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DURHAM LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

THE

GRANITE MONTHLY

A New Hampshire Magazine

DEVOTED TO

History, Biography, Literature
and State Progress

VOLUME xlvi
NEW SERIES, VOLUME IX

CONCORD, N. H.

PUBLISHED BY THE GRANITE MONTHLY COMPANY

1914

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CONCORD, N. H.
THE RUMFORD PRESS
1914

The Granite Monthly

CONTENT^ JANUARY— DECEMBER, 1914.

il. Old Series, Volume XLVI

New Series, Volume IX

^ Page

Acworth, "Old Acworth," by Frank B. Kingsbury 116

Claremont, New Hampshire, The Association Test in, by Mrs. Marcia N. Spofford . . 81

Claremont Anniversary, The, by H. H. Metcalf 341

Doctor Hall Jackson, by Russell Leigh Jackson 416

Dover and the Quakers, by Charles Nevers Holmes 73

Eastman Records, Early English, by Charles R. Eastman 90

Editor and Publisher's Notes 64, 95, 127, 160, 192, 224, 268, 340, 420

Educative Value of Tool Work, The, by S. Horace Williams 149

Exeter and the Phillips Academy, by Sarah B. Lawrence 101

Fremont, The Ancient Poplin 161

Hannah Dustin Memorials, by E. W. B. Taylor 207

Huntress, Harriet Lane 129

Hutchins, Hon. John C 97

Interesting Document, An, Will of Ebenezer Webster of Kingston 133

Lancaster, by Charles Hardon 269

Leaders of New Hampshire, by H. C. Pearson 65, 225

Meredith, by Charles Hardon 31

Moral and Economic Waste of War, The 143

New England May-Day Festival, A, by an Occasional Contributor 141

New Hampshire and the Presidency 113

New Hampshire's New Judges, by Harlan C. Pearson 1

New Town History, A 88

"Old Acworth," by Frank B. Kingsbury 116

Pillsbury, Hon. Rosecrans W 193

Pioneers of Little Harbor and Vicinity, by J. M. Moses 215

Primary Election of 1914, The, by An Occasional Contributor 246

Problems of Life and Mind, by Francis H. Goodall 123

Story of the Isles of Shoals, The, by H. H. Metcalf 231

Suburban Summer Resort, A, by Edward J. Parshley _ 337

Sunapee, The Beautiful, by Rev. Frank B. Fletcher 76

To the End of the Road, by Shirley W. Harvey 220

Vanished Landmark, A 71

Veteran of Two Wars, A, by Gilbert Patten Brown 135

Votes for Women, by Wallace Duffy 84

White-Capped Scout, The, by Lena E. Bliss 187

Wonolancet, by Mabel Hope Kingsbury 197

New Hampshire Necrology 62, 93, 124, 157, 191, 223, 267, 339, 418

Abbott, Hon. John T 125

Barnard, Frank E 62

Beede, George F 93

Brackett, James S 158

Brockway, Dr. Daniel G 158

Brown, Prof. Charles R 94

Brown, Warren G 127

Cogswell, Prof. Francis 125

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vi Contents

Page

Collins, Gen. Charles S 62

Cook, Miss Harriet J 267

Cross, Gen. Ira '. . . . 95

Daniels, Rev. Charles H., D.D 267

Davenport, Hon. James L 158

'Dickey, Mrs. Nancy King 159

Dickey, Rev. Myron P 340

Dole, Hon. Charles A 157

Dow, Charles H 159

Eastman, Miss Mary C 63

Fahey, Patrick 419

Farr, Charles A 223

Fletcher, Josiah M 93

Folsom, Henry H 223

French, Henry K 158

Goodall, Hon. Franklin P 62

Goodell, Dr. John 340

Haskell, Joseph H 127

Higgins, Hon. Freeman 93

Hooper, Prof. Franklin W ? . 340

Judkins, Rev. George J 267

Kinsley, Col. Frederick R 125

Lane, Charles H 419

McClintock, John N 339

Musgrove, Capt. Richard W 124

Nichols, James E 267

Niles, William H 419

Niles, William W., D.D., LL.D 124

O'Connor, Denis F 126

Packard, Moses A 62

Phillips, Rev. Lewis W 94

Powers, Erastus Barton 126

Reynolds, Dr. Thomas 62

Robie, George A 63

Rogers, Jacob 191

Rugg, Ellery E 158

Sawyer, George W .* 267

Scammon, Col. Richard N 418

Shepard, Martha Dana 224

Smith, Hon. John B 339

Spaulding, Charles Sumner .- 159

Stanard, Hon. Edwin O 126

Staples, John W., M.D 63

Sutcliffe, Frank S 191

Thompson, Maj. John P 418

Thompson, True W 95

Wadleigh, Horace W 63

Wallace, Hon. Robert M 157

Weymouth, Herman C 94

Whitcomb, Henry C 126

Woods, Andrew S 159

Yeaton, William 94

Contents vii
POETRY

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Blacksmith's Shop Over the Way, The, by Frederick Myron Colby 70

Blanche of Castile, by L. Adelaide Sherman 222

Burial, The, by L. J. H. Frost 122

Buttercup Time, by Charles Henry Chesjey 190

Country Road, A, by Fred Myron Colby 139

Daffodil, A, by Frances M. Pray 142

Death of Summer, The, by L. J. H. Frost 415

Deserted Manse, The, by Charles Nevers Holmes 230

Derelict, The, by L. J. H. Frost 196

End of Summer, The, by Coletta Ryan 338

Ghosts of Song, The, by Benjamin C. Woodbury, Jr 89

Her Silent Wraith, by Elizabeth Thompson Ordway 131

Immortality, by Alice M. Shepard 206

Invocation to Sleep, by Mary H. Wheeler 140

"Labor Omnia Vincit," by A. Judson Rich 186

Lempster, by Delia H. Honey 195

Magic Granite State Sleigh Ride, The, by Elias H. Cheney 120

Monadnock, by Rev. A. Judson Rich 78

My Idol, by Stewart Everett Rowe 112

New Guitar Song, A, by George H. Wood 99

Old Brick Schoolhouse, The, Dover, N. H., by Charles Nevers Holmes 119

Our Granite Hills, by Lena B. EUingwood ' 245

Row, Not Drift, by Eldora Haines Walker 115

Rowe, Hattie Almira, by Stewart Everett Rowe 29

Scarlet Salvia, The, by Harry B. Metcalf 336

Sleep, by A. H. McCrillis 134

Spring and Summer, by L. Adelaide Sherman 118

Thanksgiving, by Moses Gage Shirley 417

To My Fireplace, by Delia S. Honey 29

Trailing Arbutus, by Amy J. Dolloff 132

Treasures, by Eva Beede Odell 131

Twilight, by Mary Alice Dwyer 219

Windy Night, A, by Mary H. Wheeler S3

When, by Stewart Everett Rowe 266

Whiton-Stone, C. E., To, by Benjamin C. Woodbury 214

HON. ROBERT G. PIKE
Chief Justice of the Superior Court

The Granite Monthly

Vol. XLVI, Nos. 1 and 2

JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 19U New Series, Vol. 9, Nos. 1 and 2

NEW HAMPSHIRE'S NEW JUDGES

By Harlan C. Pearson

No previous Chief Executive in the
history of New Hampshire had so
many appointments to the judiciary
to make as fell to the lot of Gover-
nor Samuel D. Felker during 1913,
the first year of his administration.
Deaths, resignations, promotions, con-
stitutional requirements and legisla-
tive acts, all contributed to the total
of places to be filled by His Excel-
lency.

The election of Judge Colt of the
United States circuit court to the
United States Senate from the state
of Rhode Island left a judicial va-
cancy which President Wilson filled
by the appointment of George Hutch-
ins Bingham, justice of the supreme
•court of New Hampshire, on May 15,
1913.

To Judge Bingham's former place
upon the supreme bench Governor
Felker promoted on November 8 Wil-
liam A. Plummer of Laconia, justice
of the superior court of the state of
New Hampshire.

In Judge Plummer 's stead upon
this latter bench Governor Felker
named on November 27 Hon. William
H. Sawyer of Concord.

Previously, on October 11, the res-
ignation, on account of ill health,
had been received and reluctantly ac-
cepted of Chief Justice Robert M.
Wallace of the superior court. On
the same day Gove'rnor Felker pro-
moted to the head of the superior
court Associate Justice Robert G.
Pike of Dover.

The vacancy on the superior bench
left by this promotion Governor Fel-
ker filled on October 30 by the ap-
pointment as judge of Oliver W.
Branch, Esq., of Manchester.

On March 4 had occurred the un-
timely and universally mourned de-
cease of Judge John M. Mitchell of
Concord and in his place upon the
superior bench Governor Felker had
named on May 20 the Honorable
John Kivel of Dover.

On December 2, 1913, by constitu-
tional age limitation, the term of serv-
ice of Honorable Tyler Westgate of
Haverhill as judge of probate of
Grafton County expired; and in an-
ticipation of the vacancy thus created
Captain Harry Bingham of Littleton
was nominated by Governor Felker on
November 8 for the place and was
confirmed on November 26.

On May 21, 1913, Governor Felker
approved Chapter 169 of the Laws of
1913, being "An Act establishing Po-
lice Courts for Certain Districts in
the State of New Hampshire and
Abolishing Existing Police Courts."

Under this act the state was divided
into fifty-two judicial districts. The
make-up of these districts and the
justices and special justices who have
been appointed for them are as fol-
lows :

The district of Nashua, comprising
the city of Nashua and the towns of
Hollis, Merrimack, Hudson, Pelham
and Litchfield; Frank B. Clancy of
Nashua, justice.

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The district of Manchester, com-
prising the city of Manchester and
the town of Bedford ; John W. Center
of Manchester, justice ; Clinton S.
Osgood of Manchester, special justice.

The district of Milford, comprising
the towns of Milford, Wilton, Lynde-
borough, Mont Vernon, Amherst and
Brookline ; George E. Bales of Wilton,
justice; Charles L. Luce of Milford,
special justice.

The district of Greenville, compris-
ing the towns of Greenville, New Ips-
wich and Mason; Herbert J. Taft of
Greenville, justice.

The district of Peterborough, com-
prising the towns of Peterborough,
Hancock, Greenfield, Temple and
Sharon ; James B. Sweeney of Peter-
borough, justice.

The district of Hillsborough, com-
prising the towns of Hillsborough,
Bennington, Deering, Antrim, Fran-
cestown and Windsor; Samuel W.
Holman of Hillsborough, justice;
Warren W. Merrill of Antrim, special
justice.

The district of Goffstown, compris-
ing the towns of Goffstown, Weare
and New Boston ; Benjamin F. Davis
of Goffstown, justice.

The district of Derry, comprising
the towns of Derry, Windham, Dan-
ville, Londonderry, Chester, Sandown
and Fremont; Alden G. Kelley of
Derry, justice; Ernest L. Abbott of
Derry, special justice.

The district of Exeter, comprising
the towns of Exeter, Kensington, East
Kingston, Kingston, Brentwood, New-
fields and Stratham ; Edward D.
Mayer of Exeter, justice; Walter E.
Burtt of Brentwood, special justice.

The district of Salem, comprising
the towns of Salem, Plaistow, Atkin-
son, Hampstead and Newton ; Lester
Wallace Hall of Salem, justice ; Ches-
ter T. Woodbury of Salem, special
justice.

The district of Hampton, compris-
ing the towns of Hampton, North
Hampton, South Hampton, Hampton
Falls and Seabrook ; Albert K. Church

of Hampton, justice ; Edward Warren
of Hampton, special justice.

The district of Newmarket, com-
prising the towns of Newmarket and
Epping; Irving T. George of New-
market, justice; George A. Gilmore
of Epping, special justice.

The district of Candia, comprising
the towns of Candia, Auburn, Nott-
ingham, Deerfield, Northwood and
Raymond; John T. Bartlett of Ray-
mond, justice ; Charles W. Phillips of
Candia, special justice.

The district of Portsmouth, com-
prising the city of Portsmouth and
the towns of Newington, Newcastle,
Greenland and Rye ; Harry K. Torrey
of Portsmouth, justice; Edward H.
Adams of Portsmouth, special justice.

The district of Dover, comprising
the city of Dover and the towns of
Madbury, Lee and Durham; George
S. Frost of Dover, justice.

The district of Rochester, compris-
ing the city of Rochester and the
towns of Milton, Strafford and Bar-
rington ; William T. Gunnison of
Rochester, justice.

The district of Farmington, com-
prising the towns of Farmington,
Middleton and New Durham ; Arthur
H. Wiggin of Farmington, justice.

The district of Somersworth, com-
prising the city of Somersworth and
the town of Rollinsford ; Benjamin F.
Hanson of Somersworth, special jus-
tice.

The district of Pittsfield, compris-
ing the towns of Pittsfield, Chichester
and Epsom ; Frank S. Jenkins of
Pittsfield, justice.

The district of Pembroke, compris-
ing the towns of Pembroke, Aliens-
town and Hooksett ; George W. Fow-
ler of Pembroke, justice. ,

The district of Franklin comprising
the city of Franklin and the towns
of Hill, Wilmot, Danbury, Andover,
Northfield and Salisbury; Frank E.
Woodbury of Franklin, justice.

The district of Bradford, compris-
ing the towns of Bradford, Sutton,
Newbury, Warner, New London and
Henniker ; Joseph W. Sanborn of

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Bradford, justice; Edward Connelly
of Henniker, special justice.

The district of Concord, comprising
the city of Concord and the towns
of Boscawen, Webster, Canterbury,
Loudon, Bow, Dunbarton and Hop-
kinton; Allan Chester Clark of Con-
cord, justice; Willis G. Buxton of
Boscawen, special justice.

The district of Keene, comprising
the city of Keene and the towns of
Chesterfield, Dublin, Harrisville, Nel-
son, Stoddard, Richmond, Westmore-
land, Gilsum, Marlborough, Surry,
Roxbury, Sullivan, Marlow and
Swanzey ; Richard J. Wolfe of Keene,
justice.

The district of Winchester, com-
prising the towns of Winchester and
Hinsdale; Alexander F. Peirce of
Winchester, justice.

The district of Troy, comprising the
towns of Troy and Fitzwilliam ; no
justice or special justice has qualified.

The district of Jaffrey, comprising
the towns of Jaffrey and Rindge;
George H. Duncan of Jaffrey, justice ;
Charles L. Rich of Jaffrey, special
justice.

The district of Walpole, comprising
the towns of Walpole and Alstead;
Charles J. O'Neill of Walpole, jus-
tice; John W. Cahalane of Walpole,
special justice.

The district of Newport, compris-
ing the towns of Newport, Croydon,
Springfield, Sunapee, Lempster,
Goshen, Washington and Grantham;
Lewis S. Record of Newport, justice;
Fred T. Pollard of Newport, special
justice.

The district of Claremont, compris-
ing the towns of Claremont, Cornish,
Plainfield and Unity; Frederick W.
Johnston of Claremont, special jus-
tice.

The district of Charlestown, com-
prising the towns of Charlestown,
Acworth and Langdon; Frank W.
Hamlin of Charlestown, justice ; Ed-
ward R. Morrison of Acworth, special
justice.

The district of Laconia, comprising
the city of Laconia and the towns of

Meredith, New Hampton, Gilford and
Center Harbor; Walter S. Peaslee of
Laconia, justice ; Bertram Blaisdell of
Meredith, special justice.

The district of Tilton, comprising
the towns of Tilton, Belmont and
Sanbornton ; Charles E. Smith of Til-
ton, justice; Ford T. Sanborn of Til-
ton, special justice.

The district of Alton, comprising
the towns of Alton, Barnstead and
Gilmanton; Charles H. Downing of
Alton, justice.

The district of Bristol, comprising
the towns of Bristol, Alexandria,
Grot on and Hebron; Charles W.
Fling of Bristol, justice; Frank N.
Gilman of Bristol, special justice.

The district of Haverhill, compris-
ing the towns of Haverhill, Orford,
Benton, Warren, Monroe and Pier-
mont ; Dexter D. Dow of Haverhill,
justice ; Russell T. Bartlett of Haver-
hill, special justice.

The district of Hanover, compris-
ing the town of Hanover; Harry E.
Burton of Hanover, justice ; William
R. Gray of Hanover, special justice.

The district of Lebanon, compris-
ing the towns of Lebanon and Lyme;
Clarence E. Hibbard of Lebanon, jus-
tice; Roland B. Jacobs of Lebanon,
special justice.

The district of Plymouth, compris-
ing the towns of Plymouth, Ashland,
Bridgewater, Holderness, Campton,
Rumney and Wentworth ; George H.
Bowles of Plymouth, justice ; George

C. Craig of Rumney, special justice.
The district of Littleton, compris-
ing the towns of Littleton, Bethlehem
and Franconia; Harry L. Heald of
Littleton, justice.

The district of Lisbon, comprising
the towns of Lisbon, Lyman, Bath,
Landaff and Easton ; Ben S. Webb of
Lisbon, justice.

The district of Canaan, comprising
the towns of Canaan, Orange, Graf-
ton, Enfield and Dorchester; Frank

D. Currier of Canaan, justice ; Daniel
W. Campbell of Enfield, special jus-
tice.

The district of Woodstock, compris-

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ing the towns of Woodstock. Lincoln,
Thornton, Livermore, Ellsworth and
"Waterville; Sidney F. Downing of
Lincoln, justice.

The district of Wolfeboro, compris-
ing the towns of "Wolfeboro, Tufton-
boro, Sandwich and Moultonborough ;
Frank P. Hobbs of Wolfeboro, special
justice.

The district of Ossipee, comprising

Milan and Dummer; Matthew J.
Ryan of Berlin, justice ; William H.
Payne of Berlin, special justice.

The district of Northumberland,
comprising the towns of Northumber-
land, Stratford and Stark; John C.
Pattee of Stratford, justice ; Aked D.
Ellingwood of Groveton, special jus-
tice.

The district of Whitefield, compris-

Judge George H. Bingham

the towns of Ossipee, Wakefield,
Brookfield, Tamworth, Freedom and
Effingham; John Gage of Wakefield,
justice.

The district of Conway, comprising
the towns of Conway, Albany, Jack-
son, Bartlett, Chatham, Eaton, Hart's
Location and Madison; William Pit-
man of Bartlett, justice.

The district of Berlin, comprising
the city of Berlin and the towns of

ing the towns of Whitefield, Carroll
and Dalton; Charles C. King of
Whitefield, justice; Dana Brown of
Carroll, special justice.

The district of Gorham, comprising
the towns of Gorham, Randolph and
Shelburne; Harry G. Noyes of Gor-
ham, justice.

The district of Lancaster, compris-
ing the towns of Lancaster and Jeffer-
son : Fred C. Cleaveland of Lancaster,

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justice ; Manassah Perkins of Jeffer-
son, special justice.

The district of Colebrook, compris-
ing the towns of Colebrook, Stewarts-
town and Columbia and the rest of
Coos County not otherwise included;
James Carr of Colebrook, justice.

Hon. George H. Bingham

George Hutchins Bingham, occu-
pant of the highest judicial position
now held by any native of New Hamp-
shire, inherits the title of judge from
both his paternal and maternal an-
cestors. His grandfather, Warner
Bingham, was a county judge in Ver-
mont ; his grandfather, Andrew Salter
Woods, was chief justice of the su-
preme court of New Hampshire ; his
father, George A. Bingham, was a
judge of the supreme court of New
Hampshire ; and his uncle, Edward F.
Bingham, was ehief justice of the su-
preme court of the District of Co-
lumbia.

The present Judge Bingham was
born in Littleton, N. H., August 19,
1864, attended the public schools there
and prepared for Dartmouth College
at Holderness School for Boys and St.
Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy. Gradu-
ating from Dartmouth in 1887 with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the
following year he entered the law
school of Harvard University and re-
ceived its degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1891.

Practising his profession at Little-
ton with his father until the latter "s
death in 1895, Judge Bingham in 1898
removed to Manchester and formed a
partnership with Hon. David A. Tag-
gart. In 1901 he opened an office by
himself and in 1902 was appointed by
Governor Chester B. Jordan an asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of
New Hampshire.

In this position, as was to be ex-
pected from his ancestry, his training
and his equipment, his work was of
the highest order ; and his eminent fit-
ness for the high office of judge of the
United States circuit court was recog-

nized by President Woodrow Wilson
when an appointment from New Eng-
land was to be made to that court.

Judge Bingham has been a director
of the Merchants' National Bank in
Manchester. He is a vestryman of
Grace Episcopal church, Manchester.
A Democrat in politics, by family tra-
dition and personal belief, he has
declined the active party leadership
which has been offered him in such
forms as the state convention nomi-
nation for governor.

Judge Bingham married, October
21, 1891, Cordelia Pearmain Hinckley
and they have three sons and three
daughters.

Hon. Robert G. Pike

When Governor Samuel D. Felker,
Democrat, nominated Judge Robert
G. Pike, Republican, to be chief jus-
tice of the superior court of New
Hampshire, the act was applauded
universally, partly because it was a
notable instance of desirable non-par-
tisanship in an important appoint-
ment, but chiefly because it assured
a worthy continuance of the state's
high standard in its most important
judicial places. For the people in
general, as well as the lawyers, of the
whole state, knew almost as well as
did Governor Felker, fellow member
of the same county bar for many
years, the splendid qualifications of
Judge Pike for the chief justiceship.

Robert Gordon Pike was born in
Rollinsford, Strafford County, N. H.,
July 28, 1851, the son of Amos W.
and Elizabeth M. (Chadbourne) Pike.
Both his father 's and his mother 's an-
cestors came to this country from
England between 1630 and 1640 and
his great-great-grandfather, the Rev-
erend James Pike, was the first min-
ister (1726-1790) in that part of
Dover, afterwards included in Som-
ersworth, which since 1849 has been
the town of Rollinsford.

Judge Pike attended the town
schools in boyhood and at the Ber-
wick (Maine) Academy prepared

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for Dartmouth College, from whose
Chandler Scientific Department he
graduated in the class of 1872. In
1903 he succeeded the late Judge John
Hopkins of Massachusetts as a Chand-
ler Visitor to the College and in 1908
was given the honorary degree of
Master of Arts by his alma mater.

Upon leaving college he engaged
in the profession of civil engineering,
for which he had fitted himself, and
was one of the party which laid, out
the Portsmouth and Dover Railroad in
1873, spending the next year with
Shedd & Sawyer, civil engineers, of
Boston.

Three years of teaching at South
Berwick, Me., followed, and in 1878
he found his life work and began the
study of law with the late Chief Jus-
tice Charles Doe, at the same time
serving as superintendent of schools
at Rollinsford. He was admitted to
the state bar in 1881 and to the bar of
the circuit court of the United States
in 1894. Choosing Dover as the place
in which to begin the practice of his
profession in 1881, he has remained
ever since its loyal, useful, respected
and honored citizen.

He was city solicitor from 1887 to
1889 and judge of the county probate
court from 1893 to 1896. Other posi-
tions, which he held for longer or
shorter terms, were those of member
of the city of Dover water board,
trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank,
trustee of Berwick Academy, trustee
and treasurer of Franklin Academy
and member of the school board of the
city of Dover.

Judge Pike was appointed associate
justice of the supreme court of the
state April 14, 1896, and upon the re-
organization of the judicial system in
1901 became an associate justice of the
superior court, of which his most re-
cent appointment makes him chief
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Hon. William A. Plummer

Judge William Alberto Plummer,
whose promotion from the superior to

the supreme bench was approved
unanimously by the people as well as
by the bar of the state, was born in
Gilmanton, N. H., December 2, 1865,
the son of the late Charles E. and
Mary H. (Moody) Plummer. His an-
cestors on both his father's and his
mother's side came from England to
Essex County, Mass., early in the
seventeenth century, and from that
day to this have been substantial citi-
zens and landholders of the Bay State
and the Granite State.

Judge Plummer 's education was
gained in the public schools; at Gil-
manton Academy ; at Dartmouth Col-
lege where, by reason of ill health he
was unable to complete the course;
and at the law school of Boston Uni-
versity, from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1889.
He had studied law, also, with J. C.
Story at Plymouth, George W. Mur-
ray at Canaan and C. T. and T. H.
Russell of Boston ; and was admitted
to the New Hampshire bar July 26,
1889.

On September 2, 1889, Judge Plum-
mer formed a partnership for the
practice of law at Laconia with Colo-
nel Stephen S. Jewett which con-
tinued for eighteen years and made
the firm of Jewett & Plummer known
throughout the state and beyond its
borders as one of the most deservedly
successful in New Hampshire.

As an advocate and as a counsellor
Judge Plummer displayed throughout
the years of his practice qualities
which made him eminently fit for a
judicial position and when on October
3, 1907, he was appointed by Governor
Charles M. Floyd to the superior
bench the choice met with universal
commendation.

Of his record as justice of that court
it is sufficient to say that it has ful-
filled every hope of his warmest
friends and stands as the best possible
reason for the promotion to the su-
preme court, which he recently re-
ceived from Governor Felker with the
approbation of the executive council
as well as of the press and the public.

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HON. OLIVER W. BRANCH

Associate Justice, Superior Court

New Hampshire's New Judges

To a wide, deep and thorough knowl-
edge of the law Judge Plummer adds
a generous endowment of the true ju-
dicial temperament, a happy combina-
tion which could not but assure
success to its possessor.

Judge Plummer 's interests outside
of the law have been many and varied.
In politics a staunch, but conservative,
Democrat, he was the candidate of his
party for mayor of Laconia in 1895,
losing by a very narrow margin ; and
was a delegate from New Hampshire
to the national Democratic convention
of 1896 in Chicago. He was elected
to the legislature in 1893 and again in
1897, serving with distinction upon
the most important committee, that of
the judiciary, and at the latter session
being the Democratic candidate for
speaker, and as such the party floor
leader.

Judge Plummer is one of the most
prominent members of the Masonic
order in the state, having been the
grand master of the grand lodge in
1906 and 1907 and is a thirty-third
degree Mason. He was made a Mason
in Mount Lebanon Lodge, Laconia,
December 8, 1891, and became master
in 1895. Later he was high priest of
Union Chapter, R. A. M., commander
of Pilgrim commandery, Knights
Templar, T. I. M. of Pythagorean
Council and grand patron of the
Eastern Star. He is also a Knight of
Pythias and an Elk.

For many years Judge Plummer
has been a valued member of the La-
conia board of trade. He was for
nineteen years a member and for six-
teen years president of the city board
of education and is a director of the
Laconia National Bank, vice-president
of the City Savings Bank and a di-
rector of the Laconia Building and
Loan Association. He made a repu-
tation as a banker through his man-
agement as assignee of the suspended
Belknap Savings Bank, to whose de-
positors, as the result of five years of
hard and skilful work, he paid aggre-
gate dividends of 97 per cent.

Judge Plummer is a Congregation-

alist in religious preference. He mar-
ried January 1, 1890, Miss Ellen F.
Murray, daughter of George W. Mur-
ray, Esq., of Canaan, and they have
one son, Wayne Murray Plummer.

Hon. Oliver W. Branch

When Oliver Winslow Branch of
Manchester, thirty-four years of age,
was named by Governor Samuel D.
Felker as judge of the superior court
of New Hampshire the appointment
was applauded by the entire bar of
the state, and by many laymen as well,
because they knew that a good man
had been placed in a responsible posi-
tion for which he was eminently quali-
fied. But an even larger number of
people said as to the new judge :
''Oliver E. Branch's son, isn't he?.
Oh, well, then, he'll make good."
And Judge Branch has ' ' made good, ' '
as his own friends and his father's
confidently expected that he would.
In the few months since his appoint-
ment he has "held court" in several
counties of the state and by the gen-
eral testimony of lawyers, litigants
and others in attendance has been
proved a presiding justice whose ap-
plication of the law is as apt and
prompt as his knowledge of it is sure
and sound.

Judge Branch is the eldest son of
Oliver E. Branch and Sarah Chase
(of Weare). He was born in New
York City, October 4, 1879. He is a
lineal descendant of John Branch who
came from England in 1683 and set-
tled at Scituate, Mass., also of Charles
Chauncey, the second president of
Harvard College. His lineage upon
both sides includes some of the most
distinguished and substantial families
of the early colonial and Revolu-
tionary periods. His ancestors on his
mother's side — the Dows and Chases
of Weare — were members of the So-
ciety of Friends.

His boyhood was spent in the vil-
lage of North Weare, until at the age
of twelve years he entered the Man-
chester High School, from which he

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HON. WILLIAM H. SAWYER
Associate Justice, Superior Court

New Hampshire's New Judges

graduated in 1896. His father moved
with his family from North Weare to
Manchester in 1894. He graduated
from Phillips Academy, Andover, in
1897, and Harvard College in the class
of 1901, at which time he received the
degree of A. B. cum laude. He also
received the degree of A. M. in 1902
and graduated from the law school of
Harvard University in 1904. At that
time he passed the New Hampshire
bar examinations and was admitted to
practice. He entered his father's of-
fice in Manchester in the September
following and has been in the active
practice of his profession ever since.

He was fortunate in being at once
put to work on important litigated
cases, but particularly in matters com-
ing before the supreme court of the
state. During the nine years in which
he was associated with his father in
business, he had an experience greater
and more varied than usually comes to
attorneys after a much longer prac-
tice. His practice took him not only
into the courts of the state, but into
the United States courts of Massachu-
setts and New Hampshire as well. His
work in the supreme court of the state
early attracted the attention of the
members of that bench and frequently
was warmly commended by them.

The petitions for his appointment
as judge were signed by nearly every
practising attorney of the state and by
many of its leading citizens. He pos-
sesses in a marked degree the qualities
that are most becoming in a judge, —
courtesy, industry, thoroughness, pa-
tience and an intuitive perception of
the right. At the time of his appoint-
ment as judge he had been for three
years one of the members of the com-
mittee appointed by the supreme
court to examine candidates for ad-
mission to the bar. He is a member
of the Franklin Street Church, also
the Young Men 's Association of Man-
chester, of which he is president. He
was married November 23, 1910, to
Miss Isabel Dow Hogle of Rochester,
N. Y. They have one daughter and a
delightful home on Prospect Street.

He is a member of the Cygnet Boat
Club and Intervale Country Club.
The news of his appointment was re-
ceived with especially marked pleas-
ure by the bar of Hillsborough
County, and he has not yet ceased re-
ceiving congratulations from many
friends throughout the state and with-
out its limits.

Hon. William H. Sawyer

At this writing, Honorable "William
Henry Sawyer of Concord, justice of
the superior court of the state of New
Hampshire, and Governor Samuel D.
Felker's most recent appointee to the
judiciary of the commonwealth, is pre-
siding over his first term of court, at
Berlin, and the unanimous report
from Coos County is to the effect that-
he is upholding worthily the very high
standard of the bench.

Judge Sawyer was born in Little-
ton, Grafton County, N. H., August
18, 1867, the son of Eli D. and Sarah
(Pierce) Sawyer. He was educated
at the Littleton High School, and,
choosing the law as his profession, be-
gan its study with the late Honorable
Harry Bingham, from whose office so
many of New Hampshire's best law-
yers have gone forth. His prepara-
tion for practice was completed at the
law school of Boston University,
where he did in two years the work
of the regular three years ' course and
received the degree of Bachelor of
Laws in June, 1890.

In the following month he passed
with credit the state bar examinations
and was admitted to practice in the
courts of the state at Concord July
25, 1890.

Judge Sawyer at first associated
himself with the law firm of Bingham
& Mitchell, having offices in Concord
and Littleton, and so continued until
January, 1894, when he established
himself in independent practice. In
1897 he took as a partner Joseph S.
Matthews, Esq., and the firm con-
tinued some six years or until Mr.
Matthews took charge of the legacy

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HON. JOHN KIVEL
Associate Justice, Superior Court

New Hampshire's New Judges

tax department of the state treasury.
Soon after, General John H. Albin
and Judge Sawyer associated them-
selves in practice and maintained the
connection until the former retired a
few years since from the active duties
of his profession.

As a lawyer, Judge Sawyer's record
was one of successful and honorable
activity in all branches of the profes-
sion, and of unusual research and
knowledge in certain particular lines.

A Democrat in politics, he was the
candidate of that party in its minor-
ity days for various offices, including
those of member of the legislature and
solicitor of Merrimack County. In
the fall of 1912 he received the direct
primary nomination for member of
the executive council from the fourth
district, without opposition, and was
endorsed by the Progressive party
which placed no candidate in the field
against him.

He was elected in November in
what previously had been a very
strong Republican district, receiving
0,116 votes to 7,776 for Frank P.
Quimby of Concord, Republican.

Councilor Sawyer was appointed by
Governor Felker upon the council
committees on finance and state
prison, but by reason of his legal
training and his wide acquaintance
and information his official activities
took a broader range, especially in
connection with the large amount of
new legislation which the General
Court of 1913 sent up to the Governor
for his approval or disapproval.

Judge Sawyer has been a member of
the board of education of Union school
district in the city of Concord for the
past four years. He is a member of
the South Congregational Church in
Concord and of Capital Grange, Pa-
trons of Husbandry. In his younger
days he served an enlistment in the
New Hampshire National Guard.

On November 18, 1891, Mr. Sawyer
married Miss Carrie B. Lane of
Whitefield, and they have three sons
and two daughters, the oldest son now
being a junior in Dartmouth College,

and the eldest daughter is a freshman
at Mt. Holvoke.

Hon. John Kivel

Governor Felker 's first judicial ap-
pointment was that of Honorable
John Kivel of Dover to the bench of
the superior court in succession to the
late Judge John M. Mitchell of Con-
cord ; and the universal approval with
which the announcement of the choice
was received must have given his Ex-
cellency assurance, if he needed any,
that his selection was popular as well
as wise.

Judge Kivel was born April 29,
1855, the son of Patrick and Cath-
erine Kivel, in the city of Dover,
which has been his life-long home..
He attended its schools, graduating
from the Dover High School in 1871,
and after working in a drug store
for a year entered Dartmouth College,
in the second term of the freshman
year, with the class of 1876. He com-
pleted his course with high honors,
having a Commencement Day ap-
pointment at graduation and being
elected a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, admission to which is
based upon scholastic distinction.

He at once chose the law as his pro-
fession and after a due period of prep-
aration in the office of the late Frank
Hobbs he was admitted to practice in
the courts of the state in August,
1879, subsequently qualifying for ap-
pearance in the Federal courts. His
success was immediate and continu-
ous, and some ten years ago he light-
ened his business burdens by forming
a partnership with his then young law
student, and present county solicitor,
George T. Hughes, Esq.

Mr. Kivel himself had served three
terms as county solicitor, from 1887 to
1893, and during that period gained
distinction by the manner in which he
handled some famous criminal cases,
including the Sawtelle murder. For
ten years, 1903-13, he was police com-
missioner of the city of Dover.

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"When the legislature of 1903 passed
a law giving local option for the li-
censed sale of liquor and providing
for a commission of three members to
administer the law, the minority
party, then the Democratic, was given
representation on the board and Mr.
Kivel was the man chosen for the
place.

It was a fact apparent to everyone
who gave the matter thought that the
fate of this law, new to New Hamp-
shire, lay with the men who were to
administer it. Their powers under the
statute were so large that if they did
their whole duty firmly, honestly, in-
telligently, the cause of law, order and
morals in the state must be benefited.
If they did not so rise to the occasion,
if thev failed to seize the opportunity
afforded them for really regulating
the liquor traffic in New Hampshire,
then the law was doomed to an early
repeal.

When Governor Nahum J. Bach-
elder made his choice as license com-
missioners of Cyrus H. Little of
Manchester, Harry W. Keyes of Hav-
erhill and John Kivel of Dover, there
was a very general feeling that he had
done well. And as the months and
years passed, and the people saw the
law administered without fear or
favor, and in accordance with its hon-
est intent, the men who were so ad-
ministering it gained the hearty
approval of all save the few who for
their own purposes wished the law ill
or sought to break or evade it. Suc-
cessive governors re-appointed the en-
tire board as the terms of its members
expired, and it was from a decade's
splendid work in its interests that Mr.
Kivel resigned, at Governor Felker's
desire, to become Judge Kivel.

Judge Kivel has an industrious,
well-stored, right-moving mind of his
own, and an unusually keen insight
into the mental processes of others.
Add to these valuable possessions a
broad knowledge of the law and its
practice, and it was easy for his
friends to predict the entire success

upon the bench which already has
come to him.

Judge Kivel is a member of St.
Mary's Roman Catholic Church,
Dover. He married, October 12, 1879,
Eva G. Ennis. Of their four children,
Frank and Maurice are residents of
Denver, Colo., and Alice Gaffney
Kivel and Laurence Kivel are with
their parents at Dover.

Judge Harry Bingham

The only appointment of a judge of
probate which Governor Samuel D,
Felker has been called upon to make
thus far in his administration, and the
only one, it is very possible, which
may be numbered among the acts of
his term of office, was the choice of a
successor to Judge Tyler Westgate of
Grafton County, whose excellent offi-
cial record was terminated by the age
limitation prescribed in the consti-
tution.

If this does prove to be the Gov-
ernor's only act on this line he will
have to be marked "perfect"' in this
department in the rating which his-
tory will make of his administration;
for universal approval has greeted his
action in adding another Judge Bing-
ham to the famous line of that name.

Captain Harry Bingham, the new
judge of probate of Grafton County,
is the son of the late Chief Justice Ed-
ward F. Bingham of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia:
nephew of the late George A. Bing-
ham, justice of the supreme court of
the state of New Hampshire ; and first
cousin of Judge George H. Bingham
of the United States circuit court.

Judge Harry Bingham, nephew and
namesake of one of the greatest law-
yers and political leaders in New
Hampshire history, was born in Co-
lumbus, Ohio, in 1864, and after the
usual preparatory school education
attended Ohio State University.
Later he read law in the office of
Bingham, Mitchell & Batchellor at

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Littleton and was admitted to the bar
in New Hampshire July 10, 1887.

For some years Judge Bingham was
assistant district attorney for the Dis-
trict of Columbia, residing in Wash-
ington, D. C. During the War with
Spain he was captain of the Seventh
United States Volunteer Infantry and
until his appointment to the judge-
ship w T as generally known by his mili-
tary title.

Captain Bingham's return to New

Francestown Academy, graduated
from Phillips Exeter Academy, and
after a partial college course at Har-
vard graduated from the Boston Uni-
versity Law School. He has practised
law at Wilton since 1888 and was
judge of the Wilton police court until
its incorporation in the new district
court. Judge Bales was a member of
the New Hampshire forestry commis-
sion for five years and of the state
railroad commission for seven years.

Judge Harry Bingham

Hampshire followed the death of his
brother-in-law, Honorable William H.
Mitchell of Littleton, to whose legal
practice he succeeded.

Judge George E. Bales

Hon. George Edward Bales of Wil-
ton, judge of the district court for the
Milford district, was born in Wilton
September 14, 1862. He attended

He represented Wilton in the legisla-
ture in 1895 and 1897 ; has been mod-
erator of Wilton over twenty years;
w r as town treasurer six years, tax col-
lector six years and member of the
school board ten years. He is presi-
dent of the Wilton Board of Trade
and of the Wilton Telephone Com-
pany; trustee of the Wilton public
library; trustee of the Granite Sav-
ings Bank and director of the Sou-
hegan National Bank, both of Milford.
Judge Bales is a Democrat ; a Uni-

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tarian ; a Mason, Shriner, Odd Fellow
and member of the Eastern Star, and
of the Derryfield Club, Manchester.

Judge George E. Bales

He married, October 16, 1889, Abbie
M. French. They have one daughter,
Milly Frances.

Judge Herbert J. Taft

Herbert J. Taft, judge of the
Greenville district court, was born in
Greenville, then Mason, September 1,
1860. He attended the public schools
and New Ipswich Academy and stud-
ied law in the office of Wadleigh &
Wallace in Milford, being admitted to
the bar in 1881. He was associated
with Judge R. M. "Wallace in Milford
for a few years, but since 1884 has es-
tablished his office in Greenville, where
also he has engaged very successfully
in varied undertakings. He is vice-
president of the Mason Village Sav-
ings Bank, president of the Greenville
Chair Company and the Greenville
Electric Light Company, carries on a

large and well-stocked farm, has car-
ried out extensive lumbering projects,
deals largely in coal and wood, and
manages the principal fire insurance
agency of his section. Judge Taft is
a Republican in politics and at the
recent enthusiastic reorganization of
the Hillsborough County Republican
Club was made its president. He
served in the legislatures of 1891 and
190.1 as a member of the lower house
and in that of 1905 as a senator,
always with credit to himself and sat-
isfaction to his constituents. He was
for many years a member of the
school board and judge in the police
court which preceded the district
court. He is a Mason, lodge, chap-
ter, council, commandery and Shrine,
an Odd Fellow, Patron of Husbandry
and member of the A. 0. U. W. He
attends the Congregational church.
Judge Taft married October 21, 1885,

Judge Herbert J. Taft

Ida F. Chamberlain, and their s(
James Chamberlain Taft, was be
February 15, 1891.

New Hampshire's New Judges

Judge Warren W. Merrill

Judge Edward D. Mayer

Warren W. .Merrill of Fairview Judge Edward D. Mayer, who pre-

Farm, Antrim, special justice of the sides over the district court for the
Hillsborough district court, was born district of Exeter, was born in Kings

in Deering, October 29, 1865, and re-
sided there, with the exception of

Judge Warren VV. Merrill

three years in Nashua, until 1900,
when he bought in Antrim one of the
best farms in that section of the state.
Mr. Merrill was educated in the Deer-
ing district schools and at Frances-
"own Academy, from which he gradu-
ted in 1886. While a resident of
)eering he was for seven years town
lerk and six years member of the
chool board, and, since coming to
Antrim, he has been five years select-
nan. He is a member of the Antrim
Congregational Church; of Waverlv
'Lodge, No. 59, I. 0. 0. F., of Antrim,
Antrim Grange, No. 98, P. of H. and
he Antrim Board of Trade; having
always taken an active interest in the
welfare of his community and the bet-
. erment of its citizens. He married,
larch 15, 1887, Eliza V. Osgood of
Nashua and their children are Elmer
v r . Merrill, Leonard A. Merrill, Emma
it. Merrill and Bertha F. Merrill.

ton, N. Y., in 1878, and was educated
in the public schools of that city, in-
cluding the High School, and also at
the Mulenbergh School in Allentown,
Pa. Fitting at the New York Law
School for the practice of the legal
profession, he became a member of
the bar of that state and for five years
was associated as a lawyer with Judge
G. D. C. Hasbrouck, justice of the
supreme court of New York. Remov-
ing to Exeter, he has established him-
self successfully in the practice of law
with offices in the Exeter and Hamp-
ton Electric Light Company Building
on Water Street. As a lawyer in
Exeter Judge Mayer joins one of the

Judge Edward D. Mayer

most distinguished companies, past
and present, in the legal history of
the state or of New England; while
as the head of the Exeter court he
succeeds a man of national fame,
Judge Henry A. Shute. That he
measures up well to the standard of

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Exeter lawyers and Exeter judges is
high, but deserved, praise, for him.

Judge Walter E. Burtt

Walter E. Burtt, special justice of
the Exeter district court, was born in
Reading, Mass., July 17, 1860. A few
weeks after his birth his parents re-
moved to Portsmouth, N. H., and
there he was educated. Engaging in
the watch and jewelry business he at

Judge Walter E. Burtt

the same time bought law books and
devoted his leisure time to legal
studies, registering as a law student in
1909. He was appointed a notary
and justice of the peace by Governor
John McLane in 1906. He is a Mason,
having held the office of chaplain of
his lodge, and a Knight of Pythias,
for several years keeper of records
and seals. He is a member of Phil-
lips Congregational Church, Exeter.
Judge Burtt married, in 1880, Alice
A. Johnson of Maiden, Mass. Their
children are Everett J. Burtt, assist-
ant superintendent of the Au Sable
(Mich.) Electric Company; Alice W.,
wife of Chester F. Robie of Somer-
ville, Mass. ; Harriet I., wife of James

W. Rollins of Stratham; Irving W.,
of Brentwood; Marion E., wife of
George R. Bragdon of Kingston ; Wil-
liam A., of Brentwood; and Thomas
F., residing at home. "I believe in
truth and justice" is Judge Burtt 's
motto.

Judge Harry K. Torrey

Judge Harry Kimball Torrey of
the district court of Portsmouth was
born in Newburyport, Mass., August
16, 1880, son of Hon. John Torrey, a
widely known New Hampshire busi-
ness man. His great-great-grand-
father sailed from Portsmouth in the
Revolution, served under John Paul
Jones and was wounded. Judge Tor-
rey was educated at Phillips Exeter
Academy and at Harvard, spending
a year after leaving college in the
West Indies. In 1903 he registered as
a law student at Portsmouth and in
due course was admitted to the state
bar and has since practised his pro-
fession successfully in the City by the
Sea. For some years his legal resi-
dence was in the town of Newfields
where he served as auditor and super-
visor and in 1909 as a member of the
legislature, receiving an appointment
there on the important judiciary com-
mittee. During that eventful session
of the general court Mr. Torrey allied
himself with the "insurgents" and
his legislative record was such as to
lead Governor Robert P. Bass to
choose him as his private secretary.
He was prominently connected, also,
with the Roosevelt movement in New
Hampshire in 1912. Judge Torrey is
a Protestant in religious belief. He is
a member of various Masonic bodies;
of the Warwick and Country Clubs at
Portsmouth ; of the New Hampshire
State and American Bar Associations ;
and of the American Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminology. He
married, October 9, 1912, Miss Edith
E. Badger, daughter of Hon. Daniel
W. Badger, member of Governor
Felker's executive council and former
mayor of Portsmouth. The Ports-

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Judge Harry K. Torrey

mouth district court handles some
seven hundred cases a year, including
juveniles and the civil docket, and
collects annually over $3,000 in fines,
etc., being self-supporting.

Judge Joseph W. Sanbokn

Judge Joseph W. Sanborn of the
Bradford district court was born in
Liberty, Me., May 12, 1865, the son of
Kev. John L. Sanborn, D. D., a lead-
ing Baptist clergyman of his day. He
was educated in the common and high
schools of Waterboro and Alfred, Me.
A photographer by profession, Judge
Sanborn came to Bradford Center to
reside and married, October 7, 1894,
Laura E. Hoyt, a descendant of the
noted General Stephen Hoyt, in whose
family possession remains the home-
stead built by General Hoyt, the old-
est house in town. Judge Sanborn is
serving his third term as selectman
and his fifth term as member of the
school board. A Democrat in political
belief and active in the support of his

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party, he presided at the town jubilee
following the election results of No-
vember, 1912, which was one of the

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most notable of the several similar
celebrations held in different towns of
the state.

Judge George S. Frost

Judge George S. Frost of the Dover
district court was born June 4, 1844.
He was educated at the town schools,
at Durham Academy and at Phillips
Exeter Academy, where he entered
the junior class in its last term and
graduated in 1861. He remained at

pointed associate justice of the Boston
court for the district of "West Rox-
bury, but declined the appointment.
He was a member of the Boston school
committee from Ward 17 in 1874 and
1875, declining a reelection. Judge
Frost was appointed assistant district
attorney of the United States for the
district of Massachusetts November
26, 1875, and held that office until
November, 1877, when he resigned on
account of ill health, came to Dover

Judge George S. Frost

Exeter for a year of advanced work
and then entered the sophomore class
at Harvard College, graduating in
1865 with the degree of A. B., fol-
lowed later by that of A. M. He
studied law with Hon. Jeremiah
Smith at Dover, 1866-67, and at the
law school of Harvard University in
1867-68. He was admitted to the bar
of Suffolk County, Mass., July 7,
1868, and began practice at Boston.
July 30, 1872, he was appointed trial
justice for West Roxbury and served
until the annexation of West Roxbury
to Boston in 1874, when he was ap-

and was admitted to the New Hamp-
shire bar. He was a member of the
New Hampshire legislature of 1881
and of the constitutional convention
of 1889. From November 8, 1888, to
January, 1897, he served as a member
of the Dover school committee, the last
two years as its chairman, declining
further election. Appointed judge of
the police court of Dover June 21,
1882, he held that office until the dis-
trict court was established July 1,
1913, when he was appointed judge of
the new court. Judge Frost was
senior warden of St. Thomas Epis-

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copal Church for twenty-seven years,
declining to serve longer. He has
been a director of the Strafford Na-
tional Bank for twenty-seven years
and was one of the incorporators of
the Went worth Home for the Aged
and continuously a trustee. He is a
thirty-second degree Mason, belong-
ing to Moses Paul Lodge, and a char-
ter member of the Bellamy Club.

ington and his official record includes
a service of twelve years upon the
board of education of special school
district Number Nine in that town,
eight years as chairman. Judge Wig-
gin is senior warden of Fraternal
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., past chan-
cellor of Harmony Lodge, Knights
Pythias, and a member of Wood-
bine Lodge, Order of Odd Fellows,

Judge Arthur H. Wiggin

Judge Arthur H. Wiggin
Judge Arthur H. Wiggin of the
district court for the district of Farm-
ington was born in Ossipee, Carroll
County, N. H., November 30, 1865.
He was educated at the Wolfeboro
Academy and at the New Hampton
Literary Institution and upon the
completion of legal studies was ad-
mitted to the New Hampshire bar in
1889, having now to his credit nearly
a quarter of a century of successful
and honorable practice. In addition
he has taken a keen interest in all the
activities of life in his town of Farm-

all of Farmington. Judge Wiggin
attends the Free Will Baptist Church.
On December 23, 1893, he married
Harriette Bradeen of Waterboro, Me.
Their daughter, Esther Beatrice, born
December 14, 1895, died December 24,
1901.

Judge A. Chester Clark

Judge A. Chester Clark of the Con-
cord district court was born at Center
Harbor July 4, 1877, the son of Mat-
thew C. and Sarah L. (Bartlett)
Clark, being a member of the same

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New Hampshire family as Chief Jus-
tice Lewis W. Clark of the state su-
preme court and Judge Daniel Clark
of the United States District Court.
He was educated at the Meredith
High School (1894), New Hampton
Literary Institution and Commercial
College* (1901) and at Dartmouth Col-
lege, where he was a member of the
class of 1906. At New Hampton he
was business manager of the school
paper for four years and winner of

journalist of vigorous pen. While
a legal resident of Center Harbor,
Judge Clark represented his town
in the constitutional convention of
1902, and, though a Democrat in poli-
tics, was chosen clerk of the conven-
tion of 1912 by 143 majority. He is a
member of the American Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminology; the
New Hampshire Historical Society;
the New Hampshire Press Associa-
tion ; the Wonolancet Club of Con-

Judge A. Chester Clark

first honor in the Bates prize debate
in 1900. Judge Clark studied law
with Bertram Blaisdell at Meredith
and with General John H. Albin and
Joseph A. Donigan, Esq., at Concord,
being admitted to the bar in June,
1913, and at once opening an office for
the general practice of his profession
in Concord. "While getting his edu-
cation and pursuing his legal studies
Judge Clark made newspaper work
his means of livelihood and gained a
wide reputation as a well-informed

cord; Chocorua Lodge, No. 83, A. F.
and A. M., Meredith ; Concord Lodge,
No. 8, K. of P., Concord (past chan-
cellor) : Grand Lodge, K. of P. (past
deputy grand chancellor) ; Augusta
Young Temple, Pythian Sisterhood;
Capital Grange, Merrimack Pomona,
the New Hampshire State Grange;
and various other organizations. In
the few months during which he has
held the office of judge of the Concord
district court he has shown himself
the possessor of advanced and admir-

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able ideas in penology which he has
had the courage to put in execution.

Judge Charles J. O'Neill

No one of the new judges is better
and more favorably known through-
out the state than Charles J. O'Neill
of North Walpole, judge of the Wal-
pole district court. Six terms he has

ber of the Elks, A. 0. H., Patrons of
Husbandry and Bellows Falls (Vt.)
Boat Club. He is the owner of the
Cheshire Republican, a semi- weekly
newspaper published at Keene, and
has other business interests. Judge
O'Neill is a Democrat in politics and
accounted one of the most skilful of
that party's leaders in New Hamp-
shire.

Judge Charles J. O'Neill

served in the house of representatives
of the state legislature, establishing a
reputation there as one of its clearest
thinkers, most effective speakers and
most influential members. Eighteen
years he has served on the North Wal-
pole school board. Born in Keene
April 4, 1861, and educated there, he
married, September 30, 1882, Mary
McNamara and their children are
Dorothy and Gerald C. O'Neill.
Judge O'Neill is a Catholic; a mem-

Judge Lewis S. Record

Judge Lewis Stillman Record of the
Newport district court was born at
Worcester, Mass., August 6, 1877, and
graduated from the English High
School there, from Brown University,
in the class of 1902, and from the Uni-
versity of Maine School of Law in
1905. While prosecuting his legal
studies he served as principal of the
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for one year and of the Three Rivers
School in Palmer, Mass., for two
years. He married, May 8, 1902,
Ethel T. Robinson of Providence, R.
I., and they have five children, Agnes

Judge Lewis S. Record

E.j Dorothy L., Stephen W., Hattie
F. and Marjorie E. He is a member
of the bar of both Massachusetts and
New Hampshire and, before locating
at Newport, practised in this state at
Ashland where he was a member of
the board of education and justice of
the police court. At Newport he is a
member and clerk of the school board.
Judge Record is a Baptist in religious
belief; and a member of the A. F. and
A. M.j Eastern Star, I. 0. 0. F., Re-
bekahs, L. 0. 0. M. and Newport
board of trade. He was president of
the Newport "Wilson & Marshall Club
and attended the national conven-
tion at Baltimore at which those can-
didates were named. In 1908 and
again in 1912 he was a delegate to the
Democratic state convention.

Judge Frank W. Hamlin
Frank W. Hamlin, judge of the dis-
trict court at Charlestown and pro-
prietor there of the largest depart-
ment store in Sullivan County, was
born in the same town June 14, 1863,
and educated in its public schools. He
was a member of the house of repre-
sentatives in the state legislature of
1903, and in 1908 was elected to the
state senate of 1909 from District No.
7, receiving 2,373 votes to 1,669 for
Bela Graves of Unity. In that body
he served as chairman of the com-
mittee on banks, a position for which
the presidency of the Connecticut
River National Bank since 1900 had
fitted him, and on the committees on
revision of the laws, incorporations,
claims and school for feeble-minded.
Judge Hamlin is an Episcopalian and
a member of Charlestown Lodge, No.
88, I. O. 0. F. He is town treasurer,
a trustee of the Silsby free public

Judge Frank W. Hamlin

library and generally recognized as
one of the town's most able, active
and public-spirited citizens. Decem-
ber 20, 1887, he married Ada E.
Perry.

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Judge Edgar K. Morrison

Edgar K. Morrison of Acworth,
special justice of the Charlestown dis-
trict court, was born in Peterborough
May 6, 1848, and educated there, in
the public schools, at the old Peter-
borough Academy and at the Bridge-
water (Mass.) Normal School. He is
president of the town board of health,
trustee of the Silsby Free Public Li-
brary, president of the Acworth board
of trade, which he organized in 1910,
secretary of the local fair association
and notary public and justice of the
peace. He is a member of the Ma-
sonic fraternity and of the Episcopal
Church. Judge Morrison was for
many years a school teacher in Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire and has
been superintendent of schools for
Acworth. He has written and trav-
eled much and is the author of lec-
tures on "The Old Granite State"
and on "Yankees." On Old Home
Day, 1904, at Charlestown, he gave an
address on ' ' The Struggles to Defend
Old No. 4." Mr. Morrison married
July 20, 1866, Amy Gardam, who died
August 30, 1897/ Their son, Edgar
Gardam, was born April 8, 1890. On
April 5, 1899, Mr. Morrison married
Lona Royce. They have an adopted
daughter, Katie.

agent, etc., and was a member of the
house of representatives of 1905.
He was postmaster under President
Cleveland and since that time clerk in
the postoffice until re-appointed to his
former office by President Wilson.
He is a member of the Democratic
state committee. Judge Craig is a
Baptist in religions belief. He mar-

Judge George C. Craig

George C. Craig, of Rumney, asso-
ciate justice of the Plymouth district
court, was born in Rumney December
18, 1865, the son of Deacon Byron M.
Craig and Lydia (Ramsay) Craig,
and was educated in the town schools.
After farming, working for the rail-
road, etc., he started in the meat and
groceiy business at Rumney village
and in 1892 occupied his present mer-
cantile establishment at Rumney De-
pot. In addition he owns 1,500 acres
of timberland and is now operating a
mill employing thirty hands. A Dem-
ocrat in politics Judge Craig has been
town clerk, town treasurer, road

ried November 1, 1892, Carrie E. Ab-
bott of Rumney and they have three
children, Lizzie Mae, aged 20, and
Roy and Ray, twins of 15 years.

Judge Sidney F. Downing

Representative Sidney F. Downing
of Lincoln, justice of the "Woodstock
district court, was born in Ellsworth
January 27, 1884, and educated at the
Plymouth High School. His occupa-
tion is that of station agent of the
Boston & Maine Railroad at Lincoln.
He is a Congregationalist ; a Mason
and Patron of Husbandry and a mem-
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graphers. He married, October 27,
1906, Lena May Clark of Plymouth
and they have one daughter, Dorothy,
born December 31, 1911. Mr. Down-
ing was elected representative in the
New Hampshire legislature of 1913 by
a vote of 78 to 31 for his Republican
opponent; and was appointed by
Speaker Britton to the important
committees on labor, revision of stat-
utes and journal of the house. He
proved a diligent worker in commit-

Judge Sidney F. Downing

tees, an able and fearless debater on
the floor and a representative whose
ability was commented upon by the
Manchester Leader and other news-
papers in highly favorable terms.

Judge Frank P. Hobbs

Frank P. Hobbs, special justice of
the district court for the district
of Wolfeboro, and one of Carroll
County's most active and best known
citizens, was born in "Winona, Minn.,
September 6, 1855. He came to New
Hampshire in childhood and attended

the schools of Ossipee and Tamworth,
continuing his education to the pres-
ent moment by wide reading, intelli-
gent observation and careful study of
the problems of the day. He was mar-
ried, December 6, 1882, to Emily S.
Evans and they have two daughters,
Shuah M. and Mary E. Mr. Hobbs
is a very busy man, for in addition to
his judicial position he is postmaster
of Wolfeboro by appointment of Pres-
ident Wilson, a position which he
had held previously under President
Cleveland, and is engaged in the real
estate, fire insurance, lumber and in-
vestment business. He was for a
number of years station agent at
Wolfeboro for the Eastern and Boston
& Maine Railroads and later was a
hotel proprietor and manager, in ad-
dition to other avocations. Mr. Hobbs
has held many and varied official po-
sitions and has filled them with invari-
able credit to himself and satisfaction
to all concerned. He has been high
sheriff of Carroll County and deputy
sheriff of Carroll, Strafford and Bel-
knap Counties ; a member of the house
of representatives in 1911 and 1913
and a delegate to the convention
which met in 1912 to jn'opose amend-
ments to the constitution of the state.
Although not a lawyer by profession,
Mr. Hobbs was assigned in the legis-
lature of 1911 to the committee on re-
vision of laws and did such good work
upon it that in 1913 he was promoted
to the chief committee of all, that on
the judiciary, and became one of the
recognized leaders not of the Demo-
cratic party alone, but of the whole
house. Fearless, independent and lib-
eral in thought and speech Mr. Hobbs
champions no cause in which he does
not believe thoroughly, and the knowl-
edge of that fact gives him influence
with his fellows. In the constitutional
convention Mr. Hobbs was appointed
by President Jones a member of the
special committee on Woman's Suf-
frage and upon this subject as well as
upon other important matters, such
as the basis of representation in the
legislature, taxation, initiative and

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referendum, etc., was heard effect-
ively. Judge Hobbs is a Unitarian in
religious belief and a member of the
Masons, Odd Fellows, Red Men and
A. 0. U. W.

Judge William Pitman

William Pitman of Bartlett, justice
of the Conway district court, was born
in Bartlett October 31, 1855. He at-

lative service Judge Pitman was a
member of the committee on public
health and public improvements. He
is a leading business man of his town
and section and has been for the past
ten years a director in the North Con-
way Loan and Banking Company.
Judge Pitman is a member of Mount
Washington Lodge, No. 87, A. F. and
A. M., of Signet Royal Arch Chapter
of North Conway and of St. Gerard

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tended the schools of his native town,
North Conway Academy and Frye-
burg Academy. He was superintend-
ing school committee of his town for
four years ; member of the school
board six years ; treasurer of the town
school district fifteen years; deputy
sheriff six years; moderator two
years ; chairman of the board of select-
men fifteen years and at the present
time; and representative in the legis-
lature two years. During his legis-

Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Littleton. He married, November 16,
1879, Jannette 0. Eastman, and they
have three children, Jennie Pillsbury,
wife of William H. Jaquith of Law-
rence, Mass. ; Leah Curtis and Doris
Emeline. Judge Pitman is one of the
popular and prominent men of the
White Mountain "East Side" and
his judicial appointment was well re-
ceived by the people of the district
served by his court.

TO MY FIREPLACE

By Delia 8. Honey

As the twilight gathers round us,

Drawing down the shades of night,
I love to sit beside thee,

And watch thy twinkling light-
Flames the colors of the rainbow

Streaming up, then die away,
Like the sunlight in the morning.

And the light at close of day.
And I love to read the stories

In the embers, bright and clear,
Pictures of the loved and lost ones

Telling us to "never fear.' ;
Sometimes rough, or fairer faces,

Palaces, and beasts of prey-
Paths to strange, mysterious places,

Shown in panoramic way.
Thus in rapture by thy firelight.

Sit I musing over thee —
For the flame, the light, the ember,

All are beautiful to me.

HATTIE ALMIRA ROWE

November 10, 1855— December 31. 1912

By Stewart Everett Bowe

Just a burst of sadness.

Then a calm of gladness

That I had her for so long with me ;

While through life! wander.

Ne'er I'll cease to ponder
Of my mother, now beyond the lea.

Every single minute

Fought she on to win it, —

"Win some golden goal of life for me ;

So for her 1 11 treasure

In the fullest measure
Tender thoughts till I shall cease to be.

Did her duty ever,

Shirked it not and never ;

Dreamed she on amid the stars and sky :
If she's not with God, friends,
Where the good have trod, friends,

I don 't want to go there when I die.

HON. ANDREW L. FELKER
Of Meredith

Commissioner of Agriculture

MEREDITH

The Gem of the New Hampshire Lake Region

By Charles Hardon

Situated in the very heart of New
Hampshire's famous and romantic
lake region, with still extensive area
of fertile land, though shorn of a con-
siderable part of its original propor-
tions, with a greater coast line than
any other town in the state, with
possibly one exception; with scenery
unsurpassed, all in ready access to
the world at large, the town of Mere-
dith, in the County of Belknap, at the

sentative farmers and leading citizens
of the town, Andrew L. Felker, has
been appointed to the important and
responsible position of Commissioner
of Agriculture.

The territory embraced within the
limits of the present town of Meredith
was included in a grant made by the
Masonian proprietors, December 31,
1748, to Samuel Palmer and others,
which was originally known as Pal-

Meredith Village and Bay from the Northwest

head of Lake Winnipesaukee, what-
ever its past history or present posi-
tion, is endowed with possibilities
whose development and realization,
through the awakened spirit of its
people, whether near at hand or long
to be delayed, will place it ultimately
in the front rank among our many
prosperous summer resort towns, and
which, it is also to be hoped, will fully
restore its former prestige as one of
the best farming towns in the state.
Especially should the latter result be
looked for now that one of the repre-

merstown. The town was incorpo-
rated by the Governor and Council
as Meredith, December 21, 1768, the
name having previously been changed
from Palmerstown to New Salem. As
then constituted it included all that
part of the present city of Laconia on
the west of the Winnipesaukee River,
on whose bank the nourishing village,
long known as "Meredith Bridge,"
was built up, and which was erected
into the town of Laconia by the legis-
lature, July 14, 1855. By this action
the town lost its most prosperous man-

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Lake Waukewan

ufacturing section, as well as a fine
agricultural region, precisely as did
its neighboring town of Sanbornton
when the town of Tilton, which
included the village of Sanbornton
Bridge and surrounding territory,
was created by the legislature in
June, 1869. Again, in 1873, another
section, though smaller in extent, was
cut off from the town by legislative
enactment, this being annexed to the
town of Center Harbor. The town
remains, however, one of the longest
in the state, territorially, and, includ-
ing Bear Island and other islands
within its jurisdiction, has still an
area greater than that of the average
town.

About a dozen families had located
within the original limits of the town-
ship in 1766, and the first birth of
which there is any record, in the
town, was that of a daughter of Jacob
Eaton, March 11, 1767, while the sec-
ond was that of Daniel, son of Eben-
ezer and Sarah Smith, July 4, of the
same year.

The first town meeting in Meredith
was held on the 20th day of March,
1769, at the house of Ebenezer Smith,
when William Mead was chosen mod-
erator, Ebenezer Smith, town clerk,
and Ebenezer Smith, Reuben Mars-
ton and Ebenezer Pitman, selectmen.
In April, 1772, it was voted to build
a town house, and in April, 1774, a

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Meredith

Boston & Maine R. R. Station, Meredith

meeting house forty feet long by
thirty-two feet wide, the same to be
completed within sixteen months. In
April, 1775, it was voted to raise six
pounds, lawful money, to hire preach-
ing for some part of the year ensuing,
and six pounds for schooling.

The people of Meredith took a pa-
triotic stand when the Revolution
broke out, and did their full part in
the war for independence." Ebenezer
Smith was chosen a deputy to attend
the Exeter convention in May, 1775,
and at the same time the town voted

to raise ten soldiers for the service,
wherever needed. In August, 1776,
a Committee of Safety was chosen,
consisting of J. M. Folsom, Jonathan
Smith, Nathaniel Robinson, William
Mead and Joseph Roberts, and £45
was voted for arms and ammunition.
In 1777 there were forty-seven names
of legal voters on the check list.
Among the soldiers of Meredith serv-
ing in the Revolution were the follow-
ing, as the records show : Nathaniel
Holland, John Robinson, Jonathan
Crosby, Jonathan Smith, Jr., Moses

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Senter, Oliver Smith, Thomas Fro-
hoek, Aaron Rawlings, Joseph Eaton,
James Sinclair, and William Maloon ;
while Jonathan Smith of this town
was in the Rhode Island service.
Ebenezer Smith seems to have been
the leading man in the town in its
early history. He was the delegate
from Meredith in the Concord con-
vention of 1778 for laying a plan for
the government of the state, and the
first representative in the legislature,
after the town became entitled to

the shore, made up the third division,
the intermediate section constituting
the second division.

Probably three-fifths of the popu-
lation of the town, which was 1,638
in 1910, as against 1,642 in 1890,
showing practically a standstill con-
dition though the figure was somewhat
larger in 1900, is included within the
village limits, the village lying at the
head of the bay, and between that and
Lake Waukewan, a fine body of water,
some two miles in length, lying severaL

Town Hall Building

separate representation, in 1793, it
previously having been classed with
Sanbornton.

The original township was divided
into three divisions, each being a
school district. The first division in-
cluded the portion erected into the
town of Laconia, while the upper end
of the town, in which Meredith vil-
lage, the business section of the pres-
ent town, is located, together with the
"Neck," the large peninsula extend-
ing into Lake Winnipesaukee, which
has many fine farms, and numerous
delightful summer cottage sites along

feet higher than the Winnipesaukee,.
and emptying into the same at the
head of the bay, the fall affording a
very considerable water power, which
has been utilized for the operation of
various manufacturing industries —
at some times more extensively than at
the present.

The line of the old Boston, Concord
& Montreal Railroad, now a part of
the White Mountains Division of the
Boston & Maine, passes through the
outskirts of the village, the station be-
ing thirty-seven miles above Concord,
and ten from Laconia. There is quite

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a business done at this station, which
is the railroad center for Center Har-
bor, Moultonborough and Sandwich,
as well as Meredith, and six or eight
men are required to take care of the
work. Stages run three times, daily,
to Center Harbor, and once each day,
except Sunday, to Moultonborough
and Sandwich. The station agent is
Charles I. Swain, who has been for a
quarter of a century in the employ of
the railroad.

During the summer season there is

also steamboat service between Mere-
dith village and other points on the
lake ; but the place has not yet reached
the importance as a summer resort,
which its location and natural attrac-
tions justly entitle it to hold, and
which can only be attained through
the intelligent, organized effort of its
business men, upon which also, its
industrial prosperity must largely de-
pend. What is wanted for the pro-
motion of these ends is a live board of
trade, which does not now exist,

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though one was organized a few years
ago, and made something of a start,
but soon "dropped out" and is now
in a comatose condition.

The village, which, on account of
the physical configuration of its site,

North (Congregational) Church

is somewhat irregularly built, is pleas-
antly located, from a scenic point of
view, and presents a generally attrac-
tive and well kept appearance, both as
regards its residential and business
sections. Its mercantile establish-
ments are fairly on a par with the
size of the place and the extent of
tributary territory, and its indus-
tries, although not as extensive as
they have been at times, or as it is
hoped they yet may be, are of consid-
erable importance. The principal in-
dustry at the present time is the Mere-
dith Linen Mills, employing from
sixty to seventy hands. There is also
a lumber mill near the railway, em-
ploying twenty-five to thirty men ; the
George H. Clark & Company concern
manufacturing boxes, shook, and
building materials, with twenty to
thirty employees, and the Meredith
Casket Company, twelve to fifteen

men. There is also the plant of a
former large industry — the Meredith
Shook and Lumber Company, which
is now lying idle and for sale.

There are Congregational, Baptist,
Free Baptist and Advent churches,
each having a house of worship and
maintaining services, in the village —
sufficient in number, certainly, if not
in variety, to meet the religious needs
of the people. Of late the Congre-
gational and Free Baptist churches
have ' ' federated, ' ' employing the Rev.
E. T. Blake as their pastor — an ex-
ample that may well be followed
in other towns with a superfluity of
churches.

The village schools, with a total of
about 150 pupils, include high, gram-
mar, intermediate, and first and
second primary departments. The
teachers are Joseph Garmon, high

Free Baptist Church

school ; Lillian M. Pearson, grammar ;
Vera E. Berry, intermediate; Hope
Lincoln, first primary ; Ruth Hawkins,
second primary. Fred H. Osgood is
teacher of music and Miss Abby H.
Jewett of drawing.

Meredith

A finely located, substantially built
and conveniently arranged public li-
brary building, the gift of the late
Benjamin M. Smith, a former resi-
dent, houses a well-selec-ted library of
six thousand volumes, in charge of
Mrs. Lillian Wadleigh as librarian.

Advent Church

The Meredith Village Savings Bank,
incorporated in 1869, had deposits
slightly in excess of $500,000 when the
last printed report of the Bank Com-
mission was issued. John F. Beede is
president and Daniel E. Eaton treas-
urer. The trustees are John F. Beede,
Edwin Cox, Bertram Blaisdell, Ed-
mund Quimby, Daniel E. Eaton,
Nathan G. Plummer, Edmund Page,
Dudley Leavitt, and Joseph W. Clark.
The fraternal life of the village and
town is well organized, including the
Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the
Grange or Patrons of Husbandry.
Chocorua Lodge, A. F. & A. M., has
over ninety members, with Charles N.
Roberts, worshipful master. They
will soon occupy, as a permanent
home, the upper floor of the new
Grange building, now in process of
completion. The Odd Fellows have a
lodge of 100 members, with J. P.
Rand, noble grand, and Frank David-
son, recording secretary. They oc-
cupy the upper floor of a building of
their own, the lower part of which is
occupied by Morrison's drug store.
Ellacoya Chapter of the order of the
Eastern Star has eighty members,

with Mrs. Elizabeth Quimby, worthy
matron, and Mrs. Emma Ballard, as-
sociate matron. Lakeside Rebekah
Lodge, No. 34, has 150 members, with
Mrs. Lottie Emery, noble grand, and
Miss Esther Rand, secretary.

Winnipesaukee Grange, No. 55, Pa-
trons of Husbandry, organized March
2, 1875, has been one of the most pros-
perous in the state for a number of
years, including in its membership
a greater proportion of wide-awake
farmers than almost any other. It
has at the opening of 1914, 206 mem-
bers, with Emma N. Ballard, master,
Eva F. Blake, lecturer, and Blanche
Knowles, secretary. This Grange is
erecting a hall of its own, in a promi-
nent position on Main Street, forty
by sixty feet, with two stories and
basement, the first floor to be occupied
by the Grange, and the second by the

Baptist Church

Masons, with banquet room in the
basement to be used by both orders.
The Meredith Woman's Progress
Club was organized September 13,
1901, and joined the State Federation
the following year. The organizer and

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Mill and Office of George H. Clark & Co.

first president was Mrs. Isabel Ambler
Oilman, now a lawyer at Saklovia,
Alaska. The succeeding presidents
have been Mrs. Hattie R. Erskine,
Mrs. Ella E. Eaton, Mrs. Geneva M.
Hawkins, Mrs. Georgia M. Blaisdell,
Mrs. Grace Swain and Mrs. Helen H.
Pynn, the present executive. The
other officers, now serving, are Mrs.

Clara Clough and Mrs. Elizabeth
Caverly, vice-presidents ; Mrs. Georgia
M. Blaisdell, recording secretary ;
Mrs. Nellie Dow, corresponding sec-
retary ; Mrs. Elizabeth Quimby,
treasurer ; Mrs. Grace Swain, Mrs.
Augusta Heath and Mrs. H. R. Ers-
kine, directors. The present member-
ship of the club is about sixty-five.

Hawkins Block

Meredith

Meredith Garage and Machine Shop

Owned and Conducted by G. W. Vinall

The meetings are held in Ladd Hall,
on the first and third Tuesdays of
each month.

There is a local branch of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union here located, with a member-
ship of about thirty, the principal
officers at present being Mrs. Melvin
H. Kimball, president; Mrs. Eliza-
beth C. Caverly, secretary, and Miss
Virginia B. Ladd, treasurer.

As in the Revolution, the sons of

Meredith performed loyal service in
the war for the preservation of the
Union, not less than 122 officers and
men from this town being engaged
during the struggle, with 105 volun-
teer substitutes, making a total of 227
in all. A large proportion of these
were members of the Twelfth New
Hampshire Regiment, Company I of
this organization being mainly re-
cruited here. The commander of this
company, Capt. Joseph W. Lang, Jr.,

Garage and Machine Shop of Leander G. Pynn

Dealer in Automobiles

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son of a former leading citizen, made a
splendid record in the service, and for
many years after the war was a prom-
inent and respected business man of
the town and a leading Democrat of
Belknap County. A soldiers' monu-
ment, erected near the public library,

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w T as the gift of Major Edwin E.
Beede, and bears the inscription :

"In honor of the Twelfth Regi-
ment, New Hampshire Volunteers,
who fought in the War of 1861-1865
for the preservation of the Union."

The advent of the automobile as a
means of locomotion has not only
developed one of the most extensive
branches of manufacturing industry
in the country, but also important
incidental lines of business in which
latter Meredith, like other towns, has
a share. There are two well-equipped
garages in the village, the proprietors
being G. W. Vinall and Leander G.
Pynn. The latter also does a consid-
erable business as a dealer in auto-
mobiles.

George H. Clark & Co.

One of the principal industries of
the town is that established in 1866
by George H. and Joseph S. Clark,
brothers, under the firm name of
George H. Clark & Co., and under
which name the business is still con-
tinued, though George H. Clark died
April 16, 1905, and Joseph S. and his
son J. W., are now conducting it.

They supply everything required in
the line of building material ; also box
shooks, hosiery boards and all kinds
of cabinet work. Their establish-
ment is located on Meredith Bay, in
ready access of the lumber supply,
and the power used is electricity from
the linen mill plant near by. About
thirty-five hands are employed during
the busy season — a somewhat smaller
number in the winter, and the aver-
age year's business exceeds $100,000,
the product being marketed through
a large section. The firm is popular
with its employees and the general
public, and a material factor in the
town's prosperity.

Dr. George R. Salisbury

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View on Main St., Meredith

Dr. George R. Salisbury

Meredith's dentist, Dr. George R.
Salisbury, who has been in practice
here about six years, is a native of
Hull's Cove, Me. He was educated
at the Smith Paris High School, the
University of Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery,
graduating at the latter in 1905. He
has a well-equipped office and large
and successful practice. He is a
member of Chocorua Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., Ellacayo Chapter, 0. E. S., and
of Winnipesaukee Grange, P. of H.

Meredith's popular public enter-
tainment resort — the Elm Hotel —
is now and has been for a year past
under the management of Mr. George
F. Gould, who has had previous ex-
perience in the business in Contoocook
and Hill. He runs a clean, well-kept
and well-regulated temperance house,
at moderate prices and satisfactory to
all guests, his success being due as
well to Mrs. Gould's excellent judg-
ment and sympathetic cooperation, as
to his own ability. Meredith people
generally take due pride in the char-
acter of their hotel.

Mr. Wilbur Emery, who is, withal,
an enterprising and public spirited

citizen, conducts the business of an
undertaker and embalmer, and has
an unusually well-equipped establish-
ment in that line.

Wilbur Emery

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Among the many camp schools for
the young, which, in recent years, have
been established in the lake region,
mention should be made of "Camp
Winnipesaukee, " a school for boys,
open the entire year, conducted by
Miss Hattie Moses of this town, lo-
cated upon a charming island seven
miles down the lake.

At Meredith Center, some four
miles southwest from the village, are
a store, a post office and a Free Bap-
tist Church. A sawmill and grist-
mill are also located here, but neither
are operated at the present time.

of land and water are here combined.
The Belknap, Ossipee and Sandwich
Mountains are close at hand, and
Mount Washington is but little more
than fifty miles away. Nor are there
any disasters here, as on the Great
Lakes. The "sea going" is entirely
safe, and there is no getting out of
sight of land. On the shores of these
beautiful waters are sites for ten
thousand summer homes, many of
which might pleasantly be occupied
even in the winter time by those who
have leisure at their command. Ulti-
mately these sites will be largely occu-
pied. Trolley lines will run all about

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Camp Winnipesaukee

Island Camp School for Boys

Here is the home, also, of Wicwas
Lake Grange, of which Commissioner
Felker is a member, as he is of the
church here located.

Speaking of lakes, the waters in,
around and about Meredith have been
compared to the five great lakes —
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and
Ontario. They are Winnipesaukee,
Waukewan, Wicwas, Winnisquam,
and the Bay, which latter is an arm
of the first named. Unlike the Great
Lakes, these are home-like, compre-
hensible and accessible. They are
not too far away from anywhere, or
from each other — thirty-seven miles
from Concord and one hundred and
twelve from Boston. The attractions

the shores and motor boats, galore,
will fly upon the waters ; but it will
be many a year before the develop-
ment possibilities will be exhausted.
Care should be taken that these sites
are held accessible to the people, and
not monopolized by speculators; nor
should high taxes be imposed on
camps and cottages.

There is already the foundation
for a large summer colony located
on these charming Meredith shores,
mainly on the "Neck," with many
cosy and attractive camps and cot-
tages. Among the most attractive of
these is "Castle Rock Camp," the
summer home of G. K. Webster, of
the well-known Webster Company,
silversmiths, of North Attleboro,

Meredith

Castle Rock Camp, G. K. Webster

Mass., whose New York office is in
the Gill Building, 9-13 Maiden Lane,
which camp commands a delightful
view and is greatly admired.

Another pleasant camp is that of
James P. Little of Brookline, Mass.,
situated on the Neck, opposite Bear
Island Narrows. This camp was con-
structed from an old barn, with heavy

oak timbers. It was designed by the
owner and built by the day by George
Merrill. It has a large shore frontage
and fine outlook, and is occupied from
June to November, and occasionally
during the winter. Capt. Woodbury
Davis is the caretaker.

Still another attractive summer
home is that of Mr. and Mrs. W. J.

James A. Little's Camp, Meredith Neck

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Red Hill

Three-Mile Island
View of Sandwich Range from "Nushka"

Ossipee Mt.

Follett of Newton, Mass., situated on
a point on the easterly shore of the
Neck, where the narrow channel,
sometimes called the "Midway Plais-
ance, " opens out to that grand stretch
of water in which the Appalachian
Club Island and the Beaver Islands
are located. This charming retreat
is so surrounded by pine growth that
the passerby seldom takes note of its
dimensions, and no single view can

give an adequate idea thereof. Its
living room is thirty-six by twenty-
four feet, with a fireplace on one side
five feet high and five feet wide, with
a twelve-foot hearth and correspond-
ing mantel shelf, and a twelve-foot
window seat opposite and a massive
window with one pane measuring
seven feet by five, through which
can be viewed the rippling lake,
the nearby islands, and in the far-

" Nushka," Summer Residence of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Follett of Newton, Mass.

Meredith

ther distance Red Hill, Ossipee and
Chocorua Mountains. The finish,
throughout is rustic and solidly sub-
stantial, while the furnishing and all
the accessories are such as guarantee
comfort and suggest a ready hospi-
tality, both in summer and winter,
for many pleasant outings are here
enjoyed in the latter season, with
snowshoeing, tobogganing, skating,
curling and fishing through the ice
as attractions. Bachelor lodging-
room quarters are also maintained in
connection with the establishment, in
a cabin on Goose or Pine Cone Island,
midway between the Meredith shore
and Pine Island. The name of this
retreat of the Folletts is "Nushka,"
the Indian for ' ' Look ! Look ! " or
"Behold! Behold!"

BIOGRAPHY

Among Meredith born men, abroad,
gaining prominence in public life, the
most noted, perhaps, was the late Hon.
George G. Fogg, who was educated
for the law, but engaged in journal-
ism, being practically the founder
and long-time editor of the Independ-
ent Democrat of Concord, the organ
of the Free Soil party, subsequently
consolidated with the Statesman. He
served as United States minister to
Switzerland by appointment of Presi-
dent Lincoln, and was also, for a
short time, United States Senator by
executive appointment.

The ablest and most influential son
of the town, who remained at home
and performed his life work among
the scenes and associations of his
childhood, was, undoubtedly, Gen.
John Wadleigh, a substantial farmer
with a bent for politics and a strong
grasp on public affairs, as well as
a natural fondness for military life.
He was active in the old state militia,
attaining the rank of major-general
therein, and was also adjutant-gen-
eral of New Hampshire from 1847 to
1856. He held many town offices;

was the first treasurer of Belknap
County; served in both branches of
the legislature and in the Constitu-
tional Convention of 1850. He was
born June 3, 1806, and died October
25, 1873.

Benjamin M. Smith

The principal benefactor of the
town of Meredith, whose enduring
monument exists in its fine public
library building, was Benjamin M.
Smith, born in West Center Harbor,

Benjamin M. Smith

Donor of the Public Library

November 1, 1833 ; a son of John and
Mary (Mudgett) Smith and a direct
descendant, in the eighth generation,
of John Smith, born at Dorking, Eng-
land, 1595, a member of "The Com-
pany of The Plough," formed in
London in 1630 who came to America
in 1632 on the ship William and
Francis; one of the sixteen heads
of families named John Smith, who
settled in Massachusetts prior to
1650, and one of the five owners of
Nantucket.

Benjamin resided with his father

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until 1854, when the family removed
from Center Harbor to Meredith.
When he was sixteen years old he
learned that anyone could earn $20
per month making shoes, and with his
father's consent he arranged to work
a year at South Deerfield, to learn
his trade, and receive $30 for his
year's work. At the end of a year
he purchased his time of his father,
built a shop, and commenced taking
work from Haverhill. Soon after he
was twenty-one he was sick for two
years, and told by the doctor he must
have outdoor occupation. In March,
1856, he had 235 pounds of stocking
yarn made, and went to Newburyport,
Mass., where he made his first sales.
He shortly after added knit stockings
and other goods to his line, and for
fifty years covered his territory in
northeastern Massachusetts, retiring
in 1909 with the best wishes and re-
spect of hundreds of customers.

Mr. Smith spent many happy days
at Meredith, where his two children
were born, and in the spring of 1900
proposed to the town that if they
would purchase the Prescott lot, on
Main Street, then covered with un-
sightly buildings, he would erect
thereon a good library building to
cost not less than $10,000 in memory
of his parents ; the town accepted the
offer, and Mr. Smith built the library
at a cost of some $12,000.

Center Harbor was Mr. Smith's
birthplace, and in 1909 he made a
similar offer to that town ; but, owing
to different arrangements, that build-
ing was erected by another; but, at
his death, he left the town an Endow-
ment Fund of $6,000, the interest of
which, after the payment of a small
annual expense for the care of his
burial lot, was to be used for the
schools of the town.

In 1908, he created an endowment
fund known as "The Benjamin M.
Smith Memorial Fund" for the wid-
ows and orphans of sailors lost at sea
from Gloucester, and at his death pro-
vided still further for them.

He was known far and wide as a

horticulturist, originating the "Bev-
erly strawberry" and many others,
and was the winner of many medals
and prizes for his fruit and gardens.
During his last years, he resided in
summer at his residence on Massachu-
setts Avenue, at Meredith.

He passed away at Wenham, Mass.,
on March 16, 1912.

Col. Ebenezer Stevens . *l

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Among the men of Meredith whose
energy, enterprise and active public
spirit were largely instrumental in
promoting the prosperity of the town
in the middle of the last century, was
Col. Ebenezer Stevens, whose great-
grandfather, Maj. Ebenezer Stevens,
was one of the early settlers of the
town of Kingston. Paul Stevens, a
farmer, grandson of Maj. Stevens,
who married Sally, a daughter of Dr.
Howe, an eminent surgeon in the
American army in the Revolution,
settled first in New Chester, residing
subsequently in New Hampton, Gil-
manton and Gilford, in which latter
town, Ebenezer, the subject of this
sketch, with several others of their
large family of children, was born,
his natal day being May 9, 1810.

Compelled from boyhood to make
his own way in the world, he first
learned the trade of blacksmithing,
and engaged therein in Gilford till
1837, when he removed to Meredith
Village, where he pursued the same
avocation successfully for several
years. About 1850 he engaged in
general merchandise in company with
Joseph W. Lang, and afterward con-
ducted the business alone, or with
other partners, for many years. He
was one of the incorporators and a
trustee of the Meredith Village Sav-
ings Bank; and a trustee of the La-
conia Savings Bank ; was a justice of
the peace for more than forty years;
was a selectman of Meredith during
the Civil War, had represented the
town in the legislature, and was a
Republican presidential elector in

Meredith

1860. He had been prominent in the
militia and was offered the command
of the Twelfth New Hampshire Regi-
ment in the Civil War, which he aided
largely in raising. He married, April
22, 1846, Cassandra, daughter of John
B. and Alice (Ladd) Swasey of Mere-
dith. They had one daughter, Alice
L., who married Henry W. Lincoln
of Norton, Mass. Colonel Stevens
died in 1901.

trait accompanies this article, was a
man who had deeply at heart the wel-
fare and upbuilding of the town in
which fifty-six years of his life was
spent. Original of mind and thor-
ough in everything he undertook, he
did much to instill these qualities, as
well as industry and. integrity into
the character of those about him. He
was born in Loudon, N. H., April 29,
1819, a descendant of that Daniel

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Col. Ebenezer Stevens

Seneca A. Ladd

The perpetuation of the memory of
the men and women of New Hamp-
shire who have given character and
stability to the towns in which their
life work has been accomplished is
one of the objects of this magazine.
A few "righteous men" may give
such tone to the moral life of a com-
munity as to make it a good place to
live in.

Seneca Augustus Ladd, whose por-

Ladd, who sailed from London, Eng.,
March 24, 1633, in the ship Mary and
John, located at Ipswich, Mass., was
one of the founders of Salisbury in
1638, removed with eleven others, in
1640, to Pawtucket on the Merrimack,
and founded the town (now city) of
Haverhill. Seneca A. was the fourth
son of Gideon and Polly (Osgood)
Ladd. He attended the town school
summers until ten years of age, and
winters until seventeen, one of his
teachers, and the one who best com-

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SENECA A. LADD

Meredith

preliended his nature and gave him
most encouragement, being the late
Hon. John L. French, afterwards
president of the Pittsfield bank. He
learned the carriagemaker 's trade in
youth and, at seventeen, came to
Meredith and worked for a time with
John Haines, a wheelwright.

At the age of twenty years, he
bought a house, giving his note in
part payment, married, and, in com-
pany with Mr. Sewell Smith, was
engaged in the manufacture of car-
riages, when their plant was de-
stroyed by fire. After this seeming
disaster, Mr. Ladd leased an unused
factory in the village and devoted
himself to the manufacture of pianos
and melodeons, in connection with his
brother, Albert, maker of the cele-
brated A. W. Ladd & Co. pianos in
Boston.

In 1869, his hearing having become
seriously impaired, he gave up this
business, but soon conceived the idea
of starting a savings bank, particu-
larly to encourage- young people in
whose welfare he always took a special
interest, in habits of prudence and
thrift in the use of their earnings.
Nearly twenty years of his life were
spent in this work ; not for gain to
himself, but that others might be ben-
efited. This enterprise conceived and
carried out in his maturity, seems to
have been the great good he be-
queathed to the citizenship of Mere-
dith. This Meredith Village Savings
Bank is still perpetuated, in care of
Mr. D. E. Eaton, who has held the
office of treasurer for the last twenty-
five years.

Mr. Ladd, throughout his busy life,
found time for 'the collection and
study of minerals; and geology and
kindred sciences were always of the
greatest interest to him. He was
twice married, first to Susan Tilton
of Meredith, March 24, 1840, and, two
years after her death, to Catharine S.
Wallace of Boston, June 1, 1852. He
died January 22, 1892, leaving two
daughters — one by each marriage —
Mrs. Frances L. Coe of Center Har-

bor, and Miss Virginia B. Ladd, who
occupies the home residence.

Dudley Leavitt

The resident of Meredith most
widely known, or at least the one
whose name has been most familiar
in New England farm homes for the
last four generations, was Dudley
Leavitt, the author of the famous
almanac which he first issued in 1797,
and which still bears his name.

Dudley Leavitt

Mr. Leavitt, or "Master" Leavitt,
as he was generally known, from the
fact that he was one of the most noted
school-masters of his day, was a na-
tive of the town of Exeter, born May
23, 1772. He was a direct descendant
of John Leavitt, an Englishman, who
settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1636.
He attended school but three months,
altogether, but was a great student all
through life, deeply versed in mathe-
matics, astronomy and the languages.
He married Judith Glidden of Gil-
manton, and resided for some time in
that town, but removed, in 1806, to
Meredith, where he located on a large
farm about three-fourths of a mile

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from the lake, and established a
school, which was extensively adver-
tised and was quite noted for many
years. He continued his teaching
with considerable regularity until
nearly seventy-five years of age. He
died suddenly, September 15, 1851.
He was the father of eleven children,
nine of whom grew to maturity. Two
daughters married clergymen who
were missionaries, and one of these,
the wife of Rev. John L. Seymour,

is a prominent citizen of Meredith,
and an active worker in the Grange.

Dr. Charles H. Boynton

Conspicuous among the sons of
Meredith gaining high position and
wide reputation in their chosen pro-
fessions elsewhere in the state, was
Charles Hart Boynton, M. D., one of
the most prominent physicians of
northern New Hampshire, who prac-

Dr. Charles H. Boynton

was the mother of the first white child
born in Minnesota. His descendants
now living in Meredith are two grand-
children, J. Irvill Prescott and Hulda
J. Leavitt, and four great-grand-
children, Bertram Blaisdell, Dudley,
Alice and Marion Leavitt.

The original Leavitt place is now
owned in the family and adjoins the
farm on which Dudley Leavitt and
sisters now live, also the granddaugh-
ter, Hulda J. Leavitt.

Dudley Leavitt, the great-grandson,

ticed in the town of Lisbon for forty-
five years.

Doctor Boynton was born Septem-
ber 20, 1826, a son of Ebenezer Boyn-
ton, a Meredith farmer, who had a
family of eleven children. He di-
vided his time in early life between
farm work and the district school.
At eighteen years of age he bought
his freedom from his father, learned
the carpenter's trade, and worked
thereat, earning money for further
instruction, at Tilton Seminary, and

Meredith

then took up the study of medicine,
pursuing the same with Dr. W. D.
Buck of Manchester, at the Berkshire
Medical College, from which he grad-
uated in 1853, and at the Harvard
Medical School. He commenced
practice in Alexandria in 1854, but
removed to Lisbon in 1858, where he
continued till his death, August 16,
1903. He not only attained high

of Meredith, the "Bridge," now La-
conia, attracting most of those in
practice in this section. The most
prominent member of the profession,
located here for any length of time,
was Judge Samuel W. Rollins, long
judge of probate.

Samuel Winckley Rollins was born
in Somersworth, now Rollinsford,
April 11, 1825. His father was a

Hon. Samuel W. Rollins

rank in his profession, but won the
confidence and regard of all, as a
loyal, public-spirited citizen. He was
a Republican in politics, represented
his town in the legislature, served
long on the board of Education, and
was prominent in many important
public enterprises.

Hon. Samuel W. Rollins

Few lawyers have been located
within the present limits of the town

farmer, of pure New Hampshire stock,
noted for his strict integrity and su-
perior judgment. His son, Samuel,
was educated in Franklin Academy,
and Dartmouth College from which
he was graduated in 1846. He stud-
ied law in Dover and was admitted to
the bar in 1849. He opened an office
immediately in Farmington and three
years later in Alton, coming to Mere-
dith, in 1855, where he finished his
life work of more than forty years

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Meredith

and passed away July 28, 1897.
Judge Rollins married Miss Mary
Allen Livy of Wolfeboro, January
10, 1857. She proved a true help-
meet in every way. She still survives
and to her, equally with him, Mere-
dith is indebted for a distinguished
example of a married life of mutual
confidence and love. In 1862 he was
appointed assistant assessor of in-
ternal revenue, which office he held
for ten vears. December 3, 1872, he

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was appointed judge of probate for
Belknap County, which office he held
till April 11, 1895, when he retired,
having reached the age limit of sev-
enty years. Few appeals were ever
taken from his decisions and none
was ever successful. He practised in
many courts of the state and in nearly
all branches of the law. In March,
1895, the bar of Belknap County
placed a portrait of Judge Rollins in
the court room at Laconia in recogni-
tion of his long and creditable judi-
cial career. The citizens of Meredith
should be devoutly grateful to the
Divine Ruler of us all that it can be
truly said of Judge Rollins who, for
more than forty years, was their law-
yer and friend, that he always aimed
to prevent and heal rather than to
promote litigation ; that he advised
the settlement of disputes, though it
might be against his pecuniary inter-
est, and so guided the cause of the
unfriended that no one should feel
the weight of unjust expense.

Hon. Thaddeus S. Moses

Thaddeus S. Moses, for many years
one of Meredith's foremost citizens,
son of William and Abigail Dar-
ling (Kenniston) Moses, was born at
Campton, N. H., January 28, 1835,
and was educated in the common
schools of Plymouth and the academy
at Laconia. When a young man he
learned the trade of tinsmith at Ply-
mouth. In 1860 he removed to Mere-
dith where he bought out a tin, stove
and hardware business, which he car-
ried on successfully for over forty

years. He was an enterprising and
prosperous citizen and had the confi-
dence of his fellow townsmen to a very
high degree.

In politics he was a Democrat.

He was a member of the board of
selectmen several terms; was town
treasurer ten years and was represen-
tative from Meredith to the general
court one term. In 1888 was elected
state senator from the Fifth Senato-
rial District of which Meredith was
then a part, serving in the first sen-
ate under the twenty-four district
arrangement. He was also a member
of the building committee which had
charge of the construction of the
Belknap County court house at La-
conia. In his religious faith he was
a Baptist, and for many years was a
deacon in the church at Meredith.

Mr. Moses married, February 22,
1862, Emily S. Currier, daughter of
Aaron and Anna (Hoag) Currier,
who was born November 26, 1840.
Of this marriage there were four chil-
dren—William H. of Tilton, N. H.;
Geneva A., now wife of Dr. Frederick
L. Hawkins of Meredith ; Chester S.
of Chicago, 111. ; and Mina M., wife
of Frank H. Shumway of Meredith,
now deceased.

Thaddeus S. Moses died January
13, 1902.

Judge Bertram Blaisdeld

The only lawyer located in Mere-
dith for some years past is Bertram
Blaisdell, the son of Philip D. and
Jane Leavitt Blaisdell, who was born
in Meredith April 13, 1869. After
attending the public schools he pre-
pared for college at Tilton Seminary
and was graduated from Brown Uni-
versity in the class of 1892. He was
principal of Meredith High School
1892-95. Studied law with Hon. S.
W. Rollins and was admitted to the
bar in 1897, when he opened an office
in Meredith and has continued to
practice to the present time.

He has served as a member of the
school board and one of the trustees

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of the Meredith Village Savings
Bank. He is a member of Chocorua
Lodge No. 83, A. F. & A. M., and of
the Congregational Church.

Mr. Blaisdell was recently ap-
pointed, by the Governor and Coun-

Judge Bertram Blaisdell

cil, special justice of the Laconia
District Court, established under the
act of the last legislature, includ-
ing in its jurisdiction the city of
Laconia and the towns of Meredith,
New Hampton, Gilford and Center
Harbor.

John F. Beede

John Fred Beede, one of the lead-
ing business men of his town and
county, belongs to one of the older
families of the state, and is the fourth
John Beede, in direct succession.
His great-grandfather, John Beede,
who was of English stock, cleared a
farm in the town of Sandwich, where
his grandfather also resided. His
father, John W. Beede, came to Mere-
dith in 1850 and died there in 1885.
He was a merchant, and prominent
citizen, active and influential in the

life of the community. John F. was
born here on April 8, 1859. He was
educated in the village schools, Tilton
Seminary and Yale College, graduat-
ing from the latter in 1882. Making
choice of business as his life work, he
was engaged for about three years
after graduation with banking insti-
tutions in Boston, New York City and
Buffalo. Upon the death of his fa-
ther, in 1885, he returned to Meredith,
in conjunction with his sister, Eva J.,
now Mrs. Odell, took charge of the
business which the former had con-
ducted. The estate has been owned
by them together, without division, up
to the present time.

Mr. Beede has been an officer of the
Meredith Village Savings Bank since
1885, and has been president of the
same for the past ten years. He is
a director of the People's National

John F. Beede

Bank at Laconia, a trustee of Til-
ton Seminary, and has been a stock-
holder and director in many local
enterprises. He is president of the
Congregational Society of Meredith
Village; is a Republican politically,

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and has been many years at the head
of the local organization of the party
— an earnest worker but never aspir-
ing to office. In 1901 he married
Martha B., daughter of Hon. Wood-
bury L. Melcher of Laconia. They
have two children, Frances Melcher,
aged ten years, and John Woodbury,
seven.

native of Laconia, and for the past
three years her home has been in
Brookline, Mass., where her husband
is the pastor of St. Mark's Methodist
Episcopal Church.

She has published a volume of dia-
lect stories, entitled "Roxy's Good
Angel and Other New England
Tales," and a volume of poems, en-
titled "Winnipesaukee and Other
Poems." She has also been a con-
tributor to various papers and maga-
zines, among them The Granite
Monthly.

Dr. Frederick L. Hawkins

Frederick Lewis Hawkins, M. D.,
a Meredith's leading physician, was
born in this town April 14, 1861.
His father, William H. Hawkins, en-
listed in Co. I, Twelfth Regiment,
New Hampshire Volunteers, and died
June 16, 1863, from wounds received
at the battle of Chancellorsville. His
mother, Helen Emery, daughter of
Jonathan Emery, only survived her
husband six years. The doctor at-
tended the schools of his native town,
and Tilton Seminary, which he left
to take up his studies at Jefferson

Mrs. Eva Beede Odell

Mrs. Eva Beede Odell, one of Mere-
dith's most talented daughters, was
educated in the schools of Meredith,
at Tilton Seminary and at Wellesley
College. She taught for a number of
years at Tilton and at other Metho-
dist seminaries, and was for several
years preceptress at the Centenary
Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown,
N. J.

On a trip abroad she visited nine
foreign countries and after her return
gave travel talks upon these lands,
always claiming that she never any-
where found scenery so beautiful as
that of our own Winnipesaukee re-
gion. For some years she was a mem-
ber of the Woman's Progress Club of
Meredith, and has ever retained her
interest in her native town. She mar-
ried Rev. Willis P. Odell, Ph. D., a

Dr. Frederick L. Hawkins

Medical College, Philadelphia. In
1886 he was graduated from the same,
and in the fall began the practice of
medicine in Meredith, where he has
been located ever since.

On October 19, 1889, Doctor Hawk-
ins and Geneva Moses, daughter of

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Thaddeus S. Moses, were united in
marriage. Five children came to
bless their home. Helen Emily, now
the wife of Leander G. Pynn; Ruth
Charlotte, a teacher in Meredith in
the 3d and 4th grades; Marguerite,
who died December 16, 1910 ; Fred-
erick Lewis, Jr., who died April 14,
1900, and Freda Elizabeth, a school
girl .of twelve years. The first few
years of married life were spent in a
hired house, then he purchased the
house and lot at the corner of Main
and Waukewan Streets, and in a few
years the old house was replaced by
their present home as seen elsewhere.
In 1909 the doctor bought the build-
ing at the corner of Main and "Water
Streets, and two years later built the
cement business block, in place of the
old building, which gives a commodi-
ous and central location for the post
office, dry goods store, dentist and
lawyer's offices.

Fred M. "Wadleigh

A representative of Meredith who
made a success in the legal profession
was Fred M. Wadleigh, a native of
the town, son of Martin L. and Susan

(Parker) "Wadleigh, born June 27,.
1846. He pursued the study of law
and was admitted to the Belknap
County bar at Laconia, October 1,
1869. He settled in the practice of
his profession at Battle Creek, Mich.,
where he continued with much sue-

Fred M. Wadleigh

Meredith

cess, gaining a high reputation as a
practitioner. He married Miss Hattie
Foster of Vermont, whom he met in
the West. He died June 30, 1913, at
Los Angeles, Cal., leaving one daugh-
ter, Louise F.

AMONG THE FARMERS

Hon. Andrew L. Felker

The most conspicuous citizen of
Meredith at the present time, unques-
tionably, is Andrew L. Felker, re-
cently appointed by the Governor
and Council to the important office
of Commissioner of Agriculture — the
head of the department having in
hand the promotion of the interests
of the great basic industry of the
country, so far as the state of New
Hampshire is concerned, and in which
the town of Meredith is largely and
vitally interested.

Mr. Felker is a native of the town
of Barrington, born July 6, 1869, the
son of Andrew Jackson and Lydia A.
(Seavey) Felker. He received his
early training at the knee of one of
the best mothers that ever lived, and
at the ''Pond Hill" Schoolhouse in
Barrington, where the famous "Pond
Hill Lyceum" used to be held. Later
he attended Austin Academy, Straf-
ford, and in 1889 entered New Hamp-
ton Institution, from whose literary
and commercial departments he holds
diplomas.

With the exception of three years
lived in Rochester, he has spent his
entire life, since leaving school, in
farming, the last seventeen years upon
the farm which is his present home,
in the southeastern part of Meredith,
two miles from the Center and six
from Meredith Village, and not far
from Lake Winnisquam, where he has
been engaged in mixed farming, with
no particular specialty, a good stock
of cattle, largely Hereford, usually
being kept. In the season he fur-
nishes supplies to a considerable ex-

tent, to the summer dwellers on the
shores of Winnisquam.

Mr. Felker has been deeply inter-
ested in the work of the Grange for
many years, being a member of Wic-
was Lake Grange at Meredith Center,
of which he has been Master. At the
thirty-sixth annual session of the New
Hampshire State Grange, in Decem-
ber, 1909, he was chosen Lecturer,
and for four years devoted a large
share of his time to the work of that
office and the service of the order in
promoting the educational advance-
ment of the farmers of the state,
which experience must prove of no
little advantage in the successful ad-
ministration of the office to which he
has just been appointed. The confi-
dence of his fellow-workers in his
ability and devotion is shown by the
fact that he had large support, on the
part of the best farmers in the order,
for Master at the last election, en-
tirely unsolicited, and was chosen
Overseer with practical unanimity.

His standing in the town is shown
by the fact that he has served two
years as a member of the board of
selectmen, and ten years on the school
board, of which he is now chairman.
He is a Democrat in politics, a Mason
and an active member of the Free
Baptist Church at Meredith Center,
of which his wife and two oldest sons
are also members.

He married, December 5, 1894, Eva
J. Perkins, daughter of Benjamin
Perkins of Meredith. They have
three sons — Louis Keith, born Decem-
ber 28, 1895; Harold Perkins, born
April 20, 1898, and Walter Andrew,
born November 1, 1907. The two
older boys are now in school at New
Hampton.

Mrs. Felker is a true helpmeet, sym-
pathizing fully with her husband in
all his work and plans. She is also
active in Grange work, and has filled
various offices, including that of Mas-
ter, in her subordinate Grange for the
past term.

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William H. Neal

Meredith farmers have long ranked
among the most successful cattle
breeders in this part of the country.
In the front rank in this respect at the
present time is William H. Neal, son
of William and Mary E. (Smith)
Neal, who was born July 5, 1871, on
the farm where he now resides, situ-

ated about a mile out of the village
upon the Center Harbor road, com-
manding a fine view of the bay and
surrounding scenery. He received a
good practical education, having grad-
uated at the Meredith High School
and the Commercial College at New
Hampton. He married Lucy M. R.
Neal of Tuftonborough in 1904. They
have one son, William J. Neal.

Mr. Neal is a member of Winnipe-
saukee Grange, and was master of that
organization in 1901 and 1902. He is
a Democrat in politics and has served
as selectman of the town eight years,
being now chairman of the board, and
in other town offices.

He was appointed a member of the
Board of Agriculture for Belknap
County in 1912, serving until the
board was legislated out of existence
last September. He is a member and
vice-president of the New Hampshire
Dairymen's Association, and a di-
rector of several big fair associations.
Not only is Mr. Neal a prominent citi-
zen of Meredith, public spirited and a
pusher for the good of the town, but
is widely known all over New Eng-
land as a successful farmer, cattle
breeder and dealer in live stock.

Farm Home of William H. Neal

Meredith

Since 1895 he has been a breeder of
Devon cattle and has developed one of
the best herds of that breed in the
United States, carrying off the honors
at all the big western fairs as well as
those of New England. In 1909 he
took a carload of thoroughbred Devon
cattle to the Pacific Coast, showing at
the California, Oregon and Washing-
ton fairs. He won blue ribbons in
nearly all the classes in which he ex-
hibited and completed his string of
victories by winning over many com-
petitors at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific
Exposition at Seattle, and is now mak-

thrifty farmers of Meredith, and his
farm, overlooking the water, between
Meredith Village and "The Weirs,"
is accounted one of the most valuable
in the county. He was formerly a
large breeder of Hereford cattle, and
his stock was shown extensively at the
fairs. He married Miss Jane Wad-
leigh of Meredith, now deceased. He
has a son, J. Frank Neal of Boston,
distributing agent for the Standard
Oil Company, and two daughters —
Mrs. C. A. Clark of Laconia, and
Sarah E. Neal, at home. The latter
is an active worker in Winnipesaukee

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ing preparations for the Panama Ex-
position in 1915. He also has a herd
of thoroughbred Holsteins.

Mr. Neal runs a retail milk business
in town, supplying his customers with
about 350 quarts per day. He is ac-
tively engaged in the buying and sell-
ing of live stock, shipping one or
more carloads each week to Boston
markets, and is considered one of the
best judges of weights and quality in
that line of business.

John M. Neal

John M. Neal, son of Joseph, one
of the early settlers, is one of the
most prosperous among the many

Grange, of which her father was a
charter member. He is a Baptist in
church affiliation and independent in
politics.

The Davis Stock Farm

One of the best known stock farms
in central New Hampshire is the
Davis Stock Farm in Meredith, on
the Center Harbor road, of which
Capt. C. E. Davis and his son, Ed-
ward P., are the proprietors, the lat-
ter being the manager, Captain Davis
spending the most of his time in busi-
ness in Boston. This farm, which in-
cludes 75 acres of tillage land, 110 of
pasture and 120 of wood and timber,

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has been greatly improved in the last
ten years, its hay product having been
increased from 15 tons per annum to
85 tons, while the corn crop has also
come to be an important asset. Much
attention is given to the breeding of
improved stock, including Devon cat-
tle and Morgan and Percheron horses.
A splendid specimen of the latter is
shown in the young black Stallion,
"Col. Dorval, " 27 months old weigh-
ing 1100 pounds.

Haying on the Davis Stock Farm

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Arthur S

Moulton

Another successful Meredith farmer-
is Arthur S. Moulton, a son of Gen.
Jonathan Moulton of Moultonbor-
ough, born April 12, 1859. He mar-
ried Laura Burleigh in September,
1884, and has a 200-acre farm of
which 35 acres is in tillage ; keeps
twenty-five head of Hereford cattle
and half a dozen horses, and accom-
modates quite a number of summer

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Meredith

boarders. He also supplies milk for
Camp Anawan, of twenty-five girls,
on Lake Winnipesaukee. He is a
Congregationalist, a Democrat, has
been twice a member of the board of
selectmen, and has charge of building
the state road in town.

Hollis L. Wiggin

The second member of Meredith's
board of selectmen, of which William

Hollis L. Wiggin

H. Neal is chairman, is Hollis L.
Wiggin, another enterprising young
farmer, son of Edwin F. Wiggin, long
known as one of the most prosper-
ous and successful agriculturists and
stock breeders in the state, whose fine
Durham herds have carried off first
prize at many a New Hampshire
and New England fair. The Wiggin
farm, of which Hollis L. is now the
foreman, his father having earned a
respite from the details of manage-
ment, is located on the Laconia road
with fine surrounding scenery. It
contains many hundred acres, of
which about seventy-five are under
cultivation, the product of which is
surpassed by few equal areas in the
country. The general equipment of
the farm, which includes accommoda-

tions for a goodly number of summer
boarders, is of the best in all respects.

Lewis A. Higgins

The third member of the board of
selectmen, is Lewis A. Higgins, a
native of Limington, Me., born De-
cember 30, 1866, but a resident of
Meredith for the last twenty years.
He, also, is a successful farmer, with
a well-stocked and well-cultivated
farm of one hundred and fifty acres,
dairying and pork production being
his specialties. Honesty and indus-
try are his characteristics, and his
standing in the community is indi-
cated by his three successive unani-
mous elections to the position he now
holds.

Charles N. Roberts

Meredith's representative in the
last legislature was Charles N. Rob-
erts. He is a native of the town, born
January 29, 1869 ; a Democrat in poli-
tics, educated in the common schools
and classed in the "Brown Book"
as a farmer, merchant and manufac-
turer. He served on the committee
on towns. He is a Mason, and has a
wife and three children.

Charles N. Roberts

NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY

GEN. CHARLES S. COLLINS

Gen. Charles S. Collins of Nashua, long a
prominent citizen, and familiarly known as
Dr. Collins, died at his home in the southern
part of the city November 16, 1913, after a
long illness.

Dr. Collins was a native of the town of
Grafton, born April 21, 1853, the family
subsequently removing to Loudon. He was
educated at Colby Academy and Boston Uni-
versity, studied medicine and engaged in
practice in Nashua in 1873, continuing till
1888, when he retired from practice, having
become a large owner in a mineral water
business, of which he was general manager,
the product being widely known as ' ' Lon-
donderry Lithia. ' '

He had been prominent in public and
political life, had served in both branches of
the Nashua city government and of the state
legislature; was commissary general on the
staff of Gov. Nahum J. Baehelder, and was
himself a prominent candidate for the Re-
publican gubernatorial nomination in 1904.
He had been twelve years a member of the
Nashua Board of Education, and president
of the same. He had been president of the
Nashua Board of Trade, and of the State
Board, in whose work he took a deep in-
terest.

His home at South Nashua was formerly
the old ' ' Little Tavern, ' ' which he had
transformed into an elegant establishment,
which he called ' ' Charlesmont. ' ' He had
bought much surrounding land, fitted up
handsome grounds, and engaged extensively
in breeding fancy poultry, being president
of the Nashua Poultry Association at the
time of his death. He was also a good deal
of a sportsman and for some years owned
the Nashua baseball team in the New Eng-
land League.

Dr. Collins married, in 1893, Miss Anna
L. King, daughter of Aaron King of Nashua,
who died leaving one son, William King
Collins. In 1899 he married Miss Eleanor
Carey, who survives him, with three sons — •
Charles S., Philip T. and Russell S. Collins.

FRANK E. BARNARD
Prank E. Barnard, born in Franklin Feb-
ruary 17, 1871, died at Winchester, Mass.,
September 13, 1913.

Mr. Barnard was the son of the late Hon.
Daniel Barnard, once attorney-general of
New Hampshire. He was educated at
Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth
College, graduating from the latter institu-
tion in 1891. He studied law, was admitted
to the bar in 1894, and for some time pre-
vious to his death had been in practice in
Boston, in partnership with Isaac F. Paul,
his residence being in Winchester.
He left a daughter and two sons.

HON. FRANKLIN P. GOODALL

Hon. Franklin P. Goodall of Holyoke,
Mass., a native of the town of Deering, 79
years of age, died September 19, 1913, at his
summer home on the old family homestead in
Deering. He had been a resident of Hol-
yoke nearly half a century, where he was for
many years engaged in business as a drug-
gist. He was a member of the Holyoke city
council several years, and its president in
1878. In 1881 he was elected mayor, serv-
ing one term. He was the oldest surviving
ex-mayor of the city at the time of his
death. He had never married, and left no
relatives nearer than nieces. He had always
spent his vacations upon the old farm in
Deering, owned by his father and grand-
father, and which continued in his posses-
sion.

MOSES A. PACKARD

Moses A. Packard, one of the pioneer shoe
manufacturers of Brockton, Mass., died at
his home in that city November 22, 1913.

Mr. Packard was a native of New London,
N. H., where he was born in 1843, his par-
ents removing to North Bridgewater, now
Brockton, Mass., when he was quite young.
His father was a shoemaker and he was
brought up to the business, following the
same through life, except for about a year
during the Civil War, when he was in the
Union service. After several years he
adopted the plan of making a special shoe
and advertising it extensively, which plan he
followed with much success, being the first
to adopt it. His firm was that of M. A.
Packard & Co., and was long a leading firm
in Brockton.

Mr. Packard was a Mason, a member of
Fletcher Webster Post, G. A. R., and had
been a member of the Brockton Board of
Aldermen.

DR. THOMAS O. REYNOLDS

Thomas Osgood Reynolds, M. D., for more
than forty years a prominent physician of
the town of Kingston, died at his home in
that town December 11, 1913.

Dr. Reynolds was a native of the town of
Chester, a son of Rev. Thomas F. and Mary
(Currier) Reynolds, born December 24, 1842,
and was educated in the public schools and
Chester Academy. He enlisted as a private
in the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment
in the Civil War, August 26, 1862, serving
until after the fall of Vicksburg, and being
twice wounded, when he was detailed as a
clerk in the general hospital at Camp Nelson,
soon being promoted to chief clerk, and com-
mencing the study of medicine under Dr. A.
C. Rankin, assistant surgeon in the United
States Army. Here he remained till mus-

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tered out in May, 1865. Camp Nelson being
assigned as headquarters of the Freedman's
Bureau in Kentucky, he was appointed as-
sistant surgeon, with the rank and pay of a
lieutenant, continuing until the camp was
discontinued in December, 1865. Returning
home he took a course in surgery at Bellevue
Medical College, New York City, and com-
pleted a medical course at Albany, graduat-
ing December 24, 1866. After a year of
travel through the West he located, for
practice, at Port Huron, Mich., but, the cli-
mate disagreeing with him, he returned to
New Hampshire, locating in Kingston in
1870, where he continued through life.

He was a Republican in politics, strongly
interested in public affairs but not an office
seeker or holder. He was a trustee of Kings-
ton Academy and of the Nichols Memorial
Library. He was active in Masonry and a
member of the Congregational Society of
Kingston.

On July 13, 1870, he married Miss M.
Fannie Smith of Raymond, who survives,
with one daughter, Mrs. Edwin S. Folsom of
Epping.

JOHN W. STAPLES, M. D.

Dr. John W. Staples, one of the most
prominent physicians of the state, died sud-
denly in his office at Franklin on the evening
of December 11, 1913, apparently having
been stricken with heart failure while read-
ing a letter, having just taken his mail from
the post office.

John Walter Staples was born in Wells,
Me., January 25, 1855, a son of John and
Ann (Wells) Staples. He graduated from
Berwick Academy in 1872, and Dartmouth
College in 1876. In 1880 he graduated from
Vermont University Medical College, pursu-
ing post graduate work at Johns Hopkins,
the Massachusetts General Hospital and in a
New York hospital, and then locating in
practice in Franklin, where he continued
with much success.

Dr. Staples had been for seventeen years
a member of the Franklin Board of Educa-
tion. He had also been a member of the
city council and the board of water com-
missioners, and a trustee of the public
library. He was the treasurer of the Daniel
Webster Birthplace Association, a member
of the American Medical Association and an
ex-president of the New Hampshire Medical
Society. He was a Unitarian and a Repub-
lican.

He married, January 25, 1882, Martha L.
Kimball of Haverhill, who survives him,
with one son, Charles W. Staples of Minne-
apolis, Minn.

MISS MARY C. EASTMAN

Mary Clifford Eastman, daughter and only
child of Hon. Samuel C. Eastman of Con-
cord, and one of the best known and most
devoted workers in the cause of charity and

social betterment in the Capital City, died
on the afternoon of Christmas day, Decem-
ber 25, following an operation for appen-
dicitis.

Miss Eastman was born in Concord, May
19, 1862, the daughter of Samuel C. and
Mary Clifford (Greene) Eastman, and was
educated in the Concord schools and at Vas-
sar College. She had been prominent in the
work of the Concord Woman's Club, and of
the State Federation, but her greatest work
was in connection with the organization and
maintenance of the Girls' Friendly Club of
Concord, in which she was deeply interested,
and of which she was president, giving both
time and money freely in its aid, and leaving
the same a substantial legacy in her will, as
well as various other meritorious institu-
tions. She was a modest, unselfish woman,
seeking only the welfare of others and the
highest good of the community, by whom
her loss is deeply mourned.

GEORGE A. ROBIE

George A. Robie, a leading citizen of
Hooksett, died at his home in that town
December 21, 1913.

He was a native of Hooksett and had al-
ways resided there, where he was long
engaged in general trade, and had been
postmaster of the town ever since the in-
cumbency of President Arthur. He had
held many town offices, having been town
clerk, auditor, selectman and representative.
He was an active Republican, a prominent
Odd Fellow, president of the State Odd Fel-
lows Home Association and a past represen-
tative of the grand lodge of the state. He
was also a Patron of Husbandry and a past
master of Hooksett Grange.

He married, in 1862, Angie A. Wheeler
of Newbury, Vt., who survives, with one son,
Arthur G. Robie.

HORACE W. WADLEIGH

Horace Wayland Wadleigh, head of the
well-known leather firm of H. W. Wadleigh
& Co., of Beach Street, Boston, died at his
residence, 234 Commonwealth Avenue, in
that city, December 26, 1913.

Mr. Wadleigh was a native of Tilton,
N. H., born May 18, 1848, the son of War-
ren and Harriet (Thomas) Wadleigh. He
was educated in the public schools and Til-
ton Seminary, and went to Boston in early
life, where he was for a time a clerk, but
later engaged in the hide and leather busi-
ness for himself, continuing with much
success. He was a trustee of the Franklin
Savings Bank, and a member of the Algon-
quin, County and Merchants Clubs. He had
a summer home on the Jerusalem Road in
Cohasset.

He married, in 1878, Mrs. Mary William
Alden, who died about three years ago, leav-
ing no children.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHERS NOTES

The Governor and Council, January 10,
•organized the new Department of Agricul-
ture, provided for by the legislature at the
last session, by the act abolishing the old
Board of Agriculture, which had been in
existence since 1871, consisting of one prac-
tical farmer from each county and a secre-
tary elected by the board, and establishing
a Department of Agriculture, with a com-
missioner at its head, at a salary of $3,500
per annum, with an advisory board, consist-
ing of two members from each of three dis-
tricts into which the state is divided, who
are to receive $4 per day each, and expenses
for such time as they are actually engaged.
Andrew L. Felker of Meredith was named
as commissioner, and J. W. Sanborn of Gil-
manton, Richard Pattee of Laconia, Her-
bert O. Hadley of Peterborough, Etna J.
Fletcher of Greenfield, S. O. Titus of Rollins-
ford and Ernest B. Eolsom of Dover were
made the advisory board. Mr. Felker has
"been lecturer of the State Grange the last
four years, and was made overseer of the
same at the recent annual meeting though
supported by the best farmers in the organi-
zation for master. He is able, ambitious
and energetic, thoroughly devoted to the in-
terests of New Hampshire agriculture, and
will undoubtedly make good in the position
to which he has been appointed. This place
was sought by Richard Pattee of Laconia,
who was one of the persistent advocates of
the act by which it was established, while
Mr. Felker himself opposed it. Nevertheless
the agricultural public and the people gen-
erally will heartily approve the Governor's
selection. It is understood that Commis-
sioner Felker, who has already entered upon
his work, is to associate with himself as an
assistant, for a time at least, Mr. M. Gale
Eastman, a recent graduate of the State
College, who has been engaged the past year
as the government agent for agricultural
field work in Sullivan County. Two deputy
commissioners, to have charge of the cattle
inspection and gypsy-moth extermination
work remain to be appointed. The first pub-
lic work of the department will be the con-
duct of a winter institute meeting, which
will be held in connection with that of the
Granite State Dairymen's Association, at
the Memorial Parish House in Concord,
February 11 and 12.

Another political campaign year, in the
state as well as the country at large, is
already fairly opened without the formula-
tion of any definite plans by any one of the
prominent political parties. This delay
comes, unquestionably, of the change in con-
ditions resulting from the total change in

election methods effected by the complete
adoption of the primary system, even United
States senators being nominated and elected
hereafter by direct vote of the people, and
that, as in case of all other officers, upon
the plurality basis. It is not as yet mani-
fest who are the leading favorites in any one
of the three parties — Democratic, Republi-
can or Progressive — for any of the promi-
nent positions to be filled, or who will
actually enter the field for nomination, be-
yond the fact that Col. Rufus N. Elwell of
Exeter has announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for Congress in the
First District, and the general supposition
that Congressman Eugene E. Reed, Demo-
cratic incumbent, will be a candidate for
re-election, though he may possibly aspire to
the United States senatorship, for which
Congressman Raymond B. Stevens of the
Second District has also been mentioned as
an aspirant. Gov. Samuel D. Felker, Clar-
ence E. Carr, Gordon Woodbury and William
J. Ahern have all been mentioned as possi-
ble candidates for the Democratic senato-
rial nomination ; while Councillor Daniel
W. Badger has been spoken of for the First
District congressional nomination of that
party, and Mayors Barry of Nashua and
French of Concord, and Enos K. Sawyer of
Franklin, president of the state senate, for
the Second, in case Messrs. Reed and Stevens
should enter the senatorial field. Democrats
mentioned as gubernatorial possibilities thus
far are Senator John C. Hutchins of Strat-
ford, and John B. Jameson of Antrim,
chairman of the State Committee. Who will
come forward on the Republican side, for
governor or senator is still problematical.
Those most mentioned for the gubernatorial
nomination thus far are Charles S. Emerson
of Milford and George H. Moses of Concord.
It seems to be problematical as yet whether
or not Senator Gallinger will be a candidate
for the succession. If not James O. Lyford
may enter the race for the Republican nomi-
nation, and so may Col. John H. Bartlett of
Portsmouth. Indeed, the latter may enter
in any event. No one has been suggested,
as yet, to contest with Colonel Elwell for
the First District Republican congressional
nomination, but in the Second District both
Edward H. Wason and Lester F. Thurber
of Nashua, ex-Mayor C. G. Shedd of Keene
and Dr. E. O. Crossman of Lisbon are men-
tioned as willing to make the run. The plans
of the Progressives are no more fully de-
veloped than those of the other parties,
though H. D. Allison of Dublin is men-
tioned as their possible candidate for the
governorship. Much depends, of course,
upon what Messrs. Bass and Churchill, the
recognized leaders of that party, may deter-
mine upon as proper to be done.

EDWARD HILLS WASON

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Vol. XLVI, No. 3 MARCH, 1914 New Series, Vol. 9, No. 3

LEADERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

XVI

Edward Hills Wason
By H. C. Pearson

Any one who is well acquainted married Mary, daughter of Robert
with the younger generation of men Boyd of Londonderry. The Lieu-
in public life in this state can name tenant's son, Robert Wason, went as
off-hand five important departments a young man to New Boston, to live
of activity, the law, agriculture, pol- with his uncle, Robert Boyd, upon
itics, education and sports, in which the latter's farm. This, Deacon Rob-
Edward Hills Wason of Nashua is a ert Wason inherited, and it contin-
New Hampshire leader. ued the family homestead during the

At forty-eight years of age Mr. succeeding generations.

Wason is one of the busiest and best The youngest of the nine children

known lawyers in the state ; the owner of Deacon Robert and Nancy (Batch-

of a large and well-stocked farm sue- elder) Wason was George Austin

cessfully cultivated upon modern lines; Wason, father of Edward Hills

a valuable member of the board of Wason, and if ever the truth of the

trustees of the state's college; the old saying, "like father, like son,"

president of two fair associations and was manifested, it was in this latter

an authority upon the harness horse; relationship.

and one of the men to whom the rank George A. Wason was one of the

and file of the Republican party in most successful farmers and breeders

New Hampshire are looking for the of thoroughbred Devon cattle in the

leadership which shall renew, after state. He was a prominent member

the brief intermission of two years, of various agricultural societies and

the previously continuous record of of the Grange, of which order he

four decades of victory. served as State Master, and for twenty

The mental and physical vigor requi- years was a trustee of the New Hamp-
site for these achievements, with the shire Agricultural College. He was
hard work which they have involved, one of the old-time Republican "wheel-
came to Mr. Wason as an inheritance horses" and served his party and the
from five generations of New England people in town offices and as county
farmers of the best type. James commissioner, representative in the
Wason, born in Ballymena, County legislature and state senator. Always
Antrim, Ireland, in 1711, came to abreast of the developments of the
America and settled at Nottingham times, he was instrumental in securing
West, now Hudson. His son, Lieut, the charter of the New Boston Railroad
Thomas Wason, born in Hudson, * and was its president until his death.

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In the career thus briefly summar- service upon the board of education

ized we see the same qualities, strength from 1891 to 1895, inclusive, being

of mind and muscle, love of the land honored with the presidency of the

and of animals, public spirit and serv- board during his last year upon it.

ice, leadership in all with which he From the year of his graduation

became connected, which character- from law school and admission to

ize the career, as it has thus far been practice in the courts of his native

accomplished, of the son. The older state, Mr. Wason has been engaged

generation of New Hampshire people in such practice in the city of Nashua,

still remember George A. Wason For a number of years he had as a law

with love and respect and on his ac- partner George F. Jackson, Esq.,.

count, if for no other reason, they under the firm name of Wason &

would have a kindly feeling towards Jackson, while his present associate

the ambitions of his oldest son. in the firm of Wason & Moran is

Edward Hills Wason, first child Thomas F. Moran, Esq.

of George Austin and Clara Louisa The practice of these firms has been

(Hills) Wason, was born in New Bos- large, varied and successful, taking

ton upon the ancestral acres Septem- their members into the federal courts

ber 2, 1865. and into the jurisdictions of other

In the public schools of New Bos- states, while the firm names have been

ton and later at Francestown Acad- of frequent appearance on the dockets

emy he prepared for entrance to the of the superior and supreme courts

New Hampshire College of Agricul- of New Hampshire. Though sought

ture and the Mechanic Arts, then as counsel in many matters which

located at Hanover, from which he never reach the courts, Mr. Wason

graduated with the degree of Bach- is best known, perhaps, for his suc-

elor of Science in 1886. To the col- cess as a lawyer in jury cases, where

lege he has always been loyal and his his powers as an advocate have full

active and influential interest in its play and his keen knowledge of men

welfare has proved potent in legisla- is of constant service,

tive and other crises. Appreciation His ability as a lawyer was recog-

of this interest and service was shown nized promptly in Nashua where he

by the alumni of the college when they was elected city solicitor in 1894-

elected him as their representative 1895; and a few years later he did

on the board of trustees, a position equally good work on a similar, but

which he has held since January 16, larger scale, as solicitor of Hills-

1906, the same year, by a coincidence, borough County from 1902 to 1906.

in which his father's long connection But while the law is Mr. Wason's

with the institution was brought to profession, in which he takes pride

a close by death. and to which he gives the best of his

Despite his scientific training, Mr. brain, of his experience and his energy,

Wason's preference for a profession without stint, his real affection is for

was the law and in 1890 he received the farm, the soil, the life out of doors,

the degree of Bachelor of Laws from He has established at considerable

the Boston University Law School, expense a model farm of large extent

having prosecuted his studies, also, in the town of Merrimack, just north

in the office of George B. French, of Nashua, so that his farm and his

Esq., in Nashua. law office may be mutually accessible,

While engaged in these studies he and there he spends as much as pos-
served for two years as principal of sible of his time, breeding registered
the Main Street evening school in Guernseys and giving scientific farm-
Nashua and thus acquired an interest ing and stock-raising a thorough
in the schools of that city which after- trial under favorable circumstances,
wards he put to good use during his His dairy barn is one of the best in

Edward Hills Wason 67

the state and the general condition Mr. Wason's agricultural proclivi-

of the estate shows that it is the prop- ties are something of a joke among

erty of a man who knows what is his political and legal associates, who

needed for success in agriculture un- are accustomed, at times, to refer to

der modern conditions and who is him as "Farmer" Wason, a title to

able and willing to provide it. which he never objects. At the end

Another way in which Mr. Wason's of the session of the legislature of
interest in agriculture has been prom- 1899, when the customary gift-mak-
inently shown has been through his ing was in progress, Mr. Wason was
connection with some of the principal called for and presented with due
agricultural fairs of the state. In ceremony with a shovel, rake and hoe,
the days when the Nashua fair was emblematic, he was told, of the regard
one of the largest and best in New for the interests of the farmers which
England he was its superintendent and he had frequently displayed during
one of the principal workers in its be- the session. Mr. Wason turned the
half. During the past winter he has tables on the jokers, however, by
been elected president of the New accepting the tokens in a speech,
Oak Park Fair Association, which half-humorous and half-serious, in
also holds an annual exhibition in which he impressed upon his hearers
Greenfield; and, also, of the great, but the importance to New Hampshire
apparently ill-fated Rockingham Fair of its farming interests and the duty
at Salem. " To this last position he devolving upon the legislature to con-
was elected by the stockholders last sider those interests more carefully
November in the hope that the tan- than has at times been the rule under
gled affairs of the corporation might the dome.

be straightened out and its magnifi- To be called a "Farmer" Mr.

cent plant continue to be used. Later, Wason regards as an honor, rather

when bankruptcy proceedings were than a reproach; and he has a similar

brought against the Rockingham feeling as to the word "politician,"

Park Company, Mr. Wason was ap- which has to come to have a rather

pointed one of its receivers so that derogatory application, in some minds

he is at present connected with this at least.

property in a dual capacity. It is Mr. Wason declares that every

safe to say that if he had been the man- American citizen should be a poli-

agerial head of this enterprise from tician; that is, should take an interest

its _ inception its splendid opportu- in politics, the means and methods of

nities would have been more fully town, city, state and national govern-

realized and differently managed. ment, the fundamental principles of

As is usually the case with a man the great parties and their application

who loves a farm, Mr. Wason also to the public welfare,

loves a horse. He knows a good And in this matter of taking an

horse when he sees one and he has active interest in politics Mr. Wason

owned several of them, the fastest certainly has practiced what he has

being the pacer, Barney, 2:08, now preached, for he has been a worker

31 years of age who enjoys spacious and a leader in the political affairs of

quarters in Mr. Wason's stable in his city and state from the day of his

Nashua. Well-posted in every de- majority.

partment of the sport of harness rac- In 1887, while a law student, he

ing Mr. Wason is in great demand as was elected sergeant-at-arms of the

starting judge at fairs and race meet- New Hampshire state senate for

ings, but the other demands upon his that longest and most momentous

time are such that it is only occasion- of legislative sessions in this state

ally, as a favor to friends, that he so and in 1889 he was reelected to the

officiates. same position. In 1891 he became

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assistant clerk of the senate and so
served in 1893, also, becoming in
1895 the clerk. These five terms as
an official of the upper branch of the
legislature gave him a knowledge of
the principles of parliamentary law
and of their practical application, an
intimate acquaintance with the act-
ual processes of legislation, which
was to be of great value to him in his
subsequent career. There is no better
parliamentarian in New Hampshire
today than Edward H. Wason.

His public service as a member of
the Nashua board of education and
as city and county solicitor has been
mentioned. In 1897-1898 he was
president of the common council of
the city of Nashua and in the latter
year he was elected to represent his
ward in the state legislature. There
he rendered efficient service in the
judiciary committee room, under
Chairman A. T. Batchelder, and on
the floor of the house, where he was
prominent in the debates upon the
many important matters which came
before that General Court.

Ten years later Mr. Wason re-
turned to the state house as a mem-
ber of the legislature of 1909 in
which he continued and repeated
his good work of the decade before,
with the addition that he served as
chairman of the committee on agri-
cultural college as well as on the
judiciary committee.

In the election of 1908 the Re-
publican party in New Hampshire
had taken advanced ground upon
many political principles. When it
came to redeeming in the legis-
lature its platform pledges of the
campaign some leaders were re-
calcitrant. Not so with Mr. Wason.
While personally he was not entirely
convinced of the wisdom of some of
the experiments which his party had
promised to try, he felt that by be-
coming a candidate for office on the
party platform he had given his
personal word to do his best to put
that platform's declarations into
effect, and that word he kept.

Good roads upon a practical,
economical and efficient basis always
have been one of Mr. Wason's
hobbies and a bill introduced by him
at the legislative session of 1899 for
a 22-mile state highway from the
Maassachusetts state line through
Nashua to Manchester was one of
the beginnings of our present state
highway legislation. And in 1909
he was one of the leaders in the suc-
cessful fight for the million dollar
three trunk line highways proposi-
tion which has worked out so satis-
factorily.

Mr. Wason was elected a delegate
to the convention which met in 1902
to prepare and submit to the people
amendments to the constitution of
the state. He was appointed a
member of the committee, of which
Hon. William E. Chandler was
chairman, upon time and mode of
submitting to the people the amend-
ments agreed to by the convention.
He took a prominent part in the pro-
ceedings of the convention, espe-
cially with reference to the vexed
question of the basis of representa-
tion in the legislature.

Ten years later, when the consti-
tutional convention of 1912 was
called by vote of the people, Mr.
Wason again was a delegate from his
Nashua ward. This time he was
made chairman of the committee
on rules, and served, also, on the
committee on legislative department,
which had in charge the important
matter, previously mentioned, of the
size of the General Court.

The fact that forty-nine refer-
ences follow Mr. Wason's name in
the index of the official journal of the
convention shows his activity and
interest in its work. He introduced
into the convention the amendment
giving women the right of suffrage
and made the final speech of the
long and able debate upon its merits.
Questions of taxation, of police court
jurisdiction and of the removal of the
religious qualification from the Bill of
Rights also engaged his attention.

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Soon after the final adjournment life which commanding personal

of the constitutional convention of presence gives.

1912 Mr. Wason returned to Con- A most agreeable companion and

cord as a member of the house of fond of social life, Mr. Wason is a

representatives in the legislature of member of many fraternal organi-

1913. Throughout that prolonged zations, including Rising Sun Lodge,

and remarkable session Mr. Wason A. F. and A. M., of Nashua, of which

was assiduous in attendance and he is a past master; Meridian Sun

untiring in effort. Because of his Royal Arch Chapter, of Nashua;

ability and experience and because Israel Hunt Council, Royal and

of the fact that he had been a leading Select Masters, of Nashua; St. George

candidate for the Republican nomi- Commandery, Knights Templars

nation for speaker of the house, he of Nashua; Edward A. Raymond

was recognized as one of the minority Consistory, of Nashua; Nashua

leaders and in that capacity kept a Lodge, Knights of Pythias; and

watchful eye upon the proceedings Nashua Lodge of the Benevolent

and took a frequent and vigorous and Protective Order of Elks, of

part in debate. Even more time which he has been exalted ruler,

and labor, however, were required by He is also a member of the Nashua

his membership upon the judiciary Boat Club.

committee, which, of late years, A Congregationalist in religious

either originates or passes upon belief, Mr. Wason is a firm believer

practically all important legislation in the Scriptural truth that the great-

with the exception of the appropri- est virtue is charity; though in dem-

ation bills. . onstrating his belief he is careful

Mr. Wason's work and record at to heed the admonition not to let
the session of 1913 made his place his left hand know what his right
secure among the leaders of the hand doeth. He was instrumental
Republican party in New Hamp- and an adviser in the establishment
shire. His wide knowledge of men and incorporation of the Nashua
and affairs, supplemented by special Emergency Hospital and served as
study of the pressing problems of the its clerk and trustee for a number of
day, has made him well informed years. The donor of the John M.
upon all important subjects of polit- Hunt Home for the Aged consulted
ical discussion. Quick of wit, sharp Mr. Wason and made known to him
in retort, alert in thought, fluent her desires and wishes, and through
in speech, a natural orator and de- his judgment and foresight, the
bater, he is seen at his best in the Home has been established and is
running fire of daily legislative one of the most useful of the phil-
routine; and yet he is in demand as anthropic institutions of the city.
an orator of occasion and never With all details concerning this
fails to satisfy his friends and Home, Mr. Wason has been in close
admirers when the necessities of the touch and to his credit it may be
case call for the preparation of said, that the donor's wishes have
elaborate and considered remarks, been fulfilled* without delay or mis-
such as Memorial Day and Old fortune or misguidance in any partic-
Home Day addresses. ular. It stands in the second city

Mr. Wason is of so attractive a as a monument to the memory and

personality that with him in most judgment of the donor, the late

cases acquaintanceship and friend- Mary A. Hunt. Of this institution,

ship are practically identical. More Mr. Wason has been the clerk an I

than six feet in height and of propor- trustee since its organization,

tionately robust stature, he makes In addition to his legal profession

the most of that advantage in public and his farm holdings Mr. Wason

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has various business interests, some
of which are shown by his presidency
of the City Institution for Savings,
of Nashua; his presidency of the
Nashua Coal & Coke Company;
and his treasurership of the Nashua
Driving Park Association.

At this writing public interest is
newly centered upon Mr. Wason be-
cause of the widely published, and as
widely welcomed, report, that he may

be a candidate this year for the Re-
publican nomination in the Second
New Hampshire Congressional Dis-
trict. If, in due time, this report is
followed by formal announcement to
the same effect, the good friends Mr.
Wason has made in times past in
every town in the district will be
heard from in enthusiastic support
of a man so worthily representative
of his party, the people and the state.

THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP OVER THE WAY

By Frederick Myron Colby

The blacksmith's shop stands over the way,

It has stood there this many a day ;
A cheery place in cold or in rain,
With its gleam of light thro ' the window pane,

The sleds and carts by the open door,

And the blacksmith 's hammering o 'er and o 'er ;
Yes, a joyous place in the evening gray
Is this blacksmith 's shop just over the way.

In summer and winter, by day and night,
There flashes those spectral gleams of light ;
Rings out the chorus on iron and steel,
From well aimed strokes that stout arms deal ;
As, earning his bread by the sweat of his brow,
The blacksmith deals out blow upon blow;
And I watch and list through the shadows gray
For the light and cheer just over the way.

Within there is cheerful labor and light

Flashing defiance to blackest night;
And a merry song the blacksmith sings
As his heavy hammer he lightly swings ;

For he is a man of gentlest mood,

This Vulcan in leathern apron rude ;
Now he stops a moment the anvil 's play
To glance at his home just over the way.

Then there flashes a single gleam — a spark

Like a firefly flashing in the dark, —
A fairy presence stands in the door,
A form I 've seen there waiting before.

Ah, Venus has visited before today

A blacksmith's shop, so the poets say.
' ' Giles, supper is ready ! " a pleasing lay,
And the light goes out from over the way.

A VANISHED LANDMARK

One of the notable old-time land-
marks of the historic City of Ports-
mouth, which has recently been
removed, to the regret of many though
it had long been abandoned for use
and fallen into decay, was the old
hotel at the "Plains," long known as
the ''Globe Tavern," which had stood
for one hundred and eighty-seven
years, since its erection in the fall of

"Whereas, the general assembly of the
Province of New Hampshire on the twenty-
fifth day of January, 1716, made a grant
unto Thomas Westbrook, to keep the only
public house by himself or another at a place
called The Portsmouth Plains in the town of
Portsmouth, in the Province aforesaid for-
ever, in consideration that the said West-
brook should lay out six acres of land at the
said Plains for in accommodation of draw-

The Old Plains Tavern

1726 by Thomas Westbrook, by whom
it was for a long time conducted, he
having been granted by the General
Assembly the right to keep, by him-
self or another, the only public house
at the Plains.

A copy of an ancient document, exe-
cuted by said Thomas Westbrook,
shortly before the erection of the
hotel, recently published by the
Portsmouth Times in connection with
the announcement of the pending re-
moval of the ruined old building, is
here reproduced as a matter of his-
toric interest, as follows :

ing up the Militia of the town or Province
aforesaid.

"Now this instrument witnesses that th«
said Thomas Westbrook, for and in consid-
eration of three acres of land, bargained,
sold and made over to him to enable him to
perform the consideration of the above men-
tioned grant, by Henry Sherburne of the
said Plains in the town and Province afore-
said, yeomen, as by his deed bearing even
date with these presents. He, the said
Thomas Westbrook doth hereby give and
grant, assign, assure, make over and confirm
to the said Henry Sherburne, his heirs, exec-
utors, administrators and assigns forever,

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they or some of them paying the one-half of
twenty shillings yearly into the treasury (or
otherwise expressed in the grant) the full
moiety of one-half part of the privilege of
keeping a tavern at The Plains as amply to
all intents and purposes as the same was
granted to the said Westbrook by the gen-
eral assembly aforesaid, to have and to hold
the half of the same privilege with and the
profits and advantages belonging to the
same, to the said Henry Sherburne, his heirs,
executors and administrators paying ten
shillings per annum as aforesaid forever.

"In testimony whereof the said Thomas
Westbrook hath hereunto set his hand and
affixed his seal on the thirteenth day of
September, 1726, and in the thirteenth year
of His Majesty King George's reign.
' ' Thomas Westbrook.
(L. S.)

' ' Signed, sealed and delivered in presence

"Kichard Waldron, Jr.
"William Locke."

At the time of the first settlement,
The Times remarks, quite a village
was built in the neighborhood of the
Portsmouth Plains, and at the latter
place was made the most murderous
attack by the Indians that our history-
records. On the morning of June 26,
1696, the savages fell upon the little
settlement, burned five houses and
nine barns, and scalped fourteen peo-
ple. Several others were wounded,
and still others made prisoners; but
most of the inhabitants succeeded in
reaching the garrison house, after a
desperate struggle. This garrison
house stood in a field north of the
present school-house. Among those
wounded and left for dead was Mrs.
Mary Brewster, who afterwards re-
covered and became the mother of
several children from whom are de-
scended the Brewster family in Ports-
mouth.

This old Globe Tavern was the old-
est structure in the city, at the time

of its demolition, that had ever been
used as a place of public entertain-
ment.

It was framed from timber cut near
the site, and that it was substantially
built was evidenced by the long period
of time during which it withstood the
power of the elements. It was a
house of no little consequence in its
prime, and entertained many noted
guests in its day, all through the pe-
riod of stage travel, and was a most
popular resort in the muster days of
the old state militia, when Portsmouth
Plains was one of the most noted
training grounds in the state.

Thomas Westbrook, who built and
long conducted this hotel, was a man
of prominence in the town and prov-
ince. He was named among the orig-
inal proprietors of Barrington, of
Kingswood and Londonderry, and was
for many years a member of the
Provincial Council. After he gave up
the management of the tavern The
Times says it was conducted by Rich-
ard Tucker. Then Elias Libbey was
landlord in 1812, and from that time
up to his death in 1835. Following
Mr. Libbey was his son-in-law, Joseph
Dennett; then T. V. Briscoll, a hat-
ter, took it and carried on the business
of hat and cap making there jointly
with the tavern keeping. Others who
ran the hotel on longer or shorter
periods were Capt. John H. Jackson,
father of Capt. Thomas M. Jackson of
Summer Street, who was an officer in
the old Rockingham Guards, later a
colonel of the Third New Hampshire
Regiment in the Civil War. He died
several years ago. Then came to the
hotel William P. Stimpson, Amory N.
Mason, Joseph Sherburne, John Sher-
burne and others whose names do not
come to mind.

There was never any complaint that
the uniformed militiamen, and even
the crowds that came as spectators,
could not get whatever "comfort"
was desired at three cents per comfort
— the regular price in the olden days.

DOVER AND THE QUAKERS

By Charles Nevers Holmes

Like a patriarch of old, like a mem-
ory from the fading past, still stands
the Meeting-House of the Friends in
Dover, beside the peace and silence of
Pine Hill's cemetery. It is truly a
fitting and picturesque surrounding
amid which rests this relic of days
agone, the dignified, old-fashioned
dwellings near by completing the
quaintness and antiquity of this at-
tractive spot. To the stranger, it

when the Society of Friends was an
influential one. Time was when its
silent presence drew each Sabbath its
serious-minded members, devoted to
the religion of the ' ' Inner Light ' ' ;
when its seats were crowded with
those who awaited the inspiring ad-
vent of some devout thought; who
came and went slowly and solemnly,
leaving and returning to a world that
seemed to be religiously different from

Quaker Meeting House, Dover, N. H.

would, indeed, be very attractive as
he passes first the succession of old-
time and impressive houses, the Meet-
ing-House whose simplicity and gen-
eral appearance indicate what sect
formerly worshiped under its roof,
and, finally, Dover's beautiful ceme-
tery that rises like a kind of knoll, its
modern gravestones mingling here and
there with the darker, weather-beaten
designs of the years long ago.

For that old Quaker Meeting-
House is a meeting-house no more, ex-
cept on certain rare occasions; it is
not now and has not for some years,
been used in regular services. It is,
indeed, a relic of days agone, of days

themselves. At a time when the men
and women of America were less rest-
less, more sincere, than the men and
women of today; at such a time —
long ago — that old Quaker Meeting-
House was largely attended on Sun-
days ; but, as the years passed on, and
the older members, one by one, disap-
peared from man 's temporal abode, its
assembly became fewer and fewer, its
influence became less and less, until
today it stands almost forsaken, be-
side the peace and silence of the Pine
Hill cemetery.

It seems almost a tragedy as it
stands there amid the traditions of its
former history, and the mind reverts

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far back into the past — a past that is
almost interwoven with the times of
the pioneer Hiltons. For it was not
long after these brothers had settled
in the New World — some forty years
— that three "traveling sisters," by
name, Anna Coleman, Mary Tomkins,
and Alice Ambrose, arrived in peace-
ful Dover, and were soon persecuted
by the bigoted authorities of that
town. In the year 1662, Mary Tom-
kins and Alice Ambrose landed at
Dover, afterwards going to what is
now the state of Maine. They did not
stay there long, however, but returned
to Dover where presently an official
order was given to the constables of
Dover, Hampton, Salisbury, New-
bury, Linn, Boston, as well as other
towns, which directed that "You and
«very one of you are required in the
King's Majesty's name to take these
vagabond Quakers, Anna Coleman,
Mary Tomkins and Alice Ambrose,
and make them fast to the cart's tail,
and drawing the cart through your
several towns, to whip them upon
their, naked backs, not exceeding ten
stripes apiece on each of them in each
town ; and^so convey them from Con-
stable to Constable till they are out of
this jurisdiction, as you will answer it
at your peril; and this shall be your
warrant. Per me, Richard Walderne,
at Dover, dated December 22, 1662."
This cruel and inhuman sentence
was executed, as far as Major "Wal-
derne was concerned; but the perse-
cuted Quakeresses, after a stay in
Kittery, returned once more to Dover,
where they suffered further ill-treat-
ment. Later, other Quakers were
also ill-treated. Various punishments
were inflicted upon them, particularly
fines. For absence from "orthodox
worship," there was a fine of five
shillings each day ; for attending a
Quaker meeting, ten shillings; for
"entertaining a Quaker," forty shill-
ings per hour, and it is recorded that
a certain James Nute, for such an of-
fence, was fined £8. Such sentences
were strictly enforced; and the lot of
the Quaker in the Dover of the seven-

teenth century was not wholly a
happy one. However, the persecu-
tions and sufferings of these patient
people aroused, in time, public sym-
pathy. The Quaker was, indeed, a
brave and martyr-loving individual.
As has well been said: "Neither
imprisonment, fines nor starvation
could daunt these fearless disciples of
the Inner Light — shew them a whip-
ping-post, they clung to it; a prison,
they entered it ; a halter, and they put
their necks in it. ' '

Times and customs, however,
change; and the Quaker was at last
treated more leniently, then tolerated
or ignored. Fines and persecutions
were ended; and in the year 1717 —
nearly a century after the Hiltons had
established themselves at Dover Point
— the town granted the Quakers ten
acres of land for a pasture. In 1729,
there was a petition from several
Quakers to the Assembly, to be ex-
empted from "gathering the Minis-
ter's rates," as constables; and this
petition was repeated in 1731, when
the Assembly granted their request,
by an enactment. In 1761, the
Quakers of Dover again petitioned the
Assembly, stating that they were bur-
dened with a tax "to hire soldiers
into the service, ' ' and asking to be re-
lieved. The Assembly also granted
this petition. In 1788, the town voted
to pay a certain annual amount to the
Society of Friends as an "equiva-
lent ' ' for what they had been required
to contribute for a certain church
bell ; but this sum of money ceased to
be paid after a few years. In other
words, the eighteenth century exhib-
ited more and more toleration for the
once much persecuted Quakers, and
under such toleration and leniency
this peace-loving sect, with its thrifty
and industrious men and women, in-
creased in numbers and prosperity.

Particularly in Dover such was the
case, it being estimated that at one
time about one third of the population
of this town consisted of the disciples
of George Fox. As is well known, the
Society of Friends became at its

Dover and the Quakers

height very prosperous and influen-
tial, both in England and America,
the state of Pennsylvania bearing wit-
ness today of its former affluence. In
New England, the town of Dover was
one of the strongest centers of Quak-
erism, for, as is often the case, intol-
eration defeats itself, and a cause or
religion will afterwards flourish most
strongly in the very place where it
has been bitterly persecuted. In
Dover, the Society of Friends in-
creased in numbers and prospered,
and today — although almost wholly
unoccupied by any descendants of
Quakers — the quaint and old-time
homesteads of these peaceful people
are still in frequent evidence. And
it requires but a glance to discern,
although some of the dwellings have
been repaired or remodeled, that the
Quakers of Dover were a thrifty and
prosperous part of the community.
The membership of their society con-
tained names that still are to be seen
in the city, and the Varneys, Pink-
hams, Husseys, Hansons, Sawyers, and
others, remain to remind one of the
days when Quakerism was influential.
One by one, the older members of the
Meeting-House passed away, and
their homes were transferred to other
families. Of the group of former
Quaker dwellings near by that simple,
unadorned House of Worship, only
one is now occupied by those who used
to attend its regular services. The
homestead of the Cartland family
stands like a protecting neighbor to
the small, silent Meeting-House, and
within this homestead still survive the
spirit and traditions of Quaker and
Quakerism.

Three different edifices have shel-
tered in Dover its Society of Friends.
The first Meeting-House was situated
on Dover Neck, being mentioned in
December 11, 1729-30, when Joseph
and Elizabeth Roberts conveyed to
"Thomas Canney and others of the
Society commonly called Quakers,
three-eighths of an acre of land, ' ' near
the Quaker Meeting-Hou^e. Before

that date, however, the Society of
Friends had held meetings, as early as
1680, and their first edifice was built
prior to the year 1700. This first
edifice on Dover Neck stood about
half a mile distant, north of the one
erected by the First Parish two hun-
dred years ago ; but was removed
around 1770. About that time its
frame and principal parts were taken
down, and transferred across the
river to Kittery (now Elliot), for the
use of the society there. Another
edifice of the Quakers — their second
Meeting-House — is mentioned in an
indenture of March 4, 1734-35, signed
by Eben r , Joseph, and Stephen Var-
ney, John Twombly and others, con-
veying land on which stood a certain
Quaker Meeting-House. This second
edifice was built prior to 1720, and
stood upon the corner of Locust and
Silver Streets, upon the site where
Mr. Jacob K. Purington afterwards
resided. This second edifice was a
small one, and disappeared before the
year 1780. The present and third
Meeting-House was erected around
1768, and is situated on what was
Pleasant Street, now Central Avenue.
As would be expected, it is a plain, in-
conspicuous structure, with a porch,
two associated doors, looking more like
a school-house or dwelling-house than
a meeting-house. It has undergone
few changes and repairs since its con-
struction ; and the Quaker Meeting-
House of today is, indeed, the Quaker
Meeting-House of yesterday.

Such is a very brief and rather
hasty description of "Dover and the
Quakers. ' ' They came, stayed, waxed
and waned ; and although in New
England they still live, their numbers
seem to be growing fewer and fewer.
But although their present existence
in New Hampshire is few and scat-
tered, their past cannot be forgotten.
In Dover, where they were once
many and influential their remem-
brance still lingers. It is a pleasing
recollection, a gentle and wholesome
memory of the days long ago.

SUNAPEE, THE BEAUTIFUL

By Rev. Frank B. Fletcher

The summer season was over. One
felt it in the north wind which, in
spite of the warm sun of an early
October afternoon, caused one to but-
ton the coat after the short but stiff
climb to the summit of the hill. Then
again the crickets published the fact
to each other; but hushed upon your
near approach, and jumped about
your feet on the warm ledge. The
grass tops withered, sere, but still
green at the thick bottom; the occa-

self studded thick in places with the
little garnets which give the hill its
name.

Sunapee, the Beautiful ! Ah ! so
they said in the glow of summer heat,
as they sat on their porches in the
dense shade that frames the water ; or
as in most diversified craft they
skimmed its surface; or as they
plunged into its cooling depths, when.
the shore was thronged, and the lake
whitened with sails, near or far; and

Sunapee Lake from Garnet Hill, Mount Sunapee in the Distance

sional tiny goldenrod, still true to
its name when most had proved dis-
loyal; the silvery masses of everlast-
ing; the old mullen stalks, the steeple
chase, still retaining the form but not
the beauty of life; the scattered
leaves, riding bare-back down the
wind to join their companions below
in their last part in Autumn's carni-
val — all these gave consistent testi-
mony that the witness of wind and
crickets was true. So we insisted
upon no further evidence, but took
our station upon a large vein of
quartz, seaming the granite cliff, it-

the steady chug, chug, of motor boats
grew near and passed, threading and
crossing their thousand ways; when
the sound of distant music stole
across the moonlit water; when the
little fleet of steamers plied their
busy routes; and the cottages which
line the shore were, like their
occupants, clothed in summer attire.
Ah, yes ! Well might the enthusiast
of summer, the transient guest, ex-
claim — ' ' Sunapee, the Beautiful ! ' '
But now, how changed! Will the
test of such change be met ?

The summer season's over. Scat-

Sunapee, the Beautiful

tered far and wide the eager, happy
throng of faces — returned to college
chair, and pulpit; to office and work
hench ; to school and home ; taking
with them health, and strength, and
memories that make life rich. Not a
thread of smoke arises from even one
of the many chimneys that show on
yonder shore. Only back of the
Ben Mere, at the head of the harbor,
is there evidence that a town is near ;
and even the Ben Mere is closed. Not
a launch, or sail, or craft of any kind
is to be seen. Yonder, where the fish-

other along the surface in playful
imitation of the earlier regatta races.
Out on the main body of the lake, here
and there, a white cap shows for a mo-
ment and then disappears. In the
near a lighthouse perches pictur-
esquely upon a mass of half hidden
rocks, over some of which the low
waters whiten as they play. Half
way down the lake from us the water
is intersected to the view by a prom-
ontory and Great Island, but shows
beyond in calmer, because more dis-
tant, aspect. Along the lower end, a

Regatta Day at Lake Sunapee

ing buoys bobbed with the pass-
ing waves, where patient fishermen
matched their powers against the
finned beauties, a hundred feet be-
low, now the wild ducks chum, or rise
in startled flight. One straggler of
the summer saunters near, pauses to
snap his camera, and remark on the
beauty of the scene.

Desolate? Ah, no! The semi-soli-
tude but lends aid to Nature's at-
tempt at the beautiful; for beauty
takes time, and loves solitude. Be-
neath spreads the blue water, never
more so. Swept on by the north wind
a dozen scuds of tinv waves race each

line of smoke from a passing train
threads its way, and one hears the
faint sound of the whistle as it battles
its way up the reaches of the wind. To
the right across the harbor a path of
trembling light, too brilliant for the
eye, at the center most dazzling, then
shaking itself out on either side into
. more and more scattered sparkles of
changing light, points to the set-
ting sun, increasing as it nears the
West, and grows more golden with
approaching sunset. Beneath the
densely wooded shore, in strong con-
trast already, the dusk of evening
shadows is suggested in midafternoon.

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The foliage ! To that magic word
what sure response ! At the foot of
the ledge the sumacs flame, as enact-
ing anew the miracle of Horeb's des-
ert. The ferns now matted into a
carpet of russet brown. Maples, early
touched, almost in winter garb — al-
most, for here and there a single leaf
or cluster still clings to outmost
branch. Sturdy oaks refusing to sur-
render. The birch now is Autumn's
king — and queen ? "Who but the birch
in modest attire, setting off so grace-
fully whitened stem and branches?
In the pasture land below are some
apple trees, showing through thick
foliage the rosy cheek of apple ; the
stately somberness of evergreens pro-
miscuously scattered, and especially
in the rear where that row of spruces
present their jagged tops against the
sky. Across the harbor neck Hedge-
hog, despite its name, climbs upward
in beauty's array, fit candidate for
Nature's masterpiece. Far to the
south Mt. Sunapee looms large upon

the horizon, clothed in colors less dis-
tinct, dark-mottled in its depressions
and draped on its eastern slope with
lengthening shadows. Toward the
sunset is Ascutney, and, directly op-
posite, Kearsarge smiling in the sun-
light as it bids its friends good-night.

One further touch — the clouds !
Mostly to the northeast they lie, just
above the horizon in cold steel gray,
capped with an irregular line of white
well up the sky, as though a mighty
range of mountains reared itself
there, crowned with eternal snow.
Above scattered cloud thins into haze,
itself soon to disappear in the un-
specked blue of infinite sky.

Verily, even more true in autumn
than in summer, the native poet's
tribute —

"Lake of the wild-fowl, Soo-Nipi the Blest!
Agleam in gold of summer day begun,
Rosed with the crimson ray of stooping
sun,
Jeweled by pallid planet in the West —
Oh thou art beautiful, whate 'er the test ! ' '

MONADNOCK

By Rev. A. Judson Rich*

Nature is in her prime, her radiant hour,
Sunborn and affluent with bloom and light,

With thrilling life, with majesty and power,
Robing the earth with her resplendent might !

It 's welcome June ! bedight with charm of flowers,
'er mead and forest, filled with varied lay,

Her gentle fingers weaving verdant bowers,
Inspiring, love-sufficing, sweet June day !

Namesake thou art of Juno, Queen of Heaven,
Sister and spouse of Jupiter the Great,

Presiding over all in marriage given,

With ' ' eyelids sweet, ' ' sealing connubial state ;

And yet, rosy-fingered Hera, thou,

Other than tender flowers bedeck thy crown

Hymenial, and grace thy happy brow, —

Kind mother-Nature holds some good in frown.

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Her garish day with gath 'ring storm-cloud filled,

Presaging tumult in cyclonic wrath,
Shall hurl destruction where the gods have willed,

Shall strew with death the dark and raveled path ;

But though, through field and forest torrents beat,
It sweeps disease from off the stagnant plain ;

And if on living hearts it stamps its feet,
Yet death to all is peace and certain gain !

Commingled is the cup of human life —

The bitter and the sweet come late or soon,
Though with thy joy there cometh transient strife,

Discords are needful for the perfect tune !

Hill and dale lend to beauty noblest form ;

And evil often ultimates in good,
As peace hath kindred amity with storm,

A truth to life, though oft not understood.

These summer days are of inspiring Hope,

In whose dear heart God 's wondrous life is seen,

Earth 's ripening fields with harvests ample scope,
Beckon the soul to more attractive sheen.

How blind and dull not to behold thy face,

Dear God, reflected in the tender flower,
Thy presence in the simple grass-blade trace,

And thy love as Heaven's most regnant dower.

Near as thou art, our life within, thus we

May draw thee near in worship and good deed ;

Glad service pay thee, beautiful and free,
Fulfilment of the soul 's divinest need !

pulsing life, great warm love to pour
Full measure into drooping hearts, the while,

That we may drink and live and thirst no more,
And life's full day with effluent joy beguile.

Not only have we round us sun and shine,

Warm welcome from our host and hostess here,

But in the landscape, life's delicious wine —
Monadnock lifted on his ancient bier !

Solemn, sublime, and yet with youthful mien,

Symbol of grace and permanence of truth,
Thy head by shoulders strong borne up serene,

And smiling o 'er the land with tender ruth, —

Though rough inviting path the travelers climb,

Beacon to beckon wanderers in the way,
Unmoved, undaunted are thy rimes of time, —

' ' Monadnock strong, ' ' Monadnock old and gray !

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To seekers of the ancient lore thou saith :
' ' In me is genius, and wealth of years,

Aeons of stone age, saurian, savage breath,
Sentinel sacred which God only rears !

' ' Ye talk of late-made books, Assyrian, old ;

From the earth's ivomb came I, ere books were born,
Fresh as the morn from myriad years of mold ;

Your knowledge proud, and petty years I scorn !

' ' For I, as God 's own spirit, am eterne !

Did ye but know it, ye are old as God ;
And yet of his eternity can learn

Through lettering of the sweetly blooming sod !

' ' I am one with the ages, own all climes ;

Who mounts my heights, and gains my summits fair,
Not only treads a path of ancient times,

But finds the strength of cooling Arctic air.

' ' Without me, there were no glebes, rivers ' marge,
No growing corn, nor cattle on the lea,

No song-birds' orchestra, no city large,
No white sails gliding the refluent sea !

' ' Mine is the sky, the broad horizon mine ;

A stair am I toward Heaven 's ample dome,
Binding, in one, the earthly and divine,

A Pisgah-symbol of the soul 's fair home ! ' '

But on the heights we cannot always stand, .

Or tabernacles for sweet worship build,
Or dream of glories of the Better Land,

Or with the Spirit 's tide of love be filled !

So, from the mount's fair vision we'll descend,
To do the work and meet the needs of men,

Making devotion to stern Duty bend,

And find our heaven in service, once again !

But not farewell to Nature 's wistful child,
Nor to the memories of these hours of light,

This converse sweet, these visions undefiled,
To meet again — we'll simply say, Good Night!

THE ASSOCIATION TEST IN CLAREMONT,

NEW HAMPSHIRE

By Mrs. Marcia N. Spofford

[Read before Samuel Ashley Chapter, D. A. R., of Claremont, January, 1914]

The events preceding the Revolu- Captain Wait in the Second Congress

tionary "War are marked with original which began May 17, 1775, and lasted

and historical succession, the data of until September 2. The Third Con-

which to some extent are not neces- gress commenced October 31, and

sary to the subject of this sketch. ended November 16, 1775, resolving

New Hampshire's part in the colo- itself into a House of Representatives

nial uprising against the authority of December 21, 1775, and they in turn

England is one to be proud of. Its became a General Committee of

adoption of the first constitution of Safety for the colony, consisting of

any colony or state on January 5, three members of ' ' The Council ' ' and

1776, and subsequent acceptance of six members of " The Assembly, " over

the Federal Constitution as the ninth which Hon. Mesheck Weare was

colony, making the necessary two elected president. They appointed

thirds of the original thirteen col- justices of the peace, recorders of

onies, places New Hampshire in the "deeds, judges of probate, coroners, and

enviable position of true patriotism. appointed or elected all other officials,

It passed, in General Assembly of including the armed forces. As ' ' The

Delegates, what might be well called Colony of New Hampshire" they is-

the New Hampshire Declaration of sued on the credit of the same colo-

Independence, and known as "The nial currency exceeding in value one

Association Test," which read as fol- hundred thousand dollars,

lows: Capt. Joseph Wait was a member,

' ' We, the Subscribers, do hereby as has been stated, from Claremont, in

solemnly engage and Promise that we the First Provincial Congress, and at

will to the utmost of our Power, at that time was elected to the position

the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, of colonel of a regiment for the inva-

with Arms, oppose the Hostile Pro- sion of Canada, but later assumed the

ceedings of the British Fleets, and rank of lieutenant colonel, and of him

Armies, against the United American we shall make later mention.

Colonies. ' ' The Association Test was submitted

The First Provincial Congress of to all male inhabitants, over twenty-
Delegates convened at Exeter April one years of age, in every town in the
21, 1775, only two days after the bat- state, by the selectmen of the same,
tie of Lexington. It lasted until May, and in their return dated May 30,
during which period this act was 1776, we find the following record
passed, and subsequently sent to every from Claremont : "Eighty-four signed
town or parish, with instructions to the test; thirty-one refused to do so,
the local Committee of Safety for sig- and sixteen were reported to have
nature. This committee, in Clare- taken up arms and were already in
mont, consisted of Capt. Joseph Wait, the Continental Army.
Thomas Gustine, Asa Jones, Jacob Among those who signed we find re-
Royce, Eleazer Clark, and Lieut. Jo- corded nearly all who, at some period
seph Taylor, and was returned by during the war, served various terms
Matthias Stone and Asa Jones as of enlistment. The fifteen, beside
Selectmen. Colonel Wait, were Rev. Augustine

Ensign Oliver Ashley succeeded Hibbard, the Congregational minister,

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Jonathan, Gershom and Joseph York,
Henry Stevens, David and Charles
Laynes, Benjamin Towner, Jr., Reu-
ben Spencer, Peter and Jonathan
Fuller, James Goodwin, S. Abner
Matthews, Ensign Thomas Jones, and
Lieut.. Joseph Taylor, all of whom
were more or less prominent in town
affairs.

Those who refused to sign were,
likewise, prominent citizens of the
town, and among its earliest settlers,
the most notable among them being
Rev. Raima Cossitt, the first Episco-
pal minister, Samuel Cole, the first
schoolmaster, Capt. Benjamin Sum-
ner, Dr. William Sumner, the Tylers,
Grannis Leetes and Brookses. It
should not be inferred, however, that
they were Tories in the accepted sense
of the term, but in nearly every in-
stance they were Church of England
members, and loyalty to their relig-
ious principles doubtless influenced
their action. Nearly all of them re-
mained in town, but took no active
part in the war. They were closely
watched by the local Committee of
Safety, and with the exception of Rev.
Ranna Cossitt were restrained from
leaving town, he being permitted to
do so in the performance of his duties
as a minister of the Gospel.

The signers of The Association
Test, to use a more recent term, were
Rebels, and, had the results of the
war been different, they would have
been punished as traitors to the Gov-
ernment of England, and their lands
and property confiscated. Nearly all
those who did so refuse to sign were
large owners or proprietors of the
town, and charity would suggest to us
that this was their principal reason.

In May, 1775, John Wentworth
withdrew as colonial governor of the
province or colony and its government
was assumed by the Committee of
Safety, of which Samuel Ashley was
one of nine. Claremont was compar-
atively small, as the returns already
mentioned would indicate. One hun-
dred and thirty-one male citizens, of
whom sixteen had already gone to

war, would indicate the patriotism of
those who remained.

The Association Test was a vital
expression of public opinion which
indicated the support necessary to
Revolution. At the "Risque of our
Lives and Fortunes" was treason of
which they knew full well the penalty.

The remoteness for those days from
the center of conflict and the enlist-
ment in what might seem possibly a
losing cause doubtless kept many,
whose sympathy was with the cause of
the colonies, from entering into the
struggle for independence. Not until
Burgoyne's invasion, which promised
(had it succeeded) to divide the col-
onies, did the yeomen of Claremont
arise, and, following Oliver Ashley as
captain of a company, become a part
of Gen. John Stark's brigade, which
turned the victorious army of Bur-
goyne to defeat at Bennington, and
eventual surrender at Saratoga. In
this company of Captain Ashley
forty-seven of the eighty-four signers
of the Association Test were enlisted,
and complied with their declaration to
risk their lives and fortunes in the
cause.

In all the deliberations of the sev-
eral Provincial Congresses Samuel
Ashley bore a prominent part. As
councillor from Cheshire County,
which at that time included what is
now all of Sullivan, and as a large
owner of lands and proprietor's rights
in many other towns of New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, his example was
most influential. Colonel Ashley was
not at this period, however, a resident
of Claremont, but his two sons, Oliver
and Samuel, Jr., were, and after the
close of the war he removed here from
Winchester and died of smallpox Feb-
ruary 18, 1792, aged 71 years. In
mentioning Colonel Ashley as a prom-
inent patriot of the town we should
not overlook the fact that his services
were from that town, although usually
credited to us.

As an historical fact most historians
have seemed to overlook the illustrious
record of Lieut.-Col. Joseph Wait,

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presumably because he died in the
service aud none of his descendants
remained in town. As previously
mentioned Colonel Wait was a mem-
ber of the First Provincial Congress.
He had been a captain in the famous
"Green Mountain Boys," under com-
mand of Col. Ethan Allen. He was'
in the memorable capture of Ticon-
deroga in May, 1775, and served in
Canada during the following cam-
paign ; retreating to Ticonderoga, and
during a severe skirmish, he was
wounded in the head by a splinter
from a gun carriage and died on his
way home, at Clarendon, Vt., Sep-
tember 28, 1776. A monument marks
his grave, erected by the Masonic fra-
ternity of which he was a member.
It is surmounted by a figure of an offi-
cer in full uniform and a raised
sword, and the inscription, ' ' Our com-
mon country, living or dying I will
defend her."

Colonel Wait resided in Claremont
on the Governor 's farm, which he had
bought from Governor Wentworth,
and which has since been known by
most of us as the Hubbard, or more
recently the Isaac Long farm, and
now occupied by Mr. David Farwell.

Rev. Augustine Hibbard, next to
these two, was perhaps the most prom-
inent patriot of the period, serving as
chaplain of Gen. John Stark's brigade
of New Hampshire troops, but for
which the glorious results of victory
would not have been attained. Of the
other Revolutionary soldiers it might
well be said, they had fulfilled their
obligations to the Association Test.
The total number of signers in New
Hampshire was 8,199, while 773 re-
fused; and, as we have said, the rec-
ord of Claremont is one to be proud
of.

A WINDY NIGHT

By Mary H. Wheeler

From the North came a minstrel, a harper,

Arriving in town in the night.
He struck the strings softly, then sharper,

And he played a grand prelude with might.

He sang, and his wild notes, outswelling,
Resounded o 'er housetops and spires,

Of his own native North country telling,
In time with his touch of the wires.

His song set the night air aquiver,
And awakened the sleepers in bed.

With its pathos the stars seemed to shiver
As they moved in their course overhead.

It was wild as the cry unavailing
Sent forth by the mourner in prayer,

And the trees bent their heads to its wailing
And swung their long arms in despair.

Then softer to accents of pity

The musical cadences died,
And over the slumbering city

An echo-like whisper replied.

With dreams of the sleepers were blended
Wild measures of fantastic tone —

But when the long night hours were ended
There was silence, the minstrel had flown.

VOTES FOR WOMEN

By Wallace Duffy

"I don't care, I'm for Roosevelt
for President and I hope he'll be
elected. ' '

It was spoken defiantly, with a toss
of the head and a fearless glance over
the circle of her companions, by the
blonde lady, whose graceful, slim
figure was that of a girl rather than
the woman of middle age that an in-
spection of her face revealed her to be.

It was at a fortnightly social of the
Norway Country Club in one of New
Hampshire's little cities, on a fine
evening in early September, 1912.
As usual, following the supper, the
men had repaired to the veranda to
smoke and talk politics, and a group
of ladies had gathered in a corner of
the club house for a chat.

The Norway Country Club was not
without its political influence in the
state. Composed of leaders in busi-
ness and professional lines in the city,
with their wives and families, all
sorts of public and private affairs
were discussed, as well as most attrac-
tive menus, at the suppers which were
held there every other "Wednesday
evening through the summer months.
Many of these men and women pos-
sessed an influence beyond the borders
of their own town, and guests of
prominence from other places were
frequently entertained. Candidates
for office never neglected an oppor-
tunity to spend an evening at the club
house, although their visits were not
always productive of the hoped-for
practical results in the way of votes,
for independence of thought and
action were a characteristic of the
membership on which the male por-
tion of the club, at least, prided itself
not a little.

The Norway Country Club had
been a hot-bed of insurrection during
the revolution within the Republican
party, from the time of the Churchill
campaign in 1906 down to the day

when this story opens. The first dele-
gates to the state convention of that
year had been chosen from Norway,
pledged to vote for Churchill for gov-
ernor, and from that moment the city
had completely cast off the political
shackles which had hitherto bound it
and Progressive principles had run
rampant. In all this the Country
Club had played no small part, but
now its membership was divided on
the Taft vs. Roosevelt issue, and the
discussion waxed warm at times. The
waltzes and two-steps, rendered by the
orchestra, fell on deaf ears in many
of the little groups without and it was
with difficulty that they were finally
dragged in to choose their partners
for the dance.

The contagion of all this had nat-
urally spread to the feminine portion
of the club, in time, irrespective of the
fact that there were not a few ardent
suffragists within their number.

"I'd just like to have you tell me
one reason why you are for Roose-
velt," spoke up a little woman in the
center of the group, as she faced the
first speaker pugnaciously. "I think
the abuse of Taft has been disgraceful.
I like to see some of this much-
vaunted fair play. Just tell me one
reason why Roosevelt, who has had
two terms already and who is trying
to wreck the party that gave him his
honors, should be favored with a third
'cup of coffee'."

"Well," returned the first lady, "I
don't believe that Taft was fairly
nominated. The Republican party is
in a bad way when it will stoop to
such tactics."

"Bosh!" replied her opponent.
"Did Roosevelt discover anything
wrong with these methods, when he
was practising them in the last con-
vention ? And then to see his abuse of
Taft, his former friend. It disgusts

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me beyond words. I more than half
believe that Roosevelt is crazy."

' ' I think he is crazy, too, ' ' admitted
the blonde one, "driven so by his
enemies. That's why I sympathize
with him and why I want to see him
elected. ' '

An expressive snort was the only
answer to this argument and before
anybody else had time to take up the
discussion, attention was diverted by
the arrival of a woman of queenly
presence, whose evident authority and
position were moderated by a round
and good-natured countenance and a
humorous twinkle of the eyes.

"What's up, ladies?" inquired the
newcomer. "It must be the eternal
suffrage question, judging from the
evidences of heated argument."

"Now, see here," she continued,
' ' instead of arguing the pros and cons
of woman suffrage, why in the world
don't you go and vote ? You have the
opportunity with the laws as they are,
if you are so disposed."

"Yes, in school matters, perhaps,"
said one member of the group, with a
flash of intelligence, after the blank
look with which the statement had
first been received.

"No, in any regular municipal elec-
tion," returned the other.

"What's the joke, anyway?" spoke
up one of the ladies, finally, after a
moment's puzzled silence. "What do
you mean ? ' '

"No joke at all," was the answer.
' ' I mean what I said. Now, are any
of you real true sports? If so, I'll
tell you what I'll do. I'll wager the
best dinner for the entire crowd that
money can buy here in Norway, that
I'll vote for a complete ticket at the
next municipal election held in this
city. Is it a go ? "

Although the other ladies in her set
stood somewhat in awe of this daugh-
ter of a wealthy manufacturer and of
her keenness of mind and fondness for
a joke, she found plenty of takers on
this proposition and the wager was
laid. There was some speculation for
a few days as to what she could have

meant and then the matter passed
out of thought, crowded by auction
bridge, woman's club conventions and
various other affairs of importance.
And so election day approached.

The date of the municipal election
was the first Tuesday in December.
Now, it is a fact that women in New
Hampshire have for many years had
the privilege of voting for members of
the school board, such a law having
been passed long, long before the mod-
ern agitation for woman suffrage and
long before any such thing as an
Australian ballot was dreamed of.
But in Norway, as in most places, it
had likewise been so many years since
any woman had thought of exercising
this privilege, that you may be sure
none of the Country Club ladies
would acknowledge that they had ever
done so. It would have been a fatal
admission, except for an octogenarian,
whose advanced years had become a
matter of pride.

The day before this election of De-
cember, 1912, the supervisors of the
check lists for Norway were in session,
for the purpose of making corrections
in the lists. They had spent the day,
as usual, sitting about, telling stories,
talking politics, eating apples, smok-
ing and thinking of the $3 a day
which eacli was to draw as pay for
this vacation from his regular work.
For corrections were not many from
year to year in this small place and
what there were had long since been
attended to.

Just before the clock struck five,
the hour of closing the office, the as-
sessors were somewhat flustered and
startled by beholding a richly dressed
lady of magnificent proportions alight
from her automobile and enter their
room. Instantly, hats were removed
from heads, feet from desks, cigars
from mouths, and seven men arose
with awkward bows.

"How do you do, Mrs. Walling-
ford?" spoke up the chairman, as
soon as he could recover his self pos-
session. "Will you be seated? How

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is Mr. Wallingf ord ? What can we do
to serve you?"

With a smile and a gracious man-
ner, in which none could excel this
somewhat exclusive lady when she
wished to make herself agreeable, Mrs.
Wallingford leisurely availed herself
of the proffered chair and addressed
the assessors.

"You know," she began, "the law
gives us ladies the right to Vote for
members of the school board in this
state and I have been thinking that we
ought to avail ourselves of the rights
that we have, instead of doing so
much talking about getting more.
Do you agree with me?"

The seven assessors, all attention
from the beginning, nodded emphati-
cally. Most of them were politicians
of the old school and woman suffrage
was not a favorite reform with them.
There never was any contest, anyway,
over the school board and that was
just the place for the ladies to exercise
the privilege of the ballot.

' ' Well, I have come to get my name
enrolled on your check list," con-
tinued the visitor, with another smile
of goodfellowship, which alone would
have accomplished a far more difficult
task than she had before her. "Of
course, I don't suppose there's any
particular occasion for voting this
year, as I understand the member
from my ward has been an efficient
one and is to be reelected without op-
position, but I have come to the con-
clusion that it is my duty to vote and
there is no time to begin like the
present. ' '

"Certainly ma'am," spoke up the
chairman. "We all highly respect
your views and your public spirit.
If there were more women like you,
instead of so many of these air suf-
fragettes, the country would be better
off. We '11 put your name on the list
at once. And we thank you for your
kindness and please give our best re-
gards to Mr. Wallingford." (The
latter was a power in the politics of
the city and state.)

"I'm sure I'm greatly obliged,"

said the lady, as she arose to take her
departure. And then at the door she
turned, as if with an afterthought.

"By the way," said she, returning
to the group still standing in the cen-
ter of the room about the long table.
"Perhaps it will be just as well if you
don 't say anything of this for a day or
two. You know it isn't always pleas-
ant for a lady to be talked about and I
want to do my duty as quietly as pos-
sible, as becomes a lady. Besides if
these advocates of full suffrage for
women were to hear of it, they might
think I had gone over to their side and
make a great deal out of it. You
understand ? ' '

Of course, they did. It would have
been an obtuse man, indeed, who
hadn't been illuminated by that gra-
cious presence in the doorway, as she
smilingly departed.

It is said of women and not of men
that they cannot keep a secret, and
perhaps it is to be doubted if even the
weaker sex cannot keep the counsel of
a man whom they admire, when it has
been entrusted to them. At all events,
these seven assessors proved that gal-
lant males can safely be put in guard
over the secret of a real lady, espe-
cially when their wives have no ink-
that there is a secret to be pumped
from the slaves of their choice. And
so the registration of Mrs. Walling-
ford was safely, sanely and secretly
accomplished.

The following day was the day of
the voting and promptly at 10 o'clock
in the morning a lady presented her-
self at the rail of the ward room of
Ward Six and asked for a ballot.
She was escorted thither by J. Black,
Esq., the leading attorney of Norway,
w r ho stood by her side at the rail.

For a time, consternation reigned
among the ward officials, as they
listened to the courteous and smiling
request and saw the suave but mighty
man of the law prepared to back it up
with action, if it were refused. A
hasty consultation with the moderator >
and clerk was held, while the line of
regular voters outside the rail grew

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•quickly in length and voting proceed-
ings were suspended.

"I am very sorry, madam," at
length spoke up the moderator. ' Un-
doubtedly, women do have the right
to vote in school matters in this state
hut the names of voters have to be
registered on the check lists before
they can claim that right, either men
or women."

' ' Certainly, ' ' said the gracious lady
with the sunny countenance. "You
are quite correct. And election offi-
cials cannot be too careful in the dis-
charge of their duties. I have often
heard my husband declare this and
my own judgment confirms it. My
name is Margaret Wallingford and I
think, if you look carefully, you will
discover it written in on the check
list."

The clerk nearly fell over into the
chair from which he had arisen, as he
examined the list. And then being
appealed to by the others, he declared
with the solemnity of a judge pro-
nouncing a death sentence :

' ' The lady is correct. The name of
Margaret Wallingford is on the list."

The moderator cleared his throat
and drops of perspiration gleamed on
his forehead. Like orators who want
time to think what comes next in the
line of their argument, he gained a
moment by pouring out a glass of
w r ater.and swallowing it.

"But, madam," said he, "It has
heen so many years since any woman
has claimed the right to vote for mem-
bers of the school board, that we have
made no preparation for such a con-
tingency. We have only the regular
Australian ballot, containing the
names of all the city officials to be
voted for. Were a lady to be given
this ballot and allowed to mark and
cast it, how are we to know but what
she votes for candidates for all the
offices designated on the ballot? It
might invalidate the election."

He looked around to observe the
effect. The spectators without the
rail were spell-bound at the unusual
drama. Those inside presented the

appearance of primary school boys
who had just been confronted with a
problem in trigonometry. The mod-
erator's eloquence and lucid argument
had only acted like a thunder shower
in August, which makes the heat and
stifling atmosphere all the more
oppressive.

The charming lady became a queen
at this crisis. Gazing with scorn at
the group of hopelessly befuddled
men, she seemed to tower above them,
as she said :

"Then, Mr. Moderator, I am to
understand, am I, that you decline
to allow me to vote for a member of
the school board, a right which the
sovereign law of this state gives me
and which I now no longer request but
demand ? I place my case in the hands
of my attorney. What do vou say,
Mr. Black?"

Thus appealed to, the lawyer
pointed his finger at the moderator
and quietly but impressively spoke :

"I say, Mr. Moderator, that you
refuse this lady the right to vote at
your peril. That is all. Do you
understand ? ' '

Understanding anything was pre-
cisely what Mr. Moderator did not do
at the minute.

' ' I wish the city solicitor were here
to instruct us," wiping his brow.

"This is beyond me."

"It will beyond you in a few
minutes more, to your everlast-
ing sorrow," continued the lawyer.
"This lady's time is valuable. She
has already been unreasonably de-
tained in her performance of her
right and duty under the laws of New
Hampshire. It is for you to decide,
Mr. Moderator, and decide at once
what you will do."

That settled it. A ballot was
handed to Margaret Wallingford ; her
name was duly checked by the in-
spector; she passed into the voting
booth, marked her ballot, deposited it
in the hands of the moderator, heard
her name again called by the clerk
and went outside the rail and out of
the ward-room, leaving behind her as

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nonplussed a set of men as ever tried
to puzzle out the intricacies of the
great and wonderful law.

It chanced that there were three
candidates for mayor at that election,
the Republican party being divided
there as elsewhere throughout the
country. There was the Taft Republi-
can candidate, the Bull Moose candi-
date and the Democratic candidate.
It was late that night before the votes
were counted and then it was found
that the Taft Republican had won by
a plurality of just one vote.

On the following New Year's eve,
the ladies of society in Norway were
assembled around the table in the
dining room of the beautiful Walling-
ford home. The coffee, crackers and
cheese had just been finished and con-
fections were being nibbled, as the
hostess arose to make a few remarks.

"Ladies," she began. "This party
has a significance beyond a mere
casual entertainment. Some of you
may recall a wager made between me
and Mrs. McDonald, my friend, at the

Country Club one evening last Sep-
tember. The wager was that I would
cast a regular ballot at the coming
municipal election, voting for the
entire ticket. I had thought to claim
that wager from my friend, but
upon maturer consideration, upon the
advice of council and likewise of Mr.
Wallingford, whose candidate for
mayor, as you know won the election
by a single vote, it has seemed best not
to make the necessary declaration as
to just what candidates for office I
cast my ballot for on that occasion,
but to say nothing and settle the
wager. I have done the latter to the
best of my ability. I thank you for
your presence and trust you have had
a pleasant evening "We will now pro-
ceed to watch the Old Year out and
the New Year in, and some of us will
rejoice in the thought that a new year
for women, when she will receive her
full rights and be granted the
privilege of having something to say
about the way the money she pays in
taxes is spent, is already dawning. ' '

A NEW TOWN HISTORY

The most recent addition to the
list (still all too small) of New Hamp-
shire town histories, is a history of
the town of Durham, the " Oyster
River" of the early days, which fig-
ured so conspicuously in our early
provincial annals.

This work is presented in two vol-
umes, the first, of 436 octavo pages,
being devoted to the historical nar-
rative and biographies of leading cit-
izens and the second, of 502 pages,
to genealogy. The work is edited
by Rev. Everett S. Stackpole of Brad-
ford, Mass., and Col. Lucien Thomp-
son of Durham who furnished most
of the historical data, in the collec-
tion and arrangement of which he had
spent much time and thought for
many years being deeply interested

in historical matters generally and
those pertaining to his own town
particularly.

The material for the genealogical
volume was mainly gathered by
Deacon Winthrop S. Meserve, long a
prominent citizen of the town, whose
portrait appears as a frontispiece of
the volume, as does that of Colonel
Thompson in the first volume.

This history will naturally rank
among the most important and inter-
esting town histories thus far pub-
lished in the state, not only on
account of the character and qualifi-
cations of those engaged in its produc-
tion, but because of the conspicuous
position held by the town of Durham
as a factor in the political and intel-
lectual as well as the material life of

A New Town History 89

•

the state, from the earliest days to in its pages will give it an interest

the present time. The numerous in the mind of the reader such as sel-

historic localities found within the dom attaches to a work of the kind,

limits of the town, many of which are About 150 illustrations are presented

pictorially portrayed in the work, as in the two volumes, each of which

well as the notable men and families has, also, a carefully compiled index

and many old time residences sketched of names as well as of places.

THE GHOSTS OF SONG

By Benjamin €. Woodbury, Jr.

I
Who hast not heard on a winter 's night
When, snug within by his hearthfire bright,
The chirp and twitter in the applewood
As night puts on her dusty hood ?
Who, when the heart with joy was filled
Hast not with dart of pain been thrilled,
At sudden, shrill and piercing note
Almost as if from human throat,
A cry for help, — from luckless worm
That crawled for shelter from the storm
Within the wood ; the ghosts of song
Of songsters who to sleep have gone
Who sang last year upon its bough,
Oh, where sweet singer, art thou now ?

With summer suns thou built thy nest,

Or on its leafy bough did rest,
So now the sound of snapping log
Reminds me, mid my drowsy nod,

Of how thou sang mid summer days,

As on the blossoms sunlight plays.
Imprisoned worm or space-free bird
Thy song shall evermore be heard,

Thy soul shall mount to higher skies

Shall sing mid stormy, wintry days,
So daily shall we feel thy charms
Till nestled in His loving arms,

Both bird and love shall fold her wing,

And we, dear God, shall hear Thee sing.

EARLY ENGLISH EASTMAN RECORDS

By Charles R. Eastman

The family name of Eastman seems
to have flourished continuously in the
southern counties of England, more
particularly in Wiltshire, since the
latter part of the thirteenth century.
Allowing for the common variants in
spelling, such as Estman, Estmond
and Eastmond, the earliest occurrence
of the name in English court records,
so far discovered, is found in Chan-
cery Inquisitions for 5 Edw. I (1277),
where a John Estmond of Wiltshire is
mentioned with others in connection
with the "lands and tenements of
Philip Marmyon. ' '

Radnor are the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners ' Court Rolls for the Manor
of Downton, extending from the year
1475 to about the middle of the six-
teenth century. These rolls are writ-
ten in abbreviated Latin, not at all
easy to decipher. They have recently
been searched for Eastman entries by
the well-known antiquary, Mr. C. A.
Hoppin, acting in behalf of Mr.
George Eastman of Rochester, N. Y.
The following items have been tran-
scribed by Mr. Hoppin from the orig-
inal sources in question and rendered
by him into English form. Two terms

The Ploughman

(From the Lanterell Psalter, Early 14th Century)

During the next two hundred years
the patronymic would seem to have
become firmly established in the re-
gion about Salisbury, Wiltshire; and
though we find mention of one ' ' John
Estmond, clericus, " under date of 4
Henry VIII (1513),* and of "John,
Nicholas and Richard Eastmond, gen-
tlemen, "t who sold various property
in Bulford and Hundrington in the
fourteenth year of the reign of
Charles I, yet for the most part,
where the family name occurs in an-
cient records, it denotes men of hum-
ble station, yeomen or husbandmen.

Among the interesting historical
documents now owned bv the Earl

that perhaps require explanation are
"tourn" and "pannage." By the
former is meant the turn or circuit
formerly made by the sheriff twice
every year for the purpose of holding
in each hundred (that is, a subdi-
vision of a county) the great court-
list of the county. Pannage is the
mast of the oak and beech which swine
feed on.

Membrane 2. 1475

Dounton Manor. Tourn held there
at Martinmas 28 October 14 Edw. IV.
Charleton : The tithingman there pre-
sents John Estemonde for brewing

*A Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire, in Wiltshire Notes and Queries, Vol. II.,
p. 417. '

tWiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Charles I. Published in the Index Library, 1901,
p. 340.

Early English Eastman Records

once and breaking the assize of ale.
He is amerced 3d.

Membrane 1 d. 1507
Dounton Borough. Hokeday tourn
held there 13 May in the 7th year of
Eichard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester.
Estborough : The alderman there pre-
sents John Estman the elder and
others for default of suit. He is
amerced 3d.

Membrane 1. 1519
Dounton Manor. Tourn held there,
with court, for Martinmas, 27 Sep-
tember, 10 Henry VIII. Charleton :
The tithingman presents upon oath
that Richard Estman and others are
common players at illicit games con-
trary to the ordinance thereupon
made ; they are amerced 2d.

Membrane 2 d. 1527
Dounton. Hokeday Tourn held
there 13 March 18 Henry VIII.
[? Charleto]n: Twelve freeholders
present that Richard Estman and
others are common players at illicit
games, and sit up o' nights. Each of
them is amerced 6d.

Membrane 2 d. d. 1529

Dounton Manor. Martinmas
Tourn, with court, held there 17 Sep-
tember 20 Henry VIII. Charelton :
The tithingman presents Peter Est-
man, Stephen Estman, Richard Est-
man, Thomas Lucke and Philip
Papelen as common players, contrary
to the form of the statute, at illicit
games ; nevertheless, by counsel of the
court, they are pardoned on each pay-
ing 4d.

Membrane 2 d. 1529

freeholders present that John Estman
has a net called ' ' a castyngnett, ' ' con-
trary to the form of the statute. He
is fined 2d, and the net ordered to be
seized.

Membrane 1. 1539

Daunton Manor. Court held there
17 December 30 Henry VIII. Charle-
ton : The tithingman there presents
that Roger Estman has been sworn
into the office of tithingman ; and that
(in reckoning the pannage of pigs)
Roger Estman has two old and six
young pigs ; and John Estman the
younger,* one old pig.

Nounton : John Estman has one old
and two young pigs.

Membrane 2 d. 1540

Manor court held there 21 June 31
Henry VIII. Nounton [Nunton] :
The tithingman presents that John
Estmond has made default of suit ; he
is amerced 2d.

1553

Dounton Manor. Court held there
1 Philip and Mary. Jurors, John Est-
man. . . John Estman [two dif-
ferent individuals] .

Court held there 29 May 1 Philip
and Mary. Jurors, John Estmond,
Walter Estmond.

Nounton [same court] . Walter
Esteman fined vi d for cutting down
ripe wheat (or corn) belonging to
Sobbel to the value of xii d.

Account of an Action at Law in
the Year 1600

The following record of a civil suit
in which one John Eastman of Nun-
ton appears as plaintiff is found in
Proceedings in Chancery during the
Hokeday Tourn, with court, held reign of Elizabeth (E. 1, 23), for the
there 1 April 20 Henry VIII. Twelve year 1600 :

*This John Estman of Nunton is possibly identical with the one whose will, dated Decem-
ber 23, 1562, and proved February 16, 1563, has been published in the Granite Monthly, a
New Hampshire magazine, Vol. XLIII, No. 10, October, 1911. In it the testator is de-
scribed as John Eastman, the elder, of the parish of Nunton, and bequests are made to John
Eastman and Eichard Eastman of the borough of Downton, and to various other Eastmans
who are described as living at Charleton, West Harnham, Nunton and Salisbury. Roger
Eastman,* (1610-1694), the emigrant ancestor of the family in this country, was son of
Nicholas, ^ grandson of Boger^ and great-grandson of John,i all of Charleton in the parish of
Downton. The will of the last named, dated April 26, 1564, and proved May 9, 1565, has
been published in the Granite Monthly for December, 1911.

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"To the right Honorable S 1 Thomas promises whereby he may proceed at
Egerton, Knight, lo: keep 1 of the the common lawes of this realme, nei-
greate Scale of England: ther can your orator pve the payment
• ' Humbly Complayninge sheweth of the said xii 1, xvi s, viii d, so he is
unto your good lo : yo r duyly Orator remedyless. Your orator is therefore
John Eastman of Nunton in the of necessitye enforced to praye and
county of Wiltes, yeoman, That seeke the ayde of your good lord-
about Dec. in the one and fortieth shippe in this honorable courte. Maye
yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne yt therefore please yo r good lo :, the
ladye the Queen es ma* ie [majesty] that premises considered, to grant unto
no we is, your orator did buy of one your said orator her ma ties most gra-
Walter Browne fortye weather sheepe cious writt of subpena to be directed
at the price of xii 1, xvi s, viii d, w ch to the said "Walter Browne, command-
some beinge indeed a verye hard price, ing him ec. . . . "
which your orator was moved to give

uppon the faythfull promise of the .Keply

said Browne that the sheepe were "Defendant replies: He sold the

sound and healthye and voyd of all sheep to pltff at the some alleged, to be

infeccion of the rott, for otherwise paid for in one week after the sale —

indeed they were nott worth the did warrant the sheep void of infec-

fourth pte of the money agreed, tion — did promise to pay for every

Browne also promised that yf yt sheep which should die of the rott —

should soe fall out that the sheepe, or says the sheep were sound and that

anie of them, should dye of the rott the complt sold them within one week

that then he would paye to your after he first bought them for some

orator at the rate yo r sd orator had gaining : and the sheep were all after

paid for the same, but soe yt ys, yf yt killed and sold for good mutton — also

maye like yo r good lo : that at such complt did not pay deft the said some

time as yo r orator received the sheepe at the time agreed, but paid £9. later

all or the greater part of them were in the same year, balance yet unpaid,

infected of the rott and within a very and when payment was made complt

short time afterward thirtye of them did not find any fault with the sheepe

died of the same rott and the residue —but when deft did later demand bal-

your orator was given to dispose of ance due, then complt alleged the

as that he could not make in pfitt the sheep died of the rott, hence deft at

iiii th pte of soe much as they cost, Easter term last past sued for the

whereuppon your orator understand- balance due him, and recovered judg-

inge that Browne knew that the ment against the complt for £6-6s-8d

sheepe at the time of the sale of them lately, by virtue of which deft had

were infected with the rott acquainted Eastman arrested & having already

him that the thirtye sheepe were dead secured judgment in this cause begs to

of the same rott, and therefore re- be dismissed from answering further

quyred of him recompense as prom- the complt in this Court,

ised. "27 Sept. 1600."

' ' He not only denied his promise of

recompense and his promise of the In conclusion we offer the following

soundness of the sheepe, or that he abstract of a Dorsetshire Eastman

had received the said some of your will which is on file with the Preroga-

said orator, but hath also of late at- tive Court of Canterbury, register

tempted suit by the common lawes Wrastley, folio 28. It is dated the

against your orator for the said some, 10th day of October, 1552, and was

contrarie to all truth, equitye and proved August 16, 1557.

good conscience. Your orator hath "I, John Estman yeoman, of the

not anie direct proofe of the said pysh of Helton, Dorset. Body to be-

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buried in the church of Alhallows,
Helton. To July an my wife, all my
lands remaining in my own occupa-
cion, with profits for xvi. years. Rev-
enues of rentes of my lands wythin
the manor of Helton, in occupacion of
Richard Keate, to my sonne John Est-
man after decease of Elynor Gwy-
lette, for the term of e neynteyn
yeares. [Son John then a minor].

Wife to pay my son Richard £20, if he
do not dye within xvi yeares. To my
sister Alice £10, at marryage, or in
two yeares. Residue to my wife
Julyan,. executrx. John Keate, Ed-
ward Jolyff, John Rament to be
overseers. Witnesses: Mr. William
Styby, vicar there; John Salme,
Sampford Percye, John Toker, Roger
Salme."

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HON. FREEMAN HIGGINS

. Hon. Freeman Higgins of Manchester
died January 2, 1914, at St. Petersburg, Fla.
He was a native of Standi sh, Me., born Jan-
uary 4, 1830, but removed with the family to
Lowell, Mass., where he went to school, and
later attended Gorham (Me.) Academy.

He learned the trade of a machinist in
Lowell, and followed the same in Lawrence
and Boston, where with N. S. Bean and
others he made the first steam fire-engine
ever used in Boston. In 1859 he went to
Manchester, entering the employ of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, where
he continued forty years, ultimately becom-
ing master mechanic and then superintendent
of the mechanical department. Retiring in
1900 he engaged in banking, becoming a
director of the First National Bank of Man-
chester and president of the Merrimack
River Savings Bank.

Mr. Higgins was a Republican in politics
and was elected to the state senate in 1892.
He was a Mason and a member of the Frank-
lin Street Congregational Church.

In 1856 he married Miss Mary W. Dennett
of Barnstead, who survives him.

JOSIAH M. FLETCHER

Josiah M. Fletcher of Nashua, poet and
philanthropist, and well-known Prohibition
leader, died at his home in that city Janu-
ary 14, 1913, at the age of just 86 years,
having been born January 14, 1828, in Hali-
fax, Mass., the son of John and Dolly M.
(Johnson) Fletcher.

His father died when Josiah M. was quite
young, his mother removing to Nashua,
where, at seventeen years of age, he entered
a bookseller and publishers' establishment,
and a year later purchased the same, and
conducted it successfully for many years.
Mr. Fletcher was himself a poetical writer of
merit and edited and published several col-
lections of poems, one of which had a sale
of 100,000 copies. He also, a few years
since, published a volume of his own poems.

In 1856 Mr. Fletcher engaged in the man-
ufacture of furniture, which business was
incorporated in 1878, and has been success-
fully continued. He invented the first alarm
money drawer used in the country.

He was a member and president of the
Nashua city council in the early days of the
city and had served in the legislature as a
Republican, but early allied himself with the
Prohibition party, whose candidate for gov-
ernor and congressman he had frequently
been. His charitable gifts were large and
numerous. He contributed heavily toward
the Protestant Orphanage and the Good
Will Institute in Nashua, and was president
of the latter institution. Shortly before his
death he transferred his residence, worth
$20,000, to the Nashua Hospital Associa-
tion, for a nurses' home.

In 1851, Mr. Fletcher married Adaline J.
Eastman of Rumney, by whom he had six
children, none of whom are now living.

GEORGE F. BEEDE

George F. Beede, a prominent agriculturist
and leading citizen of Fremont, died at his
home in that town, February 8, 1914.

Mr. Beede was born on the homestead
where he died, January 8, 1838, the son of
Daniel and Ann Elizabeth (Folsom) Beede,
and great-grandson of Jonathan Beede, the
original settler and first proprietor of the farm,
which has been owned in the family for five
generations and is one of the best in the county.
He was educated at the Friends School in
Providence, R. I., but returned home and took
charge of the farm at the age of nineteen.
He was a specialist in the culture of small
fruit, and a writer and speaker on various
agricultural topics. He was also a land sur-
veyor of wide reputation. He had been chair-
man of the board of selectmen nine years, ten
years a member of the school board and twice
representative in the legislature.

May 20, 1863, Mr. Beede married Ruth
P. Nichols of Winslow, Me., by whom he had
nine children, eight of whom are now living —
William B., of Concord; Annie E., Louis A.

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and Mary Alice, at home; George E. of Epping;
Charles C. and Abbie Grohl of California,
and John D. of Boston. His wife died five
years ago.

HERMAN C. WEYMOUTH

Herman C. Weymouth, a prominent citi-
zen of Laconia, died at his home in that City,
February 16, 1914.

He was a native of Belmont (now Upper
Gilmanton) born February 9, 1846, and was
educated in the public schools and at the
academies in Gilmanton and New Hampton.
He was in business in Boston for a time in
early manhood, and afterward engaged in the
summer boarding industry in Meredith, and
later in Andover where he was also interested
in dairying; but removed to Laconia in 1896,
where he remained till death, serving the
greater portion of the time as superintendent
of the Belknap County Farm. He was super-
intendent of schools when a young man in
Belmont and a selectman in Andover. He
was a Patron of Husbandry and a Knight of
Honor. He leaves a widow, who was Miss
Abbie L. Smith of Meredith, and two daugh-
ters — Maude, wife of Ellsworth H. Rollins of
Alton and Blanche, at home.

PROF. CHARLES R. BROWN

Charles Rufus Brown, Professor of Hebrew
in the Newton Theological Institution New-
ton Mass., a native of the town of Kingston,
died at a sanatorium in Melrose, Mass., Feb-
ruary 1, 1914.

Professor Brown was born February 22,
1849, the son of Samuel and Elvira Latham
(Small) Brown. He was educated for the
Navy, graduating from the Academy at
Annapolis in 1869, and continuing in the serv-
ice till 1874, when he resigned and entered
the Newton Theological Institution, but left
and entered Harvard University graduating
in 1877, and returning to the Newton Insti-
tution from which he graduated in 1879. He
continued his studies at Berlin and Leipsic
in Germany for two years, and, returning
home, was ordained to the Baptist ministry
in 1881, and entered upon a pastorate at
Franklin Falls. Two years later he was ap-
pointed Associate Professor of Biblical Inter-
pretation at Newton, and three years after
that was made professor of Hebrew and cog-
nate languages, continuing till his late illness.
Meanwhile, he was for a time a professor at
the Boston LJniversity School of Theology
and at the University of Chicago Summer
School. He had also preached in many New
England pulpits, had received honorary de-
grees from Colby and Colgate Colleges, and
was resident director of the American School
of Oriental Research in Jerusalem in 1910-11,
while on leave of absence from Newton. In
1884 he married Clarissa Locke Dodge of
Hampton Falls.

WILLIAM YEATON

William Yeaton, a well-known resident of
Concord for nearly thirty years, died at his
home in that city, February 15, 1914.

He was born in Pittsfield June 30, 1836,
and educated in the public schools and the
academy in that town. He engaged in teach-
ing for some time and was also superintend-
ing school committee in Pittsfield. In 1864
he went West and was engaged for a year in
the express business at Centralia, 111. Re-
turning home he was engaged in insurance
in Pittsfield till 1874 when he was appointed
register of probate for Merrimack County by
Governor Weston, holding the office two years.
Subsequently he was engaged in mercantile
business in Pittsfield, but being elected treas-
urer of the Farmington Savings Bank, he re-
moved to that town where he continued
till 1885, serving meantime as a member of
the school board. In 1885 he removed -to
Concord, becoming New Hampshire Agent
of the Dakota Farm Mortgage Company and,
later, president of the American Trust Com-
pany, which office he held several years.

Mr. Yeaton was well known in politics as
a Democrat. Besides serving as register of
probate, he was representative from Pittsfield
in 1867. He had been many years a member
of the Democratic State Committee, and was
for some time treasurer of that organization.
He had also been a member of the Board of
Education of Union School District in Con-
cord. He was an Episcopalian in religion,
and a Knight Templar Mason. May 23, 1867
he married Josephine C. Drake of Pittsfield, ,
who survives him, with two children — Lillian,
a Wellesley graduate and a teacher in the
Concord High School, and George W., a
physician of Medway Mass.

REV. LEWIS W. PHILLIPS

Rev. Lewis W. Phillips of Franklin, long
known in public and religious life, died at his
home in that city February 18, 1914, follow-
ing a long illness.

Mr. Phillips was born in Woodstock, Vt.,
August 28, 1848. He was a student at Proctor
Academy when the war broke out, and at the
age of fifteen enlisted in the Union Army,
going to the front with his father, who was
also a clergyman, and then living in Maine
His health was greatly impaired from malaria
while in the service, from the effects of which
he never fully recovered. After the war he
worked in the scythe factory at New London
for some time, pursuing his studies meanwhile
and preparing himself for the ministry, to
which he was ordained at South Danbury in
1869 and preached there for some time, when
he was called to Haverhill Mass. He subse-
quently held pastorates in Rye, and Wolfe-
boro, and at Lubec, Me., whence he was called
to the pulpit of the Christian Church at
Franklin in 1893, where he continued through
life, his pastorate being a very successful one.

Editor and Publisher's Notes

He took a deep interest in public affairs, was
a member of the Board of Health in Franklin
several years, and for twelve years a member
of the Board of Education of which he was
long president. He represented his ward in
the state legislature in 1901 and 1903 and was
a valuable and efficient member of the House.
In 1905 he was chosen chaplain of that body.
He was a Mason and a member of the G. A. R.
He leaves one son — Prof. John L. Phillips of
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and three
married daughters.

GEN. IRA CROSS

Ira Cross, born in Swanzey, July 23, 1833>
died in Nashua February 11, 1914.

General Cross was a son of Benjamin and
Susanna (Foster) Cross, and a descendant of
Joseph Cross, one of the first settlers of Not-
tingham West, now Hudson. He removed
with his parents to Peterborough and later to
Manchester, where, in 1869, he married Sarah
A. Sanborn, who survives him with two chil-
dren — Anna F. and Fred D., both of Nashua.

While residing in Manchester he was twice
elected a representative in the legislature by
the Republicans of his ward, and twice mayor
of the city — in 1875 and 1876, but resigned
before the close of his last term and removed
to Clinton, Mass., where he resided till 1883,

when he again removed, establishing his home
in Nashua where he continued through life.
He was adjutant-general of the National
Guard, for two terms and was for several
years overseer of the poor in Nashua; also for
some time auditor of the state treasurer's
accounts. He was a 32d degree Mason, a
Knight Templar, and a member of Peter-
borough Lodge, I. O. O. F.

TRUE W. THOMPSON

True W. Thompson, register of probate for
Belknap County died at his home in Laconia,
February 14, 1914.

He was a native of Durham, born August
15, 1841, educated in the schools of Durham
and Newmarket and at Moses Cartland's
famous school in Lee. He studied law for
several years, but drifted into newspaper work
and never sought admission to the bar.

He located in Laconia in 1882 and became
a writer for the Belknap Daily Tocsin, and
was afterward a reporter for the Democrat, a
correspondent of the Boston Globe, Manches-
ter Union, and the Associated Press. He was
associate justice of the Laconia police court
from 1897 to 1911 and had been register of
probate since 1898. He was a Republican in
politics and a Unitarian in religion.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER'S NOTES

Sherman L. Whipple of Boston and Brook-
line, one of the brainiest, most brilliant and
most successful lawyers in Massachusetts, who
in justice to New England, at least, might
well have been Attorney-General in the Cab-
inet of ' President Wilson, recently stirred
up the fossils by an address before the Con-
necticut Bar Association in which he took
strong ground against established methods
in legal procedure, especially regarding the
rules of evidence, whereby the truth is often
suppressed and justice defeated. Ex-Presi-
dent Taft and other lawyers of conservative
tendencies, who have more regard for estab-
lished custom and musty precedent than for
the triumph of justice despite such obstacles,
took prompt occasion to antagonize his posi-
tion and denounce his utterances as revolu-
tionary and dangerous. Nevertheless, the
fair-minded man, who believes that no artifi-
cial barriers of precedent and privilege should
be allowed to thwart justice and circumvent
the right, feels bound to sustain Mr. Whipple.
For example, Judge To wne's paper, the Frank-
lin Journal-Transcript, which would naturally
be expected to side with Mr. Taft if it could
consistently do so, frankly declares its belief
that Mr. Whipple is right, and goes on to say:
"As the rules of evidence now are the witness
swears to tell the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. Then he is not al-
lowed to tell anything. He is asked questions
and he may make reply, but he may know a

greatdeal about the casewhich heisnot allowed
to tell. A trial often appears to be a game
between the lawyers rather than an honest
effort to get at facts." The Rochester Cour-
ier also, edited by a man who could have no
predilections in Mr. Whipple's favor, says:
"President Taft's speech the other evening
made no answer at all to the facts which Mr.
Whipple has stated and which cannot be gain-
said. Everybody knows that it is true that
technicalities and musty precedents govern
our courts, instead of principles of justice and
honest attempts to find out the truth. . .
. The greatest need of this country today
is more justice, speedier justice and less rusty
and dusty precedent; less technicalities to-
defeat the ends of true justice." The fact
that Mr, Whipple is a son of New Hampshire,
born and bred among our hills; that he stud-
ied his profession in our largest city, married
a New Hampshire girl and cherishes a spirit
of devoted loyalty to the state, makes bis
contention of greater interest to our people
than would otherwise be the case, however
great its merits, or vital its importance."

Reference to Mr. Whipple calls to mind
another prominent son of New Hampshire,
who long practiced at the Massachusetts bar,
and whose methods were sometimes at va-
riance with established rule and precedent;
but who, nevertheless, made himself the suc-
cessful champion of the poor and friendless

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in many an apparently hopeless cause. This
man was Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, who went
down from the town of Deerfield and made
for himself a larger place in the professional
and public life of the old Bay State than many
of its native sons have ever filled, although envy
and prejudice, cherished even at the present
day, have stood in the way of the appropriate
recognition of his merits at the hands of the
Commonwealth. Year after year the move-
ment in favor of the erection of a statue of
General Butler on the State House grounds,
has met the same unreasoning opposition that
so long stood in the way of a similar tribute
to Ex-President Pierce in this state though
based on different grounds, but there now
seems to be a probability of its success, if not
this year in the not distant future.

the revengeful persecution of Thaw than the
furtherance of the cause of justice on the pro-
tection of society, is regarded with deep in-
terest throughout the country.

Among the many New Hampshire born men
in Massachusetts who have attained promi-
nence in business or professional life one of
the most conspicuous at the present time is
John H. Fahey of Boston, a son of Peter
Fahey of Manchester, where be was born
something over forty years ago. His father
was a local Democratic politician of note, and
the son early developed exceptional abilities
and sought a larger field of effort than his
native city afforded. He went to Boston
where he engaged in newspaper work, soon
becoming manager of the Association Press,
and later editor and publisher of the Boston
Traveler. He has also been active in financial
and commercial affairs, and is now president
of the firm of Philip, Boyd & Co., invest-
ment bankers of Boston and Dallas, Texas.
He has been conspicuous in the work of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce and was a
leading spirit in the organization of the Cham-
ber of Commerce of the United States, of
which he is now the head. He recently pur-
chased the Worcester Evening Post, an in-
dependent Democratic paper, of which he is to
be editor and publisher, though retaining his
residence in Boston and his interest in the
other important enterprises with which he is
connected.

_ The petition of Harry K. Thaw, the noto-
rious slayer of the no less notorious Stanford
White of New York, for a writ of habeas
corpus, in the United States District Court
before Judge Aldrich, following his arrest at
Colebrook, upon extradition process, and the
accompanying petition for admission to bail
pending the determination of the former, still
remain undisposed of by that tribunal, and
Thaw still remains a guest at the Eagle Hotel
in Concord, under official surveillance; but is
contriving to get a fair measure of enjoyment
in the bracing atmosphere and Arctic temper-
ature which a New Hampshire winter affords.
Meanwhile the movement in the New York
legislature looking toward a full expose of the
means and methods resorted to by the friends
of White, in what has come to look more like

Two measures adopted at the recent annual
meeting of the New Hampshire Board of
Trade, though of widely different character,
may be regarded of equal importance and
interest. The first was the adoption of a
resolution providing for the appointment of a
standing Committee, to farther the project for
a fitting celebration of the Tercentenary of
the Landing of the Pilgrims and the settle-
ment of New England, in 1920, and the second
a resolution favoring the holding of a State
industrial exhibition in Concord or Manches-
ter the coming Autumn, and the appointment
of a Committee to consider the matter and
report at the Spring meeting in Dover. The
Committee appointed under the first resolu-
tion consists of H. H. Metcalf of Concord,
Charles S. Emerson of Milford, C. Gale Shedd
of Keene, A. G. Whittemore of Dover and
Sherman E. Burroughs of Manchester. That
under the second includes William Savacool
of Manchester, Albert I. Foster of Concord,
E. Ned Davis of Franklin, L. F. Thurber of
Nashua and G. A. Fairbanks of Newport.

The abolition of the post office at East
Acworth in Sullivan County, which became
an accomplished fact February 14, is occa-
sioning some comment, and not a little mourn-
ing in that immediate region, though there
are two other post offices in the town, and
that at Lempster is only two miles distant.
The interesting fact about this post office is
that it was kept in the same house and held
by members of the same (the Buss) family for
the fifty-two years of its existence. The
place has generally been known as "Buss
Hollow."

Two aggravating mistakes were made in
connection with the article on ' ' New Hamp-
shire Judges" in the last issue of the
Granite Monthly. In place of the por-
trait of Hon. William A. Plummer, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, that of Eev.
Sidney B. Snow was accidentally inserted;
while the portrait of Walter Pitman was
used where that of Judge William Pitman
should have been.

In the Meredith article, in the last issue,
the name of Austin S. Moulton was printed
as Arthur S. Moulton. In the same article,
in the sketch of Col. Ebenezer Stevens, men-
tion of his first marriage was inadvertently
omitted. Colonel Stevens married first,
Therina, daughter of John S. and Leah
(Prescott) Osgood, of Gilmanton, by whom
he had three children — Cyrus A., Celestia A.,
who married Edward Stowell of No. Adams,
Mass., and Ebenezer, who died in childhood.
She died January 17, 1845.

HON. JOHN C. HUTCHINS

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Vol. XLVI. No. 4

APRIL, 1914

New Series, Vol. 9, No. 4

HON. JOHN C. HUTCHINS

Announces His Candidacy for the Democratic Gubernatorial

Nomination

That section of New Hampshire
generally known as the "North
Country," embracing the "White
Mountain region and the territory
above, or the Counties of Coos, Carroll
and northern Grafton, has furnished
the state but two governors during its
entire history — Jared "W. Williams,
Democrat, of Lancaster, who occupied
the executive chair from June, 1847,
to June, 1849, and Chester B. Jordan,
Republican, of the same town, whose
term included the full years 1901 and
1902.

It is true that Henry 0. Kent, also
of Lancaster, was the Democratic nom-
inee for the office twenty years ago,
in 1894, and again in 1896, when the
nomination involved nothing but the
duty of leading a forlorn hope; but
there seems to be a feeling among
North Country Democrats at the pres-
ent time, when, in their belief, the
chances of party success are excellent,
that the nomination should go once
more to their section of the state.

In deference to the wishes of many
of his fellow Democrats in that region,
and the manifest desire of many more
in other parts of the state, who recog-
nize in him something more than the
representative of a section, in view of
his loyal and efficient service as Sen-
ator from District Number One dur-
ing the last legislative session, the
Hon. John C. Hutchins of Stratford
has definitely announced his purpose
to be a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor at the Sep-
tember primary election, in a letter
published in the newspapers of Mon-

day, April 13, in which he declares
his appreciation of the responsibilities
resting upon a candidate for this high
position, and his purpose, if nomi-
nated, to make every honorable and
legitimate effort in his power to be
elected at the polls in November, go-
ing before the voters of his party upon
his record as a Democrat and as a
public official in the various positions
of trust in which it has been his pleas-
ure to serve the public in the past.

In the legislative double number
of the Granite Monthly, for March-
April, 1913, a brief biographical
sketch of Mr. Hutchins was presented,
the substance of which, with such
additional facts as may be material,
may properly be presented in this
connection.

John Corbin Hutchins was born
in Wolcott, Vt., February 3, 1864, the
eighth of nine children of Lewis Smith
andMarciaM. (Aiken) Hutchins, and
great-grandson of Parley Hutchins
of Edinburgh, Scotland, who settled in
this country immediately after the
Revolution. He was educated in the
public schools, and at Hardwick (Vt.)
Academy, where he attended during
the spring and fall terms for four
years, teaching district school winters
and working on his father's farm in
summer. He was for a time assistant
principal in the academy and pursued
a post-graduate course. In the winter
of 1883 he taught in the high school at
Gouldsville.

In 1884 he removed to North Strat-
ford, N. H., where he has since re-
mained, soon after entering the em-

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ploy of C. C. Carpenter in his drug
and jewelry store, where he devoted
himself earnestly to the acquirement
of a thorough knowledge of the busi-
ness, meanwhile acting for a time as
teacher in the higher grade of the
grammar school. In 1886, on account
of failing health, Mr. Carpenter de-
termined to close out his business, and
Mr. Hutchins, who had already suc-
cessfully passed his examination be-
fore the State Board of Pharmacy,
became the purchaser and has con-
ducted the same with great success to
the present time; while his abundant
endowment of energy and enterprise
has led him into extensive operations
in other lines of business, which he has
pursued with like results, at the same
time giving no little time and atten-
tion to the public service.

He was a member of the commission
which adjusted the land damages re-
sulting from the extension of the
Maine Central Railroad line through
Coos County, rendering valuable serv-
ice in the work. In 1889- '90 and
'91 he served as chairman of the board
of selectmen of the town of Stratford,
during which time important business
matters were conducted to the eminent
satisfaction of the people. He was
collector of taxes in 1896, and for
several successive terms ; and, in 1898,
was chosen representative in the legis-
lature by the largest majority which
had ever been given a candidate in
the town, serving in the session of

1899 upon the Committees on Appro-
priations and National Affairs. In

1900 he was elected a member of the
board of education, in which position
he was instrumental in the establish-
ment of a high school at North Strat-
ford, the marked success of which in-
stitution is largely due to his interest
and efforts.

In 1908 Mr. Hutchins was a mem-
ber of the New Hampshire delegation
in the National Democratic Conven-
tion at Denver, and in November,
1912, was his party 's candidate for
State Senator from District Number
One, embracing Coos County, receiv-

ing a plurality of 200 votes, where at
the previous election there was a Re-
publican majority of more than 500,
and being elected in legislative joint
convention, as the first Democrat to
hold the office in a period of twenty
years.

Upon the organization of the Sen-
ate, Mr. Hutchins was assigned to
service upon the important Com-
mittees on Education, Banks, Man-
ufactures and Revision of the Laws,
of the first of which he was chairman.
He was faithful in attendance, active
and alert in the furtherance of all
measures which he deemed pro-
motive of the public welfare, not neg-
lecting the interests of his party
whose success he regards essential to
that object. He was chairman of the
joint committee of legislators and cit-
izens having in charge the celebration
in Concord of the Democratic vic-
tories at the polls and in the legisla-
ture, following the election of United
States Senator, and through his active
leadership in the upper branch of the
legislature during the session, in the
furtherance of all measures deemed
essential to the party welfare, gained
the confidence and admiration of
Democrats throughout the state.

Mr. Hutchins is active and promi-
nent in the Masonic order and the
Knights of Pythias, being a Knight
Templar and 32d degree Mason, a
charter member of Stratford Lodge,
No. 30, K. of P., in which he has held
all the offices, as well as in the Grand
Lodge, of which he was elected Grand
Chancellor at Woodsville in 1900. He
is also a member of Berlin Lodge of
B. P. O. Elks.

On October 24, 1889, Mr. Hutchins
married Sadie H., daughter of Thomas
H. and Ellen (Rowell) Mayo. They
have had three children, of whom two
sons survive — Ralph Mayo, born Au-
gust 20, 1890 and Paul Aiken, August
17, 1900. A daughter, Ruth "Ward,
died in childhood.

Senator Hutchins is a man of won-
derfully strong personality. Consid-
erably above the average man physi-

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call}' - , he is endowed with corre-
sponding mental ability. He easily
comprehends the needs of the pub-
lic on all important questions, and
tempers his action with equity and
justice. He is well educated, is
ready, fluent and witty in debate.
His social qualities and his generous
and kindly treatment of all classes of
people make him extremely popular
in every community where he is
known. As a business man he has
few superiors. He has shown rare
skill and sound judgment in his in-

vestments in timber lands and other
properties in which he has large in-
terests, while as a public official he has
discharged every duty with credit to
himself and honor to his constituents.
Should his candidacy for the nomi-
nation be successful, and the choice of
his party be ratified by the people at
the polls, those who know him best
have full confidence to believe that his
administration of the affairs of state
would be alike honorable and success-
ful, from the personal as well as the
public standpoint.

A NEW GUITAR SONG

By George H. Wood

In Venice you hear it, it comes from afar,
O 'er the blue waters the lively guitar,
Softly and lightly from window and bower,
It cheats of its sadness the wearisome hour.
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !

Softly and lightly when daylight is gone,
And dim floating shadows of evening come on ;
Softly and lightly beneath the bright moon,
In a lonely parterre of a crowded saloon.
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !

Softly and lightly^ some beautiful nun,
When th' task of th' Ave Maria is done,
She steals to her lattice and mournfully plays,
To th ' friends, and th ' lovers of -Jiappier days.
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !

Th' gondolier moves softly beneath th' bright stars,
And blends his voice sweetly with flutes and guitars ;
So some beautiful night leave thy lattice ajar,
And music shall float o 'er the soft summer air.
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !
Oh, it is an enchanting pleasure,
To waltz, waltz this measure !

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EXETER AND THE PHILLIPS ACADEMY

By Sarah B. Lawrence

On a visit to Exeter, New Hamp-
shire, and its suburbs, travelers find
themselves in a wonderland of Eng-
lish geography, for at intervals of a
few miles, the familiar names of
Portsmouth, Nottingham, Epping,
Kensington and Brentwood may be
seen on the way-side stations. Exe-
ter, with its elm-shaded streets, its per-
fect sky line and its quiet beauty has
an inland stream flowing over a suc-
cession of ledges into a broad basin,
where its waters mingle with the tides

through on the two-mile row are like
a series of captivating sketches: the
meadows rich in buttercups; Jersey
cows, stealing down. to the water in
the cool shadows beneath the trees;
the birds, pouring out their flood of
song ; the splash of oars and the laugh-
ing voices give just the note of human
brightness the landscape needs — no
more.

The river bounds one side of the
playing field of twenty-three acres —
one of the finest in New England,

Abbott Place — Principal's House

of the ocean. It is on the Squam-
scott River, explored by Capt. John
Smith in 1614, that the Phillips Exe-
ter students row when practising for
their boat races. On summer after-
noons, the students in gayly decorated
canoes and row-boats float up the nar-
row winding "Fresh river" running
through deep woods where slender
tree-tops, standing motionless against
the sky, reflect their beauty in a cir-
cular basin of water, bordered with
ferns and violets growing down to the
water's edge. The scenes they pass

presented to Phillips Exeter by Mr.
George A. Plimpton, '73, of New
York, a Trustee of the Academy.
The English system of dormitories
has been almost entirely adopted and
at present the Exeter school, number-
ing over five hundred students, owns
the most spacious and picturesquely
set estates in the New England town.
A recently acquired estate is the beau-
tiful Gardiner Gilman farm. Addi-
tions have been built to the original
mansion houses, with their attractive
gardens and lawns, which are closely

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associated with the early history of
the country, and new buildings have
been erected under the progressive
management of the late Dr. Harlan
P. Amen. The school is now the larg-
est in its history. The honor system
in force, as a means of governing the
students, has been highly developed
and leading authorities connected
with the school testify to the value of
this method of discipline.

For thirty years, Hon. Amos Tuck,
a well-known statesman, who named
the Republican party in America, was
one of the Trustees of the Phillips

years, his home being in Andover,
Mass., where his father, too, was a
minister.

He came to Exeter as a teacher and
a preacher. After a year he decided
to enter mercantile life, engaging in
ship-building — by which he amassed
what was considered a fortune in
those days. Forty years after Mr.
Phillips came to Exeter he bestowed
a third of his fortune, $100,000, upon
Andover where he was born and the
rest to Exeter to establish classical
training schools for boys. It was the
largest gift then known in America!

Alumni Hall

Exeter school. He was the father of
Edward Tuck, LL.D., the great Amer-
ican philanthropist in Paris, France.
Representatives from far-away
Armenia, Japan and India are in
attendance at the famous American
preparatory school. In 1741, the
founder of the school, Rev. John
Phillips, a grandson of Rev. George
Phillips, a graduate of Cambridge,
who, ten years after the landing of
the Pilgrims at Plymouth came over
the sea with a band of Puritans
headed by John Winthrop, came to
Exeter, having graduated from Har-
vard in 1735 at the age of sixteen

The name Exeter was borrowed
from Exeter, England, by Rev. John
Wheelwright, the founder, who was
born in or near Lincolnshire, Eng-
land, in the early part of 1592. He
was graduated from Sydney College,
Cambridge, where he gained his bach-
elor degree in 1614 and that of M. A.
four years later, one of his fellow
collegians being the famous Oliver
Cromwell. Mr. "Wheelwright mar-
ried, November 8, 1621, Marie, daugh-
ter of the Rev. Thomas Storre, vicar
of Bilsby, in the County of Lincoln;
and on the 9th of April, 1623, having
taken holy orders on the death of his

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father-in-law, succeeded him in the
vicarage. Not long after he was led
to question the authority of certain
dogmas and observances of the Eng-
lish Church, until he found himself
arrayed in the ranks of the Puritans,
so that after about ten years he was
silenced by the ecclesiastical powers
for non- conformity. He then emi-
grated to the new world and took
with him his wife by* a second mar-
riage, Mary, daughter of Edward
Hutchinson of Alford, and his five
children, and landed in Boston May
26, 1636.

local sagamore and on April 3, 1638,
a release was signed by the Indians
in the form of a deed which is now in
the Rockingham County Records,
signed by four Indian sachems, dated
March 17, 1639. The Indians were
paid in what they called a "valuable
consideration," such as coats, shirts,
bottles, etc. The deed was signed by
Wehaugnouawit, Passiconaway, Run-
awit and Rowles.

The signatures were made in crude
picture-writing, used even now by
the Alaskan Indians. The marks or
totems to the names were a deer's

Gilman House

He was banished from Boston on
account of a sermon tending to sedi-
tion and, with his family and a band
of fanatic followers, sailed for a local-
ity called Squamscott where the lords
of the soil were red-men, the true
Americans of the new world. They
found a wilderness of soft -tipped,
waving pines and a thick growth of
fragrant fir in a soothing balsam-
laden atmosphere. The shores of the
river were dotted with the wigwams
of the Indians and on its bosom
floated their birch-bark canoes.

"Wheelwright purchased a tract of
land, about thirty miles square, of the

antlers, a bow and arrow, a one-
armed man and a figure of a man
with extended arms. A settlement
was cleared which they called a plan-
tation, and for protection from the
Indians a garrison house was built,
and this relic of frontier days is still
fondly cherished by the people of
Exeter.

In 1641, Wheelwright went back to
England. Oliver Cromwell had been
raised to the head of the English
Commonwealth and Wheelwright was
conducted into his presence. The
Lord Protector recognized him as an
old Cambridge College acquaintance.

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' ' I remember, ' ' said Cromwell, ' ' when
I have been more afraid of meeting
Wheelwright at football than of meet-
ing any army since in the field."
Cromwell afterwards appointed
Wheelwright to a post of distinction.
After the Restoration, he returned to
New England where he died in 1680
at the age of eighty-one. Thus it will
be seen that Exeter in America was
settled by an English football player.
Exeter is a town whose historic
supremacy is as noteworthy as any
other in all New England. It is not
merely a historic town with a past

The Academy's reputation was
made before the days of dormitories,
and who shall say that the cultured
people of Exeter did not wield a
mighty influence for good over the
minds of the students, who became
illustrious in after years, and gave
the Academy its prestige.

The writer is in receipt of many
letters from old students, in which
they speak in affectionate terms of
their school life in Exeter as among
their happiest days. One letter in
particular from "Francis McNutt — a
Protestant while in Exeter — while he

Gardiner Gilman House (On Right)

but it is rich in tradition, with an
interesting present and an auspicious
future. Has it not given to the world
of Art a Madame Elizabeth Gardner
Bougeureau; Edward Tuck, a great
philanthropist, honored on two conti-
nents and presented with the Cross
of the Legion of Honor; Ambrose
Swasey, a distinguished scientist, a
member of the Royal Society of Engi-
neers and decorated with the Cross
of the Legion of Honor, and Daniel
Chester French, whose name as a
sculptor is world-wide? As if these
names were not enough to give glory
to the old town, a long list of others
might be added.

was occupying a position in the Vati-
can, as first chamberlain to the Pope
of Rome, told of his love for the
people of Exeter and of a little visit
to the town when he called to see his
landlady, Mrs. Bickford, and went
over to the late Mrs. Titcomb 's, where
he used to take his meals, and picked
a flower from the old garden to take
back to Europe with him.

A prominent lawyer in New York
writes of the stimulus that he received
for good reading and high thinking
while a member of Mrs. 's fam-
ily during the four years while he was
a student of the Academy.

It is given to certain minds to so

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plant the impress of their character
in the institution with which they are
connected, as to make them endure for
many years after their personal con-
nection has ceased. Such may be true
of Dr. Abbott's and Dr. Soule's long
connection with the Academy, that
has felt their guiding hands and the
inspiration of their active minds and
cultured thoughts.

No school could live and take high
rank among educational institutions,
simply because it was maintained by
people of wealth, but there must be
permeating it, like a thread of gold,

thinking, and I earnestly wish that
their influence might go out beyond
the school, for education is not the
result of a course of study, but it is
the result of a course of experience,
it is useless to waste vitality in try-
ing to think out the unthinkable,
and human souls need to be guided
through the pitfalls of daily life. I
would like to see the teachers of the
Academy interest themselves in politi-
cal, civic, philanthropic and social
problems, which affect the entire
American race. Let there be a "get
together spirit" between the town

Plympton Playing Fields — Tennis Courts

that fine conception of life as a whole,
and its breadth must emanate from
the head of the school. It requires
many years to give that seal of human
personality, which is of such inesti-
mable value, to an institution of
learning, as the sculptor impresses
his dream upon the marble. The in-
dustrial revolution, the new social
order, and the changed conditions of
life, call for deep thought, generous
deeds, tireless diligence and steadfast
patience.

The Academy has a trained galaxy
of progressive instructors and profes-
sors, advanced in thought and high

and the Academy, for has not Exeter
given to the school its picturesque
setting and its origin? Why should
not the townspeople and the Academy
act in harmony, when the school is a
product of Exeter, and not a thing
apart, like Andover, which was only
the birthplace of Mr. Phillips ?

Let us refresh our minds by quot-
ing a little history: "After a resi-
dence in Exeter of two years as a
teacher, Mr. Phillips decided to cast
in his lot with the people of Exeter
and was enrolled in 1743, ' ' etc. Mr.
Phillips married at twenty-four, not
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tions began to turn, who was "other-
wise engaged" but her still youthful
mother, the widow of Nathaniel Gil-
man, an estimable woman of great
piety. Despite desparity of age, the
union proved a happy one, and, to
him, a source of profit, as he was
placed in charge of Captain Gilman's
affairs. The following year he de-
cided to enter a mercantile life.

The town, though small, was clus-
tered around the river bank and the

place of business was the house in
which he lived, on the site of the
McKey block on Water Street. He
toiled for nearly thirty years, blowing
out the candle at night, to save light,
while having evening devotions, and
soaking the back log over night, that
it might not burn so freely by day.

Having bestowed a third of his for-
tune upon Andover, he bequeathed
all the rest to Exeter. He had given
it away with so clean a hand, that

Golf Course

falls. Here on the Squamscott, at the
head of navigation, was a small inland
port, where vessels were built (with
the Gilman money) and lumber in
vast quantities was brought ( from the
Gilman woods) to be sawed, built into
ships, and exported. The ox teams
that had brought the forests from the
interior could be utilized to distribute
the goods that came by foreign and
coastwise vessels into those same in-
terior countries of the province. His

there was barely enough for the sup-
port of his widow for the year or two
she survived him.

Dear old Exeter, we, your sons and
daughters, hold you in tender remem-
brance. Like all your absent chil-
dren, we ever turn to you in loving
thought and affection, and, when the
sands of life are nearly run, we wish
our last walk to be in the old familiar
elm-crowned streets where the chil-
dren romped and played.

MY IDOL

By Stewart Everett Roive*

In the realm of books I 've wandered,
Many men and things I've pondered, —

There I 've seen the mighty wonders of the past ;
There I've read the martyr's story,
Sensed his grand and deathless glory,

Dreamed of how his fame in everness will last.

'Mongst that mystic realm I treasure
Idols that in countless measure

Help me up and onward in Life 's ceaseless race ;
And the idol that is greatest,
Always first and never latest

Is Abe Lincoln's sad and solemn, peaceful face.

You may talk about your heroes, —
Say this man and that were zeros, —

That they didn't, couldn't, wouldn't stand the test;
But when all is said and done, friends,
Here's a man, yes, here is one, friends,

Who looms up, 'way up above, beyond the rest.

'Though the years, they come and go, friends,
Still, this man, amid the glow, friends —

'Mid the glow that clusters 'round his features pure,
Stands as did he in the war, friends,
All without one single flaw, friends,

And his foremost place in hist 'ry is secure.

Safe and sure, always and ever,
Time and tide can never, never

Dim that cogent fact, no matter what befall ;
When Booth's bullet flamed and flashed, friends,
Then our greatest man was dashed, friends —

Dashed to death to live for aye in Martyr's Hall.

So, go search through hist'ry's pages
For your martyrs and your sages

Who have something done that 's noble, fine and grand ;-
But I '11 choose the man who saved us
When war's roaring ocean laved us, —

Yes, I'll choose Abe Lincoln for he saved the land.

Delivered by the author at the ' ' Lincoln Night, ' ' held by the Sons of Veterans
in Exeter, N. H., February 13, 1914.

NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE PRESIDENCY*

It was among the decrees of destiny Although Webster and Cass still

that the presidency for once, at least, stood at the forefront among the

should come to New Hampshire. It statesmen of their time, it was to be

1 was necessarily ordered moreover, that • General Pierce 's triumph and New

this event should transpire before New Hampshire 's opportunity. The pres-

York had become an indispensable ident was to be one who was not only

factor in presidential contests ; before a son of the soil, but a life-long resi-

Indiana had become pivotal ; before dent upon it. He was elected by an

Illinois had become an imperial com- overwhelming majority. Only a few

monwealth; and before the stars of of the leaders in public thought and

Ohio had preempted the zenith. public action realized as did Webster

From 1848 to 1872 the sons of New the actual volcanic condition of the
Hampshire were to be reckoned with politics of that period. Mr. Pierce's
in every quadrennial disposal of the administration was, indeed, to cun-
candidacies for this great office, duct national affairs very near to the
Cass, nominated by the Democrats in end of that epoch. The portents of
1848, was defeated only by a mis- the coming conflict overshadowed all
chance, possibly an accident, possibly the plans, devices, and efforts of state-
by means not justifiable. craft. President Pierce 's official f am-

As the campaign of 1852 ap- ily — Marcy, Guthrie, McCelland,
proached, Webster's friends made an Davis, Dobbin, Campbell, and Cush-
active canvass for him and for the ing — was one of the ablest, best organ-
first time his candidacy was openly ized, most harmonious, and most ho-
and positively avowed. It is one of mogeneous American cabinets ever
those unaccountable eccentricities of assembled, and it had the unique dis-
national politics, occasionally and too tinction of unbroken continuance
often recurring, that a party that during a full presidential term. It
might make a Webster president was the policy of the party, of which
should be content with a William this administration was of necessity
Henry Harrison, a Taylor, or a Scott, the representative and exponent, and

Levi Woodbury was under serious the conditions of its political environ-

consideration as a possible Demo- ment from 1853 to 1857, and not any

cratic candidate, but his death in 1851 fault or failure of the president in

closed the book. adhering to that policy, however un-

John P. Hale was chosen to lead wise and impossible it may have

the forlorn hope of the Free-Soilers in appeared in the light of subsequent

1852. This candidacy contained no history, that rendered his renomina-

element of personal retaliation upon tion impossible. Franklin Pierce

either of the great parties, as did that administered his great office with

of Van Buren in 1848. It cast a side- statesmanlike tact and acumen, with

light upon the situation and tenden- notable and unfailing dignity and

cies in politics at that time, of which courtesy, and with loyalty to the prin-

few of the contemporary politicians ciples of the party by whose suffrages

were wise enough to take advantage he had been elevated to the chief

or warning. magistracy. It was in obedience to

*The manuscript of this article was found among papers left by the late Hon. Albert S.
Batchellor of Littleton, State Historian, with nothing to indicate its authorship, or whether
or not it had ever been published. The editor has no knowledge upon either point; but

regards the article, as worthy of reproduction if it has ever before been printed. If any
reader has ever before seen it, or knows by whom it was written, he will confer a favor by
informing me. — Editor, Granite Monthly.

114 The Granite Monthly

the dictates of party expediency, and a most remarkable presidential cam-
not in exemplification of the courage paign.

of political faith and purpose, on the Henry "Wilson had fairly entered

part of the Democracy of 1856, that upon the last stages of a successful

James Buchanan was made the party progress t© the presidency when he

nominee instead of Franklin Pierce, was made vice-president at the second

In this period, Chase, Hale and Grant election in 1872. This peerless

Greeley had already become recog- organizer was then the natural, if not

nized as statesmen of presidential pro- the inevitable, heir to the succession,

portions. Chase 's candidacy for the Had he lived it was hardly among the

Republican nomination in 1860 and possibilities that he could fail to be

1864, and for that of the Democracy nominated and elected to the presi-

in 1868, were, in each instance, so dency in 1876 or 1880, or for both the

formidable that, though unsuccessful, terms to which Mr. Hayes and Mr.

they were of far-reaching influence in Garfield were chosen,

national politics. Zachariah Chandler was regarded

The candidacy of Horace Greeley as an important factor in the disposi-
by nomination of the liberal Republi- tion of the presidency, and his candi-
cans in 1872, with such a relatively dacy, until his death in 1879, was
unimportant associate as B. Gratz attracting an influential following.
Brown, may have been impolitic. In the cabinets of the war period
The ratification of those nominations the treasury portfolio was successively
by the national Democracy was sur- in the hands of John A. Dix, in the
prising and, of course, temporarily last days of the Buchanan administra-
disastrous to the party. It was, how- tion in 1861, and Salmon P. Chase
ever, a change of front in line of bat- and "William Pitt Fessenden, at the
tie, and all the chances incident to beginning of a Republican regime,
such a movement were necessarily until the end of the administration of
taken by those party leaders who were Mr. Lincoln. The conduct of this de-
convinced that no other course was partment by these three sons of New
open to them. It was a shifting of all Hampshire constitutes the most im-
the alignment absolutely prerequisite portant chapter in the financial his-
to the contest which was opened under tory of the American government,
the leadership of Mr. Tilden in 1876. In the second term of President

The one opportunity which was pre- Grant, Zachariah Chandler held the
sented to General Butler, and by the office of Secretary of the Interior,
acceptance of which he might have Amos T. Ackerman that of Attorney-
reached the presidency, was closed to General, and Marshall Jewell that of
him when he declined to accept the Postmaster-General. With "William
nomination for the vice-presidency, E. Chandler's service as Secretary in
which it was generally conceded was an important transition period in the
at one time at his disposal, on the history of the American Navy and in
Lincoln ticket in 1864. His attempt connection with the inauguration of
to obtain a controlling position in the far-reaching measures for the develop-
Democratic convention of 1884 and his ment of an adequate American war
subsequent flank movement against marine in the term of President
the party which had nominated- Mr. Arthur, the past record of New Hamp-
Cleveland, both miscarried, but his shire men in the cabinet is concluded,
attempt to compass by indirection the Zachariah Chandler and William E.
election of Mr. Blaine through his own Chandler are also regarded as the
candidacy as the nominee of the so- Warwicks of the presidential compli-
called People's party was too nearly cations and conditions which obtained
successful to be regarded in any other in the contest between Mr. Tilden and
light than as an important episode in Mr. Hayes in 1876, and their timely,

Row, Not Drift 115

skillful and strenuous measures are Austin Corbin, Charles W. Pillsbury,

now generally regarded as being the John C. Pillsbury, Thomas W. Pierce,

decisive factors in the course of events Charles S. Mellen, Frank Jones,

which resulted in the inauguration of Hiram N. Turner, Charles P. Clark,

Mr. Hayes as president.* Bzekiel A. Straw, Joseph Stickney,

With the passing of the old school Stilson Hutchins and "Long" John

of statesmen of New Hampshire nativ- Wentworth.

ity, of presidential aspirations and Some time ago, Senator Hoar, in the
presidential measure, twenty years Forum, discussed the question whether
ago, the state has been practically out the United States Senate, in point of
of presidential politics as it is related average ability, had degenerated, corn-
to personal candidacies. The latter parillg it> as it was constituted at the
representatives of the virile stock of time of Ms writing ^tii its member-
the Granite State are evidently at- ghi flft Qr sevent five rs ag0m
tracted from the domain ol national , r ™_ i -r> i\/r-n • 1 •
and local politics to more important ^ Charles R - Mlller > > n * re P^ ™
and promising financial, commercial the same magazine, made the remark
and material opportunities in the pertinent then to his purpose and per-
world's work. In this field well-in- tinent now to these comments, "That
formed observers readily recall the were Webster living in these days he
forceful and successful personalities would neither be in the Senate nor in

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of James F. Joy, Edward Tuck, debt. :

*As to the "timeliness" of the interference of the Messrs. Chandler with the determina-
tion of the result in the campaign of 1876, there is a wide difference of opinion. A large
portion of the American people have always regarded the same as most untimely. — Ed.

ROW, NOT DRIFT

By Eldora Haines Walker

Wheresoe 'er your bark may be
Out upon Life's open sea,
Bend to oars right heartily ;
Row, not drift.

Tho ' the bark be strong or frail,
Broken helm or tattered sail,
Bravely breast the stormy gale ;
Row, not drift.

Would you with Ambition 's aim,
Fondly seek the wealth of Fame,
Strive to win a deathless name ?
Row, not drift.

Would you for the Right be strong,
Overcome the tyrant Wrong,
Fill the earth with joyous song ?
Row, not drift.

Pull the oar, thro ' calm or stress,
Onward to the beacon press,
Anchor in the port ' ' Success. ' '
Row, not drift.
Exeter, New Hampshire.

"OLD AC WORTH"

By Frank B. Kingsbury

After the recent excellent sketches
upon old Acworth and its people, it
would appear there could be little
more of interest to be written. How-
ever, a few items gathered by myself
during the past thirty-five years may
be profitably appended to earlier arti-
cles. The more familiar one becomes
with a community, the stronger is he
attached to it.

As has been stated, the territory of
the town of Acworth was granted, in
1752 as Burnet, and by the second
charter, in 1766, the name was
changed, to Acworth, thereby making
it the first town in the state of New
Hampshire, alphabetically speaking,
and to some of us, because of early
memories and associations it is the
first town in the state in many ways.

Acworth is pretty thoroughly an
agricultural town, and as such has
some excellent farms.

In the west part of the -town there
were several good ones, one of which
was the old Dea. Zenas Slader farm,
now owned by Elmer H. Rugg, one
of the selectmen. While in Dover, in
1908, I met Mrs. Ann E. (Slader)
Nourse, eldest daughter of Dea. Zenas
Slader, from whom I obtained notes
of interest about this farm, her early
life and people.

Dea. Zenas Slader, son of Thomas
and Hannah (Holden) Slader, was
born about 1800, near Acworth
"Town." "When a young man, he
built the stone wall around the new
(so-called) village cemetery. In later
years he became a leading and influ-
ential citizen of the town; a select-
man several years, moderator of the
town meeting, justice of the peace,
representative to the state legislature
in 1861-62, and on November 17, 1842,
he was chosen deacon of the Congre-
gational Church, which office he held
till his removal to Nebraska in 1869.

He died in Fremont, that state, about
1880.

Immediately after his marriage to
Melintha Wilson he settled on the
farm just west of the one owned by
his father-in-law (where Elmer H.
Rugg resided ten years ago). Here
he remained till January 1, 1829,
when he was persuaded to buy, on
easy. payments, the large farm owned
by Joseph Wilson, his father-in-law,
and where he resided for nearly
forty years. At that time the build-
ings were getting old; there were al-
most no fences upon the place and
things wera generally ' ' going down. ' '
However, by zeal and hard work, this
farm, while in his ownership, became
one of the best in town.

In 1798, the Wilsons built on this
farm the large barn destroyed by
lightning July 25, 1881, and, in 1833,
Deacon Slader built the present one,
next the road. In the summer of
1838 he also built the present substan-
tial stone house, the only one, I think,
in town. The stones for this house
were all picked up about the farm,
except the split ones, which came from
the "Osgood ledge." This house re-
placed a large, old-fashioned, one-
story wooden dwelling that stood on
the exact spot. There was at that
time a cider-mill (a horse and a sweep
were used for grinding the apples), a
few feet west of the old house, that
was used as a dwelling while the stone
house was being built. This was long
before either the Crane brook or Lang-
don roads were built.

The above-mentioned Mrs. Ann E.
(Slader) Nourse, now deceased, was
born December 27, 1823, in the house
where her parents started housekeep-
ing. She always attended school on
Derry Hill and there were from sixty
to seventy scholars when she was
young, say eighty years ago.

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Forty years later, in the fall of
1874, this same school was taught by
3 Irs. Angie M. (Hayward) Livingston,
of South Acworth, with the following
pupils : Andrew Ishani, Harris Isham,
Frank Reed, Hattie M. Blanchard,
Eddie M. Kingsbury, Lizzie E. Kings-
bury, Frank B. Kingsbury, Delia F,
Kingsbuiy, and possibly one or two
others; hence, this school, in about
forty years, had dwindled to nine or
ten scholars.

One hundred rods north of this
schoolhouse, ^is the tiptop of Derry
Hill, though comparatively level,
where was once the farm of Iddo
Church. This is said to have been
the old muster field, where there were
large gatherings on training day.

With the influx into New Hamp-
shire, during the past two decades, of
summer residents, it is not too much
to predict that this old Church home-
stead will some day become a desir-
able summer home, for the view from
the top of Derry Hill is superb. To
the west the eye can travel on the
back-bone of the Green Mountain
range, from near old Mount Greylock
in Massachusetts, to many miles north
of old Killington, in Vermont. Mo-
nadnock, Stratton, Ascutney moun-
tains, and a thousand smaller peaks,
are all visible upon a clear day.

Nearby, at the corner of the road
east of the Deborah A. Taylor house,
is an old cellar hole, where an old one-
leg shoemaker lived many years ago.
His wife was a Miss Howard. He
may have been the man who went
about, "whipping the cat," as it was
called, in those days.

About one mile southwest of Derry
Hill schoolhouse, in a pasture west of
the house, on the Henry Heard, Jr.
farm, I believe, there is a cave in a
ledge, known to but few people, where
one may enter, say twenty-five feet.
The writer was there about thirty
years ago.

New York City has its "Five
Points, ' ' and so has Acworth, too, one
mile north -of Derry Hill, but not a
building of any sort is within seventy

rods of it. Dea. Thomas Ball at one
time lived east of the "Points" and
there he had a sawmill on Crane
brook. The water-wheel for this mill
was a large "over-shot" wooden
wheel, the water being conveyed to
the same through a long spout which
is said to have resembled a sieve when
the mill was in operation. A fire de-
stroyed this mill about fifty years ago.
In those days one could not speak ill
of his neighbor, for he was almost sure
to be speaking of his cousin, or a
cousin of his cousin — they were pretty
much a town of kindred, by birth or
marriage.

From old deeds it appears Dea.
Zenas Slader sold his farm of 220
acres September 19, 1868, to Paul
Cummings, who, after a few months,
sold to Edwin F. Hubbard and he in
turn sold, on January 24, 1871, to
Edward A. Kingsbury.

Mr. Kingsbury was born in Surry,
February 14, 1839 ; was a soldier in
the War of the Rebellion ; resided in
Georgetown, Mich., from 1866 to fall of
1870, and, early in February follow-
ing, he settled on the Slader farm in
Acworth with his wife and four small
children; three more were born to
them while here, which was their
residence till October 25, 1887. Dur-
ing this time he was selectman of the
town. In the fall of 1881 he built a
large barn to replace the one destroyed
by fire a few months previous. The
frame was one from the Moses Lan-
caster farm and was originally built
in 1802. After selling the above
property to F. L. Wheatley (the
father-in-law of E. H. Rugg), Mr.
Kingsbury settled in Keene, where he
was a member of the school board
twelve years, selectman, justice of the
peace, a member of the city council,
and, in 1905-6, representative to the
New Hampshire state legislature.
For over twenty-five years he bought
wool in Cheshire and Sullivan Coun-
ties.

Acworth held several successful
town fairs thirty or forty years ago.
From an old poster it appears the

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"12th Annual Acworth Town Fair"
was held Tuesday, September 28,
1880. The officers were: president,
George Bailey; vice-president Samuel
Slader; treasurer, Charles J. Davis;
secretaries, Dr. Carl A. Allen and
George W. Buss ; marshal, Col. James
A. Wood; directors, Judge J. H.
Dickey, George W. Potter, J. H. Reed,
Samuel Slader, Daniel C. "Walker,
A. F. Buswell, E. L. Sarsons, Capt.
Daniel Nye, George W. Young, Frank
M. Metcalf, A. A. Mathewson, A. G.

Graham, J. R. Crossett, Oliver C. Holt
and Frank H. McLaughlin.

By looking over the above names
and about one hundred others, who
were the judges and committeemen of
this town fair, as shown on this poster,
one finds that they were the leading
and influential citizens of the town
at that time. But few of them are
now living in "Old Acworth," some
have moved elsewhere, while many
more are resting quietly, in the "city
of the dead ' ' — the cemetery.

Proctor, Vermont.

SPRING AND SUMMER

By L. Adelaide Sherman

I am sending my soul in a song to you,
Heart of my heart, and my only love.
What matter to me if the skies of blue,
With their fleecy clouds that the sun shines through,
Like a royal canopy, bend above ?

They say it is spring, but, dear, to me

There is no spring in this dreary place.
Though birds should carol from every tree,
While the Mayflower weaves her tapestry,
It is winter when I miss your face.

But, listening here, could I catch the tone

Of your voice, then a melody, wondrous sweet,
Would fill the air, and no more alone,
When I gazed into your eyes, my own,

I would know 'twas spring, divine, complete.

When the spring of our love has wed its light

To radiant summer's soul of song —
Our summer of love — will it soon take flight,
With its days of marvelous, new delight ?
Will it fly from us ? Will it linger long ?

Dearest, what answer? And lightly low

The east wind whispers, ' ' Spring 's soft airs may
In the warmer currents of summer flow ;
Her birds and blossoms may flit and go,
But true love's summer abides for aye."
Warner, New Hampshire.

THE OLD BRICK SCHOOL HOUSE, DOVER, N. H.

By Charles Nevers Holmes

No more the schoolhouse by the road

Defies the wind and rain and snow ;
No more it stands where once were sowed

The seeds of learning — long ago.

No more on winter 's bleakest day

Its welcome warms some frost-chilled hand ;

No more when spring smiles fair and gay
It chains a restless, listless band.

Close by the meeting house it stood,

That still survives Time's ruthless flight,

"Where, blessed with peace and brotherhood,
The Quakers sought God 's ' ' inner light. ' '

Old Brick School House — Dover

Hard by the graveyard on the hill

Where whisp 'ring pine trees softly sigh,

"Where, freed from ev 'ry earthly ill,
Its pupils wrapped in slumber lie.

The sun of morning saw them come ;

The moon of evening saw them go ;
From home to school, from school to home,

Like tides of ocean to and fro.

'Mid sleepy silence woke the sounds

Of busy voices from within,
And on its weedy, trodden grounds

At nooning rose a merry din.

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"When summer's solstice came again
The schoolhouse slept forsaken there,

Till passed the dog-star's sultry reign
Or harvest moon shone bright and fair.

Alas ! — that school life waned away,
That aged schoolhouse died at last,
But all forlorn a while it lay —
A relic of the fading past.

"Where children's children learned to spell,
And fathers came to read and write,

The scythe of Time unsparing fell
And swept the schoolhouse from men's sight.

Its walls of brick no more are seen ;

Its roof and porch and doors are gone,
And where it stood the grass grows green

Upon yon cemetery lawn.

No more that schoolhouse stands — no more
Beside the road, beside the hill ;

It 's work is done ! It 's day is o 'er !
Yet Mem'ry clings around it still.

Dover, New Hampshire.

THE MAGIC GRANITE STATE SLEIGH RIDE

By Elias H. Cheney

Oh the jingle, jingle, jingle,
Of the bells when lovers mingle,

Sleighing 'mong New Hampshire hills,

By her rivers, brooks and rills ;
Lad and lassie side by side ;
Lassie he would make his bride.

"Where's the harm, I'd like to know?

"Wasn't nature always so?

Just as long ago our daddy,
So it now befalls our laddie ;

Just as mamma did right early

"Who should now forbid our girlie ?
Banished be all thought of evil ;
'Tis of God, and not of evil.

To the pure all things are pure ;

Love must find its own, that's sure.

God made the horse both strong and fleet,

With flowing mane and nimble feet.
Methinks I hear somebody say
It was not God who made the sleigh.

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But, Who else made the timber grow ?
And, none but he could make the snow.

He made it out of frozen dew.

And God made Love. He blessed it too.
What, without love, would this world be ?
And what, without it, you ? or me ?

Tucked together quite as snug
As was ever bug in rug ;

On a softly cushioned seat,

Lap robe warm about their feet;
In a one-horse sleigh together,
In New Hampshire winter weather ;

Jingle, jingle, on they go,

O'er the white and spotless snow.
Happy hearts as e 'er you knew ;
As the old folks used to do.

Wide awake and neither nappy —

That 's the way the world 's made happy.

Jingle, jingle ! See ! they whisper !
Don 't you almost hear her lisp her

Hearty, sweet and gladsome ' ' Yes ' ' ?

Isn 't there a pretty mess ?

Nothing like a good sleigh ride,
With your lover by your side-

Sleigh ride o'er New Hampshire hills;

As naught else the bill it fills.
In the open, through the woods,
What cares he ? he 's got the goods !

Jingle, jingle, lovely bells,
Tales of love your jingle tells.

Youth and Beauty fondly meet ;

Cupid never knows defeat.
At your jingle each heart swells ;
Presage ye the marriage bells.

Peace go with you ; all is well ;

None shall hear you ; none shall tell.
That 's the way to win your bride :
Take a Granite State sleigh ride.

Curacao, W. I., February, 1914.

THE BURIAL

By L. J. H. Frost

There was an open grave,
And many an eye looked sadly on it.
The deep but narrow bed yawned gloomily,
And all impatient waited for the form
That soon would lie within it.

On they come!
That slow funeral train, with pensive tread
And heads bowed low, and eyes that sadly looked
The heart's deep anguish, while silently
They dropped upon the dust the scalding tear —
Befitting tribute to departed worth.

The ebon bier, covered with sable pall,
Rested upon the grave 's green brink ; and then
All footsteps listened while the man of God
With slow and solemn tone repeated
The heart-chilling words, ' ' Ashes to ashes ! :

> >

Then,
There rose a wail upon the ambient air
That spoke a mother's sorrow.

What was all of earth to her whose cherished son —
Her first born — ah ! her only, worshiped one,
Was gone forever ? Could the kind friendship
Of true hearts, or loving sympathy
From all the world, efface the lost one 's image
From the tablet of her memory ? No !
A mother's heart may learn soon to forgive,
But to forget, ah ! never.

True she may
Meekly bow her head and say, ' ' My Father,
Let not my will but thine own be done."
Yet from her inmost soul there rises up to God
This pleading cry : " Oh ! let me go to him
And be at rest forever ! ' '

PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND

The Musings of a Quiet Thinker
By Francis H. Goodale

It has been humorously remarked,
that if persons only talked as little as
they thought, what a silent world this
would be. A very able thinker has
also truly said : ' ' The expression by a
person of his opinions shows where he
stopped thinking. ' '

This goes to show that careful re-
flection and hard thinking are abso-
lutely essential to secure clear, strong,
forcible ideas ; and then, too, we
should also be able to select the proper
words to express these ideas clearly,
forcibly and concisely.

History demonstrates very conclu-
sively that all men who have origi-
nated great and noble ideas, or who
have made important discoveries or
inventions, which have promoted the
welfare of men, have done it by care-
ful, patient, concentrated thinking on
one subject for a long time.

Reflection is to the mind what arti-
ficial instruments are to the senses.
It enables the mind to see, and discern
clearly much more complicated and
difficult problems of life, which could
not, otherwise, have been mastered
and understood.

Emanuel Sevedenborg has very pro-
foundly remarked that, ' ' It is no proof
of a man's understanding to be able
to affirm whatever he pleases; but to
be able to discern that what is true is
true, and that what is false is false;
this is the mark and character of in-
telligence. ' '

Steam, electricity and the other
great forces in Nature had just the
same power and energy hundreds of
years ago, that they now have; but
we did not discover how to use and
control these forces until recent times.
So it is, largely, with the forces of the
mind. They lie dormant for a long
time, until some great kindred force,
in life and Nature comes in direct con-
tact with the intellectual forces of
some great man and gives him con-

structive and creative power to under-
stand some of the great silent laws and
forces governing the material uni-
verse, which constantly transform
nature and life into higher and nobler
being.

Our chief want in life is somebody
to give us a "big push" to make us do
what we can, as so many persons lack
faith, hope, self-reliance, self-trust,
and also the power and courage to live
and act straight up to their own best
convictions, regardless of what other
persons may think or say. ' ' He most
lives, who thinks most, who feels the
noblest, acts the best."

When we get our minds into a fine,
healthy glow, we then get glimpses
"of that immortal light, all young
and joyful, million-orbed, million-
colored, which beams over the universe
as on the first morning " — ; so that we
may truly

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
Drink the wild air's salubrity."

History is only the marriage of
thought to nature; and nature is the
memory of the mind; and so every
great institution is the incarnation of
the thoughts of some great man or
men. The latest writers on Evolu-
tion have, therefore, very properly
put great stress on the constructive
and creative faculties of our minds.

Language is probably the highest
form of intelligence yet developed,
and this is also merely "the incarna-
tion of thought," as S. J. Coleridge
puts it in his "Aids to Reflection,"
or that words are the glasses through
which Ave see ideas, as Joubert has it.

This all goes to show, most forcibly,
then, how history repeats itself over
and over in the expansion and deca-
dence of the intellects of men; and
also why we should always strive
most earnestly to "hold fast to that
which is good," as Saint Paul so
tersely puts it.

NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY

CAPT. EICHAED W. MUSGEOVE

Hon. Biehard Watson Musgrove of Bristol,
a well-known printer and newspaper man, a
brave Union soldier in the Civil War, prom-
inent in Grand Army circles, and in New
Hampshire public life, died at his home in
Bristol, on Thursday, February 19.

He was a native of Bristol, son of James
and Ann (Donker) Musgrove, born November
21, 1840, being one of eleven children, of
whom four yet survive. He was educated
in the Bristol schools and at Tilton Semi-
nary.

August 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company
D, Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteers, for
service in the Union Army, being mustered
in as a corporal, promoted to sergeant March
17, 1863, and first sergeant April 23, 1864.
He took part in the battles of Fredericks-
burg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, carry-
ing the state colors on the third day of the
latter battle. At Point Lookout he had
charge of the camp for prisoners of war,
with 1,000 prisoners in his custody. He was
discharged to accept promotion April 23,
1864, and was made lieutenant of Company
D, United States Volunteer Infantry, a regi-
ment made up of Confederate prisoners of
war who had forsworn their allegiance, and
enlisted as Union soldiers. August 13,
1864, he was appointed Captain of Company
I, of the same regiment, and was mustered
out, May 21, 1866, after a service of three
years and nine months, including three
months as provost-guard at Norfolk, Va.,
and a year at Fort Eidgely, Minn., and some
time at Fort Wallace, Kan.

Eeturning to Bristol, after his discharge,
Captain Musgrove was for some time en-
gaged in the wool business, but in June,
1878, he established the Bristol Weekly
Enterprise, which paper he edited and pub-
lished, continuously, till his death, and also
conducted quite an extensive job printing
establishment in connection therewith, work
in which was done as carefully and con-
scientiously as was all the other work of his

life.

Captain Musgrove served his town for six
years as town clerk; was for six years a
member of the school board of Union Dis-
trict; represented Bristol in the legislature
in 1885, when he secured the passage of the
Act providing for the publication of a
register of New Hampshire soldiers and
sailors in the Civil War, and in 1890-91
represented the Fourth District in the State
Senate, as a Eepublican with which party
he always acted. His greatest service to
his town, however, was rendered in the
compilation of the History of Bristol, pub-
lished in two volumes in 1904, and ranking
among the best of our New Hampshire town

histories. In religion he was a Methodist,
and had been for 43 years recording steward
of the Methodist Church in Bristol. He was
also chairman of the trustees of the Minot
Sleeper Library.

December 23, 1869, he united in marriage
with Miss Henrietta Maria Guild, of New-
port, a native of Walpole, who survives him,
with five children— Frank A., of Hanover,
now state auditor; Mrs. Carrie E. Little of
Hanover ; Mary D., of Bristol ; Mrs Anna B.
Adams of Maiden, Mass., and Eugene E.,
teacher of English in the Horace Mann
School of New York City. A daughter, who
was the first born— Isadore M., who married
Prof. Charles W. Cutts, died in 1902.

WILLIAM W. NILES, D. D., LL. D.

Et. Eev. William Woodruff Niles, Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire,
died at the bishop's house in Concord, on
Tuesday afternoon, March 31, after a long
period "of declining health, at the age of
nearly 82 years.

Bishop Niles, the son of Daniel S. and
Delia (Woodruff) Niles, was born in Hatley,
P. Q., May 24, 1832, and graduated from
Trinity College in 1857.

After graduation he was a tutor in Trinity
College for a year, and subsequently taught
two years in the Hartford High School. He
then entered Berkeley Divinity School, from
which he took his degree in the class of 1861.
He was ordained a deacon the same year,
at Middletown, Conn., and a priest the year
following at Wiscasset, Me., where was his
first parish and where he remained till 1864
when he became Professor of Latin at
Trinity College, continuing till 1870, and
officiating for the last three years of the
time as rector of St. John 's Church at Ware-
house Point, Conn.

September 21, 1870, he was consecrated
Bishop of the New Hampshire diocese and
entered upon his duties, continuing the same
through life — a term of service seldom
equaled, during which he served the church,
the state and the community in which he
lived, with conspicuous ability and fidelity.
He was president of the Corporation of St.
Paul's School, of St. Mary's School for
Girls and of the Holderness School for Boys,
and had served as a vice-president of the
New Hampshire Forestry Commission.

Bishop Niles married, June 5, 1862, Miss
Bertha Olmsted of Hartford, by whom he
is survived, with four children — two sons
and two daughters: Edward Cullen Niles,
attorney and public service commissioner;
Miss Mary Niles ; Eev. William Porter Niles,
rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd,
Nashua; Miss Bertha Niles, teacher of art
and modern languages at St. Mary's school,
Concord.

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HON. JOHN T. ABBOTT

Hon. John T. Abbott, for some years a
prominent lawyer in Keene, and United
States Minister to Colombia, under Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison, from 1889 to 1893,
died at his rooms in the Cheshire House in
that city, where he had been located for
some weeks past, on the evening of Sunday,
March 8, in the 64th year of his age.

Mr. Abbott was born in Antrim, April 26,
1850, being a son of the late Eev. Stephen G.
and Sarah (Cheney) Abbott. His father
was a prominent Baptist clergyman, and
pastor of the church at Antrim at the time of
his birth, while his mother was a member of
the noted Cheney family of whom the late
Gov. Person C. Cheney, and Consul Elias H.
were members. He prepared for college at
Kimball Union Academy and graduated from
Bates in 1871, after which he commenced
the study of law in Boston, was admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Spring-
field, Mass., where he continued till 1878,
when he removed to Keene, and formed a
partnership with Charles H. Hersey, his
former classmate, which continued till his
appointment as Minister to Colombia.
Meanwhile he served five years as city
solicitor of Keene, and to that city he re-
turned and resumed practice in 1893. In
1894 he was appointed judge of probate for
Cheshire County serving five years, when, in
1899, he resigned and became connected with
the San Domingo Development Company,
with which he remained till its dissolution
several years later, when he opened an office
in New York City, where he remained till
early in the present year, when he returned
to Keene, to be near his only surviving child,
Mrs. John E. Allen, during his last days,
having become the victim of an incurable dis-
ease.

Mr. Abbott married, in 1874, Miss Alice
Merriam, who survives, with one daughter,
Amy, above named. He was a Knight
Templar and a 32d degree Mason.

COL. FREDEEICK R. KINSLEY

Col. Frederick R. Kinsley, Commander of
the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment in
the Civil War, died at the home of his niece
Mrs. H. M. Sawyer, in Lowell, March 10,
1914.

Col. Kinsley was born in the town of
Croydon, in this state, July 30, 1829, the son
of Zebediah and Joanna (Blodgett) Kins-
ley, being one of a family of twelve children.
He went to Somerville, Mass., in early youth
where he followed the trade of a brick
maker, and there resided at the outbreak of
the war, when he enlisted in Company I
(Somerville Light Infantry), Fifth Massa-
chusetts Regiment, going out as second
lieutenant. In August, 1862, he reenlisted
in the Thirty-ninth Regiment, and was com-
missioned Captain of Company E. July 13,

1864, he was promoted to the rank of Major
for gallant service. He was captured at the
battle of Weldon Railroad in August follow-
ing and confined in Libby and Salisbury
prisons until March, 1865. After his re-
lease, as ranking officer of his regiment, he
was in command at the grand review in
"Washington in May of that year. In June
following he was promoted to the rank of
Colonel. His brother, Willard C. Kinsley,
also of Somerville, was Captain of Company
K, of the Thirty-ninth Regiment when killed
at the battle of Gravelly Run, near the close
of the war. No two men in the service
were held in higher esteem in Somerville,
than these brothers.

Colonel Kinsley represented Somerville in
the Massachusetts legislature in 1866. In
1868, he retired, with brothers, to a large
farm in Dorchester in this state, where was
his home till about three years ago, since
when he resided with his niece, Mrs Herbert
M. Sawyer, in Lowell. He was never mar-
ried. He is survived by a brother Albert C.
Kinsley, and a sister, Joanna, both now of
Brighton, Mass. He was a member of John
Abbott Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Somerville,
and the Lowell G. A. R.

PROF. FRANCIS COGSWELL
Francis Cogswell, a distinguished educator,
and a representative of the noted New
Hampshire family of that name, died at his
home in Cambridge, Mass., on the morning
of March 3, 1914.

He was a native of the town of Atkinson,
born June 25, 1827, and was educated _ at
Atkinson and Kimball Union Academies.
He taught school in Merrimac, Georgetown
and Weymouth, Mass., and in 1854 went to
Cambridge as head master of the Putnam
Grammar School, which position he held for
twenty years, when he was made superin-
tendent of the Cambridge Schools, continu-
ing in successful service till his resignation
in 1905 — a longer service than had been
rendered by any similar official in New Eng-
land. He had greatly endeared himself to
the people of the city, and on the completion
of fifty years as a Cambridge educator his
portrait was presented to the city by his
friends and hung in the corridor of the City

Hall.

He was a frequent speaker at teachers
conventions, and a contributor to various
educational publications. He was given the
honorary degree of Master of Arts by
Harvard University in 1881. He was an
attendant at the Shepard Memorial Church
in Cambridge and active in Sunday-school
work until past his eightieth year.

He was twice married — first, to Martha A.
Smith of Littleton, Mass., who died in 1859,
and five years later to Esther M. Noyes, who
died in 1912. He is survived by one daugh-
ter — Miss Bertha M. Cogswell, and a grand-
daughter, Miss Gertrude Montague.

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DENIS F. O 'CONNOR

After several years of failing health there
died in Manchester on February 11, 1914,
one who had been long prominent in the
legal and political circles of the Queen City,
in the person of Denis F. O 'Connor, a native
of the city, born March 16, 1855. He was
educated in the Catholic Parochial Schools
of Manchester, and Holy Cross College at
Worcester, studied law with Sulloway &
Topliff, was admitted to the bar, and en-
gaged in practice in his native city where
he continued until failing health disabled
him from further work. He was for a long
time associated in practice with the firm with
which he studied. Later, upon the retire-
ment of Mr. Topliff and Sulloway 's election
to Congress, he took his son, Timothy F., into
partnership with him.

Mr. O'Connor, as a Democrat served four
terms in the state legislature from "Ward 5 —
three upon the Judiciary Committee, and one
upon the Railroad Committee, this being in
1887 — the time of the great fight over the
so-called Hazen bill, which he strongly op-
posed, though it was finally passed only to
be vetoed by Governor Sawyer.

Mr. O'Connor was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention in 1892,
which nominated Grover Cleveland for the
third time as the Democratic candidate for
the presidency, and was also for many years
an active supporter of his party's cause
upon the stump. He served as president of
the old Granite State Democratic Club for
several years, and was actively connected
with the Foresters, Knights of Columbus
and Ancient Order of Hibernians.

He is survived by a wife, a son, Timothy
F. O'Connor, and two grandchildren —
Helen M. and Denis F. O'Connor, Jr.

ERASTUS BARTON POWERS

Erastus Barton Powers, a prominent
lawyer of Boston, and a long time resident
of Maplewood district in Maiden, died at
his home last month from Bright 's disease
after a long illness, although confined to his
house but a few months previous to his
death.

Mr Powers was born in Cornish, the son
of Larned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, being
an elder brother of Samuel L. Powers, the
well-known Republican politician and cor-
poration lawyer, with whom he was also for
a time associated in practice, but with whose
political views he had no sympathy, remain-
ing himself true to the Democratic faith
which he had espoused in youth.

He was a graduate of Dartmouth College
of the class of 1865, and of Harvard Law
School, 1867, after which he located in prac-
tice in Chicago, but, being burned out in the
great fire of 1871, he returned East and
engaged for a time in teaching, first as
principal of the Wareham (Mass.) High

School, and later the Nashua (N. H.) High
School at whose head he remained from 1878
till 1883, when he went to Boston and formed
a law partnership with his brother, which
continued until the latter became an attorney
of the Bell Telephone Company, when he
established an office by himself and so con-
tinued.

As a citizen of Maiden he served for nine
years on the school board, being five years
chairman of the same. He married Miss
Emma F. Deese of Wareham, Mass., who
died three years since. Their only child,
who survives — Ruby Barton Powers — now
Mrs. Clarence W. Clark of Maplewood, is a
prominent Club woman and was for some
time president of the "Old and New," a
famous Maiden's Woman's Club.

HON. EDWIN O. STANARD

Hon. Edwin O. Stanard, who was for a
long time a prominent figure in the business
and political life of St. Louis and of
Missouri, died in that city March 11, 1914.

Mr. Stanard was a native of the town of
Newport, in this state, where he was born
January 5, 1832, but removed when in child-
hood with his parents to the then ' ' Far
West, ' ' locating at length in Iowa, where he
spent his youth, with but limited educational
advantages. Endowed with ambition and
great native ability, he went as a young man
to St. Louis, where, after engaging for a time
in teaching, he established himself in the
commission business and later erected exten-
sive flour mills and was eminently successful
as a manufacturer. He was President of the
St. Louis Merchants Exchange, when the
Democratic National Convention met in that
city in 1876, and was active in extending the
courtesies of the city to that body. He was
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, as a Re-
publican in 1868 and 1869, and also served
in the Forty-third Congress from 1875 to
1877. He was also a director of the Union
Trust Company and of the Boatmen's Bank,
of St. Louis.

HENRY C. WHITCOMB

Henry C. Whitcomb, born in Winchester,
April 8, 1831, died in Dorchester, Mass.,
April 1, 1914.

He was the son of John A. Whitcomb who
went to Winchester from West Boylston,
Mass., to establish a cotton mill, being con-
nected with a syndicate which established
mills in various parts of New England.
While living there Henry C. was born; but
the family removed to Boston in 1840, when
he was nine years of age, and there he was
reared and educated, and engaged in business.
He was for many years connected with the
old New England Type Foundry, and after-
wards head of the firm of H. C. Whitcomb
& Co., engravers and electrotypers.

Mr. Whitcomb served in the Forty-fifth

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Massachusetts Eegiment in the Civil War,
and was a great grandson of Col. Asa Whit-
comb who fought at Bunker Hill. He was
for some time Senior Deacon of the New
South Church of Boston, and later of the
First Church in Koxbury. He had been a
director of the Board of Trustees of the
Franklin Square House since 1901, and was
actively connected with various other be-
nevolent institutions and enterprises. He
was a Mason, Odd Fellow and member of the
G. A. B. He had been married, but his wife
and only child died some time since.

JOSEPH H. HASKELL

Joseph H. Haskell, a prominent citizen
and business man of Claremont, died at his
home in that town, March 24, 1914, after a
long illness, from cancer of the stomach.

He was a native of Bochester, Mass., born
January 29, 1858. His father died when he
was six years old, and his mother engaged
in teaching in South Abington and New
Bedford, and later in Boston where for many
years she taught in the Bigelow School.

At the age of thirteen young Haskell went
to Claremont, and went to work for the
Claremont Manufacturing Company, paper
makers, printers and publishers. Later he
engaged with the Sugar Biver Paper Mill
Company, where he was engaged for fifteen
years. In 1895 he went into business on his
own account in the milling and grain busi-
ness, and afterward engaged in trade as a
flour, grain and hardware merchant.

He was an active member of the Methodist
Church in Claremont, and, as a Eepublican,
served in the Legislature of 1897-98.

In 1879 he married Miss Mary Markolf,
who died in 1894. Two children were born
of this union, a daughter, Evelyn Dexter,
wife of W. T. Jonah of Claremont, and a
son, Harold Morton, a graduate of Dart-
mouth in 1905, and at present in the city
engineer's office, Manchester. In 1895 Mr.
Haskell married Miss Nettie Whitaker, who
with the two children, survives.

WARREN G. BROWN
Warren G. Brown, born in Bristol, July 27,
1834, died at Whitefield, January 4, 1913.

Mr. Brown was long known as one of the
leading lumber operators in the state, being
associated with his brother A. L. Brown at
Campton and Wentworth and afterward at
Whitefield, where they established the
famous Brown Lumber Company, which for
some years did the heaviest business in the
state in that line.

In politics Mr. Brown was active, first as a
Republican, later as a leader in the Greenback
movement, being that party's candidate for
governor, and subsequently acting at times
with the Democrats. He served in the
state legislature in 1872-73. He had been
twice married, the first wife being Ruth Avery
of Campton, and the second Lottie Elliot, who
survives, with two sons, Carl E., of McCall,
Idaho, and Kenneth W. of Whitefield, and
one daughter, Mrs. M. F. Libbey of White-
field.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER'S NOTES

Although we are now in the fourth month
of a campaign year, the ' ' political waters ' '
in New Hampshire are not as yet seriously
troubled. Since the last issue of the
Granite Monthly appeared, there has been
one formal entry in the Eepublican guberna-
torial field — that of Bosecrans W. Pillsbury
of Londonderry and Manchester, who was an
active and prominent candidate for the
nomination in the turbulent convention of
1906, when he finally turned his support to
Charles M. Floyd, insuring his nomination
over Col. Charles H. Greenleaf, the favorite
of the Eepublican ' ' regulars ' ' and Winston
Churchill, the first standard bearer of that
element of the party which has since broken
away and aligned itself under the banner
labeled ' ' Progressive. ' ' Mr. Pillsbury
claims to be, himself, the first real ' ' Pro-
gressive" and to have been the early expo-
nent of the so-called progressive doctrines
which have been to some extent absorbed by
all parties, while at the same time standing
by the Republican organization and support-
ing its nominations; so that he should be

considered acceptable to all men still wear-
ing the party name, or professing allegiance
to its fundamental principles. That he will
be the only candidate for the Eepublican
nomination is scarcely probable. Charles S.
Emerson of Milford, a Eepublican leader
during two legislative sessions, who has been
frequently mentioned as a possibility, has
been formally requested by his Eepublican
legislative committee associates to become
an openly announced candidate. Mr. Emer-
son is holding their request under advise-
ment, and if finally satisfied that the outlook
is favorable, or that there is a general desire
among the party members that he become a
candidate, is not unlikely to so announce him-
self soon. Meanwhile, Mr. Pillsbury main-
tains that some of the managers are utilizing
the suggested Emerson candidacy as a
"blind," and are preparing to bring for-
ward, in due season the hustling young mil-
lionaire manufacturer — Eolland H. Spauld-
ing of Bochester — whose position in the
party has been some times doubtfully
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self -contradictory characterization applied to
some men in the last campaign, of ' ' Taft
Progressive." Ten days ago, Hon. John C.
Hutchins of Stratford, a leading member of
the present State Senate, made public an-
nouncement of his purpose to be a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination. The
name of Councilor Albert W. Noone of
Peterborough has been frequently mentioned
of late as a possible candidate; while Gover-
nor Felker, who has sometimes been men-
tioned as perhaps not averse to a renomina-
tion, in a recently reported interview in
which he said he would not himself be a
candidate, is represented as tentatively sug-
gesting the name of Frank P. Carpenter of
Manchester, recently named as one of the
trustees for the disposition of the New
Haven Stock in the Boston & Maine R. R.
Probabilities as to the Progressive nomina-
tion for Governor are as yet entirely un-
settled. Speaker Britton was the last man
mentioned in print in this connection, but
there is nothing to indicate any purpose on
his part to be a candidate.

As for the United States senatorship there
is no avowed candidate of either party yet
in the field; though, in the interview above
alluded to, Governor Felker is represented as
intimating a purpose on his part to be a
candidate if circumstances render it advis-
able. This is no surprise, as his friends
have all along regarded him as a logical
candidate for this position, and entitled to
general party support. On the other hand,
it has long been understood (though he has
made no public declaration to that effect)
that Senator Hollis will back the candidacy
of Congressman Raymond B. Stevens, if the
latter finally concludes to enter the race.
The Republican candidacy is still a matter
of speculation. If, when the time demand-
ing definite action arrives, there seems to be
an even chance for Republican success, it is
generally believed that Senator Gallinger
will announce himself a candidate for elec-
tion for a fifth term, and that he will be
opposed by no other man among the ' ' stand-
pat" Republicans. The recently published
statement that Secretary of State Pearson
will be a candidate, regardless of Senator
Gallinger 's purpose in the premises, is em-
phatically and indignantly denied by the
latter, who declares, unreservedly, that he

will support Senator Gallinger. Nothing has
been heard, of late, as to the candidacy of
Col. John H. Bartlett of Portsmouth, which
some people expected to materialize before
warm weather sets in. The Progressive
nomination for senator is no less problemat-
ical than that for governor; though there
are those, claiming to know whereof they
speak, who maintain that Raymond B.
Stevens will get the support of that party,
as he did for Congress in the Second District
in the last campaign. The certainty of the
truth of such report would, of course, make
Mr. Stevens a very formidable candidate.

As for the Congressional nominations
there are, thus far, only three candidates
positively in the field — Col. Rufus N. Elwell
of Exeter, Republican, in the First District,
and Mayor Charles J. French of Concord,
Democrat, and Hon. Edward H. Wason, of
Nashua, Republican, in the Second. It is,
of course, generally assumed that Congress-
man Reed, Democratic incumbent in the
First District, will be a candidate to suc-
ceed himself; while it is still expected that
ex-Mayor Shedd of Keene and Dr. Crossman
of Lisbon may seek the Republican nomina-
tion in the Second, if there is any apparent
chance for party success. Mayor Daniel J.
Daley of Berlin is reported to be consider-
ing the chances in a contest with Mayor
Charles J. French of Concord, for the
Democratic nomination. Progressive Con-
gressional candidacies may develop in due
season, but the movements of that party,
generally, are awaiting the return of ex-
Governor Bass and Winston Churchill to the
state before taking definite shape.

At a recent meeting of the Advisory
Board of the Department of Agriculture,
which, under Commissioner Felker 's earnest
and active direction, is getting into first-
class working order, it was unanimously
determined to continue the publication of
the illustrated ' ' Summer Homes ' ' publica-
tion, which, under Secretary Bachelder's
administration, did so much to attract out-
side attention to the state. Stress will be
laid, in the preparation of future issues, one
of which will probably be forthcoming by
the advent of the next legislature, upon the
eligibility of our New Hampshire farms for
permanent as well as summer occupancy.

HARRIET LANE HUNTRESS

Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction

New Hampshire

The Granite Monthly

Vol. XLVI, No. 5

MAY, 1914

New Series, Vol. 9, No. 5

HARRIET LANE HUNTRESS

Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction

In ten states of the Union at least,
women will vote for President of the
United States at the next election,
and probably in more, as several
other states are meanwhile to pass
upon constitutional amendments pro-
viding for equal suffrage. In a ma-
jority of all the states, including New
Hampshire, women have voted in
school affairs for many years, or at
least have had the privilege of so
voting, though it seems to be true
that, like most of the men, they have
failed to use the same as generally as
they ought.

Nineteen-twentieths of the teachers
in the public schools of the country
are women, and in a considerable pro-
portion of our New Hampshire towns,
as well as in some of the cities, women
are serving as members of the school
boards. In some of the Western
states, women have served, and served
efficiently, as superintendents and
deputy superintendents of public in-
struction; but until the present year
no woman in New England has ever
served in any such position. It re-
mained for New Hampshire to lead
the way in this regard among New
England states, as she did in the
matter of granting school suffrage to
women and as she is expected to do
in the matter of full suffrage, also,
by placing a woman in the position
of deputy superintendent, as one of
the three officials of that rank pro-
vided for by the Act of the Legislature,
at the last session, reorganizing the
educational department of the state
in accordance with the demands of
modern progress. The appointee in
this case, moreover, had fully earned
the recognition accorded her by twen-
ty-five years of faithful and efficient

service as chief clerk in the superin-
tendent's office.

Harriet Lane Huntress, who was
appointed Deputy Superintendent of
Public Instruction on the 1st of Sep-
tember, last, is unquestionabty a more
familiar figure in the educational life
of the state than any other person
within its limits, since through the
position she has occupied under
Superintendents Patterson, Gowing,
Folsom and Morrison, for the past
quarter of a century, she has come in
direct personal and business contact
with more men and women engaged
in educational work than any other;
while through the experience naturally
and necessarily gained in the proper
performance of her duties, she has
become more familiar with the oper-
ation and administration of our public
school system in general and in detail,
than any one else, so that her selec-
tion as deputy in special charge of
the office work of the department, is
not only highly satisfactory to all
directly concerned, but eminently
appropriate.

Miss Huntress was born in that
part of the town of Center Harbor
then a portion of Meredith, December
30, 1860, being the daughter of James
Lewis and Harriet (Paige) Huntress.
Her father, who came of an old Ports-
mouth family and was a native of
that city, was favorably known to the
public for many years as proprietor of
the Senter House at Center Harbor,
one of the most popular summer re-
sorts of the Lake Winnepesaukee
region; while her mother, a native of
Hopkinton, was of the best Colonial
stock, — among her ancestors being
Capt. William Stinson, one of the first
settlers of Dunbarton, — a woman of

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strong character and true worth to application to official duty. She is
whose self-reliant nature the daughter an active member of the Society of
is in no small degree indebted for the Second Congregational (Unita-
the independent spirit by which she rian) Church of Concord and has
is characterized. served on its executive committee.
In the private schools of the city Within the last few years, realizing
of Boston, where was her winter home what the ballot for woman means for
in early life, Miss Huntress obtained the general advancement of the race,
her elementary education, the same she has actively interested herself in
being supplemented by a four years' the suffrage movement, and is the
course at the then famous school for present treasurer of the New Hamp-
young ladies at Prospect Hill, Green- shire Woman Suffrage Association,
field, Mass. It was not, however, She was for several years a trustee of
until she accepted the position in the Margaret Pillsbury Hospital,
superintendent's office, under the ad- Coming of a patriotic ancestry,
ministration of Professor Patterson, whose spirit she inherited in full
April 1, 1889, where, as heretofore measure, she naturally became inter-
stated, she has continuously re- ested in the inception of the move-
mained, that she entered upon any ment for the organization of a chapter
special line of work. To this, through of the Daughters of the American
all these years, she has devoted her Revolution in Concord, and was a
time and energy, in systematic appli- charter member and the first treasurer
cation to the work of the office in all of Rumford Chapter, D. A. R. And
its various lines and details, till her here it may be said that the distinc-
thorough mastery of the same has tion or recognition in which she nat-
rendered her service almost inval- urally takes greatest pride is that
uable to the successive incumbents of which comes through her recent elec-
the superintendent's office, and has tion, at the annual meeting, May 15,
brought a measure of substantial as vice-regent for New Hampshire of
reward, in this recent appointment— the Mount Vernon Ladies' Associa-
a recognition of merit universally tion of America, holding in its owner-
approved, and which will undoubtedly ship and perpetual care, that most
redound to the welfare of the cause sacred of all our national patriotic
of education throughout the state. shrines — the home and burial place of

While devoting herself heartily and the immortal Washington,
conscientiously to her office work, It may be added in conclusion that
Miss Huntress has by no means while her work as deputy superin-
neglected the social and community tendent will be, as it has been hereto-
demands appealing to public-spirited fore, mainly in charge of the depart-
and patriotic womanhood. She was ment office, she is also charged by the
a charter member of the Concord superintendent with special direction
Woman's Club, which long since came of the relations of the department,
to be a potent factor in the progressive constantly growing in importance,
life of the Capital City, and has served with the various movements and or-
as chairman of its Educational Com- ganizations through which the women
mittee. She is also an interested of the state are working with con-
member of the Country and Friendly stantly increasing effect for the social
Clubs, and was one of the leading and intellectual betterment of the
spirits in the organization of the people, for which work her qualifi-
Beaver Meadow Golf Club, her inter- cations and adaptation are admirable,
est and participation in whose activi- indeed, and in the furtherance of
ties contributed in no small measure which she has been heard of late, to
to the physical vigor which renders good effect, in the meetings of these
possible such constant and tireless organizations.

TREASURES

By Eva Beede Odell

Many foreign lands they traversed,
Seeking treasures rich and rare,

Paintings, vases, statuary,

All to grace their dwelling fair.

How they loved their stately mansion,
Filled with wealth from every clime !

And they lived as if eternal

Were the transient joys of time.

When, at last, grown old and weary,
To the Avorld beyond they went,

Plain and bare the home they found there,
Where so little they had sent.

But abodes of earth-poor neighbors

Were so beautiful to see,
That they questioned of an angel

How this contrast came to be.

"Your possessions," said the seraph,
' ' Differed much from theirs in kind ;

All accumulations earthly,

Entering here one leaves behind.

' ' Deeds of kindness, sacrifices,

Hand-clasps, smiles and words of cheer-
These are what the angels gather

For the many mansions here. ' '

HER SILENT WRAITH

By Elizabeth Thompson Ordway

' ' He is not here ; he has gone, my child ! ' '
And they tried to lift her from his side,
Where she held fast his chilled hands —
This girl so lately made a bride.

Bewildered, stunned beyond belief,
She let them do whate'er they would,

So they could care for what he 'd left
And place within its case of wood.

Time went on ; her silence broke,

She raged, she stormed against her fate,

Wandering far, she ever sought
In bitter grief her vanished mate.

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"Why should he die, and I be left?

Why should I live, while he is dead ? ' '
Impotent rage, impotent grief,
In which so many things are said.

The years have flown, she still is here,
And now one often sees her smile,

And listens to the sweetest laugh

That breaks your heart for many a while.

She walks alone, because she will,
Full many sigh for her fair faith,

But always in her heart she keeps
Communion with her silent wraith.

TRAILING ARBUTUS

By Amy J. Dolloff

Trailing Arbutus, sweet flower of the Spring-tide !

Fairer to me than all others thou art !
Visions of purity, sweetness and modesty

All are enshrined in thy little white heart.

While Winter's rough winds raged in fury above thee,
Under the snow thou didst patiently wait ;

Never a murmur though drifts piled above thee,

Though dark was thy prison and Springtime was late.

But soon as the warm breezes came to awake thee
And softly the rain-drops fell trickling down,

Thy snow-captor vanished, the sun shone upon thee,
Thy petals were opened, my May-flower was crowned !

Yes, Queen of the Spring-tide, I bow low before thee !

And now to thy heart let my heart be laid bare ;
For thy fragrance brings back to me fondest remembrance

Of days in whose happiness thou hadst a share.

In childhood I searched for thee, gaily and blithely ;

In girlhood I prized thee as something most rare ;
In maidenhood wore thee — that one glorious morning —

To rest on my bosom and twine in my hair.

A brother's hand plucked thee ; a mother's arranged thee ;

A husband's caressed thee when plightings were o'er;
And now I will cherish thee, tenderly, lovingly,

Till unto my vision earth scenes are no more.

And I hope when my spirit wings upward to glory
Some one will lay on the clay that's left here

Just a bunch of thy blossoms, Trailing Arbutus,
Of all lovely flowers to me the most dear !

AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT

Will of Ebenezer Webster of Kingston, Great-Grandfather

of Daniel

Daniel Webster, New Hampshire's Room in My House which she shall
most noted son, was of the fifth gener- Choose; & also one Third part of the
ation from Thomas, the first of the Cellar Dureing her state of Widow-
family in the country, who, born in hood; And also all the Houshold stuff
Ormsby, Norfolk County, England, or moveable Estate within doors for
was brought to America by his ever to be at her Dispose Except one
mother, who, as the wife of William feather Bed which at her decease is
Godfrey, whom she had married after to return to my son Ebenezer; And
the decease of her first husband, also seven Bushels of Indian Corn &
Thomas Webster, came over early in Two Bushels of English Corn & One
the seventeenth century locating first Bushel of malt One Hundred pounds
in Watertown, Mass., but subse- of good Pork, fifty pounds of good
quently removing to Hampton in this Beef yearly & every year Dureing her
state. " state of widowhood to be Raised &

Here was born, August 1, 1667, Levied out of my Estate, viz; out of
Ebenezer, son of Thomas Webster, that part of my Estate which I shall
who became one of the proprietors of hereafter in this Instrument Give unto
Kingston, where he settled and was my son Ebenezer; & In Case it shou d
long a leading citizen, serving in the plase God to Exercise her with Sick-
Indian War and taking a prominent ness or other Indisposition so that he
part in public affairs. He married, my s d son Ebenezer shall provide for
August 1, 1709, Hannah Judkins. her things Comfortable & necessary
They had several children, one of & Physicians & Nurse as need shall
whom was Ebenezer (II) whose son require & also one Barrel of Cyder
Ebenezer (III) was the father of yearly Dureing her state of widow-
Daniel Webster. hood.

A copy of the will of this first Eben- Item I Give to my wellbeloved son
ezer Webster, the Kingston proprie- Ebenezer whom I Likewise Constitute
tor; appearing in the second volume of make & Ordain my sole Executor of
New Hampshire Probate Records, this my Last Will & Testament; forty
now in press, is presented below, as of Acres of my Homestead place &
historical and genealogical interest. Bounded as followeth viz to begin at
the southerly End of my s d Land

In the Name of God Amen the where it is Bounded on y e High Way

Twelfth day of January Annoq Dom- & takeing y e whole width of y e s d

ini 1735/6 I Ebenezer Webster of Homestead Land & to run & Extend

Kingstown in the Province of New Northerly keeping y e whole width

Hamps: in New England yeoman; be- till it make or Complete y e s d forty

ing very sick & weak in Body . . . acres haveing Land of John Websters

Imprimis I Give & Bequeath unto on y e East & the residue of my S d

Hannah my Dearly beloved Wife One Homestead Lieing on y e north &

Acre of Land out of my Homestead Land of Lieu* John Sweat & Elisha

place to be good profitable Land fit Sweat on y e West; & also all y e Priv-

for tillage as near & Convenient for ileges & appurtenances or Commod-

her as may be found for her to hold ities unto the same belonging; with the

Dureing her natural Life; & at her other End of my House & y 6 remaining

Decease to return to those Children part of the Cellar & also y e Barn &

in whose part it shall fall; & also one Orchard thereon; & also all my Move-

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able Estate without Doors as Cattle
Horse Sheep &c & all Impliments for
man and Beast; & also hereby willing
and ordering my s d son Ebenezer to
pay all my Debts; & to make y e
above mentioned Provision for my s d
Wife as y e above mentioned Corn In-
dian & English & malt pork Beef
Cyder & Also to provide her A Horse
to be at her service & also to keep &
maintain her a Cow Constantly & to
keep for her Two sheep Dureing her
state of Widowhood.

Item & also hereby further Willing
& ordering my s d son Ebenezer to pay
or Deliver unto my four Daughters:
viz Rachel, Susanna, Hannah, &
Mary, to Each of them A Cow to be
Delivered to Each & Every of them
in y e fall or Autumn season of y e
year; & further at y e End of seven
years from my Decease to pay or
Deliver unto my s d four Daughters
unto Each & Every of them A Heifer
Comeing in three years Old or y e
value thereof

Item I Give to Wellbeloved sons
Joseph & Iddo the residue of my S d
Homestead place as followeth viz: to

Joseph I Give fifteen Acres with y e
Priviledges & Appurtenances thereto
belonging: & to Iddo I Give the rest
be it more or Less & to Iddo I Give all
my out Lands & If there be any thing
Left out of this my Last will I Give it
to my s d son Iddo: And I do hereby
utterly disallow revoke & disanul all
& every other former Testaments
legacies Wills & Bequests & Executors
by me in any ways before named
Willed & Bequeathed; Ratifying &
Confirming this & no other to be my
Last Will & Testament. In Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand
& seal y e day & year above written

Ebenezer Webster

Signed sealed published pro-
nounced & declared by y e s d
Ebenezer Webster as his Last
Will & Testament In presence of
us y e Subscribers

John ffifield
Ezra Clough
Jeremy Webster

(Proved March 16, 1735-6.)

SLEEP

By A. H. McCrillis

Sweet sleep, thou balm for all our woes,
Come now and give my weary brain

A rest from doubt and constant care,
With sweet forgetfulness of pain.

A boon and saviour may 'st thou be,
To save from all disturbing thought,

And may we lie in thy embrace
Until a quiet change be wrought.

Wilt thou enfold in arms of love
All who may need thy potent sway,

Hold sorrowing and wounded hearts,
On them thy soothing magic lay.

A VETERAN OF TWO WARS

General Henry Dearborn and His Campaigns
By Gilbert Patten Brown

The American Republic has not yet
■forgotton the man, some of whose
many virtues this monograph will en-
deavor to portray. His name is em-
balmed by his own "Endymion,"
where, in the language of Keats, he
sings in tones of deathless rapture,
' ' A thing of beauty is a Joy forever. ' '

The aristocracy of worth is as old
as the human family itself. It is con-
fined to no race or creed of men, nor
is it limited to any condition of wealth
or inheritance, nor dependent upon
any external influence or patronage.
The rational world willingly yields to
its ascendency. One measuring to the
top notch in this category will at this
time be briefly referred to. His name
should need no introduction to the
American student, or to any lover of
world biography. The only real his-
tory of the world is biography. It is
the genius in man that furnishes
material worthy to commemorate his
noble deeds.

Rural New Hampshire played well
her part in the early life of the world 's
most cheerful Republic. In King
Philip's "War, 1676, at the siege of
Louisburg, 1745, at Bunker Hill, and
at Yorktown, her sons rendered in-
valuable service. It is to be remem-
bered that the subject of this article
was the commander-in-chief of the
United States armies during the war
of 1812-1815. And then in the great
struggle of the early sixties, the Fifth
New Hampshire Volunteers lost more
men than any other regiment in the
Federal armies. In the affairs of
state, both local and national, the sons
of the Granite State played no small
parts. So here is the story in brief,
of one New Hampshire soldier : .

Among the early New England
settlers was the distinguished name of
Dearborn. Godfrey Dearborn was
born in Exeter, in the county of

Dover, in England, and, when arriv-
ing in America, settled in New Hamp-
shire and named the place of his
settlement Exeter. He was one of the
thirty-five men to sign the constitution
for the government of Exeter, in 1739.
In 1749, he moved to Hampton, N. H.,
where he died February 4, 1786.

From that sturdy oak of New
England life the subject of this
memoir was descended. He is none
other than Henry Dearborn, born at
Hampton, N. H., February 23, 1751 —
son of Simon and Sarah (Marston)
Dearborn.

The early education of Henry Dear-
born was obtained at the district
school of his native town, and his
course in medicine was under the
tuition of that learned physician Dr.
Hall Jackson of Portsmouth. In 1772
he settled as a physician at Notting-
ham Square, and had a good practice
at the breaking out of the American
Revolution. In Portsmouth was old
"St. John's Lodge, No. 1," of Free-
masons. The leading men of the town
were members of that sturdy body;
and the young physician of rural
Nottingham wished to learn the mys-
teries of Freemasonry. Dr. Hall
Jackson was one of the leading
Masonic lights in all New Hampshire,
and an active member of St. John's
Lodge. It was while studying med-
icine with Doctor Jackson that young
Dearborn got his first idea of the
mysteries and beauties of Free-
masonry.

Portsmouth, in those days, was a
town of marked activity and inter-
national trade. Some few of the
early members of this old lodge (the
second oldest in New England) had
been made Masons in England; some
in London, others in Bristol. Doctor
Dearborn was a most cheerful pilgrim
on the road of Masonic wisdom. Doc-

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tor Jackson helped to make the young
physician a Mason.

He received the first and second
degrees March 5, 1774, in company
with Major Andrew McClary, who
was killed by a cannon ball at Bunker
Hill. Doctor Dearborn did not re-
ceive the third degree until April 6,
1777. The reason for the time of
three years between the date of his
receiving the first and second degrees,
and that of a Master Mason, was from
the fact that he was a soldier in the

Gen. Henry Dearborn

army of the Revolution and was taken
prisoner at the battle of Quebec, De-
cember 31,1775, at which fight brother
Gen. Richard Montgomery was slain.

A few years ago, among rubbish in
an ash barrel at Kennebunk, Maine,
was discovered the Masonic diploma
issued to the subject of this mono-
graph by St. John's Lodge, No. 1,
April 6, 1777, which Avas returned to
the lodge, and is now in the possession
of William B. Randall, its able and
cheerful secretary.

Soon after settling in Nottingham,
and anticipating trouble with the

mother county, Doctor Dearborn
organized a military company and
was elected its captain. When the
news of Concord and Lexington
reached the town, he, with Joseph
Cilley and Thomas Bartlett, reorgan-
ized the little command, and, at the
head of sixty men, marched Captain
Dearborn, on the morning of April 20,
1775, towards Cambridge, Mass.

In less than twenty-four hours
those farmer volunteers marched a
distance of fifty -five miles. After re-
maining there several days they re-
turned home. A regiment was at once
organized, commanded by Col. John
Stark, and Doctor Dearborn was, on
April 23, 1775, commissioned a cap-
tain. His company arrived at Old
Medford, Mass., May 15, and in a few
days was engaged in a skirmish on
Hog Island. He had been sent by
the colonel to prevent the stock being
carried off by the British, and in a
few days later took part in an engage-
ment with an armed vessel near Win-
nesimet Ferry.

The following letter by Colonel
Stark is self-explanatory:

"Medford, June 8, 1775.

Captain Henry Dearborn: — You are re-
quired to go with one sergeant and twenty
men to relieve the guards at Winter Hill and
Temple's tomorrow morning at nine o'clock,
and there to take their places and orders,
but first to parade before New Hampshire
Chambers (Billings Tavern). John Stark,
Col. ' '

Captain Dearborn endorsed the
order by writing on the back, "first
time I ever mounted guard."

Very early on the 17th of June,
Colonel Stark's regiment marched to
Bunker Hill. Captain Dearborn's
company was the flank guard of the
regiment. In the thickest of the fray
were Dearborn and his men. He took
with him his small medicine case,
which he lashed, together with his
sword, to his coat, and did one man's
part in using the old king 's arm upon
the forces of England.

In the following September, he
volunteered and joined the expedition

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of Geu. Benedict Arnold through the
wilderness to old Quebec, where on
December 31, 1775, he was taken
prisoner. He was not exchanged
until March 10, 1777, and nine days
later he was made major of the Third
New Hampshire Regiment, to rank
from November 8, 1776. Col. Alex-
ander Scammell (another member of
St. John's Lodge, No. 1) commanded
that regiment of veterans.

At Stillwater, Major Dearborn
fought bravely ; and on September 19,
1777, was transferred to the First

passed through an orchard, Major
Dearborn played a most daring and
important feat.

After the British had been beaten
off, Colonel Cilley dispatched his
major to General Washington to see
what further service was required be-
fore taking refreshments. The little
doctor-soldier's face was black from
smoke of battle. He saluted the gen-
eral, who cried out : ' ' "What troops
are those ? ' ' Major Dearborn replied :
"Full blooded Yankees from New
Hampshire, sir." "Your men, sir,

^^^1^1:^ :r.c~-aiSb;.-— J

Nottingham Square

The first building on the left in the picture is the school house: near this is the Bradbury Bartlett Place, while
toward the right is the Butler Place, formerly the Butler Tavern but now a boarding house. A little way from
this was the Dearborn Place, the old home of General Deaborn, which has been removed, the main portion being
now a part of the residence of Mr. Hersey Durgin, just off the road leading to Nottingham Center. The D. A. R.
has set up a marker in memory of General Dearborn.

Regiment of New Hampshire Conti-
nental troops, commanded by Col.
Joseph Cilley who had, on June 15,
1775, been made a Mason in St. John's
Lodge, No. 1, ' ' Gratis, " " for his good
service in the defense of his country. ' '
At the battle of Monmouth, the First
New Hampshire Regiment fought
bravely and Colonel Cilley and Major
Dearborn "attracted particularly the
attention of the commander in-chief. ' '
It was after General Lee's blunder
that Washington ordered Colonel
Cilley 's regiment to attack a body of
the British crack troops. As they

have done gallant service ; fall back
and refresh yourselves," quickly re-
plied Washington.

The following day, General Wash-
ington, in his general orders expressed
the highest commendation of the ex-
ploit of that regiment. Here General
Washington learns that Major Dear-
born is a member of the Masonic in
stitution, and is popular in the cloth
of the craft.

One of Doctor Dearborn's profes-
sional friends, as well as a military
compeer, was Col. John Hale, M. D.,
of Hollis, N. H. (the narrator's ma-

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ternal great-great-grandfather), sur-
geon under Colonel Cilley in the First
New Hampshire Continental Regi-
ment.

The assistant surgeon of the cele-
brated First New Hampshire was Dr.
Jonathan Poole of Hollis (a native of
Woburn, Mass.) . With Colonel Ciller,
and Major Dearborn, Doctors Hale
and Poole played important parts in
the battles of Saratoga and Stillwater.
(Doctor Poole was the narrator's ma-
ternal great-grandfather.) At Mon-
mouth, many of the First New Hamp-
shire were wounded and some died.

In 1779, Major Dearborn accom-
panied Major-Gen. John Sullivan
(another member of St. John's Lodge
of Portsmouth) on the noted expedi-
tion against the Tories and Indians
and took an active part in the action
of August 29, at Newburn. Here the
First New Hampshire lost many men.

On April 7, 1779, we find Dearborn
present as a visitor at "American
Union Lodge" in the Army, which
opened as an Entered Apprentice
Lodge. He was at that time a
Masonic guest of Major-Gen. Samuel
Holden Parsons of Connecticut, an
active member of that renowned lodge.

In 1781 he was appointed deputy
quartermaster-general, with the rank
of lieutenant colonel, and served with
a branch of General "Washington's
army in Virginia. He could be
trusted at all times. He served until
March 5, 1782, when he retired to pri-
vate life. In 1784 he moved from
New Hampshire to Kennebec, in the
District of Maine. In 1787 he was
elected brigadier-general of militia
and later was appointed a major-
general. In 1790, Washington ap-
pointed him marshal for the District
of Maine.

He was twice elected representative
from old Kennebec County to Con-
gress. On March 5, 1801, he was
appointed by President Jefferson, sec-
retary of war, which office he held
with credit to himself until March 7,
1809, when he resigned and was
appointed collector for the Port of
Boston.

On January 27, 1812, he was com-
missioned as senior major-general in
the army of the United States. His
military bearing was of the best; he
was popular with his men, and was
loved by his fellow officers.

The one failure of brother Gen.
William Hull at Detroit had a deep
effect upon the plans of General Dear-
born. Commodore Chauncey and
General Lewis worked in perfect
harmony with General Dearborn in
all his plans. On the forced march
to Four Mile Creek, the hospital sur-
geon of the army, Doctor Mann, said
to General Dearborn, "I apprehend
you do not intend to embark with the
army." The general replied: "I
apprehend nothing, sir; I go into
battle or I perish in the attempt. ' '

The little engagements of the War
of 1812 were tame to him, compared
with some of the hard battles of the
Revolution he had participated in.
He was honorably discharged from the
army June 15, 1815. In 1822 he was
appointed minister plenipotentiary to
Portugal, and after two years re-
turned to America at his own request.

The hard service in the two wars of
his country had broken down his
health. He was a member of that
distinguished American body, the
"Society of the Cincinnati," and be-
came one of its general officers. Never
was any one of his undertakings a
failure. The sturdy Anglo-Saxon an-
cestry of General Dearborn was
plainly manifest in his character.

He first married, in 1771, Mary
Bartlett; second, 1780, Dorcas (Os-
good) Marble; third, 1813, Sarah
Bowdoin, widow of Gov. James
Bowdoin of Massachusetts. His son,
Henry Alexander Scammel Dearborn,
was born March 3, 1783, and died
July 29, 1851. General Dearborn
possessed that one rare jewel of men-
tal aristocracy which has been common
in almost every age and country. He
■would have been a valuable man in
the medical department of the Con-
tinental Army, but he knew where he
could do the best service to human
kind. The careful and curious stu-

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dent of the War of 1812 finds no
officer of more value to the American
cause than Major-Gen. Henry Dear-
horn.

He died at Roxbury, Mass., June
6, 1829, and was buried at Mt. Auburn
Cemetery, with full civil, military and
Masonic honors. No stone or epitaph
marks his last resting place. His
achievements were vast for American
liberty, and we find that he has not
proper space on history's page. The
writer considers it his duty to con-
tribute to literature this article, that
generations yet unborn may read of
the virtues of the physician-general
of America's two wars with England.

No Masonic lodge bears his honored
name. In Roxbury District, Boston,
is a street named in his honor. In
the modest tomb of Gov. James
Bowdoin rests the ashes of this humble
physician of Nottingham amid the
forests of New Hampshire; the vol-
unteer captain, under the daring
Stark at the battle of Bunker Hill;
the prisoner of Quebec, who, in com-
pany with brother Col. Return Jona-
than Meigs, after their release from
the British prison, traveled on foot
from Quebec to Portsmouth, N. H.

When Colonel Dearborn joined the
Camp at Valley Forge he became as
valuable as a physician as he was as

a line officer. He was a brilliant man,
and Washington loved him dearly.

The writer has visited the old lodge,
that made Henry Dearborn, a Mason,
and there read its ancient book of
records whose revered pages contained
the name of the once physician of
Nottingham. He has stood upon the
summit of Breed's Hill (historically
known as Bunker Hill) where a then
young New Hampshire surgeon played
the part of a volunteer captain,
against the picked men of the land of
his forefathers. He has stood amid
the once wilds of the Kennebec where
the veteran of Monmouth, Saratoga
and Stillwater acted as a rural physi-
cian, curing disease with roots and
herbs and with other pioneer methods.
He was born in Bristol, Maine, over
whose historic soil Captain Dearborn
walked on his return from captivity
in Quebec. Lastly he has stood be-
side the tomb in Mount Auburn,
Watertown, Mass., that contains the
bones of the patriotic and fearless
Henry Dearborn, whom Washington
trusted, Jefferson loved and whose
last resting place is yet marked by
no monument !

May the Granite State take tfie first
step towards erecting a fitting shaft to
his glorious memory !

A COUNTRY ROAD

By Fred Myron Colby

A road with trees on either side,

Through which, if you should chance to ride,

A bit of sky shows at its end

As arching trees together bend.

A sort of an enchanted land —
This trodden path of loam and sand,
With rocks and moss beside the way,
'er which the summery branches sway.

You seem to be in old Arcade,
Where art, in sloping roof, has made
Resemblance to the arching trees
As they bend down before the breeze.

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Along one side, a river strays,
Curving in many nooks and bays ;
And fertile meadows stretch away
To slopes where dancing sunbeams play.

Green pasture lands, a farm house white,
On other side dawns on the sight ;
And lines of sumac, all ablaze,
Illume the scene on autumn days.

A rustic bridge, a babbling brook,
That winds adown like shepherd 's crook ;
A glimpse of flashing water falls,
Where summer birds sing madrigals.

Oh, fair and sweet, this country way,
Where youthful lovers laughing stray ;
Where, wandering on an afternoon,
One hears the pipes of Pan atune.

In youth 's fair day, in manhood 's years,

In moods of laughter or of tears,

We Ve roamed this haunting pathway through,

And dreamed o'er each dissolving view.

INVOCATION TO SLEEP

By Mary H. Wheeler

Sleep, gentle Sleep, at the trysting place

I have waited long for thee.
The moon in a cloud hides her laughing face,

And the stars seem to wink at me.
Time furls his wings and is snail-like slow,
And the lagging hours forget to go.

I know, dear Sleep, I have sometimes turned

To the printed page from thee,
When the midnight lamp inviting burned

And the book had a charm for me,
And was it this that could so offend,
And estrange from me a life-long friend ?

Forgive, dear Sleep, and come to me now

In thy flowing robe of rest,
With the veil of dreams o 'er thy fair, white brow

And the poppies at thy breast.
Come touch my lids with thy breath of balm
And pillow my head on thy peaceful arm !

A NEW ENGLAND MAY DAY FESTIVAL

By An Occasional Contributor

" I feel in every midge that hums,
Life fugitive and infinite,
And suddenly the world becomes
A part of me and I of it."

The early impressions of childhood,
especially as to things pertaining to
outdoor life, are so much stronger and
more vivid than those received in ma-
ture life, that it seems to be quite
important these impressions should
not be allowed to slumber and stag-
nate, but that the good old New Eng-
land customs and ways of child and
adult life should be revived and per-
petuated by succeeding generations
in order that new zest and vigor may
be added to the ordinary routine of
life to drive dull care away.

May Day was always a most de-
lightful and memorable occasion in
the New England homes, being the
annual celebration of the return of
new life, and the re-birth of spring,
when the trailing arbutus comes forth
in all its sweet beauty, as the blush on
a fair maiden's cheek, ere the last
snow drift has disappeared, tinged
with color faintly, like the morning
sky, and with a delightful sweetness,
which lingers long in our memories.

In a beautiful valley in northern
New Hampshire is a large cone-shaped
peak, called the "Pinnacle," as it
rises abruptly for about three hun-
dred feet from the surrounding hills.
Many years ago it was thickly cov-
ered with pines, spruces and hem-
locks, and close by was a beautiful
little New England village. It was
the annual custom on the first day of
May for all the young people, and
also for many of the semi-young old
folks to celebrate the day, on the top
of this Pinnacle, with a royal picnic
and feast.

The preparations for this event
were very elaborate and interesting,
and they were generally begun at
least one week before it took place.
All the big boys and also some of the

smaller ones, with axes and hatchets,
went up to the top of the Pinnacle,
which was about one thousand feet
long on the top, and selected a good,
flat, smooth spot, which was large
enough to make a long arbor of
spruce, pine, hemlock or cedar boughs,
covered with a slanting roof of the
same, which filled it with spicy fra-
grance. A long table was made, run-
ning through the center of the rustic
arbor, sufficient to accommodate
twenty or thirty persons. The arbor
was decorated with evergreens, trail-
ing arbutus and also the traditional
May Pole, which was regarded as the
crowning feature of the festival, with
its multi-colored ribbons flying in the
passing breezes. After this, many
eager hands arranged the table, with
the goodies prepared days beforehand,
by the entire population of the vil-
lage — chickens, boiled ham, cake, pies,
gingerbread, jelly, jam, nuts, raisins,
hard boiled eggs, sandwiches, pickles,
lemonade, coffee, milk and other dain-
ties. Much effort was expended in
bringing the eatables, dishes, and
other necessary things to the summit
of this steep cone, yet all felt fully
repaid for their strenuous exertions
when everything was ready for the
occasion. Each boy selected his best
girl, if he was fortunate enough to
have one, and the fun began at once.
It was kept up all day, continuously,
each one entering into the spirit of
the occasion with zest and merriment.
But no one was satisfied with one
feast ; so, about every two hours, hun-
gry boys and girls came to the well-
filled table for something more, and
such appetites! Where have they
gone now? Some of the big boys
boasted of having a thirst, which was
so long that it was unquenchable —
consequently the lemonade, milk, cof-
fee, etc., disappeared, before the feast
was over, where no mortal eye could
behold it more.

Another favorite diversion of the

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boys was to see who could eat the
most. So they were weighed before
and after eating. Two and one-half
pounds was the limit for the cham-
pion stuffer, unless some one surrep-
titiously tried to cheat, by putting a
stone in his pocket. If that was done,
the culprits were generally detected
and put on half rations for the rest
of the day as a punishment. Then
came the games and the forfeits,
which some of the big boys had to
pay so reluctantly; such as kissing
the girl they didn't want to kiss ; roll-
ing down a steep bank with another
boy, with their legs tied, to see who
would get there first ; playing ' ' Grace
hoops" with their sweetheart, and
when the hoop had been thrown over
the darling's head, the painful sweet-
ness and suspense while waiting for
the forfeited kiss. It used to be sup-
posed that this sweet girl would ac-
tually duck her head sometimes in
order to assist the hoop to go over it
easily. Here arises a great moral
question — why is stolen fruit always
the sweetest? "Washington Irving, in
one of his sketches, tells us in his most
charming manner how he once in-
duced a small boy to assist him in
stealing some of his own fruit; then,
the delightful sensations he and the

boy had in eating it "on the sly"
under the hedge, where they had con-
cealed themselves. Of course the boy
was not let into the secret that Irving
was eating his own stolen fruit.

Another game was "Follow your
Leader, ' ' when, if one failed to do all
the wonderful and original stunts re-
quired, the usual penalties followed.
One of the most vivid recollections of
these May Day festivities was, when
after the arbor had been built and the
table set ready for the feast, a small
army of big black ants took possession
of the premises and attempted to drive
off the rightful owners to have a nice
feast all by themslves. So that, when
everybody sat down to enjoy the good-
ies, a nice young lady would suddenly
jump up, give a little squeal and
start off into the woods on the run,
followed soon by the other girls. This
was when the attack began and it
broke up the feast on that spot. But
the big boys rallied to the rescue, mov-
ing the table with all the things on it,
to another locality, where there were
no disreputable black ants to annoy
the dear, sweet girls — God bless them,
one and all. How could we possibly
get along without them? May they
continue to live and enjoy these May
Day frolics 'til time shall be no more.

Tougaloo, Miss.

A DAFFODIL

By Frances M. Pray
little daffodil, grown close

To yonder old oak's trunk so gray,
Your brightness cheers each passer-by, —

A touch of brightness on his way.

When low the cold wind bends your stem,
When showers come throughout the day,

Undaunted still your brightness shows,
Be cloud or sunshine as it may.

Though withered soon your leaves must be
Your life is surely not in vain,

For in each heart that sees you there
Your yellow brightness blooms again.

When Spring is gone with budded hopes,
And days sometimes with showers fill,

The heart that saw you yet can smile
For there you bloom, dear daffodil.

THE MORAL AND ECONOMIC WASTE

OF WAR

Prize Essay Contest Under the Auspices of the New
Hampshire Peace Society

On Monday evening, May 18, in
Representatives Hall at the State
House in Concord, five students,
representing three academies of the
state — two from Kimball Union Acad-
emy, Meriden, two from Sanborn
Seminary, Kingston, and one from
Tilton Seminary, — competed for the
prizes offered by the New Hampshire
Peace Society for the best spoken
essays on "The Moral and Economic
Waste of War," three of the contest-
ants being young men and two,
ladies. The prizes were three in all,
being $25, $15 and $10 in gold, re-
spectively, for the first, second and
third best essays, delivery as well as
composition being taken into account
in determining their merits.

Allen Hollis, Esq., of Concord, pre-
sided, and Charles R. Corning, Prin-
cipal Charles F. Cook of the Concord
High School, and Rev. H. B. Williams,
pastor of the First M. E. Church,
acted as judges. The first prize was
awarded to Miss Alice B. Kemp of
Sanborn Seminary; second to W. R.
Hilliard of the same institution, and
third to L. F. Cross of Tilton Seminary.

As is often the case, many in the
audience, which was not as large as
should have been called out by such
an occasion, disagreed with the ver-
dict of the judges to some extent; but
that the readers of the Granite
Monthly may judge for themselves,
so far as is possible from composition
alone; for the gratification of many
friends of the contestants, and out of
regard for the importance of the sub-
ject at this time, as well as the laud-
able purpose of the Society offering
the prizes, all of the essays are printed
herewith, each preceded by the name
of the contestant by which it was de-

livered. It should be added that
"consolation prizes" of $5 each were
given the unsuccessful contestants,
through the generosity of Mr. Hollis.

HORATIO JUAN CHASE
Kimball Union Academy

To ascertain the exact moral and ecconomic
waste of war is an impossibility. It is like
trying to explain the laws of gravitation or
to account for the wonders of electricity.
We know there are such things, but thus far
the greatest minds have been unable to com -
prehend them in their full significance. In
dealing with our present subject we can pic-
ture some of the horrors of war with its
economic and moral devastation, but we can
not fully realize its tremendous moral and
economic waste.

We can see in our imagination two armies
in battle array, a splendid assembly to look
upon. They are composed of the flower of
the land. These young men have great possi-
bilities before them. They are such men as
this world of industry needs to keep the wheels
of progress in motion. But take another
glimpse at the scene. We can see not only
the young men of great promise but swords,
also, muskets, cannon, mortars, — machines
fashioned for the destruction of men. Little
wonder that admiration changes to sorrow
when we realize that these machines are to
be used to slaughter human beings, all because
of some international contention, on which
diplomats cannot reach an agreement. Pres-
ently we hear the roar of cannon, answered
by cannon's roar. Now follow scenes which
are most fiendish. Deeds are committed
which under other conditions human law
forbids. Human life and happiness count for
naught under these circumstances. This is
war, and Sherman rightly said, "War is hell."

Men cannot place on a balance sheet the
economic cost or moral waste of war. They

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can, perhaps, count the men who do not
answer at roll call and estimate roughly the
expenditure in dollars and cents, but how
much war is to blame for social corruption,
we cannot tell; how much it is responsible for
industrial complications, we shall never know.

This barbaric institution certainly is the
cause of demoralization in that it makes it
necessary for the individual to adopt a dual
code of moral laws. This dual code pre-
scribes that, today, "Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself"; today, "Thou shalt not
kill"; today, if the summons comes, it is your
duty to die for your neighbor. But to-
morrow, when your nation is at war, this
same code prescribes "Thou shalt seek to
destroy thy neighbor and lay waste his prop-
erty; thou shalt risk thy life, if necessary, that
thy neighbor's life may be taken." One is
the code taught in the time of peace, and the
other the one which is practiced in time of
war. Think it not strange, that men, taught
that it is permissible to suspend the decalogue
for the sake of their country, suspend its
enactments for their own convenience. Can
you question why there has been an increase
of crime and vice after every great war
recorded in history?

To quote statistics on our subject is useless.
They are so vast that human mind cannot
conceive of them. Let the statement of two
or three facts suffice. If the men sacrificed in
war during the nineteenth century could be
laid in a trench five deep, they would
reach from New York to San Francisco.
With less than one-fourth of the money spent
on the American Civil War alone, five Panama
canals could be constructed. It is estimated
that the Union army destroyed property to
the amount of three hundred million dollars
on the march from Atlanta to the sea. We
must add to these the fact that the expendi-
ture of treasure and the loss of life are not
confined to the time of actual warfare but
continue long after the declaration of peace.
There is the interest on the war debt to pay,
pensions to be provided, disordered financial
conditions to be straightened out and com-
mercial relations to be adjusted.

It is true that, in a measure, this terrible
loss of life and property would be justified,
if there were no other method of settling-
international disputes. But war is not neces-
sary on the ground that there is no substitute.

The Hague Court has settled many disputes
between nations with satisfaction and justice
to both parties, and in so doing has pre-
vented much immoral and costly strife and
avoided a terrible sacrifice of life and lowering
of moral ideals.

Men cannot dispute the great American
poet, who more than fifty years ago wrote:

"Were half the power that fills the earth

with terror,

Were half the wealth bestowed on camps

and courts

Given to redeem the human mind from error,

There were no need of arsenals and forts."

May God hasten the day when war shall
be no more, when the one law of reason,
justice and love shall rule over the national
as well as over the personal affairs of men.

WILLIAM RUSSELL HILLIARD
Sanborn Seminary

In the history of every nation, wars have
played their part. The result has been that
they have always lowered the moral standard
of the countries involved. They have also
cost the countries vast sums of money, and
caused the destruction of much property and
the loss of many fives, all of which have weak-
ened the countries and involved them in debt.

Let us first consider the economic side of the
subject. Not only during periods of war, but
in times of peace, it costs all the leading na-
tions of the world vast sums of money to main-
tain their armies and navies. While they are
fighting, the soldiers must be furnished sup-
plies, and it takes only a few hours for a large
army to use a million dollars worth of supplies.
In a period of peace, consider the amount nec-
essary to maintain a standing army and a navy
and to build the huge battleships of today.
Every man, woman, and child in the United
States pays six dollars a year for war, and this
in a time of peace. The money spent for one
battleship woidd build a thousand locomo-
tives, or give twenty-four thousand persons a
college education. The total amount of
money spent for war by the nations of the
world during the last century was forty bil-
lions of dollars, a sum so vast that the men-
tion of it leaves only a confused impression on
the mind. The cost of our Civil War was $8,-
000,000,000, and, including the pensions and

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interest since paid, it is estimated at $13,000,-
000,000. To pay such debts as these has
greatly retarded the growth and development
of all nations', and practically every nation in
the world still has a heavy war debt to pay.

Another great economic waste of war is the
destruction of property. The country in
which the war is waged is always devasted.
The crops are destroyed, the towns burned,
railroads torn up, the domestic animals killed,
until nothing is left of what was once a pros-
perous country. After the Civil War the
Southerners went back to their homes penni-
less. Their crops were destroyed, their homes
burned, their manufactories, railroads and
everything else destroyed.

The third and, by far, the greatest economic
waste of war is the inevitable loss of a great
number of men. It is estimated that 15,000,-
000,000 of men have been slain in battle since
the first authentic history. This number is
ten times the present population of the earth,
and shows the great number of human fives
claimed by warfare. These men are always
in the flower of their manhood, between the
ages of twenty and forty-five. As a result of
their death, many homes are left without hus-
bands or fathers. They are generally of the
working class, and, in this way, the country
loses so many of its working people that in-
dustry is seriously crippled.

Turning now to the moral side of the sub-
ject, let us first see what reliance on military
power means. It does not mean reliance on
reason, or conscience, but it means that re-
liance is placed by the great nations of the
earth on brute force. Thus the struggle of
human society for existence is brought down
to the animal level with its principle of the
survival of the fittest. So the strong nation
gets the good things and the weak one gets
nothing.

It is not the suffering of war, great and ter-
rible as it is, for suffering is the heritage of
man; neither is it the death of war, cruel and
horrible as that is, for death is the common lot
of man ; but it is the sin and crime of war that
constitute its chief offence, and that render it
the damnable occupation of moral beings.
Well has it been said that war is hell. It is
not because war kills, that it is hell, but be-
cause it corrupts. Although the damage it
inflicts upon persons and property is great, it
is trifling compared with the damage it in-

flicts upon morals. The terrible part of war
is not the bloody corpse upon the battlefield,
but the general lowering of ideals and the
blunting of moral faculties. The great evil of
war is not the destruction of life and property,
for storms, earthquakes, sea, fire, railroads,
and mines destroy life equally with war. But
the peculiar evil of war .is that it corrupts
while it consumes, that it demoralizes while
it destroys. It is not the physical death that
is the greater evil, it is the moral death.

A declaration of war causes men to break
the Ten Commandments — to kill, lie, covet,
steal, and to commit every sin, which before
the declaration, had been forbidden. One
commandment says "Thou shalt not kill,"
but war has no other end than to kill. An-
other says "Thou shalt not steal," but a sol-
dier may loot and his country may annex an-
other country. Another says that the Sab-
bath shall be kept holy, but in war battles are
fought and men are killed on the Holy Day.
Thus, in war. we sacrifice everything. Noth-
ing is left, neither God nor Sabbath, neither
ethics nor religion.

ALICE BOWDOIN KEMP

Sanborn Seminary

Since the beginning of the human race, men
have settled their differences by brute force.
Until the world became somewhat affected by
the teachings of Christ, there was little
thought of employing any other means of set-
tling the difficulties that arose between men or
between nations. Might has made right.
The strong have ruled and the weak have
served, and there has been no redress for the
weak, no matter how much they were wronged.
The golden rule has changed this condition of
things somewhat. In civilized, Christianized
countries, at the present, arbitration is playing
a large part in the settlement of disputes.

The moral degradation that comes to any
nation that engages in war can scarcely be es-
timated. Anything that tends to lessen the
value of human life in a marked degree lowers
the standard of morality. This is especially
true in war. Outside of the cruelties and ex-
cesses that tend to brutalize the soldiers them-
selves, come the long train of evils on the
inhabitants of the country which has suffered
from war. Intemperance, licentiousness, dis-
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people follow in the wake of any war, espe-
cially a war for conquest.

When a man enlists in the army it is his duty
to go to war, if war arises. There he must do
his best to kill his enemy. Really, then, the
average war is nothing more than licensed
murder; and the soldier becomes so hardened
to it that the taking of human life seems of
little importance to him. Then, again, the
life in the army is generally destructive of good
morals. The moral, social, and religious re-
straints of home life are lacking, and the aver-
age soldier gives loose reins to his appetites
and passions. Drunkenness, profanity and
licentiousness are common, so that it takes a
man of exceedingly strong will power to come
out of war undefiled. After our Civil War it
was a generation before the country had re-
covered from the wave of drunkenness, dis-
honesty, and immorality that swept over the
hind.

Our children are early taught about war and
led to consider it a most glorious occupation.
When the child is small he has tin soldiers,
drums, toy guns, and swords for his play-
things. These remind him of war, so, nat-
urally, he grows up to love waf , and to think
that the life of the soldier is the ideal life. All
this is wrong. The child should be taught the
evils of war, so far as he can understand them,
and that war is never right except as a last
resort in defense of one's country.

The press becomes corrupted by the war-
like influences and urges on the people to
strife. If the public press could have been
muzzled before the Spanish War, President
McKinley could have settled matters, prob-
ably, without the loss of life* and the tremen-
dous outpouring of the nation's wealth.

But the moral waste of war, however great
and far-reaching, is only one of the evil as-
pects of strife. The economic waste in men
and in money is even greater and more lasting
than the moral waste.

The wars of Napoleon give us a very vivid
picture of the effect of war on the physique of
the French nation. To keep his armies full,
this great commander had to draft into the
service all the men in France physically fit to
bear arms. The weak and incompetent were
left at home. The result was that the average
stature of the Frenchman decreased about two
inches in the years following these wars.

The awful loss of men during the Turkish

War will cripple Bulgaria for fifty years.
Among the widows and orphans all over the
country there has been suffering no words can
describe, because the father, the bread winner,
was taken away in this awful struggle. Surely
General Sherman's characterization of war as
"hell" has a good exemplification here.

The material cost of war is terrible and is
rapidly increasing as new implements of de-
struction are invented. A first-class battle-
ship now costs from $10,000,000 to $20,000,-
000, and in less than a score of years is con-
signed to the scrap heap. Is it any wonder
that the cost of living in all civilized nations
is high, and becoming still higher, when so
much of the wealth of the nations is locked up
in war armament?

Our Civil War cost about $8,000,000,000 or,
if we include pensions and interest paid since,
the cost is about $13,000,000,000. At the pres-
ent, such a war would cost even more than
this fabulous sum. The loss of life in this war
was about 1,000,000 men killed or perma-
nently disabled. The property loss incident
to the war cannot even be estimated. The
whole South was one vast wreck. In his
march through Georgia, General Sherman es-
timated that he destroyed property to the
value of $500,000,000. Thousands of people
were left homeless and .destitute and the
track of the victorious army was a smoking
desert.

We have already intimated that the ex-
pense of a war does not cease when the war
ends. We have already paid over $3,000,000,-
000 in pensions to the survivors of the war,
and it is estimated that before we pay the last
pension to the last survivor of this war, we
shall have paid $5,000,000,000, or more than
half what the war cost.

In view of these facts: that war carries in
its wake a tide of immorality, that the loss of
life and the consequent suffering are immeas-
urable, that the cost can scarcely be estimated,
that this cost does not cease when the war
closes, but passes on its burdens to the coming
generations, that it is growing more and more
costly, and that every civilized nation is stag-
gering under the burdens of preparation for
war in the time of peace — is it not time for
wars to cease and for nations to disarm and
to turn "swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks," and thus usher in
the reign of the Prince of Peace?

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ELSIE CORA BAILEY
Kimball Union Academy-
War* is an institution handed down to us
by barbarians, the removal of which is the
task of modern civilization. War means all
that makes for ruin and devastation. It
abolishes respect for law, life and property
rights. It brutalizes thought and arouses all
the evil passions of men. It necessitates
a vast waste of power and wealth; thereby
preventing the development of the nation.

The economic losses of war, including the
loss in money,, life, property, derangement
of business and impairment of health, are so
great and run in so many directions; that
anything more than approximate estimates
are impossible. It is estimated that the enor-
mous sum of forty trillion * dollars was spent,
by the nations of the world, in a single cen-
tury. This has materially retarded the ad-
vancement of civilization. General Sherman
estimated that his army on their march to
the sea, destroyed at least three hundred
million dollars of property.

But greater than the waste of the "earnings
of these poor men's lives" is the waste of
life itself. It is estimated that the aggregate
loss of life in all wars that have occurred since
authentic history began, has not been less
than fifteen trillion, a number equal to all the
people who have inhabited the globe for the
last six hundred years, allowing three genera-
tions to the century.

The expenditure of life and treasure in the
field is but a small part of the actual cost of
war. We must include the large number of
deaths resulting from wounds received in war,
the enormous expenditure for pensions, con-
tinuing for at least two generations, disor-
dered financial conditions, and, probably
larger than all of these, the cost of peace by
force of arms. The immense debts that every
nation has hanging over it today have been
created almost entirely by war. The interest-
bearing debt of the United States is now nine
hundred and twenty million dollars. Add to
that the debts of twenty-three other nations
and we find that the approximate debts of all
the nations in the world are thirty-four and
one-half trillion dollars. This is practically

*The use of this word is a manifest inadvertence.
"Billion" was doubtless intended in each case where
it was used in the essay.

all chargeable to war. During the last fifty
years the United States has paid about four
trillion dollars for pensions, besides eno mous
sums for other puroses. Conceive, if you can,
the cost of armed peace today. The cost of
only one dreadnaught and its maintenance
for twenty years is twenty-eight million dol-
lars, a sum that would give 10,000 young
people a college education.

Morally, war is the most degenerating evil
of the age, for it is the one evil that suspends
all rules of moral obligation, and for this rea-
son, lowers the moral tone of those engaged
in it. A British military officer has said,
"That soldiers, as a class, are men who have
disregarded the civil standards of morality
altogether." In soldiers' eyes, lying, thiev-
ing, drunkenness and profane language are
not ^vils at all. Looting is one of their pleas-
ures, and in the destruction of property, for
sheer fun, they delight. Mr. Walsh, in his
book called "The Moral Waste of War,"
states that the greatest social evil of the pres-
ent age, white slavery, finds its inception in
warfare and is one of its most essential ac-
companiments.

What does the military spn-it mean? It
means reliance upon brute force, not reason
or conscience. Through brute force human-
ity is brought down to the level of animal
life with its fundamental law — the survival
of the fittest. Here is a world full of good
things. There are enough for all, but in a
world ruled by brute force, the strong get
the larger share. In the struggle, the weak
are remorselessly trampled down and killed
without pity. Is not this an utter contra-
diction of the spirit of the Christian Gospel,
which sends out its challenge to the strong,
telling them they should bear the infirmities
of the weak?

The establishment of universal peace de-
pends entirely upon the moral development
of man. History is a record of this moral
development and Emerson has said that it
is a record of the decline of war. If it is true
that human nature makes war inevitable,
then war will not cease until human nature is
changed by man's moral development — until
the idealist's dream finds expression in the
every-day life of men.

Our nation stands today at a crisis in
its relation to a sister republic, but there
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strongly in favor of peace. In this way we,
as a nation, acknowledge that morality is a
higher principle than brute force, and that
brute force must, eventually, give place to
that higher law of morality, when public
opinion shall demand peace and international
friendship.

L. E. CROSS
Tilton Seminary

How many of you would throw away ten
dollars? Not one in this audience. Yet
every person in the world might be ten dollars
richer tonight were it not for the wars of a
quarter of the nineteenth century.

The Peace Society of London, after making
a careful estimate of the cost of the wars from
the Crimean to the Zulu and Afghan, found
it equivalent to $1,298,358,000,000. A sum,
they assert, that would be sufficient to give
every man, woman and child on the habitable
globe ten dollars. Or, if we wished to con-
struct a railroad encircling the globe, let us
see how long a one we could build. Today,
the cost of a railroad is about $250,000 a
mile, fully equipped with the latest safety
devices. As the circumference of the globe is
about 395,000,000 * miles, the money spent on
twenty-five years warfare could completely
encircle the globe twice at the equator.

As such inconceivable sums are hard to
realize and impossible to remember, let us
turn to smaller, more concise numbers.
Most of you know that the Panama Canal
will cost about three hundred seventy-five
million dollars. Yet with the money we
spent in our Civil War, we could build twenty
such canals. Nor are wars costing less. Our
seven years of revolution cost us $135,000,000,
or about the cost of the Panama Canal, but
we also find that the Civil War of only four
years cost us $6,500,000,000, or nearly twenty
times as much as the Revolution. Is it pos-
sible to predict what a year's war in 1920
might cost?

A common thirteen-inch gun, firing a 1100
pound shell, cost $165 for powder alone.
The shell costs from $116 to $418. Then,
too, we must not forget the cartridge-box,
primers, etc., so we find that it costs about

♦Here is another manifest error in the use of figures,
and others appear in the essay.

$588 to discharge a thirteen-inch gun once.
These guns can be worked about twenty-five
times an hour, so we can see that one hour's
work of a single gun will cost the government
about $15,000. The cost of one-half' hour's
work of such a gun would send a boy through
any of the leading colleges, and give him
plenty of spending money beside.

Human life came before money. Let us
consider the moral waste of war. At the call
to arms, who are the first to enlist? In the
majority of cases, it is he of the younger gen-
eration that is ready to die for his country.
Of these young men who go to war, it is but
seldom that a large percentage return. And
thus the nation is left, at the close of the war,
in the hands, not of the bravest, but of those
who did not enlist.

When war breaks out, it marks the begin-
ning of the undoing of years of study and prog-
ress. The tendency today is away from the
brutal and inhuman. To this end, schools
try to teach our relation to foreign countries,
and churches teach the spirit of Divine Broth-
erhood on earth. But when war begins,
people at once descend to a lower stage of
civilization. During the wholesale murder of
men, we cannot keep our minds from becom-
ing filled with gross thoughts of revenge,
anger, and all the host of comrade evils
which, in time of peace, schools and churches
have tried to remove.

One of the desires of war is to set people
thinking in terms of war. When people once
get the idea of war firmly in their brains, no
power on earth can stop their mad inhuman
desire for killing. For war is not, after all, a
desire for justice, but a desire to see how many
of the enemy we can kill; the real aim of war
is lost sight of, and we are reduced to mere
sayages, unprincipled and fighting for revenge.
How can we expect our colleges and
churches to do their best work when a few
months may sweep away the entire gain of
years. I am reminded of a piece of statuary
representing human-kind, earth-bound and
weighed down by a load of national envy,
jealousy and warfare. I see an old man, his
gray beard and locks proclaiming him to be of
the first generation. His form is bent under
an immense load in the shape of a boulder.
Opposite him are the forms of a young man
and woman, both in the prime of life, but
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weight which their ancestors bore and which
they too must bear. All three have their eyes
on a child in the center of the group. His
form is healthy and robust, but already his
tiny shoulders are placed to receive the inevi-
table burden of national envy, jealousy and

warfare Is it right that we thus thrust on
the innocent child this load of antique barbar-
ism and trials?

No! He is the one that will suffer most
and that should be protected from the moral
and economic waste of war.

EDUCATIVE VALUE OF TOOL WORK

By S. Horace Williams

Education is a process of continuous
growth and development; an adapt-
ing of the nervous system of the indi-
vidual to changing conditions; a
never-ending change in the inner life
of a person which enables him to live
more efficiently in his environment,
and consequently to become master
of the physical forces and social con-
ditions about him. Hence, those ac-
tivities are educative in the highest
sense which successfully bring about
this inner adjustment of the human
nervous system to the requirements
of the exterior environment. The
inner change must be continuous be-
cause the environment is ever chang-
ing.

Racial progress from savagery to
civilization has been marked and
largely made possible by the discovery
and invention of tools. Among
those races where crude implements
are still found, where primitive tools
now exist, and consequently where
manual dexterity is unknown, intel-
lectual life is at a low ebb and social
conditions are of the simplest and
most ancient type. In fact, "The en-
tire history of man, if examined care-
fully, finally reveals itself in the his-
tory of the invention of better tools."
Strength of mind and of body have
developed together in those races
which lived in a temperate climate,
where to live meant to struggle, and
to survive meant to conquer the en-
emy — human and brute — and to pros-
per meant the necessity of becoming
masters of their physical environment.

The conquest of stone and iron, of
other metals and of the natural forces
was accomplished only by the inven-
tion of tools and machines to assist
the human hand in performing the
world's work. In fact, many of these
tools have been shaped after the form
of the human hand, as the ax, the
hammer and the hatchet. If the hu-
man race has risen to civilization
largely through the invention of in-
creasingly better tools, we believe the
use of tools must play an important
part in the education of the child,
since the child in his own mental and
physical developments repeats many
racial experiences.

It is safe to assume that in the aver-
age American home a child finds little
opportunity to learn the use of tools.
In our cities, children are exposed to
an industrial and commercial envi-
ronment of which they are physically
a part, but to which mentally they
are strangers. Their imagination is
stirred by the stupendous engineering
feats all about them, the commercial
activity bewilders them, yet they have
no way of entering gradually into this
teeming life unless education paves
the way. The transition from school
life to this active, practical life is not
so natural as it was in the time of the
guilds, when the son became an ap-
prentice to his father, learning his
trade at the father's side. Even farm
life today in many cases does not offer
the same opportunity for the rural
child to develop manual dexterity and
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trie motor and many labor-saving de- and those which transmit sensory
vices have revolutionized the economic stimuli; the motor tracts maturing
and social conditions in the country, earlier than the sensory. Muscular
And yet, on the whole, the country lad exercise develops the myelin sheath of
has a greater chance to attain self-re- the nerves. Sir Crichton Browne
liance, to develop persistence in over- said: "If bandages were applied to a
coming obstacles and some degree of child at birth so as to restrain all mus-
muscular control than the urban child, cular movement, and kept on during
When the urban home, the farm and infancy and childhood, the result
the parental shop, cease to give this would be idiocy." Flabby muscles
vital form of education and training are closely correlated with imbecility,
which are necessary for social adjust- Motor expression, including various
ment and for mental development, the forms of tool work, develops the
school must reorganize her curriculum motor zone of the human brain, and
and assume this work as a public duty, tones up the entire brain by virtue of
Instruction in toolwork for boys, and the association fibres. Muscular
in the household arts for girls in the strain and tension, experiencing the
public schools, will do much to satisfy muscle-sense with regard to weights,
the demand for this kind of education, distance, vocalization, measure, etc.,
During the last few years education are the true and only genuine source
in our country has seen radical of trustworthy knowledge early in the
changes. The school is responding life of the individual. The boy who
to the call for vital courses of a prac- walks a mile knows the concept "mile"
tical nature. It is doubtful whether much better than the lad who got his
any change or innovation in American information from a book. Toolwork
education within the last fifty years gives a boy an opportunity to expe-
has created so much discussion and rience a deep-seated instinct or biolog-
such an enormous expenditure of ical craving for activity. Most normal
money as the introduction of these boys are interested in toolwork because
courses into the elementary and high the demand for action comes from
schools. within — it is biological and harks back
When people make a sharp distinc- to the time when organic life inani-
tion between headwork and hand- fested itself by the simple movements
work, they commit a serious error, of contraction and expansion,
for scientists have not been able to To construct a library table, an
note any differences in the structure electric motor or a gasoline engine,
of the brain cells, which would lead requires concentrated thought for a
one to hold that some cells are the considerable length of time. To pro-
centers of motor activity, while others duce a fine product one's thinking
are the centers of sensory life. Brain must be clear, concise and accurate,
cells are both motor and sensory. In such work many problems arise
However, we do not find that certain which call for logical reasoning and
zones of the cerebral cortex perform the exercise of good judgment. Solv-
eertain functions. This has been ing problems which arise in toolwork
termed the localization of centers, so gives the student a method of ap-
that for instance, when one's speech is proach to other problems in different
affected, the disease can be traced fields of study, giving him an ideal of
to a lesion of the speech center, concentration of mind which will be of
:< Whenever a sense organ is stimu- unquestioned value in solving prob-
lated, nerve tissues are affected, en- lems of perplexing difficulty. A gen-
ergy is liberated, and motor or mus- eral training of mind resulting from
cular reactions tend to take place." mechanical work is not what we as-
Moreover, there are certain tracts or sert, but we do believe that such work
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structing a motor will assist one in to develop respect for labor, giving
reading Latin only to the extent of the workers an insight into each
the elements common to each activity, other's economic problems and thereby
plus this ideal of application in an rendering class strife less intense and
intellectual pursuit. It is seldom the probability of amicable arbitra-
that we discover a lack of interest in tion between capital and labor more
mechanical work among adolescent certain. A great deal of the strife
boys. Where there is interest, there between nations, classes and individ-
is mental growth, and this is benefi- uals is due to misunderstanding, and
cial to both the individual and to so- we believe that more intimate com-
ciety. The student who wants to munication in social and commercial
make an object of use and beauty matters and the working out of prob-
exerts an effort to realize his ambition, lems together will have a vast in-
but this effort is motivated from fluence in eliminating war, strife, jeal-
within, not from without. Real and ousy and hatred,
genuine interest in educational work On the moral side, we recognize the
can be seen by visiting a well-regu- truth of the beautiful statement : "To
lated shop where a class is working on the cunning craftsman knowledge
problems which express the individu- comes undeceitful." In toolwork,
ality of the members of the group, there is little opportunity for dishon-
Boys will sacrifice holidays, picnics esty and deception, for the results of
and play in order to work in the school a boy's work are patent before him
shop. like an open book. When a piece of
Every human being should con- work is well done the worker deserves
tribute something to society. The social approval because he has per-
world owes no man a living. A hu- formed a task which stamps the indi-
man parasite is a disgrace to himself vidua! as a productive member of the
and a reflection upon the society social organism. It is a fact, also,
which produced him. When one pro- that one who busies himself along con-
duces a thing of beauty or of useful- structive lines has less time for im-
ness he realizes a sense of achievement moral practices and less inclination
which is one of the deepest joys this toward the fabrication of anti-social
world has to offer. What a pleasure activities. Construction calls into
it is to see the sparkling eye of the lad play one's resourcefulness, ingenuity
who has constructed something of and inventiveness. The mind oc-
which he is justly proud! He realizes cupied in this way is not so easily
for the first time, perhaps, that he too deflected into unworthy and frivolous
has a place in the world because he channels. In those schools where a
has made something which others will vital form of toolwork is given enough
use and appreciate. This achieve- time to engage the interest of the
ment is the link which unites him to children, discipline becomes easier,
a busy and often selfish world. He is teacher and student work together as
learning to construct and to produce, congenial friends, and it is here that
which are activities economically op- the boy opens up his heart to his
posed to destroying and consuming, teacher-friend, for they are working-
Working on group-projects enables upon a common problem. It is com-
him to realize that he is an indispen- mon experience that where this kind
sable unit in a social group and he is of work is given in a school by an able
learning that cooperation is the foun- teacher, the boys exhibit a better spirit
dation of individual and social prog- toward their teachers and toward the
ress. Working with one's fellows school as a whole. Where the child
inculcates sympathy for the other is permitted to engage in this work
man's view-point. Cooperation in after school hours, or on Saturday, he
productive labor, when young, tends escapes the evil influences of the

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streets which do more to saturate our
children with evil thoughts and prac-
tices than almost any other phase of
our community life.

Certain phases of toolwork offer op-
portunities for the study of design
and the execution of the beautiful.
Through study, observation, and dis-
cussion, one gains higher ideals of
what is graceful, appropriate in de-
sign and beautiful in form. By means
of mechanical and freehand drawing
one acquires a valuable medium of
expression, adding another language
to his resources. Just as the ability to
speak a language accurately and beau-
tifully requires fine muscular coordina-
tions of throat, tongue and lips, so the
power to express one's ideas by the
graphic arts necessitates clear think-
ing, fine muscular adjustments, the
entire elimination of diffuse, random
movements, and the habit of visualiz-
ing objects in their true relationships
and proportions. The learning of fun-
damental principles in the design of
furniture will aid one in the field of
design as related to other household
necessities. The acquisition of good
taste with regard to color schemes in
wood stains will transfer to the field
of selection for wall-paper designs,
providing the subject has been treated
in a vital way. The ability to repre-
sent on paper excellently what one
sees in space means that one's senses
have been finely trained, that his per-
ceptions are true and not distorted,
and that his motor reactions are
precise. Freehand sketching and
mechanical drawing as required in
connection with the courses in tool
work require good observation, clear
thinking and accurate representation.

Vocationally, toolwork at home or
in school enables many a boy to dis-
cover his natural bent of mind. The
work-bench is one of the greatest
means in education for enabling the
child to discover his peculiar interests
and abilities. Here, better than in
any other place, he works out his
ideas in metal and in wood. In learn-
ing the correct use of tools, how to

sharpen, care for and manipulate
them, the child is enriching his knowl-
edge by information which is of per-
manent value. This construction
work in the home or school shop often
has a strong influence upon the boy in
the choice of his life work. For this
reason, he should have a chance to
gain experience in various materials,
as it is false to assume that every boy
will find himself in woodworking.
Projects made of wood and metal
combined, involving mechanical
movement appeal to the adolescent
boy to a greater extent than the proj-
ects which have immovable joints.
In the beginning of toolwork, a boy
should construct those things which
call into action the large, fundamental
muscles, and these objects should be
very simple. As he gains control of
these muscles, the work should be-
come more refined, emphasizing the
use of the accessory muscles and at
the same time laying more stress upon
close mental application. In the high
school, especially, mental activity
should predominate over mere drudg-
ery, as muscular exercise, as such, can
be gained in better ways. Hence,
from the simple to the complex holds
in toolwork as well as in the whole
field of pedagogy. We must remem-
ber that while all this toolwork may
have a vital place in assisting the boy
to choose a vocation later, the chief
aim of this work in the elementary
high school has to do with mental
development and not with trade
training. There should be little or
no trade training, as such, until the
child is sixteen or eighteen years of
age. The acquisition of habits of pre-
cision, of muscular control and of ac-
curate observation will undoubtedly
assist one in later life. Another as-
pect of toolwork which is worthy of
mention, is the fact that the tools
which are put into the hands of a boy
should be the best, and not of the
cheap variety. A boy will appreciate
good tools much more than cheap
ones, and no time should be lost in
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use them. It is folly to expect a child
to do creditable work with inferior
tools. This statement applies, how-
ever, to children who are old enough
to use tools according to instruction,
and does not refer to play-tools which
may be placed appropriately in the
hands of kindergarten and primary
children.

Pedagogically, toolwork in school
has a much broader meaning than is
generally recognized. Along with the
making of objects, all those facts
which relate to the production of raw
materials, its transportation and man-
ufacture into finished products, should
be studied. Such work as this brings
out natural correlations, which in turn
enrich much of the normal bookwork
now given in school. When related to
toolwork, arithmetic becomes applied
mathematics, the value of which is
evident to the child himself. Prob-
lems must be solved because they
have a close relation to what the boy
is doing. History and geography
mean more to the boy who sees a nat-
ural relationship between them and
his constructive work. The biography
of great inventors, the study of gigan-
tic establishments such as the steel
mills of Pittsburgh or Gary and South
Chicago, or of the General Electric
Works of Schenectady, and trips to
such places under the guidance of a
competent instructor stir the imagin-
ation of youth and reveals to them
the vital relation between education
and the busy world. Such study, mo-
tivated by the work in the shop and
toolwork of a genuine type introduce

the child to a form of education which
is not divorced from life, but to an
education which is life.

To conclude, then, we should say
that toolwork is an indispensable part
of a boy's education, because such
work assists in the development of
brain cells; exercises the muscles and
thereby helps to medulate the nerve
fibres; it satisfies a deep-seated de-
mand for constructive activity which
is found in the majority of normal
children, and enables the child to real-
ize that he is a productive member of
the school and family group. How
happy the boy who takes home his
piece of work as a gift to his parents!
Pride in their achievement and joy in
their giving are often forcefully ex-
hibited by boys who will not sell their
work to prospective buyers. Tool-
work trains the eye to appreciate the
good in construction, develops habits
of accuracy in muscular coordination,
and at the same time tends to reduce
meaningless, random movements. It
will enrich much of the formal, ab-
stract bookwork and will teach him to
respect the honest craftsman. Con-
struction work trains the hand and
eye along lines of a boy's natural apti-
tudes, often aiding in the selection of
a vocation. Finally, such work leads
many a restless and active child to
take an interest in science and in the
broader aspects of education, holding
him in school until his ambition is well
defined and his will-power more able
to cope with the problems of that
greater school, the life of responsi-
bility.

NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY

HON. CHARLES A. DOLE

Charles'A. Dole, long a prominent citizen
of Lebanon, and well known throughout the
state for many years as a member of the
State Board of Equalization, died at his home
in that town, April 1, 1914.

Mr. Dole was born June 20, 1834, in Lunen-
burg, Mass., the only son of Stephen and
Martha Pierce Dole. He was educated at
the Lawrence, Mass., high school, and at the
old Orford Academy in this state, his father
having returned during his youth to the old
home in Wentworth. On account of delicate
health, he was unable to pursue a college
course, but engaged to some extent in teach-
ing, and early took up the study of law, being
admitted to the bar at the age of 23 years,
and appointed clerk of the Court for Grafton
County a year later, a position which he held
for sixteen years. He removed to Lebanon
in 1875, where he ever after continued, in the
practice of his profession, and in insurance
and other office work, establishing a wide
reputation for ability and trustworthiness.
He was prominent in educational and gen-
eral public affairs, having served on the Board
of Education and as one of the Library trus-
tees for many years; also representing the
town in the Legislature and Constitutional
Convention, as well as serving about twenty
years, from 1883, upon the State Board of
Equalization.

Mr. Dole, married, — first, Miss Caroline
L. McQuesten of Plymouth; second, Miss
Helen M. Stevens of Haverhill. A son and
two daughters survive.

HON. ROBERT M. WALLACE

Robert Moore Wallace, Chief Justice of
the Superior Court of New Hampshire for
twelve years, from its creation in 1901 till
November, 1913, when he resigned on account
of continued ill health, died at his home in
the town of Milford on the 5th of April, 1914.

Judge Wallace was a native of the town of
Henniker, son of Jonas and Mary (Darling)
Wallace, born May 2, 1847. His father, who
was a merchant in Henniker, was of Scotch
Irish descent, his ancestors having been
among the early settlers of Londonderry, and
was prominent in business and public life
in his day. Robert M. fitted for college at
the Academy in Henniker, entered Dart-
mouth at the age of sixteen and graduated
with honor in the class of 1867, soon after
commencing the study of law in the office
of the late Col. Mason W. Tappan of Brad-
ford, then an ex-Congressman, and later
Attorney-General of the state. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1870 and located in
practice in Milford the following year, where
he continued through life, being for some
years associated in practice with the late

Hon. Bainbridge Wadleigh. He was a rep-
resentative from the town of Milford, as a
Republican, in 1877 and 1878, and a delegate
in the Constitutional Convention of 1889.
He was also for ten years — -from 1883 to
1893, Solicitor for Hillsborough County,
being appointed in the latter year an Asso-
ciate Justice 'of the Supreme Court by Gov.
John B. Smith, which position he held, till
the reorganization of the Judiciary in 1901,
when he became Chief Justice of the Superior
Court. He was also Judge Advocate General
upon the staff of Governor Smith during
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1910, he was a member of the Board of
Trustees of Dartmouth College.

On the bench, as at the bar, and in every
relation which he held to the public in gen-
eral, and to his fellow men individually,
Judge Wallace commanded respect and con-
fidence by his unquestioned honesty, integ-
rity and thorough devotion to the spirit of
impartial justice.

Judge Wallace was a Mason, an Odd Fel-
low, and a devoted member of the Congre-
gational Society of Milford, whose stately
edifice was filled by the townspeople and many
friends from abroad, including members of
the bench and bar from all sections, on the
occasion of the funeral service.

He married, August 25, 1874, Ella M.
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three children — two sons and a daughter —
Edward D. of Kansas City, Mo.; Robert B.
of Boston, and Miss Helen M., at home.

DR. DANIEL G. BROCKWAY

Daniel G. Brockway, M. D., for the last
forty years a practising physician of Lebanon,
died in that town April 16, 1914.

He was a native of Pomfret, Vt., born
October 4, 1847, and was educated at Ran-
dolph, Vt. Kimball Union Academy, Meri-
den, and Dartmouth College, graduating
from the latter in 1870. He studied medicine
with Dr. L. B. How, of Manchester, and
later received the degree of M. D. from the
University of New York. He commenced
practice in Lynn, Mass., but soon removed to
Lebanon, and there continued through life.

He was for a time, soon after locating in
Lebanon, Assistant demonstrator of anatomy
and physiology at the Dartmouth medical
School, but soon relinquished the position
on account of his growing practice. He
served for a time as Superintendent of Schools,
and also as a Pension examiner.

He married, June 15, 1874, Miss Fannie
E. How, who survives him.

HENEY K. FEENCH

Henry Kendall French, long known as the
proprietor of French's Hotel in Peter-
borough, died in Duluth, Minn., March 25,
1914.

He was a native of Jaffrey, born January
21, 1826, but removed with his parents to
Peterborough in childhood where he grew up
in the hotel business, succeeding his father
in that line. He was also engaged in stag-
ing and the express business between Peter-
borough and Wilton. He took a strong in-
terest in railway development and was for
a number of years president of the Monad-
nock Eailroad. He was a close business
associate of the late Benjamin P. Cheney,
and for many years had the care of the
Peterborough estate of the latter.

He had been twice married, and for the
last six years had resided with his son,
George A. French of Duluth, Minn., who
accompanied his remains to Peterborough,
where the funeral occurred on Monday,
March 30.

HON. JAMES L. DAVENPOET

James L. Davenport, a native of the town
of Hinsdale, born January 27, 1845, died at
West Falls Church, near Washington, D. O,
April 2, 1914.

Mr. Davenport spent his boyhood in Keene,
where his parents had removed, and after
the outbreak of the Civil War, after ineffec-
tual attempts to enlist at home, ran away,
went West, enlisted in Company B, Fourth
Wisconsin Volunteers, and went to the
front. After several months ' service he was

disabled by illness and dismissed, but was
subsequently enrolled in the Forty-ninth
Wisconsin, but was unable to serve. Beturn-
ing home, he served as clerk in a store in
Keene some time; but in 1870 became a
traveling salesman for Silas Pierce & Co., of
Boston. In 1881 he received an appointment
in the Pension Bureau at Washington, where
he continued, being promoted till in 1897 he
was made Deputy Commissioner of Pensions,
and in 1909 became Commissioner, serving
until the advent of the present administra-
tion. He was a straight partisan Eepubli-
can, and had no other hobby.

ELLEEY E EUGG

Ellery E. Eugg, born in Sullivan, June 7,
1841, died in Keene, March 30, 1914.

Mr. Eugg was the son of Capt. Harrison
and Sophia (Beverstock) Eugg. He was
educated in the public schools and at a
select school in East Jaffrey taught by
Columbus I. Eeed. He learned the trade of
a blacksmith in youth which he followed for
a time; but later became a carpenter, and
was thus engaged for many years. Later he
was for some time engineer in the Symonds
tannery, at West Keene, and afterward
janitor of the Symonds School.

He was best known from his connection
with the Grange, in whose work he was
specially active and prominent for many
years, holding various positions in the State
Grange, including that of Overseer; serving
long as a District Deputy, and officiating
often and efficiently at installations. His
knowledge of Grange work was exception-
ally accurate, and his popularity in the order
unsurpassed.

He was twice married. His first wife was
Miss Sabrina S. Barrett of Stoddard, who
died in Keene, in 1885. His second wife,
who survives him, was Miss Ella E. Foster,
a native of Stoddard. He was one of six
children of Capt. Harrison Eugg, only one
of whom, Hon. Daniel Willard Eugg of
Sullivan, a former state senator, now sur-
vives. He had no children by either mar-
riage.

JAMES S. BRACKETT

James Spaulding Brackett, long a well- "_
known and respected citizen of Lancaster,
died at his home in that town, May 7, 1914.

He was a descendant of Anthony Brackett,
who settled in Portsmouth in 1632, and a
grandson of Joseph Brackett, one of the early
settlers of Lancaster, who went there in 1788,
by ox team through the Crawford Notch,
and located on a 200-acre lot on the present
South Lancaster road, building a log cabin
and establishing his household, where he was
succeeded by his son, Adino N., father of
James S., who was also long a prominent
citizen of the town.

Mr. Brackett was born September 29,

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1827. He was principally engaged in agri-
culture in youth, but though not liberally
educated, was of a studious nature, and by
reading and observation became thoroughly
well informed, and became both a teacher
and land surveyor. His experience in the
latter line made him a valuable member of
the joint boundary commission establishing
the line between New Hampshire and Maine
in 1858. He was a lieutenant in the 17th
New Hampshire Volunteers raised for the
Union Service in 1864, under Col. Henry O.
Kent, which was subsequently merged with
another regiment, and he also held a position
in the Boston Custom House during the in-
cumbency of the latter as Naval Officer.
He was a life-long Democrat, a Unitarian,
a Mason, and a Past Commander of Col. E.
E. Cross Post, No. 16 G. A. R. of Lancaster.
He married, December 26, 1850, Miss
Mary Emerson of Lancaster, who died in
1882, leaving five children — four daughters
and a son, James Adino, of Milton, Mass.,
all of whom are living.

CHARLES H. DOW

Charles H. Dow, a leading citizen of Tarn-
worth for some time past, and a native of
that town, born in 1836, died there April 9.

Mr. Dow was for many years a member of
the firm of Edward Russell & Co., now R. G.
Dow & Co., mercantile agency, of Boston,
retiring about twenty years ago and taking
up his residence in the town of his birth, where
he has been a helpful public-spirited citizen,
his loss being widely deplored. He was a
Democrat in politics, and became a close
friend of the late ex-President Cleveland dur-
ing the summer sojourning of the latter in the
vicinity.

Mr. Dow was twice married. His first
wife was Sarah E. Hunt, who died in 1888.
In 1891 he married Annie E. Butterfield, who
survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Lewis
A. Crossett of Boston.

ANDREW S. WOODS

Andrew Salter Woods, son of Edward
Woods, well-known lawyer of Bath, and
grandson of the famous Chief Justice Andrew
S. Woods, for whom he was named, died at
his home in Littleton, where he had removed
on account of failing health, May 19, 1914.

He was in the fortieth year of his age, hav-
ing been born in Bath, December 31, 1874.
He was educated at St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
Academy, at the Hopkinson School in Boston,

and studied one year at Harvard University,
at the end of which time he engaged in brok-
erage in Boston, later entering the employ of
the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, in which he
became a partner in 1906.

Mr. Woods was a member of several prom-
inent clubs, and is survived by a widow and
three children, the former having been Martha
Sinclair Fowler, a daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
C. J. Fowler, and a grand-daughter of the
late Hon. John G. Sinclair.

The death, some weeks since, of Mrs.
Nancy King Dickey of Alstead, widow of-
James A. Dickey, removes the third of a
somewhat notable group of people of that
community, consisting of two brothers, John
F. and James A. Dickey and their wives,
who were also sisters, daughters of the late
Samuel and Sophia (Egerton) King, all being
natives of the town of Ac worth, but long-
time residents of Alstead, where, seven years
ago, they celebrated, together, the fiftieth
anniversary of their double wedding. John
F. Dickey passed away in April, 1913, and
James A. but a few days before his wife, so
that Mrs. John F. Dickey is the sole survivor
of this remarkable quartette, which had
long been a prominent factor in the social
life of the community in which they lived.

December 31, 1913. As the year closed,
the local historian peacefully and quietly
passed from this mundane sphere to, we trust,
a more glorious one. Charles Sumner Spauld-
ding was born and reared in that portion of
old Holies known prior to 1870 as Monson,
1746-70, a section of the old township of
Dunstable of the County of Middlesex
Province of Massachusetts Bay in New
England, granted 1673. Monson had a
corporative life of twenty-four years. His
forbears were many of them octogenarians,
the maternal connections being from leading
families of the early settlers. His grand-
father's grandfather was Rev. Sampson
Spaulding, native of Chelmsford, Mass., and
pastor at Tewksbury, Mass. So he was
trained in, and listened to, historic lore.
Having a methodical turn of mind and
cultured memory, from time to time he
recalled or penned many facts and incidents
as well as gathered records of the Monsonians
of that period and of their descendants.

Hollis at its late annual town meeting
voted to buy of his widow the said records,
and elected a committee to so do.

Observator.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER'S NOTES

The General Conference of the Congre-
gational Churches of New Hampshire, being
the 105th Annual Meeting, was held in the
North Congregational Church at Portsmouth,
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May
19, 20, 21, the opening session being on Tues-
day evening, when the address of welcome
was delivered by Rev. L. H. Thayer, pastor
of the North Church; response was made by
Edward G. Osgood of Nashua, Moderator of
the Conference; and the annual sermon was
delivered by Rev. W. O. Conrad of Keene.
The report of the statistical secretary and
treasurer, Joseph Benton, of Concord, was a
leading feature of Wednesday morning's
session; while in the afternoon were held the
annual meetings of several of the allied and
contributory organizations, including the
Home Missionary Society, whose annual
financial report was presented by Alvin B.
Cross of Concord, treasurer. The leading
address at Wednesday evening's session, and
the ablest during the Conference, was given
by Rev. Charles R. Brown, D. D., of New
Haven, Conn., Moderator of the National
Council. At the closing session Thursday
morning, Rev. R. H. Wentworth of Orford
was elected moderator for the ensuing year;
C. W. Emerson of Milford, vice-moderator,
and Rev. E. R. Smith of Concord, secretary.
Various Committee reports were presented,
and the closing address was given by Rev.
Albert W. Howes of Fitzwilliam. There was
a large attendance throughout, and much
interest and enthusiasm manifested.

Reference to the New Hampshire Congre-
gational Conference suggests the projected
Conference of the Congregationalists of New
England, scheduled to take place at the Isles
of Shoals, where the Unitarians have held a
summer Conference for a number of years
past, covering the last days of July and the
first ten days in August, it following, immedi-
ately, the Unitarian Conference. An am-
bitious and interesting two weeks programme
has been laid out, and there is promise of a
profitable session. Rev. Thomas Chalmers
of Manchester is president of the organization
backing this project, and Rev. John L. Sewall
of Worcester, Mass., is secretary. Excep-
tionally low rates of entertainment have
been secured at the hotels for those attending
and strong efforts will be made to insure a
large representative gathering.

Two notable events are announced to
occur at the Shoals on July 29 and 30, both
of historic interest. One is the dedication of

a monument to Rev. John Tucke, who was
the first ordained pastor of the Church at
Gosport (embracing the Isles of Shoals),
serving for about forty years in the pastorate,
previous to the Revolutionary period. The
monument has been provided for by Edward
Tuck of Paris, and is to be dedicated under
the auspices of the New Hampshire Historical
Society. The other event is of kindred
nature, being the dedication of a tablet in
memory of the notable Capt. John Smith the
"Father of Virginia," who discovered the
Isles of Shoals, on one of his adventurous
expeditions, in 1614, three hundred years
ago. A monument in his memory, erected
here fifty years ago is being rehabilitated by
the Society of Colonial Wars, which will
also affix and dedicate the tablet.

Two important political candidacies have
been formally announced in the state during
the past month. Mr. Rolland H. Spaulding,
the wealthy leatherboard manufacturer, of
Rochester, responding to the call of some of
the party leaders who have long regarded
him as an available man, has yielded to their
wishes and published an announcement of
his candidacy, for the Republican guberna-
torial nomination, following the formal
declination of Charles S. Emerson of Milford
to be a candidate, thus making probable a
straight contest between himself and Rose-
crans W. Pillsbury of Londonderry, already
in the field. The other announcement is
the long-expected one of Senator Gallinger
as a candidate for the Republican nomination
for Senator for the term of six years from
March 4, next, which, should he be nominated,
elected, and serve out the term, would give
him a thirty year period of service in the
Senate.

Another political event of interest and
importance, as bearing upon the outcome of
the next election in this state, was the much-
talked about Conference of the leaders of the
Progressive party in the state, at Manchester,
May 23, at which there was a good attendance
and free and full discussion, ex-Governor
Bass taking a prominent part; and which
resulted in the determination to have a full
ticket in the field, and to amalgamate with
no other party; though there was a strong
expression of desire on the part of many of
those present to endorse the candidacy, for
senator, of Congressman Raymond B. Stev-
ens, should he be put forward by the Demo-
crats, against Senator Gallinger.

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Vol. XLVI, No. 6

JUNE, 1914

New Series, Vol. 9, No. 6

FREMONT-THE ANCIENT POPLIN

Hails the Coming of Its One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary

Among the several New Hampshire
towns which celebrate the one hun-
dred and fiftieth anniversary of their
incorporation during the present year
is the little town of Fremont, situated
almost exactly in the center of Rock-
ingham County, on the line of the
Worcester, Nashua and Portland line
of the Boston and Maine Railroad,

corporation, passed by the House
June 20, 1764, having been concurred
in by the Council and approved by
Gov. Benning Wentworth on June
22, following, one hundred and fifty
years ago the twenty-second instant,
which date is appropriately set for
the anniversary celebration, the town
having voted at the last annual meet-

Old Church and Town House, Built in 1800

and about ten miles west of Exeter,
of whose original territory it was once
a part, being a portion of the tract
set off from the ancient Exeter as
"Brintwood" in 1742, and incorpora-
ted as " Keenborough " in 1744, from
which the western section, about four
miles square, was again set off, in 1764,
and separately incorporated under
the name of "Poplin," the act of in-

ing to formally observe the day, the
arrangements being left in the hands
of the selectmen who were authorized
to appoint an executive committee of
twelve members, to look after the de-
tails of the celebration, such com-
mittee, as named, being as follows:

William H. Gibson, Joseph B.
Sanborn, Stephen A. Frost, Alden F.
Sanborn, James W. Wilkinson, James

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B. Martin, Henry A. Cook, Wilcomb
H. Benfield, Theodore B. Smith,
Samuel J. Willey, Abbie L. Robinson,
Mary Alice Beede.

The arrangements contemplate a
general celebration, with E. Dana
Sanborn, Chairman of the board of
selectmen, as president of the day,
and a full complement of subordinate
officers. Governor Felker has ac-
cepted an invitation to be present
and speak, and Rolland H. Spaulding,
candidate for the Republican guber-
natorial nomination, whose business
interests naturally connect him with
the town, is also expected. Alden F.

in said Parish which made it very Inconven-
ient for them to attend the same there that
in Consideration thereof the Parish had
consented that they shoud be Incorporated
into a New Parish all which appearing to be
true. —
Therefore

Be it Enacted By the Governor Council &
Assembly That all that part of the Parish of
Brentwood contained within the following
Bounds viz Begining at the Northwesterly
corner of Said Parish thence runing Easterly
on Epping Line one half of the Length of Said
Line then begining at the South Westerly
corner of said Parish thence Runing Easterly
on Kingston line one half of the Length of
said South line thence on a Strait Line aCross
said Parish of Brentwood to the End of said
Line runing from the said Northwest Corner
the said Lines runing so far as to contain one

Boston & Maine Station, Fremont

Sanborn will present an historical
paper and the anniversary poem will
be given by Miss Clara E. Robinson,
while the orator of the day will be
Rev. Thomas Chalmers, of Man-
chester.

Following is a copy of the act of
incorporation, as it appears in the
original record, orthography, capitali-
zation and punctuation being strictly
followed:

An Act for Incorporating a Neio Parish in the
Westerly part of Brentwood.

Whereas the Inhabitants of the westerly
Part of Brentwood in this Province have
Represented to the General Assembly that
they were now Settled at a Considerable Dis-
tance from the usual place of Public Worship

half of all the Lands of said Parish is hereby
Set off & taken from said Parish & all the
Inhabitants dwelling thereon are freed &
Exonerated of & from any Taxes duties &
Services to or as a part of said Parish Except-
ing y e province tax w h they are to pay with
Brentwood as Usual till a New proportion
and the same Lands & those Persons who do
or shall Inhabit thereon are hereby Incor-
porated into & made a New Parish by the
Name of Poplin —

To have Succession & Continuance forever
and the said Parish so Incorporated and made
is hereby Invested with all the Powers &
Authorities which the Inhabitants & Parish-
ioners of other Parishes by Law in this Pro-
vince hold & Enjoy, and are also Enfranchized
& have to them Granted all the Privileges
Immunities & rights of other Parishes as
aforesaid And James Merril is hereby Author-
ized to call the first meeting of the Inhab-
itants of Said Parish Qualified by Law to vote

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to Chuse their Parish Officers & to transact
any other affairs of said Parish giving due
Notice of the time & Place of holding such
meeting and the said Parishioners shall some
time in the Month of March Annually forever
hold their meeting for the common and
ordinary choice of Parish officers.
Province of 1 In the House of Representa-
New Hamps J tives June 20 th , 1764

This Bill having been Read three times
Voted That it pass to be Enacted

H Sherburne Speaker
In Council June 22d 1764
This Bill Read a Third Time & Past to be
Enacted T Atkinson Jun Sec r y

Consented to B Wentworth

In 1783 the estates of Daniel Brown
and twenty others, in the southern
part of the town, were set off and

tions are found, the most important
being "Beede's Hill," so called,
where some of the best land in town
is found. The soil is usually rather
light, and almost entirely susceptible
to cultivation. It is particularly well
adapted to the production of corn
and small fruits; but, as is the case in
too many of our New Hampshire
towns, is not being pushed to the
extent of its capacity. While Fre-
mont is essentially an agricultural
town, its farmers are not generally
making the most of their opportunity.
It may be noted however, that, unlike
a majority of the small country towns
in the state, its farms are not being

Bassett's Pond, Fremont

united to the town of Hawke, now
Danville. In June, 1854- — sixty years
ago — the name of the town was
changed from Poplin to Fremont.

The town lies in the valley of the
Exeter River, which pursues a most
circuitous route within its limits, and
furnishes several good water power
sites, which might be utilized to
good advantage during a considerable
portion of the year, and were so
utilized in the early days, but have
not been for some years past, the only
manufacturing plant in town, of any
importance, being operated by steam
power. The surface, though some-
what uneven is neither mountainous
nor hilly, although some slight eleva-

abandoned; nor has there been any
considerable decline in the population
of the town during any period of its
history, and it is as large today as at
any time in the past, though appar-
ently over one hundred less in 1910
than in 1900, on account of the inclu-
sion of a large floating population,
temporarily in town, when the census
for the latter year was taken.

The population of the town by the
first Federal census, in 1790, was 493.
In 1820 it had fallen to 453; in 1850 it
was returned at 509; in 1880 it was
623; in 1900 it was 749, and by the
last census, in 1910, the showing was
622, varying but one from the figure
returned thirty years before, in 1880.

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There were seventy-eight heads of
families in town in 1790, when the first
Federal census was taken, the list, as
returned, being as follows:

Ezekiel Godfrey
Abraham Sanborn
Joshua Laying
Steven Sleeper
Richard Clefford
Bilard D. Liford
Benjamin Cram
David Weed
Samuel Flanders
Joseph Mugget
Jeremiah Davis
Joseph Brown
Josiah Roberson
John Car
Ephraim Brown
John Roberson
Thomas Chase
Jeremiah Brown
Samuel Fellows

Ezekiel Roberson
Nathaniel Davis
Ezarel Smith
Jabish Cluff
John R. Tefethern
Joseph Cluff
Phinans Beedy
Benjamin Davis
Joseph Wolleymash
Nathan Brown
Daniel Brown
Enoch Brown
Doritty Hoit
David Hoit
Joshua Abbett
William Wodley
John Scribner
Eph m Abbot
Jonathan Brown

or Congress, however, which opened
at Exeter April '21, the town had
a delegate, in the person of Daniel
Brown. In the second Congress,
which opened on May 17, and con-
tinued into November of the same
year, Dr. Stephen Sleeper represented
the town. This Congress readjusted
the basis of representation, classing
this town with Raymond, so that in
the third and last Congress, which
opened December 21, 1775, the two
towns had a single delegate in the
person of Judge John Dudley of Ray-
mond. This last Congress, it may be
noted, made provision for a new gov-

Stephen Colbee
Jonathan Brown
Stephen Hobes
Betsy Taylor
Jonathan Roberson
Joshua Abbet ju
Moses Levet
Judah Davis
Joel Holbs
Thomas Beedy
Caleb Burley
Patience Sibley
Eli Beedy
Jonathan Beedy
Joseph Collins
Sherburne Sleeper
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Bachlor
William Taylor
David Litton

Exeter River and Road to Raymond

James Merrill
William Grig
William Tassay
David Sanborn
Solomon Leavy
Walter Hains
Joshua Kimball
Enoch Smith
John Kimball
Benjamin Cluff
William Morrill
Elishar Hook
James Tucker
Abraham Smith
Josiah Goarding
Joab Cenerston
Benjamin Bodg
Nicholas Goarding
Benoni Goarding
Asac Wood

Previous to the Revolution, Fre-
mont or Poplin had no representation
in the legislature, either independ-
ently or classed with any other town.
In the first Provincial Convention,

ernment acknowledging no farther al-
legiance to Great Britain, resolving
itself into a House of Representatives
and electing a Council of twelve mem-
bers to act coordinately with itself as
a legislature or General Court, the
same .going into effect January 8,
1775.

This town has furnished no Gov-
ernor or member of the Executive
Council, but three of its citizens have
served in the State Senate since the
adoption of the present Constitution
—Ezekiel Godfrey in 1803-4, Perley
Robinson in 1845-6 and Isaiah L.
Robinson in 1867-9, the latter serving
two terms. This Isaiah L. Robinson

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Sand Hill, Fremont, N. H.

was a prominent citizen and exten-
sively engaged in business as a car-
riage and harness manufacturer, and
also conducted a general store. He
later removed to Nashua where he
was also prominent in business life
for some years previous to his death.
Previous to 1810 this town had
been classed with Raymond for the
election of a member of the Legisla-
ture, but after that year it had the
privilege of electing its own repre-
sentative, and has enjoyed the same
continuously except for the Legisla-

tures of 1879 and 1881, when it was
classed with Sandown.

Following is the list of Representa-
tives from the town in the Legislature
from 1811 to the present time:

1811— Moses Hook.
1812— Moses Beede.
1813— Moses Hook.
1814— Moses Hook.
1815— Moses Hook.
1816— None.

1817 — Ezekiel Robinson.
1818— John Scribner.
1819 — Isaiah Lane.
1820— None.

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Main Street Looking West — Residence and Store of H. A. Cook

1821— None.
1822 — -John Scribner.
1823 — John Scribner.
1824— Joseph Godfrey.
1825— Joseph Godfrey.
1826— Enoch Brown.
1827— Enoch Brown.
1828 — Josiah Robinson.
1829— Squire B. Hascall.
1830— Squire B. Hascall.
1831 — Enoch Brown.
1832— Daniel B. Chase.
1833— Daniel B. Chase.
1834 — Jonathan Tuck.
1835 — Jonathan Tuck.
1836 — Enoch Brown.
1837— Enoch Brown.
1838 — Isaac Brown Jr.
1839 — Isaac Brown Jr.
1840 — Per ley Robinson.
1841 — Per ley Robinson.
1842 — Per ley Robinson
1843— None.
1844— None.

1845— Elisha Scribner.
1846— Elisha Scribner.
1847— Israel S. Tuck.
1848— Israel S. Tuck.
1849— None.

1850— Benjamin P. Webster.
1851 — James Martin.
1852— Benjamin P. Webster.
1853 — James Martin.
1854 — Ezra Currier.
1855— Timothy Tilton.
1856— Robert 'S. French.
1857 — Horatio Beede.
1858 — Ezra Currier.
1859 — Gardner Sleeper.
1860— Phineas Beede Jr.
1861 — Joseph Sanborn.
1862 — Benning S. Scribner.
1863 — Isaiah L. Robinson.
1864 — Isaiah L. Robinson.
1865— Daniel C Hook.
1866— Daniel C. Hook.
1867 — Benning S. Scribner.
1868— Stephen G. Sleeper.

Rocks Falls and Robinson's Mills

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1869— Stephen G. Sleeper.
1870 — David Sanborn.
1871 — David Sanborn.
1872— George F. Beede.
1873— George F. Beede.
1874 — Alvah Sanborn.
1875 — Alvah Sanborn.
1876 — Sherburne Sanborn.
1877 — Sherburne Sanborn.
1878— Robert S. French.
1879 — George N. Hunt, Fremont and San-
down.
1881— Geo. N. Hunt, of Sandown.
1883— Warren True.
1885— Joseph B. Wilbur.
1887— John L. Martin.
1889— John L. Martin.
1891— Phineas B. Beede.
1893— Lincoln F. Hook.
1895— Alden F. Sanborn.
1897— Arthur T. Smith.
1899— Harrison B. Ellis.
1901 — Eugene D. Sanborn.
1903 — Andrew J. Brown.
1905— Charles E. Beede.
1907— James W. Wilkinson.
1909— Henrv S. Cook.
1911— John'H. Ellis.
1913— Arthur R. Whittier.

As will be seen from the foregoing
list, the Representative in the Legis-
lature from this town in 1814 — one
hundred years ago — was Moses Hook.
At this time there were two Justices
of the Peace in town — Joseph Godfrey
and John Scribner. There was also
a coroner in the person of Isaiah Lane,
but no lawyer, and there appears to
have been no member of the legal pro-
fession settled here at any time, or,
at all events, not long enough to have
made a record, nor was there any
settled physician at that time, or any
minister or church organization hold-
ing regular services of public worship,
although a spacious meeting house
for religious as well as town meeting
purposes had been erected by the town
in 1800, which still stands, in a good
state of preservation and presenting
an imposing appearance. However
desirous the people were of enjoying
church privileges at close range (as
indicated in their petition for a char-
ter) they were unlike the inhabi-
tants of most towns of the state in the
early days, inasmuch as no church of
the "Standing order" (Congrega-
tional) which was early set up in

nearly every one of them, was estab-
lished here. Speaking of this town,
Rev. Robert F. Lawrence, in his "New
Hampshire Churches," issued in 1856,
says :

"It has never enjoyed the benefits
of an established ministry of any order.
No Congregational Church ever ex-
isted here, although it has not been
wholly passed by in the ministration

Union Church, Built in 1865

of the truth. More attention has
been given to this town by the Metho-
dist ministry than any other. With
a house of worship and a population
of 500 souls, some evangelical influ-
ence seems very desirable to be
brought into vigorous action for the
moral and religious improvement of
the people."

In point of fact, there has been
Methodist preaching in the town a
considerable portion of the time dur-
ing the last hundred years, and the

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Free Will Baptist denomination has
had its workers in the field, with regu-
lar services at different times in that
period; so that the people have by no
means suffered from lack of religious
teaching. A Union Church building-
was completed in the village in 1865,
and preaching of some kind has been
had most of the time since. A Con-
gregational Church was organized
here in 1908, under whose auspices
public worship has since been held,
though the pulpit is supplied at the
present time by students from the
Methodist theological school con-
nected with Boston University. There

are about sixty pupils in these schools,
about equally divided between the
two. Miss Addie Currier is the pres-
ent teacher in the primary depart-
ment and Mrs. Pauline Ellis in the
grammar, both residents of the town.
There are thirty-six weeks of schooling
per year, in all the schools. Such
scholars of the town as desire educa-
tional advantages not furnished at
home, are provided for outside, San-
born Seminary at Kingston, six miles
from Fremont village, being most
generally patronized for this purpose.
The only fraternal organization in
town, at present, is Fremont Grange,

The "Twin" School Houses

is also an organized Universalist soci-
ety in town, having an interest in the
church building, and generally holding
services a few Sundays in the summer
of each year.

The present town officers include:
Selectmen, Eugene D. Sanborn, Er-
nest F. Beede, Frank H. Lyford;
Town Clerk, Henry A. Cook; Treas-
urer, William H. Gibson; Collector,
Joseph B. Wilbur; Board of Educa-
tion, James E. Taylor, Fred J. Clem-
ent, Alden F. Sanborn.

There are five schools in town, two
of them in the village — a primary and
a grammar school — kept in two houses
on the same lot and generally known
as the "twin" school houses. There

No. 180, Patrons of Husbandry, or-
ganized March 21, 1892, whose mem-
bership, as given in the last roster of
the State Grange, numbers eighty-
three. Mrs. May C. Sanborn is the
present Master, Mrs. Luna A. San-
born, Lecturer, and Mrs. Effie L.
Hooke, Secretary.

The meetings of the Grange are
held in the Town Hall, a fine new, well-
appointed and well-equipped building,
admirably adapted to this and all
other purposes for which a village hall
as well as a general town meeting
house is required. Few towns of the
size of Freemont, in fact, are as well
provided for in this respect. This
structure was erected by the town,
following the disastrous fire of May

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169

25, 1910, which destroyed Ball's Hall,
wherein not only the meetings of the
Grange, but all public meetings and
entertainments had previously been
held, together with another large
block, and several other buildings,
including stores, post offices, resi-
dences and other buildings, it being
the most destructive fire known in
the history of the town.

Fremont village includes about
seventy-five dwellings — among them
a number of handsome ones — scat-
tered over quite an extent of territory,

residents. The railroad station is
about a mile from the center of the
village, a public conveyance meeting
all trains, for the accommodation of
those desiring transportation either
way.

Spaulding & Frost Co.

Closely adjacent to the village, or
practically within its limits, is located
the principal and practically the only
manufacturing establishment in town,
and what is really one of the most ex-

New Town Hall — Fremont

together with the Town Hall, church
and schoolhouses mentioned. There
are also three stores, in one of which
is the post office, a market, black-
smith's shop, livery, etc. A public
library (Mrs. John Frost, librarian),
is housed in a conveniently located
building expressly designed and well
adapted for its use.

For a long series of years, up to
1906, when occurred the death of
Warren True, the last landlord, there
was a good hotel in town, but since
then there has been no public house
here, although travelers desiring en-
tertainment are cared for by different

tensive industrial concerns in Rock-
ingham County, it being the large
cooperage plant of the Spaulding &
Frost Company. This establishment
was founded by Jonas Spaulding of
Townsend, Mass., about forty-one
years ago. Mr. Spaulding was oper-
ating a leather-board manufactory
as well as a cooperage establishment
at Townsend Harbor. His original
purpose, in commencing operations in
Fremont, was the production of stock
for use at the Townsend factory, this
being in the midst of a large pine-
growing section. He soon found,
however, that the economical course

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171

of procedure was to complete the
manufacture on the ground, and the
result was the upbuilding and devel-
opment of this, the most extensive
plant of the kind in the state, if not
in New England. The building and
yards of this concern occupy a dozen
acres of land, a considerable portion
thereof being occupied by the immense
piles of pine logs drawn in for con-
sumption in its work, about 2,500.000
feet, with the oak required in the
completion of the product, being con-

dent, R. H. Spaulding; Clerk and
Treasurer, S. A. Frost. The first
three names will be recognized by
those familiar with the business world
as those of the three sons of the late
Jonas Spaulding, founder of this con-
cern, who constitute the present
membership of the J. Spaulding &
Sons Co., extensive leatherboard
manufacturers, with Mills at North
Rochester, or Hayes, and Milton in
this State, at Townsend Harbor, Mass.
(the original establishment), and a

Residence of Stephen A. Frost.

sumed annually. A large amount
of lumber is also turned out here.

The cooperage product, which is
all first-class, goes to packers all over
the country, from Maine to Califor-
nia, for use in putting up fish, pickles,
molasses, glue, lard, tripe and various
lines of provisions. The annual out-
put of the establishment amounts to
about $250,000, and the pay roll is,
naturally, the most prominent factor
in the town's prosperity.

The officers of the Company, as at
present constituted are: President,
L. C. Spaulding; First Vice-president,
H. N. Spaulding; Second Vice-presi-

large new factory, recently completed,
at Tonawanda, N. Y. Mr. L. C.
Spaulding is located at Tonawanda,
N. Y. H. N. has his home in Boston,
while R. (Rolland) H. is at Rochester,
The name of the latter is becoming
quite a familiar one in New Hamp-
shire political circles, and through his
visits to Fremont, in connection with
the business of the Spaulding & Frost
Co., he has come to be well and favor-
ably known to the citizens of the town,
who, being largely Republicans, are
counting upon giving him substantial
support in the coming gubernatorial
canvass.

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PERSONAL SKETCHES

Stephen A. Feost

As clerk, treasurer and general
manager of its one great industry,
practically in full control of the busi-
ness, Stephen A. Frost naturally
stands in the front rank among the
leading citizens of the town of Fre-
mont, regardless of the fact that he
has never entered into the activities
of political life, seeking rather the
success of the business which he has
so greatly aided in building up, than
the public position which might come
through active participation in politi-
cal and party affairs.

Mr. Frost was born in Halifax,
N. S., January 15, 1862, a son of
John Lewis and Mary Ann (Winters)
Frost, but came to this country, with
his parents, in childhood, the family
residing in different towns in Massa-
chusetts. He was the third son and
the fifth of nine children born to his
parents, several of whom died young.
He gained his education in the public
schools of South Natick and Shirley
Village, Mass., and in early life com-
menced work in the leather-board
factory of Hill & Cutler at Shirley,
going, later, into the employ of Jonas
Spaulding, previously mentioned, at
Townsend Harbor, where he contin-
ued until he came to Fremont, into
the cooperage establishment which
Mr. Spaulding had founded, where
his energy and capacity were required
in the development of the business,
and where he has since remained, ex-
cept for six years in Gloucester, Mass.,
from 1899 to 1893, where he was as-
sociated with Mr. Spaulding in a
large cooperage enterprise, which
was disposed of in the latter year,
when the Fremont concern was re-
organized and incorporated as the
Spaulding & Frost Company with
Mr. Frost at the helm as manager,
and since continuing.

While preeminently a business man
and eschewing political preferment,
Mr. Frost is a public-spirited citizen
and alive to everything calculated

to advance the welfare of the town,
which he has served as Auditor, as a
member of the school board, library
trustee, and as a liberal contributor
to every good cause, not the least of
which is the movement for the Anni-
versary celebration now about reach-
ing its culmination. He is a Repub-
lican in politics, a Universalist in re-
ligion, an Odd Fellow and a member
of the Grange. June 13, 1885, he
married Catherine G. Fertig, a native
of Cleveland, 0., a woman of strong
intelligence, who has been a faithful
helpmate and a leading spirit in
the social and charitable activities
of the community. They have had
four daughters — Agnes Mary, Lillian
Emma, Lizzie J. and Marion, the
first and last being deceased.

William H. Gibson

While Fremont is overwhelmingly
Republican in politics, there having
been but thirty Democratic votes
cast for Governor in town at the
last election, those who continue
in the latter faith are, as would
naturally be expected, always to be
relied upon. Prominent among them.

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The Old Hotel — Home of Mrs. Warren True and William H. Gibson

and a veteran of many political
battles, is William H. Gibson, now
hearty and vigorous at the age of
nearly eighty-five years, having been
born in Fremont, August 1, 1829.

Mr. Gibson is a first class musician
and has devoted himself largely
through life to that profession, having
been a band leader many years in
his own and other towns. He served
in the band of the Fifth New Hamp-
shire Regiment in the Civil War.
Although a member of the minority
party, he is held in such high esteem
by his townsmen that he has served
them as supervisor and town clerk
and has been treasurer of the town
for twenty years, still holding the
office. As evidence of, and reward for,
faithful service to his party may be
cited the fact that he served as post-
master for his town under both
administrations of President Cleve-
land.

Mr. Gibson comes of an old family
in town, his grandfather, Samuel Gib-
son, having operated a grist mill and
woolen mill on the privilege at the
upper end of the village more than a
hundred years ago, which his father,
Samuel, Jr., also continued for a time.

Warren True

Warren True, Fremont's last hotel
keeper, and many years in the busi-
ness, came to town from Raymond
about 1872 and conducted the hotel
until his death in April, 1906. He
had lived in Raymond some time be-
fore his removal to Fremont, but
was born at St. Joseph, Mich., in
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Second Regiment, U. S. S., (Berdan's
Sharpshooters), in the Civil War,
enlisting from Raymond in September
1861. He was active in public and
political affairs, as a Republican; was
a deputy sheriff for many years, sev-
eral times chosen as a selectman, and
represented the town in the legisla-
ture in 1883.

Mr. True married, in 1854, Wealthy
A. Keniston, daughter of Joseph and
Sarah (Hurd) Keniston, a native of
Effingham, who survives him with-
out children. She has retained her
home, since her husband's death, in the
old place so long occupied as a hotel
and one of the village landmarks.

Mr. Beede was prominent for many
years in public affairs, being superin-
tendent of schools for ten years, select-
man for an equal period, and chairman
of the board for eight years, and a
member of the Legislature and chair-
man of the Committee on Agriculture
in 1872. He was best known, however,
as an active member and officer of
the N. H. Horticultural Society, and
as a speaker on horticultural topics
at Farmers' Institutes.

He married, May 20, 1863, Ruth
P., daughter of John and Sarah
Nichols of Winslow, Me. They had
eight children — William B., now of
Concord; Annie E., and Lewis A., at

Home of the Late George F. Beede

George F. Beede

Few names are better known among
horticulturists in New Hampshire
than that of George F. Beede, who
was a leading citizen of Fremont, a
prominent farmer and horticulturist,
living on Beede Hill, on the farm
settled by his ancestor, Jonathan
Beede, in 1760.

He was a son of Daniel and Ann E.
(Folsom) Beede, born January 5,
1838. His father was an active mem-
ber and preacher of the Society of
Friends, or Quakers, and in youth
George F. attended the Friends'
school at Providence R. I., and Oak
Grove Seminary, at Vassalboro, Me.

home; George E., at West Epping;
Mary Alice at home (bookkeeper for
Spaulding & Frost Co.); Augustine,
deceased; Charles C, at Jamestown,
Cal.; Abbie S. Grohl, of Kingston,
Col., and John D., of Somerville,
Mass.

Mr. Beede died February 8, the
present year, his wife having passed
away December 14, 1907.

Hon. John P. Sanborn

Probably the most- distinguished
native of Fremont, who has gone out
from the town, and pursued his career
in another state, is Hon. John Page
Sanborn, whose home is in Newport,

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R. I., and who has been a leading-
citizen of that state for many years.
He is the eldest son of Alvah and
Nancy (Page) Sanborn, born on the
old Sanborn homestead in Fremont,
September 9, 1844. He was educated
at New Hampton Institution and
Dartmouth College, graduating from
the latter in 1869. Following grad-
uation he was engaged in teaching for

paper in the country. Connected
with the paper is a large printing and
publishing establishment.

He has been active in politics as
a leader of the Republican party,
serving as a Representative in the
legislature from 1879 to 1882, the
last two years as Speaker. In 1885
and 1886 he was a member of the
State Senate, and again in 1889 and

Hon. John P. Sanborn

two years, first as principal of the
Toledo, 0., high school, and later at
Topsham, Me. In 1871 he was edi-
tor of the Newport, R, I., Daily News,
and in November of the following
year became editor and proprietor of
the Newport Mercury, which he has
since conducted with eminent success,
making it one of the ablest and most
influential journals in the state. This
paper, it may be noted, claims the
distinction of being the oldest news-

for several successive years, serving,
also, as President of that body. He
was a delegate from Rhode Island in
the Republican National Conventions,
of 1880 and 1884. He served on the
Northern Pacific Railway Commis-
sion, under Federal appointment, in
1882, and was a member of the Rhode
Island Commission for the Columbian
Exposition at Chicago in 1893. He
was also a member of the Executive
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celebration of the centennial of Com-
modore Perry's Lake Erie victory, in
1913, and especially active in the
promotion of the enterprise. He has
been active also in local affairs,
serving many years on the school
board, and as president and trustee
of numerous corporations. He holds
high rank in Masonry, having been
Grand High Priest of the Grand
Lodge and Eminent Grand Com-
mander of the Knights Templar.

April 7, 1870, Mr. Sanborn married
Isabella M. Higbee, daughter of the
late John H. Higbee, once a prom-
inent merchant of the town of New-
port in this state. They have had
four children of whom three are now
living.

Alden F. Sanborn

From long service as a member of
the State Board of Agriculture and
prominence in the order of Patrons
of Husbandry, Alden F. Sanborn is
better known in agricultural circles,
throughout the state, than any other
resident of Fremont. He is a son
of the late Alvah and Nancy (Page)
Sanborn, born August 20, 1855. He
was educated at the New Hampton

Institution, graduating in the class of
1877, and has always resided on the
old homestead owned in the family
more than 150 years, which, with out-
lands, includes some 600 acres, where
he has pursued mixed farming.

Mr. Sanborn has served as a mem-
ber of the board of education and
superintendent of schools for many
years, has been ten years chairman
of the board of selectmen, and repre-
sented the town in the legislature in
1895. He was appointed a member
of the State Board of Agriculture in
December, 1902, serving continu-
ously until the abolition of the board
last September, through the action
cf the last legislature. He is a Re-
publican, a Baptist and an active
member of Fremont Grange, of which
he has been Master. June 26, 1882,
he married Luna A. Gove of Raymond.
They have two sons — M. Hermon of
Deerfield, and Edson D., at home —
both graduates of the New Hamp-
shire State College.

Eugene D. Sanborn
Eugene D. Sanborn, or E. Dana as
his name more frequently appears,
is the younger brother of John P., and
Alden F. Sanborn, heretofore men-
tioned. He was born September 16,
1868, and educated at the public
schools, New Hampton Institution
and Gushing Academy, Ashburnham,
Mass. He is the proprietor of a fine
farm of 200 acres, not far from the old
home and a mile and a half from the
village, and pursues dairying as a
specialty. He has been much in
public service, having been town
clerk for nine years, selectman eight
years and chairman of the board
holding the position at the present
time; represented his town in the
legislature of 1901, when he was a
member of the Committee on Agri-
cultural college, and has since served
several terms as a messenger of the
House, and as warden of the coat room
during the last Constitutional Con-
vention. He took the census of the
town in 1890 and again in 1900.

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Residence of Eugene D. Sanborn

He is a Republican and a Univer-
salist, being clerk of the latter Society;
is an active member of Fremont

Eugene D. Sanborn

and West Rockingham Pomona
Granges, having been Master of the
latter, and also Master of Gideon
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Kingston.
He married May L. Currier, Decem-
ber 12, 1893. They have one son,
Curtice Sherburne, born March 16,
1901.

Frank H. Lyford

The third member of the board
of selectmen in Fremont, and a Demo-
crat, notwithstanding the strong pre-
ponderance of Republican voters, is
Frank H. Lyford, who was born in
the northeast part of the town,
November 10, 1867, son of John F.
and Elsina (Carr) Lyford. He was
educated in the district school and
Watson Academy, Epping. He was

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for eighteen years engaged as a box-
maker in Exeter, returning to Fre-
mont in the summer of 1911, where
he has since been engaged in farming
on the Carr farm — his mother's old
home, which is also near his birthplace.
He has served two years on the
Board of Health, and was chosen
third selectman at the last election.
Mr. Lyford has been twice married :
in 1894 to Mary F. Doe, of Epping,
who died in 1910, leaving two children
— Willis Carr, at work in Exeter, and
a daughter, Agnes Elsina, now seven
years of age, at iiome. January 1,
1913 he married Eva M>. Wilson of
Derrv.

Ernest S. Beede

Ernest Sumner Beede, second mem-
ber of the Fremont board of select-
men, whose standing in the confidence
and esteem of his fellow citizens is
shown by the fact that he had been
four times elected to the office, is a
native of the town; a son of Phineas
and Nettie (Cass) Beede, born No-
vember 15, 1868. He married Miss
Alice Towle of Chester and they have
four children living — Phineas Leon,
Carl W., E. Abbott, and Marjorie B.

Joseph B. Wilbur, a substantial
farmer and carpenter, and present
collector of taxes for the town, which
position he has held eight years alto-
gether, is a native of East Kingston,
born May 5, 1838. His father was
the late Rev. Warren Wilbur, a well
known Methodist clergyman of his
day. He was educated in the com-
mon schools, and has been a resident
of Fremont for the last fifty years
or more, having served, also, several
years as a selectman, and as Repre-
sentative in the legislature in 1885.
He was a Charter member of Fremont
Grange, but has lately withdrawn.
He has been twice married — first with
Miss Harriet Brown of Sandown,
and after her death uniting, October
22, 1865, with Miss Sarah E. Brown
of Fremont. They have two chil-
dren — a son and daughter. The son
Herbert B., who is a rural letter car-
rier, is married and lives on the home
place, with his parents. The daughter
Nellie J., is the wife of Burton L.
Smith of Brentwood. They have
three sons, two of them graduates of
Sanborn Seminary and the other now
attending that institution.

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Residence of Horace G. and Arthur R. Whittier

Arthur R. Whittier few years since. He was born in

The representative from the town that town February 22, 1866, a son

of Fremont in the present state legis-
lature and a member of the state

Arthur R. Whittier

hospital committee, who occupies,
jointly with his father and mother,
one of the most attractive residences
in the village, is Arthur R. Whittier,
who removed here from Ravmond a

of Horace G. Whittier; was educated
there, and had served as a selectman
in Raymond before his removal to
Fremont. He is a farmer by occu-
pation and a member of Fremorft
Grange. He is a Republican, a Uni-
versalist, and a member of Juniata
Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. of Raymond. Mr.
Whittier has been twice married, his
present wife having been Miss Flor-
ence A. Gillingham.

Jonathan A. Robinson

No man was more prominent in the
business and industrial life of the
town during a long period of years in
the middle of the last century and
later, than Jonathan A. Robinson, a
native of Fremont, born May 20, 1821,
a son of Josiah and Betsey (Lane)
Robinson, and who married Celestia
W. James of Kingston, in 1843.

For nearly sixty years Mr. Robin-
son was actively engaged in manufac-
turing, his establishment being lo-
cated on the "upper dam," just above
the village, which power, now unused,
is owned by the Spaulding & Frost
Company. Here he produced large
quantities of hubs and spokes for the
California market. He was of an
inventive nature and machinery was

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Jonathan A. Robinson

his delight. In those days, when indi-
vidual enterprise was depended upon
rather than corporate capital, to pro-
mote industrial prosperity, such men
as he were towers of strength in the
community.

Mr. Robinson was a follower of the
Methodist faith, a constant attendant,
and great worker in the church. He
was a man of excellent habits, always
having lived the simple outdoor life,
and enjoying almost perfect health
until a few weeks before his death,
which occurred January 25, 1908.
A daughter, Mrs. Horace G. Whittier,
survives. Another daughter, Philena
A., died in 1865, at the age of nineteen
years.

Joseph B. Sanborn
Fremont furnished more than fifty
men for the Union service in the Civil
War, none braver and more faithful
than Joseph B. Sanborn, a native of
the town, born August 26, 1842, who
served as corporal and color-bearer in
Company K., eleventh New Hamp-
shire Regiment, being the only mem-
ber of the guard who came home with
the colors. He was twice wounded

in the service, at Spottsylvania and
Bethesda Church.

After his return home he was for
many years engaged in farming, but
retired from the same some time ago,
and has his home in the village where
he has attended to pension and pro-
bate business, conveyancing, etc., in
which capacity he has been a most
useful factor in the community life.

He was the first commander of
Joe Hooker Post, No. 51, G. A. R.,
organized in this town, but now re-
moved to Raymond, and has held
various Post and Department offices
in the order. He is a Universalist,
was a member of the Grange for
many years, and is in politics a life-
long Republican, having cast his
first vote for Lincoln in the field, near
Petersburg, in November, 1864, and
voted for every party candidate
since. He has been tax collector,
supervisor and selectman, and was
the delegate from Fremont in the last
Constitutional Convention. He was
also the town's postmaster under the
administration of President Benjamin
Harrison. He has been a Justice of

Joseph B. Sanborn

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Residence of Dr. E. W. Lowe

the Peace for 42 years and a Notary
Public 20 years. He is the oldest
Justice in town. He is married and
has two daughters.

Dr. Ernest W. Lowe

If Fremont has no lawyer and no
settled minister, it is not without the
presence of a skilled and successful
physician. Dr. Ernest W. Lowe, a
native of Nashua, son of Alonzo
L. and Calista (Whittier) Lowe, born
January 6, 1875, a graduate of the
Nashua High School and the Balti-
more Medical College, class of 1898,
and a student with Dr. A. S. Wallace,
of Nashua, located here in 1899, and
has since remained, establishing a
wide and constantly increasing prac-
tice, extending far into the surround-
ing region, as his reputation for skill
and success, based upon constant
study and investigation increases
from year to year. Dr. Lowe is a
thorough student, keeping abreast
with the progress of modern medical
science in all its branches. His
office is equipped with all the most
improved appliances, and his success
in surgery is no less marked than in
medicine.

Since residing in town he has been
constantly a member of the Board of

Dr. E. W. Lowe

Health, and three years on the school
board. He was also a member of
the building committee for the new
town hall. He is a member of the
Rockingham, New Hampshire and
American Medical Societies and of
the New Hampshire Surgical Society.
September 10, 1913, he married Miss
Gertrude F. Fellows of Brentwood.

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Wilcomb H. Benfield
Among the leading citizens of the
town, in point of industry, persevering
effort, and genuine public spirit, is
Wilcomb H. Benfield, born at the old
homestead near his present residence,
December 15, 1866, son of Jeremiah
and Mary J. (Wilcomb) Benfield.
He was educated at the public schools
and New Hampton Institution, and
for more than twenty years has been
engaged in the service of the Spauld-
ing & Frost Company, whose business

Wilcomb H. Benfield

has been heretofore portrayed. He
has held various town offices, and is
at present town auditor, library
trustee and sealer of weights and
measures. By industry and thrift
he has become the owner of a goodly
amount of real estate, having himself
erected several of the buildings now
in his possession.. He is a Republican,
a Universalist, and a member of
Juniata Lodge No. 47, I. O. 0. F., of
Raymond.

November 21, 1891, Mr. Benfield
was united in marriage with Miss
Cora M., daughter of Jonathan
Libby of Dexter, Me., who has been

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a true helpmeet. They have three
daughters — Elvira L., Frances A.
and Marion M.

Henry A. Cook

The present town clerk of Fremont,
who has filled the office for the last ten
years, and for thirteen years in all, is

Henry A. Cook

Henry A. Cook, who has been a gen-
eral merchant here, for nineteen years
past, having been burned out at the
time of the big fire, previously men-
tioned, and erected a fine new resi-
dence, and a store near by, following
the disaster.

Mr. Cook is a native of Lunenburg,
Mass., born May 26, 1857, and was
educated in the schools of that town.
He came to Fremont in 1878, and was
employed at the Spaulding factory
in this town, until he went into trade,
with the exception of three years'
service in the Gloucester factory. He
served several years as a member of
the board of education, and repre-
sented the town in the legislature of
1909. He is a member of Fremont
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry and is

the encampment as well as as the
Rebekah Lodge. Politically he is a
Republican.

Mr. Cook married, June 18, 1878,
Miss Emma M. Daniels. They have
three children — a daughter and two
sons. The daughter Lena, is the wife
of Harry F. True, who is now in
partnership with Mr. Cook, and re-
sides near by. The eldest son, George
H., is train dispatcher for the Boston
and Maine Railroad, at Nashua. The
youngest son, Albert S.. is a student
at Sanborn Seminary, where the other
children were also educated.

Clarence B. Hill

Of the two proprietors of general
merchandise stores in Fremont at
the present time, the younger is
Clarence B. Hill, who came here from
Deerfield and has been in trade at
the old stand, once occupied by Isaiah
L. Robinson, and later by different
firms, since October, 1907.

Mr. Hill was born in Deerfield,

Clarence B. Hill

March 12, 1882, and was educated in

the schools of that town. Since

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self a fine run of trade, and has gained
public confidence in good measure,
having been elected supervisor and
a member of the board of library
trustees. He is a member of Fre-
mont Grange.

August 25, 1908, he was united in
marriage with Miss Lena F. Robinson
of Deerfield.

James B. Martin, residing on the old
Martin homestead in the northeast
part of the town near the Epping line,
which farm has been in the family
111 years.

Mr. Martin is the son of John L.
and Emeline H. (White) Martin,
born July 28, 1851. His father was
a prominent citizen, representing the

The Old Martin Homestead

James B. Martin

One of the best known and most
enterprising citizens of Fremont, is

James B. Martin

town in the legislature in 1887 and
1889, as did his grandfather, James
Martin, in 1851 and 1853. He was
educated in the public schools and at
Coe's Academy, Northwood, and sub-
sequently taught school for four years.
Later he engaged in shoe manufactur-
ing; was foreman in a shoe factory in
Epping several years, and subse-
quently in business for himself twelve
years in Haverhill, Mass., retiring
and returning to the old farm in 1899.
He has been a member of the town
school board eleven years and super-
intendent most of the time. He has
also served three years as selectman,
and as chairman of the board three
years.

He has been twice married — first
to Mary Alice, daughter of Rev. A.
Lunt, a Methodist clergyman, who
died April 7, 1896; second, February
15, 1898, to Mary E. Higgins of Mus-
quodobit, N. S. He has two children
by his first wife, Fred L., now in
Melrose, Mass., and Edith, in Haver-
hill.

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James W. Wilkinson

Mrs. J. W. Wilkinson

The resident of Fremont who is
known to more people in this state
than any other, and who can call
more New Hampshire men by their
names, is James W. Wilkinson, who,
during the last dozen years or more,
has gone into almost every town and
hamlet in the state in the interest of
the Manchester Mirror, published
by the John B. Clarke Company,
and has also travelled for some time
for the New England Farmer, thus
forming a large and enjoyable ac-
quaintance throughout the state.

Mr. Wilkinson was born in Kings-
ton, May 23, 1849, son of James N.
and Lydia (Goodrich) Wilkinson,
but came to Fremont in 1854, where
he has since had his home. From
1879 to 1881, inclusive, he was asso-
ciated with the late Jonathan A.
Robinson in the spoke and wheel
manufacturing business. For two
years subsequently he was with the
late Perley C. Robinson in the grocery
trade, and later conducted the busi-
ness alone till 1891, when he sold out
and became a commercial traveller
being engaged the greater portion of
the time as above stated. He is a

member of Fremont Grange, and
Past Noble Grand of the Juniata
Lodge, I. O. O. F. of Raymond, and
has taken all the Grand Lodge and
Encampment degrees in that order.
He is a Republican in politics and
served his town as Representative in
1907, being a member of the Com-
mittee on Retrenchment and Reform
and taking an active part in its work.
May 5, 1873, he married Miss Annette,
daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Morse)
Abbott. Mrs. Wilkinson is a member
of Alfaratta Rebekah Lodge, I.O.O.F.,
of Raymond, and a charter member
of Fremont Grange. They have no
children.

Charles E. Beede
Fremont's present postmaster, who
conducts a dry goods and variety
store in connection with the post-
office, but is principally engaged in
the management of one of the best
farms in town, which he owns, and on
which he lives, in the "Beede Hill"
section, is Mr. Charles E. Beede, a
son of Phineas B. and Ann R. (Leavitt)
Beede, born May 10, 1861. He was
educated in the public schools and

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Residence of Charles E. Beede

has spent his life in the town, engaged He is an Odd Fellow, and was formerly

in farming and trade. He has
served the town as supervisor, road
agent, library trustee and as a repre-
sentative in the legislature of 1905,
when he served as a member of the
committee on agriculture. He has
been postmaster for the last six years.

a member of the Grange.

In October, 1884, he married Miss
Lula M. Sanborn, They have six
children — four daughters and two
sons, of whom three daughters are
married; while two sons and a daugh-
ter remain at home.

"LABOR OMNIA VINCIT"

Hymn for High School Graduation

By A. Judson Rich
Live for ideals bright —
Truth, service, love and right,

Thy soul aflame :
Go forth in wisdom still,
Thy mission to fulfil,
Obedient to God's will, —

In His dear name.

Make righteousness thy goal,
Valiant and brave thy soul

To meet life 's foes :
Live for humanity,
The ages yet to be,
The Truth that maketh free,

Till life shall close.

To thjr best thought be true,
The perfect way pursue,

Our Master trod :
God's kingdom is within,

The White-Capped Scout 187

Labor cloth all things win,
Failing, thine own the sin, —
Thy helper God.

Thy life be consecrate
To manhood and the state

Forevermore :
Thy voice be heard for peace,
For war 's alarm surcease,
For righteous rule increase,

God to adore.

Christ's law of love be thine,
Thy life a school divine,

Held in sweet thrall :
Thy God and Father, guide,
Be ever near thy side ;
To Him thy soul confide

Who blesseth all !

THE WHITE CAPPED SCOUT

By Lena E. Bliss

Time — July. Scene — Special car chartered by C. E. E.'s. Characters — A maid, a man,
and others. ' ' Others ' ' — are minor characters. Costumes — White dresses, black suits,
adorned with red, yellow, and white badges. Each badge contains name of some state with
picture of state seal. Car presents a scene of jolly confusion, trappings and lunch baskets
scattered about in various directions. Plot — A country girl from New Hampshire starts
out alone to attend the Christian Endeavor Convention at Montreal, and meets with
adventures.

She was, withal, a demure little Southern delegation. Did it trouble

maiden; yet flashes of merriment her? Not a bit. North or South,

gleamed beneath the dark lashes, they were Endeavorers and that was

while the mouth that curved now and all that was required. She was soon

then with a smile could be firm and in a lively conversation with these

resolute when occasion demanded, so Southern girls. They exchanged

that mother had no fear when she lunches and were enjoying themselves

fastened the little gray coat about the to the utmost, when the New Hamp-

clinging figure, and gave a farewell shire State Secretary broke in upon

look into the deep, earnest eyes, their musings. ' ' Halloo, New Hamp-

There had been much discussion when shire, what are you in here for ?

Margaret Dawson was chosen delegate Come with me where you belong. ' '

to this convention. ' ' She is much too ' ' Oh, but I 've just got acquainted with

young, ' ' was the general verdict of the the loveliest girls. " " Well, there are

elders. "Young or not, she will do more lovely girls to get acquainted

better than Susan Lee," had settled with in the car ahead," so adieu to

the question, and Margaret Dawson, the Southern girls,

to her infinite satisfaction, found her- What a jolly time they had as the

self on the way. car sped Northward, telling stories,

In the first place she got into the singing songs, cracking jokes, and

wrong car, the one devoted to a everything else that tended to good

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wholesome fun, while now and then
one ' ' snapped ' ' with his camera some
of the splendid views in that vast
North country of rugged hills, tower-
ing mountains and foaming cascades.

One hundred miles this side of
Montreal, the White-Capped Scouts
boarded the train. They were hailed
with cheers and, when the noise sub-
sided, one of them stepped forward
and made a little speech, explaining
that it was the mission of the scouts
to furnish information to the travelers
and render them any unpaid services
they might ask. A little later one
came to Margaret and politely asked
if he could render assistance. She
showed him her assignment billet.
" It is outside the city limits, ' ' he said.
"You are destined to Cote St.
Antoine. It will be after nightfall
when we arrive. You had better take
a cab."

The train was later in arriving even
than he had thought, and the sudden
discovery of finding herself alone in
that vast crowd that thronged the
station might have made a stouter
heart than Margaret's sink. There
was a homesick lump in her throat, a
strange buzzing sound in her ears,
while the voices of the cabmen
sounded far off and indistinct. For
the first time in her life Margaret
Dawson "lost her head." It took a
brisk walk around the station to re-
cover it, and then she approached a
White-Capped Scout to ask for help.

This "White-Cap," was about her
own age, interesting, interested and
sympathetic. "Why not take a cable
car ? " he said. ' ' It will cost less, and
will leave you directly at the door,
and you will get there just as quickly.
I will walk across the square with you.
With a sigh of relief, Margaret ac-
cepted his escort and they passed on
through the brilliantly lighted square.
The scout pointed out Winsor Hotel
and other places of interest and told
Margaret something of his own life,
while she, in turn, regaled him with
tales of life at the Old New Hamp-
shire home. They parted reluctantly

at the car and Margaret sped swiftly
on to Cote St. Antoine, after telling
the conductor to leave her at Vineyard
Avenue.

Suddenly she awoke to the fact that
she had traveled a long distance with-
out hearing the avenue called and she
sat erect and listened. On and on
they rode, farther and farther into
the night. The passengers, one by
one, deserted the car, the lights went
out, the cable was reversed, Margaret
was alone.

Margaret walked swiftly up to the
conductor and asked if this was Vine-
yard Avenue. "Vineyard Avenue,"
said the conductor crossly, "I call
out the avenue, why didn' you get
off?"

"He's French," sighed Margaret.
' ' Whatever shall I do ? I didn 't hear
you say," she began timidly. He
turned a scowling face toward her and
spoke gruffly, "You didn' hear! You
didn' hear!" Margaret found her
self-possession failing her ; she was on
the verge of tears when a young man
of pleasant countenance entered the
car. Advancing toward the two, he
said, "I overheard the conversation
between you and I think I can settle
the difficulty. Vineyard Avenue is
several streets beyond ; the cars do not
run there as yet. Walk down to the
electric light yonder, then turn to
your left." Margaret thanked him
and walked on. Then she began to
pity herself. "Hundreds of miles
from home in a strange city, alone,
tired, hungry, sick, afraid." Two
tears slowly trickled down her cheeks.
" If I miss my way, I can find a police-
man and ask him." But her head
ached; she did miss her way and no
policeman was in sight. At last she
extracted the assignment billet from
her purse and read it again :

"Lodgings, Breakfasts, and Sup-
pers, assigned to Margaret Dawson at
the home of Major Thomas Orne, 123
Vineyard Avenue, Cote St. Antoine."

She glanced up. "This 125.
Why! it must be just below and she
joyfully found the number and

The White-Capped Scout 189

ascended the broad gravel walk to the Erskine Presbyterian Church, and

the front door. Major Orne himself feeling now that she knew the way, she

answered her summons and as he had no hesitation in setting forth

stood there clad in dressing gown and alone.

slippers, Margaret thought of the typi- She arrived in plenty of season,
cal Englishman she had read so much secured a good seat and was lost in
about. He greeted her kindly, but admiration of the wonderful, soul-
seemed completely at a loss when she thrilling speaker with his still more
had explained her errand. ' ' I will wonderful message.
call my wife," he said, "Can it be "I shall know my way home -to-
that they didn 't know I was coming ? ' ' night, ' ' she thought, as after the serv-
Poor Margaret's head swam and her ice she started homeward. The ride
heart sank at the thought of being left did not seem so long as before and
outside at last. when nearly there she noticed there

Mrs. Orne was a delightful little were only two occupants in the car

woman, however, and spoke with a beside herself: one was a sweet-faced,

dear little English accent. She gentle lady with waves of soft brown

atoned for the Major 's brusqueness by hair parted in the middle, the other

inviting Margaret in and after many a dignified looking personage with a

apologies for not being able to provide twinkle in the merry blue eyes that

for her entertainment in a sumptuous belied the dignity of his manner,

manner, owing to the fact that she was ' ' The minister and the missionary I '11

at present without a servant, she bet you, ' ' thought Margaret surprised

brought forth some lime-juice and into slang. She followed them from

cookies and then ushered Margaret the car, keeping at a respectful dis-

into a cool, spacious, room. How in- tance. They had been wise enough

viting the bed looked with its fresh to employ a young boy as guide and

linen! The girl's aching head sank as the latch of Major Orne's gate

wearily into the heavy pillows, and clicked, Margaret advanced and held

peaceful slumber stole over her. out her hand. ' ' Is this Mr. and Mrs.

In the absence of a servant, a small Dawson?" she asked. "Yes, and is
boy from a neighboring cottage served this Miss Dawson ? ' ' they exclaimed
the breakfast, consisting of bread and together, then all three laughed,
strawberries. The uncut bread was Margaret made some startling dis-
placed on the table, with a knife be- coveries the next day. The Rev. Mr.
side it, and the guest cut it as desired. Dawson proved to be none other than
Then coffee was served. This and he of Holman, N. H., her mother's
every following morning a fresh bou- girlhood home, and upon further con-
quet of flowers from the fine old- versation it developed that he had
fashioned garden was laid beside her preached her grandfather's funeral
plate. She was informed that two sermon. "And did you know the
others were coming to this house to Adams girls ? ' ' said Margaret eagerly,
stay during the convention — one a "I have often heard my mother speak
minister, the other a missionary from of them." "The Adams girls," said
South Africa and both their names the minister, ' ' are grown women now.
were Dawson. ' ' How strange ! ' ' said I believe they are in the city attending
Margaret, and wondered if they could the convention. I will find them for
by any possible chance claim relation- you and you shall meet them."
ship. True to his promise Mr. Dawson

That first morning she found her found the Adams girls. It was on a

way to the New Hampshire head- day when there were no meetings save

quarters, secured her official badge, committees and they had the day to

and found her program. She learned themselves. They hired a carriage

that Theodore Cuyler was to speak at and, to use a pet expression of

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Margaret 's, ' ' did the town up brown. ' '
They visited the great cathedrals, the
Grey Nunnery, and other places of
interest in the forenoon then drove to
Mount Royal in the afternoon. Mar-
garet prided herself on her French,
but the only word she understood in
the Grey Nunnery was "malade."

The ascent of Mount Royal was de-
lightful, and on her way up, Margaret
told an amusing story.

"I had heard so much about the
wonderful Mount Royal," she said,
"before coming here that I looked
everywhere for it. Somehow the fact
of its being 900 feet high conveyed no
impression to me. One morning I
came down to breakfast and Major
Orne said, 'Have you noticed the
lovely view of Mount Royal from the
little balcony that leads out of your
room?' Then suddenly it dawned
upon me that that little hill was a
mountain." "Ah," replied the min-
ister laughing, ' ' you should give these
people a glimpse of your native 'hills'
in the Switzerland of America."

As they stood watching the pano-
rama spread below them, the wonder-
ful Canadian city at their feet, Mar-
garet felt a light touch upon her arm,
and turning beheld — can you guess
whom ?— the White-Capped Scout who

had several days before piloted her to
the car. She extended her hand in
joyful recognition. "Why! I didn't
expect ever to see you again." Nor
I, to see you, but Fate has, indeed,
been kind. How are you enjoying
yourself?" Then Margaret's tongue
was loosed and she launched out into
a glowing description of all the won-
derful happenings of the past three
days. He in turn related some amus-
ing incidents that had befallen him on
his piloting expeditions as he called
them. The minister stood by, an
amused spectator, while the mission-
ary turned to watch the people who
were patronizing the incline railway.

"White-Cap," for we shall never
know him by any other name, was in-
vited to join them and made himself
an agreeable addition to at least one
member of the party.

The rest is easily to be imagined —
the correspondence begun between
Margaret and White- Cap, followed by
an invitation from Margaret's mother
to spend a summer at their White
Mountain home, and, finally, after a
proper time and with proper cere-
mony, how Margaret Dawson became

Margaret , I told you he should

never be known by any other name —
well, then, "Margaret White-Cap."

BUTTERCUP TIME

By Charles Henry Chesley
The bee in the clover, gay rover,
Flits over

The blossomy fields in their prime;
The bobolink trills o'er the hills,
Fairly thrills,

In buttercup time.

The fields are all glowing
With green things a-growing,

The bird songs in tune —
And heart o' mine thrilling
With Love's sweet in-filling

In June.

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The dream is just waking, and making
Heart-breaking

The thought that Love loves summer clime-
Oh, may the gay throng linger long,
With the song

Of buttercup time.

If winds come a-sweeping,
Oh, bring not the weeping,

The cry or the croon,
For heart o' mine thrilling
Knows naught but Love's filling,

In June.

NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY

JACOB ROGERS

Jacob Rogers, born in Exeter, N. H., in
1829, died at his home in Lowell, Mass., Mon-
day, June 8.

Mr. Rogers came of an old and honorable
family, the ancestors of which in this country
came over in 1670 and immediately took a
prominent part in Colonial affairs. One
member, John Rogers, served as president
of Harvard College during the years 1682-
1684. On his mother's side, Jacob Rogers
was descended from the family of Rev. Jacob
Cram, a Congregational minister. His ma-
ternal grandmother was Mary Poor, daughter
of the Revolutionary general, Enoch Poor.

He was educated at Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy. After his graduation he went to sea
and at twenty years of age went to Lowell,
where he went into business with his brother,
John F. : Rogers. Mr. Rogers assumed early
an interest in the political and business life
of the community, and in 1864 and 1865
served as a member of the legislature, and in
1875 and 1876 was an alderman. In 1870 he
became treasurer of the Lowell Gas Light
Company, a position which he held up to
within a few years. In 1875 Mr. Rogers be-
came president of the Railroad National Bank,
and later treasurer of the Stony Brook Rail-
road. He was interested largely in numerous
mills and manufacturing concerns, among
them the Tremont and Suffolk mills, the Low-
ell Manufacturing Company, the Massachu-
setts Cotton Mills, the Boott Mills, the J. C.
Ayer Company and the Kitson Machine Com-

pany. Mr. Rogers was married in 1868 to
Mary H. Carney, and is survived by her and
three children, Mrs. Frank E. Dunbar, Mrs.
Frederick A. Flather and John J. Rogers, the
present congressman from the Fifth Massa-
chusetts district.

FRANK S. SUTCLIFFE

Frank S. Sutcliffe, superintendent of schools
for the city of Somersworth, died at his home
in that city, May 14, 1914, at the age of 55
years, having been born in Salem, N. H., in
1859, the son of James and Mary L. Sutcliffe.

The family removed to Manchester in his
childhood, where he graduated from the high
school, and from Dartmouth College in the
class of 1880.

He was principal of the West Side grammar
school in Manchester several years. Later
he was superintendent of schools in Arlington,
Mass., and subsequently supervisor of the
Newport, Sunapee and New London district
in this state, residing at Newport, whence he
went to Somersworth some two years ago.
Mr. Sutcliffe was a former president of the
New Hampshire Teachers' Association, a past
president of the Calumet Club of Manchester
and a past master of Washington Lodge, A. F.,
and A. M., of Manchester.

He married Miss Kate Follansbee of Man-
chester, whose death occurred about a month
subsequent to his. They leave two daughters
— Marjorie, assistant librarian at Simmons
college, and Barbara, until recently a student
at Andover academy.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER'S NOTES

The annual meeting of the New Hampshire
Old Home Week Association was held at the
rooms of the Department of Agriculture in
the State House, on Monday, June 8. Ex-
Go vs. Rollins and Bachelder, who have been
president and secretary respectively since the
organization of the Association in 1899, de-
clining to serve longer, a change in the official
roll became necessary and officers for the en-
suing year were chosen, as follows : President,
Henry H. Metcalf, Concord; vice-presidents,
Gov. Samuel D. Felker, ex-officio, Rochester;
George A. Wood, Portsmouth; J. D. Roberts,
Rollinsford ;Charles McDanieLEnfield; George
B. Leighton, Dublin; George B. Cox, Laco-
nia; True L. Norris, Portsmouth; Orville P.
Smith, Meredith; Mrs. A. Lizzie Sargent, Con-
cord; secretary, Andrew L. Felker, Meredith;
treasurer, George E. Farrand, Concord; execu-
tive committee, Dr. James Shaw, Franklin;
Richard Pattee, Laconia; George W. Fowler,
Pembroke; William E. Beaman, Cornish; Na-
thaniel S. Drake. Pittsfield. This Association
is now an established state institution, and
the last legislature provided an annual appro-
priation for the support of its work, at the
same time permanently fixing the beginning
of Old Home Week at the third Saturday in
August.

president of the Portsmouth Board of Trade,
as early as the 27th.

The resignation of United States Marshal
Edwin P. Nute, of Farmington, came as a sur-
prise to the public a few days since, as his
present term of service was far from complete.
It appears that his resignation which takes
effect July 1, was given in order that Mr. Nute
may enter, at that time, upon his duties as
secretary of the New Hampshire Fire Under-
writers Association, which position, resigned
by Hon. Samuel C. Eastman, has been ten-
dered him. His resignation leaves open a de-
sirable position which will probably be filled
by the appointment of a Democrat.

A high honor, worthily bestowed, was that
conferred by the University of Maine, upon
New Hampshire's brilliant educator, Henry C.
Morrison, Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion, on the tenth instant, when he received
the degree of Doctor of Laws from that insti-
tution, in company with Thomas R. Marshall,
Vice-President of the United States, who was
the orator at the Commencement day exer-
cises.

The annual summer outing of the State
Board of Trade occurs on Tuesday, June 30,
the Isles of Shoals being the objective point.
It is open to the public, and all those intending
to participate should notify Fred M. Sise,

The annual meeting of the New Hampshire
Society, Sons of the American Revolution,
was held in the Senate Chamber at the State
House, June 9. Officers were elected for the
ensuing year, as follows: F. W. Lamb, Man-
chester, president; S. H. Bell, of Derry, F. W.
McKinley of Manchester, J. N. Patterson of
Concord, vice-presidents; Rev Howard F. Hill,
D. D., Concord, secretary-treasurer; Rev.
Lucius Waterman, Laconia, chaplain; William
P. Fiske, Concord, registrar; Charles C. Jones,
Concord, assistant registrar; Otis G. Ham-
mond, Henry H. Metcalf, Charles E. Staniels,
Charles C. Jones, Concord, F. W. Lamb, Man-
chester, board of management. An address
on Alexander Scammell was given by Gen.
Philip Reade, U. S. A., retired, of Boston.
The Society voted the publication of a new
volume of proceedings.

Rolland H. Spaulding of Rochester, who is
contending with Rosecrans W. Pillsbury, of
Londonderry, for the honor of the Republican
nomination for Governor, has declined the
challenge of the latter to discuss with him,
before the people, the issues of the party cam-
paign, such as they may be. Mr. Pillsbury
will, therefore, go on to discuss them alone.
He proposes to go into every section of the
state.

The Republican Club of Rockingham
County will hold its next meeting in the Court
house at Portsmouth, June 25. George H.
Moses, ex-Minister to Greece will be the
speaker of the day.

The joint commission to settle the mooted
Vermont and New Hampshire boundary
question, appointed by the governors of the
two states, is now engaged in the work, which
is a most delicate and important one, and will
not be concluded for some time. The New
Hampshire members of the Commission are
William M. Chase and John H. Albin of Con-
cord, and Charles J. O'Neill of Walpole.

Interest in this state in the projected suit
for $70,000,000, against the directors of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
in behalf of stockholders, for loss incurred
through injudicious and unauthorized invest-
ments, will be enhanced by the fact that the
attorney bringing suit — Sherman F. Whipple
— is a New Hampshire man by birth, as are
very many of Boston's most eminent and suc-
cessful lawyers.

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HON. ROSECRANS W. PILLSBURY

The Granite Monthly

Vol. XLVI, No. 7 JULY, 19U New Series, Vol. 9, No. 7

HON. ROSECRANS W. PILLSBURY

First Declared Candidate for the Republican Gubernatorial

Nomination

The first man in the state, this patriotic Americans rose in revolt

year, to announce his candidacy for against Great Britain in 1775, Capt.

a gubernatorial nomination, was Caleb Pillsbury, a descendant of

Rosecrans W. Pillsbury of London- William, and the great-great-grand-

derry, who, in a public letter, issued father of Rosecrans W. led a company

on the 19th of March last, declared from Amesbury to Cambridge, in

himself a candidate for the Republi- which were three other members of

can nomination for Governor, at the the Pillsbury family. After the war,

September primary. Micajah Pillsbury, a son of Captain

In this letter, Mr. Pillsbury ex- Caleb, removed with his family to

pressed the belief that "the office of the town of Sutton in this state,

the Governor of New Hampshire where he became a leading citizen,

should be open to all persons having where his son Stephen, grandfather

legitimate business, during the hours of Rosecrans W., was later settled as

when other state offices are open," a Baptist clergyman, and where his

and promised, if elected, to devote father, William S., was born,

his entire time to the service of the Col. William S. Pillsbury, long a

state. He also said: "I have been leading citizen of Londonderry, was

a Republican always and was among a brave soldier of the Union in the

the first to advocate reforms which, Civil War, serving in both the Fourth

while they did not at the time meet and Ninth New Hampshire Regi-

with the approval of party leaders, ments, and in Company D, unattached

have since become recognized as artillery. He was active in public

sound public policy. I shall en- affairs and a leader in Republican pol-

deavor to conduct a vigorous cam- itics, serving in various town offices,

paign from the beginning, and shall as a member of the House of Repre-

hope to visit all parts of the state to sentatives, of the State Senate, and

meet the people and discuss with the Executive Council. He was long

them matters pertaining to the con- extensively engaged in shoe manu-

duct of state affairs." facture in Derry, and had also a

Mr. Pillsbury was born in London- large farm in Londonderry, where

derry, September 18, 1863, the eldest his son— Rosecrans W.— developed an

son and third child of Col. William interest in agriculture, which con-

S. and Sarah A. (Crowell) Pillsbury. tinues strong and unabated, not-

He comes o'f old colonial stock, being withstanding the years which he has

a descendant of that William Pillsbury given to business and political activity

who came from England, in 1640, since the school days which he passed

married Dorothy Crosby of Dor- at Pinkerton and Phillips Andover

Chester, Mass., in 1641, and settled Academies, and Dartmouth College,

in Newbury in that province. When Studying law, and being admitted

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to the bar at Manchester, Mr. Pills- nomination, has been prominent in the

bury nevertheless continued in part- State Conventions and in the commit-

nership with his father in the shoe tee work of his party for many years,

manufacturing business. He also and a forceful speaker on the stump. As

published a magazine and newspaper a Republican, he is both aggressive

at Derry for a time, the former at- and progressive, and was one of the

taining a wide circulation. These first men in his party to advocate the

he later disposed of and acquired a reform measures that have since be-

controlling interest in the Manchester come distinctively known as "Pro-

Union, to whose management he gressive."

gave much attention, until its sale As has been said, his interest in

last year to the publishers of the agriculture has ever been strong and

Leader. unabated, and he is giving practical

For the last fifteen years and more, demonstration thereof in the cultiva-

Mr. Pillsbury has been a prominent tion of the farm of several hundred

figure in Republican politics in New acres, on which he resides. Hay and

Hampshire. He represented London- dairying have been leading features,

derry in the Legislature of 1897, serv- but fruit culture at present particu-

ing on the Judiciary Committee, and larly engrosses his attention. This

also two years later, serving on the season he has set out a new apple

same committee. Again in 1905 he orchard of three thousand trees,

was returned to similar service, and placing each with his own hands,

was also chairman of the House Com- thus emphasizing his declared belief

mittee on Retrenchment and Reform, that apple culture is the great leading

taking strong ground in favor of line of industry whereby the New

various needed reforms and cham- Hampshire farmer can insure his own

pioning the same with vigor on the success and the prosperity of the

floor of the House. state. He was for sixteen years a

In 1906 he was an active candidate trustee of the New Hampshire Col-

for the Republican nomination for lege of Agriculture and the Mechanic

Governor, and made a strong canvass; Arts, and greatly interested in the

but, with four candidates in the field, work of the institution,

it was apparent, after several ballot- As a business man in the village of

tings, that neither could be nominated Derry, Mr. Pillsbury has ever mani-

but by the withdrawal of another, fested a wide measure of public spirit

and, in the interest of harmony, he and contributed generously toward all

withdrew in favor of Charles M. enterprises promotive of the welfare of

Floyd of Manchester, insuring the the place. He contributed a site for the

nomination of the latter. Adams public library building, and a

In 1909, Mr. Pillsbury was again liberal sum in aid of the library. He

a member of the House, serving on is a Presbyterian, a thirty-second

the important special Committee on degree Mason, and a member of the

Railroad Rates. He has* also repre- order of Patrons of Husbandry, hav-

sented his town in the last three ing been the first Master of Derry

Constitutional Conventions, taking Grange.

an active part in the deliberations of Mr. Pillsbury married, in 1885,

those bodies. He was an alternate Annie E. Watts of Manchester, who

delegate from New Hampshire to the died August 10, 1911, leaving three

Republican National Convention in children — Maria, a graduate of Abbot

1892, and in 1904 was a delegate to Academy, now the wife of Harold S.

the Convention in Chicago, when Taylor, formerly of Concord, now in

Theodore Roosevelt was nominated Trenton, N. J.; Horace Watts, a grad-

for President, and was a member of uate of the United States Naval Acad-

the committee to notify him of his emy at Annapolis, now in the service,

Ltmpster 195

who was engaged in the recent taking of the world, Mrs. Harriet F. Valen-

of Vera Cruz, and has since been tine, born at Greenville, S. C, March

transferred to the Asiatic fleet; and 1, 1876 — a member of the famous

Dorothy, now a student in Abbot Grady family, and a cousin of the late

Academy. Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta

February 25, 1913, he married, at Constitution and one of the foremost

Yokahama, Japan, while on a tour orators of the South.

LEMPSTER

By Delia H. Honey

Dear old Lempster, country town,
Upon which we need not frown,
For she's given unto earth,
Many men of note, and worth.

Miner, Spaulding, and such men
Who can wield a might pen,
Who have stood before the world,
With their banners all unfurled.

Yet it is not of the host

I intend to write of most,

But a home back from the street,

Where was love and friendship sweet.

Somewhat back upon the lawn,
You might see at early dawn,
Cottage white with blinds of green,
Neat farmhouse as ever seen.

All along piazza's edge
Has been set the English hedge
Where in summer come the bees
And in winter — chickadees.

Spacious barn, with paint of brown,
Cattle feeding on the down,
And in morning light, you view
Fog, with mountains peering through.

Tall green poplars, reaching high,
Pointing up to azure sky,
Keeping guard, as sentinels true,
Trembling still, the whole night through.

Here's the well, oh, let us keep
Pulling down the old well sweep,
Dip the bucket, draw, and drink
From its overflowing brink.

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Down the road the maples strong,
Spread their branches high, and long,
Casting shadows, when the sun
Has his morning work begun.

Casting shadows till there come
Shadows darkening, o'er this home,
For the mighty warrior, Death,
Came, and with his blasting breath

Took the young and took the old,
Sorrows ever to be told —
Father, sons, and daughter laid
In the graves that we have made.

Pointing up to worlds on high
Is the shaft near which they lie,
Telling they have gone above,
Resting in a Saviour's love.

At the home, we strangers see,
But it ever will to me
Be a place to memory dear
Because of friendships founded here.

THE DERELICT

By L. J. H. Frost

On the ocean of time there lies drifting

A derelict, dark and drear;
It was freighted, in life's rosy morning,

With hopes unmingled with fear.

With its bright pennon gaily floating

On the clear sweet morning air,
No ship was e'er launched with its prospects

More flattering or more fair.

But a cloud had gathered at noonday,
Whose shadow had darkened the sun;

And the sea's rough, restless surges
Raged wildly when day was done.

While the ship that set sail in life's morning,
With its pennon and banner unfurled,

Hath cast out its ballast and burdens
To the depths of the dark sea world.

And now as day dies into darkness,
With no star to illumine its tomb,

The derelict, without a pilot,

Drifts hopelessly on towards its doom.

WONOLANCET

One of Fair Nature's New Hampshire Recreation Grounds

By Mabel Hope Kingsbury

As far back as I can remember,
there has been talk of an electric road
between Centre Harbor and North
Conway, New Hampshire. Maybe
this is the road told about in "Mr.
Crewe's Career," although it is only
in fiction that it has actually arrived.
Were there really such a road it
would pass through the little hamlet
of Wonolancet and make unnecessary

speed or haste would spoil the whole
atmosphere.

This does not mean that it has none
of the modern conveniences, for it has
many. Wonolancet Falls furnishes
power for an electric plant which
lights not only this place but villages
lying around. This plant furnishes
power also for both farm and house
work. Most of the summer residences

Wonolancet, N. H. — Woodland Bordered Intervale, formerly " Birch Intervale "

the stage ride of ten miles from the
Mt. Whittier station on the Boston
and Maine Railroad. If it is the fault
of the Boston and Maine that this
quiet little spot has not been invaded
by a railroad, there are people in-
clined to feel kindly disposed towards
this much abused corporation, for
Wonolancet, as it is, is a natural rec-
reation ground, and any suggestion of

have a garage, and automobiles are
found in the barns of the farmers.
Telephones are considered a necessity,
even in the smallest farm house.
Wonolancet is up-to-date enough in
the things really worth while.

New Hampshire claims many beau-
tiful summer resorts; of them all
Wonolancet seems to possess and sug-
gest an individuality all its own, and

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peculiarly in keeping with its location
and surroundings. Encompassed by
mountains of the Ossipee and Sand-
wich Ranges, and lying on the south-
ern slope of the White Mountains,
this little woodland-bordered inter-
vale holds many and easily accessible
attractions so that one just naturally
lives out of doors and finds greatest
fascination and utmost satisfaction in
following paths, blazing trails, and
climbing hills and mountains.

Out-door life is advocated, nowa-
days, by all sensible people. To many
persons it means a rocking-chair on
the piazza or a hammock under the
trees. To Wonolancet devotees it

Wonolancet Chapel

means blazed trails, logging roads,
new paths, mountain climbs, camping
out, half-day walks, all day climbs —
out-door life with a viewpoint and
one worth while. Methinks the spir-
its of the old Indian chiefs, Passa-
conaway, Chocorua and Wonolancet,
which are said to hover around the
great hills that bear their name and
overshadow this little spot, must feel
that after many years the happy hunt-
ing-ground of their age and time is
beginning to receive merited appre-
ciation.

In earlier days this small settlement
was called, and rightly, too, "Birch
Intervale," but with the change of
name to Wonolancet, and the forming

of the "Out-Door Club," the region
has acquired a new dignity, and vale
and hill proclaim the fact that it has
at last come into its own. Most
surely may the Indian spirits of by-
gone days feel pleasure and satis-
faction in the treatment now accorded
their ancient dwelling-place.

The most fascinating tales and
legends cluster around those early
times when the Indians held undis-
puted sway among these hills and
mountains. For many years after
they had disappeared forever, this
section of New Hampshire was an
unexplored country, and, although it
has been the dwelling-place of people
since 1768, it has really awaited the
coming of the "Out-Door Club" to
fully show forth its beauties and nat-
ural attractions as the red men found
them.

The Wonolancet "Out-Door Club"
is rediscovering and finding the pleas-
ure and enjoyment that the Indians
knew. This little club is still young,
but promises a precocious future, al-
though its originators are not unduly
pushing its growth and development.
Unlike many out-door clubs, it has a
more enduring purpose than simply
the health and exercise of its members
and participants. In fact, no mention
is made in the by-laws as to its being
a health club at all, but we are told
that its purpose is the building and
maintenance of paths, to improve the
place and develop its natural beauties.

The paths and trails already blazed
and developed and designated by
guide posts of a bright blue, the club
color, show the zeal and enthusiasm
of the club.

In proving to you my assertion that
Wonolancet is a natural recreation-
ground, I can do no better than take
you over some of the paths and trails
which the club has prepared. Wono-
lancet Chapel is the starting point for
many parties, so, there, we too will
begin our explorations.

"Currier's Road" takes us across
the Albany bridge, giving a fine view
of mountain and valley, and leads us

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past Ferncroft, a summer boarding-
house, to the Jewell home, which
must be pointed out and its history
given. We, of course, are taking our
"Out-Door Club" guide book with us,
and that gives us the information we
want. "In 1768 Bradbury Jewell
came to Tamworth as the agent of
Moulton to explore the new town, to
establish lines, and to blaze conven-
ient paths and to make frequent re-
ports. Jewell was a young man and
he entered upon his mission with zeal.
In his explorations he was often ac-

exploring expeditions soon after 1768,
Jewell and Hackett first saw the Birch
Intervale. The flat land was covered
with an extraordinary growth of co-
lossal white birch trees. Intermixed
with this splendid growth of birches
was a magnificent old growth of white
pine and hemlock and many hardwood
trees. The whole intervale seemed
singularly free from small growth
or underbrush. The hunters were
greatly impressed with the appearance
of the valley and gave it the appro-
priate name of 'Birch Intervale.'

Ferncroft," property of Mr. Eliot Fisher

companied by Hezekiah Hackett, who
came to Tamworth soon after Jewell.
In 1771 he secured of Moulton a large
tract of land located on what is now
known as Stevenson Hill. He built a
log house upon it and began to clear
away the virgin forest. This was the
beginning of the first farm in town.
Four years later he planted twenty
acres of corn. November 16, 1780, he
abandoned his log house and moved
into a new dwelling which he had
built on the farm. This house is still
standing upon the premises, now
owned by Miss Augusta Stevenson.
It was the first frame house erected
in Tamworth. In the hunting and

"John Jewell and Mark Jewell,
brothers of Bradbury, soon purchased
lands and a settlement was begun.
The first house on the intervale was
built in 1778 by John Jewell, where
'Ferncroft' now stands. Bradbury
Jewell exchanged his property on the
Stevenson Hill with Thomas Steven-
son, of Durham, for a large farm in
that town. The deep impression of
the beautiful intervale always re-
mained with Bradbury Jewell, and,
after a few years passed in Durham,
he returned and in 1802 settled upon
his old camping-ground near the
house now owned by E. P. -Jewell,
where he lived until his death."

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With renewed interest we look at
Ferneroft and the Jewell home and

Camp Shehadi

then gaze around us. Whit ef ace
mountain looms up before us with
Passaconway's peak overtowering it.
We will take an entire day for the
climb of Whiteface, ascending by Path
13, stopping at "Camp Shehadi," and
returning by the "Tom Wiggin Trail."
The view from Whiteface is described
in detail in our guide book as follows :
"North, Washington, Monroe, Frank-
lin, and Pleasant, to the left, and
point of Jefferson over Monroe. Be-
low, and to the right, are the ledges of
Crawford, Giant's Stairs, and Resolu-
tion and the knoll of Parker. Nearer
in the same direction is the ridge of
Fremont with three low nubbles and
with Bartlett Haystack on its right.
On the horizon, east of Washington,
are Moriah, Wildcat, and Carter
Dome, and below them, Iron and
Black, over Bear. Passaconway is
across the ravine, and on its right is
Moat, with the cone of Kearsarge
beyond. To the right are the green
hills of Conway and Lovewell's Pond.
Next is Paugus, overlooked by Cho-
corua, beyond is Pleasant in Maine
with a white hotel on its middle sum-
mit. Probably Sebago Lake can be

seen in clear weather. Nearly east
are Walker's Pond, Chocorua Lake
and Silver Lake, and beyond are Ly-
man and Gline Mountains. South-
east is Ossipee Lake backed by Green
Mountain. The Ossipee Range fills
the southeast with the towns of Tam-
worth and Sandwich in the fore-
ground. Great Hill Pond, White Sand
Pond, Elliott Pond are towards Ossi-
pee Lake, and Bearcamp Pond and
Red Hill Pond on the south, while
beyond them is Lake Winnepesaukee,
with the Belknaps behind. Next is
Red Hill and on its right is Squam
Lake, over which is southern Kear-
sarge. Nearer and southwest is Flat
Mountain with Flat Mountain Pond
between its summits. On its left are
Young and Israel, and farther away
Prospect, Plymouth, and Cardigan.
Next is the Sandwich Dome, with
Jennings Peak on its right; beyond is
Welch, running northeast of Green,
which adjoins Tecumseh and over
which is Moosilauke with Carr on its
left."

We also learn that the cliffs on the

View on Brook Path

south side of Whiteface peak were
stripped by a landslide in October,

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1820; and there are occasional new
slides, two small ones in the winter of
1907-1908. In 1876 the United States
Coast Survey selected Whiteface for
one of five baseline points for the
survey of this part of the State.

Back again in Wonolancet valley
after a sound night's sleep we will look
around us at houses and summer
boarding places before attempting any
further climbing trips. Of the older
houses that have been transformed
into summer homes, Wonolancet
Farm takes precedence and is finely
situated as to mountain scenery. Less
than a quarter of a mile away was the
"Tilton Farms," recently destroyed

Boston. Another two-story log cabin
near Wonolancet Farm is "The Ant-
lers Tea Room." Here we may go for
a cup of tea or glass of milk before
beginning the walking trip planned
for the day. Here also is the post
office and circulating library.

Rested and refreshed, let us visit
Wonolancet Falls by the Brook Path.
The three cascades of the Falls make
a total fall of over forty feet and a
little way above the Falls is a wonder-
ful formation of bowlders where the
river disappears entirely. It is all
well worth seeing.

Leaving the Falls by the Locke
Road, Path 5, we come out on the

Upper Wonolancet Falls

by fire, the proprietor a descendant of
one of the earlier settlers of the ham-
let. These two, with Locke's Falls
Cottage and Ferncroft, harbor many
enthusiastic members of the " Out-
Door Club" during the summer
months.

Mount Mexico House is built on a
hill among trees and at the foot of a
beautiful wooded hill. "Elleray," a
summer residence, once a farm house,
lies in the valley with magnificent
mountain scenery.

Summer residences dot the valley
and are conspicuous on the hill-tops
or hidden among the trees. An ar-
tistic log house built on a hill is the
summer home of three women from

highway just below the Tilton home,
and passing through the dooryard and
past the little pond, we climb fences
and walk through woods of pine and
birch to Great Hill Pond. After
lunch and an hour's rest, we return to
the Tilton home for our final trip to
the top of Mount Katharine. This
makes a hard day's trip, but it can
be done and there is no part of it
that we want to leave out. Espe-
cially are we rewarded for our stren-
uous climb to the top of Mount Katha-
rine, for the view from this outcrop
of rock is one that we should be sorry
to miss. At the north is the Sand-
wich Range; Chocorua, Paugus and
Wonolancet overtopped by Passa-

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Wonolancet Middle Falls

conway are on the east; then White-
face and Flat mountains; and on the
west Young Mountain, Guinea Hill
and Mount Israel, Squam Lake, and
Winnepesaukee, Ossipee Lake and
Great Hill Pond can be readily seen;
while, away off in the distance, are
the hills of Maine. The
Ossipee Mountains are also
in close range. A sunset
seen from Mount Katha-
rine is something that will
never be forgotten. Mount
Katherine was recently so
named in honor of Mrs.
Arthur T. Walden who, as
Miss Katherine Sleeper of
Boston came here over fif-
teen years ago, and was the
pioneer spirit in making this
the pleasant little hamlet it
is today.

Probably we are somewhat
tired on the next day and so
will ride instead of walking.
Pleasant rides there are in

abundance and variety. Let us choose
a circuit one. With Stevenson Hill
for our first viewpoint, we must
ascend and descend some steep
hills, but that is to be expected
in a mountainous country. Summer
homes, great and small, are seen all
along the way, and after leaving
Stevenson Hill tor Tamworth village
we come in sight of the residence of
the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
excellently situated on a lofty hill.

Just before entering Tamworth
village we pause at Ordination Rock,
and mount the stone steps to read the
monument there which tells us that
this rock was the first pulpit in the
place. In imagination we see men
with guns in hand, and women closely
guarding their children, worshipping
in what was then a wilderness and
forest.

Driving through Tamworth vil-
lage we choose the road for the Choco-
rua Lake region. Summer residences
are once again in evidence, but Cho-
corua Mountain is more of an attrac-
tion to us and of this mountain we
have frequent views, for no other
peak in this whole region presents so
many and varied poses.

Unexpectedly we come upon the
lake at the foot of the mountain, and
in the little grove, close by the water's

Ordination Rock, Tamworth, N. H.

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edge, we stop for our picnic lunch and
noonday rest. The telling of the
legend of Chocorua so fires our in-
terest and enthusiasm that we are
quite sure we cannot wait another
day before climbing the mountain.
Nothing seems more desirable and
worth while than that we see both
a sunset and a sunrise from the top
of Chocorua, and, so before the
Durrell farm is reached on our way
home, we decide to try for it or faint
in the attempt. The carriage takes
us to the Half-Way house and there
leaves us. A good path from here

sible. It surely looks as if it meant
hard work to reach the top, but we
get there finally and the sunset view
rewards us.

Nothing can be more glorious un-
less it be the sunrise of the next
morning, which none of us would
miss though it meant early rising
and with stiff limbs and sore feet
again ascending that almost im-
possible summit. Although not as
high as other mountains, Chocorua
has an unequalled view because of
its bare and peaked cone. Houses on
Mount Washington are plainly seen;

Summer Home of Edgar J. Rich, Gen. Solicitor B. & M. R. R., Wonolancet

to the Summit house confirms us in
our opinion that we were wise to
seize the present moment for our
climb, and we are disposed to jeer at
those of the party who have made the
ascent before and who had urged us
to put it off till another day. They
hold their peace — if they can — well
knowing that their turn will soon
come.

As the Summit house is neared a
big surprise awaits the uninitiated,
and as further progress is made it
certainly doesn't look as easy as we
thought it would be. The upper
cone of Chocorua is peaked and rocky,
and in many places wholly inacces-

rivers, lakes and ponds gleam and
glisten in the morning sunshine, and
the whole country round about shows
a beautiful panorama of delight.

Remembering the legend of Cho-
corua, we look for the rock from which,
it is said, he threw himself to his
death, after hurling threats and curses
at the white men who had sur-
rounded him.

When we arrive at our boarding-
place after this mountain climb both
bath-tub and dinner-table look in-
viting; we are tired and hungry, stiff
and sore, sunburned, too, but tre-
mendously glad we made the trip.

The next day we ride, perhaps to

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Bearcamp Pond or Centre Sand-
wich; or maybe it will be Cold River
Park or Conway. There are drives
of enough interest and beauty to
keep one occupied every day for three
weeks. Then there is Big Rock
Cave to visit; Square Ledge and
Guinea Hill to climb, and if we want
other mountain trips there are Pau-
gus, Wonolancet and Passaconway
to choose from.

It means a strenuous vacation and

dress differs in both looks and feelings
from that same sweet maid in her
travelling suit.

Just as our outward appearance
affects our inner moods and thoughts,
so does the evolution of seasons affect
Nature. Her moods and emotions
are to those who have entered the
inner shrine of her friendship and be-
come intimately acquainted as varied
and changing as the seasons which
overtake her. Spring in Wonolancet

Peak of Chocorua and Peak House

requires all the summer months to
become in even a small degree ac-
quainted with Nature as she shows
herself among the vales and hills of
Wonolancet.

And yet to one who, after many
summer season's intimacy, feels that
he knows and understands the moods
and caprices of Nature as expressed
in this region there are many sur-
prises still in store. Wonolancet in
spring or Wonolancet in winter is as
different from herself in the summer-
time as a maiden dressed in her ball

is sober, serious, Quaker earnestness;
trees and bushes are drab and gray
with mingling of green; rivers and
brooks and even little rivulets have
become rushing torrents; new life,
enthusiasm, earnestness are expressed
in everything on all sides. The sum-
mer months are the re-creating days;
and Nature's brilliance and develop-
ment are shown in the autumn tints
and gorgeousness.

Wonolancet is beautiful in autumn,
and in winter she is incomparable
and most wonderful. Her friends

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and acquaintances of other months
must necessarily reform their friend-
ship and intimacy for there is little in
her outward appearance to remind
them of any other time they met and
knew her. Chocorua robed in a white
mantle of snow stands alone and
apart in bridal splendor. Other
peaks are white and green and hills
and valleys present an unsullied cov-
ering of pure white. New England
weather is capricious and variable,
conspicuously so, and at Wonolancet
it shows forth many and varied moods
of Nature. Big, feathery flakes of
snow that fall and drift the highways
and are a delight to watch may soon
become finer and pack trees and
bushes till they bend beneath the
load. Or an ice storm may encase
trees and shrubs till they creak and
tremble. Sunshine after any storm
shows Nature most glorious.

Sleighs, sleds, toboggans, snow-
shoes and skis are now our medium
of acquaintance. Mountains may be
climbed with the aid of snow-shoes.
And skis bring pleasure, excitement
and exercise. Hunting and gunning
may be indulged in. Our sleigh-rides
are invigorating and show us fascinat-
ing views of mountains on all sides.

Chocorua Rock

The steady stream of logging teams
that we meet causes us to question
and we learn about the early saw-mills
of Wonolancet as well as about those
of the present day. Of the shingle
and clapboard mill that was once
built at what is now W'onolancet
Falls, only one timber of the dam, the
sluice-way of rocks around the falls,
and the cellar holes and hay field
in the woods remain.

Another mill was built on the north

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side of the valley, and great trees were dangerous work of "bringing down"
hauled out on the old Mast Road, the great pine from the mountain,
These huge sticks of timber were and many more enjoyed the sight of
used for masts and spars in ship this extraordinary team and the
building. It is related of one monster splendid tree as it crossed the inter-
white pine that it was drawn to the vale on its way to the Atlantic,
top of the mountain and left over Paugus Mills of the present day are
night, and the next day, in addition exceedingly interesting and worth
to the great "mast team" of oxen visiting. The heavy timber is being
owned by Russell Cox there were cut from the valley between Paugus
added some forty or fifty oxen and and Chocorua and the valley is full
steers from Tamworth and Sandwich, of men and horses.
which had been collected on the inter- The Forest Reserve Bill has a new
vale to enlarge the team after the meaning for us after a winter's day
tree had been brought down from the among the mills and logging camps,
highlands. The tree was one hundred and we fervently rejoice that congress
and two feet long and two feet and finally passed the bill. Winter or sum-
four inches in diameter at the top. mer, spring or autumn, Wonolancet
The day was clear and a great many provides pleasure and entertainment
people witnessed the difficult and for the true lover of Nature.

Franklin, N. H.

IMMORTALITY

By Alice M. Shepard

My restless spirit lives where discord reigns,
And delves all day at cruel, rending, toil ;

Bears burdens which it secretly disdains,

Consorts with those from whom it would recoil,

And there, beneath the tread of passing feet

It drains the bitter potion of defeat.

A cellar I must dig and wall it in, —
My choice would be to gild a lofty spire,

For so I might perchance contrive to win

The world's applause, and gain my heart's desire,-

Strange fate, to place a trowel in my hand,

And bid me mix the cement and the sand.

I know not what the building is to be,

Which shall be founded on my cellar wall,

But since it is not given to foresee
If thereon rise a cottage or a hall,

My task is clear, to make a fitting base

Proportioned to this mean, restricted space.

I may not guess what substance shall be used,
Transmuted brick, mayhap, or stone, or wood,

Austere, or with celestial hue suffused;

Unwrought, or with adornment counted good,

I only know my own foundation line

Will fix the contour of the house divine.

HANNAH DUSTON MEMORIALS

History of Memorial Organizations and other Matters

of Interest

Compiled by E. W. B. Taylor

In May, 1852, a meeting was called
by a few citizens of Haverhill, Mass.,
to take measures regarding the erec-
tion of a suitable monument to the
memory of Hannah Duston. At a
later meeting the committee of fifteen,
appointed for the purpose, recom-
mended that the monument be erected
on the common at a cost of not less
than $1500. The report was accepted.
In October, 1855, an association was
formed and in February, 1856, was in-
corporated. It was, after much dis-
cussion, decided to locate the monu-
ment on the spot supposed to be
the site of the house in which Hannah
Duston was born and bred, and from
which she was carried by the Indians.
It was on the farm of Mr. Richard
Kimball; the remains of the cellar
were still visible, although time and
the plow had nearly obliterated all
traces of the spot. One-half acre of
land was bought of Mr. Kimball; the
directors received a deed and the
monument was erected.

The Tri-Weekly Publisher of Haver-
hill, in its issue of June 4, 1861, has
the following account of the first
attempt to perpetuate the memory of
Hannah Duston in her native town.

On Friday last, the monument which has
just been completed for the Duston Monu-
ment Association, passed through this village
in three teams. The monument, which is of
Italian marble, was made by Messrs. Picker-
ing & Co., of Woburn, and cost, we learn,
$1,200.

On the front face is a shield, surrounded by
the various warlike implements peculiar to
the times intended to be commemorated,
viz: — musket, ball pouch, powder horn, bow
and arrows, tomahawk, scalping knife, etc.,
and the inscription: "Erected by the Dustin
Monument Association, A. D. 1861."

The other faces bear the following inscrip-
tions. On the back:

Thomas Duston married Hannah Emer-
son, Dec. 3, 1677. Children:— Hannah,
born Aug. 22, 1678; Elizabeth, born May 7,
1680; Mary, born Nov. 4, 1681; Thomas,
born Jan. 5, 1683; Nathaniel, born May 16,
1685; John, bom Feb. 2, 1686; Sarah, born
July 4, 1688; Abigail, born Oct. 1690; Jona-
than, born Jan. 15, 1692; Timothy and
Mehitable, born Sept, 14, 1694; Martha,
born Mar. 9, 1697; Lydia, born Oct, 4,
1698.

On the right :

Hannah, the daughter of Michael and
Hannah Emerson, wife of Thomas Duston.
Born in this town, Dec. 23, 1657; captured
by the Indians, March 15. 1697 (at which
time her baby, then but six days old, was
barbarously murdered, by having its
brains dashed out against a tree), and
taken to an island in the Merrimack, at
Penacook, near Concord, N. H. On the
night of April 29, 1697, assisted by Mary
Neff and Samuel Leonardson, she killed
ten of the twelve savages in the wigwam,
and taking their scalps and her captor's
gun, as trophies of her remarkable exploit,
she embarked on the waters of the Merri-
mack, and after much suffering, arrived
at her home in safety.

On the left:

Thomas Duston, on the memorable 15th
of March, 1697, when his house was
attacked and burned, and his wife captured
by the savages, heroically defended his
seven children, and successfully covered
their retreat to a garrison.

In 1865 this monument was re-
moved for the reasons given in a
local newspaper as follows:

In 1855 a project to perpetuate in stone
the memory of Hannah Dustin was discussed
in Haverhill, and that year the Dustin
Monument Association was organized. It
originated among the residents of West
Parish, where the heroine lived. The proj-
ect met with general favor among the
citizens, and a good part of the sum neces-
sary for a suitable memorial having been
subscribed, the monument was purchased
and erected on the site of the Dustin house.

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It was twenty-four feet high, five feet
square, and was of Italian marble, resting
on a granite base. The tablets were in-
scribed with records of the brave deed, and
it was in every way appropriate to perpetu-
ate the memory of the heroism of this
brave woman.

The projectors of the scheme had relied
upon the generosity of the Haverhill citi-
zens to complete the payment of the debt
contracted, but the money did not materi-
alize, and, finally, the payment of the debt
became a matter of litigation in the courts.
This was in 1862, at a time when the excite-
ment of the civil war overshadowed every-
thing else, and money was very scarce.
The matter was pending all through the
war, and finally, in 1865, judgment having
been obtained in the courts, the monument
was taken down and removed to Barre,
Mass. The records of Mrs. Dustin's
achievements were erased, and, after being
suitably inscribed, it was erected as a
soldier's monument in one of the public
squares of Barre. It is probable that very
few of the citizens of that town are aware
of the fact that the monument that was
erected to the heroes of the civil war was
originally intended to commemorate a
brave act performed by a woman over 200
years ago. The street where this monu-
ment tarried for a time in Haverhill is
called Monument street, but as no monu-
ment can be seen anywhere in its vicinity,
the origin of the name is somewhat puz-
zling to strangers.

As the succeeding paragraphs re-
late, a fine boulder now marks the
site of the Hannah Dustin house,
where the original monument stood
for a few years.

Fifty years later, in 1905, the
Dustin Historical Genealogical Soci-
ety of Haverhill was organized which
still exists and continues its active
work.

The notice for the first meeting
was written in June, 1905, by Mrs.
Mary Dustin P. Watson then a resi-
dent of Oakland, California, and sent
to about one hundred and fifty 'de-
scendants of Thomas and Hannah
Dustin. She was urged, some ten or
twelve years before, by her sister, Ruth
Dustin Taylor, wife of Daniel Taylor
of North Salem, N. H., to organize a
Dustin Association and to print the
record she then had. But she waited,
thinking someone else would, and
believing that others were interested
who would assist as soon as some one

took the lead. In the notice sent out
in June she said there would be a
meeting of the descendants of Thomas
and Hannah Dustin on October 14,
1905. In turning up the calendar
she had looked at September 14
which came Thursday instead of
Saturday as did October 14. She
came from California and hired the
vestry of the Congregational church
on Main Street, Haverhill, Mass.,
and had another notice of the meeting
printed by Chase Brothers, and sent
out to all whose address she had; also
had a notice of the meeting in the
Haverhill paper, as well as several
others in New Hampshire and Mass-
achusetts.

Mrs. Dustin Watson wrote and had
printed and paid all expenses of
postage and place of meeting and
entertained at the Bartlett Hotel,
Main Street, a score of descendants,
and was more than paid by the hearty
cooperation of many of the descend-
ants she had not before heard of or
known.

The notice of the annual meeting
is now sent to one or more thousands
of the descendants, living in every
state of the Union and in Canada —
a flourishing and successful posterity
of honored ancestors. The meetings
have so far been in October at Haver-
hill, Mass., where T. and H. Dustin
were married, in 1677, and where all
their children (13) were born and
where the children (9) that lived to
grow up were married and in time
moved across the line to the adjoin-
ing towns of New Hampshire, Mass-
achusetts, Maine and Vermont.

The Dustin Historic and Genealog-
ical Society, organized October 14,
1905 by M. D. P. Watson, appointed
E. W. B. Taylor and Leonard Smith
a committee to carry out their in-
structions in regard to marking this
same site with a boulder. However,
there being a small balance left in the
bank from the early society, organized
in 1856, of nineteen dollars ($19),
which the Haverhill Savings Bank
had not the authority to pay to the

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209

new association, Mr. E. W. B. Taylor
consulted legal authority for the
right way to draw the money from
the bank, which had accumulated
from $19 to over one hundred and
fifty dollars ($150). Mr. Ryan, the
attorney consulted, said the only
legal way was to revive the Monu-
ment Society, which could be done, if
five of the original members could be
found to call a meeting. Mrs. Wat-
son of Derry Village wrote and had
printed a notice requesting that any
one who remembered the Dustin
Monument Society and contributed
to the same should send name and
address to M. D. P. Watson, Bartlett
Hotel.

Mr. Taylor knew of Amos Hazel-
tine, 1387 Broadway, Haverhill, Mass. ;
Miss Sarah M. Kelley, Harriet Dustin
Hunt, 15 Central Street, Bradford;
Mr. Oliver Taylor and Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel W. Hopkinson, 14 Church
Street, Bradford; Mrs. Charles But-
ters, Main Street, Mrs. Dr. Crowell,
Winter Street, Miss Duncan, 5 Sum-
mer Street, Haverhill, Mass.; Mrs.
Thomas Dustin . (Mary Dustin Wat-
son), and about a dozen others. Two
of the original certificates were found.
A meeting was called, signed by a
dozen or more of the original Dustin
Monument Society, incorporated in
1856 by special act of the Massachu-
setts Legislature, and no meeting of
which had been held since the death of
the last person, Mr. J. Duncan. This
meeting was called for November 15,
1907, and was the only legally called
meeting for some fifty years. The
reorganization meeting elected Samuel
W. Hopkinson, chairman and Mary
D. P. Watson, secretary. These offi-
cers were made permanent and a
board of directors elected who signed
an order on the bank for the money.

There were about two hundred
present. A partial list of Dustin
descendants at the first meeting called
by Mary D. P. Watson for the for-
mation of the Thomas and Hannah
Dustin Historical and Genealogical
Society, October 14, 1905, at Center

Church, Haverhill, Mass., has been
preserved.

Officers elected at this meeting
were: — President M. D. P. Watson,
Derry Village; Mrs. C. M. Kilgore
and C. E. Duston, secretaries. Other
vice-presidents were — William Dustin
Brickett, E. W. B. Taylor, and Mrs.
George W. Whitten, Haverhill, Mass. ;
Monroe Dustin, Washington, Kansas;
Moses S. Page, Melrose, Mass.; J. K.
Dustin, Gloucester, Mass.; Mrs.
Thorn, L. W. Taylor, Methuen, Mass. ;
Samuel T. Page, Haverhill, N. H.;
Mrs. Porter Croy, Haverhill, Mass.;
S. L. Swasey, Concord, N. H.; R. C.
Parsons, Derby Line,Vt.

The reorganized Dustin Monu-
ment Society appointed Mr. Leonard
W. Smith and Mr. E. W. B. Taylor a
committee to act in the same capacity
as they were acting for the Genealogi-
cal and Historical Society, and it was
voted to invite that Society to join
the monument association if they
chose. The committee, mostly
through Mr. Taylor's efforts, suc-
ceeded in finding a magnificent boulder
on Bradley's Brook, and at an expense
of several hundred dollars in laying a
foundation of many barrels of cement
and paying for, and having the boulder
moved several miles, from where it
has rested since the glacial age left it,
and placed to mark the site of the
home established by Thomas and
Hannah W. (Emerson) Dustin in 1677
and from which she was taken captive
by the Indians, 1697.

In locating the Dustin Monument
lot of 1861, in order to place the
boulder in 1907, as the original deed
co aid not be found, the corner was
located from the best information at
hand, assisted by Mr. Reuben F.
James who has owned the adjoining
land for many years. In June, 1908,
a further search of the records at
Salem resulted in the discovery of the
record of the original deed and the lot
was again located, slightly different
from the location of 1907, and granite
bounds were set at three corners on
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culvert marks the southeast corner
of the lot, and a ditch marks the
easterly boundary. All the corners
were located and marked in a manner
satisfactory to Mr. James. The
monument is not located in the center
of the lot, but is placed on the highest
part, toward the northwest corner.

From the records it appears that
the lot was purchased from Richard
Kimball, October 15, 1855, for the
sum of $40. The sale was made to
Charles Corliss, George Coffin, M. G.
J. Emery, Daniel Webster, T. J.
Goodrich, John Carleton, John W.
Kimball, Ezra B. Welch, J. V. Smiley,
George Corliss, and Numa Sargent
of Haverhill, and Obadiah Duston of
Salem, New Hampshire, as directors
of the Dustin Monument Association.
The lot measures eight rods wide on
the front and rear, nine rods by the
ditch on the easterly side, and eleven
rods on the westerly side. It con-
tains about one-half acre.

In 1879, through the generosity of
the late Hon. E. J. M. Hale, a new
monument in memory of Mrs. Duston
was erected in City Hall Park, Haver-
hill, the following newspaper account
of the presentation, published at the
time, being submitted as of present
interest :

Several weeks since a communication was
received in the Board of Aldermen from a
gentleman who expressed the wish that his
name be for the time withheld, for permission
to erect a Duston monument, a drawing for
which was submitted, on City Hall Park, and
the proposition was of course accepted with
an eagerness which defied the spirit of appre-
ciation. The foundation was duly laid, and
last Saturday a handsome granite pedestal
surmounted by a bronze statue was placed
in position and veiled.

The ceremony of presentation occurred on
the following Tuesday afternoon with a brief
programme, simulating little of ceremony and
ostentation, but much of courtesy, veneration
and gratitude which was in fit keeping with
the way in which it was given.

At 2.30 o'clock the members of the City
Government proceeded to the Park in front
of the monument, and Mayor Kimball said:

"We meet here today as representatives of
the City of Haverhill, to accept in her behalf,
the gift of a statue, erected to the memory of
one of her daughters (Hannah Duston), and
it gives me great pleasure to submit to you the
following communication from the generous
donor."

To His Honor the Mayor, and the City Council
of the City of Haverhill:

It has ever been a characteristic of the
human mind and heart in all ages in all times
to do honor to acts of high daring and bravery.

The early history of Haverhill, which for
seventy years was a frontier town, tells us of
many cases of savage cruelty perpetrated by
the Indians upon its first settlers, and of the
sufferings and hardships endured by our an-
cestors.

Connected with those early times the name
of Hannah Duston will ever stand prominent
in the annals of the early history of Haverhill,
her native place, for her bold and daring act
in the slaying of her murderous captors at
Contoocook Island, and her escape — an act
unsurpassed for intrepidity and heroism in any
age of the world.

And we deem it eminently fitting to erect
this monument to the memory of her heroic
name and character upon this spot, set apart
as a public park by our forefathers in the early
history of the town.

This monument is erected in honor of
Hannah Duston, and presented to my native
town in order to keep alive and perpetuate in
the minds of all here, and of all those who
shall come after us, the remembrance of her
courage and undaunted valor, and the patient
endurance and fortitude of our ancestors, and
to animate our hearts with noble ideas and
patriotic feelings.

E. J. M. Hale.

Haverhill, Nov. 25, 1879.

After the reading of this communication,
C. W. Morse, Esq., President of the Common
Council, offered the following Resolutions in
behalf of the City of Haverhill in the accept-
ance of the gift :

CITY OF HAVERHILL

November 25, 1879.
City Council in Convention assembled —
Resolved, That the thanks of the Mayor
and City Council in behalf of the citizens of
Haverhill are due and are hereby tendered
to our fellow citizen, Hon. E. J. M. Hale, for
the magnificent gift of a monument and statue
in memory of Hannah Duston, presented this
day. This gift adds another to the long list
already received from him for literary, benev-
olent and patriotic purposes, and evinces his
continued interest in all that relates to the
prosperity and well-being of our city. The
citizens of Haverhill fully appreciate the liber-

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ality and public spirit exhibited by these oft
repeated donations, and gladly acknowledge
their thanks and obligations for the same.

Resolved, That the Mayor and City Council
agree with the sentiments expressed in the
communications of Mr. Hale of the impor-
tance of perpetuating the remembrance of
deeds of courage and endurance, and we cheer-
fully render tribute of admiration to our pat-
riotic ancestors and especially to the memory
of Hannah Duston whose fortitude and brav-
ery have gained her lasting fame. May this
enduring bronze tend to keep in remembrance
her acts of heroism, and serve as an incentive
to deeds of valor and patriotism to all suc-
ceeding generations.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions

bronzed reliefs set in raised panels. The re-
liefs are eighteen inches high and two feet in
length. The front relief represents the cap-
ture and departure of Mrs. Dustm and Mary
Neff from the house, the latter despairingly
carrying the child. Above is the inscription,
"Hannah Dustin," in large, bold letters, and
beneath, "was captured by the Indians in
Haverhill, the place of her nativity, March
15, 1697." The one on the right side repre-
sents her husband defending the retreating
children, beneath which is an appropriate in-
scription. On the back it represents the

Present Hannah Duston Monument, Haverhill, Mass.

be transmitted to Mr. Hale, and the same,
together with the communication from him,
be entered in file on the records of the city.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT

The monument, which consists of a bronze
statue and granite pedestal with four bronze
reliefs, making the height fifteen feet, was de-
signed and executed by Mr. C. H. Weeks,
sculptor, of this city.

The pedestal, of Rockport granite, is com-
posed of bottom base, second base, die and
cap, the last of which projects with a circum-
scribed border of chiseled moulding. On each
of the four lateral sides of the die, the faces of
which are three feet, eight inches square, are

slaying of her captors at Contoocook Island,
March 30, 1697, and escape, with explanatory
inscription, and the relief on the left portrays
her return down the river, in a canoe with her
associates, and beneath, as in the others, an
inscription. On the bottom base is the date:
"Erected A. D. 1879." On the cap are en-
graved the words, "C. H. Weeks, sculptor."
The whole conception bears a studied and
striking fidelity to the circumstances. The
position of the statue, which is six feet in
height, represents Mrs. Duston just before the
tragedy, with an expression of heroic resolu-
tion on the face. The body is inclining for-
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directions to her confederates and assigning
them their parts in the work, while one hand
is outstretched toward the sleeping savages
and the other grasping a tomahawk. The
eye is full of noble courage, which expresses
thoughts of home and a tremor to escape the
terrible cruelities and indignities she felt were
awaiting her captivity, rather than revenge,
which actuated the daring undertaking. The
habiliments are a loose gown girded about
the waist and but one foot is covered, as it is
represented that the Indians hurried her from
the house but partially clothed. The hair
falls loosely on the shoulders. In the relief
representing the slaying, Mrs. Dustin is
shown in a like position on the left, the boy,
Samuel Leonardson in the center, and Mary
Neff on the right, each armed with an Indian's
tomahawk, ready to strike the blow for liberty
or despair. The savages sleep soundly and
an awful suspense and stillness seems to
prevail.

Mr. Weeks began his task last January, and
since that time has been at work assiduously
in his studio, modeling the statue and reliefs.
The model for the statue was finished in Au-
gust, soon followed by the reliefs, and were
cast by the Ames Manufacturing Company of
Chicopee. It is recognized by all critics as
a finished and perfect work of art, and adds
another triumph to the works which have
come from Mr. Weeks' hands, one of which
is our splendid Soldier's Monument.

On December 30, 1909, the city of
Haverhill ordered the use of a part of
a public landing at the "West End,"
one hundred and fifty-two feet on
the street, for the purpose of marking
the spot where Hannah Duston landed
on her return home from captivity.
A mill-stone was placed thereon.

On January first, 1910, the Haver-
hill Water Works granted to the Asso-
ciation land at the corner of Kenoza
Avenue and Concord Street, one hun-
dred feet square with permission to
erect a monument on the same. A
mill-stone has been placed on the
above named lot.

On July 10, 1911, it was ordered by
the city of Haverhill that the school-
house on Monument Street be here-
after known as the "Hannah Duston

School." It was ordered by the cit}'
of Haverhill that the last Wednesday
in each school year be set aside as a
day to be known as "Hannah Duston
Day," in that school building.

It is stated in an early history of
Nashua that the first house reached by
Mrs. Dustin, on her return home
down the river, was that of John
Lovewell, father of Captain Love-
well, on the north side of Salmon
Brook. Mr. Lovewell was one of the
early settlers of Dunstable, the south-
ern portion of Nashua. Matthew
Thornton Chapter, D. A. R., has
erected a marker on the site. It is
claimed, in some accounts, that she
had previously stopped in Merrimack,
at the place where John Cromwell
had built the first house in that town,
about a mile below what in now
Thornton's Ferry, hoping to find him,
but the house had long before been
destroyed by the Indians and Crom-
well had fled.

She is reputed, also, to have been
entertained at the house of Colonel
Tyng, in Tyngsboro, Mass., below
Nashua. This old house is of much
historic interest, and has been an
object of attention for a century and
a half or more. Colonel Tyng was
a notable character in his days and a
friend of Wonolancet, the Indian
chieftain, who is said to have been
buried in the Tyng Cemetery, near
the house.

On a large boulder near the mansion,
the Colonial Dames have placed a
tablet bearing this inscription:

In this place lived during his last
years and died in 1696 Wonolancet,
last Sachem of the Merrimack Ind-
ians, son of Passaconaway, like his
father a faithful friend of the early
New England Colonists. Placed by
the Massachusetts Society of Colo-
nial Dames.

New Hampshire has also done her
part in honoring the memory of Mrs.
Dustin. When the original survey
was made of land granted to Dart-
mouth College, by the State of New
Hampshire, the mountain on the
reservation was named "Dustin

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Mountain," suggested by men prom-
inent in the first college buildings at
Hanover, N. H., one of whom was a
Dustin descendant and bore the name
of Dustin.

The citizens of New Hampshire
have also commemorated the deed
of Mrs. Dustin, and the Granite State
shares with Massachusetts in the glory
of the bravery of this pioneer settler.
The island in the Merrimack River
where the Indians were killed was
chosen as a fitting spot to erect a
monument to her memory. In 1874,
five years before the Haverhill monu-
ment was erected, the citizens of Pena-
cook, near the site of the Indian camp,
contributed toward the erection of a
suitable monument. The island on
which it stands is connected with the
mainland by highway and railroad
bridges. The monument is of Con-
cord granite. It represents Mrs.
Dustin holding a tomahawk in one
hand and grasping a number of scalps
in the other. The pedestal is eighteen
feet high, and the entire height of the
monument is twenty-five feet. It
was unveiled June 17, 1874. The
inscriptions are carved on three sides
of the pedestal, that on the west side
being as follows:

Heroum Gesta

Fides. Just it ia

Hannah Dustin

Mary Neff

Samuel Leonardson.

March 30, 1697.

Midnight.

Opposite, on the east side, are these
words :

March

15 1697 30

The War-Whoop Tomahawk

Faggot and Infanticides

Were at Haverhill.

The Ashes of the Campfires at Night

and Ten of the Tribe

are Here.

The southerly side has the following
extraordinary inscription, which has
called out much comment:

Statua
1874.
Know ye that we with many plant it;
In trust to the state we give and grant it,

That the tide of men may never cant it,

Nor mar nor sever;
That pilgrims here may heed the mothers,
That truth and faith and all the others,
With banners high in glorious colors,

May stand forever.

The Dustin burial lot in the old Pen-
tucket cemetery, Haverhill, Mass.,
has been graded and laid down to
grass and a park laid out behind it.

When Hannah Duston was taken

Hannah Duston Monument, Penacook, N.H.

by the Indians she had been the
mother of twelve children, four had
died previously, the father saved
seven, the twelfth child, a baby of six
days was killed by the savage cap-
tors before commencing the weari-
some march. After Mrs. Duston's
return from captivity a thirteenth
child, a daughter, named Lydia, was
born. The eight children lived to
grow up, all married and left large
families of boys and girls, consequently
a numerous posterity is scattered not
only throughout New England but

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from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast.
Many articles owned by the original
Duston family are in existence, some
in these different families and others
in the possession of the Haverhill
Historical Society.

Numerous New Hampshire town
histories have references to Mrs.
Duston. The History of Hancock
gives the story of her heroism, as told
by her great-grandson, David K.
Duston, who had it many times from
his father.

The History of Candia mentions
Moses Duston, Captain in Colonel
Ried's Regiment, in 1778, and in
attendance at a court martial at
Springfield, Mass., and at Charles-

town, N. H., in 1781, as a great-
grandson of Hannah Duston.

The History of Antrim speaks of
Zachaeus Dustin, great-great-grand-
son of Hannah, as having had some
of her wearing apparel, which is still
in possession of some of the descen-
dants.

The History of Francestown says:
"Thomas Duston or Dustin, originally
written Durston, lived in Haverhill,
Mass., as early as 1676; came from
Dover, N. H., and was the son of
Thomas. He married Hannah Emer-
son (whose mother, Hannah Webster
was a sister of the ancestor of Daniel
Webster), Dec. 3, 1677, and had 13
children."

TO C. E. WHITON-STONE

By Benjamin C. Woodbury

Like to some lofty, snow-capped mountain peak

Sun-crowned, above the slopes where mist clouds rest,
Where eagle circles round her dizzy nest,

Within that azure realm the true hearts seek

Where no doubt quails, no petty fault, nor weak,
Where soulless form but seeks maternal breast,
Where hope its own, within its arms is pressed,

Then on and on, beyond all earthly reek.

A realm where soaring soul more light, more free
Than body, form, or trammeled earthly clay,

In which no sound, or beat of fitful sea,
No darksome night, no shadow by the way,

But rest long sought, one vast eternity,
And just the calm of bright ethereal day.

thou, who joyful in thy heaven dreams

Wilt beckon faintly from the land of bliss,

Tho' thou art gone to join the host we miss
Divinest Singer, when the vision seems
So sweet, why moan : the twilight gleams

Fade into night ; the sunlight 's kiss

Awakes the morn, for thee and This —
The universe, untimed to-morrow beams.
Brief dream of life, each day a dream, a year,

Whose brief concourse but dulls the bitter sting,
To him the crown who casteth out all fear ;

Dreamer, as thy songs forever sing
Falls gently from the lid of time a tear

For thee who soaring brushed an angel's wing.

PIONEERS OF LITTLE HARBOR AND

VICINITY

By J. M. Moses

Brewster's "Rambles about Ports-
mouth" was called by Professor E.
D. Sanborn one of the best books ever
printed in New Hampshire. Two
generations of delighted readers have
confirmed this estimate, and it is not
likely that any later history of the
place will supersede it, or surpass it
in general interest and value.

As a history of Portsmouth, how-
ever, it leaves much to be desired. It
is not infallibly correct, though on
that score most other historians have
reason to refrain from throwing stones.
Of family history it has little, com-
pared with later local histories, though
genealogical data are most abundant
in the city and church records, and
still mostly unprinted. In antiqua-
rian matters, especially the locations
of the early settlers, a more extended
account is now possible, thanks to the
indexing of the state records.

A treatment of the history of the
land, like that in Stackpole's "Old
Kittery," would be of great interest,
and will no doubt sometime be made;
though as yet Portsmouth lags be-
hind the other Piscataqua settlements
in the publication of the particulars
of its history. Hence the charitable
contributions of an outsider.

First, an outline of leading facts,
as given by historians. Odiorne's
Point was settled by David Thomp-
son in 1623. About 1626 he removed
to Thompson's Island, in Boston
Harbor, and some think Odiorne's
Point was deserted from then till
1630. Edward Hilton settled on
Dover Point, probably in 1623, cer-
tainly before 1630, and, as this set-
tlement was continuously maintained,
a strong claim is made that it should
be regarded as the first permanent
settlement.

It is admitted that the first white
child was born at Odiorne's Point,

and that a house may have been first
completed there. The Colonial Dames
have set a monument near the sup-
posed place of landing.

With the coming of Mason's com-
pany, in 1630, Odiorne's Point be-
came the center and point of depart-
ure for Masonian operations. From
the "Great House" there, in 1645,
Henry Sherburne ran a ferry to Great
Island, now Newcastle, which was
then ahead of Portsmouth; to Rowe's,
just north of the mouth of Sagamore
Creek, where a little settlement was
growing up; to Strawberry bank,
where was another "Great House,"
the beginning of Portsmouth city;
and to the other side of the Piscataqua.
A cemetery was established, where
the earliest pioneers, including Am-
brose Gibbons, were buried. About
forty graves can now be distinguished,
none of them inscribed. As late as
1666 Thomas Walford, in his will,
directed that he should be buried
"in the burying-place, neare Mr.
Henry Shirburne's."

The loss of the first book of Ports-
mouth records leaves the history of
the first generation shrouded in great
darkness, though considerable has
been written from such data as could
be obtained. By the middle of the
seventeenth century Portsmouth land
grants and recorded deeds begin to
throw light. The following fragmen-
tary notes, from these sources, may
be of interest till something better is
offered.

John Odiorne bought a house and
land in Portsmouth of Oliver Trim-
mings in 1656, which was the year
when Oliver's wife, Susannah, pro-
fessed to have been so grievously
bewitched by Goody Walford. Doubt-
less they went to some place where
there was better protection against
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one acre of land in possession, and
had forty-two acres more allotted
him. April 1, 1661, he had a house
next a marsh "in the Little Harbor
on the other side of the creek" from
south-west corner of Newcastle. He
was evidently south of Little Harbor
bay, or of Sagamore Creek, in 1671
and afterwards.

In addition to what is given in the
Odiorne genealogy, it can be stated
that John had a daughter, Mary, who
married John Swaine, mariner, of
Newcastle, and that both of them were
dead in 1703, leaving sons, John and
Richard, of whom Richard was a
pioneer in Barrington, with many
descendants.

Down the coast a little from
Odiorne's Point, and extending back
to Cold Pond, was the farm of James
Johnson, who, with wife Mary, No-
vember 6, 1660, sold it to George
Wallis, "sometime of Newfoundland."
April 1, 1661, Johnson bought the
house and an acre of land that had
been the home of Alexander and Ann
Batchelder, in Newcastle, about where
the Wentworth Hotel now stands.
Eight acres had been laid out here to
Alexander Batchelder, November 19,
1658, the bounds being recorded as
follows :

"From south-west at the water-
side nearest the east end of his old pale
to a great pine tree north-east, marked,
about 33 rod or pole, & from thence
north-west west to the waterside,
with the neck of land & meadow called
formerlie by the name of humphrey's
poynt, he purchasing the meadow of
Jeremiah Walford." A lot here had
been granted to Batchelder, August
11, 1651.

Batchelder and wife were dead in
1661, leaving a son, John. Johnson
was dead in 1678, leaving widow Mary
and daughters Mary and Hannah,
wives of John Odiorne and Thomas
Jackson, who heired a consider-
able estate on the south shore of
Newcastle.

George Wallis was born, by deposi-
tion, about 1619. He was dead in

1685, leaving widow, Eleanor, sons,
William, George and Caleb, a daugh-
ter, Honor, and two others, that
were wives of Walter Randall and
James Berry. The son Caleb was
probably the Caleb Wallis (1668-
1714) of Beverly, Mass. The other
two sons divided the farm between
them, George, Jr., taking land that
adjoined James Randall.

This James Randall, carpenter,
had bought of Joseph Mason, July
20, 1668, a house in Little Harbor,
and land to reach from said house to
the Sandy Beach, about a mile and a
half. Randall was there in 1678,
1688, and onward. June 3, 1691, he
agreed with the second George Wallis
on the boundary between their lands.
The record of this agreement, if not
very illuminating to a reader who has
not visited the place, at least shows
the contiguity of the Randall, Wallis
and Odiorne farms. It is as follows:

"Beginning at a stake drove down
by the Neke side at the west end of
said Wallis' marsh, from thence on a
straight line on the westerly side of a
point of upland to a red oak, marked,
standing on the west side of the path
that goes from Wallis' now dwelling
house down to the Randduo, and
from the red oak round as the path
goeth down to the landing place by
John Odiorne's stage, & on the north-
west side of said Wallis' gate."

"And the bounds between said
Randall and said Wallis on the south-
east side of said Wallis ' land takes its
beginning at the highway at the north-
west corner of said Randall's, thence
on a straight line down to a rock at the
seaside, where Johnson's fence for-
merly was."

As some very erroneous Wallis
genealogy is in print, I will give a
little that I have proved. William
Wallis married Jane Drake, Decem-
ber 15, 1673. February 11, 1722-3
he deeded his estate, all he owned "be-
tween Odiorne's Point and Sandy
Beach," to his son, Samuel, mention-
ing two daughters, Jane, wife of
Stephen Lang, and Sarah, wife of

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Joshua Foss. He probably was father
of William Wallis of Greenland.

Samuel Wallis, June 4, 1732, had
wife, Hannah, daughter of William
Seavey. He died in 1741, leaving
four sons : Samuel, who married Mary
Moses, and lived on the homestead;
Ebenezer, who left no children;
George, who settled in Epsom, where
he had many descendants; and Wil-
liam, who married Comfort Cotton,
and had sons, Samuel, William (of
Northwood), and Spencer.

George Wallis, second, married,
November 18, 1686, Ann Shortridge.
Both deeded in 1719. He was dead
in 1726, leaving only one son, Caleb,
an idiot, for whose support provision
was made. There were daughters,
Ann, wife of Abraham Barnes, Mary,
second wife of Benjamin Seavey,
Esther, wife of Nathaniel Berry,
Deborah, wife of Christopher Scheg-
gel, and Hannah, wife of Edward
Randall.

The salt marshes were the great
attraction to settlers agriculturally
inclined. They yielded a kind of hay
on which cattle throve well, in a region
not very favorable to grass production.
The high value of marsh, compared
with upland, is shown by inventories.
That of the estate of Walter Abbott,
dated June 18, 1667, has the follow-
ing appraisals: "80 acres land near
James Cate's, 50 pounds; 57 acres
by the Great Swamp, 30 pounds; 7
acres salt marsh at Great House, 35
pounds." The marshes near Odiorne's
Point and Concord Point determined
the locations of the first farmers of Rye,
which was then called Sandy Beach.
This name was applied to all the land
between Sandy Beach, proper, and
Sagamore Creek; but it did not go
below Rye Harbor, where it met the
north line of Hampton.

South of Sagamore Creek the first
small creek was called Sherburne's
creek, and the next, Seavey's, the
upper end of which is now called
Berry's brook, which has its source
near the southern Greenland rail-
road station. The creek at Concord

Point was sometimes called Little
River.

January 31, 1648, there was granted
to William Berry "a lott upon the neck
of land upon the south side of the
littell River at the Sandie beach,"
and to Robert Pudington a lot on the
north side the river.

Compare this with the New Hamp-
shire State Papers, Vol. 31, page 800,
where, June 13, 1717, "Wee, James
Berry, son of William Berry of sandy
beech, deceasd, & John Berry &
Joshua ffoss, Grand children of the
said Wm. Berry, deceasd, "divide
into six equal parts "the Neck of
land Granted the said Wm. Berry
about Sixty [seventy?] years since,
and in our possession Ever Since sd
Wm. Berry Deceas'd." The plot an-
nexed shows the location of William
Berry's house and barn.

July 10, 1648, Berry had sold An-
tony Ellins his house and eight acres
in Portsmouth, perhaps east of South
Mill, as the land there was later
called Antony Ellins' Neck. Before
going to Sandy Beach he probably
lived near William Seavev, as a rec-
ord of March 17, 1653, refers to Wil-
liam Berry's "ould house, that is by
William Sevy's," and also to "his
house upon the necke."

He was dead June 28, 1654, leaving
widow, Jane. His children are said to
have been, John, Joseph, James, Wil-
liam, and Elizabeth, wife of John
Locke. Apparently there was another
daughter, who was mother of Joshua
Foss.

March 31, 1650, Anthony Brackett,
planter, sold William Cotton his
homestead at the head of Salt Creek.
August 13, 1649, there had been
granted Brackett "a lott betwen
Robert Pudington and William Berry
at the head of the Sandie beach fresh
River at the wester branch tharof."
He had a house there in 1653. He
was killed by the Indians about 1691.

His daughter Eleanor married, De-
cember 26, 1661, John Johnson, born,
by deposition, in 1637. They re-
moved in 1668 from Newcastle to

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Greenland, where they had many Cleeve, had made the first settlement

descendants. Of this family undoubt- in Portland, Maine, in 1633. A mon-

edly was the Joanna Johnson that ument has been erected there to their

married, April 27, 1692, John Kate; memory. After some years Tucker

a name which has twice been printed left Portland and came to Portsmouth,

John Kase. I am assured by expert where he was selectman in 1654. He

authority it is Kate in the original, died in 1679, over eighty-five years

This was Deacon John Cate of Green- old, survived by wife Margaret,

land. He married, November 29, The following, from the Provincial

1710, Judith Emmons, who could not Court Papers, dated October 5, 1686,

have been the mother of the elder throws light on locations,

children, John, William, Eleazar and "The deposition of John Moses,

Rosamond, as implied in the Cate aged seaventy years or thereabout,

genealogy. This deponant saith that some time a-

A lot containing twenty acres of bout three or four years before Mr.
upland and eight acres of meadow, Richard Tucker was lost: he the said
apparently near Anthony Brackett 's, Tucker being at the hous of this de-
was laid out March 17, 1653, to Francis ponant, this deponant did then ask
Rand. He was evidently in this the said Tucker whether or no he had
vicinity in 1671 and 1688. His will, any assurance of the place wherin
dated December 31, 1689, mentioned he then dwelt: which was a hous
wife, Christian, sons, Thomas, Sam- standing upon the land which lyeth
uel (with wife Mary), John and Na- on the south side of the Creeck which
thaniel, and daughters, Sarah Herrick is between William Seavy's and
and Mary Barns; also upland and Thomas Seavy's, sometimes in the
marsh adjoining Anthony Brackett. hands of William Berry deseaced,

March 20, 1656, there were meas- which is opposite against the hous of

ured out to Nathaniel Drake "fouer William Seavey: and this deponant

ackers at the sandy beach at the far- testifieth that the said Tucker re-

ther eand thearof, which was to him plied I have no assurance: you know

granted formerly, which bounds doth the bargain as well as my Self: I was

extend from the norther end of his to have the place as long as I and my

ould field, and doth extend toward the wife do live : and this is the whole

Creek's mouth." As his "ould field" truth to the best of this deponant's

was probably near his home, we may knowledg."

place him south of Concord Point, a As early as March 4, 1646, it was

neighbor to William Berry, whose voted that John Sherburne should

widow he is said to have married. have a house-lot "at the head of the

April 27, 1691, Nathaniel Drake, creek betwene William Sevy and

aged 78, and Abram Drake, aged Henry Sher born." In 1658 John Sher-

about 70, testified about the family burne bought at the Plains, where he

of John Bland, saying that he came settled, and where descendants of his

from Colchester, England, and that still live.

they had known his daughter Isabel March 20, 1656, it was voted "that

from childhood. A clue to the Eng- no man shall take mony for ferryage

lish origin of the Drakes. from goodman Sherborne's neck to the

The Seaveys lived on opposite sides Great Island, nor from goodman

of the Seavey 's creek; William on the Johnson." "Sherborne's neck," I

north side, with land extending prob- judge to have been the same as San-

ably to Sherburne's creek, Thomas der's Point, from which the bridge

on the south side. Near them, on now goes to the Wentworth Hotel,

land that had been William Berry's, January 29, 1677-8, Henry Sher-

probably in his "ould house," lived borne deeded his son John "all the

Richard Tucker, who, with George tract of land called Sander's Point,

Twilight

219

about three acres, "with twenty-six
acres adjoining"; also "my dwelling-
house, in which I now live," etc.,
with the land "lying near Little Har-
bor by the Piscataqua River, bounded
east by the said Little Harbor, north
with land of Tobias Lear, south with
the creek commonly called Sher-
burne's creek, and so up the creek till
it comes to the place commonly called
the old house, then northward to To-
bias Lear's land, having on the west
side thereof a piece of land which I
have given my son Samuel for main-
taining my daughter Rebecca."

An article of mine in the Granite
Monthly of November, 1913, treated
of the settlers north of Sagamore
Creek. On page 367 I am convinced
that the footnote is right, rather than

the text. The original Crowder-
Jackson farm extended from the Hun-
king (later Wentworth) farm westward
along Salt Creek to the little inlet
next west of the bridge to Belle Isle,
running back far enough to make
twenty-five or thirty acres. It was
enlarged by further grants on the
south. John Locke's eight acres ad-
joined the west side of the little in-
let, on the east side of which were the
two acres sold by the Jacksons to
'John Wyatt (whose widow married
Nathan White). John Jones's land
adjoined John Locke's on the west.
In 1663 the hinterlands of John Jack-
son and John Jones adjoined each
other, and extended to within eighty
rods of Sagamore Creek. (N. H.
Deeds 2-1 10b.)

TWILIGHT

By Mary Alice Dwyer

The sun has sunk far o'er the meadows,
And the cricket chirps from the lea,

As I wander alone in the woodland,

And my thoughts turn to love and to thee.

I can see you in fancy's picture,
As you look in your dimity gown,

And I take in my own your soft fingers,
Tinted a delicate brown.

And as the twilight deepens,

And o'erhead the stars appear,
I enfold you in my arms, love,

And tell you that story, dear.

But as night winds fan my brow, love,
They bring to my cheeks a caress,

And the perfume of old-fashioned roses,
From the grave near my feet, where you rest.

Your arms cling no longer about me,

Your phantom dissolves into air,
And I stand alone in the starlight,

An old man, with silvery hair.

TO THE END OF THE ROAD

By Shirley W. Harvey

"But maybe it hasn't an end," I "That's what Aunt Annie said last

objected. night when she dropped the pickle

"Yes, it has, right up on the tip- jar. Yessir, just like that — 'Land of

pity-top of .that hill, clear way, way Goshum.' You s'pose it does lead

up — and I want to go there." there?" he went on, the light of explo-

Nibs and I were standing at the ration kindling in his eyes,
foot of the path from the house, "I'm sure I don't know. I tell you
debating the route of our regular what, Nibs, we will walk to the top
afternoon walk. Nibs was an adopted of the hill and see if it ends there."
relation of mine, about six years old. "It does," said Nibs emphatically,
In reality he belonged to an old as if that settled the matter,
college chum whom I was visiting. So we started off together up the
I had adopted Nibs, for I was some- winding road, with our faces set
what short of relatives of that caliber; toward the afternoon sun, and the
and Nibs had adopted me, as a child thirst for exploration in our hearts,
adopts everything that comes into Nibs trotted along by my side, one
its path and happens to take its fancy, hand clutching my middle finger, and
without question or reservation. We the other alternately thrusting a
were accustomed to spend much of rather grimy thumb in and out of
the day together, and our afternoon his mouth, and wiping it on his white
rambles were a part of our regular nickers. Nibs was somewhat of a
program, only of late it had become cross between a cherub and a monkey,
something of a problem to decide He was like a monkey and not a
where to go. Nibs was beginning to cherub, in that he didn't have wings;
want to go to the end of things. On and like a cherub and not a monkey
this particular afternoon he had ex- in that he didn't have a tail; other-
pressed a wish, which promptly grew wise the differing characteristics were
into a resolution, to go to the end of less marked. At present he was
the road winding up over the hill mostly monkey, — and acted like one.
behind the house. I knew it didn't He kept jumping from one side of the
have an end, and Nibs knew it did, road to the other at the least provo-
and he wanted to go there. He stood cation. He insisted on stopping at
defiantly faced in the direction of the a woodchuck's hole and looking as
alluring road, rubbing the back of far into it as his own bulk would
his hand up and down over the end permit, in an endeavor to see the
of his nose, a habit he had when he bottom; and was almost reduced to
was thinking. tears because I was unable — or, as
Nibs," said I, "you mustn't rub he conceived it, unwilling — to be a
your nose like that. Do you want genius loci and make him small
to have it turn into a pug nose?" enough to enter and seek the end.

Nibs looked at the back of his hand He found his consolation in an empty

intently for a moment, and then gave sardine can that caught his eye from

his nose a vigorous rub. "No, it the other side of the road, where

won't," he said, ' "cause Aunt Annie someone had. cast it from a passing

says it is that already — and I want carriage. It was dirty and had a

to go to the end of the road. Maybe sickening, fishy smell which was a

it leads to the land of — of Go-shum," source of wonder to Nibs. He was

he added, stumbling over the last quite heart-broken when I refused

word and putting the accent heavily to put it in my pocket and carry it

on the first syllable. home for him, so that he might hoard

"Land of Goshum?" I said incred- it away with his other treasures. It

ulously, "Where in the world did you was some time before he got over his

ever hear of the Land of Goshum?" disappointment, and for fully five

To the End of the Road

221

minutes he trudged along with no
other sign of vocal activity than an
occasional sniffle. His first notice
that he had returned to his wonted
humor was the process of scuffing his
toes along through the thick dust of
the horse-path, with a little kick at
the end of every scuff, pending a
shower of dust over my shoes just
that morning polished. Suddenly he
stopped, and stooping to the roadway,
exhumed a roundish stone of a pecu-
liar deep brown shade. What kind of
a stone it was, and where it had come
from I hadn't the least notion; but
Nibs, after looking at it for a full
minute, popped it into his mouth and
began to roll it about with his tongue.

"Nibs, Nibs, what in heaven's
name are you trying to do?" I cried
in consternation, forcing him to dis-
gorge.

"It's a choc-choc," answered Nibs
indignantly, with a hurt-puppy ex-
pression in his eyes. "Aunt Annie
gave me some last night and they
were awful good. Although," he
added as an afterthought, "they
weren't as hard as this one. "

"You are mistaken this time, Nibs,
this isn't a chocolate; and you
mustn't put things that you pick up
into your mouth. They may. have
germs on them."

"What's a germ?" he demanded
promptly.

"Oh," said I vaguely, "they are
what make little boys sick." Nibs
digested this in silence for a moment,
rubbing his nose up and down with
the back of his hand.

"Are green apples germs?" he
asked.

The road wound gently up with
many twists and turns, its edges
bordered with a wild growth of
golden-rod that was in the richest of
its mid-season bloom. A horde of
plump, lazy bumble-bees wandered
aimlessly about among the bright
blossoms, or clung nodding to the
golden clusters that bent and swayed
with their weight. Nibs was very
much interested in the busy little

insects, and stopped to wonder at one
particularly fat old bumble-bee that
was crawling over a mass of flowers,
keeping up a gentle buzzing with his
wings. "Don't touch them, Nibs,"
I said warningly. He drew back a
step, clasping his hands behind him
as he twisted his whole body back and
forth in an emphatic negative.

"They bite," he said solemnly,
"only they do it with the wrong
end."

The afternoon was drawing to a
close and our shadows were lagging
farther and farther behind us as we
climbed the last pitch of the hill.
Nibs pointed a tiny hand at the
sugar-orchard looming black across
the intervening pasture land.

"It's full of cinnamon bears," he
whispered in an awed little voice.
"Aunt Annie said so, an' she said
they would eat little boys," and his
eyes looked questioningly into mine
for confirmation.

"Perhaps they would, Nibs, I really
can't say."

"Do you s'pose they would eat
you?" he asked.

"I dare say they would, if they got
me," I said.

"Then I hope they don't get you,"
said Nibs as he thrust his little fist
into mine for the final climb to the
top of the hill.

When we mounted the last water-
bar, and stood looking down on the
other side of the slope, we could see
the road still running away from us
until it lost itself in many twists
and turns in the valley below. " Well,
Nibs, you see it doesn't end here."
The little fellow stood in the middle
of the road looking thoughtfully at
the landscape ahead. He was all
cherub just then, as he stood there
with the last rays of the sun playing
about his small figure, and his hand
busily rubbing his tiny nose, which,
as his aunt had said, did have a
tendency to turn up.

"Yes, it does," said Nibs firmly,
"only," he added flashing a bright
smile up at me, "it begins again."

BLANCHE OF CASTILE

By L. Adelaide Sherman

The poets long have sung of Trojan Helen —

A soulless woman with a lovely face;
Of Egypt's queen most beautiful and stately,

With eye bewitching and with form of grace;
Godiva, golden-haired and tender-hearted,

And many and many another time-sweet name,
That echoes down across the misty ages,

Some with pure praise and some with bitter blame.

But I will sing of Blanche, the queenly regent —

Blanche of Castile, who ruled in stormy France —
Whose name must stand for high resolve and courage, —

Who staked her throne upon the merest chance.
She lived in days when priest-craft cursed the nation

And o'er the people held an iron sway;
They burdened all the poor with tax so heavy

That none in all the land had means to pay.

'Throw them in prison who refuse to pay it,"

So spake the priests, and the grim work began.
The jails were filled with all those sorrowing peasants,

Woman and infant with the toilworn man.
A sight most terrible was this to witness,

The dungeons filled, the dungeons flowing o'er;
But, when they brought the story to their regent,

She rose at once and sought the prison door.

"Bring me the keys," cried Blanche, the wrathful beauty.

"Ah, no, we dare not, for the priests have said. "
She seized an axe, the trembling guardsman's weapon,

And, swinging it above her regal head,
She smote a bloAv upon the door of iron

That gave new courage to her fearsome men,
Then haughtily she turned her to the jailer

And as their queen called for the key again.

"Now will ye free," she cried, "my suffering people?

Will ye be less than I, a woman, brave?"
Then came they forth to kneel and kiss her garments —

Those stricken ones that she had dared to save.
Great as the greatest must we ever hail her,

Blanche of Castile, who brought her people aid;
And little recked of all the priestly power —

A woman womanly and unafraid.

LIFE AND THE LIVING

By Georgiana Rogers

I may lack ambition and the right kind of feel,

But I often times get thinking and I think a great, great deal ;

That to live and let live in the present, right now,

Is the only ambition that's right anyhow.

Is it really worth while to think you are rich

And know that your neighbor is down in the ditch;

Don't expect to leave money or even a name

That's going to establish for you a great fame.

For when we are dead, we are dead a long time,

So really, what's the use of trying to climb?

I may lack ambition and the right kind of feel,

But life and the living to me do appeal,

And to make somebody happy, or even content,

Makes life as a whole— not wholly misspent.

NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY

CHARLES A. FARR

Charles Albert Farr, youngest son of the
late John Farr, who was a leading citizen
and lawyer of Littleton for many years, died
at his home in that town, June 25, 1913.

Mr. Farr was born in Glover, Vt., February
5, 1848, the family removing to Littleton the
next year, where he grew up and received his
education in the public school, and at Kim-
ball Union Academy, Meriden. In early life
he was a clerk in the general store of his uncle,
Nelson C. Farr, but at the age of 22 he formed
a partnership with John F. Tilton and en-
gaged in the boot and shoe trade in Littleton,
continuing till 1873, when they bought out a
dry goods establishment. Later, Mr. Farr
withdrew and went into partnership, in trade
with Arthur F. Dow. Subsequently he was
in business alone, several years, till 1893, when
he retired and engaged in insurance which he
continued through life.

Politically he was a Republican, though
voting for Horace Greely for president in
1872. He had served two terms on the
school board of Union District, held various
minor town offices, and was for four years
Register of Deeds for the County of Grafton.
He was a member of Burns Lodge, A. F. and
A. M.; and of White Mountain Grange. He
was also an active member and a deacon of
the Congregational Church of Littleton. The
late congressman, Maj. Evarts W. Farr, and
Capt. George Farr, both prominent in the
Union service in the Civil War, were his
brothers, and in natural ability he was sur-
passed by neither.

He married, September 22, 1869, Florence,
daughter of the late Curtis C. Bowman of

Littleton, who died in 1886, leaving one daugh-
ter, Helen M., now the wife of Howard M.
Ballon of Honolulu, H.I.

HENRY H. FOLSOM

Henry H. Folsom, a member of the well-
known Boston law firm of Powers, Folsom
and Powers (Hon. Wilbur H. Powers being
the senior member), was shot and instantly
killed by his wife, while driving from Exeter
toward their summer home in Newmarket,
June 20.

Mrs. Folsom, who was formerly Mary
Hardy, daughter of Capt. William Hardy of
Dover, had been insane some years since, and
confined in a hospital for treatment, but was
supposed to have recovered and returned home
about two years ago. Recently, however,
there had been renewed symptoms of mental
disorder, but no dangerous tendency was sus-
pected, till this sudden and fatal attack of
homicidal mania resulted in this terrible
tragedy.

Mr. Folsom was a son of Hon. Channing
Folsom of Newmarket, formerly State Su-
perintendent of Publ'c Instruction, and was
born in Portsmouth, August 28, 1871. He
was graduated from Dartmouth College,
where he held high rank both as a scholar
and athlete, in 1892. After graduation he
taught for a time, but soon entered upon the
study of law, was admitted to the bar and has
since been in practice in Boston, though hav-
ing his home in Somerville, where he had been
prominent in public and social life, having
served many years upon the school board and
for the last five years as chairman. He was
an active member of the Newmarket Club,

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and of the Somerville Sons and Daughters of
New Hampshire, was prominent in Masonry
and in various social organizations.

Mr. Folsom was a man of fine presence,
engaging personal qualities, and held excel-
lent rank in his profession, and his sudden
and tragic death was a severe shock, and
brought a distinct sense of loss into many
circles.

The funeral was at Newmarket, June 23,
service being conducted by Rev. Charles L.
Noyes, D.D., of the Winter Hill Congrega-
tional Church of Somerville, where Mr. Fol-
som worshipped, and was largely attended.
Interment was at Riverside Cemetery, New-
market.

MARTHA DANA SHEPARD

Martha Dana Shepard, long a prominent
figure in New England musical circles, and
the best known pianist that New Hampshire
ever produced, died at her home in Dorches-
ter, Mass., on Saturday, July 18.

She was a native of the town of New
Hampton, born in 1842, the daughter of Dr.
John A. and Sarah J. Dana. Both her pa-
rents were musical, and she developed re-
markable talents in that direction at a very
early age. Her father was her first in-
structor, but she was soon placed under the

tuition of an eminent Boston teacher, and
her abilities developed so rapidly that at the
age of fifteen she appeared as a concert pi-
anist, with marked success and her ca-
reer was a notable one from that time. In
the famous festivals given in Concord by
Professors Morey and Davis, half a century
ago, she was a central figure, and it is a mat-
ter of general repute that she has appeared
at more musical festivals and concerts than
any other woman in New England and
probably in the entire country.

She married, in 1864, Allen
Holderness, now Ashland. In
moved to Boston, establishing
Dorchester district, where Mrs. Shepard has
been prominent in social as well as musical
circles. She was the organizer and leader
of the choral class of the Dorchester Wom-
an's Club, and had been similarly con-
nected with the Melrose Woman's Club.
She was also a prominent member of the
New Hampshire Daughters of Boston, as she
was of the New Hampton Alumni Associa-
tion, being a graduate of the New Hampton
Institution. For many years she was or-
ganist of the First Unitarian church of Mil-
ton, Mass.

Mrs. Shepard had two sons, one of whom,
Frank E., survives.

B. Shepard of

1881 they re-

a home in the

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER'S NOTES

With only a few days remaining in which
to file candidacies, before the primary elec-
tion, September 1, the political situation in
New Hampshire is becoming decidedly in-
teresting. At this writing, four men have
formally entered the race for gubernatorial
nominations — John C. Hutchins and Albert
W. Noone, Democrats, and Rosecrans W.
Pillsbury and Rolland H. Spaulding, Re-
publicans. Senator Jacob H. Gallinger has
filed his candidacy for renomination, on
the Republican side, and Congressman
Raymond B. Stevens for the Democratic
Senatorial nomination. Of Congressional
candidates there are two Republicans al-
ready formally in the field on the Re-
publican side in the First District — Rufus
N. Elwell of Exeter, and ex-Congressman
Cyrus A. Sulloway of Manchester, while
Frederic W. Shontell of the latter city some
time since announced his purpose to be a
candidate, and will undoubtedly file, as will
Congressman Eugene E. Reed, who will be
unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
On the Democratic side, in the Second Dis-

trict, Mayor Charles J. French of Concord
and Enos N. Sawyer of Franklin, President
of the State Senate, are in the field, as are
Edward H. Wason of Nashua, and ex-
Mayor Charles G. Shedd of Keene, on the
Republican side. Thus far there are no
Progressive party candidates in the field for
any of the more important offices, but it is
generally expected that some will be entered
before the time limit expires.

The towns of Fremont and Raymond have
already, this year, celebrated their one hun-
dred and fiftieth anniversaries — the latter
observance occurring, very successfully, July
4. The town of Lancaster has a similar ob-
servance August 12 and 13, and on Octo-
ber 24, Claremont, the largest town in the
state, will celebrate its one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary.

It is now definitely announced that tha
Franklin Pierce statue, provided for by the
last legislature, will be completed in time for
dedication some time in October next.

HON. CALVIN PAGE

The Granite Monthly

Vol. XLVI, No. 8 AUGUST, 1914 New Series, Vol. 9 No. 8

LEADERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

XVII

Hon. Calvin Page

By H. C. Pearson

Honorable Calvin Page, of Ports- on his father's farm, attended the dis-

mouth, whose declaration as a candi- trict schools in North Hampton and

date for United States Senator in the later was a student at the famous

Democratic primaries has been re- Phillips Academy in Exeter, where he

ceived so warmly by his party, has fitted for Harvard College. Entering

been for a long time a leader in the that institution in 1864 as a member

law, the business, th^ politics and the of its sophomore class he was soon

public affairs of New Hampshire, compelled by lack of funds to with-

His name and influence have been and draw and returned to his father's

are potent in banking, insurance, rail- house for a winter and spring of farm

road and other circles; and his home work and wood chopping,

city has shown its appreciation of his In the following summer, however,

wisdom, experience and public spirit the way of his future career opened

by conferring upon him all the more before him and on July 19, 1865, he

important honors and responsibilities entered as a student the law office of

within its gift. A lifelong resident of the late Honorable Albert R. Ha'ch

New Hampshire and one of her most in Portsmouth.

valuable citizens, his activities have Here Judge Page worked for his

been by no means confined to her board as well as for his instruction in

limits, his professional and personal legal lore by keeping his preceptor's

reputation, on the contrary, being as books and making himself generally

high in other states as in his own. useful about the office. He found

Judge Page was born in North time, however, for such application to
Hampton, Rockingham County, New his studies as enabled him to pass the
Hampshire, August 22, 1845, in the state bar examinations and to be ad-
tenth generation from Robert Page mitted to the bar of New Hampshire
of Ormsby, County of Norfolk, Eng- in 1868. Immediately he entered
land, whose son, Robert, came from upon the practice of his profession in
England and settled in Hampton, New Portsmouth and so has continued
Hampshire, in 1639. Judge Page's ever since. He was president of the
ancestors in succeeding generations State Bar Association in 1904-5, and
were farmers and good citizens of the annual address to the members of
Hampton and North Hampton. His the bar by him dwelt principally upon
father, Captain Simon Dow Page of the illegitimate use of the lobby in
the state militia, married Judith Rol- the legislature and the evil results of
lins of Loudon and to them one son the then common free pass system,
and three daughters were born. As a lawyer, Judge Page was and

The son, Calvin, spent his boyhood is one of the most successful in the

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state, his large and lucrative practice
covering a wide range of territory,
clientage and character of cases. In
1910 the demands upon his time and
strength became so heavy and ex-
hausting that he practically retired
from general practice, retaining, how-
ever, his more important connections
such as the care and management of
the great Frank Jones estate, of which
he is an executor and trustee. Those
who remember how keen a judge of

State Fire Insurance Company; Ports-
mouth Fire Association; Portsmouth
Shoe Company ; Suncook Waterworks
Company; Eastman Freight Car
Heater Company; Eastman Produce
Company; Piscataqua Fire Insurance
Company; Manchester and Lawrence
Railroad; and Laconia Car Company
Works; member of the American com-
mittee of management of the Frank
Jones Brewing Company; director in
the Upper Coos Railroad and in the

Residence of Hon. Calvin Page. Front View, Middle Street

men Mr. Jones was will appreciate
the compliment to Judge Page.implied
in his choice for these responsible and
onerous positions

To give the reader an adequate idea
as to how varied and important Judge
Page's relations to the world of busi-
ness have been and are it will be nec-
essary only to list some of his chief
official positions, past and present, in
this connection, as follows: President
of the New Hampshire National Bank
of Portsmouth; Portsmouth Trust
and Guarantee Company; Granite

Concord and Portsmouth Railroad,
etc.

It is the solid success, the careful
conservatism, the helpful upbuilding
characteristic of Calvin Page as a
business man upon which his friends
lay equal stress with his brilliance as
a lawyer, and his knowledge, experi-
ence and ability in public affairs, in
urging his choice to the office to which
he now aspires.

Truly remarkable, in fact, is the
ability with which throughout his
career Judge Page has driven the

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difficult triple hitch of law, business
and public service.

Always a Democrat, Judge Page, as
a staunch and uncompromising mem-
ber and leader of the minority party
in the state, has been, up to this time,
out of the line of approach to the high-
est elective offices; but in his home
town his fellow-citizens have been
choosing him to office after office for
two score years, and President Cleve-
land in each of his two terms as chief

the chief sources of its just pride. He
has been city solicitor, judge of the
municipal court, and member of the
board of water commissioners.

In 1888, Judge Page was elected a
delegate to the convention which as-
sembled in Concord January 2, 1889,
to propose amendments to the con-
stitution of the state. It was a nota-
ble gathering, with Charles H. Bell of
Exeter as its president and among its
members such men as Isaac W. Smith,

View in the Garden of Hon. Calvin Page

executive of the nation was prompt
.to recognize Judge Page by appoint-
ing him to the important place of col-
lector of internal revenue for the Dis-
trict of New Hampshire embracing
the states of Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont, a position which he thus
filled for eight years.

Twice, in 1884-1885 and again in
1899-1900, he has been Mayor Page
of Portsmouth. For more than thirty
years a member of the board of edu-
cation and chairman of the high school
committee, he has had great part in
making the schools of the city one of

James F. Briggs, Henry E. Burnham,
Charles H. Bartlett and David Cross
of Manchester, Benjamin A. Kimball
and Joseph B. Walker of Concord,
John W. Sanborn of Wakefield, Frank
N. Parsons, Isaac N. Blodgett and
Alvah W. Sulloway of Franklin, Wil-
liam S. Ladd of Lancaster, Robert M.
Wallace of Milford, Ellery A. Hib-
bard of Laconia, Ira Colby of Clare-
mont and Dexter Richards of New-
port. Judge Page had a prominent
part in the work of the convention,
the principal results of which were the
change in time of legislative sessions

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from June to January and the com- His spacious and hospitable resi-

pensation of members by a fixed salary dence is one of the finest in Ports-

instead of a per diem. mouth, famous as a city of beautiful

He was himself one of the first to and historic homes, and its magnifi-
test the practical workings of these cent flower garden is one of the show
changes for in November, 1892, he places of the region. Judge Page
was elected to the New Hampshire married, January 7, 1870, Arabella J.
State Senate of 1893 from the Twenty- Moran. Their daughter, Agnes, mar-
Fourth District and was the demo- ried Colonel John H. Bartlett of Ports-
cratic candidate for president of the mouth and they have a son, Calvin
Senate. At this important session Page Bartlett, born October 8, 1901.
Senator Page served on the commit- This sketch would not be complete
tees on judiciary, railroads, banks and did it not refer to Judge Page's part
finance, being chairman of the last- in the famous Peace Conference of
named, and the worth of his work was the delegates from Russia and Japan
remembered through a decade, so that brought about in August, 1905, by
in 1902 he was elected from the same the mediations of President Roose-
district to take the same seat in the velt — the most famous gathering the
State Senate of 1903. world had ever known. For this mid-

At this session he introduced and summer meeting the President nat-

advocated for the first time in our urally sought a spot in our state where

legislature a bill for the election of the cool breezes at the mountains or

United States Senators by the people, the ocean would tend to calmness and

Though the measure was opposed by comfort. The great Hotel Went-

the republican majority of the Senate worth at Newcastle was then a part

and failed to become a law then, of the estate of Frank Jones of which

Judge Page has lived to see it become Judge Page was trustee. Under a

the law not only of this State, but of clause in Mr. Jones' will giving his

a large number of the states of the trustees power to do anything with

Union, by the votes of all parties. He his estate that they thought he, him-

also opposed the lobby and publicly self, would do if living at the time,

called attention to its acts. Naturally Judge Page, through the President

he now asserts that he was the first and Governor McLane invited the

progressive legislator in the state, peace delegates to the number of

being the first to publicly advocate nearly one hundred, including all their

and work for the things which every attaches, to live at the big hotel free

political party has recently hastened of charge so long as the conference

to favor; and he declares that the very should last; and the delegates and all

men who then opposed him and his their attendants from both nations

progressive measures are now the loud- lived there for more than thirty days

est shouters for them, and are using at a cost to the Jones estate of over

his ideas and his proposed laws of 1903 twenty-five thousand dollars. And as

as their own later inventions. is well known, in recognition of the

Judge Page is a member of St. hospitality of the Jones estate and its

John's lodge, Free and Accepted trustees, Japan and Russia each gave

Masons, and of DeWitt Clinton Com- to the state of New Hampshire ten

mandery, Knights Templars, of Ports- thousand dollars, the income of which

mouth, being the oldest living past is annually distributed among the

commander of the latter body. He charitable institutions of the state,

belongs to the Warwick Club, Ports- Judge Page's long and useful career,

mouth, and to various other clubs, so filled with private enterprise and

societies and associations in his own public service, is now, as may be

city and elsewhere. He is a Unitarian learned even from this brief outline,

in religious belief. at the height of its Achievement. The

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solid success, personal, professional,
political, won by this son of New
Hampshire, is the more notable be-
cause it has come through his own
unaided efforts in the face of many
obstacles and difficulties. And appre-
ciation by his fellows of what his ef-
forts have meant to the community
as well as to himself have taken other
forms than the many already men-

tioned, including, notably, the con-
ferring upon him of the honorary de-
gree of Master of Arts by Dartmouth
College in 1902.

Of brisk and vigorous, yet pleasing,
personality, widely experienced and
keenly observant, Judge Page is as
delightful a companion in social and
private life as he is a strong and influ-
ential figure in his public relations.

THE DESERTED MANSE

By Charles Nevers Holmes

It stands alone beside the road —

That manse of yesterday,
A tenant] ess, unkempt abode,
Near where a sun-kissed streamlet flowed,

And children romped at play.

No streamlet flows, no children play;

Forsaken is each room ;
No crowing cock proclaims the day
When star-lit night first fades away —

Yon manse is like a tomb!

With ruined roof and broken pane,

With doorway strongly barred,
It sleeps 'mid sunshine, snow and rain,
While seasons wax and seasons wane,
And winds blow mild or hard.

Beside a gnarled and giant tree,

Which lightning's bolt once smote,
Beside a tangled, pathless lea
Where fragrant clover lures the bee,
It stands alone — remote.

Around its porch some vines still cling

Like dying memory,
Within its grove some birds still sing,
And now and then the echoes ring

As woodman fells a tree.

Dover, N. H.

But from its chimney curls no smoke,

No welcome's at its door,
As one bereaved by death's sad stroke,
Like patriarch when heart is broke,

Yon manse's life is o'er.

THE STORY OF THE ISLES OF SHOALS

By H. H. Metcalf

When I first found myself an-
nounced for a "lecture" on "The
Story of the Isles of Shoals," at this
Conference under the auspices of the
New England Congregational Con-
gress, my first impulse was to decline
the invitation to appear in any such
role, feeling that I might be person-
ally out of place, and that it would
be, moreover, practically impossible
to invest the subject announced with
sufficient interest to command the
attention of those present. But, on
second thought, I took note of the
difficulties and perplexities besetting
those who are called upon to provide
and arrange an extended programme,
like that to be presented here, and
resolved that, inasmuch as I have
always felt it to be my duty to respond
to any call for aid in furthering a
worthy object, when reasonably
within my power to do so, and, feel-
ing that the object of this gathering
is a most worthy one, I decided to
accede to the committee's request,
and serve in the role assigned to the
best of my ability.

Permit me to say, incidentally, at
the outset, that if there ever was a
time when the Congregational
churches, and the churches of all
denominations of Protestant Chris-
tianity, in New England and through-
out the country, needed to confer
together, and earnestly to inquire
and determine what they can and
must "do to be saved," and to make
themselves effective instrumentalities
for the salvation of mankind at large,
that time is now. Sad and deplorable
as the fact may be regarded, it is a
fact, nevertheless, that church attend-
ance is on the decrease all over the
country, so far as the Protestant
churches are concerned. There are
fewer people attending religious serv-

ice on Sunday, today, in proportion
to the population, than at any other
time since the Pilgrims landed at
Plymouth. The automobile has a
greater drawing power on a pleasant
Sunday morning than the most ac-
complished pulpit orator, so far as
the well-to-do classes are concerned,
and the trolley car and picnic resort
have more attractions for the average
working man and his family than a
cushioned pew in any church, with
the best of preaching and music,
though furnished free of cost.

It remains, therefore, so long as the
people will not come to the churches,
to carry the church to the people, real-
izing, at the same time, that, in the
light of the "new day," the primary
purpose of the church is not to get
men into Heaven, but to establish
Heaven among men. To this end let
the Congregationalists, the Episco-
palians, the Baptists and the Metho-
dists, the Unitarians and Universal-
ists confer among themselves, and
with each other, that the "means of
grace," or the most effective agencies
for the promotion of human welfare,
may be put in operation in every com-
munity, and exert a purifying and en-
nobling influence in every home.

But to the subject in hand — "The
Story of the Isles of Shoals!" There
is no connected "story," in one or
many chapters, of this unique group
of islands — no authentic history of
the communities of people by whom
they have been inhabited at one time
and another. No man living knows,
and no careful writer has presumed
to say, who was the European by
whom they were first discovered. It
has been held that the Norsemen
visited the New England shores cen-
turies before English eyes rested upon
them; but there is no record showing

* Address delivered at the First Annual Conference of the New England Congress of Con-
gregational Churches, at the Oceanic, Star Island, Saturday evening, August 1, 1914.

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it, and no tangible evidence to that
effect.

Bartholomew Gosnold, an early
English explorer, sailing from Fal-
mouth, March 26, 1602, visited the
Maine coast and made his way thence
to Cape Cod. He may have sighted
these islands, but there is nothing to
show it if he did. Brewster, in his
valuable and interesting "Rambles
about Portsmouth," has it that Mar-
tin Pring, who came over from Eng-
land in 1603, with the Speedwell, a
ship of fifty tons burthen manned by
thirty men, and the Discoverer, a bark
of twenty-six tons and thirteen men,
fitted out for him by the mayor,
aldermen and merchants of Bristol,

the matter of seamanship . alone is
considered, the progress is not so
manifest, since the most accomplished
navigator of the present day would be
regarded as foolhardy were he to at-
tempt the passage in any such vessel
as those with which Pring had been
furnished.

In 1604, a French expedition, under
De Monts, who was accompanied by
Samuel de Champlain, explorer and
writer, crossed the Atlantic, explored
the coast of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, and finally set up the
standard of the kingdom upon an
island in the Passamaquoddy Bay,
where the party wintered, but, de-
termined to push on farther down the

White Island Light

was the first to visit these shores,
arriving in the month of June, after
a voyage of many weeks. He trav-
ersed the coast of Maine, explored its
rivers, of which he called what has
since been known as the Piscataqua
"the westernmost and best " and trav-
ersed it for several miles. He must
have noted these islands, though there
is no evidence that he gave them any
attention.

Comparison of the craft with which
Pring made this voyage — frail vessels
of thirty and twenty-six tons — with
the monster steam liners of the pres-
ent day, carrying from 1,000 to 3,000
passengers and making the trip in
fewer days than it then required weeks,
gives some idea of the jDrogress made
in the intervening three centuries in
the art of navigation; and yet, when

coast, he set sail the following sum-
mer in a small vessel of some fifteen
tons, with some twenty sailors and
soldiers. It was on the 15th clay of July
of this year, 1605, that the party,
sailing along the coast, seeking a good
anchorage and finding none, sup-
posedly in the region .of Great Boar's
Head, stood out to sea for a little dis-
tance, and looking about at twilight,
they saw, as Champlain writes, "a
cape bearing south, a quarter south-
east from us, distant some eighteen
miles," and on the east, two leagues
distant, three or four "pretty high,"
or "rather prominent," islands, as
given by varying translations. Al-
though the points of compass were a
trifle mixed in the account, there
seems to be no doubt that the cape
mentioned was Cape Ann, and that

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233

the three or four high or prominent
islands were of the Shoals group, and
this mention by Champlain is the
first published or written reference
extant, to these islands, and undoubt-
edly the first ever made. It may be
added that on the following day the
party made a landing at a point or
cape, now supposed to be Odiorne's
Point in Rye, where they met Indians
to whom they gave small presents,
and, on the next day, reached Cape
Ann, which they named Cape St.
Louis, meanwhile passing the mouth
of a large river which they called the
Riviere Du Gaz — now unquestion-
ably the Merrimack.

the credit of their discovery is gen-
erally and properly given the noted
soldier, sailor, explorer and discoverer,
Capt. John Smith, who first gave
them any real attention and descrip-
tion, and was so much interested in
them as to give them his own name,
calling them Smith's Islands.

It was in April, 1614, that Captain
Smith, having sailed from London in
command of two vessels on a fishing
and trading expedition to this section,
arrived at Monhegan Island, now a
delightful summer resort, on the
Maine coast. The capture of whales
was a main object of the expedition,
and incidentally, the discovery of gold

Ocean Side of Star Island

In 1610, Sir Samuel Argal, who,
with Sir George Somers, had sailed
for the Bermudas in quest of supplies
for the suffering colony at Jamestown,
Va., driven by adverse winds, made
to the northward, and, while Somers,
with his vessel, finally veered about
and made his destination, Argal spent
the summer cruising along the Maine
coast, and doubtless more than once
visited the Shoals, as the fishing
grounds in their vicinity were the best
to be found. Three years later, in
1613, he convoyed a fleet of ten or a
dozen fishing vessels to this region,
and incidentally indulged in the de-
struction of a settlement of French
Jesuits at Mount Desert.

But, whoever, or how many, may
have seen these islands before him,

and copper mines, rumored to exist
on these shores; but, in case these
objects failed, there was profitable
fishing all along the coast, and oppor-
tunity to trade with the natives for
peltries of various kinds. The chas-
ing of whales and hunting for mines
gave no satisfaction in results, and
plain fishing and trading were finally
resorted to. Leaving his vessels and
the main body of his followers at
Monhegan, Captain Smith set out
with eight sailors, in a small pinnace,
and ranged the coast as far south as
Cape Cod, studying the country and
its characteristics and trading with
the natives, whom he met at different
points on the shore. It was during
this boat voyage that he visited the
Shoals.

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On his return to England, for which
he sailed July 18, Captain Smith, in
a written description of the country
subsequently published, speaks of
them, saying: "Among the remark-
ablest isles and mountains for land-
marks are Smith's Isles, an heape
together, none near to them, against
Accomenticus." Later, in referring
to a scheme for dividing the New
England territory among the paten-
tees, he wrote: "But n) lot for me
but Smith's Isles, which are a many
of barren rocks, the most overgrown
with such shrubs and sharp whins you
can hardly pass them, without either
grass or wood, but three or four short,

resulted in its permanent settlement
a few years later.

Edna Dean Proctor, the strong,
sweet singer of our New Hampshire
mountain land, suggests the credit due
this gallant adventurer in opening the
way to the English settlement of these
northern coasts, in the initial lines of
her thrilling poem, "New Hampshire" :

"A goodly realm!" said Captain Smith,

Scanning the coast by the Isles of Shoals,

While the wind blew fair, as in Indian myth

Blows the breeze from the Land of Souls;

Blew from the marshes of Hampton spread

Level and green that summer day,
And over the brow of Great Boar's Head
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shrubby old cedars." This shows that
he landed upon and traversed the
islands, which there is nothing to
show that anyone had clone before
him; and however barren and worth-
less they might be, generally speak-
ing, he considered them of enough
importance to give them his own
name, and to claim them as his years
afterwards.

At the captain's suggestion, the
country, a map of whose coast he had
made, and whose character and re-
sources he described, was given the
name of New England, and by that
name it has ever since been known.
To his report and description, un-
questionably, was due the interest
soon aroused in the country which

And sunset died on the rippling sea,
Ere to the south, with the wind, sailed he,
But he told the story in London streets,
And again to Court and Prince and King;
"A truce," men cried, "to Virginia heats;
The North is the land of hope and spring!"
And in sixteen hundred and twenty-three
For Dover meadows and Portsmouth river,

Bold and earnest they crossed the sea,
And the realm was theirs and ours forever.

Opinions differ as to the character
and achievements of this bold and
adventurous spirit, who, in his com-
paratively short career of fifty-two
years, experienced in wider and more
varied measure the vicissitudes of
human life, faced more trying situa-
tions, performed more daring and
heroic deeds, than any other man of
his time; but, soldier of fortune

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235

though he may have been, and gov-
erned by no fixed purpose for human
betterment in his undertakings, this
Capt. John Smith, father and savior
of Virginia, explorer of the New Eng-
land coast, who found and named
these rocky islands of the sea three
hundred years ago, unquestionably
did more than any other man to es-
tablish civilization in America, and we
well may pause a moment, here and
now, to pay a tribute of respect to the
memory of the man, whose service,
prolific of enduring results, brought
no substantial reward in life, and no
stately monument in his honor after
its close. Probably the fairest, most

main. Upon these islands I neither
could see one good timber tree nor so
much ground as to make a garden.
The place is found to be a good fish-
ing place for six ships, but more can-
not well be there for want of conven-
ient stage room, as this year's experi-
ence hath proved."

This is the first published mention
of the islands by the name they have
since borne, so far as known, and the
first reference to them on record in
connection with the business or in-
dustry by which and for which they
were principally, if not wholly, dis-
tinguished, till within a comparatively
few years. The vicinity of the Shoals,

Oceanic Hotel, Star Island

candid and comprehensive review of
the life and character of Captain
Smith, which has ever appeared in
print, is that of Tudor Jenks, pub-
lished by The Century Co., in 1904,
wherein he is represented neither as a
saint or a savage, but is characterized
as "almost the only far-seeing intel-
lect of his time."

In less than ten years after the dis-
covery and naming of the islands by
Captain Smith, another name had
been substituted for his, for Capt.
Christopher Levett, who made a voy-
age to New England in 1623-4, in
writing thereof says: "The first place
I set my foot upon in New England
was the Isles of Shoulds, being islands
in the sea about two leagues from the

in fact, has always been one of the
best fishing grounds on the Atlantic
coast, and was undoubtedly resorted
to by early fishermen long before this
time; and, although differences of
opinion have been expressed as to the
origin of the name, the most reason-
able inference, and the one generally
adopted, is that the name came, not
from the "shoal" and dangerous
waters of the vicinity, but from the
great "schools" or "shoals" of fish
abounding therein.

Just when these islands first came
to be inhabited, it is impossible to say.
Recorded history is silent on this
point nor is there any record as to the
increase or the character of the popu-
lation in the early years. That people

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were living on the islands in consider-
able numbers before any settlement
was made on the nearby mainland is
entirely probable; but they were gen-
erally not there as permanent settlers.
They were mere fishermen, and their
interest was of a transient nature, as
compared with that of the agricul-
tural settler permanently wedded to
the soil. It is a matter of tradition,
however, that there was a large in-
crease in the population of the islands,
during the second quarter of the sev-
enteenth century and later, so that
there were several hundred people here
altogether, along about the middle of

Star Island Church

the century, and the place became
one of no little importance in a general
point of view. Some writers set the
population as high as 600, but there
is no reliable data upon which to base
a statement to that effect.

Histories of Maine and New Hamp-
shire, to each of which states the
islands belong in part, make scant and
scattered mention of the Isles of
Shoals. Williamson's History of
Maine, however, has it that, at about
this time, which seems to have been
the period of greatest prosperity, here,
"they had a meeting house on Hog
island, a court house on Haley's is-
land, and a seminary of such repute
that even gentlemen from some of the

towns on the sea coast sent their sons
here for literary instruction." It was
not deemed proper, by the way, for
" gentlemen," or anybody else to edu-
cate their daughters in those days, in
anything but the household arts, and
there are some people, even now, who
seem to believe that woman's sphere
should be thus limited.

This first meeting house which some
authorities locate, also, on Smutty
Nose, is reputed to have been built of
brick; but its precise location is un-
known. Celia Thaxter, in writing of
the Shoals forty years ago, declared
that she could never be precisely cer-
tain of the site of this house, nor could
she ever find any sign of the founda-
tion of the so-called academy or sem-
inary. This is not at all strange, how-
ever, as more than a century and a
half had passed since the buildings
were in existence. There was a tavern,
or "ordinary" as it was then called,
• on Smutty Nose or Haley's Island,
and a bowling alley on Hog Island or
Appleclore, and it is reputed that ale
houses abounded on the islands, show-
ing that the habits of the people of
those islands, in those early days, were
the same in some respects, at least,
as those of nearby places on the main-
land in these later times.

During this period, or the first cen-
tury of their history (so far as they
have one) , the population of the Shoals
was mostly confined to the northern
or northeastern islands of the group,
or those included within the Maine
jurisdiction, and subsequently at-
tached to the town of Kittery. The
division between the two states of
Maine and New Hampshire, of terri-
torial jurisdiction over the islands,
came about through the final divi-
sion of their joint holdings by Sir
Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John
Mason, the former taking the Maine
portion of their grant, and the latter
the New Hampshire, and, each recog-
nizing the value and importance of
the Shoals, from a commercial and
strategic point of view, they divided
the group between them, Gorges tak-

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237

ing the four northern or northeastern
islands now known as Duck, Apple-
dore, Haley's or Smutty Nose, and
Cedar, and Mason the three southern
or southwestern — Star, Londoner's
and White.

There was a verv considerable vil-
lage on the southerly slope of Apple-
dore, traces of the cellar and garden
walls for seventy or eighty different
holdings having been noted in that
locality, even in recent years. The
homes of the more prominent and
prosperous residents, however, were
on Smutty Nose or Haley's Island,
and were substantial and commodi-
ous for that time. There were well-
to-do people among them, some of
their estates being among the largest
in New England.

While it was as a fishing point that
the Shoals first attracted attention
and long held prominence, being inci-
dentally mentioned by John Langdon
Elwyn, in his account of John Lang-
don, as " the largest fishing station on
the coast" as early as 1640, naturally
other business worked in, as the popu-
lation increased, and extensive com-
mercial operations were carried on.
John Cutt, who subsequently became
the first president or governor of New
Hampshire, when it was erected into
a royal province in 1679, and his
brothers, Richard and Robert, were
residents here, and laid the founda-
tion of their very considerable for-
tunes, that of the former, who later
located in Portsmouth, being ac-
counted the largest in the province at
the time of his death, in 1681. Col.
William Pepperell, father of the noted
Sir William Pepperell who led the
colonist forces at the siege and cap-
ture of Louisburgh, was a resident
here, and carried on an extensive and
properous business in the fishing and
trading line, and here Sir William
himself was born June 27, 1696 — the
most distinguished native of the is-
lands and probably the only one of
national and international fame. Colo-
nel Pepperell subsequently removed
to the mainland, locating in Kittery,

where his son was in partnership with
him in trade and ship-building, before
entering upon his military and public
career.

For the first sixty or seventy years
the population was mostly on the
northern islands, very few people
making their home on Star Island,
though now regarded by many as the
most attractive of the group. In 1661,
by the Massachusetts General Court,
after many years of petitioning on the
part of the inhabitants, the entire
group of islands, lying " partly in the
County of York, and the other part
in the Jurisdiction of Dover and
Portsmouth," as expressed in the leg-
islative order, were erected into "a

Celia Thaster's Cottage, Appledore

Township called Appledoore," and
granted "aequall power to regulate
their Town affairs as other Townes
of this Jurisdiction have." This town-
ship was a short-lived affair, however,
for shortly after the termination of
the connection between New Hamp-
shire and Massachusetts, in 1679,
through the erection of the former
into an independent province, the old
division was restored, the southern
portion of the group remaining under
the New Hampshire jurisdiction and
the northern reverting to Maine, still
under the control of Massachusetts.
Shortly after this the population
shifted in a remarkable manner, the
inhabitants migrating in large num-
bers from the northerly islands to
Star Island, not less than forty fami-

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lies going over from Hog Island, or
Appledore, alone, at one time, so that
in the course of a few years nearly the
entire population was settled on Star,
but few, and those of the poorer class,
remaining in the northern or Maine
portion, so that early in the next cen-
tury the town of Kittery, to which
they were annexed, petitioned the
General Court for a remission of taxes,
because of the fact that on account of
their small numbers and poverty the
Shoals people "never paid half the
rates and taxes that was added to the
town of Kittery upon the account of

Oscar Laighton's Cottage, Appledore

their being annexed to it," and for sev-
eral years had "paid no taxes at -all."
Meanwhile Star Island had pros-
pered to such degree that the New
Hampshire Assembly in 1715 — Decem-
ber 24 — chartered it with the other
southern islands, as a town by the
name of Gosport. The relative finan-
cial importance of the place is shown
by the fact that in 1720, under the
apportionment of the provincial as-
sembly, Gosport was assessed £20 for
every £1,000 raised by taxation in
the province. The population of Gos-
port, hoAvever, never reached any such
figure as has been claimed for the
Shoals settlement in the earlier days
when the northern islands were the

center of activity; but it is entirely
probable that the latter has been
exaggerated. In 1767, an enumera-
tion of the inhabitants gave Gosport
a population of 284, of whom four
were slaves.

In point of fact the people of the
Shoals had comparatively little busi-
ness and political connection with the
mainland. They had their own courts
most of the time, made their own po-
lice regulations, such as they had, and
paid province and state taxes no more
and no oftener than they were com-
pelled, which was by no means all the
time. Nor were they represented in
the provincial or state legislatures but
a comparatively small part of the
time. In the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth
and Eleventh General Assemblies of
the Province of New Hampshire, from
1692 to 1695, inclusive, the Shoals had
representatives — a different man each
year, James Blagdon being the first.
None had appeared before and none
appeared after, until 1851, when Gos-
port sent a representative to the state
legislature, in the person of Richard
G. Haley, and continued sending most
of the time till 1876, when the town
went out of existence as a political
entity, being annexed by act of the
legislature to the town of Rye, a part
of whose jurisdiction it still consti-
tutes.

A small fort was erected near the
westerly point of Star Island about
1653 to protect trade — restored in
1692, and again on the breaking out
of the French and Indian war in 1745,
on which a number of small guns were
mounted; but when the Revolution
broke out this was dismantled, and
the guns removed to the mainland, it
being found that the islands "afforded
sustenance and recruits to the enemy."
It was to the Shoals, in fact, that Sir
John Wentworth, the last, and in
some respects, the best, of the royal
governors, took his departure from
Portsmouth, when the patriotic spirit
of the people became too ardent for
his royalist sympathies, and from here
he issued his last official proclama-

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tion, September 21, 1775, adjourning
the assembly, which proclamation,
however, was practically disregarded
by that body. In order to prevent all
possibility of aid to the British, from
this quarter, however, by order of the
assembly the inhabitants were com-
pelled to remove to the mainland.

Following is a vote of the Assembly
or "Congress" bearing upon this
matter :

Friday Jany 5«» 1776. . . .

Voted That Capt. Titus Salter & Capt.
Eliphalet Daniel be appointed to go over to
the Isles of Shoals and Inform all the Inhab-
itants there that it is the opinion of this Con-
gress that the situation of said Islands are
such that the Inhabitants are expos'd to our
enemies in the Present unhappy controversie
and may be obliged (by their weak Defence-
less circumstances, & Inability to Defend
themselves) to assist our enemies, and that
for said reasons it is absolutely Necessary that
they should Imediately remove with their
effects to the main Land to such place or
places as they shall chuse & to tarry During
the present Dispute — and provided they neg-
lect to comply herewith for the Term of ten
days after this Notice That they be Informed
that they must be bro't off by authority.

(Report of the abovesaid Committee.)
Pursuant to the above vote of Congress we
repair'd to the Island of Shoales the 16 th In-
stant being the First favorable opportunity
that offer'd and after communicating to the
Inhabitants the contents of the vote of Con-
gress we proceeded to number the Inhabi-
tants and underneath are the different num-
bers on each Island.

Star Island Men 31

Women 34
Children 94-159
Hog Island Men 13

Women 13
Children 29- 49
Smutty Nose Men 2

Women 2
Children 15- 19
Total

227
Jany 18th 1776.

(N.H. Provincial Papers, vol. VII, pp. 709,
710.)

One of the hard results of this whole-
sale deportation of the Shoals popu-
lation is forcibly indicated by the
action of the people of Portsmouth at
a town meeting held December 18,
1776, in passing a vote instructing
their representatives in the General
Court "to exert themselves to secure

a support for the Poor of the Isles of
Shoals, out of the Public Treasury, to
ease the burthens of this town which
has been at great expense on their
account, and at a time when we are
unable to maintain our own."

It may be of interest to note, as
showing the existence in some meas-
ure, even in those early days, of con-
ditions of which we hear loud com-
plaint at the present time in many
quarters, that at this same meeting in
Portsmouth the people in formal reso-
lution expressed their deep concern at
seeing "Monopolies, Extortion and
Oppression so predominant in Town
& County, by which the Poor, the
Widow, the Orphan, the Fatherless
and many other classes of People are
suffering under every discouragement."

After the war some of the former
inhabitants returned so that the cen-
sus of 1790 gave Gosport a population
of 93. The highest figure shown at
any subsequent census was 127 in
1860, and in 1870 — the last census
before the town went out of existence,
— the return was 94.

The religious history of any com-
munity may properly be regarded as
of no less importance than the com-
mercial or political. The early set-
tlers here, so far as they had religious
convictions or preferences at all, were
adherents of the Church of England,
and had no sympathy with Puritans
or dissenters, and the first services, in
a small chapel, were conducted by
ministers of the established faith, the
first of whom there is any record of
having officiated here being Rev.
Joseph Hull, then settled at "Acco-
menticus," or York, Me., who visited
the islands and ministered to the
people occasionally previous to 1640.
During the latter year Rev. Robert
Jordan similarly officiated, the first
church edifice having been built about
that time, and, in 1641 and 2, Rev.
Richard Gibson, who had practically
been ousted from his parish at Straw-
berry Bank or Portsmouth through
the Puritan influence in Massachu-
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colony the New Hampshire settle-
ments had then come, was settled here.
Mr. Gibson left for England near the
close of 1642, and no other Episcopa-
lian was settled, though there were
occasional ministrations, subsequently
by Rev. Mr. Hull of York.

In 1646, or thereabouts, Congrega-
tionalism secured a foothold here, and
the Rev. John Brock came as the first

The Tucke Monument

settled minister of that faith, remain-
ing several years. Subsequent min-
isters were a Rev. Mr. Hall, Rev.
Samuel Belcher, Rev. Samuel Moody,
Rev. Daniel Greenleaf, and Rev.
Joshua Moody of Portsmouth, who
supplied from 1707 till 1732, when, on
the 26th of July, Rev. John Tucke
was ordained and installed, continu-
ing in the pastorate until his death,
August 12, 1773. Subsequently the

Rev. Jeremiah Shaw supplied, until
the dispersal of the population at the
outbreak of the Revolution.

A new meeting house had been
built on Star Island in 1700, whither
the people had mostly removed, as
has been stated, which was occupied
from that time; but about 1790, as the
Rev. Jedediah Morse wrote, after a
visit to the islands, in behalf of the
"Society for Propagating the Gospel
among the Indians and others in
North America," "Some of the people
of the baser sort not having the fear
of God before their eyes, pulled down
and burnt the meeting house, which
was a neat and convenient building
and had been greatly useful, not only
as a place for religious worship, but as
a landmark for seamen approaching
this part of the coast."

In 1800, however, through the ef-
forts of the society in question, a new
meeting house, with walls of stone —
the present structure — was erected at
a cost of $1,400, and dedicated on the
24th of November of that year, the
Rev. Dr. Morse officiating. The
woodwork in this church was partially
destroyed by fire January 2, 1826, but
was restored later, through contri-
butions from outside parties.

For nearly seventy years after the
erection of the new church, the society
mentioned sent missionary ministers
to this place, who did faithful work in
the cause of religion and education as
well, often serving as school teachers
as well as preachers. These included
Rev. Jacob Emerson, Rev. Josiah
Stevens, Rev. Samuel Sewall, Rev.
Origin Smith, Rev. Avery Plummer,
Rev. J. Mason, Rev. George Beebe,
and many others, the last in the serv-
ice being the Rev. Mr. Hughes, who
came in 1869 but did not long remain. -

This new church of which we speak
— the present Star Island meeting
house — the last of four successive
houses of worship erected on these
islands, relatively new, in that the
islands had been peopled for at least
180 years when it was built, is, never-
theless, an ancient structure — older,

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241

indeed, than many of the cherished
old meeting houses of our New Eng-
land country towns. Since its walls
were reared the population of our
country has increased from six to
ninety millions and its material
wealth in vastly greater proportion.
Since then the nation has passed
through four great wars; and at last,
let us hope, faces the dawn of a per-
petual peace. The gray, old walls,
could they take note of passing time
and changing event, could tell a won-
drous story of human progress, how-
ever small the part in the work per-
formed by those who have, from time
to time, worshiped within their en-
closure. To the visiting stranger the
church is, naturally, an object of in-
terest and to some a source of inspira-
tion. Years ago, standing by its walls
as the evening shadows fell, Edna
Dean Proctor, whose lines have al-
ready been quoted in another con-
nection, was moved to the production
of the little poem entitled "Star Is-
land Church," appearing in different
editions of her published verse,
wherein she says:

Gray as the fog-wreaths over it blown
When the surf beats high and the caves make

moan,
Stained with lichens and stormy weather
The church and the scarred rocks rise together,
And you scarce may tell, if a shadow falls
Which are the ledges and which the walls.

By the somber tower, when day-light dies
And dim as a cloud the horizon lie.s,
I love to linger and watch the sails
Turn to the harbor with freshening gales,
Till yacht and dory and coaster bold
Are moored as safe as a flock in a fold.

White Island lifts its ruddy shine
High and clear o'er the weltering brine,
And Boone and Portsmouth and far Cape Ann
Flame, the dusk of the deep to span.
And the only sounds by the tower that be
Are the wail of the wind and the wash of the
sea.

Let us turn now from the premier
poet of the hills, who has immortal-
ized our New Hampshire mountains,
lakes and rivers; who has studied
nature in all her aspects and man in
all his moods, and yet, approaching

four score years, still lives, to serve,
to labor and enjoy, to that sweet
singer of the sea — the sweetest, gen-
lest spirit ever known on our Atlantic
Coast — Celia Laighton Thaxter, born
in Portsmouth June 29, 1836; died on
Appledore, August 26, 1894. Her life,
linked with these islands almost con-
tinually for half a century, and the
beautiful word pictures which she
painted, gave them more of note than
any other agency. Coming here, a
child of three years, when her father,
Hon. Thomas B. Laighton, took
charge of White Island Light, in 1837,
her early years were here entirely
passed and after her marriage in 1851,
to Levi Lincoln Thaxter, she ever
lived in summer in the old family
home on Appledore. Here she com-
muned with Nature in some of her wild-
est and some of her calmest moods,
studied her in her most striking
phases and painted her charms in word
colors that will never die. Here, too,
she was wont to turn from the grand-
eur of ocean's broad expanse to revel in
the beauties of that little "Island
Garden" —child of her heart and
creature of her hands — immortalized
in that enchanting volume which is
her own enduring monument. Her
love of flowers, and her taste and skill
in their cultivation, were but the fit-
ting complement of that fine spirit of
appreciation of the grand and beau-
tiful in her surrounding world of rock
and sea and sky. She was, indeed, a
true child of Nature and one of her
sweetest and brightest interpreters.

Let us contemplate for a moment
the picture she paints of the impres-
sion gained by the stranger first visit-
ing The Shoals:

"Landing for the first time the stranger is
struck only by the sadness of the place, — the
vast loneliness; for there are not even trees to
whisper with familiar voices — nothing but sky
and sea and rocks. But the very wildness and
desolation reveal a strange beauty to him.
Let him wait till the evening comes . . .

'With sunset purple soothing all the waste/

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the subtile charm of that sea atmosphere. He
sleeps with all the waves of the Atlantic mur-
muring in his ears, and wakes to the freshness
of a summer morning, and it seems as if
morning were made for the first time. For
the world is like a new-blown rose, and in the
heart of it he stands, with only the caressing
music of the waters to break the utter silence,

glorified and softened beneath the fresh first
blush of sunrise. All things are speckless and
spotless; there is no dust, no noise, nothing
but peace in the sweet air and on the quiet

sea.

In the midst of such a scene as she
here pictures well may Mrs. Thaxter

^■H

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH

1579 - 1631

AFTER PROVING HIS VALOR IN

EUROPE AND AMERICA BECAME

GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA

AND

ADMIRAL OF NEW ENGLAND

WHILE EXPLORINC THIS COAST IN THE

SPRINC OF 1614 MADE THE FIRST RECORDED

VISIT TO THESE ISLANDS. NAMED BY HIM :

SMITHS ISLES

THIS TABLET IS PLACED
THREE HUNDRED YEARS LATER BY THE

SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS

IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

* 1914 •

The Cap Stone and Bronze Tablet, Captain John Smith Monument,
Star Island, Isles of Shoals, Dedicated, July 29, 1914

unless, perhaps, a song sparrow pours out its
blissful warble like an embodied joy. The sea
is rosy, and the sky; the line of land is radiant ;
the scattered sails glow with the delicious
color that touches, so tenderly, the bare bleak
rocks. These are lovelier than sky or sea or
distant sails, or graceful gull's wings, red-
dened with the dawn; nothing takes color so
beautifully as the bleached granite; the shad-
ows are delicate and the fine hard outlines are

have been inspired to the production
of that beautiful poem, "Daybreak,"
in whose closing words she says:

I turn my face in worship

To the glory of the East;
I thank the lavish Giver

Of my life's perpetual feast,
And fain would I be worthy

To partake of Nature's bliss,
And share with her a moment

So exquisite as this!

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243

The sublime confidence of this
sweet spirit of the isles, whose very
life was an embodied joy, like the
song sparrow's music of which she
speaks, in the "Eternal Goodness" —
the infinite purpose of the Almighty,
is fittingly expressed in the final lines
of her poem "Trust":

Behind the cloud Thou waitest, hidden, yet
very near;
Infinite spirit of Beauty, Infinite power of
Good,
At last Thou wilt scatter the vapors and all
things shall be clear,
And evil shall vanish away like a mist by
the wind pursued.

As has been said, there is no con-
nected history of the Isles of Shoals.
Moreover in what has been written
there are discrepancies and disagree-
ments in matters of detail, into the
discussion of which I have no purpose
to enter. Those who have not al-
ready studied the subject, and who
care to do so, will undoubtedly find
the most complete account of the is-
lands appearing in any single volume,
in "The Isles of Shoals," by John
Scribner Jenness, which ran through
several editions in the latter part of
the last century. The author was a
New York lawyer, of literary tenden-
cies and a bent for historical research,
a native of Portsmouth and a son of
that Richard Jenness who was a prom-
inent figure in public life in New
Hampshire in the middle of the last
century and president of the State
Senate in 1850. In Celia Thaxter's
"Among the Isles of Shoals," appear-
ing first in a series of articles in the
Atlantic Monthly about 1875, and sub-
sequently published in book form, in
many successive editions, there is
much matter of historic interest and
value, interwoven with descriptive
writing of the most charming charac-
ter; but for the most comprehensive
story, in brief, the Historical Souvenir
prepared in 1905, by Lewis W. Brew-
ster, and presented on the occasion of
the visit of the New Hampshire Pub-
lishers' Association, or the chapter on
'The Isles of Shoals" in the history
of the town of Rye, by Langdon B.

Parsons, to which town the New
Hampshire portion of the islands now
belongs, may well be recommended.

Briefly summarizing the matter, in
conclusion, it may suffice the present
purpose to say that these islands were
first visited, traversed and named, in
1614, by Capt. John Smith, the sav-
ior of Virginia and the father of New
England, to whose memory a bronze
tablet, properly inscribed, has just
been placed by the N. H. Society of Co-
lonial Wars, upon the restored monu-
ment, erected fifty years ago by Rev.
Daniel Austion, upon a commanding
point of Star Island. They were soon
after inhabited by a colony of hardy
fishermen, who increased in numbers
as the business developed, which was
quite rapidly, since the climate here
prevailing, being specially favorable
for curing the fish, was found no less
advantageous than the abundance of
the supply. With the growth of the
fishing industry, and the incidental
development of various lines of trade,
the place assumed commercial im-
portance, and retained the same for
a long period of time. Here, indeed,
was one of the important ports of the
North Atlantic Coast, trade with Eng-
land, France and Spain being carried
on quite extensively, and news from
the old world reaching northern New
England via the Shoals.

For nearly 250 years the Shoals
remained primarily a fishing station,
fishermen and sailors of various na-
tionalities constituting the bulk of
the population, some with families
and many without, with a small per-
centage of enterprising men in the
midst, seeking, legitimately perhaps,
to make profit for themselves from the
industry of others, and really bene-
fiting the mass while advancing them-
selves. An attempt was made at one
time in the early history of the
islands to bar women from the com-
munity, but it failed miserably, as,
in the very nature of things, should
have been expected. The popula-
tion shifted in location and in num-
bers, as has been seen, but its essen-

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tial character remained substantially years works out the purpose of the

the same. That the people, on the Infinite.

whole, were godly and devout, as one Four names — perhaps we should

writer at least would have it, is say five — stand out prominently in

scarcely probable; neither is it likely the history of these islands:

that they were generally an espe- Capt. John Smith, who discovered,

cially wicked and ungodly lot, given named, and advertised them to the

over to drunkenness, debauchery and world.

all manner of crime and iniquity, as Rev. John Tuck, who for more than
seems to be represented by most forty years ministered to the souls
writers. As in all communities, made and bodies of the people with a meas-
up in the main of people such as con- ure of zeal, devotion and self-sacrifice,
stituted the mass of population here, seldom equalled and never surpassed,
there was more or less drinking, dis- and above whose mortal resting place
order and roisterous conduct without a stately granite obelisk has just been
doubt, and occasional violence and erected and appropriately dedicated,
crime, which, when it occurred and through the generosity of a public-
was reported abroad, occasioned com- spirited kinsman,
ment as a matter of course, while no Thomas B. Laighton, who left the
thought or note was taken of the political and social life of the main-
orderly, everyday life of the people, land to be for years the keeper of a
One crime in comparatively recent lighthouse on these dreary islands,
years when the fishing population had and through whose active instrumen-
nearly disappeared — the cold-blooded tality, and that of his sons, Cedric
murder of the Christensen sisters, on and Oscar, the latter of whom still
Smutty Nose, on the night of March has his home on Appledore, they
5, 1873, by Louis Wagner, a German ultimately evolved from a fishing-
transient, is still remembered by the station into a splendid and popular
older generation of our New England summer resort, the most attractive
people, as one of the most atrocious in New England for many years, and
homicides recorded in the calendar still favored by those who seek quiet
of crime; but neither this, nor pre- enjoyment and absolute rest, re-
vious similar or different acts of crim- moved from all the activities of main-
inal nature, can justly be set down as land life.

typifying the character of the com- Celia Laighton Thaxter, immor-

munity in which they occurred. We talized in the work of her own pen,

are bound to believe that the people inspired by these surroundings,

of the Isles of Shoals, who for ten With these may be included, not

generations lived and loved and improperly, Samuel Haley, who lived

labored in their chosen vocation till here through a long life, dying in 1811

dissolution came, and whose mortal at the age of 84 years. He carried

remains still rest in the scant soil of on business extensively in various

the islands, or have been swept, in lines; had a store, hotel and rope

disintegrated particles, by the winds walk; owned the whole of Smutty

of Heaven, into the surging waters Nose, sometimes called Haley's Island

of the Atlantic, were no better and no in his honor; accomplished more in

worse than others of the children the line of agriculture than any other

of men, restricted by similar limita- man on the islands, though none ever

tions and burdened by similar dis- had any extensive herds of cattle,

advantages; and that, in fact, they sheep and swine, as has sometimes

held their allotted place and fairly per- been claimed; built a protecting sea

formed their intended task in the wall, greatly improving the harbor;

grand economy of the universe, which lived a worthy, private life and did

through the processes of the eternal much for the benefit of the islands

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245

Who shall say, however, that,
though these names, worthy and
honorable, are written large on the
scroll of fame, some, humbler and
long forgotten, if ever remembered by
men- — names of simple fishermen, who
faced unseen and untold dangers in
pursuit of their daily tasks, and
risked their own lives in rescue of
their fellows; or of poor, uncultured,

ignorant, yet devoted and self-sacri-
ficing women, patiently performing
their homely household duties and
tenderly caring for the sick and
suffering around them — are not writ-
ten in grander characters, on the
pages of that great Book of Life whose
record grows clearer and brighter as
the ages roll by in their eternal pro-
cession?

OUR GRANITE HILLS

By Lena B. Ellin g woo I

When David, long ago, in Palestine,

Said, "I will lift mine eyes
Unto the hills," and saw their vastness spread

'Neath rare Judean skies,

No grander sight he saw than greets the eye

Here in our Granite State;
Our own fair scenery and David's land

Have charms commensurate.

The presidential group's heaven-kissing peaks

Tower in their stately pride,
And lesser mountains, dignified — sublime —

Cluster on every side.

Whatever Nature's mood — or grave, or gay,

Whate'er the time of year,
The splendor of their pageantry attracts,

Majestic, grand, austere.

Cloud-capped and somber, shrouded deep in gloom,

Or bathed in sunset's glow;
Their beetling crags and over-hanging cliffs

Piled high with winter's snow;

Or when swift-moving clouds of summer time

High in the heavens glide,
And ever-shifting sun and shadow fall

Upon the mountain side —

We know the rapture that their charm inspires,

Beyond the charm of art,
And how the mountains round Jerusalem

Spoke to the Psalmist's heart.

THE PRIMARY ELECTION OF 1914

By an Occasional Contributor

The third state-wide primary elec-
tion in New Hampshire will be held
on September 1, 1914. The time for
the filing of candidacies with the Sec-
retary of State expired August 10,
when more names were found to have
been enrolled with him than in either
previous election. For some places,
mainly of minor importance, however,
no declarations of candidacy were
made and in these cases nominations
will be made by the writing in of
names at the primary election, as was
done to a greater or less extent in both
1910 and 1912.

In two respects this primary elec-
tion differs from either of its predeces-
sors. This year for the first time
nominations for United States Sena-
tor are made at the primary, preced-
ing the first election of this officer by
popular vote in November. And this
year for the first time official ballots
are prepared for three parties instead
of two, the vote cast by the Progres-
sives in 1912 entitling them to rank
at this election as a "regular party"
along with the Republicans and Dem-
ocrats.

There are no contests among the
members of the new party for the
principal places on the ticket, the only
competition being in some senatorial
districts and counties where both Re-
publican and Democratic candidates
go upon the Progressive ballot also
by petition.

In the Republican party there is no
opposition to the reelection of United
States Senator Jacob H. Gallinger;
but in each congressional district there
are three candidates for the nomina-
tion, and for governor, also, there is
a contest.

The one prominent Democrat who
is without opposition in his own party
is Congressman Eugene E. Reed of
the First District. In the other con-
gressional district and for the senator-
ship and the governorship there is
lively competition.

Sketches of many of the candidates
for high office at this election have
appeared in the past in the Granite
Monthly. Others are appended in
this number to the complete list of
candidacies for the principal places,
which is as follows:

Fop. United States Senator
Republican, Jacob H. Gallinger,
Concord; Democratic, Raymond B.
Stevens, Landaff, Calvin Page, Ports-
mouth, William H. Barry, Nashua;
Progressive, Benjamin F. Greer, Goffs-
town.

For Congressmen

First District: Republican, Rufus
N. Elwell, Exeter, Cyrus A. Sulloway,
Manchester, Frederick W. Shontell,
Manchester; Democratic, Eugene E.
Reed, Manchester; Progressive, Fred-
erick W. Shontell, Manchester.

Second District: Republican, Ed-
ward H. Wason, Nashua, Charles Gale
Shedd, Keene, George L. Whitford,
Warner; Democratic, Charles J.
French, Concord, Enos K. Sawyer,
Franklin; Progressive, George A. Wea-
ver, Warren.

For Governor

Republican, Rolland H. Spaulding,
Rochester, Rosecrans W. Pillsbury,
Londonderry; Democratic, Albert W.
Noone, Peterborough, John C. Hutch-
ins, Stratford, Daniel W. Badger,
Portsmouth; Progressive, Henry D.
Allison, Dublin.

For the Executive Council

First Districts Republican, James
B. Wallace, Canaan, John A. Edgerly,
Tuftonborough; Democratic, Edward
E. Gates, Lisbon; Progressive, Ben-
jamin F. St. Clair, Plymouth.

Second District: Republican, John
Scammon, Exeter; Democratic, Arthur
D. Rollins, Alton; Progressive, Oliver
L. Frisbee, Portsmouth.

Third District: Republican, John
B. Cavanaugh, Manchester, Nathan-

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iel Doane, Manchester; Democratic, R. Jameson, Antrim; Progressive,

Samuel H. Connor, Manchester; Pro- Henry E. Eaton, Hopkinton, Charles

gressive, Henry W. N. Bennett, Lon- R. Jameson, Antrim,

donderry. Tenth District: Republican, Orville

Fourth District: Republican, Frank E. Cain, Keene, Herbert A. Davis,

Huntress, Keene; Democratic, James Keene; Democratic, Fred J. Marvin,

Farnsworth, Nashua, John W. Pren- Alstead; Progressive, Henry W. Lane,

tiss, Alstead. Keene.

Fifth District: Republican, Solon Eleventh District : Republican, Ezra

A. Carter, Concord; Democratic, M. Smith, Peterborough, Charles W.

Chailes B. Rogers, Pembroke; Dr. Fletcher, Rindge; Democratic, Ste-

Edwin P. Hodgdon, Laconia; Pro- phen A. Bullock, Richmond, Ned

gressive, Dr. Edwin P. Hodgdon, Thrasher, Rindge.

Laconia. Twelfth District: Republican,

Charles W. Howard, Nashua, William
For the State Senate b. Rotch, Milford; Democratic,
First District : Republican, Eugene Henry A. Cutter, Nashua; Progres-
F. Bailey, Berlin; Democratic, Frank sive, Henry A. Cutter, Nashua.
E. Paine, Berlin. Thirteenth District: Democratic,
Second District: Republican, Dr. Alvin T. Lucier, Nashua, William H.
Edgar O. Grossman, Lisbon; Demo- Robichaud, Nashua,
cratic, Frank M. Richardson, Little- Fourteenth District: Republican,
ton, Myron H. Richardson, Littleton. Rufus M. Weeks, Pembroke; Demo-
Third District: Republican, Elmer cratic, Nathaniel S. Drake, Pittsfield;
E. Woodbury, Woodstock; Demo- Progressive, Nathaniel S. Drake, Pitts-
cratic, Amos N. Blandin, Bath; Pro- field.

gressive, Selwyn K. Dearborn, Haver- Fifteenth District: Republican,
hill. Hamilton A. Kendall, Concord,
Fourth District: Republican, Ar- George Cook, Concord; Democratic,
thur R. Shirley, Conway; Democratic, Nathaniel E. Martin, Concord.
Henry H. Randall, Conway. Sixteenth District: Republican,
Fifth District: Republican, Fred George I. Haselton, Manchester, Hal-
A. Jones, Lebanon; Democratic and bert N. Bond, Manchester; Demo-
Progressive, Frank A. Musgrove, cratic, Oliver E. Branch, Manchester;
Hanover. Progressive, Ludger Deschenes, Man-
Sixth District: Republican, Wil- Chester,
liam Rockwell Clough, Alton, Edward Seventeenth District: Republican,
H. Shannon, Laconia; Democratic, David W. Perkins, Manchester; Dem-
Willis J. Sanborn, Sanbornton; Pro- ocratic, Joseph P. Kenney, Manches-
gressive, Edward H. Shannon, La- ter, Edward J. Flanagan, Manchester,
conia, Willis J. Sanborn, Sanbornton. Eighteenth District: Republican,
Seventh District: Republican, Adolph Wagner, Manchester; Demo-
George E. Clark, Franklin; Demo- cratic, Denis E. O'Leary, Manches-
cratic, Daniel N. Whittaker, Franklin; ter, Charles Robitaille, Manchester.
Progressive, Henry C. Holbrook, Con- Nineteenth District: Republican,
cord. William Marcotte, Manchester; Dem-
Eighth District: Republican, Wil- ocratic, John W. S. Joyal, Manches-
liam E. Kinney, Claremont; Demo- ter.

cratic, Oscar C. Young, Charlestown. Twentieth District: Republican,

Ninth District: Republican, Wil- Charles W. Varney, Rochester: Dem-

liam A. Danforth, Hopkinton, Michael ocratic, Joseph Warren, Rochester.

J. Sullivan, Concord, Charles F. Twenty-first District: Republican,

Thompson, Concord; Democratic, Alvah T. Ramsdell, Dover, George J.

Henry E. Eaton, Hopkinton, Charles Foster, Dover, Valentine Mathes,

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Dover, John S. F. Seavey, Barring-
ton, William H. Knox, Madbury;
Democratic, Scott W. Caswell, Dover;
Progressive, Arthur H. Morrison,
Dover.

Twenty-second District : Republi-
can, Wesley W. Payne, Derry, John E.
Cochran, Windham, Carl J. Whiting,
Raymond; Democratic, William H.
Benson, Derry; Progressive, William
H. Benson, Derry.

Twenty-third District: Republican,

governor of New Hampshire, was born
in Townsend Harbor, Mass., March
15, 1873, and was educated at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass., graduating
in 1893. His father, Jonas Spaulding,
was engaged in the fibre manufactur-
ing business, conducting the success-
ful plant at Fremont which • his
family still controls. His three sons
took their father's business and, by
extraordinary ability and application,
have expanded it to great proportions,

Hon. Rolland H. Spaulding

Herbert Perkins, Hampton, Clarence
M. Collins, Danville; Democratic,
William D. Ingalls, East Kingston.

Twenty-fourth District : Republi-
can, Edward Percy Stoddard, Ports-
mouth, Sherman T. Newton, Ports-
mouth; Democratic, John G. Parsons,
Portsmouth, Oliver B. Marvin, New-
castle; Progressive, Alvah H. Place,
Newmarket.

Rolland H. Spaulding, candidate
for the Republican nomination for

erecting first, some eighteen years ago,
a plant at Milton, this state, then an-
other at North Rochester, followed by
a third at Tonawanda, N. Y.; and
they have interests also in St. Louis.
"Practically all of the large financial
resources of the three brothers is the
result of their own ability and hard
work," says one who knows them well.
"Three better business men have
never made their way to the front in
the old Granite State." Rolland
Spaulding has made his home at

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North Rochester since the establish-
ment of the business there and has
taken a lively interest in all matters
pertaining to the welfare of city and
state. This interest, incited by his
legislative experience with the famous
Spaulding-Jones charter bill at the
session of 1907, led him to turn part
of his energy into the field of politics
and to become associated with the
progressive movement within the Re-
publican party in New Hampshire.

qualities which will make for his suc-
cess in public life as they have al-
ready in business and other relations.

Hon. Albert Wellington Noone of
Peterborough, candidate for the Dem-
ocratic nomination for governor, was
born in Peterborough. October 4,
1846, son of Joseph and Margaret
(Gallup) Noone, his ancestry having
been traced back authoritatively to
the great Charlemagne, Emperor of

Hon. Albert W. Noone

In 1912 he was a leader among the
large number of Taft Progressives,
so-called, in New Hampshire, and in
recognition of that fact was made a
delegate to the Republican National
Convention. His gubernatorial can-
didacy at this time is not the result of
personal ambition, but is a response to
a very general call for his leadership
from all elements of the Republican
party in the state. Personally Mr.
Spaulding is agreeable, kindly and
genial, but at the same time, inde-
pendent, self-reliant and determined,

the West. After an academic and
business college education, Mr. Noone
succeeded his father in the business of
woolen manufacturing at Peterborough
and has since conducted with great
success the mills there. He also is the
proprietor of similarly successful mills
at Waterville, Me.; has large banking
interests; and is the owner of thou-
sands of acres of real estate. He did
not enter actively into politics until
the election of 1912 when he became
the successful candidate of his party
in the Third Councilor District. As

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councilor, Mr. Noone has been active,
influential and untiring in the pursuit
of his duties. The knowledge of state
affairs, of New Hampshire's needs and
possibilities, which he gained in this
capacity, inspired him with a desire
to do his utmost for their realization
and, in consequence, he has entered
upon his present candidacy. "I am

serving as chairman of the board of
selectmen of Peterborough. He is a
Mason and a Unitarian and was one
of the charter members of the Peter-
borough Cavalry. His candidacy is
based upon a platform full of sound
ideas and principles and it is advanced
by a man whose capacity for making
friends is remarkable.

Hon. Daniel W. Badger

the plain people's progressive candi-
date," he says, and "I ask the sup-
port of all parties who want a govern-
ment for and by the people." Mr.
Noone's ante-primary canvass has
been thorough, vigorous and dashing.
He has covered the entire state in its
course, having been accompanied on
many of his trips by his loyal and
estimable wife, who was Miss Fannie
M. Warren of Dublin, of Revolution-
ary ancestry. At the urgent request
of his townsmen, Mr. Noone is now

Hon. Daniel W. Badger of Ports-
mouth, candidate for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination, although
last to enter the field, presents an
equipment in the line of administra-
tive experience and ability unsur-
passed by that of any man who has
been named as a candidate by either
party in the state for many years.
Mr. Badger is in the prime of vigorous
manhood, still under fifty, having
been born in Portsmouth August 18,
1865, son of David and Nancy S.

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(Campbell) Badger. Educated in the and is popular in all orders. In reli-
schools of Portsmouth and Newing- gion he is a Unitarian,
ton, he early engaged in farming in — — —
the latter town, where he married Henry D. Allison, who will be the
Miss Edith M. Whidden, January Progressive party candidate for goy-
20, 1886. He held his residence in ernor without opposition, was born in
Newington till 1909 when he removed Dublin, forty-five years ago, of Scotch
to a farm in the suburban district of Irish and Mayflower-Pilgrim ancestry,
Portsmouth, continuing, successfully, the son of James and Sarah Jane
his farming operations in both places. (Darracott) Allison. Three genera-
While residing in Newington he had tions prior to Mr. Allison have lived
served his town efficiently in various on the home farm at the base of Mo-
capacities, and, as its representative nadnock Mountain in Dublin, where
in the legislature of 1903, had courage- he was born and brought up. James
ously antagonized the domination of Allison, his father, had been a mem-
railroad power, in the interests of the ber of the school board, and board of
people, long before other men who selectmen for many years, and had
subsequently sought to make political twice represented the town in the
capital in so doing. The Democrats legislature. Up to the time of his
of Portsmouth, in 1910, planning a death last spring, he was a deacon in
strong appeal to popular favor, named the Unitarian Church, which position
Mr. Badger as their candidate for he had held for more than forty years,
mayor, to which office he was elected, Six of the eight children in his father's
though the Republicans had just car- family, including the subject of this
ried the city by 300 majority on the sketch, taught school. Henry D.
governor vote. As mayor he set his Allison left home at sixteen to make
face firmly in the direction of honest his own way and complete his educa-
government and a clean city, sustained tion. He graduated from a business
by moral courage of a high order, which college in Boston, then kept books,
is his distinguishing characteristic, and taught penmanship, and afterwards
made such a record for executive vigor bought the business he now owns. He
during his term of service, which married Florence Gowing Mason of
continued three years, through two Dublin in 1891, and they have three
successive reelections, that his admin- children. He is past master of Alte-
istration became notable throughout mont Masonic Lodge, Peterborough,
New England. As a member of the member of Hugh de Payens Corn-
council of Governor Felker, from old mandery of Knights Templar, Keene,
District No. 1, serving on the finance and Paquog Lodge of Odd Fellows,
and state house committees, Mr. Marlborough. Mr. Allison is em-
Badger has contributed largely to the phatically a native son, and his finan-
success of the administration through cial interests are all in his home town,
his sound judgment and practical That he is loyal to New Hampshire
ability. His knowledge of agriculture educational institutions is demon-
and the needs of the farming commu- strated by the fact that he is sending
nity also enabled him to render efficient his son to Phillips-Exeter, and Dart-
service in the position of commissioner mouth College. In the last legislature
of agriculture, which he held tempo- he was chairman of the committee on
rarily for several months, while Gover- public improvements, chairman of the
nor Felker was casting about for the Progressive caucus, and one of five
right man as permanent incumbent, members of the re-districting corn-
Mr. and Mrs. Badger have eight chil- mittee. He is not a wealthy man, but
dren — two sons and six daughters. — as a native son who has successfully
He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of made his own way in life, and having
Pythias and a Patron of Husbandry at heart the future interests and devel-

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opment of the State, he hopes his can-
didacy for the governorship may
appeal to the rank and file of New
Hampshire citizens.

Benjamin F. Greer, unopposed can-
didate for the Progressive nomination
for United States Senator, is a New
Hampshire man in every sense of the
word. Born in Goffstown, January 20,
1864, he has since spent his entire life
there, with the exception of two years

ing of his business. He took an active
part in the politics of the town, even
before his majority, looking after
absent voters and getting them to the
polls. In 1901, after one of the hot-
test campaigns, he received the nomi-
nation over four candidates and was
elected by a large majority to the
General Court. During the entire
session, he showed much independence
in his voting, not heeding the crack of
the party whip. Goffstown had not

Henry D. Allison

in Manchester while manager of the
Public Market Company store, though
he still retained his voting residence in
his native town. His early life was
spent upon the same farm where he at
present lives, attending the public
• schools and Pinkerton Academy. At
the age of twenty-two, he began to
run a large general country store at
Goffstown Centre, now Grasmere,
which he continued for eighteen years,
also being postmaster from 1887 to
1904, when he resigned, after dispos-

had a state senator for many years,
although several promising candi-
dates had died in the convention.
Knowing the same tactics would be
resorted to in his candidacy, he deter-
mined to beat the politicians and the
Boston & Maine candidate, which he
did by almost two to one in the con-
vention and was elected by a splendid
majority. In the session that followed,
he gave his unbounded support to all
Progressive measures, which came be-
fore that body. It was his keen far

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sightedness that was the means of
putting through many important
measures. In 1910 he again entered
the field, and made a most vigorous
campaign over two rival candidates,
winning the nomination and election
to the important office of councilor for
the Third District, under the able
administration of Gov. Robert P.
Bass, whom he stood by loyally dur-
ing his whole term, serving as chair-
man of the finance committee. He is

member of the Baptist Church, a
Mason, Odd Fellow and Granger, and
is always interested in any movement
that tends to make his town, state or
country a better place in which to live.

Hon. Rufus N. Elwell, candidate
for the Republican nomination for
congressman in the First District,
though still a young man is one of the
best-known men in the state. As
countv member of the Republican

Hon. Benjamin F. Greer

an extensive operator of lumber, cut-
ting from two to four millions, annu-
ally, of sawed lumber. In 1912 he was
appointed a member of the state for-
estry commission for three years. He
has served his town as supervisor of
check lists eight years, trustee of
cemetery six years, and member of
school board for past five years. He
is married and has two sons, one at-
tending Colby College, Waterville,
Me., while the other goes to Colby
Academy, New London. He is a

state executive committee, and as
president of the Rockingham County
Republican Club, he perfected the
organization which changed Rocking-
ham from the strongest Democratic
to the strongest Republican county
in the state. This required diplomacy,
energy and untiring effort, and it was
all done while he was in the twenties.
Those who were associated with him
in that organization are warmly urg-
ing him for Congress now. He was a
colonel on Governor Tuttle's staff;

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has been collector of customs; and
four times a member of the legisla-
ture, where his record is one of excep-
tional ability and faithful service. He
is recorded on every roll-call taken on
bills before the House of Representa-
tives of which he has been a member,
with the exception of when he was
Speaker, and, under the rules, could
vote only to break a tie. As Speaker
he gained a reputation for fairness
which called forth unstinted praise

companies. He is an honorary mem-
ber of the Veterans' Association, a
member of the Sons of Veterans, the
Odd Fellows and the Red Men.
Colonel Elwell is a man of warm
human sympathies, always ready to
help those in trouble; and he is true,
honest and straightforward in all
things. His best friends are those
who know him best.

Charles Gale Shedd of Keene, can-

Col. Rufus N. Elwell

from the members, regardless of
party affiliations, and he handled his
work so expeditiously that his was
the shortest biennial session of the
legislature ever held in New Hamp-
shire. He is one of the strongest and
most-ready debaters, and best-known
campaign speakers in the state. He
has been interested in lumbering op-
erations ever since he became of age,
but is best known in the business
world as an insurance man, connected
in a managing capacity with several

didate for the Republican nomination
in the Second Congressional District,
was born at South Wallingford, Vt.,
May 18, 1865. His parents removed
to Keene in his childhood and there
he graduated from the high school
and at an early age began a life of
hard work as an apprentice in the
wholesale and retail drug store of Bul-
lard & Foster. In 1888 Mr. Shedd
became a partner and upon the death
of Mr. Bullard organized the Bullard
& Shedd Company, of which he is

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treasurer, manager and principal stock-
holder, and which has continued the
business to date with eminent success.
Mr. Shedd always has been interested
in public affairs and has advanced
with equal steps in the path of politi-
cal preferment and in the confidence
and esteem of an ever widening circle
of the people. He has been, at Keene,
member of the board of health, mem-
ber and president of the city council
and in the years 1911, 1912 and 1913

is a member of the Red Men, Knights
of Pythias, Sons of Veterans, and
New Hampshire Pharmaceutical As-
sociation. He is a Unitarian; is mar-
ried and has three sons; and is as
popular in social and fraternal circles
as he is prominent in business and
politics. As mayor of Keene he was
very successful in arousing civic spirit
and also in bringing Cheshire County
into a unit of action for advance on
agricultural and other lines. As a

Hon. Charles Gale Shedd

mayor of the city. A member of the
House of Representatives in 1901 and
of the State Senate in 1907, he served
as chairman of the important com-
mittee on public health; followed by
his appointment in May, 1907, to the
board of trustees of the state sana-
torium at Glencliffe, of which he was
the secretary and treasurer until it
was superseded by the state board of
control in 1913. Mr. Shedd is a 33d
degree Mason; has been president of
the New Hampshire Society, S. A. R.;

congressional candidate his platform
is: "Business not bunkum! Not how
many laws, but how good. Suitable
protection for farmer and laborer com-
bined with confidence for capital and
promotion of industry."

George Langdon Whitford, of War-
ner, candidate for the Republican
nomination for Congress in the Second
District, was born in Concord, New
Hampshire, July 24, 1881, the son of
Col. Edward L. Whitford and Mabel

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Ordway. He descends from a family
whose political association with the
history of New Hampshire is almost
without a parallel. He is a nephew of
the late Governor Onslow Stearns.
His father was pension agent at Con-
cord under both of Grant's adminis-
trations. He is grandson of Nehemiah
G. Ordway of Warner, sergeant-at-
arms of the National House of Repre-
sentatives, and Territorial Governor
of Dakota under the Hayes adminis-

practice of his profession Mr. Whit-
ford has achieved success. Of genial
manner, democratic and unassuming,
he is a popular and respected citizen in
his home town and throughout the
state. He is an honorary member of
the New Hampshire Veterans' asso-
ciation, and also of the Sixteenth New
Hampshire Regiment. October 25,
1905, he was united in marriage with
Miss Florence Evans O'Brien. They
have one child, Harriet Stearns Whit-

George L. Whitford

tration, and for a generation a domi-
nant figure in the politics of the state.
He is a grand-nephew of John Lang-
don Sibley, the prominent writer and
educator. Mr. Whitford early at-
tended the district schools of Warner
and the High School, and later was a
student at Columbian College, study-
ing law, and taking his degree at
George Washington University in
1905. He was admitted to the New
Hampshire bar shortly following the
completion of his law course. In the

ford, age 7 years. As a Progressive Re-
publican, he actively supported Wins-
ton Churchill and Robert P. Bass when
they were Republicans. Although an
ardent advocate of progress and re-
form, he has always remained a Re-
publican not wishing to aid in dividing
or defeating his party. His friends
believe that his candidacy would
greatly assist in re-uniting all factions.

Hon. James Burns Wallace of Ca-
naan, candidate for the Republican

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nomination for the executive council
in the First District, was born in Ca-
naan, August 14, 18.66. In the Ca-
naan schools and at St. Johnsbury
Academy he prepared for Dartmouth
College, from which he graduated in
1887. Deciding upon the legal pro-
fession, he was graduated from the
Columbia Law School in New York
City and practised in that state until
1906 when he returned to Canaan and
has since been prominent in the public

and serving, also, upon the committee
on revision of statutes. In 1912 he
was the Republican candidate for the
State Senate in the Third District and
his ability and popularity enabled him
to overcome the general Democratic
drift of that year, being elected by
1,787 votes to 1,566 for his opponent.
Senator Wallace was one of the^Re-
publican stand-bys in the long and
arduous legislative session of 1913 and
his work there, both from a partisan

Hon. James B. Wallace

life of his native state. Mr. Wallace
is a Congregationalist in religious pref-
erence; a Mason, Knight of Pythias,
Patron of Husbandry, Forester and
Elk. At Canaan he has been judge of
the local court, member of the school
board and trustee of the public library;
and has done valuable work along the
lines of historical and genealogical re-
search. In 1909 he served his town as
representative in the legislature and
was a faithful and influential member,
receiving the chairmanship of the
important committee on liquor laws

point of view and as an able, experi-
enced and public-spirited legislator,
won him wide credit. He served upon
six committees, holding one chair-
manship, and no member of the upper
branch of the general court was more
devoted to his duties or more success-
ful in their accomplishment. Thus
equipped by ability and training, with
wide and thorough knowledge of and
experience in, state affairs, Mr. Wal-
lace's promotion to the executive
council would be well-won and
worthy.

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John Scammon of Exeter, unop-
posed candidate for the Republican
nomination for the executive council
in the Second District, was born in
Stratham September 30, 1865, in the
eighth American generation of one of
the oldest and best-known families in
that section of New England. He
was educated at the Exeter High
School, at Phillips Exeter Academy
and at the Boston University Law
school and studied law at Exeter with

a position which he filled with entire
acceptance. In 1912, when it was
deemed more than usually difficult to
carry the district and hence desirable
to have an especially strong candi-
date, Mr. Scammon again accepted
the Republican nomination and was
elected by a considerable margin over
both Democratic and Progressive can-
didates. Mr. Scammon is a 32d de-
gree Mason and a member of the
order of Red Men. In religious belief

Hon. John Scammon

Gen. Gilman Marston and with for-
mer Atty.-Gen. Edwin G. Eastman,
whose partner in legal practice he has
been for a decade. In 1903, and again
in 1905, Mr. Scammon was a member
of the Exeter delegation in the state
house of representatives, serving with
such distinction on the important
judiciary committee and manifesting
such a grasp of state affairs as to
merit promotion in 1907 to the State
Senate. He was further honored by
election to the presidency of that body,

he is a Congregationalist. He is mar-
ried and has five children. Of pleas-
ing personality, genial in good-fel-
lowship, with a very wide circle of
friends, Mr. Scammon nevertheless
possesses and displays on occasion
qualities of vigor and determination
which, when added, as, in his case, to
sound judgment and sincere desire for
the public welfare, are most necessary
and valuable in the service of the
state. By nature and by training, by
experience and by knowledge, he is

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eminently fitted for a
executive council.

place in the

Frank M. Richardson of Littleton,
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation in the Second State Senatorial
District, and one of the most active,
valuable and influential members of
his party in the north country, is a
native of Concord, Vt., born August
7, 1865. He was educated in the town
schools and the Essex County Gram-

been engaged extensively in real es-
tate. Mr. Richardson has been presi-
dent of the Littleton board of trade,
superintendent of streets and chair-
man of the water board. In 1906 he
was his party's candidate for the
State Senate and in 1910 he was
elected to the House of Representa-
tives, heading the first solidly Demo-
cratic delegation which Littleton had
sent to the legislature in many years.
He was one of the two Democrats

Frank M. Richardson

mar School, and was granted a license
to teach at sixteen years of age, which
work he followed winters, laboring on
his father's farm in summer, until
twenty years of age, when he became
a hotel clerk at Island Pond, Vt. A
year later he removed to Littleton
where he was engaged with a brother
in the hotel and livery business, con-
tinuing the latter until 1904, when he
sold out, having meanwhile established
an extensive carriage repository and
stable furnishing house. He also has

chosen by a Republican speaker for a
committee chairmanship, that on mile-
age, and also was a member and clerk
of the committee on public improve-
ments. Mr. Richardson, though a
new member, was one of the promi-
nent men in the house at that session,
making forceful speeches on the Frank-
lin Pierce statue, insurance, taxation,
water power and other questions. At
that time he proved himself amply
qualified for, and well deserving of,
the promotion proposed in his present

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candidacy. Mr. Richardson is a Uni-
versalis! and prominent in Masonry.

William Rockwell Clough, candi-
date for the Republican nomination
in our Sixth Senatorial District, now
composed of Alton, Belmont, Barn-
stead, Gilmanton, Gilford, Laconia,
Sanbornton, Meredith and CentreHar-
bor, all in Belknap County, is a native
of Alton. '- He enlisted during the last
years *of the, Civil War and went to

manufacture of miniature corkscrews
which have made Mr. Clough the
largest manufacturer of such articles
in the world. He has built a score of
these big labor-saving machines in the
shops of Laconia and, being a cham-
pion of a shortened day for labor, he
long ago adopted the eight hour day
in his works. The demands of his
business, including the necessity for
frequent trips abroad, have kept Mr.
Clough from much participation in

William Rockwell Clough

the front, being one of the charter
members of Winfield Scott Hancock
Post, G. A. R., in New York City.
After the war he supplemented his
previous school days with a business
college education at Poughkeepsie and
became an expert accountant, em-
ployed for some years in the United
States revenue service. But he had
inherited mechanical genius from his
father and this began to show itself in
various inventions, finally culminating
in the automatic machines for the

public affairs but he represented Al-
ton in the legislatures of 1897 and
1899, being honored in each instance
with appointment to the chairman-
ship of the committee on national
affairs and establishing his ability as
a thinker and orator with large stores
of knowledge and experience upon
which to draw. Mr. Clough is a
Mason of the 32d degree, past master
of his own lodge and past patron in
the Order of the Eastern Star, also a
Granger, a member of the American

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Society of Mechanical Engineers and
of the Algonquin Club of Boston.

He married, April 28, 1904, Miss
Nelle Sophia Place of Alton and they
have a son and a daughter. Mr.
Clough's ancestors were for a century
leading citizens of Alton, and for the
town and for his native state he cher-
ishes a real affection which has shown
itself in many ways. Here his princi-
pal factory turning out millions of cork-
rings for shipment here and abroad, is

making it necessary for him to help
in the support of his mother and
brothers. At the age of 16 his mother's
cousin, the late David A. Warde, gave
him a position in the hardware store
of Warde, Humphrey & Dodge, Con-
cord. Here he acquired a thorough
knowledge of the business and began
his career as a traveling salesman. He
was with the firm of James Moore &
Sons two years, and in 1880 he formed
a connection which endured for twenty

William A. Danforth

situated and here is his beautiful and
hospitable home. He has at heart the
welfare of New Hampshire and a desire
for its promotion is the basis of his pre-
sent candidacy.

William Aiken Danforth of Hop-
kinton, candidate for the Republican
nomination in the Ninth State Sena-
torial District, was born in Hopkinton,
August 22, 1855, the son of Erastus
and Mary Nichols Danforth. When
but 13 years of age his father died,

years, with the firm of Martin L. Hall
& Company of Boston, wholesale
grocers. In their employ he became
widely known, making hosts of friends
who will be glad to see him elected to
the Senate. The next ten years he
lived in the South, engaged in mining
and lumbering, and he still retains a
connection there as president of the
Longstreet Mining & Lumber Com-
pany. Since 1910 he has represented
in New Hampshire the well-known
firm of Stone & Webster of Boston,

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the largest builders of electrical power
plants in the world. Mr. Danforth
joined Kearsarge Lodge, I. 0. 0. F.,
of Hopkinton, at the age of 22 and has
maintained his membership ever since.
He has not sought public office here-
tofore, but has assisted potently in
promoting the candidacy and securing
the election of many other good men
who are glad of this first opportunity,
at this time, to reciprocate; and who
are especially glad to do so because

Washington, and at the law depart-
ment of Albany University, gradu-
ating from the latter in 1861. He
studied in the office of Hon. Edmund
L. Cushing of Charlestown, and with
Dearborn & Scott of Peterborough;
was admitted to the New York bar
in 1861 and to the New Hampshire
bar in May, 1864, and the following
year purchased the interest of Mr.
Dearborn in the firm, and the new
firm of Scott & Smith was established,

Ron. Ezra M. Smith

they recognize in Mr. Danfortlvs per-
sonality, experience and training,
qualities of great value for a member
of the New Hampshire State Senate.

Ezra M. Smith of Peterborough,
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation in the Eleventh State Sena-
torial District, was born in Langdon,
January 25, 1838; educated in the
public schools of that town and Al-
stead, at Cold River Union Academy
in Alstead, Tubbs Union Academy,

continuing till Mr. Scott's retirement
two years later, since when Mr. Smith
has continued alone in the successful
practice of his profession. He has
served the town of Peterborough as a
member of the school board ten years,
and twenty-five years as a member of
the board of selectmen. He was judge
of its police court from April, 1899,
till the completion of his seventieth
year, when he reached the constitu-
tional age limit. He first served in the
legislature in 1871, then in 1872, and

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was a delegate in the constitutional
convention of 1876 and 1912. He
was again a representative in 1901,
1903, 1911, and 1913. The Granite
Monthly of February-March, 1911,
says: "Mr. Smith is a good lawyer, a
clear thinker, and a logical and effect-
ive debater. He speaks frequently
but never except when he has some-
thing to say that he believes should
be said, and he never speaks without
commanding the attention of the

nation in the Fifteenth State Sena-
torial District, was born in Loudon,
August 9, 1855, and was reared upon
his father's farm and inured to manual
labor. He attended the town schools
and later the Concord High School,
from which he graduated in 1876.
Studying law with Sargent & Chase,
he was admitted to the New Hamp-
shire bar in 1879 and soon assumed
the place which he ever since has
occupied of one of its most successful

Hon. Nathaniel E. Martin

house." Mr. Smith is a member of
Peterborough Lodge, I. O. O. F., and
Union Encampment, having passed
the chairs in each, and is also a past
master of Peterborough Grange, Pa-
trons of Husbandry. He is a member
of the Congregational Church. Octo-
ber 4, 1866, he married Miss Mary S.
Fairbanks. They have a son and
daughter, Orrin F. and Etta M. Smith.

Nathaniel E. Martin of Concord,
candidate for the Democratic nomi-

members. While his practice has
covered the widest possible range the
fact that he is often referred to as
"the people's lawyer" indicates one
of his professional, as well as personal
characteristics. Always a Democrat,
Mr. Martin has been at the command
of his party whenever it called upon
him, winning or losing with equal
good grace, and making without com-
plaint the necessary - personal sacri-
fices to the public service. He has
served as chairman of the Democratic

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city committee and state committee.
In 1886 he was elected solicitor of
Merrimack County and during his
two years' term of office set an exam-
ple of law enforcement without fear
or favor that is still remembered
throughout the state. In the years
1899 and 1900 Mr. Martin was mayor
of Concord and his administration of
the affairs of the Capital City was
most creditable in every way. In
1904 he was a delegate from New

mouth, candidate for the Republican
nomination in the Twenty-fourth
State Senatorial District, is one of the
best known young Republicans in the
state and one of the hardest workers
for his party success and at the same
time for the public welfare. In two
sessions of the legislature as a mem-
ber of the lower house his vigorous
personality made him one of the most
prominent men under the dome and
his friends have no doubt that his

Edward Percy Stoddard

Hampshire to the National Demo-
cratic Convention at St. Louis. Mr.
Martin has been treasurer of the very
successful Concord Building and Loan
Association from its organization in
1887. He has been and is largely
interested in lumbering operations; is
an extensive owner of real estate and,
for recreation, takes pleasure in horses,
dogs and open air sports. He is an
Odd Fellow and Patriarch Militant.

Edward Percy Stoddard of Ports-

qualities of leadership would prove as
valuable in the upper branch. Mr.
Stoddard is a native of Portsmouth,
born January 2, 1877. He was edu-
cated at the Portsmouth High School
and Dartmouth College, and was for
some years engaged in newspaper
work. From 1903 to 1907 he served
as chief deputy United States Mar-
shal for the district of New Hamp-
shire. He is now engaged in the in-
surance business in Portsmouth. He
was an active member of the 1909-

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1910 city government of Portsmouth,
serving as a councilman at large. He
is a Congregationalist, a 32d degree
Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner,
and Knight of Pythias, and holds
membership in the Warwick, Coun-
try, Yacht and Athletic Clubs of
Portsmouth. There was no member
of the house in 1911 or in 1913 more
constant in attendance than was Mr.
Stoddard. While he took an intelli-
gent interest in all the important sub-

thickest of the fray, and there he al-
ways does himself and his constituents
credit.

Alvah H. Place, Progressive candi-
date for Senator in the Twenty-fourth
District, is a prominent druggist of
Newmarket. He was born in Straf-
ford, N. H., June 14, 1861, son of
Jonathan and Sarah (Waterhouse)
Tuttle. Alvah H. Tuttle was the
youngest in a family of seven children.

Alvah H. Place

jects of consideration at both sessions,
and they were many, his especial
charge was the bill for the construc-
tion of an armory in Portsmouth.
How he finally secured an appropria-
tion therefor, after the most strenu-
ous kind of fighting from beginning to
end of two sessions, is as interesting
a story as has been told at the state
capital of late. Personally a most
genial gentleman, with hosts of
friends, when it comes to politics the
place Mr. Stoddard prefers is the

When but four years of age he was
left motherless, and his aunt, Hannah
Tuttle Place, being without issue,
reared him as her own child. Being
Universally known by the name of
Place since early childhood, upon
attaining his majority, he had the
name made legal. Mr. Place belongs
to one of the oldest families in the
state and is a lineal descendent of
Judge John Tuttle of Dover, a man
of distinction in civil and military life
in the early colonial period. Mr.

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Place has been for many years a direc-
tor of the Newmarket National Bank;
has served his town as representative
in 1897-98, as selectman, and in
various other capacities. In the past
he has been actively identified with
the Republican party, being a mem-
ber of the Republican State committee
for over twenty years, and until the
organization of the Progressive party,
and is at present chairman of the
Rockingham County Progressive com-

mittee and a member of the Progres-
sive state committee. Socially Mr.
Place is a Knight of Pythias, and a
member of Rising Star Lodge, No. 47,
A. F. and A. M., of which he is past
master; also a member of Orphan
Council, Belknap Chapter, and St.
Paul Commandery, Knights Templar,
Dover; past district grand lecturer,
and now serving his second year as
district deputy grand master of the
First Masonic District.

WHEN

By Stewart Everett Rows

When the vase is shattered and broken, —

Yes, the little old vase of life,
Will something be left as a token

To picture the storm and the strife
That round it for years have been raging

In wild and tempestuous sway?
Will something be left worth the staging,

Will something be left for the play?
And who will perform as the actors,

And who will the audience be?
And who will solicit as factors

The love and the fond sympathy
Without which no drama's successful?

The orchestra, — they will be whom,
With music so sweet and so blessful

To banish the clouds and the gloom?
And who will dream on as the playwright,

The mystic with wonderful pen
Who tells us as plain as the daylight

The Whither, the Whence and the When?
When the vase is shattered and broken, —

Yes, this little old vase of life, —
Will something be left as a token

To picture the storm and the strife?

NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY

REV. GEORGE J. JUDKINS
Rev. George Janvrin Judkins, a prominent
Methodist clergyman, died at his home in
Bristol, July 31, 1914.

Mr. Judkins was born in Kingston, N. H.,
December 21, 1830, son of William and Anne
Judkins. He was educated at Kingston Acad-
emy, Tilton Seminary and the Wesleyan Uni-
versity at Middletown, Conn., graduating
from the latter in 1863. He was a teacher in
Kingston Academy five years, and principal of
the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at
Tilton six years. He joined the New Hamp-
shire Methodist Conference in 1868; was or-
dained a deacon in 1870 and an elder in 1872.
He was a pastor at Methuen, Mass., and New-
market, N. H., following his service at Tilton,
and served later as presiding elder of the
Claremont and Dover Districts. He was for
some time a Trustee of Tilton Seminary and
also of Wesleyan University. In 1880 he was
a member of the Methodist General Confer-
ence at Cincinnati.

For some years past he had been on the
superannuated list, with his home at Bristol,
where, August 16, 1860, he had married
Almira S. Dolloff. Two children survive, Dr.
Charles O. Judkins of Glens Falls, N. Y.,
and Anne L., wife of Dr. Leon K. Willman of
Asbury Park, N. J.

JAMES E. NICHOLS

James E. Nichols of the extensive whole-
sale grocery firm of Austin, Nichols & Com-
pany, Inc., of New York City, died on July
21, at Marienbad, Austria.

Mr. Nichols was a native of the town of
Meredith, son of Robert M. and Huldah J.
(Black) Nichols, born April 26, 1845. After
gaining a common school education he be-
came a clerk in the store of Jordan, Marsh &
Company, of Boston. Subsequently he was
made New York agent of the Sawyer and
Franklin Woolen Mills, removing to that city.
Later he was a partner in the Fogg Brothers
& Company banking house, Boston. In 1878,
with R. F. Austin and others he organized the
wholesale grocery firm of Austin, Nichols &
Company, whose business became one of the
largest in the country, Mr. Nichols devoting
his time almost wholly to the management of
the firm's affairs, though he was interested
in and a director of various banking and other
corporations.

He presented a fine library building to the
town of Centre Harbor, which bears his name.
He belonged to various clubs.

On October 16, 1878, he married Elizabeth,
daughter of Joseph G. Griggs of Springfield,
Mass.

GEORGE W. SAWYER

George W. Sawyer, a leading merchant and
prominent citizen of Franklin, died at his
home in that city July 18, 1914.

He was a native of Franklin, born October
20, 1846, son of Josiah and Nancy (Kittredge)

Sawyer. He was educated in the common
school, Franklin Academy and Tilton Semi-
nary. He was a clerk in a Boston grocery for
a time and was, later, in trade at Tilton, but
had been in business in Franklin since 1870.
In politics he was a Democrat, and was a
representative from Franklin in the legisla-
ture of 1878. He was a Mason, and a charter
member of the Knights of Pythias, Knights
of Honor, A. O. U. W. and O. U. A. M., organ-
izations of Franklin. He was also a member
of Pemigewasset Colony, U. O. P. F.

In 1869 he married Louise C. Barnes of
Tilton, who survives, with two sons, Augustus
B., and Enos K., the latter now president of
the New Hampshire State Senate.

REV. CHARLES H. DANIELS, D. D.

Rev. Charles H. Daniels, D. D., long secre-
tary of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, died at his home in
Wellesley, Mass., August 3.

Dr. Daniels was the son of William P.
Daniels of Lyme, N. H., and was born in that
town June 6, 1847, but removed, in childhood,
with his parents, to Worcester, Mass., where
he attended school, andl ater entered Amherst
College, graduating in 1870. He then pur-
sued a course in the Union Theological Semi-
nary from which he graduated in 1873. He
was six years pastor of the Congregational
Church in Montague, Mass., and subse-
quently was a pastor in Cincinnnti, Ohio, and
Portland, Me. In 1888 he became district
secretary of the American Board in New York
City, and in 1893, was called to the position
of home secretary in Boston, which he held
till 1903 when he accepted a call to a pastorate
in South Framingham, which he held till 1911,
when he retired on account of failing health,
and took up his residence in Wellesley.

In 1892 he received the degree of D. D.,
from Amherst.

Dr. Daniels was first married, on December
23, 1873, to Miss Charlena Caroline Harring-
ton of Worcester, who died in 1880 at Cin-
cinnati. One daughter of this marriage, Anna
Louisa Daniels, survives him. He was again
married, on May 28, 1884, to Mary Louise,
daughter of Hon. Charles and Mary Under-
wood of Tolland, Conn., who survives him,
as also do the two daughters born of this
marriage, Margarette and Agnes Carter
Daniels.

MISS HARRIET J. COOKE

Harriet J. Cooke, born in the town of Sand-
wich, in this state, eighty-four years ago, died
July 27, at a hospital in Stoneham, Mass.

Miss Cooke was for thirty-four years pro-
fessor of history at Cornell College, Mt. Ver-
non, Iowa, and later spent three years at the
Mildmay Mission in London, studying medi-
cal mission work. She returned to Boston in
1892, when she founded the North End Mis-
sion on Hull Street, of which she was the
superintendent for fourteen years.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER'S NOTES

As this issue of the Granite Monthly goes
to press Old Home Week in New Hampshire
is about opening, with the promise of more
earnestness and enthusiasm in the observance
of the festival than has been manifested for
several years past. In some towns the fes-
tivities extend over several days and many
interesting features are introduced. It is only
to be regretted that every town in the state
does not have an observance every year.
Nothing more thoroughly advances the wel-
fare of a town than the persistent cultivation
of the "Old Home" spirit.

The primary election occurs on Tuesday,
September 1, leaving, now, but a short time
for the preliminary campaign. While some
exciting contests are promised in some dis-
tricts there seems to be no large measure of
general interest in the outcome on the whole.
In many cases it has been difficult for either
party to get candidates into the field. Among
the more notable of the later entries were
those of Judge Calvin Page of Portsmouth for
the Democratic nomination for United States
Senator, and that of Councilor Daniel W.
Badger of the same city for Governor.

The town of Lancaster has just been cele-
brating, with fitting ceremonies, its one hun-
dred and fiftieth anniversary, in recognition
of which the next issue of the Granite
Monthly will present an illustrated article
on that town, as the leading feature of a
double number.

Wednesday, July 29, was a notable day at
the Isles of Shoals, it being the occasion of
two events of great historic interest, occur-
ring in quick succession, the scenes being in
near proximity. The first was the dedication
of the stately granite monument erected in
memory of the Rev. John Tucke, minister at
the Shoals for over forty years in the middle
of the eighteenth century, and buried there,
by his kinsman, Edward Tuck of Paris, the
exercises being under the auspices of the New
Hampshire Historical Society, to which the
monument was presented by Hon. Benjamin
A. Kimball in behalf of Mr. Tuck, the land
on which it stands also being presented to the
society by the owners of Star Island, through
Charles A. Hazlett of Portsmouth. Follow-

ing the dedication of the Tucke monument, a
bronze tablet, placed by the New Hampshire
Society of Colonial Wars, through a commit-
tee of which John C. Thome of Concord was
chairman, in honor of Capt. John Smith, who
discovered the islands three hundred years
ago, upon the restored base of the dismantled
monument erected in his memory by Rev.
Daniel Austin fifty years ago, was unveiled,
with appropriate ceremonies. Immediately
following the company repaired to the hall of
the Oceanic, where the joint exercises were
concluded, with addresses by Rev. Alfred
Gooding of Portsmouth, in behalf of the His-
torical Society, in connection with the monu-
ment dedication; and by Justin H. Smith,
governor of the Society of Colonial Wars, in
conclusion of the Smith memorial exercises.
In conclusion the Historical Society served a
banquet to all guests present, followed by
after-dinner speaking, with Hon. Wallace
Hackett of Portsmouth as toastmaster.

For nearly twenty years the Unitarians of
New England have held annual summer
meetings, or conferences, at Star Island, Isles
of Shoals, during the month of July, and it
has been through their instrumentality that
the unique and historic little stone church,
near the Oceanic House, where the meetings
are held, has been repaired and improved,
they having taken a fifty years' lease of the
same. This year the Congregationalists,
under the auspices of their New England
Congress, recently organized, of which Rev.
John L. Sewall of Worcester is the efficient
secretary, held a two weeks' conference there,
following that of the Unitarians, which was
decidedly successful for an initial affair, and
is likely to be the first in a long series of annual
gatherings of the representatives of this de-
nomination, at this delightful summer meet-
ing place.

Announcement has been made, since the
first forms of this issue of the Granite
Monthly were made up for the press, of the
withdrawal of Hon. Daniel W. Badger from
the field, as a candidate for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination, this leaving only
Councilor Noone and Senator Hutchins to
contend for the same.

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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1914

New Series, Vol. 9, Nos. 9-10

LANCASTER

One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, Celebrated August

12 and 13, 1914

By Charles Hardon

The town of Lancaster has held a
prominent place among our New
Hampshire communities for more
than a century. Favored by nature
with a fertile soil — rich intervales and
broad meadows, responding generously
to the efforts of the husbandman — it
has ranked from the first among the
best farming towns in the state.
Located in the midst of a region whose

large. More lawyers of eminence and
ability have been reared, or have prac-
tised their profession, in Lancaster
than in any other town in the State,
or in New England; and it is entirety
safe to say that no other town has
furnished a larger or more brilliant
array of men distinguished in the
public service of state and nation.
Not to mention the men of later day

View of Connecticut River on Stockwall Farm

scenic beauties are unsurpassed in
America, it has long commanded the
admiring attention of tourists and
summer visitors from all parts of the
country. Its citizenship, native and
resident, has embraced an unusual
number of men of distinction and
power in professional and public life,
exercising an influence in the affairs
of state and nation unsurpassed by
those of any other town of its size in
New Hampshire or the country at

fame, who have well maintained the
reputation of their predecessors, the
names of Richard C. Everett, Jared
W. Williams, John S. Wells, William
Heywood, Hirman A. Fletcher, Wil-
liam Burns, Jacob Benton, Benjamin
F. Whidden, Ossian Ray and William
S. Ladd, constitute a galaxy in New
Hampshire's legal firmament whose
brilliancy is unsurpassed; while the
fact that the town has furnished two
governors of the State, one United

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States Senator, besides another who
had previously long been a resident,
and still another born and reared in its
midst now representing Massachusetts
in the Senate; four members of the
National House of Representatives;
one justice of the Supreme Court of
the State, as well as the present
chief justice of the Supreme Court
of Maine — a Lancaster boy; three
presidents of the State Senate and two
speakers of the House, and a Naval
Officer of the port of Boston, not to
mention various other important of-
ficers, is sufficient indication of the

Public attention has been called,
particularly to this town of late,
because of the celebration, a few weeks
since, of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of its settlement. It
was on the 19th of April, 1764, that
David Page, of Petersham, Mass.,
who with sixty-nine others had been
granted a charter of the town on the
5th of July previous, accompanied
by Edwards Bucknam, Timothy Nash
and George Wheeler, bringing also
a stock of cattle, and other necessary
equipment for establishing a settle-
ment, arrived within the limits of

Congregatiorfal Church

prominent part performed by Lan-
caster men in public affairs. It is
proper to mention, moreover, that
Nathaniel White, one of the founders
of the express business in this country,
whose success in business was well
complemented by his charitable and
philanthropic work, was a native of
Lancaster; that George P. Rowell, the
noted New York publisher and ad-
vertising agent, was also a Lancaster
man, and Henry M. Dennison, late
legal adviser of the Mikado of Japan
and a member of the commission
negotiating the treaty of Portsmouth,
spent his youth and gained his early
education in this town.

Lancaster, and the work of develop-
ment was entered upon — a work
which has continued to the present
day; although Mr. Page had sent
up his son, David Page, Jr., and a
young man named Emmons Stock-
well who had been in his employ,
and who had previously visited the
region and become impressed with
its advantages while scouting as a
ranger, to select a location, build a
camp, and make such preparation
as was possible for the reception and
accommodation of the party. It was
not until August, following, that the
presence of a woman graced the
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bringing up his daughter, Ruth, who,
in the following year, became the
wife of Emmons Stoekwell. Sub-
sequently, Mrs. Page and the remain-
ing children joined the settlement,
another daughter, Susannah, later
marrying Edwards Bucknam; and
here it may be remarked that the
two families of Emmons Stoekwell
and Edwards Bucknam were the
life and mainstay of the settlement
in its early days, which were often
days of hardship and discouragement;
and held prominent position through
many later years, when prosperity
had found an abode in the midst.

Although there were but sixty-one
people, all told, in the settlement at
the outbreak of the Revolution, in
1775, more than twenty Lancaster
men were enrolled in the service, at
one time or another during the
struggle for independence; while in
the war of 1812, the company of
Capt. John W. Weeks (subsequently
Major 11th U. S. Infantry), embrac-
ing a large contingent of the sons of
Lancaster, rendered brilliant service
in the Niagara campaign, holding
the right of the regiment in the battle
of Chippewa, and leading the flank
movement that broke the British
column and won the victory. Again
in the Civil War, the town contrib-
uted generously to the service of the
country, some 230 men of Lancaster,
in all, being enlisted in the Union
army, Col. Edward E. Cross, the
gallant commander of the "Fighting
Fifth," who lost his life at Gettys-
burg, heading the honored list.

There were twenty-seven heads of
families in Lancaster, as shown by
the first United States Census, in
1790, their names being as follows:
Jonas Baker, Joseph Brackett, J. M.
Bradley, Phineas Brews, Titus 0.
Brown, Edwards Bucknam, Samuel
Chaney, Abijah Darby, Robert
Gotham, Jonathan Hartwell, Phineas
Hodgedon, Daniel Howe, Samuel
Johnson, William Johnson, David
Page, Moses Page, Samuel Page,
Edward Spalden, Denis Stanley,

Emens Stoekwell, John Weeks. Jere-
miah Wilcox, Elisha Wilder, Jonas
Wilder, Francis Willson, Stephen Wil-
son, John Winkley. The entire popu-
lation of the town at this time was
161, which included forty-five males
of sixteen years and upwards; an
equal number under sixteen, and
seventy-one females of all ages.

The town grew slowly, yet steadily,
in wealth and population for a cen-
tury, from 1790 to 1890, no decade
during that period failing to show a

Methodist Church

substantial increase except that from
1810 to 1820 when there was a loss, on
account of the number of men en-
gaged in the war with Great Britain,
who located elsewhere after the war
wa& over. In 1800, the number of
inhabitants had increased to 440; in
1810 to 717; in 1820 the showing was
640; in 1830 it had increased to
1,187; in 1840 to 1,316; in 1850 to
1,559; in 1860 to 2,020; in 1870 to
2,248; in 1880 to 2,723; and in 1890
to 3,367. Since then there has been
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1900 giving a population of 3,190 and
that of 1910, of 3,054. This decrease
in recent years may be attributed to
the general tendency of population
toward the larger centers, and, par-
ticularly, to the rapid industrial
development of the city of Berlin in
the same county. Nevertheless, the
town is holding its own far better
than the average of our New England
towns in which no large manufactur-
ing industries are located; this
because of its superior agricultural
advantages, and because of the attrac-
tions it offers as a residential town,

school privileges have always been
excellent, the old Lancaster Academy
furnishing superior instruction for
many years and the present high
school, in which it has practically
been merged, proving a worthy suc-
cessor.'

A large and carefully selected public
library, housed in a handsome and
well-appointed new building, donated
to the town for the purpose a few
years since by Hon. John W. Weeks,
in memory of his father, is a valuable
educational asset of the community;
while the press, always an important

Episcopal Church

which, indeed, are surpassed by few
other towns in the State. It has
always been a place of commercial
importance — a trade center for a
large surrounding region, and, al-
though some of the sessions of court
are holden at Colebrook and Berlin,
the county offices remain here, and
the larger part of the business is here
transacted. The churches, of which
there are five — Congregational, Uni-
tarian, Methodist, Episcopal and
Roman Catholic — compare favorably
with those of other places, though
services are not held at the present
time by the Unitarians; while the

educational factor wherever main-
tained, has been well represented in
Lancaster for many years. The first
paper published in town was a Whig
organ called the White Mountain
Aegis, which had but a brief existence,
but the Cods County Democrat, started
the same year — 1838 — by a company
composed of such Democratic leaders
as John W. Weeks, Jared W. Wil-
liams, John S. Wells and John H.
White, and edited by James M. Rix,
continued for many years, under the
direction of the latter, who was both
a vigorous writer and an able poli-
tician, to be a power in the com-

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munity and in the party which it
represented. The Coos Republican
started contemporaneously with the
advent of the party now bearing that
name, with one David B. Allison as
manager, soon passed into the hands
of Col. Henry O. Kent, who con-
ducted it successfully for about a
dozen years, making it one of the
strongest exponents of the principles
of the party to which he then belonged,
and an interesting purveyor of local
intelligence. As at the present time,

It may properly be remarked that
not a few men of note served as
apprentices in Lancaster newspaper
offices, among whom may be named,
Cols. Edward E. and Richard E.
Cross; Charles F. Brown, later known
at "Artemas Ward," the celebrated
humorist; and Henry W. Dennison.

The fraternal orders are extensively
represented in Lancaster. North Star
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., chartered De-
cember 18, 1797, and first located at
Northumberland, was removed to Lan-

All Saints' (Catholic) Church and Rectory

there have usually been two weekly
papers published in the town, though
there have been several changes in
name and proprietorship. The pres-
ent Cods County Democrat is not the
successor of the original paper of that
name, but rather of the Coos Republi-
can; while the Lancaster Gazette is a
successor of the Independent Gazette,
established in 1872 by George H.
Emerson, who continued the publica-
tion for a number of years, and was
succeeded by I. W. Quimby, who was
also a number of years in the business.

caster in 1800, and has long ranked
among the most honored and influ-
ential of the Masonic lodges of the
State. The centennial of the organ-
ization of this Lodge was observed
with imposing ceremonies December
27, 1897. North Star Commandery,
Knights Templar, was organized here,
November 24, 1859; North Star
Chapter, Roval Arch Masons, July
8, 1868; North Star Lodge of Per-
fection, A. A. S. R., November 27,
1894, and Olive Branch Chapter,
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properly be added that the elegant
and substantial building, occupied
by the town and the Masonic bodies,
was erected, and is owned, jointly, by
the town and the Masons.

An Odd Fellows Lodge — Coos, No.
35 — was instituted here in 1850, but
became defunct a few years later.
It was resuscitated, however, in 1874,
maintaining a precarious existence for
some time, but has since become a
flourishing organization, established
indwell-equipped quarters. A Re-
bekah Lodge — Perseverance, No. 56
— was instituted in December, 1893,
and has been prosperous from the

Relief Corps; Pilot Lodge, No. 34,
Knights of Pythias and Starr King
Uniform Rank; All Saints Court
Catholic Order of Foresters, Bradley
Council, Knights of Columbus; a
branch of the Woman's Temperance
Union, and various others, not the
least among which is the Unity Club
a prominent member of the New
Hampshire Federation of Woman's
Clubs.

On the 14th of July, 1864, Lancas-
ter celebrated the one hundredth
anniversary of its settlement, with
appropriate exercises, the weather
being especially fine and a great

Boston & Maine R. R. Station

start, as has Coos Canton, Patriarchs
Militant.

As would naturally be expected in a
community so strongly agricultural,
the order of Patrons of Husbandry is
well organized in this town. Lancas-
ter Grange, No. 48, was organized
February 12, 1875, in the midst of a
rich farming district in the east part
of the town. March 13, 1896, Mount
Prospect Grange, No. 241, was organ-
ized in the village, with a charter
membership of ninety the largest
charter list of any Grange in the
country up to that time.

Other organizations in the town
include a Grand Army Post — Col. E.
E. Cross Post, No. 16 — and Woman's

crowd of people being present. A
procession, headed by the Lancaster
Cornet Band and including various
civic organizations, officers of the
day, distinguished visitors and citizens
generally, paraded the streets under
the marshalship of Col. Henry O. Kent,
after which the formal exercises were
held at the Congregational Church.
Hon. David H. Mason, served as
President of the day, and made the
principal address, following prayer by
Rev. David Perry, a former pastor of
the Congregational church and music
by the Lancaster Glee Club, and the
reading of the town charter by Hon.
Ossian Ray. Another address was
made by Hon. Edward D. Holton of

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Milwaukee, Wis., a native of Lancas-
ter, following which adjournment was
taken for dinner served in an open
field nearby where bountifully laden
tables had been set for 2,500 people.
Following the feast, numerous toasts
were responded to by various gentle-
men, the first, to the soldiers present,
being responded to by Col. Nelson
Cross, of the 67th N. Y. Regiment.
A levee in the town hall in the even-
ing fitly terminated the festivities of
the day.

During the week opening on Sun-
day, August 9, last, in accordance with

Never's Second Regiment Band of
Concord, the singing of "Auld Lang
Syne" and the "Old Oaken Bucket,"
songs and dances from "Cinderella,"
and an Indian Dance by Camp-Fire
Girls.

On Wednesday, at nine o'clock,
there were band concerts at the Lan-
caster House and in Centennial Park,
and, commencing at ten, there was a
grand parade, made up of the various
patriotic, fraternal, civic and social
organizations of the town, with North
Star Commandery, K. T., at the head,
and Fielding Smith, chief marshal.

Maine Central R. R. Station

well-matured plans, arranged and
perfected by efficient committees, the
people of Lancaster celebrated the
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the town's settlement, the affair
being carried out with complete suc-
cess in all respects, and proving to be
by far the most important public
demonstration in the history of the
town or of Coos County. On Sunday,
the 9th, services in all the churches
were characterized by appropriate
reference to the occasion. On Tues-
day evening, 11th, the formal exer-
cises opened with a general reception
in Centennial Park, a concert by

There were four divisions in all, and
a large number of tastily arranged
and elegantly decorated floats, repre-
senting various orders, industries and
phases of life, some of historic char-
acter, were interspersed, the whole
with their gayly colored decorations,
harmonizing with those of the various
buildings, public and private all along
the streets, making up a scene of
splendor such as is seldom witnessed
in any New Hampshire town.

At noon occurred one of the impor-
tant features of the celebration it
being the unveiling and presentation
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appropriate memorial in stone and
bronze in honor of the founders of the
town. The memorial stands in Cen-
tennial Park, the land for which, by
the way, was paid for and donated to
the town through private subscrip-
tion at the time of the Centennial
celebration, fifty years ago. The
memorial consists of the bronze figure
of a double life size fox, standing
upon a boulder and gazing into a pool
below. Upon the boulder is fastened
a bronze tablet, bearing the following
inscription:

being served free to all. In the after-
noon, at two o'clock, the speaking
exercises opened, Hon. Irving W.
Drew presiding. The leading ad-
dress was given by Hon. John W.
Weeks, United States Senator from
Massachusetts, one of the town's most
distinguished natives, and is pre-
sented in full in the following pages.
Other speakers included Hon. Albert
R. Savage, Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Maine, also a native
of the town; His Excellency Gov.
Samuel D. Felker, and Hon. Edmund

Memorial Monument

"To Honor the Brave Men and
Women who Redeemed Lancaster
from the Wilderness This Memorial
is Dedicated by the Loyal Sons and
Daughters at the One Hundred and
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Found-
ing of the Town, July 6, 1763."

The presentation was made by
Miss Mary Brackett; the memorial
was unveiled by Master Emmons
Stockwell Smith, and was accepted
in behalf of the town by Ivan W.
Quimby, chairman of the board of
selectmen.

There was a basket lunch in the
Park at noon, lemonade and hot coffee

Sullivan of Berlin, chairman of the
State board of license commissioners,
another son of Lancaster, all of whom
were heard with deep interest. In
the evening there were band and or-
chestral concerts, and an old time
dance in the town hall.

The feature of Thursday was a
grand parade of decorated automo-
biles, in the forenoon, following a band
concert. In the afternoon out-of-town
guests were conveyed by automobile
to the summit of Mount Prospect
and other points of interest; while a
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were also provided. In the evening
an original spectacular play — "The
Founders" — based on the early his-
tory of the town, was successfully
presented in the town hall, making
a fitting closing feature of this notable
celebration.

Following is the full text of

Senator Weeks' Address

Those of us who were born or have lived
in Lancaster would be indifferent to the
benefits and attractions which nature has
furnished if we did not give a high value to
our surroundings and were not ready to

under such conditions. In coming back, even
briefly as I have done year after year, I have-
looked with renewed interest on the familiar
scenes of my youth surrounded by the ever-
lasting hills so that I now feel, if I have not
in the past, that I might well sing with all my
heart that old hymn which begins " My will-
ing soul would stay in such a frame as this."
The interest of this occasion will be very
largely in retrospection. We will talk with
our old friends and neighbors about the things
with which we were familiar, and we shall
revive as far as may be our interest in the
things which have been of value to this town
and community, in its historical personages,

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express our pleasure that some part of our
fives had been passed in such a community.
I very often feel that we do not appreciate
the things which are common to us in our
every-day life until we have had experiences
with which they may be compared.

As a boy, while probably I was not insen-
sible to this beautiful country, this healthful
climate, and the benefits to be derived from
such surroundings, I am sure that age and
experience have given me a keener apprecia-
tion of their value; and, having traveled
somewhat extensively and lived somewhat
permanently in three sections of the United
States, I now realize that I had failed to give
proper consideration to the advantages which
one has in being born, brought up, and living

and indeed in all those good citizens, many of
whom lie in yonder cemeteries, who have been
the makers of conditions which have been the
means of putting this town in the list of ideal
communities.

One of the failures in most such places has
been the neglect to record history, which to
those immediately in touch with events has
frequently seemed trivial, but which becomes
of value as time goes on — a value which will
increase in the centuries to come. In many
such towns the only authentic history is found
in the town and probate records and in the
inscriptions on memorials in the cemeteries.
Lancaster is fortunate in having a reasonably
complete history, prepared by three prom-
inent citizens, in which has been collected

HON. JOHN W. WEEKS
U. S. Senator from Massachusetts

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many of those things which should be pre-
served covering the first one hundred and
twenty-five years of the settlement of the
town. I remember how often I talked with
my uncle, the late James W. Weeks, who was
born on the south side of Mount Prospect
within fifty years of the first settlement and
who therefore had known personally most of
those who had been connected with the town's
affairs up to the time of his death in 1899, and
how many times I had suggested to him that
the incidents of real value which he carried
in his mind — and it was a storehouse of
interesting events in the town's history —

matters which will be at least of interest to
their descendants, if not to all of those asso-
ciated with the town, so that in the next
century some student may bring its history
down to date, having the material to assure
him that the facts he will relate are as accurate
as such historical matter can be. An histori-
cal society should be organized — I am well
aware it could not bring together a large
collection of material which would be of any
greater than local interest— yet it could
collect articles and material relating to the
earlier history, and even later period of the
town's history, which would always have a local

Coos County Court House

should be put in some permanent form.
Fortunately, during his life and while that
distinguished native son of Lancaster, Colonel
Henry O. Kent, was still active in all the
affairs of this community, as he had been
from his early youth, aided by Lancaster's
first citizen, still with us, who in official place
and in many other ways has given distinction
to his home town as well as to bring great
credit to himself, our universally beloved
Governor, Chester B. Jordan, this work was
finished, but it was necessarily incomplete
because proper records had not been pre-
served, and this should be sufficient notice to
those who now live and those who are to
follow that they should make a record of

value. If this is not done soon, such matter
will become dissipated, its value will be lost
sight of, and our descendants will have just
cause to complain that we were not sufficiently
alert in performing this trust which is a part
of the duty of the citizens of every generation.
While, as I have stated, the subjects which
you will discuss will be of the past, the real
value to be derived from the celebration of the
anniversary of the founding of a city or town
depends entirely on the spirit that goes with
it. It may properly be made a halting place
from which the past may be viewed for the
purpose of obtaining from it such lessons as
come from experience and, based on those
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drawn from them, we may set our course for
the future. Practically speaking, the past is
of no value except for the experience and
benefit it gives us as an example. It is the
future which is all important and the lessons
of the past will enable us to look forward to it
with calmness and faith, if our application of
these lessons is likely to be wise.

If this were a retrograding town, if its
history were not one in which to take pride,
if the character of its inhabitants were less
exalted than formerly, if the enterprises which
go to make up a self-sustaining community
had become extinct, then we might look to the
past with feelings of regret and look into the
future with the greatest apprehension.

out them a community may have many of
those who have superlative qualities in
some form, and yet it will not fulfill the best
in life. With these qualities, whether they
are accompanied by genius of every kind or
not, a community will be self-sustaining and a
valuable integral part of the larger field which
goes to make up a nation.

In the limited time which I have at my dis-
posal I do not intend to attempt to give a
history of the town even in the form of a
summary. Others quite likely may do so; in
any case, I am confident that the history to
which I have referred, which is available to
all, would furnish most of the material which
would naturally go into, such an address, yet

Weeks Public Library

Fortunately we find no such lesson in the past.
During its one hundred and fifty years this
town has represented those things which are
best in a New England community. It is
true that we cannot boast of its having been
the birthplace or home of great statesmen,
great poets, great musicians, or geniuses in
any particular walk in life; but, while men
and women having unusual attainments may
be valuable elements in the total which goes to
make up our composite life, they are not
essential to the material success or to the
happiness of a community. Indeed, the
qualities to be hoped for in the citizenship of
any town are those old standard virtues —
honesty, enterprise, frugality, and loyalty to
home and government and religion. With-

I can not fail to call to your attention some
of the things in which the people of this town
have been interested and some of the leading
participants in its affairs, and perhaps point
out some of the reasons why the results have
been so satisfactory to those of us who are
receiving the benefits of the foresight and
high character of our ancestors.

We should be thankful that we live in a
time which, based on such standards as we
have, produces the best results in education,
temperance, physical comfort, and all of the
other conditions which should go with making
a happy and contented people, ihat we are
endowed with the faculty of not only appre-
ciating and understanding those things of
which we have personal and physical knowl-

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edge but we may connect ourselves with the
past through history, which has more or less
truthfully brought to us the happenings of
other times. That faculty enables us to
understand the conditions under which those
who preceded us lived. We may imbibe their
spirit, understand their sufferings and trials,
and appreciate the ambitions which controlled
them and the rejoicings which came as a result
of their efforts — in a way we become their
contemporaries. Therefore, it is not difficult
for us to understand the trials and hardships
and self-sacrifices which invariably go with
the settlement of a new country surrounded,
as has generally been the case, with savage

region between the New Hampshire settle-
ments and Crown Point on the one hand and
Quebec on the other. This settlement would
have been impossible before the successful
conclusion of the French and Indian wars in
the Fifties because of the raids of the St.
Francis Indians, which tribe was practically
annihilated by Rogers and his rangers and
other similar bands of hardy frontiersmen
during these wars, and the fear of the French
who, from their vantage points at Crown
Point and Quebec, could very well claim
domination over this region. These early
sottlers undoubtedly considered the possibil-
ity of obtaining a temporary living by

Main Street, Lancaster

foes, an unbroken wilderness, failure in crops,
incompetent control of the diseases of which
all mankind are subjected and the removal
from the centers of refinement and advanced
civilization. Considering such conditions we
can easily understand the privations and
hardships endured by those who came to this
town as charter members.

The first settlement of this town does not
differ materially from similar undertakings
during the period when it was made. There
was the desire of those who had located in
sections which were not particularly adapted
to agricultural pursuits to obtain a larger
area of better land, without material cost,
urged on by the ambition of Governor Went-
worth to take possession of the indefinite

hunting and fishing, but they were in no
sense adventurers; on the contrary, they were
home-seekers, whose first desire was to obtain
the best available lands and to found a
peaceful, orderly, law-abiding, self-sustaining
community.

The first settlers were followed immediately
after the end of the Revolutionary War by
many who had taken part in that conflict,
who, with those who had preceded them,
exerted an influence on the character of the
town which has been felt down to the present
day. Let me refer briefly to these first
settlers and what they meant to the settle-
ment and its future activities.

Frequently one person, or at most a few
persons have a large influence in moulding

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the life as well as the future of a community.
This is particularly true of those who came
to Lancaster in 1764. They included David
Page, David Page, Jr., Emmons Stockwell,
Ruth Page, Edwards Bucknam, Timothy
Nash and George Wheeler. Of these Nash
and Wheeler did not become permanent resi-
dents but Nash, at least, left his imprint on
this region for he discovered the White
Mountain Notch and gave his name to that
area in the Notch known at the present day
as the Nash and Sawyer grant. David Page
did not remain continuously in Lancaster and
did not apparently take as active a part in its
life as did the young people who came with

sufficiently keen she might have heard the
morning gun fired from the French fortifica-
tion at Crown Point 01 at Quebec, resounding
over the uninhabited and unbroken wilder-
ness between Lancaster and those points.
Her memory would take her back to the
settlement at Charlestown, N r . H., the first
really permanent settlement to the south, or
she might have even imagined that she could
hear the surf beating on the rocks of the Maine
coast — one hundred miles to the East. We
can see her engaged in her daily work, visited
as she was on many occasions by savages
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him, but the other four, among the 1764
comers, became and remained for many years
the most important factors in the town's
development. The year following their com-
ing Ruth Page married Emmons Stockwell
and they had born to them fifteen children,
most of whom grew to manhood and woman-
hood in this town. Edwards Bucknam mar-
ried the same year Susannah, the second
daughter of David Page, and they had born
to them ten children, seven of whom grew to
manhood and womanhood in this town.

We may well look back to Ruth Page with
admiration if not with astonishment. How
easy it is to see in our mind's eye what must
have been her life. If her hearing had been

dependent upon her own resources and strength
of character to maintain a condition of con-
tentment and to render the assistance which
she alone could do in such a community.
And yet it is not taking anything from this
woman's accomplishments to assert that even,
judged by the test of her endurance and cour-
age, there has probably been no deterioration
in American womanhood since that time.
We see today the wives and daughters of
American settlers going to the remotest sec-
tions of Alaska or taking a residence in the
wildest and most uncivilized parts of the
Philippines, exhibiting the same courage and
same loyalty to those with whom they are
connected that Ruth Page did in her day.

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We are apt to look back to the accomplish-
ments of those who have lived before with a
feeling that they were abnormal, and yet it
is well for us to remember, and remember
with pride, that the women of today would,
if the test came, come up to the high standards
set by the American women of earlier genera-
tions.

David Page, Jr., Emmons Stockwell and
Edwards Bucknam were men of determination
and high character, and they for many years
furnished the vigorous stimulus needed to
maintain courage in the faint-hearted who
at times were disposed to give up the colony.
In this respect the town owes an everlasting
debt of gratitude to Emmons Stockwell, who,
at one time, undoubtedly prevented the

will be to all of you, that he who bore Emmons
Stockwell's name in the third generation did
not live to take part in this celebration. He
was the one connecting link in this generation
which allied his time with the period of which
we are speaking. If Emmons Stockwell,
known to all of you, named for his grand-
father and inheriting many of his sterling
characteristics, had lived a month longer we
should have had the unusual spectacle of a
grandson of the orignial settler taking part in
our celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of this town.

The descendants of those who came here
during and after the Revolutionary War,
and before 1790, were, for one hundred years
at least, important men in the affairs of the

Grammar School

collapse of the settlement. Edwards Buck-
nam was a man of a somewhat different type.
He had all the qualities necessary in building
up a new community, having a capacity to
do well nearly everything which the ordinary
citizen undertakes. He was the land sur-
veyor, the justice of the peace, the clerk, the
scribe, and performed many other functions
admirably. It will therefore be seen that
this town was not only fortunate in the
immediate work done by these young people,
but they became the parents and grandparents
of a very considerable portion of the popula-
tion of the town in the following generations,
and their descendants are still included in
considerable numbers among those who live
in this town and region.

It is a matter of great regret to me, and

town and State and even today they are here
in considerable numbers, many of them still
residents of this town. Those who came
here during that time included Stephen Wil-
son, Jonas Wilder, Isaac Darby, Dennis Stan-
ley, John Rosebrook, John Weeks, Edward
Spaulding, William Moore, Joseph Brackett,
John Mclntyre, Phineas Hodgdon, Coffin
Moore, Moses White and others. All of these
names are familiar to the present generation.
It is true that some of these families have
become extinct and one of the subjects which
we might properly consider today, if there
were time, is the passing of this old New
England stock, prolific to a degree in those
days but now rapidly degenerating as far as
reproduction is concerned. Their places,
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those connected with other nationalities than
the original settlers, some French, many of
them Irish but all here for the same purpose
that actuated the English stock which origi-
nally settled the town, that is to make for
themselves and their families permanent
homes and to become good American citizens.
No town in this community had among
the earlier Irish settlers sturdier or manlier
men — such as the Monahans, the McCartens,
the Connorys, the Sheridans, the Hartleys,
the Sullivans, and many others — who have
left large families, all of whom are admirable
citizens, constituting one of the very best ele-
ments in this region; so that whether the old
Yankee stock continues or passes, and whether

mother Weeks. While I should not go into
family history in detail, I think I may be
pardoned if I refer to John Weeks, whose
name I bear, for my ancestry and my being a
native of the town gives me a right to claim
at least an active interest in this family
gathering.

John Weeks, of the fourth generation of his
family in America, of southern New Hamp-
shire birth, a farmer by occupation and
soldier in the Revolutionary War, came to
this town in 1786 and was one of the first
settlers on the river road to Dalton. His
log cabin was built near the fine meadows
bordering on the Connecticut River, which
have been aptly referred to by the Reverend

Lancaster House

those of other lineage take its place or not, we
may, I think, look forward to the years to
come with hope and confidence that the stand-
ards of the past will be maintained, not be-
cause they were those of one race but because
they were worthy to be emulated, and all who
wish to become citizens, coming hereafter, will
be stimulated to follow the example of those
who have gone before and make for them-
selves a place which those who come later
may look back to with an equal feeling of
gratitude and pride.

Two of thoee to whom I have referred as
coming here immediately after the Revolu-
tionary War were my immediate ancestors,
John Weeks being my great-grand father and
Dennis Stanley the father of my grand-

Thomas Starr King in the "White Hills" in
the lines:

"The tasselled maize, full grain or clover,

Far o'er the level meadow grows,
And through it, like a wayward rover,
The noble river gently Hows."

He, as did the first settler David Page,
brought with him his eldest daughter, estab-
lished his home and was followed later in the
long difficult trip through the White Moun-
tain Notch by my great-grandmother who
brought her remaining children, one of them
a babe in arms. From this stock and those
related to it have come not only the Weeks
family of this town but collateral to it the
Bracketts, the Webbs, the Bells, the Spauld-
ings, the Emersons, the Mclntyres, the

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Jacobs and others who will be recognized
among the honored and good citizens who
have been connected with these families.

My grandfather settled on the south side
of Mount Prospect where were born seven
children including my father, who later set-
tled, as the older citizens present know, on
the river road on the farm which his father
had originally located and to which I have
referred. If space allowed I would like to say
much of these men to whom I am so greatly
indebted, but I think I may not be out of
place if I speak particularly of my father in
whose memory as soon as I was able — and it
was one of the greatest joys of my life — I
erected the Memorial Library with which you

a distinguished soldier in the War of 1812
and one of the four members of Congress
who have made their home in this town.
Therefore while the earlier Weekses settled
in Portsmouth, now Greenland, N. H., which
must be looked to as the cradle of our family
in this country; yet the members of my
immediate family will turn to this town as
the most cherished spot on this continent and
it is as a devoted and affectionate son that I
extend you my thanks for having this oppor-
tunity to acknowledge my debt to those mem-
bers of my family who have preceded me and
also the equal debt, in another form, which I
owe to the home of my fathers — my place of
nativity.

The Old Cross House

are familiar. There are a few now living who
knew him well, many of you as children
remember him, but very few of you can
appreciate the filial pride which I take in him
and in his modest career. We all feel that
our parents have superlative virtues but after
many years of activity in many walks of life,
associated with men of all professions, occupa-
tions, and character, I am qualified to say to
you that 1 have never known a finer character
or one whose manly, gentle, sweet life could
furnish a better example for those who were
fortunate enough to have him for an ancestor.
Four generations of the Weeks family have
lived in this town and mingled their bones
with its soil, including my great-uncle, Major
John Wingate Weeks, for whom I was named.

Systems of transportation are the arteries
which keep in operation our complex indus-
trial life. When these become impaired or
are not thoroughly constructed or equipped
the effect on the body politic is similar to the
action which hardening of the arteries has on
the human system. The correctness of this
statement could not be better illustrated
than to note the changes which have come in
the last one hundred and fifty years in local
transportation facilities and the resulting
effect they have had on the prosperity of this
section. If there are those who have not a
clear conception of the difficulties in traveling
from one locality in this part of the country
to another when it was originally settled they
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a complete demonstration. Go into the
uncut spruce forest anywhere in Coos County
and especially in those places where there is
thick undergrowth, and you will find a con-
dition which was practically uniform from
Charlestown, one hundred miles south on
the Connecticut River, to this village when
Ruth Page came here in 1764.

For many years thereafter the only roads
to Lancaster, whether the traveler came via
the Connecticut River route or by the way of
the White Mountain Notch, were blazed lines.
Most of those who came during this period
walked, though, of course, the weaker ones rode
horseback. The conditions requiring this form

member seeing one which had been used by
some of the earlier settlers. This luxury,
which might be compared with our bicycles
built for two or the motor cycle with its side
attachment, was an extension saddle, the
woman using it riding on the saddle behind
the man.

Twenty-five years after the settlement
came the early dirt or corduroy roads, rough
and difficult but enabling the use of wheeled
vehicles. At first only the two-wheel "shay"
and ox carts could be used, followed in 1822
by the first four-wheel vehicles. These had
wooden springs and we can easily imagine
the discomforts in traveling over rough roads

Summer Home of Hon. Samuel W. McCall and Geo. A. Fernald, Mt. Prospect

of transportation and the hardships attending
it are well illustrated by the trip of Phoebe
Dustin Spaulding in 17(59. She spent two
days and a night on the road from Haverhill
to Lancaster, carrying her young babe in her
arms, sleeping on the ground where night
overtook them and reaching the settlement
at Lancaster as night closed in on the second
day. Mrs. Spaulding was the mother of the
well-known Spaulding family which has fur-
nished so many excellent citizens to this com-
munity.

This rude system of transportation contin-
ued many years, the first improvement, not
in the roads, but in the equipment, being the
adoption of the pillion used during the first
hundred years of the life of the town. I re-

in a wagon constructed in that way; in fact,
wagons of this general character, though
somewhat improved as time went on, con-
tinued to be the best the community could
afford until about ninety years after the set-
tlement of the town.

My father has told me that in his younger
days he took part in the pung sleigh cavalcades
which carried the products of the farmers of
this community to Portland, a little more
than one hundred miles away, and that it
generally required five days to made the trip.
The type of sleigh used for this purpose has
disappeared, its peculiarity being that in-
stead of sitting in the front of the sleigh to
drive the horses the driver stood on an exten-
sion at the rear end.

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With the advent of vehicles with leather
and metal springs there developed a good road-
building spirit similar to that which we have
seen in recent years, because it was seen that
better roads were necessary in order to insure
the adoption and use of the most up-to-date
wagons and carriages. The later progressive
steps, like the coming of the railroad in 1870,
the changes in methods of road construction
undertaken twenty-five years ago, and the
State roads of today are familiar to most of us.

The end in improvement is not yet. One
hundred and fifty years ago it required at
least two weeks to communicate with Boston
and get a reply; for many years after the con-
struction of telegraph lines, installed in 1866,

with your family on the China Coast, getting a
reply in a comparatively few minutes.

One hundred and fifty years ago it required
at least five days to reach either the Atlantic
Coast through the Notch or the Charlestown
settlement on the Connecticut. What would
Emmons Stockwell, the pioneer, have said if
he had been told that in one hundred and fifty
years in traveling by highway one would be
able to make the trip from Number 10 to
Lancaster in the same number of hours which
it took him days to cover the same distance?
What would the good citizens of the year 1814
have said if they had been told that the as-
sessed value of the automobiles in this town
in one hundred years would be as great or

Mt. Prospect. Hon. J. W. Weeks' Summer Home from Stebbins Hill

we could make the same communication in
an hour or less, and by telephone we do it in a
few minutes. Now the wireless towers in
Washington pick up the ticking of a clock in
the Eifel tower in Paris, and the Naval Observ-
atory, by using the wireless, sends the time
to all sections of the country east of the Rock-
ies and the mariner catches the time as it is
sent broadcast, assuring him that his chronom-
eter has not changed since his journey was
undertaken and therefore his location can not
be mistaken. The airmen travel with ease
sixty miles an hour, and you may confidently
look forward to the day when you will break-
fast in Lancaster, make the trip to Boston,
complete the business which has called you
and return to your family at the usual supper
hour, or, if occasion requires, communicate

greater than the assessed valuation of all its
property at that time. What would the resi-
dents of fifty years ago have said if they had
been told they could take their breakfast at
the usual hour in Boston and reach Lancaster
in good time for supper of the same day
traveling over highways instead of by rail-
road.

What changes since the days, which those
of us in middle life recall, when those modern
jehus, Free Beede, Jim Pool, and Wat Lind-
sey drove the stages from Littleton to Lan-
caster, leaving the former town on the arrival
of the train from Boston and reaching Lan-
caster about midnight, sixteen to eighteen
hours from the Metropolis, Beede enlivening
the long trip with songs and all of them mak-
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interesting comment. How many times I

have been wakened as the stage passed my

father's house by hearing Beede's wonderful

voice which all Lancaster loved to hear — even

when they had the best talent from Boston

taking part in musical conventions — singing

that nearly forgotten song, the first lines of

which were:

"They tell me of that sunny South
They say 'tis passing fair."

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nity living within itself, which necessarily
meant restriction to home products and abso-
lute necessities and it was not until the middle
of the nineteenth century that the cost of
conveying the products to market did not
practically absorb their value.

Until the daj's of those admirable mer-
chants Royal Joslin and Richard P. Kent, no
merchant in this town was financially suc-
cessful; the reason being that there was little
actual money in circulation and that con-
ducting business necessitated barter, it being
necessary to accept the products raised by the

farmers in exchange for the goods sold to
them. These transactions could not be com-
pleted until the farm products were sold so
that necessarily the people were poor and
the difficulties of transporting to the market
at Portland frequently caused material loss
in the value of the products shipped on ac-
count of delays due to impassable roads.

As late as 1823 the Gazetteer for New
Hampshire said of the people of this region:

"They are poor and for aught that appears
to the contrary must always remain so, as
they may be deemed actual trespassers on
that part of creation destined by its author
for the residence of bears, wolves, moose and
other animals of the forest."

This exaggerated depreciation of the people
of this town and their poverty is not unlike
what we are apt to hear at this time by those
pessimists who see little good in the times in
which they live and the changing conditions
which are really improving. 1 have confi-
dence in the belief that the changes made in
the prosperity of this town due to the advent
of the stage-coach and the four-wheel vehicle
and later the railroads will be duplicated in
the great improvement to the roads resulting
from the coming of the automobile, and that
where twenty-five years ago one person came
to the White Mountain section for pleasure
purposes, in the immediate future a hundred
will come, v. ill spend their money here liber-
ally, will furnish a market for the products
of the soil and will give this region renewed
and enduring prosperity. These hills, and
the many reasons which have brought people
here for one hundred years, have not and will
not change; these attractions in the future will
be the same as in the past. The leisure class
increases from year to year and this commu-
nity will be benefited by its coming and by
the reduction in the cost of getting its
products to the market — a self-evident
proposition.

What would the writer of the criticism to
which I have referred say if he could have
lived to have seen conditions as represented in
this town today? I suppose, as has been
usually the case in the past, that many will
say we have no great industry, and that there
is not much going on. I have heard that said
by my friends for forty years but let me point
out to you what has happened in these forty
years as is evidenced by the increase in the

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surplus wealth of the town and community.
I remember as a boy that there was but one
bank in Coos County — the Lancaster Savings
Bank— and that it then had about $200,000
in deposits. The population of Coos County,
with the exception of the city of Berlin, has
not increased materially in the intervening
time, and there have not come into the county
— again excepting Berlin — industries which
would draw to it much wealth, and yet in-
stead of there being just one bank in the
county there are now a dozen banks and in-
stead of the total deposits of the county being
$200,000 the total investments in bank shares
and deposits of this town are substantially ten
times that amouut. In other words, the
writer of the criticism which appeared in the
New Hampshire Gazetteer, if he could have
lived until today, would have found a million
dollars in the Lancaster Banks for every one
hundred thousand dollars found there forty
years ago, and I am informed that the banks
of other towns in the county have as much or
more. I think this is a conclusive argument
that there has been thrift and frugality and
prosperity among the people of this town, so
that those who are apt to be influenced by the
pessimist holding up to them pictures of the
prosperity of other sections of our country
should discount these complaints and reply
that the growth in wealth and prosperity and
comforts, which has come to this town in the
last forty years, has exceeded many times over
that which came in the first one hundred years
of the town's existence and this vested wealth
has been parallel to and coincident with in-
creased facilities in transportation.

While I have said that the town has not
had many illustrious sons yet its average has
been high in all walks of life and especially
so in the case of the legal profession. The
town's first lawyer was Richard Claire Everett,
who settled here in 1793, married a daughter
of the town, and lived and died in the house at
the corner of High and Main streets, now
known as the Cross House. He was a man
of character and ability who developed a very
considerable practice, which increased rapidly
with the growth of the community. He was
the forerunner of a bar which has included
among its members men of great legal attain-
ments.

Forty years ago it had among its active at-
torneys the Hey woods; the Fletchers,; Ray,

Drew & Jordan; Hon. William Burns, Judge
William S. Ladd, Hon. Jacob Benton; Hon.
Benjamin F. Whidden, George A. Cossitt and
immediately before and after that time other
men who attained distinction in their profes-
sion. It is very unusual to find in these days
of compromise and tendency to settle suits
more than two or three lawyers of the first class
in a town of this size. There will be general
agreement that the men to whom I have re-
ferred formed one of the most unusual bars
that could be found anywhere in the United
States in such a community.

Hon. H. W. Dennison

Lancaster has furnished its quota, more
than its quota, to every war in which our
country has been engaged since the founda-
tion of the town — very few to be sure in the
great war which made us a nation because
there were not many here available for that
purpose — but if one doubts the ready response
to the call of our country's support in other
times he has but to look at the list of names on
the monument in Centennial Park where he
will find that there was scarcely one of the
older families which has not contributed of its
number to the contests in which our country
has been engaged. The records show that

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two of the seventeen males who were then
residents took part in the Revolutionary War ;
that the company which Captain John Win-
gate Weeks led into the War of 1812 included
143 men, all coming from this section, and
that when volunteers were called for in 18fil,
five per cent of the voting population had en-
listed at the close of the second day. Among
these there may have been no military genius,
but there was at least one son whose career in
the Civil War should send a thrill of pride
through every loyal native of this town. I
refer, of course, to Colonel Edward E. Cross,
the gallant commander of the Fifth New
Hampshire Regiment in the Civil War, a regi-
ment which in proportion to its numbers en-
gaged lost more men during its career than
any regiment in the northern armies. For
more than two years it was led by this intrepid
and adventuresome spirit who was always in the
fight, and in the fight until the finish. His
service warranted his expecting and hoping
for the star of a Generalship; indeed, he was
serving as a Brigadier General in command of
a brigade when killed in the wheat field at the
foot of Little Round Top in the battle of
Gettysburg where eighty-eight of our one
hundred eighty-two men of his old regiment
were killed or wounded in the evening of
the second day of that great battle. If he
had been spared to continue his career to the
end of the war he would easily have estab-
lished himself as one of the most successful
non-professional soldiers of that great conflict.
So to him and to all others who have taken
part in national contests we may this day ac-
claim our satisfaction that, when the supreme
test has required it, the sons of Lancaster have
always been ready for the sacrifice.

The character of this town and the success
of its people as well as of large numbers who
have gone to other localities is due to the
Lancaster Academy and the training which
our youth has been given within its walls.
It was elementary and it was not without
breaks and temporary failures but it is worth
noting in this day of systematic and all com-
prehensive schoolteaching that the graduates
of this school have met with unusual success
in every section of the Union, competing
with the graduates of more famous schools
and colleges. Its alumni are here in large
numbers. An association has been formed
which with other interests should work to

keep the schools of this town up to the best
standards and let us hope that the results
will be equal to those of the past.

Those who came as the first settlers to
Lancaster were firm believers that govern-
ment should be based upon morality and
religious sentiment; that the good Christian
is naturally a good citizen and, therefore,
among the first things they did was to estab-
lish a church and call to it Parson Willard
who, for many years, was the religious and
moral leader of this town. Such a man may
stamp his individuality not only on those
who are directly in contact with him but upon
the whole community. We see today, even
in a time when there are multitudinous in-
terests which take the time of men, women
and children, some men who, by their conduct
and example, are exercising a strong influence
upon those with whom they are brought in
contact. As time has gone on other churches
have been organized in the town; new divisions,
incident to creed and methods, have been
emphasized by separate places of woiship
and a long line of excellent men have filled
their pulpits. But I believe that a better
day has come in matters relating to religious
activities. There is a distinct movement
toward concentration of effort. Men still
insist on their particular faith as the one best
suited to the religious requirements of the
community, but the age of hostile criticism
and doubt because others do not agree with
them is passing away and a better day is
coming when we shall all recognize the funda-
mentals of a Christian life and modify or
entirely remove our faith in creeds and dog-
mas.

Those who first came to the town gave to it
such a substantial character that there was a
permanence and stability in the settlement
even from the building of the first log cabin,
and that general air of satisfaction and happi-
ness, cleanliness, and respectable appearance,
which the town has always had, :s maintained
with undiminished excellence down to and
including the present clay. Where will you
see better ordered streets, better maintained
houses and surroundings, more beautiful
trees, a more general air of thrift and comfort
and the plenty which is sufficient to drive
away the possibility of want than in this town?
To be sure, there are no palaces here; there is
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any of the qualities which go to make up a
New England village, but there is that
general average of completeness in all that
is necessary, which can not be excelled in any
similar community.

The town has not only done this but it has
sent into many other communities its sons
and daughters, some of whom have returned
here today to join in this celebration, hun-
dreds of whom are worthy and important
members of some other community, continuing
the habits of life which they have acquired here
and bringing to their adopted homes the best
elements of these surroundings.

Occasionally one of them has in some de-
gree excelled his fellowmen in the accumula-
tion of money, or in important position which
he may have obtained, or in some other de-
partment of life. There may be among
those who have remained, and who have
seemed to have lived a more reserved or at
least a quieter life, who may think at times
that they have not accomplished as much in
the world's affairs as they might have done
if they had gone to other fields. I want to say
to them, if there are such in this presence,
that success in life is not important position,
it is not the accumulation of money, it is not
doing important and prominent things in any
capacity, but it is doing the best you can with
the material you have at your disposal, in
whatever surroundings you may find yourself,
and those who have gone to other fields — a
distinguished example of whom has just passed
from the stage of life — the late Henry W.
Denison, for many years the adviser of the
Japanese Government in all of that Govern-
ment's foreign affairs, the last American
citizen to be retained in an important place
by that government, and all others like him
who have seemed to do more important
things than you have accomplished have
simply done the best they could and have
made the fullest use of the opportunities
which have come to them. If you have done
the same in this community; if you have
brought up your family as God-fearing loyal
citizens; if you have done your part to make
this community as good a place in which to live
as it was when you joined it or even to better
the conditions which you originally found,
then you are entitled to the same credit and
should be as happy in the consciousness of
having done as well as he who has seemed to

accomplish more in other fields. All of us
have a bit of envy in our natures but envy is
never justifiable and position in life is the
last reason why we should envy our fellow-
men.

Regard for or pride in ancestry may be an
evidence of a tendency to depend upon repu-
tation rather than upon works, but a suitable
regard for ancestors and the example which
they have set must be, I think, an incentive to
better living and doing. What sense can be
stronger than the feeling that we are worthy
of those who have preceded us and what will
cause us to perform our duties more efficiently

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than the thought that we are continuing the
excellent policies of those who have gone
before us. But the people of this community
should not be satisfied to maintain what was
done under adverse conditions, but should,
under the conditions which now exist, make
it a better place in which to live even than
they who builded could have anticipated.
Changes in methods of living and facilities
for doing are so gradual, looking from one
year to another, that we hardly appreciate
how much better we are provided for than
were even those of a few years ago.

It should give the people of Lancaster no
concern that its growth has been slow. This

HON. IRVING W. DREW
President of the Day

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condition might have been obviated perhaps
by the establishment of industries requiring
the bringing here of a class of undesirable
people. There is no satisfaction in mere
bigness; it may be the antithesis of greatness.
Such growth as has come to this town has not
changed its character which is what makes a
community great.

Very few of us who are present today will
be present to join in the two hundredth anni-
versary of the settlement of this town, but
we may hope that those who follow us, who
will conduct and take part in that celebration,
may find much that makes this a better world
in which to live and in recalling our actions
and efforts will be able to say that we lived up
to our obligations as good citizens and that
they will be able to recount many changes
similar to those which have made the imme-
diate past the most fruitful and progressive
period in the world's history. Let us hope
that they will see that we contributed to the
cause of good government and to religious
liberty and that we were insistent in promot-
ing any cause which would make better the
condition of man and his surroundings.
Then they will look back upon us with the
same feeling of gratitude and appreciation
which we feel for those who have preceded us.

This is a period of great changes in Nations
as well as smaller communities; it is a period
of experimenting in governmental and in
social problems. Much of this is the undi-
gested production of impractical minds. Some
of it will result in improving conditions, if for
no other reason because it will mean the
replacing of old worn-out methods with mod-
ern methods fitted to the special conditions
which prevail. There is no occasion for
Lancaster to become a political or social
experimental station. On the contrary it
may well abstain from changes until the
propcs?d procedure has been tested by time
and usage elsewhere. Then and only then
should you give up what has served you well
in the past. Why should you follow any
other course. You are remote from the
great activities, unaffected by the seething,
fermenting thought which is so prevalent in
all large communities. You can or should
view the great questions which are agitating
mankind dispassionately and wisely. You
have every agency necessary for the promo-
tion of health, comfort and real happiness;

you are intelligent, charitable, religious and
your history is one of happy memories and
sane performances. All nature smiles on this
town. Let us be satisfied that these condi-
tions are sound, that they should be protected,
and let us put ourselves to the task of making
this an even better place in which to live so
that in fifty years when our children celebrate
the two hundredth anniversary they may say
our fathers and mothers were worthy of those
who went before. They made the time, they
controlled the great trust, one of peace, of
prosperity, of honor, and we cannot do better
than to emulate such an example.

Speaking for myself, my affection for this
town and my old friends who have lived here
or who live here now, lessening in numbers, as
they are from year to year, has never dimin-
ished and when the time comes that I hope
in my declining days to have an opportunity
to enjoy the leisure which comes to all of us
after the activities of life and that I may have
the good fortune to spend many days in your
midst with only the desire that I can be a
good citizen with your good citizens and
enjoy these surroundings a part of the time
as you residents should do all the time.

HON. IRVING W. DREW

Irving Webster Drew, long known
as one of the most brilliant lawyers
in the State, son of Amos Webster
and Julia Esther (Lovering) Drew,
was born at Colebrook, New Hamp-
shire, January 8, 1845. He fitted for
college at Kimball Union Academy,
Meriden, and graduated at Dart-
mouth in the class of 1870. He stud-
ied law in the office of Ray & Ladd,
at Lancaster, and was admitted to
the bar in November, 1871. William
S. Ladd, having been appointed a
Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court,
Mr. Drew succeeded him as a mem-
ber of the firm, Ray & Drew. In
1873 the firm became Ray, Drew &
Heywood. In 1876, Chester B. Jor-
dan succeeded Mr. Heywood. The
firm remained Ray, Drew & Jor-
dan until 1882, when Philip Carpen-
ter became a partner of Ray, Drew,
Jordan & Carpenter. Mr. Ray was
elected to Congress in 1880 and re-
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penter in 1885. From this time this
law firm was known as Drew & Jordan
until 1893, when William P. Buckley
was taken into partnership. The
firm continued Drew, Jordan & Buck-
ley until 1901, when Merrill Shurtleff
entered the firm. The name re-
mained Drew, Jordan, Buckley &
Shurtleff until the death of Mr. Buck-
ley, January 10, 1906. The following
March George F. Morris became a
partner. Mr. Jordan retired January,
1910. For three years the firm name
was Drew, Shurtleff & Morris. In
1913, Eri C. Oakes was admitted to
the present firm of Drew, Shurtleff,
Morris & Oakes.

Mr. Drew's career as a lawyer has
been long and successful. During
forty-two years of active practice he
has devoted his best powers to the
profession which he loves and honors.
He was admitted to all the Federal
Courts in 1877. A loyal member of
the New Hampshire Bar Association,
he was elected president at its annual
meeting in 1899.

Mr. Drew has been actively inter-
ested in politics, State and National.
He was chosen delegate to the Demo-
cratic National Conventions of 1880
at Cincinnati, and 1892 and 1896 at
Chicago. But when William J. Bryan
was nominated for President on a free
silver platform, he became a Repub-
lican. He was a member of the State
Constitutional Conventions of 1902
and 1912. He was commissioned
Major of the third Regiment, New
Hampshire National Guard, in 1876
and served three years.

Mr. Drew has been much interested
in the business affairs of his town and
state. During the great contest be-
tween the Boston & Maine and Con-
cord Railroads, in 1887, he suggested
to George Van Dyke that there was
an opportunity to secure the building
of the Upper Coos Railroad. At the
organization of this railroad in 1887,
he was made a director and was
elected president in 1909. He was also
for some years a director of the Here-
ford Railroad. For many years a

trustee of the Siwooganock Guaranty
Savings Bank, Mr. Drew was made
its president in 1891. Since its organ-
ization he has been director of the
Lancaster National Bank. He has
been a trustee and the president of the
Lancaster Free Library for many
years, and always an enthusiastic
supporter of churches, schools and
other town and state institutions. He
is a' member of the New Hampshire
Historical Society, a Knight Templar
in the Masonic Order, and an Odd
Fellow.

On August 12, 1914, at the celebra-
tion of the one hundred fiftieth Anni-
versary of the founding of the town of
Lancaster, New Hampshire, Mr.
Drew, as "President of the Day,"
presided at the commemorative exer-
cises and at the ceremony of the un-
veiling of the memorial to the founder
of the town.

Mr. Drew's home since he began
the study and practice of the law has
been at Lancaster. He married No-
vember 4, 1869, Caroline Hatch Mer-
rill, daughter of Sherburne Rowell and
Sarah Blackstone (Merrill) Merrill, of
Colebrook. Of their four children, a
son, Pitt Fessenden Drew, and a
daughter, Sally (Drew) Hall, wife of
Edward Kimball Hall, survive.

HON. JOHN W. WEEKS

John W. Weeks, United States Sen-
ator from Massachusetts, who was the
leading speaker on the occasion of
Lancaster's one hundred fiftieth anni-
versary celebration, is one of the most
distinguished natives of the town be-
ing a great-grandson of that Capt.
John Weeks, a soldier of the Revolu-
tion and a descendant, in the fourth
generation, of Leonard Weeks, who
was a resident of Portsmouth in 1656,
and subsequently settled in that por-
tion of the town now Greenland, where
the family has always been prominent,
who located in Lancaster in 1786.
John W. Weeks, the eldest son of
Capt. John, became prominent in
military and public affairs. He
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1812, and was a Representative in
Congress from 1829 to 1833. The
second son, James Brackett, was a
successful farmer, taking due pride
in his occupation, exercising a gener-
ous hospitality, and rearing a large
family, of whom two sons became
leading citizens of the town and
county. These were James W. and Wil-
liam D. Weeks. The latter was a
farmer, on the old homestead, a man
of the highest character, who held the
full confidence of the people and was
called to many positions of trust and
responsibility, the last being that of

he pursued till 1885, when he became
a member of the firm of Hornblower
& Weeks, bankers and brokers, con-
tinuing till 1913. He served ten
years in the Massachusetts Naval
Brigade, the last six years as com-
mander, and also served during the
Spanish American War, in the volun-
teer Navy, as commander of the
Second Division United States Auxil-
iary Naval Force, on the Atlantic Coast.
He was an alderman of the City of
Newton, Mass., where he has his
home, from 1900 to 1902 inclusive,
and mayor of the city in 1903 and

Summer Home of Hon. John W. Weeks — Mt. Prospect

Judge of Probate for Coos County,
which he held from 1876 till his death
in 1885. He married, in 1848, Miss
Mary Helen Fowler, and they had
three children, a daughter and two
sons.

John W. Weeks, eldest son of Wil-
liam D. and Mary Helen (Fowler)
Weeks, was born in Lancaster, April
11, 1860. He was educated in the
Lancaster schools, and at the United
States Naval Academy, graduating
from the latter in 1881. He served
two years as midshipman in the Navy,
resigning in 1883 when he took up the
profession of a civil engineer. This

1904. He was elected to the National
House of Representatives in Novem-
ber, 1904, and four times successively
reelected. January 14, 1913, he was
elected by the Massachusetts Legis-
lature as United States Senator, for
six years, to succeed Winthrop Mur-
ray Crane, and has already taken
high rank in that body. He is a mem-
ber of the Committees on Banking
and Currency, Coast Defences, Con-
servation of National Resources, For-
est Preservation and the Protection
of Game, Indian Depredations, Phil-
ippines, Post Offices and Post Roads
and Public Health and National

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Quarantine. As a member of the
Banking and Currency Committee
he was active in the perfection of the
Banking and Currency Act, passed at
the present session, to which he gave
his support.

Mr. Weeks was chairman of the
Massachusetts Republican State
Convention in 1895, and a member
of the Board of Visitors to the United
States Naval Academy in 1896. He

of 1812, and the Spanish American
War, the Cincinnati and the Military
Order of Foreign Wars.

In 1885 he married Martha A.,
daughter of the late Hon. John G.
Sinclair of Bethlehem. They have
two children, Katharine Sinclair and
Charles Sinclair.

Mr. Weeks has a fine summer resi-
dence on the summit of Mount Pros-
pect in Lancaster.

Hon. Ossian Ray

has been president of the Newtonville
Trust Company, and vice-president
of the First National Bank of Boston.
He is a Unitarian in religion, and is
a member of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce, the University Club of
Boston, Army and Navy Club, Chevy
Chase Club, Metropolitan Club,
Country Club of Brookline, Exchange
Club of Boston, and the Societies of
the Sons of the Revolution, the War

HON. OSSIAN RAY
A leading citizen of Lancaster, and
one of the foremost lawyers of New
Hampshire for many years, was
Ossian Ray, a native of Hinesburg,
Vt., born December 13, 1835. He
was educated at the academies in
Irasburg and Derby, Vt., and com-
menced the study of law with Jesse
Cooper of Irasburg, but went to
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school and continued his studies, being
admitted to the bar, and commencing
general practice in 1857. He devoted
himself earnestly to his profession,
gaining many clients, and established
a successful practice.

Politically he was a Republican and
was prominent in public and political
affairs. He was solicitor for Coos
County from 1862 to 1872, and a
representative in the Legislature from
Lancaster in 1868 and 1869. He was
a delegate in the National Republican
Convention in 1872. In 1879 he was
appointed United States district at-
torney for New Hampshire, but re-
signed in December of the following
year to enter the United States House
of Representatives to which he had
been elected to fill the unexpired
term of Evarts W. Farr of Littleton,
deceased. He was reelected to the
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con-
gresses, and, upon the expiration of
the latter term, resumed his legal
practice as head of the firm of Ray,
Drew & Jordan.

In his professional work Mr. Ray
was industrious, energetic, persistent
and eminently successful. As a citi-
zen he was public spirited, broad-
minded and progressive. He read
widely, outside of professional lines,
and was thoroughly familiar with
general literature.

Mr. Ray was twice married: first
to Miss Alice A. Fling of West
Stewartstown, March 2, 1856, and
after her death, to Mrs. Sally E.
(Small) Burnside, by whom he was
survived at his death, January 28,
1892, with a son and daughter by
each marriage.

HON. ALBERT R. SAVAGE

Hon. Albert Russell Savage, of
Auburn, Me., Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of that State, who
was the second speaker on the Anni-
versary programme, giving an address
of much historical value and interest,
is the second New Hampshire man to
occupy the distinguished judicial posi-
tion he now holds, the late Chief

Justice Appleton of the same tribunal,
having been born and reared in the
town of New Ipswich.

Judge Savage, though not a native
of the town, was essentially a Lan-
caster boy, his father, Charles W.
Savage, and his mother, who was
Eliza M. Clough, being natives, and
returning to Lancaster from Ryegate,
Vt., where Albert R. was born Decem-
ber 8, 1847, in 1856. Here he at-
tended the common school, in old
District No. 7, and subsequently the
Lancaster Academy, from which he
graduated in 1867. Entering Dart-
mouth College in the autumn of the
latter year, he graduated from that
institution with the class of 1871,
among his classmates being Melvin
0. Adams of Boston, the late Alfred
T. Batchelder of Keene, ex-Speaker
Alvin Burleigh of Plymouth, ex-
United States District Attorney
Charles W. Hoitt of Nashua, the late
lamented Prof. Charles F. Richard-
son, Judge Jonathan Smith of the
Second Massachusetts District Court
and Warren Upham, scientist and
historian, Secretary and Librarian of
the Minnesota Historical Society.

Following graduation he taught at
Northwood, N. H., and Northfield,
Vt., until 1875, meanwhile pursuing
the study of law. In the latter year
he located in Auburn, Me., where he
commenced practice, and continued
with marked success. He served as
attorney for Androscoggin County
from 1881 to 1885, and as Judge of
Probate from 1885 to 1889. He was
chosen mayor of Auburn in 1889, and
reelected in 1890 and 1891. In the
latter year he was elected to the Maine
House of Representatives and again
in 1893, being chosen Speaker of the
House for that session. From 1895 to
1897 he was a member of the State
Senate, and in the latter year was
appointed an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Judicial Court; reappointed
in 1904 and again in 1911. In 1913
he was made Chief Justice, which po-
sition he now holds.

Judge Savage received the honor-

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ary degree of L.L.D. from Bates He was an ardent Republican and

College in 1897; was similarly honored participated in all political campaigns,

by Bowdoin in 1909, and by Dart- In 1870 he became interested in the

mouth, his alma mater, in 1911. Cods Republican and for a time was its

He was united in marriage, in 1871, editor. He contributed political and

with Miss Nellie H. Hale of Lunen- historical articles to the Boston Jour-

burgh, Vt., who was also a graduate of nal and Concord Monitor. He also

Lancaster Academy. Their three chil- wrote several articles for the New

dren died, respectively in 1875, 1896, Hampshire Historical Society and the

and 1911, and Mrs. Savage in 1912. Coos and Grafton Bar Association.

He had been interested in every na-
HON. CHESTER B. JORDAN tional campaign since and including
Chester Bradley Jordan, one of the campaign of 1852. In 1880 he
New Hampshire's most eminent citi- was chosen a representative from Lan-
zens, was born in Colebrook, N. H., caster, and was made Speaker of the
October 15, 1839. He was son of House, which was a very strong, capa-
Johnson Jordan, born in Plainfield, ble body of legislators. He was
N. H., April 8, 1798, and Minerva chairman of the Republican State
Buel Jordan, born in Hebron, Conn., Convention in 1882, and won great
July 19, 1801. His early life was applause by his management of the
filled Avith work and study. He at- Currier and Hale antagonists. In
tended the public school in boyhood, 1886 he was nominated for Senator in
and in 1860 he entered Colebrook the Coos District, but was defeated.
Academy. Later he attended Kim- He ran again for the Senate in 1896,
ball Union Academy at Meriden, when William J. Bryan was the candi-
where he graduated in 1866. He date of the Democratic party for
taught school many terms. In 1865-7 president, on the platform favoring
he was superintendent of schools in the free coinage of silver at the ratio
Colebrook, and in 1867 was a select- of 16 to 1, and was elected, and after-
man of that town. In 1868 he was wards chosen President of the Senate,
made clerk of the courts for Coos In 1901-2 he was elected Governor.
County and removed to Lancaster, He was given the honorary degree of
serving until 1874. He had com- L.L.D. by Dartmouth College in
menced the study of law, and con- 1901, and B.S. by the New Hamp-
tinued after leaving the clerkship, shire College the same year. He was
with Hon. William S. Ladd, and with offered a position on Governor Harri-
Ray, Drew and Heywood. He was man's staff in 1867, which he declined,
admitted to the New Hampshire bar He was a member of Governor Straw's
in November, 1875, and to practice staff in 1872. In 1883 he was made
in the United States Courts in 1881. an honorary member of the Webster
In May, 1876, he became a law part- Historical Society, and in 1884 an
ner with Ray & Drew in the firm of honorary member of the Seventh New
Ray, Drew & Jordan. In 1882 the Hampshire Veterans Association. He
firm became Ray, Drew, Jordan & was for several years vice-president of
Carpenter. In 1883 the firm became the Grafton and Coos Bar Association.
Drew, Jordan & Carpenter. Later it He was Clerk of the Upper Coos Rail-
was Drew & Jordan; then it became road from its organization until 1913.
Drew, Jordan & Buckley; then Drew, He was a member of Evening Star
Jordan, Buckley & Shurtleff. Upon Lodge of Masons at Colebrook, and of
the death of Mr. Buckley it was North Star Chapter at Lancaster,
changed to Drew, Jordan & Shurtleff, He married Ida R. Nutter, July 19,
and later it became Drew, Jordan, 1879. They had four children — Rox-
Shurtleff & Morris. Mr. Jordan re- ana Minerva, born January 19, 1882,
tired from practice January 1, 1910. Hugo, born May 26, 1884, died May 2,

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1886; Gladstone, born May 15, 1888,
and Chester Bradley, Jr., born Feb-
ruary 15, 1892.

Governor Jordan passed away at his
home in Lancaster, Monday evening,
August 24, after a long illness, in his
seventy-fifth year, mourned and hon-
ored by his fellow townsmen and the
people of New Hampshire. His death
closely followed that of another ex-
governor of the State — -John B. Smith
of Hillsboro.

HON. EDMUND SULLIVAN

Born and reared in Lancaster,
educated in its schools, familiar with
its people and institutions, commenc-
ing there the practice of his profession,
and being withal a typical representa-
tive of the sturdy and vigorous Irish-
American element which has contrib-
uted so largely to the growth and
prosperity of this and most other
flourishing New England towns, Ed-
mund Sullivan, now a lawyer of
Berlin and chairman of the New
Hampshire Board of License Com-
missioners, was appropriately assigned
a place upon the speaking programme
at the anniversary celebration and
well acquitted himself in that position.

Mr. Sullivan was born April 19,
1865, the son of Florence and Marga-
ret Sullivan, who emigrated to New
Hampshire from the South of Ireland
in 1847, and, ultimately settling in
Lancaster, loyally identified them-
selves with the interests of the town.
He was educated in the public schools
and at Lancaster Academy and, after
completing his studies in the latter
institution, entered upon the course
of study in the Law Department of
the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, graduating LL.B. in June,
1890, and being admitted to the
Michigan bar the same year. After
a short period of practice there, feeling
that New Hampshire was a good state
to return to, as well as to be born in,
Mr. Sullivan came back to his native
town, was admitted to the New
Hampshire bar, established an office
and commenced practice in 1892. His

ability was soon recognized by his
associates and the general public, and
in the following year he formed a
partnership with the late Hon. W. H.
Shurtleff, which continued for several
years.

Naturally ambitious and aggressive,
he finally sought a more active field
for the exercise of his abilities, and
his attention was attracted to the
hustling town of Berlin, then in the
full flush of that wonderful' process of
development, which has placed it in
the front rank among the rapidly
growing cities of New England. Re-
moving there in 1901, he soon entered
into partnership with Daniel J. Daley,
now mayor of that city, also a native
of Lancaster and a representative
Irish American, who had located there
back in 1884, when the place was a
mere straggling village. Both part-
ners were wide awake, both profes-
sionally and politically, and, both
being earnest Democrats, their efforts
have been rewarded not only by a full
measure of professional success, but
by a decided change in the political
status of the city, which from being
overwhelmingly Republican has come
to be substantially Democratic.

Although an active and decided
Democrat, Mr. Sullivan has never
been an office seeker, and such public
positions as he has held have come to
him without solicitation on his part.
He has been one of the auditors of
Coos County since 1898. He also
served for some time as a member of
the Berlin Police Commission, but
resigned therefrom when his strict
ideas of administration were found
out of harmony with the prevailing
tendency. He was a delegate in the
Constitutional Convention of 1912,
from Berlin, and his wide knowledge
of law and general familiarity with
the needs of the State rendered him
a valuable member of that important
body. When the death of the late
Judge John M. Mitchell left a vacancy
on the bench of the Superior Court,
Mr. Sullivan was widely mentioned
as a fit man to fill the position, and of

HON. EDMUND SULLIVAN
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his qualifications there was never
ground for doubt, whatever might
have been his action had the appoint-
ment been given him. Upon the re-
organization of the State License
Commission, with a multiplicity of
candidates for appointment thereon,
Governor Felker wisely looked for a
man to be chairman of the board
whose character, ability and strict
sense of duty, should be ample guar-
anty of strict regard for the law and
the public welfare. He finally named
Mr. Sullivan for that position, and

In 1894 he married Miss Mary F.
Kenyon of Boston, Mass., to which
union there have been born a son and
daughter — Harold and Miriam — each
of whom is now pursuing a college
course.

HON. WILLIAM S. LADD

Lancaster has had one judge of the
Supreme Court, William Spencer
Ladd, who was born in Dalton in 1830,
graduated at Dartmouth College in
1855, and settled in Lancaster in 1867.
While he was on the bench, from 1870

Hon. William S. Ladd

that he made no mistake is evidenced
by the fact that men of the opposing
party frankly admit that the law was
never before so well enforced or the
affairs of the office so well adminis-
tered.

Naturally Mr. Sullivan is a Cath-
olic in his religious affiliation, and in
his fraternal society membership he
early allied himself with the Knights
of Columbus, and also with the Elks,
of both which orders he had ever been
a staunch and active supporter, bear-
ing his full share of the burdens, but
seeking none of the honor.

to 1876, he delivered opinions which
attracted attention in this country
and in England and markedly in-
fluenced the common law of New
Hampshire. In 1876 he again opened
a law office in Lancaster, and enjoyed
a large practice throughout the State.
Dartmouth College conferred on him
the degree of LL.D. in 1887. He died
in 1891.

Mrs. Mira Ladd, his wife, who is
still living in Lancaster, was the
daughter of Hiram A. Fletcher, one
of Lancaster's well-known lawyers
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father was Jonas Wilder, and her
great-grandfather, Richard Claire
Everett. Judge Ladd's eldest son,
Fletcher Ladd, graduated at Dart-
mouth College in 1884 and, after
studying law in Germany and at the
Harvard Law School, practiced for a
time in Lancaster. In 1900 he was
appointed by President Taft judge of
the Supreme Court of the Philippines
which position he held until a few
months before his death in 1903.
Another son William Palmer Ladd
is now professor of Church history in
the Berkeley Divinity School, Middle-
town, Conn.

When seventeen years of age Mr.
Rowell went to Boston. For many
years he was connected with the
Boston Post. Later, he started an
advertising agency with Horace Dock!
as partner. In 1870 they dissolved
partnership, and Mr. Rowell went to
New York and opened an office in
the Times Building, Printing House
Square. The following is a quotation
from the New England Magazine,
commenting upon an article on Swit-
zerland published after Mr. Rowell's
death and at the suggestion of the
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, one of
Mr. Rowell's friends:

George P. Rowell

GEORGE P. ROWELL

George Presbury Rowell was born
in West Concord, Vt., in 1838. He
was the only son of Samuel and Caro-
line (Page) Rowell. When twelve
years of age his father came to Lan-
caster, and ever after this was the
home he loved to remember. All his
life he was more or less identified
with its interests, and there was sel-
dom ayear that he did not spend some
time among the dearly loved hills.

"It was with the deepest interest that we
learned that the interesting articles on Swit-
zerland, of which we are this month publish-
ing the third and last instalment, were from
the pen of the late George Presbury Rowell,
founder of Printers' Ink, Rowell's "American
Newspaper Directory," and up to the time of
of his death one of the foremost advertising
men in the country."

In 1906 he published " Forty Years
an Advertising Agent," a book of
fifty-two papers which made their
first appearance in the pages of
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with such deep interest as to create a
demand for them in a more per-
manent form.

"The book is the ripe experience of a
cultured gentleman, who had become an
expert in an important field."

"Mr. Rowell honored and dignified his
subject because he was himself an honor to
the work which he had chosen."

Mr. Rowell was twice married;
first to Miss Sarah Eastman of
Lancaster, by whom he had one
daughter who survives him. Later
he married Jennette Rigney Hallock
of New York.

George H. Emerson

He was a memter in New York of
the Union League Club, the Grolier
Club, was a Patron of the Metropol-
itan Museum of Art, and a member
of the Charity Organization Society.

For many years he was the owner
of Prospect Farm, near the village of
Lancaster, N. H. Here he remod-
elled an old farm house into an at-
tractive summer home, which, with the
unsurpassed view of the White Moun-
tain and Franconia ranges, the fine
sweep of lawn, the old-fashioned
garden, made one of the delightful
summer attractions of Lancaster.
This was a dearly loved summer home,

only rivalled in his heart by Prospect
Lodge on Christine Lake, where the
Percy Summer Club, of which he was
a member, continues to gather each
year.

This motto from Horace, which Mr.
Rowell placed in his camp, voiced his
sentiments :

"In all the world no spot there is
That wears for me a smile like this,"

Mr. Rowell died August 28, 1908.

George H.Emerson

Born in 1844, died 1898. He
founded the Lancaster Gazette in 1872,
and afterward was Register of Pro-
bate for Coos County eight years.
He was secretary and treasurer of the
New Hampshire Agricultural Asso-
ciation for many years. He was a
clerk in the Treasury Department at
Washington and an intimate friend
of the late H. W. Denison, who was
at the same time in the Custom De-
partment.

GEN. WILLIAM P. BUCKLEY

An active and popular member of
the legal fraternity in Lancaster for
a number of years, and associated in
partnership with Messrs. Drew and
Jordan, was William P. Buckley, a
native of Littleton, born February 22,
1865. He graduated from Dart-
mouth College in the class of 1887,
with Phi Beta Kappa rank, and
was also a member of the Sphinx
Society. He studied law with Bing-
ham, Mitchell & Batchellor of Little-
ton, and soon after his admission to
the bar removed to Lancaster, where
he entered into the partnership above
mentioned. . He served as judge
advocate general upon the staff of
Governor Jordan, 1901-03, and was
a member of the House of Represen-
tatives, from Lancaster, in 1903,
serving on the Committee on the
Judiciary and Liquor Laws. He was
the author of the bill, enacted during
that session, modifying the law in
relation to the penalty for murder in
the first degree, leaving the infliction

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of capital punishment in the discretion
of the jury, in which piece of progres-
sive legislation he took special pride.
His sudden death, which occurred
January 10, 1906, was deeply mourned
by his legal associates and a large
circle of friends.

General Buckley married Elizabeth
F. Drew of Dover, a popular teacher,
who survives him, with a son and
daughter.

and the State Normal School at Ran-
dolph, Vt., graduating from the latter
institution in January, 1885. He
taught for a number of years in the
towns of Vershire, Newbury and
Concord, Vt., and the high schools at
Wells River, Vt., and Woodsville,
N. H. He also taught in a summer
school for the instruction of teachers
at Wells River, two seasons, and for
four years was County Examiner of

George F. Morris

GEORGE F. MORRIS
George Franklin Morris, of the law
firm of Drew, Shurtleff, Morris &
Oakes, was born in Vershire, Vermont,
April 13, 1866, the son of Josiah S.
and Lucina C. (Merrill) Morris, and
the grandson of William M. and
Esther P. (Southworth) Morris. He
was educated in the common schools
in Corinth, Vt., Corinth Academy,

teachers for Orange County, Vt.
During vacation periods he studied
law with the firm of Smith & Sloane
at Wells River and was admitted to
the bar at Montpelier, Vt., in October,
1891. Subsequently he was admitted
to the bar in New Hampshire, and
at once began the practice of his
chosen profession at Lisbon, where
he lemained until March 19, 1906,

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when he became a member of the
law firm of Drew, Jordan, Shurtleff
& Morris at Lancaster, where he has
since resided. He represented the
town of Lisbon in the Constitutional
Convention of 1902 and in the legis-
lature of 1905. He was a member of
the Constitutional Convention from
Lancaster in 1912. For four years,
from 1899 to 1903, Mr. Morris was

ERI C. OAKES

The junior member of Lancaster's
leading law firm — Eri C. Oakes — is
a native of the town of Lisbon, born
July 12, 1883. He was educated in
the Lisbon public schools and at the
New York University Law -School,
and was admitted to the bar in Decem-
ber, 1904. He practiced his profes-
sion in Lisbon and Littleton, but

Eri C. Oakes

County Solicitor for Grafton County.
He has always been deeply interested
in schools, and served several years on
the board of education in Lisbon, and
for the past six years has served in
the same capacity in Lancaster.

May 16, 1894, he married Lula J.
Aldrich, of Lisbon, daughter of Charles
and Persis (Hall) Aldrich. They
have one son, Robert Hall Morris,
born August 21, 1907.

removed to Lancaster in 1912, be-
coming a member of the firm of Drew,
Shurtleff, Morris & Oakes. That he
will do his full part in maintaining the
reputation of this great firm is already
manifest.

Mr. Oakes held various town offices
in Lisbon, and was a delegate from
that town in the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1912. He is a member of
the Masonic order.

GEORGE VAN DYKE

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GEORGE VAN DYKE
Holding first rank among the so-
called "lumber kings" of the "north
country," and for several years before
his death, a resident of Lancaster,
there were few more prominent figures
in the community than George Van
Dyke, born in Stanbridge, P. Q., the
son of George and Abigail (Dixon)
Van Dyke, both citizens of the United
States. His school privileges were
very limited, but he possessed the
physical and intellectual strength
which pushed him into the broadest
and most active field of business life.
At the age of fourteen he commenced
work in the lumber forests on the
Androscoggin River. By his intelli-
gence and force of character he made
himself so valuable to Adams Twitchell
that he was advanced in his work,
materially, the first winter. He fully
believed in the ultimate increased
value of spruce timber. He bought
some timberland with his first money,
and was a persistent purchaser of
timber lands thereafter. In the early
seventies he became a manufacturer
of spruce, which he continued until
his decease August 8, 1909.

He owned about 80,000 acres of
timber land in 1886. He cut logs and
manufactured them at Mclndoes
Falls, Vermont. He managed the
Connecticut River Lumber Company
two years, at the same time running
his own business. Then the Connec-
ticut River Lumber Company bought
all of Mr. Van Dyke's timber lands
and mills and he took a substantial
interest in the Company and became
General Manager, in which he con-
tinued until 1897. Then Mr. Van
Dyke bought all the property in
timber lands, mills and personal
property owned by the Connecticut
River Lumber Company and all of
the property of the Connecticut
River Manufacturing Company. He
then organized the Connecticut Val-
ley Lumber Company, which took
title to all the property so purchased.
Mr. Van Dyke owned nearly all the
stock in this company. His mill was

at Mount Tom, Mass. He cut from
forty to eighty million feet per year
and manufactured it at the Mount
Tom mill. The company owned
about 300,000 acres of land when Mr.
Van Dyke died. He also owned
several thousand acres in his own
right.

He was largely interested in every-
thing of importance affecting the
business interests of the community.
He was very prominent in the con-
struction of the Upper Coos Railroad,
and the Hereford Railroad, and was
the chief factor in establishing
the Colebrook National Bank and
the Colebrook Savings Bank. He
was president of the Colebrook Na-
tional Bank and of the Upper Coos
Railroad until his decease. He main-
tained business relations with nearly
every man in the northern section of
New Hampshire and northeastern
Vermont. He was wise in judgment
and brave in action, and took a broad
view of all questions of business and
moral interests. He was always
ready to aid those who needed assist-
ance was faithful in his friendships,
and sturdy in his defense of his
friends and the principles of his faith.
He was a Democrat until the "sixteen
to one" and other ideas, which he
regarded as dangerous fallacies were
adopted by the Democratic Party in
1896. From that time till his death
he was actively a Republican.

He was killed at Turners Falls,
August 8, 1909, when his automobile
carried him over the bluff.

THE UNITY CLUB

The leading woman's organiza-
tion in Lancaster, one ranking with
the most efficient of its class in the
state, and which came into special
prominence in connection with the
recent anniversary, is the Unity Club,
which was organized March 28, 1904,
and federated in May, 1908. There
were twenty-eight charter members,
and the membership has steadily
increased until now there are one
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one associate and five honorary mem-
bers.

The purpose of the club is to pro-

money has been set aside for a memo-
rial fund, until this year, with the
assistance of friends who have gener-
ously aided in completing this fund,
the club presented to the town, at
the celebration of the one hundred
fiftieth anniversary of its settlement,
a bronze fox (twice life size) on a
granite boulder with a bronze tablet
suitably inscribed to the founders.
The bronze was the work of the cele-
brated artist Miss Anna Hyatt of
New York.

Mrs. Ida W. Jordan, wife of Ex-
Governor Jordan was the first presi-
dent, followed by Mrs. Elizabeth D.
Buckley, Mrs. Nellie B. Morse, Mrs.
Emma' W. Roberts, Mrs. Sallie G.
Holton, Mrs. Lulu J. A. Morris, Mrs.
Etta S. Carpenter, Mrs. Hattie W. L.
Spaulding and Mrs. Mary L. P. Bass,
who now fills the office.

Mrs. George F. Morris

Lula J. (Aldrich) Morris, wife of
George F. Morris, was born in Lisbon,

Mrs. Mary L. P. Bass

President Unity Club

mote the intellectual, physical and
social well-being of its members and
of the community. One of its first
activities was to inaugurate an "Old
Home Day" celebration, and for sev-
eral years the town has raised a sum
of money which it has turned over to
the club to defray the expenses of an
annual observance of Old Home Day.
The club has also established the
custom of sending baskets of fruit and
flowers to the "Shut-ins" of the town
at Easter. Last year a successful and
satisfactory lecture course was man-
aged by the club. An annual
clean-up day, and a municipal Christ-
mas tree are also club affairs. Lec-
tures, Shakespeare afternoons, chil-
dren's days, musicales and guest
nights are annual events welcomed
by many guests of the Club.

From the first observance of Old
Home Day grew the idea of a memo-
rial to the founders of the town of
Lancaster, and each year a sum of

Mrs. George F. Morris

N. H., August 4, 1872, and always
resided in that town except for a
year's absence in Creston, Iowa, until

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she removed to Lancaster. She grad-
uated from the Lisbon High School
in May, 1891. For six years follow-
ing she worked as assistant postmis-
tress in the Lisbon post-office.

Mrs. Morris has always interested
herself in the social life and events of
the towns where she has resided, and
is widely known among club women
all over the state. She has served as
as president of Friends in Council in
Lisbon, and of the Unity Club in
Lancaster, and is at the present time
treasurer of the New Hampshire
State Federation of Women's Clubs.
She served as Worthy Matron of
Lafayette Chapter No. 17, O. E. S.
in Lisbon and was subsequently, in
1909, elected Grand Matron of the
O. E. S. of New Hampshire. For
seven years, from 1899 to 1906, she
worked in the office of her husband,
during which time she made a study
of law, and while she never applied for
admission to the bar, her knowledge of
law and familiarity with court pro-
cedure made her a valuable helpmeet
in her husband's office.

PROF. WILLIS O. SMITH

Willis Orange Smith, the honored
Principal of Lancaster Academy, has
just completed his fifteenth year of
continous service as head of that in-
stitution. He was born at Ypsilanti,
Mich., but his parents soon after
removed to Manchester, Vt., where
his boyhood days were spent and
early education acquired. He gradu-
ated with honor at St. Johnsbury
Academy, class of '87, and at Dart-
mouth, class of '91.

Principal Smith considers himself
a loyal son of New Hampshire, for
his life-work thus far has been spent
in this State — seven years as Principal
of the Winchester High School and
fifteen in Lancaster, which is probably
about the record length of service in
the State. He has always been
prominently active in the educational
advancement of the State; has been
president of the State Teacher's

Association, member of the Educa-
tional Council, and member of numer-
ous committees for revising and pre-
paring new curricula, which are
now in use throughout the State. Un-
der his direction Lancaster Academy
has grown from a school of forty
pupils and two teachers to a school of
nearly one hundred and seventy-five
pupils and a faculty of seven teachers.
The school is approved by both the
State and the New England College

Prof. Willis O. Smith

Principal of Lancaster Academy

Certification Boards, and has about
fifty tuition pupils from the various
towns surrounding Lancaster. The
school has lately occupied a new $65,-
000 building which is the pride of
the North Country. Here splendid
courses in Academic, English, Scienti-
fic, Commercial and Domestic Arts
are given and Mr. Smith hopes soon to
be able to add an agricultural course
to those already established. He is
a member of the Congregational
Church of Pawlet, Vt., and also holds
various offices in the Masonic bodies
of Lancaster.

HON. JOHN T. AMEV

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HON. JOHN T. AMEY
A citizen of Lancaster for nearly
a quarter of a century, taking up his
residence here in 1890, John T. Amey
has been an active figure in the busi-
ness life of the town and county for
many years. He was born in Pitts-
burgh, N. H., October 16, 1858, the
second son of John T. Amey, a native
of Randolph, Vt., who settled in Pitts-
burgh in early manhood and became
a leading citizen of the town. He
attended the common school and at
the age of eighteen entered the em-

has always taken a deep interest in
public affairs. He was a representa-
tive in the State Legislature in 1889;
sheriff of Coos County from 1893 to
1895, and postmaster at Lancaster
under the second administration of
President Cleveland. He served effi-
ciently as chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Committee from 1893 to
1903. When the law creating a State
Board of Tax Commissioners was
passed, Mr. Amey was appointed as
the minority member, his intimate
knowledge of the lumber country and

Residence of Hon. John T. Amey

ploy of the Hilliards, a prominent
lumber firm, remaining three years,
then going to Charles Weeks, another
lumber operator, and subsequently to
the Connecticut River Lumber Com-
pany. He became an expert in tim-
ber values, and for some years before
the death of the late George Van
Dyke he was the trusted agent of the
latter, having personal charge of all
his holdings and those of the Connec-
ticut River Lumber Company, of
which Mr. Van Dyke was president.
A life-long Democrat, Mr. Amey

of lumber values being regarded a
special qualification for service on the
board. In March of last year he was
reappointed for a six- year term.

He is an active member of the
Masonic order, belonging to North
Star Lodge, Chapter and Command-
ery, and to Mt. Sinai Temple of the
Mystic Shrine, of Montpelier, Vt.

Mr. Amey has been twice married:
first to Miss Emeline Huggins of Pitts-
burgh, who died, leaving a son and
two daughters; and later, to Miss
Elsie Dolloff, now also deceased.

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ALL SAINTS' CHURCH

The first Catholic to settle in the
town of Lancaster was Thomas Con-
nary, who came from Ireland in 1833.
He was followed by his mother, one
sister and three brothers, in 1837.

The first Mass was celebrated by
Father Drolet in the house of John
Connarv, on the Jefferson road, in
1844. Fathers Daley and O'Reilly

afterward he bought land for a ceme-
tery which was dedicated by Bishop
Bacon on the occasion of his first pas-
toral visit, in 1869.

Father Noiseux was succeeded, in
1876, by Rev. M. P. Dauner, who
built the present church, Bishop
Healey dedicating it the ensuing year.
Rev. J. A. McKenna succeeded Father
Dauner, in 1880, remaining but one

Rev. D. Alexander Sullivan

Pastor All Saints' Church

followed in succession, saying Mass
about once a year until the appoint-
ment of Rev. John Brady to the
charge of the Connecticut valley
missions.

In October, 1857, Rev. Isidore Nois-
eux was sent by Bishop Bacon of
Portland, Me., as the first resident
pastor of Lancaster, and, two years
later, built a chapel in connection
with the pastoral residence. Shortly

year. In 1881, Rev. H. A. Lessard
took charge of the parish. It was
during the pastorate of Father Les-
sard that the present pastoral resi-
dence was built. Rev. M. A. B.
Creamer replaced Father Lessard in
1885, remaining until 1898. In 1890
the pastoral residence was remodelled
and in 1893 the church was enlarged
and decorated.

Rev. D. Alex. Sullivan, the present

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rector, is, in point of service locally,
the oldest clergyman in town. He
settled herein 1898, succeeding Father
Creamer, and Protestant and Catho-
lic alike trust he may remain many
more years, not alone because of his
pulpit oratory, but because of their
appreciation of Father Sullivan as a
man and of his helpful influence. He
ministers to the largest congregation
in town.

of land, in all, three hundred acres of
which is in grass and tillage, and the
balance in forest and pasture. He is
largely engaged in milk production,
with thirty-eight cows in milk, and
is sending fifteen dollars worth of
milk per day to the Boston market.
He raises 2,500 bushels of grain, 1,500
bushels of potatoes, and cuts three
hundred and fifty tons of hay annu-
ally. He has fifteen horses on the

William M. Brown

WILLIAM M. BROWN

As has been said, Lancaster has
always been regarded as a first-class
agricultural town. It has many good
farms and good farmers; but it may
be safe to say that William M. Brown
is reputed to own the best farm and
to be the best farmer in Coos County,
to say nothing of the rest of New
Hampshire.

Mr. Brown has nine hundred acres

place and does all his farm work with
them except mowing away his hay and
milking his cows, the last being done
by means of a gasoline engine. His
mowing machines have seven foot
cutter bars; while improved manure-
spreaders, hay-tedders, planting and
sowing machines, and every conceiv-
able device for up-to-date farm work
fill his out-buildings, and all modern
conveniences adorn his home.

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Wm. M. Brown Place

Mr. Brown is a Republican in poli-
tics and liberal in religion. He was
one of the representatives from Lan-
caster in the legislature of 1911-12.
He is a native of the town of Cole-
brook, and has two brothers — Rev. I.
C. Brown, pastor of the Methodist
Church in Franklin, and Dr. E. F.
BroAvn of Groveton.

FRANK W. SPAULDING HOUSE
In a quiet corner of one of Lancas-
ter's pretty streets lives a descendant
of one of the town's most famous
settlers. The house, of Queen Anne
style, standing back from the road, is

sheltered by a growth of firs, and
surmounted by a tower from which a
fine view of the mountains is obtained.
The occupant is Frank W. Spaulding,
a respected citizen, and the ancestor
mentioned is none other than the
celebrated Phebe Dustin, who made
the famous journey of one hundred
fifty miles, from Haverhill, Mass., to
Lancaster, on foot and alone, with a
young babe in her arms.

This was in the spring of 1769.
Phebe, who is described as a small,
pretty woman with brown hair and
hazel eyes, had a copper tea-kettle
that her mother had brought from
England. This she carried, with her
baby Edward, on her long and arduous
journey to meet her husband who had
preceded her. Her only guide through
the wilderness was the spotted trees.
Near nightfall she came to Streeter's
Pond which she must ford. She
decided to wait until morning and
spent the night in the woods. The
baby's cradle was the twisted trunk
of an old hemlock. The teakettle was
placed in a hole in the ground and
covered carefully, that the Indians
might not find it if they happened
along. Another day's journey
brought her, chilled and exhausted,
to the few log houses that then com-

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prised the town of Lancaster. Her
husband was indeed surprised to see
her. He had delayed going back to
Haverhill that he might put up a rude
log house, so Phebe found a home
awaiting her. She lived to be nearly
ninety and saw thrifty farms and com-
fortable houses where the log huts had
stood. Her husband was Daniel
Spaulding and from their son, Ed-
ward, Frank W. Spaulding, above
named, is descended.

William Cummings Spaulding

Among the older substantial citi-
zens of the town of Lancaster is
William Cummings Spaulding, a

born June 7, 1867. He was educated
in the Lancaster schools and at the
Eastman Business College, Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. After completing his
studies he established a wholesale
business in flour and grain in Lan-
caster, which he long conducted with
success. He served the town as a
selectman, and as a member of the
Board of Education, and was elected
to the House of Representatives in
the legislature of 1909, serving on the
Committee on Appropriations.

He was prominent in the Masonic-
order, a Methodist in religion and a
Progressive in politics, and was
strongly interested in ornithology.

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William Cummings Spaulding

farmer by occupation, who was born at
East Lancaster, July 11, 1836, the son
of William Dustin Spaulding and a
descendant of the famous Hannah
Dustin. He is a Unitarian in religious
affiliation and has served the town as
road agent and supervisor.

Fred B. Spaulding

Fred Benjamin Spaulding, son of
William Cummings Spaulding, was

Fred B. Spaulding

He married, June 7, 1892, Hattie N.
L. Conner of Lancaster. He died
October 22, 1913.

Dr. Ezra Mitchell

Among the many able members of
the medical profession who have prac-
ticed in Lancaster, Dr. Ezra Mitchell
was one of the most prominent. He
was a native of Minot, Me., born
November 12, 1841, a son of Ezra and

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Mary (Perry) Mitchell, and a de-
scendant in the eighth generation of
Experience Mitchell who settled in
Plymouth, Mass., in 1623.

He graduated from the Maine State
Seminary (now Bates College) in Lew-

married Miss Abbie E. Potter in De-
cember of that year, and located in
practice in Lancaster, where he was
eminently successful. Himself sub-
ject to a pulmonary affection, he
naturally took special interest in dis-

Dr. Ezra Mitchell

iston, and entered Harvard Medical
School, but left on the breaking out of
the Civil War and enlisted in the
Eighth Maine Volunteers, but was
soon appointed a medical cadet in the
United States Army and served
through the war. He graduated from
Dartmouth Medical College in 1867,

ease of the lungs, and was among the
earliest and most active in prosecut-
ing the campaign against tuberculosis
in this State. He served in the State
Legislature from Lancaster in 1903
and 1905, and was the leading spirit
in securing legislation for the estab-
lishment of the State sanitarium. He

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was also chairman of the commission
which located and built the same.

Dr. Mitchell was an Episcopalian
in religion and was junior warden of
St. Paul's Church of Lancaster, and a
member of the Masonic order. He
belonged to the county, state and na-
tional medical societies, was president
of the Lancaster Savings Bank and
vice-president of the Lancaster Trust
Company.

He died, April 2, 1909, leaving one
son, Ernest H.

the end of time was at hand. The
frame was raised July 26. All of the
work was done by hand, the boards
were planed with hand tools, and the
nails wrought on a blacksmith anvil.
In 1810, Timothy Holton of Elling-
ton, Conn., great-grandfather of the
present owner, purchased the prop-
erty of Artemas Wilder, son of Maj.
Jonas Wilder, and passed it over to
his son, Joseph and wife Mary (Fiske)
Holton, who reared a large family.
The youngest son Horace Fisk Hol-

Holton House

THE HOLTON HOME

It is rarely in this country that we
find a place where the fifth generation
of a family are living under the same
roof that has sheltered their ancestors.
Such, however, is the case at the
homestead of Frederick Holton, his
two sons Horace and Lucius being
the fifth generation of the Holton
family to occupy the present house.

The house was built by Maj. Jonas
Wilder in 1780, and excavating for
the cellar was begun on the noted
dark day, May 19, when the darkness
was so great that the men were com-
pelled to quit work, thinking no doubt

ton decided to cast his lot here and
so passed the entire seventy-six years
of his life in the home of his birth,
honored and respected by all.

The house is situated at the head
of Main Street and is surrounded by
stately elms, on account of which the
name "Elmwood" is appropriate. It
bears the distinction of being the
oldest two-story house in Coos
County. The first religious meetings
in the town were held here; it was
also the first tavern of the town.

The first house built in town was
erected on the plainlands, back of
Elmwood, by David Page and Em-

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mons Stockwell. It was built of logs,
and remained for many years, as a
link connecting the past and present.
While the original site is clearly
marked, every vestige of the building
has been removed.

Mr. Holton, the owner of the prop-
erty, is one of the Company and the
active partner in the F. B. Spaulding
Company, dealers in flour and grain,
a business established, and success-
fully conducted for many years, by
the late F. B. Spaulding.

A cordial welcome and glad atten-
tion to their friends are always assured

now populous hill, having been built
about ninety years ago. In 1861 it
was occupied by Fielding Smith, the
father of the present owner. At that
time Mr. Smith's farm comprised the
larger part of Baker Hill. In 1912
the present occupant acquired the
property, remodelling it into a modern
dwelling. The original fireplace of
generous dimensions, with its brick
ovens, was preserved in the remodel-
ling. Mr. Smith is an artist in con-
struction and design, as is abundantly
evidenced by his residence and other
work in Lancaster.

Residence of John H. Smith

by Mr. Holton, as far as his busy life
permits, and by his wife, who before
her marriage was Sally K. Gibson, of
Evansville, Ind., and who takes a
prominent part in the social activities
of the town. It is a pleasure to note
that the family as a whole are united
with a keen interest in all that per-
tains to the farm and maintenance of
the home of their ancestors in the
Holton name.

Residence of John H. Smith

The residence of John H. Smith, on
Baker Hill, enjoys the distinction of
being one of Lancaster's oldest houses.
It was the first house erected on the

SMITH HOSPITAL

The Smith Hospital, located on
Main Street, is primarily a surgical
hospital. It was built in 1913 by Dr.
Homer B. Smith and is maintained
by him. Although it is a private
institution, it is open to all physicians
and their patients.

The second floor of the building is
devoted entirely to the care of
patients. There is a waiting room in
front, private and double rooms for
patients, and a spacious solarium on
the south side. In the rear are the
operating and sterilizing rooms, and
the clinical and pathological labora-
tory. The first floor of the building

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Smith Hospital

contains the hospital office, waiting
room, living apartments, the hospital
kitchen, and, in the rear, the nurses'
dormitory, dining-rooms, etc. The
basement is devoted to the boiler
room, an electrically equipped laun-
dry, drying rooms,, store-rooms, and
shop.

The equipment throughout is the
most modern. The hospital is sur-
rounded by spacious grounds and
gardens. The hospital does not main-
tain a training school, employing only
graduate nurses.

William L. Rowell

William L. Rowell is a native of the
town of Gorham, born October 31,
1833. At the age of ten years he
removed with his parents to Lancas-
ter where he lived on a farm till 1849.
He then went to work at the carponter
trade and followed the same until
1855, after which, for many years, he
was engaged in settling estates and
other business. In 1905 he became
collector for the law firm of Drew &
Jordan.

Mr. Rowell is of Revolutionary
ancestry. He enlisted as a private
in Company A, 17th N. H. Regiment,

in the Civil War, and was immediately
appointed Sergeant. He is a member
of Col. E. E. Cross Post, G. A. R,, and
also a member of the Masonic order
and of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Lancaster. He is inter-

■sSl

W. L. Rowell

Sergeant Co. A., 17th N. H. V.

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ested in everything that promotes
the welfare of the community, and
had much to do with the work of
bringing Centennial Park into its
present beautiful condition.

In 1856 Mr. Rowell married Martha
A. L. Le Gro of Jefferson. His son,
Amos Fremont, died in 1863. An-
other son, William L. Jr., resides in
Boston, Mass., and a third, David
Eugene, is Register of Deeds for the
County of Coos, and lives in Lan-
caster.

Hon. William Burns, also a prominent
Democratic lawyer, several times can-
didate for Congress, and the son of
Dr. Robert Burns of Plymouth, who
was himself a member of Congress
from 1833 to 1837. In 1853, Mr.
Burns sold the place to the late John
H. Hopkinson, a successful farmer,
influential citizen and leading Dem-
ocrat of the town, who made it his
home, and here the present owner, —
Isaac W. Hopkinson, was born in
1857.

The Hopkinson House

THE HOPKINSON HOUSE

One of the most notable houses in
the village of Lancaster is the Hop-
kinson House, so-called, although
built by the late Hon. John S. Wells,
a noted lawyer and former resident,
who subsequently removed to Exeter,
served from November, 1853, to July,
1855, in the United States Senate, and
was at one time the Democratic
nominee for governor.

The house, which is built of granite,
cut from an immense boulder in Jeffer-
son, with an inner wall of brick, with
an air-space, making it warm in win-
ter and cool in summer, was pur-
chased from Mr. Wells by" the late

Although built more than three-
quarters of a century ago, the interior
of the house is a marvel of beauty
and convenience. A winding stair-
way rises from the spacious front hall,
the standards of the baluster being
alternately of iron. The interior of
the house is panelled throughout, and,
of course, at that day, planed entirely
by hand.

In front and adjacent to the house
is a large and beautiful meadow, com-
prising part of an eighty-acre farm,
all under superior cultivation.

Being the only stone house in the
village, this residence has long com-
manded the attention of visitors.

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THE STOCKWELL FARM

One of the most beautiful towns in
northern New Hampshire is Lancas-
ter, and the Stockwell farm, the home
of one of its first settlers, is among the
most delightful places in the town.
Situated about a mile and a half from
the village proper, it contains some
four hundred acres of the best farm
and timber land in this region. From
the broad piazza of the house one
looks down a long avenue, bordered
with elms, to the Pilot range, and a

his daughter, Ruth, the first white
woman to set foot in the new town-
ship. She was only eighteen years
old. On the journey the party
camped several times among the
Indians on the banks of the Connec-
ticut. On one occasion Ruth, who is
reported to have possessed a beautiful
soprano voice, sang the first six
verses of the 137th Psalm. Within a
year after her arrival Ruth Page and
Emmons Stockwell rode to Walpole,
and were married, there being no mag-

Stockwell Home. Built in 1786

little farther to the right there is a
fine view of the Presidential range.

Returning from the siege of Quebec,
Rogers' Rangers passed down the
Connecticut River, and among this
famous band were two men, David
Page, Jr., and Emmons Stockwell. To
David Page, St., in 1763, was given a
grant covering the broad acres of
meadowland known as Lancaster.
Here the first Emmons Stockwell
planted his home, and erected, some
years after, the first frame house in the
place. With David Page, St., came

istrate in Lancaster. They proved
themselves well mated. Mr. Stock-
well was a man of iron constitution
weighing two hundred and forty
pounds. He was insensible to fear.
His wife was an unfailing source of
inspiration to all the people. She
taught the children to read and write,
and comforted the sick, and down-
hearted. Her courage never failed.
Often when her husband was away,
she would have calls from the Indians,
demanding food and a chance to warm
themselves at her fire. Her treat-

EMMONS D. STOCKWELL

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ment of them was always kind, but
firm, showing no sign of fear. Mr.
Stockwell carried on quite a trade with
the Indians, accumulating a consid-
erable stock of furs which he traded
for supplies. His control of the
savages was wonderful; the tap of his
foot on the floor would quiet them
in their most noisy moods.

Mr. and Mrs. Stockwell raised a
family of fifteen children, and when
the eldest was twenty-one years old,
there had been no death in the family.
Their ninth child, Emmons, remained
on the home farm; he married Elzada
Bishop. They had four children.
Their oldest son was one of the " forty-
niners," rounding Cape Horn. The
two daughters married well and left
the home.

Emmons Dwight Stockwell, whose
portrait is herewith presented, re-
mained on the old farm. Educated in
the Lancaster schools, he became a
public-spirited citizen and successful
farmer. He died July 18, 1914.

With his death the farm passed from
the Stockwell name but not from the
family. The present owner, Col.
Charles H. Greenleaf of the Vendome
and Profile House, of Boston, spent
many happy vacations on the farm.
His grandmother was a sister of Ruth
Page. During Mr. Stockwell's fail-
ing years, Colonel Greenleaf was a
source of great help and comfort to
him.

MOSES A. HASTINGS
Moses A. Hastings was born in
Bethel, Me., December 31, 1848. He
remained in his native town where he
received his education and fitted for
college at the famous Gould's Acad-
emy. He commenced reading law
at the age of sixteen, in the office of
the Hon. David Hammonds and con-
tinued two and one half years, when
he entered the Albany (N. Y.) Law
School. He was admitted to the bar
of Oxford County, Me., at the age of
nineteen, and also to the Coos
County bar of New Hampshire, and

entered into partnership with A. S.
Twitchell at Gorham, which partner-
ship continued for four years. For
two years he practiced alone, when
he was appointed clerk of courts for
Coos County and removed to Lan-
caster, where he still holds this posi-
tion. It is forty years since his
appointment, which makes him the
longest in service of any clerk in the
State.

He was captain of Company F,

M. A. Hastings

of the Third Regiment, New Hamp-
shire National Guard; also eminent
commander of the North Star Com-
mandery and a member of the Board
of Trustees of North Star Corporation.
He is a member of Mt. Sinai Temple
and E. A. Raymond Consistory. Mr.
Hastings has served on the school
board of his adopted town. In poli-
tics he is a Democrat.

He married, in 1884, Annie F.,
daughter of the late Rev. D. W. Poor
of Philadelphia. He has one son,
Warren, who is engaged in mining
engineering.

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LORING B. PORTER
Loring B. Porter is one of the oldest
residents of the town, whose, home

Loring B. Porter

stands on the site of the old home-
stead where he was born. His old-
fashioned garden is one of the at-
tractions of beautiful Main Street.
His father, Warren Porter, came
to the town in 1809, at the age of
seventeen, when Lancaster boasted of
only two painted houses and there
were scarcely one hundred inhabi-
tants, and became the village black-
smith and maker of edged tools. His
swinging sign of a broad axe in front
of his shop was one of the familiar
landmarks of the place. In those
days a blacksmith must be a skilled
worker in iron, so his two forges were
kept busy making nails, axes, hoes,
etc., for the country as far north as the
Canadian line, and many a fireplace
held andirons made by his hand, the
old shop being a busy place with its
two forges and apprentices who often
worked far into the night. ^he old

door with its mail and passengers on
the way to Portland, while the horses
were being shod.

Those days are long past but his
son still has in his possession the old
sign and loves to recall the old days,
though he did not take up his father's
work but farms the land on the west-
ern side of Main Street.

CHARLES E. MOSES

Lancaster's second selectman is
Charles Ezra Moses, a native of Cole-
brook, born March 26, 1845, who kept
the Willard Hotel at North Stratford
fourteen years, and was for some time
engaged in farming in Lunenburg,
Vt., before coming to Lancaster in
1907, where he has been a dealer in
cattle. He married Amanda Frizelle
of Stewartstown in 1871. One son,
F. Elmon, is superintendent of the
Odell Paper Manufacturing Company,
of Groveton; a daughter married

Charles E. Moses

Fred Cleveland, a Lancaster mer-
chant, and another son, Lester E., is
stage-coach would stop in front of the manager of the Lancaster Garage.

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THE NELSON MERKOW PLACE

One of the best farms in Lancaster

is that now occupied by Nelson Mer-

row, formerly owned by the late Hon.

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House of Nelson Merrow

James W. Weeks. It has about
three hundred acres of land, producing
one hundred twenty-five tons of hay
which is fed on the place giving a
product of $7 worth of milk daily.
Mr. Merrow married Laura Gaynor
in 1905, and his brother Edward
makes his home with them. They

Barn on Nelson Merrow Place

have also five other brothers and a
sister, all living, as is their father, who
is now eighty years of age, and has
been three times married.

JAMES SPAULDING BRACKETT
Born in Lancaster September 29,
1827 and died here May 7, 1914. He
married Mary Emerson, December
26, 1850. He was a member of the
commission which surveyedthebound-
ary between Maine and New Hamp-

J. S. Brackett

shire, 1858. On the 4th of July, 1876,
he delivered an historical address on
the town of Lancaster. He was a
Democrat and Unitarian and was
Past Commander of Col. E. E. Cross
Post No. 16, G. A. R., and the oldest
member of North Star Lodge No. 8,
A. F, & A. M.

Lancaster House
The Lancaster House, E. W. Wig-
gin, proprietor, ranks among the best
public houses in the north country.
It is open the year round, has fine
rooms with first-class modern equip-
ment; an attractive dining-room and
superior table service. With broad
piazzas and spacious lawns it is a
popular resort of auto parties. A
garage in connection with the house
has a capacity for twenty cars.

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George W. Lane

Residence of George W. Lane

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GEORGE W. LANE

George William Lane was born in
Lunenburg, Vt., January 10, 1845,
and died in Lancaster, N. H., February
16, 1910. He came to Lancaster in
1870 as a clerk for Kent and Spaulcl-
ing, and a year later entered the
Lancaster Savings Bank as a clerk,
re-entering the clothing business the
following year, in which he continued
for over forty years.

Mr. Lane was one of the most
prominent business men in the State,
and proved that there were "Acres of
Diamonds" in his home town by con-
ducting so successfully the clothing-
business that it took first rank among
the best in New Hampshire.

Mr. Lane was of a quiet and un-
assuming nature, being distinctly a
family man. Although ever willing
to prove himself a good citizen and
to accept gladly the obligations of
citizenship, he was reluctant to accept
public honors. He did, however,
represent his town with credit in the
General Court in 1897 and 1898. In
financial matters his advice was much
sought, and for many years before his
death he was one of the directors of
the Siwooganock Guaranty Savings
Bank.

In 1892 Mr. Lane erected the
handsome and imposing residence
"Fairmount" on Prospect Hill, one
of the finest in the North Country—
which is occupied by his widow, Nellie
Margaret Lane.

Mary E. Pinkham
Prominent among the daughters of
Lancaster who have done work, in
one line or another, creditable alike
to themselves and the town is Miss
Mary Emmons Pinkham — a great-
great grand-daughter of Emmons
Stockwell, the pioneer settler, who
for ten years has taught drawing and
painting in the public schools of
New York City, and has had under
her supervision, on that subject, one
hundred fifty teachers and six thou-
sand pupils. Miss Pinkham was con-

Mary E. Pinkham

nected in New York with the Church
of the New Jerusalem, of which Rev.
Julian K. Smyth is pastor.

Ivan W. Quimby

Ivan W. Quimby, chairman of Lan-
caster's board of selectmen, is a

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native of Colebrook, born September
5, 1855. He is a printer by trade,
and came to Lancaster in 1873, where
he has since remained. He published
the Lancaster Gazette from 1876 to
1885. He is now engaged in the
manufacture of brick as manager of
the Lancaster Brick Company. He
is a Past Master of North Star Lodge.

DR. W. H. THOMPSON
Ever since denistry became an es-
tablished profession in the country it
has been well represented in Lan-
caster. The late Dr. Ebenezer G.
Cummings, long the leader of the pro-
fession in Concord — the first New
Hampshire graduate of the Philadel-
phia Dental College — commenced

Dr. W. H. Thompson

A. F. & A. M., Past High Priest,
North Star Chapter, R. A. M., and
Past Commander,' North Star Com-
mandery K. T. He has been a mem-
ber of the school board, five times
chairman of the selectmen, and a
deputy sheriff for Coos County for
the last ten years. He married Nettie
Denison in 1878. Their daughter,
Margaret, is the wife of Frank L.
Newhall of Concord.

practice in Lancaster, and has been
succeeded by many skillful practition-
ers, of whom Dr. W. H. Thompson
has long stood at the head. He has
an extensive practice among the people
of Lancaster and neighboring towns,
the superiority of his work being recog-
nized. Dr. Thompson is prominent
in the Masonic Order and has just
been admitted to the thirty-third or
highest degree in the order at Chicago.

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Home of George A. Woods

Home of George A. Woods
The home of Mr. George A. Woods
and his wife Lizzie S. (Cross) Woods,
located at "Grange," East Lancaster,
was originally the homestead of Major
Hemmenway, but has been occupied
as at present since 1889. Mr. Woods
is a blacksmith, and, as we have occa-
sion to know, a large-hearted and
public-spirited citizen. They were
married January 8, 1894, and have
two sons, Harold S. and Herbert A.,
who are expert machinists, employed
at the Lancaster Garage.

H. H. Sanderson
Born in Sunderland, Mass., May 7,
1849, graduated at Amherst College
1876, married Miss Florence Carruth
of North Brookfield, Mass., April 5,
1876. He was soon after a part
owner of the New England Homestead.
He was a Congregationalist, a Mason
and a Republican, and for the last
eight years, until his death, was asso-
ciated with his son, Herbert Henry,
Jr., in publishing the Lancaster Ga-
zette. He died April 7, 1914.

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Residence of F. H. Forbes

Home of Feank H. Forbes
This place, at East Lancaster, was
formerly owned by William Lovejoy
and was sold by him to Nelson Kent.
Afterward it was sold to Edward
Spaulding, who built the present
residence. Mr. Spaulding was killed
on the railroad and the farm passed
into the hands of Frank Spaulding.
It adjoins the farm of Cummings
Spaulding and is one of the early
settled locations in town, beautiful
for situation. It has about one
hundred acres of land and is de-
voted to hay, grain and dairying.
Mr. Forbes came from Northumber-
land and is a young man with an in-
teresting family.

James E. McIntire
Among the prosperous farmers of
the town is James E. McIntire, who
was a charter member of Mt. Pros-
pect Grange, its first Treasurer and
Master for five years; also a State
Grange deputy, and for many years
one of the most active working mem-
bers of Northern New Hampshire served a number of years as a select-
Pomona Grange. He is also a mem- man, and for twenty-five years on the
ber of the Masonic Order. He has school board. He is unmarried.

James E. McIntire

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Jones & Linscott Electric Plant

The above cut shows the power
station of the Jones & Linscott Elec-
tric Company. In 1899 this water-
power was lying idle, the paper mill
formerly operated by this power
having burned several years previous.
Harry H. Jones and Fred S. Linscott
conceived the idea of purchasing this
property, repairing the dam, building
a new flume, installing up-to-date
water wheels and building a suitable
structure for an electric light and
power station. This was done during
the season of 1899 and 1900, and the
plant has been in continuous opera-
tion since. In 1898 the copartner-
ship was changed to a stock company
with the following officers: H. H.
Jones, president; Fred S. Linscott,
treasurer, and W. H. McCarten,
Merrill Shurtleff and C. W. Sleeper,
directors.

As an illustration that an electric
light and power plant is an important
factor in every up-to-date town, this
plant has for its patrons nearly all of
the manufacturing concerns of the
town, besides lighting the streets and
many of the stores, offices and dwell-
ings. The upper part of this build-
ing is the home of the Jones Bevel
Point Belt Hook. Mr. Jones, the

president of the Jones & Linscott
Electric Company, is also proprietor
of this manufacturing plant. These
belt hooks are handled by the leading
mill supply and hardware houses of
the United States and many of them
are exported.

David Parks

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David Parks Holstein cattle. He is a director of

There are artists in various lines, the New Hampshire Grange Insur-
some of whose work is of an enduring ance Company and a member of the
character. Lancaster has an artist town school board,
in granolithic work in the person of
David Parks, and the sidewalks of
its beautiful village are indeed his
enduring monument. Long after he
has passed away, they will remain to
testify to the value of his conscien-
tious labor.

Bert J. Howe

John Savage

John Savage
The Republican member of the
legislature of 1913, from Lancaster,
was John Savage, a native of the
town, born May 16, 1858. He was
educated in the town schools, is a
farmer, and has served three years
as a selectman. He is a Congrega-

The present Master of Mount Pros-
pect Grange, No. 242, who is serving
his second year in that office, is Bert tionalist, Knight of Pythias, and
J. Howe, who has a two hundred Patron of Husbandry; married, and
forty acre farm and a large herd of has two children.

THE SCARLET SALVIA

By Harry B. Metcalf

The Summer, loth to take her leave

Without some token tender,
Lest millions who've made merry may

Regard the future drear,
Calls forth from fruitful Mother Earth

The brightest she can render,
And leaves the Scarlet Salvia

As emblem of good cheer.

A SUBURBAN SUMMER RESORT

By Edward J. Parshley

There are many manifestations of
the American revolt against the city.
To begin with, city life in its essence
is not confined to the largest centers
of population. There are hundreds
of municipalities in the United States
where the people are as much city
dwellers as those who claim their
voting residences in New York, Phil-
adelphia, Chicago, St. Louis or Boston.
These smaller cities, ranging in pop-
ulation from 10,000 to 50,000, are as
compactly built, many of them, as
New York itself and they give their
people pretty much the same urban
conveniences that the citizens of the
big towns enjoy. It seems absurd to
the New Yorker, perhaps, to call a
village with 10,000 people a city, but
many of these places are cities in the
essential meaning of the word and the
man who never strayed beyond their
borders would have no more knowl-
edge of the real country than one who
lived all his life on Manhattan Island.

The advantage enjoyed by the man
in the small city is that it is very much
easier for him to get into the country
and he may, on an income so much
smaller as not to be compared, have
a comfortable and well equipped
town house and an attractive country
home, with the latter so near at
hand that he can attend to his busi-
ness every day and sleep every night
in his rural domicile. The result of
all this is that there are growing up all
over the country what might be called
suburban summer resorts, tributary
to and not far removed from the
smaller cities.

One such resort is on the Contoo-
cook River, in New Hampshire, de-
veloped very largely by the people of
Concord, the state capital. Concord
is a typical example of the sort of
small city I have attempted to de-
scribe. It has a population of only
about 22,000, but it is a city in ap-

pearance and in fact, while in summer,
as the records of the weather bureau
will prove, Broadway was never more
mercilessly beaten upon by the sun
than Main Street, Concord.

The Concordian is more fortunately
situated than the New Yorker, how-
ever, for he can jump into his auto-
mobile, onto an electric car or a steam
train and escape the city in a very
few moments. It is not necessary
for him to repair to the banks of the
Contoocook River but much more
often than not he does.

As for the Contoocook itself, it is a
beautiful stream. It flows through a
wooded country and in many places
the trees, big ones, too, grow close
to the water's edge. Back a few
miles are the hills, gradually elevating
themselves as they recede northward,
until they become the lofty peaks of
New Hampshire's famous White
Mountains. Every mile or so, there
are breaks in the forest and the river
is bordered by green fields, sloping
gently backward and rising at last to
the tops of low hills, crowned by pros-
perous looking farm houses. The
banks are high in most places and
furnish ideal sites for summer camp
locations.

The Contoocook was always there,
of course, but Concord was unneces-
sarily long in discovering it. At last,
someone conceived the idea of a coun-
try home of his own, where his family
could enjoy rural life in summer and
where he could go every night after
the work of the day in town was fin-
ished. Accordingly, he built the first
cottage on the banks of the Contoo-
cook. Others, in course of time, fol-
lowed his example and though the
growth of the colony was slow at first
it was accelerated as the years went
by, until the river banks for miles
are dotted with cottages and bunga-
lows.

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There could be no better course for
canoes and motor boats than, is
afforded by the Contoocook and water
sports are the chief diversions of the
summer colonists. For several sea-
sons now, a water carnival has been
an annual event, the cottagers being-
aided in meeting the expense of this
by the electric railroad company
which a few years ago laid out a rustic
park in a grove on the river bank.

Carnivals and amusement parks,
though, have had little influence on
the building of the simple country
homes of the people of Concord (re-
enforced from year to year by a grow-
ing number, of folks from a greater
distance). These came into being be-
cause of that desire in one way or
another to get back to the fields and
woods which in later times has been
so marked all over the countrv.

THE END OF SUMMER

By Coletta Ryan

Sweet Summer chanted her faint farewell
One day when the world was still ;

While in woodland vale, where the fairies dwell,
'Neath the shadow of the hill.

Young Autumn sat with his busy brush

Transforming each green leaf,
In the crimson depths of the twilight hush

That voiced the maiden's grief.

"Farewell," she cried, in a monotone

To the artist in his chair,
When lo! he started and cried: "My own,

My best beloved fair —

"Thou shaft not leave me, thou lovely one,

I cannot thee resist."
"Alas," she whispered, "my task is clone,"

And melted into the mist.

And oft when a soft spell covers all,

And a warm light fills the sk>,
'Tis the soul of Summer that seeks the Fall,

Saying her last good bye.

August 28, 1914.

NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY

HON. JOHN B. SMITH

Hon. John Butter Smith, ex-governor of
New Hampshire, an extended sketch of
whose career was published in the Granite
Monthly for July, 1911, died at his home
in Hillsborough after a year's illness, August
10, 1914.

Governor Smith was born at Saxton's
River, Vt., April 12, 1838, son of Ammi and
Lydia (Butler) Smith. In 184? the family
removed to Hillsborough, where John B.
attended school. He was also a student for
some time at Francestown Academy.

After engaging in other business for a time,
he established a knitgoods factory in Wash-
ington, N. H., but in 1865 removed to Hills-
borough and engaged in the manufacture of
hosiery. His establishment developed in
time into the famous Contoocook Mills,
whose product became favorably known all
over the country and whose business was
most extensive and profitable. In 1911
Governor Smith retired from manufactur-
ing to attend to extensive financial interests
outside.

He was a life-long Republican. He was a
member of the Executive Council during the
administration of Gov. Charles H. Sawyer,
and governor of New Hampshire from Jan-
uary, 1893 to 1895.

He was an active member and large bene-
factor of the Congregational Church of Hills-
borough, now known as the "Smith Memorial
Church."

He mai'ried, in 1883, Miss Emma Lavender
of Boston, who survives him, with two sons —
Archibald Lavender, and Norman.

JOHN N. McCLINTOCK
John N. McClintock, for many years a
resident of Concord, and editor and publisher
of the Granite Monthly from 1880 till 1891,
died at his home in Dorchester, Mass, Au-
gust 13, 1914.

Mr. McClintock was the son of Capt. John
and Mary B. (Shaw) McClintock, born at
East Winthrop, Me., May, 12, 1846, the family
removing to Hallowell two years later. His
father was a sea captain and followed that
occupation for more than half a century.
When John N. was ten years of age, with his
mother, he accompanied his father on a voy-
age to Liverpool and London in the ship
Dashaway, built for Capt. McClintock. He
was educated in the public schools, the old
Hallowell Academy and Bowdoin College,
graduating from the latter in 1867, ranking
high in English and Mathematics. Later
he received the degree of A. M., from Bowdoin.
After his graduation he received an appoint-
ment in the United States Coast Survey and
tor eight years was engaged in geodetic and
topographical surveys from Maine to Texas

and on Lake Champlain. Upon leaving the
Coast Survey he made his home in Concord,
and engaged in general surveying until 1892
when he removed to Dorchester, Mass., where
he was extensively engaged in surveying and
laying out land. During this time he asso-
ciated himself with Amasa S. Glover of
Brockton, who had taken out a patent for the
treatment of sewage by what was later known
as the "septic" treatment. On the death of
Mr. Glover, Mr. McClintock became the
owner of the Glover patent, and his thorough
study of the whole subject gave him sufficient
information to improve on the old patent.
He spent many years of his life in an effort to

John N. McClintock

establish these patents, and in trying them
out in the different courts he became one of
the best posted engineers in the country on
the question of sewage treatment.

During his residence in Concord, as has
been stated, he also edited and published the
Granite Monthly, and also established the
Bay State Magazine, in Boston, which he con-
ducted for some time. He was also the author
of a History of New Hampshire published in
a large octavo volume.

Mr. McClintock married Miss Josephine
Tilton of Concord, N. H., by whom he is sur-
vived. He also leaves a son, John Tilton
McClintock, a Boston architect, and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert B. Bellamy, born Arabella
Chandler McCintock, and a grand-daughter

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Josephine McClintock Bellamy. He also
leaves two brothers and a sister: William E.
McClintock of Chelsea, Mass. and J. Y. Mc-
Clintock of Rochester, N. Y., both well
known civil engineers, and Mary Elizabeth
McClintock of Readfield, Me.

Mr. McClintock was a devoted husband,
a kind father and a loyal friend. His home
was more than anything else to him, and those
who ever enjoyed its hospitality never tired
of coming under its influence again and often.

PROF. FRANKLIN W. HOOPER
Franklin W. Hooper, for twenty-five
years director of the Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Institute of Arts and Sciences, died at his
summer home in the town of Walpole,
August 1, 1914.

Professor Hooper was born in Walpole,
February 11, 1851, the son of William and
Elvira Hooper. He was educated in the
public schools, Antioch College Preparatory
School at Yellow Springs, O., and Harvard
College, from which he graduated in 1875.
He pursued post-graduate studies for a year,
and in 1876 became the agent of the Smith-
sonian Institution in an extended excursion
around the coast of Florida. In the fall of
that year he became principal of the Keene
High School, continuing till 1880, when he
resigned to become instructor of chemistry
and geology in Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn,
where he continued until he entered upon his
life-work with the Institute of Arts and
Sciences.

Professor Hooper had a fine summer home
in Walpole on the old farm which had been
in the family for six generations. He leaves
a wife, son and daughter.

DR. JOHN GOODELL

Dr. John Goodell, a well-known physician
of Hillsborough, died at his home in the
"Upper Village" in that town, September
13, 1914.

Doctor Goodell was a native of Hills-
borough, born May 18, 1829, son of George
D. and Rebecca (Andrews) Goodell. He
was educated at Kimball Union Academy,
Meriden, Harvard Medical School and the
New York College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He married Miss Ellen Foster of Keene, who
survives him, fifty-five years ago, when he
commenced practice, and the fiftieth anni-
versary of the two events was duly cele-
brated in 1909, on the occasion of his eightieth
birthday.

Doctor Goodell had represented the town
in the legislature and served many years on
the board of health. He retired from practice
a year ago.

REV. MYRON P. DICKEY

Rev. Myron Parsons Dickey, pastor of the
Congregational Church at Kennebunk, Me.,
died there, August 30, 1914.

Mr. Dickey was a native of Derry, N. H.,
born February 16, 1852, the son of David
W T oodburn and Sarah (Campbell) Dickey.
He attended Pinkerton Academy in Derry
and was graduated from Dartmouth College
in the class of 1874. For a time he was
principal of the High School in Hampstead,
N. H. Deciding to enter the ministry, he
went to Yale Theological Seminary and after
graduating he took up his first pastorate, in
1883, over the First Congregational Church
at Ludlow Centre, Mass. He remained
there ten years, then accepting a call to
Milton, N. H., where he was located fifteen
years. In 1908 he went to Kennebunk.

While teaching school in Palmer, Mass.,
Mr. Dickey met Miss Louise Shumway, who
became his wife. She died in 1908, soon
after their removal to Kennebunk. He was
married again to Miss Nellie Went worth of
Milton, who survives him. He also leaves
three children, Maurice W. Dickey of West
Roxbury, Mass., Mrs. Arthur Thad Smith
of Winchester, and Mark Shumway Dickey
of Winchester.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHERS NOTES

The primaries have now been held, the
party conventions have met, adopted their
platforms and elected their state committees,
and the political campaign in the state will
soon be fully under way. Nevertheless,
State issues will probably cut small figure
in the discussion, or in the public mind.
The paramount question naturally will be —
Shall the national administration be endorsed
or condemned?

"Reminiscences of the Eulogy of Rufus
Choatc on Daniel Webster, delivered at
Dartmouth College July 26. 1853, and dis-
cursions more or less therewith connected,

by Charles Caverno, A.M., LL.D.," is the
title inscription of a tastily gotten up little
volume, recently issued from the pres"s of
Sherman, French & Company of Boston,
which should be of special interest to Dart-
mouth men and to New Hampshire men gen-
erally, because it is the product of a loyal
son of Dartmouth and of New Hampshire,
and relates to Dartmouth's two most emi-
nent graduates, the subject being New Hamp-
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logist Dartmouth's most brilliant scholar
and orator. Coth 12 mo. 51 pp. Price, 50
cents.

The Granite Monthly

Vol. XLVI, Nos. 11-12

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1914

New Series, Vol. 9, Nos. 11-12

THE CLAREMONT ANNIVERSARY

New Hampshire's Largest Town Celebrates an Important

Historic Event

The one hundred and fiftieth anni-
versary of the granting of the charter
of the town of Claremont, by Pfen-
ning Wentworth, the Provincial Gov-
ernor, in the name of King George III,
occurred on Monday, October 26,
1914. Public attention had not been
called to the then coming event, at
the time of the annual town meeting
in March previous, and, consequently,
no appropriation had been made by
the town to defray the expense of a
proper celebration. Note of the mat-
ter having subsequently been taken,
the town's wide-awake Board of
Trade was moved to take action, and
at a meeting, on July 13, to consider the
subject, promptly decided that steps
should be taken to insure such observ-
ance of the event as would be credit-
able to the town, and, although time
for the organization and perfection of
plans essential to success was limited,
the work was entered upon in earnest.

A Committee of ten was appointed
to consider the matter, solicit sub-
scriptions and arrange for the cele-
bration. The Committee, alphabeti-
cally arranged, was as follows: A. W.
Belding, H. G. Eaton, F. P. May-
nard, W. P. Nolin, H. W. Parker, E.
A. Quimby, O. B. Rand, E. J. Ros-
siter, W. H. Slayton, J. D. Upham,
This Committee met and organized
by choosing Hosea W. Parker as chair-
man, J. Duncan Upham, vice-chair-
man; W. H. Slayton, secretary and
H. T. Eaton, treasurer.

Chairman Parker suggested that
the Committee having charge of such
a celebration as was contemplated
should be broader and more general
than a Committee of the Board of
Trade merely, and it was arranged
that a mass meeting of citizens be
held at the Town Hall, Friday even-
ing, August 28, at which meeting a
new general committee was chosen to
have the matter in charge, and special
or sub-committees were subsequently
named, the entire list being as fol-
lows:

General Committee — Hon. H. W. Parker,
Chairman; J. Duncan Upham, Vice-
Chairman; Mrs. Anna Barrett, Charles
Rossiter, Wm. P. Nolin, G. Herbert
Bartlett, Thomas W. Fry, Harry T.
Eaton, George W. Paul.

W. H. Slayton, Secretary.

H. T. Eaton, Treasurer.

SPECIAL COMMITTEES

Program — J. D. Upham, Henry S. Richard-
son, Charles B. Spofford.

Music — Harrison Moors, Frank Joy, Mrs.
M. M. Freeman.

Parade— Adjt. -Gen. Herbert E. Tutherly,
David Roys, Cornelius E. Sears.

Decoration— W. P. Nolin, H. T. Eaton.

Entertainment — H. T. Eaton, Miss Mary
Partridge.

Historical Features — E. J. Rossiter, H. K.
Lloyd, Mrs. T. W. Fry, Mrs. Ralph
Kiniry, Mrs. W. H. Story, Mrs. Robert
- Upham, Miss Mary Partridge.

Advertising— F. H. Foster, A. W. Belding,
E. L. Elliott.

Finance — O. B. Rand, Charles G. Adams,
Mrs. Anna L. Barrett, T. W. Fry.

Sunday Service — The local ministers with
Rev. J. P. Garfield as chairman.

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Teachers — F. W. Greene, Frances Horton,

Ida Severance, L. May Quimby, Myra

L. Briggs.
Information— H. G. Sherman, Mr. Wayne

Keyes, Mrs. Mary S. Ide.
Electric Lighting — F. A. Fairbanks, Mr.

Berliner, Mr. Cabot, Mr. Currier, Mr.

Haynes, Mr. Allen.

These committees got promptly
into action, finding ready popular
response, the Finance Committee,
which had in hand the important
work of raising by private contribu-
tion the very considerable amount of
money necessary to creditably carry
out the enterprise, meeting a most
generous response to its appeals, and
all others receiving corresponding en-
couragement.

When the arrangements were well
under way, and the contemplated
proceedings fairly outlined, the follow-
ing tentative programme was issued,
and ultimately carried out with such
changes in detail as circumstances
rendered necessary.

" 1764-1914

OFFICIAL PROGRAM OF THE
CELEBRATION

OF THE

ONE HUNDRED FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF

CLAREMONT, N. H.
October 25, 26, 27, 1914

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25

2.30 p. m.

Service at Union Church, West Claremont

This Parish has had a continuous existence in Clare-
mont since 1771 when it was founded as a Parish of the
Church of England in the Colonies.

3.00 P. M.
Service at the Roman Catholic Church,
West Claremont, built 1823.
7.00 p. m.
Union Service in the Opera House, Program
as follows:
The Enchanted Hour Mouton

Orchestra
Hymn — "O Worship the King" Lyons

Invocation

Rev. Frank M. Swaffield
Hymn — "Faith of our Fathers"

St. Catherine
Offering for Red Cross Work in Europe.
Prayer

Rev. J. P. Garfield

Hymn Response

Choir

Anthem — "King All Glorious" Barnby

Mr. Hawkins Mr. Colby

Choir and Orchestra

Address

Mr. Winston Churchill
Hymn, Coronation — "All Hail the Power of

Jesus' Name"
Benediction

Rev. John A. Belford

Note: The Congregation is especially requested to
join in the singing of the hymns.

Mrs. Sophia G. Marsh

Oldest Woman in Town; Born in Grantham, March
28, 1816

Band Concert

Nevers' Second Regiment Band will render, through
the courtesy of the Claremont Lodge of Elks, a concert
in the Park immediately following the service in the
Opera House, if the weather is suitable; if not, the con-
cert will be given in the Opera House.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26
9.30 a. m.

Assembling of Participants in the Parade on
Broad St. between Putnam and Chestnut Sts.

10.30 A. M.
Parade will move from Broad street over
the following route:

Countermarching around north end of Park, down
Broad to Summer, through Summer to Mulberry, north
to Sullivan St., on Sullivan to the Square, via Tremont
and Broad to North St., west to Elm St., south to Main
St., easterly on Main St. to Pleasant St., south to
Summer, through Summer to Broad, where the Parade
will be reviewed by the Governor and Staff at the
Reviewing Stand opposite the entrance to Pine St.

HON. HOSEA W. PARKER
President of the Day

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The Parade will consist of the following:
Police
Marshals
Claremont Band
Governor and Staff
Company M 1st Infantry
Invited Guests
Fifteen Historical Floats
Orders and Societies with Bands
Fire Department
Individual and Manufacturers' Floats

12.00 m.
Reception by the Governor and Staff at
Reviewing Stand on Broad St.
12.15 p. m.
Company M 1st Regiment N. H. National Guard
will pitch their camp on east side of Broad St. between
Putnam St. and Bailey Ave., and prepare their midday
meal, giving an exhibition of their field service outfit
and equipment.

2.00 p. m. Opera House
Fifth Nocturne Leybach

Orchestra
Prayer

Rev. Wm. E. Patterson
Address

Hon. Hosea W. Parker,

President of the Day

The Song of the Vikings Faning

Chorus and Orchestra
Address

His Excellency, Samuel D. Felker,
Governor of New Hampshire

(a) Butterflies Mildenberg

Ladies' Chorus

(b) Gently Fall the Shadows Mildenberg

Choir
Historical Address

Hon. Henry H. Metcalf,
State Historian

Singing of America by Choir and Audience
Benediction

Daniel C. Babcock, D. D.

4.30 p. m.
or immediately following the Historical Exer-
cises, the Moving Picture Drama, "Victory"
and "The Sinking of the Maine" will be put
on in the Opera House.

This will be repeated twice in the evening beginning
at 7:30. Admission is free to all through the courtesy
of J. Parker Reed, a former Claremont citizen.

7.30 P. M.
Poultry Exhibition (in basement) and Corn,
Potato and Apple Exhibition (in Town Hall)

This will be held under the auspices of the Sullivan
County Agricultural Association.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

9.30 a. m.

Parade of Floats by Merchants and Manu-
facturers to follow the same line as the parade
of the previous day.

The Poultry Exhibition and Corn Show of
the Sullivan County Agricultural Association
will continue through Tuesday.

A Special Exhibition of Maps, Prints and other His-
torical Objects will be on view at the Public Library
from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. Monday, and 10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Tuesday.

Details of Parade (Subject to change and
correction)

HISTORICAL FLOATS

1. 1750 Shugah Indians

2. 1762 First Settler on horseback

3. 1762 " " ox team

4. 1764 Granting of Charter

5. 1767 First Industry

6. 1771 Union Church

Hosea W. Parker, LL. D., president of the day at Claremont's one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary, is a native of Lempster, son of Benjamin and Olive (Nichols) Parker, born May
30, 1833. Until eighteen years of age he worked on the farm, attending the district school
winters. Subsequently he attended Tubbs LTnion Academy, Washington, Green Mountain
Liberal Institute, So. Woodstock, Vt., and Tufts College; studied law with Hon. Edmund
Burke of Newport, was admitted to the bar in 1859, and located in practice in Claremont in
the following year, where he has since remained, having his office in the same building from
the start to the present time. He has been a leader of the Sullivan bar for more than a gen-
eration, and its president for several years past; has been counsel for the town of Claremont
for more than forty years, and has, undoubtedly, tried more cases than any other lawyer in
his county, and the only fault ever found with him in his practice has been that his charges
are too moderate. The Sullivan bar gave a banquet in his honor, at Hotel Moody, on the
evening of his eightieth birthday anniversary, which was attended by the Governor and many
other prominent lawyers and citizens. His interest and activities have by no means been con-
fined to his profession. He has been a leader in almost every movement for civic betterment,
educational progress and material improvement in his town for the last fifty years. Politi-
cally a Democrat, he has served his party repeatedly on th° town and state committees, presided
in its State Convention, represented his native town in the Legislature in 1859 and 1860, and
the old Third District in Congress from 1871 to 1875, rendering specially valuable service in
his last term, when he was largely instrumental in defeating the extension of the patents held
by the sewing machine monopoly. He has been prominent in Masonry, long serving as Emi-
nent Commander of Sullivan Commandery, K. T. A Universalist in religion, he has been
for fifty-three years superintendent of the Universalist Sunday School in Claremont, many
years president of the Sunday School Convention, also of the State Convention, and twice
elected president of the Universalist General Convention. He has long been a member, and
for several years was president of the board of trustees of Tufts College, which institution fit-
tingly conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1913. He married, May
30, 1861, Caroline Lovisa Southgate of Bridgewater, Vt., who died September 14, 1904. Then-
only child, Lizzie S., graduate of Stevens High School and Smith College (1888) is the wife of
Lee S. McCollester, D. D., Dean of Crane Theological School, Tufts College.

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7. 1776 The Revolution

8. 1800 Cook Tavern Coach

9. 1823 Roman Catholic Church

10. 1824 Reception to Gen. LaFayette

11. 1835 Paran Stevens' Road Wagon

12. Old District School

13. Modern Public School

14. St. Mary's School

15. 1868 Stevens High School

ORGANIZATIONS

Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Order of Rebekahs
Knights of Pythias

Claremont Lodge No. 879, Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks
United States Postal Clerks
Claremont General Hospital
Knights of Malta
Camp Fire Girls
Claremont Bird Club
Loyal Order of Moose
Claremont Fire Department
Monadnock Mills
Claremont Gas Company
Sullivan Machinery Companv
F. A. Billings (Float)
S. H. Maxwell (Float)

Residence of Hon. H. W. Parker

Grand Army of the Republic, Major Jarvis

Post
Spanish War Veterans, Camp F. J. Miller
Sons of Veterans
Women's Relief Corps
Daughters of Veterans
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Claremont Grange No. 9
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Ancient Order of Hibernians
La Soci^te St. Jean-Baptiste
Soci&e" L'Union Canadienne-Franeaise of

Claremont, N. H.
Canado Lodge No. 21
Catholic Order of Foresters
Garde Champlain de Cour Les Montagnards
Villa Marcia
Improved Order of Red Men

As time passed and public interest
increased at home no means were
spared for arousing interest in the
celebration among the people of
surrounding towns, as well as
in the minds of the sons and
daughters and former residents of
Claremont who have made their
homes elsewhere. The local press
persistently agitated the matter and
a printed reminder was prepared to
be included in all correspondence
sent out from the town 2 reading as
follows:

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1764 1914

COME TO CLAREMONT

FOR THE ONE HUNDRED FIFTIETH

ANNIVERSARY

of the Incorporation of the Town,

October 25, 26, 27, 1914

SUNDAY, October 25 — Religious Observance —

A union service at the opera house at 7 p. m., with

address by Hon. Winston Churchill. Special chorus

and orchestral music.

MONDAY, October 26 — Anniversary Day —
Grand Civic and Historical parade at 10.30 a. m.;
historical address by Hon. H. H. Metcalf of Concord,
with musical program, at the opera house at 2 p. m.
TUESDAY, October 27 — Farmers' and Mer-
chants' Day — Parade of Historical and Business Floats
at 9.30 a. m. Sullivan County Corn and Poultry Show
in town hall.

All former residents are especially invited.
Per order of Executive Committee.

and stormy weather might reasonably
be feared, if not expected; but, for-
tunately for the occasion, most favor-
able weather conditions prevailed on
Sunday and Monday, and, although
there was a cold wind and a slight
snow flurry Tuesday morning, the
programme for that day was success-
fully carried out, as were those of the
days previous.

His Excellency Governor Samuel
D. Felker, accompanied by Brig-

Pleasant Street, Claremont

Later the following formal invita-
tion was sent out by the committee
to former residents, and to many
public officials and prominent citi-
zens throughout the State:

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
RESPECTFULLY INVITES YOUR PRESENCE AT

CLAREMONT

October 25, 26 and 27

nineteen hundred fourteen

to join in celebrating the

ONE HUNDRED FIFTIETH

ANNIVERSARY

OF THE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN

As the time set for the celebration
approached there was, naturally, no
little anxiety among the people of the
town, concerning the weather condi-
tions which might prevail. The sea-
son was so far advanced that severe

adier-General Herbert E. Tutherly,
Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff;
Brigadier-General William Sullivan,
Inspector-General; Major Russell
Wilkins, Acting Surgeon-General, and
Captain George H. Morrill, First In-
fantry, and ladies, arrived at the
station on the regular train Sunday
at 6 p. m. Accompanying the party
also, were the State Historian, Insur-
ance Commissioner Robert J. Merrill,
and Mrs. Merrill. The train also
brought Nevers' Second Regiment
Band of Concord, engaged for the oc-
casion by the Elks lodge of the town,
which organization met the party at
the station and escorted the same to
Hotel Moody, with torches and
red light accompaniment. Pleas-

JAMES P. UPHAM

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ant Street, from the railway to the
Square, was brilliantly lighted. Fes-
toons of colored lights illuminated the
Square and the principal streets, and
most business blocks, and many resi-
dences, throughout the village were
finely decorated for the occasion with
flags and bunting.

The union service at the Opera
House Sunday evening was attended
by a congregation which tested the
capacity of this spacious and elegant
assembly room, one of the largest and
best in the state and a special credit
to the town, and the programme was
duly carried out as advertised, all the
local clergymen being present on the
platform and the Rev. John P. Gar-
field, pastor of the Congregational
church, presiding.

Excellent music was furnished for
the occasion by a large chorus choir
and an orchestra, under the direction

Rev. F. M. Swaffield

Pastor Baptist Church

James Phineas Upham, the founder of Claremont's largest and most widely known indus-
try, was born in Claremont on October 7, 1827. He was a descendant of John Upham who
came to Boston from Bicton, Devonshire, England, in 1635. His father, George Baxter
Upham, was graduated from Harvard College in 1789, came to Claremont from Brookfield,
Mass., in 1791, and became prominent at the New Hampshire bar. The subject of these lines
was prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and, entering Dartmouth
College in 1846, was graduated with the class of 1850. In 1851 he married Elizabeth Walker
Rice, of South Berwick, Me. He then bought the country estate on the Connecticut river
which still remains the home of his descendants. Too active to be satisfied with farming as
his sole occupation, Mr. Upham, in 1851, bought water power and a small machine shop in
Claremont village and immediately set about enlarging it; he and his successors have been
enlarging it ever since. The business was carried on under the style J. P. Upham & Co. In
the early fifties John Tyler of Claremont invented an improvement in turbine water wheels.
The name turbine had been originally given, about 1827, in France, to any water wheel which
revolved on a vertical axis. This type of water motor had not been generally adopted until
Mr. Tyler's invention was placed upon the market and pushed by the active business initia-
tive of Mr. Upham, who was the sole manufacturer. It rapidly superseded the old overshot
and undershot water wheels theretofore in general use. In 1867 the diamond drill for pro-
specting for minerals, invented by Mr. Albert Ball, attracted the attention of Mr. Upham who
promptly decided to manufacture it. The Sullivan Machinery Company was then, in 1868,
organized as the successor of J. P. Upham & Co. Mr. Upham became its president, which
office he continued to hold for more than twenty years. This company has grown to be one of
the largest manufactories of mining and rock-cutting machinery in the world. There are but
one or two others in its class. It is well known by miners, mining engineers and contractors
the world over. You can walk into its offices and order its machinery in Barcelona, Spain, in
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tientsin, China, in Johannesburg, South Africa, in Melbourne and
Kalgoorlie, Australia, in London, Paris, and St. Petersburg, at the Hague in Holland and Turin
in Italy, in Singapore, Straits Settlements and Tokyo, Japan. These are but a few of the many
offices of a great company which had its beginnings in the characteristic New England ten-
dencies of a native of Claremont who wanted to see the wheels go round, and then more wheels,
doing work in ways that had never been done before. Mr. Upham's business energies were not
wholly confined to Claremont. In 1884 he organized the Brandon Italian Marble Company
and became its president, an office which he retained until his death. This company grew
to be one of the large marble industries of Vermont. Mr. Upham was always a leader in public
improvements in Claremont. He died in April, 1895. His tombstone bears the modest but
most appropriate inscription, "A Public-spirited Citizen of Claremont."

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D. D. Ladd.

The Invocation by Rev. Frank M.
Swaffield of the Baptist Church was
as follows:

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. We
call upon Thy name at the close of this Sab-
bath Day praying that Thou wilt let Thy
blessing fall upon us. We thank Thee for
this day of rest and rejoicing, and at this
meeting we pray that Thy Spirit may draw
near unto us, that He may influence us into
paths of peace, into paths of righteousness,
into paths of usefulness. With all our hearts,
our Father, we thank Thee for this great
occasion, and we pray that Thou wouldst
quicken our memory that we may think upon
the things of the past, praying that Thy hand
may guide us in the coming days that in all
we do, think, or say it may redound to Thy
honor and glory. Through Jesus Christ we
ask it, Amen.

Following the hymn "Faith of Our
Fathers," and an Offering for the
benefit of Red Cross work in Europe,
Rev. Mr. Garfield offered prayer, as
follows:

Prayer by Rev. John P. Garfield

Eternal Lord, God of our fathers, we ap-
proach Thee with confidence because of the
assurance that Thou art showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love Thee and keep
Thy commandments.

We thank Thee, for the "Faith of our
Fathers" and that Thou didst guide them
through all these generations and hast now
brought us together to give Thee thanks and
to pray for the continued presence of Thy
spirit.

We bless Thee for these churches of Thine
and for the work they have done in all the
years. We thank Thee for the faithfulness
with which they met their trust, for the men
who prayed and the men who fought for the
freedom of worship and independence of gov-
ernment which all alike are now suffered to
enjoy.

We thank Thee for the pioneers and their
endurance as they went forth unto a strange
land not knowing whither they were bound,
for their loyalty to their religion and their
church. We bless Thee for those whose sac-

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rifice was great and whose efforts united these
Thy people in one growing nation.

We thank Thee for these servants of Thine
now proclaiming the one evangel of their com-
mon Lord and we pray that we too may be true
to our faith as our fathers were true to theirs.

Now as we are gathered in this town meet-
ing on the evening of the Lord's Day after

We pray for Thy blessing upon His Ex-
cellency the Governor of this State and
his staff and all associated with him in
the exercise of power in our state.
Give Thy exceeding strong support unto
the men of God who are at the head
of our nation, unto Thy servant the Pres-
ident of the United States in this hour

CHURCHES OF CLAREMONT

Congregational Church Trinity, Episcopal

Old Union Church, West Claremont Episcopal

Catholic Church Universalist Church Methodist Church Baptist Church

the manner in which our fathers were wont to
meet, we pray that our hearts and minds may
be prepared for the message that is to be de-
clared unto us.

We glory in the new opportunity before us
and we ask for courage and strength to meet
it. Fill every heart with a due sense of all
Thy mercies and renew within us the spirit
that fitted our fathers for the accomplishment
of great things.

of great battles and the world's emer-
gency. Give unto us peace in our time,
O Lord.

Bless this town, its churches, its prophets
and its leaders. May every hand be set to
its task and all hearts be joined in the common
purpose, to make real the coming of the King-
dom of God in our midst.

We ask it in the name of Jesus Christ, our
Lord, Amen.

HON. GEORGE H. STOWELL

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Mr. Garfield, Introducing Mr. Churchill

It is hardly necessary for any one to intro-
duce our distinguished guest this evening.
In planning this service it was necessary to
have some one speak to us tonight who was
identified with the life of our State and our
town, and Mr. Churchill has very kindly con-
sidered himself thus identified with our in-
terests, as we have considered him identified
with the life of our State. I do not need to
introduce Mr. Churchill, but I have the honor
of presenting Mr. Churchill to you and of ex-
pressing to him in advance your appreciation
and vour very cordial welcome.

Address by Mr. Winston Churchill

In the eighth chapter of the Gospel, accord-
ing to St. John, in the thirty-first and thirty-
second verses, it is written thus :

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which be-
lieved in him, If ye continue in my word, then
are ye my disciples indeed;

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free."

It seems to me, my friends, that this is a
meeting of a very great significance. As I
have sat here tonight I have been wondering
what those old pioneers who founded that
first Union Church down in the wood, with
their rifles on the racks beside them, would

Rev. John P. Garfield

Pastor Congregational Church

have thought if they could have seen this
service in Claremont tonight.

It was a time of extraordinary dissension.
In 1764 one of the greatest eras — one of the
greatest revolutions in the history of the world
was then brewing, a revolution in which man

George H. Stowell, a leader in the business life of Claremont for many years, was born
in Cornish, October 28, 1835, the fifth son and ninth child of Amasa and Betsey (Spaulding)
Stowell. His early life was spent in farm labor, with such educational opportunities as the
district school afforded. In 1860, he removed to Claremont where he has since resided. For
the first four years he was engaged in the marble business, but in 1864, he bought the hardware
stock of Levi B. Brown in the corner store of the O. J. Brown block, and there carried on an
extensive and constantly increasing wholesale and retail trade in hardware, iron and steel,
continuing in the same site for thirty-seven years, until his retirement from this line of business,
in 1901 . In connection with his hardware business, he dealt extensively in coal for many years,
having brought into town the first carload of anthracite used for domestic purposes. His
establishment, known as "Stowell's Corner," has long been a landmark in the business section
of the town. Mr. Stowell has been a leader in building enterprises in Claremont, both for
business and tenement purposes. He organized the syndicate that erected the splendid
Union block on the corner opposite his store after the fire of 1887, in which the People's National
Bank is located, in the organisation of which he was instrumental and of which he is a director
and vice-president. He has also been one of the principal owners of the Monadnock Mills,
since the reorganization of the same in 1907, and has given much attention to this business
as well as that of the bank since his retirement from trade. Mr. Stowell was a member of the
legislature in 1871 and 1872, a state senator in 1875 and 1876, and a member of the Executive
Council 1881-2. He was a member of the staff of Governor Prescott, served in the Consti-
tutional Conventions of 1876 and 1889 and was a delegate in the Republican National Con-
vention in 1884. He also served for twenty years as chief engineer of the Claremont Fire
Department. He made an extensive tour of Europe, for health and pleasure in 1888. Decem-
ber 25, 1857, Mr. Stowell married Sara E., daughter of Dexter and Eliza (Earle) Field of Chester
Vt., a direct descendant of Sir John Field, the English astronomer. They had one daughter,
Cora E., highly educated and accomplished, who married George I. Putnam, author and
journalist, but died March 8, 1903. In 1912 Mr. Stowell presented his native town of Cornish
with a handsome and substantial library building located at Cornish Flat.

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took a new step forward. And, curiously
enough, when I was thinking over what I was
going to say to you tonight (and I have
dropped my work for four days in order to
try to present something which would be
worthy of this occasion) it occurred to me that
I would bring in, among other things, the very
situation which was then brewing in the
eighteenth century, at the time when that
Union Church was founded, because it was
an era of religious dissension and it is a thing
to do any man's heart good — make him thank
God — to see all the fellow-citizens of this
town united in the service of Christ in this
house tonight.

We are beginning to perceive that good
and bad are not the definite things they once
were. Evil, in the individual and in society,
is mixed with good. We are now coming to
comprehend that men and women and even
children, whom we should have formerly
looked upon as sinners, are victims of what
may be called the structure of society, for
which no one individual is responsible, but
for which we are all collectively responsible.
The "sins" of the capitalist and the sins of
the local storekeeper differ only in degree, not
in kind. And a parallel to the sins of the
working girl may be found in higher circles,
whose doings are recorded in the divorce

Residence of Hon. George H. Stowell

It is impossible not to see a great signifi-
cance in this union service of the churches of
Claremont. It seems to me to reflect the
courageous, Christian spirit of the day. We
have come here, not to look backward, but
to look forward ; to consider those things which
will be helpful, not only to Claremont, but to
the nation, in the days which are to come.
It is an era of transition. It is a time of hope,
and also a time of doubt. What is right?
What is wrong? True or untrue? Is the world ,
according to the orthodox teaching, inerad-
ically bad? Does it belong to Satan and
all his works? The modern spirit cries out
against this doctrine, and the man who feels
religion stirring in his soul declares that it
cannot be of Christ. The greater our prob-
lems, the higher our courage.

columns. All are victims of a philosophy of
life, called enlightened self interest — but
which might better be called the survival of
the sharpest — which we made the corner
stone of our government. Its golden rule is
"Do as you would be done by — but do it
first."

Two characteristics of the modern idea of
sin are closed mindedness — which indeed
Christ denounced with a vigor that rings
today — a refusal to study conditions in the
light of modern science, to look them in the
face, and a refusal to work to better them.

Every once in a while in the world's histon'
the structure of society changes. Society
adopts a new philosophy. And it is just as
true that philosophy makes a society as that
philosophy makes a man. But a philosophy

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which fits one period will not fit another.
Conditions change. When Dante wrote his
masterpiece in the Middle Ages, the world
believed that God had given its temporal
jurisdiction to the Emperor. The very
thought of a Republic would have been heresy
and sin. Now we no longer believe in the
divine right of kings. One hundred years ago
the nations of Europe were at war. Chaos
ruled. Now we are able to see some meaning
in all of that suffering and misery. We know
that the world is not at the mercy of men
with irrepressible ambition. The war of the
nations one hundred years ago was followed

That war of one hundred years ago was
preceded by an era which gave birth to a new
and radical philosophy which changed the
structure of society, which sounded the death-
knell of the power of kinss, and ushered in
democracy. That philosophy was due to
Rousseau and other men in France and
England, and was called "the rights of man."
It was terribly upsetting. It declared that
every man, no matter how humble, should
have the right to life, liberty, property, and
the pursuit of happiness, and also a voice in
his government; that the government be-
longed to the people, and not to kings. It

Hotel Moody

by a period of liberal thought, of emancipa-
tion; a period of expansion, education, and
prosperity, such as Europe had never before
seen. For many years before that war took
place, idealists had longed for the abolition
of the slave trade. Men said it was a dream.
Yet it was actually accomplished at the Coun-
cil of Peace which took place at Vienna at the
end of the war. It is also a fact, not generally
known, that at that conference an arrange-
ment just failed of accomplishment by a few
votes — an arrangement of the nations to put
an end to war altogether, and punishing that
nation which would insist upon a policy of ag-
gression. The world was not yet ripe for this.

was ridiculed and reviled by all the conserva-
tives in Europe, and when we wrote it into
our Declaration of Independence the world
thought we had gone mad. It was a Utopian
bubble which would burst in a few years.
And what happened? France adopted it,
after untold bloodshed. England adopted it.
That struggle was in reality the revolution
of an hitherto despised and persecuted class,
the middle class, the manufacturing class. It
gave every man an opportunity to pursue his
business unmolested by monarchs and aristoc-
racies, and resulted in an increase of trade,
of wealth, hitherto unthought of. Eventually
it made the traders and manufacturers the

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dominating class. The policies of nations
were altered to suit them. Wars were fought
in their behalf.

The economic doctrine which was derived
from the philosophy of Rousseau was called
that of "enlightened self-interest." Every
business man should be let alone by govern-
ment to work out his own salvation. No
interference with trade. It was argued that,
in the long run, the interests of the whole
nation would coincide with individual inter-
ests. A theory of Adam Smith's.

This economic philosophy worked beauti-
fully for a while. It suited the times. And
it was peculiarly adapted to conditions in the
United States. There was land, coal, copper,
iron, oil and lumber from here to the Pacific.
All it needed was development by individual
initiative, unhampered by a meddling gov-
ernment. There was room enough for all,
and no man trod on his neighbor's toes.

The world does not stand still. New con-
ditions continually arise which were un-
thought of a few years before. New compli-
cations, new problems, new evils. Evolution
proceeds, and suddenly we awake to the dis-
covery that a system of society which worked
a while ago, produces much misery and suffer-
ing and injustice and discontent today.
Those who have become the beneficiaries of
the old system oppose any change.

Rev. W. E. Patterson

Rector of Trinity Church

It has been apparent, however, for several
years to those who have eyes to see and ears
to hear, that we have entered into another one
of those periods which are the forerunners of
a change in philosophy, and consequently in

Daniel Webb Johnson, many years agent and manager of the Monadnock Mills, born
in Sutton, N. H., October 16, 1827, died in Claremont, April 29, 1894. Mr. Johnson came to
Claremont in 1845, when eighteen years of age, entering the cloth room of the Monadnock Mills,
from which employment he was called, after a time, to the counting room, becoming, succes-
sively, bookkeeper and paymaster, and the trusted assistant of the agent, Jonas Livingston.
In February, 1858, he was made a°;ent and manager of the Phoenix cotton mill at Peterbor-
ough, in which the owners of the Monadnock Mills were interested, where he remained till
1863, when, upon the resignation of Mr. Livingston, he returned to Claremont and succeeded
him as agent of the Monadnock Mills, which position he held until his death. Under Mr.
Johnson's management the business of these mills was vastly increased and extensive addi-
tions and improvements were made to the plant, and in 1872 they engaged in the manufacture of
the celebrated Marseilles quilts, there being but one other manufactory in the country engaged
in their production, the business having since largely increased. Although thoroughly devoted
to and interested in the manufacturing business, which at the time of his decease was the lead-
ing industry of the town, Mr. Johnson's activities were not confined to this alone. He was
president of the Sullivan Savings Institution from 1870 to 1893, and one of its loaning agents;
a director of the Concord & Claremont Railroad from 1882 ; president and director of the Clare-
mont Water Works Company, and president of the board of trustees of the Fiske Free Library
from the time of its organization, a meeting of which board he had attended the afternoon pre-
vious to the attack of apoplexy which he suffered on Sunday, while attending service at the
Union Church, West Claremont, and from which he died on the following evening. He was
also a trustee of the State Industrial School at Manchester. A Democrat in politics and there-
fore a member of the minority party, he was nevertheless elected to the Legislature in 1892,
and had been his party's candidate for state senator in the Sullivan District. Mr. Johnson was
twice married — first, March 4, 1849, to Syena P. Walker of North Charlestown, who died Feb-
ruary 5, 1873; second to Mary A., daughter of John Tyler, January 7, 1880, who survived
him, with no children by either marriage.

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the structure of society. All the signs and
portents are here, and are increasing every
day. How are we to meet it? How is the
Church of Christ going to meet it? Let us
hope and believe with open-mindedness and
with intelligence. One of the highest duties
of a religious man, of a religious body, is to
be open-minded and intelligent.

And have things changed? In the first
place, practically all the resources have been
gobbled up. Unexpected results of "enlight-
ened self-interest" have developed. Instead
of the system working automatically for the
benefit of all, those whose "self-interest" has
been most enlightened have got the bulk of
the property. Less than one-half of one per
cent of our hundred millions of population
have an income of three thousand dollars.
Forty have an income of over a million.
Capital has organized. Individual opportu-
nity, for which our nation stands, has dwin-
dled and dwindled.

In the second place capital has become a
tyrant, replacing the tyrant of monarchy.
And it is well to point out that capital has
become a tyrant not by any deliberate inten-
tion, but as the inevitable working and result
of a system. Capital, by organizing, could
compel labor to do its bidding or starve.
The labor market in England and this country
became in all respects very little different from
a horse market. It exploited human beings,
got a new supply, and threw the old supply
away. Long daily contact with machines
wore them out. Labor, with increasingly
lower standards of fife, was imported from
Europe. The natural effect of this was the
banding together of workingmen and women
in labor unions. An element of strife thus
arose in the nation, often with malevolence
and ignorance on both sides.

I am not talking now of right and wrong.
I am merely pointing out that there is a con-
flict. If any one will take the trouble to read
the text-books on this subject, used in our
modern universities, he will see that, grant-
ing the system, the conflict was foreordained.
And not only does the conflict exist between
capital and labor, but between the big capi-
talist and the little capitalist, between the big
business man and the little business man.
Underselling a competitor in any one district
is merely an illustration of the enlightened
self-interest of trusts.

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It was not foreseen that, as a result of such
a war, a larger and larger element of the
population would suffer. According to the
Christian religion, any act which causes suf-
fering is a sin. But when these acts are part
and parcel of the structure of society, sanc-
tioned by the very philosophy of government,
which is embedded in our common law, and
are not essentially the acts of individuals, the
question of right and wrong becomes com-
plicated. When Ahab took Naboth's vine-
yard, the prophet might well denounce him.
He was personally responsible. But when a
modern Ahab, the trust, squeezes a modern
Naboth, the little business man, the trust can
point to the law and say that its act is the

hours, when the human organism is worn out
by this contact. The shoemaker, who made
the shoes himself, could stand twelve and even
fourteen hours a day without detriment. He
took a personal pride in his work, and he was
impressing his personality upon that work.
But if the contact with a machine is for too
long a period, the body and mind become
exhausted. Healthy rest becomes impossible.
A craving for excitement ensues, and since
our civilization fails to provide healthy amuse-
ments and often the leisure for them, the
operative takes to drink, the working girl to
the street and the dance hall and the back
rooms of saloons. We raise our hands in
horror at the result, but if we were open-

Claremont Hospital and Nurses' Home

logical consequence of the prevailing philos-
ophy on which our government was founded,
the rules of the game, the custom of the
country.

And who is to answer him? The Church?

The introduction and improvement of ma-
chinery, beginning at the end of the eighteenth
century, has added another unforeseen com-
plication to the working out of enlightened
self-interest for the good of all. The modern
science of psychology, applied to the condi-
tions of society, has revealed an interesting
phenomenon in relation to this fact. The
human organism can stand connection with
a mechanism only for a certain number of
hours without going to pieces. Statistics
show that the gravest accidents happen at
the end of the morning or of the afternoon

minded and educated we should see more
clearly the causes of them.

Psychology and the new economics have
thrown light on what is called the social evil.
A girl works all day, let us suppose, in a de-
partment store, standing on her feet. Let us
take it for granted that she is paid enough to
support the necessities of life, food and cloth-
ing, and housing in a room in a lodging house.
But here again we have the natural demand
for a reasonable amount of leisure, the natural
craving for a certain amount of amusement,
which exist in all human beings. The street
and the dance hall, the moving picture show,
are her only resources. The Government pre-
supposes that she can look out for herself.
In seeking to satisfy perfectly natural crav-
ings she gets into trouble, and as a result the

DR. OSMON B. WAY

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good citizens of a community who have not
entered into her problems or her life, arise in
indignation and attempt to fling her out.

As a result of the enlightened self-interest
philosophy, which once worked so well, we
have today slums, sweat shops, vile tene-
ments and areas of vice, saloons and dance
halls which are the breeding place of crime
and disease! I need not dwell on the evils
which have evolved.

We can't say that the individual manu-
facturer or department store owner is to
blame. They have to compete, in wages,
with other and perhaps more prosperous
department store owners and manufacturers.

It is nobody's fault in particular. One
thing we do know — whatever else it is it is not
Christianity. Christianity and self-interest
are contradictory terms.

Now we are never going to solve this
tangle, my friends, looking it squarely in the
face, without being open-minded about it.
Is the Church going to help in the solution?
I believe so. But she is bewildered today,
like many of the rest of us. She looks out
on a society of conflicting interests, class
arrayed against class, capital against labor,
and what we might call the middle classes,
with an increasingly difficult struggle to get
along, arrayed against both. Forever, in this
race to live, there are panics and strikes
and wars for the world's trade and

Charles B. Spofford

national aggrandizement grinding down the
weak.

But the force of society is stronger than
that of the individual. He must go with the
stream, even though it be sin to do so. To
oppose it is to be crushed.

The question arises today, what side

Osmon Baker Way, M. D., a leading physician of Claremont for many years, was born
n Lempster, March 22, 1840, son of Gordon and Abigail (Perley) Way. His parents removed
to Claremont when he was four years of age. He was educated here, at Kimball Union Acad-
emy, Meriden, and at Dartmouth Medical College, graduating from the latter with the highest
honors in 1865, having largely paid his way by teaching while securing his education. He
commenced practice at South Acworth, January 1, 1860, but removed to Claremont the fol-
lowing year, where he continued through life, gaining the highest measure of professional suc-
cess, and identifying himself most intimately with the important interests making for the wel-
fare and progress of the community. He was for many years superintending school committee
for the town, and for twenty-six years a member of the Stevens High School Committee; was
treasurer of the board of trustees having in charge the Paran Stevens and Helen R. Healey
funds for the benefit of that school, and for more than thirty years a member of the board of
trustees of the Fiske Free Library. In recognition of his service in the cause of education the
"Way School" was named in Irs honor. He had been a director of the People's National
Bank since its organization, and was one of the trio of citizens who built and owned Union
Block, the finest business structure in western New Hampshire. He was also for several terms
president of the Claremont Board of Trade. He was a leading spirit in the M. E. Church of
Claremont, was for more than thirty years president of the society and long chairman of the
board of trustees. A lover of music, he was also for some years the church chorister. He was
an examining surgeon for the United States Pension Bureau from 1873 to 1882, sewed several
years on the consulting staff of the Claremont General Hospital and was a representative in
the Legislature in 1871 and 1872. December 24, 1867, Dr. Way married Martha L. Wight-
man, who died December 25, 1868. February 22, 1882, he married Mary J. Wightman, a
sister of his first wife, by whom he is survived. He had been in failing health for some time,
and early in October last was removed to the sanitarium at Brattleboro, Vt., where he died,
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shall the Church take in this many-sided
conflict? If I have had one letter from min-
isters discussing this subject, I have had two
hundred. If the Church is supported by
capitalists and business men labor keeps aloof.
On the other hand, if you had a labor union
church, capitalists and business men would
keep aloof. But, according to the Christian
religion, the souls of the capitalists and
business men are just as much worth saving
as those of the laboring men. Now, if the
Church says that she will have nothing to
do with it all, that the structure of society,
and the underlying philosophy which deter-

wrongdoing. This is another question. But
the Church finds herself in a strange predica-
ment. She must do, I think, one of two
things. She must take the position that
social conditions cannot improve, she must
stick to the orthodox statement that the
structure of the world is essentially evil, and
confine her attention to individuals, exhort-
ing them to renounce the world; or else she
must interpret the words and spirit of her
Master as meaning that human conditions
can gradually improve, through human effort,
human courage, human learning, human
mastery over the laws of nature, and the all-

Residence of Dr. Osmon B. Way

mines that structure, is none of her business;
that her doors are open to all conflicting par-
ties, she forfeits any influence she might
obtain. None respect her. She is tempo-
rizing—something which her Master never
did.

Mind you, I have very little sympathy
with those who interpret the Gospel as the
sole expression of a political creed. But the
Church cannot take the position that the
great principles laid down by Jesus Christ
apply only to the sins of the individual, and
-not to the sins of society. And far be it from
me to throw the whole blame on society, and
to declare that there is no individual sin and

pervading influence and driving power of the
Holy Ghost.

She must be open-minded, and I believe
that she will be, that her desire is to be so.

She is facing a world which, paradoxically
enough, is filled with religious yearning; with
the longing for religion and the desire to put
that religion into practice; with pity and
sympathy for misery and suffering. Opposed
to this good will of the majority of the indi-
vidual citizens is the crystallization of society,
which compels them, in order to live, to
oppose their finest ideals. The Church is
facing a world of individuals who believe, at
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majority, in good things: in self-development,
in science, in the uniformity of natural law,
and yet in the god-like in man, and in man's
ability to pull himself by will and courage
out of his troubles. It is a world which
refuses, and which refuses rightly, to take
intellectual doctrines on faith: the mind and
soul must be convinced, must acquiesce,
before the will shall act. She is facing a
world, my friends, which is willing and ready
to believe in Christ, in his Godship, but which
demands a new interpretation of His sayings
in terms of modern learning, of modern science
and philosophy.

There are many bewildered ones who, like
Paul, are ready to cry today, "Lord, what
wouldst Thou have me to do?"

And the answer comes, "Love thy neighbor
as thyself, but love and respect thyself
equally with him. Serve thy neighbor, and
cherish him."

And we reply, "Lord, how can I do these
things? A little, yes, in my personal relation-
ships, outside of my business. But if I take
thy words literally, I shall starve, and my
children shall starve. Thy religion, applied
to society, is not practical."

Is the brotherhood of man nothing to work
for? "Blessed are you when men shall per-
secute and revile you for my sake." Does
not true development and life come in that
way, and in that way only? "O ye of little
faith, to doubt that that which I gave my
life to reveal is practical! to doubt that your
task is to apply it to society as well as to per-
sons!"

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which
believed on him, If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed;

"And ye shall know the truth,and the truth
shall make you free." John 8: 31, 32.

Does he not bid us to open our minds? to
use our faith in him, and the light which is
in us, which we have gained during the
centuries, to solve this problem?

The question, my friends, comes down to
this: Can the precepts of Jesus Christ be
made into a practical philosophy of society?

Economics is a practical study. It is sup-
posed to have very little of the sentimental
about it. I have no doubt that there are
many persons in this audience who are more
or less acquainted with the new economics
now beginning to be taught in all of our fore-

most universities. This economics is of
Christ, because it lays its emphasis not on
dollars and cents, but on the conservation of
human life. It shows how impractical and
wasteful a thing it is, especially in this age,
to exploit human beings, men and women
and children, like cattle, and throw them on
the dump heap. They and their children
then become the helpless who must be sup-
ported by society, or the demons who prey
upon society.

The new economics lays stress on the value
of self restraint in communities and nations
as well as in individuals. According to the

Allen R. Hood

Com. Maj. of Jarvis Post, G. A. R.

old economics, liquor is wealth. According
to the new economics liquor is called "illth."
It is a poison. Statistics show the appalling
amount of crime and disease for which it is
responsible. I don't know whether any of
you saw what I saw the other day in one of our
weekly magazines, but it was an open letter
from a liquor manufacturer to a Keeley Cure
man, offering to sell to the Keeley Cure man
his list of customers in lots of ten or twenty-
five or fifty thousand; and his argument was
this: That our customers are your prospec-
tive patients! What do you think of that
for an example of the enlightened self-interest

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philosophy? The new economics proves —
and mind you, proves practically — that it is
infinitely more uneconomical to a nation to
destroy the lives and souls of so many citi-
zens than to permit certain liquor dealers
to get rich, and so add to what has falsely
been called prosperity. But, according to the
logic of the old philosophy, government had
no right to interfere with the liquor dealer,
no matter how much harm and suffering he
might cause. He was pursuing "enlightened
self-interest."

A vital change has come about in men's
minds in the very conception of government.
Instead of a loose collection of citizens, each
bent upon pursuing his happiness and indi-
vidual opportunity, it is coming to be re-
garded as a brotherhood of citizens, an organ-
ism, of which every citizen is a member.
This is the new philosophy — differing from
that of Rousseau. And is it not Christian?

The welfare of citizens! What is welfare?
I will leave it to any one in this audience if
any man or woman is happy who five to them-
selves alone — selfishly? If clothes and com-
fort will satisfy the yearnings and desires of
life? The object of man's life is spiritual,
and has been since the stone age. Adequate
clothing and food and rest, yes, and amuse-
ment and property and privacy are all neces-
sary, but they fail to satisfy any one with a
spark of the Godlike left in them.

And what is the real object of life? Is it
not spiritual welfare, derived from the knowl-

E. L. Elliott

Editor of the Claremont Advocate

edge that we are useful? that we are doing a
useful service for mankind, and therefore —
somehow — for God? And that— we have
come to see, is precisely the object of
government. Plato saw it many hundred
years ago.

But we cannot have spiritual welfare unless
we have material comfort as a foundation.

James Duncan Upham, Chairman of the Programme Committee for the anniversary cele-
bration, and a leading business man of Claremont for many years, is a native of the town, born
November 7, 1853, a son of James P. and Elizabeth Walker (Rice) Upham. His mother was
a daughter of Capt. Samuel Rice of South Berwick, Me., formerly of Portsmouth, N. H., and
his father a son of Hon. George Baxter Upham, lawyer and congressman. He received his
preparatory education in the Claremont schools, and Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, where
he graduated in 1870. He entered Dartmouth College in the following autumn, but trans-
ferred to Cornell University in the freshman year, and graduated B.S., from the latter institu-
tion in 1874. He then entered the employ of the Sullivan Machine Company at Claremont as
clerk and paymaster and was thus engaged until chosen treasurer and manager of the Brandon
Italian Marble Company, in the summer of 1886 when he removed to Brandon, Vt., where
he remained fi\ e years, returning to Claremont in the summer of 1891 to assume the position of
treasurer of the Sullivan Machine Company (now Sullivan Machinery Company), and has
since remained, as the active manager of the most important industrial enterprise in the town
and county. Fo r many years past Mr. Upham has been a director and the president of the
Claremont National Bank. He is an active member of the Claremont Board of Trade, of
which he has been a director, vice-president and president. Since October, 1912 he has been
a director of the Boston & Maine railroad, and for the past two years, president of the New
■Hampshire Manufacturers' Association. A Republican of progressive tendencies, he has been
active in political life for some years past, and was a member of the Executive Council of the
State during the administration of Governor Floyd in 1907-8. In October, 1882, he was
united in marriage with Miss Kate Hall Deane of Claremont. They have two daughters,
Katharine Duncan, now the wife of Roy D. Hunter of Claremont, and Sarah Elizabeth, who
married Percy R. Brooks, of Guantanamo, now of San Manuel, Cuba.

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A sound mind springs from a sound body —
yes, and a sound soul.

The spiritual seems to spring from the
material, the physical. The soul in the body
stunted by disease and child labor and lack
■of food is hard to uplift. I think I can give
you a more illuminating example — the ex-
ample of the violin. A good violin is made,
with great care, of wood and catgut; the
sounds it gives forth are in conformity with
God's natural laws, and yet the exquisite
music it yields under the hand of a master
lifts us above our sordid cares towards
heaven. Of all the' arts, I think, the voice
-of music is nearest the cry of reality.

pity. It is the duty of every religious man
and woman to be open-minded and intelli-
gent. As learning grows, we must grow with
it, and apply it. Education, I repeat, is not
a matter of the high school, or of the univer-
sity. It is a matter of the whole life. It is
the habit of open-mindedness, and we are
beginning to apply that principle to our
schools.

Is the religion of Jesus Christ, my friends,
such a limited thing that it cannot be pro-
gressively applied to the changing conditions
of society? Or is it not a progressive revela-
tion? Should not the structure of society
grow nearer and nearer such a structure as

Residence of Hon. J. Duncan Upham

For many years devoted scientists have
been spending their lives in the universities
of Germany, England and of this country
studying evils, studying human nature in
psychology, singly and in the mass; suggest-
ing remedies, and fusing these remedies into
a philosophy which is nearer Christianity
than any ever yet set forth. These men are
not working for material gain. All laws being
passed in England and this country are in
accordance with this new philosophy, this
human philosophy. Could any more striking
example of the continued influence of Jesus
Christ, enlightening human minds, softening
human hearts to better human conditions,
be asked for?

But it is not enough to have sympathy and

He would have? And will His religion, which
has adapted itself to all the changing evolu-
tions, fail to adapt itself to conditions today,
when men are seeking God and seeking Christ
as never before?

To the Christian, and to the good citizen,
there is but one answer. For the good citizen
is a Christian. May the church bring them
together, through her age-long experience,
in Christ.

Benediction by Rev. John A. Belford

Let us pray. O Almighty, Eternal and
All- Wise God, Father of mercies and source of
all graces, vouchsafe, we beseech Thee, to
look down with a gracious eye upon all

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assembled here this evening. We believe in
Thee, we hope in Thee, and we love Thee.

Thou hast said, O most loving Father: Ask
and you shall receive; seek and you shall find;
knock and it shall be opened unto you. Re-
lying on Thy infinite goodness and promise,
acknowledging our dependence on Thee —
that in Thee we five, move and have our
being, we ask Thee to bestow upon us Thy
sweetest graces. Give to us the abundance
of heavenly blessings and from the richness
of the earth every substance necessary for
life. Grant that peace and prosperity may
be with us. May we learn to love Thee
more and more. May we live in friendship
and union with all men. Direct, O Lord, all
our actions by Thy holy inspiration, that
every work and prayer of ours may always
begin from Thee and by Thee be happily
ended, through Jesus Christ Our Lord,
Amen.

Following the exercises of the even-
ing a concert was given in the Opera
House by Nevers' Second Regiment
Band, a large portion of the audience
remaining to enjoy the same. The
numbers included two finely rendered
solos by Mr. Nevers which gave
special pleasure to many old friends,
Claremont being the place of his
nativity and home of his youth.

Monday, October 26, opened most
auspiciously, perfect weather con-
ditions prevailing. The townspeople
from outside the village and visitors
from surrounding towns came in, in
large numbers all the morning, till
not less than ten thousand people, by
conservative estimate, were gathered
in and around the Square, and along
the streets covered by the line of
march for the grand parade, carried
out under the direction of Chief Mar-
shal David R. Roys, who had pre-
viously issued the following order:

Office of the Grand Marshal

October 23, 1914.
Having been appointed Marshal of the One
Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary Parade, the
following is published for the government of
all concerned.

Chief of Staff, C. E. Sears
Staff
Aids: H. K. Moors, John Cragin, Leon Burns
D. F. Cutting, E. J. Rossiter, Walter
Thomas, Robert G. Rossiter.
The insignia of Grand Marshal and Aides,
red sash from right shoulder to left side.
The following is order of march:
Claremont Mounted Police
Grand Marshal and Staff
Division I.— Capt, Samuel H. Edes, Marshal.
American Band; Company M, 1st In-
fantry, as escort to His "Excellency the
Governor; Automobiles containing the
Governor and his Military Staff, Officers of
the Celebration and Distinguished Guests.

Charles F. Cole, D. D.

Grand Chancellor, Knights of Pythias

Division II. — E. J. Rossiter, Marshal. Aides:
Walter Thomas and Robert G. Rossiter.
Fifteen Historical Floats.

Division III. — H. K. Moors, Marshal.
Drum Corps; Civic Societies; Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; Rebekahs; Knights
of Pythias ; Pythian Sisters ; Grand Army
of the Republic; Spanish War Veterans;
Sons of Veterans; Woman's Relief Corps;
Daughters of the Revolution; Women's
Christian Temperance Union; Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Ancient Order
of Hibernians.

Division IV. — Edward Lebrecque, Marshal.
Windsor Band; Five French Lodges with
Floats.

Division V. — John Cragin, Marshal. Drum
Corps; Foresters of America No. 17; Com-

COL. LEONARD E. LOVERING

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panions of the Forest; Independent Order
of Red Men.
Division VI. — -Leon Burns, Marshal. Con-
cord Band; Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks; Post Office Officials; Clare-
mont General Hospital; Red Cross Nurses;
Knights of Malta; Methodist Camp Fire
Girls; Claremont Bird Club.
Division VII.— D. F. Cutting, Marshal.
Bellows Falls Band; Loyal Order of Moose;
Claremont Fire Department; Samuel H.
Maxwell, float; F. A. Billings, war ship;
Equal Suffrage Association; Monadnock
Mills, float; Claremont Gas Light Co., float;
Sullivan Machinery Co., float.
At half past ten o'clock a salute of seventeen
guns will be fired from Dexter hill in honor of
the Governor, which will be the signal of the
starting of the parade from Hotel Moody.

The First Division will form in the square,
facing Hotel Moody. The Second Division
on the east side of Broad street, facing north,
head of column at Town Hall. The Third
Division on the east side of Broad street in
rear of Second Division. The Fourth Divi-
sion on east side of Broad street in rear of
Third Division. The Fifth Division on east
side of Broad street in rear of Fourth Division.
The Sixth Division west side of Broad street,
facing north, head of column at Summer
street. The Seventh Division on west side of
Broad street, facing south, head of column at
Summer street.

The signal for the assembling will be
sounded by the Grand Marshal's bugler, at
9:30 o'clock from Hotel Moody.

David R. Roys, Grand Marshal.
Official: C. E. Sears, Chief of Staff.

Lieut. Leonard Lovering Barrett

The procession, which was some-
what delayed in starting, as is usually
the case, moved in perfect order,
covering a route of between three and
four miles altogether, through the
principal streets on both sides of the

Leonard E. Lovering, born in Quechee, Vt., November 13, 1854, died in Claremont, N. H.
May 29, 1914. He was the son of John L. and Ellen A. (Tyler) Lovering. His father
died when he was a child, and his mother, a daughter of Hon. Austin Tyler and a descendant of
the pioneer settler Col. Benjamin Tyler, returned with her two children, Leonard A. and Anna,
(the latter subsequently Mrs. Charles W. Barrett) to her early home in Claremont, where the
children were reared. He was educated in the Stevens High School, leaving the class of 1873
to enter West Point Military Academy to which he had been appointed by Hon. H. W. Parker,
then a member of Congress. He graduated in 1876, being commissioned, June 15 of that
year, second lieutenant in the Fourth United States Infantry. He was promoted first lieu-
tenant January 3, 1885, and captain October 15, 1893, meanwhile having served as acting
professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology at West Point, 1881-85; engineer officer De-
partment of the Columbia, 1888-89; aid-de-camp to Brigadier-General Gibbon, 1889-91: aid-
de-camp to Brigadier-General F. H. Ruger 1891-92. He was in command of his company
at Boise, Idaho, and Fort Sheridan, 111., 1892-98. He served in the Fifth Army Corps, in the
Santiago campaign in the Cuban war, participating in the battles of El Caney, San Juan, and
the bombardment and siege of Santiago. He served with distinction in the Philippines, from
1899 to 1901, in Schwan's expedition in Southern Luzon and as acting inspector-general at
Manila, and again 1902-4 as commanding officer of the South Province and inspector- 2 en eral
at Manila. In 1905 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and served for three years as inspec-
tor-general of the Southwestern Division. September 4, 1909, he was made colonel of the
Twenty-eighth Regiment, and February 28, 1910, was retired for disability. Upon retirement
he returned to his sister's home in Claremont, where his last years were passed. Colonel
Lovering was a true soldier, of the most thorough scientific training, and the highest measure
of practical ability. He was a member of the Spanish War Veterans, Society of Santiago, and
the G. A. R. He was also a thirty-second degree Mason. His sister, Arna Lovering Barrett,
a graduate of Stevens High School and Lasell Seminary is the Regent of Samuel Ashley Chap-
ter D. A. R. Her son, Leonard Lovering Barrett, graduate of Stevens High School, and West
Point, 1912, is a lieutenant in the United States Coast Artillery, stationed at Ft. Warren, Mass.

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river, the various marching organiza-
tions, and the appropriately designed
and finely decorated floats calling
forth most enthusiast ictdemonst rat ions
of approval from the crowds of people
gathered all along the route. The
procession was about two miles in
length, and occupied nearly an hour
in passing a given point. Nothing-
equalling this parade was ever before
seen in the County, nor was there ever
such a crowd gathered on any public
occasion within its limits. It should
be stated that next to the Governor's
party in the first division, which also
included Hon. H. W. Parker, Presi-

Hon. Hosea W. Parker presiding, and
the same were carried out according
to the programme. Following music
by the Orchestra prayer was offered
by the Rev. W. E. Patterson, rector
of Trinity Episcopal Church, as
follows:

Prayer by Rev. W. E. Patterson

Let us pray. O God, we have heard with
our ears and our fathers have told us the
noble works that Thou didst in their days and
in the old time before them, and we would
give Thee hearty thanks for all Thy goodness
and loving-kindness to us and to all men.
We bless Thee for our creation, preservation,

Fiske Free Library

dent of the Day, and Hon. J. Duncan
Upham, chairman of the Programme
Committee, were the selectmen of
Claremont, members of the Executive
Committee, Sullivan County officers
and other invited guests, also in
automobiles. Following the parade,
which was finally reviewed by the
Governor and party from a stand
erected for the purpose on Broad
street, the Governor held a reception
on the stand, large numbers of people
paying their respects to the Chief
Magistrate.

The formal anniversary exercises
opened at 2 p. m., in the Opera House,

and all the blessings of this life, but above all
for Thine inestimable love, in the redemption
of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for
the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
We would bless and magnify Thee for Thy
loving-kindness to us in our day and genera-
tion, in that Thou hast sent to this beloved
land of ours the blessings of peace and pros-
perity; and as we are here assembled on this
occasion to celebrate the advancement and
development of our town and community
during the years that are past, and as we look
upon the material achievements that have
taken place therein, while we are thankful for
these, help us to realize that our prosperity as
a people rests not upon material develop-
ment only but rather upon those principles

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of righteousness, of mercy, of justice, of love,
and charity.

We would ask Thy blessing upon the exer-
cises of this afternoon and we would pray that
Thou wouldst direct us in all our doings
with Thy most gracious favor and further us
with Thy continual help that in all our works
begun, continued, and ended in Thee we may
glorify Thy holy name and by Thy mercy
obtain everlasting life through Him who has
taught us to pray

"Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed
be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will
be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us
this day our daily bread and forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive those that trespass
against us. And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for-
ever and ever, Amen."

President Parker then addressed
the assembly in the following words
being warmly greeted at the opening
and close of his remarks:

Address of President Parker

Fellow-citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen:

This is a very interesting day for our be-
loved town. We have met for the purpose of
celebrating, and taking note of, the one hun-
dred fiftieth anniversary of the granting of
the charter to the town of Claremont.

It is not for me to review the history of
Claremont. That will be done more effec-
tively and more at length by another. I
cannot refrain, however, ladies and gentle-
men, from reverting to a few things which
have come to my notice during my residence
in this town. It is fifty-four years the present
week since I became a citizen of Claremont.
I remember well the situation and the condi-
tion of our town, at that time. I have watched
with a good deal of interest and have partic-
ipated to some extent and have given a good
deal of my time to the development and prog-
ress and interest of this town.

I remember fifty years ago the surround-
ings here in what we now call the square. At
that time there was a hotel — a wood struc-
ture — known as the Tremont House. Back
of it there was an old barn. On either side
there were very humble mercantile establish-
ments ; nothing very attraetive to the eye or
to the taste, so far as I can remember, at that

time. Contrast that condition with the
present !

I remember well the condition of our manu-
facturing establishments at that time in
town. Very humble beginnings, many of
them. It is true the Monadnock Mills were
here, doing a comparatively small amount of
manufacturing of the ordinary cotton cloth —
while today its product of the well-known
Marseilles bed quilts are sold and distributed
throughout the length and breadth of the
land — one of the most important manufactur-

Soldiers' Monument, Claremont, N. H.

ing establishments in New England. I
remember at that time, too, the small be-
ginning of the Sullivan Machinery Company,
then called the Sullivan Machine Company,
I believe. How that well-known citizen,
James P. Upham, started at that time with
two or three or four or five workmen whose
special work was, I believe, to manufacture
water wheels, known as the Tyler water
wheels — a very small affair, a very small
beginning, although Mr. Upham was a very
enterprising citizen and did as much, perhaps,
to put the wheels of industry in motion as

GENERAL HERBERT E. TUTHERLY
Adjutant-General — Chairman of Parade Committee

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any man we have ever had. Look today at
that great establishment, employing ten or
twelve hundred people, sending its produc-
tions throughout the civilized world, recog-
nized as one of the great manufacturing estab-
lishments of New England!

I remember the very humble mercantile
establishments that surrounded this square,
very humble indeed as compared with the
present. Today we have a beautiful open
square here, surrounded by mercantile
establishments that equal almost any in the
small cities and some of the larger cities. We
have a beautiful hotel in place of the old
hotel, which went up in flames. We have
many things today that in those early days
we did not possess. May I recount a few of
them?

We have a splendid high school, founded
by one of the citizens of Claremont — an
honor to the town and a great benefit to this
community, one of the best literary institu-
tions in the State, respected and honored, as
I say, by our people. We have one of the
best hospitals, caring for the sick and the
distressed, doing a great work in our midst,
prized highly by us all, well-endowed and
doing a noble work. We have a first-class
public library, equal to almost any in the
State. Our schools, as compared with the
schools of fifty years ago, have taken on new

Samuel Richardson

General Insurance Agent

life and are doing better work then ever
before. We have splendid school buildings,
splendid schools. Our churches are pros-
perous — to a degree, not so much so as they
ought to be, because I believe in the church

Herbert E. Tutherly, Adjutant-General of the State of New Hampshire, and Chairman of
the Committee on Parade, for the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, was
born in Claremont April 5, 1848, being the eldest son of William E. and Lorette C. (Rossiter)
Tutherly. His paternal ancestry came from England, settling at York, Me., in 1666. His
father, William E. Tutherly, was a farmer by occupation, but extensively engaged in public
affairs in his later years, being chairman of the board of selectmen for many years, including
the Civil War period, County Commissioner, member of the Legislature, and of the Executive
Council. General Tutherly was educated at Claremont Academy, Kimball Union Academy,
Meriden, and the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating from the latter
in 1872, when he was appointed second lieutenant in the First United States Cavalry. He
was subsequently promoted to first lieutenant, captain, major and lieutenant-colonel, and
was placed upon the retired list of the United States Army in 1906, after a service of thirty-
eight years, during which he was for about twenty years upon Indian frontier service in the
Western territories and in Alaska. He participated in the Spanish American War, command-
ing a squadron of cavalry in Cuba, where for gallantry in action at the battle of San Juan
Hill, he was recommended for the rank of brevet major. He was detailed by the War Depart-
ment as professor of military science at Cornell University, and later at the University of
Vermont, the two terms of service covering eleven years. He was also detailed for five years
as inspector-general, about one half the time being spent in the Philippines. In 1885 he re-
ceived the honorary degree of A. M., from the University of Vermont. Since his retirement
General Tutherly has made his home in Claremont, having a large farm, a mile and a half
east of the village, where he is extensively engaged in stock raising. He was appointed ad-
jutant-general of New Hampshire, with the rank of brigadier-general, by Governor Bass in
1911, and reappointed by Governor Felker in 1913, in recognition of his efficient service at
the head of the state's military department, which has been continued to the present time to
the satisfaction of all concerned and is, fortunately to be continued under the coming admin-
ist ation. General Tutherly married, May 29, 1878, Miss Marion Cotton of Claremont.
They have one son, George E., now of Chelsea, Vt., born December 11, 1879.

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as well as in the institutions of learning. Our
forefathers, you remember, planted the
church alongside of the schoolhouse, believ-
ing that the church was as essential to the
progress of the human race as the school-
house.

Today we are highly favored. Nature
has been lavish in her gifts to us. This town
is most beautifully situated, surrounded by
beautiful hills and valleys. No place in the
State is superior in natural beauty to Clare-
mont. And while we realize that New
Hamsphire is the great "picnic ground," so

be an organization that shall purchase that
location and make it one of the resorts of our
town. I have taken visitors who have visited
me from the West many a time upon Flat
Rock and they were charmed, more than
charmed, by the surrounding view, saying
that it was almost equal, if not quite equal,
to anything that could be found in Switzer-
land or across the sea. Claremont ought
to wake up, more than it ever has, to some
of these natural beauties — ought to wake
up and do more in the future than it has in
the past.

The Last of the Shugah Indians Leaving Claremont — 1750

to speak, or the great place of resort for our
entire country, why should not Claremont
wake up and make it one of those attractive
spots, more so than at present, for the summer
visitor? That is being considered somewhat.
Why, ladies and gentlemen, one hundred
million dollars yearly, it is estimated, is
spent in New England by vacationists. Is
there any reason why these hillsides and these
beautiful mountains that surround us should
not be dotted by summer cottages, occupied
by vacationists? I have often thought, and
I feel the same today, of the beautiful spot
that we call Flat Rock — that there ought to

I have lived to see this town grow in popu-
lation, more than double in population; in
wealth, three or four or five times what it was
fifty years ago. But, my friends, this material
prosperity that has been very properly
alluded to — this material prosperity is not all
there is to make a town or a community.
There are other things that should be con-
sidered. While we rejoice in and are proud
of the material prosperity that our town has
attained, we should give heed and give thought
to something that is higher and nobler and
better than that. Character-building is the
great purpose of life — good character is

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worth more than bonds and stocks and
money and wealth; and we should look to it
that we are not only a town prosperous in a
material way, but a town that is recognized
as foremost in the great moral reforms of the
day. We are living in a time in these days
when people are turning their attention, more
than ever before, to the higher things of life,
giving more attention to justice and right and
charity and brotherly love and peace and
unity; these are the things that ought to in-
spire us — these are the things that are per-
manent — these are the things that characterize
a state, a nation, and a people. Let us give
heed to them and go on — go on in the future
and make this town what it ought to be, the

I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon
this occasion, and I extend to you a hearty
greeting; go on, go on, teach your children
(and this is the thought that I desire to leave
with you) teach your children the better
things of life; not only support your schools
but support your church. Religion is one
of the essentials of this life — support your
church and give heed to these better things,
for they are the things that are enduring and
eternal.

Of course, to me there are some shadows
that pass over me today. My old friends are
nearly all gone, very few of those who were
with me in the early days are here. I could
call a long list of worthy men and women who

Moses Spafford and Wife Arriving in Claremont, 1762

leading and most beautiful town in the Con-
necticut River valley. We have the natural
advantages for it, and I appeal to the young
people who are to come after us (for some of
us won't be here long) ; the young people who
are to come after us should give heed to these
higher things of life — our schools should give
more heed to these higher and better things
of life. Intellectual training is all right, we
believe in that, but moral and spiritual train-
ing is better. Let us remember that "right-
eousness exalteth a nation while sin is a re-
proach to any people." Give heed to the
moral aspects of life; be more just, more
kindly, more true, and Claremont in the
future will be what the good God designed
that his people should be.

were here in Claremont, active in business
life, active in every part of the town ; very few
of them are left. I cannot realize why I am
here, but I am thankful to be here today,
thankful to take part in these very interesting
exercises, thankful that I have lived to see
this day; and I am thankful for the coopera-
tion which I have received in town, for I have
been a pretty active man here; I am thankful
for the cooperation which I have received on
the part of the town in some of the advances
which have made my connection with the
business interests of this town very intimate,
very close, and I have tried to do my duty as
a citizen as I understood it: For these and a
thousand other things I thank my towns-
men.

COL. CHARLES H. LONG

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Mr. Parker, Introducing Governor
Felker
Now, ladies and gentlemen, it isn't often
that we have a live governor here in Clare-
mont. There have been a good many times
when some of our people would have been
happy to be governor — perhaps they were
worthy to be governor; but that office seems
never to have reached them. We are thankful
today to have with us his Excellency, the
Governor of our State, and we feel very
highly honored because he has paid us this
visit, and I take this opportunity to thank
him for his presence here today. I know you
will all be delighted to hear a word from him
and he has very kindly consented to address
you on this occasion. I have the pleasure of
presenting to you Governor Felker of our
Commonwealth .

Address by Governor Felker
Ladies and Gentlemen, Citizens of Claremont:

I am pleased to be with you on this occasion
and to participate with you in the exercises
of today. I bring to you the greetings of the
State of New Hampshire, and wish you all
success. This day has certainly been most
propitious. It could not have been better
if it had been ordered for the occasion.

Your parade was one of the best, if not the
best, I have seen during my two years as
Governor of the State of New Hampshire.

The societies turned out in goodly numbers
and, as I may not have another opportunity,
I want here to express my appreciation to the
Elks for their kindly escort from the station;
also my appreciation of that organization
which belongs alone to the United States,
and the great amount of good it has done.
There are two things for which it should es-
pecially be commended; they have brought
to our attention with greater force than ever
before the significance of our national emblem;
they have also brought to our attention the
wonderful results that can be accomplished
by extending the truly helping hand. I wish
them Godspeed.

This is a beautiful town as my friend Mr.
Parker has said, and I certainly admire the
judgment of those earlier men who settled in
the Connecticut Valley. For where you see
good agricultural land, you see prosperity.
We are all dependent upon agriculture. In
this valley you see prosperity — you see happy
homes where you see that; you not only have
this at hand, but you have the grand mountain
scenery, the beauty of location which attracts
the people far and wide. Make the most of
such an opportunity.

The suggestion made to me last night by
Brother Parker that the best brains, like the
potatoes in a hill, are under ground, is cer-
tainly not true in Claremont. You are a
wide-awake people and you have done won-
ders in the way of manufacturing and in the

Charles H. Long, born in Claremont, March 14, 1834, died at his home there May 30, 1908.
He was the son of Capt. Charles Frederick and Caroline Jones (Hubbard) Long, and was the
last male representative in town of the three old families of Jones, Hubbard and Long. He
was graduated from Norwich Military University in 1855. Upon the outbreak of the Civil
War he was employed as a drill-master by the state of New Hampshire for three months and
then recruited men for the Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, in which he was com-
missioned captain of Company G. September 17, 1862, he was severely wounded in the battle
of Antietam, and resigned in November following; but in April, 1863, he returned to the serv-
ice, was commissioned captain and authorized to raise a company of heavy artillery to garrison
the defences of Portsmouth, having previously held a commission for a short time as lieutenant-
colonel in the Seventeenth Regiment, which was consolidated with the Second. In 1864 a
full regiment of heavy artillery was raised and on September 29 he was commissioned colonel
of the same. In November following he was ordered to the command of the First Brigade,
Hardin's Division, Twenty-Second Army Corps, which position he held until mustered out at
the close of the war, his conduct as an officer commanding the highest approbation of his supe-
riors. Upon the opening of the Concord & Claremont Railroad, in 1872, Colonel Long was
made station agent, which position he held for nineteen years, resigning in 1901. Colonel Long
was a Republican in politics and active in public affairs, having served as treasurer of Sullivan
County and as a member of the State Legislature in 1871 and 1903; also as a member of the
Stevens High School Committee. He was a member of Major Jarvis Post, G. A. R., and was
its second commander. He was also active in Masonry and had been Eminent Commander
of Sullivan Commandery, K. T. In religion he was an Episcopalian, and was senior warden of
the church at the time of his decease, and was also a member of the finance committee of the
New Hampshire diocese. He was married March 14, 1859, to Miss Stella E. Cook by whom
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way you have handled your town, and all the
brains are not under ground.

There are of course more or less men who
have been a power in this state and the nation
who have lived in Claremont and passed on.
But there are men who stand high in the State
today. I can see them before me; I can see
them upon this stage. Look at the Uphams
who for generations have added to the de-
velopment of the resources of the town, and
have added to its prosperity, and the many
friends of the present representative of the
family who would like to see him Governor
of the State. See my friend Parker who has
represented you in the halls of Congress, and
who is as young today as he ever was. Why,
when I walked across the square to this Hall
I couldn't keep step with him. When it
looked as if we were going to have trouble
with Mexico, and our worthy President was
looking over the State Militias as to their
preparedness, he found New Hampshire one
of three States all ready and trains hired for
Mexico. The credit of this is due solely to
your fellow-townsman, General Tutherly.

New Hampshire is prosperous in a general
way, and I might talk to you of her prosper-
ity; I might talk to you of her advancing
prosperity; I might talk to you of peace, but
the war across the waters seems to say there
will be no peace. I wish to God that the men
who started the war were put together in one
room, and let them fight it out. Then we
should have no war.

But there is, thank God, a brotherhood of
man. It is evidenced more and more — you
evidence it today in your getting together
here, one and all, each touching elbows, and
one equal with the other, and all for the com-
mon good. Let us trust that in the future
someone will solve the broader humanity of
man to man and the brotherhood of us all.
It is up to us to solve that question and we
cannot leave it unsolved if we would.

I bid you all hail and I wish you all future
prosperity. And when you get together, as
some will, in fifty years from now, I trust that
you will then live under the best government
that God ever vouchsafed to man.

Mr. Parker, Introducing Mr. Metcalf

Ladies and gentlemen, I have known the
gentlemen who is to address you this after-
noon perhaps longer than any other person

among those present. I knew him as a boy
in my native town; I knew him as a school
teacher; I have known him as a writer, an edi-
tor; I have known him as one of the most
active men in the State for the promotion of
the Grange — agriculture; I have known him
as a leading man in the State in promoting
the work of the Old Home Week Association,
of which he is the president, I believe, at the
present time; I have known him as a public
servant here in the State, doing more work for
the benefit of the State than almost any other
man; and I am more than happy to present
him to you, this afternoon, as the orator of
the day — Honorable Henry H. Metcalf,
State Historian.

HISTORICAL ADDRESS

Mr. President, Sons and Daughters of
Claremont, Ladies and Gentlemen:

Let me congratulate you, in the outset,
upon the favorable auspices under which you
are assembled to celebrate an important event
in the history of your goodly town. You ob-
serve, today, the one hundred and fiftieth an-
niversary of the charter of the town of Clare-
mont. You have met in this spacious and
beautiful assembly hall, in the stately edifice
which is the civic center of an intelligent and
progressive community, in a season when
plenty and happiness pervade the land, when
nation-wide prosperity, to which your labor
and efforts have contributed their due share,
.abounds. In happy contrast to old-world
conditions, no clouds of war overshadow — no
blood of slaughtered thousands stains the soil.
You meet amid peaceful surroundings to cele-
brate the triumphs of peaceful industry.

One hundred and fifty years ago today,
October 26, 1764, Benning Wentworth, Gov-
ernor and Commandei'-in-Chief of the Prov-
ince of New Hampshire, with advice of Coun-
cil, in the name of King George the Third, by
the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.,
granted to Josiah Willard, Samuel Ashley and
sixty-seven others, a tract of land described
as about six miles square, containing twenty-
four thousand acres, the same to be divided
into seventy-five equal shares, one for each
proprietor, after reserving for His Excellency,
the Governor, five hundred acres, taken from
the southwest corner of the tract granted, to-
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River, opposite, the same to be accounted as
two shares; one share for the society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
one share for a glebe for the Church of Eng-
land, one share for the first settled minister
of the Gospel and one for the benefit of a
school in the town, forever. This tract of
land, by the terms of the grant, was incor-
porated into a township by the name of Clare-
mont — a name said to have been derived from
the country seat of Lord Clive, a noted Eng-
lish general, prominent in the conquest of
India. The boundaries were distinctly set
forth in the grant, and embrace all the terri-
tory of the town as it exists today, except a
small section set off from the town of Unity
by the legislature of the state at the Decem-
ber session of 1828.

It was provided in the charter, or grant,
that as soon as there were fifty families resi-
dent therein, the town should have liberty to
hold two fairs annually, and to open and keep
a market one or more days each week. It
was stipulated that each grantee, his heirs or
assigns, should plant or cultivate five acres
of land, within five years, for every fifty con-
tained in bis share, and make additional im-
provements, as time passed, on pain of for-
feit ing his title. All pine trees, fit for masts for
the royal navy, were expressly reserved for
that use. Before any division of land should
be made, a tract near the center of the town
was to be laid out in town lots of one acre
each, one to be allotted to each grantee. A
tribute of one ear of corn, annually, was to
be paid the king, if lawfully demanded, for
the space of ten years; after which each
grantee was to pay one shilling, proclamation
money, for every hundred acres he owned,
and in that proportion for greater or less
amounts, annually forever.

It is unnecessary to present, here, the full
text of the charter, the substantial provisions
of which have been stated, or the list of names
of the proprietors, comparatively few of
whom ever lived in the town or even saw the
land they had been granted. Nor is there
any occasion for extended reference to the
records of the Proprietor's meetings, the first
of which, as appears from the records, was
held at the house of Lieut. Hilkiah Grout,
February 2, 1769, at which Lieut. Samuel
Ashley was moderator and Col. Josiah Wil-
lard, clerk; and the last at the office of A. F.

Snow in Claremont, October 28, 1858, David
H. Sumner being moderator and Solon C.
Grannis, clerk. The bulk of the proprietors
were mainly interested, as was generally the
case with those of other towns, in disposing
of their holdings, and none but the three Ash-
leys — Samuel, Samuel Jr., and Oliver — be-
came settlers in the town, and even these
were not among the first. Two years before
the grant of the town — in 1762 — two settlers,
Moses Spafford and David Lynde, had come
in, selected locations and built their cabins,
and between then and 1767, when the proprie-

Henry S. Richardson

Attorney at Law

tors began to be alert in looking after their in-
terests, a few others had come in. These were
all dealt with, in some manner satisfactory
to both sides, and other locations were dis-
posed of in considerable number to other
home-seekers, so that on the 8th day of
March, 1768, a town government seems to
have been put in operation. At all eventa
the first town meeting of which there is any
record was holden on that date, at the house
of Capt. Benjamin Brooks, who was made
moderator, with Joseph Ives, town clerk, and
Benjamin Brooks, Ebenezer Skinner, Benja-
min Tyler, Thomas Jones and Amos York,
selectmen. Benjamin Brooks, Jr., was elected

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constable. At an adjourned meeting, three
weeks later, Amos York and Benedick Roys
were chosen tything-men; Benedick Roys
and Josiah Rich, deer reeves and Asa Leet
and Ebenezer Skinner, surveyors of highways.
It was voted to build a pound for the use of
the town, near Thomas Jones' house, "in the
most convenient place," and Thomas Jones
was chosen pound-keeper. The need of high-
ways was coming to be felt, thus early, and
Capt. Benjamin Brooks and Benjamin Sum-
ner were chosen a committee to lay out a
road to Newport, where a settlement had
been made under a charter granted three
years earlier than that of Claremont.

It was also voted at this meeting "to take
two acres of land off the northwest corner of
the Fair for a burying place" — a necessity
that had not been thought of by the proprie-
tors in their original layout.

At the next annual meeting, held at the
house of Dr. William Sumner, he was chosen
moderator and Benjamin Sumner town clerk.
Three selectmen, only, were elected this year,
and these were Jeremiah Spencer, Benjamin
Tyler, and Benjamin Sumner. Thus it will
be seen that the principle of "rotation in
office" was early recognized in this town, and

it is proper to say that it has very generally
been observed. In rare instances only has
any man been continued many years suc-
cessively in the same office in the town of
Claremont, the most notable exception being
in the case of Hon. George B. Upham, who
represented the town in the General Court
fifteen years in all, and ten years successively
— from 1804 to 1813 inclusive. At an ad-
journed meeting, this year (1769) after the
choice of minor officers, it was voted that
"Daniel Warner shall have for his services in
marking a road to Merrimack £1, 8s. lawful
money." It was also voted that "Hogs may
run at large, yoked and ringed according to
law."

At the annual meeting in 1770 a town
treasurer was chosen for the first time, in
the person of Thomas Gustin, but Dr. Wil-
liam Sumner got this office next year, and Mr.
Gustin was let down easily by an election as
pound-keeper, when it was also voted that
the town clerk should keep a record of the
marks of cattle and swine belonging to the
inhabitants.

At a special town meeting, May 9, 1771, it
was voted that "we will call a Minister to
come and preach the gospel among us on

Ira Colby, Jr., for two score years a prominent member of the Sullivan County bar and an
honored and influential citizen of Claremont, born there January 11, 1831, died June 27,
1908. Mr. Colby was the son of Ira and Polly (Foster) Colby, his father being a successful
and enterprising farmer, prominent in town affairs, and his mother a descendant of Reginald
Foster who settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1638. He received his preliminary education in the
Claremont schools, and in the Academies at Sanbornton (now Tilton), N. H., Springfield, Vt.,
Marlow, N. H., and Thetford, Vt., entered Dartmouth College in 1853, graduating therefrom
with the class of 1857, among his classmates being the late Judge James B. Richardson of Massa-
chusetts, and Gen. Edward F. Noyes of Ohio. While pursuing his preparatory and college
studies he taught school every winter, and, later, was engaged in teaching a year in Wisconsin.
In the fall of 1858 he commenced the study of law with Freeman & McClure of Claremont,
was admitted to the bar two years later and commenced practice in the office in which he had
studied, Mr. McClure having died and Mr. Freeman retiring from practice. From that time
(1860) till his death, he was actively engaged in the work of his profession, attaining a measure
of success and reputation therein, unsurpassed by any of his contemporaries in his town or
county. A Republican in politics, he was honored by his party by election to the popular
branch of the legislature in 1864, 1865, 1881, 1883 and 1887, and to the State Senate in 1869
and 1870, serving on important committees in both branches. In 1883 he introduced and
secured the passage of the "Colby bill," so-called, which materially changed the railroad law
of the state, and was the leader of the legislative forces supporting the so-called "Hazen bill"
in the memorable contest of 1887, which passed both branches but was killed by executive
veto. He was solicitor for Sullivan County continuously with the exception of two years,
from 1864 to 1888, a delegate at large in the Republican National Convention in 1876, and
was appointed a member of the commission to revise, amend and codify the public statutes
in 1889. In 1893 he was appointed by the Governor and Council an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, to succeed W. H. H. Allen, but declined the position. Like his father before
him, whom he succeeded on the board of trustees, he was a prominent and active member of
the M. E. Church of Claremont. June 20, 1867, he was united in marriage with Louisa M.
Way, daughter of Gordon Way of Claremont and sister of Dr. Osmon B. Way, who survives.
They had two children, a son, Ira Gordon Colby, a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of
1894, now a lawyer of Claremont, and a daughter, who died in infancy.

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Probation in order to settle in the Gospel
Ministry among us." A record was made of
the names of those voting on this proposi-
tion — the first record of any yea and nay
vote in town, though it probably does not
show the entire number of voters then living
here. Those voting in the affirmative, or in
favor of calling a minister, were Thomas
Gustin, William Sumner, Ebenezer Skinner,
Capt. B. Sumner, Jacob Rice, Joseph Wright,
John Kilburn, Asaph Atwater, John Spencer,
Asa Jones, Jonas Stewart, Barnabas Ellis,
Joseph Ives, Joseph Hubbard, Beriah Mur-
ray, Amaziah Knight, Gid Lewis, Timothy
Dustin and Thomas Houston. Those voting
in the negative, or against the proposition,
were Amos York, Oliver Ashley and Moses

in the work of the gospel ministry, agreeable
to the Congregational or Cambridge Plat-
form." It was also voted to give Mr.
Wheaton the Ministerial Right of Land given
the town by charter for the first settled min-
ister, and also fifty pounds, lawful money,
fifteen to be paid in money, and the rest to
be paid in spruce for building at the money
price — this as an "encouragement" to settle.
For the salary he was to have "Forty Five
Pounds the first year, and to rise 5 pounds per
year till it amounts to 80 pounds." It is
recorded that Moses Spafford and William
Porter "protested against the whole pro-
ceedings." This call, after due consideration,
Mr. Wheaton accepted, his acceptance being
received at an adjourned meeting, one week

Granting of the Charter

Spafford. At the same meeting it was voted
"to apply to Mr: Elijah Parsons to come and
preach the gospel among us on Probation in
order to settle with us. But, if he fails, to
apply to Dr. Wheelock (President of Dart-
mouth College) for advice who to apply to in
his rome."

At a special meeting of the towD, Septem-
ber 26, of the same year, Capt. B. Brooks
was chosen grand juror for the ensuing
year, which is the first choice of any man
for jury service in town, of which record is
made.

That the application to Mr. Elijah Par-
sons "failed" is shown by the fact that, as
recorded, the town voted, on December 26,
1771, "to give Mr. George Wheaton a call,
and do call Mr. Wheaton to settle among us

later, at which it was also voted "to raise
twelve pounds to satisfy Mr. Wheaton for
past service," so that it is apparent that he
had been preaching for some time on trial,
and was the person whom Dr. Wheelock had
recommended.

At the annual meeting in 1772 it was voted
"to raise a Rate of three pounds, lawful
money, to purchase Weights and measures for
the use of the town"; also "thirty five pounds
towards the amendment of Highways, and to
allow three shillings per diem for labor," the
generally prevailing custom of working out
highway taxes manifestly being in vogue.

At a meeting on January 6, 1773, John
Sprague, Benjamin Brooks, Jr., Ebenezer
Rice and Jacob Rice were "drawn and ap-
pointed to serve on the petit jury"- — being

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the first men in town selected for such serv-
ice, so far as the record shows.

At the annual meeting in March, 1773, it
was "Voted to raise a Rate of Twenty Pounds
for the support of schools the ensuing Year,
and Sixty Pounds more for amendment of
Highways." This is the first record of the
appropriation of money for schools in town.

In March, 1775, it was voted "to shut up
hogs from the first of April next to the last
days of October following"; also "to lease
out the lands that belong to the town for the
use of Schools as by grant of the Town allowed
for that purpose." Twenty pounds were
voted for schools and forty-five for highways,
and "the meeting took into consideration a
number of Poor Mens Rates and voted to
'sink' 21 of them," it thus appearing that
affluence was not then universal in the com-
munity.

On June 12, 1775, a town meeting was held
"for the Purpose of Hearing the reports of
Mr. Oliver Ashley, from Provential (Provin-
cial) Congress and to Choose a Committee
of Safety, etc.," from which it appears that
the said Ashley had been chosen or appointed
a representative or delegate from Claremont
in the said Congress, although there is no
record of such selection. It was voted "that
the town is fully satisfied with the doings of
our member, Mr. Oliver Ashley, att the
Provential (Provincial) Congress holden at
Exeter on the 17th of May last."

Capt. Joseph Wait, Ensign Oliver Ashley,
Messrs. Thomas Gustin, Asa Jones, Jacob
Roys, Eliezer Clark and Lieut. Joseph Taylor
were chosen a Committee of Safety, and it
was voted that "Oliver Ashley shall attend
Provential Congress till further orders.''

At a meeting December 15, 1775, "Capt.
Joseph Wait was chosen Representative to
attend the Provential Congress at Exeter
on the 21st day of December next." It was
"Voted that the said member shall have full
Power with the other members of said Colony
to resolve themselves into such a House as
the Continental Congress shall recommend
for the taking up government in this country."
Thus it appears that the people of Claremont,
young as their settlement then was, were
among the very first in support of measures
looking toward independence in America.
And, by the way, it may well be remarked in
this connection, that this same Provincial

Congress, meeting in December, 1775, of
which Captain Wait was a member, soon
after took action equivalent to a declaration
of independence from British rule, and ante-
dating similar action by the Rhode Island
Assembly, which has been claimed, on behalf
of that colony, as the first formal action of
the kind in the country.

At a meeting on December 10, 1776, Elihu
Stevens was chosen a Representative in the
Assembly at Exeter for the year ending on
the third Wednesday of December next. At
the annual March meeting following, twenty-

Oscar C. Rand

President of Rand, Ball & King Hardware Company.
In same store 49 years and still selling hardware

five pounds was voted for schools and a like
amount for highways, and it was voted to
"lease the Burying Yard to Ebenezer Rice
for the term of Twenty years. " On Decem-
ber 8, 1777, Elihu Stevens was elected Repre-
sentative in the Assembly, and it was voted
"to pay the Rev. Mr. Augustine Hibbard's
third year's sallery in good wheat at five
shillings per bushel, in good well fated pork
at four pence per pound, good flax well
dressed at eight pence per pound, and other
articles of provisions or labour in proportion
to the above articles."

At a meeting February 2, 1778, "Voted to

HERMON HOLT

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adopt the articles of Confederation appointed
by the Honorable, the Continental Congress."
Also "Voted that Elihu Stevens Esq., pro-
ceed with Justice to use his influence to call
a full and free representation of all the people
of the State of New Hampshire to meet in
convention as has been desired by the House
of Representatives of s d State Reference
being had to a vote passed in s d House on
December 17th, 1778." Here was mani-
festly a slip of the pen in the record, December
1777, being intended. Also "Chose Lieut.
Joseph Rice Selectman in the room of Capt.
Joseph Taylor, as he expects soon to joyn
with the American army."

At the annual meeting in March, following,
the selectmen were authorized to divide the
town into districts for the convenience of
schools, and seven districts were subsequently
formed. December 7, 1778, chose Dea.
Thomas Sterns to represent the town in the
assembly. It was also voted "that the town
pay the cost that has arisen for the support
of Mr. Daniel Sterns' wife while he was
absent from her in the army."

In March, 1779, "Voted that Dea. Thomas
Sterns use his influence at the Assembly for
the purpose of laying claim to the Grants on
the West side of Connecticut River, that the
s d grants may be annexed to the State of
New Hampshire."

In 1780 it was voted "to raise thirty
pounds lawful money, to be raised as wheat
at five sh. per bush., for schools."

In 1784 there is a record of the vote cast
in town for Councilor, viz :

Col. Samuel Ashley 14

Gen. Benjamin Bellows 15

William H. Slayton

Superintendent of Public Schools, Claremont, N. H.

Daniel Jones Esq 30

Simeon Olcott 30

Thomas Sparhawk 1

Showing at least ninety men present and
voting.

In September, 1785, the town voted "That
those people who call themselves Baptists
pay no more rates to the Congregational
order for the fewter."

August 8, 1786, "Voted to lay in our claims
for our private expenditures, in the late war
on special alarms, including our Vermont
services, and chose a Committee for the

Hermon Holt, a prominent citizen of Claremont during the past forty years was born in
Woodstock, Vt., September 7, 1845, the son of Nathan L. and Rebecca Maria (Mack) Holt.
His boyhood was spent on his father's farm in Quechee, Vt. He prepared for college at the
Academy at Randolph, Vt., and at Kimball Union Academy. Graduating from the latter in
the class of 1866 he entered Dartmouth College from which he graduated in 1870. He at once
took up the study of law and began practice in Claremont in 1873. Mr. Holt has always been
a staunch Republican, but he has been too largely occupied with his professional work to give
much time to politics. He was a member of the Legislature of 1889-1890 and of the Senate
of 1894-1895. He served several years on the Stevens High School Board and also on the
Town School Committee. He is an Episcopalian and was for many years a vestryman and
warden of Trinity Church. He is president of Claremont Savings Bank. As a lawyer Mr.
Holt has been connected with affairs of importance and litigation involving large interests.
To overwork and too close application was due his failure in health in 1903. Since that time
he has been obliged to retire from all active practice. He spends six months of the year on a
farm a mile from town and resides, winters, at the corner of Broad and Pine Streets, in the
house built by Nicholas Farwell, Mrs. Holt's grandfather, in 1818. In 1875 Mr. Holt mar-
ried Clara Elizabeth Farwell, daughter of Charles R. Farwell and Clarissa E. Perkins. They
have four children, Hermon Holt, Jr., a lawyer in Boston, Mrs. Edward K. Woodsworth, of
Concord, N. H., Mrs. Henry C. Hawkins, Jr., and Marion E. Holt, of Claremont.

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purpose, to present the same to the Com-
mittee to meet at Exeter some time this
month." At the same time it was voted as
the sense of the town "that this State make
a bank of paper currency."

At a special meeting, February 7, 1788, the
town voted "to send a Delegate to the Con-
vention at Exeter, on the second Wednesday
of February to consider the Constitution of
the United States"; "Chose Matthias Stone
as delegate and chose a Committee to give
him instructions."

It has been noted that Moses Spafford and
David Lynde, the first two settlers, had

beth Spencer were "the first couple married
in Claremont according to the usages of
civilized society," Saunderson's history of
Charlestown has it that the Rev. Bulkeley
Olcott, who was the minister of that town,
settled in May, 1761, and who was often
called out of town to solemnize marriages,
performed the first marriage in Claremont,
in which this Moses Spafford was the party
of the first part. The name of the bride is
not given, but it is recounted that Spafford
had built a log house, and brought there his
"intended" who was desirous of considering
the situation before entering into a life con-
tract. Being satisfied on the whole, she

Residence of Hermon Holt

located here in 1762. They were what is
generally known as "squatters," but Spaf-
ford received a deed of land from Col. Samuel
Ashley, one of the largest landholders among
the proprietors, and one of the three who
themselves became residents, though he did
not himself settle here until about 1782.
This deed, which conveys title to a tract of
sixty-one acres of land, is the first recorded
in the Cheshire County registry, that county
then including all the Sullivan towns. Mr.
Spafford's farm was- near Ashley's Ferry, as
it is now known, and it is said that the old cel-
lar hole, where the house stood, can yet be dis-
cerned. While it is stated in Waite's History
of Claremont that Barnabas Ellis and Eliza-

consented to the arrangement, and Moses
went to Charlestown for Parson Olcott, being
reminded by the bride-to-be that there was
nothing to drink in the house and that he had
better bring up a pint on his return with the
parson, which, it is said, he accordingly did,
and that the parson partook of the same, and
then proceeded to tie the nuptial knot, which,
whether done in accordance with the usages
of ci vilized society or not, was done effectually.
The fruit of this union was four children — -
two boys and two girls. The eldest son,
Elijah, was the first white child born in town.
He removed to Kingston, Ont. The other
son, Amherst, settled in Bingham, Me. One
daughter married a man named Tarbell, and

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the other married Cyrus JoDes, to whom Mr.
Spafford deeded his farm in 1819, being then
about eighty-eight years of age. Moses
Spafford served in the Revolutionary War on
two different enlistments, and was in Capt.
Oliver Ashley's company, at Saratoga, as a
sergeant.

Whatever difficulties and hardships may
have beset the early settlers of this town,
they were at least free from the attacks of
hostile Indians. The red men had prac-
tically disappeared from the region before the
first settlers established themselves, though
tradition has it that one lone member of the
race, of giant stature and unforgiving dis-
position, and reputed once to have been a

The settlement made slow progress at
first, so far as the increase of population was
concerned, so that, in 1771, it is said there
were not over fifty people living in town, and
of these not all remained through the winter.
From this time on, until the outbreak of the
Revolution, however, there was more rapid
increase, so that when, October 15, 1773,
Gov. John Wentworth called for an exact
list of the number of inhabitants in the town,
distinguished into different ranks or classes,
the selectmen made return as follows :

Unmarried men, 16 to 60 years of age .... 41

Married men, 16 to 60 years of age 66

Boys 16 years and under 121

Men 60 years and upwards 2

First Industry, 1767

chief, remained, claiming a certain section Females unmarried 125

in the west part of the town as his personal Females married 66

hunting ground, and threatening dire punish- Widows.

ment for any who should trespass upon his 423

ground. He is said to have been present in „ , . .,___,

i^to u a c i il tt • r<L i I wo years later, in 1775, when a census was

1773, when the frame of the Union Church, , . . ' .,, , . ,,

. -nr ™ • j • taken in accordance with an order ot the

at West Claremont, was raised, expressing „ ..,,-, ,,

, • . j. ,. , ., ,. ,. ,, ° Provincial Congress, the return was:
his indignation and reiterating his threats.

Soon after, Timothy Atkins, a settler who Ma J es under 16 y ears of a S e , 148

,ttoo u;„ *„i. • • j t. jl • u j Males from 16 to 50, not in the army ... . 125

was his match in size and strength, visited AU maleg aboye 5Q y ' earg of age .... y ... . 18

the Indian s grounds, so it is said, with the Persons gone in the army 1

result that he was never seen or heard of All females 231

again; but eighty years later Mr. Josiah Hart, ~~~

while digging on some of the territory which

the Indian had claimed, unearthed a giant The first framed house built in town, is

human skeleton, supposed to have been that reputed to have been built by Benedick Roys

of "Tousa, " the last Indian. and to have stood about a hundred rods east

GEORGE A. TENNEY

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of the location of the James P. Upham house
of later days, on Town Hill, but was subse-
quently removed to another site. This
Benedick Roys was the first man buried in
Claremont. He died July 9, 1769, aged
thirty-five years. He was the first Tax Col-
lector, and was the great-grandfather of Hon.
David R. Roys, Marshal of the day.

The first mills were built by Benjamin Tyler,
a mechanic and millwright, who came into
town, from Farmington, Conn., in the spring
of 1767, the grantees having voted him two
acres of land on Sugar River in the west part
of the town, for a site and yard, and the
privilege adjacent on condition that he build
a mill or mills and keep them in repair for
ten years. He built a dam that season, and
then returned to Farmington, but brought
up his wife, six children and household effects
on an ox sled the next spring, having been
chosen one of the selectmen of the town at
the March meeting, previous to his arrival.
He built a saw-mill and grist-mill during the
following summer, the settlers coming from
a long distance to the raising of the frame of
the latter. After the completion of the work,
it is related that a half barrel of rum that
had also been brought from Connecticut, was
tapped and so freely did some of the men
imbibe of the contents that they were unable
to reach home that night and camped by the
wayside. These mills soon did a large busi-
ness, the grist-mill being patronized by
settlers from a long distance, and the saw-
mill cutting out lumber for a large amount of
building all through the region. Mr. Tyler
was a builder as well as a millwright and
built houses and barns for many settlers. He
also built himself quite a pretentious house,

Allen C. Cummings

Principal of Stevens High School

for the times, which in later days became
known as the Maynard tavern. Mr. Tyler
was a leading man iti town affairs, was several
times selectman and held various other
offices.

From the fact that there were a propor-
tionately large number of loyalists or " tories,"
as the adherents of the crown were generally
known, in this town in the early days of the
Revolution, and that there was a secluded
resort within its limits, not far from the
present village, where they occasionally met
and which was a rendezvous at times for

George A. Tenney, son of the late Hon. Edward J. and Francis (Hall) Tenney, was born
in Claremont, February 9, 1864, his father having been for many years a leading citizen of
Claremont, a member of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners, and Judge of Probate
for the County of Sullivan for some years previous to his death. He was educated in the pub-
he schools of his native town. His first business experience was in a position in the office of
the auditor of the Boston & Maine Railroad in Boston. Later he was employed in the office
of the general freight agent of the same corporation, and subsequently had charge of the ac-
counts of the Northern Railroad at Concord. He was engaged in this line of business for some
two or three years when he removed to Kansas and entered the banking business. He held
various official positions in banks in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri until 1892, when he
returned to his native town, and was elected cashier of the newly organized Peoples National
Bank, which position he has held, with that of director since that time. In 1907, he, with others
with whom he was associated, bought a controlling interest in the Monadnock Mills, one of
the important manufacturing establishments of the town, of which corporation he has since
been treasurer, and has had the general management of the concern under his direction. He
is also treasurer and manager of the Claremont Gas Light Company and a director of the Con-
cord & Claremont Railroad. He is a member of the Algonquin Club of Boston.

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tories from other sections fleeing from the
wrath of the patriots, the patriotism of the
town generally, in "the days that tried
men's souls," has sometimes been questioned
by those not entirely familiar with its history.
The truth is, however, that Claremont's
Revolutionary record ranks well with that of
towns generally throughout the state, so far
as service in the ranks and substantial sup-
port of the cause of Independence is con-
cerned, notwithstanding the considerable
number of loyalists within the borders,
against whom strict measures were taken to
prevent their activity in behalf of the British
government.

York, T. Sterne, Joel Roys, Amasa Fuller,
Partrick Feilds, Seth Lewis, John Kilborn,
John West, Stephen Higbee, Edward Good-
win, Joseph Ives, Ichabod Hitchcock, Danil
Curts, -Olever Ellsworth, David Rich, Bill
Barns, Amaziah Knights, Ezra Jones, Joseph
York, Jacob Rice, Asa Jones, Lemuel Hub-
bard, David Bates, Barnabas Ellis, Joseph
Hubbard, Jeremiah Spencer, Gideon Lewis,
Josiah Stevens, .John Peake, Samuel Tuttle,
Charles Higbe, Ephraim French, Elihu
Stevens, Jr., Ebenezer Dudley, Josiah Rich,
Jonathan Parker, Ebenezer Washburn, John
Adkins, John Goss, William Sims, David
Adkins, Edward Ainsworth, Joel Matthews,
Amos Conant, John Sprague, James Alden,
Oliver Ashley, Eleazer Clark, Jr., Benjamin
Towner, Abner Matthews, Jonas Stuard,

Union Church, 1771

When the "Association Test," so-called,
was submitted to the men of the town in the
spring of 1776, sixty-eighty attached their
signatures to the same; sixteen were reported
then absent in the army, and thirty-one
declined to sign. This "Test" or declara-
tion read as follows:

We, the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly
engage and promise, that we will to the
utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our
Lives and Fortunes, with Arms oppose the
Hostile proceedings of the British Fleets and
Armies against the United American Col-
onies. "

The following are the names of those who
signed the Test:

Thomas Goodwin, Matthias Stone, Wil-
liam Osgood, John Spencer, Christopher

Thomas Duston, Timothy Adkins, Nathaniel
Goss, Oliver Tuttle, Samuel Ashley, Adam
Alden, David Lynd, Eleazer Clark, Moses
Spafford, Samuel Lews, Elihu Stevens,
Beriah Murry, Timothy Duston.

The following named persons were absent
in the army at the time:

Lieut. Col. Joseph Wait, Ens. Thomas
Jones, James Gooden, Peter Fuller, Garshom
York, David Loynds, Jr., Henry Stephens,
Joseph York, Jr., Rev. Augusten Hibbard,
Chaplain, Lieut. Joseph Taylor, S. Abner
Matthews, Jr., Jonathan Fuller, Reuben
Spencer, Benjamin Towner, Jr., Charles
Loynds and Jonathan York.

These are the names of those who refused
to sign the Test:

John Thomas, Barnabas Brooks, Capt.
Benjamin Brooks, Capt. Benjamin Sumner,

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Rev. Ranna Cosset, Samuel Cole, Levi War-
ner, Enoch Judd, Lieut. Benjamin Toyler,
Hezekiah Roys, Benjamin Leat, James
Steal, John Hitchcock, Samuel Thomas,
Ebenezer Edson, Benjamin Brooks, Jr., Dr.
William Sumner, Joseph Norton, Cornelius
Brook, Daniel Worner, William Coy, Ebe-
nezer Judd, Jr., Timothy Granis, Asa Leat,
Ebenezer Judd, Amos Snow, David Dodge,
Amos Cole, Benjamin Peterson, Daniel
Worner, Jr. and Ebenezer Roys.

In this, as in other towns, not all those who
declined to sign the "Test" can justly be
set down as hostile to the cause of independ-
ence. Some had conscientious scruples
againstj bearing arms, while others hesitated
about binding themselves to do so, who
subsequently entered the patriot service.
The majority of them, however, were earnest
loyalists, and were brought, with others in
the region, before a joint meeting of Com-
mittees of Safety for this and neighboring
towns and closely examined as to their views.

Capt. Benjamin Sumner, Samuel Cole,
Esq., and Rev. Ranna Cossitt were found
"chief advisors" who might with propriety
be confined, and it was ordered that their
names be reported to the Provincial Congress.
All were required to, and subsequently did
give up such arms as were in their possession.
Messrs. Sumner, Cole and Cossitt were,
later, brought before a Committee of Con-
gress, appointed to try them, and, after full
hearing, sentenced to confinement within
the limits of the town during the continuance
of the contest.

It is practically impossible to secure a
complete list of all Claremont men who were
enrolled, at one time or another, in the armed
Bervice of the country during the war of the
Revolution; but the following names, ob-
tained from different sources, are presented
as nearly a full list:

Col. Samuel Ashley, Lt.-Col. Joseph Waite,
Chap. Augustine Hibbard, Capt. Oliver
Ashley, Lieut. Joseph Taylor, Lieut. Barnabas
Ellis, Lieut. Asa Jones, Lieut. Jeremiah
Spencer, Ens. Thomas Jones, Serj't. Abner
Matthews, Serj't. Moses Spafford, Corp.
Gersham York, Corp. Joseph Clark, Corp.
Benjamin Brooks, Corp. Amos Conant,
Edward Ainsworth, Moses Allen, Samuel G.
Allen, David Atkins, Samuel Bates, Judah
Benjamin, Asahel Brooks, Barnabas Brooks,
Asaph Butler, Ezra Butler, Gideon Caterling,
Benjamin Clark, Dan Clark, Eleazer Clark,
John Clark, Oliver Cook, Luther Cotton,
James Dunfee, Thomas Dustin, Joseph Ellis,

Oliver Elsworth, Ebenezer Fielding, Daniel
Ford, Amasa Fuller, Jonathan Fuller, Peter
Fuller, James Gooden, Edward Goodwin,
Nathaniel Goss, Edward Grannis, Solomon
Harris, Josiah Hatch, Levi Higbee, Charles
Higsby, Joseph Ives, Stephen Kidder, Gideon
Kirkland, Amariah Knight, Gideon Lewis,
Charles Lines, David Lynch, Ebenezer Mat-
thews, Joel Matthews, Beriah Murry, Joseph
Norton, Thomas Osgood, William Osgood,
Asahel Powers, Thomas Powers, Amos Rice,
Hezekiah Rice, Joel Rice, Joel Royce, Silas
Royce, Amos Snow, John Spencer, Reuben
Spencer, James Spooner, Asa Stearns, Dan-
iel Stearns, Thomas Sterns, Elisha Stevens,
Henry Stevens, Josiah Stevens, Roswell Ste-
vens, Jonas Stewart, Sam Stone, Benjamin
Towner, Jr., Samuel Tuttle, John Verry,

William P. Nolin
Postmaster

William Vinton, Jonathan Walker, Daniel
Warner, Levi Warner, Joseph Woods, Joseph
Wright, Thomas Wright, Christopher York,
Ger shorn York, Jonathan York, Joseph York,
Joseph York, Jr., William York.

Many Claremont men were engaged, at
times during the war, in temporary service
in special expeditions, etc.

The following petition to the General
Court, which has never, so far as I am aware,
appeared in print, presented by Lieut. Jere-
miah Spencer, with the list of men engaged
in the special service referred to, may be
taken as illustration of this fact:

MRS. BARBARA GALPIN

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The Honorable the General Court op
the State of New Hampshire.
Your Humble Petitioner would beg leave
to represent to Your Honor that in August
in the Year 1780 it was reported to your
Petitioner that their was a Number of the
Enemy from Canada in this and the adjacent
Towns, and that they had taken as a Prisoner
an Inhabitant of the Town of Windsor, In
consequence of which report He took under
his Command (being then a Lieu* of the
Militia) Twenty four Men and went in pur-
suit of the Enemy, and after Three days
search in the woods, found Bewil & Johns,
Tow Lieutenants in the British Army who
fell into His Hands as Prisoners of War, with
whom he was detained Three days after they
were taken with the Men under his Command
and that Your Petitioner never has directly
nor Indirectly rec d any Pay for his aboves d
Service, therefor begs that your Honor would
Order him a Sum of Mony that shall be
adequate to his s d Services & Expence and
Your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever
Pray
Claremont Jan f y 29 th

1785 Jeremiah Spencer

Following is the return of service accom-
panying the petition:

Mens Names

N° N°
days horses
4

Mens Names

Lieut
Sarg*
Corp 1

Priv d

Jer m Spencer
01 r Cook
Jerum Loom is
Garshom York
S. Waterhouse
Eb r Petty

N° N°
days horses
6 1
4
4
4
4
6

Charles Higbee
Levi Higbee

Sam" Spencer 4

Comfort Towner 6

W m York 3

Asa Sterne 4 1

Henry Stevens 2

John Spencer 4

Joseph Clark 6 1

Asa Jones 2

Alarm

Men Maj r San d Kingsbery 2 1

Cap* Sam 11 Ashley 6 1

Docf Sterne 6 1

Cap 1 Taylor 6

L* Jones 2
L 4 Ellis

Ens n Jones 4 1

M r Rich 3

The within is a true Return Of the Men

Under my Command in the taking of Bewil

& Johns In Aug 4 1780

Jer m Spencer

(Spencer allowed £14-16-4 for taking two

British officers.)

Many Claremont soldiers of the Revolu-
tion, undoubtedly, removed from town, after
the war. The graves of many who remained
and died here are unmarked and unknown.
Others who had been engaged in the service
made then* homes here afterward. The
graves of all Revolutionary soldiers in the
town, so far as ascertainable, have been
properly marked. This was done at first

Barbara Galpin, although born in Greenbush, Vt., daughter of Henry Clay and Helen
Frances Johnson, removed with the family to Claremont when but three years of age. Here
she was reared and educated and is essentially a Claremont woman, in whose successful career
the town takes due pride. Graduating at the Stevens High School, Nellie Barbara Johnson
married Henry Wallace Galpin when seventeen years of age. In eighteen months she was
left a widow with a son, George Henry Galpin. In this trying and responsible position she
manifested the courage, ability and ambition that carried her to the achievement of a noble
lifework. Settling in Somerville, Mass., she entered the office of the Somerville Journal where
she has remained for thirty years, mastering the details of every department in this notable
enterprise. While her executive ability and thorough business training have given her marked
standing, she is a woman of charming personality and social graces, and warmly devoted to
broad philanthropic work. Mrs. Galpin has traveled extensively in this country and Europe,
has written valuable books and articles of travel and lectured much upon this pleasant subject.
A woman's department in the Somerville Journal, originated and conducted by her, is consid-
ered a vital force in the city's development. She has taken a vital interest in hospital, chari-
table, educational and all lines of elevating work, and when the Massachusetts Legislature pro-
vided for a "planning board" in every city of more than 10,000 people, the mayor of the city
named her, with six men, on the Somerville board — the first woman in the state to occupy such
a position — and she is counted as a most valuable and practical member. Mrs. Galpin belongs
to many clubs which indicate her activities, among them the New England Woman's Press
Club, of which she is a charter member, the Professional Woman's Club of Boston, the Authors'
Club, the Heptorean Club of Somerville and various others devoted to historical research and
public work. Personally Mrs. Galpin is a warm-hearted, generous woman, responding readily
to any call for human service. She finds leisure for social life, and has a wide circle of friends,
With all the talents and graces of social leadership, she is thoroughly domestic in her tastes,
devoted to the simple duties of the lovable home-maker, though recognized in the business
world as a trained, careful and progressive principal.

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by wooden markers, when, in 1894, on
"Patriot's Day," April 19, the local mem-
bers of the New Hampshire Society, Sons of
the American Revolution, decorated the
graves, this being the first formal ceremony
of the kind in the country, and carried out
through the initiative of Mr. Charles B.
Spofford, then or about that time president
of that Society, a gentleman whose interest
and research along historical lines has con-
tributed much to the general knowledge of
early town affairs, and to whom I desire
publicly to acknowledge my indebtedness
for information, used and unused, in this
connection. Since that time, bronze markers
have been placed by the town at all these

Kilborn, Capt. Gideon Kirkland, Maj.
Sanford Kingsbury, Amaziah Knight, Samuel
Lane, Joel Matthews, James Maxwell, Capt.
Timothy Munger, Peter Niles, Joseph Pull-
ing, Solomon Putnam, Hezekiah Rice, Joel
Royce, Joseph Spaulding, Lieut. John
Sprague, Elihu Stevens, Jr., Daniel Warner,
Capt. Thomas Warner, John West, Christo-
pher York.*

It may as well be stated in this connection
as elsewhere that Claremont was creditably
represented in the country's service in the
war of 1812. Not all names of those engaged
are available; but those of the following
Claremont men, enrolled under different
enlistments, are presented as a partial list:

Ensign David Dean, Sergeant James

The Revolution of 1776

Making the Betsey Ross Flag

graves, and they are decorated annually, on
Memorial Day, in conjunction with those of
the Civil War and other soldiers, under the
auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The names of the Revolutionary soldiers
buried in town, whose graves, located in
different cemeteries, are marked and whose
memory is thus honored, are:

Col. Samuel Ashley, Capt. Oliver Ashley,
Lieut. Daniel Ashley, James Alden, Daniel
Bond, Jesse Campbell, John Campbell, David
Chaffin, Roswell Clapp, Capt. John Cook,
Rev. Samuel Cotton, Lemuel Dean, David
Dexter, Jacob Diman, Nathaniel Draper,
Moody Dustin, Lieut. Barnabas Ellis, Ebe-
nezer Fielding, Daniel Ford, James Goodwin,
Nathaniel Goss, Charles Higbee, Stephen
Higbee, George Hubbard, Lieut. Joseph
Ives, Miles Johnson, Asa Jones, Capt. John

Osgood, Sergeant Isaac F. Hunton, Robert
Angel, Asa Barker, Andrew Bartlett, Shaler
Buel, James Fisher, Barnes Gilbert, Henry G.
Lanes, James McDaniels, James McLoffing,
Benjamin Perkins, Samuel Petty, Charles
A. Saxton, Charles C. Stewart, Benedick
Taylor.

The town does not seem to have rallied to
the support of the government to any extent
during the war with Mexico — at least I find
no record of enlistments in that cause; but
it is set down in history that one son of
Claremont was engaged in the war for Texan
independence, the precursor of the Mexican

* Since this address was delivered a fuller and com-
plete list of the Revolutionary soldiers whose remains
are interred in Claremont cemeteries, giving the place of
burial of each, has been received from the historian of
Samuel Ashley Chapter, D. A.R., and will be published
in the next issue of the Granite Monthly.

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War, and is supposed to have lost his life
therein. This was Robert Harris Upham,
second son of Hon. George B. Upham, who,
then in Ohio, enlisted in a company raised
in Cincinnati, which joined the forces of
General Houston, was reported to have
attained the rank of Major, and is supposed
to have been with Col. David Crockett, and
to have been slain with the entire command
at the storming of the Alamo.*

No town responded more loyally under
all the calls for service in the Union Army
during the Civil War than did this town of
Claremont. Three hundred and seventy
Claremont men volunteered in the service.
Five drafted men also served and seventy-
four who were drafted put in substitutes,
making four hundred and forty-nine men in
all credited to the town, or more than one for
every ten in the entire population. Of these
thirty-three were killed in battle during the
war, fourteen died of wounds and twenty of
disease. In honor of those who lost their
lives in the service, the town erected, in 1869,
a costly and appropriate monument in the
public park, and also had their names headed
by that of Col. Alexander Gardiner, inscribed
on marble tablets, in the entrance to the town
hall. It is only to be regretted now, that the
monument had not been erected in honor
of all the soldiers of the town who risked
their lives in the service of their country — as
well those who fought to establish the na-
tion's freedom as those who fought to save
it whole.

It would be inexpedient here, did time
permit, as it does not, to enter into any
consideration of the disputed sovereignty over
the so-called "New Hampshire Grants,"
embracing a number of towns on both sides
of the Connecticut River, of which Clare-
mont was one. These towns were claimed
by New Hampshire, by New York, and
Vermont when the latter set up a govern-
ment for itself. Sixteen towns on the New
Hampshire side, including Claremont, were
inclined to go with Vermont, and more than
once took action in that direction. The

* Since the delivery of this address it has come to the
attention of the author that Henry D. Tyler, a son of
Hon. Austin Tyler, served in the Mexican War, enlisting
in the company of Captain Webster (a son of Daniel
Webster) in Boston, in 1846, and was a member of the
Army of Occupation. He died at San Antonio, Texas,
June 16, 1868.

controversy ran high at times, and difficult
and dangerous complications ensued; but a
settlement finally came about through the
direct action of Congress, which established
the boundary line between New Hampshire
and Vermont as the west bank of the Con-
necticut River, as had before been fixed by
decree of the King of Great Britain in Council.
Travel across the Connecticut in the early
years of the settlement was by boat, the
inhabitants on either side being unable for a
long time to meet the expense of bridges.
The legislature of the state on the same day,

Reverend George H. Howes

Pastor of First Universalist Church, Claremont, N. H.

November 3, 1784, granted two charters for
ferries to Claremont men, the first to Samuel
Ashley, covering that portion of the river
two miles up from the southwest corner of
the town, and the second to Benjamin Sum-
ner, for the four miles next northward, or up
to the northwest corner.

Speaking of bridges recalls the fact that the
legislature also, on June 23, 1785, granted
authority upon petition of sundry inhabitants
of the town of Claremont, for the setting up
of a lottery, to raise money, not exceeding
three hundred pounds "for the purpose of
erecting a bridge over Sugar River in said
Claremont, on the main country road." By

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the terms of the act, Samuel Ashley, Jr.,
Sanford Kingsbury and Francis Batey were
appointed managers of the said lottery, and
were given two years in which to carry out
the plan and pay the money over to the select-
men of the town, said managers being also
allowed "their reasonable demand for their
time and charge in transacting said business."
The population of the town had increased
so that by a census, ordered by the legislature
in March, 1786, a total of 965 was returned,
487 being males, 427 females, 3 slaves, and
48 transient persons then stopping in town.
In 1790 the first Federal census gave a total

Peter Davis, Ephraim Derick, Ashbel Dick-
inson, David Dodge, David Dodge, Jr., John
Duncan, Moody Dustin, Thomas Dustin,
Timothy Dustin, John Dutton, Ebenezer
Edson, Barnabas Ellis, Gideon Ellis, Oliver
Ellsworth, Christopher Erskine, James Ers-
kine, Ichabod Farrington, Samuel Farrington,
Hannah Field, Ebenezer Fielding, Abraham
Fisher, Jeremiah Fisher, Josiah Fisher, Tim-
othy Fisher, Daniel P'ord, Shubael Geer,
James Goodwin, Thomas Goodwin, John
Goss, Nathaniel Goss, Asa Grandy, Timothy
Grannis, Daniel Green, Dotty Gregory, Ezra
Gustin, Richard Hawley, Gideon Henderson,
Gershom Hide, Charles Higby, Levi Higby,
Stephen Higby, George Hill, Ichabod Hitch-
cock, John Hitchcock, George Hubbard,

Cook's Tavern Coach, 1800

of 1,435. Of these, 240 were returned as
heads of families, the list being as follows.:

Edward Ainsworth, Benjamin Aid en, James
Alden, John Alden, Moses Allen, Elisha
Andrews, Martin Andrews, Whiting Andrews,
Luther Ashley, Oliver Ashley, Samuel Ashley,
Samuel Ashley, Jr., Daniel Atkins, David
Atkins, Elizabeth Atkins, John Atkins,
Reuben Atkins, Samuel Atkins, Timothy
Atkins, Bill Barnes, Abel Batchelor, Mary
Belfield, John Blodgett, James Boldereye,
Jonathan Bradley, Barnabas Brooks, Corne-
lius Brooks, David Buckman, David Buck-
man, Jr., Abel Bunnel, Thomas Carter, David
Chaffin, Timothy Chaffin, Roswell Clap,
Ethan Clarke, John Clarke, Joseph Clarke,
Theophilus Clarke, Benjamin Cleveland,
Isaac Cleveland, Amos Conant, John Cook,
Oliver Corey, Ambrose Cossitt, Phinehas
Cowles, Timothy Cowles, Ambrose Cushman,

Reuben Huntoon, Elizabeth Ives, Asa Jones,
Asa Jones, Jr., Ezra Jones, Jabez Jones,
Thomas Jones, Brewster Judd, Ebenezer Judd,
Enock Judd, Truman Judd, John lubber-
linger, Philip Kibbey, Hannah Kilburne,
Richard Kingsbury, Sanford Kingsbury,
Gideon Kirtland, Amasa Knight, Samuel
Laine, Benjamin Lawrance, Asa Leach, Ray-
ner A. Leet, Asa Leet, Benjamin Leet,
Ezekiel Leet, Abraham Livermore, William
McCoy, Isaac March, Abner Mathews, David
Mathews, Hubbard Mathews, Jesse Mathews,
Jr., Joel Mathews, Mary Mathews, Abner
Meigs, Asa Mitcham, James Mitcham, John
Moore, Isaac Morgan, Beriah Murray, Rob-
ert Nichols, Levi Norton, Miner Norton,
William Osgood, Levi Pardy, Jonathan Parker,
Phineas Parker, Oliver Parmala, John Peake,
Jared Peck, Alexander Perkins, Thomas Perry
Benjamin Peterson, Ephraim Peterson, Reu-
ben Petty, Eli Plant, Abiathar Pollard, Solo-

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mon Putnam, Alexander Ralstone, Benjamin
Raymond, John Raymond, Abel Rice, Ebene-
zer Rice, Hezekiah Rice, Jacob Rice, Josiah
Rice, Jr., Nehemiah Rice, Reuben Rice,
Shubael Rice, David Rich, Josiah Rich, Jede-
diah Richardson, Oliver Richardson, Asha
Robertson, Eliphalet Robertson, Robert
Robertson, Moses Russell, Abraham Scott,
Ard Scott, Jonathan Shaw, Jonathan Shaw,
Jr., Elisha Sheldone, William Simes, Levi
Smith, Nathan Smith, Amherst Spafford,
Moses Spafford, Abel Spaulding, Joseph
Spaulding, Jeremiah Spencer, Reuben Spencer,
Ebenezer Sperry, Joseph Sperry, John
Sprague, John Sprague, Jr., John Stebbins,
David Stedman, Thomas Sterne, Daniel
Sternes, Samuel Sternes, Eliakim Stevens,
Elihu Stevens, Elihu Stevens, Jr., Henry
Stevens, Josiah Stevens, Meigs Stevens,
Roswell Stevens, Ziba Stevens, Jacob Steward,
Jonas Steward, David Stone, Matthias Stone,
Moses Stone, Samuel Stone, George Strow-
bridge, James Strowbridge, John Strowbridge,
William Strowbridge, Benjamin Sumner,
Samuel Sumner, Robert Taylor, John Thomas,
Zara Thomas, Zina Thomas, Gershom Tuttle,
Oliver Tuttle, Solomon Tuttle, Benjamin
Tyler, Ephraim Tyler, Samuel Walker, Daniel
Warner, Daniel Warner, Jr., John West,
Joseph Whiston, James White, Philip White,
Abner Whitney, Samuel Whittle, Andrew
Wilkins, Asa Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Benja-
min Woodcock, Samuel Works, Samuel
Wright, David York, Jonathan York, Joseph
York, William York. There were two slaves
in town at this time, owned, one each, by
Shubael Geer and Thomas Sterne.

As an agricultural town, Claremont has long
ranked among the first in the state. The
broad meadows and rich intervals along the
Connecticut and Sugar Rivers are admirably
adapted to fruitful cultivation, while a large
portion of the upland soil responds liberally
to the efforts of the intelligent husbandman.
There are five towns along the valley of the
Connecticut in this state, each of which has,
at some time or other, enjoyed the distinction
of leading all other towns in New Hampshire
in the value of its agricultural products.
These are Walpole, Claremont, Haverhill,
Lancaster, and Colebrook. Which of these
towns last held first rank I am unable to say;
but as long ago as 1860 Claremont was at the
front, and with equal enterprise certainly
might.be at the present time, as its natural
advantages are surpassed by neither of the
other towns named.

Claremont farmers were among the most
prominent and active in the state in the early
days of agricultural organization. The town,
with all others in the present county of Sulli-

van, originally belonged to Cheshire County,
and was, naturally, the best farming town
within its borders. The Cheshire County
Agricultural Society, which was the second
society of the kind formed in the state, having
been organized in 1816, two years after that
for Rockingham County, held its first annual
meeting in Claremont, on the first Wednesday
of October, 1817 — ninety-seven years ago.
Roswell Hunt of Charlestown was chosen
president; but the vice-president, secretary
and treasurer were all Claremont men in the
persons of Col. Joseph Alden, Maj. Ezra

Henry E. Charron

Representative, 1913-14, 1915-16

Jones and Isaac Hubbard, Esq. It was at
this meeting that the first agricultural pre-
mium list ever arranged in the state was
agreed upon. In this list $25 was offered for
the best pair of working oxen; $15 for the
best milch cow; $15 for the best five merino
ewes; $15 for the best piece of dressed woolen
cloth, not less than ten yards; $10 for the best
piece of linen cloth, and $15 for the best acre
of wheat. Reference to this list suggests the
marked change that has taken place in the
character of our agricultural and domestic
industry. The idea of the farmers' wives of
today competing for prizes for the best woolen
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would be even more ludicrous than that of
the farmers contending for the premium for
the best acre of wheat. Nevertheless, I, my-
self, well remember the time when more than
100,000 bushels of wheat were annually pro-
duced on the farms of our little state, and
when the spinning wheel and the loom were
in daily use in the farm household. The fair
for which this competition was arranged was
advertised to take place at the time of the
next annual meeting of the Association, at
Charlestown, the first Wednesday in October,
1818. For some reason or other, however,
that fair was not held, and the first exhibition
of the societv to come off was held in this town

a distinct recollection of attending this fair
with my father, our home being then in East
Unity. I was a lad of seven years of age, and
was specially impressed by the immense show
of working oxen including several hundred
pairs in all, a goodly proportion, of course,
from this town, but I also remember dis-
tinctly that it was said a team of eighty yokes
came in from the little town of Croydon,
having been gotten together through the
enterprise of the late Hon. Moses Humphrey,
then a resident of that town, but later Mayor
of Concord, and for many years president of
the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture.
This fair was held here for several years, but

Roman Catholic Church, 1823

in October, 1819, and was accounted to be a
very successful affair, both as regards the dis-
play and the attendance.

Some time after the division of the County,
in 1827, by virtue of an enabling act, passed
by the legislature in June of the previous year,
and the organization of the County of Sulli-
van, embracing the fifteen northern towns, of
which Claremont was the largest, and made
a most strenuous but unsuccessful contest for
the County seat, a Sullivan County Agri-
cultural Society was organized. This was in
February, 1848. The officers of the Society
included Isaac Hubbard of Claremont as the
first president and its first exhibition or fair
was held in this town the following autumn,
and was regarded as a great success. I have

was removed to Charlestown in 1857, in
which year John S. Walker, another Clare-
mont man, was also president. Mr. Walker,
who is still remembered by many as promi-
nently identified with the interests of the
town in various directions, was also largely
instrumental in the organization of the New
Hampshire State Agricultural Society in 1850,
was one of the eighteen grantees of its charter
and its first secretary. Moreover, he carried
off the premium for the best Durham bull at
its first fair, held in Concord in October of
that year, as did Isaac Hubbard for the best
cow. Mr. Walker, by the way, was also a
member of the State Board of Agriculture for
Sullivan County in 1871 and 1872.

Isaac Hubbard, previously mentioned, long

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one of the most prosperous and successful
farmers in the town and state, occupied the
fine farm embracing the tract of land set off
or reserved originally to Governor Went-
worth. This land was granted to Joseph
Waite, in consideration of his efficient serv-
ices in the French and Indian Wars. This
Joseph Waite was subsequently Lieutenant-
Colonel in Col. Timothy Bedel's regiment
raised for service in Canada, and died from
a wound received in an engagement near Lake
Champlain, in September, 1776. By transfer
from his widow and heirs, or otherwise, George
Hubbard, a Revolutionary soldier, who came
from Tolland, Conn., in 1778, when the boy,
Isaac, was seven years of age, came into pos-
session of the farm and resided thereon for
forty years, till his death in 1818, when the
son, Isaac, became the owner, and continued
for more than forty years till his own death
in 1861. He was famed for his success as a
stock breeder, his Durham cattle being re-
markable for their size and excellence. It was
by him, on this farm, that the famous o.\,
"Olympus," weighing 3,370 pounds, when six
years of age, was raised. This was supposed
to be the largest animal of the kind ever
grown, and was taken abroad in the fall of
1838 and exhibited in England and on the
continent. There are many fine farms in the
town, worthy of note, but time forbids any
extended mention here. The Cupola Farm,
so called, or Cupalo as it is ordinarily pro-
nounced, has long been known as one of the
best, if not the very best farm in the state.
Originally the home of Dr. William Sumner,
one of the early settlers of the town, and
owned in the family for more than a century,
it passed some thirty-five years ago into the
hands of P. M. Rossiter, who effected great
improvement, brought the land into a high
state of cultivation, and won distinction
throughout the state for the extent and qual-
ity of his stock breeding and other agricul-
tural operations. Near this farm is the Breck
place, settled by William Breck one hundred
and twenty-two years ago, and remaining
continuously in the family. This farm has
long been noted for its productiveness and
fine stock, its display of oxen at the fairs in
this state and Vermont, surpassing all others.
The Jarvis, Bailey, Upham and many other
farms that might be named have had more
than local reputation for excellence; but

twenty-five years ago, and for some time
afterward, the Highland View Stock Farm, of
William H. H. Moody, held prominence
throughout New England in one direction at
least — the production of thoroughbred horses,
which was continued successfully for some
years.

This town has excelled in the production
of corn and grain of all kinds, also in stock
breeding. Sheep husbandry was also an
important branch of agricultural industry for
many years. Merino sheep were introduced
into this country from Portugal about 1810,
by William Jarvis, who had been for eight

Charles T. Rossiter

Representative Elect

years United States Consul General at Lisbon,
and who brought several hundred of these
sheep into New England on his return.
Consul Jarvis settled on a large farm in
Weathersfield, Vt., across the river from this
town, in 1812, where he resided till his death
forty years later. He transacted business
mainly in Claremont, and was a well known
figure in this community for years. He was
a kinsman of the Jarvis family of this town,
of whom Doctor Leonard, and his son, Col.
Russell Jarvis, became noted assheepbreeders.
Why sheep husbandry soon declined in this
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explained by an item in a report on agricul-
tural conditions here, forwarded to the Secre-
tary of the State Board of Agriculture in 1873,
to the effect that dogs killed $242 worth of
sheep in town during the previous year.

For the first seventy-five years of its history,
agriculture unquestionably took the lead in
the industrial fife of the town. The magnifi-
cent water-power, afforded by the Sugar
River, with its great natural reservoir —
Sunapee Lake, unsurpassed by that of any
stream of its size in this or any other state,
still remained to be developed and utilized.

was operated, by different proprietors, for
more than forty years.

From 1800 to 1824, Stephen and David
Dexter had a scythe factory at the first water
power on the river within the limits of the
present village. They also had a grist-mill,
saw-mill and oil-mill a little below. A small
mill for the manufacturing of paper had been
built of Col. Josiah Stevens previous to 1810 —
the precursor of subsequent important enter-
prises in this fine. Thomas Woolson, who
settled in Claremont about 1813, operated a
foundry here, and it is a matter of history
that he patented and manufactured what was

Reception to General Lafayette, 1824

The first dam on Sugar River, within the
limits of the town, was built by Benjamin
Tyler, heretofore mentioned, in 1765, in the
west part of the town. Here he erected a
saw and grist-mill, and, later, built in the
vicinity a forge and smelting works, bringing
the iron ore for the same from North Charles-
town, and is reputed to have carried on quite
a business in the manufacture of heavy mill
irons, employing some twenty or thirty men.
Still later, he had a flax mill where flax was
broken for use on the old hand wheels.
Opposite the Tyler mills, in 1813, one Asa
Meacham put up a two-story building for a
woolen factory, said to have been the first
woolen mill in Sullivan county, and the same

known as the first successful cooking-stove in
America. Of these Woolson stoves (one of
which I well remember to have been the first
I ever saw in my mother's kitchen) there were
said, in a newspaper "ad " in 1834, to be 1,500
in use in New Hampshire and Vermont, all
of which must have been made in this town.
It was not until well into the fourth decade
of the last century, about 1833^, that a sub-
stantial start was given to the development
of manufacturing industry in Claremont.
The Claremont Manufacturing Company, the
first corporation for manufacturing purposes
organized in town, was chartered by the New
Hampshire Legislature in 1832, and had
gotten into operation at the "Lower Village,"*

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so-called, in 1834. Its purpose was the manu-
facture of paper and satinets ; but upon enter-
ing irito an arrangement with one Simeon Ide,
then engaged in the book and printing busi-
ness at Windsor, Vt., for the transfer of his
business from that town, the satinet machin-
ery was removed, and the printing and book-
making establishment took its place. In its
two lines of business — the manufacture of
printing paper, and the making and publish-
ing of books, this concern did an extensive
business for more than half a century, having
at times as many as one hundred hands in its
employ, and the reputation of its work in
both linos was first-class. The success of the

issued in 1879, long after his retirement from
business, a pamphlet entitled "The Indus-
tries of Claremont, New Hampshire, Past and
Present," which is the best available basis of
historical information in this line. In the
introduction to this pamphlet, Mr. Ide says
that when he came to this town, in 1834, the
village was a little hamlet of some three hun-
dred or four hundred inhabitants. There was
rapid growth, however, soon after, since it
was stated in a local newspaper that more
than seventy buildings, mostly dwelling
houses, besides one or two factories, had been
erected in town in the year 1835, and Mr. Ide
has it that in the following year (1836) an

Paran Stevens' Road Wagon, 1835

company was largely due to the judgment and
sagacity of Mr. Ide who was the manager for
some twenty-five years. Many newspapers
throughout New England received their stock
from the company's paper mill, and numerous
popular school and miscellaneous books were
issued from its presses. Mr. Ide was suc-
ceeded as agent and manager by Edward L.
Goddard, who had long been chief clerk,
serving for many years.

Mr. Ide was a skillful old-time printer, and
is reputed to have set the type for, and printed,
with the aid of a young sister, in a small office
which he had fitted up in youth at his father's
home in the town of New Ipswich, the first
edition of the New Testament published in
this state, it bearing the imprint of 1815. He

equal number of the former, and twice as
many of the latter were built.

It is out of the question to attempt an
enumeration, even, of the various enter-
prises, operative and extinct, that have com-
bined during the last three-quarters of a
century, to give the town of Claremont the
reputation it now enjoys, and has for many
years past, of being the leading manufacturing,
as it has been the leading agricultural town in
New Hampshire. A few brief references in
this direction must suffice.

The Sullivan Manufacturing Company,
incorporated about the same time as the
Claremont Manufacturing Company, started
soon after in the manufacture of satinets,
receiving the machinery that had been re-

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moved from the establishment of the latter
to make room for Mr. Ide's printing plant.
This company operated a few years, without
financial success; was finally succeeded by
Sanford & Rossiter, till in 1857, the late
George L. Balcom purchased the establish-
ment and conducted the business with
marked success for a long series of years.

The Monadnock Mills, chartered in 1831
as the Sugar River Manufacturing Company,
did not commence work until 1844, since
which time it has been in active operation in
the production of different classes of cotton
goods, and has been a leading industry of the
town. The present name was assumed in
1846. The late Hon. Jonas Livingstone was
the