence through
the modest brilliance of ability. He was born in Dover, September 3,
1854, and was educated wholly in New Hampshire, taking a degree at
Dartmouth College in 1874. Immediately following his graduation
from college he took up teaching as a profession. He read law with
Hon. Daniel
Barnard, and later in the office of Hon. Austin F.
Pike, and upon becoming admitted to the bar he forsook teaching and
became a partner of Mr. Pike, the firm of Pike & Parsons continuing
until the death of the senior member in 1886. As a lawyer, Mr. Par
sons displayed remarkable scholarship. His preparation of a case is
careful, and his presentation of it is masterly. He has been frequently
engaged in cases of magnitude, and in the celebrated proceedings in 1890
for a mandamus against the clerk of the house of representatives with
relation to the roll of the next legislature, Mr. Parsons, as counsel for
the “if entitled ' ' members, raised the successful issue that caused the
full bench to render its decision of “no jurisdiction.” In 1891, Judge
William S. Ladd, reporter of the decisions of the supreme court, died,
and the court, in choosing his successor, selected Mr. Parsons as pre
eminently the member of the bar best fitted by taste and by learning to
fill the position. Governor Smith's council is composed largely of
young men. In point of youth, Mr. Parsons takes precedence; in point
of ability, he yields to none.
HON. FRANK N. PARSONS.
�N the council of Governor Smith, Herbert B. Moulton, of Lisbon
I
has exhibited the strong traits that have characterized his straight
forward life. Mr. Moulton was born in Lyman, July 5, 1846, and his
education was obtained in the common schools. His early life was one
of toil, and he came finally to embark in the lumber and live-stock busi
ness, in which he has built up a large and lucrative trade. He resided
in Lyman in the early years of his business life, and in that town re
ceived many honors at the hands of his associates. In 1876, and again
in 1877, he represented Lyman in the legislature, and after a few years'
residence in Lisbon, to which place he removed in 1878, he was chosen
to the same position, sitting in the legislature of 1885. As a partisan,
Mr. Moulton has been active, and his nomination to the council from
the largest of the councillor districts came with substantial unanimity,
and he was elected by a gratifying majority. His place upon important
committees has given him an opportunity for the display of his energy,
and he has acquitted himself with credit in all that he has undertaken
in the public service. In private life Mr. Moulton is greatly esteemed:
a man of sound judgment, his advice is often sought, and as a man of
wide experience his counsels are readily followed.
HON. HERBERT B. MOULTON.
�G'. AUGUSTUS D. AYLING, adjutant-general of New Hamp
shire, was born in Boston, Mass , in 1840.
He was educated at
Lawrence academy, Groton, Mass., and in the public schools of Lowell,
and was employed in the office of J. C. Ayer & Co. when the war broke
out. April 16, 1861, he enlisted in the Richardson light infantry, an
unattached company that afterward became the Seventh Massachusetts
battery. January 4, 1862, he was appointed second lieutenant in the
Twenty-ninth Massachusetts volunteers, and was made first lieutenant,
December 6 of the same year.
GEN, AUGUSTUS I). AYLING.
He was mustered out, May 26, 1864.
April 25, 1865, he became a first lieutenant of the Twenty-fourth Mass
achusetts regiment, and was made adjutant of the regiment. He was
also aide-de-camp and judge-advocate on the staff of Maj. Gen. R. S.
Foster, who commanded the First division, Twenty-fourth corps. He
was mustered out of the service January 20, 1866. In the fall of that
year he went to Nashua, and for three years was a travelling salesman,
For ten years following, he was the confidential clerk of Charles A.
Gillis. During his residence in Nashua, he served as inspector of
check-lists, assessor, and assistant city marshal. He was senior vice
commander of John G. Foster post, G. A. R., and mustering officer
for the department of New Hampshire. In 1877, when Company F,
Second Regiment, N. H. N. G., was formed, he was elected first lieu
tenant and succeeded to the command of the company, retaining it un
til July 15, 1879, when, by Governor Head, under the new law, he
was commissioned adjutant-general of New Hampshire, and has held
the position ever since, being by virtue of his long service the ranking
state adjutant-general in the United States. He is a Mason, a Knight
Templar, a member of the G. A. R., of the Loyal Legion, and of sev
eral military-social organizations. General Ayling's term of service has
seen great improvement worked in the National Guard of New Hamp
shire, most of which may be directly traced to his keen foresight.
�EN. JERRY P. WELLMAN, inspector-general on the staff of
G Governor Smith, was born at Hinsdale, October 22, 1843.
He
is a citizen of Keene, and has held many municipal positions with dig
nity and credit, serving always to the best of his ability, and receiving
and meriting the approval of his friends and constituents. In his selec
tion for his present position, no mistake was made, for he has been
long and conspicuously identified with the National Guard in New
Hampshire, his service in that body dating from April, 1878, when he
enlisted in Company H, Second regiment. His first six years of ser
vice saw him wearing a sergeant's stripes. At the end of that time he
was made a second lieutenant, his commission bearing the date of De
cember 15, 1883.
On July 16, 1884, he rose to be first lieutenant,
and was made a captain, August 1, 1885.
Five years from that date
he was discharged by reason of the expiration of his term. But his
connection with the military of the state did not cease then, for on
February 17, 1891, he was appointed inspector of rifle practice with the
rank of major on the brigade staff, leaving that office to accept his
present position. General Wellman has won a just recognition in his
connection with military affairs in New Hampshire, and his appoint
ment as inspector-general is a reward of merit as well as a compliment.
By reason of his years of service in every grade of military activity, he
has acquired a thorough and accurate knowledge of the necessities of
the brigade. By training and by desire he is enthusiastic for the better
ment of the service. He has but to follow in his new position the
course that he has pursued in other places of trust and responsibility,
and the results that he desires, the ends that he aims at, will be secured
GEN. JERRY P. WELLMAN.
permanently and positively.
�EN. WILLIAM D. SAWYER of Dover, quartermaster-general
G on the staff of Governor Smith, is a son of ex-Governor Charles
H. Sawyer, and was born in Dover, November 22, 1866. He was ed
ucated in the public schools, and attended Phillips academy, Andover,
graduating there in 1885. He pursued his studies in Yale college, and
received his degree from that institution in 1889, immediately taking
up a business career in connection with the Sawyer woollen mills in
Dover. In this corporation General Sawyer holds the highly responsi
ble position of treasurer, and as a collateral business interest he is a
member of the firm of F. A. & J. Sawyer, selling agents for the Sawyer
woollen mills. Other positions of trust held by him embrace a member
ship in the directory of the Portsmouth & Dover railroad, and a similar
position in the Somersworth Machine company. General Sawyer is a
Mason, and a Knight Templar. In politics he has taken an active in
terest and has seen service, being now a member of the Republican
state committee. General Sawyer married Susan G., daughter of Hon.
Joshua G. Hall of Dover, and has one child. General Sawyer is one
of the leading young men of the state. In religious matters he is a
Congregationalist.
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GEN. WILLIAM
D. SAWYER.
�EN. STEPHEN H. GALE, commissary-general on the staff of
He attended the
public schools, and finished his education at Kingston academy and
at Comer's Commercial college at Boston. In 1864 he embarked in
G Governor Smith, is a native of East Kingston.
business at Haverhill, Mass., as a manufacturer of boots and shoes.
This business he carried on for five years, until, in 1869, under the
firm name of Gale Brothers, he became associated with his brother,
John E. Gale, in the same line of business in the same city.
This
firm continued at Haverhill until 1884, when a branch establishment
GEN,
STEPHEN H.
was set up in Exeter, and General Gale went thither to assume charge
of it, his brother, with John H. Sanborn, who had been admitted to
the firm, taking charge of the Haverhill factory. The two factories at
Exeter and Haverhill were conducted in this manner until 1891, when
the plant at Exeter was enlarged, and the two branches were consoli
dated at the latter place. This factory is now one of the largest in New
Hampshire, and contributes not a little to the energy and prosperity of
Exeter. Around it have sprung up the homes of its operatives, and by
its pay-roll each month many thousands of dollars are put into circula
tion. Its output is constantly increasing, and its reputation is wide and
favorable. General Gale during his residence in Haverhill, was a member
of the city government, serving in 1874. He was a member of the
Republican city committee, and was also a director in the First National
bank of Haverhill. General Gale, during his residence in Exeter, has
become actively and intimately connected with the enterprise of the
town. He has been public-spirited and benevolent. He has contrib
uted not a little to the success of his party. He has labored for the
interests of those associated with him in business. He is modestly
self-assertive, kindly, genial, hospitable,—a rare man of rare quality
GALE.
frank, earnest, and successful.
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�G'. H. ADAMS, judge advocate
GEN. GEORGE
general on the staff of
Governor Smith, is a native of Campton, where he was born
May 15, 1851. After the usual training in the public schools he
entered Kimball Union academy at Meriden, and fitted for college,
entering Dartmouth in 1869. Four years later he was graduated, and
at once became principal of the high school at Middleboro, Mass..
where he remained only one year, at the end of that time turning to his
chosen profession, the law, as a student in the office of Hon. Henry
W. Blair at Plymouth. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar and in
that year also came his first political honor in the form of an election
to the constitutional convention. This has since been followed by
membership in the legislature of 1883 in which he performed the duties
attendant upon a prolonged and somewhat turbulent session with
great display of zeal and skill. In 1890 he was appointed a deputy
collector of internal revenue for this district, and has just now received
his appointment on the governor's staff. He is a director in the Pemi
gewasset National bank of Plymouth, where he practises law as the
partner of Hon. Alvin Burleigh. General Adams is eminently qualified
for the positions that he has held. He is one of the most genial men
in disposition, a merry, laughter-loving spirit wins him friends, and
back of that lies a measure of ability and a capacity for work that make
him a dangerous antagonist at the bar and that fit him to adorn a high
place in the esteem of associates and acquaintances. General Adams
has long since given promise of success and has long since honored its
draft. His law practice has covered every portion of preparation and
pleading and his social duties, calling him into every field of activity,
have developed the gentlemanly qualities that needed no nurture.
H. ADAMS.
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�EORGE COOK, M. D., surgeon-general upon the staff of Gov
G ernor
Smith, was born at Dover, November 16, 1848, the son
of Solomon Cook and Susan Ann Hayes. At the age of seven he re
moved with his parents to Franklin, where his education was begun in
the Franklin academy, and was completed in the high school at Concord
in which city his parents had taken up their residence, and in Dart
mouth medical college, receiving his degree in 1869. Dr. Cook be
gan the practice of his profession in Henniker, but soon removed to
Hillsborough, and after a few years came to Concord, where he has since
resided. In medical circles Dr. Cook has taken a high rank, due
largely to his studious habits and care. For seven years he was city
physician and member of the board of health of Concord; is a member
of the New Hampshire Medical society, and has been president of the
Centre District Medical society. Since 1889 he has been a member of
the United States pension board of examining surgeons, and on the
staff of the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital, and medical officer at
the Odd Fellows Home.
GEN. GEORGE COOK, M.
Dr. Cook has also been visitor from the New
Hampshire Medical society to Dartmouth medical college. His ap
pointment as surgeon-general came almost in the line of promotion, as
for different years he was connected with the medical branch of the
military service as assistant surgeon, and surgeon of the Third Regi
ment of New Hampshire National Guard, and as medical director with
the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the First brigade under Gen. D. M.
White. General Cook's membership in secret societies embraces
Masonry, Odd Fellowship, and the Sons of Veterans. In religion, he
is an Episcopalian, and is a member of the vestry of St. Paul's church.
General Cook as a man is esteemed no less highly than as a physician;
for his sterling qualities, the unerring exercise of his keen perceptions,
D.
and the unaffected manner of his intercourse with his associates have won
him esteem as much as his professional skill has won him admiration.
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�OL. CHARLES H. DUNLAP of the governor's staff was born
He
is the son of Archibald H. Dunlap, a famous seed-grower, and is asso
C at Nashua, June 17, 1853, and has always lived in that city.
ciated with his father in business.
COL. CHARLES H.
He was educated in the public
schools of his native city, and as a boy was one of the most popular of
Nashua's ingenuous youth. Arriving at manhood, he lost none of his
hold upon his associates, and in every field of endeavor that he has en
tered he has found on every hand scores of friends who have been at
tracted to him by his winning qualities. In the conduct of his business,
Colonel Dunlap has been rarely successful. Colonel Dunlap's extensive
commercial relations extend into every state and territory. From the
day of attaining his majority, Colonel Dunlap has been deeply interest
ed in politics, and beginning in his own ward, among those who had
known him from birth, he has worked upward, first holding office as
selectman, and then passing through other local and municipal offices,
through the common council and the board of aldermen, and coming in
1889 to a seat in the house of representatives, where he made many
warm personal and political friends, and was a deservedly popular and
efficient legislator. Colonel Dunlap is one of New Hampshire's repre
sentative young men. Connected by blood with one of the best and
oldest families in the state, his natural ability has been such as to win
for him many places of honor and responsibility. By education and
taste, he is a business man, yet the increasing cares of large interests
have not been permitted to dwarf the sunny side of his social nature,
and to all circles he is an eagerly welcomed addition.
DUNLAP.
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�OL. FREDERICK C. DOW, aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov
C ernor Smith, is a resident of Manchester, and was born in Pem
broke in 1847. He attended the public schools of the town, took a
course in Pembroke academy, and when seventeen years old went to
Manchester, where he has since resided and where he began life as a
clerk in a shoe store. Three years as a clerk had given him such a
knowledge of the business, and had rendered him so valuable to the
firm, that he was admitted to partnership, and a year in this relationship
enabled him to purchase his partners' interest. At the age of twenty
one, therefore, he was in sole ownership of the store in which four
years before he had found employment as a clerk. This business has
grown under the personal supervision of Colonel Dow, and is now the
largest boot and shoe store north of Boston, and its proprietor is
ranked among the leading men of affairs in the metropolis of the state.
He is a trustee of the Manchester Savings bank, and a director in the
Manchester National bank.
Colonel Dow is married, and has two
children. His home in Manchester is one of the most elegant in the
city. Colonel Dow's connection with Governor Smith is a long one,
having begun when each was a young man laying the foundations of
future success. Nor is the connection a personal one only, for they
have jointly erected in Manchester an extensive block of apartment
houses. Colonel Dow's qualities are attractive. Through energy he
has compelled success. Through frankness he has won respect.
Through tact he has made friends. Through honor he has kept them.
COL.
FREDERICK C.
DOW.
�OL. BENJAMIN F. DRAKE, aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov
New Hampton, October 8, 1844.
When he was two years old his parents removed to Lakeport, where
C ernor Smith, was born in
he was educated in the public schools and French's select school.
At
the opening of the war he entered the government employ at the Spring
field armory, where he learned a machinist's trade. He was afterward
superintendent of two manufactories in Massachusetts, and later was
master-mechanic of the Mount Washington railway. In 1878, return
ing to Lakeport, he became a member of the firm of J. S. Crane & Co.,
retiring in 1885 to assume charge of the construction of the Lakeport
& Laconia water-works, resuming the partnership at the completion of
the contract, this time organizing the Crane Manufacturing Co., build
ers of knitting machinery. Of this corporation Colonel Drake is treas
urer, a director, and a moving spirit. Colonel Drake has not limited
his attention to his private interests solely, but has been much in pub
lic and corporate service. He has been a selectman, sat in the general
court in 1883, and was a member of the constitutional convention of
1889. He is a director in the Lakeport water-works, of the National
bank of Lakeport, of the Lake Village savings bank, president of the
Mutual Building and Loan association, a trustee of the public library,
and a member of the Lakeport board of trade. In 1887 he was appoint
ed steamboat inspector by Governor Sawyer. Colonel Drake is a mem
ber of the New Hampshire club, of the Lincoln club, of the Home
Market club, and of the White Mountain Travellers association. In
secret society life, Colonel Drake has been and is prominent. He is a
Mason, a Knight Templar, and has reached the thirty-second degree:
he is an Odd Fellow, a Patriarch Militant, a Red Man, a Knight of
Pythias, and present grand vice-dictator of the New Hampshire Knights
COL, BENJAMIN F. DRAKE.
of Honor.
Laconia.
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Col. Drake is member from ward six, first city council of
�OL. WALTER S. SCRUTON of Hillsborough, aide-de-camp
C on
Governor Smith's staff, is a
native of Rochester, and
was born January 26, 1865. In the public schools of his native city
he obtained his preliminary education, graduating from the high school
in 1883. In the fall of that year he entered Dartmouth college and
took his degree with the class of 1887. Almost immediately following
his graduation he went to Hillsborough, where he assumed charge of the
high school, succeeding a college classmate who had died. For two
years he retained this position, and then resigned to enter business as
a druggist, purchasing a store in Hillsborough. This calling he has
since followed. For two years he has served as town clerk of Hills
borough, and has been a member of the board of education. No sketch
of Colonel Scruton's life would be complete without reference to his
college career, in which he was a conspicuous member of a brilliant class,
and was prominent and active in all the varied social and athletic life.
He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, and of the Sphinx senior
society. In athletic life he was especially prominent. He was a mem
ber of the college base-ball nine for three years, and during his senior
year was pitcher on the first championship team that Dartmouth ever
boasted, to his work more than to any other being due the winning of
the pennant of the American College Base-Ball association. Colonel
Scruton has entered actively into the enterprises of Hillsborough. His
ready companionship has won for him merited friendships, and he has
reaped the reward in prominent business successes. Progressive intel
ligence has marked his mercantile career, and successive honors await
him.
COL. WALTER S. SCRUTON.
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�ON. EZRA S. STEARNS, secretary of state, came to that office
1891, richly endowed with the character and attainments
necessary to sustain the exacting requirements of the position. He was
born in Rindge, Sept. 1, 1838, and has always resided there, being edu
cated in the public schools, by private tutors, and in Chester, N.J., where
he studied and taught at the same time. For several years he was man
ager and editor of a newspaper at Fitchburg, Mass., and before that
H in
was connected with publishing houses in Boston, New York, and Phila
delphia. Mr. Stearns, in 1876, published a history of Rindge, follow
ing it in 1877 with a history of Ashburnham, Mass., works of great
value in point of historical accuracy and literary skill. Mr. Stearns has
always been actively, ardently, and prominently a Republican. In 1864,
1865, 1866, 1867, and 1870 he represented Rindge in the legislature.
He served in the state senate in 1887 and 1889, and in 1891 was holding
a seat in the house of representatives when he was elected secretary
of state. For more than twenty years Mr. Stearns has been moderator
in Rindge. In the legislature, Mr. Stearns could not fail to take an
active part. In debate he was keen, incisive, ready, with a wealth of
satire that was both dreaded and admired. His committee assign
ments were always laborious, and therefore important; but he shirked
none, winning credit in the committee-room equal to that attained upon
the floor. Among the duties of Mr. Stearns's first term as secretary of
state, was the inaugurating of the Australian ballot system, an arduous
task.
HON.
EZR.A. S.
Its completion without an error was a rare tribute to the secre
tary's methodical and careful conduct of the office. Mr. Stearns is a
widely read, scholarly man, and the degree of master of arts, which he
received from Dartmouth college, in 1887, was a merited tribute to a
studious, cultured gentleman, who assumes nothing that is not won,
and who concedes nothing that is not due.
STEARNS.
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Mor
twenty-one years, with the exception of 1874–75, a year of
Democratic control, Colonel Solon A. Carter has been treasurer of
the state, his renominations in Republican caucuses coming as a matter
of course, without dissenting voice. Why, then, multiply words?
That fact speaks too plainly for amplification. Colonel Carter was born in
Leominster, Mass., June 22, 1837; since 1859 he has been a resident
of this state, first making his home in Keene, where he was superin
tendent of the Keene gas-works. In September, 1862, he went out as a
captain in the Fourteenth New Hampshire regiment. His service lasted
till the close of the war, and he was mustered out in August, 1865,
with the rank of captain of staff, having served, however, in 1864, as
assistant adjutant-general of volunteers. Colonel Carter's service was
a brave and active one. He fought in many of the most severe engage
ments of the war, among them being Petersburg, the campaign before
Richmond, the Fort Fisher expeditions, Baylor's Farm, and the capture
of Wilmington. This service was not unrecognized, for, after the
close of the war, he was brevetted by President Johnson, for gallant
and meritorious conduct on the field, major and lieutenant-colonel of
volunteers.
At the close of the war he returned to Keene and was en
gaged in clerical work until called, in 1872, to the office that he now
holds.
In addition to his service as state treasurer, Colonel Carter has
seen public life as member of the legislature in 1869 and 1870. Col
onel Carter's conduct of the treasury has been a creditable life-work.
The burden of his labor has been always great, and for much of the
period of his incumbency he performed the work of the department
unaided, or nearly so, with no thought of lightening his load. In 1891
the legislature provided him with a deputy,–a mark of appreciation too
long delayed.
COLONEL SOLON A. CARTER.
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�T is a marked honor to succeed while yet young to important pub
lic position. This marked honor belongs to Fred Gowing, super
intendent of public instruction, who was born in Medford, Mass.,
December 6, 1860, the son of James Gowing, Jr., and Elizabeth Jane
Caswell. He was educated in the public schools of Medford, and
entered Tufts college in 1877, receiving the degree of bachelor of
arts in 1881. He immediately entered the ranks as a teacher, begin
ning first in the district schools at Barrington, and coming thence to
the high school at Wilmington, Mass., and then to the Cottage Grove
College Preparatory school, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., then as principal
of a grammar school at Lawrence, Mass., and at Haverhill, Mass.,
I
until he was called to the head of the Mount Pleasant school in Nashua,
where he achieved a pronounced success as an educator and a disci
plinarian, and in 1890 was selected to be superintendent of the schools
of Nashua, remaining in that position until the winter of 1893, when
he was unanimously selected by Governor Smith and his council to
succeed Hon. James W. Patterson as superintendent of public instruc
tion. Mr. Gowing's family is one that for two centuries has been
identified with New Hampshire, and he is thoroughly in touch with
the public school movement in the state. By his youthful enthusiasm,
no less than by his solid attainments and experience, he is qualified to take
up the work of his eminent predecessor, and to carry it forward even
more symmetrically than before. Mr. Gowing, though elevated to a
very important position, yet retains that innate modesty that has been
the charm of his life. A distinctly self-possessed man, possessing a
marked courtesy and gentleness, he is eminently qualified, aside from
his mental gifts, for the office to which he has been chosen, and the
FRED GOWING.
earnestness with which he has laid hold of his new work is the most
happy promise of the success that is to follow him in years to come.
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�T is a divided allegiance that Hon. John C. Linehan gives to the
land of his birth and the state of his residence, yet neither can
complain, for to one he bears the tender loyalty of a son, to the other
he yields the fruits of his activity. Colonel Linehan was born in Ire
land in 1840, and came to this country in 1849, residing since 1852 in
Penacook. At that time he began to earn his own living in the cotton
mill at Penacook, and in five years time he passed through nearly
every department of cotton manufacture. Then he assumed charge of
the box department of Rolfe's sash and blind factory in Penacook,
remaining there from 1857 to 1861, when he entered the army and
enlisted in the Third New Hampshire. He returned home in 1866,
engaged in the grocery business at Penacook, continuing—with partner
or alone—until 1890. Colonel Linehan was always a Republican, and
his activity caused him to be elected to the city government, where he
served in both branches, and in 1886 he was chosen a member of the
executive council, serving till June, 1889. In 1890 he was an agent of
the eleventh census to compile the manufacturing statistics of Concord
and vicinity, and in September of that same year he was appointed by
Governor Goodell insurance commissioner, to succeed Hon. Henry H.
Huse. Since the close of the war, Colonel Linehan has been greatly
interested in Grand Army matters. He was first commander of the
post at Penacook, and department commander of the state in 1883-'84.
He was president of the New Hampshire Veterans' association in
1885–86, was a member of the national pension committee from 1884
to 1888, was junior vice commander-in-chief of the national G. A. R.
in 1887, and is a director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial asso
ciation.
HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN.
Colonel Linehan's first term as insurance commissioner was
marked by the enactment of the Barber law, directed against the opera
tion of the so-called endowment orders in New Hampshire.
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�AMES OTIS LY FORD, son of James and Mary I. (McLane)
Lyford, was born in Boston, Mass., June 28, 1853. He was edu
cated in the Boston public schools and at the New Hampshire Con
ference seminary at Tilton. He read law in the office of Sanborn &
J
Clark, of Concord, and was admitted to the bar in 1880.
He practised
two years at Tilton, when he was appointed law clerk in the Interior
Department at Washington. He resigned his position in that depart
ment to become the confidential clerk of General R. N. Batchelder of
the U. S. army, which place he held until appointed bank commis
sioner of New Hampshire, by Governor Sawyer, in 1887. In 1889,
upon the reorganization of the bank commission, he was appointed its
chairman, and served until 1892, when he was re-appointed by Gover
nor Tuttle for another term of three years. In addition to these posi
tions, Mr. Lyford was elected a member of the constitutional conven
tion of 1876 from the town of Canterbury, being one of its youngest
members. He was a member of the legislature of 1893 from Ward 4,
Concord, served upon the judiciary committee, and was the leader of
his party in the house. This summary conveys no idea of Mr.
Lyford's work: for aside from his highly creditable career in office, he
has made himself prominent in the journalistic field by his editorial
connection with the leading newspapers of New Hampshire, and as
political editor of the National Republican at Washington. He is an
interesting speaker, and his services are always in demand in political
campaigns, upon the stump, or in service in the committee head
quarters. This sketch would be incomplete not to contain at least a
reference to his work upon the bank commission, and to the creditable
manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office. He found
the commission at the date of his first appointment without method,
without records, without influence; and he has brought it into the
confidence of the people and of the banks.
JAMES OTIS LY FORD.
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�WILLIAM
ANDREW
ILLIAM ANDREW HEARD was born at Wayland, Mass..
August 25, 1827, the son of William and Susan (Mann) Heard.
A sturdy constitution and a vigorous mind were his only inheritance,
and at the age of fifteen, after limited schooling, he began life for him
self as a clerk in the store of Timothy Varney, at Center Sandwich,
and in 1849 embarked for himself in general trade, retiring from mer
cantile pursuits after nearly twenty-eight years of service, and after sev
eral profitable business ventures. In August, 1862, Mr. Heard enlisted
in the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and upon the organiza
tion of the regiment was commissioned quartermaster, becoming brig
ade quartermaster in November of the same year, and resigning in
September, 1863, on account of ill health. During the long years of
his residence in Sandwich, Mr. Heard has held many public trusts and
offices. From 1859 to 1861 he was town clerk, in 1873 and 1874 he
was representative in the legislature, from 1872 to 1887 he was treas
urer of the Sandwich Savings Bank, and from 1874 to 1887 he was
clerk of the courts of Carroll county. His high reputation as an able
financier, gained by his many years of successful business experience,
led to his appointment as national bank examiner for Maine and New
Hampshire in December, 1886, and he embarked upon the duties of
that position to resign them in 1889, when, upon the reorganization of
the bank commission, he was appointed a member of the board by
Governor Goodell, and was reappointed in 1891. Mr. Heard has had
a life of great activity, and has been followed by success. A kind,
hearty, mild-mannered, genial gentleman, wise yet modest, his honors
have come as a merited recognition of his ability; and the half century
that he has spent in Sandwich, to say nothing of the years of his pub
lic service, have stamped him as a noble, trustworthy, upright man.
HEARD.
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�MONG the influential men of New Hampshire, men who are
A trusted, men whose opinion is quoted, men whom the people find
find pleasure in honoring, none is better known or more respected than
Alpheus W. Baker, of Lebanon. He was born in that town May 22,
1834; but aside from the years of childhood, his residence was else
where until after the war. When fourteen years of age he was appointed
a page in the New York assembly, which position he held during the
session of 1848 and 1849. Two years later he was clerk in a commis
sion house in New York city, where he remained until 1856, when he
emigrated to Wisconsin and settled there. In 1862 he enlisted in the
23d Wisconsin regiment as a private. By faithful and meritorious ser
vice he won a commission; but impaired health compelled him to resign
in 1864. After leaving the army, he returned to his native town, where
the remainder of his active and busy life has been spent. He was
elected to the legislature from Lebanon in 1873, and re-elected in 1874.
He was made assistant clerk of the house two years later, which posi
tion he held for two sessions.
He was then twice elected clerk of the
house, and might have held that position indefinitely had he been dis
posed to accept continued re-elections. He was also assistant secretary
of the constitutional convention of 1876. He was appointed postmaster
of Lebanon by President Hayes in 1881, reappointed by President Ar
thur in 1885, and served until the second year of President Cleveland's
administration. In 1890 he was appointed a member of the board of
bank commissioners, an office he now holds. In the various positions
of honor and trust in which he has been placed, he has invariably
acquitted himself with credit. It was, however, as clerk of the New
Hampshire house of representatives that he was most widely known.
ALPHEUS. W. BAKER.
What Charles P. Sanborn was to the speakership of that body, Alpheus
W. Baker was to the clerk's position. Neither has been surpassed by
any of their honorable and worthy successors.
�RVING ALLISON WATSON, of Concord, a son of Porter B.
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and Luvia E. (Ladd) Watson, was born at Salisbury, September
6, 1849; received his preliminary education in the common schools
of New Hampshire and at Newbury (Vt.) Seminary and Collegiate
Institute; commenced the study of medicine in 1868 with Dr.
Cochrane, of Newbury, Vt., and continued with his uncle, Dr. H.
L. Watson, and later with Dr. A. B. Crosby, of New York; at
tended medical lectures at Dartmouth college and at the Medical
Department of the University of Vermont; graduated from the latter in
1871. The same year he located and commenced the practice of medi
cine at Northumberland, N. H., remaining there ten years. During
his residence in that town, he was several years superintendent of
schools, and twice (in 1879 and 1881) was elected to the state legisla
ture. He was largely instrumental in securing the passage of the law
creating the state board of health, and was appointed one of its mem
bers, and at its organization in September, 1881, was elected secretary
and executive officer of the board. In October of that year he removed
to Concord, where he has since remained, still holding the posi
tion of secretary and executive officer of the state board of health. In
1889 the state board of health was made also a state board of lunacy,
and the executive work of the latter board has devolved upon him since
its creation. He is also registrar of the vital statistics of the state and
president of the state board of cattle commissioners. He has four times
been elected secretary of the American Public Health association, hav
ing held the office continuously since 1883. He is a member of the
American Medical association, American Public Health association,
White Mountain Medical association, Centre District Medical society,
New Hampshire Historical society, and several other societies and
organizations.
IRV ING ALLISON WATSON.
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�EW Hampshire has no fitter son in this generation than Edward
Nathan Pearson, who was born in Webster, September 7, 1859,
the son of John C. Pearson and Lizzie S. Colby. Mr. Pearson was
educated in the Warner high school and at the Penacook academy, and
graduated from Dartmouth college in the class of 1881. Immediately
following his graduation he was employed as city editor of the Concord
Evening Monitor, and has retained his connection with that paper ever
since, with the exception of one year spent in the schools of Wash
ington, D.C., as principal of one of the grammar departments. Mr.
Pearson in 1882, upon his return from Washington, became associate
editor of the Monitor and Independent Statesman and in 1890 was
made managing editor. In 1892 he assumed also the duties of business
manager of the Republican Press association, and as such was the can
didate of his party for public printer in January, 1893, and was elected.
He was married December 8, 1882, to Miss Addie M. Sargent, of Leb
N
anon, and has four children.
Mr. Pearson's life has been one of modest
yet incessant activity. In every position that he has been called upon
to fill he has considered the best fruits of his power none too great to
be yielded. His connection with the Monitor and Statesman has been
marked by a versatile solidity of achievement. Vigorous, honest, out
spoken, graceful, he has contributed to every department with a lavish
hand, and has impressed a worth of style and reliability upon their
columns. No man ever had a better friend than he: untiring in his
courtesy, gentle, impulsive, frank, true, the symmetry of a genuine
gentlemanliness makes perfect the meed of his praise.
EDWARD NATHAN PEARSON.
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�HILE NAHUM J. BACHELDER retains his present rela
tions to New Hampshire agriculture, that industry will not lan
guish, for to him, as to no other, are the farmers of the state indebted.
VV
Mr. Bachelder was born and has always lived in East Andover.
He was
educated in the schools of that town, at Franklin academy, and at New
Hampton institute, supplementing this course with such extensive pri
vate reading and study as to receive, in 1891, the degree of A. M. from
Dartmouth college. Mr. Bachelder has always been a farmer, and has
been for many years connected with grange interests in New Hamp
shire. In 1883 he was elected secretary of the state grange. The
office of secretary of the state grange he held until 1891, in one of the
years intervening declining an election as master, accepting the chair in
the latter year, and still holding it. He was the first secretary of the
Grange State Fair association, and to him is due the success that has
attended the annual meetings of the association at Tilton. In 1887 he
was chosen secretary of the state board of agriculture, and in that
capacity has done valiant service for the farmers of the state. In
1889, as a just recognition of the man who first conceived the idea.
Mr. Bachelder was appointed commissioner of immigration, and at
once set at work to populate the abandoned farms of the state, working
with such energy and so much to the purpose, that the first year of his
service saw more than 3oo farms reclaimed. By the legislature of 1891
this office was consolidated with that of secretary of the board of agri
culture, and Mr. Bachelder has carried on the work along both the old
and new lines, yet always with success. In April, 1891, he was
appointed a member of the newly created board of cattle commissioners,
and by his activity has succeeded in nearly extirpating tuberculosis
from among the herds of the state. Mr. Bachelder is a progressive
NAHUM J. BACHELIDER.
thinker in a position requiring progressive thought.
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�ON. ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR was born at Beth
H
lehem, April 22, 1850. Immediately upon graduation from
Dartmouth, in 1872, he entered the office of Hon. Harry Bingham, at
Littleton, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He soon became a
member of the firm of Bingham, Mitchell & Batchellor, and the con
nection still continues. Twenty years association with Mr. Bingham,
as pupil and partner, is a voucher for a good lawyer and an honest one,
and Mr. Batchellor has never discredited his credentials.
The business
of the firm has been varied and extensive, and Mr. Batchellor has had
a professional experience that is accorded to few men of his years. In
the realm of politics Mr. Batchellor has achieved an enviable reputa
tion, and ranks with the younger leaders of the Democratic party of
New Hampshire. A liberal share of such honors as the party has had
to bestow have been conferred upon him, and they have been modestly
and worthily borne. As solicitor of Grafton county for two years,
representative in the legislature for Littleton during three successive
sessions, and as a member of the governor's council in 1887–88 he
performed much valuable public service. Notwithstanding the great
demands of his professional and public life, Mr. Batchellor has found
time to devote to literary pursuits, becoming especially interested in
the history of our state during the provincial period and the early years
of statehood. It is safe to say that few men are so well versed in the
history and traditions of those stirring times. That he was appointed
by a Republican governor to the very responsible position of editor of
the provincial papers is a worthy compliment to the learning and re
search of the one, and to the discernment and fairness of the other.
As a trustee of the state library he has performed invaluable service to
the state, while his influence has at the same time been felt in educa
HON. ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR.
tional matters as an active alumnus of Dartmouth college and in other
directions.
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�HARLES ROBERT CORNING was born in Concord, Decem
ber 20, 1855, and was educated in the schools of that city, at Phil
lips Andover academy, and by private tutors. He read law with
Anson S. Marshall and with William M. Chase and Jonathan E. Sar
gent and attended lectures in the Harvard law school, and was
admitted to the bar in March, 1883. Mr. Corning's tastes, however,
inclined rather to literary pursuits, and he has won more than passing
fame as a student and author. He has three times visited Europe,
and his journeys have provided material for interesting lectures in addi
tion to having furnished the inspiration for a most charming and viva
cious work of travel under the title of “Aalesund to Tetuan.”
HON. CHARLES
He is
also the author of valuable historical and biographical pamphlets and of
numerous lectures and magazine articles upon historical subjects. In
politics Mr. Corning is a Republican, and as such was a member of the
house of representatives in 1878, declining re-election because of failing
health. In 1883, however, he again sat in the house, and in 1889 was
a member of the state senate. In 1891 he was appointed an assistant
attorney in the department of justice at Washington. Mr. Corning
also served for six years on the board of education of the city of Con
cord and is a trustee of the state library and of the Fowler Public
Library. As a man of letters, Mr. Corning is among the most promi
nent in New England, his careful and acute knowledge giving weight
to his work. Mr. Corning, before he was called to his present posi
tion, was for some years secretary of the New Hampshire Historical
society, and was among the most efficient and valuable working mem
bers of that organization. Added to his rare mental characteristics,
Mr. Corning possesses a charming conversational power, a fascinating
grace of expression, and a warm geniality of manner.
ROBERT CORNING.
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�EORGE CLINTON GILMORE, a descendant on both sides
from the Scotch-Irish of old Londonderry, New Hampshire,
is a typical son of the state, born in Bedford, September 25, 1826;
son of William Gilmore and Matilda (Eaton) Gilmore; educated in the
public and private schools; was connected with the manufacturing cor
porations of Manchester and Milford for 37 years, from bobbin boy to
agent; married, in 1853, Miss Lucy A. Livingston, born in Walden,
Vermont, March 1, 1830; one child living, Waldo Eaton Gilmore,
born April 28, 1854; member of both branches of the city council of
Manchester, and of the house of representatives in the years 1856, '67,
'72, '75, 76, '79, '80, 85, '86, and '93, and a member of the state senate
in 1881–82; was chosen colonel of the Amoskeag Veterans for 1875-'76;
member of the constitutional conventions of 1876 and 1889; one of
the trustees of the state library since 1888. As president of the New
Hampshire Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Colonel
Gilmore has labored industriously for the revival of patriotism, and is
proud of the history of New Hampshire and has contributed not a little
to its pages, having compiled and published the “Manual of the
New Hampshire Senate from 1784 to 1894,” and the “Roll of New
Hampshire Soldiers at the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777,”
and by his own life and labors has set an example for those who will
follow him, an example luminous in its integrity and fidelity to the tra
ditions and history of the state, in the love of its past, and the hope of
its future.
HON. GEORGE CLINTON
�LLIOTT BRAINARD HODGE, chairman of the board of fish
and game commissioners of New Hampshire, was born in Eaton
in the province of Quebec, November 14, 1839, the son of Berzillia
Brainard Hodge and Sarah Elliott, and was educated at the Cookshire
high school and at Colebrook academy. At the age of twenty-one Mr.
Hodge began life as a professional photographer, following that calling
in various localities until 1881. June, 1882, he was appointed superin
tendent of the state fish-hatching house at Plymouth, and entered upon
what has proved to be the work of his life, for in 1883 he was appointed
by Governor Bell a member of the fish and game commission, and was
re-appointed in 1888, being at present chairman of the board. As fish
and game commissioner, Mr. Hodge has been at the head of the move
ment for placing the New Hampshire commission abreast, if not in the
lead, of similar organizations in other states. How successful that
movement under his leadership has been, the testimony of the sports
men of New England will best prove. The restocking of the lakes and
streams of New Hampshire with food-fish, the extinction of poaching
in the game-producing forests of the state, and the creation of a senti
ment favorable to the sportsman and discrediting the pot-hunter, have
been carefully fostered and developed by Commissioner Hodge. Not
only has Mr. Hodge proved himself an organizer, but he has also
shown himself to be a student. His reports have been models of excel
lence and compendiums of information. Thoroughly conversant with the
needs of New Hampshire and delicately in touch with the pulse of
improvement, Mr. Hodge is carrying out the great work which he
began and will not suffer to lag. Mr. Hodge is prominent in Masonic
circles, having held nearly all the minor offices, has been high priest of
Pemigewasset Chapter, thrice illustrious master of Omega Council, and
for two years was most illustrious grand master of the Grand Council
of New Hampshire.
ELLIOTT BRAINARD HODGE.
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�HE New Hampshire fish and game commission numbers as one of
T its devoted members Willard Henry Griffin, of Henniker, who was
born in Groveland, Mass., April 28, 1857, and is the son of Henry
Dustin Griffin and Sabrina Knight Carr. Mr. Griffin attained his edu
cation in the common schools of Groveland, his native town, and at the
high school in Georgetown, Mass. His present occupation is that of a
manufacturer of shoes at Henniker, this industry ranking at the head in
the industries of the town. Mr. Griffin has served upon the board of
fish and game commissioners but few years, though in that time he has
given evidence of his devotion to the interests committed to his charge,
of his ability, and of his foresight. In the town of Henniker Mr. Griffin
is justly one of the most popular men. A genial good-fellowship easily
wins friends, but the solid qualities of his character more readily retain
them. His friendships are cemented by the strongest possible ties.
At the head of the leading industry in the community, he could not fail
to be prominent, yet he would be prominent in any community were he
wholly without business connections, for such a man as he could not
fail to win and retain the esteem of all who admire integrity in business,
in common friendly intercourse, and the fruits that can come only from
such integrity when constantly and consistently displayed.
WILLARD HENRY GRIFFIN.
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�ATHANIEL WENTWORTH, member of the fish and game
commission of New Hampshire, was born in Brighton, Mass.,
December 8, 1833, and is the son of Nathaniel Wentworth and Lydia
N
Lord.
Like most of the successful men of whom this book treats Mr.
Wentworth secured his education in the common schools and began at
an early age to solve for himself the problem of existence. How suc
cessfully that problem has been solved the record of his life will tell.
The beginning of the war found Mr. Wentworth successfully engaged
in the business he had chosen, a contractor for masonry, yet he aban
doned his business prospects and enlisted in the 11th Massachusetts
battery and served through the war, being mustered out after the sur
render at Appomattox. Returning to his duties he took up the thread of
his life where he had laid it down, and the success that has attended
his efforts showed no signs of interruption because of his service for his
country, perhaps indeed it may have been increased thereby, for Mr.
Wentworth, in the years that have followed, has stood at the front in
his line of work.
In the town of Hudson, where he resides, Mr.
Wentworth has naturally been prominent. His marked ability as a
business man, his uprightness, his fidelity, have caused him to be
called to various positions of confidence and honor. In 1887 he was a
member of the legislature from his town, serving his constituents faith
fully and well. Mr. Wentworth is an enthusiastic sportsman in the true
sense of the word. Realizing the necessity of the prevention of the
indiscriminate destruction of the fish and game of the state, he has
always been actively identified in the work of securing the enforcement
of the game laws, hence it was but natural that, with the retirement of
Mr. Riddle from the state board of fish and game commissioners, Mr.
Wentworth should have been chosen to succeed him. In this position
Mr. Wentworth is showing marked capabilities for his work.
NATHANIEL WENTWORTH.
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�ON. CHARLES H. AMSDEN, president of the New Hamp
shire World's Fair commission, is a native and life-long resident
of Penacook. He was born July 8, 1848, and was educated in the
public schools, and at Appleton academy, New Ipswich. He began
his career in the office of his father, Henry H. Amsden, furniture manu
facturer, and was later with his brother, a member of the firm of H. H.
Amsden & Sons, a name that is yet retained though both his father
and brother are dead.
Mr. Amsden's other business interests comprise
the presidency of the Concord Axle Co., and a membership in the
directory of the Mechanicks National Bank, Concord, the Portland &
Ogdensburg railroad, and the Granite State Fire Insurance Co.
But
Mr. Amsden has another prominence in New Hampshire afforded by
his political career. Beginning in 1874, he was an alderman of the city
of Concord, and was reëlected by a unanimous vote. In 1883 he was a
member of the state senate, being chosen from among a Republican
constituency by a majority of 376. In 1888 he was the Democratic
candidate for governor, making a run that merited the renomination
that was tendered him in 1890. That campaign was fought by Mr.
Amsden with such a persistent brilliancy that the result was left so much
in doubt that many people believed him to have been elected. The days
intervening between the election and the assembling of the legislature
that was to settle the mooted question were trying ones. But they brought
out the true character of Mr. Amsden who comported himself with a
HON.
CHARLES
H.
quiet dignity that won for him the hearty esteem of his opponents and
added to the affection of his supporters. The balance dipped against him
and he calmly accepted the result—a result that brought no discredit to
him, since he left the field without the prize, though supported by a
larger vote than has ever been polled for any other Democratic candi
date for governor.
�EORGE F. PAGE is thoroughly a “New Hampshire man.” He
G was born in Pittsfield in 1844, but early in life moved to Frank
lin, passed through the public schools of that town, graduated from
the Franklin academy, and supplemented this training by a course at the
Eastman Business college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1860 he started
in to learn the art of leather making, beginning work in Franklin and
continuing his researches and experiments in Europe. As a result of
this training he has given to the product of the Page Belting Co., of
Concord, of which he is president, a national reputation for excel
lence, and caused that corporation successively to outgrow its plant at
Franklin and Concord, and to cause the erection of the present hand
some and thoroughly equipped buildings that it now occupies. Mr.
Page was a prime mover in the establishment of the Concord Commer
cial club, serving several years as its president. He was also one of
the first to advocate the establishment of a state board of trade, and
in 1891 he was elected its first president. In 1890 Mr. Page was
elected to the house of representatives from Ward 4, Concord, and in
that body distinguished himself by his championship of a bill, of which
he was the author, providing for the Australian ballot, which he intro
duced and pressed to a final and successful issue with signal ability and
force. In 1891, Mr. Page was appointed a member of the board of
World's Fair commissioners and served in that position with fidelity and
credit. The fertility of Mr. Page's mind led him early to a belief in
the development of the water-power adjacent to Concord, and he organ
ized in 1892 the Concord Land & Water Power company for the pur
pose of putting in at Sewall's Falls a plant to utilize water-power in
GEORGE F.
PAGE.
the production of electricity, this in turn to be distributed to centres
of industry for light and power.
�ON. FRANK MARTIN ROLLINS, treasurer of the New Hamp
shire World's Fair commission, was born in that part of Holder
ness, now Ashland, fifty-two years ago, and for more than twenty-five
years resided in Lakeport. He was educated in the schools of his native
town and at the academies in New Hampton and Sanbornton. In
H
Laconia where he lived until 1876, when his home was annexed
to the town of Gilford, Mr. Rollins was a prominent citizen and was
HON.
FRANK MARTIN ROLLINS.
selectman in 1871 and 1872. In Gilford he was equally prominent
and served as overseer of the poor in 1878 and 1879. In 1882 and
1883 he was selectman of Gilford, and also served as member of the
Lake Village school committee. In 1879 he was elected one of the
county commissioners of Belknap county and was reëlected two years
later. In 1874 he represented Gilford in the legislature, and in 1887
was member of the state senate. In the legislature Mr. Rollins was a
consistent member of his party, yet his action was characterized by no
narrow spirit. For several years past he has been connected with the
Manchester Union, being at the head of the counting-room in that
establishment and as such being a constant and valuable factor in the
paper's success. This position Mr. Rollins but recently resigned and
he has acquired newspaper property in Denver, Col., to which city he
will remove upon the completion of his duties as World's Fair com
missioner. In this latter capacity Mr. Rollins has added greatly to his
reputation. Upon the organization of the board he was chosen its
treasurer, and in that office has displayed much administrative force.
Mr. Rollins has made his way in so many directions, and has made so
many friends in the state, that his removal to another community will
be marked by regret. Yet his love for the state of his birth will make
her the sharer in all the honors and prosperity that may await him in
the new field.
�HOMAS J. WALKER, of the New Hampshire World's Fair
commission, was born in Bellville, Ill., March 12, 1856,
received a common-school education, and studied law at the Columbian
university, Washington, D. C. He was a page in the Forty-second
congress, was engaged as a railroad accountant in St. Louis from
1874 to 1879, and for one year thereafter was eastern manager of the
St. Louis Journal of Commerce, with offices at New York city. In the
fall of 1880 he returned to Washington and became chief clerk of the
agricultural division of the tenth census, remaining there until March,
1883, when he was appointed clerk to the United States commissioner
of railroads. That office he resigned in 1886, and came to
Plymouth and founded the Plymouth Record and a year later ob
tained control of the Northern Herald published at Lisbon, adding
to those papers in 1892 the New Hampshire Advertiser, a new
project in New Hampshire journalism. In newspaper circles in New
Hampshire, and in New England as well, Mr. Walker has become a
recognized factor. His columns teem with bright, trenchant, pertinent
matter, and have given him a prestige and a standing second almost to
none. Mr. Walker has persistently advocated the promotion of the
summer resort interests of New Hampshire, and since his appointment
as secretary of the board of World's Fair managers, which occurred
at the organization of the commission, he has devoted his attention
largely to the advancement and development of this branch of the
state's resources, giving to an old and hackneyed subject a brightness
and a versatility that have called renewed and valuable attention to its
possibilities.
In 1883, Mr. Walker married Grace E. Parker, daughter
of the Hon. Charles Parker of Lisbon.
THOMAS J.
WALKER.
He is a member of Olive
Branch lodge of Masons, of Pemigewasset chapter, and of Pilgrim com
mandery.
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�ON. EDWIN G. EASTMAN was born in Grantham, Novem
ber 22, 1847, and was educated in the common schools, at
T
Kimball Union academy, Meriden, and at Dartmouth college, being a
member of the class of 1874 in the latter institution.
He studied law
in the office of Judge A. P. Carpenter at Bath, and in March, 1876, was
admitted to the bar. Since September of that year, Mr. Eastman has
practiced his profession at Exeter, having been the partner of the late Gen
eral Gilman Marston.
In 1876, Mr. Eastman was a member of the house
of representatives from Grantham, and in 1889 sat in the state senate.
From 1883 to 1887, Mr. Eastman was county solicitor of Rockingham
county. In 1891, upon the death of the late Daniel Barnard, Mr. Eastman
was appointed attorney-general of the state, and still holds that posi
tion. Mr. Eastman is a typical New England lawyer. His education
for the law was not obtained without a struggle, and his position at
the bar is merited, and has been accorded him, from the first, because
of acknowledged ability. As a public prosecutor, both as county
solicitor and as attorney-general, Mr. Eastman has been called to
serve in many important and famous cases, and his service has been
direct and positive, leaving no stone unturned to reach his desired end.
As an advocate, Mr. Eastman has proved himself vigorous and suc
cessful, his natural honesty so impressing itself upon the jury as in
stinctively to prejudice its members in his favor. As a counsellor, Mr.
Eastman is sagacious, keen, and conservative; he never leads astray.
Frank, almost impulsive, in judgment, his advice is relied upon with
the utmost confidence. In his legislative service he has won equal
credit, occupying a prominent and honorable position. As a citizen he
is enterprising and respected, and his labors for the advancement of
the interests of the community have been earnest and progressive.
HON. EIDW IN G. EAST MAN.
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�ON, JOHN J. BELL, of the state library commission, was
born in Chester, October 30, 1827, and is the son of Samuel
Dana Bell and Mary Healey. He was educated in the common
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schools of Exeter, Concord, and Manchester, at Concord and Man
chester academies, and pursued his professional studies in the Dane
law school, at Harvard university. He was admitted to the bar of
Hillsborough county, in April, 1848, and practised his profession at
Nashua, Milford, at Carmel, Me., and at Exeter, where he was judge
of the municipal court. In 1876 he was a member of the constitu
tional convention.
In 1882 he was chairman of the commission to exam
ine into the condition of the insane poor in New Hampshire.
In 1883,
1885, 1887, and 1891, he was a member of the house of representa
tives.
In
1885 he was appointed a member of the commission to
determine the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachu
setts, and still retains the position; and upon the formation of the state
library commission, in 1892, Judge Bell was made a member of the
board. Judge Bell's business and financial interests are very exten
sive. He is president of the Exeter Mfg Co., of the Suncook Valley
R. R., and of the Exeter R. R.
He is also a director in the Concord
& Portsmouth R. R., in the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Co., in
the New Hampshire Life Insurance Co., and is president of the New
Hampshire Historical society, of the New Hampshire library associa
tion, and of the New Hampshire state board of trade. Judge Bell's
active practice of his profession ceased with his retirement from the
bench, in 1883, yet it will be seen that his retirement is not an idle
one. Probably no man in New Hampshire has a more extensive or
more ardent interest in the various enterprises that have tended to
HON. JOHN J. BELL.
build up the state. As president of the state board of trade, an or
ganization of which Judge Bell was one of the founders, he has been
untiring in his efforts to increase the usefulness of the institution.
�ENRY M. PUTNEY, the oldest of the eight children of Henry
and Abigail Putney, was born in Dunbarton, N. H., March
22, 1840. He fitted for college at New London academy, graduated
at Dartmouth in the class of 1861; was principal of the Dunbarton
high school, and at Manchester grammar school, read law in Concord,
and New York city, and was admitted to the Hillsborough county bar.
January 1, 1873, he became a member of the editorial staff of the
Manchester Mirror, to the columns of which he had formerly been a
contributor, and has ever since been employed in that capacity. In
1867–68, he represented Dunbarton in the state legislature. He was
appointed collector of internal revenue for the district of New Hamp
shire by President Arthur, and removed by Cleveland for offensive
partisanship. In 1886, Governor Currier appointed him chairman of
the railroad commission of New Hampshire, and he was reappointed
by Governors Goodell and Tuttle. His third term expires January 1,
1896. He has a wife and two daughters, and resides in Manchester.
H
HENRY
M.
PUTNEY.
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�O be twice president of the New Hampshire senate is an honor
that has fallen to but one man in forty years. That man, Hon.
John McLane of Milford, was born in Scotland, in 1852. When two
years of age he came to this country with his parents, and has been a
resident of Milford for nearly a score of years, where he is engaged in
the manufacture of postoffice furniture, in this line of work ranking
among the first in the country. Mr. McLane's business success has
been won by fidelity and capacity. He has always taken a lively
interest in the development of his town and is president of the Souhe
gan National Bank, a trustee of the Milford Savings Bank, and a
director of the building and loan association. In 1885, Mr. McLane
was a member of the legislature from Milford, and also again in 1887.
The first term of his service saw him placed on the judiciary committee
and on the committee on towns.
In 1887 he was chairman of the in
surance committee and a member of the committee on the revision of
statutes. In 1891 he was a member of the senate and was elected to
the presidency of that body, presiding with marked dignity and urban
ity. In 1892 he was again chosen to the senate, and in 1893 he was
again made president, an honor almost unprecedented. Mr. McLane's
public and private life has been characterized by the most rigid and
uncompromising honesty of purpose, of deed, and of word. By this
characteristic he has achieved his present standing; by it he will win
yet more renown. Faithful, conscientious, able, he has carved out
already an enduring record in the annals of the state, and the future
can add but little to his credit.
JOHN McLANE.
Above all that could be added in
honors would yet stand the man in all the virility of his integrity, in
all the honesty of his judgment, in all the nobility of his purpose.
�HE past ten years have brought to the front in New Hampshire
Among these may be numbered
Charles J. Hamblett of Nashua, who was born in that city in 1862.
His parents removed to Milford when he was five years old, and in the
public schools of that town he followed the usual course, graduating
from the high school in 1881, and subsequently attending a private
school and the academy at Francestown, from which he graduated in
T scores of young men of mark.
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1883.
He read law with Robert M. Wallace of Milford, and entered
the law school of Boston university in 1887, graduating therefrom two
years later, having, however, taken the full three years course. He
immediately opened an office in Nashua, where he soon won an envia
ble reputation among his associates in the matter of ability and patron
age. Shortly after beginning his practice he was elected city solicitor
of Nashua, and was reëlected for the years 1891, 1892, and 1893. In
1883, before he had become a law student, he was elected messenger
of the New Hampshire senate, and was reëlected in 1885. In 1887
he was advanced to be assistant clerk of that body, holding the same
position during the session of 1889 also. In 1891 he succeeded to
the clerkship, and was reëlected in 1893. A young man of ability, he
has forced his way forward and upward by his own exertions.
CHARLES J. HAMBLETT.
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�ON. PEARSON GOULD EVANS, member of the senate of
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1893 from the First district, was born in Shelburne, August
9, 1838, the son of Fletcher Ingalls Evans and Abigail Wiggin Gould.
In the common schools of Shelburne and Gorham he
obtained his
education, and his youth was that of the ordinary New Hampshire
farmer's boy. From his seventeenth to his nineteenth year he worked
in a saw-mill, and in 1857 began railroading in the employ of the At
lantic & St. Lawrence railway, now the Grand Trunk, and has contin
ued in the employ of that corporation until the present time. During
that length of time Senator Evans has been actively employed, and is
now a locomotive engineer on the Portland division of the Grand
Trunk railway, covering the road from Gorham to Portland; and to
his remarkable credit it is said that for thirty-three years he has covered
his route, averaging one hundred miles a day, without an accident, a
record unmatched by any man in railroad circles. Mr. Evans, in 1871
and 1872, was elected to the legislature.
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His course during the ses
sions of those two years was highly commendable, and the long interim
between that service and his next in the legislative line was due wholly
to the fact that he was unwilling again to serve. In 1889, however,
he again came to the house and sat through the session of that year
and through the extra session of the year following. He was nom
inated to the senate in the fall of 1892, and was elected by a vote which
clearly indicated his popularity. Senator Evans is one of the most
reliable of men; his judgment is rarely at fault; the long years of
responsibility have made him cautious, yet they have not made him
timid. With all the principles of progressive legislation Senator Evans
is in hearty accord, and as a legislator renders the same valuable
service that has made his life in other respects so highly respectable
and so thoroughly reliable.
PEARSON (SOULD EVANS.
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�ON. EDWARD WOODS, member of the New Hampshire senate
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from the Second district, is a native of Bath, the town in which
he now resides. He was born October 24, 1835. He was educated
in the schools of his native town, was fitted for college at Phillips
Exeter academy, and graduated from Dartmouth college in the class of
1856. He studied law with Hon. Andrew S. Woods, and was admit
ted to the bar in 1859. In addition to his legal duties Senator Woods
is interested in the Lisbon Savings Bank and Trust company, of which
he is president, and holds the same office in the Bath Lumber company.
In politics Senator Woods is a Democrat, and as such was chosen a
member of the legislature from Bath in 1873 and was reëlected in 1874.
In the latter year he was selected by Governor Weston as a member of
his staff, serving as aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel. In pas
sing, it is worthy to note that nearly every member of this staff has
since attained an enviable prominence in the various walks of life pursued
by each. As an evidence of the esteem and confidence reposed in Senator
Woods by his townsmen, it will be enough to say that for twenty-five
years he was treasurer of Bath. Among other honors that have come
to him was an election as solicitor of Grafton county, his term includ
ing the years 1889 and 1890. Senator Woods as a legislator displays
the qualities that have marked him in other capacities.
In him con
stituents and clients find a faithful and conscientious friend, adviser,
and servant.
HON.
EDWARD WOOI)S.
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�HE career of Hon. Newton S. Huntington is symmetrically
T rounded out by a seat in the senate of New Hampshire, after
years of service in the lower branch of the legislature. Mr. Hunting
ton was born in Lebanon, August 9, 1822, and for sixty-eight years has
been a resident of Hanover, where until his thirty-third year he was
engaged in agricultural pursuits, at that time embarking in trade, contin
uing for seven years. In 1865 he organized the Dartmouth National
Bank, of which he was chosen cashier, and was elected treasurer of the
Dartmouth Savings Bank, holding both of these positions for fourteen
years, when he resigned and accepted the presidency of both institu
tions. Mr. Huntington has been signally honored by the citizens of
the town in which he has lived so long. He has held every office
within their gift. For more than thirty years he has occupied the
moderator's desk, has filled every town office, has been called upon in
positions of trust and responsibility, and was elected to the house of
representatives in 1858, 1859, 1885, 1887, 1889, and 1891 and came to
the senate from the Third district with a reputation for legislative integ
rity almost unexampled. Mr. Huntington is a man of wide experience
in life, having traveled extensively in this country and in Europe. In
local affairs he has always been a leader. Mr. Huntington is a man of
scholarly as well as business tastes, and in recognition of this the degree
of master of arts has been conferred upon him by Dartmouth college.
Mr. Huntington's life has been marked by a most intense integrity.
His successive return to office by the almost united voice of the people
of his town, speaks louder and truer than any words of eulogy. The
confidence reposed in him has never been violated. Called frequently
to serve in matters requiring the closest, and at times the most delicate,
of judgment, he has met each responsibility with fidelity and has acquit
HON. NEWTON S. HUNTINGTON.
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�ON. CHARLES HAVEN DAMON, member of the senate of
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1893 from the Fourth district, was born in Lowell, Mass., Sep
tember 16, 1851, the son of Warren Damon and Adeline F. Blaisdell.
He was educated in the common schools of Campton, in which town he
now resides, and when seventeen years of age, began work in a retail
grocery store at Lowell, Mass., serving there in different capacities for
ten years; then going to Boston, where he entered the wholesale
grocery business as a travelling salesman, in which capacity he is at
present employed by the firm of John F. Nickerson & Co. Mr.
Damon's residence, as has been noted, is in Campton, where he has
received many substantial tokens of the esteem of his fellow-citizens.
In 1889 he was chosen a member of the constitutional convention and
his work during the session of that body was so meritorious as to
secure for him an election to the house of representatives in 1890
where Mr. Damon was arrayed upon the right side of every question,
taking a prominent part in the work of the session, speaking infre
quently but always forcibly, and making himself a factor in all the pro
ceedings of the session. In 1892 he became a candidate for the state
senate for the remodelled Fourth district, and after a spirited campaign,
in which were opposed to him some of the strongest elements of the
party, Mr. Damon was nominated and his nomination was followed by
a ready election. Coming to the senate, the advantage of his previous
legislative experience was at once noticed, and his work has been of
great value to his constituents. He has kept a watchful eye upon the
proceedings of the session and has been found always ready to speak
promptly and efficiently upon the subjects that lie close to his heart.
Senator Damon in the course of his business career has been brought
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HAVEN
in contact with men in
all parts of New England, the experience thus
gained giving him a wonderful knowledge of human nature. He is a
IDAMON.
Mason and Odd Fellow.
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�ON. FRANK K. HOBBS, who sits in the New Hampshire
senate of 1893 as the member from the Fifth district, is a native
and life-long resident of Carroll county. He was born in Tamworth,
November 4, 1841, but is now a resident of Ossipee. He was edu
cated at Wolfeborough and at the New England Masonic institute at
Effingham. During the war for the preservation of the Union, Senator
Hobbs saw service in Company F, Eighteenth New Hampshire volun
teers, and was mustered out as an orderly sergeant. Since the war he
has been variously employed. For one year he travelled as salesman
for Stowe, Richardson & Parker, dry goods merchants of Boston;
and has been engaged in the lumber business, and as a merchant. He
is now occupied in farming. Senator Hobbs was always a Democrat,
and as such has been elected by his fellow-townsmen to hold every
office in their gift, serving as member of the school committee and as
selectman for three years. In 1875 he began his legislative service as
a member of the house of representatives. In 1877 he was returned
by his constituents and again in 1878. In 1880 he was elected again
to the same position, but was unseated. In 1881, however, and again
in 1885 he was in his place as representative from Ossipee. Through
all these years of service in the lower house, Senator Hobbs has
become remarkably well equipped for the duties of the senate chamber.
There are few measures of public importance that have not, in some
form or other, passed beneath his legislative eye in the lower branch.
Hence his services are doubly valuable. His vote records the decision
of a well balanced judgment strengthened by years of experience in
matters of public import relating to the common welfare.
HON.
FRANK
K.
H() BBS.
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�ON. GEORGE ALBERT HATCH, member of the senate of
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1893, from the Sixth district, was born in Meredith, July 17,
1848, the son of David P. Hatch and Adeline N. Swain.
He was
educated in the common schools of his native town, and in early life,
following the completion of his school days, he spent a considerable
time in New York city as a collector of bills, and since that time has
been engaged as a druggist in Laconia, and in Boston, Mass., though
he is now retired from active commercial life and is engaged in real
estate business in the thriving city by the lake. Since Mr. Hatch was
twenty-one years old he has maintained a legal residence in Laconia,
and has always taken an active part in the politics of the community.
At present he is chairman of the Democratic city committee, a position
that he has filled with remarkable fidelity and ability. In 1876 and
1877 he held his first office, that of town clerk, and in the two years
following was a member of the legislature. Since then he has declined
proffered candidacies for office although he was placed upon the ticket
in 1892 as candidate for senator and was elected. Senator Hatch is
prominent in Masonic circles, being a Knight Templar and a thirty
second degree Mason. He is a past presiding officer in Union Chapter
and Pythagorean Council at Laconia. He received his commandery de
gree in Mt. Horeb commandery at Concord, and was made a thirty
second degree Mason in the Edward A. Raymond consistory at Nashua.
In the senate Senator Hatch was a working senator, serving his constit
uents with remarkable industry. As the senator from the district
embracing Laconia, much of the important legislation of the session
had a deep interest for his constituents and Senator Hatch carefully
guarded those interests. He was infrequently heard in debate; yet in the
councils of the senate, in the committee-room, and in personal conver
sation, he was one of the influential members of the body.
HON. GEORGE ALBERT HATCH.
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�ON. SHEPHERD L. BOWERS of Newport, who represents
the Seventh district, in the New Hampshire senate of 1893, is
a native of Acworth, and was born December 13, 1827. In the two
towns named has always been his home. He was educated at Kim
ball Union academy, Meriden, at Thetford academy, Vermont, and at
Dartmouth college. He read law with Hon. Asa Fowler at Concord,
and immediately established himself in practice at Newport, where he
has ever since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession.
From 1861 to 1871 and from 1876 to 1882 he was registrar of probate
for Sullivan county, and from 1886 to 1890 was county solicitor. In
1864 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention and in
1884 was alternate in the Republican national convention, in Chicago.
In 1866 and in 1885 he was a member of the house of representatives,
and at each session was a conspicuous member, serving at the latter
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date as chairman of the committee on revision of statutes.
In the
senate Senator Bowers is chairman of the judiciary committee, and
takes an active and leading position in debate. Mr. Bowers has always
been a Republican and has always taken a high place in the councils
of his party, serving for many years as a member of the state com
mittee and as member of the executive committee for Sullivan county.
He is deeply interested in the growth and development of Newport
and is president of the Newport Improvement company. Mr. Bowers
has found time in the midst of an active professional career to gratify
a cultivated literary taste, and as a result of wide reading many pleasing
essays and lectures have sprung from his pen. As a debater many an
antagonist has felt his steel in the rush of parliamentary discussion or
at the bar.
HON.
SHEPHERD L.
BOWERS.
Senator Bowers has been twice married, his first wife
dying in 1861. He has three children, two sons and a daughter, the
oldest son being at present a member of Dartmouth college.
�HE member of the New Hampshire senate from the Eighth
district, Hon. George S. Peavey, was born in Greenfield, Feb
ruary 14, 1835, and was educated in that town and in the academies at
Washington, Hopkinton, Pittsfield, and Hancock. Senator Peavey
has always resided in Greenfield since the close of his school days, and
has been actively and prominently identified with the progress of the
town, having been for many years member of the firm of C. F. & G.
S. Peavey, which is largely interested in the real estate business and
handles thousands of cattle and sheep throughout the season, and
which has an interest in almost every concern of the community. In
all that has pertained to the town of Greenfield, Senator Peavey has
had more than a proportional share, having been willing himself to ad
vance the town's interests by any means within his power. He has
held all the offices in the gift of the town, and in the councils of his
party has been prominent, having been its candidate for senator on two
occasions. He, with his brother, was one of the promoters of the
First National Bank of Francestown and both were directors and held
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GEORGE S.
a tenth part in the stock of the bank at the time it was voted to close
it up in 1891. Senator Peavey's legislative experience has been marked
by a long lapse of years, he having first come to the legislature in 1867,
accepting a reëlection in 1868. From that time, until his present
appearance upon the floor of the upper house, his increasing business
cares have precluded his acceptance of political office that would de
mand so large a share of his attention as would a faithful performance
of senatorial duties. Yet with his increasing years has come increasing
confidence, and that Senator Peavey has been enabled at last to lay
aside for the time being the pursuit of private interests in order to serve
his constituency, is a result more gratifying to them than to him.
PEAVEY.
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�HON.
GEORGE C.
PRESTON.
ON. GEORGE C. PRESTON, member of the senate of 1893
from the Ninth district, was born in Manchester, August 17,
1848, and for more than twenty years has been a resident of Henniker.
His education, beyond that allowed by the public schools, was secured
in the academy at Francestown; and all his active business life has been
passed in Henniker, where during all the years of his residence he has
been engaged in general business under different commercial relations
and firm names, at present being associated with his brother under the
style of Preston Brothers, their interests not being confined to purely
commercial pursuits but branching out into real estate and fruit broker
age, having built up in each of these lines an extensive and lucrative
patronage. In all the circles of activity in his town Senator Preston
has been prominent, and has entered into many organizations having
for their object the benefit of humanity, his liberal views of life endors
ing all societies that tend to elevate the human race. To this end
Senator Preston has become prominent in the Masonic fraternity, as an
Odd Fellow, and as a member of the Grange. In politics Senator Preston
has always been an ardent Republican, and has served his party faith
fully and well, nor has his service gone unrewarded. For four years
he was postmaster of Henniker and for six years held the office of town
clerk. In 1891 he was a member of the house of representatives, and
was elected in 1892 to the state senate by a vote largely above his
party associates on the ticket. As a legislator Senator Preston has
been constantly faithful to the interests of his constituents. Beginning
with his service in the house of representatives, he has lent his efforts
chiefly to the securing of the rebuilding of the North Weare & Henni
ker railroad, and that at last the desire of the people of Henniker has
been consummated is largely due to his earnestness and assiduity.
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�ON. JOSEPH BURBEEN WALKER was born in Concord,
H June 12, 1822, and was educated at Phillips Exeter academy,
and at Yale college, graduating in 1844.
He studied law in the office
of Hon. Charles H. Peaslee and at the Harvard law school, and was
admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1847, though he has never been
an active practitioner, giving his attention to general business, which
has embraced directorships in several New Hampshire railroads, sav
ings and other banks, and a continuous service for forty-six years as
trustee for the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, trustee of Phil
lips Exeter academy, and member of the board of agriculture. Mr.
Walker, although but little in political life, has been a member of the
house of representatives in 1866 and 1867, when he was active in his
efforts for the incorporation of the New Hampshire College of Agricul
ture and the Mechanic Arts, of which institution he has always been a
warm friend. In 1889 he was a member of the constitutional conven
tion, and is a member of the senate of 1893 from the Tenth district.
Mr. Walker has written many agricultural and historical monographs,
among them being a history of the New Hampshire Federal convention
of 1788, and he has delivered many agricultural addresses at meetings
of the board of agriculture, every volume of the board's reports
with one exception containing some contribution from his pen. Mr.
Walker has developed a high taste for forestry and was a member of
the state forestry commission of 1885, and was president of the com
mission formed in 1889 and continued in that office until 1893. For
many years he was a member of the school board in Concord. Mr.
HON. JOSEPH BURBEEN WALKER.
Walker lives the quiet life of a country gentleman upon his ancestral
farm and in the oldest house in Concord, which Rev. Timothy Walker,
the first minister of the town, built in 1734 and occupied until his
death in 1782.
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HE senator from the Eleventh district, Hon. John Whitaker,
a native of Hopkinton, having been born in 1835, a
child of Revolutionary stock. For a number of years he was engaged
in the livery business in Penacook, and remained in that business until
1865, when in company with Caldwell & Amsden he went into the
lumber business, continuing therein until 1887 with his partners, and
since that year conducting the business for himself. In 1860 Senator
Whitaker was married to Frances Caldwell and for more than forty
years has been one of the prominent citizens of Penacook. He was
foreman of the “Pioneer Fire Engine company” in its palmy days and
for five years was assistant engineer of the Concord fire department.
His first political office was held in 1859, when he was elected assessor
of his ward; and in 1862, despite the fact of an adverse party majority,
he was elected to the legislature and voted faithfully for a vigorous
prosecution of the war. He has also represented his ward in both
branches of the city government, and is a recently appointed member
of the board of water commissioners. He has but recently retired from
the active conduct of the lumber business, and is now engaged in a new
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enterprise as manager and proprietor of a fleet of pleasure-boats upon
the beautiful Contoocook river, and in this connection has been instru
mental in opening up and developing one of the most lovely of New
Hampshire's suburban pleasure resorts. Senator Whitaker is a marked
specimen of New Hampshire's manhood,—a magnificent physique and
a power of endurance, combined with the hardihood of severe good
sense, have enabled him to undertake and carry forward successfully
many an enterprise of magnitude. He has had ample experience in
business affairs to prove his ability, and in public life he has served
with the same measure of fidelity that has brought success to his own
private endeavors.
HON. JOHN WHITAKER.
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�ON. WILLIAM E. WATERHOUSE of Barrington, member
of the New Hampshire senate from the Twelfth district, was
born in Barrington, January 31, 1845, and has always been a resident
of that town. He was educated in the common schools, at the high
school, and at Franklin academy, Dover, and has been engaged in
agricultural pursuits and general business since first entering upon the
active arena of life. Coming early to prominence in the town of his
birth and lifelong residence, Senator Waterhouse has held almost every
office within the gift of his neighbors. For four years he was town
clerk, for six years he was selectman, for two years he was county com
missioner, and has been honored with repeated continuous elections
to the moderator's desk. In the general detail of political activity he
has also taken a prominent part, having been for eighteen years a mem
ber of the Republican state committee, where his services have been
valued and efficient for the success of the party whose principles he has
espoused. Senator Waterhouse has become identified with all of the
enterprises of note in his community, and as a member of the house of
representatives in 1871 and 1872, he vigorously presented the views
of his constituents. Upon the organization of the Concord & Roches
ter railroad he was chosen director, and is a director and president of
the Barrington Creamery association. His election to the senate was
hailed with joy by the citizens of his native town, irrespective of party,
and in the business of the session Senator Waterhouse gave a vast
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measure of faithful devotion to the interests of the district which he
was chosen to represent. He has taken broad views of life and has
formed correct and impartial judgments upon men and affairs. In pub
lic and private work he has observed a scrupulous honor in his dealings
HON. WILLIAM E. WATERHOUSE.
with his fellow-men and the united esteem of those who know him is
the due reward of his probity.
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�ON. CLEMENT J. WOODWARD, member of the senate
from the Thirteenth district, was born in Roxbury, September
7, 1850. His parents moved to Keene when he was six years old,
and both have since resided there.
Mr. Woodward received his educa
tion in the public schools of Keene, completing a course at the high
school and at Colby academy, New London. He is treasurer and
manager of the Sentinel Printing company, of which corporation he is
one of the principal stockholders, and publisher of the daily Keene
Evening Sentinel and weekly New Hampshire Sentinel, journals whose
probity, sturdy uprightness, and wide influence but mark the make-up
of the publisher.
As a financier Mr. Woodward is a man of excellent
judgment, and in business matters he is keen, energetic, and far-sighted.
His executive ability is of a high order. He is a director of the Keene
National Bank, and has been a member of the Keene city government.
In politics he has always taken an active interest, all his life having
been an ardent Republican. Honors have not been withheld from him
by his party associates. For many years he has been a member of
the Republican state committee. In 1887 he was chosen to a seat in
the house of representatives, and served upon important committees,
his membership embracing a seat in the railroad committee, the most
important in that stirring session. His election to the senate of
1893–'94 was a merited one, and his services were such as to prove the
faith of his fellow-citizens. He attends the St. James' Episcopal church.
He was married October 3, 1877, and has one son now in his sixth
year.
HON. CLEMENT J. WOODWARD.
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�ON. WALTER LUCIUS GOODNOW, member of the senate
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of 1893 from the Fourteenth district, was born in Winchendon,
Mass., March 1, 1851, the son of William E. and Abigail Beaman
Goodnow. The family removed to New Hampshire three years later.
He was educated in the public schools of Dorchester, Lyme, and Jaf
frey, and at the age of eighteen years entered the store of Spaulding &
Perry at Fitzwilliam, as a clerk. In 1873 he established the firm of
W. L. Goodnow & Co., at East Jaffrey, continuing as senior partner
and business manager in the firm until 1891, when a corporation—The
W. L. Goodnow company,– was organized and he was chosen presi
dent and treasurer. The corporation has stores at East Jaffrey, West
Swanzey, and Keene. Senator Goodnow has other large business
interests, and is a director of the Monadnock National Bank at East
Jaffrey, and of the New Hampshire Trust company, at Manchester.
He is also a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He was
a member of the house of representatives, from Jaffrey, in the legisla
ture of 1889 and 1890, and was elected to his present position in
1892. Senator Goodnow's success is largely due to his upright busi
ness methods, his close attention to, and thorough knowledge of, his
business, and his capacity in perceiving and seizing a commercial
opportunity. Entering mercantile life at an early age, he became
acquainted with the most minute particulars of modern business require
ments, and has shaped his course in accordance with the trend of
modern commercial life. As a legislator, Senator Goodnow, both in
the house and senate, has been faithful to every interest with which he
has been identified, and has given the same careful attention to affairs
of the state, that he has given to his personal affairs. He is one of
the bright, active, successful business men of Cheshire county.
HON. WALTER LUCIUS GOODNOW.
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�N the New Hampshire senate of 1893, as member from the Six
teenth district, sat Hon. Freeman Higgins, of Manchester, who
was born in Standish, Maine, January 11, 1830, the second son in a
family of eleven children and a descendant of one of the pioneers of the
Pine Tree state. Mr. Higgins in his early life endured the same limi
tations that have attended so many of the successful men of New
England. Mr. Higgins enjoyed but few educational advantages, and
at the age of fifteen went to Lowell, Mass., where he attended school
for a few terms and later went to Lawrence, Mass., and obtained em
ployment in the Essex Machine shop, where he mastered the principles
of mechanics and remained until 1860, when he came to Manchester
and entered the employ of the Amoskeag Co., which was at that time
under contract to supply a large quantity of United States government
rifles, and Mr. Higgins was placed in charge of the most intricate por
tion of this work, where he was so successful that at the close of the
war he was promoted to be master mechanic of the corporation, and
has since had charge of the mechanical department of the Amoskeag
Co. Mr. Higgins is a stockholder and director of the First National
Bank, Manchester, also of the Nashua Trust Co., Nashua, and trustee
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of the Merrimack River Savings Bank, Manchester. His life has been
a modest one. Each of his successes has been accepted in the same
quiet spirit in which it has been achieved. His activity, by reason of the
calls made upon him by his increasing duties, has not permitted him
to step aside from the path of his calling, yet by the earnest fidelity with
which he has discharged his duties, he has won the approbation of
those who know him. In calling him to his present position, the
united voice of his party associates selected Mr. Higgins as a faithful
representative of the interests of his district, nor was their selection
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made in error.
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�ON. ALFRED G. FAIRBANKS, member of the New Hamp
shire senate of 1893 from the Seventeenth district, was born
in Francestown, January 16, 1822, and was educated in the common
schools and at the academy in that town. Senator Fairbanks is
engaged in mercantile life, and in his especial calling ranks among
the first in the city of Manchester Through all his life he has been
actively identified with public affairs, having been honored by appoint
ment and election to various positions entailing responsibility, and he
comes to the senate, after many years of experience in different official
capacities, well equipped to perform the legislative duties that fall to his
lot. Senator Fairbanks first held office in 1865, when he was appoint
ed deputy sheriff; serving also as jailer until 1874. He was elected
a county commissioner in 1883, and served in that capacity for six
years. In 1881 he was elected to the house of representatives. Sen
ator Fairbanks, though one of the oldest members of the senate, is one
of the most vigorous. His long experience in public affairs enables
him to secure a prominent position in the proceedings of the senate.
As a conscientious and faithful legislator, Senator Fairbanks stands
preeminent. His voice is seldom heard in debate, but is never heard
without respect and influence. Constant in his attendance upon his
public duties he wins the esteem of his constituents, and faithful in his
guardianship of their interests, he adds to his reputation for integrity.
In the city of Manchester, where Senator Fairbanks has resided for
nearly fifty years, he is justly regarded as one of her leading citizens
in all good works. His charity is unostentatious, yet liberal; his
friendship is not boastful, but cordial. Thrown constantly into asso
ciation with all classes of society by reason of his business duties,
Senator Fairbanks has developed the most sterling qualities of man
hood, benevolence, sympathy, and tact.
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HON. ALFRED G.
FAIRBANKS.
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�ROM the city of Manchester, under the recent apportionment of
F the senatorial districts of the state, come
three members of the
state senate. From the Eighteenth district, Leonard P. Reynolds is
the representative, being the first Manchester Democrat to sit in the
senate for many years. Mr. Reynolds was born in New Boston, Sep
tember 12, 1852, and was educated in the public schools of that town,
and at Manchester. He is engaged in mercantile life as a wholesale and
retail dealer in tobacco, and is worthily reckoned among the most pub
lic spirited of Manchester's citizens. Mr. Reynolds has been actively
interested in public affairs in Manchester and represented a con
stituency in the city council of 1879 and again in 1880, and was
elected to the board of aldermen in 1882, 1884, 1886, and 1888. His
present position follows up his other honors as a compliment well
HON. LEONARI)
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earned by faithful service to the party that has honored him, and to
the citizens whose interests he has had in charge. Though coming
to the senate without previous legislative experience, Mr. Reynolds has
not found that a bar to his influence. His committee assignments
have been important, and although his party is in the minority in the
senate, his work has not failed to be marked by positive results. Mr.
Reynolds is a type of the New Hampshire man who wins success by
his own efforts. His business achievements have been reached by
degrees, and have been rendered permanent by application to business
and by the most scrupulous honor in mercantile transactions. Resid
ing in Manchester during most of his life, Mr. Reynolds has kept
closely in touch with the growth and progress of the metropolis of
New Hampshire, and to this fact may be attributed much of the suc
cess that attended his efforts. Thoroughly reliable, his counsel is
sought by many, his advice is received with respect, and his course is
REY NOLIDS.
emulated and admired.
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�HE member of the senate of 1893 from the Nineteenth district,
Hon. Joseph Woodbury Howard, was born in Washington,
November 22, 1844, and was educated, in addition to preliminary
study in the public schools, at Colby academy, New London. Mr.
Howard is a business man, and has been for many years identified with
the business interests of the city of Nashua, where he was at the head
of Howard, French & Heald, furniture manufacturers and dealers, until
the dissolution of that co-partnership in the present year, and is now
engaged in the same line of business. In the city of Nashua, Mr.
Howard has easily ranked among the foremost citizens, and has been
frequently honored with election to political office, where his eminent
business qualities have served him and his constituents in good stead.
As selectman of his ward he merited promotion and was elected to the
common council, and from there was promoted to be alderman of the
city and thence came to the house of representatives in 1887, followed
by an election in 1892 to his present position. He has been deeply
interested in the educational welfare of his city, and for twelve years
was an active member of the board of education, serving during the
time when the modern school system was supplanting the methods of
other days and lending his voice and vote to the support of the educa
tional methods now in vogue. Mr. Howard as a business man has
experienced the satisfaction of constantly increasing success. In addi
tion to the conduct of large warerooms in the business portion of the
city of Nashua, his firm has many factories in that city and also at Mil
ford, handling the product for themselves both as wholesalers and as
retailers.
Yet Mr. Howard's success has not been unattended by mis
fortune. He has seen valuable properties consumed by fire, yet he has
never permitted himself to be daunted by such adversities. This spirit
has buoyed him up and this spirit yet sustains him.
HON, JOSEPH WOODBURY HOWARD.
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�ON. GEORGE FRANKLIN HAMMOND, member of the sen
ate of 1893 from the Twentieth district, was born, and has
always lived, in Nashua. He is the son of Evan B. Hammond and of
Sarah A. Adams, and was born June 8, 1858. He was educated in
the high school of Nashua, and at the Bryant & Stratton commercial
college in Boston. Senator Hammond has large business interests in
the city of his birth and residence, being a member of the firm of F.
D. Cook & Co., lumber dealers, and is one of the most prominent
young men of Nashua. He has been active in the business world, and
first came forward in political life in 1891, when he was chosen to the
house of representatives, his service there winning for him the nom
ination as senator in 1892, a nomination that carried with it no assur
ance of election, because of the recent readjustment of the lines of the
senatorial districts. Yet Senator Hammond entered upon the campaign
with vigor and met his opponent in the very strongholds of his political
faith, and wrested victory from him almost in the very face of an adverse
majority. Coming to the senate Senator Hammond brought to the
discharge of his duties those business-like qualities that had won for
him success in the commercial world.
He was not idle upon the floor,
and in the committee room his service was of marked value.
The
legislation of the session in many particulars bore witness to his dis
Cernment.
HON .
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FRANKLIN
HAMM()
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HON. JOHN D.
LYMAN.
ON. JOHN D. LYMAN, member of the senate of 1893, was
born in Milton, July 3, 1833, and since 1869 has resided in
Exeter. He has served the public faithfully and constantly in various
capacities, and the mere enumeration of his service is replete with sug
gestion. He has served as school committee in three towns, in 1865
was visitor to West Point Military academy; he has been trustee of the
normal school, of the state college, and the New Hampshire Orphans'
home; for several years he sat in the house of representatives and in
the senate, and was in the constitutional convention of 1889; he has
served as bank cashier and as bank commissioner; has been president
of the state temperance society, and for fifteen years was lecturer of the
state grange; for three years he was secretary of state; he has been
and is a member of the board of agriculture, and has been delegate to
various national bodies of economic and agricultural societies. He was
the first bank commissioner to learn by test the actual amount of sav
ings-bank deposits, and was the author of the law requiring savings
banks to lay aside a guaranty fund. He has travelled extensively and
spoken frequently in behalf of agriculture, and has addressed farmers'
meetings in this state, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York city,
New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Canada. To him the increasing value of
the corn crop in New Hampshire is due by reason of the interest
awakened by his personal offer of premiums. Many of the laws bene
ficial and necessary to the farming interests of the state were introduced
by him or enacted through his influence. Mr. Lyman's industry,
sagacity, discernment, and enlightenment have been to him a constant
source of power, and have given him an ample equipment for oratory.
He is a most popular man, and his election to the senate came by a
majority of 663 in a district where 3oo has been a handsome margin.
H
�ON. JOHN CURTIS TASKER, member of the senate of 1893
from the Twenty-second district, was born in Rochester, August
17, 1844, and is the son of Thomas Jefferson Tasker and of Comfort
Bickford.
His education was obtained in the schools of his native
city, and in Meaderborough academy at Rochester. His time un
til his nineteenth year was spent upon the farm; he then entered a
shoe factory at Dover, where he was employed for three years, and was
then for four years clerk in a grocery store in the same city. For eight
years thereafter he was engaged in the grocery business for himself,
and at the expiration of that time entered the railway mail service, con
tinuing there for several years, and is now employed as a commercial
traveller. Senator Tasker has been prominent in the city of Dover,
in political as well as in business circles, and has been for several years
a supervisor of the check-lists of the city. In 1881 he was chosen to
the house of representatives, and was accorded in 1883 a reëlection.
In the senate he served as chairman of the committee on labor, and
gave to the measures presented to that body careful and studious atten
tion. This chairmanship was an eminently proper one for Senator
Tasker to hold, as through all his life he has been accustomed to hard
labor and is in deep sympathy with the efforts of the laboring man
to secure the legislation necessary to keep pace with this enlightened
age. Moreover, the city of Dover may be fittingly termed the parent
city of the labor movement in New Hampshire, and Senator Tasker
by his long residence there was well qualified for his important chair
manship. Aside from the duties laid upon him by this position, Sen
ator Tasker's work during the session was marked by his faithful adher
ence to duty. A well balanced mind, fortified by the experience of
previous sessions of legislative work, made him an invaluable member
of the senate, and he added much to his already honorable record.
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�ON. ANDREW KILLOREN, member of the New Hampshire
senate from the Twenty-third district, was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, thirty-eight years ago, and received a common school education.
Mr. Killoren has been a resident of New Hampshire for many years,
and has been engaged in business at Dover during the greater part of
his life in the state.
Mr. Killoren, as a business man, drew about
himself a large circle of friends, and by his great popularity won an
influence in politics that placed him in the house of representatives in
1887, where in the legislation of that long and important session he
took a prominent part, and was honored with a reëlection in 1889 and
again in 1891, followed in 1893 by a seat in the state senate. During
Mr. Killoren's legislative career covering four sessions of the general
court, he has distinguished himself as a friend to the labor element in
his constituency, not only in his own locality, but throughout the state.
Much of the labor legislation of 1887 was urged by him in the
debates in the house, and his activity on the floor, before the commit
tees, and in general among the members of the legislature, was largely
instrumental in securing the passage of so much legislation favorable to
the laboring man. In 1891 Mr. Killoren still further distinguished
himself in this direction by introducing the bill to make Labor Day a
legal holiday, and by his championship succeeded in placing this meas
ure upon the statute books of the state. Though Mr. Killoren is an
intense partisan and his legislative record has never shown desertion
of his principles, he has yet taken broad ground upon the important
non-political legislation of the various sessions in which he has repre
sented a constituency. His advanced stand upon the question of labor
legislation is but an index of his position upon other public matters.
Mr. Killoren has frequently participated in the debates of the legislature,
and has always been heard with respect by the body in which he has
Sat.
�ON. CALVIN PAGE was born in North Hampton, August 22,
1845, and was educated in the common schools and at Phillips
Exeter academy. He entered Harvard college as a sophomore in 1864,
but left college to take up the study of the law. Since 1865 he has
resided in Portsmouth where he studied and has practised law, standing
in the front rank in his profession. In the city of Portsmouth Judge
Page has been preeminent in official circles, having served as city solic
itor, judge of the municipal court, member of the board of water com
misioners, of the board of education, and mayor. From 1885 to 1889
H
he was United States collector of internal revenue for the district of
New Hampshire, and in 1889 was a member of the constitutional con
vention. He at present represents the Twenty-fourth district in the
State Senate.
HON. CALVIN PAGE.
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�O characterize the life of Hon. William E. Chandler needs no
T miniature painter's brush.
The barest outline of his life denotes
a career of intense activity. Born in Concord, December 28, 1835, at
the age of seventeen he had completed the course of study in the public
schools and in the academies at Thetford, Vt., and Pembroke, and was
a law student. At twenty he had graduated from the Harvard Law
School with prize honors, and before becoming of age he was a mem
ber of the bar. Evincing an eager interest in politics, he assisted in
the formation of the Republican party, and has since grown gray in its
service. In 1859 he received his first public office—reporter of de
cisions of the New Hampshire supreme court. In 1862 he was a
member of the state house of representatives; in the two succeeding
years he was its speaker, his second term of office being marked by the
most stormy session in legislative annals. In 1864 and in 1865 he
was chairman of the Republican state committee, previously serving as
its secretary. In November, 1864, he was appointed by President
Lincoln special counsel to prosecute the Philadelphia navy-yard frauds,
and became, March 9, 1865, first solicitor and judge advocate general
of the navy department. From June 17, 1865, to November 30,
1867,—the date of his resignation, —he was assistant secretary of the
treasury. In 1868 he was a delegate to the convention that nominated
President Grant, and served as secretary of the national committee
from that year until 1876, when he declined reëlection. In the prepa
ration of the Republican case before the electoral commission, Mr.
Chandler was one of the active counsel. April 17, 1882, he assumed
the office of secretary of the navy, retiring from that position with the
Arthur administration in 1885. In June, 1887, he was elected to the
United States senate to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Austin F. Pike,
and two years later was chosen to succeed himself for a full term.
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�ROM the printer's case to the United States senate—this, in brief,
Gallinger, of New
Hampshire. Born at Cornwall, Ontario, March 28, 1837, he had only
limited educational advantages at home, and he was at an early age
thrown upon his own resources to make his way in the world. His
remarkable success is due to an untiring industry, which has enabled
him to attain distinction in his profession, and rapid advancement in
political life. The printing-office was at one and the same time his
source of revenue and his preparatory school in fitting himself for his
later public career. While learning his trade as a printer, his even
ings were devoted to the study of medicine. After the completion of
his apprenticeship, he took a medical course at Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he graduated at the head of his class in 1858. For the next three
years he worked at his trade, practised medicine, studied and travelled,
and in 1861 settled in New Hampshire. He rose rapidly in his pro
fession, and soon acquired a large practice. He early became interest
ed in politics. He was elected to the house of representatives of New
Hampshire in 1872, 1873, and 1891, and to the constitutional conven
tion of 1876. He was a member of the state senate in 1878 and 1879.
and was made president of that body in the latter year. He was a
member of the national house of representatives in the Forty-ninth
and Fiftieth congresses, and declined a re-nomination in 1888. In
1891 he was elected by the legislature, of which he was a member, to
the United States senate, to succeed Henry W. Blair for the term of
F is the story of the life of Senator Jacob H.
six years.
He was also surgeon general of the state in 1879 and 1880.
In 1882 he was made chairman of the Republican state committee and
was three times reëlected, serving until 1890, when he voluntarily retired.
In 1888 he was chairman of the state delegation to the Republican
national convention at Chicago, which nominated Benjamin Harrison.
�N EW
Hampshire has never withheld honors from her deserving
sons, and to few has she accorded richer laurels than to Hon.
Henry W. Blair, who was born in Campton, December 6, 1834. Left
fatherless when two years old, and motherless at the age of twelve, his
boyhood was passed in farm work. His winters he passed at school,
and in 1856 he began the study of law, being admitted to the bar three
years later, and becoming solicitor of Grafton county in another year.
When the war broke out he was refused admission to the Twelfth New
Hampshire regiment by the surgeon, as he was previously rejected at
the organization of the Fifth New Hampshire volunteers. He after
ward enlisted as a private in the Fifteenth, and was chosen captain of
Company B. Before leaving the state he received a major's commis
sion, coming in command of the regiment soon after its arrival in
Louisiana. He was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel and commanded
his regiment most of the time while it was in the service. His ser
vice in the army had shattered his health, and his discharge was
followed by months of sickness and the loss of six years of active life.
He was elected a member of the house from Plymouth in 1866. In 1867
he came to the state senate, and again in 1868. As his health im
proved he again took up his profession, and in 1874, he was selected
in the old Third congressional district as a Republican candidate to
turn a Democratic majority into Republican victory. He did, and was
reëlected in 1876.
HON.
HENRY W.
In 1878 he declined a third nomination, and was
elected to the United States senate in 1879, and again in 1885, nar
rowly losing a third term in 1891, after which he was appointed
minister to China but was rejected by the imperial government on ac
count of his opposition to Chinese immigration to this country. In
1892 he was again called to face a Democratic majority, this time in
the First congressional district, and he repeated his victory of eighteen
years before, being triumphantly elected.
�ON. HENRY M. BAKER is the son of Aaron W. and Nancy
(Dustin) Baker and inherited most heroic New England blood.
Among his paternal ancestors were Captain Joseph Baker and Hannah,
his wife, daughter of Captain John Lovewell, the famous Indian fighter.
On his mother's side, he is a descendant of the heroine, Hannah Dus
tin.
He was born in Bow, January 11, 1841.
His preparatory educa
tion was in the schools of his town and at the academies in Pembroke,
Hopkinton, and Tilton. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1863, and
received the degree of A. M. in 1866. In 1864 he was appointed to
a departmental clerkship at Washington, D. C., and, continuing the
law studies begun at home, graduated from the Columbian college law
school in 1866, and was admitted to the bar. In 1882 he was
admitted to the United States supreme court.
In politics he has
always been a Republican.
In 1886-'87 he was judge advocate general
on the staff of Governor Currier.
He was elected senator in the
Ninth district in 1890. In the senate he was chairman of the judiciary
and a member of other important committees and took a prominent
part in its proceedings. He was elected representative in congress
from the Second district in 1892, by a good plurality, reversing the
Democratic victory in the preceding election. General Baker has been
an extensive traveller at home and abroad, and at all times a close
student and keen observer.
The cultivation of a natural taste for liter
ature has been to him both a pleasure and a recreation.
HON.
HENRY
M.
BAKER.
He has
made valuable contributions to the New Hampshire Historical Society,
of which he is a member, and has given to Dartmouth College two
prizes, one for the best words and the other for the best music for an
original college song. Mr. Baker has achieved success because he
has earned it. He is a good organizer, is not discouraged by oppo
sition, and possesses executive ability to a high degree.
�F'
PIERCE, the only president New Hampshire has
given the nation, and the last to come from New England, was
born in Hillsborough, November 23, 1804. He was fitted for college
in the academies at Hancock, Francestown, and Exeter and graduated
from Bowdoin in 1824, ranking third in his class. He began the
practice of law in 1827, and in 1829 was sent from Hillsborough to the
legislature, where he remained four years, the last two as speaker. In
1833 he was chosen to congress and remained four years. In 1837
he was chosen United States senator, and in 1842 he resigned his
seat and devoted himself to his law practice. In 1845 he declined an
appointment to the United States senate; he declined also the nomin
ation for governor of New Hampshire and also a seat in President
Polk's cabinet. In 1846 he enlisted in the Mexican War as a private,
and was soon appointed colonel. In 1847 he was commissioned briga
dier-general and distinguished himself in the campaign that followed as
a man of great personal bravery and a soldier of great skill. In 1850
he was a member and president of the constitutional convention. In
1852 he was chosen president of the United States, receiving 254
electoral votes to his opponent's 42. His administration was a credit
able one and after its close he made an extended foreign tour. After
this he lived quietly in Concord until his death, October 8, 1869.
General Pierce's was a brilliant career. In nearly all that he under
took he stood preeminent. As a lawyer his life was filled with suc
cesses, and the allurements of his profession were sufficiently bright to
induce him to resign a United States senatorship and to decline high
places in political life. As a legislator he made a mark, and as a sol
dier he achieved favor sufficient to have enriched one career. As presi
dent he brought to his state an honor that no other has given it, and
enriched his own life with the highest honor of earth.
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�ARON H. CRAGIN was born at Weston, Vt., February 3, 1821;
A received an academic education;
studied law in Weston, Vt.,
and at Albany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in New York city in
1847, and practised at Lebanon, New Hampshire; was a member of
the state house of representatives, 1852 to 1855; was elected a repre
sentative from the Third district of New Hampshire to the Thirty-fourth
congress,—as an American and a Republican, receiving 12, 126 votes
against 8,640 votes for William P. Wheeler, Democrat; and was
reëlected to the Thirty-fifth congress as a Republican, receiving 10,938
votes against 9,841 for William P. Wheeler, Democrat, serving from
December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1859; resuming practice, was a dele
gate from New Hampshire to the national Republican convention at
Chicago in 1860, which nominated the immortal Abraham Lincoln for
president; was elected United States senator as a Republican, to suc
ceed John P. Hale, Republican ; and was reëlected, serving from
March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1877; was appointed at the close of his
second term, by President Hayes, one of the commissioners for the
settlement of land titles, for laying out the town into lots and blocks,
and for laying out new streets and widening old ones, in the town of
Hot Springs, Ark., and deciding who among the occupants should be
entitled to buy lots, etc.; was made chairman of said commission, and
spent three years in discharging the duties pertaining thereto. For
nearly ten years last past he has resided in Washington, D.C., engaged
in the practice of law. In the senate Mr. Cragin was chairman of the
committee on naval affairs. The esteem with which he was regarded
by his colleagues is shown by the fact that at the inauguration of
General Grant he was made chairman of the committee of arrange
HON. AARON H. CRAGIN.
mentS.
�HE laurels of oratory have been but just now torn from New
and the silver tongue of Hon. James W.
T Hampshire's brow,
Patterson, so lately silenced, will win no new honors for his native
state.
Mr. Patterson's eminence was not attained at a bound.
Born
on a farm in Henniker, July 2, 1823, his youth was not an idle or an
easy one. In childhood he passed a few years in Lowell, Mass., return
ing there in 1838, after two years of alternating work and study in New
Hampshire. At that time he began work in the counting-room of the
Lawrence mills, resigning two years later to resume his studies in
preparation for college, studying Greek at Manchester under the guid
ance of Hon. Moody Currier, afterwards governor of the state. In
1844 he entered Dartmouth college, graduating four years later with
high honors. The succeeding two years found him a teacher at Wood
stock, Conn., at the same time busily engaged in reading law, a pur
suit that he abandoned at Henry Ward Beecher's request, and turned
himself to the ministry, studying at Yale Divinity school in 1852.
From here he returned to his alma mater, this time as an instructor,
becoming successively tutor and professor of mathematics and pro
fessor of astronomy. In 1862 he came to the legislature, and won
the hearts of his colleagues by his eloquence, going thence in the fol
lowing year to congress, and winning a reëlection in 1865. In 1864 he
was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. The comple
tion of his term of service in the national house of representatives
saw him transferred to the senate, where he ably sustained himself in
debate and committee. He retired from the senate in 1873. His life
was quiet until 1881, when he was called by Governor Head to be
come state superintendent of public instruction. In 1893 he returned
to Dartmouth as Willard professor of oratory, where his work was
cut short by death May 4, 1893.
�N the senate of the United States, Edward Henry Rollins sat as
New Hampshire's representative, and honored himself and his
state. He was born in Rollinsford, October 3, 1824, passing his boy
hood and youth in labor upon the farm, in attendance upon the dis
trict school, and at South Berwick academy and at Franklin academy in
Dover; in his seventeenth year coming to Concord, where he became
employed as a druggist's clerk.
In Boston for a few years (until 1847)
he was similarly employed, and in that year entered upon business for
himself in Concord, where undaunted by reverses he compelled success
and amassed a competence. In 1854 political events caused Mr. Rol
lins to sever his party ties and join the American or Know-Nothing
movement. In 1855 he was chosen to the legislature and served effi
ciently. The next year saw the birth of the Republican party in New
Hampshire and Mr. Rollins stood by its cradle. In 1856 he was
again elected to the house, this time as a Republican, and was chosen
speaker and was reëlected in the following year. He was chosen
chairman of the first Republican state central committee and served
until 1861, when he took his seat in congress. In 1863 Mr. Rollins
was reëlected to congress, and again in 1865. In 1869 he was chosen
secretary and assistant treasurer of the Union Pacific railroad, having
for some time previous, after the expiration of his terms in congress,
acted as agent of the company at Washington. In 1871 he was elected
secretary and treasurer, with an office at Boston, serving until March,
1877, when he again entered public life as a member of the United
States senate. From 1868 to 1871 was again chairman of the state
committee. For six years, until 1883, Mr. Rollins was a member of
the United States senate.
HON,
EDWARD
After Mr.
Rollins's retirement from the
senate he founded the banking institution of E. H. Rollins & Sons,
which has grown to be one of the soundest of fiscal institutions in
New England. Mr. Rollins died July 31, 1889.
H. ROLLINS.
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�USTIN F. PIKE was born in Hebron, October 16, 1819, and his
A education was obtained in the schools and in the academies near
by his home. The ambitious young man studied law at Franklin with
the late Judge Nesmith, and was admitted to the Merrimack county bar
in July, 1845, becoming at once the partner of his preceptor, the rela
tionship terminating with the elevation of Judge Nesmith to the bench,
and followed by a partnership with the late Hon. Daniel Barnard, and
with Hon. Isaac N. Blodgett, now a justice of the supreme court,
which last in turn was ended and followed by a partnership with Hon.
Frank N. Parsons, now of the governor's council. In 1850–52 Mr.
Pike won his first political laurels as member of the house of represent
atives, coming again to that body in 1865, and 1866, when he was
speaker. In 1857 and 1858 he was a member of the New Hampshire
state senate, and president of the senate in the latter year. In 1858–60
he was chairman of the Republican state committee, displaying marked
executive ability and political sagacity. In 1856 he was a delegate to
the national Republican convention, and in 1873 became a member of
congress, serving for two years. Following his retirement from the
national house of representatives, Mr. Pike returned to Franklin and
resumed the practice of his profession, which was broken in upon in
1883, when, after a prolonged struggle in the legislature, he was elected
to the United States senate to succeed Hon. E. H. Rollins. Taking
up his duties in the senate, Mr. Pike brought to them the qualities
that had marked his career in other walks of life. The chairmanship
of an important committee was his, and as a member of the senate Mr.
Pike's duties were greatly enhanced. The arduous duties of this posi
tion wore upon him, however, and October 8, 1886, he fell dead, ex
hausted by the intense application and ceaseless industry which were the
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AUSTIN F. PIKE.
habit of his life.
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�ON. JAMES FRANKLAND BRIGGS was born in Bury, Lan
H cashire county, England, October 23, 1827, and when less than
two years old was brought to this country by his parents, who came at
last to be residents of Ashland, where he spent his early boyhood at work
in a mill. At the age of fourteen, however, he attended school at New
bury, Vt., and afterward at Tilton, continuing his studies until 1848,
when he began the study of law with Wm. C. Thompson of Plymouth
and Joseph Burrows of Holderness, finishing with Judge Nehemiah
Butler of Boscawen.
He was admitted to the bar in 1851, im
mediately establishing himself in practice at Hillsborough Bridge, where
for twenty years he was an honored resident, thence removing to Man
chester in 1871, where greater honors awaited him. In 1857–59 Mr.
Briggs was a member of the legislature from Hillsborough, and at the
outbreak of the war entered the service, becoming quartermaster of
the New Hampshire volunteers. In 1874 he was elected member of
the house of representatives, and in 1876 sat in the constitutional
convention and also in the state senate. A year later he was nomi
nated for congress, and was twice reëlected, each time by an increased
majority, serving with conspicuous ability. In 1883 he again sat in
the legislature, in 1889 was once more a member of the constitutional
convention, and in 1891 was again found in the lower house of the
general court. Aside from the duties of his profession, which a large
and devoted clientage have rendered increasing, Mr. Briggs has found
an outlet for his activity as a promoter in many an enterprise. He is
president of the Hillsborough National Bank, of the Granite State
Trust Co., Manchester, and of the Queen City Land and Building
association, and is a director of the Citizens Building and Loan asso
ciation, the People's Gas Light Co., and the Elliott Manufacturing Co.,
no field of activity being too wide for his versatile talent.
HON. JAMES FRANKLAND BRIGGS.
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�ON. OSSIAN RAY was born in Hinesburg, Vt., December 13,
1835, the son of George and Hannah (Greene) Ray. He was
educated in the common schools, and at Derby academy, and studied
law with Jesse Cooper at Irasburg, and afterward at Lancaster with
Saunders W. Cooper, where, January 1, 1857, he formed a partnership
with the late Hon. Jacob Benton. He was admitted successively to
the bars of Vermont and of New Hampshire, and, January 25, 1872, to
the bar of the supreme court of the United States. In 1867 Mr. Ben
ton was elected to congress, and Mr. Ray was thereafter associated
with Hon. William S. Ladd and others until 1883. From then, except
for one year, until his death, he had no partner.
In 1868 and 1869
Mr. Ray was a member of the legislature from Lancaster. From 1862
to 1872 he was solicitor of Coös county. In 1872 he was a delegate
at-large to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia. From
February 22, 1879, to December 23, 1880, he was United States attor
ney for the district of New Hampshire. This office he resigned to
accept a nomination to congress to succeed Hon. Evarts W. Farr, who
had died in office. Mr. Ray was chosen to fill the vacancy for the
unexpired term to March 4, 1881, and was also elected to succeed him
self. In 1882 he was again elected, this time from the Second district,
the state having been redistricted since his first election. In congress
Mr. Ray served upon the committees on invalid pensions and claims.
He took advanced ground on public questions, and was indefatigable
in his efforts for the interests of his district, the public buildings in
Concord and Manchester being largely the results of his efforts. As
counsel for leading corporate interests, his efforts before courts and
judges were followed with a large measure of success. To the town
OSSJAN
RAY.
of Lancaster he was of inestimable value as a citizen, and his death,
January 28, 1892, was a stroke of grief, widespread and personal.
�ARTIN ALONZO HAYNES was born in Springfield, July 30,
1842, the son of Elbridge G. Haynes and Caroline R. Knowl
ton. He was educated in the public schools of Manchester, and when
not quite nineteen years of age enlisted in the Second New Hampshire
regiment, with which he served until June, 1864, with a record of faith
ful and arduous military service. At the close of the war he resumed
the printer's trade, and after a time established the Lake Village Times
of which journal he was for many years editor and proprietor, and
while there attracted public attention, and was chosen first to be clerk
of the courts of Belknap county, then served in the legislature as a rep
M
resentative from Gilford, and for two terms sat in the lower house of
the congress of the United States, where he was prominent in the New
England delegation. At the close of his congressional term he returned
to his professional duties, and in 1890 was appointed special agent of
the internal revenue bureau, with stations first at Cincinnati, Ohio, and
now at Boston, Mass., where he has been detailed for two successive
years in charge of the New England division. Colonel Haynes is one of
the brightest of New Hampshire's sons: a genial, sunny nature makes
him welcomed everywhere, and has won for him an immense popularity
that he has found of advantage in his various political campaigns. On
the stump he is a power, and is called into service in every campaign.
As a newspaper writer he evinces more than ordinary ability, and in all
the callings in which he has served he has brought a full measure of
ability.
HON. MARTIN ALONZO
HAYNES.
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�ON. ALONZO NUTE was born in Milton, February 12, 1826,
and received a common-school education.
Until he was sixteen
years old he lived in Milton and then removed to Natick, Mass., where
he remained until 1848. He then returned to Farmington, where he
commenced the manufacture of boots and shoes in 1849, in company
with his brother, Jeremy O. Nute. After four years they dissolved
partnership and he continued business alone until 1875, when his sons,
Eugene P. and Alonzo I., became partners in the business as A. Nute
& Sons. He was married, April 14, 1850, to Mary, daughter of Joseph
Pearl, of Milton. At the outbreak of the war, in the spring of 1861,
he entered the army in the Sixth New Hampshire volunteers, and
served on the staffs of Gen. Simon G. Griffin and Gen. Rush Hawkins.
He was incapacitated for service by reason of failing health, and he
retired from service.
After the close of the war he was drawn into
public life, and was sent to represent the town of Farmington in the
legislature of 1866. The next session saw him promoted to the state
senate, and serving in 1867 and 1868. In 1876 he was a delegate to
the Republican national convention, at Cincinnati. He was always an
enthusiastic member of his party and enjoyed an immense personal
popularity. In 1888, when it became necessary to overcome an adverse
majority in the First congressional district, Mr. Nute was put forward
as his party's candidate, and was elected by a handsome plurality. In
the Fifty-first congress Mr. Nute served upon the committees on terri
tories and invalid pensions. He was a valuable representative and
served his district and his state with untiring zeal. He declined to
become a candidate for a second term on account of his enfeebled
health, and at the close of his term he returned to his business duties
at Farmington. Increasing infirmity, however, compelled him to sur
render his cares, and he died December 24, 1892.
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�UTHER FRANKLIN MCKINNEY, for many years well known
L as an eloquent, forceful, and popular preacher of the Universalist
denomination, and subsequently prominent in politics and public life,
was born near Newark, Ohio, April 25, 1841. He spent his early life,
when not attending school, in farm labor; commenced teaching in
the winter at the age of eighteen; enlisted in the Union army in
August, 1861, serving as sergeant in Company D, First Ohio cavalry,
until discharged for disability in February, 1863. In 1865 he went to
Iowa, where he spent two years in teaching and farming. In 1867 he
entered the theological department of St. Lawrence university, Canton,
N. Y., graduating in 1870, and immediately entering upon the work of
the ministry in the state of Maine, whence he removed to South New
market, N. H., in 1873, and to Manchester in 1876, where as pastor
of the Universalist church for ten years he labored with great zeal and
fidelity. Politically an earnest Democrat from principle and conviction,
he accepted the nomination of that party in the First district for con
gress, in 1884, reducing the Republican majority nearly one half, and
securing an election two years later. Defeated by a small plurality in
1888, he was again elected in 1890 by a decisive majority. In 1892
he was summoned by his party to leadership in the gubernatorial can
vass, and made a characteristically vigorous canvass, his opponent,
John B. Smith, being elected by a majority considerably less than that
of the Republican electoral ticket. April 25, 1893, he was appointed
by President Cleveland U. S. minister to Colombia. Mr. McKinney
is a strong debater, an effective stump speaker, and made several not
able speeches in congress, one million copies of that on pensions, deliv
ered in August, 1888, having been distributed for campaign purposes
by the national Democratic committee. He has been prominent in
HON. LUTHER FRANKLIN McKINNEY.
Odd Fellow and G. A. R. circles, and was for several years chaplain
of the First regiment, N. H. N. G.
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�HE record of the career of Hon. Warren Fisher Daniell would
T read like a romance were it not so full of the varieties of life.
He was born in Newton Lower Falls, Mass., June 26, 1826, the son
of Jeremiah F. Daniell and Sarah Reed, and with his father came to
Franklin in 1836, where his father established himself as a paper man
ufacturer. Mr. Daniell's life as a boy was filled with toil. After his
removal to New Hampshire he was sent to Concord, where he worked
upon a farm for his board and clothes and the privilege of a few weeks'
schooling in the winter. At the age of fourteen this advantage was
denied him, and he was called home and entered his father's mill as an
apprentice, thence to rise to the proprietorship, though not until he
had for ten years worked in every department of the mill at Franklin,
and had, after that, been employed at Waterville, Me., and Pepperell,
Mass., as superintendent of paper mills. In 1854 he returned to
Franklin and became his father's partner, this relation continuing for
ten years, when he bought his father's interest and was sole proprietor
of the mills at Franklin until 1870, that date marking the establishment
of the Winnipiseogee Paper company, as successors to the firm of J. F.
Daniell & Son. Mr. Daniell then became connected with a large paper
house in Boston, but soon afterward returned to Franklin, securing
a large interest in the Winnipiseogee Paper company, and becoming
its resident agent and manager, which relation he sustained until
recently, when he became president of the corporation. In the face of
an adverse majority he has frequently represented Franklin in the legis
lature, and twice sat in the state senate as member from a district
that no Democrat but he could have carried. In 1872 he was a dele
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VVARREN
gate to the national Democratic convention, and has declined time
without number other political honors. In 1890, however, he was
elected to congress, in a Republican district by a pronounced plurality.
FISHER DANIELL.
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�H' NATHANIEL SPRINGER BERRY, the oldest living ex
governor in the United States, was born in Bath, Me., Septem
ber 1, 1796, a descendant of patriotic Revolutionary stock. At the age
of six he lost his father, and his educational advantages were very lim
ited.
At sixteen he was apprenticed to a tanner in Bath, N. H., and
in 1818 removed to Bristol, where he has since resided, and where, in
1820, he engaged in the manufacture of leather, in which he continued
for thirty-five years. For two years he was colonel of the Thirty-fourth
militia, and from 1841 to 1850 was judge of the court of common pleas,
and for five years, to June 5, 1861, was judge of probate. In 1828,
1833, 1834, and 1837 he sat in the legislature from Bristol, and in
1854 was the representative from Hebron. In 1835 and 1836 he was
a state senator from the Eleventh district. For twenty-two years he
was a Democrat, and was a delegate to the national convention in 1840.
The action of this convention caused Mr. Berry's withdrawal from the
Democracy, and he became a leader of the Free-soil movement in New
Hampshire. At its first state convention, in 1845, he was nominated
for governor and received votes enough to prevent an election by the
people. He was four times renominated. In March, 1861, he was
elected governor as the Republican candidate, and was reëlected in
March, 1863. He was indefatigable in his efforts toward the suppres
sion of the Rebellion, and enlisted, equipped, and sent forward to the
seat of war more than sixteen thousand troops. He was one of the
northern war governors who signed the letter to President Lincoln,
upon which he made the call of July 1, 1862, for three hundred thou
sand volunteers. Governor Berry has been a life-long Methodist, and
in 1872 was a delegate to the general conference.
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�HOUGH New Hampshire has given freely to other states, she
T has not hesitated to borrow, and from Vermont she took Joseph
Albree Gilmore, who was born in Weston, June 10, 1811, the son of
Asa Gilmore and Lucy Dodge. He was educated in the common
schools, and when a young man went to Boston and engaged in mer
cantile pursuits with success. He afterward removed to Concord and
became prominent in the construction and management of the railroads
of the state. Entering a political career, he was elected to the state
senate, and in 1859 was its president. For the two years from June,
1863, to June, 1865, he was governor of New Hampshire, and in that
position was most active in the prosecution of the war.
His untiring
efforts secured the completion of New Hampshire's quota. To the
patriotic work devolving upon him he gave the most energetic and
devoted attention, and retired from office, after the close of hostilities,
followed by the plaudits of his fellow-citizens. But the arduous labors
of the governorship during the critical period in the nation's history,
and the anxiety that he felt because of his position as governor of a
loyal state, had made their inroads upon his rugged constitution, and
his shattered health never revived. For the two years following his
retirement from office, Governor Gilmore lived quietly, but his span
was not lengthened, and April 17, 1867, at the age of fifty-five years,
ten months, and seven days, he laid down his life, mourned as the
“War governor" of New Hampshire, a patriotic, a faithful, an efficient
Servant.
�ON. ONSLOW STEARNS
was born in
Billerica, Mass.,
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August 30, 1810, and for seventeen years lived upon his father's
farm, attending the common schools. At that age he went to Boston
and was engaged in a clerical capacity for three years, and then joined
his brother, a famous railroad contractor, who was at that time engaged
in the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. Subsequently he
became interested with his brother in the construction of various rail
HON.
ONSLOW STEARNS.
roads in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, until the summer of
1837, when he returned to New England and soon after became engaged
in the work of completing the Nashua & Lowell railroad, being made its
superintendent in the fall of 1838, resigning in 1846 to become agent
of the Northern railroad, being connected with the corporation from its
very inception, securing the necessary legislation and personally super
vising its construction, becoming manager of the road upon its com
pletion and holding that position until 1852, when he was elected pres
ident, continuing his service in that capacity until his death, Decem
ber 29, 1878. His other railroad connections embraced the superin
tendency of the Vermont Central, directorship in the Ogdensburg, in
the Nashua & Lowell, in the Northern Pacific, and the presidency of the
Old Colony and Concord railroads, and the Old Colony Steamboat Co.
In addition he served most faithfully and acceptably as a state senator
in 1862 and in 1864, being president of the senate in the latter year.
In 1864 he was delegate to the Republican national convention. In
1867 he was unanimously nominated for governor of New Hampshire
and was elected by a decided majority. Though declining a renomina
tion, the convention in the following year declined to accept his refusal
and again he was called to the gubernatorial chair. During his admin
istration Governor Stearns, by a display of the eminent business quali
ties that had made him so signally successful in private life, added to
his renown and greatly benefited the state.
�X-GOVERNOR JAMES ADAMS WESTON was born in Man
chester, August 27, 1827, the son of Amos Weston, Jr., and Betsy
Wilson. His youth was passed in farming, and in securing a substantial
education at the district school and at the local academies.
Endowed
with a strong mathematical bent, Mr. Weston studied civil engineering,
and at the age of nineteen he was appointed assistant-engineer of the
Concord railroad, and was promoted in 1849 to the position of chief
engineer, which he held for many years, discharging also the duties of
road master and master of transportation of the Concord and Manches
ter & Lawrence railroads, superintending the construction of the Con
cord & Portsmouth line, and also the Suncook Valley railroad. In
1867, Mr. Weston was elected mayor of Manchester, and in 1869
again held that office, being reelected in 1870 and 1873 also. In 1871
he was the candidate of the Democratic party for governor of the state,
and received a plurality of votes and was chosen governor by the legis
lature, being the only Democrat thus elected since 1855. In 1872 Mr.
Weston was defeated for reëlection, but in 1874 was again the candidate,
and was once more chosen governor. Since his retirement from the
executive chair Governor Weston has held no political office, though he
served as chairman of the New Hampshire Centennial commission, and
as a member of the Centennial board of finance. Since the organiza
tion of the board he has been a member of the state board of health.
He was for some time one of the trustees of the Amoskeag Savings
bank, and is now president of the Merchants' National bank, having
succeeded to that office in October, 1880.
HON. JAMES ADAMS WESTON.
He is clerk and treasurer
also of the Guaranty Savings bank of Manchester, and is president of
the New Hampshire Fire Insurance company. Governor Weston has
served as president of the New Hampshire Trust company, and in rail
road circles he holds important places of trust.
�H ON. P. C. CHENEY was born in Holderness, February 25, 1828,
the sixth child of Moses Cheney and Abigail Morrison. His
early days were passed in Holderness, and his boyhood and young man
hood at Peterborough, where, after having secured an education in the
academies at Peterborough and Hancock and at Parsonsfield, Me., he
was engaged in the management of a paper mill. In 1853 he became a
member of a firm engaged in the manufacture of paper at Peterborough,
and remained there until 1856. During his residence in Peterborough
he entered actively into politics, and was twice a member of the legisla
ture. In August, 1862, he entered the army, and was appointed quar
termaster of the Thirteenth New Hampshire regiment, rendering faithful
service until August, 1863, when he was honorably discharged because
of failing health. In 1864 he was chosen railroad commissioner, and
served three years. In 1866 he removed to Manchester, to engage in
business as a paper manufacturer, and has since continued there, being
now president of the P. C. Cheney company. He soon became promi
nent in Manchester, and in 1871 was elected mayor of the city, declining
reëlection. In 1875 he was made his party's candidate for governor,
and under his lead the party succeeded in wrenching from the Demo
crats the control of the state. In 1876 he was reëlected by an
increased vote. Upon his retirement from the chief magistracy of the
state he did not lose his interest in politics, and has been an active and
influential factor in every campaign that has followed. In 1886 he was
appointed a member of the United States senate, to succeed the late
Austin F. Pike. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Republican
national committee, and was reëlected in 1892, and in December, 1892,
he was appointed by President Harrison envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Switzerland. From
this post he has just now returned.
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�X-GOVERNOR BENJAMIN F. PRESCOTT, though boasting
He was
born in Epping, February 26, 1833. He was educated at Phillips
Exeter academy and at Dartmouth college, graduating with honors in
1856. Teaching and the study of law engaged his attention for the
next four years, and he practised his profession until 1861, when he
entered journalism, remaining five years. He held office from 1865 to
1869 as special agent of the United States treasury department, was
secretary of the Republican state committee for fifteen years, from
1859, and was elected secretary of state in 1872, and was three times
reëlected. In 1877 he was elected governor of New Hampshire, and
was reëlected in 1878. In 1887 he was appointed a member of the
railroad commission, and was reappointed in 1890. In 1880 he was
chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the Republican national
E. an extended lineage, has won fame by his own merit.
convention.
HON. BENJAMIN F. PRESCOTT.
Governor Prescott is a man of literary and scholarly
tastes, which have been recognized by his election as fellow of the
Royal Historical society of Great Britain, and as vice-president of the
New Hampshire Historical society, and as president of the Bennington
Battle Monument association, and as trustee of many institutions of
learning, including the state college and Dartmouth college, the latter
position coming to him in 1878 by the vote of the alumni of the college.
Governor Prescott has been often before the public as an orator, notably
at the inauguration of President Bartlett of Dartmouth, and at the laying
of the corner-stone and the dedication of the Bennington monument.
On all of these occasions he acquitted himself with scholarly credit and
oratorical dignity. Governor Prescott has firm faith in New Hamp
shire, and a just pride in her institutions, and it is largely due to his
efforts that the portrait galleries in the state house, in the rooms of the
New Hampshire Historical society, at Phillips Exeter academy, and at
Dartmouth college were collected, 230 portraits in all.
�ON. NATT HEAD was born in Hooksett, May 20, 1828, and
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received his education in the common schools and Pembroke
academy. When he was but eight years of age his father died, and
several years later he succeeded to the business of the manufacture of
bricks, adding an extensive lumber trade, and associating his brother as
partner. The firm, Natt & W. F. Head, became very generally
known throughout New England, and was, perhaps, excelled by no
individual enterprise in the state. He was early interested in the mil
itary of New Hampshire, and was promoted through various offices
to be chief of staff of Governor Gilmore, by whom he was also com
missioned quartermaster-general, fulfilling the duties of that office with
conspicuous ability during the years of the war, adding also those of
inspector and adjutant-general. In 1875 he was elected to the state
senate, but was unseated by a technicality. He was, however, reëlected
in 1876 and 1877, being chosen president of the senate by a large vote.
In 1878 he was nominated for governor for the biennial term under the
new constitution. He was triumphantly elected, and his administration
ranks among the purest and most brilliant in our history. During
the war his services were most valuable, and in the years following,
when as adjutant-general of the state he made up the record of New
Hampshire's valor in the War of the Rebellion, his work was thorough
and complete. During his official career he travelled extensively, speak
ing on many public occasions, enhancing his own and the state's repu
tation.
HON. NATT
HEAD.
After his retirement from
office he returned once more to
business. His health, however, was soon impaired, and after several
months of weakness and illness he died November 12, 1883, in the
full glow of the love and respect of an entire state. He is remem
bered as the courteous, genial, generous Natt Head—the friend of
everybody.
�splendid and impressive example of the possibilities for the
A American youth is taught by the career of Hon. Moody Currier,
who has attained to eminence in many fields of lofty endeavor. Born
in humble circumstances in Boscawen, April 22, 1806, he early mani
fested those qualities of genius which paved the way to the greatest
honors within the gift of the state. Although limited to six weeks of
schooling per year, his application was such that he mastered the Eng
lish studies, and was enabled, when not at work upon the farm, to take
up teaching. He graduated from Dartmouth college, class of 1834,
with the distinguished honor of having the Greek oration. His subse
quent rise was rapid. He was principal of the Hopkinton academy one
year, and of the Lowell high school five years. In the meantime he
found time to study law, and, removing to Manchester in 1841, was
admitted to the bar and practised in the state and United States courts
with conspicuous ability. As time went on, he became identified with
the organization and management of nearly all of the prosperous finan
cial and industrial institutions of the city, filled all of the intermediate
offices leading up to governorship, and was governor in 1885–86.
Distinguished for what he has accomplished in public life, and in the
building up of large financial and industrial interests, he is also a
remarkable man in scholarship, easily ranking first in the state in litera
ture. He has fluent command of many languages, is versed in the
sciences, and is a poet of recognized ability, who has given to the
world many beautiful productions. He has devoted much time to the
study of ancient as well as modern religions, and while not assenting
to creeds and dogmas, is an earnest believer in a Supreme Being. Mr.
Currier has carved for himself a name on the highway of success which
New Hampshire can never forget when she calls her roll of fame.
HON. MOODY CURRIER.
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�X-GOVERNOR CHARLES
HENRY SAWYER is the eldest
E son of Jonathan Sawyer and Martha Perkins, and was born at
Watertown, N. Y., March 30, 1840. At ten years of age his father
moved to Dover, and after six years in the public schools of that city,
he began as an apprentice in the Sawyer woolen mills, and passed
through every branch of the concern, in 1866 becoming superintendent,
and in 1873, upon the incorporation of the company, being admitted to
the firm, and advanced successively to the posts of agent and director
to president. The Sawyer mills, over which he presides, rank among
the strongest and the largest woolen manufacturing corporations in the
country, and the credit of this position in no small measure is due to
the capacity and ability of the man who is at their head. The citizens
of Dover early came to appreciate Governor Sawyer's qualities, and he
was chosen to serve in both branches of the city government. In 1869,
187c, 1876, and 1877, he was a member of the house of representa
tives, and held positions upon important committees, being a working
member of the house.
In 1881 he was a member of Governor Bell's
staff, was delegate at large to the Republican national convention in
1884, and in 1886 was elected governor of New Hampshire, serving
in that high office with conspicuous fidelity to the dictates of his con
science, and with scrupulous regard for the interests of the state,
retiring with a record for diligence, for honor, and for sagacity that
has placed him among the noblest of New Hampshire's rulers. Gover
nor Sawyer, by reason of his prominence in Dover's business circles,
has been connected with other interests than the corporation which
bears his name, and is a director in the Strafford National Bank and
HON.
trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank, director in the Somersworth
Machine company, and Dover Gas Light company, president of the
Elliott Bridge company, and was for many years a director in the Ports
CHARLES HENRY SAWYER.
mouth & Dover railroad.
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�X-GOVERNOR DAVID H. GOODELL is a typical son of
New Hampshire, in that he is persistent, earnest, and successful.
He was born in Hillsborough, May 6, 1834, the only child of a farmer.
In 1841 his parents removed to Antrim, and that town has since been
his home. Though his parents had enjoyed limited advantages, they
determined that their son should have them all, and the boy was sent
to school at Hancock academy, at New Hampton, and at Francestown,
afterward entering Brown university in the fall of 1852. He left college
in his sophomore year on account of ill health, and returned to his
father's farm.
With renewed health, he left the farm and devoted him
self to teaching, quitting that calling, however, again to return to farm
ing as a life-work. But it was not to be, for he became treasurer of
the Antrim Shovel company upon its organization, and in 1858 became
its general agent. In 1864 this industry was removed to North Easton,
Mass., and its plant was occupied by D. H. Goodell & Co., in the
manufacture of apple-parers, a business that steadily increased. In
1867 fire consumed the factory, but six weeks' time saw another in
operation. In 1871 Mr. Goodell bought the interest of his partner.
In 1872 he helped organize the Wood Cutlery company at Bennington,
and in 1875 he united it with his business and organized the Goodell
company, to whom he transferred both plants. The Goodell company
to-day has factories at Antrim and Bennington, employs 200 hands,
and has a pay-roll of more than $120,000 yearly. In 1876 Mr. Goodell
entered politics by overturning a Democratic majority in Antrim, and
was sent that year to the legislature, returning again in 1877 and 1878.
In the house he made a mark as a leader in debates and in legislation.
In 1882 he was elected to the executive council, and in 1888 he was
nominated and elected governor, taking his seat in June, 1889, and
serving to January, 1891.
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�HE town of Barnstead has given many men to the service of the
Hiram A. Tuttle, just now retired from office
with the proud knowledge of a popularity merited by his worth. Gov
ernor Tuttle was born fifty-six years ago. His boyhood and youth
were spent in labor as a farmer and a shoe-maker. When he was
seventeen years old he entered a clothing house, and some years later
became manager of a branch house for the firm in Pittsfield, soon after
ward becoming proprietor. During all the years of his residence in Pitts
field no public enterprise has gone forward without his active and cheerful
coöperation. He is a trustee of the savings bank, a director in the National
bank, and a trustee of Pittsfield academy. In 1873 and 1874 Governor
Tuttle represented Pittsfield in the legislature; in 1876 he served on
Governor Cheney's staff with the rank of colonel. In 1878 he was a mem
ber of the governor's council, and a year later was reelected under the
new constitution for a term of two years. Governor Tuttle was always
prominent in his party, and in 1888 his name was presented to the
T state, among them
state convention as a candidate for governor.
HON.
HIRAM
A.
Failing to receive the
nomination that year it was accorded him in 1890 with practical una
nimity, and he took his seat in January, 1891, after a most spirited
contest. The duties of the governorship were discharged by him with
marked fidelity and credit. His administration was marked by many
events of more than ordinary public importance, and through them all
Governor Tuttle was conspicuous for his unswerving steadfastness of
purpose. Few men have so grown in public esteem as did Governor
Tuttle during his term of office. Governor Tuttle's life has been busy,
honorable, and happy. At home and abroad, in public and private
life, he is the same unassuming, kindly, sympathetic gentleman that all
TUTTLE.
have ever found him to be.
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�N recommending Gen. Richard N. Batchelder, of New Hampshire,
for appointment as quartermaster-general of the army, that dis
criminating military critic, Gen. Francis A. Walker, the historian of
the Second army corps, said: “No other man's services can exceed
his in the claims they make upon the consideration and gratitude of his
countrymen.” It is impossible in this brief sketch to give even a
synopsis of General Batchelder's military career, a career which won for
him the confidence and affection of the commanders of our armies,
which advanced him in the volunteer service by rapid promotion from
the rank of quartermaster of the First New Hampshire regiment to the
responsible position of chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac;
which carried him over the heads of six seniors in the regular service,
and all of them West Point graduates, when President Harrison was
called upon to appoint a quartermaster-general of the army, and which
secured for him indorsements and recommendations for that position
unsurpassed in the history of the regular army. One of the first of
New Hampshire's citizens to volunteer at the outbreak of the Rebellion,
he has reached the highest rank in the regular service of any volunteer
from this state, and it is not too much to say of him that he is the
most efficient quartermaster-general the army has ever had. General
Batchelder is the son of Nathan and Peace (Clifford) Batchelder, and
was born in the old town of Meredith, July 27, 1832.
GEN.
RICHARD N.
BATCHELDER.
His parents
moved to Manchester in his youth, and he was educated in the public
schools of that city. He started out in life in business with his father,
and was well advanced upon distinguished civil career when the first
call came for troops to put down the Rebellion. With a genius born
to command, he has adorned whatever position he has been called to
occupy. His life is filled with successes and honors. Loyal in his
friendships, his achievements have been without envy among his
associates.
�J'
GRIMES WALKER was born in Hillsborough, March 20,
1835. After the death of his mother he came under the care of his
uncle, Governor Grimes, of Iowa, and entered the naval academy from
that state in 1850. He graduated at the head of his class, and at the
breaking out of the War of the Rebellion was a lieutenant. He served
with distinguished gallantry at the taking of New Orleans and Vicks
burg, and in almost all the battles on the Mississippi river and its trib
utaries during the years 1862 and 1863, commanding various expedi
tions in which several vessels were engaged. His conduct at Arkansas
post, during the siege of Vicksburg, and on the Yazoo river was men
tioned with great praise by Admiral Porter in his reports to the navy
department. He also commanded the gunboat Shawmut at the taking
of Wilmington, N. C., in 1865, and was engaged in the closing opera
tions of the war on James river. He was always commended for cool
ness, sound judgment, and integrity, and was specially promoted to the
rank of commander for gallant and meritorious service. In 1866 he
was made assistant superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis,
and in 1873, after a cruise, was appointed secretary of the lighthouse
board. This place he filled most acceptably for five years, bringing the
work to a high state of efficiency. During a two years leave of absence,
from 1878 to 1880, he occupied himself in the management of the
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad, but the autumn of 1881 found
him—after more sea service—again in Washington as chief of the
bureau of navigation in the navy department, with the rank of commo
dore. Here he served eight years, performing the duties of an onerous
position with honor to himself and great benefit to the navy. In 1889
he was assigned as rear-admiral to the command of the squadron of
evolution, in which our new ships were collected. This squadron was
in 1892 merged in the North Atlantic squadron, which Admiral Walker
ADMIRAL JOHN GRIMES WALKER.
now commands.
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�EN. OLIVER LYMAN SPAULDING, son of Lyman and
Spaulding, was born at Jaffrey, New Hamp
shire, August 2, 1833. He entered Oberlin college in 1851, and grad
uated in 1855, in which year he removed to Michigan. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and in the same year was elected
a regent of the University of Michigan. In July, 1862, he raised a
company for the Twenty-third Michigan infantry, of which he was made
captain, successively being made major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel,
and brevetted brigadier-general at the close of the war. In 1866 he was
elected secretary of state of Michigan, and reëlected in 1868. In 1875
he was appointed special agent of the treasury, and made a study of
customs matters, and while holding this office was elected to the Forty
seventh congress, serving on the committees on military affairs and
Indian affairs, but failed of election to the Forty-eighth congress in a
Democratic district by less than fifty votes. In 1883 he was chairman
of a commission sent to the Sandwich Islands to investigate alleged
violations of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty. On his return he resumed
the practice of law, and subsequently was reappointed special agent,
resigning the office in December, 1885. He was reappointed in 1889
by Secretary Windom, and upon the selection of Assistant Secretary
Tichenor as one of the general appraisers, he was appointed assistant
secretary of the treasury, and given complete charge of customs matters.
In this position he was called upon to decide intricate and important
questions under the McKinley tariff law, and was also called upon to ex
amine other important questions requiring the exercise of sound judg
ment as well as the possession of superior legal abilities. During the
absence of Secretary Foster he was almost invariably designated as
acting secretary, and in the discharge of the various duties he was called
on to perform, enjoyed the full confidence of the president and the
secretary of the treasury.
G Susan (Marshall)
GEN.
OLIVER LYMAN SPAULIDING.
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�HE long lines of the boys in blue, who fought so bravely and
T died so nobly, if need be, for their country, are fast thinning
out; and it becomes highly desirable to preserve in permanent form
the record of their valiant service. Very few can boast a longer or
more honorable “following of the flag” than General Joab Nelson
Patterson. Born in Hopkinton, January 2, 1835, the son of Joab and
Mary (Lovering) Patterson, he was educated at Hopkinton academy
and the New Hampton institute, and Dartmouth college, where he grad
uated in the class of 1860. Enlisting as a private, April 22, 1861. he
served the Union cause faithfully and well until mustered out, December
19, 1865. He was in twenty-four engagements, from the first Bull Run
to the taking of Richmond, and rose rapidly through the different
degrees of rank until March 13, 1865, he was appointed brevet briga
dier general for “courage in battle and good conduct throughout the
war.” Upon the establishment of peace General Patterson took up his
permanent abode in Concord, and represented the capital city in the
legislature of 1866. From March, 1867, to December, 1886, he served
as United States marshal for the district of New Hampshire. In June,
1889, he was appointed second auditor of the United States treasury, a
position which he filled with credit until the change of administration
brought him a successor. He is now successfully engaged in the life
insurance business at 1,326 F street, Washington, D. C. After the
close of the war General Patterson held a brigadier's commission in the
state force. When the militia was reorganized, however, he retired
and had no active connection with the citizen soldiery again until April
18, 1879, when he was commissioned colonel of the Third regiment.
His valuable service in that position, and later as brigadier-general of
the First brigade, N. H. N. G., is still fresh in the minds of all.
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�ARROLL DAVIDSON WRIGHT was born in Dunbarton,
July 25, 1840. He was educated at Tubbs's Union academy, at
Washington, the Cold River academy, at Alstead, and the academy at
Chester, Vt., and also in the High school at Reading, Mass. In 1860
he began the study of law with Wheeler & Faulkner of Keene, but
concluded his studies in Boston. In September, 1862, he enlisted at
Keene as a private in the Fourteenth New Hampshire regiment, but
was made a second lieutenant of Company C in that regiment just
before it departed for the seat of war in October. In December, 1863,
he was made adjutant of the regiment, and in December, 1864, was
commissioned as its colonel.
On account of illness he resigned in
March, 1865, and later on returned to the study of law, and was admit
ted to the New Hampshire bar in October, 1865. He did not com
mence practice until August, 1867, and then at Boston. In the same
year he was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts; also to practice in
the United States courts.
He was elected to the Massachusetts sen
ate in 1871, and served during the sessions of 1872–73. In June,
1873, he was appointed chief of the Massachusetts bureau of statistics
of labor, and served until September, 1888. He was a presidential
elector in 1876. He took the state census of Massachusetts in 1875
and 1885, and was also supervisor of the United States census of 1880 for
the state. In 1885 he was commissioned by the governor to investi
gate the public records of towns, parishes, counties, and courts, and in
January, 1885, he was appointed United States commissioner of labor.
Mr. Wright still holds this position. He was lecturer during 1879 on
phases of the labor question at the Lowell institute, in Boston, and in
1881, at Harvard, was university lecturer on the factory system. He
has been university lecturer on statistics and other subjects at Johns
Hopkins and other prominent American universities.
COL. CARROLL DAVIDSON WRIGHT.
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�J'
RICHARDS
DODGE
was born in New Boston, New
Hampshire, September 28, 1823. His education was obtained in
common schools and academies, in Richard Boylston's Farmers'
Cabinet office in Amherst, in teaching, in journalism, and in technical and
scientific investigation. Though not a college graduate, he received in
1880 an honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth college. From
1845 to 1849, inclusive, he taught an academy in Mississippi, and
during the five years following he was editor and co-proprietor of the
Nashua Oasis, and afterwards editor and publisher of the Ameri
can Ruralist, at Springfield, Ohio. In 1861 he went to Washington,
and through the long session of the first war congress was senate
reporter for the National Republican and also for the National Intelli
gencer, which was still under the management of Colonel Seaton. On
the organization of the department of agriculture he was offered a posi
tion, at the suggestion of the Ohio delegation in congress, including
Senators Ben Wade and John Sherman. For four years following, he
was employed in editorial and statistical work, and was also connected
with the New York Associated Press as congressional special; he
became statistician of the department, May 6, 1866, in which position
he remained until March 31, 1893, except about three years in which
he was in charge of the agricultural statistics of the tenth census, and in
expert service in the bureau of statistics of the treasury department.
In 1873 he spent the summer in Europe, on an investigation of the
statistical methods of the principal governments, and as honorary com
missioner to the Vienna World's exhibition, appointed by direction of
President Grant. In 1887 he made a supplementary investigation in
London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, and Rome, attending in the
latter city the sessions of the International Statistical institute, of which
he is an original member.
�ON. FRANK D. CURRIER. In the line of alert, progressive,
and brilliant young men of the later generation in New Hamp
shire, Hon. Frank D. Currier occupies a prominent position. He was
born in Canaan, October 30, 1853, and educated in the public schools
H
of that town, Kimball Union academy at Meriden, and Dr. Dixon's
school at Lowell, Mass. He first studied law in the office of Pike &
Blodgett at Franklin, but was admitted to the Grafton county bar from
the office of George W. Murray of Canaan in November, 1874. Imme
diately entering upon the successful practice of his profession in his
native town, he continued there until May 19, 1890, when he was
appointed naval officer of customs for the district of Boston and Charles
town by President Harrison. Mr. Currier during his professional
career in New Hampshire was conspicuously prominent in the politics
of the state. He was a member of the house of representatives in
1879, clerk of the state senate from 1883 to 1886, was elected a mem
ber of the senate in the latter year, presiding over that body through
the session of 1887; was secretary of the Republican state committee in
the four campaigns from 1882 to 1888, and a delegate to the Repub
lican national convention in 1884.
Mr. Currier is a Mason, a member
of St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter and of Sullivan Commandery
Knights Templar. Mr. Currier possessed, to a remarkable degree, the
model qualities for a vigorous and honorable career. Called, at an
early age, to a prominent position in the councils of his party, the
duties devolving upon him were most faithfully executed. As a public
official and a legislator he has displayed the brilliant qualities that have
marked him in other fields of endeavor. A winning and graceful
orator, he has frequently appeared upon the political stump and as an
after-dinner speaker, and achieved renown no less marked than that
which has distinguished him elsewhere.
HON.1 FRANK D. CURRIER.
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�H
ON. JAMES E. FRENCH, collector of internal revenue for
the district of New Hampshire, was born at Tuftonborough,
February 27, 1845, and is the son of James French and Evaline A.
Moulton.
In 1851 he removed with his family to Moultonborough, and
has made his residence in that town since that time.
He was educated
in the common schools of Moultonborough and at the seminary at Til
ton.
School days over, Mr. French was a clerk in the store of his
father for several years, and was also employed as clerk in the years 1864
to 1869 at Plymouth, Centre Harbor, and Great Falls. In 1869 he
returned to Moultonborough to enter upon trade for himself, continuing
therein until 1884, in the meantime occupying several positions of trust
and responsibility. Having been active in politics, Mr. French was
rewarded with many positions of honor and dignity, serving as post
master of Moultonborough from 1873 to 1884. Under the old statutes
he was elected railroad commissioner of the state of New Hampshire
and served from 1878 to 1883. He sat in the legislature as a member
from Moultonborough in 1878 and again in 1879. In 1882 he was
appointed a deputy collector of internal revenue and served until 1886.
In 1887 he was a member of the New Hampshire state senate, and in
November, 1889, was appointed to his present position, his district
covering the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Mr.
French has a remarkably acute mind, trained by constant intercourse
with human nature in almost every phase of its existence. His intuitive
perception is remarkably keen, and indeed this may be called his chief
characteristic. Rapid in thought, quick to seize upon an emergency,
Mr. French has lifted himself to successive high positions, and in each
of them he has acquitted himself with credit. His present position is
meritoriously bestowed, and in it Mr. French is serving with the same
HON. JAMES E, FRENCH.
ability that has won for him his successive promotions.
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�HOMAS P. CHENEY.
It is no small matter to have been
T prominent in a state of prominent men for a generation, and Col.
Thos. P. Cheney boasts of that distinction. Colonel Cheney was born
in Holderness, February 24, 1833, and was educated in the Holderness
high school and the New Hampshire Conference seminary at Tilton.
He was actively engaged in business until the outbreak of the war, when
he enlisted in the army of the United States and served in Company A
of the Sixth New Hampshire volunteers, being mustered out as a lieu
tenant. After the termination of his military service, Colonel Cheney
was appointed deputy sergeant-at-arms of the United States house of
representatives, and served in that position until he was appointed super
intendent of the railway mail service in the New England states, which
position he held for fifteen years. Retiring from this position, Colonel
Cheney was appointed by President Arthur to be pension agent at Con
cord, and held the position until 1886, when he was removed by President
Cleveland. In the fall of that same year Colonel Cheney was elected to
the house of representatives from Ashland, and served through the
exciting session of 1887, taking a prominent part in the deliberations
of the house. In 1889 he sat in the senate from the Plymouth district,
and in that body his eminence in political and legislative work was by
no means diminished by his record there. In 1890 Colonel Cheney
again returned to the pension office, this time by appointment from
President Harrison, and now holds the position. Colonel Cheney's
earlier political career was crowned with honors won by great activity
for his party, and in 1859 he first held office as door-keeper of the state
house of representatives. Under President Lincoln, Colonel Cheney
served as postmaster at Holderness. He was a member of the house
of representatives, representing Holderness, in 1865 and 1866, and
P.
delegate to the Republican national convention in 1868.
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�ONVERSE J. SMITH, special agent of the United States treas
C ury department, and in charge of the New England special agency
district with official station in Boston,
is a native of Plainfield.
CONVERSE J. SMITH.
His
early life was spent in Meriden, and he was educated at Kimball Union
academy, graduating in the class of 1866. Mercantile business was
selected as an avocation and in 1868, after a year's service in the country
store of Converse Cole of Meriden, a clerkship was obtained with
Messrs. Warde, Humphrey & Co., leading hardware merchants of
Concord. After several years of service, upon the death of the senior
member, Hon. David A. Warde, a new copartnership was formed under
the firm name of Humphrey Dodge & Smith, which continued until
1889, when Mr. Smith retired. During the twenty-one years Mr. Smith
was the travelling salesman of the firm, and naturally acquired a wide
acquaintance, which extended far beyond his native state. In the years
of 1884 and 1885 he was a member of Gov. Samuel W. Hale's staff, with
rank of colonel, and was a member of the legislature in the years 1889
and 1890, representing in part the city of Concord. Colonel Smith has
given considerable attention to journalism, and for two years was the
regular New Hampshire correspondent of the Boston Daily Traveller.
In the fall of 1890 the honorable secretary of the treasury appointed
Colonel Smith a special agent of the treasury department, and six
months later promoted him to the charge of the district, one of the
largest territorially and considered one of the most important in the
country, a position requiring great executive ability and a thorough
knowledge of customs laws. Special agents of the United States treas
ury department, who have represented New Hampshire in the past, are
ex-U. S. Senator Aaron H. Cragin, ex-Gov. B. F. Prescott, and Hon.
Harry Bingham.
�OL. JAMES A. WOOD was born at Alstead, May 24, 1832,
C and is the son of Amasa and grand-son of Benjamin Wood, a
soldier of the Revolution. He was educated in the East Alstead high
school, the South Acworth high school, at Marlow academy, and at
Kimball Union academy, Meriden. He taught several terms of district
school, and was engaged when a young man as an auctioneer, convey
ancer, administrator, and executor of estates in Acworth and vicinity.
In 1871 he became connected with the Republican Press Association
as general agent, and for nearly twenty years continued with that cor
poration, visiting in that time every town in New Hampshire and
acquiring an intimate personal acquaintance with nearly every business
and professional man in the state. In politics Colonel Wood has been
one of the most active Republicans in the state. For thirty years he
was a member of the Republican state committee, and for seventeen
years, with the exception of one campaign, represented Sullivan county
in the executive committee and took an active part in the management
of the campaigns. For twenty years he has been moderator in the
town of Acworth, and has held the office of selectman. For eleven years
he was postmaster at South Acworth, and in 1875 and 1877 was a mem
ber of the state legislature. In 1875 and 1876 he was a member of the
staff of Gov. P. C. Cheney. In March, 1890, he was appointed con
sul of the United States at Sherbrooke, Canada, and was succeeded in
July of the present year.
COL. JAMES A. WOOD.
�F' the past few years Concord, a small city, has enjoyed a metro
politan postal service. This is due entirely to Hon. Henry Robin
son, the postmaster, who was born in Concord, July 14, 1852. He was
educated in the schools of the city and studied law at the Boston law
school and with Minot, Tappan & Mugridge. He was admitted to the
bar in 1875, and by his talents won a high place in its membership.
In 1879 he was a member of the legislature, and his youth did not pre
vent him from exerting great influence in the house. In the next session
he also had a seat, being the only member from Concord to be reëlected.
This session he served as chairman of the railroad committee.
In
1885 he was a member of the state senate, and, although the youngest
member of that body, was chairman of the judiciary committee. The next
years of his life he devoted to his profession and to general literary
work. In the summer of 1890 he was appointed to his present posi
tion. As postmaster, Mr. Robinson brought to the discharge of his
duties the generous enthusiasm that has marked his life. His ideal was
the best in point of efficiency and completeness. His quick perception
sought many points for improving and diversifying the service, and he
has given to Concord postal facilities far beyond those enjoyed by any
other community of like size and importance, not hesitating to draw
largely upon his own resources to supply what he deemed to be
demanded. Mr. Robinson is a highly gifted man, turning his endeav
ors easily into various channels with uniform success. Suave and
graceful and eloquent, he has frequently been heard upon the platform as
a political orator and on other occasions, always acquitting himself with
marked credit. A polished man of the world, a skilful raconteur, he is one
of the most companionable of men. Mr. Robinson was married in 1878,
to a daughter of the late United States Senator Edward H. Rollins,
and has five children.
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�LIAS H. CHENEY was born at Holderness, now Ashland,
January 28, 1832, and is the son of Moses Cheney and Abigail
Morrison. He was educated in the Holderness high school, New
Hampton institute, and at Phillips Exeter academy. Having ended his
school days he served an apprenticeship in the office of the Peter
borough Transcript, and in 1853, when his apprenticeship was ended,
became editor and proprietor of the paper. In 1855 he removed to
Concord and became publisher of the New Hampshire Phoenix and
was subsequently engaged in the office of the New Hampshire Sentinel
at Keene and the Sullivan Republican, at Newport. In 1861 he pur
chased and has since owned the Granite State Free Press at Lebanon.
Mr. Cheney as a newspaper man has been foremost in the great histori
cal movements that have taken place during his editorial career. A
fearless and able exponent of the truth, he has stood for the right in
many a fiercely contested battle, and in the field of politics has achieved
many a notable triumph. He has held office infrequently, because of
his disinclination.
In 1867 and 1868 he was a member of the house
of representatives, and in 1885 was a member of the New Hampshire
senate from the Third district. January 6, 1892, he was appointed con
sul of the United States at Matanzas, Cuba, and still holds that position,
HON.
ELIAS H.
his paper being conducted by his younger son. As a journalist, Mr.
Cheney has figured nobly, because of the intense virility and breadth of
his conceptions. To him no task has been too arduous, no duties too
severe when, as always, he has espoused the right. Puritanically con
scientious, he has achieved his prominence by the sheer weight of his
intellect, by the uncompromising rectitude of his conscience, and by the
severe logic of the situation which he has oftentimes created in
behalf of the cause that he has championed.
CHENEY.
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�HARLES M. DORR was born at Somersworth, May 31, 1845,
C and with the exception of ten years spent in Berwick, Maine, has
always resided there.
He was educated in the public schools of
his native city and in the academies at Berwick and West Lebanon,
Maine, and has been engaged in the dry goods business during most of
his life, first as partner in the firm of Dorr & Hobson and since Febru
ary 1, 1892, as sole proprietor. Mr. Dorr has been a director in the
Somersworth National Bank since 1880, and is also one of the trustees
of the Somersworth Savings Bank; he is a prominent Mason and
served as secretary, junior and senior warden of Libanus Lodge; is a
past high priest generalissimo of St. Paul Commandery, Knights
Templar, of Dover, N. H. For two years he was town clerk of
Somersworth and for six years one of its supervisors. He has served
as moderator and for three terms sat in the house of representatives.
He has been a prominent member and president of the Somersworth
Republican club and for three years was a member of the Republican
state committee. In February, 1890, he was appointed United States
bank examiner for New Hampshire by President Harrison, and still
retains that position. Mr. Dorr is fully entitled to the success that he
has won; he has worked hard and honestly to achieve it, and the credit
due him covers the whole range of his endeavor. In business life he is
reckoned as prompt, ready, energetic, honorable; as a member of the
legislature he served with sufficient credit to merit two reëlections; and
as United States bank examiner he has followed the prescribed line of
his duty with fidelity and renown. He is one of the most enterprising
of citizens, one of the most companionable of men, one of the most
CHARLES M.
IDORR.
faithful of officers.
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�N the front rank of the eminent practitioners of the New Hampshire
bar stands Hon. Henry P. Rolfe of Concord, who was born at
Boscawen, February 13, 1821. He was educated in the district schools,
at New Hampton institute, and at Dartmouth college, where he was
graduated in the class of 1848. He studied law with Hon. Asa Fowler
of Concord, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. Immediately open
ing an office in Concord, he maintained himself with credit, advancing
in professional reputation and influence, and winning in 1869 an appoint
ment as United States district attorney for New Hampshire, and hold
ing the office for five years. During the years 1852 and 1853 he was
a member of the board of education for Concord, serving as chairman
during one year, and was a representative in the legislature, as a Demo
crat in 1853, returning as a Republican during the stormy years of
1863 and 1864. He has also received other political honors, among
them being an appointment as postmaster of Concord from Andrew
Johnson. And he served on the lake commission in 1878–89 by
appointment of Governor Prescott. He was Democratic candidate for
state senator in 1859 and 1860, and Democratic candidate for the electoral
college on the Douglas ticket in 1860. He has always been a strong
prohibitionst and a total abstainer from the use of tobacco and intoxicat
ing liquors. Mr. Rolfe is one of the Nestors of the New Hampshire
bar. His practice extends over the years when intellectual giants stood
before the tribunals of the state, and among those men Mr. Rolfe easily
maintained himself with credit. In all the branches of his professional
service Mr. Rolfe has won conspicuous success.
As a counsellor he is
unerring and sagacious; as an advocate his career has been marked
HON.
HENRY
P.
ROLFE.
with triumph.
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�RED A. BARKER was born in Westmoreland, September 16,
He
secured his education in the town schools, taking a high school course,
and at the age of eighteen left home to become an express messenger
for Fiske & Co., running from Boston to Burlington. For twenty-five
years thereafter he was with the United States & Canada Express Co.,
with Thompson & Co.'s Express, and with the American Express Co.,
serving all three companies as agent at Keene. Always an enthusiastic
Democrat, he has been advanced in political honors. In 1871 he served
on the staff of Governor Weston, with the rank of colonel, and in 1876
was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at St. Louis. In
1883 he was elected a member of the legislature from a strong Repub
lican ward, and for three years was a member of the city council, and
for the same length of time served as assessor. During President
F 1835, the son of Col. Tileston A. Barker and Semira Albee.
Cleveland's first administration, Colonel Barker served as United States
marshal for the district of New Hampshire, and upon retiring from that
position became freight agent of the Boston & Maine R. R., with an
office at Keene. In 1861 Governor Berry appointed Colonel Barker
recruiting officer at Keene, and he enlisted several hundred men for the
war.
In 1877, when the state militia was reviewed, Colonel Barker
took a great interest in naming and organizing the Keene Light Guard
Battalion, Companies G and H of the Second regiment, N. H. N. G.
He was elected first lieutenant Company G, and promoted to be quar
termaster and major. Colonel Barker is a man of eminently solid quali
ties and he has displayed in the various positions that he has filled a
marked degree of adaptability. In public office he has served faith
fully, and in political campaigns his worth has been time and again
manifested. His genial disposition has attracted numerous friends, and
MAJOR FRED A. BARKER.
the worth of his character has retained them.
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�OL. JOHN PENDER of Portsmouth was born of Scotch de
Pender and Margaret Lenox Paton, at
Southbridge, Mass., June 7, 1843. His parents removed to Ports
mouth when their son was but three years of age, and in the com
mon schools of that city Colonel Pender was educated. His parents
were poor, but the undaunted courage of the Scotch lad gave him a
prestige even in his school days. In 1853 he began work as a factory
boy in the Portsmouth mills, and from that time until now has steadily
advanced in the world. He was a member of the Portsmouth city
council in 1867 and 1868, of the board of aldermen in 1869 and 1870,
and in 1871 and 1872 was a member of the legislature. He entered
the Portsmouth custom house in 1873 and remained there until 1885,
C scent, the son of Hugh
the advent of the Cleveland administration.
Since then he has been
engaged in a general insurance business in Portsmouth, classing among
his clients the most prominent and best known and wealthiest people
of the state.
Colonel Pender was a member of Governor Hale's staff,
and there received his military title. In 1890 Colonel Pender pur
chased the Portsmouth Evening Post, and has since that time been its
proprietor and publisher.
He has for many years been a member of
the Republican state committee and has been a wheel-horse of his
party in all the stirring campaigns that have been fought in and around
old “Strawberry Bank.” Colonel Pender has won his success by his
indomitable courage. Handicapped in his youth, he has overcome
obstacles and climbed the pathway of competence. His life has been
one of advance, which is not checked as years go on.
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�I)ANIEL
M. WHITE was born at Peterborough, May 4, 1844,
and is the son of Isaac D. White and Timnah Mansfield.
He
was educated in the common schools of Peterborough, at the Peter
borough academy, and at the McCollom institute, and had hardly
finished his education when he enlisted as a private in Company E of
the First regiment, New Hampshire cavalry, and was promoted to be
lieutenant, bearing that rank at the expiration of the war, when he
returned home and became a teacher in the public schools of the state,
continuing for ten years in that capacity. During the last three years
of this time he was engaged in the study of law in the office of Hon.
E. M. Smith of Peterborough, and was admitted to the bar in Hills
borough county in May, 1874. In addition to the duties involved by
the practice of his profession, he took a deep interest in the develop
ment of the New Hampshire National Guard, and for seventeen years
held a commission as an officer in that body. For seven years he was
colonel, commanding the Second regiment, and for five years was a
brigadier general, commanding the First brigade. And, as a result of
his zeal, ability, and untiring efforts in the discharge of his duties,
New Hampshire could boast of as good and well disciplined military
organization as any state in the Union at the time he retired from
the command of the brigade. In 1877 he was appointed by Governor
Prescott a member of a commission to revise or draft a new military
code for the reorganization and government of the state militia.
General White retired from military service in 1889. In 1878 he sat
in the state senate, serving with distinction. In August, 1887, Gen
eral White was appointed consul of the United States at Sherbrooke,
Canada, and served until March 13, 1890, when he was relieved.
then General White has practised law at Peterborough.
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�RTHUR
LIVERMORE
MESERVE
was born in Bartlett,
A April 18, 1838.
He was named for Judge Arthur Livermore of
Plymouth, who was a friend of the older members of the family. He
was educated in the common schools and at home, both of his parents
being teachers. He has been a merchant and connected more or less
with railroads. He is possessed of literary taste and has written very
much for the press. He is one of the leading citizens of his section of
the state and has filled all the various town offices many times. He
was representative in 1873–74, and was a member of Governor Wes
ton's staff, with the rank of colonel. He was county commissioner of
Carroll county from 1875-'78 and was a member of the council of Gov
ernor Bell, being elected from his district by a large majority. He has
had much to do in building up the village of Bartlett, and has seen it
grow from a little farming community to a lively, bustling place. He
belongs to the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities, being a member
of the North Star commandery at Lancaster. He is also a member of
the Sons of the Revolution, being eligible by the Revolutionary ser
vice of his great grandfather on his mother's side. On his father's side
is numbered George Meserve, who before the Revolution was a collector
of both the ports of Portsmouth and Boston. He was also the one
who brought over the stamps from England which his neighbors in
Portsmouth compelled him to burn, and also hung him in effigy.
Colonel Meserve, who commanded a regiment at the siege of Louis
burg in the old French War, was also of the family. Mr. Meserve is
not a member of any church, but is inclined to the Episcopal church,
whose services he attends.
HON. ARTHUR LIVERMORE MESERVE.
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�N the front rank of the men engaged in the fundamental industry of
New Hampshire, agriculture, stands Hon. Warren Brown of
Hampton Falls, who was born in that place August 11, 1836, the son
of John Berry Brown and Sarah Murch Leavitt. He was educated in
the common schools of the town, at Rockingham academy at Hampton
Falls, and at the Phillips Andover academy. During all his life he has
been engaged in farming and success has followed his efforts, yet Mr.
Brown may boast of honors in another field. Having turned his atten
tion to politics, Mr. Brown was elected to the legislature in 1871 and
followed this with a seat in the New Hampshire senate in 1872 and
again in 1873. His next advance was to the executive council, where
under the revised constitution he sat for the two years embraced in
Governor Head's term. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican
national convention. Mr. Brown as a farmer has been among the first
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to recognize the value of associated effort, and as president of the New
Hampshire Agricultural Society he served for eleven years with un
wavering success, the society under his administration reaching its
acme of usefulness and grandeur. As trustee of the New England
Agricultural Society he has served for twenty-four years, and is now its
treasurer and one of the most valued members of the executive board of
that sterling, old-time, yet ever young and vigorous, organization.
Mr.
Brown realized, too, the value of education to the farmer, and has always
been deeply interested in the growth and development of the state col
lege. Serving as trustee of that institution, he did much for its advance
ment during the earlier years of its existence; and later, as the scope of
the institution widened, Mr. Brown, as member of the board of control
of the experiment station, keeping closely in touch with the scien
tific progress of the age as related to agriculture, has been largely
instrumental in placing the work of the station upon a high, practical,
and scientific plane.
�YMAN DEWEY STEVENS was born in Piermont, Septem
ber 20, 1821, and is the son of Caleb Stevens and Sally Dewey.
His preparatory studies were pursued in the academy at Haverhill and
he graduated from Dartmouth college in 1843. He became principal
of the Stanstead (C.E.) academy, where he remained for two years,
and later was assistant for a short time to Jonathan Tenney, principal
of the academy at Pembroke. While a teacher at Stanstead he deter
mined to study law, and began his studies in the office of E. C. John
son, Esq., at Derby, Vt., subsequently pursuing them with Hon. Ira
Perley in Concord. In October, 1847, he was admitted to the bar and
at once opened an office in Concord. In 1868 and 1869 he was
mayor of the city. Since 1865 he has been a director in the National
State Capital Bank, and has been president of the Merrimack County
Savings Bank since its organization. He was also president of the
board of trade during that organization's existence. Governor Gilmore
appointed Mr. Stevens commissioner to adjust the suspended war
claims of New Hampshire against the United States and he was also
a commissioner of the state of New Hampshire to attend the dedica
tion of the National cemetery at Gettysburg. He has been deeply
interested in religious and philanthropic work, and has been a promi
nent member of the South Congregational church, is vice-president
and treasurer of the New Hampshire Home Missionary society, and
trustee of Kimball Union academy, of Boscawen academy, member of
the board of education in Concord, and trustee and president of the
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Polit
ical honors have come to Mr. Stevens in the form of the city solicitor
ship in 1855 and 1856, membership in the house of representatives in
1860, 1861, 1866, and 1867, presidential elector in 1872, member of
the governor's council in 1881, and of the state senate in 1885.
HON. LYMAN DEWEY STEVENS.
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�ON. JOHN W. WHEELER of Salem stands easily as one of
the foremost men of the state, his prominence being due to
activity, service, and success in the various walks of life. Mr. Wheeler
was born in Salem, August 19, 1826, and has always lived there.
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There he has attained his success and his honors.
He was educated
in common schools, supplemented by attendance at Northfield academy.
He early came before the public as the incumbent of various town
offices, and in 1868 he first came to the legislature and was reëlected
the following year. In 1875 he was again in the house, and in the next
session he again represented his town. In 1877 he was found in the
state senate, and the following year was for a second term a member of
that body. In 1881 he entered the executive council under Governor
Charles H. Bell and served until 1883. During all these years of pub
lic service Mr. Wheeler sustained himself with credit.
He was a faith
ful legislator, and the wishes of his constituents and the doctrines of his
party found in him a willing executor. Since his retirement from
office Mr. Wheeler has been by no means idle. Added to the cares of
his business he has assumed the leadership of his party and has repre
sented his town in every Republican convention and has been a mem
ber of the Republican state committee. He has enjoyed the fullest
confidence of the party counsellors and his energy and sagacity have
been formidable factors in many a well fought and hard-earned vic
tory. Mr. Wheeler is easily the leading citizen of Salem, and full of
years, full of honors, is yet in the arena, as young in soul and as alert
in temperament as ever.
HON, JOHN W. WHEELER.
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�ON. JOHN A. SPALDING of Nashua is one of the self-made
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men of New Hampshire. He was born in Wilton, May 29,
1837, and attended the common schools and Crosby's academy, Nashua,
securing there his only education aside from that contained in the vast
school of human nature. When but nineteen years of age he embarked
in business for himself as a clothing dealer at Nashua, continuing in
that line until he was chosen cashier of the First National Bank of
Nashua, and entered upon his duties with the organization of the bank,
having been its only cashier during the thirty years of the institution's
existence. Mr. Spalding's work as a banker naturally has drawn him
into other financial enterprises, and he has been a director in the Con
cord railroad and is now a director in the Wilton railroad and in the
Worcester, Nashua & Rochester railroad, trustee in City Guaranty
Savings Bank, and, in addition, has dealt extensively in real estate.
He has also found time to make for himself a prominent place in
the political history of the state, beginning in 1865 and 1866, when he
represented Ward seven, Nashua, in the legislature of the state. Under
the old constitution he was a member of the state senate of 1878, that being
the last senate chosen with but twelve members. In 1883 and 1885 he
served as member of the governor's council, and in 1885 was elected
mayor of Nashua. In 1880 he was a presidential elector upon the
Republican ticket, and is at present chairman of the police commission
of the city of Nashua, having been appointed by Governor Tuttle upon
the organization of that body. Mr. Spalding has faithfully followed his
career to success; becoming at an early age identified with a prominent
fiscal institution, he has carried along its development upon progressive
lines; yet his progressiveness has ever been conservative. In politics
Mr. Spalding has also represented a substantial element in his party,
and the gratifying majorities that have greeted his efforts as a candidate
sufficiently attest the weight of his reputation.
HON. JOHN A. SPALDING.
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�ATHANIEL HAVEN CLARK was born in Plaistow, February
26, 1826, and is the son of Col. Nathaniel Clark and Betsey
Brickett. He was educated at Atkinson academy and in the academy
at Pembroke and has spent his life as a farmer and an old-time country
miller. Mr. Clark has, however, not been allowed to give his whole
attention to the demands of his calling. By the wish of his towns
people he has filled every office in their gift. In 1876 he was a mem
ber of the constitutional convention, in 1878 and 1879 he was a member
of the house of representatives, in 1885 he sat in the state senate, and
in 1887 was a member of the executive council, firmly declining and
almost sternly forbidding his friends to work for his further political
advancement. In 1885 Mr. Clark was appointed by Governor Currier
a member of the commission to establish and define the boundary line
between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and under his direction
this much mooted question has been thoroughly examined in all its
bearings and many valuable historical results have been achieved. By
his tact he prevented a possible quarrel with our neighboring common
wealth, yet, by his firmness, he secured to New Hampshire what justly
belonged to her. The work of this commission is not yet completed
and Mr. Clark gives to it his untiring labors for securing the rights of
his state. The establishment of the true boundary between New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts is a work of no small import. Carrying with it so
much of possibility, and freighted also with a delicacy of manipulation,
the problem has called to its solution the rare qualities that Mr. Clark
has so clearly displayed in the discharge of his duties. In his hands
the state's rights will not be over-ridden, yet his inherent sense of jus
tice will not permit him to seize more than is due.
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HON. NATHANIEL HAVEN CLARK.
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�ROM the town of Sutton many men have gone forth to make
mark in life, among them is William S. Pillsbury of Lon
donderry. He was born March 16, 1833, the son of Rev. Stephen
Pillsbury, a Baptist minister. He was the sixth lineal descendant from
William Pillsbury who came from Straffordshire, England, and settled
at Dorchester in 1641. Colonel Pillsbury passed his youth in Sutton,
and at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the service of his country in
Company I of the Fourth New Hampshire volunteers, in which com
pany he was first lieutenant, and served also in Company A of the
Ninth New Hampshire regiment. His last year of military service was
passed in the capacity of ordnance officer in the first brigade of Hard
ing's division, engaged in the defence of Washington, with headquarters
at Fort Reno. His title of colonel comes to him from having served on
the staff of Governor Prescott. For more than twenty years Colonel
Pillsbury has been engaged in business at Derry Depot as a shoe man
ufacturer, where from year to year he has seen a gratifying yet deserved
increase in the business of his firm. In politics Colonel Pillsbury has
always been a Republican, and as such served as county commissioner
for Rockingham county, and was elected to the house of represen
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tatives in 1874.
In 1888 he was chosen a member of Governor
Goodell's council from the Third district, where his business training,
his cool, clear, calm, and considerate judgment, made him a valuable
adviser in the administration of state affairs. Colonel Pillsbury's
career falls nothing short of unqualified success, due wholly to his own
efforts, based wholly upon his own sagacity, and conserved wholly by
his own prudence. These qualities stamp a successful man in any
capacity, and through all the experiences of his life, in his private
business and in public business, Colonel Pillsbury has displayed these
qualities with conspicuous consistency.
COL. WILLIAM S. PILLSBURY.
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�T was in the town of West Fairlee, Vermont, August 2, 1850, that
Col. Frank C. Churchill, of Lebanon, was born.
He lived in that
town until 1868, and for two years after that was a resident of Lyme,
N. H., and since 1870 has lived in Lebanon.
Colonel Churchill was
educated in the common and select schools and at Thetford academy.
His business career was begun as a travelling salesman, and in this
capacity he continued for many years, even after he had embarked in
business in company with Hon. William S. Carter in the manufacture
of shirts and overalls. While engaged as a commercial traveller, Col
onel Churchill visited nearly every state in the Union, and acquired an
acquaintance with men and affairs, and above all with human nature, so
extensive and varied that, united with his innate sagacious qualities, it
has enabled him to compel success in whatever he has undertaken.
Though evincing a lively interest in public affairs, though always a
Republican and always acting, Colonel Churchill persistently declined
preferment until 1888, when he yielded to the solicitation of his friends
and was nominated to the executive council, being elected by a phe
nomenal majority. As an adviser of Governor Goodell during the term
of his administration, Colonel Churchill's counsel was prudent and was
always heeded. He served upon all the important committees of the
council, and was secretary of the commission appointed to superintend
the erection and dedication of the statue to Gen. John Stark. During
Colonel Churchill's term in the council, he was chosen chairman of the
Republican state committee, though not a member of that body, and
conducted the campaign of 1890 with a brilliancy and shrewdness,
with a capability and fidelity, and an integrity that has been rarely
equalled in the political annals of the state.
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�ON. SHERBURNE R. MERRILL was born in Newbury, N.
January 2, 1810. When he was eight years old his
father removed to Croydon, and in 1825 to Peeling (now Woodstock),
N. H. The following year his father died suddenly, and the boy was
thrown upon his own resources at sixteen years of age. For three
years he worked upon farms in Croydon and vicinity, and at the age of
H H.,
nineteen set out for Boston to seek his fortune.
HON.
SHERBURNE
He remained in that
city seven years, attaining there by industry and frugality his first start
in life. For the next sixteen years he resided in Woodstock, N. H.,
where he was engaged in farming and manufacturing. In October,
1852, he removed to Colebrook, where he had previously had large
business dealings, and resided there until his death, which occurred
April 9, 1891. During his residence in Colebrook, Mr. Merrill was
extensively engaged in many important business enterprises. Although
not robust in health his temperate and regular habits enabled him to
accomplish an immense amount of work. As manufacturer, merchant,
and financier, he was uniformly successful. In early life he was con
nected with the old state militia, serving as captain of a company from
1841 to 1849, and afterward was promoted to the rank of major and
colonel. In politics he was a life-long Democrat. He represented the
town of Woodstock in the legislatures of 1850 and 1851, and Colebrook
in 1872 and 1873. For two terms he was a member of the state senate,
and in 1889 was elected a member of Governor Goodell's council, the
only Democrat to sit in that body. Mr. Merrill was a man of strong
convictions and rugged honesty of opinion. In him his party had a
tried and true representative. The blunt honesty of his nature sought
frank expression, nor would he be satisfied with less from his oppo
nents. To the town of Colebrook he was a tower of strength. For
many years he was a trustee of Colebrook academy, and a trustee of the
Methodist society from the building of its church.
R. MERRILL.
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�ENRY BREWER QUINBY was born in Biddeford, Me.,
June 10, 1846, and is the son of Thomas Quinby and Jane
E. (Brewer) Quinby. He was educated first in the city schools of
Biddeford and then fitted for college at the Nichols Latin school at
Lewiston, Me. He graduated from Bowdoin college in the class of
1869, afterward graduating at the National medical school at Washing
ton, D. C. During his residence in New Hampshire Colonel Quinby
has lived at Lakeport, where engrossing business cares compelled the
relinquishment of his professional pursuits. His business interests
comprise a directorship in the Cole Manufacturing company, in the
Laconia Car company, in the New Hampshire Life Insurance company,
and in the Laconia National Bank; and trusteeship in the Laconia
Savings Bank, and the presidency of the Mutual Building and Loan as
sociation of Lakeport. He gives his chief attention, however, to the
duties of superintendent and assistant treasurer of the Cole Manufac
turing company, manufacturing car axles, castings, and machinery.
Colonel Quinby derives his military title from service on the staff of
Gov. E. A. Straw in 1872. In politics Colonel Quinby has won con
secutive advancements from membership in the house of representatives
in 1887, through a chair in the state senate in 1889, to a seat in the
executive council during Governor Tuttle's administration. Colonel
Quinby is an officer in the Grand Commandery, Knights Templars of
New Hampshire, and a Mason of the thirty-third degree. Colonel
Quinby may be justly ranked as one of the ablest of New Hampshire
men. Sound, native ability has been increased by the judicious use of
a liberal education, and at every emergency in his life he has called upon
a mental reserve force for the needed support to success.
His business
life has demanded and developed rare executive ability, and his political
success has been brought about by integrity, by solidity of opinion, by
earnestness of purpose, and by honesty of expression.
COL. HENRY BREWER QUIN BY.
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�ON. DAVID A. WARDE was one of New Hampshire's most
distinguished and promising sons in many lines of activity. He
was born February 1, 1828, at Henniker and was educated in the
private and public schools of the town and at Professor Ballard's noted
school for young men at Hopkinton. At the age of sixteen he began
mercantile life as a clerk in the hardware store of Messrs. Porter &
Rolfe, in Concord, and in 1852 he was made one of the proprietors of
the firm and continued to his death, May 14, 1874, at the head of the
house, giving it a high reputation through his enterprise and ability.
Mr. Warde aside from the increasing duties of his extensive business
found time to win many laurels in other fields. He was a prominent
and active Republican, and represented his ward in the legislature in
1867 and 1868, and was a member of the state senate in 1872 and 1873,
in the latter year presiding over the deliberations of that body with
remarkable tact and urbanity. He served as an aid upon the staff of
Governor Smyth, with the rank of colonel, and was, for a long time,
a member of the Republican state committee, and for the last few years
of his life a member of the executive committee directing the work of
the campaign. Mr. Warde married Martha S. Cleaves and had two sons
and three daughters. Mr. Warde's death in the full bloom of a fruitful
existence was a sad loss to many branches of New Hampshire's activity.
As a business man he had won success by the strictest probity and
fidelity. In social circles he was prominent by the rare cordiality of his
spirit. In political life he had ranked high because of the unfailing
trust of his fellow-citizens. In beneficent organizations he was a lead
ing spirit, actively identified with all good works and exemplifying to a
high degree in his own life the ideal which he wished to impress upon
others. Colonel Warde's death was followed by most lasting regret.
DAVII) A. WARDE.
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�ON. JOHN KIMBALL was born in Canterbury, April 13,
1821, and in infancy went with his parents to Boscawen, where
in his youth he attended the schools of the town and for one year
studied at Concord academy, after which he was apprenticed to learn the
trade of constructing mills and machinery. As a millwright in 1842
his first work after attaining his majority was to rebuild the grist mill
near Boscawen Plains, and until 1848 he was similarly employed at
Suncook, Manchester, Lowell, and Lawrence. In the year men
tioned he was employed by the Concord railroad to take charge of the
new machine and car shops then building at Concord, and in 1850 was .
appointed master mechanic of the Concord railroad, serving for eight
years, when he resigned. In 1856 Mr. Kimball was elected to the
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common council of Concord, and in 1857 was reëlected and chosen
president of that body. In the two years following he was a member
of the legislature, serving in the latter year as chairman of the com
mittee on state prison. From 1859 to 1862 he served as collector of
taxes and city marshal of Concord, and in 1862 was appointed collector
of internal revenue for the Second district of New Hampshire, holding
this office for seven years. In 1872 he was elected mayor of Concord,
and was reëlected in 1873, 1874, and 1875. During Mr. Kimball's
incumbency of the mayorship many important public works were begun
and carried forward to a successful completion. In 1876 he was a
member of the constitutional convention, and in 1877 was appointed
chairman of the commission to erect a new state prison.
In 1881 he
was a member of the state senate and was elected president of that
body. Mr. Kimball has won an enviable fame in the world of finance,
having been, since 1870, treasurer of the Merrimack County Savings
Bank, and for many years treasurer of the New Hampshire Bible society
and of the Orphans' Home at Franklin. He was also treasurer of the
Republican state committee from 1863 to 1890.
HON. JOHN KIMBALL.
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�N' outline can portray the life of Gen. Charles H. Bartlett.
recital of dates can describe his career.
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He was born in Sun
apee, October 15, 1833. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm,
but a precocious mind, spurred by the desire of a broader activity, led
him to professional pursuits and he began the study of law after com
pleting his education at Washington academy and New London. In
1858 he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Wentworth,
removing to Manchester in 1863. In 1861 he was clerk of the New
Hampshire senate. In 1865 and 1866 he was private secretary to Gov.
Frederick Smyth.
GEN.
CHARLES
H.
BARTLETT.
In 1866 and 1867 he was treasurer of the State
Industrial school. In 1867 he was appointed clerk of the United States
district court, serving until 1883. In 1867 he was chosen city solicitor
of Manchester, declining a reëlection for the following year. In 1872
he was elected mayor of Manchester, resigning the office February 18,
1873, in accordance with a Federal ruling forbidding United States
officials to hold state or municipal office. In 1872 he was appointed a
United States commissioner, and still holds that position. His resigna
tion as clerk of the district court was called forth in 1882 by his election
to the state senate, presiding at the session of 1883 over the body of
which he had been clerk twenty-one years before. In 1890 he was
appointed a trustee of the State Industrial school, and in 1891 was ap
pointed judge advocate general upon the staff of Governor Tuttle.
In 1890 and 1891 he was major of the Amoskeag Veterans. General
Bartlett is a man of marked capability, a fact attested by the conspic
uous success that has attended him in all the various positions of an
active public career. As an official he was tactful, faithful, and honor
able. Fertile in resource, remarkably equipped for positions of
distinction, he has won and held fame in many walks of life. Possessing
oratorical gifts of rare power, his voice has often been heard from the
platform in political campaigns and on numerous public occasions.
�ON. DAVID ARTHUR TAGGART was born at Goffstown,
June 30, 1858. He graduated at the Manchester high school
and at Harvard college, graduating from the latter institution in the
class of 1878. He studied law with Judge David Cross of Manchester,
and upon his admission to the bar became a partner of Judge Cross,
continuing that relation until 1885. In 1883 he was elected to the
house of representatives from Goffstown, and though a young man and
a new member served as chairman of the committee on elections and on
HON.
DAVID ARTHUR TAGGART.
the committee on the revision of the laws, and took an active part in
the spirited debates of the session. In 1889 he took his seat in the
state senate and was chosen president of that body, serving with marked
distinction as a parliamentarian, with great dignity, and with unex
ampled affability. In the summer of 1890, by reason of the continued
and serious illness of Governor Goodell, Mr. Taggart, by command of
the supreme court, assumed the office of governor, serving until Governor
Goodell's recovery with modest fidelity and decided ability. In the fall
of the same year Mr. Taggart received his party's nomination for con
gress, in the First district. Mr. Taggart is a young man of whom New
Hampshire may well be proud, and of whom New Hampshire is proud,
as is amply attested by the honors that have been bestowed upon him.
In his profession Mr. Taggart has achieved pronounced prominence by
reason of his marked ability as a counsellor and an advocate. As a
public speaker he has won many laurels. Fluent yet concise, rigid in
thought yet graceful in utterance, and always uncompromising in his
convictions, he has appeared upon many a platform as an orator and a
political speaker, always with unvarying success. Called while yet
young to assume the duties of the highest offices in the gift of the
commonwealth, Mr. Taggart has filled each position with credit to his
constituents that has reflected upon himself most favorably.
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ENRY ABBOTT was born in Keene, October 5, 1832, and is the
son of Daniel Abbott and Polly Brown. When he was an
infant his family moved to Surry, where his boyhood was spent upon
the farm, his schooling being received in the common schools and at
the academies in Marlow and Westminster.
When Mr. Abbott was
eighteen years old he went to Virginia, intending to become a school
teacher, but three months of travel over different parts of the “Old
Dominion ” satisfied him with life in the South, and he returned to the
North with its free institutions. For two years thereafter he was
engaged in western Pennsylvania as clerk for a large lumber firm, and
the next ten years were spent in a store at Keene, with the exception of
one year, when he lived in Illinois and Wisconsin. In 1863 Mr. Abbott
joined the United States Sanitary Commission and was stationed at
Washington in the special relief department, looking after the pay of
sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals of that city. He was after
wards placed in charge of the sanitary supplies of the Ninth army corps
at Annapolis, and was with that corps in its march and battles from the
Rapidan to the James, retiring from the service because of failing health
and returning to New Hampshire. September 5, 1864, Mr. Abbott
was chosen cashier of the Winchester National Bank, which position he
has held ever since.
Mr. Abbott in 1866 was elected town treasurer
of Winchester, and has been reëlected every successive year. In 1869
and 1870 he was a member of the legislature, and 1873 and in 1874 was
a member of the New Hampshire senate. In 1889 he sat in the consti
tutional convention. Mr. Abbott is justly esteemed. The integrity of
his life is amply attested by his long continuance in offices of import
ance, responsibility, and trust.
HON. HENRY ABBOTT.
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�IRAM KING SLAYTON was born at Calais, Vt., August 19,
1825, the son of Bucklin Slayton and Sallie Willis. He was
educated in the common schools of Calais and at Montpelier academy,
and for three years was himself a teacher. In 1843 he went to Boston
and entered mercantile life, and for three years was engaged in a count
ing-room, returning to Calais, where for ten years he owned a general
store and bought farm produce. During his residence in Vermont Mr.
Slayton was for seven years elected justice of the peace, and represented
his town in the legislature in 1857 and 1858. In 1856 he was a dele
gate to the national convention at Philadelphia which placed in nomina
tion the first Republican ticket, and in 1860 was a delegate to the
convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. In 1863 he came to
Manchester and established a wholesale produce and provision house,
which has since passed into the hands of the E. M. Slayton company.
of which he is president. The people of Manchester chose him for
their representative in the legislature in 1871 and 1872, and elected him
to the state senate in 1877 and again in 1878, he being the last senator
from Manchester under the old constitution. Mr. Slayton was a dele
gate to the first meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution, held
in New York city in April, 1887, and was made vice-president general
of that organization. As a writer upon economical topics Mr. Slayton
has won the hearty endorsement of the keenest minds in the circle of
political economy and finance. His writings in favor of honest money
and against the passage of the Bland silver bill, and also in favor of the
resumption of specie payment, were widely copied by the press through
out the country. Mr. Slayton was the author of the resolutions adopted
by the New Hampshire legislature in opposition to the passage of the
Bland bill, and of a resolution of the same tenor passed by the legisla
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HON. HIRAM
KING SLAYTON.
ture of Vermont.
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ON. JAMES FRANK SEAVEY, of Dover, was born in Roch
ester, N. H., August 14, 1838, and was educated in the common
schools of that city, at Miss Caroline Knight's private school in Roch
ester, and at the Franklin academy in Dover. The first nineteen years
of his life were passed at Rochester upon a farm. At that age, however,
he embarked in a business career by becoming a clerk in a dry goods
and grocery store at Dover, where he remained for eight years until he
was enabled to begin business for himself by the establishment of a
clothing house under the firm name of James F. Seavey & Co. Mr.
Seavey has found time as personal director or projector to enter into
numerous other enterprises of business or financial concern, being one
of the directors of the E. H. Rollins & Sons corporation, bankers;
member of the firm of Charles N. Seavey & Co., manufacturing lumber
dealers; director in B. F. Haley & Co., Newmarket, N. H., whole
sale clothiers; one of the managing committee of Dover Navigation
company; director Dover Improvement association; trustee Dover Five
Cent Savings Bank; president and director Dover Coöperative Savings
Fund and Loan association; and proprietor of a livery and hack stable.
In secret society circles Mr. Seavey has arisen to a high rank in
Masonry, being a Knight Templar, and in the Knights of Pythias
having been grand chancellor of New Hampshire in 1876, and in 1878
and 1879 having been the state's representative in the grand lodge of
the world. In politics Mr. Seavey has had an eventful and honorable
career. In 1867 he was elected member of the common council of
Dover, for two years he was selectman of his ward, and for the same
length of time ward clerk. In 1869, and the two years following he was
county treasurer of Strafford county, and in 1878 and the three years
thereafter he was a member of the legislature. In 1881 he was
elected to the state senate, and in 1883 was honored with a reëlection,
a distinction as rare as it was merited.
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HON. VIRGIL CHASE GILMAN.
ON. VIRGIL CHASE GILMAN was born in Unity, May 5,
1827, the son of Emerson Gilman and Delia Way. He was
educated in the public schools of Lowell and removed to Nashua in
1843, and for twenty-one years was engaged as a manufacturer of
printers' cards and paper. In 1865 he was elected mayor of Nashua and
in 1879 was a member of the legislature, and in 1881 he sat in the
state senate and was honored with the chairmanship of the judiciary com
mittee. For several years he was a member of the board of education
of Nashua, and for twenty-five years has been a trustee of the public
library in that city, at present being treasurer of the board. He is a
director in the Nashua Iron & Steel Co., president of the Nashua
Saddlery and Hardware company, and director in the Indian Head
National Bank. Upon his retirement from business as a paper manu
facturer, Mr. Gilman was called to the position of treasurer of the old
Nashua Savings company, and assumed the duties of that position on
the first of January, 1879, and still retains it. Mr. Gilman is one of
Nashua's most honored citizens: the frequency with which he has been
called to positions of trust, and the long terms of service that he has
given to them, indicating the esteem in which he is held by the people
among whom the active years of his life have been spent. In all good
works he is foremost. Prominently identified with the religious, the
social, and the literary life of the city, no less than with its financial and
commercial interests, he is a man of marked eminence. He is devotedly
attached to agricultural interests, and is the owner of a fine farm a short
distance from the city of Nashua, where he maintains a magnificent herd
of Jerseys. Mr. Gilman is a gentleman of broad culture with discrim
inating taste, he has read widely and retentively, and is a gentleman to
the manner born. Called to high position, he has never lost the true
courtesy that has characterized his every act.
�EORGE G. DAVIS was born at Roxbury, August 28, 1842, and
He was educated in
the schools of Roxbury and at Keene. Until eighteen years of age
Mr. Davis was a farmer boy, and at that period of his life he enlisted as
a private in Company A of the Second New Hampshire volunteers, and
was severely wounded at the Battle of Williamsburg, Va., retiring from
the war in 1863, when he settled in Marlborough and was engaged in
manufacturing boxes and toys until the first of March, 1870, since
which time he has been occupied in mercantile pursuits and other bus
iness interests. Mr. Davis for fifteen years was town clerk of Marl
borough and for twenty years was its treasurer. In 1879 and in
1881 he was a member of the house of representatives and in 1883 sat
in the state senate. In 1885 he was appointed an aide-de-camp on
G is the son of Joshua Davis and Eliza Rice.
Governor Currier's staff, with the rank of colonel, and in Cheshire
county has been elected three times as county commissioner, his present
term expiring in 1895. Mr. Davis, in addition to his personal business
interests, is also trustee of the Keene Guaranty Savings Bank. January
1, 1866, Mr. Davis was married to Maria L. Collins, daughter of J. T.
Collins of Marlborough. In politics Mr. Davis is a Republican and by
religious preference is a Congregationalist. Mr. Davis is justly reckoned
as one of the most prominent men in Cheshire county, though it would
be unfair to him to insinuate that his reputation is confined to the limits
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GEORGE G.
of that county. By reason of his service in the legislature, and by
reason of his career upon the governor's staff, Mr. Davis has made hosts
of acquaintances and friends through all the state, who have come to
esteem him as he is, an honorable, upright gentleman, frank and fear
less in his dealings with his fellow-man.
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�ANSON S. BROWN was born in Bridgewater, November 30,
1835, and is the son of James Brown and Judith Harron. His
boyhood and youth were spent upon the farm, and his education was
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attained in the common schools and at New Hampton institution.
In
1859 he commenced work at Campton as a blacksmith, and continued
therein until the summer of 1863, when he enlisted in Company C of the
Thirteenth New Hampshire volunteers, under Col. Aaron F. Stevens
and served with credit, being wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg
and at Cold Harbor. Mr. Brown was with his regiment in all its
skirmishes and battles with one exception, and was promoted by suc
cessive steps to become principal musician of the regiment, and as such
led the musicians of the First brigade into the city of Richmond, April
3, 1865, when that city capitulated to the Union army. At the close
of the war Mr. Brown took up his residence in Plymouth, returning to
his old trade and continuing his work until the spring of 1870, when he
was commissioned deputy sheriff of Grafton county and several other
counties of the state. In 1874 he was commissioned high sheriff of
Grafton county, and served in that capacity and as deputy sheriff under
different high sheriffs for several years. In 1885 Mr. Brown sat in the
state senate as a Republican, being elected from the Fourth district, and
was appointed state liquor commissioner December 26, 1886, and still
holds that position. Mr. Brown has had extensive business relations
in connection with real estate, both in the East and West, always with
unvarying success. Mr. Brown's home in Plymouth is on a large farm
overlooking the beautiful valley of the Pemigewasset, and among his
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S.
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neighbors he is classed with high esteem, and as one among those who
by their probity and honor have added solidity to the reputation of the
Granite State.
�RANCIS TILTON FRENCH, member of the legislature from
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F East Kingston, was born in that town, September 2, 1835.
is the son of Enoch Sanborn French and of Permelia Tilton, and his
education, like that of many another of New Hampshire's men, was
found only in the common schools, to be supplemented with the broader
course afforded by the great university of active life. He spent his
boyhood and youth upon the farm, and became inured to hard labor.
At the age of twenty he forsook agriculture, and entered into business
in company with G. W. Sanborn, as a cattle-dealer and butcher. For
twenty-five years this partnership existed, and the same business is
still carried on by Mr. French. In those years he was often elected by
his fellow-citizens to various town offices. In 1865 he was first elected
to the house of representatives, in 1879 he came again, and in 1880
was once more a member.
HON. FRANCIS TILTON
FRENCH.
In 1883 he sat in the state senate, and in
1892 was again his party's candidate for the house of representatives,
carrying his contest from the polls to the floor of the house where,
after a ten weeks struggle, he was awarded his seat on the ground that
he had been illegally declared defeated in November. Mr. French is
one of those successful men who have become so through industry,
and careful attention to the details of business which have enabled him
to command hearty and deserved support in his undertakings. When
elected to office he has followed the same rule, and his constituents have
done well in repeatedly reëlecting him. The years of his service as a
legislator cover an interesting period in New Hampshire's history, and
embrace two changes of the organic law, yet Mr. French is always
abreast of the times and to-day, as a member of the legislature, is
as active, as progressive, and as interested as when he first sat in that
body twenty-eight years ago.
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�ALTER SCOTT DAVIS was born at Warner, July 29, 1834,
his parents being Nathaniel Ambrose Davis and Mary Clough.
He was educated in the schools of Warner, Gilmanton, Washington,
Thetford academy, Vermont, and Colby academy, New London. At
the age of fourteen he began to earn his living as a mill boy, and so
labored until 1854, when he engaged in business with Samuel H. Dow,
dealing in lumber and hemlock bark, remaining with him until 1865.
In that year the firm of W. S. Davis & Co. was formed to engage in
lumbering and had an existence until 1872, when the firm of Dow &
Davis came into being as manufacturers of straw board and continued
until 1878, being succeeded by the firm of Davis Bros., who were
located at Davisville, a thriving community named from the many
descendants of General Aquila and Capt. Francis Davis, who had settled
there and been identified with its industries.
Mr. Davis moved
to
Contoocook in 1874, purchased the mills and water-power there in
1887, made extensive improvements and additions to them, and erected
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WALTER S.
the large silk factory in 1890. Here he has a machine shop where he
materializes his inventions, his latest being an automatic machine
capable of making forty boxes per minute from rolls of pasteboard sus
pended on the machine. He has always been an enthusiastic believer
in the Bell telephone, being one of the large stockholders in that com
pany, and has erected an elegant residence from the profits in that
enterprise. Mr. Davis is a Mason, has been master of Harris lodge
at Warner, is a member of Woods chapter of Henniker, and of Horace
Chase council of Concord. In politics Mr. Davis has taken an active
part, having been always prominent in his party councils, was a member
of the house of representatives in 1878, of the state senate in 1885, and
of the constitutional convention of 1889. In all of Mr. Davis's life, and
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amid all the successes that have followed him, he has been always the
same genial, unassuming, honest gentleman.
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�DWARD HARRISON GILMAN, the son of Joseph Taylor
E. Gilman and Mary Elizabeth Gray, was born in Exeter, May 13,
1855. He was educated in the schools of Exeter and in the Chandler
Scientific department of Dartmouth college, graduating in 1876. From
1879 to 1882 he was employed at Albany, N. Y., in various capacities
in the offices of the Boston & Albany railroad. From Albany he
went to Boston, where he became a dealer in mill supplies, and was thus
engaged until 1887, when he became interested in the Somersworth
Machine company of Dover, and was made treasurer of the corporation,
a position that he has since retained, adding to his duties as treasurer
those of manager. Under his direction and supervision the business of
the corporation has been greatly increased, and not only has it outgrown
its original but it has also absorbed the business of other concerns, and
stands today in the front rank of like institutions in New England.
Aside from his business career Colonel Gilman has been prominent in
public life, first by his service upon the staff of Governor Bell, where he
served as aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel. In 1885 he was a
member of the legislature from Exeter, and was promoted in 1887 to the
state senate, serving in both bodies with credit.
In 1888 he was a
delegate to the Republican national convention, and in that same ye"
was member of the executive committee of the Republican state commit
tee from Rockingham county, adding to his party service another term
in the same position during the campaign of 1890. Colonel Gilman,
the bearer of an honored name, has allowed this heritage to lose none
of its lustre.
His own efforts have been rewarded with a success suffi
cient to have made him prominent, and when this is added to his family
record it will be by no means the dullest of its pages.
�ON of an honored sire, and not a whit less sturdy and honored
Hon. Lycurgus Pitman, of North Conway, was born
in Bartlett, April 9, 1848, the son of Hon. George W. M. Pitman.
He attained his education, as did so many of the prominent sons of
New Hampshire, in the common schools, and himself wielded the birch
and directed the studies of the rising generation for many terms of
school. Entering upon a business career at North Conway, he has
pushed forward steadily, not only in his own line of endeavor but has
embarked successfully in many issues calling for enterprise, public
spirit, and sagacity. In politics Mr. Pitman has always been a Demo
crat and for twenty years has held a place in the councils of his party.
In 1880 he was a delegate to the national convention and in 1887 was
a member of the state senate from the Second district. In 1889 he
S himself,
was a member of the constitutional convention.
Mr. Pitman's enter
prise has already been spoken of. He is one of the projectors of the
North Conway & Mount Kearsarge railway and is a director and
clerk of that corporation. He was one of the promoters of the North
Conway system of water-works and is manager and treasurer of the
company owning the property. In connection with the work of the
state board of trade Mr. Pitman has been of incalculable service upon
important committees, and in the work of developing the summer resort
business of New Hampshire he stands second to no man.
He has lent
no idle hand to any enterprise, his whole soul has entered into the
work that he has endeavored to accomplish, and the vigor of his labor
has been rewarded by the measure of its results. In the development
of the East Side mountain region Mr. Pitman has been especially active,
and particularly so in his own town.
HON.
LYCURGUS
As president of the North Con
way board of trade he has led the way to municipal improvements that
have been prominent and alluring additions to the many attractions of
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that beautiful town.
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�DMUND ERSKINE TRUESDELL, superintendent and pay
E. master of the China, Webster, and Pembroke mills at Suncook, is
one of the stalwarts of New Hampshire. Strong in all the points that
go to make up a noble and successful manhood, he is admired for his
outspoken opinions, liberal views, and unfaltering friendships. A man
of earnest convictions, he never hesitates to stand up and be counted in
defense of those convictions. Of Scotch ancestry, he has all the te
nacity of purpose of that hardy race. The architect of his own fortune,
he has builded grandly and well. Generous, public spirited, honest,
and with no hesitating notions of right and wrong, his is a strong char
acter, well rounded in all its parts. He is the son of Thomas and Mary
(Boyden) Truesdell, and was born in Jewett City, Conn., March 3,
1845. Banking on no other capital than a common-school education
and a vigorous constitution, he worked his way from the humblest
beginning as a boy in a cotton mill to the position of superintendent of
three corporations, employing 2,000 operatives. As has been well said
by a leading newspaper of the state, the man who at the age of thirty
two had worked his way from a poor boy, earning a living selling
newspapers at a profit of one-half a cent each, to the control of three
great manufacturing corporations “does not require a certificate of
ability.” He has not only been appreciated by his employers, but by
his fellow-townsmen and fellow-citizens of the state.
He was town
treasurer of Pembroke for four years, from 1878 to 1882. He was a
member of the lower branch of the New Hampshire legislature in 1879
and 1880; and state senator in 1887 and 1888.
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Mr. Truesdell
belongs to the Masonic fraternity. He is past master of Jewell lodge,
member of Trinity Royal Arch chapter, Horace Chase council, R. and
S. M., Mount Horeb commandery at Concord. He is a member of the
supreme council, having taken all the Scottish rites up to the Thirty
third degree.
EDMUND ERSKINE TRUESDELL.
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�ON. JOHN C. PEARSON was born at West Boscawen,
H May 25, 1835, the son of Nathan and Eliza (Couch) Pearson.
He was educated in the district, village, and select schools, at Kimball
Union academy, Meriden, and in the Merrimack Normal institute at
Reed's Ferry. He was born and reared a farmer, and was occupied in
that pursuit and as a wool-grower until 1871. His grandfather was
one of the pioneers in the settlement of the town, and one of the first
to introduce Spanish merino sheep into the state, and his son and
grandson continued to breed them on the same farm until 1874. From
1871 to 1876 he was engaged in mercantile pursuits at Webster, and
since that date has lived at Penacook, to which place he removed for
the purpose of giving his children better educational privileges. He
had served the town of Webster as selectman for three years, and
represented that town in the legislature in 1871 and 1872; has served
as deputy sheriff, county commissioner, moderator, and selectman of
Boscawen ten years; representative in the legislature in 1887, and
member of the state senate from the Ninth district in 1889. In all of
these official positions, coming to him with successively increased
honor, Mr. Pearson has exhibited marked traits of courageous honesty.
As a member of the legislature he was frank-spoken in his views, and
the cause that he espoused found in him a never-failing friend. He
has won the confidence of all who have been associated with him in any
capacity and has known the respect and esteem of varying constituencies.
He is a man of great public spirit and has clearly evinced it in his advocacy
of enterprises for the benefit of the community in which he lives, and
notably, by his activity in procuring for the village of Penacook its
present abundant and pure water-supply. It is not enough of him to
say that he has lived a good life, for he has impressed it upon others
and has made his influence speak for the best in every field in which
he has been found.
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�ON. CHARLES TRACY MEANS was born in Manchester,
January 20, 1855, and is the son of William Gordon Means and
Martha Allen.
He was educated in the common schools at Andover,
Mass., where as also in Boston he has resided as a youth. His
present position, paymaster of the Manchester Locomotive Works, he
has held for several years past, his connection with that corporation
following naturally by reason of his father's interest in the company.
In the city of Manchester Mr. Means is justly ranked as one of her
most noble men. In social life he stands without a peer, in politics he
has received frequent and ample honor, in business life, by reason of the
importance of his position, he takes a prominent stand. Mr. Means in
1883 was a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives and
in 1889 sat in the state senate, his services in those two bodies being
marked by intelligent application to legislative duty and by faithful con
sideration of the needs of his constituents. In 1892 he was chosen a
delegate at large to the Republican national convention at Minneapolis,
yet these offices do not mark the limits of his political activity, for as
the counsellor of his party and as a liberal contributor to its success,
Mr. Means is among the most active and prominent of the men of Man
chester. One of the most charming of men personally, Mr. Means's
friendship embraces hundreds. The unaffected modesty of his bearing
stamps him a true gentleman, while the frank and open warmth of his
friendship marks the genuine character of the man. Alert and vigorous,
he occupies a commanding position on an eminence in life, entrenched
by the vigor of his intellect and sagacity, secured in a position meriting
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honor and esteem.
�ILLIAM S. CARTER was born in Warner, September 28,
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HON. WILLIAM S. CARTER.
1842, the son of William Carter, Jr., and Hannah Badger.
He was educated at the common schools and at Henniker academy,
and entered Dartmouth college in 1862. In August of that year, how
ever, he enlisted in Company D of the Eleventh New Hampshire vol
unteers, and finished his college course in the army, serving under Col.
Walter Harriman, by whom he was appointed regimental commissary,
and was mustered out May 27, 1865. At the close of the war he went
to Lebanon and took charge of the store of his uncle, Henry W. Carter,
with whom he remained for five years. In 1877 he formed a partner
ship with Col. Frank C. Churchill, in the manufacture of working
men's goods, employing hundreds of hands and keeping corps of
travelling agents constantly upon the road, and maintaining a wholesale
office in Boston. Mr. Carter has been a tower of strength in the com
munity in which he resides, while his clear, careful judgment and his keen
business insight have caused him to be frequently called to positions of
responsibility. He is a director in the First National Bank and of the
Lebanon Savings Bank. He is president of the Business Men's asso
ciation of Lebanon and of the Lebanon Electric Light and Power
company. In 1890 he was appointed state auditor, serving until 1892.
In 1890 Mr. Carter was chosen member of the state senate and served
his constituents with remarkable zeal during the session of 1891. Con
stantly in his seat, the course of legislation was closely marked by him,
and his voice was never heard in the senate chamber without carrying
with it the weight of influence springing from solidity and honesty.
Mr. Carter is a Mason and for more than twenty-five years has been a
member of Franklin lodge and Sullivan commandery. He is also a
member of James P. Berry post, G. A. R.
�N the eighth American generation of a good old English family,
Hon. Dexter Richards was born in Newport, September 5, 1818,
one of the eight children of Seth Richards. His youth was spent in the
schools of Newport and Lebanon, where, under the tuition of Professor
Edmund R. Peaslee, he enjoyed two terms in the high school. Leav
ing school he embarked in business at Newport with his father, contin
uing there until 1853, when Richards & Son became interested in a
flannel mill, which passing from father to son is still conducted with
increasing success. Aside from the demands made upon him in the
conduct of this business, Mr. Richards has become embarked in many
financial enterprises of great extent and variety. He was one of the
foremost projectors of the building of the Concord & Claremont railroad,
and through his instrumentality the wires of the Western Union Telegraph
company were brought to Newport. The First National Bank of New
port and the Newport Savings Bank owe their inception to him, and he
is a director in the Eastern Railroad in New Hampshire, of the New
Hampshire Fire Insurance company, of the Concord Street railway, and
of the West End Street railway corporation in Boston. His benevolence
has been wide and deserving, a scholarship at Dartmouth college, bene
factions to the Kimball Union academy at Meriden, to the Congre
gational church at Newport, to the Orphans' Home at Franklin, Abbott
academy at Andover, Mass., and the erection of the beautiful Richards
free library at Newport are instances of his generosity. In public life
Mr. Richards has held the offices in the gift of his town, in 1865, 1866,
and 1870 representing Newport in the legislature. In 1871 and 1872
he was a member of the governor's council, in 1876 of the constitu
tional convention, and in 1887 sat in the state senate.
Mr. Richards
HON. DEXTER RICHARDS.
is a widely successful New Hampshire man, pushing forward, not without
obstacles, to high eminence in business and social circles.
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�AMUEL E. PAINE, fifty-seven years old, a native of Sweden, Me.,
S and for a half century a resident of Coös county, is one of the most
prominent business men in all the north country, where his entire com
mercial career, with the exception of five years in Pennsylvania, has been
spent. Mr. Paine was born in Sweden, Me., and for twenty-six years
was a resident of Milan, where, after securing a common-school educa
tion, he embarked in business and afterward removed to Berlin, where
he has been an influential factor in the development of that thriving,
hustling, almost western town, and in all the various movements which
have gone forward to make Berlin's prosperity what it is. The national
bank, real estate improvements, educational progress—all claim him as
a friend and coadjutor. Mr. Paine is not without honor in political as
well as commercial circles. He has served Berlin in almost every town
office. In 1877 and in 1885 he represented that constituency in the
house of representatives, and in 1887 he was a member of the state sen
ate. In all these positions Mr. Paine served with credit, his record
being that of the business man called into affairs of state—sagacious,
honest, persevering.
�ICHARD M. SCAMMON was born at Stratham,
December
6, 1859, and is the youngest son of Richard and Abigail
(Batchelder) Scammon. He was educated at the Stratham public
schools, Exeter high school, and Cornell university, and has since resided
in his native town, where he is one of the largest real estate owners.
His integrity and ability have given him a high place in the esteem of
the community and he has filled an active and honorable part in the
affairs of his state. He was elected town treasurer when twenty-one
years old, and has since served as superintendent of schools, moderator,
and was elected chairman of the board of selectmen but declined to act.
He was a member of the house in 1885 and 1886. He is a Democrat, both
by inheritance and conviction, and is one of the recognized younger
leaders of the party, has served several years as chairman of the town
Democratic committee, and has been a member of the state committee
and secretary of the county committee for six years and done effective
work on the stump. He was the unanimous choice of the nominating
convention of his senatorial district in 1890, and was elected by a flat
tering majority largely ahead of his ticket, especially in his own town,
and was the youngest member of the senate of that year. He served
ten years in the New Hampshire National Guard, enlisting in Company
D, First regiment, in 1882, and was successively promoted corporal,
sergeant, and lieutenant of the company, captain and aide on the brigade
staff, and lieutenant-colonel of the First regiment, holding the last posi
tion from 1886 till his resignation in 1892. Company E, First regiment,
adopted the name of Scammon Rifles in honor of his services.
COL.
RICHARD
M. SCAMMON.
Colonel
Scammon was appointed by Governor Sawyer as the state representative
on the staff of General Schofield at the Washington centennial in New
York city, May, 1889. He has been an interested student of the local
history of his section and is a member of two historical societies.
�ON. GEORGE A. CUMMINGS, of Concord, is descended
from a rugged parentage and ancestry, his family dating back to
early colonial history. He was born in Acworth, June 13, 1833. His
education was secured in the public schools of Acworth and the South
Acworth academy. He then moved to Franklin, where in company
with his brother he formed a co-partnership in the marble business that
has since existed, though the firm removed from Franklin more than
thirty years ago, and is now located at Concord in its own block, and
covers with its product nearly all the New England states, and having
branch shops at Pittsfield and Franklin. Mr. Cummings has found time,
aside from caring for his own growing business, to become interested in
many public and private enterprises. He has served as a trustee of the
Merrimack County Savings Bank and of the Orphans' Home at Frank
lin; and is a director and member of the executive committee of the
Concord Street railway. He is also president of the Concord Shoe
Factory association and, with his son, Frank G. Cummings, has exten
sive property interests at Haverhill, Mass. Mr. Cummings has been a
prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has
been honored by that body in New Hampshire with all the gifts of
official position that it could bestow, and is now vice-president of the
Odd Fellows Home, and president of the Odd Fellows Hall association.
Naturally so energetic a man would be called into public life, and we
find Mr. Cummings receiving civic honors at the hands of his fellow
citizens in great abundance. He was twice elected to the board of
aldermen from his ward. He was honored with three years in the
mayoralty of Concord. He was twice sent by his associates to the
house of representatives, and in 1890 he was chosen a member of the
New Hampshire senate from the Concord district. In all of these posi
tions Mr. Cummings was a leader.
�ON. JOHN G. TALLANT was born in East Concord, March
22, 1846, and has always resided upon the homestead farm.
He was educated in the common schools of his native village and at the
academy at New London, and has given his attention since leaving
school to agricultural pursuits, developing later the breeding of fine
Jersey cattle, his herd, the “Crystal Spring,” being reckoned among the
best in New England and having been decorated time and again with
the much desired “blue ribbon.” In the concerns of the community
Mr. Tallant has taken an important part, and has been especially active
in the political field, having served as selectman, member of the school
board, assessor, councilman, alderman, and member of the legislature.
In 1890 he was the candidate of his party for the state senate, and was
elected by a large majority, serving through the session of 1891 with
great credit, his legislative record being marked with a conspicuous
honesty of purpose and frank avowal of position. Mr. Tallant's interest
in agriculture and his prominence in that pursuit, led him to be selected
in 1891 as trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, a position of great importance at that time, because of
the impending removal of the institution from Hanover to Durham.
To the duties of this office Mr. Tallant has given marked attention, and
has been largely instrumental in the reforms that have been set on foot
with regard to the management of the institution. To him must be
given the credit of having aroused his associates on the board to the
necessity for more advanced ground in the field of agricultural educa
tion, and he has labored unceasingly to secure the adoption of measures
of still greater benefit to the institution. Mr. Tallant in all his dealings
with men has been conspicuous for his outspoken honesty, and to this,
perhaps as to no other characteristic, he owes the measure of his
advancement.
�H
ON. JACOB B. WHITTEMORE was born in Hillsborough
and has always resided in that town with the exception of the
years from 1877 to 1880, when he lived in Antrim upon the Whittemore
homestead farm. He was educated in the common schools, at Frances
town academy, and at Phillips Exeter academy, and his life in Hillsbor
ough has been full of activity. He has held many public positions,
serving as superintendent of schools for three years, as town clerk for
two years, and was secretary of the Democratic state committee from
1880 to 1882. He held a commission as lieutenant of the Carter Guards,
Hillsborough, and was promoted to be captain, then paymaster of the
Second regiment of the New Hampshire National Guard with the rank
of major. In 1883 he was a member of the house of representatives
and from 1885 to 1889 was a United States post-office inspector. In
1891 he was a member of the state senate and in that body served with
faithful assiduity. Mr. Whittemore is a member of Harmony lodge of
Masons at Hillsborough, of Woods chapter at Henniker, and of Mount
Horeb commandery, Knights Templar, at Concord. Mr. Whittemore is
one of New Hampshire's most popular men. Having been brought by
virtue of business and official relations into contact and acquaintance
with almost every community in New Hampshire, his genial character
has readily made friends for him and his friendships are as extensive as
his acquaintance, and that covers the entire state. To his party he
has been of valuable service in many hotly contested campaigns, both
as a candidate and as an officer of the canvass, yet his political activity,
however vigorous, has not resulted in personal animosity, his genial
good nature discounting attack and disarming criticism. In public
positions Mr. Whittemore has been equally successful, displaying the
same qualities of tact and good humor. His advancement has resulted
not only to his own benefit but has been a source of gratification to
HON. JACOB B. WHITTEMORE.
the hundreds who have known him and admired him as a friend.
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�ON. SAMUEL D. FELKER was born in Rochester, April 16,
1859, and is the son of William H. Felker, a wealthy farmer
residing in the village of Gonic, where Mr. Felker's boyhood was spent.
He was educated in the public schools of Rochester, at New Hampton
institute, and at Dartmouth college, whence he was graduated with high
honors in 1882, being one of three brothers who graduated from that
institution in three successive years. He studied law in Dover with
Hon. Joshua G. Hall, and at the Boston university law school, from
which he graduated in 1887 and was admitted to the bars of New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts in the same year. At the law school Mr.
Felker took the three years course in one year and received his degree
“cum magna laude,” ranking among the highest in his class. He also
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stood at the head of the class of candidates for the New Hampshire bar
and began immediately the practice of his profession in Rochester. In
1889 he was a member of the constitutional convention from Rochester
and in 1890 was nominated and elected to the state senate from the
Somersworth district, after a most exciting campaign. In the senate
Mr. Felker took a prominent part in the deliberations of the session.
He was a member of the judiciary committee and also of the joint com
mittee on the revision of the laws. The important measures of the
session were ardently championed by him, and his entire legislative
course was marked by a freedom of mind untrammelled by political con
siderations and characterized solely by an earnest desire to labor for
what his conscience deemed the right. In 1891, upon the incorporation
of the city of Rochester, Mr. Felker was made his party's candidate for
mayor, and the vote that he received at the polls was large and gratify
HON.
SA
ing. In 1892 he was his party's candidate for county solicitor of
Strafford county, and again the support of his friends was his in full
MUEL D, FELKER.
neaSure.
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�ON. GEORGE.
R.
ROWE, the son of Robert Rowe and
H Sally Sinclair, was born February 22, 1849, in Brentwood, and
in that town has always made his home. He was educated at the
public schools of his native town and at the academies at Kingston and
Tilton. When he became of age he entered into a partnership with his
father and brothers in the firm of Robert Rowe & Sons, manufacturers
of carriage woodwork, and since the death of his father in 1882, the
business has been continued under the name of Robert Rowe's Sons,
employing a large number of workmen. In politics Mr. Rowe was
always a Republican, and for several years was town clerk of Brentwood,
and was selectman for two years, being chairman of the board during
one term. In 1889 he was a member of the house of representatives
and in the following session of the legislature held a seat in the senate
from the Rockingham district. Mr. Rowe was married, July 3, 1870,
to Betsey J., daughter of Lewis B. and Mary Robbins Gordon, and has
two sons, George Russell, a graduate of the Manchester Commercial
college, and Robert G. In religion Mr. Rowe is a Congregationalist;
he is a member of Gideon lodge of Masons, of St. Albans chapter at
Exeter, and of De Witt Clinton commandery at Portsmouth. Mr.
Rowe is a thoroughly reliable man. In business circles the name of
his firm has been synonymous with the utmost honesty. In official life
Mr. Rowe has displayed the same characteristics. Thoroughly com
panionable, he has hosts of friends, and all who know him know him
only to respect him for the admirable qualities that have made his life
what it is.
HON.
GEORGE
R.
ROWE.
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�ON. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BRYANT was born at East
Andover, February 25, 1825, and passed his boyhood upon his
father's farm, attending the infrequent terms of the district school, with
one term at a private school and a few terms at the academy at Frank
lin. At the age of fourteen he assumed the burden of his own support,
and upon borrowed money secured a term of school at Boscawen acad
emy, and by teaching himself each winter was enabled to secure the
necessary preparation and to take a college course at Waterville college.
At the age of twenty-two he began the study of law with Nesmith &
Pike at Franklin, and was graduated from the Harvard law school in
1848, entering upon practice at Bristol in the fall of that year. At the
age of twenty-five he was one of the commissioners of Grafton county
and at twenty-nine had become county solicitor. From 1853 to 1855
he resided at Plymouth, and few cases graced the docket in which he
did not appear on one side or the other. In the latter year Mr. Bryant
removed to Concord and formed a partnership with Lyman T. Flint.
In 1856 he entered political life by espousing the cause of the new-born
Republican party, firing his constituents by his magnetic eloquence on
the stump in all parts of the state. In 1857 he was elected to the legis
lature, and was reëlected in the two years following, serving as speaker.
In 1860 Mr. Bryant was a delegate to the Chicago convention, but
following the election in that year removed from New Hampshire to
take up the practice of law in Boston, where he attained remarkable
success in his profession, giving but little time to political affairs except
by appearing at rare intervals upon the stump in state and national cam
paigns. A few years since, Mr. Bryant retired from active participation
in practice, and has of late made his home at East Andover beneath the
shadow of grand old Kearsarge. He is a member of the forestry com
mission, created by act of the last legislature.
HON. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BRYANT.
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�EN. S. G. GRIFFIN was born August 9, 1824, at Nelson,
Brought up on a farm, with little opportunity for school,
yet at the age of eighteen he became a teacher, and afterwards repre
sented his town in the legislature. Practising law at Concord in 1860,
at President Lincoln's first call he volunteered as a private, was chosen
captain of Company B, Second New Hampshire volunteers, mustered
into the service June 4, 1861, commanded his company at the first
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battle of Bull Run, was promoted to be lieutenant colonel of the Sixth
New Hampshire volunteers, and joined Burnside's expedition to North
Carolina.
In April, 62, he was commissioned colonel, and commanded
his regiment at the battles of Camden, N. C., Second Bull Run, Chan
tilly, South Mountain, and Fredericksburg. With the Ninth corps he
was transferred in 1863 to Kentucky, and thence to aid Grant at Vicks
burg, where he commanded the First brigade, Second division.
Returning to Kentucky, Colonel Griffin led the Second division over
the mountain to East Tennessee, and afterward commanded the import
ant post of Camp Nelson. He commanded the Second brigade, Second
division of the Ninth corps, in all the battles of Grant's campaign of
'64, winning his star at Spottsylvania, being promoted to be brigadier
general by recommendation of Generals Burnside and Grant, made on
the field of battle. He led the charge that broke through the lines on
the Jerusalem plank road April 2, 1865, and gave us Petersburg and
Richmond. For gallantry in that action he was brevetted major general
of volunteers, and commanded the Second division of the Ninth corps
at the surrender of Lee, at the grand review at Washington, and as
long as it remained in service. August 24, 1865, he was mustered out
of the service. After the war General Griffin represented Keene in the
legislature three terms, two of which he served as speaker of the house.
Since then he has engaged in manufacturing, and has had large interests
in Texas land and cattle.
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�MONG the sons of New Hampshire whose abilities have been
A signally rewarded with honor and success, may be counted Hon.
Chester B. Jordan of Lancaster, who was born at Colebrook, October
I5, 1839, and who passed his boyhood and youth upon the farm until
1860, when his ambition to secure an education led him to enter Cole
brook academy. From this time until 1866 he attended school, gradu
ating in the latter year from Kimball Union academy, and becoming at
once a popular teacher of public and private schools, being also super
intendent of schools of Colebrook in 1865 and 1866. He was always
a Republican, and during the early years of that party's existence was a
prominent factor in the successes it achieved. In 1868 he was appointed
clerk of the Coös county court and because of his intense partisanship
was removed in 1874 by a Democratic administration, although his
retention had been asked by every attorney in the county. While yet
clerk of the court Mr. Jordan began the study of law, and was admitted to
the bar in November, 1875, forming a partnership which, with various
changes, still continues under the name of Drew, Jordan & Buckley. In
1870 Mr. Jordan purchased the Coös Republican and became its editor,
fearlessly and forcibly supporting the position of the Republican party.
In 1880 Mr. Jordan was elected to the house of representatives, of which
he was chosen speaker in 1881, presiding with impartiality, ease, and dig
nity. In 1882 he was chosen chairman of the Republican state conven
tion, and his tact greatly aided the deliberations of that body all through
a stormy and bitter contest. In 1867 Mr. Jordan declined a position
upon the governor's staff, but in 1872 accepted a similar offer from
Governor Straw. He is also a member of many historical, literary, and
social organizations. Mr. Jordan has received noted recognition of his
abilities in many circles. In all that he has undertaken he has acquitted
himself with credit.
�ON. AUGUSTU S A. WOOLSON, son of Amos and Hannah
(Temple) Woolson, was born at Lisbon, June 15, 1835. He
made the most of the educational advantages of his native town until
the age of sixteen, after which he attended for a few terms the acad
emies at Meriden, and at Newbury, Vt. At the close of his school
life, on attaining his majority, he went to Minnesota, where he remained
about a year and a half, afterwards returning to Lisbon, where he has since
continued to reside, an acknowledged leader in every public enterprise.
His life has been an honorable as well as a busy one. He was town
clerk several years, soon after reaching his majority; has been moderator,
with the exception of the few years of Democratic ascendancy, since
1866. He is at present, and for years has been, town treasurer and
chairman of the board of supervisors. As chairman of the Republican
town committee he has directed the Republican politics of the town
since 1865. He was elected to the legislature in 1875, and reëlected
in '76, 77, and '78. He was chosen speaker in 1877 and reëlected in
1878, receiving almost the unanimous vote of the Republican legislative
caucus the first year and being nominated by acclamation the second
year. He performed the duties of the chair with credit to himself and
honor to his town. He has served for many years as a member of the
Republican state central committee, and was for some time a member
of the executive committee and chairman of the Grafton county commit
tee. He has been a delegate to nearly every Republican state convention
for more than twenty years, was a member of the Garfield convention at
Chicago in 1880, and headed the Harrison electoral ticket for New
Hampshire in the presidential election of 1892. Mr. Woolson was
also, some years ago, a deputy sheriff for Grafton county, deputy United
AUGUSTUS A. WOOLSON.
States marshal, and assistant assessor of internal revenue.
He is at
present a director in the Lisbon Savings Bank and Trust company.
�ON. ALVIN BURLEIGH was born in Plymouth, December
19, 1842. He secured his education at Kimball Union academy,
Meriden, and at Dartmouth college, whence he was graduated in 1871.
The year following his graduation he was principal of the Woodstock
(Vt.) high school, and then entered upon the study of law with Hon.
Henry W. Blair at Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in November,
1874. He formed a partnership with Mr. Blair, which existed from
1875 to 1879, when Mr. Blair was chosen to the United States senate;
and since then has been associated with George H. Adams, under the
firm name of Burleigh & Adams, practising in the state and United
States courts. In 1887 he was speaker of the New Hampshire house of
representatives, and filled that arduous position during the long and try
ing session of that year with remarkable fidelity and impartiality. For
several years he has been president of the Plymouth school board, is a
trustee of the Methodist church in Plymouth, of the Plymouth Guaranty
Savings Bank, and of the State Normal school. When a boy Mr.
Burleigh learned the tanner's trade, and from the age of fifteen has
supported and educated himself. He forsook the tanner's bench in
1862 to enlist in Company B of the Fifteenth New Hampshire regiment,
and served until it was disbanded, being one of four children descended
from a Revolutionary grandfather, who fought in the Rebellion. Mr.
Burleigh is a member of the Grand Army, has been commander of the
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Penniman post, twice judge advocate of the department of New Hamp
shire, and a member of the national staff. Mr. Burleigh is one of the
most reliable of men. He has been called as counsel in some of the
most noted cases that grace the records of the bar, and as an advocate,
as well as a counsellor, his fame is secure; a large practice attests his
success, but above all that rests the knowledge of the confidence of
HON. ALVIN BURLEIGH.
those who know him, a dearer and sweeter reward than can come from
any measure of honor.
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�NE of the busiest of New Hampshire's young men is Hon. Hiram
D. Upton, of Manchester, whose activity knows no bounds. Mr.
Upton was born in East Jaffrey, May 5, 1859, the son of Hon. Peter
Upton, who for fifty years has been one of the leading bankers of the
state. Mr. Upton was educated at Appleton academy, New Ipswich,
at Kimball Union academy, Meriden, and was graduated from Dart
mouth college in 1879, immediately entering the financial world as clerk
in the Monadnock National Bank at East Jaffrey, being chosen cashier
in the following year as soon as he had reached his majority. In 1883
he began to operate for himself in the investment business, and in that
same year was chosen president of the Northwestern Trust company
of Fargo, North Dakota, from which concern has grown the New Hamp
shire Trust company, which was organized two years later. In the New
Hampshire Trust company Mr. Upton was chosen treasurer upon its
organization, and was promoted to the presidency in January, 1892.
Mr. Upton's prominence in the financial world has led to his engage
ment in other enterprises than those represented by the company of
which he is president, ranking also as one of the largest real estate
owners in Manchester, in this respect being alert and progressive.
Mr. Upton is a staunch Republican, and in 1889 he represented his ward
in the legislature of New Hampshire, and was chosen speaker of the
house, with one exception the youngest man who ever held that posi
tion, and the only one not a lawyer to be so elected in ten years.
H()N.
HIRAM
D. UPTON.
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�HE age of young men has dawned in New Hampshire.
The
T exigencies of the public service within the past decade have called
for the vigor and enthusiasm of youth. Among those whom this call
HON.
has brought to the front is Hon. Frank G. Clarke of Peterborough, who
was born in Wilton, September 10, 1850, and who was educated at
Kimball Union academy and at Dartmouth college, and who entered
upon the practice of law at Peterborough in 1875. From the first Mr.
Clarke's career was full of promise, that was amply fulfilled by his
achievements, as he successively passed in the public service to places
demanding the exercise of mental qualities beyond the average.
Mr. Clarke became a member of Governor Hale's staff in 1883, with the
rank of colonel, and in 1885 first came before the public as a member
of the house of representatives, where his quick and vivacious intellect
ual qualities gave him a prominence beyond his years, and an influence
commensurate with his prominence. In this session Mr. Clarke won
many a laurel in the hotly contested debates that clustered about the
legislation of that year. Returning to the practice of his profession
after this interim of public duty, Mr. Clarke was again called in 1889 to
legislative work by an election to the state senate, where he added to
his reputation as a young man of exceptional brilliancy, and in 1891
again sat in the house of representatives, being elevated to the speaker
ship by a handsome majority in his party's caucus. In this position
Mr. Clarke won additional honors by his bearing as presiding officer
through the troublesome session of the legislature, and at the close the
tributes of esteem that were paid to him by the members of the majority
and minority parties were hearty, numerous, and genuine. In the cam
paign of 1892 Mr. Clarke again came before the public, this time as a
campaign orator, and his service for the party candidates on the stump
was vigorous and enthusiastic.
FRANK G. CLARKE.
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�OBERT N. CHAMBERLIN, speaker of the house of represen
tatives, was born in Bangor, N. Y., July 24, 1856, and is the son
of Antoine Chamberlin and Electa B. Sears.
He was educated in the
common schools and at Colebrook academy, and at the academy at
Derby Centre, Vt. He studied law with George W. Hartshorn at
Canaan, Vt., and was admitted to the bar of Essex county in March,
1881, and in July of that year became a practitioner in New Hampshire,
being admitted to the bar at Concord in March, 1883, and taking up his
residence in Berlin. Mr. Chamberlin has rapidly advanced to distinc
tion. In 1887 he was chosen a selectman of the town and was reëlected
in 1888, resigning his office, however, before the completion of his
second term. In that same year he was elected to the legislature by a
large majority, and served through the session of 1889 with positions
upon the judiciary committee, and the chairmanship of the committee of
elections. Through this session Mr. Chamberlin was especially prom
inent in the work of the house. He spoke frequently upon the many
important questions coming before the legislature, and always to the
point. He achieved a notable success in the legislative field, and upon
his reëlection to the house in 1892 was spontaneously advanced as a
candidate for the speakership, to which position he was nominated by
an overwhelming vote in the party caucus. His election followed as a
matter of course, and as speaker Mr. Chamberlin added to the reputa
tion he had already attained. With skill he directed the deliberations
of the session, with courtesy he smoothed the pathway of legislation,
with force he impressed his personality upon the house. Upon the .
formation of the municipal court of Berlin, Mr. Chamberlin was appointed
its judge, and although resigning that position to assume legislative
duties, the position was held open for him during the session.
HON. ROBERT N. CHAMBERLIN.
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�OL. STEPHEN SHANNON JEWETT, the son of John Glines
Jewett and Carrie E. Shannon, was born in Laconia, Sep
tember 18, 1858.
He was educated in the public schools of his native
place and at the old Gilford academy. He read law with Charles F.
Stone, and in March, 1880, was admitted to the bar. In the same year
he established himself in practice, and has since continued at Laconia,
having now a partner, the firm being Jewett & Plummer. Early in
his career Colonel Jewett attracted the attention of his associates, and in
1884 he was appointed clerk of the Belknap county court. This posi
tion he held but a short time, however. In 1883 he was engrossing
clerk of the New Hampshire legislature and in 1887 he was elected
assistant clerk of the house of representatives and was reëlected in 1889.
In 1890, at the extra session of the legislature, he was advanced to the
clerkship of the house, and in 1891 and 1893 was reëlected. For several
campaigns Colonel Jewett was a member for Belknap county of the exec
utive committee of the Republican state committee, and in 1890, he was
chosen secretary of the committee, and in 1892 he was advanced to the
chairmanship. In these positions Colonel Jewett displayed unusual
energy and an uncommon amount of executive ability. Upon him fell
almost unknown tasks and in hitherto unknown quantities, yet they
were all faithfully discharged. In 1893, upon the chartering of the city
of Laconia, Colonel Jewett was chosen city solicitor, and upon him
devolved the duty of preparing the entire ordinances of the new munici
pality. Colonel Jewett is a Mason in the Thirty-second degree, and is a
member and past commander of Pilgrim commandery. He is director
and counsel of the Laconia Building and Loan association. Colonel
Jewett's title comes from service upon the staff of Governor Goodell,
1889–91. Colonel Jewett is easily a leader in his native state, and in
his leadership is no disparagement, his youthful enthusiasm rather
pressing him on.
COL. STEPHEN SHANNON JEWETT.
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�ILLIAM TUTHERLY was born in Claremont, June 3, 1866,
the youngest of six children born to William E. and Lorette C.
(Rossiter) Tutherly. He was educated in the public and high schools
of Claremont, the University of Vermont, and the Boston University
law school. During the academic years of 1887–88 he was a cadet in
the United States military academy at West Point, leaving on account
of injuries received at the institution. He studied law under the direc
tion of Hon. Ira Colby of Claremont, graduated at the Boston Univer
sity law school in June, 1892, and was admitted to the bar in July of
the same year. The following year he removed to Concord, where he
is engaged in the practice of his profession. He served as assistant
secretary of the constitutional convention of 1889, and at the extra ses
sion of the legislature in 1890 he was elected assistant clerk of the
house of representatives. This position he now holds, having twice
won a reëlection at the sessions of 1891 and 1893. Upon the reorgan
ization of the Republican state committee in 1892, Mr. Tutherly was
chosen secretary of that organization, and served with marked fidelity
and ability through the successful campaign of that year. His interest
in military affairs did not cease with his retirement from West Point,
and in May, 1889, he was commissioned paymaster of the Third regi
ment, N. H. N. G., on the staff of Col. True Sanborn, a position which
he still holds. Mr. Tutherly is one of New Hampshire's brightest
young men, and has brought to the discharge of his official and quasi
public duties a vigorous, mental alertness, combined with a remarkable
facility of execution, which have attained for him a prominence not often
accorded to men of his years. Thrown in contact with the best men in
the state, he has in nowise suffered by the comparison, and has given
promise and performance indicating a high degree of capability and
pointing the way to further advancement and success.
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WILLIAM TUTHERLY.
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�O name is more widely known or more justly honored in the
northern valley of the Connecticut river than that of Keyes. The
present representative of that family, Henry Wilder Keyes, was born
May 23, 1863, the son of Henry and Emma Francis Pierce Keyes.
He was born in Newbury, Vt., and received his earliest education there.
Removing to Boston upon the death of his father in 1870, he fitted for
college at the Nichols Latin school and at Adams academy, Quincy,
Mass. Entering Harvard university in 1883, he graduated with “cum
laude " honors in 1887, having gained distinction in society, athletics,
and scholarship alike. Besides playing on the football team, he rowed
for three years on the university crew, the last year (1887) being cap
tain and coach, and succeeding in turning out a crew that lowered all pre
vious records for four miles. At graduation his class honored him with
an election as first marshal, the highest social distinction in Harvard
life. After leaving college Mr. Keyes travelled extensively abroad, and
upon his return, in spite of tempting business offers, decided to locate
permanently on the farm in Haverhill which his father had owned and
which he had managed while in college. This estate comprises a thousand
acres of land in both New Hampshire and Vermont and is acknowledged
to be one of the finest in the Connecticut valley. Here are located a
herd of Holstein cattle and a flock of Shropshire sheep whose fame is
international, as well as other imported stock. Mr. Keyes also owns
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farms in Kansas and Dakota and has taken much interest in the improve
ment of stock and the establishment of coöperative creameries.
Besides
holding various town offices he represented Haverhill in the legislature
of 1891 and again in 1893 in which year he was also the Democratic
candidate for secretary of state.
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�LEXANDER. M. BEATTIE, member of the house of represen
A tatives from Lancaster, was born in Ryegate, Vt., July 29, 1830.
He was a son of James Beattie and Margaret Gillespie, who after
their marriage in 1808, settled in Ryegate. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town, Newbury seminary, and St. Johns
bury academy. After leaving school, he moved to California, spend
ing nearly seven years in gold mining. May 8, 1861, he enlisted
in the Third Vermont; was mustered into service July 16, 1861, as
second lieutenant; promoted to captain November 13, 1862. Captain
Beattie was in all the principal battles in which his regiment was en
gaged. While in command of the Second division, Sixth corps sharp
shooters, which was given him in the spring of 1864, he did efficient
work in tearing up the rails and breaking the enemy's line of communi
cation, June 23, and in quick and skilful work on the skirmish line in
front of Petersburg, and at Fort Stevens, July 11. Absolutely fear
less, always on the alert, and quick to catch the situation and to
act, Captain Beattie never lost an opportunity, and never failed, with
courage and decision, to make the most of it. In 1866-'67, he was
interested in the oil regions in Bothwell, Canada, with success. In
1868 he bought large tracts of wild lands in New Hampshire and Ver
mont, and commenced a lumber business, in which he has been suc
cessful.
In 1869 he married Celest, daughter of Gen. A. J. Congdon,
and has one child, Mabel Alexander.
CAPT.
ALEXAN IDER M.
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�HOMAS JEFFERSON COURSER, member of the legislature
T of 1893 from the town of Webster, was born in Wilmot, July 20,
1837, and is the son of William Barnard Courser and Nancy Morey.
He was educated in the common schools of Warner and began at the age
of nine years to earn his own living, finding time, however, to attend a few
terms of school at Contoocook academy. Mr. Courser's parents were
not wealthy, and at an early age the boy began farming, coming at the
age of twenty-one to enter the employ of Dr. Robert Lane of Sutton,
remaining there for eight years. Being fore-handed, as the New Eng
land expression has it, Mr. Courser in time had laid up a little capital
and moved to Webster where he engaged in farming on his own account,
continuing that occupation until the present time and scoring in it a
pronounced success, adding, however, to his occupation that of dealer
in cattle and stock. Mr. Courser has given some attention to politics,
and for two years served as deputy sheriff of Merrimack county and for
four years held office as county commissioner, being elected upon the
Democratic ticket. In 1892 he was chosen to his present position, and
has taken a high stand among the working members of the house for
his practical common sense and judgment. His genial nature has won
him friends in every direction.
THOMAS JEFFERSON COURSER.
�MOS NOYES BLANDIN, member of the legislature, was born
A in Landaff, September 6, 1864, the son of Willis Barrett Blandin
and Jane Noyes. He was educated in the schools of Bath and at Phil
lips Exeter academy, his parents having removed to Bath when he was
three years of age. Until his eighteenth year he worked upon his
father's farm, and has since then been engaged in lumbering on his own
account, having through his own efforts built up an increasingly prosper
ous and lucrative business.
In the town of Bath he is esteemed as one
of its citizens, and has already been honored with election to many of
the town offices, serving as representative in the legislature during the
last session with credit to himself and with honor to his constituents.
He is at present engaged as treasurer and manager of the Bath Lumber
company, and under his direction are cut six to eight million feet of
lumber annually, he personally superintending the cutting of the timber.
Mr. Blandin is, by recent appointment, a member of the commission to
appraise the timber land in unincorporated places in the state. In addi
tion to these duties Mr. Blandin serves as director in the Woodsville
Loan and Banking company, and is a director in the National Bank of
Commerce at Pierre, South Dakota. Mr. Blandin is an active young
man, and to his activity he owes his success. In this hustling quarter of
the nineteenth century, such men as he bear off the palm. No enter
prise too vast, no obstacle too severe, no task too arduous, presents
itself to the young, enthusiastic men of the present, and among them
Mr. Blandin ranks as one of those who never falters, never shirks, and
A MOS NOYES
BLANDIN.
always succeeds.
�DWARD H. EVERETT was born at Henniker, November 23,
1854, and is the son of Charles W. Everett and Laura Soule.
His father was a veteran railroad conductor but his son chose another
line of work and served an apprenticeship in the apothecary store of
George E. Hall at Manchester, although he in turn came into railroad
life, serving for several years as cashier in the Concord railroad office
at Nashua. He resigned that position, however, on the death of John
J. Whittemore and purchased the drug business which that gentleman
had conducted, and is now engaged in carrying on the store. In his
ward Mr. Everett has attained a prominent position by his constant
display of a “Bourbon Democracy” that has advanced him in political
circles. Twice he sat in the legislature, first in 1885 and again in 1893,
and during each session he was prominent in the debates of the house,
his speeches stamping him as an original and courageous legislator.
Mr. Everett's mind is distinctly unconventional. He is a pronounced
atheist and, though never obtruding his views, stands ready always to
give answer for his lack of faith. In the city of Nashua he commands
an increasing clientage. In business circles he is popular, in political
circles he has won honors and should he aspire he may hope with
encouragement for better and more honorable gifts to come.
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EDWARD H. EVERETT.
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�DWARD H. CARROLL was born in Sutton, October 31, 1854,
Hale. Since
his thirteenth year he has resided in Warner, where at the age of eighteen
he entered into business with his father, and has for twenty-five years
continued as clerk and partner in the same store. In 1877 he was appointed
postmaster of Warner, and resigned in 1884 voluntarily, and is said to be
the only postmaster in New Hampshire who resigned without request but
because of a belief in rotation in office. In 1885 and 1886 he was town
treasurer, and from 1886 to 1889 he was a member of the school board.
He was elected treasurer of Merrimack county in 1890, and has but now
relinquished the duties of that office. In 1893 he was a member of the
legislature from Warner and was one of the most prominent figures of
the session, through his connection with the Carroll highway bill,
relieving towns and cities from liability for accidents upon highways.
Upon this bill all the parliamentary struggles of the session concentrated,
yet Mr. Carroll, with supreme confidence in the wisdom of his measure,
and with remarkable sagacity, rallied about him an enthusiastic corps of
supporters and pushed the bill to a brilliant and successful issue. Mr.
Carroll was chairman of the committee on incorporations during this
session of the legislature, and to the important duties of that position
gave careful and conscientious heed. Mr. Carroll is New Hampshire
E. and is the son of Alonzo C. Carroll and Mercy A.
born and bred.
He was educated in the common schools and in the
high school at Warner, and while yet in his teens began the active
work of life. The enthusiasm with which he then entered upon his
duties has never left him, but remains still a constant factor in his suc
cess. Mr. Carroll is an active, earnest, enterprising citizen, to whom
the community owes much, and for whom the community is always
ready to do much.
�J
ONATHAN THORNE DODGE, member of the legislature from
the new-born city of Rochester, was born in that city, June 23,
1844, and bears the same name as his father, his mother having been
Sarah Hanson.
He was educated in the common schools of his native
city, in Boston, and at Phillips Andover academy.
Following the
course of his father, who was possessed of extensive business and real
estate interests in Rochester, Mr. Dodge became clerk in Dodge's hotel,
a famous stand in olden times which still maintains its well-earned repu
tation. As clerk in this hotel Mr. Dodge passed many of the years of
his life, succeeding to the proprietorship of the property upon the death
of his father. Mr. Dodge could not fail to be prominent in the various
local concerns by virtue of his extensive interests in the city, but more
by virtue of his personal interest in the prosperity of Rochester. He
has become actively identified with nearly all of the public organizations.
He is a director in the Cold Spring Agricultural society, is vice-presi
dent of the Rochester Savings Bank, is a director of the Rochester
board of trade, and has been chief engineer of the fire department.
When the new city of Rochester was chartered in 1891 and came to
elect its first city government, Mr. Dodge naturally was chosen to serve
in the council, where his keen insight won for him merited appointment
upon the leading committees and his work during the first, the crucial,
year of the city's existence, was faithful, careful, reaching permanent
results, and merited the election to the house of representatives which
he received before his term of office in the city council had expired.
Mr. Dodge has become so thoroughly identified with Rochester as to
be one of its constituent parts, and the figure is not exaggerated, for in
all that Rochester implies, in its bustling, progressive, prosperous activ
ity, Mr. Dodge typifies in his own career the essentials that have made
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JONATHAN THORNE DODGE.
it so.
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�J'
HERBERT FELLOWS was born in Brentwood, August 29,
1850, and is the son of Stephen and Narcissa Gale (Sinclair) Fel
lows. He was educated in the schools of Brentwood, at Kingston
academy, and at Tilton seminary. He has been engaged for several
years in business at West Brentwood where he built up a large estab
lishment for the manufacture of wood and paper boxes. Nothing but
the energy of the proprietor has made this establishment successful, for
in addition to its unfavorable location it has also suffered from the rav
ages of fire, requiring not only diligence and patience, but also courage
in a large degree. Mr. Fellows has found time, however, to devote him
self to other interests than those of his immediate business.
For
example, he has held office as postmaster at West Brentwood, and for
two years was a selectman of the town of Brentwood. In 1893,
he was sent by his fellow citizens to represent them in the legislature,
and was one of the most industrious and capable of the members of the
house of representatives. Mr. Fellows is a man of much worth of char
acter and the quiet fortitude of his manner, no less than the well-under
stood uprightness of his honor, has enabled him to push forward through
obstacles to success.
JOHN HERBERT FELLOWS.
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�HARLES H. HOYT was born in Concord, July 26, 1860, the
son of George W. Hoyt, a famous hotel man of Concord who
afterwards served in the railway mail service. Mr. Hoyt was educated
at a private school in Charlestown, where his family residence has been
since 1868, and later at the Boston Latin school.
He read law in the
office of Chief Justice Cushing, and abandoned that profession for jour
nalism, being first connected with the St. Albans Advertiser, and later
with the Boston Post where he conducted the “All Sorts” paragraphical
column for five years, in addition assuming the work of dramatic, musi
cal, and sporting editor. Mr. Hoyt, during the period of his news
paper work, wrote more or less for the Boston local stage, but his first
important production, “A Bunch of Keys,” was not brought out until
1883. So marked was the success of this comedy, that a year later Mr.
Hoyt abandoned journalism for active theatrical work as manager and
playwright, producing in company with Charles W. Thomas, “A Rag
Baby.” The partnership then formed with Mr. Thomas has since con
tinued, the firm now managing Hoyt's Madison Square theatre in New
York and also controlling the travelling companies now producing Mr.
Hoyt's plays. In all Mr. Hoyt has written fourteen plays, none of which
has failed of winning popular favor. In 1887 Mr. Hoyt married Flora
Walsh of San Francisco, who died January 22, 1893. Mr. Hoyt in
1892 was elected representative from Charlestown, and was his party's
candidate for speaker. As New Hampshire's only playwright, Mr.
Hoyt enjoys a unique distinction yet he bears his honors modestly.
The sparkling briskness of his plays is the characteristic of the man.
CHARLES
H.
HOYT.
Keenly satirical yet never wounding, good humoredly witty, frank and
genial, Charles H. Hoyt, like his own plays, is a New England produc
tion and New Hampshire proudly claims him as her own.
�EORGE FREDERICK MATHES, member of the house of
G representatives
from Wolfeborough, was born in Rochester,
March 25, 1856, and is the son of Stephen Meserve Mathes and Louisa
Fish Davis. Mr. Mathes was educated in the public schools at Roch
ester, and upon leaving these institutions entered upon what has been
his life work, railroading. He began in the freight office of the Boston
& Maine railroad at Rochester, serving in a subordinate capacity and
gradually being promoted through the different grades of service until
he finally left the office to become a conductor on the northern division
of the Boston & Maine railroad, in which capacity he has served for
thirteen years, with unvarying success, winning the praise of his
employers and the friendship of his patrons. Mr. Mathes has been
chosen to public position as a mark of trust on the part of those who
know him. He was elected to the constitutional convention of 1889
and to the house of representatives of 1893 by the citizens of Wolfe
borough, a constituency that has always been represented in the legis
lature by men of ability and integrity. Mr. Mathes is one of the
pushing young men of his section of the state. In his chosen line of
work he is deservedly one of the most popular employes and numbers
his friends by the hundreds. He is a sample of the vigorous and earnest
young manhood of New Hampshire, and the fact that he has made his
mark in the community in which he was born and educated and has
always lived, speaks much for his credit and standing before the most
critical of audiences, one's lifelong friends and neighbors.
GEORGE FREDERICK MATHES.
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�RANK I. MORRILL, member of the legislature of 1893 from
He
was educated at New Hampton Literary and Scientific Institution and
graduated from the Boston University law school in 1873 and was
admitted one year later to the Suffolk county bar, and began the prac
tice of his profession in the courts of Boston, following it for eight
years, when he returned to New Hampshire and took up his residence in
Contoocook, engaging as a lumber manufacturer and dealer, since fol
lowing this calling. During Mr. Morrill's residence in Massachusetts
his residence was in Newton though he practiced law in Boston. In
the former city he was prominent in various social and political matters,
serving as a member of his ward and city committee, and giving always
F Hopkinton, was born in Contoocook, November 30, 1849.
to the use of his constituents the best of his time and talents.
After
taking up again his residence in the state of his birth Mr. Morrill evinced
the same interest in public affairs and has been frequently honored by
his fellow citizens in Hopkinton with elections to town offices, all of
which he has filled with sufficient ability and credit to merit repeated
returns.
Mr. Morrill is a member of the Masonic Order and also of
the Odd Fellows.
In 1892 he was chosen a member of the legislature
and became one of the most prominent members of that body, taking
an active part in the work of the session both in committee rooms and
upon the floor of the house.
�YRUS SARGEANT, the descendant of revolutionary stock and
C coming from a good old English family, was born in Candia, August
24, 1824, and spent his earliest years on the farm, in the district school,
and in the country store. Leaving the state at the age of sixteen, he
engaged in a larger field of activity in Boston, where for twenty-two
years he became prominently identified with the mercantile interests of
the city, retiring from personal participation in business in 1862. The
next ten years of his life were spent in travel both in Europe and Amer
ica, the cultured taste and wise discrimination of Mr. Sargeant leading
him into all parts of the world. Mr. Sargeant was first married in 1855,
his wife dying three years later, leaving one child. In 1873 he was
again married to Mary E., the daughter of his lifelong friend, James
McQuesten. His wife's parents dying while he was in Europe, he returned
to America to take up his residence in Plymouth upon the homestead of
Mrs. Sargeant, a house with a history, having been the shelter of George
Thompson, the noted abolitionist, during his memorable visit to this
country. Mr. Sargeant's oldest child is the wife of Dr. Robert Burns
of Plymouth and his two youngest, a son and daughter, are now at
school. During his residence in Plymouth Mr. Sargeant has become
identified with the best interests of the town, his broad spirit, his
wide culture, his unceasing vigor, leading him into all channels of activ
ity. He is a trustee of the Normal school and was one of the most
active in securing the erection of the new and elegant building which the
school now occupies. In 1891 Mr. Sargeant came to the legislature
from Plymouth, and so excellent was his record as to merit reëlection.
In the house of 1893 he excelled even his former work as a faithful,
capable, conscientious legislator. His vote has never been cast except
for conscience sake; his voice has never been raised except in behalf of
honesty; his sturdy character repels deceit; the vigor of his mind courts
CY RUS SARGEANT.
combat.
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�LONZO IRVING NUTE, member of the house of representatives
from Farmington, is the second son of the late Hon. Alonzo
Nute, who represented the first congressional district in the Fifty-first
congress. Mr. Nute was born at Farmington, September 21, 1853.
He was educated at the Farmington high school and at Phillips And
over academy, and immediately entered a business life in company with
his father and elder brother under the firm name of A. Nute & Sons,
and engaged in the manufacture of shoes.
This business is still con
tinued since the death of the senior member of the firm.
Mr. Nute is
one of New Hampshire's keenest business men. He has served in
various quasi-public positions and in 1887 was appointed by Gov. Charles
H. Sawyer to become a member of the New Hampshire bank commis
sion. In this capacity under the old statute, Mr. Nute remained until
the summer of 1889, when by legislative act the commission was remod
elled, its duties increased, and its membership enlarged. Mr. Nute was
at that time chosen to become one of the new commission and in this
position he was invaluable. At the expiration of his term of service he
returned to his business at Farmington, and has been actively engaged
therein since that time, being now treasurer of the A. Nute & Sons
Shoe Co. In 1891 he was elected chairman of the board of town offi
cers in Farmington by almost the entire Democratic majority and at the
last election he was made his party's candidate for representative, and
though the town is normally Democratic by a large majority, Mr. Nute
was chosen with two Democratic colleagues. In the house he served
with the same fidelity, the same courtesy, the same efficiency, that have
marked him in his various capacities. His experience in public life
rendered him valuable as a legislator, his insight quickening his judg
ALONZO. IRVING NUTE.
ment and execution.
167
�RANKLIN P. ROWELL, of Newport, was born in Weare and
F was educated in the schools of that town and in the academy at
Francestown, starting out at the age of eighteen to earn his own living
and to achieve, if possible, success. He began by learning the machin
ist's trade in the Amoskeag shops at Manchester, after which he worked
in Blood's locomotive works and was sexton of the Franklin street church
FRANKLIN P. ROWELL.
in the same city. In 1874 he removed to Newport and engaged in the
grain and flour business, and has succeeded in building up and main
taining a clientage that brings to him a competence. In 1875 he mar
ried Eliza I. Young of Manchester and has five children, Arthur,
Stephen, Lena, Irving, and Jessie. Mr. Rowell is a keen and aggres
sive business man, and opportunities that have come to him have been
quickly seized upon and exhaustively expanded. He early developed the
possibilities of extensive advertising and much of his success in life has
been due to the unique manner in which he has placed himself before the
public in the endeavor to obtain their patronage, which has followed in
increasing amounts. Mr. Rowell is a public spirited citizen, and aside
from the engrossing cares of his increasing business has found time to
become interested and instrumental in the development of many of the
public enterprises of his town. In public and private life he is scrupu
lously honest; from each he has exacted his due and to each he has
cheerfully rendered an equivalent. He has won the esteem of his
acquaintances by his cheerful, ready honesty, and has won the respect
of all by his manly demand for the rights that are due him. Mr. Rowell
was elected to the legislature of 1893, and was an influential member of
that body, taking part in the debates of the session with ease and fluency
and appearing before the committees of the house in advocacy of many
important measures which he either introduced or championed in the
progress of the legislative business of the session.
�ENNIS O'SHEA was born at South Ashburnham, Mass., Octo
ber 23, 1851, and at the age of six moved to Laconia where he
has since resided. He was educated in the public schools, at Gilford
academy, and at Holy Cross college. He early began to care for him
self and at the age of eight worked in a mill during the vacations. At
the age of thirteen he was one of the organizers and captain of the
Laconia Zouaves, a boys' military company that won high renown and
was invited to Concord to parade in 1864 by the governor and council.
While attending school at Gilford academy he was office boy in the
Belknap Mills, from 1864 to 1867, and in 1867 began the dry goods
business as clerk for Folsom & Smith, with whom he remained until 1875
with the exception of one year spent in college. In 1875 he entered
the dry goods business with his brother, John, under the firm name of
O'Shea Bros., a firm that has built up the largest trade in northern New
Hampshire, embracing more departments, employing more salesmen,
and calling for more capital, more enterprise, and more sagacity than
any other firm in the state. In addition to the duties devolving upon
him as member of this firm Mr. O'Shea is sole proprietor of the Laconia
Knitting company, employing about one hundred and fifty hands in the ,
manufacture of hosiery. He is a director and the first president of the
Laconia Electric Lighting company, director of the Laconia Board of
Trade, and in 1893 was elected a director of the Laconia National waw.
He is one of the charter members of the Merchants Guarantec
saving:
Bank. In 1893 he was a member of the legislature from Laco"
and
served with the same quick, unerring sagacity that has characterized his
DENNIS O'SHEA.
business career.
�HOMAS H. VAN DYKE, who represented Stewartstown in the
T legislature
of 1893 as a Republican, and who served in that
body upon the committee on railroads, is one of the most active young
men in the Coös country. He is engaged in the lumber business at
West Stewartstown in connection with the Connecticut River Lumber
company, and in politics has been his party's nominee for many offices,
and has often succeeded in wresting victory from a firmly entrenched
and vigorously supported opponent.
THOMAS H. VANDY KE.
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�J'
H. LOCKE of Zealand represented the town of Carroll in
the legislature of 1893 as a Democrat, and served on the commit
tee on incorporations. Mr. Locke is engaged in lumbering at Zea
land as resident manager for the Van Dyke company, and before that
was in the same business at McIndoes Falls, Vt., and with the same
company. Before that he was for some time proprietor of the Valley
hotel at Hillsborough Bridge, where he made many firm friends whom
he has retained in his new positions.
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�OL. CHARLES SCOTT, a native, a life-long resident, and an
son, of Peterborough, was born April 14, 1829, his
C honored
parents being William and Phylinda (Crossfield) Scott. He is a
grandson of Hon. John Scott, who served several years in the Revolu
tionary War, and is a great-grandson of Maj. William Scott of Revo
lutionary fame. He attended the common schools of his native town,
and until he was sixteen years of age was at home upon the farm. For
four years he was a clerk in a store in Peterborough, and for three
years he was publisher of the Peterborough Transcript. He gave up
this work when he was appointed high sheriff of Hillsborough county,
and for eighteen years he filled that position, a longer term than any
other incumbent, and since his retirement from the high shrievalty he
has been a deputy sheriff of the county. Upon the organization of
the Sixth regiment of New Hampshire volunteers he was appointed
major, and before his service in the army was ended he was promoted
to be lieutenant-colonel. Colonel Scott is now justice of the Peter
borough police court, and in the legislatures of 1889, 1891, and 1893.
was a valued working member. Colonel Scott is also a familiar figure
in political conventions. His shrewd advice has been constantly asked
and given in his party's councils, and in many a contest he has been no
inconsiderable factor. He is a debater of firmness and decision, and
never talks without listeners, and never closes without converts. His
long years of official service have given him that prominence attainable
COL. CHARLES SCOTT.
only by constant, indefatigable, honest methods. The sheer force of
his character has fixed his position in the minds of those who know
him beyond the power of place to add or to detract.
�HOMAS LANG WADLEIGH was born and has always lived at
Meredith. He is the son of Nathan Batchelder Wadleigh and of
Sarah Whitten Lang, and first saw the light October 21, 1858. As a
boy he attended the schools of Meredith, and as a youth he studied at
the New Hampshire Conference seminary at Tilton, beginning his busi
ness career in 1880, when he engaged in lumbering in company with his
father, however, to cast his fortunes with the Meredith Shook & Lum
ber company, Dodge & Bliss Co., proprietors. He became general
manager in the manufacture of box shooks for the Dodge & Bliss Co.,
of New York. In this line of work Mr. Wadleigh has been remarkably
enterprising and successful, the increase of his business annually
attesting to his ability. Under Mr. Wadleigh's direction the business
of his company has steadily grown until today it is the chief industry in
the town of Meredith. This success is largely, indeed it is no stretch
of fancy to say that it is wholly, due to Mr. Wadleigh's careful super
vision. Under his father's instruction his training had been careful and
complete. The results of that training are now daily exhibited by the
development of his own business. In the affairs of the town of Mere
dith Mr. Wadleigh has naturally taken a prominent part. The enter
prises of that town, its efforts for its own betterment, have all received
his cordial approbation and many of them owe their originating to him.
Mr. Wadleigh was elected to the legislature of 1893 and to his constit
uents during that session gave most careful and conscientious service,
characterizing his efforts there by the same tireless zeal, the same care
ful and correct habits, the same courtesy and sagacity, that had won him
success in previous efforts.
THOMAS
L. WADLEIG. H.
�G'
ALBERT B. WOODWORTH.
and Louisa (Hovey) Woodworth were the father and
mother of seven sons and five daughters. The family was poor,
and the children were obliged to work for the common good at an early
age, but both parents possessed a vigorous intellect and it was a home
where such books as the Bible, Shakespeare, Gibbon's Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire, and Dickens's works were not only read but
digested. All the children grew up to manhood and womanhood, and
all have prospered, but no one more deservedly so than Albert Bingham
Woodworth, the sixth son, born in Dorchester, April 7, 1843, three
years before the family moved to Hebron. The only schooling available
for the lad was that afforded by the district school, supplemented by a
short course at Boscawen academy. He early developed a marked taste
for business, and after serving four years as clerk in a general mer
chandise store, in 1866 began business at Warren, two years later suc
ceeding Parker & Young of Lisbon. At that time Mr. Woodworth
had only a small capital, but friends who had watched his career stood
ready to lend a helping hand, and his own indomitable energy supplied
the rest. In 1873, in company with his brother Edward, he entered
the retail grocery business in Concord, and in 1875 bought the whole
sale and jobbing business of Hutchins & Co., which they have since
carried on with ever-increasing success. Never seeking political prefer
ment, Mr. Woodworth's abilities have been appreciated by his fellow
citizens, and as alderman from Ward 5 from 1885 to 1889, and as
representative from the same ward in the legislature of 1893, he has
done credit to their judgment. Mr. Woodworth was one of the founders
of the Parker & Young Manufacturing company at Lisbon, and has served
continuously as director. In 1880 he purchased an interest in that
famous hostelry, the Tip-Top House, and has been interested in Breezy
Point since the building of The Moosilauke in 1886. Early and late
he has been diligent in business; and, deserving success, has attained it.
�A.J. GEORGE RUSSELL LEAVITT, of Laconia, was born
in that town November 30, 1857, the son of Almon Curtis and
Mary Freeman (Russell) Leavitt. He was educated in the public
schools of his native city, at the New Hampshire Conference seminary
and Female college at Tilton, and at the Gaskell commercial college
at Manchester. For sixteen years to 1890 he was employed by the
Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad as telegraph and ticket agent at
Laconia, and in the latter year he embarked in the wood, coal, and
lumber business at Laconia, and is still engaged in that pursuit. Major
Leavitt has been for many years an enthusiast in military affairs, and
since 1878 has been connected with the New Hampshire National
Guard, enlisting first as a private in Company K of the Third regiment.
In 1880 he became quartermaster-sergeant and was afterward promoted
to be paymaster. In 1889 he was made brigade quartermaster, and in
1893 was promoted to be assistant inspector-general with the rank of
major. In the latter year he was chosen engrossing clerk of the house
of representatives, and in that position made a record for speed and
accuracy which no incumbent of the office of late years has even ap
proached. Major Leavitt is one of the active young men in an active
M
young city.
He counts each acquaintance as a friend, made so by his
unaffected good nature and his generous impulses.
MAJ. GEORGE RUSSELL LEAVITT.
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�VERETT FLETCHER, son of Hiram Adams Fletcher, for
forty-five years a prominent member of the Coös bar, and Persis
Everett Hunking, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Hunking, and grand
daugter of Hon. Richard C. Everett, was born in Colebrook, Decem
ber 23, 1848. He obtained his education at the Lancaster academy,
and at the University of Michigan; read law with Fletcher & Heywood,
at Lancaster, and was admitted to the bar November 18, 1870.
He
established himself in practice at Lancaster, and June 11, 1873, formed
a partnership with his father under the firm name of Fletcher &
Fletcher. This connection continued four years, when the firm of
Ladd & Fletcher was formed, his partner being the Hon. William S.
Ladd, who at that time had retired from the supreme bench.
HON. EVERETT FLETCHER.
This
partnership continued until the death of Judge Ladd in 1891, the firm
name, however, being renewed by the admission of Fletcher Ladd,
Judge Ladd's son, to partnership. Immediately upon his admission to
the bar Judge Fletcher obtained a large practice, which has continued
to the present day. In 1883 he was appointed judge-advocate-general,
with the rank of brigadier-general, upon the staff of Governor Hale, and
served two years. In 1885 he was appointed judge of probate for
Coös county, and still holds the office. In politics he is a Republican,
and has served efficiently as a member of the Republican state com
mittee. He is one of the best read lawyers in New Hampshire, a man
of sound judgment, untiring industry, and unquestioned integrity.
When the last vacancy occurred in the supreme court, his name was
prominently mentioned in connection with the position, and had the
appointment gone to the northern section of the state he would un
doubtedly have received it. He has filled the important office of judge
of probate, to the universal satisfaction of the bar and public. Only
one of his decisions has been carried to the supreme court on appeal.
and in that instance his views of the law were sustained by that tribunal.
�J'
D. YOUNG of Madbury was born in Barrington, Decem
ber 28, 1823, and was the son of Aaron and Lydia (Daniels) Young.
He received his education in the common schools of his native
town and at Durham academy. After completing his education he
taught school several years in the towns of Barrington, Strafford,
Dover, and Madbury. At the early age of twenty-two he was chosen
superintendent of schools of Barrington, and subsequently was elected
for several years selectman and town treasurer. He represented the town
in the legislature three sessions. He was twice elected county treasurer
for Strafford county. In 1868 he moved to Madbury, where he served
the town as selectman and town treasurer four years, and in 1888 was
chosen a delegate to revise the constitution. In 1876 he was appointed
judge of probate for Strafford county by Governor Cheney, which office
he still continues to hold. He was a delegate to the first Republican
state convention, and has always been a firm believer in the principles
of that party, serving fifteen years on the state committee. Judge
Young, previous to his appointment to judge of probate, did a large
share of the probate business in his section of the county. He has,
through his long term of service as judge, undoubtedly gained a larger
circle of acquaintances than any other man in Strafford county, and he
enjoys the confidence of the entire community.
HON. JACOB D. YOUNG.
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�LIPHALET SIMES NUTTER, the second son of Eliphalet
E. and
Lovey (Locke) Nutter, was born in Barnstead, Belknap
county, N. H., November 26, 1819, and is a grandson of Major John
Nutter, who in the War of the Revolution served in the regiment of
Colonel Reid. The subject of this sketch passed his boyhood days on
the farm of his father, in the town of Barnstead, where he acquired
those habits of industry and thrift, which he has so fully exemplified
throughout the period leading up to manhood's ripe fullness of years.
His life represents one continuous chain of successful application. In
1839 we find him captain in the state militia, then proprietor of a
country store in 1844, and postmaster from 1847 to 1855, upon which
date he removed to Concord, the capital of his native state, where he
established a home and residence, which has been maintained to date
(1893), yet during that period he has engaged in business in New
York city and Boston, also in Lawrence, Mass. Mr. Nutter was pres
ident of the New Hampshire Central railroad, also of the Franconia
Iron company, a large owner in the Atlantic & Pacific Railway
Tunnel, at Denver, Col., and is also president of the National Railway &
Street Rolling-stock company. Mr. Nutter has found opportunity,
even amid the cares of his busy life, to closely identify himself with
many patriotic deeds, thereby keeping in touch with the public, one of
which was the erection of a monument to commemorate Hannah
ELIPHALET S. NUTTER.
Dustin and her rescue from cruel captivity, which now stands upon
that historic island near the mouth of the Contoocook river. His gen
erous and untiring exertion was a prominent and most essential contri
bution. In 1845 Mr. Nutter married Sylvania M. Blanchard, of
Lowell, Mass., and now at their charming home in Concord, they enjoy
the fruitful accumulation of a successful life, whose measure of pros
perity is but the honorable reward of sagacious, earnest, and persever
ing activity.
�HE high sheriff of Merrimack county, James F. Fellows, was
born in Salisbury, September 26, 1855, and bears his father's
name.
He attained his education in the town schools of Henniker and
at Henniker academy, and at a commercial college in Boston, beginning
life as a lumber-man in Andover, gradually extending his business in that
line until it now covers Merrimack, Sullivan, and Grafton counties,
numbering his enterprises by the score. Mr. Fellows early in his life
came into prominence by reason of his alert temperament. His quick
discernment, schooled each day by added experience, enabled him to
grasp opportunities that had lain unused for years in the path of other
men, and he has succeeded in demonstrating, in the face of seeming
difficulties, that New Hampshire yet bristles with opportunities for the
sagacious and industrious man. This success in business life attracted
the attention and the admiration of his townsmen, and though residing
in a sterling Democratic community Mr. Fellows has been repeatedly
chosen to be selectman of Andover, a testimonial to his worth and
efficiency the more highly valued because of its source. Into the larger
field of politics Mr. Fellows came in 1892, when he was nominated by
acclamation to be the Republican candidate for sheriff of Merrimack
county. Entering upon the canvass with the same spirit that had
animated his business course, Mr. Fellows conducted a remarkable cam
paign, and though his opponent was strongly entrenched in the position
and was supported by the patronage of the office, Mr. Fellows was
enabled to win by a minute organization of his forces and a careful
attention to the detail work of the campaign, born from the fidelity
with which he had attended to his private business. Mr. Fellows by
reason of this success has become a man of mark in politics, though he
JAMES F. FELLOWS.
was before prominent in the business world. Yet he will not allow the
allurements of the one to draw him from the more substantial rewards
of the other.
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�OHN TILLOTSON AMEY was born in Pittsburg, October 16,
1858, and bears the same name as his father.
Emily Haynes.
His mother was
His educational advantages were limited to the
schools of Pittsburg, which he attended in winter, and worked on a
farm summers. He followed that line of study and industry until
1873, and in that year became engaged in lumbering operations in
northern New Hampshire and Vermont, and up to 1885 was con
nected with the Hilliards, Weekses, Beatties, and other large operators
in the business in that section. From 1885 to 1890 he was manager
for the Turner Falls Lumber company, and assumed the personal
superintendency of their extensive lumber business in New Hampshire,
including large drives of logs driven down the Connecticut, and the
running of their mills at Stratford. It was as a representative from that
town that he came to the legislature of 1889, in which he was an
active and useful member, both in general routine work and debate.
Mr. Amey retired from the lumber business in 1890, and opened a
general insurance office in Lancaster, where he has since that time
made his home.
His removal from Stratford to Lancaster did not
debar him from activity in political circles, however, and in November,
1892, he was elected high sheriff of Coös county, and assumed the duties
of the office April 1. Mr. Amey is a bright, keen business man and a
sharp, shrewd politician. While with few early advantages he has
fought his way along in all the various occupations of his life, he has
found in each something to carry him forward; each task undertaken has
TILLOTSON
been an incentive to another.
�O public official in this state is more widely known or more uni
versally popular than Ed Coffin, high sheriff of Rockingham
county. He was born in Portsmouth, March 31, 1831, the son of
N
James and Nancy (Scriggins) Coffin.
He was educated in the public
schools of his native city, graduating from the high school during the
principalship of Prof. Israel Kimball. When he was thirteen years of
age he began to work at printing, and continued until, as he says, he
“took an impression on the third finger of his left hand,” when he
concluded that he had had enough of the art preservative of all arts.
He then went to Boston and learned there the trade of a painter, a
business which he afterwards carried on with great success for
more than twenty years at Portsmouth. Mr. Coffin served on the
board of aldermen of the city by the sea for two terms; was a member
of the state legislature for two terms; and is now serving his fourth
term as sheriff of Rockingham county. As indicating his potency as
a political factor, and his wide-spread popularity, it may be said that
Mr. Coffin is at present the only Democrat upon the long list of Rock
ingham county officials. He was a member of a cavalry regiment in
the New Hampshire National Guard from the formation of the brigade
until 1883, and in 1878 was promoted from first lieutenant to captain
of a company.
Whole-souled, hearty, and honest, Mr. Coffin makes
many friends and keeps them.
His eminent qualifications for the place
he now holds he has proved on many trying occasions.
ED COFFIN.
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�PRUNG from generations of sturdy pioneers, Hon. Daniel Hall
His youth was spent
upon the farm with brief intervals for schooling. He fitted himself for
college and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1854 at the head of his
class. In the fall of that year he entered the public service, as a clerk
in the New York custom house, a post from which he was removed in
1858 because of his outspoken avowal of a change in political beliefs.
S was born in Barrington, February 28, 1832.
He then studied law in Dover, and served as school commissioner for
HON. DANIEL
Strafford county. He was admitted to the bar in 1860. In 1861 he
became private secretary to John P. Hale, but resigned to enter the
army, receiving a captain's commission in March, 1862. Colonel Hall's
army record is a bright one. Assigned to staff duty he served with
distinction, particularly in the engagements at Fredericksburg, Chan
cellorsville, and Gettysburg. Failing health compelled his retirement
from the field, and he served as provost marshal of New Hampshire
until October, 1865. Then he returned to his profession. In 1866 he
was appointed clerk of the supreme court for Strafford county, and in
1868 he became judge of the Dover police court. In 1874, however,
he was removed from these positions by a Democratic legislature. In
1876 and 1877 he was state law reporter, producing volumes 56 and
57 of the N. H. Reports. In 1877 he was appointed naval officer at
the port of Boston, and was reappointed in 1881. Colonel Hall has
always been prominent in Grand Army circles, and “passed the chairs”
in that organization in 1892. A man of rare ability, he has often ap
peared as a public speaker, the most notable of his productions being
the oration at the dedication of the Hale statue, in August, 1892,
which was a most finished, logical, and eloquent review of the great
statesman's life and work. In it, rather than in this meagre outline,
Colonel Hall finds characterization as a ripe student and rigid reasoner.
HALL.
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�ENJAMIN FRANKLIN NEALLEY was born in South Berwick,
B Me., October 24, 1839, the son of Benjamin Mason Nealley and
Abbie Pray. He was educated in the common schools of his native
town, and at South Berwick academy, and at the age of nineteen re
moved to Dover, where he engaged in the dry goods business, follow
ing it with marked success until 1893, when he retired from active par
ticipation in business life. In the city of Dover Mr. Nealley has
become identified with many of its most prominent enterprises, having
been a director in the Dover National Bank, and a trustee of the Straf
ford Savings Bank. In 1878 he assisted in the organization of the
Dover Navigation company, and has been its secretary and treasurer
since its incorporation. Mr. Nealley has been prominent in Masonic
circles, being in 1886 and 1887 Worshipful Master of Strafford lodge.
He is a member of Orphim Council and St. Paul's
HON. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NEALLEY.
Commandery
Knights Templar. In 1883 Mr. Nealley was a representative in the
legislature from Ward 4, Dover, and in 1887 was elected to the state
senate from the Twenty-third district. In 1889 and 1890 he was
mayor of the city of Dover, and in 1890 and 1891 served as chairman
of the City Hall Building committee, under whose direction Dover's
magnificent municipal building was erected. By religion Mr. Nealley
is a Congregationalist, and is a member of the First Parish Church.
In all the years of his residence in Dover, Mr. Nealley has been follow
ed by the continuous favor of his fellow-citizens, who have repeatedly
placed him in positions of trust and have frequently elevated him to
places of honor and responsibility. In whatever position he may have
been placed, as a business man, as a financier, as chief magistrate of a
city, or as legislator, Mr. Nealley has had but one purpose, faithful, con
scientious performance of his duty to his constituents. In his hands
their views and wishes have found a faithful exponent, a valuable cham
pion.
�ROM Croydon, the birthplace of so many good men, Hon. Still
He was born November 15,
1833, son of John and Charity (Darling) Humphrey, and was educated
in the common schools of Croydon and Marlow academy. For a short
time he was a school teacher, and in 1852 he came to West Concord
and worked for one year in a kit factory. For three years he was clerk
in a store at West Concord, and in 1856 he removed to the city proper,
where he engaged as clerk in a hardware store with the late Col. David
A. Warde. For two years he remained in that position, and since then
F man Humphrey came to Concord.
has been in business for himself in the same store.
This firm has
passed through several changes of name, yet Mr. Humphrey has always
retained his connection with it and his name has led the rest.
Since
the death of Mr. Warde in 1874, Mr. Humphrey has been frequently
honored by calls to positions of high official responsibility, and has
served his ward in the legislature, in the common council, and the board
of aldermen. He was mayor of Concord for two years, from 1889 to
1891, and for thirty-three years has been clerk of Union school-district.
In 1882 he was elected a member of the state board of railroad com
missioners, and in 1893, upon the formation of the board, he was ap
pointed police commissioner for the city of Concord. Mr. Humphrey
is also president of the Centennial Home for the Aged, and is vice-pres
ident of the Concord Commercial Club. Mr. Humphrey is one of the
best known of Concord's residents.
He is a man who has worked his
way upward gradually and always meritoriously.
He is a man of gen
erous instincts, kindly, sympathetic, genial. He bears an honored
name and has added to its honor by his own efforts.
�ON. HENRY W. CLAPP passed the first eighteen years of
his life in Massachusetts, having been born in the town of
Easton, in that state.
He then came to Nashua, where for fourteen
years he was engaged in the foundry business. More than thirty
years ago he removed to Concord, where he has since resided. His
first charge in Concord was the old Cooper foundry, at that time a
broken-down concern, but under his management it became a remuner
ative piece of property for its owners, Messrs. Ford & Kimball, with
whom he remained until 1882, when he began business for himself
under the firm name of H. W. Clapp & Co., and erected a foundry on
Chandler street. No insignificant factor in Mr. Clapp's success in busi
ness life has been his ingenuity, as a large part of the output of his
firm has been the various devices of which he is the patentee—the well
known Clapp grates, sewer castings, and fountains. In 1879 Mr. Clapp
held his first public office as an alderman from Ward 6, Concord. In
1880, and again in 1881 he held the same position, and in 1885 the
same constituency had him for their representative in the legislature.
In 1890 he was the Republican candidate for mayor of Concord and
was elected, serving during the years 1891 and 1892. Mayor Clapp's
administration was a busy, useful, and productive one for the city.
No mayor, during a single term of office, has seen the beginning and
completion of more important public enterprises than he. Under his
chief magistracy was witnessed the dedication of that noble benefac
tion, the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital; the erection and dedi
cation of the soldiers' memorial arch that stands at the entrance to
the state-house park; the beginning, the completion, and the use of
the present efficient high-pressure water service; the building of the
new lower bridge; the purchase of land for the state library park; the
acceptance of Rollins park as a gift to the city; and a large extension of
the sewerage system.
�ARSONS
BRAINARD COGSWELL was born at Henniker,
January 22, 1828, the son of David Cogswell and Hannah Has
kell. His boyhood was spent upon the farm and his education was
obtained in the common schools, supplemented by an occasional term
in the academy and a short attendance at the Clinton Grove school.
In the fall of 1847 he entered the office of the Independent Democrat
in Concord, remaining there until the spring of 1849, when he began a
three years service in the office of the New Hampshire Patriot. From
1852 to 1854 he was employed at his trade, and in March of the latter
year formed a partnership with A. G. Jones, as a book and job printer,
afterward conducting the business alone until February 1, 1864. May
23, 1864, in company with George H. Sturtevant, he established the
Concord Daily Monitor, the first permanent daily paper published in
Concord, which was afterward consolidated with the Independent Dem
ocrat and New Hampshire Statesman, and is now published by the
Republican Press Association. From the establishment of the Monitor
Mr. Cogswell has been connected with the paper, as local, associate,
and managing editor and editorial writer, wielding a vigorous editorial
pen, yet contributing with grace and vivacity to all the departments of
the journal. In 1858 he was elected a member of the school commit
tee of Union school-district, and in 1859, upon the reorganization,
became member of the board of education and has been continuously
a member of the board ever since, serving as president for several years
and for eighteen years as financial agent. In 1872 and 1873 he was
a representative in the legislature. From 1881 to 1885 he was public
printer, has been an auditor of state printer's accounts, and was one of
the board of trustees of the state library at the time that institution
began its later development. He is a member of the New Hamp
shire Historical society, and was for four years its secretary.
HON. PARSONS B. COGSWELL.
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�OR twenty years Hon. E. J. Knowlton has waged for himself the
battle of life, counting among his honors at thirty-six triumphs
that others have achieved only by a life-time of exertion. Mr. Knowl
ton was born in Sutton, August 8, 1856, the oldest of eight children.
In 1873 he went to Manchester and entered the office of the Manchester
Union as a printer, passing thence to a reporter's desk and rising to be
city editor whence he was called to another field of activity in Feb
ruary, 1890, to become secretary of the board of trade. In this posi
tion he displayed a marvellous grasp of affairs, a remarkable analytic
scope of execution, followed by phenomenal results. So prominently
indeed did his work call him to public attention, that in the fall of the
same year he was called by the Democratic party, to which he had always
given his allegiance, to become its standard-bearer in the approaching
mayoralty contest. This call was too unanimous to be disregarded,
and he accepted the duty implied by the nomination. So faithfully was
HON. E. J.
this duty done that he was triumphantly elected in a city overwhelm
ingly Republican and his first term was followed by a renomination
and a reëlection. As chief magistrate of the Queen city Mayor Knowl
ton has shown himself unspoiled by place. For him public or private
position had but one watchword—duty. And this has been the main
spring of his life. By absolute fidelity he won his successes, aided not
a little by a personal popularity engendered by that noblest of attributes
a frank and genial honesty. It is perhaps out of place to speak here
of possibilities, yet Mayor Knowlton is a marked man. With the
golden years before him and a stainless record behind, he has won
the right to press forward and upward. The fond hopes of his friends
centre about him too persistently to be disregarded, and he may look
eager-eyed into the future, assured that it can hold for him higher
place and great power no worthier tribute to his ability than that
already written down in the hearts of those who know him best.
KNOWLTON.
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�ON. FRANKLIN N. CHASE was born in Andover, Massa
H
chusetts, November 16, 1865, the son of Seth Chase and Mary
Spellman. He was educated in the public schools of his native town
and in the Carney Commercial college of Lawrence, Massachusetts, be
ginning life in 1880 as a telegraph operator and serving in that capacity
for two years. From 1883 to 1885 he was a station agent, and in the
latter year became manager for the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph com
pany at Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 1886 he came to Great Falls as
ticket agent of the Boston & Maine railroad, and in 1891 was promoted
to be New England passenger agent for the same corporation. In
1892 he received another promotion to be assistant general passenger
and ticket agent of the road. In 1889 and 1890 he was treasurer of
the town of Somersworth, and from the same town was sent to the
legislature in 1891 and 1893. When the town of Somersworth was
incorporated as a city Mr. Chase was made the candidate of the Dem
ocratic party for its first mayor and was elected, being not only the first
mayor of the youngest city of the state, but one of the youngest of
mayors in any city of the state. Mr. Chase has won his present posi
tion in the business and political world by steady, sturdy application
to work.
Promotion has come to him in the line of his chosen career
by reason of his merit, and his popularity has advanced him along the
political path. He has been called upon to fill important positions for
one so young, and he has acquitted himself with credit at each advance.
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�H
ON. JOHN J. LASKEY, whom the citizens of Portsmouth
have delighted to honor, was born in that city December 25,
1840, the son of William and Martha (Jones) Laskey. He was edu
cated in the schools of Portsmouth, and after a brief mercantile experi
ence in his native city he caught the western fever and went to Detroit,
where he found employment, first as clerk and then as travelling sales
man. It was during his residence in the West that he was for a short
time a soldier of the United States. With the fund of experience
gained by several years of life in the West, Mr. Laskey returned to his
native place and embarked in business.
There honors awaited him.
In 1883 he was chosen a member of the city's board of education, and
served for several years upon its most important committees. Under
President Cleveland's first administration he was appointed assistant
postmaster of Portsmouth, and served two years, resigning because of
failing health. For one year he was a member of the common council,
and in 1888 he was chosen city treasurer and tax collector. From this
office he was called, three years later, to become mayor of Portsmouth,
and was re-elected in 1892. His term expired August 8, 1893, and
during it he saw begun and completed many important public works.
Mr. Laskey is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows, and numbers
his friends by hundreds. He was a worthy man in all the positions
which he was called upon to fill and by his industry, no less than by
his integrity, added to his reputation as a reliable, trustworthy man,
faithful to every obligation and trust laid upon him.
HON. JOHN J. LASKEY.
�UCH of the muscle that has developed the mighty West came
no doubt from across the water; but New England claims with
justice the credit of furnishing the greater part of the brains that
directed the undertaking. A typical western Yankee's career is that
of the Hon. George Martin Dewey, who was born in Lebanon, Febru
ary 14, 1832, the son of Granville and Harriet Byron (Freeman)
Dewey. He was educated in the public schools of New Hampshire, at
the Lowell (Mass.) High school, and at the Lebanon (N.H.) Liberal
institute. Removing at an early age to the then far West of the state
of Michigan, his work since that time may be classified under the three
heads, teacher, editor, and platform speaker. His work in the first
named capacity was mostly done in the years up to 1857. In 1854 his
editorial life began, and has continued uninterruptedly up to the present
time. During most of that period his services have been rendered the
Republican party through the columns of its press, though he is now
connected as editor and publisher with The Odd Fellow, Owosso,
Michigan. Mr. Dewey's devotion to his party has also manifested
itself in much of his platform speaking, and nearly every state east of
the Mississippi can testify to his brilliance and worth as a campaign
orator. Here in New Hampshire we have heard him before every
presidential election since 1860. He has also spoken considerably
in the interests of temperance reform and Odd Fellowship. The offices
Mr. Dewey has held show the varied interests with which he has iden
tified himself: Deputy state superintendent of public instruction,
1857–58; six years in the postal service; five years state agent of the
board of charities: state senator, 1873-'74; alderman of Hastings
four years; six years a member of the board of education; grand mas
ter of the I. O. O. F. of Michigan; grand representative to the S. G.
L.; and grand councillor, R. T. of T. for Michigan, and supreme vice
HON. GEORGE M. DEWEY.
councillor, R. T. of T.
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�J'
STEPHENS ABBOT was born in Albany, Me., Feb
ruary 22, 1804, and losing his parents in infancy spent his school
days and youth in Salem, Mass., where he was apprenticed to
Frothingham & Loring, chaise builders, and was afterward induced to
settle in Concord, where, in partnership with Lewis Downing, he pro
duced the first coach bodies ever constructed in the state of New
Hampshire. This was in 1828, and from the partnership then formed
sprang up the greatest coach-making industry in the United States,
passing through various firm names, though never with a change of
ownership, until the present day, when it exists as the Abbot-Downing
company. The Concord coach, the product of this company alone,
was the development of Mr. Abbot's ingenuity. Schooled in the old
time trade of coach-building, his work possessed the old-time charac
teristics of strength and solidity. In 1847 Mr. Downing retired, and
Mr. Abbot admitted his son, Edward A., to the partnership. In 1865
the firm was again changed by the admission of Lewis Downing, Jr.,
the son of Mr. Abbot's old partner, and the new firm began the manu
facture of the celebrated Concord wagons, manufacturing in addition to
the specialties of their own invention many vehicles built upon private
specification and order. Mr. Abbot being thoroughly conversant with
the rudiments and developments of his trade, his judgment and skill
were almost stamped upon every individual product of his factory. This
ripe judgment he carried into all the affairs of life. In Concord, where
he lived so many years, he enjoyed the intimate friendship of the best
and foremost citizens. March 16, 1871, after a short illness, he died,
bequeathing to his children the substantial rewards of industry, yet
more than that, the priceless gift of a good name the synonym for rug
ged, virtuous honesty, uncompromising rectitude, modest benevolence,
JOSEPH STEPHENS ABBOT
and constant frieudship.
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�N the line of an ancient and honorable family of the state, Joseph
Henry Abbot, the son of Joseph Stephens Abbot and Grace
Stevens Wiggin, was born in Concord, February 6, 1838, and was
educated in the schools of that city, at the “Little Blue” school,
Farmington, Me., and at Phillips Andover academy. At the conclusion
of his school days Mr. Abbot became connected with the Abbot-Down
ing company of Concord, a corporation of which his father was one of
the founders and which is engaged in the manufacture of Concord
coaches and carriages known the world over, whose stamp is the syno
nym for thorough construction, the sign-manual of honesty and the
guaranty of service, of sturdiness, of solidity, of worth. The products
of the Abbot-Downing plant equipped the first of the stage lines in
California and Australia, and from this same establishment came the
great twelve-horse coaches traversing the Transvaal gold field in South
Africa. The operations of the Abbot-Downing company reach every
continent, and to many a foreign land the Concord coach is the only
evidence of the great republic beyond the seas. Of this corporation
Mr. Abbot has been vice-president for the past fifteen years and in that
capacity has had not a little to do with the development of the extensive
business that has been done.
It would be unfair to attempt to trace
in detail his connection with the upbuilding of the Abbot-Downing cor
poration, yet it is but just to say that in every branch of its develop
ment his hand has been felt, his judgment has been demanded, and his
advice has been followed.
JOSEPH HENRY ABBOT.
As a witness of the esteem in which Mr.
Abbot's reliability is held, may be instanced the fact that he is a mem
ber of the board of water commissioners for Concord, having succeeded
in that position the Hon. James R. Hill. Personally Mr. Abbot is
one of the most popular of men, for his sunny, genial, kindly disposi
tion naturally wins friends and his honest uprightness retains them.
�RANCIS LEWIS ABBOT, who represented Ward Six, of Con
English
F cord, in the legislature of 1893, comes from a line of
ancestors that settled in Andover, Mass., A. D. 1643, who were of that
sturdy and valiant race of pioneers who laid the foundation of this great
Anglo-Saxon nation. He is a son of J. Stephens Abbot, the original
builder of the world-renowned Concord stage-coach, and the founder
of an industry unrivalled in the history of manufacturing establishments
in America, and was born at Concord, May 20, 1843, and was educated
in the public schools of that city, and afterward at St. Paul's school,
where he was one of the first pupils. After leaving school he entered
the office of the Abbot-Downing Co., with which the name of his family
is indissolubly connected, and afterward became secretary of the corpo
ration upon its formation, and still holds the position, devoting his time
almost exclusively to his duties there, though he serves the Margaret
Pillsbury hospital as secretary of its board of trust, having been, from
the first, prominent in the movement for the establishment of the city
hospital in Concord. Mr. Abbot is a prominent layman in the Epis
copal church, and is a vestryman of St. Paul's church, Concord. Mr.
Abbot, by his life-long residence in Concord, by his activity in the
business world, and by his various interests of a quasi-public nature, no
less, however, by his courtesy, gentleness, and true worth of character,
is justly recognized as one of the leading men at the state's capital.
�HROUGH two generations the name of Lewis Downing has
been borne among New Hampshire men. The first to bear it
was born in Lexington, Mass., June 23, 1792, and in 1813 he came to
Concord and commenced the carriage business at the spot now occu
pied by his successors, the Abbot-Downing Co. The first wagon was
turned out by Mr. Downing in November, 1813, and in the spring of
1827, in company with J. Stephens Abbot, he turned out the first
coach ever built in New Hampshire. This first Concord coach was
followed by thousands of others, and for fifty-eight years Mr. Downing
remained actively connected with the business, seeing it grow—in repu
tation as well as size—and watching its various gradations of title in its
course from individual to corporate ownership.
His retirement took
place in 1865, and in that same year and in 1866 he was a representa
tive in the legislature, a slight return for what he had done to benefit
his fellow-citizens.
He died March Io, 1873.
To his son he left his
name, a greater bequest than wealth, and to the Unitarian church of
Concord he bequeathed his entire estate, to be used, upon the death of
his children, in spreading the liberal Christianity represented in the
writings of William Ellery Channing, whose philosophy had soothed
the generous testator's mind, whose cheerful logic had quickened his
hope, and in whose faith he had died, conscious of the reward which fol
lows him whose life is lived in peace and love, and in trust in God.
LEWIS DOWNING.
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�AJOR LEWIS DOWNING, Jr., of the Abbot-Downing Co.,
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was born in Concord, December 6, 1820, and attended school
in Concord and at the Burr seminary in Manchester, Vt. For a short
time thereafter he was employed in a store in Concord, and he then
entered the establishment of Downing & Abbot to learn the coach
maker's trade. With that firm he has been for fifty-six years, and is
now president of the Abbot-Downing Co., the corporate successors of
the firm. Major Downing has almost equally long been promi
nently identified with the most important financial interests of the city
of Concord.
Since 1867 he has been a director in the National State
Capital bank, and since 1878 he has been its president. In 1872,
upon the organization of the Loan and Trust savings bank, he was
chosen a trustee and a member of the investment committee, and is
now vice-president of the institution. For seventeen years he has been
a director in the Stark mills, Manchester, and almost no benevolent
enterprise in Concord has been attempted without his co-operation and
assistance. In the days of the old militia system, Major Downing
acquired his title. The legacy of his father's name, with its generous
reputation, Major Downing may leave with added credit, while as a
rare type of the old-school business man, punctual, courteous, exact,
Major Downing, vigorous, though full of years, stands at the head of
large business and financial interests, keenly alive to all the require
ments of latter-day commercial development.
MAJ. LEWIS DOWNING, JR.
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�HE development of the newer New Hampshire has been due to
Among them is George White
field Abbott, who was born at Webster, March 13, 1837, and is the
son of Nathaniel Abbott and Mary Fitts. He was educated in the town
schools and at Salisbury academy, and when nineteen years of age
T the busy enterprise of her sons.
went to Boston to become a clerk in a store, where he remained until
1860, when he opened a grocery store of his own in Norwich, Conn.
In 1862 he disposed of his business to enter the service, coming to
Penacook and enlisting in the Seventh New Hampshire regiment, serving
until the close of the war in 1865. Mr. Abbott's war record was a credit
able one. He followed the fortunes of his regiment, and was severely
wounded at the Battle of Olustee, Fla., on Feb. 20, 1864, and was con
fined to the hospital for more than a year, rejoining his regiment in
North Carolina early in 1865. On his return to Penacook he at once
entered upon a mercantile career, and followed it until 1870, when fail
ing health compelled him to seek an out-door line of work, which he
followed for two years, by building blocks and houses at Penacook,
then accepting the position of selling agent for H. H. Amsden & Sons,
furniture manufacturers.
In 1882 he commenced the manufacture of
furniture for himself, under the firm name of J. E. Symonds & Co.,
which business he rapidly developed, until it demands the employment
of about forty men in the manufacture of tables, desks, bookcases, etc.,
which is now one of the largest of its kind in New England. In addi
tion to the engrossing duties of his own business, Mr. Abbott is
a director in the First National bank and the Concord Street railway,
of Concord, also director and manager of the Penacook Electric Light
Co. He was presidential elector on the Republican ticket of 1892.
Mr. Abbott is one of those sons of New Hampshire whose enterprise
and activity have entered so largely into the development of the state's
resources, and is classed among New Hampshire men in the front rank.
GEORGE W. ABBOTT.
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�REPUTATION for sagacious prudence and conservative wisdom
is one much to be desired by a banker of to-day, in a time of
financial distrust. And it is precisely that which is universally ren
dered to Harley Benjamin Roby of Concord. Mr. Roby was born in
the capital city December 13, 1867, and is one of the youngest bank
ers in the state, a fact which makes his success the more noteworthy.
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His parents were Benjamin F. and Ella L. (Sargent) Roby, and his
education was gained in the public schools of Concord, supplemented by
two years under the private instruction of Professor Amos Hadley.
Upon the completion of his education he at once entered the widely
known banking-house of E. H. Rollins & Son, with whom he
remained for six years. During three years of this time he was a mem
ber of the firm, and after its incorporation as a company, served as
secretary and director of the corporation. Severing that connection
about three years ago, he has since been engaged in the banking busi
ness independently, and has achieved marked success. Active, self
reliant, and public-spirited. Mr. Roby gains and holds the respect and
confidence of all with whom he has relations.
He has been a director
in the Capital Fire Insurance company since its organization, and is
now president of the Concord Commercial club.
HARLEY B. ROBY.
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�HE third son of Hon. Wm. E. Chandler was born at Washing
ton, D.C., August 17, 1869, and in that city and in Water
loo, N.H., his life was passed, attending private schools in Washing
ton and the district school at Waterloo, until September 4, 1884, when he
entered the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, and was graduated
in June, 1888, ranking thirteen in a class graduating thirty-five members.
He was at once assigned to the U.S. S. Roston, one of the cruisers of the
new navy that had been built under the administration of his father as sec
retary of the navy, and in September, October, and November of that
year made a cruise on that vessel, which was then under the command
of the now Commodore Francis M. Ramsay. May 16, 1890, he was
detached from the /Sos/on, and ordered to Annapolis for final examina
tions, and passing them, ranked ten in the class, which by that time
had been reduced to twenty-eight members. June 19, 1890, he was
detached from the Naval academy, and placed on waiting orders. July
I he was commissioned an ensign in the United States navy, with the
rank of nine in the class, and October 28, 1890, reported for duty on
board the United States training ship Portsmouth, one of the old wooden
sailing vessels, built at Portsmouth, N.H., and then acting as one of the
training squadron for apprentices. On board the Portsmouth he served
until June 15, 1892, and on July 10, 1892, he reported for duty on the
gunboat Concord, under Commander Edwin White, then attached to
the North Atlantic Station, where he remained until March, 1893, when
he was detached, and granted leave of absence for three months, at the
expiration of which he reported for duty in the United States coast and
geodetic survey, on board the U. S. S. Zagre, then occupied in sur
veying Boston harbor.
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LLOYD H. CHANDLER.
�ILLIAM DWIGHT CHANDLER, the second son of Hon.
William E. Chandler, was born in Concord, February 3, 1863,
and was educated at St. Paul's school, Concord, where he was a pupil
for six years, and in Europe, where he spent a year and a half in travel
and study. Upon leaving school Mr. Chandler became city editor of
the Concord Evening Monitor, retiring from that position in 1882 in
order to visit Europe, at which time he made the tour before mentioned,
covering in his travels nearly every part of the continent, being present
in Russia at the ceremonies incident to the coronation of the present
czar. In 1883 Mr. Chandler returned to America, and immediately went
to Winona, Minn., and joined the clerical force of the First National
bank in that city, remaining there until March, 1892, passing in that
time through all the grades of the fiscal service, and being at the time of
his resignation assistant cashier of the bank. During Mr. Chandler's
residence in Minnesota he became a Mason, and took the degrees in
that order, up to and including that of Knight Templar.
Mr. Chand
ler's return to his native city was made in order that he might assume
the position of vice-president and treasurer of the Republican Press
association, publishers of the Independent Statesman and Concord
Evening Monitor, a corporation in which he had acquired a large
moneyed interest. Mr. Chandler entered upon his work in the East
with the same vigor that had characterized his career in Minnesota, and
with the same enthusiasm that had won him such success in the latter
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state. In the few months that have elapsed since he assumed his pres
ent position, Mr. Chandler has developed a remarkable capacity in the
new field. Under his direction new departments have been added, and
the business has been extended in many directions, bringing to the cor
poration the energy that the latter-day business development demands.
CHANDLER.
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LARENCE JOHNSON, of Pittsfield, is a native of that town.
He was at one time city editor of the Concord Evening Monitor,
and is now connected with that paper and the Independent States
man as associate editor.
While Senator W. E. Chandler was chair
man of the U. S. Senate committee on immigration Mr. Johnson served
as its clerk.
CLARENCE JOHNSON.
Since then he has been clerk to Senator Chandler.
�OBERT HENRY ROLFE, the son of Henry Pearson and Mary
R. (Sherburne) Rolfe, was born in Concord, October 16, 1863,
After fitting for college he graduated from Dartmouth, in the class of
1884, and immediately entered the office of the Northern railroad, at
Concord, and was employed there until August, 1889, when he removed
to Zylonite, Mass., but shortly after returned to Concord, where he became
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connected with the Republican Press association, first in the circulation
department, afterward being promoted to cashier, in which position he
still remains. For nearly ten years he has been a member of the
New Hampshire National Guard, and that organization has no more
zealous member than he. Twice he has been an enlisted man, returning
to the ranks after having held a captain's commission, which his removal
from the state compelled him to surrender. For two years he was ser
geant-major of the Third regiment, and his first commission was as
first lieutenant in Company C. He was also captain of the same com
pany, and resigned as indicated above. He was afterward a private in
the same company, and was taken from the ranks to become adjutant
of his regiment, and from that position he was called, by the vote of
his fellow-officers, to become senior major of the Third regiment, in
command of the First battalion. Major Rolfe was appointed, in 1893,
a member of the commission to revise the military law of the state, and,
by virtue of his rank, is recorder of the board. Major Rolfe is the best
type of a citizen-soldier; an enthusiast, a student, he has mastered the
service in every detail; and more than that, has imparted his own spirit
to his command. Destined for yet higher honors, he wears his present
laurels modestly, but as one ready to defend that which he has won.
MAJ. ROBERT HENRY ROLFE.
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�J'
I. EASTMAN, of Philadelphia, though not born in New
Hampshire, is credited as a New Hampshire man, because the
early years of his life and the first fruits of his activity were
given to the Granite state. Mr. Eastman, the son of Robert Eastman
and Sarah (Lee) Eastman, was born in Middleboro, Mass., February
16, 1831, and when he was one year of age his father moved to Con
cord, where the boy was educated in the common and private schools
until his sixteenth year, when he went to Lowell, Mass., and learned
the machinist's trade at the Lowell Machine shop, afterward returning
to Concord and entering the gun business, manufacturing chiefly rifles.
The first company of sharpshooters, from New Hampshire, that entered
the service of the Federal government in the War of the Rebellion, was
equipped with the Eastman rifle, by order of Governor Berry, and the
weapon had high renown for efficiency and durability. In 1873, Mr.
Eastman sold out his business in Concord and left the city and the state,
going to Philadelphia, where he embarked in the business of manu
facturing perfumery and toilet soaps, which under his management has
been built up until now it is the largest of the kind in the state of Penn
sylvania, controlling a business of a quarter of a million dollars yearly.
Of this company, the Eastman & Bros’. Co., Mr. Eastman is president.
Mr. Eastman's success has been shared in by the state of New Hamp
shire, because of the pride of the state in the success of one of her sons.
That Mr.
Eastman's success
has been so merited, has been the source of
so much the more pride. Amid it all he has not lost sight of the
Granite state, and his appearance here among the sons of New Hamp
shire justifies his reciprocation of the esteem and affection in which the
state has always regarded him.
JOHN I. EASTMAN.
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�ILVESTER PRENTICE DANFORTH was born in Boscawen,
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August 14, 1838, the son of Nathan Courser Danforth and
Sophia Brown. He was educated at the Fisherville and Boscawen
academies, and at the age of seventeen began work in Caldwell & Ams
den's furniture factory, remaining there for eleven years, and in that
time becoming thoroughly familiar with every part of the business. At
the age of twenty-eight he engaged for himself in the manufacture of
furniture at Concord, and remained in that business until 1871, when
he began the manufacture of exterior and interior finish stock with a
partner, under the firm name of Kimball & Danforth, this relationship
existing until 1888, when the firm of Kimball, Danforth & Forrest was
formed, and engaged in general contracting and building. To this
firm Mr. Danforth has given the most faithful endeavor, and through
his efforts has raised it to the front rank among similar business enter
prises, their operations extending over a large part of New Hampshire,
and their contracts each year amounting to many thousands of dollars.
Mr. Danforth is a remarkably popular man, and has been his party's
candidate for many an important office, and has always run far ahead
of his ticket.
These honors, however, have come to him unsolicited,
for he is too busy a man to give heed to the demands of politics. In
business circles Mr. Danforth is justly ranked as one of the most con
servative and solid business men in the community. He never under
takes that of which there can be the slightest doubt of complete fulfill
ment, and in fulfilling all that he undertakes no labor is deemed by
him to be too severe. Mr. Danforth is a most pleasant gentleman,
and numbers his friends by the hundreds. His genial manners have
been a constant aid to him in business and political life, and his true
and sterling worth has never failed him. In all that he has been called
upon to do he has displayed marked qualities of honesty and integrity,
of complete and unequivocal steadfastness.
SILVESTER PRENTICE DANFORTH.
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�I HEREVER in New Hampshire or New England good music is
loved and appreciated, the name of Henri G. Blaisdell is well
known and honored. From earliest youth he has been an ardent wor
shipper at the shrine of melody, and the ability and experience of
maturity are now consistently and successfully devoted to raising the
standard of musical taste in this part of the country. Mr. Blaisdell was
born in Dorchester, October 23, 1849. His musical talents were evident
from a remarkably early age, and when nine years old he became the
delighted possessor of a violin. Since he was twelve he has devoted
his entire life to the cause of music, and boasts to-day a record along this
line unequalled by few New Englanders and certainly by none in New
Hampshire. The orchestra which bears his name ranks among the
finest in America, and its services are in demand throughout a widely
extended territory. As a conductor, Mr. Blaisdell's merit and success
are unquestioned, and many of the principal musical festivals of New
England furnish the best of testimonials to that effect. The high repu
tation achieved by the Concord Choral Union is in a large measure due
to his efforts, while the annual meetings of the New Hampshire Music
Teachers' association at The Weirs owe no small measure of their suc
cess to his unremitting energy as conductor. He has been for many
years choir master of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Concord. Mr. Blais
dell is a writer as well as a musician, and some of his contributions to
the periodical press are models of trenchant style and vigorous diction.
As musical editor of the Granite Monthly, Mr. Blaisdell has made his
department both interesting and valuable.
�EORGE LAWRENCE BROWN was born in Dunbarton, May
G 29, 1852, and is the son of James H. Brown and Nancy Chase
Ray. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and
New London, also taking a course at Colby academy, the “alma
mater” of so many of the successful business men of New England.
At the age of eighteen Mr. Brown came to Concord, where he entered
the employ of C. H. Martin & Co., wholesale druggists, and became
thoroughly familiar with every branch of the business. In 1878, so
marked had become his proficiency and so great his aptitude,
he was admitted to the firm, the name, however, continuing the same as
before, and this relation he still maintains.
Mr. Brown has felt the
cares of an increasing business, yet he has found time on one occasion
to serve his party by accepting an election to the house of representa
tives in 1881, where as a member from Sutton he was one of the most
prominent members of the minority on the floor of the house.
In bus
iness life Mr. Brown is one of the most careful of men, his calm, con
siderate judgment, fortified by his accurate knowledge of the details
and necessities of his business, making him a power in the mercan
‘tile world, and the wide advance of his firm's trade over all sections of
the state has been due in no small measure to his foresight and energy.
In private life Mr. Brown is highly esteemed. He is a member of the
Baptist church, and has won the respect of all those who admire ster
ling worth wherever displayed, and who especially admire the success
that attends the exertion of natural integrity and acquired ability.
GEORGE LAWRENCE BROWN.
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�EMAN FISHER ELDREDGE was born in Chatham, Mass.,
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April 13, 1852, the son of Heman and Mary (Harding)
Eldredge. He was educated in the schools of Chatham, and of Ports
mouth, to which city his parents removed during his childhood. He
early became connected with the well known Eldredge Brewing com
pany, in which his father, and his brother, Hon. Marcellus Eldredge,
were large owners, and he has now become the sole owner of the stock
of this corporation, and is its president, treasurer, and manager, and
devotes all his time to its vast business. Mr. Eldredge has no desire to
hold office, and though he has been repeatedly urged to allow his friends
to elect him senator from his district, and mayor of his city, he has
firmly refused to allow his name to be used. Against his wishes he was
elected to the legislature from his ward, in 1889, and made a creditable
record. He is connected with many enterprises of a public nature, in
Portsmouth and elsewhere, is a director of the New Hampshire National
bank and the Portsmouth Gas-Light company, in both of which he
takes a deep interest. He is a man of genial manner, of unaffected gen
erosity, and deserving of the many friends which he has all over New
England.
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�EORGE A. LEIGHTON was born in Manchester, March 23,
At the
age of six he removed with his parents to Concord, where he attended
the public schools until the age of fourteen. Then he went to work on
a farm, and remained there until his eighteenth birthday, when he
returned to Manchester and entered the Amoskeag Machine shop to
learn the trade of a machinist. Here he remained for several years.
He enlisted in the army of the United States in 1863, and was hon
orably discharged the same year. He was appointed foreman for the
Forsaith Machine company in 1867, and remained with them three
years. A number of important patents were granted him in 1881, and
he established the business of the manufacture of knitting-machines
the following year. In February, 1887, he established the Everett
Knitting-Works, since removed to Lebanon, and became president of
the corporation, a position that he resigned in August, 1892. and is
now engaged in the manufacture of knitting machinery, the product of
his shops being largely machines of his own invention or development, and
sold throughout America. In May, 1890, he purchased the Kelley's Falls
G' and is the son of Alexander and Lydia Leighton.
property at Manchester, and organized the electric company, of which
he became the treasurer, still retaining that position. He is a member
of Louis Bell post and of the Amoskeag Veterans. A man of Mr.
Leighton's activity can but turn his attention to public affairs, and
though increasing business cares forbade, he accepted a seat in the state
legislature, and served through the memorable session of 1887, since
then declining public office in justice to increasing business responsi
bilities. As a business man, Mr. Leighton has displayed marked enter
prise and sagacity. The projects with which he has been connected
have always been advanced under his direction. He is thoroughly
abreast of the times, and has sought for the exercise of his endowed
ability, fields of activity demanding special study and attention.
GEORGE A. LEIGHTON.
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�-
OBERT M. WALLACE, associate justice of the supreme court
of New Hampshire, was born in Henniker, May 2, 1847, the son
of Jonas Wallace and Mary Darling. He was fitted for college at Hen
niker academy, and graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1867.
He studied law with the Hon. Mason W. Tappan, late attorney-gen
eral of New Hampshire, and in January, 1872, commenced the practice
of his profession at Milford, as the partner of Hon. Bainbridge Wad
leigh, and has made his home in Milford since that time. In 1877, and
the year following, he represented Milford in the house of representa
tives, and in 1889 was a member of the constitutional convention. In
1883 he first took office as solicitor of Hillsborough county, and by
repeated re-elections held that position until April of the present year.
Mr. Wallace's practice, aside from that entailed by his official duties,
was extensive, and at the time of his appointment to the bench he
maintained an office in Nashua in addition to the one so long es
tablished at Milford. In February of the present year he was appointed
judge-advocate-general on the staff of Governor Smith, and in the fol
lowing April received the appointment of associate justice. He has been
prominent among the alumni of Dartmouth College, especially in the
new movement for alumni representation upon the board of trustees,
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and was one of the candidates for alumni trustee selected for the first
balloting, and received a handsome support. As a private practitioner,
no less than as a public prosecutor, Mr. Wallace met with great success.
His legal acquirements are broad and flexible. As a prosecutor he has
been zealous for the state, yet tempering his zeal with mercy, and has
won marked success in this branch of professional pursuits. He ex
celled as an advocate as well as an examiner. Diligent preparation ren
dered him an effective opponent, and a ready mastery of the law, obtain
ed by deep study and minute retention, added to his legal equipment.
HON. ROBERT M. WALLACE.
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�NE of the most commendable features of the administration of
() President Harrison was the excellence of his judicial appoint
ments. Upon the decease of Judge Daniel Clark, it became his duty to
select a successor from the bar of this state. The singular unanimity
of the members of the bar in recommending Hon. Edgar Aldrich of
Littleton opened the way for a most satisfactory exercise of the appoint
ing power. With but two years of service in his high office, Judge
Aldrich has developed an exceptional aptitude for its duties. So plainly
has this been impressed upon his associates in the United States
courts for the Eastern circuit, and so welcome to the bench of the cir
cuit and district courts of other states has he become, that the fact that
he is nominally the district judge in the comparatively limited juris
diction of New Hampshire, is obscured by the abundance of his labors
in the midst of the most important litigation that finds what may be
termed the legal “storm centre” in the United States courts in Boston.
He is a native of Pittsburgh, born February 5, 1848, the son of
Ephraim C. and Adeline B. (Haynes) Aldrich. At an early age he
had acquired an academic education, principally at the Colebrook
academy, and entered upon the study of law with Ira A. Ramsey at
Colebrook. He was a student and graduate of the law department of
the University of Michigan, and was admitted to the bar at Colebrook
at the August term, 1868. He remained in practice at that place until
January, 1881, when he located at Littleton, which has since been his
residence.
He was solicitor of Coös county from October Io, 1872,
to June 4, 1879, with the exception of an interim from 1874 to 1876,
and representative from Littleton, and speaker of the house in 1885.
Among his notable arguments before the law courts was that in the
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Olcott Falls case, involving the constitutional right of trial by jury in
equity cases. He was nominated to be judge of the district court
February 16, 1891, and confirmed February 20.
EDGAR ALDRICH.
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�ON. JAMES WALDRON REMICK, already one of the most
Hardwick,
Vt., October 30, 1860, and attended the common schools. When
nineteen years of age he began the study of law under the tuition of
B. F. Chapman, at Clockville, N. Y., later pursuing his studies in the
office of Aldrich & Parsons at Colebrook, and Bingham & Aldrich at
Littleton. He attended lectures at the Law school of the University of
Michigan, and was admitted to the bar in 1882 following his gradua
H prominent of New Hampshire lawyers, was born at
tion from the Law school.
For two years he practised at Colebrook,
and was subsequently in the office of Aldrich & Remick at Littleton.
In 1885 he formed a partnership with Hon. Ossian Ray, of Lancaster,
taking charge of an office for the firm in Littleton. In 1890 Mr.
Remick was appointed United States district attorney for New Hamp
shire, the youngest man ever to hold the position, though by no means
the least able.
In the brief decade since Mr. Remick came to the bar
he has shown himself to be a diligent student, a faithful counsellor,
and an eloquent advocate. A man of literary tastes, he has gratified
HON. JAMES WALDRON REMICK.
his inclinations with wide reading, and has varied the monotony of legal
pursuits by frequent appearance upon the lecture platform, where he has
won an enviable reputation. Upon the stump in succeeding campaigns
Mr. Remick has been invaluable to his party, his youthful enthusiasm,
his rare eloquence, and his brilliant presentation of the claims of his
party, making for him a reputation second to that of no political orator
in New Hampshire. As district attorney Mr. Remick has faithfully
applied himself to the duties of his office, and has been a painstaking
officer of justice, seeking single-minded to do his duty. As an earnest
advocate of all the principles of right living Mr. Remick has been of
great service in the field of social reform, giving freely of his time and
labor to advance the interests of the community in this regard.
�W W
7 ILLIAM LAWRENCE FOSTER was born at Westminster,
Vt., June 1, 1823. His great grandfather, Abraham, was a
soldier of the Revolution, participating in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
His grandfather, while a freshman at Yale college, joined the minute men
of Reading, Mass., and fought at Lexington. His father removed to
Fitzwilliam, and thence to Keene, dying in 1854. When about seventeen
years of age he commenced the study of law with Levi Chamberlain, and
in 1844 and 1845 attended the Harvard law school. In the latter year
he was admitted to the bar in Keene, and practised in partnership with
John J. Baxter, and afterward with Mr. Chamberlain. From 1845 to
1849 he was postmaster at Keene, from 1849 to 1853 he was clerk of
the New Hampshire senate, and was a member of Governor Dinsmore's
staff, and by that executive in 1850 was appointed state law reporter,
holding that position until 1856, and editing volumes 17–19, 21–31,
inclusive, of the New Hampshire reports. In 1853 he removed to Con
cord, and formed a partnership with Col. John H. George, Hon.
Charles P. Sanborn being subsequently admitted to the firm, from which
Colonel George retired in 1867, and which was continued by Messrs.
Foster and Sanborn until 1869. In 1854 Colonel Foster was appointed
commissioner of the circuit court of the United States, which he held
until 1862, when he was elected a member of the house of representa
tives, and was reëlected in 1863. October 1, 1869, he was appointed a
judge of the supreme court, and October 1, 1874, he was appointed chief
justice of the circuit court. October 1, 1876, he was again appointed
judge of the supreme court, and resigned that office, July 1, 1881, to
resume the practice of law. In 1884 he was appointed United States
commissioner. His legal attainments are of the highest order, adding
to a profound knowledge of the law a ready adaptability, a keen
perception, a graceful and winning manner, presenting in all a complete
equipment for the forensic and other conflicts of the court room.
HON, WILLIAM L. FOSTER.
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distinguished
party
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leader
of
in 1861.
that day his character and service have been universally recognized.
He has in his thirty years well earned the distinction of being the intel
lectual leader of the New Hampshire Democracy. A representative or
senator in eighteen legislatures, and his party's nominee for United
States senator in every legislative election, save two, since 1866, his
name has become eminent, in an age of great men and great events, as
an exponent of Jacksonian Democracy. In five great national conven
tions he has been a delegate from New Hampshire, and in four he has
taken part, as a member of the committee on resolutions, in formulat
ing the statement of principles on which the national Democracy has
gone before the people for judgment and finally prevailed.
A graduate
of Dartmouth under the administration of President Lord, his intellect
ual life is characteristic of the precepts and example of that great educa
tor. Such a man, endowed with great and well balanced mental and
physical powers, in a life-time of deep, critical, and well directed study
of men, books, institutions, and all the concerns with which a lawyer
and statesman is inevitably thrown in contact, cannot fail to mould the
opinions of mankind, and to make a deep and lasting impression upon
political movements, legislation, and jurisprudence.
That he did not
commence a career in the great forum of national affairs when he might
HON.
HARRY BINGHAM.
have been sent to Congress by giving the word in 1855, was because
he refused to pay the price of a temporary and secret espousal of a
political movement which his honest judgment condemned. What he
would have been in the senate or on the bench of the highest court
can only be conjectured from what he has been in the less conspicuous,
but possibly not less exacting positions, in which he has served his
clients, his party, and his state. He was born at Concord, Vt., March
30, 1821, son of Hon. Warner and Lucy (Wheeler) Bingham.
�ON. GEORGE AZRO BINGHAM was born in Concord, Vt.,
H April 25, 1826, and was educated in the schools of that state.
He studied law with Hon. Thomas Bartlett, at Lyndon, Vt., and was
admitted to the bar in December, 1848. He practised his profession at
Lyndon until July, 1852, when he came to Littleton, in this state, and
became associated with his brother Harry in business, under the firm
name of H. & G. A. Bingham, which firm continued until 1870, ex
cepting three years, when the two brothers associated themselves with
Hon. Andrew S. Woods and his son Edward of Bath, with offices at
Littleton and Bath. The brothers dissolved partnership in 1870, and
Mr. Bingham continued in practice alone until 1876, when he was ap
pointed a justice of the supreme court, which position he occupied
until October 1, 1880. He then resigned and formed a partnership
with Hon. Edgar Aldrich and D. C. Remick, under the firm name of
Bingham, Aldrich & Remick. In December, 1884, Mr. Bingham was
reappointed and served as a member of the court until March, 1891,
when he again resigned, and forming a partnership with his son,
George H., resumed the practice of his profession at Littleton, under
the firm name of Bingham & Bingham. Judge Bingham is a Demo
crat and was elected a delegate to the national Democratic convention
in 1860, twice to the state senate, and the same number of times a
member of the house of representatives, and was his party's candidate
for congress in 1880. He has been a member of the Littleton board
of education, and a trustee of the state normal school.
He is a
director of the Littleton National Bank, and president of the savings
bank in that town. His clear and keen scrutiny discovers his oppo
nents' errors, and his ready self-possession enables him to take advan
tage of them. Upon the bench he administered justice with admirable
impartiality, patience, and industry. At the bar he is an effective
advocate, and in private life a most estimable citizen.
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�ON. CHARLES H. BURNS, a leader of New Hampshire's
bar, was born in Milford, January 19, 1835. The public
schools and Appleton academy at New Ipswich gave him his early
training, and after reading law with Col. O. W. Lull he graduated from
the Harvard law school, becoming a member of the Suffolk bar in May,
of that year, and beginning his practice before New Hampshire courts
in October. His first clientage was won in Wilton, where he has
resided since 1859, but he now has offices at Nashua. Early in his
career Mr. Burns attracted attention by his varied gifts, and in 1864
and 1865 he was chosen treasurer of Hillsborough county; in 1873
and again in 1879 he sat in the state senate, serving each time as
chairman of the judiciary committee; in 1876 he was appointed solic
itor for Hillsborough county, and was reëlected until his service cover
ed seven years. In 1876 he was a delegate-at-large to the Republican
national convention. In 1878 he presided over the Republican state
convention. In 1879 he was appointed judge advocate general on the
staff of Governor Head; in 1881 became United States district attorney,
receiving reappointment in 1885, and resigning in 1887 to devote him
self to his private practice that was rendered more exacting by increas
ing duties as general counsel of the Boston & Maine railroad. Mr.
Burns is also counsel for many other important corporations. He is a
director in several banking institutions, is a member of the New Hamp
shire Historical society, and of the New England Historical and Gen
ealogical society. In 1874 he was made a master of arts by Dartmouth
college. In all Mr. Burns's life it has been marked by one character
istic and no sketch of him could be complete without a reference to it:
he is a superb orator. Before juries, on the stump, in legislative halls,
at the bar, on the lyceum platform, and on memorable public occasions
Mr. Burns has delighted thousands with his polished periods, facile
expression, and graceful dignity of delivery.
HON. CHARLES H. BURNS.
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�ON. DAVID CROSS was born in Weare, July
of David Cross and Olive Kimball. He was
at Hopkinton and at Phillips Andover academy, and
Dartmouth college in 1841. He studied law in the
Raymond at Troy, N. Y., with Hon. Daniel Clark at
5, 1817, the son
fitted for college
graduated from
office of Willard
Manchester, and
in the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1844 and
has since continued in active practice. At the bar Judge Cross soon
took a high stand. In 1852 and 1853 he was city solicitor of Man
chester. In 1848 and 1849 he was a member of the house of represen
tatives, and also in 1856, 1876, and 1877. In 1856 he was appointed
judge of probate for Hillsborough county, and held office until 1874.
From 1865 to 1872 he was United States pension agent, at the same
time maintaining his position at the bar. From 1855 to 1865 he was
a director of the Merrimack River State Bank, and has been a
director and vice-president of the First National Bank of Manchester
since its organization. He has also been for more than thirty years a
trustee of the Merrimack River Savings Bank. Judge Cross has con
ducted his practice at times in partnership, but for the most part alone.
For forty years he has been a guide and friend to many a youthful
aspirant for legal honors. He is the president of Hillsborough county
bar and in 1892 was president of the Southern New Hampshire Bar
association. Dartmouth college in 1891 conferred upon him the
degree of LL.D.
HON. DAVID CROSS.
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�LIVER E. BRANCH was born at Madison, Ohio, July 19,
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1847.
His father, William W. Branch, and his mother, Lucy
J. Bartram, were of New England stock and early pioneers of the
Western Reserve. Born and reared in the country, working on the
farm in summer and fall, he attended district schools and academies
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until he was nineteen, when he began teaching. He finished his prepa
ration for college at Whitestown (N.Y.) seminary, and graduated with
the highest honors and most brilliant record of his class at Hamilton
college in 1873. He was principal of the Forestville free academy for
two years; graduated at the Columbia college law school in 1876; was
at once admitted to the bar, and joined his brother in business at 1 oz
Broadway. He soon came into the front rank of trial lawyers, and had
a large litigated practice, being general counsel for two of the great
sewing machine companies. He married Sarah M. Chase of Weare, only
daughter of John W. Chase, in 1878, by whom he has three sons and
one daughter; moved to Weare in 1883, and was employed to edit the
National Series of Speakers; was elected to the legislature in 1886 and
became widely known for his remarkable speech on the “Hazen bill.”
In the session of 1889, he was Democratic candidate for speaker and
again distinguished himself, particularly in his efforts to secure the
adoption of the Australian ballot law, which he then first brought
before the legislature. In the litigation which involved the organiza
tion of the legislature in 1891, he was one of the counsel employed by
the Democrats and made the principal argument at the law term. Since
coming to New Hampshire he has had a large and lucrative practice,
and has won many notable victories. He is an accomplished lawyer,
equally at home in the trial of causes and the argument of questions of
law, studious, diligent, thorough, persistent, a polished orator, and a
debater of rare powers of analysis and expression.
�HARRY G. SARGENT.
ARRY G. SARGENT was born in Pittsfield, and is thirty-three
years of age. Almost all of his life has been passed in Concord,
where he attended the public schools, graduating from the high school
in 1878. He then entered the office of W. T. & H. F. Norris as a law
student, and later attended the law school of Boston university for a
year. Returning to Concord he resumed his studies with Hon. John Y.
Mugridge and was admitted to the bar in 1881. After his admission to
practice he was for a time in the office of Jackman & Larkin, but he
soon returned to the office of his old preceptor, Mr. Mugridge, and re
mained there until the latter's death. Mr. Sargent early made a favor
able impression upon the public by his first professional work, and pub
lic confidence in him was attested by his election as county solicitor in
1886, followed by an election as city solicitor of Concord, which latter
office he has since held by continuous reëlections. Mr. Sargent's prac
tice is an extensive one, calling him constantly before courts of all
classes of jurisdiction both within and without the state. As counsel be
fore legislative committees he has often appeared in behalf of various
clients and interests, and has had a marked influence before every tribunal
that he has addressed. During the session of 1891, he made an argu
ment in Representatives hall in opposition to the Mount Washington
bill, and since that time, he has been engaged as counsel for Coe &
Pingree in the suits in the state and circuit courts which involve the
title to the summit of Mount Washington. During the same session of
1891, when Austin Corbin was seeking to buy for a million dollars the
state's interest in the Concord railroad, Mr. Sargent, as counsel for
Mr. Corbin, was associated with Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, ex-attorney
general of the United States. These were rare honors for so young a
man, yet deserved; for Mr. Sargent is a thoroughly equipped lawyer,
with a richly stored mind, a quick perception, a readiness and resource
that have won him just successes and will win him more in days to come.
�N the fulness of the vigor of his young manhood, already reaping
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the fruits of his industry, Frank S. Streeter stands in the front
rank of New Hampshire lawyers. Mr. Streeter was born in Charles
ton, Vt., August 5, 1853, but his youth was spent in St. Johnsbury,
Vt., where he was fitted for college in St. Johnsbury academy, and
entered Dartmouth as a sophomore, graduating in 1874, and during
the following year was principal of Ottumwa (Ia.) high school.
He
read law in the office of Hon. A. P. Carpenter at Bath, and was admit
ted to the bar in March, 1877. For six months he practised his pro
fession at Orford, but seeking a wider field, he came to Concord and
formed a partnership with J. H. Albin, continuing in this relation for
one year, at that time forming a partnership with Hon. Willliam M. Chase
which continued until 1891, when Mr. Chase was appointed to the
supreme bench, and the firm now became Streeter, Walker & Chase,
by the admission of the son of the former senior partner and R. E.
Walker. Mr. Streeter's life has been so filled with urgent demands of
large professional duties, that he has been able to give little time to
other interests. Yet, he has found opportunity to serve his party in
the legislature, sitting as a member from Ward 4, Concord, in the
session of 1885, and presiding at the Republican state convention of
1892. He has always been deeply interested in the welfare of Dart
mouth college, and his election to the board of trustees of the college
by the vote of the alumni was a deserved reward for his labors in bring
ing about the desired result. Mr. Streeter is a legal specialist, dealing
almost wholly in cases involving large corporate interests, though the
general practice of his firm is wide and varied. He is one of the gen
eral counsel for the Concord & Montreal railroad, and in this capacity
has carried through to a successful issue nearly all the road's important
litigation of the past five years.
FRANK. S. STREETER.
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�DWARD B.
S. SAN BORN of Franklin was born in Canter
bury, August 11, 1833, and was graduated from Dartmouth
college in 1855. He read law with Hon. George W. Nesmith, and
was admitted to the bar in 1857. His practice has always been a suc
cessful one, and its allurements have been enticing beyond the proffers of
engrossing political position. Yet Mr. Sanborn has not been without
political experiences. He represented Franklin in the legislatures of 1873,
1874, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1889, and 1891, and sat in the constitutional
convention of 1876. In 1883, upon the reorganization of the railroad
commission, Mr. Sanborn was appointed a member and was chosen
clerk of the board. This position he held for five years. He has
always been interested in educational matters and was for a brief time
a trustee of the State Normal school. For many years he served on the
board of education in Franklin, and during his years of service that
town went to the front rank in matters regarding completeness and
efficiency in school work. Mr. Sanborn is a man of large intellectual
powers. At the bar he is a most effective advocate, and his practice
is such as to command the highest order of remuneration. Upon the
floor of the house he was an
acknowledged
leader, and in all the affairs
of men in which he has a part he is a pronounced force. A well stored
mind is to him a constant source of power, and the natural character
istics of the man have been reinforced by an observant culture.
EDWARD B. S. SANBORN.
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�N the city of his birth and lifelong residence, Edwin F. Jones has
been honored in a degree that speaks more highly for his merit than
can any perfunctory words. Mr. Jones is the son of Edwin R. Jones
and Mary A. Farnham, and was born in Manchester, April 19, 1859.
He was educated in the public schools of Manchester and at Dartmouth
college, graduating in the class of 1880. He studied law in the office
of Judge David Cross and was admitted to practice in August, 1883,
establishing himself in Manchester as the partner of William J. Cope
land, this relationship terminating by the death of Mr. Copeland in
August, 1886. Mr. Jones early came into public notice by his election
as assistant clerk of the New Hampshire house of representatives in
1881. He was promoted to the clerkship in 1883, serving in that
capacity during the session of that year, and again in 1885, where by
his thorough capacity, his intricate knowledge of legislative details, his
quick perception, and his unfailing urbanity, he won for himself the
deserved praise of those with whom he was associated. The city of
Manchester, quick to recognize his worth, elected him a member
of the school board, and he served in that capacity for several years. In
June, 1887, he was elected city solicitor, and has been reëlected at each
successive municipal change of administration, his seventh term begin
ning in June of the present year. In July, 1887, he assumed the
duties of treasurer of Hillsborough county, and by continued reëlec
tions still holds the office.
He was married, December 21, 1887, to
Nora F. Kennard of Manchester. Mr. Jones is one of the busiest of
Manchester's busy young men. In his general practice and as city
solicitor he is constantly called before the courts, where the qualities
that have won him his success in other fields, stand him in good stead.
In the councils of the Republican party Mr. Jones is a valuable coãd
jutor. No campaign in recent years has passed without his active
service on the stump, where he has added to his reputation.
EDWIN F. JONES.
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�EW Hampshire is proud to reckon among her younger sons
Henry Webster Stevens, who was born in Concord, March 5,
1853, the son of Lyman D. Stevens and Achsah Pollard French. He
was fitted for college at Phillips Andover academy, and graduated from
Dartmouth college in the class of 1875. He took his degree in law at
the Boston University law school in 1877 and immediately began the
practice of law in Concord, in partnership with his father, with whom
he had studied law, having been admitted to the bar in 1878. This
partnership continued until June, 1879, when he became a partner of
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Edward G. Leach, which relation still continues.
In addition to the
demands of a growing clientage, Mr. Stevens has become identified
with many other enterprises. He has been a trustee of the city library,
and during the years 1885-86 was city solicitor of Concord. In 1887-88
he was a member of the house of representatives, and at the present
time is an alderman of the city of Concord. He is a trustee of the
Margaret Pillsbury general hospital, vice-president of the Mechanicks
National bank, trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank, treasurer
of the Firemen's Relief association, and of St. Mary's school. Mr.
Stevens has cast his fortunes in with those of his native state, and has
reflected his own measure of credit upon New Hampshire, who holds
dear those who make the state of their birth the state of their residence,
and who withholds no honors from those who win them.
HENRY W. STEVENS.
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�ON. JOHN PAIGE BARTLETT was born in Weare, Feb
ruary 4, 1841, the son of John Bartlett and Lurena (Bailey)
He was educated at the academies in Francestown, Deering,
Meriden, and Mont Vernon, and at Dartmouth college, taking his
degree in 1864. He read law at Manchester with Morrison, Stanley
& Clark, and was admitted to the bar, beginning his practice in the
Bartlett.
West, where he served as United States circuit court commissioner for
Dakota in the years 1867 and 1868. Removing thence to Omaha,
Neb., he became eminent in his profession and was chosen city solic
itor for the years 1869, 1870, and 1871. Returning East, he estab
lished himself in Manchester, where he at once attained a high rank
in his profession, being chosen city solicitor in 1875 and being ap
JOHN PAIGE
BARTLETT.
pointed judge of the municipal court and serving in the years 1875
and 1876. Mr. Bartlett has been prominent in the political field, and
served with great credit, execution, and ability as chairman of the Dem
ocratic state committee in the campaigns of 1890 and 1892. He is
prominent also in social life, and is now judge-advocate of the Amos
keag Veterans; is a Mason, having been master of Washington lodge,
and holding high positions in the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, being now in his third term as district deputy grand exalted ruler.
Mr. Bartlett was the first president of the Granite State Club, the lead
ing Democratic social organization of the state, and was one of the
organizers of the Southern New Hampshire Bar association. He was
the first attorney to be admitted to the bar in the state of Nebraska,
and in 1867 was chosen first president of the bar association at Chey
enne, Wyoming. Judge Bartlett is richly endowed with talent, his
laurels have been won on many a field, and that, despite the allurements
of other states, he has yielded the trophies of his endeavor to the state
of his birth, endears him the more to those who are jealous of the
name and fame of New Hampshire.
�J'
BURNHAM was born in Dunbarton, N. H., November 8,
1844, and is a descendant of the eighth generation from John
Burnham who came from Norwich, England, in 1635, and is the
son of Hon. Henry L. Burnham. His early youth was spent upon his
father's farm; he fitted for college at Kimball Union academy, and
entered Dartmouth in 1861, at the early age of seventeen, and gradu
ated with high honors in 1865. His college life gave promise of the
brilliant professional career for which he is distinguished, and fore
shadowed the fine oratorical powers he has since displayed with so
much credit to himself, and to so great advantage to his numerous
clientage. He studied law with Minot & Mugridge at Concord, and
with E. S. Cutter, Esq., and Judge Lewis W. Clark at Manchester, and
was admitted to the bar at the April term, 1868, in Merrimack county.
He at once opened an office in Manchester, where he has since prac
tised his profession with great energy, severe application, and eminent
success.
He is now the head of the law firm of Burnham, Brown &
Warren, whose extensive business extends into several counties, and is
one of the largest and most lucrative law practices in the state. He
filled the office of judge of probate for Hillsborough county, for the
years from 1876 to 1879. He was a member of the house of represen
tatives in 1873–74, and of the constitutional convention in 1889.
Judge Burnham has taken a deep interest in Masonry, and after filling
all the offices in Washington lodge of Manchester, received the highest
honors of the Grand lodge of the state, serving as M. W. Grand
Master in 1885.
He has also long been a prominent member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1874 Judge Burnham married
Elizabeth H. Patterson, who with his three daughters and venerable
HON. HENRY E. BURN HAM.
parents constitute his present family circle. Judge Burnham is an
orator of rare gifts and attainments, and as such is widely famed.
�HE subject of this sketch is one of the best known of the young
He
was born at Wheelock, Vt., September 18, 1856. His academic educa
tion was obtained principally in the Derby, (Vt.) academy, and the Little
ton high school. He became a student of law with Hon. Harry Bingham
T er men now in active business in Northern New Hampshire.
in 1877, and was admitted to the bar in 1880.
Since that time he has
been a hard-working and successful practitioner, doing his full part in
maintaining the prestige of the law office which his distinguished pre
ceptor opened in Littleton nearly fifty years ago. In these twelve years,
he has made an enviable reputation as a lawyer. He acts upon the sound
principle that the thorough preparation of a case for trial is the essen
tial of success in the profession of law. The public know how well
this was exemplified in the two important state cases with which his
name has been associated. In every-day affairs, he is accurate, reliable,
and energetic, and in emergencies he has an abundance of that quality
which in familiar parlance is called “sand.” He has acquitted him
self handsomely in all the public offices which he has been called to
administer. For many years he has been at the head of the school
board which gives the village of Littleton one of the best high and
graded schools in the northern part of the state. In the legislature he
secured the enactment of the free text-book law, which has opened
the schools to hundreds of boys and girls, who, without that assistance,
would remain illiterate.
The Normal school and the soldiers' home
have received yeoman service from him on occasions when such assist
ance was all important to those institutions. The delicate and labori
ous duties of the office of county solicitor have been performed by him
for several years in a manner which has commanded the approval of all
W. H. MITCHELL.
parties.
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�IGH standing at the New Hampshire bar, always strong, is
Among the leaders of the
lawyers in the state stands John M. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell is a native
of Plymouth, his birthday being July 6, 1849. His school days were
passed in Vermont, finishing at Derby academy, Derby, Vt., where he
also began the study of law, completing his course at Littleton in the
office of Judge Harry Bingham, with whom he formed a partnership
that still exists. Mr. Mitchell now makes his home in Concord, though
for the eleven years preceding 1881 he was a resident of Littleton,
where he was for several years a member of the board of education, and
for two years was chairman of the board of education. In 1878 he
was appointed by the court solicitor of Grafton county, to fill the vacan
cy caused by the resignation of Major E. W. Farr, who had been
elected to congress. Following this he served the full term of two
years in the same position by election. In 1869–70 Mr. Mitchell was
superintendent of schools at Salem, Vt. In 1888 Mr. Mitchell was ap
pointed by Governor Sawyer a member of the state board of railroad
commissioners, and resigned that position in April, 1891, to become
one of the general counsel of the Concord & Montreal Railroad. At
the election of 1892, Mr. Mitchell was elected a representative from
Ward 4, Concord, though he is an ardent Democrat and the ward has
always been strongly Republican. Mr. Mitchell has long been a mem
ber of the Democratic state committee, and was president of the state
convention that met in 1888 to choose delegates to the national con
vention. Mr. Mitchell is a lawyer in all that that implies. As a coun
H not attained or held by mediocrity.
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JOHN M. MITCHELL.
sellor, he is sagacious and clear-visioned; as an advocate, he is winning
and gracious. In the preparation and trial of causes he is painstaking
and successful. His best praise may be read in the reputation of his
firm and in the character of his clientage.
�AMUEL BERKELEY PAGE of Haverhill, a leading lawyer of
S the state, was born at Littleton, June 23, 1838.
He was educated
in the academies at Kingston, Lyndon, Vt., and McIndoe's Falls,
Vt., and at the Albany law university. He has practised his pro
fession at Warren, Littleton, Concord, and Woodsville, and served on
the boards of education in Warren, Haverhill, Concord, and Woods
ville. From 1864 to 1869 inclusive, he was a member of the house
of representatives, and also in 1871, 1887, 1889, and 1893. In 1876
he was a member of the constitutional convention. Mr. Page is a
fluent speaker, and has been heard upon the stump in this and other
states during many successive campaigns. As a member of the legisla
ture he easily ranked as its ablest parliamentarian, and has marshalled
both the majority and minority in many a stubborn legislative contest.
For many years Mr. Page has been counsel for some of the leading cor
porations of New England, and has enjoyed a large and lucrative
general practice. Of late he has become deeply interested in temper
ance work, and has given freely of his time to advance the cause of that
reform. Mr. Page is a man of great natural ability, is well read, is of
a studious nature, and his earnestness challenges respect. As a mem
ber of the house he has been thrust frequently into the thick of heated
debate, but he has never failed to command aitention.
His is a nature
of infinite variety, yet there is nothing superficial in his makeup.
is a direct, vigorous, penetrating character.
SAMUEL B. PAGE.
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�OL. FRANK GARDNER NOYES was born at Nashua, July
1833, the son of Leonard White Noyes and Anna Sewall
Gardner. He was educated at Phillips Andover academy, at Williams
and Union colleges, taking his degree in 1853, and at the Law school
of Harvard university, from which he graduated in 1856, studying also
in the law offices of Sidney Bartlett and Rufus Choate in Boston, and
being admitted to the bar of Massachusetts in June, 1856. In that
year he went to Clinton, Iowa, and formed a partnership with Nathaniel
B. Baker, who had been governor of New Hampshire in 1854. He
practised law in Iowa from 1856 to 1861, when, after the attack on Fort
Sumter, he was appointed aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel of
cavalry on the staff of Samuel J. Kirkwood, the famous war governor of
Iowa, and served one year in Iowa, organizing troops for the United
States service. In 1862 he was commissioned captain and C. S. of
the United States volunteers by President Lincoln, and was assigned
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to duty in the field with the Thirteenth army corps. He served through
the war, and was mustered out November 9, 1865, with the rank of
lieutenant-colonel, having been assigned to duty by the president as
chief C. S. of the Thirteenth army corps. March 18, 1867, he was
appointed United States consul to Panama. In 1869 Colonel Noyes
returned to Iowa, where for about ten years he was engaged in
manufacturing, as proprietor of the Clinton Iron Works. Of late he
has resided in Nashua, where his family have always been prominent,
and has retired from the active practice of his profession, and is engaged
chiefly in literary pursuits. February 9, 1893, after passing through the
chair of senior vice-department commander, Colonel Noyes was elected
by the twenty-sixth annual encampment to be commander of the
Department of New Hampshire, Grand Army of the Republic, and
established his headquarters at Nashua. Since 1866 he has been a
member of the Loyal Legion, commandery of New York.
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�ORACE STUART CUMMINGS was born in Southborough,
Mass., where his father, a Congregational clergyman, at that
time resided. Receiving a call from the church in Hillsborough,
the son removed thither with the family, remaining until 1856, when
he removed to Exeter, which is still his legal residence. Here he
prepared for college at Phillips academy. He entered Dartmouth in
the autumn of 1858, and was graduated four years later. During his
college vacations Mr. Cummings had begun the study of law under the
instruction of Hon. Charles H. Bell, and continued the study at the
Albany Law school and in New York city, where he was admitted to
practice. For a few years subsequently he lived in Exeter, until an
appointment in the treasury department at Washington was offered to
him and accepted. In this responsible position he remained for several
years. The years 1870–71 were spent in travelling in Europe, and at
the capitulation of Paris he was one of the first civilians to enter the
starving capital. Soon after his return to Washington he began the
practice of his profession, and quickly gained a large and profitable
clientage. Mr. Cummings has always taken a lively interest in New
Hampshire politics, and when a young man served for four sessions as
clerk and assistant clerk of the state senate.
In 1876 and 1877 the
town of Exeter elected him as one of her representatives to the general
court. During these legislatures he was honored with the position of
permanent caucus chairman, and discharged his duties to the accept
ance of all. In the business work of the house he took an active part,
serving as chairman of the committee on elections, whose work during
the sessions was of more than ordinary importance and interest, owing
to several exciting contests over seats. In 1876 his warm friend,
Governor Cheney, commissioned Mr. Cummings as an aide-de-camp on
his staff, with the rank of colonel. Few men entertain a deeper affection
for the Granite state and its institutions than the subject of this sketch.
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�N the historic old town of Bath, famous for having been the scene
of bitter contention, fierce litigation, of prosperity, of decay, and of
all the vicissitudes of an old-time ‘‘hill town,” General Philip Carpen
ter, the son of Judge A. P. and Julia R. Carpenter, was born March 9.
1856. After a preliminary course he entered Dartmouth college, and
was graduated in the class of 1877. He studied law, and was admitted
to the bar in due season, and engaged in practice at Lancaster in
partnership with Maj. Irving W. Drew and Hon. Chester B. Jordan.
In 1885 he withdrew from this partnership, and removed to New York
city, where he is engaged in practice at 38 Park Row, at present being
alone in business, though he has had since going to New York a
partner. In 1885, before he removed to New York, he was appointed
judge-advocate-general on the staff of Governor Moody Currier, a
position which he resigned upon his removal from the state. General
Carpenter's success in his new field of labor has not caused him to
forget his native state, and the summer months see him a happy and
welcome visitor at his birth-place and in other communities endeared
by old associations.
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WARREN TOWLE, son of General Joseph Towle and
Nancy Ranlett Towle, was born at Epping, N. H., August 15,
1825. His father was a gentleman of the old school, and was high
sheriff of the county in the days when that personage, resplendent in
gold lace and uniform, would open court, the observed of all observers.
Mr. Towle entered Phillips Exeter academy in 1840, where he
fitted for Harvard university. Upon the completion of his course at
the latter institution in 1851, he received the degree of A. B. He at
once began the study of law in the office of Col. Seth J. Thomas of
Boston, and in the year following attended the Harvard Law school.
He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar, Boston, Mass., July, 1853,
and in the fall of that year began the practice of law in the office of the
Hon. Ichabod Bartlett of Portsmouth, N. H.
After Mr. Bartlett's
death, Mr. Towle continued the practice of the firm alone for some six
years, when he removed to Exeter, and has since known no other
home. Democratic principles were an inheritance to him, and he has
ever been true to the faith, having served for over 30 years as a member
of the state Democratic committee, and attended every Democratic
state convention since 1853, with one exception. Although repeatedly
urged to allow his name to be used, he has never been a candidate for
public office, but always comes to the front whenever aid can be
rendered to the party. As a lawyer, Mr. Towle is brilliant, witty, and
polished, and his commanding appearance, clear voice, and keen
searching eye seldom fail to carry conviction to the minds of the jury.
In 1858 Mr. Towle was married to Abbey H. Lord of Cambridge,
Mass.
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ERMAN W. GREENE, of Hopkinton, was born in that town,
April II, 1836, and was educated in the public schools and at
Pembroke and Gilmanton academies. He entered upon the study of law
HERMAN W. GREENE.
with George & Foster at Concord, continuing it with the firm of Beard
& Nickerson in Boston, and on his twenty-first birthday was admitted
to the Suffolk county bar, successfully passing the examination, and en
tered upon the practice of his profession in Boston where he was
actively engaged before the municipal court in all branches of legal pro
cedure. Following this, he returned to his native town, where he now
resides and where he has been in the active practice of his profession
ever since. In local political circles, Mr. Greene has taken an active
part, having served as moderator of the town of Hopkinton since 1863,
and as superintendent of schools for five years, and having been fre
quently elected to the legislature, serving in the sessions of 1881, 1889,
and 1891, taking a brilliant and conspicuous part in the debates of the
session, and serving with credit upon various important committees.
Mr. Greene was county solicitor of Merrimack county for five years, an
unprecedented period of service in these later days of rotation in office.
Mr. Greene in early life was a Democrat, but at the outbreak of the
war became identified with the Republican party and has served it ever
since, upon the state committee and in whatever way his versatile talent
could find an outlet for his partisan enthusiasm. Mr. Greene as a pub
lic speaker possesses the traits necessary for success, and has been
called on various public occasions to serve as the orator of the day,
always acquitting himself with remarkable credit. In the debates that
have occurred in the house during his terms of service as a legislator,
Mr. Greene has always been prominent, not only by reason of his im
portant committee assignments, but by reason also of his quick percep
tion of the drift of legislative affairs and of his zealous enthusiasm for
the cause that he had espoused.
�AVID RUSSELL PIERCE was born in Lexington, Maine, Feb
ruary 4, 1848, the son of Simon D. and Sarah A. (Parsons)
Pierce. He was educated at the Bloomfield academy, Skowhegan, and
at the Edward Little institute at Auburn, Maine. After leaving school
he was a teacher in California for three years, and in 1869 was admit
ted to the bar in that state. For six years he was engaged in news
paper work in Poston, and was connected with the Commercial Bulle
tin and the Boston Post. For the past six years he has been in the
practice of law in Somersworth, where he has built up a fruitful busi
ness. He served in the Seventh Maine battery during the war, and
made a creditable record. He has been a member of the Grand Army
for sixteen years, and is now the senior vice-commander of the depart
ment of New Hampshire. He has always been an ardent Republican
and was a delegate from the First district to the National convention
at Minneapolis in 1892. He is easily ranked as one of the prominent
men of the state, his diverse occupations having given him a versatility
of intellect and a facility for labor that are telling in his professional
work.
He is a finely cultured lawyer, and as a public speaker has
made his mark. He is already in the line of promotion in various di
rections, and has only to live hereafter in accordance with his past to
secure the abundant rewards that follow upon the exercise of such
characteristics as he has shown himself to possess.
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�J' was born in Wolfeborough, N. H., on the(Wedgwood)
Edgerly,
15th day of
A. EDGERLY, son of James and Nancy H.
May, 1846; was educated at the public schools and at the Wolfe
borough and Tuftonborough academy; lived upon his father's farm in
Wolfeborough until twenty years of age, then removed to Great Falls,
now Somersworth, N.H., where he has since resided. After teaching
school for several years, he studied law in the office of William J. Cope
land, and was admitted to the Strafford county bar in 1874, and at
once became a partner with Mr. Copeland under the firm name of Cope
land & Edgerly, which partnership continued until the death of Mr.
Copeland, August 1, 1886. He was a member of the New Hampshire
legislature in 1883, and again in 1885. Was a candidate for speaker in
1885, but withdrew before the caucus in favor of Hon. Edgar Aldrich,
who was subsequently nominated and elected. Since that time he has
devoted himself exclusively to his profession, and has a large practice
in this state and western Maine. As a criminal lawyer he has had an
extensive practice, having been engaged in the defense of twelve mur
der cases, some of them being among the most celebrated trials in this
part of the country. His law library is said to be the largest private
law library in the state, and he also has a large collection of rare his
torical works. He was married to Annie A. Wood, November 19,
1874, but has no children.
JAMES A. EDGERLY.
�J'
LANGDON SPRING was born at Newport, January 14,
1830, and is the son of John Clark Spring. His education was
obtained in the common schools, supplemented by such self-sought
instructions as he was able to secure. He began the study of law with
Hon. Thomas Wentworth and Hon. C. W. Woodman at Dover, and
was admitted to the bar at Manchester in 1860. He began practice at
Wilton and was there engaged for a part of one year, then removing to
Milford, where he was established as a lawyer until 1870, when he
moved to Lebanon and has since resided there.
In the course of his
practice Mr. Spring has been very successful, having enjoyed at one
time the partnership of his son and always having commanded a consid
erable part of the docket. Among his brethren at the bar Mr. Spring
has always been held in high esteem, and has been a vice-president of
the American Bar Association. He is a Royal Arch Mason and is
very prominent in Odd Fellowship in New Hampshire, having served
for four years as grand representative in the Sovereign grand lodge.
In 1875 Dartmouth college made Mr. Spring a Master of Arts. He
sat in the constitutional convention of 1876, and in 1891 was elected
to the house of representatives, and was again chosen in 1893, serving
in each session as a member of the judiciary committee, and taking an
important part in the debates of the session, espousing many successful
measures and taking a decided stand against encroachments upon the
people's rights. Mr. Spring has coöperated in many of the enterprises
that have sprung up in Lebanon, and has favored from the first the
liberal policy that has made that town so thriving. In the house of
representatives Mr. Spring's career was highly creditable. He fre
quently spoke upon the important questions presented, and never with
out the respect of his colleagues nor yet without influence. He is a
man of bold and vigorous mental parts, with a fluent command of lan
guage, a rapid and logical flow of thought, and of impressive presence.
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RANK HERBERT BROWN, son of Oscar J. and Lavinia Porter
He was educated
at the Stevens High school in Claremont, at the Highland Military
academy, Worcester, Mass., at Dartmouth college, and at the law
school of Boston university. Admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876, he
practised a short time in Boston, afterward in Concord, and now is in
practice in Claremont. Scholarly in tastes and habits, a reader, a
thinker, as well as a man of affairs, Mr. Brown ranks high among the
coming men of New Hampshire. Able in debate and a tactician of no
mean ability, quick of comprehension and courageous of action, the
stump, the platform, and the field of politics furnish him with a
congenial theatre of action. Representing Claremont in the legislature
of 1891, and again in 1893, he early won the respect and recognition
of his colleagues. An easy and fluent speaker, eloquent and able on
the platform, strong in debate, fanciful and charming as an after-dinner
talker, Mr. Brown holds an enviable place among the orators of the
Granite state. Honest and fearless, with high aims and purposes, his
democratic good-fellowship has given him a large acquaintance and
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many friends among all classes and conditions of men throughout *
state. A courteous and honorable gentleman, of fine sensibilities, w
eral in thought and action, his career already successful is yet fruitful
with possibilities.
FRANK HERBERT BROWN.
�OL. THOMAS J. WHIPPLE was born in Wentworth, January
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30, 1816, and read law with Josiah Quincy, of Rumney, and
was admitted to the bar in 1840.
He enlisted in the Mexican War,
serving as first lieutenant, Company H, United States infantry, and
landed at Vera Cruz, June 21, 1847; was taken prisoner July 13, and
exchanged at Jalapa, September 1, of the same year. After his
exchange he served as aide-de-camp and assistant adjutant-general under
General Scott, until the close of the war. In 1849 he opened an office
in Laconia, where he continued the practice of law until his death,
December 21, 1889. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he responded
with characteristic promptness to the call for soldiers, and went into
service as lieutenant-colonel of the First New Hampshire regiment. A
born soldier, his nature resolute and intensely patriotic, he was the
embodiment of courage. He commanded the Fourth New Hampshire
regiment until he resigned, March 18, 1862. Unanimously chosen colonel
by the men of the Twelfth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers, he had
every known qualification for leadership; the only reason why he was
not a great leader was because he was not commissioned and allowed
to command the brave men who had volunteered to serve with him; and
thus the military career of this accomplished soldier was closed forever.
In religious matters Colonel Whipple was charitable to others, while he
entertained very strong and positive views of his own. He fearlessly
approached the close of life, and when the warfare was ended he con
fidently went to his rest, having outlived the world's superstitions and
childish fears. His matchless power of expression, his blistering sar
casm, his vivid and impressive description, cannot be delineated. His
gems of thought and expression are strewn all along the pathway of his
career, but it is as impossible to preserve their brilliancy and point as
it is to preserve the sparks struck from flint and steel.
�ON. CHARLES F. STONE, of Laconia, was born in Cabot,
Vt., May 21, 1843, and his early days, like those of many
prominent professional men of to-day, were passed on a farm. After
passing through the common schools of his native town, he decided to
study a profession, and took a preparatory course for Middlebury col
lege, which he did in 1885, at Barre (Vt.) academy, graduating from
Middlebury college, class of '69. He defrayed the expenses of his college
course by teaching school, and began the study of law in the office of
Hon. J. W. Stewart at Middlebury, at the same time filling the position
of principal of the graded school. In 1870 he went to Laconia, where
he continued his legal studies in the office of Hon. E. A. Hibbard, and
was admitted to the bar in 1872. He began the practice of law in
company with Geerge W. Stevens, and later he conducted a lucrative
business alone till 1880, when he formed a partnership with E. P.
Jewell, with whom he is now associated in a large and successful prac
tice.
Mr. Stone was chairman of the Democratic state committee, from
1882 until 1890. He served in the legislature in 1883–84; also in
1887–88, where he was conspicuous in the great railroad fight, opposing
the “Hazen bill” and advocating the antagonistic measure, the “Ath
erton bill.” He was first president of the Laconia board of education.
In 1892 he was nominated a candidate for congressman by his party.
He is a member of the Laconia grange, and of the Belknap County
Pomona grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and since he attained his
majority has been a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Stone is
an able, sound lawyer, an eloquent pleader, and easily holds a place in
the front rank of his profession.
�DWARD G. LEACH of Franklin was born in Meredith, June
28, 1849, and has made Franklin his home since 1871. He was
educated at Kimball Union academy and at Dartmouth college, gradu
ating from the latter institution in 1871. While yet at school in the
fall of 1864, Mr. Leach, fired by the example of his father and only
brother, the latter of whom died in the service of his country, sought to
enlist in a company of heavy artillery then being formed at Laconia,
but was prevented by his relatives. During his college course he
taught school at several places in New Hampshire, and passed his
summers as clerk at various summer hotels. After graduation he read
law with Hon. Daniel Barnard and E. B. S. Sanborn at Franklin, and
was admitted to the bar in 1874, being partner with his preceptor, Mr.
Barnard, until 1879, at which time he formed a partnership with Henry
W. Stevens of Concord, which relationship still exists. Mr. Leach
has been known in many fields of endeavor. He is president of the
Manufacturers and Merchants' Mutual Insurance company, of the
Franklin Building and Loan association, and of the Franklin Board of
Trade.
He has also been clerk and one of the trustees of the Unitarian
society in Franklin for the past ten years, and a member of the board
of water commissioners for the same term.
Mr. Leach was elected
county solicitor of Merrimack county in 1880, serving four years. In
his long career in public and private life Mr. Leach has won many
laurels by his own efforts. His activity has been great and his success
has been commensurate with it. As a member of the present House
he takes a leading rank, and he has but to view the future with unfail
ing eyes, as the past is ample security that his prospect is brilliant.
EDWARD G. LEACH.
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ELLERY BARNARD was born in Franklin, January 29,
1863, the son of Daniel Barnard and Amelia (Morse) Barnard.
His preliminary education was obtained in the Franklin High school,
and at the Holderness school for boys. He entered Dartmouth college
in the class of 1884, but failing health compelled him to relinquish his
college course, and at the end of his sophomore year he made an ex
tended tour in the Orient, returning in 1884 to enter the Franklin
National bank, where he was employed for two years; then going to the
National Bank of the Republic, in Boston, whence he was called, by the
death of his elder brother, to the study of law in the office of his father,
the late Hon. Daniel Barnard, and was graduated from the Boston Uni
versity Law school in 1890, being admitted to the bar in the same year.
From that time until the death of his father he was a member of the
firm of Barnard & Barnard, and succeeded to the practice of the firm
upon his father's death, in 1892. Upon the formation of the municipal
court in Franklin, Mr. Barnard was appointed its first judge, and has
but now entered upon the duties of the position. The academic honors
relinquished by Mr. Barnard because of failing health came to him in
1888 when, honoris causa, he was granted the degree of A. B. by the
trustees of Dartmouth college. In the few years that have passed since his
admission to the bar, Mr. Barnard has made a name for himself inde
pendent of that bequeathed him by a brilliant parent. As an active,
energetic young lawyer, he has commanded the respect of an increasing
clientage. Applying himself with diligence to the tasks set before him,
he has succeeded already in securing a foothold in the pathway to suc
cess. To his advantage has been turned a rare social temperament, and
an extended circle of friends rejoice no less than he at the evidences
already given of a future marked with success.
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�A' the younger members of the
New Hampshire bar, there
is no one who has attained a higher measure of success in an
equal number of years, and certainly none with higher promise for the
future, than Nathaniel Everett Martin, of Concord, junior member of
the firm of Albin & Martin, which ranks second to no law firm in Mer
rimack county, either as regards extent of business or reputation for
successful work. Mr. Martin is a son of Theophilus B. and Sarah L.
(Rowell) Martin, and was born in the rural town of Loudon, August 9,
1855. He received his education in the common schools of Loudon
and Concord, and the Concord High school, and, deciding to follow the
legal profession, pursued the study thereof in the office of Sargent
& Chase, in Concord, where he was admitted to the bar on August
14, 1879, and has since been actively engaged in practice, having been
associated with John H. Albin since May, 1885. For two years, from
July 1, 1887, to July 1, 1889, he held the office of solicitor of Merri
mack county, and distinguished himself therein by strict regard for the
letter and spirit of his official obligations. Although heartily identified
with the Democratic party, and at present holding the position of chair
man of the Democratic city committee, Mr. Martin has not sought pro
motion at the hands of his party, and has never neglected his profes
sional and business interests for partisan or political work. A thorough
lawyer, keenly delighting in the labors and contests incident to the pro
fession, he has not forgotten his early associations, and takes an
active interest in agricultural pursuits, particularly in stock breeding.
He is also quite extensively engaged in real estate and other business
operations, bringing thereto the same aptness and sagacity, as well as
tireless energy, which characterize his professional life.
NATHANIEL E.
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�OHN HENRY ALBIN was born at West Randolph, Vt., October
17, 1843, and is the son of John Albin and Emily White. He
was fitted for college in the high school at Concord, and graduated
from Dartmouth in the class of 1864, beginning at once the study of
law in the office of Judge Ira A. Eastman of Concord, and was admit
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ted to the bar in October, 1867, becoming in April, 1868, a partner of
Judge Eastman.
In December of the same year Samuel B. Page from
Warren was admitted to the firm, which was reckoned one of the
strongest in the state and was dissolved in 1874, at which time Mr.
Albin became associated with Hon. Mason W. Tappan, this part
nership being broken by the appointment of Mr. Tappan as attorney
general of New Hampshire; upon the repeal of the statute which pre
vented the attorney general from practice in cases to which the state
was not a party, it was renewed. Later Mr. Albin formed a partner
ship with Nathaniel E. Martin which still exists under the firm name
of Albin & Martin, and is extensively occupied with general practice.
In 1872 and 1873 Mr. Albin was a representative in the legislature
from his ward in Concord, serving as a member of the judiciary com
mittee during his first term, and as chairman of the committee on rail
roads during his second term. In 1875 he took up his residence in
Henniker, and in 1876 represented that town in the legislature, his
committee service being important and valuable. In Odd Fellowship
Mr. Albin has taken a high rank. He has held all the official posi
tions of the Grand lodge, being elected Grand Master in 1879, and in
1881 and 1882 represented the state in the Sovereign Grand lodge at
its sessions in Cincinnati and Baltimore.
In September, 1881, he was
appointed a member of the committee which was to prepare a degree
JOHN HENRY ALBIN.
of uniformed patriarchs.
In 1884 Mr. Albin was chairman of the
patriarchal branch of Odd Fellowship, and since that time has been
prominently identified with its development.
�ALTER SCOTT PEASLEE was born at Wilmot, November
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14, 1854, and is the son of George Washington Peaslee
and Caroline Taylor (Burbank) Peaslee. He was educated in the
common schools of his native town, at Colby academy, New London,
and at Wolfeborough academy, and read law with Col. Thomas J.
Whipple, at Laconia, being admitted to the bar in July, 1885, and im
mediately entering upon the practice of his profession at Laconia, where
he still resides. Mr. Peaslee gave diligent attention to his profession,
and won success. In 1890 he was nominated and elected solicitor of
Belknap county, upon the Democratic ticket, and his service in this
capacity was painstaking and creditable. Mr. Peaslee boasts, not vain
gloriously, that he is a self-educated man. With a rare fondness for
books, he has followed along the pathway of culture with diligence.
Widely read, he has attained the broadest of equipments for the practice
of his profession, has given much attention to the study of the languages,
and as a writer has evinced no mean ability, his productions both in
prose and verse reaching a high plane of merit. As a lawyer, Mr.
Peaslee has been singularly fortunate, though his good fortune has
come, not as the result of any stroke of luck, but as the due reward of
faithful, intelligent application, and of a sturdy, upright integrity that
merits and receives approbation in every walk of life. Possessing the
qualities of New England manhood—acuteness, firmness, uprightness,
—Mr. Peaslee has developed those qualities in the practice of his pro
fession, and their development has redounded, not only to his own ben
efit but to the benefit of his friends and clients. Both as a public official
and in his private practice, Mr. Peaslee has given evidence of great latent
power, the reserve force of his nature being sufficient to meet and con
quer any emergency.
�AMES F. BRENNAN was born in Peterborough, March 31, 1853,
and received his preliminary education in the common schools and
academy of his native village. In 1880 he commenced the study
of law in the office of Charles Poe, Baltimore, and after a three years
course in the law school of the University of Maryland, graduated in
the class of '84, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law. He was ad
mitted to practice at the New Hampshire bar, August 28, 1884, the
United States circuit court bar the next year, and establishing an office
in his native town, has attained an excellent law practice. Mr. Brennan
is a Democrat in politics, and has done good work for his party on the
stump in all recent campaigns. In the November election of 1886 he
ran largely ahead of the general ticket, as Democratic candidate for
county solicitor, this being the only time he has allowed his name to be
used as a candidate for a political office. He has an extended acquaintance
throughout the state, possessing a host of friends. He was chairman
of the Second district Democratic congressional convention in 1888, and
has served on the board of auditors, library committee, and school board
of his native town. He is a lover of books, and possesses a very fine
law library.
JAMES F. BRENNAN.
�HOMAS E. O. MARVIN was born at Portsmouth, December
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18, 1837, and is the son of Capt. William Marvin and Marianna
(Martin) Marvin. He was educated in the public schools of Ports
mouth, and at the Portsmouth academy, under the tutelage of the famous
master, William Harris. After finishing his school days, he became
prominent in the city of his birth, and has held various city offices. For
two years, 1872 and 1873, he was mayor of Portsmouth, and in the
latter year presided at the meeting of the Sons of Portsmouth, upon
their return, welcoming them with a proper address. In 1872, at Boston,
during the big fire, he rendered effective service in charge of the fire
department of Portsmouth, and is credited with having saved the Old
South Church from destruction. He is now associate-justice of the
municipal court of Portsmouth, and military instructor in the public
schools of the city. He also holds many private positions of trust, and
was a member of Governor Cheney's staff. Since 1872 he has been
president of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, and in that position has rendered the most effective and effect
ual service in behalf of humane sentiment. This society Colonel Marvin
was active in organizing, and has been more than active in sustaining;
indeed the noble work of this organization in New Hampshire has been
almost entirely accomplished by him personally. He is also president of
The New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Colonel Marvin's tastes and occupation inclined him to the study of the
law. His counsel has been eagerly sought by a large clientage, and the
rare tact and common sense that have characterized him have been useful
to his friends who have sought and followed his advice.
In the city of
Portsmouth, where he was born and has always resided, Colonel Marvin
is held in the highest esteem, which is shared by the people of New
Hampshire, who have come to know him through his activity in a just
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�RA ARTHUR CHASE was born in Bristol, March 25, 1854, and
is the son of Ira Stephen Chase and Cordelia Page Simonds. He
was educated at the Bristol high school and at the New Hampton Lit
erary institution, graduating from that institution in 1872, and from
Dartmouth college in 1877. The interim between his graduation from
New Hampton and his entering college, Mr. Chase passed as a school
teacher, being principal of Orleans Liberal institute at Glover, Vt.
Upon leaving college Mr. Chase again resumed teaching, following that
occupation one year, and then began the study of law at Bristol with
Hon. L. W. Fling, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1881. He
at once began the practice of law at Bristol, and has ever since achieved
success in his calling. In 1883 Mr. Chase was chosen assistant clerk
of the state senate, and was reëlected to that position in 1885, being
promoted to the clerkship in 1887 and reëlected in 1889. Mr. Chase
has been and is interested in many business enterprises, and all of the
projects looking to the development of the town of his birth and resi
dence have received his cheerful support and hearty coöperation. In
his profession Mr. Chase has justly achieved a large measure of success,
due to his unexampled fidelity and honor. A rare degree of foresight
enabled him to take a high rank in his profession as a counsellor, while
the studious care with which he prepared his cases and the vigor with
which he prosecuted his cause have but added to his reputation as a
lawyer in the field belonging especially to an advocate. The recogni
tion of these qualities that Mr. Chase has so conspicuously and con
stantly displayed, has brought him respect, esteem, and emolument. In
receiving them he has not lost sight of the modesty of his honest man
hood, nor has he allowed them by their allurements to take him from
the path in which he first found the way to success.
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IRA ARTHUR CHASE.
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�EW, indeed, among New Hampshire's numerous band of lawyers
and politicians are more widely known or more universally
liked than Samuel T. Page, of Manchester. His smiling face and genial
personality are familiar from Coös to the sea, and his every acquaintance
is a friend. Mr. Page was born in the good old town of Haverhill,
from which many distinguished sons have gone forth, February 14, 1849.
He was educated at the Haverhill academy, and at Kimball Union acad
emy, Meriden, for Dartmouth college, from which institution he grad
uated with honors in the class of 1871. He took up the practice of law
as a profession, and in this line has achieved great success, both in
consultation and as an advocate. During most of his life he has resided
at his native town of Haverhill, and has there practised his profession.
Having large real estate interests needing his attention, he removed to
Manchester a few years ago, and continues to hold an honorable posi
tion among the members of the Queen city bar, among whom he pur
sued the study of his profession, and was admitted to practice in 1874.
Mr. Page has always been active in politics, and there are few in the
state whose knowledge of the workings of legislative and other machin
ery, is more intimate and practical. He was private secretary to Hon.
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James A. Weston during the latter's service as governor of the state,
and thus gained a fine initiation into political life. He served as super
intendent of schools at Haverhill, and was register of probate of Grafton
county for eight years, surrendering that office to his successor in 1885.
He was a member of the house of representatives in 1877, in 1878, and
again in 1887. His service in this body, on the floor and in committee
rooms alike, was useful and indefatigable. Mr. Page is a steadfast
Democrat, a member of the Congregational church, and happily married.
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�NE of the sons of Coös county, Alfred Randall Evans, has found
enough field for the exercise of his
talent. He was born at Shelburne, March 21, 1849, the son of Otis
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Evans and Martha Pinkham.
He was educated at Lancaster academy,
at the Nichols Latin school, Lewiston, Me., and at Dartmouth college,
graduating in the class of 1872. After leaving college he studied law,
and before his admission to the bar was elected to the house of repre
sentatives from Shelburne, in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in
April, 1875, and immediately entered upon practice at Gorham, where
he has since maintained himself. In all the north country there are
few men who take a higher rank in all departments of life than Mr.
Evans. In 1875, and again in 1888, he was elected to the house of
representatives from Shelburne, and has always taken an active part in
every enterprise that would inure to the benefit of the community
in which he has lived. He is a Republican in politics, and although
his party is in the minority in Coös county, he has never hesitated to wage
political battles with vigor and zeal, giving to the party the best services
that in him lie, and even leading the forlorn hope always with credit,
and generally with brilliant distinction. Upon the organization of the
Berlin National bank at Berlin, February 21, 1891, Mr. Evans was
chosen president of the corporation, and still retains that office. He
is one of the busiest of men. His varied talents have sought and
found a field for exercise in many departments of activity. Calling
always upon himself for the highest degree of capacity, he has never yet
called in vain. Responding nobly to every call, yielding cheerful
acquiescence in every public decision, Mr. Evans is a model citizen and
ALFRED
RANDALL EVANS.
a gentleman of culture and of strength, a valued member of New Eng
land society.
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�ERBERT IRVIN GOSS, son of Abel B. Goss and Lucy S.
His
early education was secured in the common schools, and later in the St.
Johnsbury academy, from which he graduated in June, 1880. He spent
the first year thereafter as a school-teacher. In 1881 he began the
study of the law in the office of Hon. Elisha May at St. Johnsbury, and
remained with Mr. May after that gentleman had formed a partnership
with Hon. Henry C. Bates, until June, 1883, when he was admitted to
the bar of Caledonia county. In October, 1883, Mr. Goss formed a
partnership with F. B. Wright in Minneapolis, Minn., but relinquished
the practice of the law in the West in October, 1884, the last six
months of that time having been in practice by himself. In 1885 he
opened an office in Guildhall, Vt., and a few months thereafter went to
Lancaster, where he became a partner of the late Hon. Jacob Benton
for the two succeeding years, being admitted to practice in New Hamp
shire courts in July, 1885. In October, 1887, Mr. Goss formed a
partnership with Gen. A. S. Twitchell, and resided in Gorham until he
H Ross, was born in Waterford, Vt., December 4, 1857.
moved to Berlin, which was in November, 1888.
Mr. Goss's next
partnership was formed February 1, 1891, with Daniel J. Daley, of
Berlin, and to the firm as thus constituted was afterwards added another
HERBERT
partner, in the person of Edward C. Niles, under the firm name of
Daley, Goss & Niles, the firm enjoying one of the largest and most lu
crative practices in Coös county. Mr. Goss is a young lawyer of
marked ability; a frank and easy manner makes him a winning advocate;
in the conduct of cases he displays remarkable skill, and his knowledge
of the law is extensive and ready. To his firm his services have been
of great value, and as years pass will become more and more valuable.
In the bustling town of Berlin, Mr. Goss has made himself a power
by the earnestness with which he has entered into the projects that
have contributed to the upbuilding of the community.
IRVIN GOSS.
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�D' J.
DALEY was born at Lancaster, January 27, 1858,
and is of Irish extraction, being the son of John and Bridget
Daley, who now reside at Lancaster. He was reared upon his father's
farm, and received a common-school and academical education. At the
age of sixteen he began teaching school, teaching in the winter and
working upon the farm during the summer, and applying his earnings
toward the payment of the expense incurred in securing his education.
At the age of twenty-two he chose the law for a profession, and entered
the office of William and Henry Heywood, pursuing his legal studies
under their direction until March, 1885, when he was admitted to the
New Hampshire bar. November 9, of that year, he established himself
at Berlin, and took up the practice of his profession, following the law
alone until February 1, 1891, when he formed a partnership with Herbert
I. Goss, which continued until September 15, 1892, when Edward C.
Niles, son of Right Rev. W. W. Niles, Episcopal bishop of New Hamp
shire, was admitted to the firm, which then became Daley, Goss & Niles.
In politics, Mr. Daley is a Democrat. In 1882 he was a member of the
board of supervisors of Lancaster, and in 1883 was chairman of the same
board. In 1884 and in 1888 he did remarkable service on the stump for
his party, and in 1886 and 1887 served as town treasurer of Berlin. In
1888 he was nominated and elected, by a large majority, to be county
solicitor of Coös county. In 1889 he was elected moderator in Berlin,
serving also at the fall election in 1890, and at the March meeting in
1891. In 1890 he was again nominated to succeed himself as county
DANIEL J. DALEY.
solicitor, and was elected by a majority of 751, running far ahead of his
ticket. In 1892 he declined a re-nomination, from business considera
tions. Mr. Daley has been prominent in the upbuilding of that lively
town of Berlin, and is now president of the People's Building and Loan
association of that place, and a director in the Berlin Heights Addition
Land company, and in the Berlin Aqueduct company.
�HARLES CHESLEY was born in Wakefield, April 12, 1827.
C He was graduated at Bowdoin college, Me., in 1852, and studied
law with Hon. John Hickman of West Chester, Pa., and with Hon.
Chas. Doe, the present chief-justice of New Hampshire, at Dover. He
commenced the practice of his profession in his native town and for
several years was solicitor of Carroll county. He was chief clerk of the
United States board of enrollment for the First district of New Hamp
shire from June, 1863, to June, 1865. He resigned that place to accept
a clerkship in the office of the United States commissioner of internal
revenue at Washington, D.C., where he remained until June, 1872, when
he resigned to accept an appointment in the office of the United States at
torney general. In October of that year, without solicitation from him or
from any one else in his behalf, he was appointed United States solicitor of
internal revenue by President Grant. Soon after the inauguration of Presi
dent Cleveland in March, 1885, at the request of Mr. Garland, the new
attorney general, Mr. Chesley sent his written resignation to the president,
in which he said he had “always believed in the principles of the Repub
lican party, and desired its success in the recent election.” Two days
thereafter he received an autograph letter from the president, in which
he was requested to remain as solicitor “at least sixty days longer.”
To this he replied that he would continue to discharge the duties of his
office to the best of his ability, until his successor should be appointed
and qualified. In June, 1888, his resignation, tendered more than
three years before, was accepted, to take effect on the 1st of July.
About that time Mr. Chesley met with successive severe domestic afflic
tions. Acting upon the urgent advice of friends, he made an extended
trip through Europe, accompanied by his step-daughter, the only re
maining member of his own immediate family. He returned to Wash
ington in the fall of 1892, where he now resides.
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�LETCHER LADD, born in Lancaster, Coös county, December
F 21, 1862, a son
of Mira Barnes (Fletcher) Ladd and the Hon.
William Spencer Ladd, who was one of the most distinguished lawyers
of northern New Hampshire, and for many years a judge of the supreme
court, comes from that old rugged New England stock who have fur
nished so many pioneers and statesmen for the country at large, and
who have supplied every state in the Union with pillars and ornaments
to uphold and adorn the bar and the bench. There is no prouderances
try of which any man can boast. His education was obtained at Phil
lips academy, Andover, Mass., Dartmouth college, the Harvard Law
school, and Heidleberg university, Germany. He received the degree
of A. B. from Dartmouth, and LL.B. from Harvard. In 1889 he was
admitted to the New Hampshire bar, and to the Massachusetts bar the
same year, and to the United States supreme court bar, at Washington,
in 1892. He practised law from 1889 until 1892, in Boston, when, upon
the death of his father, he went to Lancaster, and entered the firm of
Ladd & Fletcher, and has since continued his professional labors there.
Mr. Ladd is a young man of evenly balanced mind, studious habits,
and superior judgment. From his father he inherited a taste for legal
pursuits, and his large mental resources, together with his careful
training in the duties of his profession, have made him in every sense
a splendidly equipped lawyer, whose comprehensive abilities are already
highly appreciated by an extensive clientage.
FLETCHER LADD.
�EN. PAUL LANG is a native of Bath, where he was born July 1,
When he was very young the family residence was
changed to Orford, and there the subject of this sketch has made his
home during practically all his life. He was educated, after passing
through the public schools, at Orford academy and at St. Johnsbury
academy, and entered Dartmouth college with the class of 1882, re
maining there but one year. After leaving college, following the course
of his father, the late Judge David R. Lang, a distinguished jurist of
Grafton county in an earlier generation, he studied law, reading in the
office of George W. Chapman at Haverhill. His studies were com
pleted in 1882, and in March of that year he was admitted to the bar.
He at once established himself in practice by forming a partnership
G 1860.
with his preceptor, Mr. Chapman, a relation that still continues, the
firm having offices at Haverhill and Orford.
General Lang's practice
was marked with success, and attracted attention so that he became at
torney for the Boston & Maine railroad, ranking high among that cor
poration's valued and able counsel. With a natural inclination toward
political life, General Lang was active in the service of his party, and in
1885 he was chosen a member of the Republican state committee, and
has since been a member of that body. In the campaigns of 1888 and
1890 he was the member of the executive committee from Grafton
county. Though active in politics, General Lang never was an office
seeker, his only public position being that of a member of the constitu
tional convention of 1889. In that same year, however, he was ap
pointed judge advocate general on the staff of Gov. David H. Goodell,
with the rank of brigadier general. General Lang's acquaintance with
-
New Hampshire men and affairs is wide and valuable.
He has been a
factor in many a political and legislative struggle, always espousing his
friend's cause with zeal, yet never wounding his opponent by aggres
siveness or animosity.
GEN. PAUL LANG.
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�MONG the New Hampshire men of this generation, James R.
Jackson, of Littleton, claims prominence by reason of a life of
varied and successful activity. Like many another of the successful
men of the Granite state, Mr. Jackson is the native of a neighboring
commonwealth, having been born in Barnet, Vt., in 1838. He has
made his home in Littleton since 1846, and in that town he was educated
in the common schools, and in private schools, attending the latter eight
terms in all. He chose the law for a profession, and studied in the office
of Harry and George A. Bingham. He was admitted to the bar in
1867, and took up his practice in Littleton, but abandoned it after abrief
period. For four years he devoted himself to newspaper work, being
for that length of time connected with the editorial staff of the Dover
Press. Always a Democrat, always active, and always prominent, Mr.
Jackson has, nevertheless, held office infrequently. In 1871 he was
clerk of the house of representatives through a session remarkable in
the political annals of the state, and in 1889 he was secretary of the
constitutional convention. He was for several years a member of the
board of education in Littleton, and is a trustee of its public library.
He is fond of books, and owns a large and well selected library.
Mr. Jackson has, however, occupied a quasi public position for some
years, having been secretary of the Democratic state committee during
the campaigns of 1888, 1890, and 1892. And it is in this position that
he has won his laurels. To him his party's call has been as law; to him
his party's service has been a pleasure; to him his party's success has
been a solace, and to him its defeat has been a sorrow, chastened, how
ever, by the thought that his efforts have been unhesitatingly put forth,
with no higher prize than that he, as a member, might share in the good
fortune of all. He married, in July, 1879, Miss Lydia Drew of Dover.
JAMES R. JACKSON.
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�VILBUR HOWARD POWERS, one of a famous New Hamp
shire family, was born in Croydon, the birthplace of many em
inent men, January 22, 1849, and is the son of Elias and Emeline
(White) Powers. His preliminary education was obtained in the dis
trict schools and at Olean academy, New York, and at Kimball Union
academy, Meriden. From this latter institution he graduated in 1871,
and four years later took his degree from Dartmouth college. He at
tended lectures at Boston University Law school, graduating in the
class of 1878, and on January 22, 1879, he began the practice of law
in Boston, where he has met with excellent success.
In the Massachu
setts house of representatives, in 1890, 1891, and 1892, he represented
the town of Hyde Park, and was an acknowledged leader on the floor.
In the house of 1890 his service was especially conspicuous, as he had
in charge the bill to re-divide the state into congressional districts.
The bill which was presented for the endorsement of the house was in
large part the work of Mr. Powers, and this bill had the honor of being
the first non-partisan re-districting measure ever presented to any leg
islature. He also introduced and advocated a bill for the equalization
of taxes for one purpose, especially aiding the poorer municipalities.
Mr. Powers has amply sustained the family name in his life-work, and
has given ample credit to the state of his birth. The cases in court,
and the causes before the legislature with which he has been identified,
stamp him as a man of broad attainments, of keen, practical insight,
and of great power. The confidence of his fellow-citizens, which he
has won in high degree, speaks louder for his worth than any other
tribute, and he would not be the man he is if he did not find in that
WILBUR
HOWARD
POWERS.
the highest reward for all of his endeavors.
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�HE subject of this sketch is one of New Hampshire's sterling
business men.
He is a native of the Green Mountain state, and
is the son of the Hon. Hiram King Slayton and Amanda (Mitchell)
Slayton, and was born in the town of Calais, Washington county, Vt.,
September 5, 1851. When about ten years of age he removed with
his parents to the city of Manchester, and received his education in the
public schools of that city, graduating from the high school in the class
of 1868. At the conclusion of his school life he entered the employ of
his father, who at that time was carrying on the produce business which
he had founded in 1865. The business proved to be to Mr. Slayton's
taste, and he entered most heartily into its prosecution, so much so
that in 1873 he assumed entire charge, and from that time until April,
1892, he carried on the business for himself. In April of that year the
business was merged into a stock company, with a capital of $1oo, ooo.
This move was made for the reason that many of the employés of Mr.
Slayton had been with him many years, and he as well as they desired
that they be interested in the business financially.
The E. M. Slayton
Company, Manchester, thus founded, deals in eggs, butter, cheese,
evaporated apples, potatoes, and all sorts of country produce, its
customers being found throughout the length and breadth of New
England. In 1873, when Mr. Slayton assumed charge of the business,
the yearly receipts footed up $67,ooo. The business of this house for
the year ending March 31, 1893, exceeded the sum of $1,000,ooo.
This surprising increase of business is due as much to fair and honorable
E. M. SLAYTON.
dealing as to enterprise and sagacity, and is a gratifying testimonial to
Mr. Slayton's business methods. Mr. Slayton is a director in the
Amoskeag bank, and is also president of the Manchester Board of
Trade.
�ILLIAM
HENRY DEARBORN COCHRANE was born in
VV
North Chelmsford, Mass., December 29, 1838. He was edu
cated in the public schools of his native town, Leicester academy,
Tilton seminary, and Manchester high school. April 19, 1861, then
a student in the law office of the late Hon. William C. Clarke of
COL. W.
H. D. COCHRANE.
Manchester, he enlisted in the First regiment, New Hampshire (three
months) volunteers, and was discharged with the regiment August 9;
he was appointed quartermaster's clerk by Capt. R. N. Batchelder,
A. Q. M., U. S. Vols., and served until August 20, 1862, when he
was commissioned first lieutenant, Company E, Tenth New Hamp
shire volunteers; he was promoted to captain A. Q. M., U. S. Vols.,
May 5, 1863; major, July 4, 1864, and brevet lieutenant colonel, March
13, 1865; served in the Second and Ninth Army corps, in the Army
of the Potomac from Ball's Bluff to Appomattox, being wounded at the
Battle of Suffolk, Va. After the capitulation he was stationed at
Richmond, Va., as depot quartermaster, in charge of transporting troops
and unused munitions of war to the North, until December, 1865,
when he was transferred to a similar duty at the depot at Brazos,
Santiago, Texas, where he was honorably discharged June 15, 1866.
Shortly after his muster out he was appointed an agent of the quarter
master's department in the regular army, and was stationed at Louis
ville, Ky., New Orleans, La., Little Rock, Ark., Jackson, Miss., and
Jeffersonville, Ind. In April, 1874, he was appointed superintendent
of the Nashua, Acton & Boston railroad, and returned to New Hamp
shire, settling in Nashua, He was for several years the New England
agent of the Hoosac Tunnel line and Nickel Plate Fast Freight line,
and is now agent of the Old Colony railroad, with office at Nashua.
In October, 1886, he was appointed by President Cleveland United
States disbursing agent of pensions for the district of New Hampshire
and Vermont, holding the office three and one half years.
�VERY smoker in New Hampshire knows Roger G. Sullivan, at
Mr. Sullivan was born in Bradford, December
18, 1854, the son of Michael and Julia (Kean) Sullivan. He was
E. least by name.
educated in the schools of his native town and in the Park Street
grammar school at Manchester, where his parents removed when he was
a child, and in that city he began and built up the business which has
brought him success and fame. Mr. Sullivan is the largest manu
facturer of cigars in New Hampshire, and in addition carries a large
line of smokers supplies. He early saw the benefits to be derived from
honest workmanship and fine material, and he has been careful to see
to it that no brand put upon the market in his name should fall short
of the standard demanded by the tastes of the day. From small stand
ing he built up his business, and from small rented quarters he passed
successively to larger ones, until now, in a building of his own, especially
adapted for his purpose, he carries on the work which he has seen grow
in his hands.
Mr. Sullivan is highly esteemed by the citizens of Man
chester, and in his ward has served as moderator.
He has modestly
declined further honors, on the just plea that the increasing demands of
his business forbid him embarking in anything else. He has recently
built for himself a beautiful home in Manchester, where he enjoys the
benefits of success, and no one begrudges them to him who has shown
himself a whole-souled, hearty, honest, upright business man and
citizen.
ROGER G. SULLIVAN.
�PERCIVAL STEWART, president of the Granite State Provi
association, comes from a sturdy Scotch family which
came to the United States about 1650. In the few years that Mr.
Stewart has been a resident of New Hampshire he has identified him
self with its most agressive and enterprising activity. Mr. Stewart was
born in Portland, Me., about thirty years ago, and is the oldest son of
Professor William P. Stewart, special actuary and instructor of agents
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. His early years
were passed upon the farm in Maine, and in 1872 he went to New York
and while yet a youth organized a manufacturing business employing
G. dent
two score hands, and upon disposing of this business became identified
with various enterprises, always, however, confining his main attention
to real estate, in this calling becoming familiar with the building
and loan associations then springing up in New York. His keen per
ception, however, led him to formulate new plans for the development
of this work, and the Granite State Provident association was the out
come of his labors. In the fall of 1890 he took up his residence in
Manchester, to give his entire attention to the work of the association,
joining with him a number of the most prominent business men of the
state. In the brief space since then, Mr. Stewart has bounded into
prominence in Manchester, taking a leading position in social as well as
in business circles. He is a member of the Amoskeag Veterans, of the
Manchester lodge of Elks, of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, and
the Derryfield club in Manchester, and retains his membership in the
famous Lotus club of New York. Young, energetic, popular, Mr.
Stewart has already attained an enviable prominence in New Hamp
shire affairs.
�FRANK MORSE, expert accountant and secretary of the
Granite State Provident association, was born in Loudon,
March 9, 1849, the son of Harris E. and Sarah Ann (Eaton) Morse.
H.
He was educated at the New Hampton institution, and soon after leav
ing school developed a system of double entry book-keeping, which at
that time was new and practical, and which has now lost nothing of its
novelty and effectiveness. This system he taught with great success
to a large number of pupils in various parts of the country, and he is
also employed as an expert accountant in unravelling the tangled skein
of many mazy partnerships. His expert testimony on handwriting is
also recognized by attorneys and the courts. In the pursuit of his
profession he travelled extensively, and became widely acquainted with
men and affairs in all parts of the country. His present position he
has held since October, 1890, yet he has impressed his associates with
his value. A large part of the executive work of the great institution
with which he is connected has fallen to his share, and the steadily
mounting assets of the concern may be justly said to be due in a great
measure to the care with which the office work under his supervision
has been administered. Mr. Morse is a member of a profession with
few associates in New Hampshire, yet among those he easily leads,
and among the many in other states with whom he has been associated
he has proved himself the peer, at least, of them all.
H. FRANK MORSE.
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�HE name of Pillsbury, made conspicuous in former generations,
Rosecrans
W. Pillsbury, son of Col. Wm. S. Pillsbury, was born at Londonderry,
September 18, 1863, and was educated in the public schools and at
Pinkerton academy at Derry, and entered Dartmouth college with the
class of 1885, remaining there for one year, when he was compelled by
ill health to retire from a scholastic occupation. Upon regaining his
strength, Mr. Pillsbury entered his father's counting-room and assumed
charge of the book-keeping of the large business of the Derry shoe
factory. Finding this distasteful, however, he began the study of law
in the office of Drury & Peaslee at Manchester, continuing it at Boston
university, and was admitted to the bar, and is now practising his pro
fession with the firm of Crawford & Pillsbury at Derry Depot. Mr.
Pillsbury has been actively interested in politics, and has been honored
by the Republican party with repeated elections to the state central
committee, and in 1889 sat in the constitutional convention, the
youngest member of that body. He has frequently served as modera
tor in his town, and was tendered by Governor Smith an appointment
as judge advocate general upon his personal staff, an honor that Mr.
Pillsbury declined. In addition to his law practice Mr. Pillsbury is in
terested in various manufacturing enterprises, and gives some of his
attention to agriculture, being devoted to the breeding of high-class
trotting stock, his farm “Woodmont,” beautifully situated in Lon
donderry, numbering in its stud some of the finest and best bred colts
in the state. Mr. Pillsbury was married December 10, 1885, to Annie
T loses none of its lustre in passing from father to son.
E. Watts of Manchester, and has two children.
ROSECRANS W. PILLSBURY.
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�OL. FRED ALBERT PALMER, of Derry, is a native of that
He is the son of William
C. Palmer and Mary A. Hanson, and was educated at Pinkerton acad
emy, Derry, the “alma mater” of so many of New Hampshire's most
noted men. He began his business career.as a clothing dealer, and for
twelve years followed that occupation with marked success, being at the
close of that period at the head of one of the most extensive and remuner
ative stores in southern New Hampshire, and retiring from that business
only to seek a larger field for his efforts as general agent of the Granite
C town, and was born February 2, 1855.
State Provident association of Manchester, with whom he has been
engaged for the past few years, and for whom he has done an incalcul
able service in presenting the claims and the merits of the organization
in many parts of the land. Colonel Palmer's military title is due to the
fact that he was a member of Governor Goodell's staff, serving as aide
de-camp, with the rank of colonel. Colonel Palmer is one of the bright,
alert, agressive young New Englanders of the day. Carrying with him
into every branch of endeavor the honest fearlessness of youth and the
intense practicability of a man of sense, Colonel Palmer has merited the
measure of good fortune that has fallen to him.
�RED NELSON CHENEY is another of those young men who
Mr. Cheney
was born in Arcola, Washington county, Minnesota, July 9, 1858, and
is the son of Frederick Porter Cheney and Louisa Hill. He was edu
F have come to New Hampshire from another state.
cated in the Orleans Liberal institute at Glover, Vt., and in the Barton
academy and graded school at Barton, Vt., and until the age of eighteen
worked upon a farm and attended school. He then began as clerk in
a country store, and for five years was thus employed. For the next
five years he was engaged as manager of a clothing store, and in 1887
entered the service of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
at Manchester, in the firm of R. H. & F. N. Cheney, engaging with
his brother as the special agent, and working up a large and valuable
clientage, which he still retains, although in 1889 he assumed, still in
partnership with his brother, the general agency of his company for the
district covering the territory embraced by the states of New Hampshire
and Vermont. Mr. Cheney possesses all the requisites for a successful
insurance man, keen and alert, progressive, persistent, popular, he
maintains himself with ease amid the fierce competitions of insurance
circles. Fully in touch with the requirements of his calling, aided by
a bright and cheerful courtesy, supported by unflagging zeal in the
pursuit of new business and the maintenance of old alliances, he has
made for himself a position in the front rank.
FRED NELSON CHENEY.
�EUBEN HOWARD CHENEY, reversing the general practice,
R came to New Hampshire from the West.
He was born in Ar
cola, Washington county, Minnesota, February 14, 1856, the son of
Frederick Porter Cheney and Louisa (Hill) Cheney. He was educated
at the Orleans Liberal institute at Glover, Vt., at Barton academy, and
the graded schools at Barton, Vt. Prior to his sixteenth year he worked
upon a farm and attended schocl. For two years after he was clerk in
a country store, and then held a clerkship in a railroad office, resigning
to be freight division agent of the Northern, the Concord, and the
Boston & Lowell railroads. In 1886 he resigned these duties to accept
a position as special agent for the Mutual Life Insurance company of
New York, making his headquarters in Manchester. In 1869, upon the
death of the company's manager for this state, Mr. Cheney's capacity
had so impressed itself upon the officers of his company, that he was
appointed general agent, which position he now shares with his brother,
Fred. N. Cheney, under the name of Cheney & Cheney, supervising not
only the work of the company for New Hampshire, but also that tran
sacted in Vermont. Mr. Cheney is a man of careful habits of business.
A long clerical training has fitted him for the minute duties of a super
intending insurance agency, although in the active work of the insurance
world he has but few equals, as may be judged from the rapid promotion
that has attended his efforts in this line of work. He was a young man
when he came to his present responsible position, and the vigor of his
young manhood at once exerted itself, and impressed itself upon those
under his supervision. Hence the rapid growth of his business is not
to be marvelled at. It is the logical result of the earnest and conscien
tious endeavor of a young man, ambitious for himself, yet devoted to his
employers, for such a man is Mr. Cheney.
REUBEN H. CHENEY.
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�NOCH L. C. COLBY was born in Henniker, January 15, 1854,
Study
ing first in the common schools, he later attended the Henniker and
Francestown academies, taking a regular course in the latter institution
and graduating with credit. Following his graduation he engaged as a
teacher in the public schools. When he was nineteen years of age he
began a mercantile career in a country store at Henniker, and for five
years was thus employed, and then engaged in farming, lumbering,
buying and selling cattle, and later on returned to mercantile life in
E. the son of Benjamin Colby and Martha Cleveland Childs.
Manchester and afterward in Laconia, where he now resides.
For the
past four years he has been engaged in the insurance business, as special
and supervising agent for the Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance
company. In this latter calling, Mr. Colby has found what has proven
to be his opportunity, and he has grasped it with all of its possibilities,
developing them to the utmost and achieving in the few years that he
has followed his new pursuit a remarkable success, rising to a command
ing position among his competitors and growing constantly in the es
teem of the corporation to whose interests he devotes his labors. Dur
ing Mr. Colby's residence in Henniker he was honored with an election
to several town offices, and discharged the duties of the same always
with fidelity to the people whom he represented. Mr. Colby's profes
sion is one in which success can be attained only by the most con
stant and faithful labor. It permits no laggards within its ranks, and
those who win must win by force of character as well as of intellect.
That Mr. Colby has been enabled to achieve the present successful re
sult, is attributed to the symmetry and perfection of his qualities.
ENOCH L. C. COLBY.
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�OL. JOHN J. DILLON was born in London, England, October
C 25, 1841, and at the age of twelve years became a sailor, follow
ing the sea for about ten years, and visiting during that time nearly
every country on the globe. In the course of his travels in 1863 he
found himself in the United States, then in the midst of war, and he
volunteered as a private in the Fourth regiment of New Hampshire vol
unteers. His term of service lasted two years, one year of which was
spent in Libby prison, Andersonville, Florence, and other rebel prison
pens.
COL. JOHN J. DILLON.
At the close of the war he settled in Manchester, where he has
lived practically ever since. Upon being mustered out of the federal service
Colonel Dillon entered the New Hampshire National Guard, serving
in various capacities and companies until 1884, when he was com
mander of the First regiment, and in that year resigned his commission.
During nearly all of the years from the close of the war until 1880,
Colonel Dillon was employed by the Amoskeag corporation, and in the
year last mentioned became local agent at Manchester for the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance company, of Milwaukee, Wis., being promoted
one year thereafter to be its general agent for the state of New Hamp
shire, which position he now maintains with increasing success each
year, being considered one of the most conservative managers, and at
the same time most progressive, in this hotly contested field of activity.
He also represents the American Casualty Insurance Company, of Bal
timore, Md. In politics, Colonel Dillon is a pronounced Republican, and
in religion is a Universalist. He is an active member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, is an Odd Fellow, and a Granger, and in all parts
- of the state is known and welcomed for his unflagging good nature and
urbanity.
�HARLES CARROLL DANFORTH was born in Amherst, April
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12, 1831, and is a son of Joel C. and Betsy P. (Andrews) Dan
forth. His parents removed to Concord and he was educated in the
schools of that city. At sixteen years of age he went to Nashua, and
there attended an academy and was engaged as a clerk in the post-office
by his uncle. In 1858 he went West, and for several years was in the
employ of the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. He returned to New
Hampshire in 1871, and has since resided at Concord, being engaged in
the general insurance business, and is now, as for several years past, a
member of the firm of Morrill & Danforth. In Freemasonry he first
saw light in Rising Sun lodge, No. 39, Nashua, N. H., February 17,
1859; was exalted to the degree of Royal Arch Mason in Madison
chapter, No. 4, Madison, Wis., May 17, 1859; created a select master in
Madison council, No. 3, Madison, May 21, 1859; created a Knight
Templar in Robert Macoy commandery, No. 3, Madison, June 3, 1859;
and received the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite degrees, 4 to 32 in
clusive, in Wisconsin consistory, Milwaukee, at the time of its organiza
tion, August 7, 1863. He was created a sovereign grand Inspector-gen
eneral (33°) and elected an honorary member of the Supreme council of
the northern Masonic jurisdiction at New York, September 18, 1889. He
also received the Royal Order of Scotland, at Boston, in 1891. During
his residence in Wisconsin he was the incumbent of several state offices
in Masonry. On his return to New Hampshire he affiliated with lodge,
chapter, council, and commandery of Concord, filling several offices in
chapter and council. In Mount Horeb commandery, after serving in
subordinate offices, he was elected commander in 1884 and 1885.
After several years of service in various offices of the Grand command
ery he was elected grand commander in 1889. In the Grand lodge
he has been grand steward and chairman of the committee on creden
tials.
�HE life of Charles E. Staniels is a record of great activity.
T He was
born in Lowell, Mass., December 27, 1844, the son
of Edward Langmade Staniels and Ruth Bradley (Eastman) Staniels.
He was educated in the Boston public schools, at Pembroke academy,
and at the Roxbury (Mass.) Latin school, and in 1861 began a business
career with a mercantile house in Boston. In 1865 Mr. Staniels became
a commercial traveller, following that occupation for twenty years, trav
elling throughout the United States and Canada in the interests of one
of the largest firms in the country, and winning a thorough acquaintance
with men and affairs in all parts of the land. In 1886 he retired from
this calling to become district superintendent of agencies for the Con
necticut Mutual Life Insurance company, establishing his headquarters
at Concord.
In this field of endeavor, despite Mr. Staniels's few years
of service, he has already won honor and enviable fame, and has taken
a high rank annong the brilliant and brainy men who have devoted their
lives to the insurance business.
As an evidence of the esteem with
which Mr. Staniels is held by his associates, may be mentioned the fact
that he has been chosen president of the New Hampshire Life Under
writers association, and for two years was a member of the executive
committee of the National Life Underwriters' association
Mr. Staniels
has also been president of the White Mountain Travellers' association,
the largest of its kind in the United States, is a member of the
advisory board of the life insurance department of the Auxiliary Congress
of the World's fair, and has just been chosen president of the New
Hampshire Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was
also invited to address the National
CHARLES E. STANIEI.S.
Life Underwriters convention
at Cleveland, in September, 1893, upon technical subjects. As an in
surance man Mr. Staniels is thoroughly posted in all the details of the
profession. His facile pen contributes frequently to the columns of
business and secular journals.
�EW HAMPSHIRE counts among her adopted sons Dr. Henry
Marble of Gorham, who is the son of Barnard L. Marble and
Lucy Trask Abbott, and who was born at Dixfield, Me., September 5,
1848. Passing through the schools of Dixfield, Dr. Marble finished
his education at Norwich university and at the Bowdoin Medical college,
taking his degree of doctor of medicine (M.D.) in 1870, and immedi
ately settling down in the practice of his profession at Auburn, Me.,
removing thence to Gorham, where he has since resided and been ac
tively engaged in practice. Dr. Marble's life as a physician has been
highly successful. His practice has covered the entire range of the
profession and has been limited in extent of territory only by Dr.
Marble's physical endurance, yet upon all that experience Dr. Marble
may look back with no sense of professional or personal regret. His
genial presence, his professional skill, the magnetism of his person,
have brought relief to so many that it would be idle to attempt to de
scribe it. Dr. Marble's prominence in his profession is such as to have
merited the attention of the incorporators of the Northeastern Life In
surance company, and upon the formation of that corporation he became
its medical director, and the success of the company has been in no
small measure due to his personal efforts consistent with his well earned
reputation. Dr. Marble has morever exerted an active influence in the
councils of his party. Though residing in a community overwhelmingly
Democratic, he is frequently appointed opposition candidate for high
office, and despite the disadvantages of political environment, he has
always polled a handsome vote, running in every instance far ahead of
his ticket, and in 1887 the Democratic town of Gorham sent him to
IDR. HENRY MARBLE.
represent it in the legislature.
�EORGE A. McKELLAR is a native of South Thomaston, Me.,
where he was born October 25, 1852. With his parents he re
moved to Rockland, Me., in 1857, and obtained his education in the
common schools of that town, and at the Maine Wesleyan seminary, at
Kent's Hill. After leaving school, Mr. McKellar was engaged in the
express business at Lawrence and Boston, and was after that engaged
as book-keeper for the Corporation Supply company, of Lawrence.
Then he went into railroading, and was a station agent for the Boston
& Maine railroad for about fifteen years. From railroading he went
into insurance, and for three years he held the general agency of the
New York Life Insurance company, having his office in Concord. In
1893 he abandoned this branch of the business, and entered the field as
a general insurance broker, but devoting a large share of his time to the
duties of the special agency for the Granite State Provident association,
a position which fell into his hands at that time. Mr. McKellar is one
of the best known and most highly esteemed insurance men in New
Hampshire. It may also be added that he is on that account one of the
most successful. He possesses the very qualities best needed in his
line of work, and by the constant exercise of these qualities he is daily
advancing himself in his profession. In the estimation of those who
are associated with him, as well as those who know him either pro
fessionally or personally, he is a remarkably successful life insurance
broker.
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�LARENCE HERBERT WILKINS, the youngest of four children
C of Rodney Wilkins and Harriet Lewis Ellinwood, was born in
Deering, May 12, 1855, and was educated in the public and private
schools of Hillsborough Bridge and at the Gaskell Business college in
Manchester. His early business experience was had at Hillsborough
Bridge, where, his father having died, he paid his school expenses by
working during vacations for the village merchants and printer. In
1874 he graduated from the business college and entered the office of
the New Hampshire Fire Insurance company, and was promoted through
the clerical departments to be manager of the local department and in
spector. The outdoor work of inspecting having its charms, in 1885
he became surveyor for insurance maps, gaining valuable experience.
Upon the organization of the New Hampshire Manufacturers' Mutual
Fire Insurance company at Concord, in 1886, he was elected secretary
and served until near the end of that year, when he resigned to become
assistant secretary of the Granite State Fire Insurance company at Ports
mouth. In 1887 he was appointed special agent of that company for New
York and southern New England, resigning in 1889 to take a similar posi
tion with the British America Assurance company of Canada, for New
England, and in 1892 became special agent and adjuster of fire losses
in New England for the United States Fire Insurance company of New
York, which position he now holds. He is a member of the New Eng
land Insurance Exchange, and holds chairmanships of important com
mittees. During his residence in Manchester he became a member of
Washington lodge, Mt. Horeb R. A. chapter, and Adoniram council,
A. F. and A. M., was an active member and an officer of the Manchester
cadets, and chief consul of the New Hampshire division League of
American Wheelmen in 1883. He married, June 1, 1889, Alice, second
daughter of the late Hon. David A. Warde, of Concord, and has two
CLARENCE. H. WILKINS.
children.
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�RA N. BLAKE, the son of Ira Blake and Dorothy (Sanborn)
Blake, was born in Kensington, October 11, 1832. He attained
his education in the common schools of Kensington, and at an early age
began to carve out for himself the fortune that he has so successfully
won. Mr. Blake has been steadfast in his occupations. He has been
engaged in the shoe business during the entire course of his commercial
life, beginning, after mastering the details of the business, as a manu
facturer of ladies' boots and shoes at Seabrook, removing thence to
Hampton Falls, thence successively to Pittsfield and Northwood, where
he now resides. Each of Mr. Blake's successive changes of location
was made solely for the purpose of securing the increased capacity needed
by the ever increasing demands of a steadily growing business. Under
his careful supervision, aided not a little by his own labor, always sup
ported by an intricate knowledge of the business that he had taken up,
Mr. Blake has reaped the reward due to care and sagacity; no man could
more honestly boast that he had wrought out his own fortune. Mr.
Blake, aside from his honors in business circles, has achieved some
measure of fame in political life. He was a member of the legislature
in 1881, and ten years later sat once more in the same body. In 1892
he was elected a delegate to the Republican national convention at Min
neapolis, and there he was proud to record his vote for James G. Blaine.
In financial circles he has always stood high in the community, and was
president of the Farmers' Savings bank for four years. The relations
existing between Mr. Blake and his associates and subordinates, in a
business capacity, have always been the most pleasant, a fact largely due
to his own tact in his intercourse with men. Thoroughly honest him
self, he has brooked no attempts at deceit on the part of those asso
ciated with him, and has impressed the integrity of his own nature upon
IRA N. BLAKE.
the men with whom he has to deal.
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�EORGE LITTLE was born in Boscawen, now Webster, August
He was educated in the public schools and at Pem
broke and at Meriden. During all his life he has taken a lively interest
in all affairs pertaining to the good of the town, and for many years has
been counted one of the most prominent and public-spirited of her citi
zens. His early life was spent on the farm where he was born. Later he
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left the old homestead on “Little Hill,” and was a merchant on Corser
Hill, at first as a member of the firm of Pearson & Little, and later under
the firm style of George Little. For many years he took a prominent part
in the political affairs of the town of Webster. He became a Republi
can when that party was formed and was president of the first Repub
lican club of the town in 1856.
He served on the board of selectmen
in 1861, 1862, 1863, and again for one year in 1874. He represented
the town in the state legislature in 1864 and 1865. During the succeed
ing years, in which he held no office, he continued to take an active
interest in political affairs, and was always prominent in the councils of
his party. He has always been interested in the cause of education, and
in addition to his contributions for the support of schools, served as a
member of the school board the first year of the adoption of the town
district system. He is a member of the Second Congregational church,
to which he has always given liberal support. His business is broader
than that of the country merchant, and for many years he has been
almost constantly engaged in the settlement of estates. He was a justice
of the peace for many years. His unquestioned integrity of character,
added to sound business sense, led many of his townsmen to entrust
these important matters to him. For many years he was secretary and
treasurer of the Granite Mutual Fire Insurance Company, positions
GEORGE LITTLE.
which he filled to the satisfaction of all associated with him in the
management or interested in the success of the corporation.
�LL the manhood days of Dr. Graves have been spent in New
Hampshire. His mother's family were among the pioneers of
Vermont, going there from Killingworth, Conn., his father's from
Greenfield, Mass. He was born at Jericho, Vt., September 9, 1847.
His father died when he was only six years old, but his mother was a
woman of great energy and perseverance, as well as skill and ingenuity,
and he being the eldest child was not only her constant companion but
chief help, and early knew something of many kinds of work. His grand
mother was famous for her knowledge of roots and herbs, and skill in
their use, and from her he inherited a love of medicine, and never desired
to be any other than a doctor. At fourteen he began a course of study at
Essex Classical institute, and an anatomy was always among his books.
He studied medicine with Dr. F. F. Hovey, of Jericho, two years, and
two years with Profs. Thayer and Carpenter, of Burlington, doing labo
DR. E. E. GRAVES.
ratory work for four months with Prof. Peter Collier, now of New York.
Graduating from Medical department of University of Vermont, June,
1868, he immediately entered the office of Dr. Walter Carpenter of
Burlington. Dr. E. K. Webster, of Boscawen wishing a young man
to take his place, he came there in September, 1868, just after he was
twenty-one, and Boscawen is still his home. In the winter of 1876-77
he took a private course in surgery at the Harvard Medical school,
Boston. He is an ex-president of the Centre District Medical society,
member of the New Hampshire and American Medical societies, and of
the American Public Health association. For nearly seventeen years
out of the twenty-five of his practice, he has been the physician at the
Merrimack county almshouse, and for several years consulting physi
cian at the Margaret Pillsbury hospital, Concord. In no sense is Dr.
Graves a politician, but in 1889 he represented his town in the legisla
ture. His interest in archaeology is a pastime, and he has one of the
largest private collections in New England.
�OSHUA P. ABBOTT, though far away from his native town, yet
retains a warm affection for New Hampshire.
He was born in Bos
cawen, March 3, 1840, and until eighteen years of age he assisted
his father on the farm, and attended the public schools. He fitted for
college at Boscawen academy, and entered Dartmouth college. In 1863
he went to California, where he taught school one year, and in 1864
engaged in a speculative enterprise which called him to Idaho, the trip
being made on horseback, though not completed, an Indian war com
pelling him to return after six months in the hostile country, he being
the only one of five companions who escaped alive. He read law in the
office of Thomas J. Tucker in Napa City, and was admitted to the bar
in 1866, and the year after removed to Antioch, Cal., where he has
since resided. For ten years he was editor and proprietor of the Antioch
Ledger. He is now a member of the law firm of Hartley & Abbott,
and enjoys a lucrative practice. He is the owner of one fourth interest
in the Antioch Land and Lumber company, doing a business of $1 oo, ooo
a year, and for twenty years has been prominent in political affairs—
always as a Republican. He was elected state senator from the Fifteenth
senatorial district in 1887, and has held, besides other positions, the
office of deputy collector of internal revenue. For twenty years he was
a delegate to every state convention, and has frequently appeared on the
stump during political campaigns, where he ranks among the foremost
of platform speakers in California.
HON. JOSHUA P. ABBOTT.
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�M. KILBURN was born in Webster in 1842, and received the
_. usual education of the New Hampshire farmer's boy, viz., the
advantages of the district school in winter, supplemented by a few terms
at the excellent New Hampshire academies, with plenty of hard work
interspersed between terms. This is the school which has developed
the manhood of the Granite state. He taught a few terms of district
school in winter, and while a student at Elmwood institute enlisted in
Company E, Sixteenth New Hampshire volunteer infantry, for service
in the War of the Rebellion; was with the regiment during its full term
of service. He emigrated to Iowa in 1868, and located in the sparsely
settled new county of Adair, where, after teaching for a couple of terms,
he settled upon a farm, and engaged in the business of stock-raising and
general farming, to which he has closely given his attention ever since.
He has seen his adopted county and state rapidly develop into a country
of beautiful farms and happy homes of a progressive and intelligent
people. He has helped plant and maintain the standard of New Eng
land morality and virtue, which have so much to do in moulding character
among the plastic materials, from all the world, which go to make up the
society of our new states. He has been prominent in local circles, in
temperance, alliance, and Grand Army work, and helped to organize and
make successful an insurance association which is doing good work in
that community. Born of a race of reformers, he has kept abreast of
all the progress of the age in reform movements. In his home relations
he has been very fortunate. He was married, in 1870, to Elizabeth H.
Peet, daughter of a New England minister then engaged in church work
in Iowa, and has three children, who will take up his work when he leaves
LUCIAN M. KILBURN.
it, and carry it on to higher and better planes when he “shall rest from
his labors.”
�ARREN ABBOTT, of Webster, was born in that town March
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20, 1838, and was educated in the public schools and at Elm
wood institute. Until twenty-six years of age he lived upon the farm,
beginning at the age of eighteen as a school teacher, and thus occupying
his winters. In February, 1864, he went to California and was a teacher
in that state for eighteen years, where his success was very great, receiv
ing from the state department of public instruction a life diploma. So
pronounced was his ability that he was nominated by the Republican
party for county superintendent of schools in Contra Costa county and
was defeated, although he received a full party vote. On account of
ill health and for private reasons, he returned to the old homestead in
Webster in 1882, where he has since resided. He early became a mem
ber of the grange in this state, and has held the offices of lecturer, treas
urer, and master of the sub-grange, and for two years was lecturer, and
for the same length of time master, of the Merrimack County Pomona
grange.
For several terms he was superintendent of schools in his
town and was selectman for three years. In 1891 he was a member of
the house of representatives and was one of the most prominent legisla
tors of that session, being especially active in the formation of the
farmers' council and equally prominent in the championship of all meas
ures looking toward the betterment of the agricultural condition of the
state. Mr. Abbott was married, October 12, 1891, to Mrs. Jennie A.
Abbott of Anoka, Minnesota. He is one of the most prominent
agriculturists in New Hampshire, being well versed in both theory
and practice. A man of wide experience, of broad culture, and far
seeing views, he has been enabled to seize upon and to hold and to
improve each point of vantage as it has appeared in his life.
WARREN ABBOTT.
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�7 ILLIAM WIRT BURBANK was born in West Boscawen,
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now Webster, September 13, 1842, and has spent the whole
of a useful and successful life in his native place. He succeeded his
father, the late Friend L. Burbank, in the general manufacture of lum
ber, and has extended the business until it has become the chief indus
try in the town. Mr. Burbank has not let his business cares interfere
with his duties as a public-spirited citizen, and his fellow-townsmen
have shown their appreciation of his ability and integrity by repeatedly
electing him moderator, making him a member of the board of select
men for ten years, and sending him as their representative in the legis
lature in 1881. He is deeply interested in the work of the grange, and
at the organization of Daniel Webster grange was chosen worthy master,
serving for four years. For one year he was the master of Merrimack
County Pomona grange, and for five years served on the executive com
mittee of the New Hampshire state grange. He assisted in the institu
tion of the New Hampshire Grange Fair association; for four years was
its general superintendent, and for two years was its president. He is
a director in the Merrimack County Fire Insurance company, and in the
Blackwater Valley railroad. Mr. Burbank's usefulness has been mani
fested in other ways than in those enumerated. As a friend of good
schools, and as a member of the Congregational church and superinten
dent of its Sunday-school, his influence has always been along the lines
of highest endeavor. He was married, in 1865, to Ellen M. Dow of
Concord.
WILLIAM WIR
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WILLIAM O. TUTTLE was born in Meredith, October 21, 1837,
the son of Bradbury C. Tuttle and Betsey C. (Wallace) Tuttle.
He was educated in the common schools and in the high school of his
native town, and worked with his father at home until he was twenty-one
years of age, during which time he learned the mason's trade. He then
went to Lowell, and served as a clerk in a dry goods store, and after
wards engaged in the dry goods business at Lakeport, in partnership
with H. J. Odell. For four years this partnership existed. Mr. Tuttle
then went to Boston and went into the real estate and building business,
where he remained for two years. He next entered the employ of G. D.
Dows & Company, manufacturers of soda apparatus and bottlers, with
whom he served as cashier for nine years. Then, in company with O. A.
Atkins, he went to Reading, Penn., where he embarked in the extract
business, and until 1885 resided in that state. In the latter year he
returned to Boston where, with the same partner, under the firm name
of W. O. Tuttle & Company, he established himself in business as a
bottler and extract manufacturer. Mr. Tuttle's business training had
been such as to give him the lead at once, and the knowledge that he
brought to his new relation served him in good stead. The business of
the firm has been built up to large proportions. In the prosperity that
it shares, and which he shares, New Hampshire, as the state of his birth
and education, may claim no small part, for the affection for his home
is still strong within him.
WILLIAM O. TUTTLE.
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�ELCOME JENCKS, one of the prominent young business meri
of the Spindle city, was born at Providence, R. I., December
11, 1854. He is the son of Welcome Jencks, for many years prom
inently identified with the manufacturing interests of Manchester. From
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his father, who was a successful inventor, and his mother, Clarissa
Billington, Mr. Jencks inherited the sterling qualities, so characteristic
in his personal make-up, and to these in no small degree is due his pres
ent standing in the business and commercial world in which he moves
to-day. Early removing with his parents to the Queen city of the
Granite state, he was placed in the public schools of that city, and there
his education was acquired, for following his graduation from the higher
grades of the same he entered the mill business with his father, learning
the same in all of its many details. His education in his chosen line of
labor was a thorough one, and becoming thoroughly conversant with the
business in all its many details, he went upon the road in 1879, looking
after the patent business which his father had established, and in this
particular line he has followed up to the present time. Early in life he
took an active interest in political affairs, and has been for many years
a prominent figure in both city and state conventions. Taking his
business and political career together, it can well be said that of the New
Hampshire men of to-day, few are better known the length and breadth
of the state, and he is rated among the enterprising and pushing men of
the city, for whose welfare he is always solicitous. January 4, 1880, he
married Georgie W., the daughter of Lafayette Robinson, and one
child, Bessie, now twelve years of age, is the result of this union. He
can well be claimed among the leading men of the state, for there are
none who know him but who are pleased to class him within the circle
of their business and social acquaintance.
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�USTAVUS WALKER was born May 7, 1830, at Amoskeag,
where his father, William Walker, was a tavern-keeper of renown,
keeping three different hotels, two in Amoskeag and one in Piscataquog.
When he was an infant, his family removed to Andover Centre, where
he lived until December, 1835, when his father removed to Concord and
became proprietor of the Washington tavern, and a year later of the
famous Eagle Coffee House, where the Eagle hotel now stands, which
he kept until the fall of 1849, when he retired from business. Gus
tavus was educated in the schools of Concord, at Hopkinton under the
tuition of John O. Ballard, at Portsmouth under Master Harris, at Phil
lips Andover academy, under “Uncle Sam ” Taylor, and at Northfield
seminary. His familiarity in boyhood with the guests at his father's
hotels, gave him an extensive acquaintance, and he added to this while
express messenger for Cheney & Co. from 1846 to 1849 and clerk of
the steamer Lady of the Lake during the seasons of 1850 and 1851.
March 1, 1852, he engaged with the late Hon. David A. Warde in the
hardware business in Concord, under the firm name of Warde & Walker,
and in 1855 he embarked in the same business in Phenix block under
his own name, and for twenty-eight years thereafter was one of Con
cord's most honored and active merchants.
Since his retirement from
mercantile life, on account of sickness in his family, Mr. Walker has
devoted himself to the care of his own and his brother William's es
tates, which embrace some of the most desirable pieces of property in
Concord. He is deeply interested in giving his city the best possible
railroad connections; was largely instrumental in securing the building
of the Peterborough & Hillsborough, and is an ardent advocate of the
building of the Concord & Rochester railroad, of which he is president.
Mr. Walker's life has been an active one, and to him is accorded a rep
utation for honor, unsurpassed by any. Mr. Walker's wife is a daugh
ter of the late John D. and Mary C. B. Butler of Bennington.
�ILLIAM WALKER, JR., the son of William and Betsey (Gay)
Walker, was born in Chester, September 18, 1810, and was
educated in the public schools of that town, and at Amoskeag village,
to which place, when William, Jr., was twelve years of age, his father
moved, becoming proprietor of a famous old-time stage tavern. The
subject of this sketch was for a time employed in the Amoskeag mill,
meeting there the young lady whom he subsequently married,—and was
next engaged in driving a stage between Hopkinton and Piscataquog.
In 1830 the family moved to Andover, and young Walker drove a large
freight team for a time, a little later resuming staging, and driving
between Wilmot and Concord, Concord and Lowell, and Concord and
Nashua, respectively. As a stage-driver he was noted for his courtesy, and
the good condition in which his fine horses were kept was often remarked.
Forming ideas of the express business through his acquaintance with
Harnden, the pioneer, Mr. Walker embarked in a similar enterprise, with
B. P. Cheney and Nathaniel White as partners, under the name of Walker
& Co.'s express, which in turn became Cheney & Co., United States & Can
ada, and finally a part of the American system. Mr. Walker was one of
the pioneers in the navigation of Lake Winnipiseogee, and a projector and
builder of the Lady of the Lake, and for several years its popular com
mander, his first experience having been gained on a steamer plying be
tween Haverhill and Newburyport. Mr. Walker married Mary E. Goss,
November 22, 1831, and the celebration of their golden wedding in
Concord in 1881 was an important social event. Mr. Walker died on
the following anniversary of his marriage, in 1882. His widow sur
vives, at the age of eighty-four years.
WILLIAM WALKER, JR.
�W' AUGUSTUS GILE,
now residing and practising his
profession at Worcester, Mass., was born at Franklin, June
5, 1843. His father, Alfred A. Gile, was a native of Northfield, in
which town the family had lived for two generations, the original home
stead having been built by Jonathan Guile (which was the former way
of spelling the family name). The family first came from England to
Dedham, Mass., about 1630. The subject of this sketch, Maj. William
A. Gile, was reared upon the farm in that part of Franklin on the east
side of the Merrimack river, nearly opposite the Webster place, which
was formerly a part of Northfield, and which became a part of Franklin
before the Civil War, and the homestead has always been the place of
rest and recreation for Major Gile and his family, since he has lived in
Massachusetts. His family consists of Mrs. Gile, formerly Clara A.
Dewing, of North Brookfield, Mass., whom he married in 1878, and five
children—William Waitt Gile, the eldest son, and Minnie Helen Gile,
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS GILE.
the eldest daughter, whose mother was Major Gile's first wife, and
whose maiden name was Mary Green Waitt; Alfred Dewing Gile, eld
est son of Clara A. Gile, Margaret Lucinda Gile, her eldest daughter,
and Lawrence Bliss Gile, the youngest son, and two infant sons who
died, constitute the rest of the children. Major Gile went to the war
when nineteen years of age, with his brother Frank, who is now a phy
sician in East Orange, N.J., serving in the Sixteenth and Eighteenth
New Hampshire volunteers, being captain of Company E in the latter
regiment. After the war he studied law with Hon. Austin F. Pike and
Hon. Isaac N. Blodgett, then co-partners in law at Franklin. There
after he finished his studies for the legal profession at Harvard Law
school, and, having been admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1869,
began the practice of law at Greenfield, Mass., as a co-partner with the
Hon. Whiting Griswold, of that town, and since 1871 has been practis
ing law in Worcester, Mass.
�ON. HENRY H. HUSE was born in West Fairlee, Vt., May
30, 1839; died in Concord, September 7, 1890.
Early in life
he removed to Barnstead, where he was residing when the Civil War
broke out. On the formation of the Eighth New Hampshire volun
teers, he was elected and commissioned captain of Company G, on De
cember 20, 1861. For gallant conduct during the siege of Port Hud
son he was promoted to major of the Eighth regiment. He was with the
regiment up to September 22, 1863, when, broken down by the hardships
of two years service in the malarious districts of Louisiana, he was
obliged to resign his commission, and received an honorable discharge.
Major Huse read law at Pittsfield and Manchester, and was for a time in
partnership with Hon. Lewis W. Clark. When Mr. Clark went upon
the bench Major Huse went into partnership with Hon. James F. Briggs.
He represented his ward three terms in the legislature, serving as speaker
of the house in 1879. He was for a time chairman of the state
committee of the Republican party. He was commander of the Amoskeag
Veterans in 1876. Major Huse was appointed insurance commissioner
by Governor Sawyer in March, 1888. He gave his best endeavors to
the duties of his office, and made an honorable record. As a public offi
cer he was “faithful and efficient, ever discharging all public duties with
signal ability; a lawyer of large experience in his profession, of well
balanced judgment and discretion, well grounded in the fundamental
principles of the law, faithful alike to the court and his client; a citizen
patriotic and public-spirited, and in private life a pleasant, kind, and
genial companion.” Major Huse was a man of fine presence, and in a
marked degree possessed unmistakable traits as an organizer, being sys
HON. HENRY H. HUSE.
tematic and decisive in all his actions.
�ARON YOUNG was born in Barrington, N. H., June 16, 1827.
A His father was Aaron Young, a man of uncommon natural ability,
and very prominent in the affairs of the town and party to which he
belonged. The subject of this sketch spent his early years on his
father's farm and in the public schools of the town. In 1851 he went
to Manchester, where, in 1853, he married Miss Louisa B. Paige,
daughter of Deacon Osgood Paige, and for a few years following was
engaged in business in Manchester and Dover. Mr. Young was by
birth and family traditions a Whig, and became an earnest Republican
at the birth of the party. He held a position eight years in the custom
house at Portsmouth, and was deputy collector of internal revenue
13 years. In 1889 he was appointed a special agent of the treasury
department for New England. He is still engaged in that business, and
has the reputation of a vigilant, painstaking, and capable officer, whom
violators of the law find it hard to deceive or evade. Mr. Young has a
natural taste for politics, and no man is better known as an unswerving
Republican and skilful manager of party affairs. He generally knows
what is going on, and nothing of importance escapes his attention and
influence. His shrewdness as a manager and thorough understanding
of the currents and cross-currents of human nature cause his counsels
AARON
and advice to be held in the highest respect by all who aspire to office
or influence in the party. Of amiable disposition, agreeable address,
great fidelity to friends, and wide acquaintance with public men and
political history, he is always an important factor in New Hampshire
calculations. Mr. Young is a brother of Hon. Jacob D. Young, of
Madbury, and George W. Young, Esq., of Dover, and a twin of
the late Col. Andrew H. Young. He resides in Portsmouth, and
has a daughter, Alice R., who presides over his house, and a son,
Philip, of Dartmouth college. Mrs. Young, a most estimable woman.
died March 14, 1893, greatly lamented by a large circle of friends.
YOUNG.
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�NDREW H. YOUNG was born in Barrington, June 16, 1827. He
A was a son of Aaron Young, a man of ability and prominence in town
affairs. He spent his early years on his father's farm, gaining a good prac
tical education in the town schools, of which he was superintendent when
only twenty-three years of age. He took an early interest in politics, and
was one of the leaders of the movement which made New Hampshire a
. ANDREW H. YOUNG.
Republican state in 1855, and has kept it so till this day. He was reg
ister of deeds and clerk of the supreme court in Strafford county till
1861, when he entered the military service as quartermaster of the
Seventh New Hampshire volunteers, was promoted to captain and as
sistant-quartermaster United States volunteers in 1862, to major and pay
master United States army in 1864, and to lieutenant-colonel by brevet
in 1866. Appointed internal revenue collector for New Hampshire by
President Grant in 1869, he served till 1881, collecting and disbursing
large sums of money. In 1885 he was appointed quartermaster in the
regular army, and in that capacity rendered valuable service to the gov
ernment, especially in constructing the new United States barracks at
Newport, Ky. In that malarious climate he contracted a heart disease,
and died at his home in Dover, December 10, 1890. Colonel Young
was a man of uncommon ability and public spirit, and exerted a strong
influence in the affairs of the state and nation. He will long be remem
bered by hosts of friends for noble qualities of head and heart, for his
genial presence, agreeable manners, and a fund of information, wit, and
anecdote which made him a delightful associate. He married Miss Susan
E. Miles, of Madbury, in 1854. Mrs. Young survives him, as do also
a daughter, Mary Hale, and two sons, Haldimand Putnam and Richard
Batchelder, both actively engaged in business.
�AJOR CHARLES A. YOUNG was born at Barrington, Septem
ber 22, 1842, the son of William Hale Young and Sarah
(Daniels) Young. He was educated in the private and public schools of
his native town, and remaining on the home farm until twenty years of age,
in 1862 removing to Boston, where he became identified with a large and
successful business. For more than thirty years he has held his resi
dence in one locality, where the impress of his character, both in public
and private life, has been markedly beneficial. He possesses a genial and
social nature, and is a member of many organizations. For three years
he was commander of the Roxbury Horse Guards, and for three years
commander of the First battalion of cavalry, and for many years com
mander of the “Old Guard ” of Massachusetts. He stands high in
military circles. He was the originator and first president of the
Harvard Improvement association at Dorchester.
He has an at
tractive and impressive manner, and occupies a position in whatever
circle he enters, flattering to himself and enviable to his associates.
As a citizen he is a recognized leader; he is graceful and winning
in debate, courteous to his opponent, and pronounced in his convic
tions. A New Hampshire Republican, he holds the respect and
esteem of the men of all parties, and has frequently come before the
people as a candidate for public office. Although loyally attached
to the city of his adoption, his love for his native state has never dimin
ished, and among the sons of New Hampshire who have gone forth to
win for themselves success in neighboring states, none turns more fondly
to the home of his birth than Major Young.
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MAJOR CHARLES A. YOUNG.
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�W' HENRY
HARRISON YOUNG, of Boston, Mass.,
son of William Hall and Sarah (Daniels) Young, was born in
Barrington, May 15, 1837. After receiving his education at the town
schools and at South Berwick academy, he taught school in Great
Falls and Rollinsford till 1858, when he went to Boston and engaged
in contract work.
In 1862 he returned to his native town to enlist as
a private in a company then forming. Shortly after he was appointed
recruiting officer for the state, and September 27, 1862, was commis
sioned first lieutenant in the Thirteenth New Hampshire regiment,
which he helped to organize, and was appointed judge advocate. Dur
ing the Fredericksburg campaign and General Dix expedition up the
peninsular, he was disabled, and although recommended for promotion
to captain, was obliged to resign after spending five months in a hospi
tal, receiving his discharge February 2, 1864. He returned to Boston,
where he has since resided. His wife, Susan Tappan, was the daughter of
Thomas Jefferson Cook of Boston, a native of Milton, N. H. Mr.
Young is a member of the New Hampshire club and of the Loyal Le
gion. In politics a staunch Republican, he has never missed a chance
to vote. In business he has always been held in high esteem by those
who know him for his sound and practical sagacity. As a representa
tive of one of the most noted families of the state, and coming from one
of the most noted towns, he has ever been true to his birthright, and
the honor and integrity of each have been well maintained.
WILLIAM H. H. YOUNG.
�EORGE. T. CRAWFORD was born in Alexandria, December
G 20,
1828, the son of Col. William Crawford and Joanna
Sleeper. He was educated at Hebron academy, at New Hampshire
Conference seminary, and at Andover academy. He was a farmer
until 1865, and has been a surveyor of land since his boyhood.
In 1854 and in 1865 he represented his town in the legislature.
In 1856 he removed to Bristol and engaged in the flour and grain
business, remaining there until 1872. Since then he has been en
gaged in the lumber business. During the years of his residence in
Grafton county, Mr. Crawford was honored by his fellow-citizens by an
election as treasurer of the county in 1868 and 1869, and as county com
missioner from 1870 to 1877.
In 1880 he removed to Boston, where he
has since resided, being engaged as agent of the Fall Mountain Paper
company of Bellows Falls, Vt. Mr. Crawford still retains his interest
in the state of his birth that was for many years his abiding-place.
Deeply interested in all of its concerns, the years of his residence in
another state have not dulled his perception of New Hampshire's
progress. Mr. Crawford is keenly alive to all that goes on in New
Hampshire. The recent movements with relation to the preservation
of the state forests has awakened in Mr. Crawford a lively sympathy and
has won from him a hearty encouragement, yet he has believed that to
nature may be left the work of repair that cannot be safely taken up by
man. Mr. Crawford is large and broad in his perceptions. A man of
parts, he has acquitted himself with dignity in many positions requiring
varying degrees of skill and aptitude. A sound, earnest, and unfailing
common sense has characterized his career, and a rigid, incorruptible
honesty has marked his course. Mr. Crawford has impressed himself
upon those who know him as a man of force, a man of weight in argu
ment, and of power in example.
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GEORGE T. CRAWFORD.
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�AITH FUL persistence in an honorable calling has certainly led to
distinguished rewards in the case of James N. Lauder. He was
born in Topsham, Vt., May 29, 1838, the son of George and Jean
(Laird) Lauder, and was educated in the public schools of Vermont.
When but fifteen years of age he began his life-long career of railroad
service, from whose toils and dangers he has never shrunk, and the lau
rels of whose success he has repeatedly plucked. In 1865 he was
appointed master mechanic of the Northern railroad, and held that posi
tion until 1881. For the eight months ensuing he was superintendent
of motive power on the Boston & Lowell railroad, and subsequently
held the same position for a year on the Mexican Central system. Dur
ing the last ten years he has been a valued member of the staff of the
Old Colony road, serving as its superintendent of rolling stock. Mr.
Lauder's residence is in Ward Four, Concord, and he has creditably
represented that portion of the Capital city in the state legislature. He
served as one of the judges of awards in the transportation depart
ment of the World's Columbian exposition, having received that
appointment from the fair commissioners.
N. LAUDER.
�MONG the most distinguished educators who have gone from
New England is Sylvester Waterhouse, who was born in Bar
rington, September 15, 1830. Disqualified by the loss of a leg for
mechanical pursuits, to which his natural tastes inclined him, he was
obliged to follow a literary career. He was fitted for college at Phillips
Exeter academy, and graduated from Harvard in 1853, where he took
honors in Greek. In 1855, he received the degree of LL.B. from the
Harvard Law school, and was soon after appointed professor of Latin
in Antioch college, Ohio. In 1857 he took charge of the Greek
department in Washington university, St. Louis, and has just com
pleted thirty-six years of professional service in that institution. Pro
fessor Waterhouse entered the university soon after its inauguration,
and is now the senior member of its faculty. During the war he was
an earnest advocate of the Union, and, though incapacitated for mili
tary service, was a voluminous and effective writer for the cause. He
has always been deeply interested in the development of the West, and
has actively coöperated in many of the movements for the advancement of
that section. In 1867 he declined an appointment as superintendent
of public schools for Missouri. Since 1870 he has held many impor
tant trusts, including official positions in the Missouri Bureau of Geology
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and Mines, the St. Louis Board of Trade, the National Railroad con
vention, and the Mississippi River Improvement convention.
He was
a United States commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1878, honor
ary commissioner to the New Orleans World's fair, and to the Ameri
can exposition in London in 1887, and to the Nicaragua Canal conven
tions. In the latter he was selected to speak for the state of Mis
souri. His labors in behalf of Washington university have been
no insignificant element of its prosperity. The breadth of his learning,
the versatility of his talents, his rare practical judgment, and his tire
less energy have been potent factors in the growth of this institution.
�HE subject of this sketch, Alonzo Shaw Weed, was born in Sand
wich, March 13, 1827, the son of Elisha and Mary Ann (Shaw)
Weed.
He attended the district schools of his native town, and the
academy at “Sandwich Corner.” In 1844 he began life for himself, as
clerk in a mercantile house at Bangor, Me., and continued in that posi
tion for eight years. Having thoroughly mastered the principles of
trade, he set up in business for himself, and during his mercantile life of
twenty years maintained a reputation as one of Bangor's successful and
honorable business men. In 1871 he changed his residence from Ban
gor to Newton, Mass., having been elected by the Wesleyan association
to the responsible position (which he now holds) of publisher and
business manager of Zion's Herald, Boston, which is the oldest Meth
odist newspaper in the world, and is the special organ of New Eng
land Methodism. The financial success of that sterling religious
publication, Zion's Herald, has been largely due to the fostering care,
and efficient and careful business management of its present publisher.
Mr. Weed has always been actively interested in moral and religious
and educational affairs, and has done much work in these lines which
does not appear upon the surface. Conscientious and steadfast in his
political convictions, he styles himself “always a Republican and a firm
believer in the principles of that party.” Among his public offices are:
Trustee and treasurer of Bucksport (Me.) seminary for twelve years;
alderman and common councilman in city government of Bangor, Me.,
seven years; councilman and school committeeman of the city of New
ton, Mass., five years. Has been treasurer of the New England Educa
tion society over fourteen years; also one of the directors of the Home
Savings bank, Little Wanderers' Home, and Young Men's Christian
association, Boston, for eight or ten years past.
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�AMES FLYNN was born in Portsmouth, January 6, 1847, but has
been identified with Boston commercial circles since 1870, and for
sixteen years has been engaged in the manufacture of architectural
ironwork in that city, utilizing complete facilities, and giving employ
ment to many men and manufacturing prominent specialties, among
them being an invention of his own, a patent folding fire-escape ladder,
which has had the honor of being adopted for use in many of the prin
cipal hotels and business blocks of the large cities. Mr. Flynn is at
the head of a prosperous business house, and his prosperity is in no
small measure due to the sturdy integrity that he took away with him
from New Hampshire as a part of his birthright. The talents given to
him have been entered upon, and through years of faithful, con
scientious endeavor, he has pushed his way forward and upward to
prosperity and success. He does not forget his native state: frequently
he returns to renew the acquaintances of his boyhood, he keeps closely
in touch with the scenes of his youth, is well versed in the events that
are daily transpiring in New Hampshire, and holds through the varying
routine of a busy man's life his youthful affection for the state that gave
him birth, and that claims him now as one of her own though he has
gone out from among her citizens. Among the business men of Bos
ton, Mr. Flynn ranks as a solid and conservative merchant. He con
trols a special line of business, and with that is satisfied; yet his rewards
have not been insignificant, and he daily is adding to the measure of
his success and daily notes the increase that comes from the exercise
of honest judgment, careful supervision, and unswerving integrity.
JAMES FLYNN.
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| "HE mechanic who wins honorable place deserves notice equally
with the winner in commercial and professional life. Charles
Albion Langley, the oldest son and child of Moses and Sarah (Gear)
Langley, was born at Dover, in March, 1850. He is now among the
leading residents of Washington, D. C. Mr. Langley received his
early education in the public schools, and left home at sixteen to make
his way in life. He worked in New London, Conn., and Brookline,
Mass., at anything that offered, and at nineteen years of age entered
his apprenticeship as a carpenter at the latter place. Worked as a
journeyman at Cambridge and Brookline, Mass., until 1875, when he
came to Washington, where for four years he was still a journeyman,
though most of the time acting as foreman. In 1879, Mr. Langley
formed a partnership with a fellow-workman, and the firm rapidly
forged to the front as builders of fine private houses. The partnership
ceased in 1889. Among the houses built under Mr. Langley's super
vision are those of Chief Justice Richardson, United States court of
claims, the house of Senator Hearst of California, that of Capt. A. C.
Tyler, which is on the site of the house in which Harrison's secretary
of the navy, A. T. Tracy, met the horrible loss of his wife and daugh
ter through fire, and the Army and Navy club building, by far the
handsomest club house in Washington. Considerable of this work
has been done on the percentage plan, and such is Mr. Langley's
standing for probity that he has never been required to give bond or
had his accounts questioned. Recognizing the value of fraternity and
sociability among working-men, Mr. Langley has always been an earn
est promoter of social organizations. He has filled all the chairs in
the Odd Fellows lodge of which he is a member, as well as those of
the encampment. He was one of the original nine members of the
Mysterious club, an organization to promote social relations among
CHARLES A. LANGLEY.
business men and their families, which now numbers 260 members.
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�RED P. VIRGIN was born at East Concord, January 25, 1853,
He was educated
F the son of Rufus Virgin and Mary A. Stevens.
in the schools of East Concord and pursued an academic course in the
Penacook academy and at Pinkerton academy, Derry. At sixteen
years of age he began life for himself, and at that time went to Boston
and entered the employ of Martin L. Hall & Co., wholesale grocers.
For three years he worked in the store of this firm, and at the age
of nineteen engaged as a travelling salesman for them and followed that
vocation for ten years. For the past twelve years he has been a member
of the firm. Mr. Virgin won a rapid and deserved promotion by the
display of the true qualities of a New Hampshire character. With
genuine enthusiasm he began work while almost a mere boy, and with
pluck, with persistency, with stoutness of heart, and with honesty he
faithfully observed the rules of mercantile life. Studying his employers'
advantage no less than his own, he came naturally to the success that
awaited him. Mr. Virgin's life has been an active one, yet his activity
has met its reward.
The cares of his business have demanded his entire
attention, yet the acquaintances that he has cultivated bear witness to
his worth. The years of his life upon the road have quickened his per
ceptions, and the daily calls of his present labor cause them to be exerted
to the utmost. Vigorous, alert, and progressive, though young in years,
he has achieved a measure of success that would do credit to the exer
tions of a lifetime.
FRED P. VIRGIN.
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�H
ENRY A. EMERSON, of Henniker, has risen to a position of
success in the business world in New Hampshire through his
own efforts.
He was born at Concord, May 1, 1837, the child of Fen
ner H. Emerson and Clarinda (Baker) Emerson. He was educated in
the common schools, and in the academy at Franklin, and at Fisherville
academy. His family was poor, and at eleven years of age he went
away from his home to work upon a farm, laboring also in a shingle
mill and cotton mills, at Franklin, Fisherville, and Manchester, until he
was seventeen years old, when he went to Pepperell, Mass., to work in
a paper mill, and has followed that calling ever since,—beginning at the
bottom and working his way up to the head without assistance. After mas
tering the details of the paper trade, Mr. Emerson went to Henniker in
1871, where he began business with the Contoocook Valley Paper com
pany, of which corporation he is now president and treasurer, having held
that position since 1886. Mr. Emerson in his business career has
mastered all the essentials; by care and attention to his business he has
achieved an enviable reputation in the commercial world; and among
those who come daily in contact with him, Mr. Emerson is ranked
high in esteem. His only official position he held in the '70s, when
for two years he was a representative to the legislature from Hen
niker. This lack of political honor, however, is due to Mr. Emerson's
own desire, since he never sought without receiving. Mr. Emerson's
life has been purely commercial: beginning with nothing, he has won
much; without influence, he has exerted his own influence; beginning
without capital, through the capital of honesty, Integrity, and fidelity,
the capital of every New Hampshire boy, Mr. Emerson has entered upon
his talent and improved it.
HENRY A. EMERSON.
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�LBERT C. LORD was born at Tilton, July 30, 1852, and has
always resided in that town. At the age of sixteen he began
to learn the trade of watchmaker and jeweller. When nineteen years
old he engaged in that business for himself, which he continued till
1887. In 1875 he, in company with his brother, began the manufacture
of optical goods, under the firm name of Lord Brothers January 1,
1893, the new firm of the Lord Bros. Mfg. Co. was organized—a stock
company with a capital of $50,000, of which he is president, and which
now manufactures and supplies to the trade by travelling salesmen an
annual output of $75,000. This business has been largely built up
through Mr. Lord's personal industry and oversight. The careful train
ing which he experienced in his early days gave him a practical knowl
edge of the business which has stood him in good stead in his enlarged
relations; to this he has added, moreover, a personal acquaintance with
the trade which he aims to supply, and from this he has drawn his
highest incentive to perfection. The magnitude of his firm's operations,
the extent of their sales, and the breadth of territory covered by their
agents, has made him through his wares known far and wide, and by
those wares known as a sterling, upright, honorable, business man.
This is high praise, but to it must be added the record of the esteem in
which Mr. Lord is held at home by his employés and business asso
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ciates.
ALBERT C. LORD.
�EW Hampshire's progress in the next few years must inevitably
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be to a large extent northward. Coös and Carroll counties
have long been comparatively undeveloped. Only recently have their
latent resources in mountain, stream, forest, and meadow been to any
extent made productive. Now, however, the movement has fairly
begun, and a genuine western “boom” exists at many points in the
north country. It is to the beautiful scenery of this part of the state
that New Hampshire owes her title ‘‘the Switzerland of America,” and
it is the yearly influx of visitors from the four corners of the globe that
has largely contributed to give Coös and Carroll their present position
in the line of progress. The north land, however, has been remarkably
fortunate of late in the character of its leaders. Like all pioneers, they
have been strong, bold, and aggressive. But they have been more than
that. They have united the westerner's enterprise with the Yankee's con
servative prudence. They have built broadly, but firmly and well, and
future generations in northern New Hampshire will have just cause to
remember the wisdom and foresight of the men of to-day. A typical
member of the younger class of these leaders is Walter Pitman of Bart
lett. He was born December 25, 1855, the son of Joseph and Sarah
Charles Pitman of Bartlett, and received an education in the public
schools of that town, which he has since materially supplemented by
travel, observation, and experience. The measure of confidence with
which he is regarded by his fellow-citizens, is shown by the fact that he
served as selectman of the town in 1885, and in 1887 was chosen repre
sentative to the state legislature. So efficiently valuable was his service
in that body, that he was returned for a second term, serving with
WALTER PITMAN.
similar credit in the house of 1889.
�RA WHITCHER of Haverhill (Woodsville) was born in Coventry
(now Benton), December 2, 1815. His father, William Whitcher,
was one of the first settlers of the town, where he reared a family
of sixteen children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh.
His grandfather, Chase Whitcher, was one of the early settlers of
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Warren, and was active as a soldier in the War of the Revolution,
serving for quite a period as one of the committee of safety for the
northern part of the state. Mr. Whitcher received only a limited com
mon-school education, and engaged in the lumber business in his
native town, a business which he has since carried on extensively in
Benton, Warren, and at Woodsville, he having removed to the latter
place from Benton in 1870.
Mr. Whitcher has filled various town
offices in both Benton and Haverhill. He represented Benton in the
New Hampshire legislature in 1845, 46, '50, 51, ’63, and '64, and
Haverhill in 1891–92. He was a member of the constitutional con
vention of 1850, and was chosen by the legislature of 1864 one of the
commission to supervise the rebuilding of the state house. He served
for six years, 1867–73, as one of the county commissioners of Grafton
county, the county almshouse being constructed during his term of
service. He was largely instrumental in securing the removal of the
county-seat to Woodsville, and was one of the special commission
which built the present handsome court-house at that place. Mr.
Whitcher was married, November 27, 1843, to Lucy Royce, and two of
his four children, William F. Whitcher, editor of the Boston Daily
Traveller, and Mrs. Chester Abbott of Woodsville, are still living.
IRA. WHITCHER.
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�HARLES PARKER was born May 21, 1826, in Lisbon. He
was educated in the common and high schools in Lisbon, New
bury seminary, and Phillips academy, Danville, Vt. After completing
his education, in 1851 he moved to Lyman, where he, in connection
with James R. Young, formed the business firm of Parker & Young,
and entered into mercantile and manufacturing pursuits. In 1856 the
firm established another store in Lisbon. In 1864 they disposed of
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their Lyman business, Mr. Parker moving to Lisbon, where he has since
resided.
In 1884 the partnership was terminated by the death of Mr.
Young, and the Parker & Young Manufacturing company was formed,
Mr. Parker being its treasurer and general manager. In the affairs of
Lyman and Lisbon Mr. Parker has been prominent, having represented
both towns for two years each in the house of representatives. He has
been a justice of the peace and quorum throughout the state for more
than thirty years. His business success has been great, although he
has suffered large losses in several disastrous fires. But he has faced
and braved all such reverses, which would have overcome men of a less
determined and resolute character. Throughout the entire north coun
try, few men are better known or more highly esteemed than Mr. Parker.
His genial presence, his endowed vigor of body and intellect, have won
for him a high place in public affection, while his unflagging enterprise
and indomitable zeal have made him known throughout the business cir
cles of New England.
To him, perhaps as to no other man, the town
of Lisbon, with its varied and progressive enterprises, owes much of its
prosperity. He was one of the first directors in the Lisbon bank, and
as a member of the legislature was very instrumental in securing that
CHARLES PARKER.
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�AMES N. MCCOY was born in Thornton, December 11, 1848,
and is the son of Nathan McCoy and Mary A. (Cilley) McCoy.
During the childhood of Mr. McCoy his parents moved to Con
cord, and in the public schools of that city the subject of this sketch
was educated, finishing his education at Newbury (Vt.) academy, where
he was a classmate of Col. Charles A. Sinclair. After leaving school,
for the two years from 1862 to 1864, Mr. McCoy was employed in the
Sinclair House, Bethlehem, and in 1866 he went to Iowa, where he
became agent for the Walter A. Wood harvesting machines, achieving
in this line of work marked success, until his return East a few years
later, when he embarked in the roofing business in New York city, fol
lowing this until 1880. He then returned to the state of his birth, and
became engaged in lumbering and real estate business in northern New
Hampshire, in which he has continued until the present time, now giv
ing his services to the Winnipiseogee Paper company, of Franklin,
having charge of that corporation's extensive interest in the Pemige
wasset valley and throughout the entire north part of the state. Mr.
McCoy is a sturdy son of New Hampshire; genial but unassuming, he
nevertheless has worked his way forward to a competence, and the
responsible position that he now occupies is due solely to his capability,
his steadfastness, his fidelity, and his energy.
JAMES N. McCOY.
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�IDNEY BENJAMIN WHITTEMORE was born at Colebrook,
July 21, 1839, the son of a farmer, Benjamin Whittemore, and
of Elmira (Chandler) Whittemore. His boyhood was passed upon his
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father's farm, and he attended the common schools of Colebrook, and
Colebrook academy, and yet resides upon the old Whittemore home
stead, where he carries on the farm bequeathed to him by his father,
and is engaged as a shipper of country produce. Mr. Whittemore is a
man of rare good judgment, and in the affairs of Colebrook and Coös
county, and even of the state, has been an active factor in shaping
events. In 1875 and 1876 he was treasurer of Coös county; in 1885
he was a member of the legislature, and served his state faithfully. For
three terms he was a member of the board of agriculture, and co-oper
ated heartily in all the progressive matters of the board during his term
of service. In 1885 he was appointed a member of the board of trustees
of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,
and by re-appointment still holds that position. To the duties of this
position Mr. Whittemore has given much attention. He is deeply
interested in the work of the college, and was one of the warmest advo
cates of its removal from Hanover to Durham; and in the work of
establishing the college in its new home, Mr. Whittemore has been
prominent. Mr. Whittemore was a member of the New Hampshire
National Guard during the period of the reorganization of that body,
and at the time of his retirement from military service was captain of
Company I, of the Third regiment. Mr. Whittemore is one of the solid
farmers of the state. Bringing to agricultural pursuits the advantages
SIDNEY B. WHITTEMORE.
derived from study and observation, he has been enabled, in his work as
a shipper of country produce, by closely following the markets, to attain
success not always given to endeavor, and the permanence of that suc
cess is justified by the care with which its results have been attained.
�T is a characteristic of New Hampshire men that they readily turn
their hands to almost any occupation. This characteristic in a
successful degree belongs to Frank Parker Brown of Whitefield, who
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was born in Bow, March 24, 1847, and is the son of Parker Brown and
Clara A. Gault.
He was educated in the common schools of his native
town, at Colby academy, New London, finishing with a course at
the commercial college in Concord, and immediately entering upon a
business career as merchant, following that calling for ten years, since
which time he has been variously engaged in lumbering, farming,
banking, and milling, and always with an unequivocal measure of pros
perity. Mr. Brown is a Republican in politics, and his natural activity
has led him to prominence in his party. In 1876 and 1877 he was a
member of the legislature, and from 1885 to 1887 he held a commission
as commissary general on Governor Currier's staff. During the recent
campaign he was his party's candidate for sheriff of Coös county, and
made a most gallant and so nearly successful fight as to win the plaudits
of his party associates all over the state. Mr. Brown's zealous activity
has led him to take an intense interest in the development of the town
in which he resides, and no public institution has been formed in recent
years without his earnest personal coöperation. He has held many
town offices, at present holding the position of town treasurer, and is
president of the Whitefield Banking and Trust company. He is also
president of the Whitefield Aqueduct company and treasurer of the
Whitefield Manufacturing company. Mr. Brown has made himself a
factor in whatever he has undertaken.
In none of the enterprises in
which he has embarked has he failed to assume a prominent place,
either at the outset or as the institutions have become developed.
His
nature would permit no other result. Modestly ambitious, Mr. Brown
has made his future secure by the record of his past.
FRANK PARKER BROWN.
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�O be the highly popular manager of the most successful hotel in
Chicago in this Columbian year, 1893, is an enviable distinction,
and it belongs to a New Hampshire man, Oscar G. Barron, of the Ray
mond & Whitcomb Grand hotel. He was born in Quechee, Windsor
county, Vt., October 17, 1851, the son of Asa T. and Clarissy (Dem
mon) Barron.
His education was gained in the schools at White
River Junction, Vt., and in the Williston (Vt.) and Thetford (Vt.)
academies. His lifelong occupation has been hotel-keeping, with every
department of which he is thoroughly acquainted, and in the pursuit of
which he has gained a success that is almost unrivalled. The mere
mention of the houses over which he has exercised a guiding care, tells
the story of his remarkable career. The list includes the Senate restau
rant at Washington, D.C.; Putnam hotel, Palatka, Florida; the great
Eastman hotel, Hot Springs, Arkansas; Raymond & Whitcomb Grand,
Chicago, Illinois; Twin Mountain House, Crawford House, Fabyan
House, Mount Pleasant House, and Summit House in the White
mountains.
In addition to these business cares, Mr.
Barron has
found time and opportunity to enter extensively into public life. He
has held about all the offices in the town of Carroll, including chair
man of the board of selectmen for many years, justice of the peace,
and member of the house of representatives. He acquired the title
of colonel by service upon the staff of Gov. Charles H. Sawyer, and
has held the office of postmaster through all changes of administra
tion since he was 20 years of age. A Chicago writer, speaking of
the Grand hotel, says: “The management of this unique hotel was
entrusted by its promoters to Mr. Oscar G. Barron. The result is a
splendid organization, excellent service, and a fine cuisine. Mr. Bar
ron, who is a bluff New Englander of fine physique, gives his personal
attention to every department of this unique hotel, his alertness and
indefatigability being proverbial among those who know him.”
OSCAR G. BARRON.
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�DSON JAMES HILL, the son of James Riggs Hill and Sophia
Pickering, was born in Concord, October 19, 1857, and was
educated in the schools of that city and at St. Paul's school. At the
age of seventeen he became book-keeper for J. R. Hill & Co., manu
facturers of the Concord harness, and until 1884 was employed in that
capacity. He then became landlord of the Phenix hotel, which had
been for half a century one of the leading hostelries of the state, and
maintained his relations with it until the organization of the Eagle &
Phenix Hotel Co., in 1889, of which he became treasurer and man
aging director, and is now the moving spirit of the corporation, which,
by lavish expenditure of money, has remodelied the Eagle hotel, making
it, in equipment, appurtenances, cuisine, and advantages, among the
leading hotels in New England. Mr. Hill, in addition to his duties in
connection with the management of this property, is also a trustee in the
Union Guaranty Savings bank, and a director in the Capital Fire
Insurance company. Mr. Hill is the principal owner and manager of
the J. R. Hill estate, and his rent-roll covers many of the finest of the
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stores for which Concord has of late become noted.
As a financier Mr.
Hill has developed remarkable sagacity, and with unerring acuteness
has placed himself in the van of public progress in his native city.
Improvement has waited rather upon him than he upon it; justly proud
of his reputation as a landlord, he has increased his holdings in real
estate, and has in each case improved the property that has come into
his possession. Mr. Hill is a quiet, cultured gentleman in private life,
suave and courteous in manner; in him the reputation of an honored
name maintains itself, and the wisdom of a sagacious sire is perpetu
EDSON J. H.ILL.
ated.
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�ALTER M. ROGERS was born at Plymouth, and is the son
of John Rogers, a merchant of that place, who was a man of
more than ordinary abilities, of fine presence, cultured literary taste,
—in short, a true gentleman of the old school. Mr. Rogers's family is
one of the best. His uncle, Nathaniel P. Rogers, was one of the early
Abolitionists, and was associated with George Thompson, William Lloyd
Garrison, and Wendell Phillips. He was the editor of The Herald of
Freedom, an anti-slavery paper of those days. As a newspaper writer
he was considered by his contemporaries unequalled by any in the jour
nalistic field. Mr. Rogers himself has been in mercantile life since the
age of seventeen, and for fully thirty years has been connected with the
Bradley Fertilizer company, of Boston, the leading fertilizer company
of America, whose representative he now is. In this capacity Mr. Rogers
has visited every quarter of New Hampshire, and in each community that
he has visited he numbers his friends by the score, winning them with
ease, and retaining them with permanence. A lover of fine horses, Mr.
Rogers has made his numerous tours through New Hampshire behind
some of the finest roadsters that have ever pressed the highways of the
state. His genial, sunny nature has endeared him to all with whom he
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has come in contact, in both a business and a social manner.
His rela
tions have been not only those of a business associate, but of a friend,
—firm, enduring, substantial. Mr. Rogers is ardently in love with the
beautiful scenery of his native state, and interested in all the measures
looking to its preservation. Keen, clear in his perceptions, rapid in his
conclusions, honorable in his dealings with all men, aided by the warmth
of his sunny character, he has achieved a remarkable success for himself
and his employers, a success that finds its more enduring encomium in
his long years of service, in his increasing number of patrons, in the
deepening of his fraternal ties.
WALTER M. ROGERS.
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�C
LARK FERRON ROWELL was born in Goshen, February 20,
1834, and was educated in the common schools and Tubbs’s
academy at Washington, under Prof. D. H. Sanborn. For many
years he has resided in Keene, and has held municipal offices; was six
years a member of the board of education, and has sat in the common
council. During the administration of Governor Weston he was ser
geant-at-arms of the New Hampshire legislature, and has been the
candidate of his party for state treasurer at several different elections.
In Keene he holds several positions of trust, having been a trustee in the
Keene Five Cents Savings bank since its organization, treasurer of the
Keene Humane society, and member of the board of health. For the past
ten years he has been travelling agent of the Cheshire and Fitchburg
railroads, numbering his acquaintances and friends by the hundreds, and
having been second vice-president of the White Mountain Travellers'
association. In Masonic circles Mr. Rowell stands high, having received
all the degrees, up to and including the thirty-second, in regular order.
For several years he was treasurer of the Hugh De Payens commandery,
Knights Templar, of Keene, and is a member of the grand chapter of
New Hampshire. Mr. Rowell is a most urbane gentleman, his occu
pation naturally bringing him into contact with thousands of men
annually. He has so delicately and tactfully conducted his business as
to make each of those thousands of men his friend.
The soul of honor.
the positions of trust to which he has been chosen, and for which he has
been made his party's candidate, but emphasize his integrity, and the
various official positions which he has held serve only to call attention
to his ability. In the city of Keene, in the state of New Hampshire.
indeed through all New England, Mr. Rowell finds ready welcome by
the unostentatious merit of his life, by the cordial friendliness of his
greeting, and by the warm depths of his comprehensive friendship.
CLARK F. ROWELL.
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�EORGE ALVIN SANDERS was born in Laconia, December Io,
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1846, and was educated in the public schools of that place and
at Appleton academy at New Ipswich. He began his business career
by entering his father's store as a clerk, but shortly after, in 1864, he
removed to Boston, where he became book-keeper for a wholesale house,
relinquishing this a year later to enter the employ of Abram French &
Co., by whom for twenty-one years he was employed as a travelling
salesman, canvassing almost the entire New England states in his routes.
In 1886 his father's failing health drew him back to his old home in
Laconia, where, in company with his brother, he assumed the manage
ment of his father's business, under the firm name of Sanders Brothers,
a partnership which terminated in 1892, when Colonel Sanders assumed
sole charge. As a Republican, Colonel Sanders has been prominent.
In the legislature of 1889–90 he headed a successful legislative ticket
in Laconia. In 1891 he was made an aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov
ernor Tuttle, with the rank of colonel. In 1892 he was chosen a com
missioner of Belknap county. Colonel Sanders was active in the
formation of the White Mountain Travellers association, and serves it
as secretary and treasurer. In the new city government of Laconia he
holds the position of chief engineer of the fire department. He is a
trustee of the Belknap Savings bank, and a director in the Laconia Gas
company. In secret society circles he takes rank as a thirty-second degree
Mason, eminent commander of Pilgrim commandery, Knights Templar,
a Knight of Pythias, and a Red Man. And everywhere he takes rank
as a whole-souled, genial, companionable, active man, the best of
COL. GEORGE A. SANDERS.
friends, the truest of comrades.
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�R. GRAN VILLE P. CONN was born in Hillsborough, January
25, 1832, of mingled Scotch, Irish, and English ancestry. He
resided at home until the age of sixteen, attending the common schools
and working upon the farm, following this with a few months of school
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at Francestown and Pembroke academies, and with two years at the
Military academy at Norwich, Vt., preparing himself for the profession
of civil engineering, which ill-health compelled him to relinquish. He
then studied medicine with Dr. H. B. Brown of Hartford, Vt., at the
same time teaching school. He attended two courses of medical lec
tures at Woodstock, Vt., and at Dartmouth Medical college, receiving
his degree from that institution in 1856, and immediately began the
practice of his profession in East Randolph, Vt., continuing it at Rich
mond, in the same state, until August 19, 1862, when he was commis
sioned assistant-surgeon in the Twelfth Vermont volunteers, serving
with this regiment in the field; was mustered out of the United States
service in 1863. In the fall of that year he came to Concord, where
he has since remained in the practice of his profession, advancing until
he stands in the lead in the medical profession in the state. Dr. Conn,
as a physician, has given much attention to matters of public health,
and has served as city physician of Concord, as president of the state
board of health, and as vice-president of the National Association of
Railway Surgeons. In all of these positions Dr. Conn has taken advance
guard upon sanitary problems. The health laws of New Hampshire
were largely drafted by him, and the present efficiency of the state board
of health is largely due to his efforts during his years as president. Dr.
Conn's ability has been recognized by the trustees of Dartmouth Med
ical college, who honored him with a position upon the faculty of that
DR. GRAN VILLE P. CONN.
institution; and he is a member of numerous medical and scientific
associations.
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�F' A. STILLINGS was born at Jefferson, March
3O,
1849, the son of Anson Stillings and Phoebe de Forest (Kenison)
Stillings.
His preliminary education was secured in the high and pri
vate schools, and he took a degree in medicine from Dartmouth Med
ical college in 1870, and completed his professional studies at the
Rotunda in Dublin, Ireland, from which he graduated in 1874. After
graduating from Dartmouth, he was assistant physician at the McLean
hospital in Somerville, Mass., for three years; then he went abroad,
where he studied in Dublin, Paris, and London, returning to this
country in 1874, and settling in Concord, where he has since resided,
and has secured a prominent position among the medical fraternity of
the state, and has built up an exacting practice, which extends to wide
territorial limits. During his residence in Concord, Dr. Stillings has
served as United States pension examining surgeon, and as chief sur
geon for the Concord division of the Concord & Montreal railroad. He
has been connected with the hospital service in Concord since its incep
tion, and is now a visiting physician and surgeon on the staff of the
Margaret Pillsbury general hospital. From 1891 to 1893 he was sur
geon-general of the New Hampshire National Guard, by appointment
from Governor Tuttle. Dr. Stillings, though still young, may recount
many a weighty professional achievement. A solidity of learning, a
brilliancy of execution, a readiness of diagnosis, and a skilfulness in
treatment, have combined to win him professional standing and success,
and among his fellows in the profession, as well as among those who
know him, he is hailed as a genial, cultured, and welcome companion.
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�New Hampshire
A MONG the prominentC.physicians ofwho was born at
classed Dr. Anson
Alexander,
must be
Littleton,
October 10, 1855, and was educated at the New Hampton institute and
Colby academy, New London. His parents were among the pioneers
of northern New Hampshire. Both great grandfathers were Revolu
tionary soldiers, and fought at Bunker Hill. His medical education
was obtained in Philadelphia, at the Hahnemann Medical college, Phil
adelphia school of anatomy and surgery, and the Pennsylvania hospital,
receiving his diploma from that institution in 1881. Dr. Alexander's
career in the medical college was characterized by high scholarship. In
1880 he won the one hundred dollar gold medal for superior scholarship
in all branches, the first honor of that degree ever taken by a New
England student. In September following his graduation from the med
ical college, Dr. Alexander began the practice of his profession at Pen
acook, where he has since resided, each year adding to his success. His
practice, from the first, was large, and in later years he has come to be
almost a specialist in diseases of lungs, and in that peculiarly New Eng
land disease, the scourge consumption. This disease Dr. Alexander
has made a special study, and as years have gone on and opportunities
increased he has given more and more attention to the alleviation and
cure of it, and his success has been very gratifying. As a physician in
general practice also, his skill has been called constantly into requisition
by the demands of a practice covering territory of miles in extent. In
the community in which he lives Dr. Alexander stands high in every
circle. He is a Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of Mount Horeb
commandery. The enterprising physician has been also a good citizen,
his time has been freely given in reply to public demands, and to the
extent of his power he has served the community well. He is yet young,
and his successes lie before him. Some are past, yet those that have
gone are such as to indicate that greater ones are yet beyond.
�was born July 29,
H.,
D IXI CROSBY, M.D., Alpheus Benning 1869, at Hanover, N. sur
son of the late Prof.
Crosby, professor of
gical anatomy at Bellevue hospital, New York city, and grandson of the
late Prof. Dixi Crosby, the celebrated physician and surgeon who was
dean of Dartmouth's medical faculty for thirty years. His preparatory
studies were pursued at Holderness school, Holderness, N. H., and at
Tufts college, Somerville, Mass. He received his medical education at
Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York city, and at the Dartmouth
Medical college, at which institution he graduated with high honor
and distinction in 1890. Prior to his graduation he was appointed
demonstrator of anatomy and prosector at Dartmouth Medical college.
In 1890 he commenced the practice of his profession in New York city,
where he was appointed clinical assistant in the genito-urinary class, out
patient department of Bellevue, and also to a similar position in the
Vanderbilt clinic. At the same time, he received the appointment of
clinical assistant in the throat department of Bellevue.
In 1891 he was
appointed assistant visiting surgeon, O. P. D., of St. Mary's hospital,
which position he filled until March, 1892, when he removed to Exeter,
N. H., where he is now engaged in his profession. In the same year
he graduated at the Broome-street Midwifery dispensary in New York
city. He is a member of the New York County Medical association,
and fellow of the New Hampshire State Medical society. In 1895 he
was elected a member of the American Academy of Social and Political
Advancement, and also appointed pension examiner by President Cleve
land. By reason of his interest in the Humane society, he was appointed
by Sheriff Coffin deputy sheriff to enforce the laws for prevention of
cruelty to animals, in 1893. In 1891 he presented to the profession the
DR. DIXI CROSBY.
“Crosby Surgical Needle Holder,” an improved and valuable instrument
in the practice of surgery. He is unmarried.
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�HE name and fame of Dr. J. Alonzo Greene, like good wine
T “needs no bush.” He was born in Whitingham, Vt., October 5,
1845, the son of Reuben and Lydia (Wasto) Greene, and was educated
in the schools of Boston and at the Ohio Medical institute at Cincin
nati, from which he graduated in 1867. Dr. Greene's education was
preceded by hardship, for in 1861 he set out from Boston with three
dollars and brought up at Pike's Peak, Colorado, where he enlisted in
Company H, First Colorado cavalry. He was wounded in battle at
Sand Creek, but served throughout the war and was mustered out at
Fort Leavenworth in 1865. After his graduation from the Medical
college, Dr. Greene for several years was engaged in private practice,
but the fortunate discovery of “Dr. Greene's Nervura,” a vegetable
remedy of great merit, turned him from the path of private practice to
that of a dispenser of patent medicine, and he built up a business which
is bounded only by civilization. Now, however, he has in a measure
retired from the exacting cares of his large business, and at Long
Island in Lake Winnipiseogee he has established a poultry and stock
farm, the largest and most beautiful in the world, where with lavish
hand he entertains and enjoys the goods which the gods have provided.
Dr. Greene is prominent in Masonry, Odd Fellowship, and the Knights
of Pythias, and is a member of the Amoskeag Veterans and the Grand
Army of the Republic. The doctor organized and is the president and
principal owner of the Winnipiseogee Transportation company, as well
as other enterprises about the lake region.
DR, J. ALONZO GREENE.
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�D". EDWARD BOYNTON DAVIS, secretary of the New Hamp
shire board of registration in dentistry, was born in Concord,
April 2, 1854, and is the son of Charles W. Davis and Helen M.
(Boynton) Davis.
He pursued a course of study in the public schools
of his native city, and entered the dental office of Cummings & Young,
in March, 1873, remaining there for nearly six years, during which time
he also attended the Boston Dental college, graduating with the class of
1879. Immediately upon his graduation Dr. Davis returned to his native
city and established himself in practice, where, with constantly increas
ing success, he has since remained.
His patients have grown yearly
more numerous, and his standing among his professional associates has
been annually enhanced, as is attested by the fact that he is now vice
president of the New Hampshire Dental society, and vice-president of
the Alumni association of the Boston Dental college, and member of
the New England Dental society and of the National association of
dental examiners. His position as secretary of the New Hampshire
board of registration in dentistry was assumed in 1891, by appointment
of Governor Tuttle, upon the formation of the board. Aside from his
prominence in his profession, Dr. Davis has been active in other walks
of life, having been one of the promoters of the Young Men's Christian
association in Concord, and is at present one of its most active coad
jutors. Though never holding office, Dr. Davis has evinced a warm
interest in politics, taking a prominent part in successive municipal cam
paigns. Dr. Davis is a most courteous gentleman, well schooled in the
amenities of life; in him one finds a warm friend, to whom is yielded
the credit of worth, and for him the future presents inspiring views of
hope crowned with the reward that follows faithful, meritorious work in
any line of life, especially when measured, as in the present case, with
the “golden rule.”
DR. EDWARD BOYNTON DAVIS.
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�ON. GEORGE W. PIERCE was born in Winchester, April
24, 1833. He was educated in Townshend, Vt., at the New
England Institute in New York city, and at Shelburne Falls, Mass.
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He studied medicine with his father, Hosea Pierce, a famous old-time
physician, and was graduated from the Berkshire (Mass.) medical col
lege in 1854. He established himself in practice in his native town
and has since resided there, with the exception of a year and a half
spent in the service of his country as assistant surgeon and surgeon of
the First New Hampshire cavalry. Dr. Pierce's military experience
was filled with excitement.
In November, 1864, he was wounded and
made prisoner, and was confined until the following March in Libby
prison. During his incarceration he was promoted to be surgeon for
meritorious and gallant conduct on the field. His military service em
braced participation in fifty-two battles and he was wounded five times.
Following his service in the army he took up his practice in Winches
ter, and served until 1875 as pension examining surgeon, being again
appointed in 1893 and was removed by the Cleveland administration.
He served upon the staff of Governor Moody Currier as surgeon-general,
and in the Grand Army of the Republic has held the position of com
mander of E. N. Taft post. For twenty-five years he has been a jus
tice of the peace. He has always been an active partisan, and for
twenty years was a member of the Republican state committee. In
1875 he was a member of the house of representatives, and in 1891
represented his district in the New Hampshire senate. In the medical
profession Dr. Pierce takes a high rank, his practice being both exten
sive and lucrative, and is followed with a remarkable measure of success.
In all public affairs he takes an ardent interest, and in private life his
kindly disposition endears him to an ever-increasing circle of friends.
HON. (EORGE W. PIERCE.
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�EN. CHARLES W. STEVENS, of Nashua, was born in Caven
dish, Vt., in 1844. For more than forty-six years he has resided
in New Hampshire, and here has won his success in life, a success
ustly entitling him to be ranked among the leaders of the state. In
business life, General Stevens is a builder and contractor, the owner of
extensive quarries, and a director or stockholder in many manufacturing
corporations. During the war General Stevens served with the First
New Hampshire cavalry, and has been a prominent member of the
Grand Army of the Republic since the formation of the order. He is
a past commander of John G. Foster post, Nashua, and in 1892 he was
an aide-de-camp on the personal staff of Gen. John Palmer, com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1889, upon
the erection of the New Hampshire Soldiers' home at Tilton, General
Stevens was selected by Governor Goodell as one of the first board of
managers, and by re-appointment from Governor Tuttle he still holds
the position. From Governor Tuttle also he was honored with an
appointment as quartermaster-general on his staff. General Stevens has
always been a Republican, and as such has been valuable to his party
as a leader or a counsellor. His fellow-citizens repeatedly elected him
a member of the Nashua common council, of which body he was presi
dent for one term; and for four years he was a member of the board of
education in his city. In 1885 he was a member of the house of rep
resentatives, and in the campaigns of 1888 and the four years following,
he was the efficient chairman of the Republican city committee. General
Stevens, though born in Vermont, has lived so long in New Hampshire
as to have assimilated the characteristics of the state.
He is indus
trious, therefore successful; he is genial, therefore popular; he is hon
orable, therefore respected.
�A.J. HARRY B. CILLEY was born in Manchester, May 13,
1862, and is the son of the late Jacob G. and Martha B. Cilley,
his mother being the daughter of the late Rev. Nathaniel Bouton,
D. D., of Concord, for more than forty years pastor of the North church
and first state historian of New Hampshire. At the age of eight years
Major Cilley went to Europe, where in the schools of Germany and
Switzerland he laid the foundation of his education, completing his
course of study in the public schools of Manchester after his return to
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America, and in St. Paul's school, Concord, where he remained four
years.
Following this, he was a student at the Cambridge (Mass.)
High school, and afterwards studied in the law school of Harvard
university. For two years thereafter, Major Cilley was connected with
a broker's firm in Boston, and was for a year engaged in mercantile pur
suits with his cousin, Bradbury J. Cilley, at Buffalo, N. Y. During the
three years following these employments he resided at Concord, where
he gave much of his time to his official duties in connection with the
New Hampshire National Guard, with which organization he began his
connection in May, 1882, when he became commissary-sergeant in the
Third regiment. May 24, 1884, he was promoted to be first lieutenant
and regimental quartermaster, and May Io, 1889, was again promoted
to be major and inspector of rifle practice in the First brigade, holding
this position until February 6, 1891, when he took up his residence in
Washington, D.C., whither he was called by appointment as private
secretary to the second auditor of the treasury. On November 2, 1891,
Major Cilley was commissioned first lieutenant and adjutant of the
Sixth battalion of the District of Columbia National Guard, and was
MAJ. HARRY B. CILLEY.
promoted to the position of captain and adjutant of the Second regi
ment in the same organization in the following December, holding that
position at the present time.
�J'
GANNON, JR., now residing in Manchester, was born in
Maine, forty-one years ago, and has resided in Manchester for many
years, where he has followed the business of an interior decorator,
being renowned for the remarkably fine work that he has turned out,
decorating many of the most important public buildings, churches, halls,
business places, and the finest residences throughout the state, among
them being the Rockingham House, at Portsmouth, and Governor
Smith's elegant residence at Hillsborough Bridge, Mr. Gannon has
served meritoriously in the New Hampshire National Guard, as adjutant
of the First regiment, for three years, serving also under Generals White
and Patterson as brigade commissary for four years. He is at present
adjutant of the battalion of Amoskeag Veterans, and is also connected
with the military affairs of the state as captain of Company C, Man
chester, the Upton light infantry. Mr. Gannon is a Mason, and a
Knight Templar. He is also a member of the Red Men, having served
as a district deputy in that order, and having passed through the chairs
in Agawan's tribe, No. 80. Mr. Gannon is a genial, companionable
man, numbering his friends throughout the state by hundreds, and his
prominence among New Hampshire's citizens is due to his own manly
qualities, that have won for him the approbation of those about him.
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�HERE is a man in Manchester who has seen the entire develop
ment of the city thus far, and who has typified in himself the in
dustry, skill, honesty, faithfulness, liberality, goodfellowship, loyalty,
and readiness which have been the characteristics of her people. He
was one of her best mechanics. He was for sixteen years her popular
postmaster. He has always been one of her best citizens. He is
everybody's friend and helper. He was one of the founders of the Re
publican party and no other has done more to promote its success. He
is honest above suspicion, generous to a fault, genial, unassuming,
genuine everywhere and at all times. Joseph L. Stevens was born
upon what is now the city farm in Manchester, January 15, 1827. He
was the son of Ephraim and Olive Leach Stevens. He attended the
district school at Manchester Centre until he was fifteen years old, and
then received instruction two terms in a private academy kept by John
G. Sherburne, which completed his school education. In 1846 he en
tered the Amoskeag machine shop, where he remained until February 2,
1849, when he started for California via Panama. After two years
spent in mining and other Pacific coast pursuits, he returned to his
lathe in the machine shop in Manchester. In 1854 he was employed a
few months in Lawrence, and then went to Boston, where he worked at
JOSEPH L. STEVENS.
his trade four years. In 1858 he again settled in Manchester, and
built the pump for the first Amoskeag fire-engine. He continued to
construct pumps for those engines until 1870, when he was appointed
postmaster, a position which he filled so acceptably that he was re
appointed again and again, and a fourth time, and served until the place
was wanted for a Democratic partisan in 1886, when he retired. He
has since been engaged to some extent in the insurance business and
the management of the Manchester Street railway.
�WO of the sons of the late John Farr have been prominently
T identified with
general affairs in this state. These are Evarts
W. Farr, who died while a member of congress, and George Farr, who
easily holds a position among the most prominent and useful citizens in
his locality.
His mother was Tryphena (Morse) Farr.
He early
learned the lessons of self-reliance, under circumstances which required
steady industry, and forbade him the ordinary recreations which to the
modern youth are regarded as a necessity. He was prepared for col
lege at the Thetford academy, in Vermont, and passed honorably
through a full college course at Amherst and Dartmouth, graduating at
the latter in 1862. Soon after he enlisted for a three years term,
assisted in raising Company D, of the Thirteenth regiment, at Littleton,
and served as its captain through the war. He was severely wounded,
June 1, 1864, at the Battle of Cold Harbor, and was unable to partici
pate in the further campaigns of his regiment, but did good service on
courts-martial and military commissions, at Norfolk, Va., until mustered
out in 1865, as the senior captain of his regiment, which was the first
organized body of Union troops that entered the rebel capital. Captain
Farr prepared himself for admission to the bar, but the condition of his
health prevented the gratification of his purpose in this direction. He
engaged in trade and manufacturing for some five years; was deputy
sheriff nine years, selectman two years, collector two years, and justice
of the police court of Littleton since 1880. Several years ago he pur
chased the Oak Hill House, and has made it a famous summer hostelry.
For several years he was master of Northern Pomona grange.
He was
for many years a member of the board of education, trustee of the public
library, and chairman of the committee on town history.
He was active
CAPT. GEORGE FARR.
in instituting a post of the Grand Army at Littleton, was one of its early
commanders, and was commander of New Hampshire G. A. R. in 1886.
�RA PARKER, the founder of the glove business in Littleton, the
general manager and treasurer of the Saranac Glove Co., was born
at Sugar Hill, October 7, 1846. He is the son of the late Silas Parker
and Eliza Stevens Parker. While attending the common school and
the academy at Lisbon, he devoted his evenings to the making of
gloves and mittens. When nineteen years of age he came to Littleton.
Bringing his ingenuity to bear upon the tanning business in its relation
to the making of gloves and mittens, he was soon manufacturing leather
with the grain on, a process for glove stock unknown to the world up
to that time. With push, sagacity, and hard work, he laid the founda
tions for a successful business career, and the working out of his ideas
has led to the industry of which Littleton is justly proud. He conducted
the business alone until 1875, when the firm of Ira Parker & Co. was
formed. This firm continued, under the successful management of Mr.
Parker, until all the glove interests of the town were combined in the
present stock company on December 31, 1889. As a citizen Mr.
Parker is liberal and public-spirited. He is a generous contributor to
the support of the religious interests of the town, is a member of the
Masonic bodies, represented the town in the legislature of 1887, and is
a director in both the Littleton National and Savings banks. He has
recently purchased a mountain, lying beyond his extensive farm lands,
about two miles from the village, and by a liberal expenditure of money
has an excellent road to the top, which commands one of the finest
mountain views in the state. November 23, 1869, he was married to
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Miss Louise R. Bronson of Littleton, N. H., with whom he lived until
IRA
PARKER.
her death January 7, 1879. June 1, 1882, he married Miss Mandane
A. Wright of Boston, Mass., with whom he is now living. To them
have been born two interesting children, a son and a daughter.
�HE paternal ancestry of Mr. Corning was of English origin.
The maternal line was
Irish-Presbyterian.
His father was Nathaniel Corning, and his
T That branch settled at Beverly, Mass.
mother, Mary (McMurphy) Corning.
Benjamin H. was born at Litch
field, July 15, 1835. His early education was in the schools there and
at Manchester. Developing aptitude for mechanical pursuits, he had
thoroughly covered the machinist's trade in the Amoskeag locomotive
works before he had fully come to manhood. With this tuition he entered
the employ of the Grand Trunk railroad at Gorham. He was with this
corporation several years. Subsequently he engaged in trade at Grove
ton, and was made postmaster there by appointment of President Lin
coln.
In 1866 he was made sheriff of Coös county by commission
from Gov. Frederick Smythe, and served a full term of four years. Mean
time, President Lyon of the B., C. & M. railroad was preparing to ex
tend his railroad system on two branches into Coös county and the
White mountains. Mr. Corning became associated with him in this
work in 1869, and was ever after one of his most trusted assistants. In
the last years before the transfer to the Boston & Lowell
was superintendent of the northern division.
company, he
In 1869 he made his res
idence in Lancaster, and in 1882 at Littleton, where he found a more
central location for attention to his duties as superintendent. From
1885 to 1889 he again held the office of sheriff, having been the first
Republican elected to it under the changed constitution. His insurance
agency, established at Littleton in 1885, is one of the most reliable and
best conducted in northern New Hampshire. He has earned a repu
tation as a most capable man of affairs, and in the management of
those large interests which are involved in the great industrial and me
chanical undertakings of the present time, he stands in the front rank.
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�HE town of Littleton has drawn liberally on the strong and pro
T gressive families of the Green Mountain state for leaders in its
business and professional circles. A representative of this region is
Charles C. Smith, president of the board of trade. He was born in
Danville, Vt., August 18, 1832, his parents being Hiram B. Smith and
Catharine (Colby) Smith. They came to Littleton long before it had
attained any such importance as a commercial or manufacturing centre
as it now enjoys. Their sons were educated in the local common and
high schools. Both adopted the occupation of their father, hardware
and tinware manufacturing. The subject of this sketch has devotedly
pursued this business for forty years, seven (from 1856 to 1864) at Gor
ham, and the remainder at Littleton. In that period he has accom
plished a large success. In the full possession of his physical and
mental powers, with the record of a long, profitable, and honorable
business career behind him, he now retires to a well earned respite from
business responsibilities. Mr. Smith has been repeatedly an incum
bent of public office, but never from his own seeking of it. He was
town clerk in 1865, '66, '67, and '68; selectman at Gorham, in 1863;
representative in the legislature, from Littleton, in 1869 and 1870; and
for three successive terms he has been elected chairman of the board
of supervisors, irrespective of the partisan result of the election on
other parts of the ticket. His conection with Freemasonry goes
almost back to the date of the establishment of Burns lodge at Littleton,
in 1859. He has always been zealously devoted to this institution.
He is a member of Franklin chapter, of Lisbon; Omega council, of
Plymouth; Aleppo temple, of Boston, and he has received the thirty
second degree in the consistory at Nashua. He was a charter member
of St. Gerard commandery of Knights Templar, of Littleton, and its
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eminent commander in 1888.
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�M
R. GREENE became a resident of Littleton in his youth, and
has ever since remained prominently identified with the affairs
of the town.
His parents were Josiah Greene and Rebekah Cram
(Bailey) Greene.
He was born in Weare, N.H., July 17, 1836.
He
received an academic education in the Green Mountain Liberal institute
at South Woodstock, Vt. For some years he followed a mechanical
trade, but gradually his adaptation to broader business pursuits became
recognized, and he was called to manage important undertakings. He
was a Republican in politics at the time of the formation of the party,
and has consistently adhered to its principles and policies. He early
identified himself with the Masonic institution, and was master of Burns
lodge at Littleton for several years.
He was made a chapter Mason at
Lisbon, and in 1868 became a charter member of St. Gerard command
ery and its first eminent commander. He was also master of Omega
council while it was located at Littleton. He is a 32 degree member of
the consistory at Nashua. He was grand commander of Knights Tem
plar of New Hampshire in 1877. Mr. Greene entered the army in Sep
tember, 1864, as orderly sergeant of Company I, First New Hampshire
heavy artillery, and December 26, 1864, was promoted to second lieu
tenant of Company I. He served faithfully to the end of the war, when
he entered the federal government service as route agent in the railway
mail. After ten years in this employment he resigned, and accepted
the office of indexer of records in the New Hampshire state treasury,
December, 1889. He was occupied on this work two years and two
months.
This laborious and difficult task covered the archives in one
department for the whole period of our state and provincial existence.
He was appointed postmaster at Littleton by President Harrison in
March, 1891. The same painstaking industry, and unostentatious de
votion to duty that have always marked his career, have placed him
among those who are justly regarded as model postmasters.
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�HARLES FRANKLIN EASTMAN is one of the solid men of
C northern New Hampshire.
Born in Littleton, October 1, 1841,
the son of Hon. Cyrus Eastman and Susan French (Tilton) Eastman,
he was educated in the local public schools, the Kimball Union acad
emy, and the Business college of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. When he
entered their employ as book-keeper, in 1858, the Eastmans were vet
eran merchants.
CHARLES
He became a member of the firm of Eastman, Tilton
& Co. in January, 1866, and upon the decease of Franklin Tilton the
firm was reorganized, Colonel Eastman remaining at the head, with
C. F. Eastman as the junior partner. For many years C. & C. F.
Eastman were unquestionably the foremost merchants in the White
mountain region. They occupied the “depot store,” one of the land
marks of trade in Littleton. In 1882 they sold the business to Edson,
Bailey & Eaton. Meantime, Charles F. Eastman had married Mary Ida
Taft, daughter of Richard and Lucinda (Knight) Taft, who had made the
Profile House a famous hostelry. Mrs. Eastman deceased in 1887, and
he married Mary R. Colby in 1891. His children are a son and a daugh
ter. He is averse to holding public positions, but some way or other
his neighbors manage occasionally to get the benefit of his sagacious
administration of responsible offices. He has served as a member since
1882, and treasurer since 1885, of the school board in Union district;
trustee and treasurer of the public library; selectman three terms;
each time enjoying the special compliment of a unanimous election;
member and treasurer of the committee on town history; national bank
director and vice-president of the Littleton Savings bank, and a mem
ber of the present legislature. His church relations are with the Con
gregationalists. Littleton has two strong local Masonic organizations,
a lodge and a commandery. Mr. Eastman is a working member of
both bodies, and is serving at the present time as master of Burns lodge,
and is a 32 degree Mason.
FRANKLIN EAST MAN.
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�MONG the rising young men in the profession of medicine in
A northern New Hampshire, is Dr. McGregor, of Littleton.
a native of Bethlehem, born June, 1853.
He is
His parents were Willard A.
McGregor and Almira G. (Blandin) McGregor. Dr. McGregor was
educated in the common and high schools at Bethlehem, and in the
seminaries at Tilton and New Hampton.
His medical preceptors were
Dr. Geo. S. Gove, of Whitefield, and Dr. L. B. How, of Manchester.
He was graduated in medicine at the Dartmouth Medical college in
1878. His first location in practice was at Lunenburg, Vt., where he
remained from October in the year of his graduation till August, 1880.
Since that time he has been located at Littleton, and has in that vicinity
built up an extensive and lucrative practice. His characteristics as a
practitioner are thoroughness in diagnosis, skilful appreciation of the
necessities of the case in hand, and wisdom and courage in the applica
tion of remedies. Dr. McGregor, besides keeping himself in close
touch with the best medical thought, as it is reflected in the current
technical and periodical literature of the profession, takes time to re
vise and perfect his acquirements in the medical arts by courses in the
best post-graduate medical schools and hospitals of the metropolis. He
is an authority in preventive medicine, and has served repeatedly as
health officer. His administration of this duty has always been wise
and efficient, and his reports are terse and instructive. Always one of
the most active members of the White Mountain Medical society, he
has often contributed papers and addresses in its proceedings, and in
1889 was its president. His biographical notices of Drs. Tuttle and
Moody were especially commendable. He is a member of the New
Hampshire Medical society, and one of the board of censors. He is a
Free Mason, is identified with the Congregational church, and is
a sturdy Democrat in politics, and influential in the councils of that
DR. GEORGE W. MCGREGOR.
party.
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�GRADUATE of the old bank of Newbury, Mr. Hatch came
the service of the Littleton National and Savings banks
when he had just passed his majority. He had, however, already
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attracted favorable attention as a successful cashier of the Bank of Chel
sea, Vt. The Littleton banks were then but little advanced beyond the
state of financial experiment. In his twenty years of service as their
chief executive officer, he has seen the deposits in the National bank
advanced from $30,000 to $250,000, and those in the Savings bank
increased from $40,000 to $1,130, ooo.
As treasurer of the one,
and president of the other, of these institutions, he is now recognized as
a man who has won an enviable position in business and finances on his
merits. In the prime of life, he now stands before the public with a
character unspotted by any vice of act or habit, with a business career
unmarred by failure, and with the respect and confidence of his fellows, not
limited by party divisions, personal associations, or immediate constitu
encies. Though always persistent and unlagging in devotion to the respon
sible business offices which he has accepted, Mr. Hatch has never been
unmindful of the duties devolving upon him as a citizen. In the affairs of
the church, in municipal progress, in social organizations, and in all legis
lative work assigned him, and as a square party man in fair politics, his
associates have learned to rely upon his judgment, because it is seldom at
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fault, and to expect certain results from his efforts, because, though unos
tentatious, they are none the less wisely directed. He is a representative
of that class of men whose advice is oftenest sought by the people in all
conditions. He is a genial companion, and a faithful friend. His home
life is the centre of the most agreeable domestic relations, and a rational
and kindly hospitality. This is his first service in the legislature, but
he takes his place by the law of “natural selection” at the head of the
committee on banks in the house of representatives, and he is a con
spicuously useful and successful legislator.
HATCH.
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�HE three sons of Adam and Sally Chandler of Bedford have each
In the finan
T attained prominence in an especial line of activity.
cial circles of New Hampshire each ranks with the leaders.
The oldest
of these sons, Henry Chandler, was born in Bedford, October 30, 1830,
and his education was acquired in the district schools. At the age of
twenty-one, Mr. Chandler left the farm of his father and removed to
Nashua, where he began a business career as clerk in a grocery and
hardware store. In October, 1854, he removed to Manchester, and en
tered the employ of Plumer & Bailey, clothing dealers, with whom as
employé and partner he remained until March 1, 1870, when he sold
his interest and went to Boston to become a member of the firm of
Sibley, Cumner & Co., wholesale dealers in tailors' trimmings, retain
ing his interest there until 1879. During his business residence in
Boston, Mr. Chandler still made his home in Manchester, and at the
conclusion of his relations with the firm last mentioned he became con
nected with the Amoskeag Savings bank in the latter city, and was made
its treasurer in 1884, still holding the position. In addition to his
duties in connection with the bank, Mr. Chandler is treasurer of the
Manchester & Lawrence railroad, in which position he succeeded his
brother, Hon. George Byron Chandler, is president of the Brown Lum
ber company at Whitefield, and member of the board of water commis
sioners of Manchester, and is the oldest director in point of service
of the Amoskeag National bank Mr. Chandler, as a business man,
has displayed through all his life the family characteristic, the art
of winning success. Following in the same line of work in which his
brothers have also achieved renown, it is rather remarkable that so
HENRY
many members of one family should have become so conspicuous, yet
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the success of each may be clearly traced to the exercise of the natural
ability with which each is endowed.
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�LONZO ELLIOTT was born in Augusta, Me., July 25, 1849.
A and is the son of Albert Elliott and Adeline Waterman (Black
burn) Elliott.
He completed his education at the New Hampshire
Conference seminary at Tilton, and began life as a clerk in a country
store in Coös county, then becoming telegraph operator and clerk in
Tilton and Wentworth, and in 1869 going to Manchester to become
telegraph operator and ticket clerk of the Concord railroad with James
R. Kendrick, succeeding to the position of ticket agent in 1870, and
holding it until 1893. Yet Mr. Elliott's reputation has been made in
other walks of life than that afforded by his duties in the railroad
office. He is a director in the Garvin's Falls Power company, the
New Hampshire Life Insurance company, and the Guaranty Savings
bank: is clerk of the People's Gas-Light company, and is secretary of
the Citizens Building and Loan association, and is treasurer of the
Elliott Manufacturing company and the Bank of New England, and
president of the Manchester Electric Light company. Mr. Elliott is
prominent in the ranks of Trinity commandery, Knights Templar, and
is one of the charter members of the Derryfield club, the leading social
organization of Manchester. Mr. Elliott has many business connec
tions, making him one of the Queen City's most hustling citizens. He
has never aspired to political office, although his name has been prom
inently mentioned among Democratic candidates for mayor of the city.
He is in hearty sympathy with the wage-earner, the manufacturer, and
the merchant, and deeply interested in matters pertaining to the
advancement of Manchester.
ALONZO ELLIOTT.
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�RANK WEST ROLLINS was born in Concord, February 24,
He
was educated in the schools of Concord, by Moses Woolson, at the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1881, and at the Harvard
law school. His law preceptor was Hon. John Y. Mugridge, and he
was admitted to the bar in August, 1882. For one year he practised
his profession and then entered the banking business, establishing the
firm of E. H. Rollins & Sons, becoming vice president of the house
after its incorporation. To the work of the house he has given his close
personal attention and is now in charge of its Boston office, though still
residing in Concord. For relaxation he has turned to literature and the
military. In the New Hampshire National Guard he has served in
various capacities, from private in the Rollins Guards to position on the
brigade staff as assistant adjutant-general with the rank of lieutenant
colonel. In literature Colonel Rollins has made his name known by
fragmentary contributions to the periodical press, and by more pretentious
publications, which have been received with favor. Colonel Rollins is a
F 1860, the son of Edward Henry and Ellen (West) Rollins.
careful man, careful in his work, in his business, careful with his friend
ships, and above all careful of the good name which he bears so modestly
and so well.
FRANK WEST ROLLINS.
�ENRY OAKES KENT, a gallant son of New Hampshire, and
a son of Richard Peabody Kent and Emily Mann Oakes, was
born in Lancaster February 7, 1834.
He was educated at Lancaster
academy and at Norwich Military university, graduating in the class of
1854. He studied law with Hon. Jacob Benton, was admitted to the
bar in 1858, and for twelve years was editor and proprietor of the Coös
Republican, conducting that newspaper with rare ability until 1870, in
which year he became engaged in office business and also turned his
attention to banking and manufacturing, as treasurer and a director of
the Lancaster savings bank, and as manager and one of the owners
of the Lancaster paper mill. During the war he was appointed aide
to the adjutant-general, to organize the recruiting service in April,
1861. He was made assistant adjutant-general of the state April 30
of the same year, and colonel of the Seventeenth regiment, New
Hampshire volunteer infantry, October 23, 1862, his rank and service
being recognized by special act of congress July 21, 1892. He has
held numerous positions of political importance and personal responsi
bility, serving as bank commissioner in 1866, 1867, and 1868, as pres
idential elector in 1864, moderator at Lancaster over twenty years,
assistant clerk of the house of representatives in 1855, 1856, and clerk
in 1857, 1858, and 1859, as member of the house in 1862, 1868, 1869,
and 1883, as state senator in 1885, as delegate to the Chicago conven
tion of 1860, the Cincinnati convention of 1872, and the national Dem
ocratic convention in 1884, as naval officer at the Port of Boston from
1885 to 1890, as president of the Lancaster Trust company and as
a director in sundry railroad, insurance, and banking companies. He
rode as colonel of the Governor's Horse Guards, has been grand com
mander of Knights Templar, post commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic, three times the candidate of his party for congress, and a
commissioner to adjust the eastern boundary of the state.
. HENRY O. KENT.
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�ILLIAM F. THAYER was born in Kingston, March 13, 1846,
where his grandfather, Rev. Elihu Thayer, D. D., was for more
than thirty years the pastor of the village church. Mr. Thayer's parents
removed to Meriden in 1855, and there in Kimball Union academy he
secured his education, coming in 1865 to Concord to become a clerk in
the post-office where, soon after being promoted to chief clerk, he remain
ed four years. He then spent a few months in the West, and returned
to Concord, serving for a brief time in the counting-room of the Elwell
Furniture company and then entering the employ of the First National
bank, and coming through successive promotions to be assistant cashier,
cashier, and president. His other financial connections embrace mem
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bership in the directories of some of the most eminent and soundest
WILLIAM F. THAYER.
fiscal institutions. In 1892 Mr. Thayer was chosen treasurer of the
Republican state committee and still holds that position. Since 1879
he has been treasurer of the city of Concord. Mr. Thayer is a Mason
and a Knight Templar. In the little more than twenty years of Mr.
Thayer's connection with the First National bank the patronage of the
bank has largely increased, the amount of its surplus has been multiplied,
it has moved into the most spacious and elegant quarters of any New
Hampshire fiscal institution, it has established itself in new lines of
financial enterprise; it has been progressive in all directions. In the
city of Concord Mr. Thayer has won an enviable place in the esteem of
the people. Though enterprising he has not been rash, and his judg
ment has been sought in matters of great financial import to the city
and its investors. His hand is ever ready to assist those who are below
and is never reached out to drag down those who may, perchance, be
above.
�ON. MATTHEW GAULT EMERY was born in Pembroke in
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1818, was one of six brothers, and of a patriotic ancestry, both
his grandfathers having been prominent officers in the New Hampshire
contingent of the Continental army. Mr. Emery attended the best
schools and academies in his native town, and then, deciding to enter an
active business life, left the home farm in 1837, coming to Baltimore,
where an elder brother was then living. Choosing the occupation of
builder and architect, he apprenticed himself as a stone mason. In
1840 Mr. Emery received his first public contract, cutting the stone for
the post-office department building. In 1842 he made his permanent
residence in Washington, and from that time until 1872 was actively
engaged in the execution of public and private contracts, doing much
of the stone work on the Capitol, and all of the public buildings. Dur
ing all these contracts, Mr. Emery never had any trouble with his work
men, his liberality to them always securing the best mechanics. Mr.
Emery held many official positions under the city government of Wash
ington, being for many years a member of the board of aldermen, and
in 1870 was elected mayor as a “citizens candidate,” receiving a
majority of 3, 194, every ward giving him a plurality. His inaugural
address contained the following sentences: “I am a Republican, but
my Republicanism is based on principle, and is not mere partisanship.”
“I claim no right which I am not willing to accord to all Americans,
without regard to race or religion.” In the religious, charitable, and
business life of the national capital Mr. Emery has been and still is a
conspicuous leader. The limits of this article will not permit an enum
eration of the many enterprises covered by these heads in which he is
ON . MATTHEW GAULT EMERY.
an officer or director.
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�ORACE G. CHASE is a native of Hopkinton. He was born
July 9, 1827, and was educated in Hopkinton academy. His
father, the Hon. Horace Chase, was a lawyer and for many years judge
of probate for Merrimack county, and postmaster, but on account of his
professional and judicial duties could give to the office but little personal
attention, and installed our subject, who was then but twelve years old,
as deputy postmaster. At the age of sixteen Horace became an appren
tice in the mathematical instrument store of Samuel Thaxter & Son,
Boston, and remained there until his health failed, when he returned
home, and in 1852 followed his brothers to Chicago. In 1855 he
became a partner in the firm of Rees, Chase & Co., examiners of real
estate titles. A few years later, Mr. Chase, with his brother, bought
out the Interest of Mr. Rees and continued the business till the time of
the great fire in 1871, which destroyed every vestige of the county and
court records. Having saved most of their indices to the lost records,
Mr. Chase effected a consolidation of his own firm with that of two
others engaged in the same occupation, when the business of furnishing
abstracts of titles was resumed, confidence in real estate titles fully
restored, and the rebuilding of Chicago commenced. The consolidated
firms were true to their trust and loyal to Chicago, refusing to sell their
indices at any price to a syndicate, who would have withdrawn them
from their legitimate uses, and made them solely a source of personal
profit. The result can be imagined, when it is remembered that these
books contained the sole and only evidences of titles to real estate
worth more than seven hundred million dollars.
Mr. Chase has been
closely identified with the history and growth of Chicago for the past
forty years, and with unlimited faith in its future, has improved his
opportunities and been very successful as a business man.
HORACE G. CHASE.
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�W' LUNT MELCHER was born in Gilford (Ward 6.
of Laconia) October 7, 1832, and was fitted for college at Gil
ford academy, graduating from Bowdoin in 1856. For two years he
was principal of Gilford academy, and then read law with the Hon.
E. A. Hibbard. He was admitted to the bar in 1862, and began prac
tice; soon after relinquishing his professional duties because of failing
health, though he has always retained his connection with the legal fra
ternity, and is now treasurer of the Belknap County Bar association.
In 1861 he was appointed register of probate, five years later he was
reappointed, and resigned in 1871, in order that he might give his atten
tion to the settlement of his father's estate, of which he was executor.
In 1864 he was chosen treasurer of the Laconia Savings bank, and held
the position until July, 1885, when he resigned, though he has since
consented to act as a trustee and member of the finance committee. He
is also a director and vice-president of the Laconia National bank.
He
served on the school board of Gilford and Laconia for most of the time
from 1862 to 1890, when he declined further election. For several
years he was president of the Laconia board of education. He was
active in promoting the street railway and the water-works, two enter
prises that have added greatly to Laconia's prosperity, and is now a
director in the water-works company. For several years he has been
at the head of an insurance agency in Laconia and is a director in the
Capital Fire Insurance company, and vice-president of the Merchants'
and Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance company, of Concord. Mr.
Melcher is a Republican, and as such sat in the constitutional conven
tion of 1889. In religion he is a Unitarian, and is a Mason, a Knight
Templar, and a member of the Grange.
�ENJAMIN PIERCE CHENEY was born at Hillsborough,
August 12, 1815, and at the age of ten years began to earn his
living. At the age of sixteen he was driving a stage between Keene,
Nashua, and Exeter and while thus engaged the Boston & Lowell rail
road was opened, and in 1842, when the line was extended to Concord,
Mr. Cheney embarked in the express business, first as a local agent be
tween Boston and Concord. But from that arose great connections,
and the absorption of the companies which he created by the American
Express Co., led him into positions of responsibility and trust in the
inauguration of some of the greatest and most widely extended express
lines and railroads in the country, among them being the Overland
Mail, Wells & Fargo's express, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, the
Northern Pacific, the Mexican Central, the Vermont Central, and the
Northern railroads. Mr. Cheney has lived in an age of great opportu
nities and has been able to take advantage of them. Yet in his success
he has been generous. To the state of New Hampshire he presented
a statue of her greatest son, Webster; to Dartmouth college he gave
$50,000 for the endowment of a chair, and his other benefactions have
been numerous and valuable. His summer haunts are found among the
hills and vales of his native state, and she has no small measure of grat
ification in the successes of his life, which he has shown himself so
ready to share with others.
BENJAMIN PIERCE CHENEY.
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�HE story of the career of Andrew Bunton is that of life-long de
T votion to the service of a great company; a devotion so brilliantly
successful, as well as thoroughly sincere, as to be rewarded with high
position and the entire trust of his employers. Mr. Bunton was born
in Manchester, August 6, 1842, the son of Andrew and Lettice
(McQuesten) Bunton. He was educated in the public schools of the
Queen city, leaving the High school before graduation, however, to go
into business. December 1, 1856, he entered the employ of the express
company, then Cheney & Company, and has remained in its service ever
since, a record of steadfastness and mutual appreciation seldom sur
passed. Beginning as clerk, in 1856, Mr. Bunton rose steadily through
all grades of the service, learning every branch of the business with a
thoroughness that has been invaluable to him in later life. Upon the
death of Col. James S. Cheney, in February, 1873, he succeeded to
the position of agent at Manchester, and held it until February 1, 1889,
when he was appointed superintendent of the New Hampshire division
of the American Express company. This is his present station, and he
discharges its manifold duties with an accurate precision and brilliant
rapidity that are nothing less than wonderful. Outside of his business
duties Mr. Bunton is known far and wide as one whose social tastes are
as pronounced as his accomplishments are distinguished. He has been
president of the New Hampshire club and is a prominent Knight Templar.
Deservedly popular among a large circle of friends and acquaintances,
Mr. Bunton's life, whether looked at from its business or its social side,
is almost ideal.
ANDREW BUNTON.
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�YRON J. PRATT, superintendent of the American Express
company at Concord, was born at Braintree, Vt., March 1,
1831. In early manhood he engaged in mercantile business at Ran
dolph, managing stores in two villages of that town. He left the
Green Mountain state in 1849, and became a produce merchant in
Faneuil Hall square, Boston, and continued that business until 1857,
when he took up his abode in “the wild-woolly west,” locating at Wy
andotte, Kansas, as a real estate broker. In 1859 he returned to New
England to accept a position with the Cheney & Co. express, and has
followed the fortunes of that company through the years of its wonder
ful development, including consolidation with the United States &
Canada Express company, and with the American Express company,
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a continuous service of more than a quarter century. As a messenger
he travelled many thousands of miles, having intrusted to his care,
upon railway trains, stage lines, and in the offices of the company, un
told millions of dollars in current funds.
From 1867 to 1881, with
headquarters at White River Junction, as superintendent for the United
States & Canada Express company, there were 1,300 miles of territory
under his supervision. The United States & Canada Express company
in 1881 located Mr. Pratt at Concord, as superintendent of the affairs
of that corporation in New Hampshire, where by honest business
methods, and courteous treatment of patrons and those officially con
nected with him, he has won a remarkable increase of patronage for
the corporation he has so faithfully served for the past thirty-two years.
Mr. Pratt is thoroughly Republican in politics, and prominent in the
councils of his party, notwithstanding the fact that he has ever declined
public office. He is secretary of the Lincoln club of New Hampshire,
and manifests a lively interest in everything that is conducive to the in
terests of Concord, the capital city of the state of his adoption, to
which he is ever loyal.
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�ANY men have gone out from New Hampshire to find their
sphere of usefulness and eminence in every walk of life. Among
those who have added renown to the state of their birth is Rufus Blodg
ett of Long Branch, New Jersey. He was born in Dorchester, Octo
ber 9, 1834. Mr. Blodgett received a common-school and an academic
education, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to the Amoskeag
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Locomotive Works, at Manchester, where he learned the trade of loco
motive builder. In 1866 he removed to New Jersey and engaged in
railroad business and is so occupied at present. He has won eminence
in the business world and is now president of the First National bank
of Long Branch. In 1878, 1879, and 1880 he was a member of the
New Jersey legislature, house of assembly, and in the latter year was a
delegate to the Democratic National convention at Cincinnati. In 1887
he was elected to the United States senate, to succeed Hon. W. J.
Sewall, and retired from that body March 4, 1893. In the senate Sen
ator Blodgett was conspicuous for the fidelity with which he performed
his duties; a man of eminent attainments in a business sense, he was one
of the most energetic members of the senate. His service upon impor
tant committees on the fisheries, manufactures, pensions, post-offices
and post-roads was most valuable. Senator Blodgett is a member of
one of New Hampshire's most distinguished families and his own
achievements in adding to its fame are by no means the least important
in the steps by which it has been led to prominence in the genealogies
of the state.
. HON, RUFUS BLODGETT.
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�EMARKABLE business success, achieved through honest and
R legitimate methods, is the record to which Joseph Albert Walker
of Portsmouth can proudly point. He was born in that quaint old city
by the sea August 13, 1839, the son of Nathaniel K. and Sarah Ann
Walker. His education was gained in the public and high schools of
his native city, and under the private tuition of Professor William C.
Harris. Upon leaving school he went to sea, and during a year's voyage
served before the mast.
Then he entered the hat and fur store of his
father and engaged in that business for several years.
He left it to
enter the wholesale coal trade, to which he has ever since devoted his
energies.
JOSEPH ALBERT WALKER.
Beginning modestly at Portsmouth, his natural adaptation to
the business, and his persevering devotion to its interests, caused a natural
but remarkable increase in its extent. To-day, Mr. Walker's transactions
spread all over New England, and his reputation for integrity and ster
ling business qualities is as firmly founded as it is widely extended.
The large fortune which he has accumulated Mr. Walker has not
allowed to lie idle and profitless, but has turned it into fresh channels of
industrial enterprise. Prominent among the offices which he holds in
connection with various corporations, is that of treasurer of the Manches
ter Mills. Mr. Walker has found little time to spare from his manifold
business cares in which to engage in the pursuit of politics. He has,
however, served as a presidential elector, being chosen on the Repub
lican ticket, and during the past few years his name has often been prom
inently mentioned in connection with the gubernatorial nomination of
that party. A genial gentleman, an energetic business man, brilliant,
brainy, and forceful, Mr. Walker deservedly ranks as one of New
Hampshire's most prominent and most successful business leaders.
�EORGE DEXTER BURTON, the distinguished electrician and
G mechanician, was born in Temple, October 26, 1856, the son of
Dexter L. Burton and Emily F. Ward. The common schools, three
years at Appleton academy at New Ipswich, and a course at Comer's
Commercial college in Boston, finished his education so far as schools
were concerned, and he at once gave promise of the future by turning
his attention to mechanical contrivances, and has since taken out
patents upon the Burton stock car, -the best of its class, –the electric lo
comotive headlight, the Burton system of working metals by electricity,
and numerous other letters-patent on different devices. For four years
he was treasurer of the Burton Car company, and is now assistant gen
eral manager. He is also president of the Electrical Forging company.
In recognition of Mr. Burton's acknowledged ability as an inventor, he
has been awarded six gold and four silver medals for improvements in
mechanics and electricity, and has had issued to him more than two
hundred letters-patent. As an inventor he ranks among the first, and
is a fitting successor to that pioneer of electricians who went forth from
New Hampshire years before him, but who did not in his field accom
plish more than Mr. Burton in his. Mr. Burton has studied from a
humane stand-point, and all of his devices bear the mark of a mind
alert to lighten the labors of his fellow-men, or to ameliorate the hard
conditions that surround existence in any form.
GEORGE DEXTER BURTON.
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�EW Hampshire is prodigal of her most noted product, men,
many of whom have become the statesmen, orators, and finan
ciers of other commonwealths. The present governor of Vermont,
Levi Knight Fuller, was born in Westmoreland, February 24, 1841, the
son of Washington Fuller and Lucinda (Constantine) Fuller. Leaving
home at an early age, he attended the High school and learned tel
egraphy at Brattleboro, Vt., and the Roxbury (Mass.) institute, and later
served an apprenticeship as a machinist in Boston. In 1860 he became
mechanical engineer of the Estey Organ works at Brattleboro, and a
member of the firm in 1866; then superintendent of manufacturing,
patent expert and inventor, for many years has been vice-president of
the Estey Organ company, and aided in establishing and building up its
large foreign trade. Through his influence, an international pitch for
musical instruments was recently adopted by all the leading makers. In
1874 he organized, and, until his inauguration as governor, commanded
the Fuller light battery, Vermont National Guard, the first to receive
the new-model United States breech-loading guns, and which regular
army inspectors have repeatedly pronounced second to none other in the
country. He has held the various town and village offices, sat in the
state senate in 1880, was lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1886. He
is a member of various societies—scientific, mechanical, and astronom
ical, having a fine private observatory; is a trustee of religious, benev
olent, and educational institutions, which he liberally maintains, and his
election as governor of Vermont is a just tribute to the sterling qualities
of his character, his brilliant attainments, his eminent political worth;
an honor coming to few sons of New Hampshire, but to none more
worthily. Governor Fuller carried from his home in New Hampshire
the basis of a rare manhood, and in the years of his success has dis
played the development of a self-made American citizen to a very
marked degree.
HON. LEVI K. FULLER.
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�ERHAPS one of the most widely known New Hampshire men in
is George A. Bartlett. Having held the position
since 1881 of disbursing clerk of the treasury department, paying out
some $6,000,ooo yearly, many people have a most pleasant recollection
of him. Mr. Bartlett is the second son of a family of four children of
Richard and Sally (Fellows) Bartlett, and was born at Kingston, April
23, 1841. His ancestors on the paternal side date back to the time of
“William the Conqueror,” and on the maternal side were prominent in
New Hampshire affairs, his uncle, Moses Fellows, having been the first
mayor of Manchester. Mr. Bartlett supplemented his district-school
training with a course at the Kingston academy, the principal being
Thomas W. Knox, afterward war correspondent of the New York
Herald. When sixteen years of age Mr. Bartlett left home to go to Law
rence, Mass., as an apprentice to E. W. Colcord, who had gone there
from Kingston and established a belting business. At the breaking out
of the war he enlisted with the second company of the Fourteenth
Massachusetts infantry, on May 20, 1861, for three years. Mr. Bartlett
participated in all the battles of the regiment, being recommended for
promotion for bravery on two occasions, but declined promotion, pre
ferring, as he expressed it, to “stay with the boys.” His life in Wash
ington commenced in 1866, when he entered the paymaster-general's
office. Some two years later he resigned. In 1871, he again entered
government service as a clerk in the treasury department, soon rose to
the grade of $1,800, and in 1881 was appointed by Secretary Windom
to the responsible position he now holds. Mr. Bartlett is a 32 degree
Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He also takes great interest
in the District militia, having organized the Treasury guards, and hold
ing the rank of major of the department battalion. He is a member
of the various veteran organizations, and is always actively interested
in all gatherings of New Hampshire people in Washington.
P Washington
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�ROF. GEORGE H. BROWN was born in Hill, June 1, 1847,
P and secured his education in the public schools of Hill, at the
New Hampton institute, and at the Detroit Optical college, in which
institution he received his professional training. Professor Brown's
early life was spent on a farm, and he has always retained a great love
for progressive agriculture, having put into practical operation the
tenets of his faith as owner of the well known stock farm in Tilton, the
“Brook Hill” farm, where he demonstrated that agriculture as a pur
suit, even by proxy, is not without its reward in New Hampshire. De
spite his present retirement from active participation in agricultural
pursuits, Professor Brown is still the owner of a number of high-bred
promising horses, the mementoes of his devotion to practical agricul
tural development. In Tilton Professor Brown stands among the lead
ing citizens. It was largely through his efforts that the Tilton and
Northfield Fire Insurance Co. was formed, and of that institution he
was president for a number of years. He has held several town offices,
including a seat in the legislature in 1878 and 1879, and for several
years has been a director in the national bank at Tilton. In profes
sional pursuits he is justly ranked as one of the most skilful in New
England; from his first entrance into the professional field as an opti
cian, he has commanded the highest patronage, and upon his prescrip
tion books are found the names of the best families of New Hamp
shire.
PROF. GEORGE. H. BROWN.
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�I
T is a great debt that the bar of Massachusetts owes to New Hamp
shire, for a remarkably large number of its most illustrious lights
own and love the Granite state as the scene of their birth and educa
tion. Prominent in the long line is the name of Stephen Gordon Nash,
son of John and Abigail Ladd (Gordon) Nash, who was born in New
Hampton, April 4, 1822. He was fitted for college at the local institu
tion and graduated from Dartmouth in the celebrated class of 1842,
having entered at the early age of 16. He engaged in teaching after
leaving college, first at New Hampton, where he had charge of the
classical department, and later at Franklin, as principal of Noyes acad
emy. Here he began his law studies with that celebrated gentleman of
the old school, Judge George W. Nesmith. Subsequently he removed
to Boston and entered into general practice there, being admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1845. In 1855 the superior court of Suffolk county was
credited with a jurisdiction higher than that of common pleas, and Mr.
Nash was appointed one of its first judges. This position he held for
four years, until the formation of the present superior court, when he
resumed general practice. He is now the only survivor of the judges
of the superior court of Suffolk county, who were Messrs. Nelson,
Abbott, Huntington, Charles Allen, and Morton. Judge Nash was a
member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1855, and
travelled extensively in Europe in 1859–60 and again in 1883. He
was married in 1860 to Mary, daughter of Edward Upton, Esq., of
Wakefield. Their two sons died in childhood. The story of Judge
Nash's life is that of long years entirely devoted to the diligent and
successful prosecution of a noble profession. Both as a member of the
bench and of the bar, he has constantly shown himself the possessor of
qualities that win admiration and esteem. The hoary head of old age
is surely, in his case, a crown of glory.
HON. STEPHEN GORDON NASH.
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�EVI WOODBURY is among the sons of New Hampshire who
have achieved a marked and merited business success at Wash
ington city. He comes of an ancestry of honorable distinction in the
state, his grandfather Israel having enlisted in the Revolutionary army at
seventeen years of age, having a military career of seven years, and
subsequently serving the state in civil capacity, in its legislature, for
thirty-one consecutive years. Levi Woodbury is the son of Israel and
Eliza (Graham) Woodbury, and was born at Salem, October 17, 1834.
That he has not lost interest in early associations and the state, is evi
denced by the fact that he has purchased the old homestead, and makes
it one of his outing-places during the summer; and also by the fact
that, though he has become a Knight Templar, he has never dimitted
from his mother lodge, St. Marks, No. 44, of Derry. Mr. Woodbury's
early life was passed upon the farm, and his education was obtained in
the public schools. His first fixed business engagement was in 1860,
when he entered the service of the Manchester & Lawrence railroad, as
station agent at Windham. Here he remained eight years, besides his
duties as station agent engaging in the lumber business, at which he
he was very successful. In 1869, having disposed of his business, he
resigned from the railroad service, and going to Washington engaged
in the hotel business, since which his fame as a successful hotel man
has extended to all parts of the country. Mr. Woodbury is also well
known as one of Washington's busy business men, being identified with
several interests for the benefit of the city. He is vice-president of the
new line of steamboats to Old Point and Norfolk, is a director in the
Central National bank, and largely interested in Washington real estate.
LEV I WOODBURY.
He is a man of affairs, who conducts whatever he undertakes with abil
ity, and to a successful issue.
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�ARLON S. WILLIS was born in Cambridgeport, Mass., July
H 18, 1843, the son of Rev. Lemuel and Almanda R. (Simmons)
Willis.
He was educated in the common schools at Westmoreland and
Warner, and in a select school in the latter town.
When twenty years
of age he entered the mail service as a mail agent, and for many years
was connected with that department of the governmental employ. He
was promoted to be full postal clerk, and for several years was employed
in the office of the superintendent of railway mail service at Boston,
where his work is pronounced to have been most efficient, painstaking,
and valued by his superior officer. During the administration of Presi
dent Arthur he was appointed a postoffice inspector, and after an inter
regnum, occasioned by the Democratic administration, from 1885 to
1889, he again came to that office, and still holds it. In these duties Mr.
Willis has been indefatigable. Being called to various parts of the
country in pursuit of his official duties, he has displayed a remarkable
knowledge in their fulfilment. In the legislature of 1883 Mr. Willis
represented the town of Warner, and was a valuable and consistent
member. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Grand
Army. August 19, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, of the First reg
iment, Berdan's sharpshooters, and was mustered in September 16; dis
charged, and sent home to die, on November 23, of the same year, on
account of disability resulting from pneumonia. From that disability,
it is needless to say, he recovered, and still enjoys fairly good health,
devoted to his work, and winning in it the commendations of those who
view its results in either an official or a friendly capacity.
HARLON. S. WILLIS.
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�EORGE FREMONT BEAN was born in Bradford, March 24,
S. Bean and Nancy E. Colby. He
was educated in the Simonds Free High school at Warner, in Colby
academy, New London, at Brown University and at the Boston Uni
versity Law school, and in 1885 was admitted to the Suffolk bar, open
ing an office in Boston, where he has since practised his profession
with unvarying success. In 1886 he married E. Maria Blodgett of
Watertown, Mass., and has two children, Esther and Stephen Sibley.
He makes his home at Woburn, Mass., in which city he has won
the confidence of his fellow-citizens to a marked degree, having been in
1891 elected mayor of Woburn, one of the youngest men ever to attain
that honor. Mr. Bean is a type of the successful young men who are
each year going out from New Hampshire. To him, perhaps, success
has come more freely and readily than in most cases, yet his success is
typical of that son of the Granite state who carries with him the ideals
of his birth-place and finds in them the true guide to his life and efforts.
Mr. Bean has been early called to high position, yet he has brought to
his duties a measure of conscientious ability commensurate with the
tasks set before him, and has rendered a service to the city that has
honored him second to none of those who have gone before. Other
honors may await him, to which if they come he will bring the same
high degree of ability which has characterized already his service
wherever he has been placed.
G 1857, the son of Stephen
GEORGE. F. BEAN.
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�X-JUDGE HOSEA BALLOU MOULTON comes of good stock.
E. He was born in Vermont in 1844; his father, Capt. David Moulton,
and his mother, a member of the Hale family of which Hon. John P. Hale
was a descendant. Judge Moulton's early school-days were spent in
New Hampshire. He was still a boy when he left his studies, in 1861,
and enlisted as a private soldier in the New Hampshire sharpshooters.
When mustered out, in 1863, he was assigned to a position in the labo
ratory of the Washington arsenal, where he was foreman for three
years; then he became an examiner in the treasury department. Now
it was that he resumed his studies, attending lectures at Columbia col
lege, Georgetown university, and National university, from which latter
institution he graduated in law. Resigning his government position,
Judge Moulton at once began the practice of his profession in Wash
ington. From this on, his advancement in business, social standing,
church work, and reform leadership has been marked, until he has come
to be one of the conspicuous figures among the larger men at the national
capital. His specialty, however, is law and equity practice, and
trials in the supreme court and court of final appeal. He is author
ity in many legal matters, having compiled local laws for two National
Digests, and other works. For years he was one of the justices of the
District of Columbia. To a clear, strong, legal mind, he adds the
fortunate quality of oratory of a high order.
He is recognized among
the foremost speakers of the District. Judge Moulton is the accepted
leader of the temperance and prohibition cause at the national capital.
He has firmly and fearlessly stood for this cause before congressional
committees, in all organized movements, in the enactment and execu
tion of temperance laws, both local and national.
HON. HOSEA. B. MOULTON.
He was a candi
date for congress in the Sixth Maryland district, on the Prohibition
ticket, making a vigorous, if not successful, fight.
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�EN. GEORGE WILLIAMSON BALLOCK was born at Clare
mont, December 3, 1825, and was the son of George Williamson
and Amanda (West) Ballock. The family is of Scottish descent.
His early life was passed in Cornish, between the district school and
farming. Later, he attended two terms at the New England seminary
at Windsor, Vt., and spent part of three years as a cadet at the Nor
wich university, Vt., paying his expenses by teaching and farm work.
In 1847 he joined the engineer corps of the Sullivan railroad, remaining
till 1850, then entered the employ of the Boston & Maine as agent at
Wakefield, Mass. He went from there to Andover, Mass., as freight
agent, and thence to Great Falls, where he remained until 1858, when
he formed a partnership with George Moore in the drug business. He
was town clerk of Somersworth in 1857-59, and the town's first police
justice. In August, 1861, he opened a recruiting office for the Fifth
New Hampshire regiment, and entered the service as first lieutenant of
Company D. The regiment was assigned to General Howard's brigade,
by whom he was detailed as brigade commissary of subsistence. He
served in the subsistence department during the entire war, being pro
moted successively to captain and lieutenant-colonel, and was mustered
out as brevet brigadier-general. He served with Generals Howard,
Hooker, Slocum, and others of note. In June, 1865, he was assigned to
duty in the Freedmen's bureau as disbursing officer, remaining till 1871,
disbursing during that time over $20,000,000. In 1871 he was made
superintendent of streets under the board of public works of the District
of Columbia, and served until the board was abolished.
GEN. GEORGE W. BALLOCK.
Since that
time he has been engaged in business at Washington as a patent attor
ney and insurance agent. He is a Republican in politics; in his church
relations, a Congregationalist, being an original member of the First
church. He is a zealous Freemason, having received all the degrees.
�MMONS STOCKWELL SMITH is a native of New Hampshire
honorable place...among the business men at the
national capital. Mr. Smith is the son of William H. and Eudora
(Weber) Smith, and was born at Lancaster, February 3, 1859. At
the age of fourteen he commenced active business life in a store in his
native village, which he erected entirely from money he had earned in
various ways, keeping a confectionery and notion store. Here he re
mained until he reached twenty-one, at which time he had quite a
property for that section. Having voted for James A. Garfield for
president, he came to Washington to see him inaugurated. Thinking
he saw an opening for success, he started the Boston variety store, oc
cupying one building. This business has grown until now three build
ings and a large outside storage-room are required. The Christmas trade
is something enormous. Mr. Smith is a director in the Traders' Na
tional bank, and also of the U. S. Electric Light company. Charitable
in private life, he is also a promoter of public charity, being a director
of the Eastern Dispensary and other charities. Mr. Smith is an active
member of Lafayette lodge, F. and A. M., also Lafayette chapter, and
Washington commandery, and in rank has attained the 32d degree.
Genial, of ready wit, Mr. Smith is no less popular socially than he is
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successful in business, reflecting credit by his life on his family and
State.
EMMON'S STOCKWELL SMITH.
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�EORGE ALPHEUS FERNALD, broker and member of Boston
G stock exchange, was born in
East Concord, February 13, 1850,
the son of Josiah and Mary E. (Austin) Fernald, and was educated
in the public schools and at Penacook academy. He then entered the
banking business with the National State Capital bank, and was later
with the Loan and Trust Savings bank. For sixteen years and a half
he was continuously connected with these banks. He was first a clerk
in the National bank, beginning his duties as such in May, 1869.
August 1, 1872, upon the formation of the Loan and Trust Savings
bank, he was chosen its treasurer, and served the bank in that capacity,
and also as a trustee and as clerk, until November 28, 1885, when he
went to Boston and engaged in business for himself, under the firm name
of George A. Fernald & Co., and has since continued there, residing
meantime at Winchester, Mass.
Mr. Fernald is a director in the Shoe
and Leather National bank, and a trustee of the Home Savings bank in
Boston, and a director in the Mount Washington railway. Mr. Fer
nald's removal from Concord was the occasion of much regret to his
business associates, and suitable action was taken by them at that time,
to express their high appreciation of his services and of his character.
Of his services, it is enough to say that during his years as treasurer of
the Loan and Trust Savings bank he saw its deposits grow from $5oo to
$1,800,000. And of his success in a new field, it is enough to say that
confidence followed him.
GEORGE A. FERNALD.
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�HARLES ALFRED PILLSBURY was born in Warner, October
3, 1842, the son of George A. Pillsbury and Margaret S. (Carle
ton) Pillsbury. He was educated in the Concord High school, at New
London academy, and at Dartmouth college, graduating in 1863. He
at once entered upon a business career, first at Montreal, which he soon
abandoned, however, and betook himself to Minnesota, where he em
HON. CHARLES
A. PILLSBURY.
barked in the milling business, under the firm name of C. A. Pillsbury
& Co., in connection with his father, Hon. George A. Pillsbury, and
his uncle, Hon. John S. Pillsbury, adding, later on, his younger brother,
Fred C. Pillsbury, and building up the largest milling establishment in
the world, adopting first the most improved processes, and winning the
most faithful and ingenious service of their employés by a practical sys
tem of profit-sharing, the first to be adopted upon any large scale in
America. To this enterprise Mr. Pillsbury has been the guiding spirit.
His sagacious brain foresaw the possibilities of his business, his unerr
ing commercial instinct has led him to seize the advantages as they
have appeared, and to him, more than to any other, is due the credit for
having made his firm known throughout the world, a power upon every
wheat exchange. Such a man as Mr. Pillsbury could not but become
prominent in other lines than those connected with his own business,
and we find him a prominent factor in many other enterprises; railroads,
banks, parks, real estate, elevators, all find in him a warm and generous
friend and supporter. In politics, too, Mr. Pillsbury has made his mark,
and for ten years, ending in 1887, he sat in the state senate of Minne
sota. Yet in the midst of all his success he has not forgotten the place
of his birth. His native town remembers him with gratitude and re
counts his benefactions; the church that he attended during his life in
Concord calls him blessed, and hundreds of isolated interests throughout
the country attest the benevolence of his nature.
�ON. WALTER
H
HENRY SAN BORN
of St. Paul, Minn.,
judge of the United States circuit court of appeals in the
Eighth judicial circuit, which has jurisdiction over the ten states, Minne
sota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Colorado, North Dakota, South Da
kota, and Wyoming, and the four territories, New Mexico, Utah, Okla
homa, and the Indian Territory, was born in Epsom, October 19, 1845,
and is the son of Hon. Henry F. Sanborn of that town.
He was edu
cated at Epsom and Pittsfield, and at Dartmouth college, where he was
graduated in 1867 at the head of his class, although he had taught
school five terms during his college course. From 1867 to 1870 he
was principal of the high school at Milford, and studied law with Hon.
Bainbridge Wadleigh. In March, 1870, he removed to St. Paul, was
admitted to the bar, and formed a partnership with his uncle, Gen.
John B. Sanborn, in 1871, which continued until he was elevated to
the bench, on February 10, 1892, by President Harrison. In 1874 he
married Emily F. Bruce of Milford.
In his twenty-one years of prac
tice he was an attorney in more than four thousand law suits and rose
to the highest rank among the lawyers of the Northwest. He was a
member of the city council of St. Paul for nine years, and it was under
his leadership that the rapid transit system of that city was established
and developed. He was treasurer of the state bar association from its
foundation until 1893. In 1890 he was president of the St. Paul Bar
association and of the Union League of St. Paul. He is one of the
most eminent Masons in the state of Minnesota and was elected grand
commander of the Knights Templar of that state in 1889. His high
intellectual endowments, untiring energy, and genial temperament ren
dered him eminent in all his undertakings and have already elevated
him at the early age of forty-six to a judicial position inferior only to
that of justice of the supreme court of the United States. The sons of
New Hampshire win no laurels she does not share.
HON, WALTER H. SAN BORN.
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�H ON. JOHN WOODMAN JEWELL was born in Strafford, July
26, 1831, the son of Milton Jewell and Nancy (Colley) Jewell.
His educational advantages were limited, and he early learned to labor.
When but five years of age he was at work in his father's tan-yard, and
at the age of eighteen, having thoroughly learned the trade, began life
for himself, expending the first money that he earned for tuition at Gil
manton academy. He then, through the summers, worked for three
years in a steam saw-mill, and taught school during the winters, attend
ing school at Strafford seminary in the intervals. In 1853 he entered
the employ of S. A. & B. F. Haley, of Newmarket, and remained there
a year, and then returned to his native town to enter the employ of Hon.
B. W. Jenness, whom he succeeded in business in 1864, and since that
time has been a leading business man of the town. He has been very suc
cessful, and is wonderfully popular. His counsel has been sought on
every important topic, and his sagacious advice has been followed in
political and business matters. He has been for years one of the wheel
horses of the Democracy in this state, and has been honored with many
a political office. He has filled every position within the gift of the
people of Strafford. For two years he was sheriff of Strafford county,
for ten years he was postmaster of his town, and for several years was
a member of the Democratic state committee. In 1885 he took his
seat in the executive council, and served until 1887, having previously
sat in the legislature in 1862. Mr. Jewell was married, in 1853, to
Miss Sarah Folsom Gale, of Upper Gilmanton (now Belmont), N. H.,
HON. JOHN W. JEWELL.
by whom he has three children, two daughters and one son. The son,
John Herbert Jewell, is a very popular, energetic, and capable young
man, who for the past twelve years has been associated with his father
in business, under the firm name of J. W. Jewell & Son.
�D' LYMAN JEWELL was born in Tamworth, January 26,
1837, the son of Bradbury and Lucinda (Chapman) Jewell. His
father died when young David was four years of age, and his mother
soon after removed to the factory village of Newton Upper Falls, Mass.,
where he attended the common schools, beginning at the age of nine,
however, to work in the factory. Having familiarized himself with the
details of mill work, he at the age of seventeen entered a machine shop.
and his mechanical taste and ingenuity were rewarded by rapid advance
ment.
His educational limits, however, caused him to leave this
work to attend school, first at Wesleyan academy, Wilbraham, Mass.,
and afterward in the Normal school at Bridgewater. Following his
graduation, he was for three years a school teacher in New Jersey and in
New York, at the same time pursuing the study of engineering and sur
veying. At the outbreak of the war he laid aside the theodolite to
become manager of the Newton mills, where as a boy he commenced
his life-work, and while employed here he was engaged by the Pembroke
mills as a draughtsman in the erection of the Webster and China mills,
at Suncook. While he was thus engaged, the agent of the mills died,
and Colonel Jewell was chosen to take his place, and has followed the
fortunes of the corporation ever since. In social life, Colonel Jewell
stands high; he is a member of the New Hampshire club, was aide upon
Governor Head's staff, was elected, in 1888, commander of the Amos
keag Veterans, is an active member of the Ancient and Honorable Artil
lery company, of Boston, and of the New Hampshire Veterans associ
ation. He is a man of wide culture, of artistic tastes, with a rare
combination of great executive ability and ardent ethical impulses.
Colonel Jewell possesses a charming combination of characteristics, and
through them all shines the pure light of a gentlemanly soul; his pres
COL. DAVID L. JEWELL.
ence is eagerly sought in all circles, and always graciously welcomed.
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�ILLIAM FERNALD HEAD was born at Hooksett, Septem
ber 25, 1832, and is the son of Col. John Head and Anna
Brown.
His education was obtained in the schools of Hooksett and at
the Pembroke Gymnasium, and at the age of twenty he went into busi
ness in partnership with his brother, Gov. Natt Head, in the manufac
ture of brick, which partnership continued for more than thirty years
and was terminated only by the death of his brother. It is pardonable
to speak more fully of this business which, under the name of W. F.
Head & Son, now manufactures annually from the celebrated Head clay
bank from six to ten millions of the famous Hooksett brick.
In addi
tion to the cares entailed by this business, Mr. Head is also a director
in the Merrimack River Savings bank, and of the First National bank
at Manchester; is a director in the Suncook Valley railroad, and is
vice-president of the Head & Dowst company, Manchester, builders
and contractors. In politics, Mr. Head has held few offices, his busi
ness cares compelling him to withold attention from political allure
ments. In 1870 and 1871 he was a member of the state house of rep
resentatives, and in 1876 was a member of the constitutional conven
tion, since which time he has held no office. Mr. Head has been for
WILLIAM FERNALD HEAD.
many years prominent in Masonic circles. In 1863 he became a mem
ber of Eureka lodge, Concord, and was a charter member of Jewell
lodge of Suncook. He is also a member of the council, the chapter,
and the commandery at Manchester. Mr. Head is a representative
business man of New Hampshire. His success has lain in his ability
to perceive and develop the natural opportunities offered by the state,
nor has his success been less marked by his ability in studying the
market. Though producing a staple, he has yet been careful in its
production, has regulated the supply by the demand, and has looked to
it that for integrity and honor neither he nor his firm should be outdone.
�UMBERED among the busiest of New Hampshire's young men
N
is Eugene S. Head, of Hooksett, who was born in that town,
June 1, 1863, the son of William F. Head and Mary H. (Sargent)
Head. Mr. Head was educated at Pembroke academy and at Dartmouth
college. Upon the completion of his education Mr. Head entered upon
an active business career as a member of the firm of W. F. Head &
Son, brick and lumber manufacturers, one of the largest concerns in
the state, and in addition to the increasing duties placed upon him by
reason of his connection with this firm, also maintains an interest in
various other financial enterprises—as a director in the People's Fire
Insurance company, the Head & Dowst company, of Manchester, and
the savings bank department of the Merrimack Mortgage company, of
the same city. In 1891 Mr. Head sat in the legislature as a member
from his town, and was reckoned among the most faithful members of
that body. Mr. Head has been a member of the Republican state com
mittee for some time, giving to his party such service as to merit the
praise of his friends.
He is a 32° Mason, and a member of Aleppo
temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Amoskeag Veterans.
He was married, November 19, 1884, to Hattie M., daughter of Amos
and Harriet Hoit, of Allenstown, and has two children.
Mr. Head's
life has been filled with reward won by his activity. His business inter
ests, though extended and varied, meet careful attention from him, by
reason of his capacity. In all positions that he has been called upon to
fill, Mr. Head has never failed to score a distinct success, and his youth
insures to him still greater success in the future.
EUGENE. S. HEAD.
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�APT. NORRIS COCHRAN GAULT was born at Hooksett,
C May 11, 1838, the son of Matthew Gault and Dolly Doe (Coch
ran) Gault. He was educated in the schools of Hooksett and at
Pembroke academy, and passed his youth until his sixteenth year upon
the farm of his father. The next five years saw him employed in a brick
yard, and in February, 1862, he went to Chicago, where he became a
clerk in the employ of the Galena & Northwestern railroad. Three years'
railroading sufficed, however, and he returned to his homestead in
Hooksett in 1865, and for nine years again busied himself with farming.
In 1867 he represented his town in the legislature. From 1874 to
1884 he was employed as an expert brick-burner, in New Hampshire,
Maine, and Massachusetts, and in 1884 began the manufacture of
brick at Barrington, where he has developed a business of 2,5oo. ooo
annually. Mr. Gault comes of sturdy New Hampshire stock.
The farm
on which he lives was taken up by Samuel Gault, in 1721 or 1722.
The “Gault Garrison” was the first house built in the vicinity. The
farm has always remained in the Gault name. He joined the New
Hampshire National Guard in 1866, and served through the different
gradations until he was commissioned captain of Company A, Amos
keag Veterans, February 22, 1871. In the town of Hooksett, where he
was born, and where most of his life has been spent, the Gault family
has made its mark. In 1858 he married Annie H., daughter of Nathan
iel Mitchell, of Hooksett, and has a family of two sons and two daugh
ters. His oldest son, Matthew, is a graduate of Dartmouth college,
and is now chief engineer in the sewer department of Worcester, Mass.
Youngest son, John, is a student at Dartmouth college. Oldest daugh
ter, Emma C., married A. S. Paine, and lives at Glenwood, Mass. Young
est daughter, Clara G., married Robert W. Skelton, and lives at Mil
CAPT. NORRIS C. GAULT.
waukee, Wis.
360
�J'
E. RANDLETT, architect, was born Sept. 5, 1846, in
Quincy, Mass., his parents being James S. and Abbie O. (Chase)
Randlett, who moved when he was nine years of age to a farm in
beautiful Gilmanton. He enjoyed the regular school advantages of
Quincy and Gilmanton till the War of the Rebellion absorbed his interest,
and August 15, 1862, he joined Company B, Twelfth New Hampshire
volunteers, as a drummer boy, when only fifteen years of age; was mus
tered into United States service Aug. 30, 1862, as a private. He served
three years and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec.
13, 1862, and Chancellorsville May 1 and 4, 1863. At the close of the
war he learned the carpenter's trade and engaged in business in Con
cord, N. H., where he has since resided for eighteen years. He was
the first mail carrier appointed when Concord was awarded the free de
livery system, and was keeper of the state house for four years. This posi
tion he resigned in 1890 and accepted a partnership with the well known
architect, Mr. Edward Dow, under the firm name of Dow & Randlett.
Mr. Randlett is ranked among the progressive men of the capital city,
and his practical ability and executive force are very largely felt in the
promotion of his firm's affairs. Plans for many public buildings, including
the New Hampshire Agricultural college, have been furnished by his firm
the past two years, and as an architect his work has more than a state
reputation. Mr. Randlett has been prominent in military and fraternal
circles, a Republican, a Baptist, a man of earnest convictions, possesses
hosts of friends, and has proved himself worthy of important public and
private trusts.
E. RANDLETT.
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�EORGE LYMAN THEOBALD was born at Warrensburg, N.Y.,
1851, the son of Joseph Peter Theobald and
Samantha Marsh. His early educational advantages were limited and
his boyhood and youth were not exempt from hardships. The days
that he would gladly have spent at school he was compelled instead to
give to work, finding no task too hard to be undertaken and displaying
even in those early days the vigor and energy, and most of all, the deter
mination, of his later years. At the age of nine he began service in a
hotel at Luzerne, N. Y., and until he was fourteen years old was em
ployed variously as office boy, steward, and assistant clerk. He then
engaged in the express business for himself, and in one year forsook
that for travel as a canvasser for the sale of fruit trees and cutlery
through New York and New England, until 1876. In that year he came
G on February 6,
to Concord, and now that he finds himself able to look back with mirth
upon those early days, he laughingly tells how he came on foot into the
city with little money and few friends. He soon found work and shortly
became a mover of buildings, adding to that business, as years went by,
general contracting, teaming, and an extensive trade in horses, hay, and
straw. Mr. Theobald has been in life a shrewd and highly discerning
man and has wonderfully prospered. His business has not been confined
to Concord but has extended all over New Hampshire, and he has become
GEORGE L. THEOBAL.D.
largely interested in real estate. Mr. Theobald has been active in poli
tics and interested in all the concerns of his ward and city, and has held
various offices conferred by his fellow-citizens, his last public position
being a seat in the legislature in 1887. As a secret society man he
maintains membership with the Odd Fellows, the Patriarchs Militant,
the Red Men, and the Grangers. He has worked untiringly through
his whole life, and his intense energies are in no respect abating; but
the daily increasing returns of his labor give him ample satisfaction for
his years of toil.
�OREN S. RICHARDSON was born in Waitsfield, Vt., August
1843, and is the son of Elisha Benton Richardson and
Betsey (Cutler) Richardson. He secured his education in the com
mon schools, attending the district school in his native town both
summer and winter. Being one of eight children, he spent his youth
upon the farm, and at the age of twenty enlisted in Company H, of the
Second United States sharpshooters. In June, 1864, he was severely
L Io,
wounded in the left shoulder, at the Battle of Cold Harbor, and was
mustered out with his regiment in July, 1865, having served with mer
itorious fidelity. At the close of his military service he went to St.
Albans, Vt., and engaged as a salesman in a clothing house. For two years
he remained there, and in 1867 he came to Concord, where he began
business for himself, and has since continued, being now senior member of
the firm of Richardson & Adams, the largest clothing house in the city.
Honors have come to Mr. Richardson in the political field; for four
years he served his ward as selectman, and for two years as alderman.
In 1891 he was elected a representative in the legislature—having held
all these offices as a Republican, to which party he has devoted a great
amount of his time and energy. He is prominent in Odd Fellowship
in all its branches, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and of Eureka lodge of Masons. Mr. Richardson
is one of the most active and enterprising of Concord's citizens; ever on
the alert to seize and hold a new advantage, he has contributed to the
prosperity of the city at the same time that he has advanced his own
interests.
LOREN S. RICHARDSON.
A sunny nature has made him a genial companion, strong
integrity has given him commercial standing, and real worth has con
tributed in no small measure to his success.
�SCOTT LOCKE, the efficient city marshal of Concord, was
G. born in Chichester forty-four years ago, but has lived in Con
cord for the greater part of his life, where he was for twelve years
engaged in the wood and ice business. It was while he was engaged in
this business that he first became an officer of the law, by appointment
under Sheriffs Dodge and Pickering as deputy sheriff. He was also jailer at
the county jail. In 1883, however, he removed to Texas, where he still
has large landed interests, and for three years was engaged in the cattle
business. In 1886 he returned to Concord, and in 1888, though a
Republican, he was appointed to his present position by Mayor Robert
son, a Democrat. He was repeatedly re-appointed, and upon the appoint
ment of a police commission for Concord in 1893, Marshal Locke was
retained in office. His administration of the police department has been
singularly successful.
He has introduced new methods of discipline, of
drill, of work among his men, and has brought the execution of the law
to a high state of perfection. Marshal Locke is married and has one
son who bears his father's name.
Marshal Locke is an enthusiastic
sportsman and his name and fame are familiar to the race-track, where,
as an officer of the course, as a driver, or as a patron of the turf, he has
been prominent for many years. Marshal Locke is a member of Blazing
Star lodge of Masons and is ranked high in the esteem of the citizens of
Concord.
G. SCOTT
LOCKE.
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�G'. PERLEY WARDE, the son of Hon. David A. Warde
and Martha S. (Cleaves) Warde, was born in Concord, February
17, 1866, and was educated in the public schools of that city, graduat
ing from the Concord High school in the class of 1885. In the fall of
that year he entered the employ of the Boston & Lowell railroad, leaving
them soon after to accept a position with the Concord railroad, serving
with the latter corporation from the spring of 1886 until 1889, when he
went south and became connected with the American association of Lon
don, England, and the Middlesboro Town company, two corporations
owning large tracts of mineral and timber lands in Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Virginia. During Mr. Warde's three years of residence in the South,
having returned to Concord in 1892, he was actively identified with the
marvellous development about Cumberland Gap, having been no insig
nificant factor in the peopling of the magic city of Middlesboro, one of
the few southern boom towns that attained permanence. Mr. Warde
returned to Concord in order that he might be with his family, and his
activity would not suffer him to remain idle. In that year he organized
the Northern Electrical Supply company, and was chosen its general
manager, which position he now holds. He at once saw the possibil
ities enveloped in the work of the corporation, and through his efforts
his company has extended its business, has increased its capacity, and
has won success. Mr. Warde inherits many of the business and per
sonal traits of his father, who was one of New Hampshire's most suc
cessful business men. Young, eager, enthusiastic, Mr. Warde is des
tined to make his mark in business life. The severe tests and criticisms
GEORGE P. WARDE.
which he is compelled to undergo, by reason of his having embarked
upon a business career among those who have watched his course from
childhood, have not deterred him from pressing forward in the work
that he has undertaken.
�HERE are some men in every community who, by reason of their
T constant devotion to the general welfare, fully deserve the title,
“public-spirited.” To secure to them some meed of recognition from
future as well as present generations, is one of the objects of this work; and
for this purpose it could have no worthier name upon its list than that of
Isaac Kimball Gage. Born in Boscawen, Oct. 27, 1818, the son of
William H. and Polly (Morrison) Gage, he was educated at the district
schools and Boscawen and Franklin academies. In 1841 he engaged in
trade in Fisherville, in partnership with Luther G. Johnson, leaving in
1850 to enter the employ of the Essex company at Lawrence. Return
ing in 1854, from that year until 1882 he was a member of the firm of
Gage, Porter & Company, saw manufacturers. Since 1857 he has been
actively engaged in the insurance business, and is now senior member of
the firm of Gage, Buxton & Company, agents for the leading fire com
panies. Aside from these duties, those of an extensive farmer and
dairyman at present occupy his time. Mr. Gage's public relations have
been so numerous and varied that their mere summary almost exceeds
our space limits: ensign in the state militia 1839, member of the first
-
Lawrence (Mass.) common council 1852 and president of it 1853, treas
urer of the New England Agricultural society 1865–69, member of the
constitutional convention 1876, postmaster at Fisherville 1846–5o,
justice of the peace since 1846, notary public since 1883, trustee of
Penacook academy during its existence, secretary of the New Hamp
shire Orphans' Home, is but an incomplete list. He has been a member
of the New Hampshire Historical society since 1872, and in 1876 was
given the degree of A. M. by Dartmouth college. Perhaps his most
recent public service was his promotion of the now highly successful
Penacook and Boscawen Water Works. In October, 1892, Mr. Gage
celebrated the golden anniversary of his marriage to Miss Susan John
son, by whom he has four children, three daughters and one son.
ISAAC KIM BALL GAGE.
366
�O become a successful lawyer and the holder of important public
positions while still a young man, is a sufficient test of ability
and integrity as well as of popularity. That is the success which Willis
George Buxton of Penacook has achieved. Mr. Buxton was born in
Henniker, August 22, 1856, the son of Daniel M. and Abbie A.
(Whittaker) Buxton.
He attended Clinton Grove and New London
academies and graduated from the Boston University Law school in the
class of 1879. He was admitted to the bar in March of the same year
and practised his profession for a short time at Hillsborough Bridge.
Removing to Penacook in 1882, and becoming the worthy successor of
the late Judge Butler, Mr. Buxton has enjoyed from the first a large
practice, which is constantly upon the increase. In consultation and in
the active prosecution of cases he is alike successful. In politics Mr.
Buxton is recognized as one of the potent forces in his adopted town.
For six years he was a member of its board of education and has served
as town treasurer and in other local positions. In 1889 he represented
Boscawen in the constitutional convention, and for many years has
been a member of the Republican state committee. Prudent and saga
cious, yet determined and persevering, Mr. Buxton has a future before
him in the law and politics of New Hampshire.
WILLIS G. BUXTON.
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�ON. HORACE A. BROWN was born in Cornish, N. H., Octo
H
ber 3, 1823. His early life was spent on a farm in Windsor,
Vt., and at the age of thirteen years he entered the office of The Dem
ocratic Statesman, and subsequently that of The National Eagle, of
Claremont, where he served an apprenticeship of four years. In 1844
he was employed by the Claremont Manufacturing company; in 1847, in
partnership with Joseph Weber, was publisher of The Northern Intel
ligencer; again for three years in The National Eagle office; in 1851–52,
pressman for the Claremont Manufacturing company, and in the latter
year entered the employ of the New Hampshire Statesman, in Concord,
and, with the exception of four years, has been a member of its force ever
since.
In 1866–67 Mr. Brown was assessor for Ward Four, Concord,
alderman in 1868–69, representative in 1875-'76, mayor in 1878–79,
commissioner of highways for the same years, and was for many years
secretary of the Republican city committee. In fraternal life Mr. Brown
has been highly honored. In Odd Fellowship he passed through the
various positions of honor and trust, to the office of grand master,
which position he held in 1883. In Masonry, he was master of
Blazing Star lodge from 1871–75, inclusive; high priest of Trinity
Royal Arch chapter in 1873, grand high priest in 1891–92, and
is now prelate of Mount Horeb commandery, Knights Templar. He is
also a devoted member of St. Paul's Episcopal church–was a member
of the choir for thirty-five years, has been secretary of the annual dio
cesan convention continuously since 1857, is a member of the standing
committee of the diocese, and has been a licensed lay reader of the diocese
for years. Mr. Brown was married, May 29, 1845, to Miss Sarah S.
Booth, daughter of Col. Hosea Booth,
now living.
of Claremont, and has one son
His life has been one of great activity, honorable alike to
himself and to the state.
�OHN W. BOURLET, commissioner of labor, was born in New York
City, March 7, 1850, and is the eldest son of the late John W. and
Dorothy True (Batchelder) Bourlet. In 1859 he became a resident
of Concord, in the suburbs of which he lived for seven years on a farm,
receiving such education as the public schools gave in the limited time
he was privileged to attend them. In 1866, at the age of sixteen years,
he became apprenticed to the Monitor office, and with the exception of
a few months, was in its employ until May, 1893, when he was placed
at the head of the newly-created bureau of labor by Governor Smith.
He is widely known as a printer, and at that time was foreman of the
job printing department, which position he had held since 1879.
Apart
from these duties he has been, since 1884, editor of the Odd Fellows
department of the Monitor and Statesman, has been a member of the
New Hampshire Press association for several years, and is now secre
tary and treasurer of the National Odd Fellows Press association. In
1887 he was a member of the legislature from Ward Four, Concord,
and served as chairman of the committee on printers' accounts, and
as clerk of the committee on labor.
He was also clerk of the Mer
rimack county convention and was one of the county auditors for two
years. As an Odd Fellow Mr. Bourlet has had exceptional prominence.
The highest honors of the subordinate and grand bodies have been con
ferred upon him, he having been grand master in 1891–92, and grand rep
resentative to the Sovereign grand lodge in 1892–93. He is also secre
tary of the Merrimack County Odd Fellows Relief association, and edi
tor and publisher of the Popular Odd Fellow, a monthly review of the
literature of Odd Fellowship. In all the walks of life he has reflected
honor upon himself and the state.
JOHN W. BOURLET.
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�ON, FRANK JONES, of Portsmouth, was born at Barrington,
Strafford county, N. H., Sept. 15, 1832. At the age of seven
teen he engaged as clerk in the hardware and tin business, at Ports
mouth, where by patient industry and honest methods, he opened the
pathway to fame and fortune. He soon became partner, and later sole
proprietor of the establishment. His life has been one of remarkable
prosperity, making him a conspicuous example of “self-made” New
England men. In 1858 Mr. Jones became interested in the brewing
business, which has under his sagacious management attained to first
rank among the breweries of America.
Born with the germ of Democ
racy within him, he is always true to its principles. A leader and direc
tor in his party, he was twice elected mayor of Portsmouth, and was a
member of the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses. Mr. Jones is
closely identified with banks, insurance companies, and railroads. He
is a director of the Lancaster Trust Company, of the Wolfeborough Loan
and Banking Company, and of the National Bank of Portsmouth. He
is president of the Portsmouth & Dover railroad, of the Granite State
Fire Insurance Company, and of the Portsmouth Fire Association, and
has through late years devoted much time to the active duties of the
presidency of the Boston & Maine railroad. Mr. Jones is largely inter
ested in hotel property, north, south, east, and west. The luxurious
Rockingham at Portsmouth, and the magnificent Wentworth at New
castle, both marvels of modern hotel architecture, are structures of his
own design, erected and equipped under his direction. The homestead
residence of Mr. Jones, “The Farm,” (one mile from the Rockingham),
with its thousand acres inclosed, its hedges and charming grounds,
conservatories, etc., is by his courtesy the “Public Garden" of Ports
mouth. His home is New Hampshire, its prosperity his pride, and his
life-work has been in aid of its growth and influence.
HON. FRANK JONES.
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�ON, JOHN W. SAN BORN, born in Wakefield, Carroll county,
16, 1822, was educated in the schools of that town, and
passed his boyhood upon the farm of his father. When twenty-four
years of age he began buying, selling, and shipping cattle, also became
largely interested in the lumber business. Although never a lawyer, he
was frequently called into counsel by his neighbors and citizens of his
county, and had an extensive practice in the settlement of estates. He
represented his town in the legislatures of 1861 and 1862; was a mem
ber of the executive council in 1863. In politics a Democrat, he was
elected to the state senate in 1874 and 1875, and president of that body
the latter year, and was a member of the constitutional conventions of
1876 and 1890, and has held many official positions connected with the
state institutions. He is a director in several railroad corporations,
banks, and insurance companies, also the president of the Wolfeborough
Loan and Banking Company. During the Civil War he believed in and
aided its vigorous prosecution in organizing troops and seeing that his
locality seasonably furnished its quota. Financially and otherwise, he
contributed toward the raising and equipment of Company A, Thirteenth
New Hampshire Volunteers. Mr. Sanborn became interested in the
extension of the Portsmouth, Great Falls & Conway railroad, and the
building of the Wolfeborough railroad. In 1874 he was appointed
superintendent of the Conway division of the Eastern railroad, and
upon its consolidation with the Boston & Maine, he became a division
superintendent of that great railway system, and in 1892 he was chosen
general manager of the system, which position he now holds. Mr.
Sanborn is a genial and true friend, whose rugged personality has im
pressed itself upon many an important bit of legislation, as recorded in
the history of the business enterprises of New Hampshire.
H June
HON. JOHN W. SAN BORN.
�ANY of New Hampshire's most noted men are natives of other
M
states. Such a man is Alvah W. Sulloway who was born in
Framingham, Mass., Dec. 25, 1838, and he has resided in Franklin
since 1860.
He was educated in the common schools, at the Green
Mountain Liberal Institute at Woodstock, Vt., at Barre (Vt.) academy,
and at Canaan academy. A considerable portion of his time between
the ages of ten and twenty-one was spent in his father's hosiery mill at
Enfield, and at the age of twenty-one he came to Franklin and formed a
partnership with Walter Aiken, which continued four years, when Mr.
Aiken was succeeded by Frank H. Daniell who continued until 1869, since
which time Mr. Sulloway has been sole proprietor and principal owner
in the Sulloway Mills corporation which has been recently formed. Mr.
Sulloway has had an active career in railroad circles, having been since
188o a director in the Northern railroad corporation, and its president
since 1885, and a director in the Boston & Maine railroad since 1889.
Since 1879, the year of its organization, he has been president of the
Franklin National bank. In politics he has been more than ordinarily
prominent also, beginning in 1871 as a member of the legislature, fol
lowed by a reëlection in 1872, 1874, and 1875, and by a position as
railroad commissioner from 1874 to 1877, membership in National con
ventions since 1876 and of the Democratic National Committee since
1876 and in the New Hampshire Senate in 1891. To speak of Mr.
Sulloway one must mention always his immense energy. Few men in
New Hampshire would have been able to cope successfully with the vast
amount of business that he has undertaken, and few men could have
dealt so promptly and so correctly with the details of all the various
interests.
No brief record of his career can show that career.
To
understand and to measure its success would require an intimate knowl
edge of the most important political and financial transactions in New
Hampshire for a score of years.
HON.
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�HARLES A. SINCLAIR was born in Bethlehem, Aug. 21, 1848,
and is the son of Hon. John G. Sinclair. He was educated in New
bury, Vt., at Sanbornton Bridge, and prepared for college at Phillips
Exeter academy. He entered Dartmouth with the class of 1871, but
did not graduate. From 1869 to 1873 he made his residence in Little
ton, and since the latter date has lived in Portsmouth, where he has
been actively engaged in business, coming in later years to be closely
identified with the railroad corporations of New England, having been
president of the Worcester, Nashua & Rochester railroad since 1884,
president of the Manchester & Lawrence railroad since 1887, and direc
tor of the Boston & Maine railroad for a number of years. He is, more
over, a director in many other financial institutions of great importance.
In 1871 he was a member of the staff of Gov. James A. Weston, and
in 1873 served in the legislature as a representative from Littleton. In
1889 and in 1891 he was a member of the New Hampshire senate, and
in the latter year was his party's candidate for United States senator.
In 1893 he was again returned to the house of representatives. In
addition to his other business connections, Colonel Sinclair has been
for several years proprietor of the Portsmouth Evening Times, and
has cordially approved the enterprise of that paper's managers in forcing
it to the front among New England newspapers. Colonel Sinclair is one
of the busiest as well as one of the most successful of men.
His whole
time is taken up with his multifarious business connections. As presi
dent of railroads, as a hotel proprietor, as a business man in general, as
financier, as a manufacturer, Colonel Sinclair's business interests cover
the whole of New England in their scope; yet so deftly does he manage
them, and so closely has he organized their various interests, that their
burdens sit lightly upon him. Colonel Sinclair is a genial man, and has
HON. CHARLES A. SINCLAIR.
attached to himself a host of devoted friends, who have made his inter
ests their own.
373
�ORACE E. CHAMBERLIN was born in Newbury, Vt., Novem
ber 20, 1834, and is the son of John E. Chamberlin and Laura
Willard. His education was obtained at Bradford (Vt.) academy and
at Newbury seminary, and his entire life, since leaving, has been spent
in railroad service, beginning first as agent of the Boston, Concord &
Montreal railroad at Littleton, where he remained for seven years, fol
lowed by service in a similar capacity at Burlington, Vt., for one year,
and then for six years at Rutland, Vt., as general freight agent of the
Rutland railroad, followed by nearly twenty years of service as superin
tendent of the Concord railroad, following the consolidation of that rail
road with the Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad with two years ser
vice in a similar capacity. Then he resigned, becoming a year later act
ing superintendent of the Concord division of the Boston & Maine rail
road, during the absence of Hon. George E. Todd in Europe, and after
six months of service, succeeding the latter gentleman as superintendent
of the division. In all the years of Mr. Chamberlin's devotion to one
calling he has developed a remarkable degree of ability in railroad work.
Holding almost from the first a position requiring the display of executive
judgment, he has gone on with increasing success and ease of execution.
The smallest details of railroad management are known to him and the
larger necessities of traffic are met and overcome. Mr. Chamberlin is
HORACE. E. CHAMIBERLIN.
one of the group of men who have watched almost the entire growth and
development of New Hampshire's railroad systems; to him its railroad
history is an open book and from its pages he has conned the lesson of
experience and has applied it in daily life as exemplified by his conduct
of the interests committed to his charge.
�ON. GEORGE E. TODD, whose life for forty-five years was
devoted to railroad business, was born in Cambridge, Mass.,
February 6, 1830, the son of Moses Todd and Rebecca Turner. He
was educated in the public schools, and when barely eighteen years of
age came to Lebanon as a clerk in the office of the Northern railroad,
removing in July, 1848, to Concord, where he held various positions in
the same employ, and became in 1866 superintendent of the road.
This position he held until 1884 when the Northern railroad became
part of the Boston & Maine railroad system, and Mr. Todd was then
appointed division superintendent and held that position until November,
1891. His health failing him at that time he was granted a vacation
and spent several months in Europe, returning home only to die Novem
ber 16, 1892, sincerely and devotedly mourned by those whom his faith
ful service, constant friendship, and untiring zeal had taught to value
him at his true worth. Mr. Todd from 1879 until his death was a
director in the Northern railroad, and was also a director in the Con
cord & Claremont and in the Peterborough & Hillsborough roads.
He was elected to the house of representatives in 1872 and 1873, and
was a senator of the state of New Hampshire in 1874 and 1876.
Through the years of his service to these railroads Mr. Todd saw the
growth and development of the railroad systems of New Hampshire and
under his direction the Northern railroad was kept fully abreast of
modern progress. Thoroughly devoted to the interests of his road Mr.
Todd was always eager to enhance its prosperity. In touch with the
modern idea of concentration, he was interested in bringing about its
consolidation with the Boston & Maine railroad system, and his reten
tion as division superintendent in the employ of that corporation indica
ted the value of his services and the esteem set upon them by those
familiar with railroad management in New Hampshire.
HON. GEORGE E. TODD.
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�UT few young men are better known in New Hampshire than John
Demeritt. He is a descendant of Huguenot ancestry and was born
in the old historic town of Madbury, Strafford county, August 8, 1856,
and has always lived in that town. He is the sixth John in direct
descent, and amply sustains the worth of his name. Like all farmer
boys, he received the first rudiments of his education in the district
school, and afterward attended Coe's academy at Northwood, and Phillips
Andover academy from 1875 to 1877, and later was a student at Colby
academy, New London. During his school years he developed a de
cided taste for business pursuits, in preference to a profession, and at the
close of his studies he entered the employ of the Boston & Maine rail
road, serving in various capacities continuously up to this date, Novem
ber, 1893. In recognition of his earnest and faithful service, he was
advanced, step by step, to the highly responsible position of city pas
senger agent at Boston, with headquarters on Washington street,
which position he now holds. Mr. Demeritt was chosen to represent
his native town in the legislature of 1887, where he served with marked
distinction upon the committee on finance, and with characteristic en
ergy he won renown for his zeal in general legislative work. In all the
walks of life he is honest, conscientious, upright and faithful to a
remarkable degree, and has earned the honors which have come to him
by his own untiring industry. There may be other and brighter posi
tions to which he may aspire, and in which his friends would wish him
success, but he fully recognizes the measure of credit that is recorded
for him. The career of Mr. Demeritt furnishes a most happy illustra
tion of the recognition of faithful service, modestly and courteously
JOHN DEMERITT.
rendered.
376
�MAN in a mask.
A brave and battle-scarred soldier, who has
A never been heard, since the war closed, to mention his connection
with the army. A sound and successful lawyer, who never talks law or
practises outside his office and the court-room; a tireless worker, who
never appears to be busy; a man of excellent judgment and rare sagac
ity, who proclaims no opinions and forces advice upon no one; a stanch
friend, who never advertises his friendship for anybody; a generous
giver, who never promises to give anything; a man whose sincerity,
sympathy, and earnestness are so cloaked in the exuberance of his good
nature that few know how genuine and strong they are; whose greeting
is always a laugh, who parries all attacks with jests, illustrates all points
with parables, and demolishes opponents contentions by exploding
against them grotesque imaginings; who quarrels with no one, allows
no one to quarrel with him, and yet generally has his own way,
was born at Ossipee, September 17, 1843. When but eighteen years of
age, he was enrolled in Company A, Thirteenth New Hampshire vol
unteers, and was mustered in as a lieutenant. He served in that posi
tion until he was severely wounded at Petersburg, June 15, 1864, by a
bullet which he carried in his body for many years. When his wound
had partially healed he returned to the front, and was aide to Generals
Raulston and McCullom, of the First division, Eighteenth army corps,
and General Ripley, of the First brigade, Third division, Twenty-fourth
army corps. Subsequently he was commissioned captain, and was mus
tered out at the close of the war. He was then clerk in the treasury
department at Washington, and for eight years clerk of the naval com
mittee of the United States senate. He read law at Ossipee, and Dover,
and graduated at the Law school of Columbian college, at Washington.
CAPT. CHARLES B. GAFNEY.
He resides at Rochester, and is a member of the law firm of Worcester,
Gafney & Snow, of that city. For the last few years he has been sec
retary to the president of the Boston & Maine railroad.
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�ON. EDWARD FOSTER MANN, born in Benton, Grafton
county, September 7, 1845; died in Concord, August 19, 1892.
Upon a rugged New Hampshire farm, within the shadows of her granite
hills, he passed his boyhood days; and while compelling her reluctant
soil to yield the fruits of earth, acquired those habits of industry and
steady perseverance that so well stood him in hand in later years.
Breathing her pure air amid the grand scenery of her majestic moun
tains, his mental strength and bodily vigor grew together. In the
midst of these stimulating surroundings his youthful ambition was
aroused, and he early conceived the idea of gaining that honorable dis
tinction which he afterwards attained.
Educated in the schools of his
native town and the N. H. Conference seminary at Tilton, he, upon
leaving his mountain home, entered the service of the Boston, Concord
& Montreal railroad, where he filled the various positions from brakeman
up to superintendent and in 1892 became general superintendent of the
entire railway system of the Concord & Montreal railroad. During the
years of his railway service the phenomenal village of Woodsville devel
oped, and most of its local enterprises matured under his watchful care.
He was director in the Woodsville Aqueduct and Electric Light company,
and in the Woodsville Guaranty Savings bank. Reared in the faith of
Democracy, he was ever an earnest worker in its cause, representing
his native town in the legislatures of 1871–72, and was a member of
the state senate of 1879–81. He was a member of Burns lodge of F.
& A. M. in Littleton, and of Franklin chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at
Lisbon. The religious convictions of Mr. Mann were broad and liberal
—a firm believer in the universal fatherhood of God and brotherhood
HON. EDWARD F. MANN.
of man. He was frank, sincere, earnest, and outspoken, faithful and
true in all relations of life, and loyal to every obligation of manhood
and citizenship.
�LIFETIME of persistence has placed John H. Pearson in the
front rank of New Hampshire business men. Mr. Pearson was
born at Sutton, N. H., March 17, 1818. With scanty advantages he
started out in life and sturdily exchanged blows with the world. He
did not gain his present eminence at a bound. Men are not born into
the centre of great financial institutions, nor do they inherit the manage
ment of great railroads, or stumble upon mastery in finesse if occasion
requires it. They win supremacy in all these, and Mr. Pearson won his
supremacy in all these by his persistence; so, too, he has mastered all
the obstacles in his life. How many these obstacles have been, and their
nature, none can testify so well as he who overcame them all. But what
they taught him his daily habit of life reveals. They taught him the
chief secret of all success—perseverance. They taught him the noblest
attribute of man—honesty. And perseverance and honesty have no
better exemplars than he. These characteristics he brought into his
earliest business enterprises—into his mills, later, as if for a trade-mark;
into his newspaper, as if for a motto; into his railroad, as if for a code of
rules. And in these signs he has conquered. In them he has fought
his way to the front and has maintained his place against both sedition
and attack. The tumultuous years of his life sit easily upon him. He
has shaken off disease and laid a firmer hold on the responsibilities of
his existence, finding care almost a tonic and labor a balm.
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�ENJAMIN A. KIMBALL, railroad man, manufacturer, and
banker, was born in Boscawen, August 22, 1833, and was gradu
ated from the Chandler Scientific department of Dartmouth college in
1854, at once entering the employ of the Concord railroad as a
draughtsman. After two years he became foreman, and at twenty-six
was master mechanic of the road, resigning in 1865 to engage in busi
ness under the firm name of Ford & Kimball. In 1879, he returned
to the railroad as a director, to succeed Governor Onslow Stearns, and
has since been actively connected with the road's management, becom
ing, in 1889, a member of the executive committee of the Concord &
Montreal railroad. During nearly all his residence in Concord, Mr.
Kimball has been prominent in public affairs. For six years he served
as a member of the water board, was for four years its president, and
was chiefly instrumental in procuring the construction of the city's
water-system. He was trustee of the old Concord Savings bank, and
is president of the Mechanicks National bank. He is president of the
Franklin & Tilton railroad, and a director in a number of similar corpo
rations. In 1870 he was a member of the legislature, and declined a
second term. From 1885 to 1887 he was a member of the governor's
council, and for some years has been chairman of the board of visitors
to the Chandler Scientific department of Dartmouth college. In all
the affairs of the community he has had a prominent part, and his
activity has always been for good. His rise in life has been due to
his own prudence and foresight, and in his successes he has not lost
sight of the sound principles which guided his struggles.
BENJAMIN A. KIM BALL.
�H
ON. CHARLES ALBERT BUSIEL, the first mayor of Laconia,
was born in Meredith (Village), November 24, 1842, the son
of John W. and Julia (Tilton) Busiel. When he was but four years of
age his family removed to Laconia, and there he has since resided.
There he was educated, and there, upon coming of age, he embarked in
the hosiery business, which he had first practically learned in his father's
mill. In 1868 he disposed of his first plant and became interested with
his brother, John T., under the firm name of C. A. Busiel & Co. This
continued until 1871, when the brothers' father was admitted to the firm
and the name became J. W. Busiel & Co. Mr. Busiel's only political
office, prior to 1892, had been a membership in the legislatures of 1878 and
1879, yet when the new city of Laconia cast about for its first mayor,
no name was so spontaneously mentioned as Mr. Busiel's. His nomin
ation was followed by a triumphant election, and that by a wise and care
ful administration, the mayor's directing hand and warning voice being
of great service to the new city in its first days. Besides the attention
claimed by his private business, Mr. Busiel's time is filled with the work of
the affairs of life.
He is a director of the Concord & Montreal railroad and
a member of the executive committee of that road.
He is also a director
of the Boston, Concord & Montreal, the Meredith & Conway, the New
Boston, the Franklin & Tilton, the Moosilauke, and the Profile &
Franconia Notch railroads, and is president of the Lake Shore railroad.
Mr. Busiel is a man of large business interests. He is, moreover, a
man of large friendships. Few men are more winning; and none hold
their friends more closely.
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HON. CHARLES A. BUSIEL.
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�EW Hampshire men have gone out to win their way in every
field of endeavor, and among those who have won the highest
rank in the commercial field claiming New Hampshire as their birth
place may be named Charles E. Morrison, who was born at New
N
Hampton, August 14, 1833, the son of Thomas W. Morrison and
Dorothy Gordon. He was educated in the schools at New Hampton
and Franklin, and forty years ago, under the firm name of Charles E.
Morrison & Co., established himself in business, in Boston, as a com
mission merchant and dealer in foreign and domestic fruit and produce
in the Faneuil Hall market.
This house from the start has won and
held an enviable reputation; its trade area covers the entire country,
and its export business is among the heaviest in Boston commission
circles. The promptitude with which it has conducted its affairs is in
no small measure due to Mr. Morrison's active and untiring efforts, his
personal attention being given to almost every detail of the business.
Mr. Morrison has grown in another world than the commercial also,
and at the present time is a director in the Faneuil Hall National bank,
in the North American Fire Insurance Co., in the Concord & Montreal
railroad, and his rectitude is affirmed by a position as trustee of Tufts
college. He also holds many other positions of responsibility and
trust. Mr. Morrison has fought his way to the top almost unaided.
His extended business relations draw him frequently to his native state,
and his affection for the interests of New Hampshire still glows bright
and warm within his breast.
CHARLES E. MORRISON.
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�IRAM N. TURNER has won prominence in two distinct lines
of work, as will be seen from the outline of his career. Mr.
Turner was born at Bethlehem, December 20, 1839, and very early in
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life entered upon a railroad career, and served in it until 1889. From
subordinate places he rose to become successively travelling agent
of
the Worcester & Nashua railroad, freight and passenger agent of the
Portland & Worcester road, manager of the Quebec, Ottawa & New
England air line, general freight agent of the Boston & Lowell rail
road, and general traffic manager of the same system. Thus he was
occupied until his fiftieth year. He then stepped aside from the path
in which he had so steadily mounted and turned himself to a manu
facturing pursuit. With most men the change would have been dan
gerous or even disastrous; but the ability that had carried him successively
and successfully forward in railroad life, was his reliance now, and in
his new position, as general manager and a director of the E. & T. Fair
banks & Co. scale manufactory at St. Johnsbury, Vt., he found new
victories. In the village of St. Johnsbury Mr. Turner became prom
inent, and now holds the position of president of the board of trade in
that place. His connection with the railroads of New England did not
cease with his entrance upon another field of continuous application, and
he is now a director of the Concord & Montreal system, where he is a
valued and effective officer. Mr. Turner was married, January 12, 1861,
to Miss Ellen Brewster, of Whitefield. The record of his life is the
story of enterprise, and each step marks renewed appreciation by the
world. That appreciation Mr. Turner's native state shares in, and does
not hesitate to express.
HIRAM. N. TURNER.
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�HE development of the railroad interests of New Hampshire has
T carried with it into prominence many sons of the state who have
devoted themselves to this greatest of nineteenth century industries.
Among them is Frank Eugene Brown, the son of Hon. Horace A. Brown
and Sarah S. Booth, who was born at Claremont, July 15, 1850, and
who was educated in the public schools of Concord, to which city his
parents removed while he was yet a small child. Upon finishing his
school course Mr. Brown, at the age of eighteen, in August, 1868, en
tered the employ of the Concord railroad, continuing with that corpora
tion and its successor, the Concord & Montreal railroad, until the present
time, and passing in that time through the various branches of clerical
work and superintendencies until he has reached his present position
of general passenger agent of the road last mentioned. Such a record
is Mr. Brown's proudest boast, betokening as it does the confidence
and esteem of those who have known and watched him in his business
life. This confidence and esteem have been given in large measure to
Mr. Brown by all who have known him in any capacity, and have been
communicated by his election to various positions in social and other
organizations, and by his choice in 1882 to a seat in the New Hamp
shire house of representatives. Mr. Brown through all his life has
amply deserved the success and honor that have come to him. His
unflagging zeal, his rare discretion, his unmatched courtesy, have been
to him the greatest sources of his success. Added to this is the ut
most integrity, joined to an infinite capacity and industry, making a
remarkably symmetrical equipment for the work that he has so success
fully carried out. Mr. Brown is a man of highly refined tastes and a
musician of more than ordinary ability. Combining, as he does, the
courtliness of the old school with the energy and the sprightliness of
the new, Mr. Brown is a most charming acquaintance, a most stead
fast and loyal friend, a zealous and honorable citizen.
FRANK E. BROWN.
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�ANIELS CARPENTER PRESCOTT was born at Somerville,
D Mass., May 2, 1853.
His parents were Samuel Dana and Mary
Abigail (Carpenter) Prescott, and he was educated in the public schools
of Malden, Somerville, and Foxboro, Mass.
At the age of twenty
he entered a railroad office and in a railroad office he has since been.
When he began he was with the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg road;
now he is with the Concord & Montreal. For five years he remained
with his first employers, and from 1878 to 1886 he was with the Old
Colony railroad. He then became assistant general freight agent of the
Boston & Lowell railroad, and became in 1887 general freight agent.
In 1889 he went with the Boston & Maine as assistant general freight
agent and in 1891 he came to the Concord & Montreal as general freight
agent, Mr. Prescott, it will be seen, has pushed steadily upward in the
work which he took up at twenty, and at forty his position in the rail
road world is marked by the great confidence reposed in his ability and
fidelity. His has been a painstaking department of railroad administra
tion, requiring careful foresight, a lively knowledge of details, accuracy,
and rapidity. Mr. Prescott's possession of these qualities is best
attested by his record, a record of advancement that could not have been
possible except under the complete possession and daily exercise of all
these characteristics.
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�OHN FRANCIS WEBSTER was born
in Dorchester, Mass.,
November 18, 1837, the son of Nathaniel F. Webster and Miriam
(Couch) Webster, both of whom were born in Salisbury.
He was
educated at Chatham academy, Savannah, Ga., and at Professor Barnes's
academy at Concord, obtaining a commercial education with Rodney
G. Cutting. In 1856 he was book-keeper for Moore, Cilley & Co.,
in Concord, and March 14, 1857, became local freight cashier for the
Concord railroad. He was appointed cashier of the Concord railroad
system May 1, 1865, and retained that position until October, 1889.
He was appointed cashier of the Manchester & Lawrence railroad,
August 1, 1867, and remained with that company until its absorption
by the Boston & Maine railroad. Upon the formation of the Concord
& Montreal railroad, in 1889, he was elected treasurer of the system,
and now retains that position. In 1889 and 1890 Mr. Webster served
in the legislature as a representative from Ward Four, being chairman
of the finance committee.
In addition to his services as treasurer of
the Concord & Montreal railroad, Mr. Webster holds a similar position
with relation to the Profile & Franconia Notch, the Lake Shore, the
Manchester & North Weare, and New Boston railroads. He is also a
director of the Mechanicks National bank.
Mr. Webster is one of the
most prominent members of the Masonic fraternity in New Hampshire,
having taken the thirty-third degree, and having held almost every office
in the gift of his jurisdiction. Mr. Webster is a courteous business
man. A remarkable knowledge of detail, and a careful application of that
knowledge, have enabled him to rise in the confidence and respect of the
corporation with which he has been so long connected. A conscientious
devotion to principle has won for him also the respect of his acquain
tances, and his genial qualities have added, moreover, the unfaltering
friendship and affection of those who have come to know him inti
JOHN FRANCIS WEBSTER.
mately.
386
�RANK P. QUIMBY was born in Concord, September 22, 1856,
and is the son of John and Lydia Quimby. He was educated in
the public schools of his native city and at the Bryant & Stratton business
college at Manchester. All his life, since his fifteenth year, has been
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devoted to railroading, having begun, in 1871, service with the Concord
railroad as section-hand, passing through the various positions of switch
man, yard brakeman, fireman, and clerk in the treasurer's office, retain
ing his position with the road after the organization of the Concord &
Montreal railroad, and occupying now the position of chief clerk and
paymaster of the last named corporation. Mr. Quimby has made a
steady advance in railroad life through faithful devotion to the interests
of those with whom he has been associated and for whom he has labored.
The measure of his service has never been too severely strained, for no
additional duty has been too onerous for him to undertake. In all
that he has undertaken Mr. Quimby has displayed a remarkable cheer
fulness of disposition, and has readily won friends who have advanced
him in political life at the same time that he has been advancing in bus
iness circles.
He was alderman from Ward Seven, Concord, for four
years, and was elected in 1892 a member of the house of representatives
from that same ward. In the house Mr. Quimby's service has been
quiet but valuable, and he has been closely connected with some of the
most important legislation of the session. In social life Mr. Quimby is
deservedly popular; an unaffected frankness of manner, a winning affa
bility, and a decided honesty of expression endearing him to many. Mr.
Quimby is successful because of his incessant attention to whatever con
cern is immediately before him, and winning successive promotions by the
minute and faithful care that he has devoted to the concerns always
immediately at hand.
FRANK P. QUIMBY.
387
�VERY intelligent farmer in New Hampshire has often heard the
and nine cases out of ten it has
been mentioned in connection with some progress or improvement in
agricultural craft. George Austin Wason, born in New Boston, Sep
tember 13, 1831, was the youngest of the nine children of Robert and
Nancy (Bachelder) Wason. He was educated in the regular town
E. name of George A. Wason;
schools and in a select school at New Boston, and also at Francestown
academy. Born and reared upon ancestral acres, he became their man
ager and proprietor at an early age, through the death of his father. For
thirty years now he has cultivated his old homestead, constantly intro
ducing improvements, and fully determined to keep abreast of the times.
His interest in agriculture has manifested itself, also, in other than per
sonal ways. For three years he was president of the Hillsborough
County Agricultural society, and for the same period was at the head of
the Piscataquog Valley Fair association. The members of the state
grange united in honoring him with an election to the office of master
for two terms, and he thus became a member of the National grange
for four years. Four terms he has been appointed by different govern
ors and councils a trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture
and the Mechanic Arts, and twice the same authority has made him a
member of the state board of agriculture. An easy transition brings us
to his distinguished political services. For six years he acted as county
commissioner for Hillsborough county, and for four years represented
the town of New Boston in the legislature. The success that attended
his efforts in the house of representatives led to his elevation to the
higher body, and in the state senate of 1883 and 1884 he represented
the Amherst district, No. 16, very efficiently. In whatever sphere of
action he is placed, Mr. Wason is faithful, capable, and persistent; and
his eminent devotion to agriculture has not hindered his usefulness in
GEORGE A. WASON.
various other directions.
388
�RISTRAM A. MACKINNON, general manager of the Concord
T & Montreal railroad, is a native of Ireland, where he was born
July 7, 1844, his parents being James and Mary J. (Allen) Mackinnon.
His education was received chiefly at St. Francis college at Richmond,
Quebec, and in December, 1868, he began a railroad career in the em
ploy of the Passumpsic railroad at Lyndon, Vt., and holding the various
positions of shop clerk, superintendent's clerk, and acting superinten
dent. His connection with the Passumpsic road ceased in August,
1873, when he went to Brockville, Ontario, and became superinten
dent of the Brockville & Ottawa, and Canada Central railways. Here
he remained until 1880 and in that year he went with the South-eastern
railway as manager, with head-quarters at Montreal. He occupied this
post until 1886, and then was made general superintendent of the On
tario & Atlantic division, and later, manager of transportation of the
Canadian Pacific railway. In this place he served until 1890, when he
assumed his present position, coming to the Concord & Montreal road
soon after its formation by the uniting of the old Concord, and Boston,
Concord & Montreal systems.
TRISTRAM. A. MACKINNON.
389
�HE rise of George Edgar Cummings from the lowest to the highest
position on the staff of a railroad corporation has been marked
by the steady advance that always follows meritorious labor. Mr.
Cummings was born October Io, 1853, in Rumney, and is the son of
George Spaulding Cummings and Mariette Vinton. In 1854 his parents
removed to Woodsville, where his father is now the oldest settler in the
place, and in the district school their son was educated. At the age of
fifteen Mr. Cummings began work as an engine cleaner for the Boston,
Concord & Montreal railroad at Woodsville, and passed successfully and
successively through every branch of the train service, becoming in 1882
wood agent of the road and entering the service of the Boston & Lowell
railroad when that corporation secured control of the Boston, Concord
& Montreal railroad, his position then being that of transfer agent and
stationed at Concord. In 1884 he was appointed train master of the
White Mountain division of the Boston & Lowell railroad.
His next
promotion came in 1891, when he was appointed assistant superintend
ent of the Concord & Montreal railroad, Northern division, with head
quarters at Woodsville, rising in the year following to be superintendent
of the division, which position he still holds and fills to the eminent
satisfaction of the road and its patrons. Mr. Cummings has devoted
his life to railroad business and with success.
His advance has been
both steady and merited and came as the reward of solid approbation of
solid, faithful work. In every position that he has filled, and those posi
tions have been many, Mr. Cummings has brought to his new duties
the best of his ability in their execution. Such a spirit could not fail to
win reward, and that it has is as much a source of pleasure to Mr.
Cummings's friends as to that gentleman himself, for no more deservedly
popular man has worn the uniform of a train man or has sat at a super
-
GEORGE E. CUMMINGS.
intendent's desk.
390
�O successful has been the brief span of the life of William Griggs
S Bean, that it is a matter of regret that New Hampshire may not
claim him as a son as well as a resident.
Mr. Bean was born in Dav
enport, Iowa, October 20, 1861, the son of John P. Bean and Eliza
beth Fitts. His education was secured, after the public schools, at
Knox college, Galesburg, Ill., and at Dartmouth college, being at the
latter institution a member of the class of 1883. He was engaged as
civil engineer at Olcott's Falls, Vt., in 1882, and in 1883 was similarly
engaged with a railroad in northern Vermont, becoming in 1884 con
nected with the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain road, and in 1886
entering the employ of the Boston & Lowell railroad on the White
Mountain division, passing from that corporation to the employ of the
Concord & Montreal, where he has won frequent and rapid promotion
through the various gradations of service, being at the present time
superintendent of the Southern division of the Concord & Montreal
system; one of the youngest men in New England ever to hold such an
important position. But rapid as Mr. Bean's rise in life has been, it
has not come unworthily. Each of his many promotions has been won
by constant fidelity and signal ability. As a railroad man he has be
come thoroughly familiar with the needs of his calling, and this familiar
ity with the details of his profession has enabled him in each of his
successive positions to grasp the completed details of the necessities of
public service.
Mr. Bean has shown himself equal to every emergency.
His youthful vigor has not permitted him to grow dull or slothful as he
has advanced in prominence. He has not been content with duties
done, but looks forward with hope to future responsibilities, with a con
fidence that he will be equal to the demand made upon him.
WILLIAM G. BEAN.
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�ILLIAM H. ALEXANDER was born in Tunbridge, Vt., No
vember 24, 1836, the son of William and Ednah Alexander.
Though a native of another state, he has been a resident of New Hamp
shire for more than thirty-seven years, and has, during all that time, been
employed by one corporation, having been for thirty-four years with
the Concord railroad in various capacities, continuing his services when
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the road became united with the Boston, Concord & Montreal, and be
coming supply agent of the new corporation, the Concord & Montreal
railroad, which position he now holds. Mr. Alexander has risen to his
present post after many years of varied experience in railroad life. Root
and branch he knows it, and in the special department with which he is
connected he ranks with the leaders. Trusted by his superiors, and re
spected by his subordinates, he fills his office with ease and credit. As
a man, few can count more friends. His generous temperament has
made him readily congenial to all; his worth has deeply impressed itself
upon his circle of acquaintances, and among those who know him only
by casual contact he is known as he is in his business — a firm, honor
able, kindly man, doing no man wrong, and permitting none to be
done.
392
�AMES T. GORDON, of Concord, member of the house of repre
sentatives from Ward Six in that city, was born in Meredith, August
4, 1833. His education was that of every New Hampshire boy,
and in May, 1854, he entered the employ of the Boston, Concord &
Montreal railroad as a locomotive fireman, retaining this position until
1856. He then entered the shops of the company, and learned the
machinist's trade, going then to the employ of the Concord railroad, in
1865, in the meantime having served his country in Company A of
the Fifteenth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers, in which he enlisted
September 15, 1862.
He was appointed third sergeant, and served
until April 30, 1863, when he was promoted to first sergeant, serving
in this capacity until August 15, 1863, when his term of service expired,
and he was mustered out. In 1869 he left the machine shops of the
Concord railroad, and became a locomotive engineer, relinquishing his
hold upon the lever, however, in April, 1873, when he was appointed
foreman of the machine shop. In August, 1878, he was appointed
acting master mechanic, and succeeded to the full duties and responsi
bilities of that office in June, 1879, retaining the position until July,
1889, when the Concord, and the Boston, Concord & Montreal railroads
were united, and he was then appointed superintendent of motive power,
which position he now holds. Mr. Gordon is a Mason and a Knight
Templar, and was Democratic candidate for mayor of Concord in 1882
and 1884. His election to a seat in the house of representatives is a
deserved compliment, and the tidal wave that carried him into office was
due not a little to his efforts.
JAMES T. GORDON.
393
�OHN HENRY HAMILTON was born in Melbourne, Province
Quebec, March 28, 1847, the son of John A. and Mary A. (Stimp
son) Hamilton. When five years of age he came with his parents
to Concord, and has since resided there, and in the schools of that city
secured his education. When fifteen years of age he entered the ser
vice of the Northern railroad in the freight department, and afterward
became yardmaster at Concord for the Concord railroad, continuing in
that position for eighteen years from 1865; and being promoted lost
freight agent of the Concord railroad, is now serving in that capacity
for the Concord & Montreal railroad system. In 1892 he was made
joint station master at Fabyan's for the Concord & Montreal and Maine
Central systems, which position of responsibility placed in his hands
the care of the whole volume of White Mountain trains which cross
that famous railroad section during the summer months. The onerous
and taxing duties of that position he filled with great success. Mr.
Hamilton is prominent in the Odd Fellows fraternity, being a past
grand of Rumford lodge, and past chief patriarch of Tahanto encamp
ment. He is a member of Blazing Star lodge of Masons, of Trinity
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, of Horace Chase Council, Royal and
Select Masters, of Mount Horeb Commandery of Knights Templar,
and has taken all the Scottish Rite degrees up to the Thirty-third.
Mr. Hamilton is a man of wide friendships, his various positions have
placed him in contact with the world at large, and in the great school
of human nature he has developed tact and courtesy. The long years
of his service attest his growing worth, and he has become in the rail
road circles of New Hampshire a man to be depended upon in any
JOHN HENRY HAMILTON.
emergency.
394
�I
RVIN LYMAN BOSS was born in Valley Falls, N. Y., No
vember 13, 1863, and is the son of James E. Boss and Fannie M.
(Sheldon) Boss.
In the schools of Fitchburg, Mass., he received his
education, followed by a course in the Eastman Commercial college at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. At the age of fifteen, however, he was employed
as shipping clerk for the Walter Heywood Chair company at Fitchburg,
and was then engaged as book-keeper for the S. Hess Publishing com
pany, of New York, being stationed at their Boston office, in Pemberton
square. He was afterward engaged in the photograph business with A.
Marshall, at No. 147 Tremont street, Boston, and in 188o became a
commercial traveller for Charles Rosenfield, of Boston, fancy grocer.
In 1881 he was engaged by the Railway Clearing House association of
New England, and for nine years served with that company, becoming,
July 15, 1890, car accountant of the Concord & Montreal railroad, which
position he now holds. Mr. Boss has come through natural steps to
his present position; a mind fitted by nature for intricate combinations
has been trained by long years of business, and has developed that readi
ness which responds to every emergency. In the position that he now
holds, Mr. Boss superintends the work of numerous subordinates, yet
the grand total is ever in his mind, and few of the minor details are
lacking from his mental inventory of a day's labor. In addition, Mr.
Boss's department looks after the mileage accounts of the cars of his
own and other roads; their earnings, their positions, their loads, in
short, everything in connection with them. Mr. Boss is among the
leaders in his work.
He is a member of the International Association
of Car Accountants, and of the New England Association of Officers in
Charge of Car Service. In a position demanding unusual qualities,
he has developed those qualities to an unusual degree, and ranks easily
in the fore-front of railway officials in New England.
IRVIN LYMAN BOSS.
395
�ANY of the leading railroad men of the country own New
Hampshire as the land of their nativity or of their residence;
but the Granite state never had within her borders a brighter student of
the class than one who has recently come from the queen's dominions,
William Joseph Callaghan. Born in Montreal, Canada, July 23, 1872,
the son of James J. and B. Helen (O'Brien) Callaghan, he received
his education at private schools and at St. Ann's school, then consid
ered one of the leading educational institutions in Canada. Graduating
there in 1886, he served for a time as book-keeper for Callaghan &
Foley, wholesale pork dealers. He soon discovered his true vocation,
however, and, January 11, 1887, entered the office of the car service de
partment of the Canadian Pacific railway as a clerk. November 13, of the
same year, he was promoted to the general superintendent's department
as private secretary to the general superintendent. March 19, 1890, he
was appointed chief clerk in the superintendent's office of the Canadian
Pacific railway, a position which he filled with remarkable success until
he relinquished it, November 10, 1890, to become private secretary to
General Manager Mackinnon of the Concord & Montreal railroad. Mr.
Callaghan at present is chief clerk in the general manager's office of the
same road, and is perhaps the youngest man holding a position of this
kind, but at the same time one of the keenest and best posted men in
his branch of the business. Although a resident of the state but a few
years, he possesses a wide and influential acquaintance, and is very pop
ular among railroad men. Meeting so many different characters in his
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profession, his disposition has readily accommodated itself to changing
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conditions, and he has filled with ease positions of increasing responsi
bility and usefulness.
CALLAG HAN.
396
�OHN TAPLEY WELCH was born at Dover, December 15, 1856,
and was educated in the public schools of that city and at Dart
mouth college. Mr. Welch has been engaged during most of his life in
journalistic work, as an editorial writer upon the Whiteside Sentinel at
Morrison, Ill., upon the Dover Daily Republican and the Dover Daily
Times, and also as special correspondent for the Boston Daily Globe.
Mr. Welch is an ardent Republican, and has attained more than ordi
nary prominence by reason of his activity. He has been a delegate to
nearly every state convention since he became of age. He was a mem
ber of the New Hampshire legislature in 1889, was for five years register
of probate for Strafford county, and has held positions in political com
mittees, both state and local. He is a member of many historical,
secret, and other societies, and is married and has one son. Mr. Welch
at present is chief time clerk in the government printing office, having
been appointed to that important position February 3, 1890. As a
journalist, Mr. Welch has contributed to many important and influential
sheets, writing always with force, grace, and fluency. Under his direc
tion the journals to which he was an editorial contributor ranked as
leaders of political thought in their locality, while his special work as a
newspaper man rose even to brilliancy. Though removed from the state
by reason of his office, Mr. Welch still retains his residence in Dover,
and is frequently at his home. In official life Mr. Welch has won the
same distinction that attended his efforts in the journalistic field. He
has fulfilled the duties assigned him with prominence and credit. He is
one of New Hampshire's worthy sons, and that the field of his endeavor
lies without her border does not remove him beyond the reach of the
many friends in the Granite state who rejoice in his success as if it were
their own.
JOHN TAPLEY WELCH.
397
�EV. WILLIAM JEWETT TUCKER, president of Dartmouth
His boy
hood was largely spent in New Hampshire, and he was graduated from
Dartmouth in the class of 1861. From then until 1863 he was a
school-teacher, and in the latter year he entered Andover Theological
seminary, from which he was graduated in 1866. In 1867 he became
pastor of the Franklin-street Congregational church at Manchester, and
remained there until 1875, when he was called to the pastorate of the
Madison-square Presbyterian church, New York city. From this pul
pit he was called, in 1880, to the chair of homiletics at Andover Theo
logical seminary, and on May 1, 1893, he left that post to become pres
ident of Dartmouth college, a position which had been tendered to him
more than a year before, and which he accepted at last in a conscien
tious belief that it was his duty. Dr. Tucker, before his election to the
presidency of the college, had been for some years a trustee of the insti
tution, and upon his accession to the chair had nothing to learn of the
needs, or traditions, or ambitions of the college. The brief months of
his administration are already filled with a marked measure of good for
Dartmouth. New courses, new chairs, new equipment, greater endow
ment, and an increased student-body have already come to encourage
Dr. Tucker's labors. Dr. Tucker, while at Andover, became prominent
in special departments of Christian work, and the Andover House in
Boston looks to him as its projector. His scholarly attainments have
met with wide recognition, and are attested by the thoughtful excellence
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of his occasional addresses and sermons.
His own alma mater has
conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and Williams
college, at its recent centennial, decorated him with the degree of
REV. WILLIAM J. TUCKER, D. D.
Doctor of Laws.
398
�EV. CHARLES SUMNER MURKLAND, president of the New
Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, was
born in Lowell, Mass., May 20, 1856, the youngest of fourteen children
born of Scotch parents, of whom seven are now living. He passed
through the regular course in the schools of Lowell, and graduated from
the High school in 1872. For the next five years he was at work in the
mills in the engraving department, and in 1877 he entered Middlebury
college, and graduated in 1881, the valedictorian of his class. Three
years later he took his master's degree, and at that time he was selected
to deliver the master's oration. During these last three years he occu
pied himself by supplying the pulpit of the Congregational church at
Ferrisburgh, Vt. In 1883 he took the degree of bachelor of divinity,
from Harvard Divinity school, and for the next year was engaged in
post-graduate study at Andover Theological seminary. From June,
1884, to 1886, he was pastor of the Congregational church at Chicopee,
Mass., and from there he came to Manchester as pastor of the Franklin
street Congregational church, whose pulpit he filled until June of the
present year, when he was called to the presidency of the agricultural
college by the unanimous voice of its trustees. He was inaugurated in
August, 1893, at the same time the new college buildings at Durham
were dedicated. Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree
of doctor of philosophy, in 1893. Dr. Murkland is also chaplain of the
First regiment, New Hampshire National Guard, with the rank of
captain.
REV. CHARLES S. MURKLAND, PH. D.
399
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�TILSON HUTCHINS was born in Whitefield, November 14, 1838,
educated in Hopkinton and in Cambridge, and in 1856
went to the new state of Iowa, bent on his early formed purpose of
making himself a name in the journalistic world, and in that purpose
few Americans have ever accomplished greater results. Bred from ster
ling New Hampshire stock, with ancestors that fought at Bunker Hill,
the young man soon made his mark. His quick mind and expressive
pen made him a leading editor of the state, and a worthy competitor for
newspaper honors in a larger field; consequently he removed to St.
Louis, and buying the Times, speedily made it the most successful
newspaper property in that city. With an instinctive genius for the call
ing, he left St. Louis in the late seventies, and went to Washington,
where, founding the Washington Post, he conducted its manage
ment up to the day when it passed into the possession of its present
proprietors. New Hampshire has no son more devoted to her beau
ties, or prouder of her annals. Governor's island, in Lake Winnipise
ogee, has felt the influence of his devotion to beauty, for there he has
expended large sums in adorning and beautifying the landscape. Mr.
Hutchins's winter home is on Scott circle, in Washington, and there
he entertains his friends in a manner as charming and simple as his
surroundings are superb. His picture gallery is one of the richest of
the private collections in the country, and is so acknowledged by crit
S was
ics and connoisseurs.
With the true tastes of the scholar, Mr. Hutchins
has given time and labor to autographs, and his collection is enriched
by original letters from the famous men and women of history. In the
portfolios is a complete set of autograph letters of Napoleon and Jose
phine, and all the marshals of France. In politics Mr. Hutchins is a
Democrat, and as such he has been a member of the Missouri and of
S.
the New Hampshire legislatures, being a member of the latter during
the session of 1881.
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�ON. JAMES I. CHRISTIE, of Dover, born in that city, May
9, 1842; died at Washington, D. C., April 6, 1889, was a
noted national character who, at the time of his decease, was nominally
the assistant-doorkeeper of the United States senate, an office created
expressly for him, but virtually he was the major-domo of that body.
He was the great master of ceremonies, and his death resulted from la
grippe, contracted while standing uncovered in the rain, superintending
the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison. The senatorial,
official, and other excursions, and funerals, for many years were under his
personal charge and direction. He grew to be the most efficient, pop
ular, and valuable officer of that body. While yet a lad, in 1857,
Senator John P. Hale took him to Washington, to be a page in the
senate, and continuously afterward, until the day of his death, he re
mained connected in one capacity or another with that dignified organ
ization. Mr. Christie had a happy faculty of doing favors for others,
and his life became a round of cheerful, generous self-sacrifice. He was
so bright and willing, so apt and affable, that he won the friendship of
the leading members of each succeeding senate. He was a handsome
commander, whatever the occasion, without ostentation or any show of
pomposity, conducting public exercises and ceremonies with remarkable
grace, ease, and dignity unequalled. He had a great noble heart, and a
nature that delighted in pleasing others, and he had a noiseless way of
helping those around him, and an intuitive knowledge of their wishes and
doubts, that made him almost invaluable in the place where he served so
long and faithfully. No man in Washington had a more wide ac
quaintance throughout the nation, and no man there had more personal
friends throughout the several departments of the government, during
the successive administrations of Abraham Lincoln to that of Ben
HON. JAMES I. CHRISTIE.
jamin Harrison.
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�OWARD PERRY MERRILL, the son of Joseph S. and Irene L.
Merrill, was born in Concord, June 4, 1860, and after a course in
the public schools in that city, graduating from the High school in 1879,
he entered a printing office at Haverhill, Mass., returning to Concord,
however, in September, 1880, to engage in journalism, which has since
grown to be his profession. He was first employed as a reporter on the
Concord Daily Blade, and afterward went, in August, 1881, to Springfield,
Mass., where for four years he was proof-reader on the Evening Union,
and afterward was employed as New England editor. For a short time
he did special work for the same paper, and afterward was city editor,
managing editor, and telegraph editor of the same paper, in the order
named. In 1892 he came to Nashua, and was employed as managing
editor of the New Hampshire Republican during that journal's brief
career. Upon its demise he at once returned to his old mistress,
The Union, and now is engaged as day editor. The year 1887 Mr.
Merrill spent in California, in an editorial capacity on the Los Angeles
Times and Tribune. June 25, 1885, Mr. Merrill married Nellie A.
Currier, daughter of James M. Currier, a noted architect of Springfield.
Mr. Merrill is one of the best of young newspaper men to whom New
Hampshire claims parentage. His long connection in so many capa
cities, with a single journal, has made him a factor of great force in
newspaper circles in western Massachusetts, and his continued success
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is a sufficient testimonial of his merit.
HOWARD PERRY MERRILL.
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�UICK, accurate, painstaking; having a practical knowledge of the
printer's trade, an understanding of the niceties of the English
language and its punctuation, a familiarity with legal, medi
cal, and scientific phrases and authorities; poised, courteous, forbear
ing; alert to discover errors but keeping himself and others in good
EDWARD
OLIVER
LORD.
temper during their correction, and above all, possessed of the executive
ability to keep each of many books, pamphlets, and magazines moving
rapidly toward completion:—such are some of the characteristics re
quired of the man at the head of the Republican Press Association's
book department, and it pleases the subject of this sketch to know
that he performs satisfactorily the manifold duties of the position.
Edward Oliver Lord was born in Somersworth, March 1, 1856, the
youngest child of Oliver H. and Mary (Stevens) Lord. His early educa
tion was received at the Great Falls high school and Phillips Andover
academy. He was matriculated at Harvard in 1874, graduated from Colby
university in 1877, and received the degree of master of arts in 1880.
A teacher in the Great Falls high school in 1877–78, editor and busi
ness manager of the Great Falls Free Press from August, 1878, to
February, 1883, farmer and breeder of Holstein-Friesian cattle in New
London from 1883 to 1890, and book proof-reader for the Republican
Press Association in 1891, his life has been one of incessant activity.
In November, 1892, he was called to the business management of the
New Hampshire Republican at Nashua. After a careful examination of
the books and prospective business of the “new morning daily,” and a
thorough investigation of the political support which could be obtained
for it, Mr. Lord recommended the purchase of the Nashua Telegraph as
a solution of the political and financial difficulties of The Republican. But
The Telegraph could not be bought at a satisfactory figure, so The
Republican was sold in February, 1893, and Mr. Lord accepted his
present position.
�HE county solicitor of Merrimack county, Daniel Bartholomew
was born in Concord, October 6, 1855, the son of
Daniel and Mary Donovan, who emigrated to the United States, from
Ireland, in 1847, and has always lived in that city, where he was edu
cated in the public schools. In 1878 he was admitted to the bar, and
has since been actively engaged in practice, at first as partner of Samuel
B. Page, but of late years without a partner. For eight years he was a
T Donovan,
member of the school board of Union school district in Concord, and
for some years was secretary of the board. He served as clerk to the
superintendent of construction of the Federal building in Concord, and
in 1890 was elected, as a Democrat, to the solicitorship of Merrimack
county, receiving a re-election in 1892, being the first Democratic solic
itor in the county to receive that honor. He took an active interest in
the National Guard, and for nearly ten years was a member of that or
ganization, first as an enlisted man and later as an officer, holding seven
different commissions, among them being as assistant-inspector general,
judge advocate, and inspector of rifle practice of the First brigade, New
Hampshire National Guard, each with the rank of major. In addition
to his professional duties, Major Donovan has become known in news
paper circles as the faithful agent of the Associated Press at Concord,
for many years, and as the active correspondent of the Boston Globe
since 1890. Major Donovan in 1886 received the honorary degree of
A. B. from Dartmouth college, a rare honor, yet merited by his attain
mentS.
�JOURNALIST whom everybody in New Hampshire knows,
whom everybody likes, whom politicians trust with party secrets,
and who never wrote a malicious article of anybody or anything, is
Allan Hazen Robinson of Concord. Born at Salisbury, July 11, 1848,
he was educated in the public schools of that town and of Concord,
completing his education under the tutorship of the late Rev. Dr. J. H.
Eames of St. Paul's church, Concord.
In 1861 he entered the business
department of the New Hampshire Patriot, under the late Hon. William
Butterfield, where he remained for six years. He was for ten years the
New Hampshire agent of the Associated Press, and for four years city
editor of the New Hampshire Patriot, under the control of Edwin C.
Bailey. For a time, in addition to his newspaper work, he was con
nected with the Boston & Lowell and Concord railroads.
In 1881 he
was appointed New Hampshire correspondent of the Boston Herald,
which position he still holds. Since 1887 he has been telegraph editor
of the People and Patriot. His newspaper connections have brought
him into close personal relations with leading men of the state, whose
confidence he has never violated, and whose esteem he has ever
held.
When his name was suggested for appointment to the position of immi
gration commissioner under the present administration, he was
cordially
endorsed by prominent men of both parties in the state, and his *.
tion for that office by President Cleveland is the most popular appoint
ment in New Hampshire. Mr. Robinson is an industrious and discr1m
inating newspaper writer, respected by the public and his associa".
Invariably courteous, he wins friends as he makes acquaintances, and the
men who know and trust him are the solid and influential citizens of
New Hampshire.
ALLAN HAZEN ROBINSON.
405
�ON, JOHN HATCH, of Greenland, member of the New Hamp
shire bank commission, was born in Portsmouth. January 1, 1849,
in a family of long line and much distinction. He was educated in the
public schools of his native city and at St. Paul's school, Concord, and
was for some time connected with the latter institution in an adminis
trative capacity. He afterward studied law and established himself in
practice at Portsmouth, taking up a residence at the old family home
stead in Greenland, where he has lived for nineteen years. From this
town in 1879 he was sent to the legislature, and again, also, in 1881.
During both these sessions, Mr. Hatch was a prominent member of the
house. He served upon its most important committees, and though a
member of the minority party, was a forceful factor in legislation. In
1885 he sat in the state senate, as member from the Newmarket dis
trict, and added to his credit the record of faithful service in that body.
He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1889, and has
served his town as a member of the school board and town treasurer
for a number of years. In August, 1893, he was appointed member
of the bank commission, succeeding William A. Heard, and has entered
upon his new duties with earnestness and vigor. Mr. Hatch is one of
the most active laymen in the Episcopal church in New Hampshire, and
has become a familiar figure at diocesan and other church conventions,
numbering also among his services to the church several years of mem
bership on the standing committee of the diocese.
406
�OAH S. CLARK, one of the most successful business men of
N
Manchester, was born in Quincy, Mass., May 17, 1830, and
when but five years of age removed with his parents to New Hampshire,
making their home upon a Rockingham county farm in the old historic
town of Chester, where he passed the days of his boyhood as a farmer
lad, and received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of
that town; afterward he went to Manchester, where he graduated from
the High school, when it was located upon Lowell street, and under the
tutorship of John W. Ray. Having a taste for mercantile pursuits, he
immediately upon leaving school began clerking in the dry goods and
fancy goods business in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati.
In 1856 Mr. Clark returned to Manchester, and opened a dry goods store
in what was then known as the “Old Ark,” located on Elm street.
The phenomenal success attending that venture induced him, the next year,
to remove his place of business to Hanover street, where he continued
until the great Hanover street fire. Undaunted by calamity, he erected
a substantial brick block upon the lot where his fancy goods emporium,
the “Big 6,” now stands, and has continued there to this date. Mr.
Clark is a thorough and practical business manager, and has won a
merited success by constant personal attention to the management of his
business affairs. He is not a member of any secret organization, and
his motto has ever been, “Live and let live.” Mr. Clark has, even in his
busy life, found time to serve his city upon the board of aldermen, and
his ward as representative in the state legislature. He is one of the
directors of the Manchester National bank, and is also one of the direc
S. CLARK.
tors of the Concord & Montreal railroad. On December 1, 1893, his
excellency the governor and the honorable council appointed Mr. Clark
to the responsible position of police commissioner, upon the newly con
stituted board of police commissioners for the city of Manchester.
�OSEA BALLOU CARTER, of Concord, was born at East
Hampstead, Rockingham county, September 5, 1834, and has
ever since been irrepressibly pushing. His few weeks of schooling
taught him, what he afterward learned better in the wide school of
experience, that, to achieve success in the world, a man must hustle;
furthermore, if the early worm had essayed more live dignity and less
languor, its final morning interview with previous poultry could un
doubtedly have been postponed indefinitely. The mile-stones marking
the course of the route of “ Hozee” from the shoe-bench at Hampstead
Peak to the state house at Concord, are many and interesting; in fact,
his career marks an epoch in the political history of New Hampshire.
Hozee has histled as a cyclopedia canvasser, a patent-medicine manu
facturer, a sewing-machine agent, a safe salesman, a desk drummer, a
typewriter expert, an editor, a statistician, a detective, a railroad com
missioner, a publisher, a politician, a candidate, and an office-holder;
even now he is hustling as chief clerk of the newly created New Hamp
shire Bureau of Labor, a position in which his epigrammatic wisdom
finds many a chink for its overflow. He is also a philosopher, and “if
there are anythings in heaven and earth that are not dreamed of" in his
pungent philosophy, they must be paltry and insignificant. The works
of his head and hand abound; a complete blue-book of New Hamp
shire, from 1680 to 1891, published by the state, attests his superiority
as an editor, collator, compiler, and statistician. The Town and City
Atlas of New Hampshire, a larger and more pretentious work, pub
lished in 1892, does his talent credit. And so on through life he
has gone, cheerfully turning his hand to whatever came next, ungrudg
ingly “paying the freight,” and always serving modestly and efficiently
to some good purpose, now placing his “phiz" last in the work, in
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order (to quote his own language) “to keep the others from falling
out.”
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New Hampshire Men: A Collection of Biographical Sketches, With Portraits, Of Sons & Residents Of The State Who Have Become Known In Commercial, Professional, & Political Life
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January 1, 1893
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A 413 page collection of indexed portraits & bios, from various NH men, from different walks of life, from the late 1800's. This collection contains several men from Farmington NH.
They are: page 74-Hon. Alonzo Nute, page 167, Alonzo Irving Nute, page 192, Joseph Henry Abbot
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book
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men
New England
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light
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I'art w e i n peace a n d love,
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Graduating Exercise Program Farmington High School June 1892
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This is a Graduating Exercise program for Farmington High School. Graduation was set for June 16,1892 to be held at the Opera House at quarter of eight. It contains the class motto, class ode, music listings, and speaker, oratory, and address placements for the event. It also includes the graduates and their course choice.
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First Congregational Church UCC Church Stained Glass Restoration Article
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Article for the First Congregational Church UCC Church Stained Glass Restoration from the New Hampshire Sunday News, December 21, 1975. The article is titled "Farmington Church Gets New Windows."
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Farmington High School Class Of 1919 Graduation Program
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A 1919 Farmington Class Graduation Program with a ticket/invitation for a ball at the Farmington Opera House, as well as, calling cards collected from many classmates. The program is ink printed on heavy pressed paper. The binding for the program is a yellow cord tassel. The program contains the event list for the day, class roll, class officers, and other general class information. The calling cards are standard for the period, ink on heavy paper and the ticket/invitation is the same, with an admittance line filled in, written in pencil, as " Mr & Mrs. Lester Darning."
Program size: 4"x5", Ticket: 2.5"x 3.25", Calling card sizes: 2"x3" & 1.25"x 3"
FHS-Kyle Leach
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Farmington High School
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1919
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1919
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October 2017
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Donated by Ms. Nancy Merrill, Alton Bay, NH
Delivered by Dottie Bean
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Farmington High School
ball
documents
event
Farmington High School
Farmington NH
Farmington Opera House
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speakers
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Dover & Winnipisseogee Rail Road-Boston/Farmington Pass-June 30th 1874
Description
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A Dover & Winnipisseogee Rail Road ticket for the Farmington NH from Boston on June 30th 1874. The pass is for Hiram Barker and is signed by E. W. Wood. The Barker family was a longstanding family name in Farmington. Family heirs had a notable, protracted legal battle which went all the way to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
This is a digital file and does not exist in the physical museum collection.
FHS-Kyle Leach
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Dover & Winnipisseogee Rail Road
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Dover & Winnipisseogee Rail Road
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1874
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Donated by Sheridan Folger
Barker
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Dover & Winnipisseogee Rail Road
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Burial Sites Within Farmington NH Town Limits
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Twink Osgood
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Documented burial sites within Farmington, NH town limits, researched and compiled by Twink Osgood.
burial
death
documents
Farmington NH
Osgood
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B&M Railroad Schedule 1908 The Farmington News
Description
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A Boston & Maine Railroad Schedule from a 1908 issue of the The Farmington News, published in Farmington, New Hampshire.on Friday, July 17, 1908, Page 4.
This is a digital file and does not exist in the physical museum collection.
FHS-Kyle Leach
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Boston & Maine Railroad
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Boston & Maine Railroad
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1908
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Farmington
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Assorted Beulah Thayer Sympathy Mementos
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This an assortment of sympathy mementos sent to honor Beulah Thayer's passing. Though most of the items are store bought, which means mass produced. Each one has personal sentiments and often a signature from townspeople, friends, and family members who wished to offer condolences, thoughts, memories, and to extend sympathy.
The interiors of the items can only be viewed by appointment and will not be published online because of the handwriting samples and signatures.
Size: Various
Condition: Excellent
FHS-Kyle Leach
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Various
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The Beulah Thayer Collection
death
documents
memorial
people
Thayer