m Copyright l^° COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT. Men c)i^~ Pr()(;ress BlOOKAI'llK Al, Ski ITIIKS AM) PoRIkAllS LtADEPS IN BUSINHSS AND PROFESSIONAL LlFE IN AND Ol- THl-: !5t;ttc at l\c\v 'Hmtx^^bivc CUMI'ir.KI) INDEK TllK SII'KKVISION OF KICHAKD HKRNDON KDITKI) LNDKK IMK AISI'ICKS nl Till': MANCIIKSIKR INHtN I! OS ION N KW KN<;i.A N It M A(; A/I N I iS(>« I t>0 17795 Copyright 189S RICHARD HERNDON 4 2642 JUL 151898 '?r- "^rcP^,-:.,, RUMFORD PRINTING CO.. CONCORD, 2ncl C^rV MiuN OF pr()(;ri-:ss, .\1!IU)1 r. IIk.vkv. horn in Kccnc. Oclolicr 5, 1832, was for many years a leadinj; citizen of Win- clicstcr and died in that place Feliruary 12, 189.S. He was tile son of Haniel and I'olly (Hrown) Ab- bott, and was of the eijjhth generation from fieorge Abbott of Andover, Massachusetts. He attended the common schools of Surry, the Academy at Mar- low, and Mt. Ca-sar Academy at Swanzey. At the aj^e of cii,'l)teen he went .South as the ajjent of a .New Ndrk publishinj; house. For a year he taujjht in Warsaw. Pennsylvania, and for two years more was employed by a larjje lumber company at Ridge- way in that state. Returning to Keene, he engaged in business as a clerk and later as a member of the firm of Nims, ("lates iS; .Abbott. Selling out his in- terest, he s|)ent a year in travel, returning to Keene and again entering business. In 1S63, he went to Washington, becoming a clerk of the I'nited .States Sanitary Commission. lie was sent as sanitary agent, in the spring of 1864, with the Hurnsicle Corps in ( General Cir.wit's campaign from the Rapi- dan to I'etersburg. and was present at the battles of the Wilderness, .Spottsylvania, North .Anna, and Cold Harbor. Illness compelled him to return home. It was his intention to return to the front, but while he was convalescing, he was elected Cashier of the Winchester .State Hank, which rn Mar(li. 1865. was changed to a National Hank, Mr. .\bl>ott remaining its Cashier until his death. From 1865 he held the oftice of Town Treasurer. I'or eleven ye.irs in suc- cession he was MiKlerator. .\ zealous Republican, he served as Chairman of the {•"..xet ulive Conunittee, was a member of the Constitutional Convention of i8f)o, and attended many coimty and state tonven- tions. In 1869 and 1870 he represented Wint hes- ter in the I.egisl.iture. Huring his first term he was chairman of .1 sjR'ii.il (omniiltee to examine state priitons, and was a prominent member of the Com- mittee on Railroads. In his second year he was Chairman of the first Insurant e Committee formecl in the Mouse. When he was a member of the St.ite Senate in 187,^ and 1874. licser\ed on the Commit- tee on Hanking and I'inance and on the Judiciary. He was a tireless worker, and aidetl largely in se- curing the passage of a number of important meas- ures, among them se\eral dealing with banking and insurance. As an orator. Mr. Abbott took a leading ]ilace in the slate, both in stump speaking and in the delivery of more formal addresses. W'iien, in i8. Aliiuri r. He is in the seventh generation, in direct line from George Abbott who emigrated from Yorkshire, Eng- land, about 1640. and settled in Andover, Massa- chusetts, in 1643. His great-grandfather, Nathan Abbott, was born in Andoxer and moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, where his grandfather was born. Dr. Abbott received his education in the district school at Bradford, New Hampshire, at Henniker Academy, and at Phillips E.xeter Academy. After leaving E.\eter he went to Manchester in 1847 and began the study of medicine in the office of Doctors Davis and Jones. He took the degree of M. D. from the Berkshire Medical College of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, November 20, 1850. The following winter and spring he spent in Boston, attending lec- tures and doing hospital work. In the spring of 1853 he settled in Rockport, Massachusetts, and re- mained there si.xteen years, when, on account of ill health, he removed to Manchester, where he is still in active practice. He was City and ("ounty Physi- cian in the years i878-'79, and a member of the Manchester Board of Health in 1S70. He is a Knights Tem]3lar, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, of the Manchester Medical Asso- ciation, of which he was chosen President at its organization, and has been a member of the Massa- chusetts State Medical Society since 1850. He is Consulting Physician to the Elliot Hospital and a member of the Derrj-field Club. In September, 1853, Dr. .\bbott married Margaret S., daughter of Edward H. Pearce of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and in September, 1865, Emma B., a sister of his first wife. June 10, 1879, he was married to Kate Tarr, daughter of Benjamin Tarr of Rockport, Massachu- setts. He has three daughters : Mary G., Maud P., and .Annie F. Abbott. AMI DON, Charles Jacoh, Woolen Manufac- turer, Hinsdale, was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, April 23, 1827, son of Otis and Nancy (Cook) Amidon. He traces his descent from Roger Aniidon, a Huguenot. «'ho escaping from siege of Rochelle, France, went to England, and subsequently coming to America, settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1636, and who was one of the original proprie- tors of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Roger Amidon's great-grandson Jacob, a Harvard student when the Revolution Iiroke out, joined the army in time to fight at JSunker Hill, was captured by the British and afterwards confined on a prison ship in New York harbor. He settled in Chestertield in 1782, and died there in 1839, aged eighty-si.x years. His son, Otis ,\mid(iii, farmer and merchant, was a man of prominence of the town, which he repeatedly represented in the Legislature, and by which he was honored with many local offices. The subject of this sketch received his education in the common schools of Chesterfield, at a time when the schools of Cheshire county were considered the best in the state, and he also attended Chesterfield Academy for many terms. In his early manhood he was a successful teacher, but in 1S49 he formed a partner- ship with the late Henry O. Coolidge, the firm going into business at Chesterfield Center. In 185 i Mr. Ml'.N III |-I\t n, i;l.>>. Ainidon removed to Hinsdale, where he enjja^ed in iiiereanlile pursuits for ten years. In eonipany witli Dr. Frederic liovden ami -Sylvester Itishop, he l)e- jjan the manufacture of woolen ;;(H>ds in the sprin-; of i.S()j, the linn hein^ Hishop, Hoyden vV- .\miilon. Althou;4h death claimed hotli the senior partners, Mr. .\initlon has carried on the business until the present time, his two sons, V. I-', anil \V. ( >. .\niidon, beinj; now associateil with him under the lirm name of f. 1. .Vmiilon iV Sons, They operate mills at Wilton .IS well as those in Hinsdale. Mr. .\mi(l5, the |)Ians of the com- mittee, in formulating' whidi Mr. .Xmidon took a part, beinjj accepted by the l.e},'islature without al- teration. In politics he was orij;inally a U'hi},'. but early joined the Republican |>arty, .soon betomin},' intluential not only in local but also in stale affairs. It was he who first presentetl the nanie of the late William Haile as a canilidate for Ciovernor of the state, and it was larjjely throu;;h his efforts tli.il Mr. Haile was elected. Mr. Amidon also haIi- iji- He is faithful, sincere, truthful. Ii de,ir lie,id ,ilid ,1 vi;;orous intdlri t |i held many more posiiiniis of piiMir never sou;;ht honor, .ill he li teliilered, .\U(\ many pi»si|.' 1 (le< lined. He is .111 r\.uii|ili idc of New I faiupshire ■m- ; his pii^;lit eetils .IIIV- iliii'" man MEN OF PROGRESS. ANTHOINE, Isaiah Cii.man. Physician and Surgeon, Nashua, was born in Windham, Maine, March 25, 1846, son of John and Mar}? A. (Gil- man) Anthoine. He received his early educa- tion in the High School at Windham Centre and Kent's Hill and North Bridgton Academies, and prepared for college at W'estbrook Seminary, gradu- ating from the seminary in 1868. He was a mem- ber of the class of 1872 in Dartmouth College up to his Junior year. In 1866 he had begun the study of medicine with Dr. Sturges of Windham, Maine, and later he studied with Dr. Jenness of Saccarappa and Doctors S. H. Weeks and William Warren Greene of Portland, Maine. He attended I. C. ANIHOINE. two courses of lectures at the Portland School for Medical Instruction, and then entered Bowdoin Medical College, from which he graduated in 1874, In 189 1 he took a post-graduate course at the Boston Polyclinic. From July, 1874, to November, 1892, he practised medicine in Antrim, New Hamp- shire, and then removed to Nashua. He is a mem- ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, Centre District Medical Society, of which he is an Ex- President. Nashua Medical Society, and American Medical Association. In 1884 he was a delegate to Dartmouth Medical College. From 1878 to 1884 he was Superintendent of Schools at Antrim. He is a member of tlie Nashua Board of Education. He is an ( )dd Fellow and a Mason. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. Anthoine was married on January 2, 1877, to Katie I. Preston, of Antrim. They have two children: Harry M., born October 2, 1879, and Mary E. Anthoine, born August 11, 1885. BACHELDER, John, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose inventions made possible the modern sewing machine, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, March 7, 181 7, son of William and Mary (Bailey) Bachelder. He had a public school and academic education, and for three years was a teacher, after which he became an accountant in Boston, in con- nection with the transportation company doing business on the Middlesex Canal. Subsequently he formed a partnership in the transportation trade, but the completion of the railway to Manchester put an end to the enterprise. Mr. Bachelder then turned to the dry goods business and the manufac- ture of silk and worsted trimmings. In the winter of 1846 he went to Europe to purchase goods and arrange for an importing house in Boston, steps which led to the formation of the prosperous firm of Bachelder, ISurr lS; Company. A few months later, in 1847, Elias Howe had a sewing machine on exhibition in ]-!oston, a curious piece of mech- anism but of little value from a practical stand- point. Mr. Bachelder became deeply interested in the machine, and after much study came to the belief that it could be vastly improved. After much experimenting privately at his home, he took a shop, mastered the trade of machinist, and de- veloped his works until he had a dozen men em- ployed. That he might de\-ote himself wholly to his undertaking he gave up his profitable importing business, and devoted five years and all his means (about twelve thousand dollars) to his task. To meet expenses he was forced to borrow about four thousand dollars from his friends ; and when finally he found it necessary to sell his patents, he realized only enough to pay his debts. Howe, Singer, Baker, and others who subsecpiently became famous in connection with sewing machines, frequently visited his shop and saw his machines at work. W. E. Baker of the Grover & Baker Company, saw one of Mr. Bachelder's experimental machines, using one vertical and one horizontal needle, and the company subsequently built a machine which was practically the same, with the exception that a curved under needle was substituted for a straight horizontal one. A clumsy stitch had been pro- MIA 111 I'kOCKKSS. cluccd by the Itachclilcr luacliinc of this i) pc. which used two threads of equal size, and the inventor had not patented the device, but in other hands it was found that a smaller under thread obviated the trouble, and success was achieved. Tile most important feature of the Jiachelder patent, however, the iiorizontal suppf)rtin',' table, the continuous feed, and the vertical straight needle are there, which no sewing machine in use today could do without. His model deposited at the I'atent Office showed clearly enough what he had invented, but the patent failed to protect him fully. After his indirect sale to the Singer Company, it was reissued and made to cover all the points of tRe invention. There was subsequent litigation by the famous sewing machine combination. Singer, Wheeler \' Wilson, and Cirover v\: liaker, with Howe, but eventually a settlement was elTected. Manv calculations have been made of the value of the Hacheider patent. In the last year of its exist- ence one company reported sales of two hundred and sixty thousand machines, and on the day it expired the price of machines was reduced from sixty to thirty dollars. In other words, the protection in one year reached the sum of .seven million eight hundred thousand tlollars. Indeed, experts have figured the total value of the patent at over one hundred million dollars. •• liachelder," says a work on .Vmerican inventors, •• was the first man in the world who ever built a sewing machine having a horizontal bed-piece or table on which the cloth was supported, a perpendicular, eye-pointed needle, a needle-plate, a continuous feed, and a device for pressing the cloth in the vicinity of the needle with a yielding pressure, live elements which are now found in every modern .sewing machine, and with- out which they wotdd be substantially worthless." It may be remarked that when Mr. liachelder tried to introduce his machine, he encountered the sul>- stantial opposition of the journeymen tailors of lioston, and for a time they prolonged the day of hand sewing. .After his experience as an inventor he engaged in cotton manufacturing at Lislxin. (."onneclicut, where he encountered the disasters of fire and busines.s depression. A venture in wostmasier and Town Treasurer of l.isimn, was a Director of the First National Itank of Norwich, anfl a Trustee of the Chelsea Savings Hank. In 1S75 he removed to Napa, California, establishing a manufacturing plant, in which he lost heavily. SrKin after he retired from active l>usiness life. He has always been interested in literary matters, and has |)ublished a book. "A. I). ;o^o." suggested by l!ellamy"s •• Looking liackward." Ik- was .Secretary of the I'ranklin .Association, lioston, in 1.S41 anil 1.S4.;. and Secretary of the West Cam- bridge Lyceum in iS^i and President in 1X5;. While in California he liecaine interested in libra- ries, and was for some years a Trustee of the Napa Library, of wiiich he was President when he left California. Subse(|uently he has resided in .Mil- waukee. He has taken an interest in p iiki.ukk. married .September 5, iS.}^, .\daline Wason, who died November j.S, i.Sij^, but a few months after the celebration of their golden wedding. 'Thev had three children: l''.nun,i Louise (Johns, man Lindner, who died March 11, i.Siji. .imi Charles .Sunnier It.ichelder, miw in charge of the chemical department of the Western Iteet Sugar ( 'ipnipanv <( N,is|iii,i, w.t ton, New H.impshire, Novenil.i i 'Thomas and jemim.i i .^milli ated from l),irimouth Colleg- Lawyer I lopkin- II. I.' MEN OF PROGRESS. his legal .studies with George & Foster of Concord, later attending the Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in 1856. His first practice was in Nashua, and fliere he has since remained. From the beginning of his professional career, he has enjoyed an enviable reputation. In i863-'C4. he was a Representative in the State Legislature, and was a candidate for State Senator. He was a can- didate for Elector at Large in 1884, and for Congress in 1886. He was City Solicitor of Nashua in 1884. In business and social life, he has had many and varied interests. From 187 1 to 1874, he was President of the \\'ilton Railroad. Since 1871, he has been a Director of the Nashua cS: Lowell road, and its Treasurer since 1891. He has been Presi- dent of the Nashua Savings liank f(jr fifteen years, a Director of the Indian Head National I!ank since 1894, and President of the Hillsboro Mills Manu- facturing Companv. For four years from 187 1. he was a Trustee of the New Hampshire Agricultural College. For over a score of years he has been a Trustee of the Nashua City Library, and he is also a Trustee of the State library. In 1895 and 1S96, W. W. lUII.EV. he was President of the New Hampshire Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. In politics Mr. Bailey is a Democrat. On September 21, 1858. he married Mary Roardman, daughter of Alfred (jreelev of Nashua. Their children are: Marion Greeley, born August 19, 1859, died July '-• ''^'^7; Caroline Webster, born March 30, 1862, died August 12, 1891 ; William Thomas, born November 19, 1869, graduated from Dartmouth College in i8gi, and subsequently a student in Harvard Medi- cal School ; and Helen Greeley Bailey, born March 9, 1873. Mr. Bailey has done faithful and good work in his profession, and as a public man, has enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. IjARTON, Hui!r,.\Rii Ai.oNzo, Senior Editor of the New Hampshire Argus and Spectator, Newport, was born in Croydon, New Hampshire, May 12, 1842, son of Caleb L. and Bethiah ( Tuck) Barton. His family is of English stock, its founders in this country having come here prior to 1636. Of their decendants, many have been prominent in the profes- sions and other walks of life. The great-great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch was a near rela- tive of General Barton of Revolutionary fame, and was killed at Bunker Hill. The great-grandfather, Benjamin Barton. Jr.. with two of his brothers, entered the army and fought at Bunker Hill, Bennington, West Point, and New York city. He married Mahitable Frye in 1779, removed to Croy- den in 17S4, and there was honored with nearly all the offices in the gift of his town. For seventeen years he was a Selectman and for fifteen Chairman of the Board. His son John was a successful fann- er, as was his grandson Caleb, who was born Feb- ruary 5, 18 1 5, and who is now retired from active life. Hubbard .\. Piarton received his education in the common schools of his native town, and under the tuition of John Cooper, a noted instructor. In his youth he developed a strong taste for journalism and wrote frequently for the press. In April. 1879, in company with W. W. Prescott, he purchased the Argus and Spectator, a Democratic newspaper established at Newport in 1823, by his great uncle, Cyrus Barton, a journalist of high repute. Since the fall of 1 880. the firm of Barton \' \\'heeler have published the paper, which, under Mr. Barton's editorial charge, has developed greatly, enlarged its forms, acquired new machinery, and widened its circulation. Aside from his labors in his own office, ire is correspondent of the New York Herald for Sullivan county. He was the successful Super- intendent of the Schools of Croyden from 1872 to 1879. He is a member of Mount Vernon Lodge, No. iv .Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Tabernacle Chapter, No. 19. Royal Arch Masons, Ml \ Ml I'KdC.KKSS. scrvin;^ :is Hij,'li Priest fur two years ; Sullivan C'diii- mantlcry Kni-jhts Templar; Newport l,oilf,'e. No. 4i, Knij;hts of I'ytliias; t'iranitc State Cliil). and New Kn^rlanil Suhurbaii Press Association, lie is a 'rriis- II. A. liARlll.N. tee of the Richards Free I,il)rary. In |)olilics he i.s- a JetTersonian democrat, tirndv helievin;; in a strict construction of, and adherence to, the nation's con stilution as the only safeguard of personal freedom and |X)pular rule. .As a political writer, he has been dif^nilied and conservative. Mr. Itarton was married .April j;, iSSj.to KUa 1,. Wilmarth, daugh- ter of the late Jonathan M. Wilmarth of .Newport. They have one child: Henry \\ilm.\rth Itarton born September i(>, 1.S90. Il!,()()l). .\kkias, whose death November 24. iS(^7, deprived Manchester of one of her lar},'est manufacturers and best of inttiiential citizens, was born in Wealherslield, \ermont, ( >ctol(er X, iSiTi, son of Nathaniel and Ko.xell.ina (Proctor) Itlood. He cninu of .sturdy New Kngland stock, bein;; de- scended frfim lames lUofKl wlioi.iine to this coun- try from Kngland ami settled in ( 'oncord, M.issa- chu.sclts, in if>y). The family was prominent in the early history of (irolon and I'epperell. Massa- chusetts, .ind in the luring Company, of (hicopee. Mass.u husetis ; rii.i-.mii of the Ci lobe Nail Company of itoston. M setts; President of the .\moske.ig P.ipcT ( inup.iii) of Mam hester ; ( Iwner .ind Tre.isurei •■( iIh Mm Chester H.ir| I'KOC.RKSS. March 31, 1SS3, Vice-l'rcsiinted Physician to the Rch kingham Cc)unty .Almshouse and the Ins.ine ,\sylum (r»n- nccted therewith in 1H71. holding (his pusiticm until 188S, and was I'niled Slates Kxamining .Surgeon for Pensions from 1872 "SS. He was appointed on the slalT of the Klliot Hospital in M.inchester in iS.Scj, holding this post until i.S(/>, when he re- signed on account of ill lie.dth, and w,is elected to /» * «• the consulting si. ill. He is .1 member of the Kock- ingii.im District .Medical .Society, of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and the .\merican Medical .Association. While a resident of Rocking- ham county he was fre(|uenlly calleil into court to testify as a medical or surgical e.xpert. During the thirty-eight years of his active professional work he was frecpiently called in consult.ition with other physicians, and had a large surgical practice. .Since his remov.d to .Manchester, he has been very frecpientU' called in consult.ition espec i.illv in his former lield of practice, lb i^ .ii pn-., ii( pradi- callv retired from active pr.ic lice cil |i: inn on account of ill he.dth. He has a 1 ; crv and spends much of his linic- with his bcHiks. He was .Superinlendc-nl of Sc hnols in I'.pping. 1 '^ a member of the St.itc- I.egisl.itine in i^ Vice-President and Ch.iirm.in of (he linc-sting Connnittee of the I'.pping S.uings B.ink from i,S7.' to i.S.Sij. He is a M.i-.n 1 I'.-l Mrl.i ■ .f Snili van l.iKlge, No. 19, I Pipping; a member i>l I '■ M.iii Chester, and of SI. AH ' \ri li M.isons of |',\c-(cT. He 1 I 2 MEN OF PROGRESS. tics, but voted for the Democratic nominees from General Pierce to General Palmer. He married in i8q2, Mr.s. Lillia D. True of Manchester. BURNS, Charles Henry, Lawyer. Wilton, was born in Milford, New Hampshire, January ig, 1835, son of Charles A. and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Burns. The Burns faniil\- is of Scotch orijjin. CHARLES H. r.URNS. The pioneer ancestor. John liurns, was born in 1700, came to this country in 1736. and settled in Milford in 1746, where he died in 1782. His descendants have lived there ever since. Elizabeth Hutchinson traces her descent from Barnard Hutchinson, who in 1282 was living in Cowlan in the County of York. From his eldest son, John, Richard Hutchinson, the pioneer ancestor of Mrs. Burns, was descended. Richard came to America and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1635. Nathan Hutchinson was one of the first settlers on the territory within the present limits of Milford. He was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Burns. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of his native town, which were of an unusually high order. He then attended the Apple- ton Academy in New Ipswich, graduating in 1854. He read law with Colonel O. \V. Lull in Milford, and was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1858. In May of the same year he was admitted to the Suffolk ]!ar, and in the following October was admitted to practice in the New Hampshire courts. In Januar\-, 1S59, he commenced practice in Wilton, where he has remained ever since, though a steadily increasing business has necessi- tated his opening an office in Nashua of late years. He has been connected with many of the most notable cases tried in the state's courts. Although a good lawyer in all branches of his profession, he is especially distinguished as an advocate. He has one of the finest law and general libraries in New Hampshire. In politics he has been a Republican since the organization of the party. His father was a strong worker in the anti-slavery movement, and the son early evinced an interest in public affairs. For years he has been one of the party's ablest orators. In 1864 and 1865, he was elected Treasurer of Hillsborough county. In 1S73 and 1879, he was a nieml)er of the State Senate, serving during both terms as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Governor Cheney appointed him Solic- itor for Hillsborough countv in 1876, and he was twice re-elected to that office. He was a delegate to the Cincinnati National Convention of 1876, representing New Hampshire on the Committee on Resolutions. He presided over the state conven- tion in 187S, making a strong speech against the greenback craze, which attracted national attention. In 1879, '^"^ ^^''^^ niLide Judge Advocate General on the Staff of Governor Head. He was appointed United States District Attorney for New Hampshire in 1 88 1 and 1885. Although he had not entered the field as a candidate, he had strong support in the senatorial contest of 1883. He is a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and the New England Historical and Genealogical Society; an M. A. of Dartmouth ; and a Thirty-second degree Mason. Mr. Burns married, January 19, 1856, Sarah N. Mills of Milford. Of their eight children four are living. CARBEE, .Samuel Powers, Physician, Haver- hill, was born in Bath, New Hampshire, June 14, 1836, son of John Hancock and Annie (Powers) Carbee. His father was of Scotch-Irish and his mother of English descent. He received his educa- tion in the common schools of his native town and at Newbury (\'ermont) .Seminarv. Later he at- tended Dartmouth Medical College where he was graduated November 3, 1865. He commenced the practice of medicine in Haverhill, November 20, 1861^, and has remained there ever since. Dr. Car- Mi:X OF I'ROf.RI'.SS. '3 bcc was County t'oinmissionLT of Ciraflon county lar position at l!ri(l;4tc)n. Maine In i.S4^. lie rc- from July i. 188510 July 1, 1.S.S9, Representative froni Haverhill in i.S95-'96, and was also Surfjeon- (Jeneral on the StatT of dovernor lUisiel during the moved to I'ennsvlvania fur the iinprnvenient of his health and taiijjht alxiut ten years in Myerstown, Lancaster, and llarrishur;;. preachinj^ often for churches of dilTerent ilenoniinations. lie became I'astor of the t'onj;rej;ational Church in Marshall. Illinois, in 1.S5:;. and remained there twelve \ears. Returninj; to New Hampshire, he took char;;e of a church in Deerlield. where his labors were fu(li College in i8?i. and was ^jrad- s|Hiken in most nf the t hurchr uate;r. Physician. Concord, was bom in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, January 2^. I S3 J, son of William and .Sarah ( I'riest) Conn. William Conn was the fourth generation in descent from John Conn, who came from the north of Ire- land about 1712, and died in (Jroton, Massachusetts, in 1759, at the age of seventy-si.\. Dr. Conn was educated in the common schools in Hillsborough, and at Krancestown .Academy, after which he spent two years at the Institute of Captain .Mden Part- ridge in Nor>vich, \'ermont. His professional edu- cation was received at Woodstock, N'ermont, and Hanover, New Hampshire, and he was grafluated from the .Medical Department of Dartmouth College in the class of 1S56, and received the degree of .\. M. from Norwich University, N'ermont, in 18.S0. He commenced the practice of his professifin in Randolph, N'ennont, in 1.S56. and nifived to Rich- mond, X'ermont, in 1861. In .August, 1862, he entered the army as .Assistant Surgeon of the Twelfth Regiment \'erniont \'olimteers, which was a part of the Second Vernuint liriga- shire, ( )ctolH:r 19, 1863. In 1865. he be(anie a menilicr of the Hoard rif Health, and the following year instituted the first sanitary inspettion of a whole city that was ever made in the stale, and probably the first house to house inspection ever made in this country. After the State Hoard of Health was established in Massachusetts in 18(19, Dr. Conn commenced wurking for a similar boar shire, was President of the -New Ham|)shire .Medical Society in 1S81. and has been its Secretary, with the exception of two years, since iSCnj. He is a mem- ber of the .\merican Medical .Association, the .American Public Health .Association, the Inter- national .Association of Railway .Surgeons, the .Medico Legal .Association of New \'ork. the New ^^ (JKA.WII.I.K I'. tolitics he is a Rc'pulilu .111. I )ii .M.iv 25, 185S, Dr. Conn was married to Hil' n M Si^iriu ..f R.indolph, \'er- mcjnt. The\ ik Winslow, a ( ivil engineer ni I «isl.i Ru.i, t tiUi,il .America, and Charles I'tiller Cfinn Tn imih 1 ..f tin- P.nsi.in Tcmiinal Company, 1: C( ).\. t 11 M.:i p ■- I l.^ii- H.impshire ,state Prison, ■1 the New was born in i6 MEN OF PROGRESS. Holderness, New Hampshire, December 2, 1846, son of Walter Blair and Nancy (Nutter) Cox. He traces his descent on the paternal side, from Scottish ancestors. He attended the public schools of Hol- CH.'VRLES E. cox. derness and New Hampton, and the New Hampton Institution. Until he was eighteen, he lived on his father's farm. He was engaged in cattle trading in Concord from 1S66 to 1870, when he removed to Manchester, where he continued in the same busi- ness till April 30, 1887, the firm being Cass & Cox. In the following July, he obtained the control of the wholesale beef and provision trade of the G. H. Hammond Company at Manchester, engaging in this business until August, 1896. He was a Repre- sentative of Ward Six, Manchester, in the Legisla- ture in i885-"86, and subsecjuently served as Coun- cilman and Alderman from \^'ard Four. He was appointed Warden of the State Prison, December i , 1896. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Washington Lodge, Mt. Horeb Chapter, and Trinity Commandery ; an ( )dd Fellow, a mem- ber of Hillsborough Lodge and Mount Washington Encampment ; and a member of Amoskeag Grange. In politics he is a Republican. On November 23, 1867, Mr. Cox was married to Evelyn Maiy Ran- dall. They have four children : Walter Randall, Guy Wilbur, Louis Sherburne, and Channing Harris Cox. DAVIS, Samuel Wilbert, Physician and Drug- gist, Sanbornville, was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, February 17, 1864, son of Samuel and Betsy Caroline (Hayes) Davis. On his father's side he comes of English and Welsh stock, and is a direct descendent of John Erskine, Earl of Mar. His mother's family were of Scotch-Irish descent, his mother being a niece of John Brewster, founder of Brewster Academy at Wolfeboro, New Hamp- shire. From the district schools of his native town, he was sent to the Farmington High School, being graduated in 1882, and thence to New Hampton. He was graduated from the New Hampton Commer- cial College in 1885, and entered Bowdoin Medical School in 1S8S, attending, also, the Portland School SAMUEL W. DAVIS. for Medical Instruction until his graduation from Bowdoin in 1S91. From 1S85 to 1888, he had been engaged in teaching. In August, 1891, he began the practice of medicine in Alton, New Hampshire, and luly 4, 1893. removed to the town of Wakefield. He has been engaged in professional work in the village of Sanbornville and surrounding country ever since. In May, 1896. he opened a drug store, having passed an examination before the State Board of Pharmacy, and he now conducts the business in connection with his practice. He was a United States Pension Examining Surgeon during President Cleveland's administration. He is a member of the MKN ol 'R()(;ki:ss. '7 Carroll County Mctlii.il Associalioii. tlii; Hoard of .\u;;iist lo. iS.-;, son of i'.diiiunil and Sarah (Cer- llcallh in Wakcticld, Syracuse 1ahIj,'c, Knij^lilN of rish) I Jcarliorii. lie i> dt-sccndctl from Codfn-y Pythias. L'nity laulyc. Ancient Free and Accepted i)earborn, who came from Kxeter. Kn^'huui, in Masons, and Carroll Chapter of Wolfboro. In 1O3.S. and settled in I'.xcter. New llam|)shire. His lX)litics he is a Kepublican, hut believes in votin;^ for the best canshire Conferenie .Seminary. He was ;,'raduated from the D.irtmouth Medical .School in November. iS4i>. and attended lectures at the Cni- versity of New \'ork and at the College ( lo llie clos*- of the w,ir; Cycle Cliih after its in< oriMiration. In (Militics he is Pension .Surgeon ihi' ap|Miinted by the a Kepiil>lican. Mr. I >■•"■'■■■■••< unmarried. Presin of I'vrus and Susan I'rench (Tiltoni Kasl- nian. His ancestry is I'.n^'lish. lie reeei\ed his edneation in the connnon sihooU of I.ittlelon. in Thetford (\"ernK>nt( Academy, in K.ind)all Inion Kdnc.ilion. i.S.Sj-'.j j ; Trustee . Ancient Tree .ind Aciepted .Masons, in i>^iji-'ij-\, and laniiient ( ouini.inder of .st. Cierard Connnandery. Kni;;iils Tenipl.ir. in iSi(;;.'i,«i. In politics .Mr. Tiastnian is a I )einoc r.it. .md in i.S.Sj was nominated for Tre.isiirer of (Ir.iflon niunt\. and in iSi^fi for State .Sen.ilor in district .\o. Two by the I )eniocr.uii- con\entiotis. but declined both nominations. ( )n September 15. 1.S75. he was mar- ried to .M.iry Ida Tafl. dau^duer of Richard T.ift. They had two children : Richard T.ift .nid Ida Taft Kastman. ( )n March 4, i.S{;i, he was .1 second time m.irried to M.irv Rebecca Colbv. dan;iluer of John 1>. Colbv. I'A .\NS. .\iimip l\\NOKi.i.. Lawyer and liank President. (;orli,\ni. was born in .Shelburne. New Hampshire. .M.irch ji. i.S.|i;. son of ( >tis and Mar- tha I). (I'inkham) Kvans. His paternal ;,'reat-^ranil- father ser\ed under \\'.ishin<,'ton .it Cambridge and his nioihrr's father. Captain M.iiiicl I'inkli.ini. built I 11 VkChs I. K\sl \1 \N .Academv of .Meriden. New Hanipslnn-, hhI i.iicr ,u the Kastman Commercial Colle;;e. l'ou;^hkeepsie. New York. He has been a Director in the LittU'- ton .Savinjjs Hank since 1.S.S4, was its \'ice-l'resi- dent fffun iSc^o to 1.S95, and has been its I'rcsi'lcm since that time. He has been a Director Littleton N.itional It.n ' of the l'..i^tciii liankin^; Com|)any. Il.i -ka, situ e i Sij'. of the Nashua Trust Company from iMi^o t<' of the C.ranite State Tire lnsuran K While N MEN OP PROCRKSS. with Bates College, — at Lewistoii, Maine. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1872. In April, 1875, he was admitted to the Coos County liar, and has practised law in Gorham ever since. He was chosen President of the Berlin Na- tional Piank upon its organization. February 18, 189 1, and still holds the office. On January i, 1895. he was appointed Judge of Probate for Coos county. He was a member of the Legislature in i874-'7s and 1878. He is a member of the Maynes- borough Club, Berlin, and of the New Hampshire Club, of ]5oston. He attends the Congregational Church, and is an active member of the Masonic Fraternity. In politics he has always been a Re- publican. On June i, 1880, Mr. Evans was mar- ried to Dora J. Briggs. They have no children. ELLIS. Bertram, Editor of the Daily and Weekly Sentinel, Keene, was born November 26, i860, in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Moses and Emily (Ferrin) p:ilis. On the paternal side he is of Eng- lish descent through the Walpole (Massachusetts) branch of the Fllis family. On the maternal side r.KRTR.\M KI.I.IS. Harvard in 1884. After graduation from the Har- vard Law School in 1887, he entered the law office of Evarts, Choate X: Beaman in New York, being admitted to the New York Bar in 1888. From that year to 1S90 he practised his profession in Denver, Colorado, for a part of the time in partnership with L. C. Rockwell. He was called home to New Hampshire by his father's death. Becoming inter- ested in newspaper \vork he joined the Sentinel in 1 89 1, and two years later became its editor. He was an Aide on Governor Busiel's staff in 1895 and 1896, and in the following year served as a Repre- sentative to tlie Legislature from Ward F'our, Keene. He held the important post of Chairman of the Ap- propriations Committee and there won much praise for his labors for economy in state expenditures. In politics he is a Republican, and has been President of the Keene Young Men's Republican Club for the last five years. He is a trustee of the P^lliott City Hospital ; a member of the Keene Board of Educa- tion ; Secretary for New Hampshire of the Harvard Law School Association, and a member of the Wentworth, Monadnock Cycle, and Country Clubs of Keene. Mr. VAVis, was married on June 20, 1894, to Margaret Louise Wheeler, of Minneapolis, Min- nesota. he is descended from the Ferrins of Londonderry, New Hampshire, a Scotch-Irish stock. He attended the common schools of Keene, fitted for college at the Keene High School, and was graduated from FARRINGTON, James, Ph^-sician, Rochester, one of the oldest and best known practitioners in the state, was born in Conway, New Hampshire, lune 10, 1S22, son of Elijah and Lois L. (P'arring- ton) P'arrington. On the paternal side his great- grandfather was Stephen P'arrington of Andover, Massachusetts, who married Apphia Bradley, and his grandfather w-as Jeremiah Parrington of Con- way, who married Molly Swan of Fryeburg, Maine. On the maternal side his grandfather was Samuel Parrington of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, who married Miriam P.astman of Concord. His early education was acquired at F'ryeburg, Bridgton, and Limerick Academies. He began the study of medicine in 1841 with Dr. Ira Towle in F'ryeburg, under whose instruction he remained till 1846. In 1844 he attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth College, and in 1S47 "'^s graduated from the Medi- cal Department of the LTniversity of New York. In March of the same year he was graduated from Dr. Whittaker's Medical School. Dr. Parrington began the practice of his profession in I'v.ochester in 1847, being associated with his uncle, James P'ar- rington, M. D., one of the most distinguished and successful medical men of his day in New Hamp- \II\ <>I K( >('. RKSS. shire, a Mfiiil)cr ■>! ('r\vay Plains .Savinjjs Hank. I'or more than forty years he has been a Mason, .ind he has tilled many important offices. He served as Hij^h I'riest of Temple <'lia|)ter in Rochester for ei^jht years, havin;; been ele< ted at its orjjanization. He is also a charter member of ['.destine Com- inandery. Knifjhts Templar, lie lieiame a mem- ber of the .Mololina I,(Kl^e.( »dd l-'ellows, in 1.S4.S. In ()olitics he is .1 Hrmoir.it. He has held several of the more important oHices in the towti, and in iHft;\ representejl Rochester in the Legislature. In i.S.Hr; he was a nieniber of the ( 'onstitulional Con- vention. He was elec-ted a member of (lovernor Tuttlf's Ciiuniil, holdin;; this office in tSi)t 't)2. On l-ebruary 27. i>^^i. he married H.irrielle Louise Chase. Two children have been born to ihcin : Nellie I'lorence (larrinKton) .M( DulTee. and Josephine Chase ( Larrinj;ton) Sanborn. l()Sri:R. liisiilA I,., is the oldest of a fam- ily of live brothers, vi/.: Joshua Lane, Jose|)h .Ad- dison. Daniel Kittredf^e. Lucius .\ii;^iistus. and Rinaldo Itrackett. sons of H.iniel Kiltred;;e and l.ydia(Lane) foster. The f.lther died in i.Sfx^. the niotlKT ill 1.S7V Ml ihc biulhers are now livin;^ except Daniel K., who died December 1 ^. i.S<^7. Joshua 1... for wiioiii this writing is inlenileil, was born at Canterbury. New 1 lampsliire. ( Ictober 10. 1SJ4. When about three months old his parents moved to Chichester, .New Hampshire, to reside with his mother's father. Joshua Lane, and there on the Lane homestead he was reared. The father bein^ a noted school teaiher of those tlavs. at- Iciuled well to his earlv pri\ale instruction, then sent him for several years lo the district school and from there, later on. to I'illslield .\cademy. He continued there for four years, ami hail all the advantajjes of that hrst rate institution. He then spent about two years at Ciilmanton .Vcademy. then returned for two or three lenns to I'ittstielil and cf)m|ileted his academic education. He remained on the home farm for a few years, then beinf; of a mechanical turn he learned the carpenter's anti builder's trade to which he devoted himself for two or three years more. I!ut this not bein;; satisfac- tory he went away to study architecture and geo- metrical drawinj,' under the instruction of Professor Henjamin Stanton of New \'ork. .\fter coinpletinj; this course he marriene of K. clic irt I III- ( '. MIMIK 111 ( ', .1111 .ir later l'( )\\'l,Kk. llfck.-»cHfc.i. JosKi'H, Hox .Manufac- turer. Keene. was born in Alexandria. New Hamp- shire. April 23, 1.S49. son of Thomas L. and Nancy .M. (diles) Fowler. (In his father's side he traces his descent from .\bner Fowler, born in Kil- karney. Munster coimty. Ireland, in 1635. who came to America when a yoimg man and settled in .Salisbury. .Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, .\bner Fowler, was a .soldier in the Revolution, antl his grandf.ither. David Fowler, fought in the War of i.Sii and was wf)imded at Lundy's Lane. ( )n the maternal side he is descended from Captain Liceness. who came to this country with Lafayette, ser\ed under him in the Revolution, and at its close settled in .Stratham. New Hampshire. When his men returned to France the C.iptain paid them off, taking in return the then almost worthless securities of the I'nited .States. Mr. Fowler was efliicated in the common schools of his native town and in the academies at Chesterlield, New Hamp- shire, and Newbury. \'ermont. In 1.S66 he entereti the drug store of Howard iV Holman in Keene, remaining there three years. He was a year in the clothing and dry goods store of Whitcomb \- I Inn- bar in that c ity. and for .1 time was employed in .1 clothing store in ,Milford, .M,issachuselts. He had a year's experience in a variety store in Medford, Minnesota, In 1H76 he bought his father's lumber and stave mill in Chesterlield, which he carried on until I.H.S;, when in cfimpany with J. C. |oslin he built a new mill and began the manufacture of jock-corner wckmI packing boxes. ,\bout two years later Mr. Joslin retired from the business. In tHHt^ Mr. Fowler eiig.iged in the manufacture of pails, an undertaking he conducte .1 Republii .iji. Ik 1- .1 nuuilu-r nf Lod;;.' 'if T'lniili . I'ni- uul V. 1 epted .M.isnns. \li il: first on Sip li-nil.'t 1 I 1 . i>;!p. Ill l.ll.i .M. ( .11 ; M.u .' r i^s-: .1 (l.m-liti r \. l!ii 1 i.l lime iii.inuil !■-■ .M.11I1.II.1 i;\.iiii. 111 I1.1-, \wi iiwng I liildren : I'red II. .nid born HI Winchi 1H21), son of • ' I receive1 l'Kn(;ki;ss. I'cliruary 14. i.'^.n.ili K. liiuus. In Jamuiry. iSi;;. Ik- w.is dii led Citv (Smith ( Jackson. His father was a n izations, .nnon;; them licinj; the < UKI l'ellow> of Nashua, the IJks of .M.iiuhester, Knij^hts reni|jlar and Scottish Kile Thirty-sei dikI l»e;;rec .Masonic Hollies RC,K K. JACKSON. the maternal side he is a descendant of J.imes Smith of Oldtown. Maine, his ^jrantlfather heiiifj William .Smith of Windsor. Nova .Scotia. Mr. Jack- .v)n receivetl his early edui atimi in Moston, where his parents removed when he was four years of aye, in its piililic scluxils and at the lioston Com- mercial Colle;;e. He l)e;;an his liusiness life in the wholesale sinallware business as ilerk, in a Moston house, and later was employed as travellin;^ sales. man for some four years. He was next employed in a manufacturing company, where l>y ac( ident he lost his rif;ht fore-arm. .Shortly after ret nxerin}.; from his injuries, he entered the l.iw otiii e of Cap. t.iin H. It. .\thertrin of .N'ashu.i, as ,1 student ,it l.iw, where he remained for two years, after which lime he entered the Moston I'niversily .Si hool of l.,iw, and to«ik the entire three years' course in two years, f;r.iduatin^' with the de;jre»- of 1. 1.. II. from tint institution in June. i.Si;|. The following; Julv he took the examination for admission to the .New Hampshire Mar, standing ,it the head of ,1 rl.iss of thirteen < andid.ites. He immediatel) formed a co-partnership with l->lw,ird H U ason. uiuler the lirm name of Wav>n \ j.ii kson, whii h still ( on- l.l%Kr. {;i-.iiKi:i-; I'jpHAKii. I'lusician. Concord, was horn in Clareinont, .New Hampshire. .March 29, 1.S51, son of (leor^^e II. and .Sarah I'. iChase) I.eet. His ancestors were amon|,' the first to settle in Con- necticut, afterwards moving; to Claremr)nt. New llainpshire. He received his education in the common schools, and by the aiil (»f private instruc- tion. He entered I )artmouth .Medical Collejje and was ;,'ra(!ualeci in 1.S77. He l>e;.;an the practice of me(li( ine in C.ina.ui. N« >• lier. 1.S77. and • in ,<• \; lor seventeen \i 1 he tiv In i-Si^) '1^ I he was a men • if ( 'anaaii, also ,1 membei 26 MEN OF PROCRESS. for several years. He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society and the White River ^'alley Medical Society. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge of l-jitield, .St. Andrews Chapter, and Washington Council of Lebanon. He is also an active member of the American ^Mechanics and also of the Grange, and has held offices in a number of these societies. He is a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Society, and is a Republican. On February 14, 1878, he married Katherine E. Saw- yer, of Claremont. They have two sons : George Paul, born F'ebruary 22. 1884, and Edward Don Leet, born Julv 25, 1887. LIBBEV, I'rkd Sumner, Lumber Dealer, Wolf- boro, was born in \\'olfboro, New Hampshire, Octo- ber 17. 1865, son of Alvah S. and Abbie E. (Pray) Libbey. After graduating from the Wolfboro High School in 1883, he entered the New Hampton Literary Institution in August. 1883. He was graduated in June. 1887, giving the honorary address to his literary society, the Social Fraternity. He next entered Jiates College in August. 1887. FRKU S. I.IBHEV. from which he wajj graduated in 1891. ha\'ing the parting address to his class, of which he was President. After leaving college he was elected Principal of the Camden, Maine. High School, which position he held until September. 1895. when the death of his father called him liome to settle the estate. In ( )ctober, 1896, he bought out the interest of A. J. ^'arney. for thirty years a partner of his father in the lumber and box business under the firm name of Libbey iv: Varney. In January, 1897. he and his brother, E. J. Libbey, bought the interest of the Libbey estate and are now carrying on a large and A-ery prosperous box and hmiber business under the firm name of Libbey Brothers. Mr. Libbey was elected Moderator of the town at the last election. In politics he has always been a Republican. In religion, a Free Baptist. He was married on August 27. 1892, to Sara E. Deering, of Pittstield, New Hampshire. They have two children : Frederic Alvah and Elizabeth Louise Libljey. LIBBEY. Hexrv Cl.w. Lumber Merchant, Li.sbon, was born in Bethlehem. New Hampshire, August 2. 1839, son of Nathaniel and Tirzah (Lord) Libbey. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, John Libbey, was born in England about the year 1602, and came to this country about 1630 and settled in what is now Scarborough, Maine. He had twelve children. His oldest son, John Libbey, was born in England but was reared in Scarbo- rough, Maine. He took an active interest in the public matters of the town, and served as Selectman in the year 1670, also in the years 1674, 1683, and 1687. In Ma\-. 1690. he moved to Portsmouth, New- Hampshire, where he lived until his death. He followed the calling of miller, and was frequently chosen to fill the minor town offices. He lived to a very old age. His son, Benjamin, was born in Scarborough, Maine, June 4. 1682. moving to Ber- wick, Maine, and living there until his death. He was for many years one of the principal inhabitants of the town, being frequently placed on the most important Town Committees, and was from 17 19 to 1736 .Selectman. He was one of the original Pro- prietors of Lebanon, and took prominent part in the early management of that township. He was a Deacon of the Congregational Church for thirty-six }ears. Mr. Libbey died November 9, 176S, His son. Charles Libbey. was born in Berwick, Maine, December 29, 1721, and married Abigail Hilton, December 27, 1744. He was a farmer, living and dying on his father's homestead. His death occurred in September, 1772. They had twelve children. His son, Captain Charles Libbey, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Berwick. Maine. December 16, 1749, was a Mi\ ')| l'ki>(;Ki-.« Revolutionary solilicr, .iiul scukil iii I.lIi.iiu'H in 1791. N'athiinicl l.il>lii\ fMllowctl the sea in Ills early days, and l.ii _cd in lunilierinj; in Hcthleheiii. The subjctl nl this sketch was the youngest (if a faniilv "f 1 liven thildren. At the age of eleven nionli ^ left fatherless, and when he was se\en )e.u>. <>( ai^e his mother died. He was thus thrown upon the world at an (.arly age. and worked at dilTerent i)la< es for his hoard until he was thirteen, when he heg.m doing the wurk of a man. He attended the < ..nin,,.!, schools at White- held, hut his education w uiited. At twenty years of age he bought .1 s.iwiuill, paying three '■■'■■ I'T twelve proved \lder Itrook If li.i-. Miiie ( ". r I 1 1 ! 1 1 ■ SI 1 1 1 ■ hundred doll.irs down .md givln ■ !■! hunrlred. This, his lirst hu- successful. .md in 1.S71 he I" mill property which he ni.ni.i„ . eighteen years. «lis|Xising of the in: fie then went to l.islxm. where resided. In i.H«4 he organized i' (llovf Company, .inci hec.inie its I oncern I onsolid.iied with the .'s.if.in.ii dlnket pany of Littleton, .md Mr. lahliev i>> l'resilish- ment was Iturneil in ■•S>)i, he w.is one of the le.idcrs in the rebuilding. At present it is one of the l.irgesl ni.muf.iclorio of its kind in tin- lountrv. In i.Si)4 he severed his connection with this enterprise, anil is now largely engaged in the lunilier business in Kimouski, l'ru\ince of (Juebei. He is I'residi-nl and .Manager of the Lisbon i;lei trie Light ( dui- pany and a stockholder and Hireitor in the Lisbon .National bank. .Mr. Libbey is strongl) Republican in his political \iews. but has never t.iken a \ery active interest in politics. I'or several vears he was Postmaster at Alder iirook. In i.S()j he w.is .1 member of the State LegisLiture. lie is a member of Whiletield Lodge, .\iuieiit Iree and .\ccel)ted Masons, .md is a faithful attendant of the Methodist Church. < )n November 22. iSTi^. .\Ir. Libbey w.is married to Lllen .\l.. daughter of Henry Thomas of Littleton. They li.i\e li.id four children: Itlani he r.. born September 7. i.S(.(. : Herman '['.. liorn July (>. iSOlS: deceased .\ugust i). 1X1)7: Crace K.. born June 1^. iS'S: and luliel M. Libbey. born .\MgMst LISC(»M, Lkmi Ki. Ikxnki.in. I .irnier. Hins- d.de, St,ite Sen;itor from the Fourteenth Histrict, w:is born in Hinsdale. I'ebruarv 17. i.S4i,son of l.enniel. ;d. ,ind |-'.nier;incy (Hortoni Liscom. < >n the paternal side he is of Lnglish descent: on the maternal. Scotch and l-aiglish. The Liscom f.imily c;ui be traced in the old records of I lorchester and I )orchester South I'recinct mow Cantoni, Massa- chusetts, which show th.it I'hilip Li.scom married Charity J udson in 1701, and in r; of Lymnii ,\ (.' .d in th.ii il mto busiii' . ; sc-lling ' ■■ 'I .md found 1: ing a coal lire in In St rale the heatiiv' ■■ successful veai account of I .\|.ril at the •■-■•Is. ■ Ill It, 111 lie- 28 MEN OF PROGRESS. farming and lumbL-ring. He took a prominent part in town affairs, served as Selectman and Justice of the Peace, and held other town oflfices. Politically, he was a Whig, and later a Republican. He was a devoted member of the Paptist church, as was his wife, a daughter of Hezekiah Horton, and a kins- woman of Lord liurnham of England. Lemuel F. Liscom, the subject of this sketch, attended the town schools, completing his studies at Kimball ITnion Academy in iSdo. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Fourteenth New Hamp- shire Volunteers, and saw much service. He was on duty much of the first year at the National Cap- ital and along the Potomac ; was then transferred to the Department of the Gulf and went with his regiment up the Mississippi. He was at the siege of Petersburg and at the second battle of Malvern Hill ; fought in eight engagements in the Shenan- doah Valley ; and at Augusta, Georgia, had the satisfaction of assisting Jefferson Davis on board a United States gunboat. He returned from the ser- vice with the rank of Orderly Sergeant. After the war Mr. Liscom was employed by the National Bridge and L'on Works, Boston, becoming Super- I.F.MIKI. F. I.ISCOM. intendent of Construction, and in that capacity hav- ing charge of the building of the train houses of the Boston iv Lowell and Boston & Providence Rail- roads. He put in the first iron bridge on the \'er- mont Central at Dog river, constructed many fine bridges and buildings, and was his own engineer. Mr. Liscom returned to Hinsdale in 1880, to care for his aged parents, and after his father's death bought his farm, on which he now lives. He makes a specialty of hay and tobacco, selling about eleven tons of the latter each year. In i89i-'92, and again in i8g3-'94 he served as a Representa- tive in the .State Legislature, and in 1897 took his seat in the Senate, having been elected by the largest majority vote ever cast in the di.strict. \Miile in the Legislature he formed the first " Farm- ers' Legislative Council " ever held in the state, its object being to give weight and influence to the agricultural element. He was one of the first to advocate moving the Agricultural College to Dur- liam, in order to secure the Benjamin Thompson school fund, and he has been a warm friend and supporter of the college. During his first term in the House he was Clerk of the Committee of Roads, Bridges, and Canals, and in his second. Chairman of the Public Improvements Committee. As a Senator he is Chairman of the Committee on Claims. In the House Mr. Liscom introduced a bill providing for an electric railroad from Hinsdale to 15rattleboro, Vermont, which was defeated. ( )n its second introduction, however, both parties agreed to refer it to the Supreme Court. As a Senator he introduced a measure to give the Con- necticut River Water Power Company a franchise to build a water system across the river between llrattleboro and Hinsdale, for generating electricity and other power. Mr. Liscom is a strictly temper- ate man and a hard worker in the interests of his constituents. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Masonic Commandery in Keene; of Sheridan Post No. 14, (irand Army of the Republic; of the Red Men; and of the (Irange. He married, l"'ebruary 21. 1S72. Dollie Amelia, daughter of Orvin T. Mason of Truthville, New Vork. a woman of noble character, who died March 2, 1896, leaving two children: Flora Dollie, born January 22, 1875. '"'"^' ^Fn'}' Edith Liscom, born October 31, 1878. LITTLE, Georce Peabody. Farmer and Stock Raiser, Pembroke, was born in Pembroke. New Hampshire, June 20, 1834, son of Elbridge Gerry and Sophronia Phelps (Peabody) Little. He is in the eighth generation from George Little who set- tled at Old Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640. He received his earlv education at the Lewiston and \ll\ <'l i'Kn(;Ri;ss. -'■) I'diibriikc ;icaclL-iiiics, and at the Military lii.slitutc iluirtli, ami lias aKva\s hut-ii a Kcpulilit an. ( »n at IV-mbrokc a bramh of the N'orwiih Military Acatlumy of N'cniioiit. At the ajjc of L-ijjhtccn he taufjht school. The folluwinj; year he left home to Aiij,'iist j». iS^i. he married llli/alielh Ami Kiio.x. I'hey have si.\ ( hihireii living;: ('l.irenee lieUlen. President of the lirst .National liank of Itismarik. I>akota, who has heen a Stale .Senator sinee li.ikota hecame a stale; .Mary (;eor;;ian.i. wife of James !■;. ( )dlin. of l.uni. .Massaeluisetls ; I'.li/aheth I'.llen, wife of I.. I-. Thurher. of N'ashn.i : .\etlie K., wife of I'r.mk !•!. .Shepard. ( 'on< ord ; laiev liowman: and (l.ir.i I'r.imes. wife of H.irm.in S. Salt, of Ihooklyn. N.N'. One child. (;eor;;e W il- lard Little, died in i.S^.S. I.( )l'(;i''.l'",. (iKoKia-. W'oniiwuK rii. I'lnsii ian. freedom, was horn in i;i)in;,diam. New Hampshire. June T,, 1X59. son of .Sylvester T. .nul Kn.imah ( r>urlei;;li) l,ouj,'ee. ( >n the paternal side he is of i'Yeneh descent, and eputy Collector of l'nilee.iccin in the CcmKri'Kation.il his liilor. but Liter established .1 pr.i whiih h.is been larf;e and hi' ■ ■ ve,irs he was a member of |i T'.ftinj;h,im. .mil (or ll 3° MEN OF PROGRESS. similar office in Freedom. In 1897 and "gS, he was elected a Selectman of the latter town. Since January. 18S7, he has been Coroner for Carroll county. He is a member of Carroll Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Freedom ; Carroll Chapter of Wolfborough ; St. Paul Commandery of Dover ; Costello Tribe, Red Men, of Kezar Falls. Maine; Prospect Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Freedom, of which he was the first Noble (jrand ; Mt. Chocorua Encampment of Madison ; Carroll County Medical Society, of which he was President in 1895, and New Hamp- shire Medical Society. He is a Democrat, and has taken a very active interest in politics. On Novem- ber 25. 1885, he was married to Edith Louise Mer- row. daughter of Dr. Augustus D. Merrow. Thev have two children : Louise Marguerite, born Sep- tember 16, 1893, and Hayes Lougee, born Decem- ber 6. 1896. Dr. Lougee has a very wide circle of friends in and out of his profession. NEWTON. LeRov Allan. Physician, Walpole, was born in Greenfield. Massachusetts, January 28, 1863, the .son of .\llan Nims and Anna Maria LEROV .\. NEWTON. (Ferguson) Newton. He attended the common schools of Greenfield, and for two years was a pupil at the high school of the town. At the age of fifteen he obtained employment, and learned the tinner and plumber's trade, and a little later accjuired another trade, that of a watchmaker. While employed by a jewelry firm in Saratoga, New- York, he gave much attention to physical culture, becoming a highly successful instructor in this branch in the Young Men's Christian Association gymnasium at Saratoga, and the Glenns Falls gym- nasium. He had read medicine for a year, when he entered the medical department of the University of PennsyKania in 1892, being graduated in 1895 with the degree of M. D. For a time he practised in Boston, but at the beginning of 1896 removed to Walpole. He is a Charter Member of the Saratoga Gentlemen's Club, and a member of the Saratoga Choral Union, the New Hampshire Medical Society, the Cheshire County Medical Society, and the New Hampshire Surgical Club. He is the author of a number of papers on professional topics. In poli- tics he is a Republican. Mr. Newton was married. September 15, 1897, to Minnie Isbell. McCOLLESTER, Sullivan Holnl\n, Clergy- man, Instructor, Traveler, and \Vriter, Marlborough, was born in that town December 18, 1826, son of Silas and Achsah (Holman) McCollester. He is of Scotch descent, his ancestor, Samuel McCollester, coming to America as Captain of a company of sol- diers with his brother, who was captured by the Indians, and held as prisoner for sometime. They settled in Dorchester. Massachusetts. Sullivan McCollester now owns and lives upon a farm pur- chased by his great-grandfather, Isaac McCollester, who settled in Marlborough, in 1764. He attended the schools of the town, early developing a strong taste for study, and at the age of fifteen became a pupil in a select school, and afterwards received a thorough academic training in the seminaries at Swanzey, Dublin, Jaffrey, Winchendon, Massachu- setts, and Brattleboro, Yermont. He entered Nor- wich University in the winter of 1847. '^'""1 was graduated in the summer of 1851. Two vears later he was graduated from the Cambridge Divinitv School, and took charge of the Mount Ctesar Semi- nary at Swanzey, New Hampshire. Dr. McColles- ter — the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by St. Lawrence University (New York) in 1874 — had seen practical service as a teacher in Richmond and Walpole before taking his collegiate course, and proved himself thoroughly fitted for his post at Swanzey. There he did double duty for five years, preaching as well as teaching, organizing two new- church societies in different parts of the town. MIA (>1 I'KiiC.KI'SS. which prDspercd cxi tcum^i\ uiniir iii-- i .irr. 1 htii for four years ht- was I'astor of the I'nivers.ihsl societies in Westinoreianil aiul West t'liesterlielii, preaching; part of tlie time in eaih town. buiUliii;; up the inemliersliip of the societies ami iiureasin'; their rehjjious zeal. Successful labors in char;;e of the \alley Seminary showed that his interest in eilucational matters was as keen as e\er. Durin;^ his residence in Westmoreland, he was elected School ('ommis>ioni.-r of t'heshire county, an otlice he held initil 1.S51). He was also appointed Presi- dent of the State Hoard of Commissioners, and in the winter \ isited schools and lectureil on education, while in the spring he held Teachers' Institule>. He was called to Westbrook Seminary, near Port- land. Maine. April, i.Srd. ( )f this institution he was the heail for ei^'ht years, his administration being marked by a phenomenal growth of tlie school, which reached its greatest development under his care. In 1864, he obtained a charter for a I'eni.de ( 'ollege. the first Stale-chartered institu- tion of the kind in .New Kngland. In the course of his stay at Westbrook. moreover, he built up a prosperous church. Hard work and a hard climate told upon l)r. .McCollester's health, and in the smn- mer of iS()(i he found it necessary to lay down his labors for a time and travel aliroad : and twn years later he was obliged to gi\e u|) the school, and seek a region less trying than the .Maine coast. His next charge, the pa.storate of the Iniversalist Church in N'a>hua. brought him more hard work and more success. The congreg.ition grew : a par- sonage was bought; societies in various (le|)art- ments were formed : and it was with deepest regret that at the enfl oi three years his resign.ition was accepted. I)r. Mc< ollester had been called to the presidency of Huchtel College, .\kron. ( >hio. where for si.x years he again pro\e(l himself an indefati- gable worker in the interests of the college, besides building up a strong church in the city. Ill-he.dth once more forced him t" Mck rest and ch.inge of scenes abroad, bi > he was resolutely id building a church nt. Ill less th.in two years from the time In- unflertiK.k the «cirk, a stt'. 1 parish w.is worshiping in .1 new ann erivcr, and tli diftii nil a»hifvement of inrnint; ,1 .m .ik one full of vigor .ind e.irnestiiess. He 1 pastorale in 1MM5. and sinie then has . 11. M. coli.i>ti:k. N'ine\ eh through .\merii.iii l-!yes : " .ind •• .\le\ico. I >U| and New. a Wonderland." He has corres- poniled for the itostmi Transcript, the Ifoston |our- nal. the Christian I.e.ider. the journal of Txluca- tion. I'ortl.ind Transi ript. .ind many other papers. In i.S.Si; 'i)o. he was in the New ll.inipshire Legis- lature and W.IS Ch.iirman of the Committee on T'.diication. He has been for some years President of the New Hampshire Inivei- 1- tion. and is an earnest tcin| i.j organizer. He has usually voted with the Kepiibli- i.in party. \H. Mel is .1 ji. belonging to the Ith: mi Win. . .,c Chapter in Portland, \; I the Kniuhls Tem- iiii'i ( '.llMi;lil K infill NT (■..•;.. I. I T. ;lu' I liuu li \TC..I1. St, , II)'. ..1. 32 MEN OF PROGRESS. study the people, as well as the lands and places. He has been at five different times in Ireland, Eng- land, Scotland, France, (iermany, Switzerland, and Italy ; once in Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Spain ; twice in 15elgium, Holland, and Genoa ; three times in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey ; once around the world, spending considerable time in Japan, China, India, islands of Indian Ocean ; went up the Per- sian Gulf to Babylon and Nineveh and through Arabia ; through the United States and Me.xico. He has visited the Universities of Dublin, Edin- boro, Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Vienna, Tunis, Heidelberg, Padova, Bologna, Rome, Athens, Bombay, Tokio, etc. He visited many of the public and private schools of these different countries. In all, including our own country as well as foreign, he has been into more than a thousand different schools corresponding to our common schools. He has lectured since 1870 more than nine hundred times in various places on his travels, educational subjects, and temperance. He has attended since he entered the ministiy in 1853, eight hundred and fifty-three funerals. He has married rising two hundred couples. During the forty-five years in the ministry, he has preached sixteen hundred different times on Sunda\'s, but his chief work has been done in the seminary and col- lege. same ward. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of Rumford Lodge. In politics he is a stalwart Republican, and a firm and practical advocate of temperance. In October, 1864, Mr. Patterson was PATTERSON, S.amuei. Fdi.sdm, Secretary of the A]nerican International Association of Railway Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings, Concord, was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, January 23, 1S40, son of Joab and Mary Levering Patter- son. He numbers among his ancestors some of the first settlers of the state, men of sterling worth and broad and liberal views, who bore their part in directing the social and political tendencies of the Commonwealth. He received his early educa- tion in the district schools and in the academy at Contoocook. He served three years in the army, reenlisted in 1865, was commissioned F'irst Lieu- tenant, and served until his regiment was mustered out. Before going to the front he was an employe of the Concord & Montreal Railroad, and after the war he returned to the company, becoming foreman of the bridges department and subsequently being promoted to his present position of Superintendent of Bridges and Buildings. He has served the road for thirty-four years with zeal and fidelity. In i895-'g6, he was Alderman from Ward Six, Con- cord, and in iS97-"98, was Representative from the S. F, PATTERSON, married to Susan E. Hersey, and in ( )ctober, 1890, to Mrs. Ida M. Paul. He has two children : George H. Patterson and Mrs. Marv H. Ring. ROBINSON, Henrv, Lawyer and Journalist, Ex-Mayor, Ex-Postmaster of Concord, was born in that city, July 14, 1852, son of the late Nahum Robinson, Warden of the New Hampshire State Prison. Nahum Robinson was a contractor and builder, who did much toward the advancement of the city of Concord. He was the first construction agent of the post-office building, superintended the erection of the fine railway station, and was in fact the Building Agent of the Concord Railroad for ten years. Henrv Robinson attended the public schools of Concord, and studied under private tutors at Boston and elsewhere ; attended the Boston Univer- sity Law School ; and later returned to his native city to pursue his legal studies with the late Judge Josiah Minot, Attorney-General Mason W. Tappan and John Y, Mugridge. He was admitted to the Bar in 1875. In the successful practice of his profession he was associated with Colonel F'rank H. Pierce, a nephew of President Pierce, and also MIA (»l I'KOCKKSS. 33 with Kil;;.ir II. U ooiiiii.m. Mr. KoliiiiMiii c.irly developed a strong likinj; fur politics. In iSyij he was clcctuil a nicnibcr of the l.e;;isiature. and since then he has re|>eatedly served in that hoily. In iSSi he was a stron-; candidate for Speaker, Init witlulrew in the interest of his father-in-law. the late I'niteil States .Senator KdwartI H. Rollins, who was a candidate for re-election. In iSSj; he was a niemlier of the Senate. In both branches of the Lejjislatiire he scrveolilicnl writer he has been i-s()ei i.dly active, and his twm ,lf f>/iinif of •• Jean Paul " has heroine cxccedinf;ly well known anion),' New l'.n);lancl newspa|H.T reailcrs. lie h.is been a voluminous ell .iltended the schools of Plymouth until he was ten years old, and later he studied in a |)rivate schoul at Concord, Phillips .\cademy. .\ndover, the Mayhew .ind the Latin schools of ltoston,the High ScIumiI ,11 Detroit, Mich- igan, and the Collegi,ite and Connneri iai Institute at New ll.iven. Cmniei tii ut. He w.is ,ipp. Smith in lln- manuf.K tiire •>( 1 and in I'ebruary of the - kee|H-r for Webster, Hull .\ « ■.nn'iin. m. i. n mi ■ This tirm w,(s smieeiled in iK;^ l>\ \\i-l.si<-i Rns sell .V < ompany, whii .Mr. Russell, who \\ ■ mm mi" i 34 MEX OF PROGRESS. formation, is the surviving partner. He served in the New Hampshire National Guard on the staff of General Daniel M. White, brigade commander, as Captain and Aide-de-(^imp from May 28. 1884, to December 11. 1885. and as Major and Assistant In.spector-General from December 11. 1885. to FRANK W. RUSSELL. May 15. 1 889. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Cavalry Societv Armies of the United States, United States Cavalry Associa- tion, Military Service Institution. Olive Branch Lodge. No. 1 6. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Pemigewasset Chapter. No. 13. Royal Arch Masons. Omega Council. No. 9. Royal and Select }klasters of Plymouth, and Pilgrim Commandery. Knights Tem- plar of Laconia. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Russell was married October i, 1S73, to Louisa Webster Hall. Two of his children. Clara Louise and Mary Louise Russell, died in infancv. His eldest son. William Wallace Russell, is a bank clerk at Wells River. Vermont, and another son. George Moor Russell, is a West Point Cadet. His other children, Susan Carleton, Waher Hall. Louis Webster, and Frank Henry Russell, are attending Plvmouth schools. of Daniel H. and Lydia Sanborn. He was brought up on his grandfather's farm in Wakefield and edu- cated at the common schools and Academy in that town. At the age of eighteen, he began teaching school in the winters and continued most success- fully in this work for twent}- terms. \Mien a voung man he purchased a farm and became an active and industrious farmer. Soon after he also engaged in buying and taking cattle to the markets, and car- ried on a lumber business which up to 1870 was e.xtensive. He had a large probate business for some years. He was a Selectman of the town of \\'akeheld in i856-'57. was a member of the Legis- lature in i86i-"62.-a member of the E.xecutive Coun- SANBORN. John- William, Railroad Superin- tendent and Banker. Sanbornville, was born in Wakefield, New Hampshire, January 16, 1822, son JOHX W. SAXBORX. cil in 1863, was a State Senator in iSj^-'j^. being President of the body during the latter year, was a member of the Con.stitutional Conventions of 1876 and 1889 and was Democratic candidate for Con- gress in 1880. He has been a Trustee of the New Hampshire Insane Asylum ; is now a Trustee of the New Hampshire Agricultural College, a Director of the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad, and of the Portsmouth Fire Association, Director and \'ice- President of the Granite State Fire Insurance Com- pany and President of the Wolfboro Loan and Bank- ing Company. Early in life he became interested in the improvement of the means of transportation and travel, and was active and instrumental in the MIA or IMvOC.KISS 35 fXtunsion of the I'ortsmouth. Circ.it I .ilN iV t onu.iy Railroad, l-'nun 1S74 to 1S.S4 lie was Su|KTintci\tl- c-nt of ihc Coinvay Division of the Kastern Railroad; is now and has been from that time Siiperiiiteiident of the Northern Division of the Itostoii \ Maine Railroad; \v;is actinj; (lencral Manajjer of the Hus- ton \' Maine Railroad from [•"ebruarv 4. i.Siji. to March 1. 1^94. Sanbornvilie, at the junction of the main line of the Xorthem Division of the Bos- ton A: Maine Railroad anti the \\'olfl)oro iJrancii, was named for him. aiul it is throiij^h his activity and effort that the place has been built up to be one of the most im|X)rtant in Carroll county. .Mr. Sanborn was a strong; I'nion man durin<; the w;ir and was active in enlisting soldiers for the .service, contributing large sums of money to carry on the cause, and was influential in matters of state relat- ing to the war. I'll'KR. (11 \m.K> l-KANcis. of Wolfboro. son of Kenjamin \. and Mannah (Kvans) Piper, was born at I.ee. .New Hampshire. .May 22. 1.S49. His grand- f.„|„.. 1.1... 1.;...,. ,...,..,1 ,., c.i 1 <, Muincl's 1 IIARI » f. IMI'Kk. Regiment in the kevolutinnary W ar from 1777 to 17H0. and was (■t>r()oral in Captain Jaiob .Smith's Rangers in 1781. Mr. l'i|H'r reieived his i'dn< .ition in the rnmmon scho4}|s anti at ihe Wolfboro and •|„f,....i Ncadeiny. I'rom i.Hf.,H to 1.S7 • he was a iIliIv. Ill .1 LiiiiiitrA sttijr. .111(1 «.is .1 pMst.d ( lerk on the route from Itosion to liangor from 1S72 to 1X7(1. He then commenced business in a clothing store in Wolfboro, in whiih he still continues, ;ind has been Cashier of the Wolfboro l.o;in and Hank- ing Company since it was incorporated in iSijo. He held the otVue of l'osini;ister four years; has served ;is Town ( lerk ; \\,is Representative in the Legislature of i,S,S7 ; h.is been Town Tre.isurer ten years; a member of the Republic .111 .State ( ommittee since 1S7S, ha\ing served on the l-'.xeciitive (om- mittee for sever;il ye.irs ; and h.is been a Delegate to every Re|)iiblic;in St;ile Coiuention siiue iS.So: ami is at present a member of Covernor Ramsilell's Council. He Ijelongs to liie .Morning Star Lodge of Masons, Carroll Chapter, ( lrph;in Coiini il, ani I L)ndon, \ermonl, .\ lillle l;iter he iiili n t luiic 111 NiiilliLiii New ll.itnpshirc. Rc(c:'ly. however, picssurf of hiisiiiL-ss has forced him til i:ive up tlie iwstime. SI'.\I.1>1N(.. John At'i-.isriNK. li.inker. Nasluia. was born in Wilton, New lianipsliire. May >(j, 1.S37. son of Moses and Anna II. t Kimball I SpaUlinj;. JOHN A. SI'AI.IUM.. He traces his descent from luiward Sp.ililin:;. uho came to America from, {•aij^laiul about nd who founded here a family, many of wlinsc uicMibers have distinj;uished themselves in the linancial world, in the workshop, in science and in medicine, in philanthropy anti in statesmanshi|). Mr. .Spald- ini; was educ.ited in the distrii t schools of Wilton. and in (■rosl>y"s ,\ost he held for thirty-two ve.irs. Then he was n».ide \ice-l'rcsident of the institution, his son, William K. .Spaldin;;. succeedin;.; him a.H Cashier. Mr. Spahlin^; has dealt cxtensivrK in real estate and has many other interests. lb js a Itirector in the Wilton and Wi>r< ester. Nasliu.i \ kiH liester Railroads, anecember 13. i.Sdo. and Harry l\. Spaldinj;. born June I I, i,S6j. the former survives. ( )n November 24. 1X70. Mr. S|)aldinj; was aj,Min married to .\nna M.. dau-hter of lir. K. J. Learned of I'all River. SI'tlNi;. Ml IAIN Tn KNuk. I'liysici.in. Troy, w.is born in West lioscawen ( now Websten. New Hampshire. July .:o. 1S54. son of Hiram C. and Mary .\nn C. ( Ticknor) Stone. His j,'reat-};rand- f.illi' '■ ■ i: -^lone, was born in Le.\- # MHVIN I inj^'ion. M.issachnseii .lul served li\< ye.irs in the Revolution, (in ilu iiliirn '1 settled in llosiawin willi miK luiiil\ :li which to lie;;in I land enou^'h to ;;■ •t Ills ei^lil 1 liiUlicii .1 lionu' 38 MKX OF PROGRESS. stead. Miuy .Vnn 'I'icknor was a sister of William I). Ticknor of the linn of Ticknor & Fields, pub- lishers, of Hoston. Dr. Stone was educated in the common and private schools of his native town and at the New Hampton Literary Institute, graduating from the Commercial Department in 1873. He then worked upon the farm until 1876, when he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. F. A. Stillings of Concord, New Hampshire. He was graduated from Dartmouth .Medical College in Nov- ember, 1879. In February, 1880, he went to Troy and entered upon the practice of his profession as successor to Dr. li. F. Harriman. where he has remained ever since, being the only physician in the town. He was appointed Superintending School Committee in the years i882-"85,was a member and Chairman of the School Hoard in 1886, and was again chosen a member in i89o-'92. In 1887, he was elected a Representative, and ser\ed upon several committees. He was chosen Town Clerk in 1888, and has held the office until the present time. He was a trustee of the Public Library in 1894 and again in 1897. In 1896. he was elected one of the Supervisors of the Check List, has been Health Officer and member of the Board of Health for sev- eral years, and a Justice of the Peace since 1885. He was a member of the Board of Pension E.xamin- ing Surgeons at Keene during President Harrison's Administration. Dr. Stone is the author of a His- tory of Trov, published in 1897. and is also one of the Trustees of the Fitzwilliam Savings Bank. He is a member of Monadnock Lodge No. 88, Free and Accepted Masons, of Troy, and was Worshipful .Master for three years, 1886 and 1888, is a member of Cheshire Chapter. Royal Arch Masons and Hugh de Payen Connnandery Knights Templar of Keene. He is also a member of the New Hampshire, the Cheshire County, and the Connecticut River Valley Medical societies, having been President of the last two, and the present Council of the New Hampshire Medical Society. In politics he has always been a Republican. Dr. Stone was married January 26. 18S2, to Cora M.. daughter of Charles W. Whitney. Of their three children only one is living : Mildred Ticknor Stone, born .March 17. 1SS9. I'niversitv, and was graduated with the class of .87: He studied law in Concord with Sargent & W.M.Kl'.K. Kkuhen Eugene, Lawyer, Concord. was born in Lowell. Massachusetts, February 15. 1 85 1, son of Abiel and .Mary (Powers) Walker. He was educated at the district school in Warner, New Hampshire, and at the Colby Academy, New Lon- don. New Hampshire. Later he entered Brown Chase, and since his admission to the Bar in 1878, has been in active and successful practice there. He is a member of the firm of Streeter, Walker iV REUBEN E. W.M.KER. HoUis. 1-roni 1889 to [891. he was Solicitor for Merrimack county. He represented the Sixth Ward of Concord in the Legislature of 1895. In politics he is a Republican, (^n June 18, 1875, .Mr. \\alker was married to Mary E. I^rown. They have one daughter : Hertha May \\alker. \\ KFKS. Fr.ank, Lawyer, Centerville, was born in Wakefield, Carroll county. New Hampshire, August 31. i85r, son of Algernon Sidney and Sarah Jane (Rogers) Weeks. In the paternal line he is of the seventh generation from Leonard Weeks, son of John and .\nne \\'yke of Moreton. Somerset County, England, born in 1639, ''^"'' '"^'^ emigrant to .America. Leonard Weeks in i66o-'6i was living at Wiiinicul River, in Greenland, New Hampshire. John Weeks, his great-grandson, was one of the first settlers of Wakefield, in 1772. On the ]naternal side, Frank Weeks is descended from John Rogers of Jackson. His early education was obtained in the common schools of Wakefield and the Wakefield Academy. In 1867 he began teach- ing, but in 1S70 took up the study of medicine with MEN Ol ROGRKSS. 39 Dr. George \\. Tebbetts of ( )ssipee. A few months later he began reading law in the office of Sanborn B. Carter of ( )ssipee. Subseciuently he studied with Golonel S. D. Quarles of the same town, and later with L. D. Sawyer of Wakefield. In 1873 he was appointed an Inspector of Gustoms at lioston. He was in the service until April. 1875, devoting his spare time to legal studies in the offices of May- narcl >.\; Hills, and Frank H. Hills. Admitted to the New Hampshire liar October 22. 1875, at Ossi- pee, he began practice in that town, where he has since remained. His legal business has been lucra- tive, e.xtensive, and varied, yet he has also engaged to a considerable extent in dealings in real estate. some time in the earlier days of his legal practice, and is now one of the Auditors of Garroll county, Init lie has declined a number of nominations, among tliem that for County Solicitor. In politics lie is a Republican. He married August i. 1S83, Mary Isabel, daughter of Joseph ( Uiarles and Mary Elizabeth Roles of Ossipee, WINSLOW, SHKRiaiRN J.. Rank Treasurer and Manufacturer, Pittsfield, was born March 16, 1834, at Nottingham, New Hampshire, son of Josiah and Ruth (Tucker) W'inslow, Roth his paternal srandfather and sirandmother were said to be direct descendants of Edward W'inslow df the Mayflower Colony. His maternal grandfather, James Tucker, was a farmer of Pittsfield and was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1776. Mr. W'inslow was educated in the common schools of his native place and later at the academies of Pitts- held, Pembroke, and New London. From 1853 to i860, his summers were spent upon a farm and the rest of the year he taught school, at which occupa- tion he was very successful. From i860 until 1878 1 K.\NK WkEKS. He owns several thousand acres of land in ( )ssipee and other towns, as well as handsome holdings of town property in his own neighborhood and Massa- chusetts. His homestead of one hundred and sev- entv-five acres affords opportunity for indulgence of his liking for agricultural pursuits. He is a lover of out-of-door life, and at W'eeks's Park on tlie shore of Ossipee Lake, on a tract which was the strong- ^^ j^ winsi.ow. hold of the Ossipee Indians, and what still shows traces of their burial ground and a frnt built as a he engaged in farming and general business. He protection against the raids of the Mohawks, he then fclluwecl nianulacluring and dealing in lumber has erected a delightful summer home. .Mr. Weeks until within foiu or live years, wlien other interests has not sought office. He was a member of the have taken Ins attention to such a degree as to superintending school committee of Ossipee for compel liini to withdraw gradually from his busi- 40 MEN OF PROGRESS. ness. lie luid charge of the construction of the water works for Merrimack county as well as for the towns of Tilton and Pittsfield, and was Super- intendent of the Pittsfield Water Works for about ten years, being one of the principal owners, and at present, one of the Directors of the company. He has also been, ever since its organization, a large owner and a Director of the Gas company in the same place. For the past four years he has been interested in the management of the Exeter Manu- facturing Company, is a stockholder and Director, and is now and has been for the last three years Treas- urer of the company. In the fall of 1897, he was elected Treasurer of the Pittsfield Savings Bank, with which he had been connected as Auditor. member of Investing Committee and of the Board of 'trustees for seventeen years. This position he now holds. He is also a large owner of real estate in his own and adjoining towns. For more than forty vears he has almost constantly had the charge of the .settlement of estates and the management of trust funds. Mr. Winslow never sought political office, but has been and now is a member of the School Board, He is a Free ^[ason and a niemlier of the Epi.scopal Church, having been Treasurer and Warden of the society for years. He is a Republican in politics. On March 19, i860, he married .Margaret Denison. They have two children : Cora, wife of James L. Hook, and Xellie, wife of Dr. F. H. Sargent. He was two years at Genesee College of New York, one year in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, and for two years in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Medical Department of the Columbia Cniver- ADAMS, Daniel Simmons, Physician and Sur- geon, Manchester, was born in Lockport, Niagara county. New York, May 3, 1846, son of David and Adelia Maria (Griff.s) Adams. In the paternal line, Dr, Adams traces his descent from David Adams, born October 19, 1797, in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and died January 9, 1S68, in Lockport, New York; James, bom May 5, 1765, married Anna Griffin and lived in Londonderry; Edmund, born October 24. 1740, a resident of London- derry, married Hannah Thurston; Richard, born November 22, 1639, married Susannah Pike, and lived in Newbury, Massachusetts ; Abraham, born in 1639, resident of Newbury, Massachusetts, married Mary Pettengill ; Robert Adams, born in 1601, and also a resident of Newbur\-. The family is descended from Jolin .\. Adams. Baron of Somersetshire, England. 1 )aniel S, Adams attended the district schools at Lockport, New York, and the Cnion School in that town, and Pinkerton .\rademv of Derrv. New Hampshire. D.ANIEL S. ,\D.AMS. sity of New \'urk. from which lie was graduated with the degree of M. D. February 28, 1872. He was for a year in the New York Hospital, ending his term of .service there in the fall of 1872. In September of that j^ear he began his practice in Manchester, where he has since remained. He was Treasurer of the New Hampshire Medical Societ)' from 1881 to 1 89 1 ; President of the Board of Cen- sors of the New Hampshire ^Nfedical Society from 1886 to date; a delegate to the International Medi- cal Congress at Washington, District of Columbia, 1887 ; Associate Supreme Medical E.vaminer of Royal Templars of Temperance Insurance Order, headquarters at Buffalo, New York ; Surgeon to Elliott Hospital, Manchester, New Hampshire; Con- sulting Surgeon to Children's Home, Manchester, New Hampshire. He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, of the .Vmerican Med- ical Association, of the International Medical Con- gress. He is a member of the First Congrega- tional Church. He is a Mason, Knights Templar, and Thirty-.second degree. He has always been a Republican. Dr. .\dams married, November 17, MKN OF PROCtRKSS. 41 1870, Cora Anna, ilauyhtcr of Andrew and Margaret A. Vox of Auburn. New Hampsliire. Mrs. Adams died l-'ehruary 22, 1898, after an illiies.s of eii;ht months. BEAN, Ai.i'REii l''i,MKR. I'ostmaster of llerlin, was born in I )umnier. New Hampshire, July 20, 1864, son of ( 'aleb Fuller and Tirzah (Lang) Bean. His parents were natives of Maine, being descen- dants of the early settlers of that state. His father came to New Hampshire as a young man and en- gaged in the lumber Ijusiness, settling fust in Mum- mer and afterward removing to Milan. The sub- ject of this sketch becoming discontented with the quiet farm life, at the age of fourteen, bought his time and faced the world for himself. For the ne.xt seven years, he was emploved as driver of a team for l)aniel Webster Hodgdon, lumber niercliant. During the summer he worked on a f.irni. In the fall of 1885, he went to Berlin with tlie determina- tion of securing an education. While li\ing in the home of Dr. H. F. Wardwell working for his board, he attended the Berlin High school. In the spring ha\e three daughters : Elizabeth Wardwell, Dorothy, and Mai;;aret Wilson Bean, of 1888, he entered the employ of the Berlin Mills Company, and held his position until he was ap- pointed I'oslmaster of llerlin, ( )(tober 1, 18(^7. In politics, Mr. Bean is a Republiran. lie ni.irried September 2, i8(jo. Fannie A. Wai dwell. They Id, AIR, IlKNkN William, Fx-United Slates Sen- ator from New Hampshire, was born Decembers, 1834, at Campton, New Hampshire. His father was a man of unusual abilities, an excellent scholar, a talente(.l nuisi( ian, .nul a reco;;nized leader in the town. ( )n the matcinal side he was descended fidm the bakers of ('andia, a famih' noted in Colonial and Re\olutionar\- times. The lUair sto( k is ,Scot( h-Iiisli, and m.ni\' of the members of the taniih' were prominent in the old .Scotch-Irish Colony in Londonderry Henrv William lllair's father ilied when the lii]\ was two years of age. His widow was left in stiailetietl ciri umstances, and when the youngest son, llemw was si.\ years of age, she arranged with .Samuel Keiuiiston, a leading resident of ('ampton, to take him for a year, while slie went to I,owell, in ipiest of work in the factories theie, b\ which she might secure the means to su|)|.iort and educate her children. This venture of hers was not successful, and in the sum- mer of 1842 she returned to ('ampton, hut soon went with her children to I'lvmouth, where for the next year she sup|)ortetl them In' sewing, Richard ISartlett, one of the prosperous farmers of Camp- ton, was attracted liv the boy Henr)- and offered to gi\e him a home in return for such services as he could render. So in May, 1843, the lad started out to begin to earn his own living, and for se\eral years his home was with Mr. Bartlett. In 1846 Mrs. ISIair died, and from that time on her son fought the battle of life, aided only by such friends as he made for himself. Until he was seventeen he worked upon the farm in sununer and attended the district school in winter. Li the autunms of 1851 and 1852. he was a pupil of Holmes Acad- emy at Plymouth, then under the control of Rev. lames H. Shepard, and in 1853 attended the New Hampshire Conference Seminary for one teiiin Ik- worked for a mechanic for one yeai\ and was expecting to resume his studies, when his emplo\t'r failed and he lost his wages. liefore he (luild secure another situation he was prostrated with an illness, which left him liroken in health and com- pelled him aftei- a long struggle to gi\'e up his hope of a collegiate training, I'or three \ears he worked farms and taught schools in New Hampshire lid Massachusetts, sold books and did whatever vork his health would allow. May 1, iS^fi, he I'utered the ofhee of Willi. ini Lexeictt of ri\nioulh on an p MF.N" OF I'ROCRF.SS. as a law .student, and three years later was admitted to the ]5ar. He began the practice of his profes- sion, as junior partner in the tirni of Feverett iV Hlair, and devoted himself to his labors with indus- try and ability. In a year he was appointed Solici- tor of (uafton county. When the war broke out he endeavored to enlist in the Fifth and afterwards in the 'Fwelfth Regiments New Hampshire Volun- teers, l)ut failed to pass the Surgeon's examination. However, he succeeded in enlisting in the Fifteenth Regiment as pri\ate and was chosen C'aptain of C'ompany 1!. He was commissioned Major by (iovernor Berry. The Fifteenth went to Louisiana, where, soon after its arrival, the disability of the HENRY W. I>,L.\IR. superior officers, left Major Hlair in command of the regiment which became known as •• The Fight- ing Nine Months' Men." In the assault upon Port Hudson, he was severely wounded in the right arm. and was carried to the hospital, but when he learned a few days later tliat another attack was to be made, he insisted on disregarding the commands of the Surgeon, rejoined his connnand, and led the men. Here he was again wouiulid in the same arm by a bullet which tore open the old wound, but he remained with his men until he led them from the lield. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel shortly before the siege of Port Fludson com- menced, and brought iionie his regiment when his term expired. His health was most precarious when he returned to New Hampshire and so con- tinued for six or seven years, but careful nursing gradually restored it. He resumed the practice of law at Plymouth, for several years having an office alone, but in 1875 he formed a partnershi]5 with Alvin Burleigh, Esq,, which continued until his first election to the National Senate. He was a member of the I^egislnture in 1866, and in the next year was promoted to the State Senate, He was elected to Congress in March, 1875, and was re-elected in 1877, but declined a re-nomination two years later. In the summer of 1879, he was a can- didate for the United Stales Senate and was strongly supported by the younger men of his party, by the temperance and .soldier elements, and with their aid he was successful. In the House of Kepre- sentatives he had served upon tlie connnittees upon Pacific Railroads and Accounts and several special committees. In the Senate of the F'orty-sixth Con- gress he served u|5on the connnittees of Fducation, Labor, Agriculture, 'I'ransportation, Routes to the Seaboard, Flection Frauds, Pensions, and Exodus of the Colored People. In the succeeding Con- gress he was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and I-abor, and a member of those on Pensions. Public Lands, Agriculture, and Woman Suffrage. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1S85. Mr. Blair is the author of several impor- tant measures, and in his speeches has discussed the financial, tariff and other leading questions pending during his public life. He was a vig- orous advocate of Woman's Suffrage, of indus- trial, pension, and temperance legislation and of national aid to the common schools of the South, Senator Klair was defeated for a third term, after which he was appointed Minister to China, hut was rejected by the imperial government on account of his active opposition to Chinese immigration to this countr)-. In 1892, he was elected to Congress from the F'irst New Hampshire District. In 1895, he retired to private life. His home is in Manchester, and he cle\otes him- self to literarv work and the practice of the law, a part of the time in Washington, District of Col- umbia. He married Eliza Nelson, daughter of a .Methodist clergyman of Crafton county. They have one son, Henrv Patterson IMair. l!.\RrLFir, FuKMoNi- DAvroN, Superin- tendent of the Berlin Mills, was Iwirii in Bethel, Maine, April 30, 1S56, son of Elias ,S. and Hester MKN Ol' l'kO(;RE.SS. 43 A. (liartlett) Bartlett. He numbers amonj;- his ancestors the Bartletts of t'olcmial anti Re\(ihi- tionar_v fame; his great-grandfather, Josiah liartlett. was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. He recei\ed his education in tlie com- mon schoiils and at dould Academ_\' in his native tciwn. In 1874 he obtained a position as marker in the lierlin Mills (.'ompan\', and when not em- ployed as such, attended school in the tall and Sluing, and taught in the winter. I'>\- strict atten- tion to the duties of his position and li\' means of the unusual executi\e abilitw al\\a\s a prominent characteristic of Mr. liartlett. he rose by rapid steps from marker to sur\-eyor, from surveyoi' to iRioMuM' n. r.Akrri.rr. yard-foreman, and linally to the import, mt position of Superintendent of the great plant. lie is a Director and \'ice-President of the llerlin building and Loan Association. He was Selectman of berlin for two terms, during one of which he served as Chairman; w;is 'r;i.\ ('olleitor one \ear. ;ind in i.SS:^ was made a member of the l!o,ird of Ktluc;ition. serving in this capacity for eleven years. During this lime there have been many improvements made and :ulv;uued steps t;dnal Hank of ( 'harlestown. He was promoted to Assistant Cashier in 1893. ■^'^'' ''^ i8q5 was made Cashier, which position he now holds. Since 1S85 he has been Town Clerk. He is Treasure!' of the I )iocese of New llanipshire. a Notar\- I'ulilic and Justice of the Peace. Mr. llonil is a member of the Lambs' Club of New \'ork city; of Faithful Lodne. No. 1.;. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Charlestown, lieinu; Junior U'arden from i896-'g7; of Webb Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, Claremont ; Colmnbian Council Royal and .Select Masters, and Sullivan Commandery, both at Claremont; F. A, Ray- mond Consistory, 'I'hirty-second deL;"ree of Masonry. Nashua, as well as Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of lioston. He married, Februar\- 17, 1892, .Susie R. I )ickinson. BURNIL\M, Henry Fp.kn. Ivx-J ud,i;e of Pro- bate, Manchester, was born in I »unbarton. New Hampshire, November 8, 1844. son of Henrv F. and AFiria A. (Railey) ISinnliam. ( )n the paternal side he is of l'aii,dish stock, beiny; descended in the eighth generation from John Rurnham, who emigrated from Fngland in 1635, and settled in Chebacco (Ipswich), iShtssachusetts. There Sam- uel Burnham, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born, who removed to Dimbartcju in 1770. Jiradford. son of .Samuel, was born in Dunbarton in 1787, and died there in 1865; and there, too, his son, Henry F., was born in 1814, Judge liurnham's ancestors in the direct line were farmers, but among his collateral kindred are found the Rev. Abraham llurnham of Pembroke, and the Rev. Amos llurnham of Rindge; and he is related on his father's side to Nathan Dane, a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787, and the author of the famous ordinance of that date, for the government of the \ast territory north and west of the Ohio, which contained the provision " that there shall be neither slaver)- nor involun- tary servitude in the said territory." llenr\- F. llurnham attended the common schools and High School of Hunbtirlon, Kimball Fnion Academy at Meriden, and Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in 1863. He studied law at M:in- chester in the office of Fdw;ud S. Cutter and the Hon. Fewis W. Clark and in ('oncord in the ofifice of Minot iV Mugridge. He was admitted to the ticed law in Manchester, as a partner of D.u id Cross, under the firm name of l!urnh:ini. lie was a partner of Ceorge lister, friim April i. 1 88 1 , to |;inuar\' the Hon. Cross iv 1. McAl- I, 1884, HKNRV v.. nUKNH.\.M. muler the firm name of ISurnham \- McAllister. In Septemlier, 1884, with /Mbert ( >. Ilrowii. he formed the law tirm of llurnham \: llmwu. to which C.eorge H. Warren was admitted in Septem- ber, 1890. This linn is now in piactice undei- the name of llurnham, Ihown \' Warren. Mr. llurn- ham was a member of the New Hamjashire House of Reijresentatives in 1873- '74, and of the State Constitutional Coinention of i88(). He h.is been ballot Faw Connnissioner since i8():;; Treasurer of Hillsborough county in 187^ '77; ludge of Pro- bate of Hillsborough count\ from |li1\' :?:^. ]87fj, until his resignatiR()(;RKSS. Thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonr_\'. He is a member of tlie Derrytield C'lul). I'rom his college clays Judge Hurnhani has been noted among his fellows as an orator of rare power and charm. At his graduation he was selected to dis- cuss in public debate, the Monroe Doctrine, with Horace Russell, since a Judge of the courts of New York; and in later days he has delivered many addresses of note, among them the oration at the dedication of Masonii Hall in Manchester, October 15, 1890; a stirring address on Bunker Hill day, as Commandei' of the Amoskeag Vet- erans, at the banquet gi\ en b\ the Worcester Con- tinentals to the Veterans and the I'utnam Phalanx, and the eloquent oration at the .Semi-Centennial in Manchester, September iS. 1896. As an advo- cate before a jury he has but few equals, and from its beginning his practice has been large and lucra- tive. In politics he. has always been a Republican. Judge Ituinham married, October 22, 1874, Eliza- beth II. r.itlersdn. His children are: Gertrude Elizabeth. .\lic:e l\Ulerson, and l'',dith Duncan llurnham. CHAM BERLIN. Roiikrt N., Lawyer, Berlin, was born in Bangor, New York, July 24. 1856, son of Antoine and Electa B. (Sears) Chamber- lin. His grandfather, Francois Chamberlin, born near Paris, France, came to Canada, where he was in the British service as a mariner in the War of 1812. His son, Antoine. who was born in Nicollet, Province of Quebec, and followed his trade of shoemaker in Sherbrooke. Pr73; Superintendent of Schools for three years ; Town Superintendent of .Schools in Warner from 1880 to 1883 ; Superintending Com- mittee of Simonds Free High School in Warner in i896-'99. He has been one of tlie 'J'rustees of the Pillsbury l''ree Library; Secretary of the White Mountain Medical Society ; I'resident of the Centre District Medical Society; and has been honored with elections as delegate to the American Medical Association and \'ei'mont .State Medical .Society, He is a Democrat in politics, and in 1894 '9(1 received the party nomination for State .Senator, but failed of election, the district being strongly Repub- lican. Dr. Cogswell li;is In-en a Mason for over thirty-ffjur years and now belongs to H;irris Lodge of Warner. Franklin ("hapter, Lisbon, and .St, (;er;ird Connnandery, Knights Tem|)lar, Littleton. He has l)een Master of H.irris Lodge, representa- tive to the Crand Lodge, etc., etc. He joined the Odd Fellows some over twent\' years ago, has received all the honors of the Order, and- is now a memljer of Central Lodge, No. 67, Warner, and Welcome Rebekah Lodge, No. 18. He has been a member of Warner (irange twent\' vears, has held various otilices in it. and is at present its Worthy Master. He has been (naiige Director for the State Orange Fair at 'I'ilton. and I'resident and Secretary of the Merrimack County Orange Fair at Warner. For several years he was Director in the Merrimack (;lo\e Companv at Warner, lie- sides his professional work he has de\'Oted some time to dealings in real estate and building of houses and shoiis, and has been foremost in any enterprise in the town in which he lived. He is a strictlv temperate man, never indulging in the use of liijuor, toliacco, coftee, or profanity. He has held the highest offices in the Sons of Temperance, Oood Templars, and Lhiited Order of the (jolden Cross. Dr. Cogswell is a ready writer and a poet of considerable local reputation, having alwavs JOHN U. ( OCSWKI.I,. l)een ( .illed upon to luruish a iKiem for ,dl impor- tant local exents, anniversaries, silver weddings, (jrange and iNLisonic celebrations and the like. His ready wit :uul ability for extemporaneous speech ha\'e c;uise(l him to be c;illed the "poet and orator " 4S MEN Ol- PROGRESS. of his tdwn. He is ;i rrj^ular attcndiiiit at church and for ten years was a member of llie choir. He is a believer in the Fatherhood of (".od and the lirotlierliood of Man. antl that a man's works h\e after him ; that one should live not for the present alone, but that his influence may fjo on doinj; good after he has gone from eartli and eartlily things. Dr. Cogswell married June 9, 1867, Mary Ella Knight, of Franconia, who died September 14, 1869, leaving one son, l''.dward K. Cogswell, born August 30, 1869. Dr. Cogswell married Septem- ber 18, 1872, Catherine Ellen Hildreth of Lisbon, by whom he had one son. I.loyd Hildreth Cogswell, born December 7, rS79. ^1'*- L'og.swell has long been a memljer of the Rebekah Lodge, was chosen Noble drand early in its history; has been an active member of the Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, and Cnited Order of the Golden Cross, and is a member of the Congregational church in Warner. Edward K. Cogswell is now a successful merchant of Hcnniker. He married Carrie E. Folsom, only daughter of W'm. O. Fol- som, a ]3rominent citizen of llenniker. Lloyd Hil- dreth Cogswell is studying medicine at Dellevue Hospital Medical College, New \ork city: has successfully passed his examinations for the first vear, and takes a high rank in his studies. Both sons, E. K. and L. H., are graduates of Simonds Free High School, Warner, and each took post graduate studies. I'.oth are members of the Grange, and E. K., being of sufficient age, has be- come a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Free and Accepted Masons. He and his wife are doing some literary work, at pre.sent being local editors of the Henniker Courier. Dr. Cogswell is, and well may be. proud of his family, both as to their intellectual ability and moral and social stand- ing. COI^BY, F"Ria)?;RicK Myron, Journalist and Author, Warner, was born in that town, December 9, 1848, son of Levi Osgood Colb\- and Mary ( Din- rell) Colby. He is descended from Thomas Colby, fourth son of .\nthony Colby, the progenitor of all the Colbys of .\merica and himself a descendant of Sir Robert de Colebi, one oi the Knights of Richard the Lion Heart of England. He attended the counnon schools of Warner, a commercial col- lege at C:oncord, and a .select school. He was for six years a member of the School Board of Warner (1878-81 and i886-'89) ; Town Treasurer in 1885, 1886, 1887. and 1896; and in 1894 was appointed I'ostmaster. lie has been a member of the State Democratic committee for six years. He married. December 25, 1882, H. Maria George of Warner. He is well known to magazine readers for his con- tributions in prose and verse. Two books of his, I'RKIJ. MYRON COI.BV. '•The Daughter of Pharaoh," and ■•Brave Lads and Jionnie Lassies," published by the Methodist Book Concern of New York, have had large sales. Another book, " Boy Kings and CJirl Queens, Their Reigns and Their Achievements." is in the hands of his publishers. D.VLEY, D.\N1EI, James, Lawyer, Berlin, was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, Januar\- 27, 181^8, son of John and Ihidget ( Daugherty) Daley. He attended the common schools of his native town, and subse(]uently had the advantage of an academical training. .\t the age of sixteen he began teaching school, thus occupying himself in the winters and working on the farm in the sum- mer, applying his earnings toward gaining an edu- cation. .\l the age of twenty-two he began the study of law, entiring the office of William and Henry Heywootl, and jjinsuing his legal studies under their direction until ALirch, 1885, when he was admitted to the liar. November 9, 1885, he established himself at iierlin. jjractising law alone until Februar)' 1, 1891, when he formed a partner- I\[KN OF PROCM^KSS. 49 ship witli Hci'l)LTt 1. (loss, wliirli cDiitiinied until September 15, 1892. when lulwin C Niles, son of the Kight Reverend W. W. Niles. llishop of New Hampshire, was adniittetl to the hrni. which became Daley, (Joss Ov Niles, .Mr. Niles retired from the firm November 26. KSr)4. and the business has since lieen conducted undei- the lirm name of Daley iS: (loss, who lune a very large clientage. In 1882. Mr. Daley was a memlier of the Hoard of Supervisors of L.ancaster. and in 1883 was Chair- man of this Hoard. He did telling service for his part)- on the stump in i883-'84 and i8S7-"88. In i886-"87, he served as Town Treasurer of IJerlin, and subsequently ser\ed several years as Mod- erator. In 1SS8 he was nominated for (^'ounty .Solicitor for Coos comity, and was elected In' a large majority. Was nominated to succeed himself in 1S90, and elected by a majority of seven hundred and hft}-one. running largely ahead of his ticket. Owing to the press of other business, he declined the re-nomination in 1892. In politics Mr. Daley is a Democrat. He has been jMomincnt in the upbuilding of IJerlin, and is now President of the I>.\NIKI. |. DAI.KV. People's lluiUliug .lufl Loan .Association, a position he has held since the organi/ation of the associa- tion si.x years ago. He is a Director and Presi- dent of the Herlin Heights Addition P.iud ( 'oni- pany. and President and Director of the Herlin Water Conipanw He is Director and legal advisor of the Herlin Street Railway, now being organized, and also a Director of the Northern Electric Com- pany of Auljurn, Maine, To the energy and |)er- severance of Mr. Daley is due the construction and equipment in Herlin, in 1896, of one of the largest shoe factory plants in New Kngland, and the loca- tion therein of Chick Jirothers of Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, a very successful manufacturing firm. He is a memlier of the Maynesborcj Club of lierlin. Mr. Daley married, May 8, 1886, Ardell .\. Cowan of Lancaster, and has one child: Helen j. Daley. D()RT, ()iii.ai Cm, MAN, Hanker, Keene, was born in Surry, New Hampshire, lanuary 21;, 1828, son of Kliphalet and Lois (Hcmis) Dort. He is descended from Richard Dort, or Dart, as the name was then spelled, who came from l-aigkind in 1633, settled in Connecticut, and founded a family whose niendiers ha\e filled most useful positions in the connnnnity. I'he subject of this sketch attended the connuon schools antl academy in Keene. He left home al fifteen, and learned the trade of carriage and sign painter, and at the age of twent}--two began business in Keene. dealing in drugs, |)aints, and paper hangings. He continued in this Inisiness as druggist tmtil 1875. He was active in the organization of the Keene Fi\e-cent Savings Hank in 1869, and was its Treasurer until 1875, when he resigned and accepted the Cashier- ship of the (_'itizens' National Hank, in the organ- ization of which he has taken an active part. In 1878 he was elected President of the bank, and has held the office ever since. He was also prom- inent in establishing the Keene Cuaranty Sa\ ings Hank, and was Treasurer of that institution until i8()2. In his \otmger years he was a member of the Keene Light Infantry, and held a commission .IS Lieutenant when the old military system was abolished. When the Rebellion broke out, Mr. Dort took a heartfelt interest in the safet)- of tlu' Inion. .nid in the fall of i8(]i, enlisting a conipan\' of three years' men, was commissioned Captain of Company !•'„ Si.xth Regiment, New llampshiie \'ohmteers, afterwards being pi'omoted to Major. The legiment was assigned l.i tin- Xinlli ,\rni_\ Corps imder Cieneral Hurnsiile. The regiment accompanied the famous liurnside expedition to North Caroliu.i, which suffered seveiely in the great storm off Hatteias. In I he summer of 1862 it was ordered to aid Ccner.d McClellan, ami upon the arri\al .it l''ortress .Mo]iide en- 5° MEN OK Pk(K;RKSS. camped at Xcuiioil News. At this time Major Dort's wife and son Arthur, aged six years, in company witli the wives of Colonel Scott and Captain Cunnnings visited the camp. The regiment was suddenly ordered away and the ladies started for home, taking the steamer West Point for \\ashington. On the trip up the Potomac on the evening of August 13th. the West Point collided with the steamer George Peabody, and almost imme- diately sank, Major Dort's wife and son, with both the other ladies losing their lives in this terrible dis- aster. Among other victims were many wounded and sick soldiers. When the collision occurred the Captain attempted to beach the boat but was unsuc- ces.sful. t'olonel Scott and Dr. Newell of a Penn- sylvania regiment directed their energies to saving the ladies, but a.s soon as a boat was lowered fran- tic men leaped in in siicii numbers that boat after boat went down until all were carried away. Then Colonel Scott and Dr. Newell lifted the ladies upon the hurricane deck and supported them imtil the water was above their waists. In this moment of agony and despair Colonel Scott saw a capsized (ii;ki) i;. dori'. boat drifting by and swam towards it with the hope of rescuing the ladies. The boat drifted by him and at the .same time the steamer's deck gave way. and all upon it were thrown into the water. He endeavored to return to the wreck, and tinallv caught an iron rod which bracetl the smoke stack, to which he clung until he was rescued. Dr. New- ell, the ladies, and the child were swept away and lost their lives in the llood. When Major Dort enlisted in the service he had left a well-organized business in the charge of his wife, but after this terriljje disaster on the Potomac, with no one to whom he could entrust the business while he remained at the front, and with the care of his one surviving child, left motherless at the age of four years, he felt it his duty to leave the service. Therefore, in the fall of 1862, he regretfully resigned his conuuission. To leave the service from no bodily disability, when every surrounding was sat- isfactory and the country was in need of every man's aid, might seem unjustifiable to the superfi- cial observer who stayed at home to make money, but he has considered that perhaps it will be agreed that one year's service is better than none at all. While Major Dort was at the front with his regi- ment he participated in the battle of Elizabeth City. Camden, North Carolina, Second Bull Run. Chan- tilly. South Mountain, and Antietam. In his younger days Major Dort was acti\'e in the clubs and societies, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, but of later years he has regarded his own home as the best club Iiouse. He was for many years Vestrv- man and Warden in .St. James's Episcopal Church. In politics he has always been a Democrat, believ- ing the end and aim of government should be the greatest good for the greatest number. He has held very few political offices, for in Keene the tide is very strongly Republican. In ( )ctober, 1851, he was married to Julia N. Wakefield, daughter of James Wakefield of Marlborough. Oi the children born of this marriage, .\rthur Wakefield, born February :!5, 1856, perished with his mother in the sad disaster to the West Point : Frank (oilman, born Deiember 17. 1S57. now lives in Keene; Marv FUen Dort. born February 15, 1 861, died November jy of the same year. On December 17, 1863, Major Dort was married to Sarah fane, daughter of (knernor William llaile of Hinsdale. Cl'TI.F.K, C.iaiki;!'. 1 Mii.ksciM,. Plnsician. West Swanzey. was born in Keene. New Hampshire, December 10, 1833, son of (lardner C. and Olive H. (Watts) Cutler, (hi the paternal side, he traces his descent from James Cutler, who came to this country and settled in \\'atertown, Massachu- setts, in 1634. Dr. Cutler's father was a fanner and was born in Hinsdale in 1807. The son MEN OF PROGRESS. S' attended scliodls in Keene and Oharleslown, \e\v public sciiools ot ((ineDid and w.is ;;ra(kiated lioni Hampshire, and Alstead and niattiel)"!!), X'ennont. the High School. Ili.s hrst emplo\nient was in the For ten year.s before taking up his jjrolession he freight office of the Concord Railroad as clerk; was a teacher. He was graduated from the Medi- then for several years he was a clerk in the First cal Department of the l.'ni\'ersity of \'erinont in National I!ank, a pl.l':V. Dl'DLlA. ll\kR\- Hrnr.AKii, llankei. Com ord. was born in that cil)'. June 1 1. 1859, son of llub- bard Thomas and .\ntoinette (Cordon) Dudle)-, and of the ProhU- .V Franconia Notch Railroad He belongs to the Covernor Thomas Dudlev Comp.iny, as well ,is |)ire(liii in V.. 11. Rollins ,V family, being a lineal descendant in the eighth Sons (incorporated baid-aas. .Milk street, lioston). generation from the i'^lder flovernor of the .Massa- I le is a Vestryman of St. Paul's Church of Concord ; chusetts Rurit. Ill Commonwealth. He attended the Second \'ice-President and Director of the Wono- 52 Ml!:N Ol" I'ROCRKSS. lancet Club; a Diicctor of the Passaconaway Out- ing Clul>, and a member of the Snow Shoe Chib, all of ("omord. Mr. Dudley married October 30, 1883. Anne liartlelt Minot. daughter of the late Charles Minot, of the banking firm of Minot iV Company, which firm was dissolved about 1880, when the Mechauicks Hank was chartered. He has three children: Dorothea Minot. Charles Hubbard. and Thomas Minot Dudley, EASTM.W. I'.nwiN Ct.\.m.\(;k, Attorney-General of New Hampshire. I'lxeter. was born in Grantham, November 22. 1847, son of NA'illiam Henry and Paulina (Winter) Kastman. He was educated in the common schools of the town, at Kimball Union Academy, and at Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1874. He studied law in the office of Judge .\. P. Carpenter at liath. and was admitted to the Har in 1876. In Septem- ber of that year he began the practice of his profes- sion in K.xeter. becoming the jwrtner of the late (General Gilnian Marston. In 1876 he was Repre- sentative from the town of Cirantham in the lower KDWIN ('.. K.\STM.\N. branch of the State Legislature, and in 1889 was a member of the Stale Senate. He was County So- licitor of Rockingham county from 1883 to 1888. I'pon the death of the Hon. Daniel Barnard in 189J. Mr. I'.astman was ap]iointed .Xttorney-General of the state, and tins position he still Imlds. He has earned for hini.self a leading position at the Har of the state, having served in many important and famous cases, again and again proving his ability to deal with weighty legal questions. In his legisla- tive service he occupied a prominent position and has always given strong support to the best inter- ests of the community in which he li\es. KMKRS()N, ( iiNki.Es Fr.wki.in. .\ppleton Pro- fessor of Natural Philosophy and Dean of the Fac- ulty, Dartmouth College, Hanover, was born in ( lielmsfcird, Massachusetts. September 28, 1843, son of ( )wen and Louisa (liulterheld) Kmerson. The genealogy of the P^merson family has not been fully traced, but the subject of this sketch is descended from the Reading, Massachusetts, branch, his father being a distant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His maternal grandfather was Captain John lUitter- field. Mr. Emerson attended the district schools of his native town, and also a private academy for three terms. He was fitted for college at Westford (Massachusetts) Academy, under John D. Long, now Secretary of the Navy, and at Appleton Acad- emy, under Professor E. T. Quiniby. He entered Dartmouth College in the class of '68, and although while in college he had little spare time, yet, then as now, he was very much interested in all branches of athletics. He .stood second at the junior exhibition, giving a Greek oration. At graduation he was salutatorian of his class, and it is recorded of him, during his college cours* that he had not a single cut in college exercises until the spring term of his senior year, when sickness kept him in the house for a few days, liefore entering college he had worked on his father's farm. In 1859 he hatl full charge of this farm of two hundred acres dining his father's absence. He was much in- terested in farming, and look an active part in Lyceums, holding offices in town and school meetings, but his career was fated to lie in other lines than those of a farmer. His first experience in teaching was gained in the winter of 1861, and lie has been a teacher ever since. Immediately upon gradvialion. he was an Instructor at Dartmouth, and he has been continuously connected with the college since. He was a Tutor in Mathematics until 1872, when he was appointed Associate Professor of Nat- ural Philosophy and Mathematics. He was made Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and In- structor in Astronomy in 1878. on the withdrawal of Professor C. A. Young to Princeton College ; MEN OF Pk()r;KF:ss. S3 he carried on tlie work of tlie 1\\(j chairs of Physics tember, 1884, he was aliroatl, visitini; uni\ crsities and Astrononi}-, with Httle assistance for fifteen in England. I'rance, Germany, and Itah'. In col- years, when in tSi)2. he was relieved of the Astron- lege, he was a member of the Alpha l)elta I'hi omy h\' the appointment of Professor E. B. Frost l-'raternity. and also of the Phi llet.i Ka|)pa. lie to that chair, and his title became Appleton Pro- lias been a fellow of the .\inerican .\ssociation for the .\dvancement of .Science since 18S4. and was one of the original se\en memliers who formed the UarlnKJuth Scientilic /vsxjciation in 1871. I'or se\eral )e,irs he was a member of the A|.ipala- chian MoniUain ( 'hib of Pxiston. In politics he is a Republican. Professor Emerson married Janu- ary 20, 1875, Caroline Flagg of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. lie has two tlaughtens : Martha l'"lagg and l'anil\- .Sophia I-anerson. E\"l';kl\ IT. (.'.I'liikiiK IIknrn, justice of the Ea- conia Police Court, was born in ISoston, Massachu- setts, September 5. 1833. son of George and Sarah (Elms) Everett, lie is of the stock of the late lulward Everett of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended the public schools in ISoston and Chester, New Hampshire, and was a graduate of the Prighton, Massachusetts. High School. He s|x-nt several C. F. FMERSON. fessor of Natural Philnsopln which he now retains. In 1893, when l)r. Win. J. Tucker became Presi- dent of the College, the ofifice of Dean was created and Professor Emerson was elected by the Trustees to the office, which position he still holds ; and Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1892. He wa.s Instructor in Mathematics in the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and .Mechanic Arts, i868-'74. He heard the lirst recitation in the Agricultural College in September. 186.S. and assisted Professor Dimond in organizing the col- lege and arranging schedules of recitations. His life has been an active one. In Darlmouthf he has served on almost ever)' kind of committee known to the college world, and has advanced through all the grades of instruclorship. from Tutor to I)c-an. under three administrations, those of Doctors Smith, ISarllett, and Tu( kcr. He is well accpiaintefl with the working of the college and has an unusually large acquaintance with members of the .\hnnni. He is popular with the studiaits, and takes a keen interest in the picigress of the college and town. I'rom N(n ember, 1883, to Sep- I ># iK (;i;iikc;k ii. KVKUKr i . yeais in the grocer)- and pro\-ision business in Bos- ton, Massachu.setts, and for twelve )ears was a li-,neling salesman of the house of I,. .S. Eeonaril, stationers and bookliinders. In 1869 In- purchased the Willard Hotel. ,U I.aconi.i. New Hampshire, 54 MEN OF PROGRESS. wliith he successfull\- iiiaiKigcd for liftccn years, when he converted it into a private residence where lie now resides. In 1876 he was appointed High Sheriff by (Governor P. C. Cheney, his term of office expiring at the end of three years. In 1892 he was appointed Associate Justice of Laconia PoHce Court by C.overnor Hiram A. Tullle. and in 1895 he was made Chief Justice by (Governor Charles A. Busiel. He also conducts a large and successful insurance business, his principal office being Room No. 10, Masonic 'I'emplc. He is a 'I'hirty-second degree Mason, and has tilled all the chairs in Mt. Lebanon Lodge, No. 32, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, and Pythagoria Council, No. 3, Royal and Select Mas- ters. In politics he lias been a lifelong Republi- can. In 1872 Mr. Everett was married to Sarah !•'. Gray of Jackson. New Hampshire. ELDREDtlE, Hkman F'isher, President and Treasurer of the Eldredge Brewing Company of Portsmouth, was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, April 13. i8:;2. son of lleman and Mary (Harding) and now has an annual product of one hundred thousand barrels. It was organized in 1S75, as a stock company, with Marcellus Eldredge. as Presi- dent and Treasurer, and was continued under this management until 189 1, when he disposed of his interest to II. Fisher Eldredge, the present Presi- dent and Treasurer, as well as proprietor. Mr. Eldredge was elected to the Legislature from his ward in 1889, and made a creditable record. He is a Director of the New Hampshire National Hank of Portsmouth, and of the Portsmouth Gas Light Com- pany. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and other secret orders. In politics he is a Demo- crat. .\lthough he resides in Portsmouth, he has a suniiiier residence in his native town of Chatham. Mr. Eldredge was married April 22, 1873, '^'^ Addie I'liza Young of Chatham. They have two children : .Nettie E., now the wife of James F. Shaw, and Sadie Exeline Eldredge. 11. KISHKR KMIRKDCE. Eldredge. His early education was received in llie schools of Chatham and Portsmouth. He became identified with the brewing industry in connection with his brother. Hon. Marcellus Eldredge. This industrv was .started in a moderate way in 1858, I'RENCH, Lkonarti. for many years one of the leading physicians of Manchester, where he died February 14, 1892. was born in liedford, New- Hampshire, November 11, 1S17. son of Leonard C. and Nancy (Hutchinson) F'rench. His father was a prominent town officer of Bedford. The son attended the common schools of his native town and was fitted for college at Gilmanton Acad- emy. He entered Dartmouth in 1839, and was graduated in the class of 1843, among his class- mates being Professor Alvah Hovey of Newton Theological Seminary, Hon. Hariy Bingham of Littleton, and John Newton Putnam, who became Professor of Greek at Dartmouth, all of whom attained to great eminence. Dr. French's parents were in moderate circumstances, his father being a farmer, and he was obliged to teach school winters in order to procure the means with which to defray the expenses of his education. ( )n leaving college he taught a select school in Bedford for three months, and then the Academy at Piscataquog, now known as West Manchester, for four months. Deciding to embrace the medical profession he .studied with Doctors Josiali and Thomas R. Crosby at Man- chester, and attended lecture courses at Dartnunith. He took his degree in 1846, and began practice in his native town, but in .April. 1847. entered into partnershii) with Dr. Alfred Hitchcock in .\slib\-, Massachusetts, where he remained three years, and then removed with Dr. Hitchcock to Fitchburg, Massachusetts. His stay in Fitchburg was short, however, for at the expiration of three months he MKN OF I'ROCRKSS. 55 returned to Ashh\- wliere he did a larne and nmst prosperous business. Desirous of gi\ing his ciiil- dren better educational advantai^a-s than were to be had at Ashl)y. he reiu(i\ed to Manciiester in iS6i, and at once entered u|3on an extensive |.iractice. LEON AR 11 FRK.XCH. In i866-'67, he was City Physician; in 1S72. President of the Manchester Medical Society; in 1873, a delegate to Dartmouth Medical College, where he made the address to the graduating class. He was also Consulting Physician to the Klliot Hospital. Counsellor of l)oth the Manchester and New Hampshire Medical .Societies, and a Director in the Anioskeag Savings liank. Possessed of a vigorous constitution tiiat was never impaired by excesses of any kind, he was enabled to follow his calling actively late in life when many others younger than he were obliged to shrink from its active duties and responsibilities. It was as an obstetrician that he was most widely known. He performed all the o])erations incident to tliis de- partment with signal success. He was at all times kindlv. patient, and genial, a friend to his patients as well as a skillful physician. 'I'he influence of his upright living and his Christian character did not fail to makt- its impress upun the connnunities wherein he resided. He was a consistent member of the Hanover Street Congregational church, and a Deacon in the oriranization until his death. In 184(1, lie married .Sarah M., daughter i if Henry and I.ydia (W'hitne}) Melville of Nelson, by whom 111' had one son ; Leonard Melville l'"rench, born |ul\ 2fi, 1849, and at present a prcuninent phvsician of Manchester. His wife dying in 1849, he mar- ried her sister, Ann Maria, in 1850, having In her one son: Henr\- Minot I'lench. who betame a successful physician at Concord, and died June 13, 1893. His second wife died in lanuarv, 1866, and June 25. 1867, he manied Mrs. Mar\- I ). Moore, daughter of D|-. John Ramsey of Creenheld, and widow iif Dr. ( ieorge W. Moore of .Amherst, who sin-\ i\'es him. (in.S.S, HKKr.i-:!-;! Ir\in, ( 'ountv .Solicitur, ller- lin. was born in Waterford. X'ermont, December 4. 1857, son of Abel II. and l,n(\ S. (Ross) Coss. He was educated at the Kimmon schools of his nati\e town and at St. Johnsbury Academy, from whitli he was graduated in 1880. .After teaching school Inr one year, he commenced the study of law- in the office of Dates ^: May of St. [ohnsbur)-, continuing f /VJ iiKkiacR'r I. oo.ss. the liar of Caledonia ((iunt\- in 1883. In ( )ctober of the same )-eai' he removed lo ,M inneapcilis. Min- nesota, and entered into a law ixutnershij) with !''. II. Wright, which continued but a short time. In i.SS) he relumed Ici X'enniinl. and openeil an S6 MK\ OI' PROGRESS. Towns and Parishes, and suivcd on Comniittees of Revision of Laws. Finance, and State Prison and office in C.uildhall. i)iit in a few months reino\ed to tow. Sandown. Seahrook. and Sontii Hampton, lie Lancaster, New Hampshire, to form a partnership has never accepted any other office. In the Senate with Hon. Jacob P.enton, one of the leading attor- he was appointed Chairman of Committees on neys of the state. He was admitted to the Bar of New Hampshire in July. 1SS5. After two years he severed his connection with Mr. Benton, removed to Ciorham. and formed a jxirtnership with Hon. A. S. 'I'witchell. which continued until November, 1888. He then went to Berlin, which place had been growing rapidly and had become an important town, practiced alone until 1 891, when he entered into partnership with Daniel J. Daley, under the firm name of Daley (S; C.oss. This firm still con- tinues, .Mr. (loss is an able lawyer, and the firm has an extensive practice in this and other states. He also takes an active interest in all matters relat- ing to the improvement of ]3erlin. In politics he is an ardent Republican, and is a successful leader in the councils of that party. In 1894 he was elected County Solicitor, and was re-elected in 1896. He has given great satisfaction in this office. October 8. 1 886, he married Agnes Roone\-. and has a family of four children. ^ GRAVES, RuFUs I'',iiw.\rii. State Senator. Pro- prietor of the Rockingham Junction Railway Res- taurant, and a Farmer, was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire. December 8, 1855, son of Joseph B. T. and Harriet N. (Wood) Graves. His early educa- tion was gained in the common schools and at Kingston Academy. He entered the railway mail service in July, 1S79, and served continuously for si.xteen years, having rapidly advanced to the posi- tion of Chief Clerk of the First Division, embracing Maine. New Hampshire, and parts of Massachu- •setts and \ermont. with headquarters at Portland, Maine. He w-as extremely popular with one hun- dred and seventy men who served under him in this division. When he retired they gave practical evidence of their appreciation for his kindness and courtesy by presenting him with valuable tokens of esteem. Mr. (Graves resigned his position in the Railway Mail Service to buy and conduct the Rockingham Junction Railway Restaurant. He is an enthusiastic and practical farmer and owns a large herd of thoroughbred Jerseys, and is also an extensive breeder of Berkshire hogs. He was a member of the State Senate from the Twenty-first District, embracing the towns of Atkinson, Brent- wood. Chester. Danville, East Kingston, Exeter, Fremont, Hampstead. Hampton, Hampton F'alls, Kensington, Kingston, Newfields. Newton. Plais- R. K. CR.WES. Industrial Schools. He is a Mason, belonging to Gideon l^odtre of Kin"ston. (IRllllX. Simon Goodki.i.. was born in Nel- son, New Hampshire, August 9. 1S24. son of Nathan and Sally (Wright) Griffin. His ancestry as far back as the)- have been traced, were men of prominence in the communities where they lived, and more than ordinary strength of intellect and force of character. His grandfather, "Squire" Samuel Griffin, went, when a lad, from Iiradford. Massachusetts, to Temple. New Hampshire, and before the close of the l\e\iilutionary War to Packerslield. as the town of Nelson was then called. He married the daughter of the settled minister, the Reverend Jacob Foster, and made his residence there. His superior abilities were soon recognized by his election to the Legislature and other offices. Both he and .Nehemiah Wright, the General's maternal grandfather, were patriotic sol- diers in the Continental Army, and both took part in the I'.altle of P.unker Hill. Nath.m C.rillin. the Cieneral's father, was a man of high abililx. hut not INIEN Ol' ROC.RKSS. 57 of rugged healtli, tliough lie lixcd t(i tlie agu of eight3--six. In consequt'iiCL' of his illness the rare of the faniil)- of seven children fell ehieflv upon his wife, one of the loveliest of women in person and character, and one of tiiose nohle mothers \vhout six lunuhi'd men in all. with five gun- boats and one steam transport, sent to break up a rendezvous of rebels near Elizabeth City, North Carolina. .\rri\ing at the point designated just before da\break on ihe eighth, he ordered Major Jardine, with the two New \'ork Companies, to land at Elizabeth City below the rebel camp, which was near the river, while with his own fniu' companies he ran bevond in the daikncss. and landed above to cut off tiie enemy's retreat. The attack was made simultaneously, and the rebels fled at the first tire ; but seveial of tin' latter were killed and wounded, and seventy-four were captured, together with three hundred and lift)' stands of arms and a quantity of amniunitinn. ,\t the battle of Cam- den, North C'arolina, April 19, Colonel (jriffin com- manded his regiment, nearly one thousand strong. His conunand being helil in reser\'e, was ordered to attack at the critical moment of the battle when the enemy, from a strong ]josition behind earth- works, rail fences, and linildings, had repelled a charge of part of Hawkins's brigade, and thrown the Union lines into some confusion. Advancing in line of battle. Griffin's troops faltered somewhat under a sharp fire of artillery, but assured by his coolness and courage, halted in perfect formation, and at conunand. lired in a \iille_\' with such pre- cision that the cnem\' broke and fled. It was reported that men of the 'Ihiid Georgia declared that " they did n't care nuich for those red-legged Zoua\es, but when the regul.irs povu'ed in that volley, they thought it time to git." This splendid achievement was chielly due to the discipline, instruction, and drilling maintained by Lieutenant- Colonel Griffin while commanding at Roanoke Island, which gave it a high re])utation for smart- ness in appearance, |)roliciency in drill, and effec- tiveness in action. On .April 22, 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of his regiment, and in July was assigned to Reno's Division of the Ninth Army Corps, and sent to General Pope's aid for the \'ir- ginia Campaign. During the second battle of Hull Run, Colonel Griflin and his regiment were almost surrounded, receiving a murderous lire in front. Hank, and rear, 'i'hinking the Union troops were firing upon them b\- mistake, he seized the colors, and waved them in the direction whence the lire was hottest, only to increase it. Then he ga\t- the order to retreat, and lirought off the renniant of his men. Six of the color guard were shot down while bearing the colors, and the Colonel himself at last took them again and canied them off the field. He [larticipatecl in the battles of Chantilly, Soutii Mountain, Antietam — where his regiment was the S, C;, CRIKI'IN, iirst to plant its colors on the heights above the .Stonebridge of sanguinary memory, and where for gallantry in action General Uurnside re(c>mmended him for promotion — and {''redericksburg. In 1863, he was placed permanently in command of the Fir.st Brigade, Second Division, Ninth .\rmy Corps, and was transferred to Kentucky, and thence to Mississippi, and particijiated in tiie campaign against Vicksburg, Upon his return to Kentucky, he was placed in conunand of Camp Nelson, an important recruiting station, and depot of supplies, \\'hile there, his regiment re-enlisted for three years or the war, and Colonel Griffin was ordered to superintend the re-enlistmenl of New Hampshire MI'.N Ol- I'ROCIRI'.SS. 59 veterans in the departiiienls of Nirninia and North in his state. He led Ids division in the grand Carolina. He was assigned, in the spring of 1S64, review at \\'ashington Ma)' 23, and was mustered to command tiie Second IJrigade of the Second out in August. 18G5. His services had been active, Division of the Ninth Ami)- Corps in the Wilder- arduous, and honorable to ,1 high degree; bra\e. ne.ss Campaign. He left Alexandria with six regi- ready, of sound judgment and disi retion, he was ments. reporting twenty-seven hundred lighting always in demand at the front ; .md he was always men. ,\t the close of that great campaign, he had with his tioops when lhe_\- weie in b.ittle or under lost, in killed and wounded, three thousand men, lire. He took part in twenty-two great battles, as three hundred more than his original number, regi- well as in numbeiless skiiinishes and lesser tights, ments and recruits having been constantly added For months in front (jf I'etersburgh he was under to his command. At Spottsylvania Court House, hre so sharp and constant that his brigade lost at May 12, 1.S64. he won his star by bringing up his times five per cent, of its members each week. He brigade to Hancock's support after a successful had two horses killed and live wounded under him charge by the latter, which left his tioojis with in action, and had his clothing and equipments Isroken forinati(ins in the excitement of \ ii tory. frequently cut h\ hostile bullets. \et he never 'I'he brunt of a connter-tharge of three Confecl- received a scratrh, and never lost a tlav's duty erate divisions was borne bv Ciritlin's (cimniaud friim sickness, owing largely.no doubt, to his tem- until other troops coulil be brought to his aid. perate habits. He was ten. Spaulding. 1). D., LL. D. This church is one of the most influential in the state, and in the report of benevolent contributions is thiril in New Hampshire. Dr. Hall's successful pastorate of more than fourteen \-ears, continues with unabated harmony and strength. During this time a beauti- ful and commodious chapel has been erected at an CH.\RI.KS (IREENfll-'.l.l). financial has made his word as good as his bond. In politics he has always been a strong Republican, but has ever refused public office. Mr. Greenfield was married July 5, 1846, to Aroline B, Downs. They have six children living: Millie A., John, Ella S., Sarah K.. Hattie A., and Frank (ireentield. HALL. C.KORCE EliWARt), D. D.. Pastor of the First church in Dover, was born in Jamaica, West Indies. I'ebruary 23, 1851, son of the Reverend Henian li. and .Sophronia (Brooks) Hall. In the paternal line he traces his descent froni John Hall of Medford, Massachu.setts, an emigrant from Fng- land, who was born in 1627 ; through Percival, C"ambridge, Massachusetts, born in 1672 ; Stephen, Medford, Massachusetts, born in i 701) ; Samuel R., Sutton, Massachusetts, born in 1755; Josiah B.. Croyden, New Hampshire, born in 1790; Henian B., Guildhall, \'ermont, born in 1823 ; George Kd- expense of more than thirteen thousand dollars, ward Hall was the eldest of eight children. He The church in 1895 voted Dr. Hall six months" was fitted for college al the preparatory school in vacation to \isit Fgypt and tlu- Holy Land, and a Oberlin, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College further manifestation of regard was a testimonial in 1872, beginning the study of theology in Vale by vohmtar)' gifts of eight hundred dollars, pre- HKORCE K. HAl.l. MKN Ol' I'ROCRKSS. 6i sented to him on the u\x- uf his ilei.iaiturc. lie lias been live times a delegate to the National Council of Congregational Churches, and has been elected, for the sixth time, to the Tenth 'i'riennial .Session of the Council at Portland, Oregon, July 7-1:!, 1S98. He was chosen a Trustee and one of the executive committee of the New llam|)shire Home Mission- ary Society in 1895, and still retains the position. He was elected a corporate member of the Ameri- can ISoaid of Conuuissioners for foreign Missions in 1897. He receixed the degree of I )octoi" of I )i- vinity from l)artmouth College in ir. Hall has lieen a member of the W'inthrop (lub of lloston since 1892. antl of the Mondav Cluh of lloston since 1896. He married Alice Monroe, daughter of the late James Monroe Peabody of Lowell, Massachu- setts. Her mother. Miriam |,. was the daughter of Joseph Niles of Chester, New Hampshire. Mrs. Hall died April 6, 1883, leaving two children, Alice .Miriam and Henry Monroe. 1 )r. Hall married April i(), 1890, Klizabeth Kneeland, daughter of the late William McFarland of Salem, Massachu- setts, whose father was the Re\'. Asa Mcharland, I). I)., of Concord, New Hampshire. Her mother was Susan Dorothy, daughter of Aaron Perkins of Salem, Massachusetts, lly his second marriage he has two children. John McParland and Ceorge William Hall. HAYES, John Alkrkd, Physician and Surgeon, Soniersworth, was born in iierwick, Maine, March 27, 1S39, son of Frederick and Sara (Hurd) Hayes. On the paternal side he is of Scotch-Irish descent, on the maternal of English ; and among his ances- tors were man\' who possessed in a marked degree the characteristics of these stocks. He attended the common schools of Iierwick, West Lebanon Academ)-, West Lebanon, Maine, and the New Hampton Institution. He began the study of med- icine in 1868, his preceptor being Dr. [. .S. Ross. He took three courses of lectures at D.utnKiUth .Medical College and |efferson Medical College. Philadelphia, being graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in j 86 1 . He began the practice of his profession in the New Hampshire Insane Asylum at Concord, as .Assistant Physician. There he rem. lined from the autumn ol rSCii, until Ani-ust 2(1. 1862. when he entered the army as Assistant Surgeon of the Eleventh New Hampshire X'olun- teers, and was subsequently made Surgeon of the regiment. Di'. Hajes saw some \ery acti\e ser\ice and p,irtici])ated in the b.iltles of Frederirksliurg. J. A. H.WES. Vicksburg, Jackson, the siege of Kno.wille, W'ildei- ness, .Spotts\i\-ania. North Anna. Cold ll.irbor, Pet- ersburg, Poplar Spring ( hurch, Weldon Kaihoad. Hatcher's Run, Sailor's Creek, and the engagements until the surrender of Lee at .Appomattox. He had charge of the .Second Division, Ninth .\iinv Corps, I''ield Hospital at I*'redericksburg, White House and City Point about eight months : and he alsr) had charge of the Piovisional Camp at .Alexandria. \ ir- ginia, after the surrender .it .\iipomattox. The cam]5 contained .diout se\enteen thousand invalid sokliers from llie \rm\- nl tJie Potomac .ind the y\riny of the ( 'uiiilieil.iud. Dr. f[a)es was bic\elteil Lieutenant-Colonel of Cnitetl .States X'ohmleers. March 13. iSd^. Im l.iilhtnl and nurilorions ser- vices upon the lollowiiiL; 1 e( (immend.ition : "This is to stale that Di. John A. Ilayes, lali' Surgeon of the F,le\enth New llam|)shire X'olunleers. seiAcd lor a year under luv immediate su|)er\ision in con- nection with the Depot Field Hospil.il of tiie .\rmy ol the PotniiKK . al 1 redei iikslnirg. White House .111(1 (it)' Point, and tiiiil lie finall)' ai ted as Iv\i'cu- tixL- officer at lliirke\ ille. \ir"inia. He w.is.i first- 62 MEN OF I'ROC.KKSS. r;\tc ofticcr and wns cntruslud with nuist respoiisil)lc duties, in the pcrfornKince of which lie was most reliable and untiring. I cordially recommend him as deserving tlie brevet of l,ieutenant-('olonel. (Signed) V.d. H. Dallon. late Surgeon, U. S. Volunteers, 15revet Colonel, formerly in charge of Depot Field Hospital. .\rmv of the Potomac," .After the war. Dr. Hayes established himself in the practice of his profession in Hiddeford, .Maine, where he remained from the autunni of 1865 until 1S69. when he re- moved to .Somersworth, where he now resides. He was United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions from iiS67-'90, and served as Town Physician for lifteen years. He is a member of the Somersworth Medical Society, the New Hampshire Medical Soci- ety, and of the Grand .\rmy of the Republic. In politics he is a Republican. I )r. Hayes was mar- ried .March 11. 1S69. to Mary .\. Rollins. He has four children, Frederick L.. M. I)., John 1*'.. R.. Marv. and Helen L. Haves. HODSDON, Arthur Lvcurcu.s, President of the A. I,. Hodsdon Lumber Company, Center Ossipee, was born in that town, October 13, ICS44, son of Joseph and 1 )orcas (Govvell) Hodsdon. He is of English descent. His great-grandfather, Thomas Hodsdon of Berwick, Maine, who served in the Revolution as Captain of the Tenth (Fifth ]5er- wick) Company of the .Second York County Regi- ment, married Margaret (loodwin of Herwick, who bore him eight children: David, James, F^bene/.er, Ichabod, Mollie (Twombly), Sally (Ricker), and Peggy (Fogg). David, the eldest son, who settled on the old homestead in Berwick, took a prominent part in town and countv affairs and was one of the leaders in the .Methodist ( 'hiuch. His second sou. Joseph, born July 14, 1816, learned the tanning and currying business, and upon attaining his majority began business for himself at Center Ossipee. In this undertaking he was highl)" suc- cessful, his tannery becoming one of the largest and best in the country. He was active in politics as a Republican, and though he did not seek office, served two terms (i855-'57) in the New Hamp- shire Legislature; was interested in the militia, in which he held the rank of C'olonel ; was a Master Mason ; and was one of the firm supporters of the F'inst Congregational Church of Ossipee, of which he was for thirty-three years a Deacon, and for over forty years Superintendent of its Sunday- educated in the |)ul)lic schools of Ossipee and the Academies at Effingham, New ILampshire, and Fryebiirg, Maine, At the age of twenty-one he went into business with his father in the manufac- ture of leather, also engaging in the lumber trade. In 1881 he discontiiuied his tannery ; and in 1887 he was elected President of the Pine River Lumber Company, Two years later he bought out the company, reorganizing it as the A. L. Hodsdon Coni|)any. of which he remains President and Agent. In politics he is a Republican. He has been a member of the State Committee for twelve years, and for many years he has been chairman of the Town Committee. He was elected to the State A. I.. HOUSKDN. Senate in iSqc-'qi. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow, and Knight of Pythias. Mr. Hodsdon married, Septentber 4, 1870, Charlotte M,, daughter of Dr, Nathaniel and Charlotte S, (Hobbs) Grant of Ossipee. They ha\e three children: Dr. Walter (}rant, Herbert .\rthur. and .Marv Ellen Hodsdon. school. He died April 1S97. Arthur L. Hod.sdon. his second child and eldest son, was JONES, John Fr.\nklin, Banker, Concord, was born in Hopkinton, March 31, 1835, ^°" °f Jona- than and Sarah (Currier) Jones, He is a grand- son of Jonathan Jones, a well-known resident of Ho.scawen, On the maternal side he can trace his descent from Richard Currier, one of the original settlers of Salisbury, born in 161 7 and died in MEN OF PROGRESS. 63 16S7. Mr. |oiiL-s attenclcd the common schools at Hopkinton and Hopkinton Academy. He lived on the home farm until he was fifteen years old, when he was stricken with illness. He was an invalid for six years, but at the ai,^e of twenty-two went to Massachusetts, and took a position in a drug store. This business not agreeing with him, he returned to Hopkinton, where he worked in a general coun- try store until 1861. when he opened a store in Contoocook, in compan\' with R. T. C'rowell, and did a successful Inisiness until 1S67, when, his health again failing, he sold out his interest to his partner. From 1867 to 1885 he lived in Contoo- cook, acting as Justice and settling estates. In .■'*'€ JOHN F. JONES. 1885 he was elected Treasurer of tiie Foan and Trust Savings Hank, a position he held until 1897, when he resigned and was elected I'resident of the same bank, a post he now holds. In the twenty- five years he lived in ("ontoocook he settled over forty estates, and acted as Commissioner and Trus- tee in the settlement of a number of others. He was Town Clerk in Hopkinton from 1861 to 1868, and again served in that office in 1875. He was Town Treasmer from 1861 to 1866, and again held this ofifice in 1S72. He was a member of the State Con.stitutional Convention in 1876. Among the other offices he has held are : Treasurer of Merri- mack county; Park Conuuissioner of Cont:ord ; 1 )irector of the h'irst National ISankof Hillsljorough, i874-'90 inclusive ; Director of the National State Capital Rank of Concord from 1881 to date; 'Prus- tee to the Loan and 'Prust Savings Bank from 1874 to date; Treasurer of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society, i872-'97, and President for two years ; Treasurer of the \\'oodsum Steamboat Company from its organization in 1872 to date; Treasurer of the Manufacturers' and Merchants' Mutual Insurance Compan\' of (_'oncord from its organization in 18S6 to the present time. He is a member of Kearsarge Lodge, Independent ( )rder of ( )dd h'ellows of Contoocook; of ISlazing Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; 'Prinity Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons ; Horace Chase Council and Mt. Horeb Conunandery of Concord, being its Treasurer since 1891 ; Edward A. Raymond Con- sistory of Nashua ; New Hampshire Historical Society; and New Hampshire Antiquarian Society. He is a member of the First ISaptist Cluuxh of Hopkinton and of the \'oung Men's Christian Association of C(jncord. He married ( )ctober 23, 1861, Maria H. Barnard. He has two children, J. Arthur and Charles C. Jones. KFN'P, Hervey, Retired Manufacturer, Exeter, was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, in April, 1818, son of Captain Asa and Polly (Aljel) Kent. His grandfather on the paternal side, Isaac Kent, removed from Connecticut to Alstead, where he died in 1833, at the age of ninety-two years. He was a very energetic man, and at seventy-five was as vigorous as most men at fifty. He was married four times. ( )n the maternal side, he is descended from the Reverend Alfred Abel, who lived to the good old age of ninety-three. 'Phe subject of this sketch attended the public schools of his natix'e town and local academy, working on the farm after teaching school in the winter. He remained on the farm until nearly twent)'-one years old, and h;ul his first experience in manufacturing in the Nashua Mills in 1839, receiving three dollars a week as wages. Soon after, he went with one ot the iner- seers, Benjamin Osgood, to the first mill started on the Stark corporation in Manchester, New Ihimp- shire, ;\s third hand in the spiiuiing-room, ;nKl was adxanced to the position of Second Overseer. When Superintendent Amory Warren went from the Stark Mills to Newton Ppper P'alls Mills as Agent, he employed Mr. Kent to go with him as Overseer of the spinning, and there he remained four years, removing to i'ilchburg, where he hired 64 MEX (IF PROGRESS. a small mill called the Kockvillc. He started the mill on a live years' lease in 1845, and was very successful until the tariff changes largely reduced the ))n>tits. In 1847 he sold out his interest in the Rock\ille Mill to his partner, to accept a position with John Smith, as Superintendent and Paymaster at liarre, Massachusetts. I.eaxing this business at the close of one year, he accepted a position as Overseer of s|3inning under General H. K. Oliver of the Atlantic Mills, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. There he remained imtil 1854, when he became Su- perintendent of the Great I''alls Mills of Somersvvorth imder John A. liurleigh. He remained there until the hard times of 1857 led to a reduction in the out- put of the mills. He was out of business for some months when he went to Pittstield, as Agent of the mills controlled by the Dale Brothers of Boston. Then he went to 1-ew iston, Maine, as Superintendent of the Androscoggin Mills under Agent Amos G. Lockwood, and was there nearly two years, leaving that place to accept the Agency of the Exeter Mills under the Dale Brothers & Gompany. He held the Agency until 1876, when he became Treasurer UKRVKV KKNT, and Agent, which he held until May, 1895, when he resigned in favor of his son, George E. Kent, who has since bought the Pittsfiekl Mill. George K. Kent is manager of both concerns. The Exeter Manufacturing Gompany having leased the Pitts- tield .Mill. Mr. Kent retires with connnendable pride at the results of his thirty-three years" man- agement. When he took charge of the Exeter Mill, the Gompany had not paid a dividend for eleven years. The stock was sold for two hundred dollars, par six lunidred and fifty dollars. The second year the Gompany paid fifty dollars per share, and continued the same for some thirteen years. The mill, originally, had two hundred thirty-six-inch looms, with mostly old machinery. When he retired, he left lUvw a mill of six himdred forty- inch looms, with a large proportion of the machin- ery new, up-to-date, modern mill, which has run when other mills have been closed. In 1897. Mr. Kent was chosen President of the Exeter Manufac- turing Gompany. which position he now holds. He is a member of Philips Ghurch. in which he has been a Deacon for about thirty years. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and at one time a member of the New Hampshire Glub. and of the Textile and New England Manufacturing Associa- tion. He has never been active in politics. He married, in 1S41, Eliza Jane Hanson of Derry, New Hampshire. His children are: (leorgia L., I'.nnna |., Gora L., and George Edward Kent, of whom Gora and George survive. Mr. Kent is now over eightv vears old. and he says he has never enjoyed life more keenly than at the present time. He may be seen at his old desk one half the time, but gives no orders, and is, practically, retired. He firmly believes in the over-ruling hand of God"s special Providence, and that it is not in man to direct his steps. .At his age, the future begins to dawn with hope growing brighter day by day, " as the truer life grows brighter every year." KF.NXF.rT. .\i.PHKirs Guosr.v, State Senator, Gonway, was horn in Madison, New !Iani]3shire, luly 27, 1859. son of William and Sarah I'.aslnian (Russell) Kennett. The Kennett family traces its descent from St. Gregory's Kent, who was de- scended from the Royal House of Ganute of Den- mark, and settled upon the demesne of Rolla of Normandy in the \'ar de Saire of that Dukedom. .\t the time of the conquest, he went over to Eng- land in the suite of William the First. Two knights of the family set sail in 1647 ^or the Province of \'irginia. .Mr. Kennett attended the town schools of Madi.son and New Hampton Institute. His boyhood was passed on a farm, but at seventeen he went to work for the Eastern Railroad as tele- graph operator. He was elected Representative to MEN OF PROGRESS. 6S the Legislature in 189S ''"'I icS<)6; was State Sen- pal of the lliewslei" l'"iee Atacieiii)- at W'olfhoro, ator in iSijj and uSijS. lie has rank of Colonel New Hampshire. Mr. Lord was one of the pioneers in Governor RanisdelTs stalf. hi politics he is a in the field for the direct apjilication of electricity Republican. ( 'olonel Keuuett married .\pril 13. h>r many purposes for which it is now commonly 1S82. Carrie I!, (lerrish of South ISerwick, Maine. used. The cit\' of Lawrence was the first in the world to li.ne its streets lighted wholly by elec- tricit\- to the e.xilusion of ,i;as and oil. The Daily American of that i it\-. G. S. .Merrill. f-",ditor, was tiie first daily |xiper in the world to be published by electric power, while the I'emberton Mills had the lirst electric height ele\ator. .\ll of these were installed bv -Mr. Lord. It is, howe\er, as an educa- tor that Mr. Loid h.is done his best work. His suc- cess as an instructor in the Lowell High School soon caused him to be sought by the Lawrence school committee as I'rinciiial ot the High .'school in that cit}', the offer coming without any solicita- tion on his part. During the few years that he held his position he won the good will of scholars, teachers and citizens, for the many qualities which are necessar)' for a successful High School Frinci- [jal. In 18S7, when the l.rewster Free Academy of W'olfboro, New Hampshire, was opened, under .\. CROSIIV KENNETT. who died ( )ctober i, iSiSj ; October 31, iS.S.S, he married Lora Ferren of Madison. He has one son, F'rank Eddison Kennett, born October 22. 1897. L()RD, EnwiN Howaro, Educator and I'.lectri- cian, was born in .Springvale, Maine, June i, 1850, son of Samuel and Sophia Hight (Smith) Lord. On the paternal side he traces his descent from the Lord family of South Berwick, Maine. Mr. Lord attended the common schools of Spring\.ile, and .South fierwick .Academy for two terms, then going to New Hampton Academy for three terms. He was graduated from fJowdoin College in 187 i, with the degree of .\. !>., and took the degree of .\. M.. from Har\ard College, graduating in the class (pf 1881. I'rom 1871 to 1873 he was Principal ol Richmond. .M.iine, High School: from 1873 to 1880 he was teacher of .Science in the Lowell. Massachusetts, High School; from 18S0 to [884 he was princi|)al of the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High i:iiwi\ II. i.(iKi>. the pro\isions of the will of the late lolin lliewster of ( 'amluidiic, .Massachusetts, the Trustees, not School; from 1S82 to 1886 he was 'J'reasurer and having decided upon a ])ermanent Principal, asked Manager of the l'',dison l^lectric Ilhuninating Com- him to become Acting Principal for a few years, pany of Lawrenie, .Since 1S87 he has been Princ i- He organized the school, and conducted it with 66 MEN OF PROGRESS. such s;Uisfaclii>n tn the TrUNlcL-s lluit in a sliorl lime he was conhnncd as Principal without any time limit. This academy, unique in many respects, is a credit to the e.\ecuti\e ability of its I'rincipal. Open to both sexes, it presents many problems in government which only a clear head and an impartial mind cuuld solve. The rules are very few. and few of them are laid down in words. The spirit of the institution demands that the pupils shall l)e ladies and gentlemen, and whatever con- flicts with those standards is to be disapproved. Little espionage, that horror of the average scholar, is employed, ca.ses of discipline are few, and the tone of the school always gives a stranger the im- pression that the students are there for study, pri- maril)-. ami that incidentally, they all manage to have a good time, without detriment to school work. He is a Vice-President of the Sons of Nathan Lord. He is a member of the Kilwinning Lodge, Ancient • Free and Accepted Masons ; of the Club, Lowell; of the Monday Night Club, Lawrence, and Lowell Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In ixilitics he is a Republican. Mr. Lord was married luK'. 1S73, to Adclie M. Decker, of Brunswick, Maine, who died in October, 1873. Mr. Lord was again married November, 1877. to juli.i Swift Ben- nett of Lowell, Massachusetts. He has three chil- dren, Ada leanette. Willi. im Swift, and Mary I!en- nett Lord. Ll'.WANDO, Joseph, Merchant, Wolfboro, was born in P.oston, Massachusetts, December 3, 1850, son of Adolph and Fniily (Smith) Lewando. He received his early education in the Highland Mil- itarv ."Vcadeniy, in Worcester, Massachusetts, and attendetl the Chemical Department of the Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge, during the years 1869 and 1870. His father had established at Watertown, Massachusetts, the Lewando Dye Works, for the supervision and charge of which the son was trained. In 1870 he took charge and held the position for live years, when the business not being to his liking, he removed to Mt. Tabor, Ore- gon, where he engaged in general merchandise for eight years, establishing the first store in that place. He conducted a most successful business, and was largely interested in real estate in the town. In 1879, he established the postoflice at Mt. Tabor, receiving his appointment from Postmaster-General Key. In 1883, he returned to the East and settled in Wolfboro, where he conducts a general bus- iness. He served for three years in the New- Hampshire National Guard as Captain of Com|).iny K, I'hird Regiment. He was a member of the Legislature in 1897, when he was t'hairman of the Committee on Mileage, and a member of the CoMunittee on I'.anks. In politics Mr. Lewando is a JOSEPH LEW.\NI:)0. Kepulilican. He was an alternate to the Conven- tiiin at Minneapolis in 1S92. During the past twelve years he has held various offices in his adopted town. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 17, .Ancient F'ree and Accepted Masons, of Carroll ChajHer. No. 23, Royal .\rch Masons, and of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar, Dover, New Hampshire. Mr. Lewando was mar- ried September 10. 1S75. to Nellie j. Morgan. They have two children, Alice ('.. and Dolph l.i'wando. .\li:i,\ ll.LF,. Henuv, Lawyer. New York city, was born in Nelson. New Hampshire, Aiigu.st 25, 1858, son of Josiah Henry and Nancy Rebecca (Nesmith) Melville. His ancestors on his father's side were among the first settlers of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and on his mother's among the founders of Londonderry, New Hampshire. The fighting qualities of the stock from which he comes are shown by the fact that he is a member of the Sons of the Revolution by virtue of descent from Privates Josiah Melvin (Melville) Sr., and Josiah Melvin (Melville) Jr., of Concord, Massachusetts; MEN OF PROGRESS. 67 Captain Jonas Miimt and CulonL-l janies Rarrrtt of Concord, MassacluiscUs ; I'rivate |anit.-s Nesmitii and Sergeant Adam Dickcv of Londonderry; and Pri\atc Josiah W'liitnew Ir.. and lirigadier-General Josiah Whitney, Sr., of ll.uxard, Massachusetts; while he is a menilier of the Society of Colonial Wars liy descent from Captain Thomas lirooks, Ca]it.iin Jonas Prescott, Ca]itain |rdei" of the l''ounders and 1 )efenders, as well as the two patriotic societies inentioned above. In politics he is a Republican. NIL1<',S. WiM.rvM W'liookrr f, (Protestant I'",pis- cop.d ) bishop of New Hampshire, Concord, was born in Hatle_\. Lo\\ei- Canada (now the Province of (^)uebec). May 24, 1833. son of Daniel Swit and Delia (Woodruff) Niles. His father's family is said to ha\e been oiiginall)' Irish, his ancestors having been carried away captives to Wales about 1172, liecause of their refusal to sulimit to tlie English rule in Ireland. John Niles (then spelled Niel commonly, though oiiginall\- in Ireland Nials) came to New I'.ngland in 1634. ]''i'om him l!isho|3 Niles is descended in the seventh generation. Wil- liam Woodruff, his mother's father, married Ruth Porter of ]"'armington, Connecticut, who was in the fifth generatiim from Rol">ert Porter, one of the settlers of l"'arinington, from which Robert w.is also ilescended Noah Porter, the late Presitlent of \ale L'niversity. The Purters appear originallv to ha\'e lived in England at Wro.xall .\bbev, and in llatton and Haseley. in Warwickshire. Willi.im W. .Niles attended the Chariest) m Acidemv in Hatley and Derby /Vcademy in Veiinont, but he studied l.irgely alone in a beautiful countrv. with books to read and suggestions from a highl)- intelligent fatluT .nid mother. His home was deep in the country, two miles from a village even, and the bov found his surroundings admirablv litted for medilatidn. Later on he hatl the e.xperiences of •■ keeping school " and •■ boai'ding aroimd " for liv e terms before going to college ; and those afforded hiui as a tutor in college for a year after graduation, .nid as a teacher for two years in the Hartford High .School. A fiuther useful pari (if the' training for active life was. no doubt, the hal:>it in Liter v'lUlh and early manhood of mingling nuich with people, and largel}' with peisoirs having very v.nied notions, leligidus and politic;d. lie was gi.uluated from 68 MEN OF PROGRKSS. Trinity College, Hartford, in 1857, and from of the Orphans" Home at Concord, and the New- Berkeley Divinity School in 1861 ; was ordained England Episcopal member of the Board of Mana- Deacon by Dr. Williams, Bishop of Connecticut, in gers of Domestic and Foreign Missions at New 1 86 1, and ordained Priest by Dr. George Burgess, York. He was a member of the Committee of the Bishop of Maine, in .May. 1862. He was Rector General Convention for revision of the list of chap- ters of Scripture to be read in church ; of the Com- mittee of revision of the Prayer Book and of that for the revision of marginal readings in the Bible, fiishop Niles was married in St. John's Church. Flartford, June 5, 1862, to 15ertha Olmsted, a descendant from James Olmsted, one of the settlers of Hartford. His children are : John Olmstead, Edward Cullen, Mary, William Porter, Daniel Swit, and Bertha Niles. WILLIAM W. .\U,L.■^. of St. Philips Church at Wiscasset. Maine, for three years; then Professor in Latin in Trinity College for si,\ years. For the last three of the.se years, and when he was elected Bishop of New Hamp- shire, he was also Rector of St. John's Church at Warehouse Point. He was for a time editor of the Churchman. He was consecrated Bishop in St. Paul's Church. Concord, on St. Matthew's Day in 1870, by the Presiding Bishop, Dr. B. B. Smith and by the P.ishops of Connecticut. Maine, and Albany. Dr. 1. \\ . Williams, liishop of Quebec, joining in the laying on of hands. Bishop Niles received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College in 1870, and later the same degree from Dart- mouth, and from Trinity the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1896. While in college he was a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Fie is President of the corporation of St. Paul's School in Concord ; St. Mary's School for Girls in Concord; of Holderness School for Boys, Plymouth, New Hampshire; a Trustee of Trinity College, and of the General Theological Seminary in New York ; for many years President of the Alumni Association of the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown ; President AL\CK, Wii.Li.\M ]iA.RKER, Physician, E.xeter, was born in Bellows Falls, Yermont, January 26, iSc;2, son of William V. and Elizabeth .\. (Barker) WILLIAM B. MACK. Mack. He comes of good old New England stock. He was educated in the common schools of Bellows Falls, and at Norwich (Yermont) Academy and Dartmouth College. In 1874 he entered Dart- mouth Medical College, from which he was gradu- ated in 1877. In 1S78 he opened an office in Dover, New Hampshire, and practiced there two years, when he removed to Salmon Falls, New- Hampshire. After remaining there for eight years, he went to Exeter, where he has remained mitil the present time. He is one of the Attending Physi- MEN OF PROGRESS. 69 cians of the Exeter Cottage Hospital. In politics he is a RepubHcan. In iSSi, Dr. Maciv married Evelyn M. Dennett. They ha\e one son: Walter Barker Mack, fourteen vears of age. MrrCHELL, Ai;ram Whittemore, Physician, Epping, was born in Lenipster, New Hampshire, February 8, 1.S62, son of Andrew ]. and Mary M. (\Miittemore) Mitchell. His paternal grandfather was William Mitchell of Acworth, New Hampshire, and his maternal grandfather, Amos Whittemore of Wilton, New Hampshire. He received his early education in the district and High schools of his native town and in the Newport High School. During this time he worked on his father's farm and taught in the district schools until he entered the Kimball L^nion Acadeniv, Meriden, New Hamp- shire, where he spent one year and was graduated in i8ieutenant. July 24, 1884, he was elected Captain of the Company, which from 1884 to 1889 had the highest rank of any company in the state. August i, i88g, he was connnissioned Major of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire National (kiards, of which he was Major live years. In August, 1891, Major Nims was detailed liy the 70 !\I1".X OF PROGRESS. Governor to comiiKiiicl the IJattalion, to attend and represent the state at the dedication of the Ben- nin<;ton liattle Monument. I le was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel August 31, i^'jA- Colonel Ninis has received many compliments for guard FR.\NLIS <). NIMs. duty and efficiency in handling troops, and for the e.xcellence of discipline of his command. In politics he is a Democrat. For H\e years as Over- seer cif the I'oor of the city of Keene, his adminis- Ir.Uicin was marked liy judgment and economy. He married, in i.Syo, I'^lla L. ifall. daughter of Oliver and .Marietta (Watkins) Hall of Walpole, I'l K I'., Kdi'.Kkr CiDKiKiN, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Dover, was born in Kollinsford, New Hampshire. July 28, 1851, son of Amos W. aud I'.lizahcth \l. (Chadbourne) I'ike. On the paternal side he is descended from John I'ike, an emigrant from Kngland, who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635. John Pike's great-great-grandson, the Reverend James Pike, preached his first sermon October 23, 1726, and in the following year began to preach to the people in that part of Dover, which in 1729 was set oiif to form the town of Somersworth. From the latter town, in 1S49, was set off the town of Kollinsford, wherein the meeting-house in which he preached was situated. He was ordained as the first Pa.stor of Somersworth, October 26. 1730 : and he preached his last sermon, October 31, 1790. Of his sons, Nicholas, a celebrated teacher, was graduated from Harvard in 1766, and was the author of a famous arithmetic. .Another son was John Pike, who w-as the great-grandfather of the sul)ject of this sketch. ( )n his mother's side, Judge Pike traces his descent from Humphrey Chadbourne. who came to this country aliout 1631. and who died in 1666. He attended the connnon schools of Kollinsford. and Berwick .Academy at South Berwick, Maine, and then entered Dartmouth College in the Scientific Department, being graduated in 1872. Upon leav- ing college, he engaged in civil engineering, and kdiacRr (;. I'ike. was one of the surveying party who ran the lines of the Dover and Portsmouth Railroad, in 1873. ^^^ was an Assistant Fngiiieer on the Waltham Water Works con.struction, and in 1874 entered the office of Shedd & Sawyer, civil engineers, in Boston. He taught the three following years in a South Berwick C.rannnar School, beginning the study of law in 1878. with the late Chief Ju.stice Doe. He was admitted to the Bar of the State Courts in March, 1 88 1. and to the Bar of the Circuit Court of the United States in November, 1894. Immediately upon his admission to the Bar in 1881, he began practice at Dover. He was appointed Judge of the Probate Court for Strafford county, the appoint- MEN OF PROGRESS. 7' menl takiny- effect December 2,S. 1.S93. and was City Solicitor in iSSj-'Sg, and for two months in 1893. He was appointed Associate |nstice of tiie Supreme C'onrt of tlie State April 14. iSgG. l''rom 1S77 to iSS^ he was Snperintendent of Schools in Rollinsford, antl then declineil a re-appointment. He was Trnstee of Strafford Sa\inL;s Hank (orij,'- inally known as Sax'ings Hank lor the County of Strafford) from 1890 to July, i.S()(i. when he resigned the office. \\'hen the I )o\er Water Hoan.1 was established, he served as a member tor a short time. He has been a Trustee of franklin Academy since September 1, icS,S3, and Treasurer Ironi Au- gust 5, 18S4. to August 5, i8()(>, when he resigned. For o\er two years he was a member of the School Hoard of the City of l)(iyei", de( hning a re-election. In politics he is a Repuljiican. PFASLEF, Benjamin Dhhok, I'hysician, Hills- borough Bridge, was liorn in Weare, New Hamp- shire. April 18, 1857, son of Robert and Persis Boardman (Dodge) Peaslee. He is a descendant of Joseph and Mar}' Peaslee, \vho came from Eng- land in 1638 and settled in Nevvbur\', Massachu- t Institution anil ,it the McCollom Institute, Mont X'ernon, New Hampshire. He pursued his profes- sional studies in the Boston I'niyersity Medical School, in the Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the New \'ork ( )phthalmic Col- lege and lIos]iitnl. In 1871), he began practice at Meredith, New Hampshire, and practiced for a time in Bradford and Concoid, New Hampshire, and Melrose, Massachusetts. ]'\iy two years he was Superintendent of the dr\-goods house of Hough- ton tV Dutton, lliislon, Massachusetts, ( )wing to ill health, he was obliged t(j gi\e up active practice and business life, ami now resides in Hillsborough Bridge, and (le\dtes his time to special work of the eye and eai', being obliged to spend the winters in the South. He is a lo\er of fuie horses and of all outdoor sports, es|)eci,ill\- tiout fishing, and is well acquainted with all the brooks in the \icinit\'. He is a member of Melrose ( lub, of Melrose, Massa- chusetts, and of the New Ilampshire Medical So- ciety. He is a M.ison, a memlier of Harmony Lodge No. 38, and of Woods Chapter No. 14, Royal Arch Masons. I )i\ Peaslee was married Februai)- 11, 1880, to .'Mice M. Hammond, antl |ime II, 1889, to Hattie Dutton. He has one son: Karl Hammond Peaslee, born |anuary 7, 1881. lUiNJ.y.Ml.X II, I-h.ASI.KK. RP"A'N( )LDS. Thomas ( )sc.oi Ml. I'h\sit ian, Kings- ton, was born in Chester, New Hampshire, Decem- ber 24, 1842, son of 'I'homas F. .ind .Mary (Currier) Reynolds. His ancestors came to this countr\' from the north of England. lie received his early education in the pulilic sihools and .Academy at Chester. He spent three \ears and a half in the Ami}', the last two and a h.ilf in the Medical De- partment, acting as clerk, steward, cadet, and for seven months as Assistant-Surgeon on the Freed- man's Bureau. In the lourse ol his |irotessional studies he attended I.ong Island Medical College, Brooklyn ; Bellevue Medical College, New York city ; and Albany Medi( al ( 'fj. He travelled extensively in the West and South, but in 1870 set- tled in Kingston, where he has siiue remained. He was a 'Frustee of Kingston Acadeni}- for h\e years in the "So's, being President of the lioard one year. He is a Director of a Western Re.il F.state ( 'om- setts. Jose]5h Peaslee was a plnsician of much |)an\' and of an extensive bookcoiuein in Poston. repute, and was the first (Jn.ikc-r pri-.Khci, whose In war time he w.is made a Fic'e M.ison in Fjii influence resulted in the formalion (jf tin- lirst Lodge, Kentucky, and since 1871 has been a mem- Society of I-'riends in i''i53. Dr. Peaslee received l:>er of (lideon Lodge. .\n< ient Free and .\( 1 epted his education in the .New ll.iiiiplon Literary Masons. Kingston, in whiili lie li.is held v.irioiis 72 MEN OI' PROGRESS. offices, liaving; bcL'ii Worshipful Master in 1.S79. 1880, and 1881. He is a member of St. Albans Royal Arch Chapter of Exeter. Past Commander of Cen- eral Patten Post, Crancl Army of the Republic of Kingston, and a member of P.urnside command. THOMAS (). KEYNDLDS. Union Veteran Union, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. He is a Republican. July 13. 1870, he married M. Fanny Smith of Raymond. 'I'hey have one daugh- ter : Mabel, born Mays, 'S71. Dr. Reynolds has been in active practice for thirty-one years, and is about to retire. He has written considerably on microscopy and astronomy for scientific magazines. SARGENT, Harry Gi.:nk, City Solicitor, Con- cord, was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Sep- tember 30, 1859, son of Samuel Merrill and Cyrene (Mitchell) Sargent, His father was for many years an engineer on the Concord Railroad. On the paternal side he traces his ancestry to William Sargent, son of Richard .Sargent, barrister-at-law in London, England, born in 1C102. William was appointed Midshipman in the navy, and in 1614 sailed with Captain John Smith to Jamestown. Wr- ginia. He left Virginia and went to Massachu- setts; the exact date is not known, but his name appears in the Massachusetts Colony records for April, 1633. Harry Sargent attended the public schools of Concord and was graduated from the High School of tiiat city in Jmie. 1878. He studied law iti the office of W. '1'. iV H. F. Norris in 1878- '79. He attended the lioston I'niversity Law School in 1879- 'So, and again read in the office of J. Y. Mugridge in 1880- '81. He was admitted to the liar in 1S81. passing a highly creditable examina- tion, and liegan the practice of his profession in Concord. Jn Jul)-, 1893, he formed a partnership with Henry I-'. Hollis under the firm name of Sargent ev Hollis. and May 1. 1896. lulward C. Niles was added to the firm, which then became Sargent. Hol- lis iS: Niles, Mr. Sargent has had extensive practice before legislative committees and the various courts in New Hampshire. He was associated with Gen- ii. 1;. SARCENT. eral Wayne MacVeagh as counsel for Austin Corbin of New York before a committee of the legislature and in the Supreme Court in the matter relative to the state's interest in the Concord Railroad. Dur- ing the session of 1891 he made an argument in Representatives' Hall in opposition to the Mount Washington bill, and after that was counsel for Coe iS: Pingree in suits in the State and (^ircuit comts which involved the title to the sununit of Mount Washington. He served as County Solici- tor from January, 1885, to Januarv, 1887, and has l)een City .Solicitor of Concord from January, 1887, until the present time ; is a Trustee of tlie Margaret Pillsbury (General Hospital in Concord, and a MKN OF I'ROCRKSS. 73 Trustee of the Protestant Kpiscopal Church in New Hampshire ; President of the Snowshoe Club, and a member of the Passaconaway Ckib. He married. December 14, iSSi, KHzabetli Dudley. Thev ha\-e one daughter: Margaret Dudley Sar- gent, born June 10. 1883. R( )1J,INS, Frank \\'F,sr. Lawyer and lianker of Concord, was born in Concortl, New Hampshire, February 24. i860, son of luhvard Henry and Fllen (West) Rollins. His family has lieen prominent in the affairs of the state for more than two centuries ; his father represented New Hampshire in both houses of Congress. He was educated in the schools of Concord, by Moses Woolson, at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the class of '81, and at the ]-[ar\-ard I>a\v school. His law preceptor was John \'. Mugridge, and he was admitted to the Par in August, 1882. After practicing his profession for a year he entered the banking house of E. H. Rollins & .Sons, becom- ing Vice-President of the house after its incorpora- tion and taking charge of the lloston office, although he retained his residence in Concord. In |)olitics he is a Republican. In 1895 he was elected to the State Senate, of which he was chosen President. Fie has served in variou.s capacities in the National (juard from Private to Assistant .XdJLitant Ceneral with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He is an attendant of the Episcopal church and a Trustee of St. Mary's School for Girls. He has written much and well, his published works including, "The Ring in the Cliff," " lireak ( )'day Tales," "The 'I'win Hussars," aud "The Lady of the Violets," besides many magazine articles and short stories. In 1893 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of M. A. Mr. Rollins, who is an able speaker, made the address for the New England delegation which journeyed to Canton to visit Mr. McKinley in 1896. SMITH, Charles Stewart, long one of the leading merchants of New Vork and connected with man)' of its financial institutions, was born in E.xeter, New Hampshire, March 2, 1832, son of John and Esther Mary (Woodruff) Smith. His father was a Minister of the First Congregational Church of that place. His mother was a daughter of Aaron D. Woodruff, Attorney -(General of New jersey. ( )n the paternal side, Mr. .Smith is of English descent, the family having settled in the \alley of the Connecticut in 1641. He was edu- cated at the Ivxeter public and High School, and was taught Latin and Greek by his father. At fifteen he taught school in Connecticut, and a year later he went to New Vork, becoming clerk in a dry-goods house. Upon attaining his majority, he was admitted to partnership with S. H. Chittenden & Company, and for several years lived abroad as their European buyer. Later he formed the firm of Smith, Hogg lV Gardner, which succeeded to the dry-goods commission house of A. & A. Law- rence of Boston. Mr. Smith retired from active business in 1887. In 1884 he was elected Vice- President of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, and three years later was elected its Presi- dent, which position he held for seven years. He has been prominently connected with a numlier of great corporations. He was one of the founders of the Fifth Avenue Bank, and of the German-Amer- ican Insurance Company; is a Director of the United States Trust C'ompany, Fourth National and Merchants" Banks, (jreenwich Savings Bank, and Equitable Life Assurance Societv. He is also Trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital. He is Vice-President of the Union League Club, a mem- ber of the Merchants', Metropolitan. City, Law- yers', Players', and Century chilis of New Vork, and of the New England Society. He is an occa- sional contriliutor to the North .\merican Re\iew, 74 MEN" OF rUOC.RESS. and is tlie fortunate possessor of a choice and well- lN, Jamis. I, umbel in. m. llooksett, was born in Merrimack. New ll.impshire. ( )ctober 22, 1826. son f)f James and I'liscilla (Woods) 'I'hompson. He takes pridi- in lln' fact that he beais till- name of the fomidei uf the famiU' in America, James Thomiison. from w liom he is a descendant in the eighth generation, one of the original settlers of W'oburn, Massachusetts, who was a leader of a band who settled in that part of the place now known as North \\'oburn. James Thompson, the first, when he landed in this coun- try, was thirty-seven years old. married, and had four children, and he is l)elie\ed to have been con- nected with families in London eminent in social, intellectual, and religinus s[iheres, a considerable number of wliose members received the ( )rder of Knighthood. For many years he was a great force in the C(immunit_\'. and was largely connected with the management of its pul)lic and religious affairs. His numerous descendants are found in nearly e\ery section of the Lnited States, and in several foreign countries. 'I'heir genealogy includes, among the dead and lixing. the names of many men prominent in the tliflerenl walks nf life, among them being lienjamin 'I'lKimpsdU, better known as Count Rumford. Jnnathan 'I'hompson, grandfather (if the suljject of this sketch, was a brave soldier in the Revolution, who had a ]iai"t in tlie battle of liunker Hill, wdiere he used bullets which he had " run " just before that contest began. James Thompson is connected on the maternal side with the Reed family, one of whose members is the Hon. Thomas 15. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives. He attended the district school of Merrimack, and tiiere studied industriously, and as he grew older assisted his father in the regul.ir woik on the farm. One autunui, when he was about thirteen, he was greatly elated lo ha\e the i hancc to pick apples at twelve and a half cents a day, for a neighboring farmer. It was the fust opportunit\- he had to earn read}- money, and he im|iid\'ed it to the best of his ability, working from da\light to dark each day. When his emplo\er paid liiui, lie remarketl : "You ha\e done well; you will make a smart man." This incitlent is mentioned as illustiating the push, energy', and ambition of the liow and also because it proxed the liist stepping-stone in a career that has made him one of the wealthiest men in the \alley in whiih he was boin. His father, whose means were limited, .ippieciated the son's ability, and when the bo)- was nearly sixteen m'ged him to seek a held of greater opportunities. sa\ing: "James, you ha\e been ,1 faithful son lo me, but this is not the phn e for \ on to get \'our start in the world. \ou ha\i- ability, and can do much better than \on are doing here, and 1 want vou to go somew lu'ri'. and strike out for \duiself. 76 MKN OF PR<)(;K]'.SS. I freely give you your time, and I am sorry tluit I am so situated tliat 1 cannot do more for you." Accepting the kind advice of his father, the son " hired out " to an uncle, Jeremiah Woods, a farmer of Merrimack, where his first year's earn- JAMF.S ['HOMI'SIIX. ings amounted to about a hundred dollars in cash, besides his board, which for those days was do- ing remarkably well for a l)o\- in his teens. He remained there three years. A part of his work was to assist his uncle in catching wild pigeons, and there he got his first lessons in an industry that he pursued extensively in later life. After- wards, he was emplo)-ed at lumbering by (".ilman Palmer, a stage-driver between Nashua and Con- cord. He next worked for the Kittredges at brick- making, and stayed with them until he learned to do the " striking." Then for several seasons he worked as a " striker " in the brick-yards of vari- ous proprietors, and received handsome wages. Subsecpiently, while lumbering for Captain Nathan Parker, in Merrimack, he had the pluck to buy, on his own account, with cash and on credit, a timber lot which was sold by auetion, and which he cleared, making a good profit. 'Ihat transaction was the beginning of a business which he has followed to the present time, and the extent of which has been such as to justly include him among the " Lumber Kings " of New Hampshire. He has owned and operated upon forest tracts in twenty-one towns in the Granite State, mostly in Merrimack and Hillsborough counties. In some winters, ninety-two horses, fifty-six yokes of oxen, and several hundred men were recpiired in prose- cuting the work. In addition to the manufacturing of lumber and forwarding it to the markets by rail, Mr. Thompson has sent many millions of logs down the Merrimack river, and has also dealt largelv in the finest of ship timber. For many years in the open season, he was busily engaged in catching wild pigeons, and consigning them to commission merchants in Boston, New York, and Chicago, following this occupation not only in New F.ngland but in New York, Pennsylvania, and in the far West, inclnding Minnesota, and thus earn- ing the sobriquet of the •' largest pigeoner " in the United States. Mr. Thompson has always taken great pains in his agricultural eiTorts, and his home farm in the sun-lit valley of the Merrimack em- braces four hundred acres of the choicest alluvial land. His spacious and ancient farm-house, large and well arranged barns, splendid cattle and well- tilled fields, constitute one of the model farming establishments of his native state. Although always keenly interested in civil and political affairs Mr. Thompson has never been a politician in the general acceptation of the term, yet while a resi- dent of Bow he was elected a Representative to the Legislature in i860 and 1861, and also in T870 and 1871. During those four terms of service in the General Court he was a member of several impor- tant committees, and by his voice and votes exerted a strong influence upon the character of the legisla- tion enacted in those years. He has often been urged to allow the use of his name in connection with other responsible public positions, but has always emphatically declined on the ground that his private affairs demanded all his time. In the financial world he is widely known, being inter- ested in many monied and textile corporations. He is a Director of the Manchester and North Weare Railroad, and also a Director of the recently organ- ized Hosiery Mills Company of Hooksett. Offices in other similar corporations have often been tendered him. but lie declined them. The only secret bod\- to whiL-h he belongs is the Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry of Hooksett, where he has resided since 1871. On November 11, 1852, he was married to Miss Susannah M. Colby of Bow, who died in April, 1S97. James Thompson, 2nd. a nephew of Mr. Thompson's, resides with him and assists him in the management of his varied busi- MKN OF PROGRESS. 77 ness intcrt'sts. lie has nnu hrotliLT, I,ullicr W. Thompson nf Montana, and four sisters: Mrs. Sophia R. Jones of Ciielsea. Massacluisetts ; Mrs. Clarissa A. Parker of Nashua ; Mrs. Lueinila A. jacknian of Wilmington, Delaware; and Mrs. Elizabeth E. Rolfe of Newburyport. Massachu- setts. Mr. Thompson is a gentleman of frank and pleasing manners, easily makes friends and holds them, advocates temperance and strictly practices it, prides himself upon his integrity and honoralile dealings in all his transactions, contributes liber- ally to the support of religion and all other good causes, and is recognized throughout New Hamp- shire as a progressi\e. public-spirited, and influen- tial citizen. TUTTLE, J.VMEs Patterson, Lawyer, >[an- chester, was born in New ]!oston. New Hampshire, julv 17, iS:;6, son of lames Moore and Rachel Patterson (McNeil) Tuttle. < »n the paternal sitlc Ik- Is of English descent, tracing his am estry to John Tothill, who came from 1 )e\'onsliire in the early days of the Colonies and settled in 1 )o\ er. His |AMr;s p. I'UT'n.K. mother's ancestors came from the north of Ireland and settled in Londonderry, New H.nnpshire. Mr. Tuttle received his education in the connnon schools of his native town, in the Academy at l-'rancestown. New I lampshire. and in the ('nshing Academy at Ashburnham. Massachusetts. He read law with David Cross and John II. .\iulrews, of Manchester, attended the Law SiIhhiI of lioston l^nix-ersitv, graduating from tint institution in lune, 188c;, and was admitted to the New Hampshire ]jar, July 29, 18S5. Since September of that year he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Man- chester. He was a Kepresentative to the Ceneral Court from New Uoston in 1887 and has been Solicitor ol Hillsborough county since April, 181)3. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of the Ridgley Lodge of Odd Fel- lows, hi politics Mr. Tuttle is a Republican. He married January i, 1887, Lizzie J. Runten of Dun- barton, New Hampshire. They have four daugh- ters : r»ora Morton, Rachel Winifred. Florence Elizabeth, and Margaret Esther Tuttle. IT'TON. Petkr, ]!ank President, East Jaffrey. was born in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, October i, 1S16, son of lonathan and Nancv (W'hittemore) LTpton. He is si.xtli in descent from John L'pton, who was one of the Scottish ]3risoners taken by Cromwell either at the battle of Dunliar or Worces- ter, and who came to this country earh' in the last half of the seventeenth centui\-. Mr. ITpton was educated in the (.(iniinon school at Tvnosboro and at Dunstable and at the Academies in Pepperell and New Ipswich. He then entered the store of Samp- son Fletcher at New Ipswich, remaining there until 1S37, when he went to l^ast Jaffrey and became clerk in Hiram Duncan's store. After two years, he entered into partnership with ,Mr. I )uncan. In 1 85 1 the first State Rank began business in Jaffrey and Mr. ITpton was made Cashiei-. In 1865. it was changed to a National Hank and he continued as Cashier until 188 1. He was then made President, which office he still holds, and his son Hiram was chosen Cashier. He was 'i'reasurer for twenty-six years of the Monadnock Savings Bank at East Jaf- frey. Li 1 86 1 President lancoln appointed him Postmaster at the same ])lace anil he held the posi- tion until 1 884. He was a member of the Legisla- ture of i848-'5o and was in (iovernor Currier's Council in 1885 '87. It was largel\- through his e.Kertions that the Monadnock Railroad fiom Win- chendon to I^eterhoro was built in iS72.andhe was a stockholder and Dircctoi IK, 111 tli.it lime until the road was bought by the h'itchbuig Railroad. Mr. Upton has prolxiblv done more than any other per- son towaiil buildini^ up .ind impii>\ing I'^ast j.ilTrew 78 MKX Ol' I'ROC.RKSS. 'IMie lU'w lil)r;iry huililinj; was erected under his and carriai;e trimming, fiiristopher Wilder corn- care and supervision, and lie contributed toward it menced business in Conway Village, then a stage in order to ha\e it properly built. Mr. Upton has center, in 1850, and continued to carry on the same always been an active Republican. On June 2&, 1S53, he was married to Sarah M. Duncan, daugh- % >«r imtil 1875, While a member of the Legislature in i86g, he succeeded in obtaining the charter of the Conway Savings Hank, assi.sted in its organization the following years, and has ever since been con- nected with the institution as a Trustee. For eleven years, he served as Assistant Treasurer and Secretary, and since 1885, has been its 'I'reasurer. In 1871 he was appointed Register of the Probate Court l.iy ("jinernor Weston, holding the position five years, and has been in practice in that court up to the present time. He was Commissioner for Carroll county in i86o-'63, member of the Board of Selectmen of Conway in 1864, 1865, 1866. 1867, a Re]-)resentati\e to the State Legislature in 1868 and i.Sfir), and again a Selectman in 1877 and 1878. He is an Odd Fellow, having been a member of the Saco \'alley Lodge. No. 21, from 1854 to 1892, and of Swift River Lodge, No, 84. from 1892 up to the present time. He is a member of the Metho- dist K])is(n|ial .Society in (dnwav Village. In poli- I'KIKU I'l'I'DN. ter of Hiram Duncan of lalTrey, former |:iartner of .Mr. I'pton. They have three children: Mary A., now .Mrs. W. I., (ioodnow; Hiram Duncan Upton of Manchester, New Hampshire: and Alice W.. now Mrs. S 11. I'carmain of I'oston, W II.DKK, Ciikisrdi'iii.K Wai.ki-.k. ISank Treas- urer, Conway, New Hampshire, was born in Lan- caster, Massachusetts, January 7. 1829, son of Fli- sha ;uul I'.mily (I'ollard) \\'ilder. He is of English descent, being in the sixth generation from Thomas Wilder, who ciinie fioin Lancaster and settled in the town (if the same name in Massachirsetts. It is interesting to note th:it in a signature, July 1, 1659,10 a Co\en;int, entered into by the first set- tlers of Lancaster, he spelK'd his name Wyelder, The subject of this sketch was educated in the com- mon schools and in the Academy at I'"ryeburg. tics he is a Democrat. Mr. Wilder was married Maine. Upon the death of his mother, his father November 25, 1852, to Sophia Creenwoodof l''arm- had found a home for the three children with an ington. Maine. They have had three children: aunt in Conway, New Hampshire. After serving Ceorge Sidney, Annette A.. Fred (»., and Henry P, an apprenticeship in the tratle of harness making Wilder. The last named finly is living. I IIRIMCII'III'.K W. WII.UKU MEN OF K()(;ress. 79 TWITCH ELL, Ali;krt Sop.ieski, Lawyer, Cor- ham, was born in UethL-l, Maine, September i6, 1840, son of losepli A. and ( )rinda L. (^h^son) Twitchell, He is a descendant of two nf the oldest families who settled in Oxford county, Maine. He At.KKRl' S. rWITCHELI.. recei\'ed his educaliim in (Mould's Acatleniy in his native town. lie left school at the age of sixteen and taught for a time in the conunon schools. During the Civil War. he served as an enlisted soldier. He studied law and was admitted tn the Bar at Paris, Maine, at the September term, 1865, and to the New Hain|.ishire Bar, at Lancaster, at the October term, 1S66. I'.eginning the practice of his profession at Gorhani ni 1S66, he has remained there ever since. He was Selectman of the town for three years and has been a member of the School Board for the past twelve years. For three years, he was Railroad Connnissioner for New Hampshire and Commissary General nf New Hampshire for two years. He served as (dnsul at Santiago de Cuba, under President ll.inison. He was President of the New Hampshire Veterans' Association for two years ; has been j udge Advo- cate and lunior and Senior Vice-Cnmniander, De- partment New Hampshire Grand Army of the Republic, and is at |)resent the I)e|3artment C(jm- mander. Mr. Twitchell is a 'i'hirty-seiond degree Mason; a mt'niljer of lohn Iv Willis Post No. 51^, (loiham; an ( )dd I'ellnw, a nicnilier uf ( '.len l,odge at the same place; a niemhci of llranih.dl Lodge No. 3. Knights of IMhias, Purtland, Maine, .md is President of the Gorham l''i\e Cent .SaviTigs liank. In politics he is a K.epuhlican, from principle rather than |iolicv. He married Ma\' 7, 1S69, Ennna A. Miiwl.ind of (Inrham. The)- had two children; Ibiiuld P., hum M:iy 31. 1.S75. who died May 2^, 1883; and Rita May ruitchell, Ixirn May 16, 1S89. WWLLACF, ScMNKK. Shoe Manufacturer, Rochester, was burn in th;it ]ilace March 7, iScjO, son of l<',bene/ei' G. and S.irah E. ((ireenlield ) Wal- l.ice. ( )n liis l;ithiM's side, he is of SkiIi h-lrish descent and cm his mother's, faiglish. He received his early edu(:ition in the pulilit schools and at the Academy in his nati\e town. I,;itei'. he prepared for college at the South Berwick .-Vcadeni)-. entered Dartmouth anil was gradu;ited in 1877. I'or a number of \ears ;ifter leaving college, he worketl in the sliop at the bench anil is now a member of the lirm of E. G. \: }•'.. Wallace, manufacturers of boots ■in ^f* ■ 1 SUMNKK W.\I.I..\i;E. and shoes. He is President of the Kim hester Lo;in and Panking C'ompanw .ind of the Cnion Electric Company, a Director of the (Ireat l''alls M;niufac- turing (_'om|):in)', of the StralToi'd Manuf;utnring Comi);iny, of the ."-itai" llelting ( 'ompanw of the 8o :\IEX OF PROGRESS. Standard Rivet Company, Boston, of the Union National 15ank of Oniaiia, of the First National Dank of Carroll, Iowa, of the Manchester iV- Law- rence Railroad, and of the lialtimore & Annapolis Short Line Railroad. He is a Trustee of the Roch- ester Libiarv. In 1.S7.S .Mr. Wallace was Super- visor of the check-list, in 1SS5 was a member of the Legislature, and for a number of years was a member of the .'^tate Central Committee. He has been through the chairs in the Odd Fellows, and is a Mason and a Knight of the F^ssenic Order. He was married January 30, 1884. to Harriet Z. Curtis. They have one son : Scott Wallace. ALLKN, Jamics Franki.i.n, Indian Department at Washington, District of Columbia, a resident of Kockville, Maryland, was born in Hopkinton, New JA.MK.s F. Al.l.liiN. Hampshire, August 13, 1841, son of Jonathan Leach and Caroline Brown (.•Mlison) .Mien. He is descended in the patern.il line in the seventh gen- eration from William Allen, who came from Eng- land to Cape Ann, now Gloucester, for and with the Uorchester Company in 1624, and went to Nauni- keag, now Salem, three year.s later, and in 1640 moved to Manchester, Massachusetts, then called Jeffries' Creek. Jonathan Allen in the fourth gen- eration from William, removed to llopkinton. New Hampshire, in 1780, where he dieil in 1792. and where his descendants lived down to 1863. Mr. Allen's maternal grandfather, James Allison, lived for many vears in 1 )unbarton, of which town he was Postmaster, and represented it in the Legislature in i827-'2S, His great-grandfather came to this country in 17 18, and settled with the .Scotch-Irish Colony in Londonderr}-. He attended the common schools of Hopkinton, and Hopkinton and Pem- broke Academies. He was graduated from Dart- mouth College in the class of 1862 ; studied law with the Hon. Mason W. Tappan for about si,\ months, and graduated with the class of the Law Department of ('olumbian t'ollege, Washington, District of Columbia, June 12. 1866. He was admitted to the FSar June 12 f)f that year. From December 23, 1863, to F)ecember 31, 1875, he was employed as a clerk in the office of the Third Audi- tor of the Treasury of Washington, resigning this office to engage in the practice of law and claims business until March 7. 1881. when he was ap- pointed to a clerkship in the War Department. He resigned F'ebruaiy 14, 1882. to accept a position in the Lidian Department which he holds at the pres- ent time, having been promoted through all the various grades. He was a Commissioner to negotiate with the Nez Perce Indians, November 14, 1892, and thus employed until February 18, 1893. He is a member of the Town Council, R^ockville, Mar)-- land. i896-'98. He is a Mason and Past Master of the Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, and Montgomery Lodge, No. 195, Rockville, Maiyland, Ancient F'ree and Ac- cepted Masons ; Past High Priest Mount Vernon Chapter, No. 3, Washington, District of Columbia, and Montgomery Chapter, No. ;^^, Rockville, Mar)'- lancl. Royal Arch Masons ; Past Illustrious Master, King Solomon Council. No. 13, Ro\al and .Select Master, Rockville. Maryland; Past Connnander of the Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Tem- plar, Washington. District of Columbia, and at present Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons of ISLiryland. He is a Republican, but has not been active in politics. Mr. Allen was married October 25. 1866, to Julia A. Dow. and August 28, 1 888. to Lilabel ISLuis. ALLISON, George Augu.stus, for many years a leading merchant of Boston, and \\ ho died in that city in January, 1S98, was a New Hampsiiire man and a native of Warner. He was born September 14, 1843, son of James and Mary (Ireland) Allison. I lis father was a native of Dunbarton, and was MEN OF PROGRESS. born in 1784. On the paternal side, Mr. Allison traces his descent from Clan Mac.Xllister of the Scotch-Irish race. It is recorded in 171S that Samuel Allison, then twenty-eight years of age, left Londonderry, Ireland, for lioston. The ne.xt year he moved to Nutheld, now Loiulmulerry, New Hampshire, where in the cemetery iiis gravestone mav be seen. \\'hen (jeorge Allison was two years old the familv nioxed from XN'ainer to Manchester, and again in 1853 to Goffstown. 'I'he boy at- tended the district school, and a little later studied Cireek. his instructor being the minister nf his par- ish. He became a student of I'enibroke Academy, where he was known for his diligent attention to his books. When he was lifteen years old he walked from the Academy to Concord and back, a distance of fifteen miles, to hear a lecture bv Edward Everett. He t(](ik an academical ciiurse at Pembroke with the hope of going to Dartmouth and fitting for medicine, but circmnstances did not jjer- mit the carrying (lut "f this plan, and he went into the employ of his brother, in Concord, who was a pharmacist. ISy the time he was eighteen, Mr. Allison was recognized as a competent aiul especially accurate druggist. He Hnally graduated from the retail to the wholesale business of n druggist, and in 1869 became a partner in the linn of Poor, 'I'owne iV Company, of IJoslon. In iSyS Mi-. Alli- son went into the wholesale Anur business with the firm of Dorr, lieald & Co., which soon became Dorr, .Vllison iV Co., and for the remaining twenty years of his life he was widely known in that line of trade. Among his business acquaint- ances all o\ er the countrv. he enjoyed a marked degree of conhdence, and at his decease, tributes of regard were received by his family and firm from about forty of the best known business concerns in the flour trade in the countrv. In 18C5, Mr. Alli- son took up his residence in Cambridge, where he sr)on became a factor of good in the life of the city. For two years he was a niemlx-r of the Connnon Council, for two more an Alderman, and for foin- years ser\ ed on the .School Iloarfl. He was a Director of the Chamber of Commerce for five years, was Treasurer of the Sons of New Hampshire, and Auditor of the Colonial Club. He held many important positions in the North Avenue Baptist chmxh, of which he became a member in iSyo. At the time of his death he was \'ice-President of the Cambridge Club. He was a member of the Amer- ican Order of United Workmen, and Royal Arca- num. In politics he was alwa\s a Republican. Mr. Allison was married November 12, 1864, and left three children. AMEN, Hari.an I'ack, Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, was born at Sinking Spring, Highland coimtw ( )hio, April 14, 18^3, son of Daniel and Sarah Jane (Barbour) Amen. On the paternal side, his ancestors were of the Huguenot stock, who went from France to Switzerland, where representatives of the family still live, some of them having held high public offices in recent years. Durst Annnen. for religious and political reasons, left Switzerland for America. His descendants (Annnen and Amen liy name) have lived mostly in Virginia •nid ( )liio. ,\(lniiral Daniel .\nimen and (leneral Jacob Amen are representatives of the Virginia and Ohio family. Harlan P. Amen attended the ccjui- mon schools of his native town, and in 1868 and 1870 studied at the Portsmouth High School. The story of his struggle for an education, and his success as a teacher and student, is an insjiiration in itself. While he was a pupil of the J'ortsmouth High School, he found it necessary to earn some money. He became a ( lerk in the \ .dley Book- store, a wholesale and retail establishmenl. the' pro- prietor of which was Captain W. \\'. Reilh'. Here he kejit the books, and acted as stock-boy. While he w.is bookkeeper, a lire did great liam.ige to the 82 MEN OF PROGRESS. store, and Mr. .Aincn".s cffort.s in saving the account books, and a part of the stock, led to his employer presenting him a watcli, the first timekeeper he ever possessed. He studied liard, during his clerkship, and was much encouraged in his ambi- tion for an education by his former principal of the High School, as well as by a minister and physi- cian in his native town. When he came East, and began his studies at Exeter in i,S7_>, he found him- self with only thirty-tive dollars in his pocket, but he obtained various emplovments, including tutor- ing, etc., and was able to support himself and lay by sevent3-tive dollars in his last year, when he won the Oordon scholarship, the second largest prize IIARIAN 1'. AMKN. (one hmidred and twenty dollars), then existing in the school. His closest competitor was William 1 )c Will Hyde. n(]w I'lesidentof Bowdoin College. .Mr. Hyde and Mr. Amen were room-mates at Exeter, and afterwards at Harvard, and have been close friends ever since. Mr. .\men entered Har- vard College with honors in 1875, and was gradu- ated in 1879, having w-on a scholarship in each year of his course. He began teaching, immedi- ately upon his graduation from Harvard, and became an Instructor in Riverview Academy, Poughkeepsie, New York, in the fall of 1879. After three years, he accepted an offer as equal partner with Otis Bisbee and Joseph B. Bisbee in the lirm of Bisbee, Son iV Amen, to manage the business affairs of the Academy. When he began teaching in 1879. the total enrolment of students at Riverview was forty-one. The school had been losing ground for many years, but after 1879 -'80 the number of students steadily increased until it reached a maximum of one hundred and eighty- four, a year or two before he left the .school. In [885, Mr. ( )tis liisbee dietl. The school then came into the hands of his son and Mr. .Amen, as ec|ual principals and proprietors. 'I'his partnership continued until June, 1895, when .Mr. Amen left Riverview to become Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. There his administration has been markedly successful. He was honored with the degree of A. M. by Williams College in 1886, and in 1888 was elected an honorary member of the American Whig Society, of Princeton University. He is a member of the Twilight Club and Univer- sity Club of New York; the Appalachian Mountain Club and University Club of Bo.ston ; the Ameri- can Archaeological Society, the American Philologi- cal Society, member and officer of several educa- tional organizations, etc. In 1892. he spent four months on a trip abroad, visiting the public schools of England, — Rugby, Eton, Harrow, Winchester, St. Paul's, Cheltenham, Charterhouse, and others, as well as a number of the leading secondary schools of (Jermany and France, Mr. Amen mar- ried, April 5, 1882, Mary B, Rawson of Whitins- ville, Massachusetts, He has four children : Mar- garet Rawson. Elizabeth Wheeler, Rachel Perne, and |ohn Harlan .\men. liR.WCll, ()ii\i;r Ernesto, I'.x-l'nited Stales District .Attorney for New Hampshire, Manchester, was born in Madison, Lake countv, Ohio, July 19, 1847, son of William Witter and Lucy J. (Bartram) Piranch. His father, who was born at Aurelius, Cayuga county. New York. August 31, 1804, was a lawyer, and one of the Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas for Fake county. He obtained the char- ter for the Cleveland, Plainsviile iV .Xshtabula Rail- road in 1848, and was chief promoter of the road which afterwards developed into the great Fake Shore System. William Branch was the eldest son of Deacon William I>ranch of Preston, Connecticut, born September 3, 1760. He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisted in 1777, fought through the war under Washington's command : was at .Mon- mouth. C.ermantown. F'ort Mifilin, and NOrktown ; wintered at \'alley F'orge ; was one of .^h^jor MEN Of^ PROGRESS. 83 Andre's guards during his trial, and helped take him down from the gallows. ( )n the dishanartram of fxeading, Connecticut. lianiel llartram was born at Reading. ( )ctober 27,. 1745; and Ann Merchant at h'airlield. in 1769. Daniel ISartram was a soldier of the Kevokition. and was the son of Daniel Bartram of I'airheld, who was born in 1702, and mo\ed to Reading in 1733. He was the son of John Bartram of Eair- field, who was the son of J(jhn l!artram of the same place. Ann Merchant was the daughter of Elinor (Chauncey) Merchant, who was a descen- dant of Israel Chauncey of New Haven, son of the Reverend Charles Chauncey, the second President of Harvard College. On the paternal side, the lineage of Oliver E. P.ranch includes, besides the families mentioned, Laml), \A'itter, Tracy, Wheeler, Williams, Wolcott, and Parke ; and on the maternal side, besides those mentioned, Riclnnoiul, ( iilbert, Chapin. Griswold. and Williams. Mr. Branch attended the public schools of Madison, Madison Seminary, and Whitestown Seminary, at Whites- borough, New \'ork. He entered Hamilton Col- lege in September, 1869, being graduated June 25, '^73- I'pon leaving college, he was Principal of Eorestvilie Eree Academy and Union School, at Forest\ille, New York, for two \cars. He entered Columbia College Law School in September, 1871;, and was graduated in May, 1877. He was Listruc- tor in Latin and Histor\- in the Brooklyn Polytech- nic and Collegiate Institute, at llrookhn. from .September. 1876. to June, 1877. He received the degree of A. M. from Hamilton in 1876, and from Dartmouth in i8()f). Mr. Ilranch was admitted to the Bar, in New N'ork, in June, 1877, and in New Hampshire in June, i8,S4. He liegan the practice of law in New \'ork. with his lirother, in the fall of 1877, and remained there luitil 1883. when he moved to New Hampshire, and engaged in literary O. K. r.R.'\.NCH. work in Weare. He was elected in 1887 to the New Hampshire Legislature, and took a leading part in the famous railroad fight of that session, and was re-elected in 1889, when he was the Demo- cratic candidate for Speaker. Since 1889 he has been in active practice in Manchester, New Hamp- shire, removing there from Weare, in i,H(;4. He has been counsel for the Doston \' Maine Railroad and all im|5ortant litigation for the last \vn )ears. Among the many suits in which he has been engaged were the quo warranto prot ceilings brought by Harry Bingham el als. in 1891. \s. S. S. Jewett, Clerk of the Ilonst' of Representati\ es of New Hani|)sliiri\ f(]r tlu' (ontrol ol the organization of 84 MEN OF PROGRKSS. the Legislature ; the suit brought by the Manches- ter & Lawrence Railroad vs. the Concord Railroad corporation, growing out of the operation of the Lawrence Railroad by the Concord, from 1856 to 1887 ; the protracted litigation between the Boston & Maine and the Concord iV' Montreal Railroad, prior to the consolidation of the two systems ; in the suit of Pike vs. the New Hampshire Trust Company, in\-ol\ ing the lease of the land on which the Kennard building, in Manchester, was erected. He was leading counsel for the Manchester & Law- rence road in the suit brought to recover claims of the state amounting to six hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars. He has made a special practice of corporation law, and has a large corporation client- age. Mr. Branch was appointed United States District Attorney for the District of New Hamp- shire, bv President Cleveland, March 15, 1894, and held the office four years. He was Moderator for the town oi W'eare from 18S4 to 1892. He is Vice-President of the New Kngland Association of the HamiJton College Alumni, and of the New Kngland Association of the Delta l^psilon Frater- nity. He is also a member of the Phi I'.eta Kappa Society, and of the Delta ITpsilon, of Hamilton College. He lias always been a Democrat, and has taken an active part on the stump in every campaign since the presidential election in 1868. He was permanent Chairman of the Democratic State Convention, of New Hampshire, in 1892. Mr. Branch married at W'eare, October 17, 187S, Sarah M. Chase. 'I'hey have four children : Oliver W'inslow. Dorothy Witter, I'rederick William, and Randolph Wellington Branch. CHFNKY, I'KRsoN Coi.BV, Ex-Governor, E^x- Senator, and Kx-Minister to Switzerland, Manches- ter, was horn in I Inlilcrness, New Hampshire, l''eb- ruary 25, 1828, son of Moses Cheney, a well known paper manufacturer. He comes of good old New {■'.ngland stock. Mr. Cheney attended the acade- mies at Peterborough and Hancock, New Hamp- shire, and I'arsonlield, Maine. He early became acquainted with the details of the paper business, and in 1847 assumed the management of the paper mill at Peterborough. In 1854 he became a mem- ber of the firm of Cheney, Hadley & Gowing. He removed to Manchester in 1866, becoming a dealer in paper stock and manufacturers' supplies, and also engaged in the paper manufacture at Goffs- town. New Hampshire, as a member of the firm of Cheney i<; Thorpe. He is now at the head of the P. C. Cheney Company. Mr. Cheney early became interested in politics, and represented the town of Peterborough in the Legislature in i853-'54. He entered ardently into the events of i86o-'6i and zealously aided and promoted the preparation of i I'. I . I UENEV. the State for the struggle to maintain the I'nion. In due time he oftered his personal services, and in .\ugust, 1862, was appointed Quartermaster of the Thirteenth Regiment. Colonel A. F. Stevens. Mr. Ciieney was taken seriously ill in January, 1863, and after three months' sickness was com- pelled to resign, but he sent a substitute to the ser- vice. He was a Railroad Commissioner for three years. Shortly after renHi\ing to Manchester, he became prominent in the Republican part}', and was elected Mayoi' ai the city in 1872, one of the marked features of his successful administration being the introduction of the fire alarm telegraph system. He declined a renomination as Mayor, but was elected Governor, i875-'76. Governor Cheney was ajjpointed United States Senator in the fall of 1S86, to fill the imexpired term of Austin F. Pike, .md in 1888 he was one of the delegates at large to the l\e|i\il)li(an National Convention. He was chosen a memher of the Republican National Committee to succeed the Hon. E. H. Rollins, was re-elected in 1892 and still holds the position. In December, 1892, President Harrison appointed him MEN OF PROGRESS. 8S Envoy Extraordinary and Minister I'lcnipotcntiary to Switzerland, which post hv iiekl until Junejc), iS9- Mr. t'henev was one of the 1 )irectors of the Peterborough Mank at the time he renio\'ed to Man- chester, and has been President of the Peoples' Saving.s Hank of Manchester since its organization in 1S74. He is a member of the Altemont Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Peterborough Chapter, No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; of 1'eterbor- (}Ugh Lodge, No. 15, Lidependent ( )rdei- of < )dd Fellows; of Louis Pell Post, Grand Arni) of the Republic; of the Massachusetts Loyal Legion, and of the Army of the Potomac. Li 1S72 he was elected a Trustee of Pates College, and founded a scholarship in that institution. At the close of his gubernatorial service, DartuKiuth College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. Although he has always been a liberal contributor to many religious organizations, his membershiia is with the I'nitarian Society. Ah'. Cheney married Ma)' 22. 1S50, S. Anna, daughter of Samuel Morrison Moore of liron- son, l\Lchigan, who died January 7, 1858. He married Lme 29, 1859, ^''"^- ■'^^n'-^'i (^^'hite) Keith, daughter of Jonathan \\'hite, one of the earliest manufacturers of Lowell. Mrs. Cheney has been a leader in Manchester's society for years, and both her public and private charities are numerous. l"'or twenty years she has been President of the Women's Aid and Relief Society of Manchester. Governor Cheney has one child, Agnes Anna, liorn October 22. 1869, now the wife of Charles H. Fish, Agent of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company of Hover, New Hampshire. His grandchildren are, Sarah Cheney Fish, born Ahiy 10, 18S9; Mary Jarvis Fish, born June 30, 1890, and Agnes Cheney Fish, born January 30, 1897. was a clothier. His son, Francis, was a Colonel in the Revolutionarv W'.ir ; and his grandson, I'rancis, was a manufacturer who, moving to North Hillerica in iSi I, founded the l-'.iulkner Mills, which are still operateil. The fuurtli I'rancis was a manufac- turer at Acton, and, nii)\ing to Keene in 1817, began the manufacture (if \\i miens, forming, with Josiah Colon)-, the tirm of l-aulkner c\: Colony. This business is still carrietl on by members of both families. His son, l-'rancis A., lived in Keene, and was a lawyei' in ;ictive practice from i84() until Ins de.itli, in 1871). The subject of this sketch received his education in the schools of Keene, and at I'hilliiis I'^.xeter Academy, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1874. He was admitted to the liar in August, 1877. and has practiced in Keene e\er since that time. He served as ludge Advocate General on the Staff of (jovernor Bell in 1881, was a member of the Legis- lature in 1889, has been President of the Board of Education for the last six years, and was a memlier of the Governor's ('ouncil for the Third District in i895-'96. hi politics he has always been a Re- FAULKNER, Fr.^ncis Chii.h, Lawyer, Keene, was born in Keene, November 23, 1852, son of Francis .Augustus and Caroline (Handerson) l-'aulk- ner. He is descended, in the eighth generation, from l'',dward l-'aulkner, who came from Kingsclere, England, and purchased the town of Anflo\er from the hidians about ir)43,;in he was Assistant I'rofessor in Columbia Cni\-ersity, giving instruction in topo- graphical drawing and lectures on architectural topography. He is a member of the Eta Eta Chapter and Washington Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, the National (Jeographic Society, the East \\'ashington Citizens" Association, in which he was Chairman of one of i's most im- portant committees, as well as a member of \ari- ous fraternal societies. Mr. I""owler was mar- ried Noxember 2. 1SS2, to Martha Jane Crockett, daughter of Arthur Crockett of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. H.\EL, D.ANiKL, Eawyer, Dover, was born in Harrington, New Hampshire, Eebruar\- 28, 1832, son of Gilman and Eliza (Tuttle) Hall. ( )n the paternal side he is descended from John Hall, who came to Do\'er in 1649, and who was the hrst Dea- con (if the Eirst Church established in New Hamp- shire. He was a farmer. .Surveyor of Lands, Town Clerk, and Trial Justice. ( )n the maternal side Mr. Hall traces his descent from John Tuttle, a resi- dent of Dover, and Judge of the Superior Court for juany years prior to 1700. tiilman Hall, father of the subjei t of this sketch, was in the fifth genera- tion in tliiect lineal descent from John Hall. Daniel Hall attended the cod he has taken a ver\- livel\- inter- 94 MEN OF PROGRESS. est in political affairs. Mr. Xorris is a Mason, and Odd Fellow, an Flk, and a member of the (^rand Army. He was married .May 20, i8go, to Lilian d. Hurst, of Fliot. .Maine. .MARTIN, N..\TH,\NiKi. Everktt, Lawyer, Con- cord, was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, Au- gust 9, 1855, son of Theophilus B. and Sarah L. N.\1HANIEL E. M.ARTIN. (Rowell) Martin. He was educated in the common schools of Loudon and Concord, and later studied law in the office of Sargent & Chase in Concord. He was admitted to the Har August 14, 1879. Since May, 1885, he has been a partner of John H. Albin. He was Solicitor of Merrimack county from July i, 1887, to July i, 1889. Mr. Martin takes an active interest in agricultural pursuits, particularly in stock breeding. He is extensively engaged in real estate and other business opera- tions. NASON, Wii.i.i.'VM FRANt;is, Lawyer, Dover, was born in Sanford, Maine, November 22, 1857, son of Joseph T. and Susan (Frost) Nason. His father was interested in educational matters, was Princi- pal of several leading schools, and later in life engaged in navigation, being master of yessels in the foreign trade. His grandfather, Daniel Nason, was a shipbuilder and owner. William F". Nason attended schools in South ISeiwick and Kennebunk, Maine, being graduated from the High School of the latter place, wjiere for two years he studied law, subsequenllv continuing his legal studies with Hue! C. Carter of Wolfboro, New Hampshire. Being admitted to the Bar in 1879. he removed to Dover, and formed a law^ partnership with Mr. Carter. He was chosen City Solicitor in 1883 and again in 1884, serving in all seven years in that capacity. He was a number of the legislature in i887-'88, serving on the J udiciary Committee and as Chair- man of the Committee on Elections, taking an active part in the work of the House, and winning a reputation as an able debater. In 1892, he was elected County Solicitor by a flattering majority, Uil.l.IAM 1\ NASC)X. and in 1894 and again in i,S(/i was re-elected. In 1891;, he was nominated for Mavor of Dover, and elected without opposition, receiving in 1896, a re-election to the office. Mr. Nason enjoys great popularity with his fellow citizens, and has very successfully administered the public trusts placed in his hands. PAGE, Samuel Berkley, Lawyer, W'oodsville, was born in Littleton. New Hampshire, June 23, 1838, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Berkley) Page. In the paternal line he is of English stock, and on the maternal of Scotch. He received his MEN OF PROGRESS. 95 early education at the Kiiiijston (New 1 lanipshire), Lyndon (\'ernii>nt I. and Mclndoes l''alls ( \eriiiont) Academies. He studied law at the Alliany Law School, from which he was graduated in .\pril. 1861. at whicli time he was admitted tn the liar. Prexidus to his studies at Alisanx' he had read law at the office of Woods ^; ISinghams, Littleton, from iS57-'6o. He began the practice of his profession in Warren, New Hampshire, in August, 1861, but in 1871 removed to Concord. Sexen \ears later he removed to Woods\-ille, where he has since resided. In 1868, he received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth College. Mr. Page has held many town offices. He was Trustee of the State Normal School for eight years ; a member of the Constitu- tional Convention of 1876 ; a member of the House of Representatives in i864-"(.5-'(}(i-'67-"68-'69-'7o-"83- '85-"87-'9i-'93 ; Chairman cif the Democratic State Committee in i87t-'76; and is now President of the New Hampshire Legislative Association. He is a member of the Benevolent and i'mtective Order of Elks, P. E. R.; of the Knights of Pythias. (;. I. (;.; of the Independent Order of Odd Eel- ' " ^, ^4^^^ •"•^, w SAMUKI. !■.. I'.VC.K. lows. I'. Ci. W.; Patriarchs Mint.mt, Lieutenant Colonel; of the Independent Order of l-'oresters, and Red Men; is a Knights Templar, a 'i'hirty- second degree Mason, and is conneited with other societies. In poliiics he has always beiai a Demo- crat, and an active one. He has participated in council and upon the platform since 1863. During all that time, he has been a member of the State Committee, and has declared the faith in nearly every town in New Hampshire, as well as cam- paigning in \'ermont and Maine. Mr. Page is an ardent Episcopalian and for man)- years and now a member of tlie Diocesan convention. Mr. Page married in August, 1860, Martha C. Lang of Path, now deceased. ( )f his si.\ children, only one sur- vives, Martha S iphia Page. PLUMMER, Cii,\R[,Ks Henry, Agent of the Great E'alls Manufacturing Company, was born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, April 23, 1842, son of Eri G.. and Elizabeth (Kincaid) Plummer. He is of good old New England stock, being descended from Revolutionary heroes. He attended the com- mon schools and granunar school of his natix'e town. At an earlv age he began to gain practical experience in manufacturing, and soc)n made him- self master of e\er\' detail of importance in regard to the manufacture of cotton goods. He rose step bv step from the position of bobbin boy to that of agent for the corpoiation. The Great Falls Manu- facturing Companw in whose administration Mr. Plummer bears so impoitanl a |5art, was organized June II, 1823, with a charter capital of a half mil- lion dollars. It iibtained the privileges of Great Falls as well as those on both sides of the Salmon F'alls Ri\er, by purchase from Isaac Wendell of Dover, who had built some buildings for the manu- facture of cloth on land opposite the present rail- road station. In 1824 what is now the upper sec- tion of Mill No. I was built, and the next year the inanufactLUX' of woolen goods and carpets was started in a building standing near by. This branch of the company's manufactures was stopped in 1834. In 1826 the capital was increased to one million dollars, and in 1827 it was brought up to one mil- lion, Hve hunched thousand dollais, the present nomi- nal capital. In 1835 a new dam was built nearly opposite the present tloth room. In the same year a dam at Mast Point on the Salmon Falls was built and the storage at Milton was increased. Additions to the reservoirs were made in 1841, by the pur- chase of Cook's and Lovell's Ponds, and in 1851 by the purchase of Home's ,nid Wilson's Ponds, and lati'r the Great East I'ond. thus gi\ing the company one of the linest watei pri\ ileges in the state with a flfiwage of more than li\e thons.uul acres. In 1842 tiie soulherl) section of Mill No. 3 96 MEN OF I'ROCRKSS. was built, in iS|5 tliL- northerly section, and in US53 the niiildle sectiim of the same mill was con- structed, while in 1.S71 the three were consolidated and a complete set of new machinery and turbine wheels was supplied. Improvements had been maile in the power, a one hundred and eighty horse-i)ower engine Inning been added, which was replaced in 1S72 In- a four hundred and fifty horse- power Corliss engine for reserve power. In ICS94 and 1895 tile total horse power was increased to five thousand, bv twelve hundred horse power being steam in case of low water. In 1869 the present No. 2 mill was formed by the consolidation of old buildings, and this was furnished with new mandery. Knights Templar; of the Blue Lodge, Lewiston, Maine, and the chapter of Somersworth. In politics he is a Republican. He married July 5, 18C8, Martha A. C.uptill. He has one son, Joseph (). Plummer. I n.v:^. II. I'l.i AiMi.i;. machinery and tinbines for power. In 1872 the stone dam on the upper level was built, and re- cently the bleachery has been made one of the largest in the country. As this record shows, the business of the company has steadily grown. There are now in the three large mills one hundred and twenty-six thousand spindles and three thousand looms in use, giving employment to si.xteen hun- dred hands of all grades, and paying out in wages each month forty thousand dollars. The fabrics manufactured are sheetings, shirtings, twills, drills, satteens. and fancy goods, Minot, Hooper \: Co.. Selling Agent, N'ew York and Boston. Mr. I'lum- mer is a Mason; a member of .St. Paul's Com- PRRKINS, Gkorc.e Hamii.ton, Commodore (re- tired) United States Navy, of Webster and Boston, was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, ( )ctober 20, 1835, son of Hamilton Eliot and Clara Bartlett (George) Perkins. In the paternal line he is de- scended from the Rev. William Perkins, who came from England and settled in Topsfield, Massachu- setts, early in the seventeenth century. On his mother's side he is descended from John George who settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and he is also a great-great-grandson of Captain lienjamin Emery of the Revolutionary Army. He was edu- cated at the Academies in Hopkinton and Gilman- ton, and by private tutors. For four years he was at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, being gradu- ated in 1856. and receiving his Midshipman's war- rant Octoljer I I . of that year. This proved to be the first step in a long and brilliant naval career. He was first ordered to the Cyane sloop of war, lull in lanuary, 1858, he was detached from that and ordered to the storeship Release, where he served as Acting Master, but was transferred in January, 18:^9, at Montevideo, to the Sabine. He received his Past Midshipman's warrant July 12, 1859, and August 2 following, was ordered as Act- ing Master to the Cnited States steamer Sumpter for service on the west coast of Africa. He was .\cting Master, and afterwards acting Fir.st Lieuten- ant of this ship, which captiu'ed the shner I'al- mouth, and made the quickest passage on record from Africa to the Ignited States. September 8, 1859, he was ap|)(iinted Master, and in Marih, 1 86 1, was commissioned Lieutenant. In Decem- ber of that year he was ordered as First Lieutenant to the gimboston yard on ord- nance duty. He was appointed Connnander Janu- ary 215, 1871, and in March of the same year was given command of the ship Relief, which carried stores from the United .States to starving France. April 17. 1872, he was ordered as Lighthouse Li- spector for the second district. He was sent in February, 1877, to China, to take conun.nul of the Ashnelot. The chief event nf this tri]) was the use of his shi]) for the reception and entertainment of (Jeneral Grant and party on their visit to the East. On March 10, 1882, he was appointed Captain in the Navy by regular promotion. In ^Lly, 1884, Captain Perkins was ordeieil to connnand the Ilartfiird for a cruise in the Pacilic. lie retired from the service April 23. i8()i. Congress in rec- ognition of his long and brilliant record and his great gallantry, conferred upon him by special act in May, i8<)(i, the rank of Commodore, the ap- pointment dating from Ma\' i;th. The pa\' , Lawyer, Boston and Hyde Park, Massachusetts, was born in Croy- don, New Hampshire, January 22. 1849, ^"^^ '^^ Elias and Emeline (White) Powers. On the pater- nal side he is of Norman descent. His first ances- tor of whom he has any record went from Nor- mandy to England with William the Conqueror, and was a commanding officer at the Battle of Hastings. At that time the name was Le Poer. It was later anglicized and called Poer, and still later was spelled I'cjwer and sometimes Poore. His first ancestor in this country was Walter Power, who came to Massachusetts soon after 1620, set- tling in Mitldlese.x county. His sons added (s) to the name and it has since been spelled Powers. Ezekiel Powers, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, mo\ed from Massachusetts to Croy- don, being among the first settlers of that place. He was noted for his strength of mind and body, and for his inventions, which included a side-hill plow, loop sled, sap pan, and other articles of use- fulness. Three of the great-grandfathers of Wilbur H. Powers ser\ed in the Revolution; the records at Concord, New Hampshire, show that Captain Joseph Taylor, a great-grandfather on his mother's side, was an officer in the Continental War and a Captain during the Revolutionar\' War; Ezekiel Powers was in the arni\' and the tradition is passed down from generation to generation that he was at the surrender of 15urgoyne. The third great-grand- father in the maternal line was in the Continental War and the War of the Revolution. Abijah Powers, son of Ezekiel Powers, was a Major in the War of 1812. l'',lias Powers was a farmer, and held the position of Selectman of his town, County Com- missioner, and other offices. He was a man of great inriuence and was frequently consulted for advice on all subjects by his neighbors for many miles around. There is a branch of the Powers family in X'ermont. of wliicli Hiram Powers, the sculptor, and Congressman H. H. Powers are the most distinguished ; and in Maine, of which MEN OF PROGRESS. 99 Governor Powers, tlic present exccnti\c, is tlic Ixst known. In tlif Xew A'ork branch are inLiiulcd the wife (if President Filhnore, and ( dn^ressnian (ues- li.ini I'liwers. A member of llie family nwned Powers fiill. one of the hills . |. ( 'ole of Lakeport. lie has two chiklren : llenr\- Cole (Juinhv. a lawyer in New York citv in the office of I'.varts, Choate iv Reaman. and Candace Kllen, wife of Hugh N, ('.imp, |r.. of New \'ork citv. RANLET, josKi'ii, Retired Manufacturer, Laconia. was liorn in Cilmanton, .New Hamiishire. November 27. uSii, son of No.ih and Rachel (Osgood) Ranlet. He attended the public schools of his native town, and beyaii his business career at the C;ilfoi'd Manufacturing Company of Meredith Bridge, New Hampshire. In 1829, he went to New- market, where he had charge of the machine slio|)s of the Newmarket .Manufacturing Company', a ]iost which he held until No\eniber, 1849, when he re- JdSKI'll K.^NI.K'r. mined to l.aicmia. In May, i8c;o, he jonnc-d the partnership with his lirolher, ( harles Kanlet, in the manufacture of railway cars, under tlu- name of Ranlet ('ar ('oni|3any, which continued until tlie ileath of (harU-s Kanlet in ( )ctol)er, 1 86 r . In December of the following \ear, |oseph Ranlet tormed a partneiship witli |ohn C. Moulton, 1 ontin- Liing the business under the name of Moulton Ov Ranlet Car Company. In |anuary, 1865, another company was formed mider the name of the Ranlet .Manufacturing Company, the members being John C. Moultf)!!, Joseph Ranlet, and Perley Putnam, which continued in Inisiness until April Jo, 1878, when Mr. Ranlet retiretl from the business. He was married Noxember 6, i8jf). to Elizabeth l''ra- zier Somerliy. They ha\e three children : Sarah l-'.lizabeth, Ella Virginia, and Mary Abbie Sonierby Ranlet. RICHARDSON, Cvrus, 1). D., I'astor of the I'iist Congiegational Church, Nashua, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, March 30, 1840, son of Samuel and Hannah (\'arnum) Richardson. He is descended in the eighth generation from b'.zekiel Richardson, one of the founders of the town of W'oburn, Massachusetts, and of its church, a fact which led to the selection of Dr. Richardson to deliver an address at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Woburn Church in i8()2. He recei\'etl his preparatory edu- cation at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton and Phillips Academy. Andover, Massa- chusetts, and was graduated fidui Dartmouth Col- lege in the class of "64, being selected as one of the commencement speakers. I-'or two years he was an instructor in Latin and N.Uural Sciences in Cin- cinnati, ()lii(i. at the same lime pursuing special studies. L'lion his return to New England he entered Ando\er Theological .Seminarv in .Septem- ber, 1866, completing the full course and being graduated in July, 1S69. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Pl\inoutli (New Hampshire) Congregational Church September 30 of the same year. \\'hile here he interested himself in the welfare of the town as well as (}f the church. lie was among the prime movers for a state Norm.d School, and helped to secure its location in l'l\- niouth. In the spring of 1883 he received .lud accepted a flattering call to the |)astorate of the First Congregational church of Keene, New H.nnp- sliire, to wiiii h he ministered for ten years. Not only did he suctei-d in making his own church strong and active, but churches of the county looked to him as a leader and adxisor. In eduia- tional matters his inlluence was well known, liaving been elected as a member of the board of educa- lion and lor ,1 lime ret.dned as its chairman. In MEN OF PR(JGRESS. the summer of 1883, he received a unanimous call from the First Congregational church of Nashua. It was with great reluctance that the Kcene people allowed him to leave them. The other Pastors showed their friendship for him and his wife by tendering them a farewell hani|uet, with fraternal resolutions. His present pastorate has continued fifteen years, and though he has had invitations to other fields his purpose seems li.xed to remain in Nashua. He is well known throughout the churches of the state, having taken a leading part in denominational conferences and ecclesiastical councils. His frecpient calls to preach installation sermons attest the high esteem in which he is held CVRU.S U1C11.\U|1SI).\. by Congregationalists. In rS94, his Nashua church under his leadership dedicated one of the finest church buildings in New Kngland, and its growth has been so marked that it is regarded as one of the strongest churches of the state. Doctor Richardson has tra\elled extensively in our own country and also abroarl. and has given many sketches of his travels. In June. i8Sg, upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation, Dart- mouth conferreci upon him the degree of I). D., and in 1892 he was made one of the trustees of the college. For many years he has been a Trus- tee of the New Hampshire Home Missionary Soci- ety, and for several years a member of its execu- tive committee. He married January 18, 1871, Miss .\nnie Dearborn of Plymouth, a graduate from Mount Holyoke Seminary, and for several years one of its teachers. They have six children : Walter Dearborn, born July 10, 1872; Pearl, born .\pril 27. 1S74; Florence H., born June (>. 1875 : F.lizabeth G.. born April 26, 1877 ; Margaret P., born December 4. 1879; and Phillip Richardson, born February 25, 1884. A prominent parishioner of Dr. Richardson and one of the best known citi- zens of Nashua, the Hon. V. C. Oilman, says of him : " His pulpit manners are dignified and becom- ing. His voice is full, clear, and musical. His enunciation is distinct and entirely free from affec- tation, and fixes the attention of the young as well as the old. His discourses are marked with care in composition and research in preparation. His choice of subjects falls in the line of practical, every-day religious life, and the language employed is plain and concise. There is no painful attempt to make the drapery of words more important than the ideas they clothe. His type of pietv is genuine and true. His labors in Nashua have been emi- nently successful, not only among the people of his own parish, but in the broader sense of the entire community, where he is highly appreciated and honored. Among non-churchgoers no clergy- man in the city has so many calls to attend funeral services and other benevolent and gratuitous ser- vice, and no one responds more freely and gener- ously ; at the same time he maintains a clo.se and cordial relation to his own people, so that he per- forms most faithfully a vast amount of parish and l)ublic service. His warm paternal heart goes out in care and solicitude for the young bevond the large and interesting family beneath his own roof, and embraces all the children of the parish and public schools, our young men's associations, and all organi- zaticnis that look to the fitting for the higher and nobler duties of life. The value of such a minister and teacher so well equipped, cannot be weigiied or measured, and happy is the church and the com- munity where he has an abiding place." The Rev. F. 1). Aver, I). D.. of Concord, who is intimatcK- acquainted with Dr. Richardson, his character and work, gives his estimate in the following language : "The Reverend Dr. Richardson possesses and exhibits some of the best results of the New Kng- land home, school, church, a sound body, mind and heart, obedient to a controlled will. These have made his advance in his profession and his growth of influence in all directions, steady and MEN ()1 'R()(;RKSS. soiiitw hat rapid. As a pieai lu-r hv is dcxntecl to his profession. His keen rehsli inr his worl^, his loyalty to its highest obligations. Iiis e\ ident run- \i( ticin that a man owes the best he has to his voca- tion and that in it God is to aid him, combine to render his service faithful, untiring, and helpful. He is a strong preacher. His sermons are thought- ful, clear, definite in aim. He has clear cunxic- tions upon religious and moral sulijects which he states decidedly, but \ields to all others the rights which he claims for himself. He has ( (ininKin sense, and uses it in his relation to men. lie enters into the feelings and necessities of each in(li\ idiial. and is helpful to all classes. As a citizen he identilies himself with all the interests of his [leciple and of the community in which he li\es, and easily takes a controlling part in all ciuestinns and nu-thnds of reform as a staunch friend of mankintl. His good judgment, readv mind, and \'aried experience fit him for usefulness beyond the limits of his own city. He is a member of the different state organ- izations of the Congregational denoniinatinn, arid deeply interested in e\ery gooil work that ma\' elevate and Christianize the whole pe()])le. It will be inferred that he wins a high place in the con- fidence and esteem of the peo|3le fni" whimi he labors, and in all his pastorates has carrietl ilaily the affection of his people and ]3rii\eil himself "a workman that needeth not to lie ashamed." .SA\\'\'KR, Ch.\ri.es Henry, Manufacturer, Hover, was born in W'atertown, New \drk, March 30. 1840, eldest son of [onathan and Martha (Per- kins) Sawyer. His ancestry un both the ]3aternal and maternal sides were among the early settlers of Massachusetts. He attended the sclif>ols of W'ater- town until he was ten years of age, when the fam- ily removed to Dover, and he completed his educa- tion in that city. He entered the .Sa\\'\er Woolen Mills at the age of seventeen, the plant then being engaged in the manufacture of flannels. lie had become thoroughly proficient in the business at the age of twenty-six, and was tlien appointed Superin- tendent of the mills. In i.S,Si he became President of the company, and since then the general manage- ment of the mills has been in his hands. Through- out his business career Mr. .Sawyer has been mark- edly successful. I-fe has held many public offices. He served in Ixith branches of the City (.'ouncil of Dover, was Re|)resentative to the Legislature in i86o-'7o-'76-'77, a member of the staff of (lovernor Charles H. IJell in iSSi, and in i.S.St he was dele- gate to the Natinn.il l\e|}iibli( an ( "onx cntion in Clii- cagcriod, particularh' at Philadelphia on the oci .ision of the celebration of the one hundredth anni\ersary of the promulgation of the Constitution of ilu' 1 nited States. Another centennial was that in Nrw \ dik of the inaugura- tion of President W.isliington. Mr. Sawyer is a Director in the Stiaffonl National Rank, a Trustee and Vice-President of the Strafford Savings Rank, and a Director of the Dover das Light Conipau)-. He has held the ]iositions of President of the Do\er Ph t:i ^ X X CHARI.KS H. SAWVKI.:. Horse Railroad Company, Director and Kxecutive Member of the Granite State 1 nsni an< c- ( 'omisany. President of the I'^lliott ISridge Comii.iny, a Direc- tor in the Dover & J^oitsinonth. in tlie f^jrtsmouth. Great Falls & Conway, and in the Wolfboro Branch Railroads. He is a member of the Congregational Society of Dover. He is a .Mason, and has been twice chosen Master of the lodge, and for man\- years the Kminent Commander of the St. Paul Commandery, Knights Tem])lar. Mi-. Saw\er was married February ,S. iSdc;, to Susan PJlen, tl.iugh- ter of Dr. |ames \\". and I'.li/.ilieth (dwan of Do\x-r. 'Pheir children an-: William Da\is, who mairied Susan Gerlrude, d.uighter of lion. |oslui.i(l. llall 104 MF.X OK I'KOC.RESS. of Dover ; Charles I-'rancis. wlio married ("Tcrtrude Child, daujrhter of Hon. Henry W. Severance of San Francisco ; James Cowan, who married Mary Pepperell, daughter of Judge George Seward Frost of Dover, and Fdward and Klizabetli Coffin .Sawyer. SHl^TK, Hknrv Aucustl's. Lawyer, Exeter, was horn in that town, November 17, 1856, son of George S. and Joanna (Simpkins) Shute. His fam- ily has been prominent in the development of Rock- ingham county. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, at Phillips Academy and later at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1879. He studied law with \\". \\'. Stickney of HENRV A. SHUIE. E.xeter. and was admitted to the ]!ar in August. 1882. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession, being Judge of the Police Court since .April. 1883. He has been Treasurer of the Farmers' Insurance Company since 1884. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Shute was married October 18. 1885, to Amelia ¥. Weeks, who died January 26, 1895, leaving two children: Richard E. and Nathalie. He was a .second time married August 12, 1897, to Ella Kent. SMITH, Is.\AC WiLLi.\M, Lawyer, Manchester, the second child of Isaac and Mary (Clarke) Smith, was born in Hain])stead, New Hampshire, May 18, 1825. His early years were passed in the quiet atmosphere of his native village, and in attendance at brief periods at the academies in Salisbury, Atkinson, Derry, and Sanbornton. At the age of fifteen years, he was sent to pursue his studies pre- paratory for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, then under the care of Samuel H. Taylor. LL. I)., one of the most distinguished edu- cators that this country has as yet produced. After completing his preparatory .studies he entered Dart- mouth College in 1842. The President of the col- lege, Rev. Nathan Lord. D. D.. was then in the full meridian of that remarkable career which se- cured for him a place among the foremost college jsresidents of the country. Mr. Smith graduated in 1846, and in the spring of 1847 commenced his legal studies in the office of William Smith, at Lowell, Massachusetts. After spending nearly a year in this office he removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, and completed his studies in the office of Hon. Daniel Clark. He was admitted to the liar July g. 1850. and at once commenced the prac- tice of his profession in Manchester, which he has continued to the present time (189S), except while holding a position as judge. He was for five years the law partner of Hem. Daniel Clark. Mr. Smith was early recognized bv his fellow-citizens as tak- ing a lively interest in the welfare of his adopted city. He was President of its Common Council in i85i-'52. City Solicitor in i854-"55, and Mayor in 1869. He also served two years upon the Hoard of School Committee. In 1855 he was appointed ludge of the Police Court of Manchester, but re- signed the office in 1857 to engage more fully in the practice of his profession. He was elected in 1S59 '° represent his ward in the Legislature of the state, and re-elected in the following year, and in the latter year was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. In i862-"63 he was a member of the State Senate and Chairman of its Judiciary Committee. In 1863 he was appointed by President Lincoln Assessor for the second internal revenue district of New- Hampshire, and held the office until 1870. He was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of New Hampshire, February 10, 1S74, by Governor Straw. In August of that year the court was re-organized, and he was appointed by Go\-ernor \\'eston, Associate Justice of the new- court, and held the office until the court was again re-organized in August. 1876. In July, 1877, a MEN ()!•■ I'R(»(;RESS. vucancy occeirriny in the Supruine Court, lie was appointed by (iovernor I'lescott to till the position, which he occupied until he retired in May, 1895, ha\ini; reached the age liinitaticm prescribed by the constitution of the state. As a lawyer, Judge Smith in his practice has been clinracterized by a clear judgment, unsparing industry, ,ind uubending integrity. Upon the bench, his ability as a law- yer, his conscientious and thorough examination of every case upon wliich he was called to express an opinif.u. and the judicial poise and impartiality which he always maintained, secured for his decis- ions the highest degree of confidence and respect. Judge Smith's personal interest in the affairs of his alma mater has suffeied no abatement as other cares and interests have multiplied. He was Presi- dent of the Dartmouth Alunmi Association in 1881- '83. and of the Phi lieta Kappa Society in 1S82- '84. In college he was one of the charter mem- bers of the Dartmouth Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Society. In 1880 he delivered before the Alun.ni Association an eul(ig\- on the lile and character of Hon. William H. IJartlett, late Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- shire. In March, 1885, he was elected one of the Trustees of the College, and has held that position to the present time. He received the degree of LL. D. from the college in iSSg. He has found time in the press of professional duties to indulge his taste for historical investigation, contributing his share to the researches of the New Hampshire Historical Society, of which he lias been a meniber since 1861. As early as 1849 he delixered an addiess, which was subsecpiently published, at the centennial celebration of the incorporation of his native town. His tastes in this direction gave a special zest and value to a visit which he made in the summer of 1878 to several scenes of historical interest in the old world. In 1889 he was a delegate frf)m Manchester to the New Hampshiie ('(institutional ( '(in\ cntion. lie has been a Trustee of the Af ,ini hester Public Li- lirary since 1872. and 'I'rustee of the Manchester Savings Bank since 1S91. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, having received all the degrees to and including that of Knights Templar. Politically the sympathies of Judge Smith have been with the Republican party since its organization. lie was an earnest ach'ocale of the great |M"inciples which that party bore in- scribed u|3on its barniers in our tt'rrihle ci\il wai'. and in the pi-riod of reconstruction which followed. and which are deslinrd lo go down to the future as an inspiring .ind pl.istir IHire iu one of the great epochs in historw lie was in i,S::;() a dele- gate to the national conxcntion which nominatetl Fremont and Dayton as candidates for President and Vice-President. Religiously, b}- education and conviction, his sympathies are with the ( )rthodo.\ Congregationalists. He early identified himself with the Franklin-Street ( 'ongregational Society in Manchester, and assumed his full share of its burdens and responsibilities, being called at differ- ent times to fill the offices of President. Treasurer, and Director in it. In 1S70 he became a member in full connnunion of the clunch with which that ISAAC w. sMrrii. societ\' is connected, and has alwavs taken a warm and li\el\- interest in its ])r(ispcrlt_\ . and in the advancement of the c.uise which it repiesents. [udge Smith was united in marriage August 16, 1854, with Amanda \\'., daughtei' of Hon. Hiram lirown, the first Mayor of Manchester. Fight chil- dren were born to them: .Mary .\.. wife of \'. C. l<'erguson. Port .\rthur. Texas ; Willi, ini I., P.ustle- ton, Pennsylvania ; .\ithur W'hilney. deceased March 5. 1866; Julia P.. wile of W. 1). Cowan, Saratoga, Wyoming; I'',dward C., .\l.ini hester. New Hampshire; Daniel ( '.. l.awrencit, Massachusetts; [ennie P., wife of Dr. J. 1. llothh'ld, Newton, Mas- sachusetts: (Irace 1.., .\lau( ln-ster. New llampshire. io6 MEN OF rkOCRKSS. SHANNON, F.DwiN Howk, Lawyer. Laconia, was born in (lilmaiilon. New Hampshire, March >S, 1858, son of James C. and Judith \\'. (Batchelder) Shannon. He traces his descent in the paternal Hne from an early settler of Portsmouth, his grand- father, Ceorge Shannon, having been born in that place. In the maternal line he comes of the family which was related to that of the famous statesman, Daniel Webster, his great-grandmother having been a cousin of the statesman, Mr. Shannon received his education in the common schools of his native town, and at Oilmanton .\cadeniy. He studied law with Hon. Thomas Cogswell of Gilmanton. lately the United States Pension .'Kgent at Concord, and was admitted to the JJar in 1S81. He then became a partner of Mr. Cogswell, remaining such for about a year, when the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent, .Mr. Shannon seeking a wider tield for practice than was afforded him in Gilman- ton. He thereafter practiced his profession alone, until 1893, having offices in Farniington and Pitts- tield, where he soon acquired more than a local reputation for his ability in llu- trial of cau,ses, and gained for himself a considerable clientage. In 1893 he went to Laconia and entered into partnership with W. S. I'easlee, the linn subsequently becoming ,Shannon, Peaslee and Hlackstone. In 1894 he with- drew from that lirm, since which time he has been in business alone. He is counsel for several large and prosperous corporations, and for a number of years has devoted considerable time to the special study of that important branch of the law. He is also considered an authority upon the Law of Per- sonal Injuries, and has a large practice in lliat branch of his profession. Mr. Shannon is a man of strong personalitv. is cpiick to determine and prom))t to execute. Fearless in thought and action, with strong common sense as a guide, he does not hesitate to carve a way where none appears. Prece- dents ha\e no terrors for him. If they appear to be right, he follows them, but if wrong, he fearles.sly attacks them and some, at least, have gone down before the logic of his reasoning. As a counsellor, wise and jjrudent, in the trial of causes, strong and tactful, and as an advocate, earnest and eloquent, he has accjuired a large and lucrative practice. In politics he is a Republican, He was married Octo- ber 18, 1882, to Myra E., daughter of Ira L. and Lavina E. (Drew) Berry, of Barnstead. 'I'he\' have three children: Ella (_"., Mildred and Fdwin H. .Shannon. Jr. SPK.\(U'E, Ob.\di.\h, Retired Manufacturer, W'est .Swanzey, was born in Richmond, New Hamp- shire, May 21, 1S26, son of Samuel and Melinda (Kingman) Sprague, In the paternal line he is of Scotch descent, his great-grandfather having emi- grated from Scotland to Providence, Rhode Island, about 1760, His grandfather, Obadiah Sprague, born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1770, re- nun ed t" Richmond, New Hampshire, in 1792, and resided there until his death in 1838. His father, Samuel Sprague, who was born in Richmond in 1797, died in Winchester in 1881, On the mater- nal side, Mr, Sprague is of good old New England stock, the Kingman family having long resided in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, before their removal to Winchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Sprague attended the district schools of Richmond until he was fifteen years old. and was a pupil for two years at the Winchester High School, At seventeen he was employed as a merchant's clerk, being thus occupied in Winchester and Keene for si.x years. Then for eight years he was a clerk in a wholesale and retail grocery house in Keene, for si.x years acting as bookkeeper. He opened a crockery and carpet store in Keene in 1837, but in 1839 sold out his interest to ac(-ept the Cashiership of the Win- chester Bank, where he remained five years, resign- ing to purchase, with others, the woolen and wood- MEN OF PROGRESS. 107 w.UL' mills at West Swaiizc)-. I''iir twelve \'ears he was Treasurer and Manager of the Strattoii Mills ('ciin|:)an\'. ami then letiretl Irniu the management, retaining;. Imwever. his interest in the pniperty. He hnilt and htted up a fom-sett wixilen mill on a w.tter puwer near Keene. now (.died Spragiie- ville, and another mill for the mamifaiture of tables and lock-corner boxes, employing about one hundred hands. The mills were destro3-ed by tire in uSSi.bul he immediatelv rebuilt the t.tble and box mill, and in iSS:; formed the ('heshiie llox Compan)'. Ch.irles L. Howe being the ^Tallager. Mr. Sprague then returned to West Swanzey, and took the management of the mills there, the name of the company being ch.inged [n West .Swan/ey ^[anufacturing Company. He was Treasurer and Manager imtil 189:^, when he sold out his stock in the concern and retired from active Inisiness. He is still a resident of West Swanzev. He was a Representati\e in the State Legislature in 1.S70 anci 1S71. and held the . II. I I \ \ I \ . Athletic C'lub ; the Reform Club: the Manhattan Club; the Lotus Club and the Chamber of Com- merce, all of New N'ork. In politics he is a Demo- crat. Mr. Tenney was married November 23, 1865, to Fanny (;. Cleason. They have one son, Daniel C. 'I'ennev. S'l'UR'l'ENA.N'l", I'.DWAkii Hiu.vM. .Manufacturer and E.x-Mayor of Franklin, was Ijorii in Craftsbury, Vermont. April 27. 1S45. son of Hiram and Eliza S. (Corey) Sturtevant. His father, the only son of Ezra and Lucy Sturtevant. was a farmer early in life, but in 1X53 sold his place in Craftsbury and removed to liarton, \ermont, later moving to Leb- anon, and buying an interest in a manufactory of sash, doors, blinds, and furniture carried on by ]. C. Sturtevant, and continued in this business for four years. Then selling his interest to his part- ner, he started a shoe store, continuing in this bus- iness until he retired. He died December S, 1895. He had four children : Edward H., Mary F.. now the wife of David G. Thomson. Superintendent of the Montreal Transportation Company at Montreal; Ezra L., a lumber dealer in C'hicago, and Henry H.. proprietor of a department store in Zanesville, Ohio. The subject of this sketch attended the connnon schools until he was twelve years of age, and then spent four years in Barton Academy, completing the course at sixteen. He taught in the district school during the winter, and the next spring entered the employ of William Joslyn iV Sons, druggists, with a view of learning the busi- ness. Two years later he obtained a position in Wellington. Ohio, as head clerk in a drug store, and there remained about two years, the last year making all the purchases of goods and having gen- eral management of the business. Poor health, largelv due to the climate, compelled him to leave Ohio, and he returned to Lebanon, where he started a drugstore in .'Vpril. 1866. This business proved a success, and in a few months Mr. Sturte- vant sold the business at a handsome figure to Doctor L N. Perley. Joslyn ^: Sons, his former employers, offered to join him in establishing a drug-store in Colebrook. and he accepted the propo- sition. The store was built and stocked with drugs, medicines, paints, oils, books, and stationery. .Mr. Sturtevant having the management for the first two years. Then Mr. G. S. Joslyn. one of the sons, bought out his interest in the establishment. Mr. Sturtevant went on a trip through the states of Iowa and Michigan, looking for a favorable busi- ness opening, but here again the climate failed to agree with him. and he decided to return to New England. In J.muary. 1S69. he opened a drug store in Woodstock. N'ermont. taking his brother Ezra as a partner, and added boots and shoes as a part of the business. In .\pril. 1S74, the brothers sold out the business. Ezra Sturtevant going West and Edward H. Sturtevant removing to Franklin, where he bought two drug stores, one at Franklin, and the other at Franklin Falls. Eventually he sold the latter store to I'rank H. Chapman. In 1883 he bought a half interest in the Franklin Needle Companv. taking the management and hold- ing the office of Treasurer of the concern from that MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 109 time. P.eginning with almut t\vcnty-ti\e employees, the business has been developed until one hundred and seventy-five are now employed, and the eoni- pany has a trade e.xtendinj; throughout the IMiited States, Canada, several South American countries and England. In 18S7 Mr. Sturtevant sold his Franklin drug-store to W. M. Woodward, his duties with the manufacturing company requiring all his time and attention. He is a Director in the l-"rank- lin National Bank, Trustee of the I-'ranklin Savings Bank, Director and Vice-President of the Franklin Power and Light Company, l-'resident and Director of the Franklin Falls Companw and Director in the Sulloway Mills Company. In iS()3 he repre- E. H. STURl'KVANT. sented the town in the Legislature, and in 1S96 was Mayor of Franklin. He is a member of the Meridian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons of Franklin, St. Onier Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of (''ranklin. and Mt. Horeh Commandery of Concord. He is an Odd Fellow and a mem- ber of the l'',ncampment and Canton. In politics he is a Kepuljlican. He is a ineniber of the Unitarian Church Societ)'. He married in .M.iw 1869, Ada I'). Martin, daughter of Iose])h A. and Elvira L. .M.ulin of .Stratford, New llampshire. He has two children: Eva Iv. horn in October, 1875. and Ruth B. Sturtevant, born in ( )ctober, iSSi. TF^TLEV, EnMl'Nli. Lieulen,nU-( 'olonel First New Hampshire \'olunteers, and Manufacturer, Laconia, was born in Bradford, \'orkshire comity, England, October 26, 1842, son of William and Mary Ann (lirayshaw) 'Fetley. He attended the schools in England until he was tweKe years of age, when with his family he came to America. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the ITnited States Marine Corps at Portsmouth and saw some acti\-e sei-\ice. I-fe was at the attack on Forts Jackson and Philip, and at the captine of New Orleans by Admiral Farragut, being on lioard the United States sloo]3 of war Portsmouth, which was subsequently sta- tioned at New ( )rleans for nearly four years. At the close of the war. he returned to Amesbtny, Massachusetts, sulisecpiently going to Appleton, Wisconsin, and then to Utica. New \'ork. From Lltica he went to ( )lne\\ ille, RhS: Conipan}-, ]5oston. a volume entitled •■ .Money in I'olitics," which is now passing through its se((ind edition. In 1S9; he published --.V Coin Calec hism." ot which a large number were in use as ,i Republi- MEN OF PROGRESS. can campaiijn document in 1896. He has been a Kdniund Truesdell was educated in the common frec|ueiit contiil)utor to Harper's publications and schools at Newton I'^pper Falls. Massachusetts. While attending school there he worked in the cot- ton mills during \acations and at other limes, and also delivered papers. He afterward took a regu- to the magazines of tlie country on linancial and economic topics, and was one of the founders of the Cosmos Club of Washington, District of ('olum- |. K. Ul'TON. bia. In politics he has always been a Republican, and especially a lirm believer in the establishment and maintenance of the gold standard. He was married October 29, 1S84, to Mrs. Mary de Hass Hoblibzell, second daughter of Doctor Wills de Hass, well known in the literary and scientific cir- cles of the capital. They have one child: Jacob Kendrick L'pton, Jr., born January 17, 1886. TRrisSDFT.I,, lOiiMUND Erskink, Superinten- dent and Paymaster of the China, Webster, and Pembroke Mills, Suncook, was born at Jewett City, Connecticut, March 3, 1845, s"" ^^ 'I'homas and Mary (Hoyden) Truesdell. On the paternal side he is of Scotch descent, his great-great-grandfather, Ichabod Truesdell, having come from Scotland about 1700, and settled in South Woodstock, Con- necticut. His great-grandfather, Darius Truesdell, was a soldier in the \\'ar of the Revolution and was at \'alley Forge during the winter of 1777. He was woundeil in the side, narrowly escaping death by a ball providentially striking a large old- fashioned pocket book in his waistcoat pocket. lar commercial course at Comer's Commercial Col- lege in Boston. ITpon leaving school he went into the Newton Cotton Mills and was soon promoted to the office of ( )\ersecr in the Cloth Room, Ship- ping Clerk and Assistant Superintendent. The 'i'reasurer of the Newton Mills was also Treasurer of the mills in Suncook, whither Mr. Truesdell was sent to take charge of a department at the Webster and Pembroke Mills. In 1870, he was promoted KD.Ml'.M) K. IRUESDELL. to Superintendent and Paymaster of the China, Webster, and Pembroke Companies. He was Town Treasurer of Pembroke in 1878, '79-'8o and '81 ; a member of the Legislature in 1879 '^"'^ again in 1880 ; and a member of the State Senate in 1887 and 1888. He is a Mason of high raid<, a member of Jewell Eodge, of which he is Past Mas- ter ; Hiram Chapter; Horace Chase Council ; Mt. Horeb Commandery ; lioston Lodge of Perfection ; Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Mt. Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix; Massachu.setts Con- sistory, and .\lep])o 'I'emple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the New England Cot- ton Manufacturers' Association and the New MEN OF PROGRESS. Hampshire Club. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Haptist ("hurch at Suncook. Mr. 'rruesclcll married June ii, 1S72, Mary \\ il- kins Austin, daughter of David Austin. He has one son : David lulnunul Truesdell, born in 1876, now studvin"" at I'.rown Uni\ersitv, I'rox'itlence. \'AR\'K\'. Daviii llLAKK. E.\-Mayor of Man- chester, was liorn ill Tuftonlinrough, New Hamp- shire, August 27, 1822, son of I^uther and Lvdia (Blake) \'arney. On the paternal side he is of Scotch descent, and on the maternal side of Eng- lish. Mr. N'arnev attended the public scho^' I), r;. v.\RNKY. ]5ank since 1871, and has been Treasurer of the Forsaith Machine Company since 1884. Mr. Var- ney was a member of the New Hampshii'e Legis- lature from Manclu-ster in 1871 -'72. and was a member of the Senate in 1881 -'82. lie was Mayor of Manchester in 18S1) "rjo. He is a mem- ber of the Derrytield ( 'hili. .uul of all the Masonic bodies in the cit\ of his residence. In politics he has been a Republican sini e that party was formed. Mr. Varney was manied lime (>, 184S, to Harriet bean Kimball of Warner, 1)\' whom he had thiee children, two of whom are living: Emma E., and Annie M., now Mrs. Frederick W. liatcheldei-. WEBSTER. Ci,Ai'iiii:s BticiiANAN, M. D,. and A. M., was born in Hampton, December 10. 1811:;. son of the Reverend losiah and Elizabeth (Knight) Webster. His father was graduated from Dart- mouth College in 171)8, receiving the degree of liachelor of Arts and later the degree of Master of Arts. He studied theology with the Reverend Stephen Peabody of Atkinson, New Hampshire, and on Novemlier 13, 171JI), was ordained to the Trinitarian Congregational ministry and installed I'astor of the Second Parish church in Ipswich (now Esse.x), Massachusetts, where he remained un- til June, 1S08, when he was installed Pastor of the Congregational church in Hampton, New Hamp- shire. There he lilled a successful pastorate until his death in 1837. Reverend Josiah Webster was the son of Nathan, a farmer of Chester, New Hamp- shire, who belonged to the same branch of the \\'ebster family from wliiili Daniel Webster de- scended and who tr.ued his ancestry Ixick to Thomas \\'ebster, who emigrated from ()rmsliy, Sutlolk county, England, and settled in Hampton about 1650. In England the Webster familv was characterized liy honor, stability, and prominence, one of its members bearing the same name as the colonist, having received the honor of Knighthood. The descendants of Thomas Webster, aside from the great expountler of the Constitution, include a long list of ]3ersons, who ha\e become illustrious, not only in their professions, but in literature, the arts and the sciences. ( huidius B. Webster was fitted for college in Hampton and was graduated from Dartmouth in 183(1, being subse(|uentl_v hon- ored with the degree of Master of Arts. Among his classmates at Hanover were the Reverend Sam- uel C. Bartlelt, D. D., 1,1,. D., Ex-President of llie College; Professor I'aastiis I'Acrett, LI,. D., of ISrooklyn, New \'ork ; ivx-C.oveinor and l^x-Senator James W. Crimes, LL. D., from Iowa; Professor Edmund R. Peaslec. M. D.. LL. 1 )., of New ^■ork city, and Hon. lohn \\ ciilwoilli, LL, I).. .Member of Congress from Illinois. .Mr. Webslci was for three years a Civil I'aiginecr. and was eiupluved in 1 14 MEN OF PROCIRKSS. the laying out of the Peoria & Warsaw Railroad in Ilhnois after his graduation from College : he then returned to New Hampshire and studied medicine at lioscawen with his brother. Dr. Eliphalet K. Webster, and attended a course of lectures at Dart- mouth Medical College. I.alei- he was a student at the College of l*h\sicians and .Surgeons in New York and was graduated in 1844. For a short lime he practised his profession and then accepted a position as Principal of the Female Academy at Norwich, Connecticut, where he remained for six- teen years as an able, faithful and conscientious In- structor. In the autumn of iS6j, Dr. Webster was in Washington. District of Columbia, visiting rela- tives, and the result of his visit was his resignation from the Academy at Norwich and his becoming .\ssistanl .Surgeon in the Ignited States Army. .\t that time the Cio\-ernment had upon its hands a great responsibility in the care of the sick and dis- abled contrabands. When the Confederates were forced to move southward, they took with them all the able-bodied negroes of lioth se.xes, leaving in their w.ike the ill. lame and t)therwise disabled colored people. The abandoned negroes, in all degrees of destitution, naturally flocked northward to Washington. They numbered thousands and the wuiUl probably never saw a more piti.ible lot of humanity. These unfortunate people were b\- the llnited States Government gathered at Camp bar- ker, an old cavalry encampment on the outskirts of the citv. the site of which is now known as the Iowa Circle, upon wliiih ha\e been erected some of the mo.st elegant residences in Washington, l^pon this ground had been built stables for the horses and a large number of huts for the cavalrymen. The (Government renovated the camp for the reception of these contrabands and a|)pointed Dr. \\'ebster Acting Assistant .Surgeon in medical charge with nurses to assist him. Dr. Webster remained there a year and a half and during tiiat time a temporary hospital was erected and other iniprox ements car- ried out. I lis dvities were of an arduous and try- ing natme, and during his service lumdreds of cases of small-po.\ came under his c.ire. In 1S64 all the people were removed to the General Lee estate opposite ^^"ashington where the (lOvernment had erected houses for their occupancy and also a hospital. Dr. Webster continued in charge of these contrabands in their new location for some months, when h(,- was ordered to the Southwest with head- tpiarters at Louisville, Kentucky, where he was put in charge of railway hospital trains that were used in conveving sick and wounded soldiers of our army from Southern to Northern hospitals. He personally accompanied those trains transferring the soldiers who were able to travel from hospitals as far South as Chattanooga, Tennessee, to hos- pitals in the North. While in the performance of these duties he was commissioned by (iovernor fiuckingham, known as the "War Governor" of Connecticut, to care and ])rovide for any soldiers belonging to regiments from that stale whom he might hud in .Southern hospitals, and for which services he declined the remuneration that was tendered him. .\fter the discontinuance of the hospital trains at the close of the war. Dr. Webster t ci..\Ul>nis 1;. w i:i;m IK. was engaged in forwarding the soldiers still remain- ing in the large hos])itals in Louisville and Jeller- sonxille (Indiana), to their hcmies or to hospitals further north. He continued in that work until after the close of the war in 1865. when he was hon- orably discharged from the I'nited States service. During his three years of hospital work. Dr. Web- ster performed from time to time, gratuitous service for the I'nited States Sanilar\- Commission. His labors for the (joveriHneiit were jjerformed with remarkable faithfulness and sincerity, and justly entitli'd him to the gratitude of the Nation. After leaving the Medical Department of the .Army. Dr. Webster returned to Norwich, Connecticut, to MEN OF PROGRESS. ' 'S enjov a few years of rest and leisure — a vacatinn whicli he had well earned. A :;entleman of his ability and patriotism, and with so large an ac- qiiainlanee with the prominent men of the eountry, was not likely to remain long in private life, and hence the people of his city were not surprised to learn in i^yo, that, entirely unexpectedly and un- sought, he had been appointed by President (Irani, Ignited States Consul at Sheffield, I'aiglancl, one of the most important consulates in (Ireat Ilritain. He filled that position until i8S6, when according to custom in the changes in the National administra- tion, he was succeeded by an appointee of I^resi- dent Cleveland. In view of the frequent changes in consulates, it is worthy of remark that Dr. Web- ster's term of si.xteen j-ears at Sheffield extended over four administrations at Washington, and was the longest United States Consulship on record in that country. It is needless to state that he per- formed his duties at Sheffield with dignity, ability and fidelity, to the entire satisfaction of the succes- sive Presidents from whom he recei\ed his com- missions. He made no attempt to become conspic- uous in English public life, but devoted his time, outside of direct official laljors, to the culti\atiiin ol cordial and friendly relations with those English manufacturers and merchants who were e.xtensivel)- engaged in shipping Sheffield goods to America. The extent of this commerce may be shown by the fact that in one year during Dr. Webster's tenure of office, the value of shipments from Sheffield to America amounted to one million li\e hundred thousand dollars. While at Sheffield the honor devolved upon him to receive Ex-President (Irant while on his journey around the world. After the announcement was made of the appointment of a successor to Dr. Web.ster at Sheftield, the Eondon papers expressed sincere regret that there should be withdrawn one who had so long represented his country with such fidelity, tact and unswerving- courtesy. After leaving Sheffield Dr. Webster took a long European tour and then returned to New Hampshire where he has since made his home, although passing more or less time in Washington and Chicago. On October 31. 1S44, Dr. Weljster was married to Miss .Mary l^li/abctli Webster of I'embroke, New Hampshire, a lineal descendant of Hannah Dustin. She was a lovely, refined lady, and after a happy married life extending over forty- two years, death came to her at Sheffield, after a long, useful and exem|)lary life. Dr. and Mrs. Webster had no children. Dr. Webster had four bnitliers; Dr. f^liplialet K. Webster, already named; Josiah Webster. .1 f.irmer of Illinois; Pro- fes.sor John C. Weljster. D, D.. of Wheaton Col- lege, Illinois, and .Major ( leneral [oseph D. Wel)- ster. United States Army, who became famous in the War of the Rebellion, as Ceneral Grant's Chief of Staff, and who In his l)ra\ery and militar)' skill while Chief of Artiller\', was credited with having turned the tide of battle and seciu'ed the great vic- tory for the Union .Xianv at .Sliiloh. The last two named were Dartmouth College graduates of the class of 1832, while Dr. E. K. Webster was an alumnus of the Daitmouth Medical College, thus constituting the probaliK- unparalleled record of a father and four out of live sons being graduated from the same college. The suliject of this sketch cherishes a livel}- interest in his Alma Mater and is President of the Dartmouth .Alumni Association f)f the Concord. New Hampshire, District. He is also a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. Dr. Webster is a gentleman of modest and letiring manners, frank and generous sympa- thies, an extensive reader, the possessor of a great fund of general information and keeps posted upon all the great National and other issues of the day. lie is a member of the South Congregational church of Concord, New Hampshire. WENTWORTll. CidKiii, .Vi.r.Kkr. President of Exeter bank, was hoin in W aketield. New Hamp- shire, lul)' 31, 1S35, son of Edmund and Eliza (Eang) Wentworth. He is a ilescendant of Elder William ^^'entworth who settled in Exeter and signed the E.xeter Combination in 1639. On the maternal side he comes of good old New England stock. He received his earl)- edu( ation in the common school and Academy of his native town, prepared for college at I'hillips i^xeter Academy, entered Harvard in 1855 and was graduated in the class of '58. In the same year, he went to Exeter as Instructor in Latin and (Sreek. became Profes- sor of Mathematics in Phillips .\cademy in 1859, and held the position until the close of 1891. Mr. Wentworth has ])ublished a series of text books of mathematics. The work on geoinelr\- was lirst iniljlished in 1880 and has completely revolution- ized the method of teaching that science. Over live hundred thousand co|)ies ol the book have been sold. He has jjublished a series of Algebras, of which over one million copies have been sold ; and a series of Arithmetics whic h ha\'e had an ii6 MEN OK I'ROCRESS. extraordinary sale. He has also published a Trigo- nometry. Surveying, and Navigation, and an Analytic Geometry, that are used in nearly all the Colleges, and the principal Secondary Schools in the country. Mr. Wentuorth has been a Trustee of the Robinson Seminary and is at present President of the Exeter Banking CompanN'. In politics !io is a Republican. CEO. .-\. \vi;m uuKrii. He married. August. 1864. Emily |. Hatch, of Codington. Kentucky. They have three children : Ellen Lang, George, and Edmund Hatch Went- worth. Willi TKMOKi:. Auriirk C.ii.man, Lawyer, Concord, was born in Pembroke, Julv, 1S56, son of Hon. Aaron and .\riannah ( Harstow) Whittemore. He is eighth in line from his ancestor Thomas, who immigrated from Hitchin Parish, t'ountv of Hertfordshire, l')ngland. and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1642. He is a great-great-grand- son of Rev. Aaron Whittemore, the first settled Pastor of the Congregational Church in Pembroke, (formerly Suncook), ordained Pastor March 2, 1738 (a graduate of Harvard College in 1732). His great-grandfather. Aaron Whittemore, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His father and grand- father were Associate Justices of the Court of Com- mon Pleas for Merrimack county. On his mother's side he is a lineal descendant of Elder William firewster. one of the Mayflower pilgrims. He was educated at Pembroke Academy and Harvard Law School and was admitted to the liar in March. 1879. Soon afterwards he associated with the late Judge C. W. Woodman of Dover in the practice of the law, which ])artnership continued luilil the death of Judge Woodman in 1888. Since that time Mr. Whittemore has practised alone. Hy strict application to his chosen profession he has gained an extensive and lucrative practice and with it the confidence and respect of the whole community in which he lives. He is attorney for and one of the Trustees of the StralTord Savings Bank, one of the largest and strongest savings banks in the .state. He is also the attorney for the Dover Co-operative Bank. When the Dover National Bank failed in 1895 Mr. Whittemore was appointed Receiver and although the defalcation of its late cashier exceeded the capital stock Mr. Whittemore so successfully liquidated the remain- ing assets as to pay the depositors in full with interest and a substantial dividend to the stock- holders. He has identified himself witli all the .vKruiK c. will 1 11. Mure. public enterprises that concern the welfare of his adopted city. In 1887, when the city built a new system of water works he was elected Water Com- missioner and has held the office to the present time. He is a member and one of the organizers MEN OF PROGRESS. I '7 of tlir licll.iniy ('luh, a business man's S(ji-ial i hil). i8nip.in\. ;in(l simn llie\- ;iie m;ule ;iware that 120 MEN OF PROGRESS. he can give or take a good joke with grace. While he admires the courage of a Cromwell, he does enjoy the fun of a FalstafT. He shakes hands as though there was a big heart close by, and when he laughs there is an occasion for it, and like Doc- tor Franklin's whistle, it comes itself, and all in his company can but join in his hearty merriment. His good nature and readiness to help others have always drawn about him throngs of friends, ren- dering him a most desirable member of social organizations. In i860 he was made a Mason in Social Friends Lodge of Keene, becoming its Mas- ter in 1865. He advanced through the Royal Arch Chapter, becoming a Knight in Hugh de Payens Comniandery, and in 1878 was chosen its Eminent ("ommander. He ranks high among the Free Masons in his adopted city and in the state. Religiously he is a Congregationalist. having been an active church member for more than half a century, work- ing on various lines, and for years he was a Teach- er and then Superintendent in the Sunday-school. While he is loyal to his church, he is no dogmatic and narrow sectarianist. His home is the dearest place to him on earth. He and his worthy and beloved companion have long journeyed together hand in hand and hearts made one. They have been highly blest with a noble son. Edward Holman Wilkinson, who is a prominent manufacturer at Holyoke and a leading public man in Springfield, Massachusetts, Mr. Wilkinson, though having reached the allotted age of man, is well preserved, vigorous and straight, and still active in business. It would seem as if he had the constitution and carefully preserved physical powers which promise that his egress will be late to heaven. Unlike gross Esau he never has sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, but like Jacob he has discovered a ladder of light reaching to heaven, and he has ever been endeavoring to ascend it, and those who have known him best believe that he has made good progress and will at length be welcomed into the fadeless light with the angelic plaudit, " Well done," leaving a good name behind, and bearing with him many a precious gift to enrich and beau- tifv the inunorlal life. i'.llA I ri Is, W'li.i.Lwi loHssdN', Physician. Little- ton, was born in Ryegate, N'ermont, September 6, 1864, son of James Miiligan and Margaret Sophia (Nelson) Beattie. His maternal grandfatlier. John Nelson, was of Scotch descent, and was the first male child born in Ryegate. His maternal grand- mother was born in Acworth, New Hampshire, and was of Irish descent. His grandfather, John Heat- tie, was born in Orange county, New York. Doctor Beattie received his education at the district school of his native place, at Peacham Academy, and at \\ ILLIAM J. I'l A I I 11:. St. Johnsbury .\cademy, Vermont. He was gradu- ated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, March 12, 1889. In the course of his studies he spent a year in the hospital work. He began prac- tice- in Littleton, in May, 1889, and has remained there ever since. He is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a charter member of the Cohashauke Club of Littleton. In politics, he is a Republican. He married. May 29, 1890, Elizabeth A. Tuttle. They have two daughters : Margaret, born January 18, 1891, and liarbara Beattie, born December 28, 1897, BRENNAN, J.\mes Fr.\ncis, Lawyer, Peterbor- ough, was born in that town March 31, 1853. His father, Hubert Brennan, a native of Lavagh, Count)' Roscommon. Ireland, came to America in 1845, settling si.\ years later in Peterborough, where he built up a large marble and granite business, and by his public spirit and enterprise added greatly to the material advancement of the town. His mother's maiden name was Mary Mahoney, a native of Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The subject of our sketch received his preliminary edu- MEN OF PROGRESS. cation in the common schools and academy of his native village, and learned the trade of marble carxing at his father's establishment. In iSSo, he commenced the study of law in the office of Charles Poe. Baltimore, and after a three years" course in the Law School of the I'niversity of Maryland, graduated in the class of '84, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law. He was admitted to practice at the New Hampshire Bar, August 2.S, 18S4, the United States Court the ne.xt year, and establishing an office in Peterborough has since attained an excellent law practice ; he is employed in much important litigation, and is accorded the conhdence of the community in which he lives. Mr. Brennan is a Democrat in politics and has done efficient work for his party on the stump. In the November election of 1886 he ran largely ahead of the general ticket as his party's candidate for County Solicitor, this being the only time he has allowed his name to be used as a candidate for a political office. He is unmarried, has an extended actpiaintance throughout the state, and possesses a hnst of friends. He has served on the board of Town BROWN, Or..\N(;f. Snur, Resident Agent of the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company, was JAMES F. BRENNAN. Auditors, Library Connnittee, School ISoard, and Bank Director in his native town, lie is a lover of books, and possesses a very line law library. Mr. Brennan's career exemplifies what integrity and unaided industry can acc(lmpli^h. born in Slaters\ille. Rhode land H. and Nancy M. His father was a native Island, son of Row- ( W'hitinarsh) Brown, (if Ninth Kini'stnn, O. S. I'.ROWN. Rhode Lsland, his mother of East dreenwich, in that state. His father was of English descent. He has long been connected with the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company, a corporation with a cap- ital of six hundred thousand dollars, devoted to the manufacture of fine and fancy goods, sateens, etc.. and he has held the position of .\gent for twent}- three years. BELLOW'S, JosiAH CiKAiiMK, Lawyer and Rail- road Commissioner, Walfxile, was born in that town. Inly 24, 1841, son of josiah Bellows, ^d. He is sixth in descent from |(ihn Bellows, who embarked for this country in the Hopewell, of London, April I, 1635, and settled at Concord, Massachusetts. His grandson, Colonel Benjamin Bellows, the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the founder of Walpole, a man of much note and influ- ence on what was then known as the frontier, jo- siah Bellows, the youngest son of Colonel Benjamin liellows. passed his entire life in Walpole as a farm- er, managing with prudence and success his consid- eraljle landed estate, wliic h he inherited frut his abilities were such as soon to call him to the metropolis of the state, where he has since resided, one of its best belo\ed citizens. He liecame a member of the firm of Morrison, Stanley Ov Clark, his asso- ciates being the Hon. George W. Morrison and the Hon. Clinton W. Stanley. After remaining with them for about seven years, he formed a law part- nership with the Hon. Henry H. Huse. 'Fhe firm of Clark iv Huse continued until Ma_\' 24, 1872, when Mr. Clark was appointed Attorney-General of the state, a position he held with great credit to liinrself and benefit to the state, until August. 1876. His ability and learning as a lawyer, his faithful discharge of the duties of Attorney-( General of the state, and his marked judicial al:iilit\' pointed to him as the man to fill the vatanc}- which had us positions in the Bureau until April 4. 1897, when he was appointed by the President, l''irst Deputy Commissioner of Pensions. Mr. Davenport is a member of the James A. Garfield Post, No. 7, (irand Army of the Republic, and of the Union .Soldiers' and .Sailors' Alliance. He has always maintained his deep interest in New Hampshire, and lie says, although he has been in many states and met man\' people, he can say, with all truthfulness, to him New Hampshire and her people are the dearest of all. He was a member of the Republican State ('entral Committee for many years, prior to April, 1881, and has always been an ardent supporter of his partw He prides himself upon the fact that he has not missed \oting in ICeene at any important election since 1866. when he attained the age of tw'enty-one. Mr. Davenport was married Decem- ber 6, 1868, to Ella A. Carpenter. Two daughters have been born to them: Mary Josephine, and Fannie Arabella Davenport, DAVIS, George Moses, Physician, Manchester, was born in Norwich, Vermont, January 50, 1864, son of Ira and Luc\' A. L. (Crary) Da\'is. He is of English descent. His grandfather lived in Nor- wich, Vermont, and was engaged in the horse trade, sending his stock to Boston. His father was a physician of Norwich, being born in Dracut, Massa- chusetts, January 25, 1801, and practicing in Nor- wich, Vermont, luitil his death. Doctor Davis re- ceived his education in the public schools in his na- tive town and in Manchester, whither he came at the age of eight. Later, he studied medicine with Doctor Geo. C. Hoitt, entered Dartmouth Medical School and was graduated in the class of '88. While in college, he spent a year in Tewksbury, Massachu- setts, Hospital. After his graduation he settled in Norwich for a time, taking the practice of Doctor S. H. Currier. Leaving Vermont he spent another year at the Tewk.sbury Hospital and then removed to Bedford, New Ham|3shire, He practiced in that town and in Merrimack for some years, but January i, 1896, he removed to Manchester. He served as hospital steward on the stall of lirigadier- General D. M. White. He is a member of the State Medical Society, Lafayette Lodge of Masons, Royal Arch ('liapter; also of the Royal Arcanum i;k.ori;e m. havis, and United Workmen. Member of stall of .Sacred Heart Hospital. He married I'ebruary 24. 1891, Mabel Lena, daughter of Reul>en and Minerwa Maxham Davis, of Norwich. They have two chil- dren : Hilda Lena and Hanild lr\ing Da\'is. DILLON, Mkh.vki. Aucusrus, Clerk in the Ihiited States Treasury Department, Washington, District of Columbia, was born in Middlesex vil- lage, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, September 29, 1839, son of Patrick Dillon, a native of Cappocpiin, Ireland, and johannah Deneane, of 'I'allagh. Ire- land. He traces his descent from Lish and Nor- man stocks. In 1852 the f.imilv moxcd from Lowell, Massachusetts, to Wilton, New Hamp- siiire, where Mr. Dillon still has his legal lesi- dence. i\ii. hillmi attenilcil llie tonnnun schools in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Willi m. New Hamp- shire; Bryant and Stratton's ( onunercial College, and the National Uni\ersity of Washington. He studied law, and was graduated from the National Lhiiversity Law School, May j8, 1873, and on the following day was .idmitted to the Bar. lie had 128 MEN OF I'ROGRKSS. had an early training as a youth in business in Cambridge and 15oston, Massachusetts, but gave up his employment to enter the Volunteer Army on April 2 2, 1 86 1, at the first call for troops. He served from April 22, i86i.to October 18, 1862, in Company C. Second New Hampshire Volun- teers, and from September 18, 1863, to October 17, 1865, in the Veteran Reserve Corps, as Com- missary Sergeant, as a soldier of Massachusetts. He possesses a medal of honor voted him by Act of Congress for gallant and conspicuous conduct on four different battle fields. 'I'he battle of Wil- liamsburg, Virginia, May 5, 1862, was one of the most hotly contested battles of the war, and during one of the charges of the enemy, as it had been found impossible to withdraw one of our batteries, four guns fell into the hands of the enemy, as our lines were being pressed back. Then occurred a thrilling incident, which displayed the undaunted courage of young Dillon, and won for him the star which Congress awarded for conspicuous bravery. Seeing the pieces in the possession of the enemy, he sprang forward, begging his comrades to follow and retake the guns. They were all youths, and he the youngest. His Lieutenant, seeing him thus exposed to the enemy's fire, and apprehending that it would be concentrated upon the position which that portion of the brigade occupied, shouted to him the order, " Cet down 1 Vou are drawing the enemy's fire." Voung Dillon's reply was more dauntless than refined — "What in hell are we here for? Come on, boys, come on ! We must not let them take that battery." And with his arms raised on high, beckoning his comrades to follow, he ral- lied a gallant group, and rushed into the thickest of the fight, and the batter)- was rescued. Dillon was stricken in the leg by a ball, which felled him, but a moment before the recaptnii-, and was check- ing the flow of blood from the wound, while he w'as venting his wrath in forcible language at the cruelty of fate, which had wrested his musket from his grasp by an e.xploding shell, and shattered it into fragments. Having hastily stanched the flow of blood, he pluckily resumed his place, and con- tinued the fight until he had the satisfaction of witnessing the repulse of the charge. On the i8th of June, prior to the battle of Oak Grove, General Hooker called for volunteers to capture a redoubt on the right of the Williamsburg Road. Voung Dillon was the first to res]3ond, by stepping to the front. His Lieutenant ordered him to fall back, remarking as he did so. " We cannot spare you. There is going to be desperate work to-day, and we need you with us." Dillon replied, •■ General Hooker needs desperate work done, and has called for volunteers, and I am going." With that, he seized his mu.sket, and joined the forlorn hope. Away thev started, and were soon charging across an open field, in the face of a deadly fire from artillery and musketry, leaving many a comrade dead or wounded as they advanced, upon the run. The redoubt was reached ; the parapet gained : and among the first was Dillon to participate in the short, sharp, deadh' conflict which insured victory to the gallant band. They captured many pris- oners, and held the fort until General Hooker tUtU^ M. .\. DH.I.ON. could advance his lines, and take permanent pos- session. Then thev returned to their respective regiments, tu be acclaimed in deafening shouts the heroes of the occasion, and to take part in the battle that followed, known as the battle of the Williamsburg Road. A week after, while there was a lull in the front of the Second New Hamp- shire Regiment, young Dillon performed an act that exhibited his coolness, as well as his disregard of the peril to which he, without orders, exposed himself. He crawled on his hands and knees through the grass and among the bushes in ad- vance of the line into the enemy's camp, over- heard the details of the plans which Long.street had determined upon, safely returned, and commu- MEN OF PROGRESS. 129 nicated to General Hooker what he had oxerheard, and thereby enabled that General so to re-arranslinate hand In hand ( nnlhi I w ith l)a\ - onets and clubbed muskets. Many of the enemy were bayonetted in their tracks, others struck down with the butts of pieces, and onward pressed our line. In a few yards nuire it met a terrible fire from a second line, which in its turn broke. The enemy's third line now bore down upon our thinned ranks in close ordei'. and swept back the right cen- ter. I tried to turn this Hank, but the breaking of our right and center and the weight of the ene- my's lines caused the necessity of falling back, first to the embankment and then to our first position, behind which we rallied to our colors." It was while the .Second New Hampshire was doggedly retreating, step by step, and attempting to form a new line, that the enemy in turn made a charge upon them. Dillnn singled (lut the color bearer of the Forty-ninth lleorgia and laid him in the dust, but he himself dropped, shot through the lungs, at the same moment, tile Inillet passing through his body and breaking three ribs. Notwithstand- ing such a severe injury, he finally recovered, re- enlisted and served two years and two months to the credit of Massachusetts. Since his retirement from the army he has been clerk in the fTnited States Treasury Department and has had four promotions. Among the positions he has held, civil, political and military, are, Caiilain First Company, Union ^'eteran Corps, District of Columliia, 1S85 ; Com- mander George G. Meade Post, Grand Army of the Republic, District of Columbia. iSSi-'82-'S3 ; Commander of Lafayette Post. (Irand Army of the I-lepublic, 1897 ; Founder and (.'ommander-in-Chief Union Veterans Union, iSS6-'87; Founder and Commander of Medal of Honor Legion, 1890- '91- ■93. and member of Harmony Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons from 1864 to present time, and Col- umliia Royal Arch Chapter. He was a pioneer in the organizing of the Giand Army of the Repub- lic. Woman's Relief Cor|_is, Sons of N'eterans, the National Reunion Monument Association,, formed to erect a monument to the rank and file of sol- diers, sailors and marines, who ser\ eti fiom 1861 to 1865 ; and was a charter member of the Washing- ton Aid Association of the ex-Confederates Sol- diers' Home at Richmond. \ irgini.i. He has trav- eled all over the United States from one end of the country to the other, and has made extensixe tours in Ireland, England, Wales, France, Ilalw Switzer- land, Germany, Holland, Helgium. but as he him- self declares, he is more sure than e\ii tli.il " there is no place like home." Mr. Dillon in.irried. July I, 1866, at Camhritlge, Massachusetts, Theresa 130 MEN OF PROCURESS. Quinn of that city. They have had five children : Mabel Thaw, who died in infancy ; Bessie Quinn (now Sturtevant) ; Rose Collier, Agnes Burchard, and iMarie Augusta Dillon (now Rockwell). 1>(|\1,I<'„ JKRKMi.Mi JosKi'U, Lawyer, Nashua, was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, January 23, 1861, son of John and Julia (O'Neil) Doyle. He comes of the good red-blooded County Kerry stock, which docs not avoid its share of fighting; a brother of Mr. Doyle was killed in the Civil \\'ar, and an uncle on his father's side served in the Civil War. As a boy he attended the schools of Milford and .\niherst, New Hampsliirc. Eater on, he studied J. I. IH)VLli. law, reading in the office of C.eorge B. French for three years, and taking a special course of a year in Boston University Eaw .School. He was admitted to the liar August 2n the paternal side he is descended in the eighth generation from Roger Eastman, who landed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1638. Jeremiah Eastman, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who was born in 1732, and who died in 1802. was in the Colonial Congress at Hxeter, from Deerfield, Northwood, and Nottingham, all but one year during the Revolution, and was in the tirst New flampshire Constitutional Convention. Mr. Eastman's line of descent is traced : Roger, 161 1- 1694; John, 1640-1720; Zachariah, born 1679; Jeremiah, born 1704; Jeremiah, 1732-1802; Eph- raim, 1768-1853, and Royal F. Eastman, 1805- 1868. On the maternal side Mr. Eastman is de- scended in the ninth generation from John Mayo, who died in 1676, and who was the first Pastor of the North Church, in Boston. Thomas Mayo, great-great-grandfather of Mr. Eastman, was a pri- vateersman in Revolutionary days, and died from the eft'ects of confinement in a prison ship in New York harbor. Mr. Eastman attended the common schools, and the Academy at Andover, and the Academy at New London. He passed through the last two years of the Chandler Scientific School course at Dartmouth College, and was graduated in 1862. His early training for active life was upon MEN OF I'ROC.RESS. the farm, hut he taught schnol iiKire or less frn the recommendation of the Super- intendent and of the Assistant Astronomer of the Naval ( )liser\atorv. he was ap|3nintetl Professor of Mathematics, United States Navy, with the rank of Lientenant-t'onimander, on February 17, 1865, and has been stationed at the ( )bservatory e\er since that date, doing astronomical work, except when sent away on special scientific expeditions. Since his ajjpointment as Professor in the Navy, he has been promoted to the rank of Coinmander and Cap- I. k. KASIMAN. tain. Professor Eastman ser\ed in the trenches about Washington at the time of (leneral Early's raid, July 12 and 13, 1864. He was Nice-President of the American Association ff)r the Advancement of Science, in 1887 and 1892. In the latter year he was President of the Cosmos Club of Washing- ton, District of Columbia; and in 1889. he was President of the Philosophical Society, of that city. In 1898, he was elected the First President of the Washington Academy of Sciences. In politics he is a tariff for revenue, gold standard, honest money Democrat, l^rofessor I'',astman married, December 25, 1866, Mary J. Ambrose, of Boscawen, New Hampshire. EMERY, Maithkw Caui.i', the last Mayor of \\'ashington. District Columbia, was born in Pem- broke, New Hampshire, September 28, 1818, son of Jacob and Jane (Cault) Emery. He was one of six brothers, all of whom were born and spent their youth on the farm which had been their grand- father's, and upon which their father, Jacob Emery, was born and spent his life, and where he died in 1868 at the age of ninetv-two. The pioneers of the family in this country were two lirothers, John and Anthony Emery, who emigrated with their fam- ilies from Romsey, Hants, England, landing i]i I!o.s- ton, April 3, 1635, and settling in ■■ • )ukl Newber- rie " in the Massachusetts colony. It is on record, twenty \ears later, that John, the great-great-great- great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was fined four pounds, with costs and fees, for obeying the dictates of a kind heart, and a conscience enlightened beytind his day and generation. His offense against the laws of the colony appears to have been the hospitable entertainment of two (Quakers, conduct, the enormity of which was increased by his using argument as to the lawful- ness of his course. Although the Selectmen of his town and fifty citizens, a considerable nimiber in those days of sparse population, signed a petition to have his fine remitted, it was not done. Joseph Emery, grandfather of Matthew Cault Emery, served for six years in the War of the Revolution, fir.st as Lieutenant and afterwards as Captain in the Thirteenth Regiment of the New Hampshire Militia. Matthew ( lault, grandfather in the mater- nal line. ser\'etl four \ears in the patriot army, hav- ing enlisted July 11. i77,S- •!' the age of nineteen. His regiment of rangers, raised b\- the colony of New Hampshire, served first in Colonel Montgom- ery's division of the Cc.mtinental Arm\'. Matthew (jault subsequentl)' became a member of Captain McConnell's company with which he maiched to Bennington and Stillwater. Matthew Cault Emery attended the best schools and academies of his native town, and his father desired to have his edu- cation completed at Dartmouth College. However, to the disappointment of the father, the son decided to forego a college training and begin business life at once; and in 1837, when he was eighteen years old, he left his home on tin- farm and went to Balti- more, where an elder brother was then living. It was in that city that Mi'. Emery settled upon his future business, that of a builder and art liitcct. As was customary in those daj's of thorough .uul ener- getic preparation for life's work, he began with the 132 MEN OF PR()(;RESS. necessary manual traininjj and patiently served the time required to make himself a skilled stonecutter. He received his tirst government contract in 1840, going with a force of men to the quarry where he directed the cutting of the stone for the postoffice department l)uilding in \\'asliington. District of Columbia. lie cstalilished his permanent resi- dence in lluit cit) in 1.S4J. His residence there having debarred him from paiticipaling in the gen- eral elections of the country, he has voted for but one presidential candidate, William Henry Harri- son, whom he saw inaugurated, but he has had a personal acquaintance with all the I'residents except the five preceding William Henrv Harrison. Mr. M. G. EMERY. Emery's work as a contractor and architect on pub- lic buildings in Washington brought to him applica- tion for his services from all parts of the countr_\-. He did much of the stone work of the Capitol, and cut and laid the cornerstone for its extension in 185 i when Daniel Webster delivered the oration. He also cut and squared, free of expense, and on July 4, 1848, himself laid the cornerstone of the Wash- ington monument, for which he received the thanks of the l)Oard of Directors in a series of resolutions, having among its signers, John Quincy Adams, Heniy t'lay, and Robert C. Winthrop. \A'hen the capstone of the monument was set in place, in 1884, marking the completion of the great work, Mr. Emery w-as one of the invited guests. IJefore the breaking out of the war, Mr. Emery had organized a militia company of which he was made ('a])tain. His commission, signed by President Lincoln and Simon Cameron, then Secretary of \\':\r, bears date of May 16, 1861. His company did patrol service for the protection of the government buildings until the arrival of the volunteer troops. During the war. Mr. Enierv was 'J'reasurer of the New Hamp- shire Soldiers' Aid Association, and took charge of the sick and disabled soldiers from his native .state, in the discharge of these duties having occasion to visit Ciettysburg and other battlefields. Early in the war he gave up his home at ]5rightwoo(l. a northern suburb of Washington, for the use of the army. lieing the highest point of land in that part of the countrv, it was made a signal station, and many were the messages transmitted between it and the dome of the Capitol. As he was known to take a deep interest in the improvement of the city, the services of Mr. Emery were much sought in various offices under the local government. He was for several years a member of the Board of Aldermen. In 1870, after a memorable struggle, he was elected Mavor as a citizens' candidate by a majority of three thousand one hundred and ninety-four, every ward giving him a plurality of votes. He was the last Mayor of Washington, the territorial form of government, which had long been under consid- eration, being finally adopted by congressional enactment before his term of office expired. In liis inaugural address as Mayor, Mr. Emery said. " I am a Republican, but my Republicanism is based on principle, and is not mere partisanship. I claim no right which I am not willing to accord to all Americans without regard to race or religion." It is a matter of record that he scrupulously redeemed the promises of his inaugural address, and fulfilled all the duties of his office with great credit and abilitv. In 1872, at the end of thirty years' labor in the business of builder, contractor, and archi- tect, Mr. i'anery, in accordance with a resolution formed at the time of entering upon that business, disposed of his interest to his brother, .Samuel Emery, and has since devoted himself to other enterprises. Mr. Emery has alwavs been known for his active personal interest and luulertakings of a religious and charitable nature. He was one of seven persons who organized the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Wash- ington, and for nearly thiity years has been Presi- dent of its Board of Trustees, a body of which MEN OF PROGRESS. ■33 General Grant was a member. He was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and was for a long- period Trustee of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsyhania. For many years he has been a Regent and Vice-Chancellor of the National flni- versity. He is also a Regent, one of the incorpo- rators and Treasurer of the American University. For about twenty years he was Treasurer of the Associated Charities of the District of Columbia. He aided in 1854 in procuring the charter of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was made its Treasurer, and has served continuously since that time as a Director and is now its President. He- was for some time President of the Franklin Insur- ance Company and of the National Capital Life Insurance Company; a Director of the Metropoli- tan Insurance Company, and first Treasurer of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. He aided in organizing the Washington Market House Com- pany, of which he has been President for many years. He was long a Director of the ITnited States Electric Lighting Company of Washington, serving for part of the time as Vice-President. At an early date he was a Director of the Patriotic Rank, and afterwards, in connection with Mr. Fitz- hugh Coyle, established the Bank of the Republic, of which he was a Director for eight years, for one year being the acting President. He was elected Presi- dent of the Second National Bank in 1877, and has held the position ever since. He was one of the organizers and for twenty years a Director of the National Savings Bank, and he is now a Director in the National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Com- pany, its succes.sor. He is also a Director of the American Security and Trust Company and one of its Executive Committee. The home of the Emery family in Washington is one of a row of three hou.ses built in i860 by Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Senator Rice. The house was not entirely finished when the war broke out and was used by the government for hospital purposes. After the close of the war the house was completed, and was soon after Ijouglit and presented to Gen- eral Grant by his friend.s. Here he lived until he went to the White House as President. The house was afterwards bought and presented to (ieneral Sherman. If was then ])inchased(i l-'ellows. He is a member of the W'onolani et Club, ihe leading social organization of Concord. Mr. Flnunons was married. November 26, 1868, to Sara jane I'landers, of Concord. They have four children, ihiee of whom are living: Harry ('■.. a dry-goods merchant in (Concord; Oscar F., al.so residing in that city, and Harriet D. Kmmons. ITsl\l-iF\, Im'.knk/f.r, Retired Merchant, Man- ilu'ster, was born in (loffstown, New Hampshire, February 12, 1S17. son of Kbenezer and Mary (Faton) l-'errin. His father, who was born in GotTstown, January 24, 1780, was a son of Philip Ferren, who was the First Lieutenant of the F'nst Company of the Ninth Regiment of New Hamp- shire militia, served in the Revolution, and passed the famous winter at Valley ?"orge. In the mater- nal line, Mr. F^erren traces his descent from the EHENKZKU FKKRKN. John Eaton family of Haverhill. Massachusetts, John Eaton being a descendant of Francis Eaton, who came over in the " Mayflower " in 1620. His grandfather on his mother's side, Samuel Eaton, was a Revolutionary soldier and fought at the battle of Bennington under General Stark. Mr. Ferren attended the common schools at Goffstown and was graduated on the road, selling goods and in trade. He began his business career May 27, 1837, traveling until August, 1845, ^^hen he opened a dry-goods and carpet store in Manchester, and there remained in business until 1865, when he retired. Between 1S48 and 185 i he bought consid- erable real estate, which appreciated handsomely. He has never held any political office, and has always refused to ally himself in any way with machine politics. He is a man of very strong con- \ ictions and is quoted as saying, " I have a God that is worth more to me than all the money that is made." Mr. Ferren has given much thought and study to the history of the Crucifi.xion, and is convinced that he has established beyond doubt the exact location of the points of greatest interest to the Christian world in and near Jerusalem. He has always been a temperance man, and in his politics is a Prohibitionist. He was a delegate to the Convention of that party in Indianapolis in 1888 and to the Tenth National 'I'eniperance Con- \ention at .Saratoga Springs in July, 1S91. He belonged to the Sons of Temperance as far back as 1847. He is a member of the First Congrega- tional church of Manchester, and was Treasurer of the Sunday-school for ten years, from 1S83 till 1893, when he resigned. He married August 7, 1849, Adelaide E. Badger. FFR(UTS()N, John, Physician, Manchester, was born in Ireland, in 1829. son of l)a\id and Cath- erine Ferguson. He received his English and classical education from the Order of Jesuits, of which his uncle, Charles Ferguson, was President. After completing his medical and surgical studies in Ireland, he obtained a position as Surgeon on an .\tlantic mail steamer. Those in the old coun- try had then but a crude idea of the United States and Doctor F'erguson's first visit to New York sur- prised and pleased him greatly. \'isiting one of the medical colleges, he went to the dissecting room, always a favorite place with him, and intro- duced himself to the students, then at work upon a cada\er. N'enturing some criticisms and sugges- tions u]M)n their work, which they took with perfect good nature, he was overheard by the Demonstra- tor, who questioned him with regard to himself, and offered him the position of Assistant Demon- strator should he decide to settle in the States. His contract with the steamer e.xpiring soon after, MEN OF PROflRESS. 135 Doctor Ferguson took this position and afterwards received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dart- became Post-Mortem Examiner for the t'oroners of moutii College in 1S79. Doctor Gallinger began New York. He remained in this capacity until the the practice of medicine and surgery in Keene, Civil War began, when he became Surgeon of a New \'ork regiment and went to the front. Later where he remained from ()ct()ber, 1861, until April, 1862, when he removed to Concord. There he was engaged in the practice nf his profession until 1S85, when he was elected to Congress. Since he entered the public ser\ ice, he has gradually dis- continued his iJiaUicc. lie was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1872, 1873, and 1S91; of the ('(institutional Convention in 1876; of the State Senate in 1 878-'7(j-'8o, being Presi- dent of that body for the last two \ears. He was Surgeon-Ceneral of New Hampshire, with the rank of Brigadier-General, in 1871)- 80. From 1882 to 1890 he was Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and was Chairman of the delegation to the Republican Nation.il ('(invention in 1888. He was a member of the i''ort_\-nintii and Fiftieth Con- gresses, and was elected to the Ibiited States Senate in 1891, and re-elected in i8()7. He is at present Chairman of the Senate Committee on Pensions, and is also a ]irominent member of the JOHN Ft;R(;LIS(IN. he served in the same capacit}' in the Tenth New Hampshire Regiment. His health partially failing in a year or more, he resigned and removing to Manchester, he commenced the practice of his pro- fession in that city and has since remained there. Dr. Ferguson was married in 1861 to Elenora Hughes of New York city. GALLINGER, J.-icoB H., Ibiited States Sena- tor, Concord, was bom in Cornwall, Ontario, March 28, 1837, son of Jacob and Catherine (Cook) (jallinger. On the paternal side he is of Dutch descent, his grandfather having emigrated from Ibilland, first to the [Inited .States, and then to Canada. His mother was of American stock. He was educated in the common schools and academies, and studied with prixate tutors. He learned the printing trade in early life, and for a time published a newspaper. He has never lost Committees on Commerce. District of Columbia, his interest in journalism, and has contributed Public Health and National (hiarautine. In Wash- more or less to the newspapers all through his life. ington, as he w.is in ('on((jr(l. Senator C.allin- In 1855 he began the study of medicine in Cin- ger is always a busy man. lie is a Mason, an cinnati, I )hio, and was graduated in 1858. He ( )dd Fellow , and a memlier ol the ( )r(ler of Knights J. II. (;.\i.ijnc;f.r. ■36 1\TF.N OF TROGRKSS. of Honor, of the (lolden Cross, and other fraternal orders ; and he is also a member of various .social clubs. In pdlitics he has always been a stalwart Rei)ubli( an. He was married August 13, i860, to Mary .\nna liailey of Salisbury, New Hampshire. They ha\e had si.\ children : .Mice iM.. Harry 1!., Katharine ('., Annie 1!., Willi. mi II.. and Ralph K. ("lallinger, of whom .Xliie. Ilan\. and .\nnie are dead. William II. and R.dpli I''., have adopted the profession of medicine, and Katharine C, is the wife of Harry H. Norton, Es(.\.. of North Cambridge, Massachusetts. GRI'd'dd'A , Akihur I'liii.lP, Assistant Commis- sioner of Patents, Washington, District of Colum- bia, was born in Methiien. Massachusetts, son of the Reverend Edward H. and Louisa M. (Ware) Greeley. He comes of substantial English stock, bein^ a tlescendant <>i .\ndiew Greeley, who came ..\. I'. UkKia.KV. to this country about 1630. and who was one of the original proprietors of Salisbury, Massachu- setts, where the family li\ed until 1735, when Jona- than, great-grandson of .Xmhew, moved to East Kingston. .Since that lime, the family has resided in New Hampshire. Philip, son of Jonathan, born in l''.ast Kingston in 1750, married Dolly 'I'ilton in 1774, and moved to llopkinton, where he became a prominent citizen. He was Ensign in the Conti- nental ,\rmy. Colonel of Militia and Justice of the Peace. His son Edward moved to Claremont in 1822. The Reverend Edward H. (ireeley, father of the subject of this sketch, was long connected with the New Hampshire Missionary Society, and well known throughout the state. He died in Con- tord in 1S90. Mr. (Jreeley was graduated from the Concord High School in the class of 1876, and from Dartmouth College, with the degree of A. H., in the class of 1SS3. He took his degree of LL. II from the Columbian University in 1886, and the degree of I.E. M. in 1887. In the latter year, he was admitted to the Bar in the District of t'olum- bia. He was appointed Assistant Examiner in the Patent Office in 1884; Principal Examiner in 1891; Examiner-in-Chief in 1895, and Assistant Conunis- sioner in 1897, His appointment as Examiner-in- Chief was made by President Cleveland without solicitation, and although in his politics he was opposed to the administration, he was confirmed by the Senate without opposition. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Patents in 1897 at the recjuest of Commissioner Butterworth, by President McKinle)-, and was again confirmed by the Senate without opposition. On the death of Mr. Butter- worth in January, 1898, Mr. Greeley was strongly urged for Commissioner, receiving the support of the most prominent Republican Senators. Mr. Greeley's appointment to the Patent Office was a result of high standing in the first examination held under the present Civil Service Law, and his pro- motion has been solely upon merit. As Assistant Examiner, he served in the division of metal work- ing B and electricity B, in the latter division having charge of the class of electric railways. When he was appointed Principal Examiner, he was assigned to a newly formed division comprising packing and storing vessels, advertising, etc. He was trans- ferred in 1894 to the division of instruments of precision, and while in charge of this division for a nunil)er of months was Examiner of Trade Marks. From 189 1 -"93 he was a member of the committee in charge of preparation, arrangement, and instal- lation of the exhibit of the Patent Office at the World's Fair, in Chicago, this task involving an extended consideration of the development of nearly every important art represented in the Patent Office. He was also a member of the Com- mittee in charge of the preparation and installation of the Patent Office exhibit at .\tlanta. During the summer of 1897 lie conducted an investigation into abuses of Patent Office practice in a masterly and MEN OF PROGRESS. 137 effecti\'e \va\', displaying jiuliti.il aliility of a iiigh order. Mr. Greeley is a niembcr of the I'si L'psi- lon College Fraternity; of the 11. 1!. I'reiKh Lodge, No. 15. Free and Accepted Masons ; of Lafayette Chapter. No. 5, Royal Arch, and Cohnnhia Com- mander)', No. 2, Knights 'I'emplar, l)istrict nf Cohmiliia. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married November 16, iSqj, to Helene H. AL Herzog. 'I'he_\- ha\e two chil- dren : Arthur Edward, born September 23, iSr)4_, anfl riiilip Herzog (ireeley, born l)eceml)er 29, GROGAN, Frank Willi.s, Naval Architect, Washington, District of Columbia, was born May 21, 18^7, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, son of ]ohn 1. and .Sarah A. (Shapleigh) (irogan. He attended the public schools of Portsmouth, and was afterwards instructed by private tutnrs. At the age of si.xteen, he began to learn ship Inhlding, and served, until he was twenty-one, as regular Government apprentice in the Kittery Nav)' \'artl, during which time he passed through various stages, such as handling and use of tools in ship construction, launching and docking vessels, the making of ships' models, laying down of vessels on the mould loft floor, designing and calculations. When he was twenty-one, he was appointed Naval Draughtsman in the Kittery Navy Yard, hi 1881 he was ordered to report to the Committee of Naval Construction, having charge of the new vessels of the na\y, in connection with the Advisory Jkiard, when he was given charge of the design and calcu- lations for a type of wooden gun-boat for Chinese waters. In March, 1883, he was ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to report to the Chief Con- structor for temporary duty in the bureau of Con- struction and Repair in the Navy Department at Washington, his labors being directed to the design of the hrst of the well-known While .Scpiadron. When the contracts of these vessels had been awarded, he received orders to return to the Kit- tery Navy Yard, to prepare for permanent duty at the New York Navy Yard, where he remained two years, then being called to the Navy Department in December. iS.S:;. In the course of his connection with the liureau of Construction and Repair, he was intrusted with the most intricate work of that bureau, and upon legislation for the first liattle-ships being secured, the Chief Constructor placed him in charge of the designing, calculating, and jireparation of the plans ofthe(iiast line b.itth'-ships Massachusetts, Indiana, and (hegnn. under the direction of the Bureau. ,Mr. Grngan resigned from this positi(jn in April, 189 1, and. with the appro\al and concur- rence of the late Connnodore Theodore D. Wilson, United States Navv, Chief Constructor and Chief nf the liureau of C()nstru( tion and Repair, and his successor, ('omnnnlnre Philip Hichborn, and on the recomnienclatidn (if the late Rear Admiral Richard W. .Meade, United States Navy, he was api^ointed as Assistant nf the llnard of Manage- FRANK w. (;rui;an. ment of the United States Government E.xhibits at the World's Columbian E.xposition, and ordered to report for duty as Naval Architect and ( 'hief Tech- nical Assistant to the representative of the Navy Department (Admiral Meade) on the Hoard, serv- ing until its terminatinn. in 1894. .\m(ing his other duties was the designing of the full-sized model battleship, Illinois, the (< inception of Admiral Meade, and famous as the " brick ship," as an exhiliit for the Navy Department at the World's Fair. In the smnmer of 1X91, Mr. Grogan was ordered to Chicago, personallv, to supervise the construction of the Illinois, and also was placed in charge of the exhibits of ihe ISmeau of Construc- tion and Repair, ,inil liureau of N'ards ,ind Docks of the Navy I )ep.uluunt. Al llie deflication of the World's Fair, in (»cto]i(i-, iS(|j, hi' was pre- sented bv the Dirt'ctor\' \\ illi a niedal, as one of ',^,8 mf:n of progrkss. the designers of the Kxposition. He also designed and superintended the Iniilding of the structure for the exhibit of the International Navigation Com- pany in the Transijortation lUiilding, consisting of the amidships portion (full size) of the trans-Atlan- tic liners, St. Louis and St. Paul, by which were shown the passenger accommodations. He also designed the buildings for the Naval Observatory exhibit, and built by contract the sixteen and twelve-inch cement guns for the Pennsylvania rail- road to complete tlie exhibit for showing their method of transporting hcuy ordnance across the continent. Mr. Cirogau was a member of the Gen- eral Committee, World's Congress Auxiliary on Kngineering Congresses of the World's Exposition of 1S93, of which K. L. Corthell was chairman, and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Divi- sion of Marine and Naval Engineering and Naval Architecture, of which Commodore George \V. .Melville, Engineer-in-Chief, I'nited States Navy, was Chairman, whicli was held under the direction of the World's Congress Auxiliary ; he was also an honorary member of the Illinois Naval Reserve Association. Mr. (Jrogan after the termination of his work at the World's Fair, was again employed by the Navy Department at Washington upon de- signs for vessels for the Navy, and in connection with this duty is acting in advisory manner to the Hydrographic Inspector's office in the Coast and (ieodetic Survey, his duties pertaining to the de- sign and construction of the Coast Survey vessels. He is now detailed to F.lizabeth, New Jersey, to superintend the construction of a steel coast survey steamer for service in Alaska and the AUeutian Islands. Mr. Grogan has been an active Odd Fel- low. At the age of twenty-two he was made a Noble Grand of Osgood Lodge, No. 48, Independ- ent Order of Odd F'ellows, and the following year was made a Right Worthy Grand of New Hamp- shire, and with one exception (in ("alifornia) was the youngest member of any Grand Lodge in the counti"y. In the same year he was chosen Dictator of Governor Goodwin Lodge, No. 1,661, Knights of Honor. He was a member of the Portsmouth City Council in i8vk Post C.iadu.ite Si hool. He was Chair- man of the Wakefield, New Hampshire, Board of Health, and a member of the School Board. He was a member of the Theta Helta ('hi Praternit}' at Yale. Doctor Haskell married, ( )ctober 2.S, i,S(/), Marietta A. ISIake of Wakeheld, New Hamp- shire. ll.\RlxlM.\N. A\A'HA H,\VEN. Physiii.ui, Laco- nia, was boiii in .Mbany, New I lanipsliire, ()i tuber 140 MEN OF PROf-.RKSS. 14, 1857. son of Nathaniel G. and Rlioda H. was High Priest in 1897-98 ; of Pythagorian Coun- (Allard) Harrinian. He is of KngHsh descent, cil. Royal and Select Masters; and of Pilgrim Corn- tracing his ancestry back to John and Leonard mandery. Knights Templar, Laconia. He was Emi- Harriman, who came to this coimtry from Rowley in 163S. He received his education in the com- .^. > A. H. HARRIMAN. mon school, in a private High School in Lovell, Maine, and in the academies in Fryeburg and Bridgton. Maine. His jjrofessional studies were pursued at Howdoin C'ollege Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1883. He commenced practice in Mercer, Maine, but after eight months removed to Sandwich, New Hampshire, where he remained for three years and a half. In November, 1887s he settled in Laconia, and has remained there up to the present time. He has attained a promi- nent position in his profession, and has been most successful in the management of difficult cases, both surgical and medical, where skill and accurate knowledge are requisite. He is an active member of New Hampshire Medical Society and the \\ inni- pesaukee Academy of Medicine. A contributor to periodical medical literature and to " The Refer- ence I Iand-l!iM.k (if Medical Sciences." He was a member of the School lioard of Laconia for four years, and for three years was President of the Board. lie is a diniilted member of Delt.i Lodge, Ancient Free and .Accepted Masons, Lovell, Maine ; of I'nion Chapter, Royal Arch Nhisons, of which he nent Commander of the latter in iS96-'98. Doctor Harrinian has always been a Democrat, though he never took an active part in politics. He was mar- ried I''ebruary 10. 1884. to Katherine K. Walker of Lovell, Maine. They have two sons: Haven Walker and Nathaniel |ov Harrinian. HEFF"ENGER, Arthur Cowton, Physician, Retired Navy Surgeon. Portsmouth, was born at Cumberland. ALiryland, F)ecember ij. 1852, son of I. .Alexander and Catherine Lane llefl'enger. He •J*^^^ ^^^ A. C. IlK^'FENCKK. was prepared for college by private tutors, entered the I'niversity of \'irginia, and was graduated in 1874, and took a medical course in the L'ni\ersity of Maryland, in 1875. After leaving college, he entered the navy as Assistant Surgeon, and was ]Momoted in .Marcli, 1878. After a term of service of sixteen years, he retired. For over three years of that time he was in South .America, during the I'eru-Chili war, following the armies, and acquired most of his wide experience as a Surgeon during that time. He spent five years on special duty under the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, during which time he designed and built the United States Naval Quarantine Hospital, at Widow's Island, MKN OF PR()(;RK.SS. 141 Maine. He retiiL-d nii acroiint iif ill liualtli acquired lay exposure in a ln>|iital climate, and since this time has been in prai tire in the city of Portsmouth. Doctor HetTen^er has always been a Republican. He is a member nf the ISdard i>f Water Commissioners, also of the lldanl of Instruc- tion of the city of I'ortsmouth, and of tiie State Board of Medical Examiners, l)esides numerous societies. He was married in 1878 to ]''anny ('., daui;hter of Commodore Chailcs W. I'i( kerinj;-, Ignited States Navy. 'I'he)- have six children : Mary Stearns, Katharine, Constance, I'riscilla Stearns, Francesca, and Ch.uies I'ickeriui; Hef- fenger. ll(»ld!S, lusKPH ( )I,IVKR. AFeniberof Cio\ernor"s Coinicil and Real Estate Dealer, North Hamp- ton, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 1855, son of [oseph Stacey and Marv Dearborn (Andrews) Hobbs. On the paternal side he is descended from Morris Hobbs, who settled in Hampton in 1637, comint; to this country from England. ( )ne of [oseph's ancestors was |ohn attended the llrinuner School in lloston. and the Massachusetts Agricultural College. For five years he was in the employ of Wadley, Spurr & Com- pany, wholesale grocers, in lioslon, leasing them to go into the commission business with his father, with whom he remained twelve years. This enter- prise Mr. Hobbs ga\e up u])on coming to New Hampshire. His present business is farming, but he devotes much time to real estate in Boston, Som- erville, f lldKNi;. Physician, Wolfboro. was born in Waketiekl, New Hampshire, September 26. 1821, adopted son of \\'illiam Home and Sally Home of Wolfboro, New Hampshire. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas.sachusetts, taking the classical course, and was graduated in 1844. He then studied medicine with Doctor George B. Garland of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and with Doctor L F. Hall of Wolfboro. He attended the old Tremont Medical School in Boston, when Doc- chusetts, and later to Newark. New Jersey. In i860 he settled in Wolfboro, where he has remained ever since. He is one of the leading physicians of Carroll county, and is highly respected in the com- munity. He held the oflfice of Examining Surgeon from 1868 to 1884. He is a member of the State Medical Society, and of the Carroll County Medi- cal Society. He is a member of the First Unita- rian Society of Wolfboro. in politics Doctor King is a Republican. LANGDON. WooDiiURV, one of the most influ- ential business men of New York, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 22, 1836, son of Woodbury and Frances (Cutter) Langdon. He was fitted at the Portsmouth Grammar School, but did not enter college. His commercial career was begun in Bo.ston. but in 1863 he removed to New York to represent the house of F"rothingham MEN OF PROGRflSS. 143 &: C'oiiipan\- of tlic forniL-r city. He was Lulniitted to partnership in t868. and two years later the firm was changed to Joy, Langdon \' Company. It is to-day one of the oldest and best known commis- sion houses in the country. Mr. Langdon is a man of many interests. He is a Director of the Central National ISank, National Hank of Commerce. Cer- man American Fire Insurance Company, and New York Life Insurance Company, also Director Title Ciuarantee Ov Trust Company. He is a Vice-Presi- dent of the New York Chamber of Conunerce, and since 1888 has been a member of the Kxecutive Committee. In 1890 he was made a member of the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners of the Citv and Countv of New York. He was a Direc- W()oi)i;URV i..\Mnjox. tor of the New England Society, a member of the ITnion League Club, and has been its Vice-Presi- dent since 1889. In politics he is an ardent Re- pul)lican. He married in 1896, F'.lizabeth I'llwyn, daughter of Alfred Elwyn. LINCOLN, Nath.\n Smiiii, I'hvsician. Wash- ington, District of ('olumbia, was born in (Gardner, Massachusetts, son of Reverend Increase Sumner and Oracia Eliza (Smith) Lincoln. His ancestors on both sides were English, his father being a descendant of the famous Lincolns of Hingham, 1635. and to which Ri'e'sident Lincoln also belonged. On the maternal side he is descended from Rever- end Peter Bulkley of Pulkley Manor, England. His great-grandfather was Oeneral Jonathan Chase of Revolutionary fame, and it is a curious coincidence that while on the one side, (leneral Chase drew up the articles of svnrender for ISurgoyne's army at Saratoga, C.eneral benjamin Lincoln received the sword of Cornwallis, w hen he suirendered to W'ash- intrton at Yorktown. I Jocloi- Lincoln's familv is distinguished, not onh' in w.ir ])ut in the ranks of science and learning. Mis giandf.ither. Doctor Nathan Smith, was the most celebrated surgeon of his day. having founded the medical schools of \'ale and Dartmouth, and cuiupying the Surgical chair of \'ale at the time of his death in 1829. He was also Professor of Surgery at liowdoin College and at the University of Vermont. At the time of Doctor Lincoln's birth antl foi' man\- _\ears after, his father. Reverend Increase S. Lincoln, held the pas- torate of the First Congregational chiuTh of Gard- ner, Massachusetts. He was witleh' known as a scholar and associated himself with the abolition party at an early stage of its e.xistence, being a N. S. LINC()I.N. warm friend of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd (iarrison. He died in 1890, at the age of ninety- one, at that time being the oldest Cnilari.in mini.s- Massachusetts, wh(j emigrated to this country in ter in the I'nited States, .md having been actively 144 MKX t)F I'ROGRESS. engaged in the ministry for sixty-five years. Doc- tor Lincoln was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1850, receiving the degree of Hachelor of Laws and Master of Arts, and since then that of Doctor of Laws, from his Alma Mater. He attended med- ical lectures at the University of Mar\-land, receiv- ing his degree from that institution in 1852. Until January, 1854, he practiced in lialtimore and since that date, has resided in Washington, holding many offices of distinction. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Chemistry in the Columbian Univer- sity ; in 1S59, lie was made I'rofessor of Theory and Practice of Medicine; in i860. Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, and in 1861, Professor of Surgery, holding the latter chair until 1874, when he resigned on account of the pressure of private practice. In 1 861, he was appointed by President Lincoln, Surgeon to the District of Columbia Vol- unteers. He was Surgeon-in-Chief of the hospitals established in Washington b)' the Quartermaster's Department in 1861. In 1866 he was elected one of the Surgeons of the Providence Hospital, resign- ing in 1S75. For a number of years he was Phy- sician to the Deaf Mute College and to several other institutions. He has made surgery a specialty, and has performed successfully a large number of important operations, including amputation at the hip joint, lithotomy, removing tumors from the region of the head and neck, ligation of the large arteries, etc. Doctor Lincoln is a member of the District of Columbia Medical Association, being Vice-Presi- dent in 1872 and President in 1875 ^"<^' iS76;a member of the .American Medical Society, Presi- dent of the .\lumni .Association of the University of Maryland and a member of the Philosophical Soci- ety of Washington. Doctor Lincoln married in 1877, Miss Jeanie T. Could, daughter of the late Judge George Gould of the Supreme Court Bench of the State of New \'ork, and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals. He has two children by this marriage : George (Inuld and Natalie Sumner Lin- coln. OSG()()D. .\iiiiis()N Newton. Lunibcrnian, Sun- cook, was born in Allenstown, New Hampshire, March 16, 1836, son of Ira li. and .Alice (Prescott) Osgood. He traces his descent from Christopher Osgood, of Ipswich, England, who died in 1650, and belongs to the seventh generation of the family in this country. The siibject of this sketch received his education in the common schools of his native town and at Pembroke Academy. After leaving school he spent three years in Boston. In 1S60, he settled in Pembroke, where he engaged in lum- bering, preparing his lumber for the market on the site of the old mill once owned by his father. He has been most successful in his business enter- A. .\. O.SdUDlP. prises, and owns much valuable real estate in Pem- broke and Allenstown. Mr. Osgood was a member of the Legislature in 1878 and 1879, and was a member of the lioard of Selectmen of Pembroke for a number of years. He is a Thirtv-second Degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pyth- ias, a Patron of Husbandry, and is affiliated with the Grange of Pembroke. He is a member of the Methodist Church. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Osgood was married, December 17, 1S65, to Mary K., daughter of William A. and Julia (I'pham) Phelps. .Ml (jri'.S'I'l'A', Fr<;KNK F.. Phxsician and Sur- geon, Nashua, was born in Litchfield, New H.imp- shire, October i i, 1843, ^"" of Isaac and Margaret Ann (Chase) McQuesten. His family, resident in Litchfield since 1735, '^ "^ Scotch-Irish origin, the pioneer ancestor being William McQuesten, who emigrated from the north of Ireland (Coleraine). Doctor McQuesten received his education in the public .schools of Nashua, graduating from the Hijrh School in i860. He then entered Blanchard MEN OF PROGRESS. 145 Academy, Pembroke, and after a two years" course entered the Scientific Department of Dartmoutii College. Two years later he began the study of medicine with Doctor losiah O. Graves, of Nasiiua. He attended one course of lectures at Dartmoutii College, and two courses at the Jefferson Medical College, receiving the degree of M. D. from the latter institution, March 10, 1866. In 1872 and in 1892 he took a full course of lectures at the medical college from which he received his degree. After a few months' practice in Lynn, Massachusetts, Doc- tor McQuesten liegan the practice of medicine in Nashua, January i. 18(17. He is to-day the oldest practicing physician in the city, although by no means the oldest physician in point of years, lie has enjoyed many honors at the hands of the public as well as at the hands of his fellow physicians, and is to-day one of the most widely known and re- spected physicians in the state. He was City Phy- sician in 187 I ; Secretary of the Board of Education in i87i-'72; a Representative to the General Court from Ward Two in iS73-'74, and was Secretary of the Board of Pension E.xaminers from 1893 to 1897. Doctor McQuesten's practice is general, and is, I-,. F. M. ot'ESTEN. beyond dis]:)ute, the largest in the city. He is espe- cially noted as a surgeon, ant! is frequently called upon to perform difficult ojjerations in all sections of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, lie is a member of the Ann-ric.m .Medical Association, American Association of Railway Surgeons, the New Hampshire My^lical Society, holding the office of President in t8():;; the Nashua Medical Society, of which he was President in 189J, and of the New \'ork Medico-Legal Society. He is a Mason, a uRinber of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Knights 'I'em- plar, and Mystic Shrine. He has traveled exten- sively, both in this countr\' and abroad. He is not only a good physician but is also a good citizen, taking an earnest, active interest in every progres- si\-e movement. While in politics he has always been a Democrat, until the ISrvan campaign, and, at times, has taken an active part in public affairs, he has never allowed his political interests to interfere in the least with his professional work. In 18G8, he married Lizzie M., daughter of Solomon Spalding, of Nashua. She died in 1877. He married, in 1879, Mary Abbie, daughter of Joseph A. Howard, of the same place. She died in 1885, and in May, 1S87, he married Anna E., daughter of William R. .Spalding, of Lawrence, INLassachusetts. Thev have three children: I'hiHp, Josei_ihine. and Eugene 1''. McQuesten, Jr. PILLSBURY, Ai.iiKur Enoch, E.\-Attorney- (ieneral of Massachusetts, Boston, was born in Milford, New Hampshire, August rg, 1849, son of Josiah \\'ebster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pills- bury. ( )n the paternal side he is of English descent, through William Pillslnnv, who came from Derbyshire and settled in Newbury (now Newbury- port), Massachusetts, in 1641. His gieat-grand- father, Parker Pillslnny. was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. His father was educated for a professional career, being graduated from Dart- mouth in 1840, but in \-iew of his health was com- pelled to adopt an out-door life, and lietame a farmer. On the maternal side he is descended from John Barnet and John Dinsmoor, original •Scotch settlers of Londonderrw New Hampshire. Mr. Pillsbury attended the High School in his nati\e town, Ajipleton Academy, New Ipswiih, New Hampshire, and l.,i\\rence Acadein\, (iioton, Massachusetts, where he graduated ,nul enterLd Harvard in 1867, liul did not Hnish the course, leaving college to teai li school and to study law in the West. He read l.iw wilh lames i)insuioor, his uncle, at Sterling, Illinois, and was admittetl to the Bar of that stale. Returning to the East, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1871, settled in Boston and began the practice of his profession the same year. .\s a lawyer he has been highly 146 MEN OF PROCRKSS. successful. lie is counsel for numerous large cor- porations and for some years past has devoted himself principalh' to this class of business, having declined judicial and other public positions. He has published a number of legal arguments and addresses, and conlriliuu-d to legal and other .VLP.ERT E. PII.I.SIUJRV. periodicals. Mr. I'illsliurv was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1876, 1877, and 1878. From the beginning he took his place among the leaders. He was elected to the Senate of 1884, and was Iwdce re-elected. In 1885, he was unani- mously chosen President of the Senate, an honor again conferred upon him a _\car later. From 1891 to 1893 inclusive he was .\ttorney-(;eneral of the Commonwealth. He was prominently mentioned for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1892, and was the leading candidate for the nomi- nation against Governor Creenhalge in 1893. Mr. Pillsbury was President of the Mercantile Library Association in 1879; he has been the President and a Director of the United States Trust Com- pany since its organization, and a Tru.stee of the Franklin Savings Pank for about ten years. Since 1S96 he has been T^ecturer on ('onstitutional Law in the Law School of Poston University, and he was recently appointed a Commissioner to revise the charter of the City of Po.ston. He is a member of the Algonquin, Art. and L'niversity Clubs; of the Massachusetts, Middlesex, and other political clubs ; \'ice-President of the .Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; a member of the .American Academy of Political and Social Science ; and various other scientific, charitable, and literary societies. Mr. I'illsbury deli\ered the annual oration before the ISoston City Government on the Fourth of July, 1890. The honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Harvard Col- lege in 189 I. I'l^A RS( )\. KiiWARii Naihan, Nhuiager of the Rumford I'rinting Company. Concord, was born in Webster. .September 7, 1859. son of fohn C. and E. N. PEARSDN. Lizzie S. (Colby) Pearson. He was prepared for college at the Warner High School and at Pen- acook Academy, entered Dartmouth, and was grad- uated in the class of 1881. He then taught for a year in the public schools of Washington, District of Columbia. He was Associate Editor of the Concord Evening Monitor and Independent States- men from 1882 to 1890; Managing Editor of the same from 1890 to 1898, and ]5usiness Manager of the Republican Press Association from 1892 to 1898. January i, 1898. he resigned the two posi- tions last named to become Manager of the Rum- ford Printing Company, a corporation organized by him to assume by purchase the general printing business of the Republican Press Association. He was elected Public Printer by the Legislature in MEN OF PROGRESS. 147 1S93, and re-elected in 1895. Mr. Pearson was married, December 6, 1882, to Addie M. Sargent, of Lebanon. Thex' have four children : Edward N.. Jr.. Robert H.. John W.. and Mildred Pearson. PEA RS( )N. John Couch, Penacook, President of the Riiinford Printing Company of Concord, was born in lioscawen, New Hampshire, May 26, 1835, son of Nathan and Eliza (Couch) Pear- son. He was educated in the common schools, at Rimball Union Academy, Meriden, and at the Merrimack Normal Institute, Reed's l''erry, New Hampshire. He followed the vocation of farmer and wool grower in Webster until 1871, when he engaged in mercantile pursuits, continuing the lat- ter for a short time in Penacook, to which place he removed in 1876. and where he has since resided. PEARSON, John H.xrris, Concord, was born in Sutton, New Hampshire, March 17, 18 iS, son of Thomas and Abigail (Ambrose) Pearson. His mother was the daughter of PHder Ambrose, for many years Paptist minister at Sutton. Her great- grandfather was a relative of Lord Nelson, and came from England and settled in Newburyport, I\Lassachusetts. He was also a Raptist minister. Mr. Pearson's earlier eduiational achantages were limited. Later he attended the school at Henni- ker and Hopkinton Acadeni\'. He has been in business since he was twent}-one years of age. He built the Penacook Flour Mills and was in the flour and grain business in Depot Square for twcnty-flve years. He was also engaged for a time in the man- ufacture of flour in Akron. ( )hio, and at ( )gdens- burgh, New \'ork. Mr. Pearson stands in the first rank of New Hampshire business men. He was the first man in Concurd to liring flour and grain in large cpiantities from the West. He is known as "the great New Hampshire Railroad fighter." He has won his way in the world by hard and perse\eiing work. i'"oi years he was a A^. J. C. PEARSON. Mr. Pearson was a member of the Legislature in 1871, 1872, and 1887, and was State Senator in 1889. He has also served as County Connnis- sioner, has filled various town offices, and is a Director in banking and other corporations. He married Lizzie S. Colby of Nashua. The)' ha\e 1 )irector in the ConconKS; Montreal Railroad, and three sons: Edward N., of Concord, John \\'., of is now^ next to the largest stockholder in the road. ]5oston, and Harlan C. Pearson of Concord, gradu- He is an Episcopalian and a Mason. Mr. Pearson ates of Dartmouth College in 1881, 1883, and 1893 has been a Democrat all his life. In 1839 he was respectively. married to Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Putter- J. H. I'K..\RS()N. .48 MEN Ol' I'ROCRKSS. field; she died in 1879. 'I'iic)' h;id one son : Charles Pearson, who was graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege, and died in 1883. Having lost his first wife, Mr. Pearson in 1889 was married to Jessie Ridgelej-, daughter of the late Colonel Jesse A. Gove, United States Arni\', who was killed in the Civil War. PKRKIN.S, Ai.iiKKr Alona), i!ank President and Treasiner, Somersworth, was born in (.)ssi- pee. New Hampshirt, March 6, 1826, son of Levi and Maria (Desniazes) Perkins; and died March 16, 1898. His father was a native of Wells, Maine, and a descendant of one of the early English set- tlers of that region. His mother was born in New- buryport, Massachusetts, her father having come to America from France near the close of the last century. The subject of this sketch attended the district schools and for sexcral terms the academies of Effingham and Wakefield. At the age of twenty- one, he bought a country store in his native village and conducted it for fi\e years. In November, 1852, he was chosen Treasurer of the Great Falls & Conway Railroad. He was an officer of the road in Somersworth and was chosen Superinten- A. A. I'KKKINS. dent in 1853, when the road was in a feeble condi- tion. Mr. Perkins devoted his energies to build- ing up the line, extending it from Milton to North Conway, and from .Somersworth to Conway Junc- tion. In 1873 his health being somewhat impaired. he resigned the position and ffir several years spent the winters in Florida and the summers in the North. In 1.S76, he was elected Treasurer of the Somersworth Savings Bank. He was also elected President of the Great Falls National Bank. He was a member of the School Committee, and was Alderman for three terms. In 1859 and i860, he was a member of the (General Court. In 1845, Mr. Perkins was married to Abby Crosby ISean of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, who died in 1S91. He was again married in November. 1892, to Mrs. Harriet Bates LeGro, widow of Captain Edgar B. LeGro of .Somersworth. PORTER, Royal Hkrvev, lianker, Keene. was born in Wendell, Franklin county, Massachusetts, August 21, 1827, son of Noah and Nabby (Comins) Porter. He is of English stock, being a descend- ant in the seventh generation from John Porter, who was born in Dorset, England, in 1596, and came to this country, settling in Hingham, Massa- chusetts, in 1635. He was educated in the com- mon schools and at New Salem Academy, Williston Seminary, and at Northlield, New Hampshire. He worked on his father's farm in the summers until he was twenty-one, attending school in the winters up to the time he was sixteen, when he commenced teaching, and taught terms in New Salem and Hardwick. Massachusetts, and at Keene, West- moreland, Marlborough, and Dublin, New Hamp- shire. At the age of twenty-one he became a teacher in a public school at Laurel, Maryland, and remained there a year, boarding with the father of Senator Gorman, who was his pupil. He then accepted a position as l'rinci]xil in a private school in Georgetown, Di.strict of Columbia, and held it ff)r two years, when he was appointed Discount Clerk in the Farmers iV Mechanics' Bank of that city, a position he held for about three years. Mr. Porter, during his residence in the District of Columbia, frequently visited the Capitol, where he heard many of the famous orators and statesmen of the day: Sumner. Webster, Clay, Calhoun. Hen- ton, Cass, Cobb. Hale, Mann and others, and wit- nessed many dramatic scenes of those stormy times, among them the vote in the House of Rep- resentatives on the repeal of the Missouri Compro- mise. He was elected Cashier of the Cheshire Bank of Keene. and entered upon his duties Octo- ber I, 1S55. He held the position until January 1, 1898. when he was elected \'ice-President, and his son, Walter R., who had been associated with him in MKN OF PROCRESS. 149 the liank for eighteen \ears, was chosen Cashier to R()BINS()N, Iohn LoMiiARn, for man)' years a succeed him. In lanuarw 18(14, the hank became a leading Physician and Surgeon of Manchester, and national institution, and increased its capital from who died in that city June 13. 181)6, was born in one hundred thousand dollars to two hundred therett Stanton, born in 1873. STFLARNS, ONsr.dw, twice Governor of New Hampshire, and one of the best known railroad men in New England, was born in Billerica, Massa- chusetts, August 30, 1810, and died in Concord, New Hampshire, December 29, 1878. He was the son of John Stearns, a prosperous farmer of Billerica, and a grandson of Isaac Stearns, a well-known and influential citizen of Middlesex county, Massachu- setts, who held various local and state offices, and was for several years a iTiember of the Executive C(;uncil. Onslow Stearns remained at home, at- tending school and academy and working on his father's farm until he was seventeen years of age. In 1S27 he went to I'.oslon and was employed as 154 MKN OF PROGRESS. clerk in the drj'-goods jobbing house of Howe iV' Holbrook, a iirm afterwards better known as J. C. Howe & Company. In 1830 he went to Virginia, and was employed by his brother, John O. Stearns, in the engineering department of the construction ONSI.OW .SIE.VKNS. of the Chesapeake \' Ohio canal. In 1833 he be- came associated with his brother in contracts for tlie construction of various railroads, among which were the Philadelphia & Columbia, the German- town, the Philadelphia ^V Trenton, the Philadelphia & Norristown, the Delaware & Atlantic, the Cam- den & Amboy, the Brooklyn & Jamaica, the Phila- delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore, the Elizabeth- town \- Somerviile, and the Baltimore & Ohio rail- roads. In 1837, after his connection with these enterprises had terminated, he became contractor in the construction of the Charlestown Branch Rail- road in Massachusetts and of the Wilmington .& Haverhill Railroad. The former of these became a part of the Fitchburg Railroad, and the latter a part of the Boston iS: Maine. He also completed the construction of the Nashua & Lowell Railroad, of which road, on its completion in 183S, he be- came Superintendent. In 1845 '^^ resigned his position as Superintendent and was appointed Agent of the Northern Railroad of New Hamp- shire for the purpose of building its road from Con- cord to West Lebanon. In May, 1852, he was chosen President of the Northern Railroad, and held the position until his death, twent\'-seven years later. Mr. Stearns was also General Super- intendent of the Vermont Central Railroad from 1S52 to 1855, a short time a Director in the Ogdensburgh Railroad, and from 1857 to 1875 a Director in the Nashua & Lowell Railroad. He was also for a time President of the Sullivan Rail- road, the Contoocook Valley, and the Concord Ov; Claremont railroads. In the management of the various railroads with which he was connected, Mr. Stearns won a reputation for enterprise and shrewdness which few New England men acquired, and his services were sought beyond the geographi- cal limits to which his operations had been con- fined. In Jul)', 1866, he was chosen President of the Old Colony S: Newport Railroad, as the Old Colony Road was at that time called, and during his administration the Cape Cod Railroad and the New Bedford & Taunton Railroad were consoli- dated with the Old Colony & Newport, under the name of the Old Colony Railroad. The South Shore and the Du.xbury & Cohasset railroads were also added to the System, and the Old Colony Steamboat Company was formed and purchased the boats of the Narragansett Steamship Company. Of the Steamboat Company he was also made President. In 1S74 Mr. Stearns was chosen Presi- dent of the Concord Railroad, and held that posi- tion until his death. In November, 1877, he re- signed the office of President of the Old Colony Railroad, finding that its duties superadded to those in other directions were making serious in- roads on his health. To the performance of all these duties he brought perhaps a more thorough equipment than was possessed by any man in New England, and one surpassed in completeness by few men in the country. Beginning his career at the foundation of railroad construction, there was no department in railroad management with the details of which he was not familiar. Few men have had imposed on them more arduous labors. To the performance of these he devoted not only his days, but many hours of the night, and to the pressure of their burden may be attributed his comparatively early death. Nor did railroad inter- ests absorb the whole of his time. In 1862 he was chosen a Republican member of the New Hamp- shire Senate, and in 1863, having been re-chosen, was President of that body. In 1864 he was a Delegate-at-large from New Hampshire to the Re- publican National Convention at Baltimore, and on MEN OF PROGRF.SS. '55 the 7th of January, i86g, was nominated for Gov- ernor. He was inaugurated June 3 in that year. He was re-chosen the next year in opposition to his wishes and served for a second term. During his administration, which was characterized by a wise conservatism and an economical management of the finances of the state, tiie state debt was re- duced nearly one third and the state tax more than one half. .Xs chief magistrate he gave close atten-- tion to details, and no interest failed to receive his patient and careful study. Mr. Stearns was mar- ried June 27, 1S45, to Mary A., daughter of the Hon. Adin Holbrook of Lowell, Massachusetts. She died July 2/, 1895. < 'ne son and four daugh- ters survive liini. In 1S46 he made Concord his permanent hdnie. STEARNS, Ezra S., Secretary of State of New Hampshire, was born in Rindge, New Hamp- shire, September i, 1S38, son of Samuel and Mary (Moore) .Stearns. He received his education in the public schools, by means of private tutors, and in Chester, New Jersey. He taught school for a EZRA S. STEARNS. time in the latter place. For several years he was connected with publishing houses in lioston, New York, and Philadelphia, and subsequently was Manager and Editor of a newspaper in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1875 he published a history of Rindge, and in 1887 one of .\shbnrnliam, Massa- chusetts, both works of great value in point of historical accuracy and literary skill. He was Moderator of Rindge for more than twenty years. State Senator in i887-'89, and a member of the Legislature in i864-'6s-'66 '67, and 1870. While he was holding a seat in the House in 1891, he was elected Secretary of State. Among the duties of his first year in this office was the inauguration of the Australian ballot system in New Hampshire, and in this, as in other duties of the position, Mr. Stearns acquitted himself with high credit. In 18S7 Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He is a member and Vice-Presi- dent of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, member of the .Vmerican Antiquarian Society, of the New Hampshire and other histori- cal societies, and from time to time he has con- tributed many articles upon the early history of his native state. SWART, U'li.r.iAM Drummonh, Manufactiu'er, Nashua, was born in Margaretville, New York, July g, 1856, son of William R. and Eliza (Druni- mond) Swart. His ancestors on both sides came from Holland and were among the fust European settlers of New York state, locating at and near Kingston on the Hudson river. His great-grand- father, son of Samuel Swart, lost his entire pos- sessions at the time the IJritish burned the city of Kingston, during the Revolutionary War, and his grandfather, Samuel Swart, served throughout the War of 1S12 with honor and distinction. On the maternal side he traces his ancestry back nine generations to Walerandt Du Mont, who married in Kingston, January 13, 1664, Margaret Hendrick, and who was at that time serving on the staff of the Noble Lord Director, General .Stuyvesant, in the Netherlandish service, stationed at Kingston, New York. William Drummond Swart was educated in the public schools of Margaretville and at the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, finishing at the age of eighteen. After leaving school, he was in the employ of Evans, Peak & Company, of New York city, wholesale dry goods merchants, for five years ; and with Bates, Reed & Cooley in the same business, two years. In 188 1, he engaged in the decorative art business which he carried on successfully in Newark, New Jersey, for seven years. .After spending two years in travel in this country, he located in Nashua, New Hamp- shire, in F'ebruary, 1890, going into the retail lum- ber business with Cli.irles A. Roh\', under the firm IS6 MEN OI' I'ROCRKSS. name of Roby & Swart. Two years later the firm purchased the edge tool works in the same city and added a wood working plant. In 1S94 the retail business was consolidated with F. D. Cook & Com- pany, Roby & Swart retaining the manufacturing and wholesale business under the name of Roby cS: Swart Manufacturing Company. Mr. Swart is a Director in the former company and Director and Treasurer in the latter. He is also a Director in the Nashua Machine Company, in the Nashua Trust Company, and Director and Treasurer of the Nashua Building Company. In 1893 to 1895 he was President of the Board of Trade. He was a mem- ber of the Common Council from 1893 to 1895, being President for two years, and has been Fire Commissioner from 1895 to the present time. He was appointed Colonel on Governor Ramsdell's staff in 1897. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a member of Rising Sun Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, .\aron P. Hughes Council, St. George Chapter, and Commandery of the E. A. Raymond ("onsistory and of the Aaron P. Hughes Lodge of Perfection, .Ancient and Accepted Scot- tish Rites, He is a Director of the Congrega- tional Church Society. In politics, Mr. Swart has always been a Republican. He married, October 7, 1890, Lizzie A., daughter of Luther A. Roby of Nashua. They have two children : F.lizabeth and William Roby Swart. SWEET, RoiiiCRT Vauchan. Physician and Ex- Mayor of Rochester, was born in Port Byron, New York, .'Vpril 25, 1865, son of ^'aughan and Judah (Ferris) Sweet. His father was of Huguenot and his mother of Scotch descent. He received his early education in the .Academy in his native town, entered Cornell University, and was graduated in June, 1885. He was principal of the Rose Union School in Rose, New York, during the following school year, and then studied medicine in the New York Medical CJollege, being graduated in 1888. Beginning the practice of his profession imme diately in Rochester, he has remained there ever since. In December, 1894, he was elected Mayor, KOllKRT V. SWEET. though the city has a large Republican majority. Refusing a renominalion, on account of ill health, he left home at the expiration of his term of office and spent a year in travel, both in this country and abroad. Ur. Sweet is a Knights Templar and Com- mander of Palestine Commandery. In politics he is an independent Democrat. He married June 28, 1892, Josephine, daughter of E. G. Wallace, of the firm of E. G. iS; E. Wallace. They have three children : Pauline, Carlyle Wallace, and Robert X'aughan Sweet, Jr. WALL.ACE, .AioNzi) Stewart, Physician, Nashua, was born in Bristol, Maine, February 17. 1847, son of David and Margaret Wallace. He is MKN <)]•■ I'ROCRKSS. 1S7 of Irish and Englisli descent. His grandfatiier, David Wallace, was one of the pioneers of New Hampshire. He was educated in the district and high schools of his native place. From the high school he entered Lincoln Academy at New Castle, Maine, walking a distance of ten miles every Mon- day morning, taking food for the week with him, and returning Friday nights. 'J'he best he could do was to attend two terms a year, and in order to accomplish tiiis and also to assist his parents, he at first went to sea as a sailor during the summers, until by courage and capacity he rose to the posi- tion of First Mate of a barque. As his book knowl- edge increased, he filled other positions of honor and trust, and by teaching between terms he at last graduated \\ ilh honors. Although at his graduation he was able to pass the examination to enter Bow- doin, he entered the Maine Conference Seminary at IJucksport and fitted to teach higher grades of studies. During this time he was Superintendent of Schools in his native town. From 1S69 to 1872, he taught in Maine and Massachusetts, being at one time Principal of the High School at Rockport, S. H. Durgin, and through his inlluence began the study of medicine and surgery. He pursued the study of anatomy and physiology while still a teacher, and after thorough preparation under the instruction of Professors ISrackett of Bowdoin, and Green of Portland, he entered the medical department of Bowdoin. I.,ater he was a student at Portland, and finally entered the medical depart- ment of Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 1874. His first practice was at the Massachusetts State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton, where he remained for six months, resigning to accept the position of Assistant Physician f)f the Port of Bos- ton. He was promoted to Port Physician, which position he filled with great honor and credit, resign- ing in 1S79. From this time until 1 888, he practiced very successfully in Brookline, New Hampshire. He then removed to Rochester, New Hampshire. After remaining there one year, he settled in Nashua in 1889, where he has gained a very large practice. He is a member of the I\Lassachusetts Medical Society and the New Hampshire Medical Society. Doctor Wallace is a Congregationalist. He is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias, belonging to the Unitetl Order of the Golden Cross and the Pilgrim Fathers, and has recently become a Thirt)'-second degree Mason. He mar- ried Mary F., only daughter of Charles and Har- riet Maynard of Lowell. They have four children : Arthur Lowell, born October 12, 1S77 ; Edith May- nard, born ]\Larch 24, 1879; F.dna Jime, born June 8, 1880, and Ina \\'allace, born February 21. 1S90. WESTGATE, Tvi.ei^ Judge of Probate, Haver- hill, was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, Decem- ber 2, 1843, son of Nathaniel W. and Louise ('I'yler) Westgate. His father was Judge of Pro- bate for Grafton county. His great-grandfather, John Westgate, came from Rhode Island to Plain- field, New Hampshire, about 1778, married Grace Church, lineal descendant of Captain Benjamin Church, who was distinguished in King Phillip's War. They had eleven children, of whom Earl Westgate, grandfather of Tyler, was one. Nathan- iel W. Westgate was educated at Kimball Acad- emy, read law with Charles Manders of I'lainfiekl, was admitted to the Bar at Newport, New Hamp- Maine. He held office at the Reformatory School shire, in 1827, settled at Enfield, where he practiced in Boston at two different times, the second time as successfully for thirty years. He was appointed Principal, being very successful with this work and Register of Probate in 1856, at which time he gaining the confidence of the boys. While holding moved to Haverhill. Later he succeeded Nathaniel this position, he made the ac<|uaintance of Doctor S. Berry as Judge of Probate when the latter became A. S. W.\LI,A('K. '5- MKX OF PROGRESS. Governor in 1861. Judge Westgate retired from J. Bean of Limington, Maine, who died January 28, office in 1871 at the age of seventy. He also held 1894. fie has tviro daughters: Louise Bean, and many offices in Enfield and Haverhill, and was Elsie May Westgate. elected to the Legislature after his retirement from office. He married 1,^ Tvler, a grand-daughter TYLER WtSlr.ATE. of Colonel Benjamin Tyler of W'allingford, Con- necticut. 'I'he subject of this sketch received his education at the Haverhill and Kimball I'nion (Meriden, New Hampshire) Academies, and was graduated from the latter in 1864. He was Assist- ant Clerk of the Supreme Court of Grafton county from April 1 1, 1865, to April i, 1871, and was I^eg- isterof Probate of the county from August 7, 1871. to July, 1874, and again from August, 1876, to June, 1879. In iS76-'77 he was Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate. He was Postmaster at Haver- hill from 1881 to 1885, and was again made Regis- ter of Probate in July, 1889. holding the office until 1S90, when he was made Judge of l^robate, which he still holds. He is one of the most popu- lar men ever elected to the office. He has always been most active in all movements for the improve- ment of the town or county. 'In politics he is an ardent l-lepublican, and is influential in shaping the party's course in the county. Judge Westgate married August 30, 1881, Lucretia M. Sawyer of Malone, New York, who died January 16, 1884, leaving no issue. lie was again married to Piiabe WOODISURV. Levi, Hotel Proprietor, Wash- ington, District of Columbia, was born in Salem, New Hampshire, October 17. 1834, son of Israel and Eliza (Graham) Woodbury. He comes of an ancestry of honorable distinction in the state of New Hampshire, his grandfather, Israel, having enlisted in the Revolutionary ,\rniy at seventeen years of age, having a military career of seven years, and subsequently serving the state in civil capacity in its Legislature for thirty-one consecu- tive years. He lived to be ninet3'-nine years and ten months old, with all his senses unimpaired. Mr. Woodbury's early life was passed upon his father's farm, and his education was obtained in the public schools of his native town. In i860 he entered the employ of the Manchester & Law- rence Railroad, as station agent at Windham, New Hampshire, remaining there eight years. During this time he also engaged in the lumber business, at which he was very- successful. In 1S69, having LEVI WOODliUkV. disposed of his New Hampshire business, he went to Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged in the hotel business, since which his fame as a successful hotel man has extended to all parts of the country. Mr. Woodbury is also identified with MEN OF TROGRESS. IS9 many interests for the benefit of the city. He is President of the new line of steamboats to Old Point Comfort and Norfolk, and is a Director of the Central National Bank, and largely interested in Washington real estate. He is a man of affairs who conducts whatever he undertakes with ability, and to a successful issue. That he has not lost interest in early associations, and in his native state, is evidenced by the fact tiiat he has pur- chased the old homestead at Salem, New Hamp- shire, and makes this one of his outing places during the summer. He is a Mason and a Knights Templar, a member of Blue Lodge, No. 4, of I )erry. In politics he is a Democrat. He married Mary J., daughter of David and Sarah Wheeler of Atkinson, New Hampshire. AlUJO'l'T, Ai.FRiCD Wells, l^hysician, Laconia, was born in Concord, New Hampsiiiie, May 7, 1842, son of .Mfred C. and Judith (Earnham) Abbott. He studied medicine with S. S. Emery, M. !)., at Fisherville, and graduated with honor at Dartmouth Medical College in 1868. He com- menced the practice of his profession at Law- rence, Kansas, and practiced in that state for a short time, wlicn he returned to New Hampshire, locating at Suncook, where he remauied until July, 1870, when he removed to Sanbornton, New Hampshire, where he practiced until iSSo. Dur- ing his ten years of active practice in that and adjoining towns, he gained a host of friends and acquired a lucrative practice. Runnells's " History of Sanbornton," published while lie was residing in that town, says of him : " He has won much esteem for his social qualities, and as a well-read, scientific physician enjoying an extensive practice in this and neighboring towns." In 1880 he came to Laconia. Here, preceded by his reputation for his skill and knowledge, he made rapid strides in his profession, and to-day he occupies an assured position among the leading practitioners of this section of New Hampshire. His practice is large and lucrative, he has acquired a competency, and is considered one of Laconia's best financiers. He has long been a Director of the Belknap Savings Bank; he was the first Vice-President of the Win- nipiseogee Academy of Medicine, and its second President, which position he now holds. He has been President of the Citizens' Telephone Com- pany, of Laconia, since its organization in July, 1896. Besides acquiring an extensive and lucra- tive practice, he has won a wide reputation as an able physician. In his political affiliations Doctor Abbott is a staunch Republican, but has never sought political preferments, having steadfastly refused official positions, though often importuned by his political friends to accept positions of honor and trust. He is distinctively a professional man, and devotes his whole time to the calling which he loves so well. He was married December 30, 1S69, to Julia Ann Clay of Manchester, New Hampshire, by whom he has liad three children : Clifton Smith, born January 16, 187 i. a graduate of the Dartmouth Medical College in the class of 'S9.3 Young Doctor Abbott is in partnership with his father, and has gained an enviable reputa- A. w. Aia;iJi'r. tion as a learned and skilful physician. Like his father, his whole time is given to his profession. He was born and bred, as it were, to the profession in which he is now engaged. Blanche Newall was born April 10, 1872, and is a young lady of many accomplishments, and a teacher in our public schools; Carl Benning Abbott was born August 29, 1877, and died, March, 1888. ALBIN, John Hknrv, Lawyer, Concord, was born in West Randolph, Vermont, October 17, 1843, SO" of John and Emily (White) Albin. He prepared for college in the High School of Con- cord; entered Dartmouth, and was graduated in i6o MKN OF I'R()GKI';SS. the class of 1864. In October, 1867, he was admitted to the ]5ar, and in April, 1868, became a partner of Judge Eastman and Samuel B. Page. The firm was a very strong one, and did a very extensive business. It was dissolved, by mutual consent, in 1874. Mr. Albin ne.xt formed a part- nership with Mason \V. 'I'appan, who became Attorney-General of New Hampshire, a position which he huld with great honor and abilitv until J. H. AI.IilN'. his death. Afterward, Mr. .\lbin and Xalhauiel K. Martin were in business together. In 1875, Mr. .Albin became a resident of Henniker, representing that town in the Legislature of 1876, serving on important committees and being one of the leading and most influential members. He subsequently returned to Concord, as a place of residence, and was a Representative from Ward 5 in that city to the Legislature in 1872 and 1873, being an acknowl- edged leader upon the floor of the House. He is the President of the Sullivan ('ounty Railroad, and also of the Concord Street Railway, in which latter corporation he is the principal owner. He is a Director in the Connecticut River Railroad, also in the Vermont Valley Railroad. He is an Odd Fel- low of high rank and wide celebrity, having held all the official positions in the (irand Lodge, being Grand Master in 1879 and 1881 and again in 1882. He represented the state in the Sovereign Grand Lodge at its sessions in Cincinnati and IJaltimore. In politics he is a prominent Republican, closely identified with the organization and management of the' party. As a legal adviser and advocate, Mr. Albin is one of the foremost in the state, and in the conduct of important causes in court, fre- quently involving large corporate interests, he has been especially successful, and as a defender in several noted criminal trials he won distinction. His indomitable industry and tireless zeal have made him almost invaluable in local affairs, and in the shaping of legislation and the conduct of muni- cipal government, his work has been comprehen- sive in detail and important in results. His e.vten- sive experience, and clean-cut, quiet, and effective way of accomplishing desired ends have made him a conspicuous, honored and respected member of the community in which he makes his home. He was married, September 5, 1872, to Miss Georgia A. Modica, an accomplished lady of prepossessing personality and marked social attainments. They have two children, a son and daughter, Henry A. and Edith G. Albin. B.-\KKR, Henry Mooke, Lawyer and Ex-Con- gressnian, How, was born in tliat town, January 11, 1841, son of Aaron W'hittemore and Nancy (Dustin) ISaker. He conies of patriotic and heroic ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, Captain Joseph Baker, a colonial surveyor, married Hannah, onlv daugh- ter of Captain John Lovewell, the famous Indian fighter who was killed in the battle of Pigwacket, May 8, 1725. A few years later the township of Suncook or Lovewell's Town was granted by Mas- sachusetts to the survivors and the heirs of those killed in that battle. This township included much of what is now Pembroke, but as its boun- daries conllicted with those of the town of Bow, chartered May 10, 1727, by Governor Wenlworth of New Hampshire, the grantees never received the full benefits intended for them. The contention resulting from these different grants was terminated December 13, 1804, when that part of Bow east of the Merrimack river was annexed to Pembroke and Concord. Captain Baker's son, Joseph, married a descendant of the Scotch Covenanters and set- tled in Bow. The acres he cleared and cultivated are now a part of the family homestead. He was a soldier in the Revolution and a man of energy and infiuence. His son, James, married a grand- daughter of Reverend Aaron W'hittemore, the first clergyman in Pembroke. Their eldest son, Aaron MEN OF rR()(;RKSS. i6i Whittemore Baker, married Nancy Dustin. He was only twelve years old when his father died from injuries accidentally received, hut notwitii- standing his tender years, the boy resolutely met the responsibilities he could not escape, and through his endeavors and his mother's aid, the younger children were well educated and the farm was successfully cultivated. He was of sterling integ- rity, of advanced thought, a bitter opponent nf slav- ery, and an ardent advocate of temperance and in everything earnest of purpose. His wife was of high character, sweet disposition, great talent, and generally beloved. She was a descendant of the colonial heroine, Hannah Dustin. Walter liryant, a relative on the maternal side of the subject of this sketch, was prominent in colonial affairs, and surveyed many of the townships and the eastern boundary of the state. Henry M. Baker was the youngest son of Aaron Whittemore Baker. He at- tended the common schools of his native town, the academies of Pembroke and Hopkinton, the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1863. He received the degree of Master of .\rts three years later. Upon his graduation he began the study of law under the direction of Judge JNIinot of Concord. He was appointed Clerk in the War Department of Washington, District of Columbia, in 1S64, and was transferred to the Treasury De- partment, where he remained in different positions of trust and responsibility for several years. Mean- while he had continued his law studies, having en- tered the Law Department of the Columbian Uni- versity, where he was grailuated in 18G6, and was admitted to the Ear of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. In 1882 he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the Lhiited States. He practiced law for several )'ears at Washington, where he soon obtained a large clientage and was engaged in many important cases. The sons of the Granite State are noted for their love of home and for attachment to the hills, valleys, lakes and rivers which make that state so picturesque and beautiful. Wherever they roam or however long absent, they turn with loving devotion to the old homesteads and greet with equal joy old friends and accustomed scenes. Mr. liaker, though neces- sarily absent much of the time for several years, has never ceased to be a resident of his native town, and no year has passed without his return to the old home to mingle with his neighbors and friends and enjoy its pure air and beautiful scenery. He has always been an aggressive Republican, and an active campaigner. No son of New Hampshire is more zealous of her good name and higii standing than Mr. Baker. He has been earnest in the advo- cacy of state aid to her institutions of learning and of charity, to her public libraries and the preserva- tion of historical records and objects of patriotic interest. In i886-'87, Mr. Baker was Judge .-Vdvo- cate Ceneral of our National Guard with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was noiuinated in the Merrimack District by acclamation as candidate of his party for the State Senate in 1890, and ran largely ahead of his ticket. While in his district the Republican candidate for Governor had a plu- rality of only seventy-si.\ votes he received a plural- ity of one hundred and fifty and a majority of seventy-five votes. By his energetic and success- ful canvass he contributed greatly to the general success of his party, and its control of the Legisla- ture that vear was largelv due to him. In the Sen- H. M. n.VKEK. ate he was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and a member of several other important commit- tees as well as Chairman of its joint special com- mittee on the revision, codification and amendment of the Public Statutes. He took an active part in all proceedings of the Senate, and became recog- nized as a Republican leader. He was elected Representative in ('ongress from the Second Dis- trict by a good plurality in 1892, reversing the l62 MEN OF PROCRKSS. Democratic victory in the preceding election. In 1894 he was re-elected by a plurality more than fourteen times greater than that of 1892, but was not again a candidate for re-election. In the Fifty- third Congress he was assigned to the Committees on Agriculture and Militia. In the next Congress he was a member of the Committees on Judiciary and Election of President, Vice-President and Rep- resentatives in Congress. He was Chairman of one of the Standing Sub-Committees of the Judi- ciary Committee. His principal speeches in Con- gress were in opposition to the repeal of the Fed- eral Election Laws, on the Methods of Accounting in the Treasury Department, in favor of the pur- chase and distribution to the farmers of the coun- try of rare and valuable agricultural and horticul- tural seeds, on the Tariff, on Protection not Hos- tile to Exportation, ou the Necessity of Adec|uate Coast Defence, on the Criminal Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court, and on Ci\il Ser\ice Reform. He is still an active campaigner and is heard frequently upon the stump. He is a mem- ber of the New Hampshire Club, a Mason, a Rnights Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the New Hampshire Historicnl Society, to whiih he h.itl iiuule \alu.ible contributions, and has established prizes in Dart- mouth College. In religion he is a Unitarian. Since his retirement from Congress, Mr. Raker has been engaged in the advocacy of public reforms and improvements, and superintending his varied private investments. In these he linds sufficient and congenial occupation. Mr. Raker is unmar- ried. John P.. Raker of Row, a member of the Legislature of 1897, is his only surviving brother. RAKER, Elkazer, Grocer, Simcook, was born in Rrewster, Massachusetts, November 2, 1838, sou of Joshua G. and Margaret (Small) Raker. He is of English descent, tracing his ancestry back to the fourteenth century. He attended the public Schools of his native town until he was twelve years of age, when he left home and started out to make his own way in the world. He went to sea and followed this career until the breaking out of the Civil War. In April, 1861, in response to President Lincoln's call for volunteers, he enlisted for a year. He was assigned to duty as a petty officer on the gunboat Massachusetts. Receiving an honorable discharge at the Rrooklyn Navy Yard at the expiration of his term of enlistment, he was engaged on the steamer Young America, in transporting troops and provi- sions from Fortress Monroe up the Pamimkeg river to Whitehouse Landing. In May, 1868, Mr. Raker went to Suncook, in the town of Pembroke, and established a grocery and meat business, and by industry and perseverance has built up a large and lucrative trade. He is one of Pembroke's most influential and public-spirited citizens, and every good work has his hearty and substantial support. Though he never sought public office, he was elected to the Legislature in iS85-'S6. He is a Trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a strong and most active Republican. Mr. Raker was married November 16, 1862, to Hannah Jane \icker.son of South Dennis, Massachusetts. Si-\ cliiklren have been born to them : Eleazer Frank- lin, born September 8, 1863 ; Josiah Frederick, born December 31, 1866; Alice Cleal, born Janu- ary 20, 1870, who died January. 1873 ; Nellie Jane, born December 20, 1875 ; and Edilh May and Eva Louise Raker (twins), born September 8, :8So. PARTLETT, Gkorge Ansei,, Disbursing Clerk of the United States Treasury Department, Wash- ington, District of Colinnbia, was born in Kings- ton, New Hampshire, April 23, 1841, son of Richard and Sally (I-'ellows) Bartlett. His ancestry on the paternal side dates back to William the Conqueror, and on the maternal side his ancestors were prominent in New Hampshire affairs ; his MKN OF TROCiRKSS. '63 uncle, Moses Fellows, being the first Maj'or of Manchester, New Hampshire. His grandmother Bartlett's father, Aaron Young, was an officer in the RevoUitionar)' War. He was educated in the com- mon schools and in Kingston Academy. W hen he was si.\teen years of age, Mr. ]Jartlett left home to go to Lawrence, Massachusetts, as an apprentice of E. W. Colcord, who had gone there from Kings- ton, and engaged in the manufacture of leather belting. .Vt the breaking out of the war he enlisted for three years in Company " K,'" of the F'ourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, on May 20, 1861. He participated in all the battles of the Regiment, being recommended for promotion for bravery on two occasions, but declined promotion, preferring, as he e.xpressed it, " to stay with the boys." In i866, he removed to Washington where he entered the Paymaster General's office. Two years later he resigned, but in 1S71 again entered the govern- ment service as a clerk in ihe Treasury Depart- ment. He was soon appointed to An eighteen hundred dollar clerkship, and in iSSi was ap- piiinted bv Secrelav\' Windcmi to llie responsible i;kij. a. i;ai; 1 i.Kii'. position of Disbursing Clerk in the I'nited .States Treasury Department, which position he still holds. Mr. Bartlett is one of the best known New Hamp- shire people in Washington, paying out some si.x million dollars yearly. He is always actively in- terested in all gatherings of New Hampshire people in Washington. He is a member of \arious veteran organizations, and was I'resident of the Union Soldiers' Alliance in 18S9. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and has always been very prominent in Masonry. He is a member of the Lafayette Lodge, No. 19. Mt. Vernon Chapter, No. 3, Royal Arch Masons, Washington Commandery, No. i. Knights Templar, and Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He takes a great interest in the District of Columbia , Militia, organized the Treasury Guards, and holds the rank of Major of the department battalion. LATCHELDER, Ai.ikKn Tra.sk, Ex-ALiyor of Keene and successful Lawyer and man of affairs, was born in Sunapee, New Hampshire, February 26, 1844, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Trask) FJatchelder. On the paternal side he is descended in the eighth generation from John Batchelder, who came to this country from England and settled in ]!everly, Massachusetts. His great- grandfather in this line was commander of a ship in the '50's of the last century in the days when IJeverly was a llourishing seaport, and made many successful voyages. His son Zachariah, the grand- father of the subject of this skelch, settled in Sunapee, where he engaged in business, and where his son Nathaniel became one of the best known farmers of the town and one of its most inlhien- lial residents. Though not a man of more than moderate means Nathaniel ISatchelder gave his children a liberal education. His son attended the district schools of Sunapee and New London Academy, and entering Dartmouth College was graduated in 1871. He studied law in Clareniont with Judge W. H. H. Allen and Ira Colby, being associated in practice with the latter after his admission to the ISar in September, 1873. llpon his removal to Keene in 1877, Mr. iiatchelder became a partner of Francis A. Faulkner and his son, Francis C. Faulkner, the firm name being F'aulkner & Iiatchelder. Francis A. Faulkner died May 22, 1879, since which time Mr. Iiatchel- der and his son have continued the business, which has been highly successful. In spite of his professional duties Mr. Iiatchelder has found time to engage in many imjiortant enterprises. .Among the positions of trust he has held are l^resident of the Cheshire Provident Institution for Savings ; of the Impervious Packing Company; of the C. li. Lancaster .Shoe Company, and of the Stoddard 164 MKN OF PROGRESS. Lumber Company, Sflling out his interest in the last named in 1.S97 ; and Director in the Emerson Paper Company of Sunapee, in the Ashuelot and Keene National lianks. He succeeded Judge Allen as Register of liankriiptcy under the National Bank- A. T. HATCH KI.DEK. rupt law; and from 1879 till the consolidation of the Cheshire Railroad with the Fitchburg system he was its general attorney. In politics Mr. Batchelder is a Republican ; and he has been active in the support of the party, serving as Mayor of Keene in i885-'86. He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1897, and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House. In religion he is an Episcopalian. He is prominent in Masonry, and is a member of the Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar. Mr. Batchelder married, .April 24, 1879, Alice H., daughter of Peter li. and M.iry H. Hayward of Keene. He has two sons. BENEDICT, Frank Lee, Physician, Portsmouth, was born in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 13, 1855, son of Benjamin and Ursula (Niver) Benedict. In the paternal line Doctor Benedict traces his descent from French stock, the family in America being descended from Thomas Benedict, who came over from England in 1700, and settled in Huntington, Long Island. Among Thomas Bene- dict's descendants were the founders of Danbury, Connecticut. Frank Lee Benedict is in the eighth generation from Thomas. On the maternal side he is descended from ancestors who came from Holland and settled in Columbia county. New York. For two or three generations back on both father's and mother's side, the family were engaged in farming. Doctor Benedict attended the common schools in Massachusetts; the Great Barrington High School, i87o-'72 ; Claverick (New York) College, Hudson River Institute, i872-'7s ; the New York Homoeo- pathic Medical College, New York city, i876-'79, being graduated in April of the last year. Early in May of 1879 he settled in Portsmouth, and began the practice of his profession, and has since been as busy and successful as a medical man generally is. He was Pension Examiner from 1893 to 1897, but has never sought political offices or taken a very active part in politics. He is a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, DeW'itt Clinton Commandery, and Os- good Lodge of Odd Fellows, all of Portsmouth. He is a member of \\'arwick Club, of which he was President in 1S95 ; the Piscataqua Yacht Club, and F. L. BENEDICT. the New Hampshire Homceopathic Medical Society. Doctor Benedict was married, December 20, 1888, to Katheryne Hinckley Hamlin, the ceremony tak- ing place in the Church of the Transfiguration, by Rev. Doctor Houghton, New York city. MKN OF PRCJGRESS. '('S BINGHAM, Edward Franklin, Chief Justice of tile Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, born at West Concord, Vermont, August 13, 1828, son of Warner and Lucy (Wheeler) liingham, is a descendant of Thomas Bingham, who emigrated from .Sheffield, England, and settled in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1659. He is a brother of the Hon. Harry Bingham, an eminent lawyer and Dem- ocratic leader, and the late Judge George A. Bing- ham, a prominent lawyer and E.x-Judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Edward F. Bingham received his early education at the public and select schools of Vermont, and later at the Academy of Peacham, Vermont, one of the oldest and best endowed institutions of that state at that time. In 1846 he determined to make Ohio his future home, and after spending a brief period at Marietta College, read law with his brother, Harry, at Littleton, concluding his law studies under the late Judge Joseph Miller, at Chillicothe, Ohio. He was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of that state in May, 1850, the late Chief Justice Hitchcock presiding. On June i, 1S50, he opened a law office at Mc.Vrthur, the county-seat of the newly created county of Vinton. Although a total stranger he soon found warm friends and built up a large practice. The following November he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney of Vinton county, and in 185 1 he was elected for a term of two years, and re-elected in 1853, serving five years. He was a member of the Legislature in 1856 and 1857. Although strongly urged to accept a re-nomination to the Legislature, he declined, desiring to devote himself to his law practice. In 185S he was given the unanimous nomination by the Democratic party for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the second sub-division of the Judicial District composed of the counties of Vinton, Jack- son, Scioto, Pike, and Lawrence. His party then being the minority in that sub-division, he was defeated by a small margin. In 1859 he again declined a nomination as candidate for the Legis- lature. He was a Delegate from the Eleventh Congressional District of Ohio, in 1S60, to the Democratic National Convention, held first at Charleston, South Carolina, and by adjournment at Baltimore. In January, 1861, he removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he resided until his re- moval to Washington, District of Columbia. In 1868 Judge Bingham became Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, and so discharged the duties of that office in the impor- tant campaign of that year as to receive the gen- eral commendation of his party, but because of its interference with his professional duties, he de- clined further service. From 1S67 to 187 i he was by election City Solicitor of Columbus, Ohio. He ^ jflK m "W^'^* Ir^^ l^wft'^ f E. t. l:l.\GHA.M. served as a member of the Board of Education from 1S63 to 1868, and was re-elected in 1872. In March, 1873, he was elected, without opposi- tion. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fifth Judicial district, and was thrice elected, each term being for five years. At each election he met with no opposition. He was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention at .St. Louis, in 1876, which nominated Samuel J. Tilden for President. He was nominated by the Ohio Democratic State Convention in 1881, as a candi- date for Supreme Judge of the .State of Ohio, but with the rest of the ticket was defeated. April 25, 1887, while occupying a place on the Ohio Com- mon Pleas bench, he was appointed by President Cleveland Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Judge Bingham has ranked very high as a lawyer. In Ohio he was among the foremost members of the State Bar. He is earnest and forcible, industrious and thor- ougii. On the bench his success is even more pronounced than it was as a lawyer, and on and off the bench he is (.[uict and unassuming, cul- 1 66 MKN OF 1'R()(;RESS. tilled, and luunano. It may be said of him that few of his decisions iiave ever been reversed by higher courts. Judge Hinghani was married, No- vember 2 1, 1S50, to Susannah F. Gunning of F'ay- ette county, Ohio, who died in iS86, leaving two sons and two daughters. The Judge married, August 8, 1888, Mrs. L. C. Patton, daughter of tiie late United States Senator Allen T. Carpenter of West Virginia. BINGHAM, H,\Kuv, Littleton, for fifty years a leader of the New Hampshire Bar, was born in Concord, Vermont, March 30, 182 i, son of Warner and Lucy (Wheeler) liingham. He is descended in the eighth generation from Thomas Bingham, who was admitted to membership in the Cutler's HARRV r.INGHA.M. Companyof Sheffield, England, December 21, 161.), as a master cutler. Thomas Bingham, 3d, the first of the family to come to America, was one of the lirst landed proprietors of Norwich, Con- necticut, and died in Windiiam in 1693. War- ner Bingham, who was born in Cornish in 1789, was a State Senator, 1842 and 1843, and Assist- ant Judge of Essex county, Vermont, in 1844. He died in ]>ethlehem, February 12, 1872. His son Harry attended tlie common schools of his native town, was fitted for college in Lyndon (Ver- mont) Academy, was graduated from Dartmouth in 1843 and began the study of the law with the Hon. David Hibbard at Concord, Vermont, continuing with Geo. C. and Edward Cahoon at Lyndonville, and completing his studies with Hon. Harry Hib- bard in Bath. He was admitted to the liar in 1846, and at once began practice in Littleton. From 1852 to 1859 he was a member of the law firm of H. & G. A. Bingham, and since that date he has been a member of Woods ..V Bingham, 1859 to 1862; H. tV G. A. Bingham, 1862 to 1870; Bingham iV Mitchell, 1874 to 1879 ; Bingham, Mitchell &: Batchellor, 1879 to 1882 ; Bingham, Mitchells & Batchellor, 1882 to 1885, since which date the firm has been Bingham, Mitchell & Batchellor. Mr. Bingham's practice has been extremely large — his briefs in cases argued in the law terms of the Supreme Court are contained in ever)' volume of the New Hampshire Reports from the twentieth (fifty volumes) — but in his later years he has been less active in his professional work, having given his time more and more largely to recreation, travel, and literature. In 1880, Dart- mouth College conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. Mr. Bingham has been a life-long Demo- crat, and one of New Hampshire's most distin- guished e.xponents of the principles of the party. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1861, and was re-elected in 1862, when he was a candidate for Speaker, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1868, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1889, and 1891 ; and he was a State Senator for two terms, 1883-1887. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1S76. During his legislative service he was always a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 1871 and 1874, the years of Democratic supremacy, he was its Chairman. In 1865, he was the candi- date of his party for Congress against James W. Patterson, and in 1867 against Jacob Benton. In 1867, he was United States Treasury Agent, under President Johnson. He was the Democratic can- didate for I'nited States Senator against Aaron H. Cragin in 1870; against Bainbridge Wadleigh in 1872 ; against Henry W. Blair in 1S79 and 1885 ; against Austin I'". Pike in 1883, and against Wil- liam E. Chandler in 1887 and 1889. Governor Weston named him for Chief Justice in 1874, but he was defeated by a division in the council; and in 1S80 he declined an appointment as Justice of the .Supreme Court, tendered by Governor Head. Mr. Bingham was a delegate to the Philadelphia Peace Convention of 1SG6. Two years later he attended MEN OF TROGRESS. ,67 the National Convention, which nominated Horatio Seymour for President, on which occasion he acted as proxy for the Hon. Josiah Minot of Concord, member of the National Committee, and was him- self chosen the member of that committee from the state, holding the post until 1872. He was a del- egate to the Baltimore Convention of 1872 which nominated Horace Greeley, the Cincinnati Conven- tion of 1880 which nominated General Hancock, and the Chicago conventions of 1SS4 and 1892 which nominated Grover Cleveland. In all these conventions he was a member of the Committee on Resolutions. He was on the electoral ticket in 1864 and 1888, and in 189G was a candidate for Elector on the National Democratic ticket. He presided over the State Conventions of 1870, 1S72, 1878, and 1S96. In his younger days Mr. liing- ham was connected with the militia, serving as (,)uartermaster of the Thirty-second Regiment in 1S49, and as Aide-de-camp on the brigade staff of General E. O. Kenney in 1851. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Dartnumth Greek Letter Society, the Granite State Club (political) and the Pilgrim Society. In i886-'88, he was a Director of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad. Since 1893 he has been President of the Grafton and Coos Bar Association. Many of his legal argu- ments have been published in full in newspapers and pamphlets ; and he has been the author of numerous addresses and essays on more general topics, covering a wide range. Among the more important titles are : " Centennial Address," deliv- ered at Littleton, July 4, 1876; "Memorial Day Address," Littleton, May, 1880; " Andrew Salter Woods," a memorial address, Dartmouth College, June 23, 1880; ''Certain Conditions and Tenden- cies that Imperil the Integrity and Independence of the Judiciary," before the Grafton and Coos Bar Association, 1882; "The Political Situation," Manchester LTnion, February 14, 1883; "The Life and Democracy of John H. George," before the Granite State Club, June 27, 1888; "The Issues at Stake" (a reply to William E. Chandler), River- side Magazine, 1890; "Gilman Marston," "Na- thaniel W. Westgate," " William S. Ladd," " The Muniments of Constitutional Liberty," " Progress in Asiatic Civilization and its Significance for the Western World," addresses before the Grafton and Coos Bar Association, i89i-'9s ; "The Rights and Responsibilities of the United States in Reference to the International Relations of the Great Powers of Europe and the Lesser Republic of America," before Marshal Sanders Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Littleton, December 26, 1895; "The Welfare of the Republic the Supreme Law," before the Crrafton and Coos Bar Association, 1896 ; "The Present Duty of Democracy," before a ratification meeting of the National Democracy, Manchester, 1896; "The Relations of Woman to the Progres- sive Civilization of tlie Age," 1897; "The Influ- ence of Religion on Human Progress," annual address before the New Hampshire Historical Society, June 8, 1897 ; "The Annexation of Ha- waii : a Right and a Duty." BOWKER, Ciiari.es Harvey, Physician, Berlin, was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire, March 20, 1870, son of Mitchell H. and Laura P. (Brooks) C. II. IlLiWkKK. Bowker. On the paternal side his ancestry is traced back to Edmund Bowker, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1646, being one of three brothers who are supposed to have come from Sweden. There were Bowkers who served in the French and Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 181 2. Gideon Bowker, great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who served from the battle of Bunker Hill to tlie close of the Revolution, was one of the founders of Lunenburg, Vermont. Mitchell H. Bowker was a merchant of Whitefield, and was a member of Ginernor lUisiel's Council, being the i68 MEN OF PKO'-.RF.SS. first Republican Councillor elected from the fifth district. On his mother's side Dr. Bowker traces his descent from Simeon Brooks, one of the grantees of Alstead, New Hampshire, — his maternal grand- mother was a Bradford, direct descendant from Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. Charles H. Bowker attended the public schools and the High School at Lisbon, and New Hampton Academy. He passed through the freshman year, at New York Homctopathic College, spending the following years of a medical course at Hahnemann College of Philadelphia, being graduated in 1892. He then took a special course at the New York Post Graduate College in mental and nervous dis- eases and in study of Old School Therapeutics at the University of New York. He also held the position of Resident Surgeon at Ward's Island Hospital (now the Metropolitan Hospital) of si.x hundred beds, one of the Charities and Correc- tions Institutions of New York city, a position he obtained through a compelilive examination. For a year he was in practice with Doctor George Mor- rison of Whitefield, and for a time he owned the VVhitefield Publishing Company issuing the \\'hite- field Times. Since this was made a stock com- pany he has been its heaviest owner. He owns the Berlin Pharmacy, which was established in 1896. He was active in founding the Androscoggin Hos- pital (of twenty-six beds) in 1894, and has been Attending Surgeon since that time. He is at pres- ent Secretary-Treasurer, and member of the Execu- tive Committee; was Health Officer of Berlin in 1895 and 1896, and was instrumental in securing the present effective filter system adopted for the water supply of the town. He is Physician to the Independent Order of Foresters, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Knights of the Maccabees, Knights of the Golden Cross, Knights of Honor, American Benefit Society, and Pilgrim Fathers. He is local Surgeon for the Boston & Maine Railroad, and Surgeon to the City Fire Department. He is President of the Berlin Co-operative Store Com- pany. In 1890 he was Health Officer in White- field and in 1S95 and 1896, as has been stated, he held a similar position in Berlin. He is a Justice of the Peace and a member of the Republican Ward Committee. He is a Republican and active in local politics. He is a Mason, a member of the North Star Commandery of Kniglits Templar, a Past (;rand of ( )dd l''ellows, and a member of Encampment and Canton. He is a member of the Maynesboro Club, Cowasse Club, and of the Sons of American Revolution. Mr. Bowker married September 24, 1891, Bertha C. Libbey, daughter of the Hon. G. W. Libbey of Whitefield. BUFFUM, C.M.Ki! Talbot, was born in Royals- ton, Massachusetts, June 4, 1820, son of James and Ruth (Bliss) Buffum. He is of English de- scent, his ancestors having emigrated from England about the year 1638, and settled in Rhode Island. Caleb Piuffum and Nathan Bliss, grandfathers of the subject of this sketch, settled, the first named in Richmond, New Hampshire, and the latter in Royalston, Massachusetts, and Ijoth were tillers of the soil. Nathan Bliss also served with credit as a C. T. HUFKUM. soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Buffum gained his early education in the common schools, with three terms at Keene Academy. He worked upon the farm until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to learn the tailor's trade with Dins- more, White & Lyon, a leading clothing and dry- goods house of Keene, with which he remained for four years. He was employed for a year as a journeyman, but in 1841 formed a partnership with Jonas Parker, under the firm name of Buffum iS: Parker, and for sixteen years did a successful busi- ness in the manufacture of clothing, and sale of men's furnishing goods, at wholesale and retail. In 1854 he disposed of his business interests in MEN OF PROGRESS. 169 Keene, soon after engaging in the wholesale cloth- ing and furnishing business in Boston, the firm name being Sears, BuiTuni & Company. Failing health compelled Mr. JJuftum, in the fall of 1855, to sever his connection with this firm, and to seek a milder climate. He went to Florida, where he remained until the spring of 1S56. Returning, with renewed health, to the North, he soon after formed the firm of C. T. & G. B. Buffum, his part- ner being his brother, and continued in the cloth- ing and furnishing business until January, 187 1, when he retired from active business. As a busi- ness man he was energetic, far-seeing, sagacious, careful and conservative, combining shrewd com- mon sense and good judgment with a great finan- cial ability, and these same qualities have made him one of Keene's most influential residents. He has borne an honored part in the management of many of the city's most important enterprises. He was elected President of the Keene Five Cent Sav- ings Bank, in June, 187 i, and still holds that posi- tion. He has been a Director in the Ashuelot National Bank since 1875. For a number of years he was President of the Keene Humane Society, and he has held various other positions of trust and responsibility. Although a staunch Republi- can since the birth of the party, Mr. Buffum has never been an aspirant for political honors. He was a Representative from Keene in 1S59 and i860, and an Alderman from Ward Four for two years, but these ofifices comprise the list of those of a political nature which he has accepted. Since his retirement from active business, he has traveled extensively throughout the United States, having passed several winters in Florida, and visited Cali- fornia and the Pacific Slope. One of his special characteristics is an enthusiastic love of nature, and he is an ardent disciple of Izaak Walton. He has an angler's retreat at Silver Lake (town of Har- risville), near Keene, which is open to his friends in summer time, and where he greatly enjoys his summer outings and the charms of camp life. He is a lover of birds, and something of a taxidermist, has a large collection of birds, minerals, etc., and has done something in the collecting of coins. He is a member of the Unitarian Society and of the Unitarian Club, and of the Keene Humane Society. Mr. Buffum was married April 19, 1843, to Susan R., daughter of Lewis Gilmore of Charlestown, New Hampshire. She died December 21, 1854, leaving one child : Ellen A. Bufifum, who died at the age of sixteen. He was again married Feb- ruary 23, 1857, to Sarah A., daughter of Asa Strat- ton of Greenfield, Massachusetts, the children of this marriage being Fred Lincoln, born November 14, i860, died December 5, 1867, and Susie S. Buffum^ born April 19, 1865. CHANDLER, William Ea roN, United States Senator, Concord, was born in that city, December 28, 1835, second son of Nathan S. and Mary Ann Chandler. He was educated in the public schools, and the academies at Thetford, Vermont, and Pem- broke, New Hampshire. He began his law studies in Concord, and attended the Harvard Law .School, being graduated with prize honors in 1S55. In the WM. E. CHANDLER. same year he was admitted to the liar; and for sev- eral years he practiced in Concord, where he made for himself a good name in his profession. In 1S59 he was appointed Law Reporter of the New Hamp- shire Supreme Court, and published five volumes of Reports. Mr. Chandler was an earnest Republi- can, from the beginning of the party, and gave much of his time to the State Committee, serving first as its Secretary, and in 1864 and 1865 as its Chairman. He was elected to the Legislature in 1862, 1863 and 1864, anil was twice elected Speaker. In November, 1S64, he was employed by the Navy Department as special counsel to pros- ecute the l'hil;\(K'l[ilii,\ navy yard frauds ; and on I70 MEN OF PROGRIvSS. March 9, 1865, was appointed the first Solicitor and Judge Advocate General of that department. On June 17 of the same )-ear, he became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, resigning the position November 30, 1S67. and resuming the practice of his profession. During the next thirteen years, he occupied no ofiicial position except that he was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1876, but he continued to take an active part in politics, being a Delegate to the Republican Na- tional Convention in 1868, and Secretary of the National Committee from that time until 1S76. In that year he advocated the claims of the Hayes electors in Florida before the canvassing board of the state and later, was one of the counsel to prepare the case submitted by the Republican side to the Electoral Commission in Washington. Mr. Chandler afterward became an especially out- spoken opponent of the southern policy of the Hayes administration. In 1880 he was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention, and served as a member of the Committee on Credentials, and was the author of the report in favor of district representation, which was adopted by the Conven- tion. During the subsequent campaign, he was a member of the National Committee. On March 23, 1881, he was nominated by President Garfield for Ignited States Solicitor General, but was rejected by the Senate, the vote being nearly upon party lines. In June of that year he was again a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, where he favored stringent legislation against bribery at elections, and against the issue of free passes by railways, while he favored legal regulation of freight and fares on railways within the state. On April 7, 1882, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy. Among the important measures carried out by him while holding this office were the sim- plification and reduction of the unwieldy and ex- travagant navy yard establishment ; the limitation of the number of annual appointments of officers to the actual wants of the naval service; the discon- tinuance of the ruinous policy of repairing worth- less wooden vessels ; and the beginning of a mod- ern navy in the construction of the four steel cruisers recommended by the Advisory Board, the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin. The or- ganization and successful voyage of the Greelv relief expedition in 1884, commanded by Captain W. S. Schley, was largely due to his personal efforts. Mr. Chandler was a strenuous advocate of unitino- with the navy the other nautical branches of the Federal administration, including the lighthouse establishment, the coast survey and the revenue marine, upon the principle, first distinctly set forth by him, that "the officers and seamen of the Navy should be employed to perform all the work of the national government upon or in direct connection with the ocean." He served as Secretary until March 7, 18S5. He was elected to the United States Senate. June 14, 18S7, to fill the unexpired term of Austin F. Pike, which ended March 3, 18S9; was re-elected June 18, i88g. and again January 16, 1895. His present term will expire March third, 1901. Mr. Chandler has been twice married, in 1859 to a daughter of Governor Joseph A. Gilniore. and in 1874, to a daughter of the Hon. John P. Hale. He has three sons by his first marriage, Joseph Gilmore, born in i860; Wil- liam Dwight, born in 1S63 ; and Lloyd Horwitz Chandler, now an officer in the Navy, born in 1869 ; and one son by his second marriage, born in 1885, John P. Hale Chandler. CHUTTER, Frederick Groroe, Dry-Goods Merchant, Littleton, was born in Somersetshire, England, September 12. 1857,500 of George and ' ^ E. i;. cHnrEU. Hannah ( Pidgeon) Chutter. He began his early education in the jirivate schools of this country. After seven years as a clerk in the dr3--goods busi- ness, spent mostly in Boston, he began to study m?:n of progress. 171 with reference to the ministry. He .spent some time in Phillips Acadeni}', Andover, Massachnsetts, but graduating from t'oburn Institute, Waterville, Maine, he entered Colby ITniversity in the same city in the following fall. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary at .\ndover, Massachu- setts, and was settled at once over the First Con- gregational church of Littleton, New Hampshire, which charge he resigned to go abroad for travel and study. He spent one year at the Oxford Lfni- versity, and another at the ]-'resbyterian Divinity College in Edinburgh, Scotland, and some time in Paris. He traveled extensively in Europe, going as far North as the Arctic Circle, visiting Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece. On his return to this country he received several calls to important churches, but was obliged, on account of ill health, to refuse Ihem and finally to leave the ministry. He has been in the dry-goods business since 1893 and has taken much interest in the educational affairs of the town. He is a member cf the School Poard, and serves on the committee for the exami- nation of schools and teachers. He is a Trustee of the Public Library, and of the Dow Academy of Franconia. He has a decided taste for literary work, having written considerable for the press, and has lectured frequently. Li politics he is a Republican. Mr. Chutter was married October 19, icScS7, at Boston, ftLassachusetts, to Carolyn Clark Cutler, daughter of the Hon. John Cutler of that city. They have two children : Mildred Caro- lyn and Reginald I-'rederick Chutter. COLONY, HoR.Aiici, first Mayor of Keene, President and Treasurer of the Cheshire Mills, Harrisville, was born in Keene, November 14, 1835, son of Josiah and Hannah (Taylor) Colony. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His great-grand- father, John Colony, who came to this country in 1740, served in the French and Indian Wars, and was on the alarm list in the Revolution. Josiah Colony, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a prominent manufacturer of woolen goods. In the maternal line, Mr. Colony is a descendant of the Danforth family of Massachusetts. He received his early education in the public schools and Keene Academy, studied under a private tutor, read law in the office of the lion. Levi Chamberlain in Keene, and attended the .Mbany Law School, from which he was graduated in i860. He was admitted to the New York Par at Albany, anrl to the Cheshire County Par of New Hamii- shire in the same year. Mr. Colony carried on a successful legal practice until 1867, when he took an interest in the manufacturing firm of Faulkner & Colony, and upon this firm becoming a corpora- tion he was its first President and Treasurer. Sub- H(_)R.A1I(1 (.Ul.nNV. sequently he became interested in the Cheshire mills of Harrisville, and he has since been the Company's President and Treasurer. He is a Director in the Cheshire, Winchester and Citizens' National I!anks, and is I'resident of the Keene Steam Power Company. Notwithstanding the demands made upon liis time by his private interests, Mr. Colony has served with distinction in the conduct of public affairs. He was a member of the Board of Labor Statistics under Governor Weston. When Keene became a city he was its first Mayor, and was re-elected at its next munici- pal election. He was a delegate to the Demo- cratic National Con\ention in 186S; was a Representative to the Legislature, from Ward 5, Keene, in 1877, at which session he was the Dem- ocratic candidate for Speaker, and serveil mi the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Colony is President of the Cheshire Comity Humane Society. He is a member of several Masonic bodies, including Social h'riends Lodge, and Hugh de I'ayens Command- ery, Knights Templar, etc. He married, Decem- 1863. E'licline Eimes J( hey •7 = MEN OF PROC.RKSS. three children : John Joslin, Charles Taylor, and Kate, wife of Colonel James A. Frye of Boston, Massachusetts. EDGERLY, Frank Gilman, High Sheriff of Merrimack County, Concord, was born in Mere- dith, New Hampshire, February 19, 1853, son of William M. and I.ydia (Fogg) Edgerly. He is of English descent. In 1664, Thomas Edgerly emi- grated to America and settled in that part of New Hampshire now known as Durham. He was a well educated man and, in the early history of the state, was a Justice and tried many important cases in which he manifested a strong and sound judgment. Frank G. Edgerly's parents were among the most substantial people of the northern part of Belknap county. He attended the public schools of his native town up to his si.\teenth year, when he went to Concord and served an appren- ticeship in the office of the Independent Demo- crat, afterwards the Independent Statesman. He was connected with these papers as a printer for fourteen years. In 1SS3, he started a printing establishment for himself, in which he continued as owner until 1889. While engaged in that busi- ness, he gained a reputation throughout the state for artistic work. Subseiiuently, he became a real estate broker in which he was very successful. In 1893, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, for Merri- mack county, and on April i, 1895, assumed the office of High Sheriff, which office he still retains. When Mr. Edgerly was re-elected in 1896, he received the largest plurality vote ever given to any High Sheriff in his county. In the adminis- tration of his office, he has manifested fine execu- tive ability, and has demonstrated that the voters of Merrimack county exercised good judgment in placing him in the position. He is also jailor and in the management of that institution, has always preserved the interests of the people in every particular. In iSSg-'go, he was a member of the Legislature. Mr. Edgerly is a Thirty-second Degree Mason in the Ancient and Accepted Rite, a member of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 1 1, FVee and Accepted Masons, in which he has officiated as Worshipful Master for two years; of Trinity Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, which he has served as High Priest for two years ; Horace Chase Council, Royal and Select Masters, officiating as Thrice Illustrious Master for two years ; Mt. Horeb Com- mandery. Knights Templar, and of Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. Of the benevolent organizations, he is a member of the White Mountain Lodge, No. 5, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Concord Lodge, No. 8, Knights of Pythias, being a Past Chancellor and a life member of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias, of New Hampshire; and is a member of the Manchester (New Hampshire) Lodge No. 146, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Also, of the higher degrees of Freemasonry, he is a life member of the Order of High Priesthood of New Hampshire ; of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of New Hampshire, and of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Hampshire. He is a member of the Derryfield Club of Man- chester, of the Wonolancet Club of Concord, of the New Hampshire Press Association, and of the New Hampshire Historical Society. In politics he is a Republican, and for a number of years has been prominent in the councils of that party. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and has been vestryman of the church for several years. Mr. Edgerly married, April i, 1893, Anna M. Swasey of Lisbon, New Hampshire. They have one child, Lydia Edgerly, born July 4, 1894. EMERY, GEORfiK Henrv, Harness Manufac- turer and Merchant, Concord, New Hampshire, was born in Stratham, New Hampshire, May 12, MKN OF I'kdCRKSS. 173 1836, son of Joseph and Sophronia (Moore) Emery. In the paternal line he traces his descent through Ichabod Emery, born April 21. 1771; Job, born January 29, 1745 ; Joseph, born February 24, 1702 ; Job, born in 1670; James, born in England about 1630 ; to Anthony, born in Ramsey, Hants, Eng- land, about 1600, who, on April 3, 1635, in com- pany with his brother, John, sailed from South- ampton for America in the ship James of London, William Cooper, Master, and arrived in ISoston June 3. JJeyond Anthony, the line is traced to Gilbert D'Amory, who came to England with Wil- liam the Conqueror. George H. Emery lost his father in infancy, but the boy was carefully nur- tured by a devoted mother, until at the age of eleven he went to live with an uncle at Concord, New Hampshire, where he passed through the graded schools. At fifteen he resolved to learn a trade, and, accordingly, entered the shop of his cousin, James R. Hill, a successful harness maker. He thoroughly mastered the trade, and evinced a great aptitude for the business. When he had served his time, he again took up his studies and made great progress, devoting mucli of his time to bookkeeping. When about nineteen he went to Chicago, where after a time he entered FJell's Com- mercial College and graduated with honor. Soon after, he entered the employ, as bookkeeper, of a large wholesale and retail establishment of sad- dlery and leather goods, representing the senior partner's interest in the business. 'I'his relation continued until the firm closed its business, when Mr. Emery entered Bell's College as Tutor, soon being called to the professorship of the bookkeep- ing department. He came East in the summer of 1859 with the intention of making a short visit, but a very flattering offer from his old employer, Mr. James R. Hill, induced him to remain. His energy was soon manifested in the management of the affairs of the concern, where he introduced the most modern system. When the War of 1861 broke out, he obtained large government contracts for his employer. At the close of tiie war, a co- partnership was formed, composed of James R. Hill, George H. Emery, and J. E. Uvvight, under the firm name of James R. Hill & Company, and Mr. Emery was constituted the managing partner of the firm. Since that time indomitable energy and perseverance have made the name of '-'The Concord Harness" well known all over the world. At the death of the senior partner in 1884, the sur- viving partners, who became sole owners, continued the business under the same firm name until 18SS, when a stock company was formed with Mr. Emery as President. The firm has long competed for England's trade among her near and distant colo- nies. Mr. Emery received the three first degrees in Free Masonry in Cleveland Lodge, Chicago, in 1858; was a projector and charter member of Eureka Lodge ; is a member of Trinity Royal Arch Chapter, of Mount Horeb Commandery of Ivnights Templar, and is a Thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a member of White Mountain Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Wonolancet Club. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He was a mi-nilicr of the Citv Council for GKO. H. EMEKY. s\x years, and for two years the President of that body. Mr. Emery married on September 22, 1861, Abbie W. Clarke, a descendant of Nathaniel Clarke, who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1640. They have three daughters : Elizabeth Cyrene, Lil- lian Abbie, wife of Charles W. Walworth, of Law- rence, Massachusetts, and Hattie Sophia, wife of George R. Gushing, Jr., of Concord, New Hamp- shire. C.REENLEAF, Ch.\ki,ks Hknkv, State Senator and Proprietor of the Profile House, Franconia, New Hampshire, and Hotel Vendome, Poston, Massachusetts, was born in Danville, Vermont, July 23, 1841, son of Scth and Lydia Hall (Ilurn- n\ MEN OF PROGRESS. ham) Greenleaf. He comes of a family long resi- dent in northern New Hampshire, and he himself has been a resident of the state since a very early age, his parents removing from Vermont to Haver- hill when he was less than three months old. Sub- sequently, they changed their residence to Concord, where the son was educated in public and private schools. Colonel Greenleaf developed an early liking for hotel life, and gained practical experi- ence in the business in leading hotels in Washing- ton, New York, Boston, and the White Mountains, where, after two seasons at the Crawford House, he joined his fortunes with those of the Profile House, with which he has been connected for thirty-eight years. In 1S65 the opportunity came to him to assist in the management of the house, the firm being Taft, Tyler \: Greenleaf. In 1S68 the firm was changed to Taft & Greenleaf, the partnership continuing until the death of Mr. Taft in 1881, since which time Colonel Greenleaf has been in sole charge of the house. From its begin- ning, his career has been marked by great success, and not only has he advanced the interests of his was not until twelve years ago that he decided to e-xtend his interests outside of the state, and as the senior partner in the firm of C. H. Greenleaf & Company, leased the Hotel Vendome in Poston. Among other enterprises in which he has engaged is the Profile and Franconia Notch Railroad, of which for eleven years he was Treasurer and Mana- ger. Colonel Greenleaf has been an important factor in Republican politics for a number of years. He was a delegate to the National Convention which gave Penjamin Harrison his first nomination for the Presidency; in i895-'96 he was a member of the Legislature from Franconia, and in i897-'9S a member of the State Senate. He took an active part in the deliberations of that body, and made an enviable record; and in the spring of 1S98 he was induced to enter the lists for the nomination for the Governorship, a candidacy which brought him Mattering evidences of his popularity. He with- drew, however, as his business interests would not permit of his making an aggressive canvass. Colo- nel Greenleaf gained his title as a member of Gov- ernor Prescott's staff. He is a member of the Art Club of Boston and of the Derryfield and Calumet Clubs of Manchester. He is Vice-President of the New England Summer Resort Association. Colo- nel Greenleaf was married May 17, 1867, to ,\bbie Frances Buniliam. Thev have no children. GERRISH, Enoch, Retired F'armer and Lumber Dealer, Concord, was born in Boscawen, July 28, 1822, son of Isaac and Caroline (Lawrence) Ger- rish. He is in the seventh generation from Wil- liam Gerrish, who came to Newburyport in 1635. His grandfather, Enoch Gerrish, was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, and his great-grand- father, Stejihen Gerrish, was one of the first set- tlers of the town of Boscawen, going there in 1735. Mr. Gerrish was educated at the academies in his native place, and at Mcriden. He then engaged in farming, and dealt in wood and lumber. He has been one of the Trustees of the New Hamp- shire Savings Bank for thirty-five years, being one of the Investing Committee for twenty-one years. He is a charter member of the Rolfe and Rumford Asylum. He held all the offices in the Twenty- house, but he also has done much in building up First Regiment of the New Hampshire militia, the tourist and summer visitor business in the from Ensign in 1840 to Colonel i848-'49, and has White Mountain regions. He had received many been Justice of the Peace for fifty years. Mr. Ger- tlattering otTers to take the management of other rish is a Mason, a member of Mt. Horeb Com- great hotels in various parts of the country, but it mandery. In politics he is a Republican. For c. H. c;rei:n'i.kaf. MKN OF PROGRKSS. '75 five years he was Moderator in Roscawen, and for four years served as Selectman and Overseer of the Poor. He was a member of the Legislature in i88o-'8i, and of the State Senate in i887-'S8. For two years he has been Assessor in Concord. ENOCH UliKKISH. He married, May 23, 1854, Miranda O. Lawrence. They have two children : Frank L., of lioscawen, and Lizzie M. Gerrish, wife of F>. VV. Willard, Con- cord, New Hampshire. HARDN', Sii.As, Lawyer and Merchant, Keene, was born in Nelson, New Hampshire, April 3, 1827, son of Noah and Jerusha (Kimball) Hardy, fiis father was a Captain in the militia, and was born in Nelson, September 16, i78(;, anti died there November 28, 1862. His mother was born in the same town August 13, 1790, and died there lanuary 11, 1854. His paternal grandfather, also Noah Hardy, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, in 1758, and died in .Vntrim, December 12, 1835. He removed from Hollis to Nelson just after the Revolution, and became a Deacon of the ( )rthodox church. Early in the war, when a mere boy, he was enrolled as a minute man in the cavalry reserve at Hollis, and was twice called out to go to Bennington, Vermont, and once to Rhode Lslancl, but never participated in an actual battle. 'Phrough his paternal grandmother, Sar.ih (Spof- ford) Hardy, he is descended from John Spofford who came to Rowley, Massachusetts, from York- shire, England, in 1638, and who was the ancestor of all the Spoffords in the United States and Can- ada. The old farm at Georgetown, Massachusetts, is still in the Spofford family, and periodical reunions are held there. Mr. Hardy's maternal grandfather, David Kimball, was born in Bo.xford, Massachusetts, served over three years in the Rev- olutionary War, enlisting in that town in April. 1777, in a Massachusetts regiment, under Captain Daniel Lane and Col. Ichabod Alden. He was in the battle of Stillwater and wintered at Valley F'orge. At the e.xpiration of his service, he again enlisted as a substitute for si.'; months, and served under Captain Wilder in Colonel Jackson's Massa- chusetts regiment. He was present in the camp at West Point at the capture of Major Andre, being on detail at Washington's headquarters. He saw Washington when he read the papers taken from ,\ndre's boot. His name was entered on the pension roll in 1820, and his military record is on file in the pension department. He married Lydia Simmons of Bo.xford, Massachusetts, whose father and brother were killed at tlie battle of Bunker Hill. David Kimball settled in Nelson soon after the close of the war, and died there October 18, 1842, at the age of ninety-two. Noah Hardy, the father of Silas, was a farmer for a few years until by an accident he lost a leg, when he learned the trades of shoe and harness-maker. He had ten children, all living to mature age. 'Phe subject of this sketch, the eighth child, spent his early life on the farm and in the shop. Owing to the large family and the limited means of his father, he was " put out " to a farmer at the age of eleven, and worked away from home until of full age, except for a few months in cold weather. His earnings during this time were over seven hundred dollars. The people among whom he lived were honest and industrious but illiterate, and the only opportunity he had fur an education in boyhood after eleven years of age, was from six to twelve weeks each year in a country school. He had but little access to books or papers, but improved every opportunity. The winter before his majority he taught a district school. He had a strong desire for an education. 'Phe next four years he spent in hard work, and in teaching and fitting for college, receiving no pecuniary aid. In 1852 he entered the Sophomore class in Dartmouth College, graduating in 1855 with the degree of .\. B. He 176 iMKN Ol i( >(;rkss. had the honor of being a selected speaker at the commencement. In his class were Hon. Nelson Dingley, Chief Justice Field of Massachusetts, and Judges Allen and Ladd of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. For one year after his graduation Mr. Hardy was Principal of Foxcroft Academy, Maine, and then entered the office of Hon. Levi Chamberlain at Keene as a law student. During this time, and until admitted to the Bar, he was compelled to struggle with poverty, having no rela- tives of means to aid him, but he pressed steadily forward with eye on the goal, never looking back. In September, 1858, he was admitted to the Bar of New Hampshire, at the term in Sullivan county, of the Supreme Court. He began practice in Keene at once. From March, 1859, to March, 1864, he was Register of Probate, by appointment of the Governor, and from 1864 to 1874 he was Judge of Probate for Cheshire county. Since then he has confined himself to his regular profession, and has been very successful. He has done a large busi- ness as a pension attorney, and many a veteran in his section of the state, and many widows and SILAS HARDV. orphans of veterans have occasion to be grateful to him. He has settled many estates. Though his charges as attorney have been proverbially low yet, being industrious and economical, he has accu- mulated a comfortable estate. He served as Engrossing Clerk of the New Hampshire Legisla- ture in i860 and 1861, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1876. During the last six years he has owned a dry-goods store in Keene in addition to attending to his professional duties. He has always taken an interest in public affairs and politics, and has held a number of offi- cial positions and various offices in banking institu- tions, and is now President of the Winchester National Bank. In politics Mr. Hardy has been a Republican since the organization of the party in 1S56, and has voted for all its presidential nom- inees, and attended many state conventions and many lesser ones. He has been City Solicitor, Alderman, and a member of the School Board. Mr. Hardy was married December 31, 1863, to Josephine 1\I., daughter of Alonzo and Sophia H. Kingsley of Winchester. She was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary in the class of 1857. Mrs. Hardy died June 19, 1871, leaving one child ten weeks old, Ashley Kingsley Hardy. This son was instructed by his father at home until he entered Keene High .School at the age of sixteen, where he prepared for college. He entered Dartmouth Col- lege in 1890 with a high rank, and was graduated in 1894, being the Valedictorian of his class. He then spent three years in Germany at the Berlin and Leipzig Universities. Returning in October, 1S97. he took a position at Dartmouth as an Instructor in German. He has since been elected Instructor for three years, with leave of absence for one year, and has returned to Leipzig to complete the course marked out and receive the degree of Ph. 1). This son, having been thus early deprived of his natural mother, came under the care of Miss Esther Hills — a member of the family, who acted as his foster-mother through his minority — whose excellent teaching and discipline contributed largely to the moulding and shaping of his high character. They are to each other in their mutual feelings and respect as parent and child. HAMBLl'.ir, Charles Judson, was born in Nashua, January 31, 1862, son of Judson A., and Mary J. (I'erkins) Haniblett. When he was five years of age, he removed with his family to Mil- ford, where he attended school, graduating at the Milford High School in 1880. He then attended a private school for a year, after wliich he pursued his studies at Francestown Academy, a preparatory school, taking the four years" course in two years. After being graduated from Francestown .Vcademy MEN OF I'RdC, RKSS. 177 in 1883. he commenced the study of law in the office of Robert M. Wallace of Milford, and the office of liaiiihridge W'adleigh in I'.oston, and was graduated from the Boston University of Law in 1889. He began the practice of law in Nashua, on C. J. HAMLLEri'. the 15th of October, 1889. In 1887 he was elected Assistant Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate, and was re-elected in 1889. In 189 1 and 1893 he was elected Clerk of that body. In 1891 he was elected City Solicitor of the city of Nashua, and was re-elected to that office in 1892, 1893, and 1894. He was married October 4, 1894, to Geor- gie Ellen Stevens, daughter of David and Cornelia Stevens. He has one child by this marriage, a daughter: Mary Stevens Hamblett. Mr. Hamb- lett was appointed United States District Attorney by President McKinley in March, 1898, and assumed the duties of iiis office on March 16, HASTlNCiS, 'rnoiiAS Nelson, W'alpole, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1858, son of T. Nelson and Harriet M. (Holland) Has- tings. His grandfather, Thomas Hastings, was a very successful merchant of East Cambridge, being for a number of years in the firm of Hast- ings & Dana, wholesale grocers. T. Nelson Hastings, Sr., who died when his son was only nine months old, was a man of much influence, and was for years a member of the Commercial E.xchange of Boston. Mr. Hastings's great-grand- father on his mother's side was Doctor Abraham Holland, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the third physician to practice in VValpole where he was very prominent in his profession for forty years. His son Ephraim, born in 1790, was in the War of 1812, and his grandson, Henry E., was a Surgeon in the Ci\il War. The subject of this sketch acquired his elementary education in the public schools of Walpole, whither his mother removed upon the death of his father. He after- ward attended Warren Academy at Woburn, Mass- achusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he pursued a course in archi- tecture. From 1882 to 1888 he lived in Cambridge, and was engaged in various business enterprises in Boston. In 1S82 he built the Bijou Theatre in that city, and conducted it with George Tyler as Mana- ger. While owner of the Bijou, he introduced the electric lighting system. Being a warm personal friend of Mr. Edison's, he became a pioneer in introducing his new invention to the public, putting in over seven hundred lights. He also placed in the theatre, six magnificent chandeliers that had been made to send to Egjpt. During this time, he was interested also in the Boston Tobacco Com- pany, and was for three years its President. He was a charter member of the old Boston ISicycle Club, and at the first bicycle race ever held in Suffolk county, took the first prize. In 1880, with four other members, he made a cycling trip abroad, the first trip of the kind ever made, and the "Fortu- nate Five," as they were termed, were entertained by the Bicycle Club of London, then composed e.xclusively of men of wealth and noble family. They were made members of the Bicycle Touring Club of England. Mr. Hastings extended his trip, making a pleasure tour in Germany, Switzerland, and other countries. In politics he is an earnest Republican. Serving in the State Senate during the biennial term, iS97-'9S, at his election receiv- ing the largest vote in the town. He was Chair- man of the Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Education Committee and of the Committee on Incorporations, and a member of the ('ommittee on Labor. He is extremely popular on account of his genial and amiable qualities and his liberal hospitality, and with his commanding height and presence he makes a notable figure at the State Capitol. Mr. Hastings is a good judge of horse flesh, and is said to be one of the most skillful of ■73 MliN OF l'R(iC;i.. from Dartmouth College in 1893. On July 30, 18S4, he was mar- ried to Helen Mary Tupper. Tiiey have one daughter: Marie Murkland, born December 16, 1887. PEIRCE, George Walton, Physician, Winches- ter, was born in that town, April 24, 1833, son of Hosea and Verlina (Putnam) Peirce. His father G. W. I'EIRCE. was a physician and practiced in Winchester from 1828 until his death at the age of ninety-two. The subject of this sketch was educated in the schools of his native town, in the Academies at Townshend, Vermont, and Sherburn Falls, Massachusetts, and at the New England Institute for young men at New York city. He was graduated from lierkshire Medical College in 1854, and in the same year began practice in Winchester, where he has since remained. Eroni April 18, 1864. until the close of the Civil War, he was Surgeon of the First New Hampshire Cavalry, and Surgeon-General on the staff of Governor Moody Currier. He is President of the town Board of Health, President of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, President of the Poard of Education and of the Ashuelot Valley Electric Light, Heat, and Power Company. He was a member of the state [..egislature in 1875, and of the Senate in 1891. While in the latter body he was Chairman of the Committee on Rail- roads. He is a Trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, and Past Commander of Post No. ig, Grand Army of the Republic, Depart- ment of New Hampshire. Doctor Peirce is a Repub- lican, and has been active in politics since the cast- ing of his first ballot fur John C. Fremont. He married Maria C, daughter of William Follett of Winchester. They have four children : Alexander P., Susan Putnam, now Mrs. Walter O. Stebbins of Hinsdale, Abbie E., now Mrs. Edward C. Thomp- son of Winchester, and Philip W. Peirce. ORDWAV, Nehemiah Geor(;e, E.\-Governor of Dakota, Warner, was born in that town, November 28, 182S, son of Nehemiah and Mary (Flanders) ( )rdway. His father was a farmer, and his mother the daughter of Isaiah Flanders, who owned a large farm, included in wiiich was much of the territory now occupied by Warner village. It was upon this farm that Mr. Ordway passed many of his early years, soon becoming the acli\'e manager of the property. He still owns a large share of the homestead. Pefore he had attained his major- ity, Mr. Ordway had sought other outlets for his energy, and had engaged in mercantile business in Warner, where he rebuilt stores iu Union Block. He remained in business in Warner for several years, and took an active part in the affairs of the town. In 1855 and '56 served as Assistant Clerk and Sergeantat-Arms of the New Hampshire Legisla- ture. At the close of these sessions was appointed by Governor William Haile, Sheriff of Merrimack county for the term of five years, and thereupon he removed to Concord, where he also served as City Marshal and Collector of Ta.xes. In early man- hood, Mr. Ordway was a Democrat, but when the Republican party was organized, he became identi- fied with it, and was for many years associated with William E. Chandler and the late Edward H. Rollins in the management of the party affairs, serving as Chairman of the Republican State Com- mittee. In the Lincoln campaign of i860, as Chairman of the Republican State Committee and Chief Marshal, he took ten thousand men from this state to participate in the great " Wide Awake " campaign demonstration in Boston. When the war broke out, Mr. Ordway was .Sheriff of Merri- mack county, but his services were called for by igo MEN OF PROGRESS. the Governor, who commissioned him Colonel, and detailed him to make arrangements for forwarding the first regiments raised in the state. In 1861, President Lincoln appointed him General Agent of the Post-office Department and Superintendent of Mail Transportation for the Si.x New England States, which duties he performed until December, 1862, when he resigned to accept the office of Sergeant-at-Arms and Paymaster of the National House of Representatives at Washington. He was elected to this important position at the open- ing of the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was five times re-elected, serving for twelve years, and during this historic period becoming intimately N. O. ORDWAY. acquainted with no less than twelve hundred Sena- tors and Representatives. At the same time Mr. Ordvvay became interested in the affairs of the Dis- trict of Columbia and business matters of the Dis- trict. He aided in organizing and became one of the principal stockholders in the Washington Mar- ket Company, of which he was for eight years President, and still spends a large share of each year in the capital city. In the spring of 1875. he was elected Representative to the State Legislature from Warner, being the first Republican sent from that town. He was again elected in 1876 and 1877, was a Delegate to the Constitutional Con- vention of 1876, and was elected a State Senator in 1879. President Hayes appointed him Gov- ernor of the Territory of Dakota in May, 1S80, and this office he held for four busy years, being actively engaged not only in conducting the official affairs of the territorial government, but in superin- tending the erection of many public buildings, including the State House at Bismarck and peni- tentiaries, asylums, schools, and universities at dif- ferent places. He established the First National Bank at Pierre, and afterwards the Capital National Bank at Bismarck. His early experience in the organization and management of the Kear- sarge National and Savings Banks in Warner stood him in good stead, and he was the first President of each of these new banks in the West. So ener- getic was he while in Dakota that his health was considerably impaired by his labors, and upon his return to his old home, he was obliged in a measure to curtail his activities. Nevertheless, he is still a pretty well preserved busy man, for besides his large interests in New Hampshire and his interests in \\'ashington, he has important busi- ness interests in both the Dakotas, and owns a residence in Bismarck as well as one in Washing- ton. Governor Ordway has always been interested in agriculture, and has developed his estate of four or five hundred acres, which stretches for nearly two miles along the Warner river, and includes the " River Bow Park," one of the oldest fair grounds in New England. Ex-Governor Ordway has been an enthusiastic breeder of fine horses, has taken a very important part in forwarding the interests of agricultural societies, for whose annual fairs he furnishes accommodations at his " River Bow Park," and organized the Merrimack County Grange Fair, which is held on the same grounds. He is a Mason of the Thirty-second Degree and Knights Templar, and a member of Warner and Merrimack County Pomona Granges. In religion he formerly was affiliated with the Ifniversalists, but while a resident of Washington in war times became a strong adherent of the Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland of the First Presbyterian Church, with which he has since retained his connection, and has served as President of the Congregation since Dr. Talmage became Associate Pastor. Governor Ordway was married, October g, 1848, to Nancy Ann, daughter of Daniel Bean, a prominent resi- dent of Warner, who was the owner of large lumber interests, and vi'ho built and operated the mills near the present \\'aterloo Railroad station, other- wise known as Bean's Mills. The Governor had three children : Mabel, wife of Colonel E. L. Whit- MEN OF PROGRESS. 191 ford, formerly United States Pension Agent for this district ; Colonel George L. Ordway (deceased), who married a niece of the late Vice President Colfax, and was an attorney at Warner; and Florence (de- ceased), wife of F'rank G. VVilkins, an attorney of Washington, District of Columbia. Governor Ord- way was admitted to the Par in the Supreme Court of what now comprises the new states of North and South Dakota, and gave his personal attention to the construction and financial management of all the Public Buildings in both these new and prosperous states, as will be seen by his business cards printed herewith. OFFIC].\L SERVICE. 1S551 Clerk New Hampshire Legislature. 1S56 to '60. — High Sheriff and Marshal. 1S60 to '62. — U. S. Inspector and Colonel. 1S62. Elected Sergeant-at-Arnis and Paymaster, jSth Con- gress ; re-elected 39th, 4Qth, 41st, 42d, and 43d Con- gresses. 1S75 to 'So. — Elected N. H. House, Constitutional Convcntiun and State Senate. 18S0. Appointed Governor of Dakota in May, 1S80, served until July, 1SS4. Recommended and approved acts for locating and erecting Insane Hospitals at Yankton and Jamestovirn: Penitentiaries at Sioux Falls and Bismarck ; Universities at Vermilion and Grand Forks ; Normal Schools at Spearhsh and Madison ; Deaf Mute Schools at Sioux Falls ; Agricultural Colleges at Brookings and Fargo ; Reformatory Institution at Plankington, and Cajj- itol Buildings at Bismarck. ROLLINS, Montgomery, Banker, Boston, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, August 25, 1867, son of Edward H. and Ellen Elizabeth (West) Rollins. He comes of a family which is one of the oldest and most distinguished in the state, the name Rollins being prominent in the records of almost every town in southeastern New Hampshire. Most if not all of the bearers of the naine are descendants of James Rollins (or Raw- lins, as the name is sometimes spelled), one of the pioneers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who came to America in 1632 and settled at "Bloody Point" in old Dover, a dozen years later, where he died about 1690. In the early Indian-French wars and the great Revolutionary contest, his descendants bore their full share. Ichabod, the eldest son of James Rol- lins, an ancestor of Edward H., was murdered by Indians while on the way from Dover to Oyster River (now Durham), in 1707. The second son of James, Thomas, afterwards a resident of Exeter, was a member of the "dissolved assembly" of 1683, which took up arms under Edward Gove and attempted to begin an insurrection against the royal Governor, Cranfield. Thomas Rollins was one of those subsequently tried for treason and sentenced to death, but was eventtially pardoned. In the Revolutionary Army a score and a half of the descendants of James Rollins were engaged in active service. Jeremiah Rollins, the only son of Ichabod, was one of the petitioners for the incor- poration of Somersworth as a separate parish. He died a few years before the Revolution, and his son, Ichabod, became an active champion of the peo- ple's cause, was a member of the Convention at Exeter in 1775, served on the committee to prepare ways and means for furnishing troops, and on the committee of supplies ; was a memlier of the Con- MUNTGOMERV ROLLINS. vention which resolved itself into an independent state government in 1776, and sat in the Legisla- ture in October following. From 1776 to 1784 he was Judge of Probate, being the first to hold this office under the new government. Subsequently he was a member of the Executive Council. He died in 1800. From him the town of Rollinsford, which was made from a portion of Somersworth, received its name. John, the eldest of his four sons, was grandfather of Daniel G. Rollins, Judge of Probate for the County of Strafford, from 1857 to 1866. Edward Ashton Rollins, son of Daniel, was Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1861 and 1862, Commissioner of Internal Reve- MKN (»1 I'R()(;KESS. nue under President Johnson. James Rollins, third son of Ichabod 2d, and grandfather of Edward H., settled upon the farm in Rollinsford, which has since remained the family homestead. Daniel Rol- lins, his eighth child, married Mary, eldest daughter of Ebenezer Plumer, and was the father of Edward H. Rollins, who was the father of the subject of this sketch. Montgomery Rollins attended the public schools of Concord, the district school in Rollinsford, private schools in Washington, District of Columbia, and studied for three years under Moses Woolson at Concord, titting for the Institute of Technology, Boston, where he subsequently took a three years' course, completing it in 1888. His first business venture was as a clerk in the banking house of E. H. Rollins &: Son of Concord, and after six months he went West, entering the Denver office of the same firm. He returned East to take part in the settlement of his father's estate, and about the first of Januar)-, 1890, went to Boston, taking the management of the Boston branch of the house of E. H. Rollins & Sons, and becoming at that time a Director and Secretary, offices he still holds. In 1S92 the Boston office became the main office of the banking house, and so remains. Mr. Rollins is the author of a number of publications of great interest to the banking fraternity. Among them is the " Rollins Tables of Bond Values," now in its eighth edition, and the " Montgomery Cipher Code," now in its fourth edition, both of which have met a very hearty reception and have proved of great value. Mr. Rollins is Secretary of the Chestnut Hill Golf Club, and a member of its Executive Committee. He is a member of the Chestnut Hill Club and the Technology Club. He was married October 28, i8gi, to Grace Webster Seave}', daugh- ter of the Hon. J. Frank Seavey of Dover. They have one daughter: Ellen West Rollins. He next entered into partnership with W. M. Chase, and when the latter was appointed to the Supreme Bench, the firm became Streeter, Walker & Chase. Mr. Streeter is a legal specialist, dealing in cases involving large corporate interests, and was the STRKEFER, Fr.'KNK Shkrwin, Lawyer, Con- cord, was born in Charlestown, Vermont, August 5, 1853, son of Daniel and Julia W. Streeter. He received his education in the public schools in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and at the Academy in the same place. He entered Dartmouth College as a Sophomore, being graduated in 1874. After hold- ing for a time the position of Principal of the Ottumwa (Iowa) High School, he read law with A. P. Carpenter of Bath, and was admitted to the Bar in March, 1877. He practiced six months at Orford, then removing to Concord and forming a partner- ship with J. H. Albin, which continued one year. FR.\NK S. STREETER. General Counsel of the Concord iv: Montreal Rail- road, prior to its lease to the Boston & Maine Railroad, and is now actively engaged as Counsel for that corporation. He is a Trustee of Dart- mouth College. In 1S85 he represented the Fourth Ward of Concord in the Legislature, and presided at the Republican State Convention in 1892. Mr. Streeter was married November 14, 1S77, to Lillian, daughter of A. P. Carpenter, then of Bath, subsequently Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. They have two children. SULLOWAV, Cyrus Adams, Member of Con- gress, Manchester, was born in Grafton, New Hampshire, June 8, 1839. He received a common school and academic education, and studied law with the late Austin F. Pike, at Franklin, being admitted to the Bar in 1863. In January of the following year he began the practice of law in Manchester, which has since been his home. Mr. .Sulloway has long been active in politics. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Repre- sentatives in i872-'73, and from 1887 to 1893, MEN OF PROCiRKSS. '93 inclusive. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fifty-fifth, receiving twenty-five thousand, six hun- dred and sixty-one votes, against thirteen thousand, nine hundred and twenty-eight cast for John IS. Nash, Democrat ; six hundred and fourteen for Henry E. Brawn, Prohibitionist ; three hundred and twenty-six for Benjamin T. Whitehouse, Socialist Labor ; one hundred and twenty-one for Charles W. Coolidire, National Democrat; and one C. A. SULLOWAY. hundred and ele\en for Josiaii A. Whittier, Peo- ple's Party. Mr. Sulloway was one of the strong- est advocates in Congress of War with Spain, for the liberation of Cuba. S.ARGENT, Frank Hknk\, Physician, Pitts- field, was born in that town October 31, 1861, son of Charles H. and Almira (King) Sargent. The first ancestor of his family in this country was Wil- liam Sargent, who emigrated to this country from England in 1638. Benjamin Sargent, great-great- grandson of William, who served as a corporal in the Revolutionary War under Washington, was born March 27, 1760, and was ordained as a Bap- tist minister of Bow, New Hampshire, October 11, 1797, removed to Pittsfield, and settled over the Congregational Church, March 10, 1801. He united this church with the liaptist Society, and continued to preach for the two until March 15, iSiS, when he was seized by apoplexy while in the pulpit, and died from the effects of the attack. He left two sons and one daughter, one son becoming a well-known clergyman. The daughter married F"rederick Sanborn, and her son, MajorGeneral John B. Sanborn, commanded all of the United States forces west of the Mississippi River, during the great Rebellion. Walter Sanborn, his grand- son, a cousin of the subject of this sketch, is the United States Judge whose recent decision in the Pacific Railroad cases saved the Government seve- ral million dollars. Moses L. Sargent, the other son of the Reverend Benjamin Sargent, had two children. His son, Charles H. Sargent, born Sep- tember 15, 1S25. had six children, the youngest of F. H. SARCKNT. whom is the suliject of this sketch. When Doctor Sargent was but ten years of age his father died, and he at once took charge, of the farm, under the guidance of his mother. He was educated in the common schools, and at Pittsfield Academy. His professional studies were begun in the medical department at Bowdoin, and continued at Dart- mouth, from which he was graduated in the class of 1889. He then took a post-graduate course in New York city, after which he returned to Pitts- field, where he established a practice which is large and steadily increasing. He is known as a ■94 MEN OF PROGRESS. man of great iiulepeiidence in thought and action, yet has hosts of friends and few enemies. He has occupied all the chairs in Suncook Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a very active member. He still retains his interest in fanning, has added many acres to the old home- stead, and has brought it up to the condition in which it is one of the most productive farms in the Suncook Valley. In 1894 he bought the Hill prop- erty at the corner of Carroll and Depot streets, and at once remodeled Ifce large building, and in the following year he built another business block upon adjoining land, thus making him one of the largest real estate owners in the town. Doctor Sargent has great energy and executive ability, and has, unaided, attained marked success at the age of thirty-six, through continuous application. He has for years looked carefully after the needs of his mother, in her declining years. In politics Doc- tor Sargent is an Independent. He was married July 25, 1897,10 Nellie, daughter of S. J., and Mar- garet Denison Winslow of Pittsfield. SMITH, William Benj.amin Tvnc, Charles- town, was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, March 9, 1842, the third son of the late Reverend Henry Sumner and Mary (Hilliard) Smith. Mr. Smith is a scholar and clergyman by heredity, as well as by education and preference, coming from New England stock, which in an unbroken line for more than a century consecrated its members to the service of the church. His father, the Rever- end Henry Sumner Smith, after a collegiate and divinity course at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, was made Deacon by Bishop Mcllvaine in that town, and was ordained Priest by the same Bishop in Trinity church, Cleveland. After laying the foundation of what have since become flourishing parishes in that Diocese, he served a diligent and faithful Rectorship over the old historic Union church at West Claremont, New Hampshire. On the maternal side Mr. Smith is of Scotch descent. His mother's father was the Reverend Timothy Hilliard, of Gorham, Maine. His great-grand- father, the Reverend Timothy Hilliard, born in Kensington, New Hampshire, in 1746, was a grad- uate of Harvard College in 1764, and was ordained Pastor of the Congregational church at Barnstable, in 1771 ; his grandfather, the Reverend Timothy Hilliard, Jr., born in 1776, was also a Harvard man in the class of 1793. He was ordered Deacon in Trinity church, Boston, by Bishop Bass, and ordained Priest by Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut, June 6, 1805. That the Hilliard family in this country dates from the earliest colonial period and was among the first to settle in Massachusetts, is evidenced by the name Hilliard having been be- stowed upon one of the principal streets of the old college town of Cambridge. Mr. Smith fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, and was graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1866. He studied Divinity at the General Theo- logical Seminary of New York city, completing the three years' course in 1871. While yet a student at the seminary, he was ordained Deacon, Decem- ber 19, 1869, by the late Bishop Chase, First Bishop of New Hampshire, and after completing his course of study in Divinity he was ordained Priest by Horatio Potter, Bishop of the Diocese of New York. His early training for active life began by teaching in the public schools of Claremont. He was afterwards Principal of the High School of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a Civil Engineer on the Fort Wayne tv Grand Rapids Railroad. In the summer of 187 1 he went to Europe, anticipating U. 1;. 1. SMITH. much enjoyment in making a tour of the Old World, but was called home early in the following year by his father's fatal illness. He succeeded his father as Rector of Union church, West Clare- mont, assuming the duties June 23, 1872. He MEN OF PROGRESS. ■95 established the Mission and erected the Church of St. John the Baptist at VVolfboro Junction, New Hampshire, in 1876. Two years later he accom- plished a similar purpose in advancing the work of a Mission already established at Woodsville, New Hampshire, and was instrumental in building St. Luke's church in that town. He accepted the Rectorship of St. James's church, Keene, in Sep- tember, 1S84, and in 1886 became Rector of Trin- ity church in Tilton. His exceptionally happy marriage to Nellie S. liaker, only surviving daughter of the late Jonathan and Harriet M. (V\'illard> Baker of Charlestown, occurred June 27, 18SS, in St. Luke's church, Charlestown, the Right Rever- end \V. W. Niles, liishop of New Hampshire, offi- ciating. Soon after this event Mr. Smith was in- vited to become Rector of St. Luke's, and after serving acceptably for four years resigned the charge. \\'hile a portion of each year is passed in travel and their summers are spent in their beauti- ful camp in the Adirondacks, Mr. and Mrs. Smith continue to make Charlestown their permanent home. The abilities of Mr. Smith as a leader and organizer, as well as in executive directions, aside from his earnestness and eloquence as a preacher, have long and repeatedly been recognized by the Bishop and clergy of the Diocese of New Hamp- shire in his elections to responsible offices and committees ; nor are his talents confined to the ministry, but are equally apparent along educa- tional, official and financial lines. He has accom- plished efficient work as Superintendent of Schools in Claremont : as Deputy to the General Conven- tion of the Protestant Episcopal church for several terms of three years each, as well as in his position during a period of great financial depression as a Director of the Connecticut River National Bank, and as a Director of the Claremont National Bank in Claremont. Mr. Smith is a man of culture and genial temperament and makes hosts of friends. He is quick in his perceptions, earnest and enthu- siastic in all his undertakings, a lover of art and music, and a brilliant conversationalist. lished it for twelve years. For the past fourteen years he has been in the drug business. Mr. San- born was a member of the Legislature in 1885. He is a member of the Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester, New Hampshire, of which he is Assis- SANBORN, Gkukck Fkeem.an, Druggist, Mere- ilith, was born in that place August 17, 1857, son of George and Sophronia D. (Stockbridge) San- born. He received his education in the public schools of his native town, at the New Hampton Literary Institution, and at Tilton Seminary. In 1880 he established the Meredith News, and pub- i;K(i. F. .s.\xi;uRX. taut Surgeon : a member of Manchester Lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and of tiie Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a Democrat. He married I )ecember 10, 1884, Charlotte |. French. They ha\e one son : Royden \V. Sanborn. TUCKER, W'lLLiA.M Jewett, President of Dart- mouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, was born in Griswold, Connecticut, July 13, 1839, son of Henry and Sarah (Lester) Tucker, the seventh in descent from Robert Tucker, who came over in 1635 and settled at ^\'eymouth, Massachusetts. The family is descended from John Tucker, 1066. He obtained his early education at the Academy of Plymouth, and Kimball Union Academy of Men- den. He became a student at Dartmouth, and was graduated in the class of 1861. For two years after his graduation he taught at Columbus, Ohio, and then took up his theological studies at Ando- ver Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1866. He was ordained and installed Pastor of the Franklin-Street Congregational Church of Man- chester in 1867, a pastorate he held until 1875, .96 MEN OF PKt)(;RKSS. when he was called to the Madison Square Pres- byterian Cliurch in New York city. There he remained until 1880, when he was appointed Ear- tlett Professor of Honiileticb in the Andover Theological Seminary, where he remained for thir- Alice Lester and Margaret Tucker. He was again married, June 23, 1887, to Charlotte B. Cheever. P.y his second marriage he has one child : Eliza- beth Washburn Tucker. \V. J. TUCKER. teen years, being elected President of Dartmouth College in 1893. Dr. Tucker received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1875 : of LL. D. from Williams in 1894, and LL. I), from Yale in 1896. He was Phi Peta Kappa Orator of Harvard Lhii- versity in 1893, and was Lecturer at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1894. He was Lecturer on the Winckley Foundation, Andover Theological Seminary, in 1S97, and Lecturer on the Lyman Beecher Foundation, Yale University, in 1898. He was one of the Founders and Editors of the Andover Review, with which he was connected from i8S5-'93. He was the Flounder of the An- dover Home, Boston, now known as the South End Home, a social settlement. Doctor Tucker is widely known as an educator and for his scholarly addresses on many occasions of note, both in and out of New Hampshire. Under his administration, as the head of Dartmouth College, he has been attended with marked success, and has been re- warded by a great development of the college. Doctor Tucker was married, June 22, 1870, to Charlotte H. Rogers, who bore him two children : THAYER, Wii.MAM FisKE, President of the First National 15ank, Concord, was born in Kingston, New Hampshire, son of Calvin Thayer. He was edu- cated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden. He removed to Concord, and became Clerk in the post-office, was soon advanced to the position of Chief Clerk, and held the place four years. F.nter- \V. F. THAVER. ing the employ of the First National Bank as a Clerk, he was promoted rapidly, and became Cash- ier, and finally President. During his connection with the bank, the deposits and the surplus have been largely increased. The bank has one of the best, if not the most spacious, and well-appointed banking-rooms in New England. Mr. Thayer is also connected as Director with several prominent corporations and institutions in the state ; a Direc- tor of the Northern New Hampshire Railroad; a Trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane ; was chosen Treasurer of the Republican State Committee in 1892, and still holds the posi- tion, and since 1S79 has been Treasurer of the City of Concord. A Mason and Knights Templar. Married Sarah C. Wentworth. MEN OF PROGRESS. ■97 WALLACE, RoHERT Mooke, Lawyer, Milford, was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, May 2, 1847, son of Jonas and Mary (Darling) Wallace. His father was a well-known merchant of that town, his ancestors being among the pioneer set- tlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire. He was educated in the common school and at the academy in his native place ; entered Dartmouth College at the age of sixteen, and was graduated in the class of '67. Shortly after, he began tiie study of law in the office of Mason W. Tappan, afterward Attor- ney-General of New Hampshire, and was admitted to the Bar in 1S70. The same year he removed to Milford, where he formed a partnership with Bain- bridge \\'adleigh. United States Senator, which continued until the latter removed to Boston. Since R. M. WALLACE. this time, Mr. Wallace has practiced alone. In 1877 and 1878 he was a member of the Legis- lature and in 18S9, a member of the Constitu- tional Convention. He was appointed County Solicitor for Hillsborough county in 1883, and held the position for ten years, when he was ap- pointed by Governor Smith, Associate Justice of the Supreme Bench of New Hampshire. He mar- ried in .August, 1874, Ella M., daughter of tlie late WASON, Edward Hill, Lawyer, Nashua, was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, Septem- ber 2, 1865, son of George .A. Wason. He was educated at tiie Francestown Academy and at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, graduating with the degree of B. S. in 1886. He read law in the office of George B. French of Nashua; later attended lectures at the Boston University, where he was graduated in 1890 with the degree of LL. 11. While pursuing his law studies, he taught at the Main street even- ing school, being Principal for a time. He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in March, 1890, and opened a law office at Nashua. He was City Solicitor in 1894 and 1895, and was re- elected June I, 1896. He was a member of the Common Council in 1896, and was President of the City Council from June i, 1896, for two years. He is Treasurer of the Nashua Driving Park Asso- ciation, a member of the Nashua Boat Club and City Guards Club, Trustee of the Nashua Hospital Association and of the John M. Hunt Home, and President and Director of the Tarnic Ice Company. r^ H. WASON. In 1SS7, he was chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the Slate Senate and was re-elected in 1S93, andwas A. F. Hutchinson of Milford. They have three Clerk of the same body in 1895. He was elected children : Edward D., Robert B., and Helen Wal- a member of the Nashua lioard of Education in lace. June, 1895, and is President of the Board. He is 198 mp:x of pr()(;rkss. at present in partnership with George !•'. Jackson, the firm name being Wason & Jackson. The firm has a large practice and a brilliant future before it. Mr. Wason is a member of Rising Sun Lodge, .•\ncient Free and Accepted Masons, being Past Master of the Lodge, a member of Meriden Sun Royal Arch Chapter, Israel Hunt Council, and St. George Conimandery, Knights Templar, Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Aleppo Temple of Boston, and Nashua Lodge Knights of Pythias. Mr. Wason is unmarried. WEEKS, JiJHN WiNGATE, Banker, Boston, Massachusetts, was born in Lancaster, New Hamp- shire, April II, iS6o, son of William D. and Mary Helen (Fowler) Weeks. He is a direct descend- ant of Leonard Weeks, who settled in Portsmouth (now Greenland), New Hampshire, in 1657. He received his education in the public schools and academies of his native town. From 1877 to 1881, he attended the United States Naval Academy, and after his jiraduation. made one cruise as a JOHN \V. WEEKS. midsliipman on the L'nited States Steamship Kitiimond. The years 1S84 and 1885 he spent locating Government lands, and surveying old Spanish grants in Florida. During the following year he was in the real estate business in Orlando, Florida, and from 1887 to July i, 1888, he acted as Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Immi- gration for the Florida Southern Railroad. In -August, 1S8S, he removed to Boston to enter the banking and brokerage business, and has remained there ever since with an office at 53 State street. He is a member of the firm of Hornblower lV Weeks, who have two memberships in the Boston and one in the New York Stock E.xchange. Mr. Weeks has been a Director in the Massachusetts National Bank, the oldest Bank in New England, since 1895, and since 1894 has been a Director in the Newton Street Railway, and a Director and Vice- President of the Central Massachusetts Railroad. He is one of the Trustees of the Newton Land and Improvement Company, and has been President of the Newtonville Trust Company since its organiza- tion in March, 1896. In i89o-'92 he commanded a division of the Naval Brigade, in i892-'q3 a Bat- talion of the Naval Brigade, and since 1894 he has commanded the Massachusetts Naval Brigade. He is the Senior Naval Militia Officer in the L'nited States. In 1S96 President Cleveland appointed him a member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy. Mr. Weeks is a member of the Middlesex and New Hamp- shire Clubs, of the University Club of Boston, being a member of the Admission Committee, of the Army and Navy Club of Washington, of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Society of the War of 1S12. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Weeks was married, October 7, 1885, to Martha A., daughter of John G. Sinclair. They have two children : Katherine S., born August 19, 1889, and Charles Sinclair Weeks, born June 15, 1893. ANNABLE, Edwi.v GriLFORD, Physician, Con- cord, was born in Newport, Province of Quebec, Canada, December 2, 1840, son of Jacob Merrill and Eunice (Dean) Annable. He is of English an- cestry, being descended in the paternal line from Anthony Annable, who came from County Kent in 1623 in the ship Ann. and landed in Plymouth. After living here for seventeen years, he removed to Scituate and later to Barnstable, Massaciiusetts. He was known in the colony as " Good Man .Anna- ble," and was held in high esteem. Ansel Anna- ble, who was in the si.\th generation from .Anthony and who was the grandfather of Doctor Annable, settled in Groton, New Hampshire, where he lived fgr some years until, finding the soil too barren and MEN OF PROGRESS. 199 the prospects too poor to meet the needs of a grow- ing famil}-, he moved to Newport in the Province of Quebec, Canada, in or about 1820. He settled in a complete wilderness, but a few years of per- sistent effort served to clear the land of a heavy growth of timber and to transform it into one of the finest farms of the region. His son, Jacob Annable, was about eight years old when the fam- ily mo\ed from Groton. He remained on the home farm and in January, 1836, married Eunice Dean, whose mother was Susan Russ, in direct line from Henry Russ who came from Hingham, Norfolk county, P.ngland, in 1633 or 1635. The family of Jacob Annable consisted of six children, three sons and three daughters. Doctor Annable was the second son. The years of his boyhood and early manhood were spent at school and at light farm work. The seven years following were spent in New Hampshire and Canada until the spring of 1868, when he removed to Concord. For a number of years he engaged in various pursuits, following no fixed purpose until the summer of 1877. when, after much serious thought, a plan was earnestly considered and faithfully carried out. to devote all spare time to study in preparation for his future profession. Courses of study were con- scientiously pursued, in anatomy, physiology and chemistry, and then a lecture course was taken at Dartmouth College. The next year was spent at the University of \'ermont, where his degree was given. Deciding upon Fitzwilliam, New Hamp- shire, as a location for practice he there formed a partnership with Doctor Silas Cumings, a ripe scholar and skillful practitioner. The partnership of three years was cut short by the death of Doc- tor Cumings, but it was of long enough duration to establish the confidence of the people. After nearly seven years of practice in Fitzwilliam, he removed to Norwich, Vermont, in June, 1S86, at the solicitation of relatives there. He very shortly built up a good business, extending over a large territory in Vermont and New Hampshire. Here he had under his care the celebrated case of dry gangrene of Gideon Lord, a man seventy-two years of age. The gangrene extended to the lower mar- gin of the knee-cap, and Doctor Annable cut away first the muscle and finally the diseased bones and in a short time healing began. In less than six months a healthy stub was formed and later a peg leg was attached that did excellent service for the nine years of life remaining. In June, 1S94, Doc- tor Annable removed to C"oncord, desiring a more concentrated practice. His health had become somewhat impaired by his labors in Norwich. Dur- ing the last four years, a good practice has been established and a fair promise for the future seems in a fair way to be realized. He is a member of '5* E. O. ANNAHLE. the New Hampshire Medical Society, also of the American .'\ssociation of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the \A'hite Ri\er (^"ermont) Medical Society. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of Rumford Lodge of Concord. Doctor Annable married June 9, 1863, Louisa Maria F'arwell, of Robinson, Province of Quebec, youngest daughter of William Farwell. Crown Land Agent of the Government Lands of the Province of Quebec. They have four children: Edwin Waller, born in Eaton, Province of Quebec, May 29, 1864, who married Gertrude Paige of Downers Gro\e. Illinois, and who is at present Pastor of the First Baptist church of Millegeville, Illinois ; Angela Dean, born in Robinson, Province of Quebec, April 20, 1866, and who married Henry Roberts ; Alice Louisa, born in Concord, New Hampshire, April 18, 1874, and who married Cur- tis Chamberlin in October, 1894; and Bessie Far- well Annable, born in Norwich, X'ermont, Septem- ber 30, 1887. Doctor Annable has five grand- children: Neil and Lawrence Annable ; Gladys A. Roberts, and Harold ('. and Louisa Merle Cham- berlin. MEN OF PROGRESS. CRANE, John SuMMF.RFiF.i.n, Manufacturer, Lakeport, was born in Springfield, Massacliusetts, February 3, ICS34, son of Lutlier and Rebecca (Manter) Crane. On tlie paternal side he is descended from an old famil)' of Canton, Massa- J. .s. 'JKANK. chusetts ; on the maternal side he traces his descent from ancestors resident in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and is a direct descendant of Gov- ernor Bradford of the Massachusetts Colony. Mr. Crane received a common school education and attended the Berwick .-Vcademy in Maine. While he was at school, his skill in drawing attracted attention, and a gentleman, impressed with his talent, offered to educate him as an artist. Voung Crane, however, did not avail himself of tiiis oppor- tunity, but at the age of fifteen shipped on a clipper bound for India. The voyage lasted twenty-two months, and gave the youth a trip around the world, besides curing him of his longing for a life at sea. For a year he was busy learning the trade of a machinist at Salmon Falls. Then he removed first to Lawrence, and then to Lowell, where for a year he had charge of a sewing- machine factory. Subsequently Mr. Crane resided for a time in Manchester. After a Western trip in search of a promising business opening, he went to Lakeport in 1S57, where he was employed by Thomas Appleton in the hosiery business. In 1862, he formed a partnership with William Pepper, the firm being Crane & Pepper, to build knitting machines. In 1864, Mr. Crane became Superin- tendent of the \\'innepesaukee Hosiery Company, in which he was a part owner, and in 1865, having meanwhile bought out his partners, sold the works to R. M. Bailey. In 1879, he became connected with Walter Aiken of Franklin in the proprietor- ship of the Gilmore Revolving Diamond Stone Dressing Machine. Mr. Ciane in 1872 bought an interest in a plant for the manufacture of circular knitting machines, the firm being Crane & Peaslee. In the following year, Mr. Crane patented a machine for making shirts and underwear, and this industry was added to the firm's business. In 1878, the firm became J. S. Crane & Company, and in 1890 was incorporated under the name of the Crane Manufacturing Company, J. S. Crane, President, M. L. Crane, Secretary and Treasurer. He represented Laconia in the State Legislature in 1875, and Gilford in that of 1878. He was one of the incorporators and is now a Director of the Lake Village Savings Bank; he is a Director and Vice-President of the National Bank of Lakeport. In politics he is a Republican. He is a Mason and belongs to various Masonic bodies up to the Thirty-second Degree. Mr. Crane married, in 1856, Clara J. Smith of Nashua. He has one child, Mazellah L. Crane. COLE, Edmund Ch.ase, Editor of the Kearsarge Independent and Times, Warner, was born in Mil- ton Plantation, Maine, October 5, 1845, son of Laurenson and Lucinda (Spofford) Cole. He is of English descent. His great-grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, and his grandfather and father held the ranks, respectively, of Colonel and Captain in the state militia. Mr. Cole attended the common and select schools in Milton and adjacent towns, and prepared for college at Nor- way and Hebron Academies. He w-as a student at Colby University through Freshman year, but took the remainder of the college course at Bow- doin, from which he was graduated in the class of 187 I. In the fall of that year he became the first Principal of Simonds Free High School at U'arner, a position he held for three years. Mr. Cole began the study of law, as supplementary to his educa- tion in August, 1874, and continued it for the next three years, in the course of which time he taught for one term in Marlow Academy and for three terms in Contoocook Academy. Altogether he has MEN OF PROGRESS. to his credit as an instructor tliirty-six terms of successful work in the schools. In pursuing his legal studies, Mr. Cole spent considerable time in the office of the late John Y. Mugridge in Concord, but though he grounded himself well in the law, he never applied for admission to the Bar. In the fall of 1878, he bought in Portsmouth the equip- ment of a printing-office and removed it to Warner, and subsequently began publication of the Kear- sarge Independent, the first issue of the paper bearing date of April 4, 1884. In the following December he bought the subscription list of the Hopkinton Times, published at Contoocook, and changed his paper's name to the Kearsarge Inde- pendent and Times. This journal continues to prosper, and is now in the fifteenth year of its pub- lication. Mr. Cole has been a member of the School Board for many years ; for four terms was Supervisor of check list; was Postmaster during the last year of President Arthur's administration ; and at present is a member of the Board of Health, Vice-President of the Trustees of Pillsbury Free Library, and a local police officer, and is an ear- EDMUND C. COLE. nest advocate of all matters pertaining to the pros- perity and welfare of the town. In politics he is a consistent Republican. lie is a member of Cen- tral Lodge, Independent ()rdcr of Odd Fellows, Welcome Rebekah Lodge, Warner Orange, Warner's Commandery, United Order Golden Cross, and Kearsarge Division, Sons of Temperance. In all these lodges, except the Rebekahs, he has held the principal offices. Mr. Cole married, in January, 1877, Mrs. Emma B. Quimby, daughter of Asa and Sally Pattee. Of this marriage, one child, Sarah Adelaide Cole, was born. Mrs. Cole died Septem- ber 28, 1882, and August 3, 1889, Mr. Cole mar- ried Fanny H. Corey. His children of the second marriage are: Edward Everett, born in i8gi; Mary Gertrude, born in 1892 ; Thomas Reed, born in 1S94; and Nada Lucile Cole, born in 1896. FELLOWS, Jo.SEPH Warren, a Leading Mem- ber of the New Hampshire Bar, comes from rugged English stock on both the paternal and maternal sides. Mr. Samuel Fellows, the emigrating ancestor of the paternal line, came to Massachusetts from Great Bowden, Nottinghamshire, England, and set- tled in Salisbury about 1639. He belonged to an agricultural race and was styled a planter in the colonial records, and became possessed of landed property to a considerable extent. The subject of this sketch is of the seventh generation in a direct line from Samuel Fellows. His great-grandfather, Joseph Fellows, served in the second expedition against Louisburg, and the powder-horn which he carried during that campaign, still in a good state of preservation, is in the possession of Mr. Fellows. Joseph Fellows removed from Salisbury to the town of Andover, New Hampshire, then called New Breton, in 1761, being the first settler, and for about a year the only resident there. The story is, that for a considerable time his only road- way from what is now Penacook to Andover was a line of spotted trees through the wilderness. A nephew bearing the same name, was a member of Captain Osgood's company at the battle of Ben- nington, and served in the campaign in which the battles of Saratoga, Stillwater, and others in that vicinity were fought. He has the credit, in the annals of those times, of having furnished his own gun and other equipments. The son of Joseph Fellows, the original settler of Andover, Stephen Fellows, and the grandson, John Fellows, were born and lived upon the farm which he cleared from the wilderness. Joseph Warren Fellows, the son of John and Polly Hilton Fellows, was born January 15, 1835, on the homestead of Elijah Hil- ton, the maternal grandfather. On the mother's side his ancestry, the Hiltons, came from England some time about 1700, one date fixing the time of MEN OF PROGRESS. the emigrating ancestors at 169S and another at I 703. General Alexander Scamniel Dearborn, whose public services are well known to the country, was an ancestor upon the mother's side in a direct line. Joseph Warren Fellows, the subject of this sketch, passed his boyhood much after the manner of New Hampshire boys of that time. His father being a farmer, he learned the practical lesson of hard woik and acquired habits of unremitting industry upon the farm and in the lumber swamps. He at- tended the common schools of the town and An- dover (New Hampshire) Academy, where he com- pleted the college preparatory course, entering Dartmouth College in the fall of 1854. During the winter months of his college course he taught schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and upon graduation in 1858 became Principal of An- dover Academy, where he remained during the academic year, i858-'59. Being of an enterpris- ing and self-reliant disposition, he removed to Georgia in September, 1859, where he accepted the position of Principal of the Classical Department in the Brownwood Institute at Lagrange. In the spring of i860 he became the Principal of the Marietta, Georgia, Latin .School, with the expecta- tion of a permanent and satisfactory p.osition, but the sudden prospect of war abruptly changed his plans, and after closing the academic year in June he returned to the North. Flis career as a teacher had been especially gratifying and but for the out- break of the war would undoubtedly have been fol- lowed with substantial success and material profit. Upon his return North Mr. Fellows wasted no time in idle regrets but entered the office of Hon. John M. Shirley in Andover and began the study of law. Since the war had completely changed his course, it is probable that no more fortunate step could have been taken. Mr. Shirley was a man of great force of character, marked originality, and tlior- oughly versed in the law, the sort of man to make a deep impression upon the mind of a receptive and earnest student. In September, 1860, he en- tered the law department in the Albany University, and after completing the course of study in that institution graduated in June, 1861. He was ad- mitted to the Bar in the Court of Appeals in the State of New York, and returning soon after to New^ Hampshire entered the office of Pike & Barn- ard at Franklin, where he remained until January, 1862. He then located in Manchester, entered the office of Eastman & Cross, and commenced the practice of his profession. In August, 1862, he was admitted to the Supreme Court of New Hamp- shire at (Concord, and in September formed a part- nership with Captain Amos B. Shattuck of Man- chester. Once more the war had a direct influence upon his plans. Captain Shattuck had volunteered and was about to join his regiment, and this part- nership was for the purpose of taking care of his business with the intention of making it permanent upon his return from the war. But Captain Shat- tuck fell, seriously w'ounded, at the battle of Fred- ericksburg, FJecember 13, 1862, and died a few days later. Mr. Fellows on the first day of January following began business alone in the office in Merchants' Exchange which he has since occupied ,. U . I LLLOW.--. continuously, entering upon that career of persistent industry and fidelity to his clients which has won for him a recognized position at the Bar of his native state and has gained for him a well-earned reputation which extends far beyond its limits. In 1874 he was elected Clerk of the Concord Rail- road and soon became the Attorney for the corpo- ration in the care and management of the business which grew out of the operating of that company. He held the position of Clerk until 1884, and has continued in the employment of the Concord, the Concord & Montreal, and the Boston & Maine Railroads until the present time. It follows that while he has been successful in general practice, trying many different cases, the character of his MEN OF PROGRESS. 203 professional work has been largely that pertaining to corporations, and more especially to business growing out of the operation of railroads, in which he has had probably a larger experience than any other lawyer in the state. He has been extensively engaged in matters relating to private and business corporations, having made tiie law- relating to the powers and duties of corporations a specialty. In 1874 Mr. Fellows was appointed Judge of the I'o- lice Court of the City of Manchester, which office he held until July, 1875, when he resigned the po- sition. It was to be assumed, from the rugged character of liis ancestry, from the discipline of his youth, and the sharply-contested struggles of his maturer years. Judge Fellows is a man of marked independence of thought, positive in his convic- tions, and fearless in maintaining them. A Demo- crat from boyhood, he has always taken a deep interest in the politics of the state, and has taken an active part in every campaign, both in state and city politics, until within the last one or two elec- tions. He was long connected with the Demo- cratic State Committee, and influential in its councils, and was actively identified with the City Committee for many years, ne\'er ha\ing been a candidate himself. He has labored earnestly and continuously for the advancement of the principles to which he steadfastlv adhered, being justly recog- nized as a hard fighter, tenacious and resourceful in politics, as in the practice of his chosen profes- sion, and until recently being strongly and une- quivocally identified with the Democratic party, and a staunch champion of the doctrines for which he believed that party stood. While constantly occupied with weighty affairs calling for the best that was in him of knowledge of the law, of power of original thinking, and of resources in emer- gency. Judge Fellows has ever been ready to give of his time and energy to the promotion of the interests of the conniiunily in which he lives. In matters of religious faith he is a Unitarian, and has been intimately identified with the work and interests of that denomination in the state for more than thirty years. He has been particularly active and interested in promoting the Unitarian Grove Meetings at the Weirs, on the shores of the beauti- ful Lake W'innipiseogee, and has taken a lively and inlluential interest in the affairs of the differ- ent conventions of the denomination, both in the state and nation. He was one of the charter members of the Unitarian Educational Society, and is one of the Trustees of Proctor Academy, owned by the Educational Society, and has been con- stantly and earnestly identified with the institution from its origin, it being the successor of the origi- nal Andover Academy, where he spent his school- days, and for which he cherishes a strong affection. Judge Fellows is also one of the original Grantees and Trustees of the Gale Home, for the support of indigent and destitute women, and has served as Clerk of the corporation since its organization. In secret society associations he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd h'ellows, but has never taken any consideraltle part in the management of the affairs of that society. As early as 185S, how- ever, he became a member of the Masonic Frater- nity, with which he has ever since been intimately identified. He is possessed of all the grades, including the Orders of Knighthood, and the Thir- ty-third and last grade of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He has held very many positions in the subordinate and grand bodies of the fraternity, among others. Grand Commander of Knights 'J'emplar in the State of New Hampshire, and has been an Officer in the Grand Encampment of the United States, Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Masons in New Hampshire for several years, and, for the last fifteen or twenty years, a member of the Law Committees connected with the fraternity of the state and nation. He has also been a member of the Committee of Jurisprudence of the (Irand Encampment of the luiiled States for many years, and has given particular attention and study to Masonic law, a subject upon which he has per- pared a large number of thoughtful and carefully- digested opinions and reports, exerting a very con- siderable influence in developing and shaping the jurisprudence of the order. Judge Fellows mar- ried, in 1865, Susan Frances Moore, daughter of Henry E. and Susan (Farnum) Moore. She was removed by death in 1874, and in 1878 he married Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davis. Mrs. Fellows has two daughters : May W., and Edith H. Davis, to whom the Judge has been a father in very truth, and hus- band, wife, and daughters have established a home amid most congenial surroundings, where kindly hospitality is unpretentious, and where the love of art and literature is cherished without ostentation. (tIISSON, Ciiari.f.s Rkcki., Physician, Wood.s- ville, was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, May II, 1852, son of Reuel and Emily (liarnard) Gib- son. He attended the common sciiools of his native town and .\ppleton Academy, New Ipswich, 204 MKN Ol' I'KOCRKSS. New Hampshire, graduating in 1872. He was graduated from the Medical School of Maine in 1875. Hs '^'^^ subsequently House Physician and Surgeon in tlie Maine (General Hospital at Port- land, in the years 1.S76 and 1S77. In 1877 he began the practice of his profession in Woodsville, and has remained there ever since. Since 1884 he has held the position of Assistant Surgeon for the Con- cord & Montreal Railroad, and he is also Physi- cian to the Grafton County Almshouse. He is Local Medical El.xaminer for all the leading Life Insurance Companies doing business in the vi- cinity. Doctor Gibson served on the School Board in 1884 and 1885. He is President of the Woodsville Loan and I'.anking Company, and has been a Trustee of the Woodsville Savings Bank since its organization. He represented the town of Haverhill in the Legislature in 1897. He is a member of the New Hampshire and Vermont State Medical Societies, and has been Secretary for the White Mountain Medical Society for twenty years. He is Past Grand of the Moosilauke Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and is Vice-Presi- dent of the Joiin L. Woods Club of Woodsville. Doctor CJibson was married January 30, i88o, to Jennie S. Park of Plymouth, New Hampshire. GORDON, Naihaniel, was born in the old homestead at (Gordon's Hill, Kxeter, New Hamp- shire, November 26, 1820, son of John S., and Frances Gordon. He is a lineal descendant, in the sixth generation, of Alexander, a scion of the loyal Gordon family in the Highlands of Scotland. This young Alexander was a soldier in the Royal- ist army of Charles II, but was captured by Crom- well, confined for a time in the Tuthill Fields, London, and sent to America in 1651. He was held as prisoner of war at Watertown, Massachu- setts, until 1654, when he was released. He after- wards came to Exeter, New Hampshire, where in 1 663 he married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Lys- son. The next year, the town voted him a grant of twenty acres of land, and he became a perma- nent resident, dying in 1697. From him and his descendants, Gordon's Hill received its name. He had eight children, of whom Thomas was born in 1678. Thomas married Elizabeth Harrinuin of Haverhill, was father of eleven children, and died in 1762. From Thomas's son Timothy was de- scended John S. Gordon, and from Thomas's son Nathaniel was descended Frances Gordon. The line of John S. Gordon is Timothy (i), Timothy (2), (Revolutionary soldier of bravery under Gen- eral Stark in the battles of Bunker Hill, Benning- ton, and Saratoga), and John S. Gordon. The line of F'rances is Thomas, Nathaniel (i), Nathaniel (2), and Frances Gordon. John S. Gordon, like his immediate ancestors, was a quiet, unassuming farmer on Gordon's Hill. He never sought or cared for office, but was a man of infiuence and weight in his neighborhood, serving in his unobtru- sive way his day and generation well. His mar- riage to Frances Gordon occurred March 11, 1814, and his death in 1845. Mrs. Gordon was a supe- rior woman in mental endowments, love of nature, and social and domestic virtues in her devotion to God, and in Christian attainment. She was mar- ried at the age of twenty. There were born to her four children, three daughters and a son, of whom the daughters in their maturity preceded her to the better land. She peacefully departed this life at the house of her son, Hon. Nathaniel Gordon, in Exeter, in February, 1889, at the age of ninety-five years, four months, and sixteen days. Her son, Nathaniel, the subject of this sketch, entered Phillips Exeter Academy in the autumn of 1833, was there fitted for college, and in 1S3S entered the Ssphomore class of Dartmouth College, and was graduated therefrom in 1.S41. Each winter of his college course he taught school three months. After graduation, he taught from September, 1841, MEN OF PROGRESS. -05 to May, 1842, at St. Thomas Hall, Flusliiiif;, Long Island. Going South, he passed the summer of 1842 as teacher in a Female Seminary in Balti- more, and in Washington. In September, 1842, he became tutor in a private family in Prince George's county, Maryland; and held this position for two years. During this time, he studied law, and was admitted to the Bar, at the April term of Prince George's county in 1844. For about two years he practiced in various courts of Prince George's, Calvert, and Charles counties. He then removed to Baltimore, where he practiced for one year. In September, 1847, he returned to E.xeter, where he has made his home ever since. Mr. Gordon opened a law office in Exeter, and con- tinued the practice of his profession until the breaking out of the Civil War in i86i. He has often been called upon to fill important positions of office and trust, and has ever been alive to the best interest of his constituents, discharging his duties with conscientious ability. In 1849, he was chosen Secretary and Treasurer of the Rocking- ham Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was re-elected annually for eight years. He represented Exeter in the Legislatures of 1849 and 1850, and his district in the State Senate in 1869 and 1870. In 1S70, he was chosen President of the Senate; in 1870, his name was brought for- ward by his friends as a candidate for Congress before the Republican Congressional ( 'onvention held at Dover in December, 1870. On the first ballot he received seventy-six votes out of two hundred and forty-four, the largest number cast for any candidate ; eighty-five votes on the next ballot, but after the third ballot he withdrew in favor of Mr. Small, who was nominated and elected. True to his principles, Mr. Gordon has been the uncom- promising foe of slavery, and in the dark and try- ing days of 1861 was one of the boldest persons in Exeter in support of the Lfnion, placing every dol- lar he owned and all that he could borrow in gov- ernment securities, thus showing his faith by his works. The result of this confidence was a very satisfactory accumulation of property. In 1865, he made a trip to California and Nevada in the interest of the Silver Mining Company of 15oston, and remained a year, .^t the age of eighteen, while a Sophomore in Dartmouth College, Mr. Gordon united with the Congregational Church at Hanover; from that time he has continued an ear- nest and devoted Christian, making other matters and secular pursuits subordinate to the cause of Christ. He has taken a deep interest in Sabbath- school work, and for ten 3'ears was a Superin- tendent of the Sabbath-school of the Second Con- gregational Church of Exeter, of which he was a member. He was also a Deacon of this church for thirty years. The numerous benefactions of Mr. Gordon show he lias caught the spirit of the Mas- ter. His time and his money have been freely given in aid of many good enterprises. From his interest in education, he was chosen, December 15, 1 866, one of the seven members comprising the first Board of Trustees of the Robinson Female Seminary then just organized. He was also Chair- man of the Superintending School Committee of NATHANIF.I. C.CJRDON. Exeter several years. His kintlness to struggling and deserving students will long Ijc remembered, and in 1872 he gave one thousand dollars to Phil- lips Exeter Academy for a scholarship, for such students; in 1874, he gave one thousand more for the same purpose, and in 188 1, gave to Dartmouth College one thousand dollars for a like purpose; in 1 886, he gave an additional one thousand for a scholarship. He is also one of the foiuiders of the New Hampshire Orphans' Home, ]'"ranklin. New Hampshire. In 1885, he gave to the " llome" one thousand dollars to be added to their permanent fund, the interest alone to be expended in the sup- port of the institui ion. In 18X7, he, b)' an addi- 2o6 MKX OF PROGRESS. tional one thousand dollars, increased the endow- ment. The benefactions of Mr. Gordon are not limited to his native state. In iSSo, he aided in the fund raised for General Grant by his friends. He has been a patron of the General Theological Library of Boston, and is at this time one of its Vice-Presidents. He has placed libraries in whal- ing ships for the promotion of good morals among sailors. He has established several Sabbath- schools west of the Mississippi, and encouraged them by sending to them libraries. Mr. Gordon has also contributed lilierally to the American Board of Christian Foreign Missions for the sup- port of our missionaries in heathen lands. In i«* *^ H. B. PERKINS. lie speaker. In iSyi.he received tiie honorary degree of Master of Arts from pKJwdoin, and in 1875 ^^"'^'^ simihirly honored by Dartmoutii College. In the fall of tiie latter year he deii\erecl to the Dartmouth students, a ])opukir lecture on Robert Hums, the Scottish poet, which was repeated two years later at the request of the faculty. Mr. Per- kins has delivered nianv addresses before agriiul- tural societies, colleges, political and other gather- ings, also before lyceums. He has always been in great demand as an after dinner s|)eaker. During the Civil War he represented his native stale in the New Kngland Relief Association, and elocpienlly pleadeil the cause of the L'nion. When the Seccmcl New Hampshire Regiment arri\ed in New \'ork, under command of Colonel Marston, Mr. Perkins was selected by the sons of New Hampshire resident in that city, to make the address of welcome, and this he did on the Hatter)-, in the presence of ten thousand people. 'Phe speech was republished widel)' b_\- the New Fngland press. Among other notable addresses tielivered. are included a speech made at the twenty-fifth State Fair of the New Hampshire Agricultural Society, and a response to the toast. " Our Country," at the famous Rums din- ner where David |)udle_\' Fiekl [Mesided, and Horace Greeley, William Cullen l!r\ant, the Rev. Dr. F. H. Chapin, and other distinguished men spoke. In politics, Mr. Perkins has been a life-k>ng Democrat, efficient and active on the stump during many cam- paigns. He has never sought political office, but was content to serve the educational interests of New York as Commissioner and Inspector cjf Pub- lic Schools for more than thirty years. During the last year of Fernando Wood's mayoralty in New \'ork, the nonunation for the Assembly in the 'Pwelfth \^■ard was tendered Mr. Perkins, fuit was declined. Later, under the leadershiij i.'t |(ihn Kelly, he was nominated for State Senator, but this nomination also was declinetl, very much to the re- gret of his party. Mr. Perkins is a member of the Tammany Society, of the Democratic Club, the Fordham Club, and the Washington Heights Century Club. He was President of the last n.\med organ- ization for ten years. He was marrietl. November 9, 1843. to Harriet Louise Hanmer, who died in 1S88. Mr. Perkins purchased a beautiful estate at Foit \\'ashington, forty years ago, where he now re- sides in one of the most valuable subiuban villas of the Greater New York. Si.x children are living, one son and five daughters, wln) are married ami reside in New York or in the vicinity of the great Metrop- olis. PITMAN, Cii.VRi.Ks 1''kank, Manufacturer. Laconia, was born in that place, October O, 1847, son of Joseph Prescolt and Charlotte Abbie (Par- ker) Pitman. He is descended from early Puritan settlers of Esse.\ Coimty, Massachusetts, and .nnong his ancestors were men who served with distinction in the Colonial Wars and in the Rexolution. His father was a leatling fiusiness man nl L.udni.i, Agent of the Lake Com|.)any, a Man.iging Director of the Boston, Concord cV Montreal K.iilroad. and at the time of his death President of the Peiuige- wasset X'allev Railroad. No one conlributetl moie 2o8 MKN nv 1'R()(;ress. to the growth and prosperity of Laconia. I'hc mother of the subject of this sketch was a pupil of Mary Lyon, the distinguished teacher who founded Mount Holyoke College, and was a woman of great personal attractions, charming manner, and strong character. Charles Frank Pitman was educated at New Hampton Academy, and Phillips Academy at Andover. I'pon leaving school he entered the ser- vice of the I'itman Manufacturing Company, estab- lished and owned by his father, where he mastered the details of the management of the business. ITpon the death of liis father, in 1S83, he became President and Manager of the company, in the con- duct of whose affairs he has been highly successful. LH.\KI.i;.S !■■. 1M1M.\N. Mr. Pitman is a Director of the Laconia National ]3ank. Trustee of Belknap Savings Bank, and mem- ber of the Finance Committee, member of the managing board of the Trustees of the Laconia Hospital, and of the Kxecutive Committee of the Educational Society, and a Trustee of the Gale Fund for the City Library and Park. He is Presi- dent of the North Congregational Society, and a Deacon of the church. He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Colonial Wars. In poli- tics Mr. Pitman is a Republican. He has never sought public office, but he has always maintained an active interest in al! matters pertaining to the welfare of the conununity. He is a liberal contri- butor to worthy objects. He has a .strong hold upon the regard of all those with whom he comes in contact, and is highly esteemed for his sound judg- ment and executive ability. He has strongly devel- oped literary and arlLstic tastes, and is the pos.sessor of a large and valuable library and many works of art. Mr. Pitman married, October 15. 1890, Grace Anna Vaughan, daughter of O. A. J. Vaughan, a well known member of the Bar. Mrs. Pitman was educated at Mount Holyoke, is possessed of great literary attainments, and is active in all social mat- ters. They have had two children: Ruth Marion, who died in infancy, and Charles Joseph, born Jan- uar)' 22, 1895. RAMSDFLL, Georoe Allen, Governor of New Hampshire. The ancestors of Governor Ramsdell were of English origin. Abijah Ramsdell, who was born about 1C95, came to this country in early life and settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. He was the immigrant ancestor of the family. The name ajjpears frequentl}- in the public records of that town. Descendants from the original progenitor settled in that vicinity and became a prominent and highly respected class of citizens. Abednego Ramsdell was among the slain at Lexington. On the morning of that day he learned of the expedi- tion of the British to Concord and immediately started across the country in that direction. It is probable that he arrived at Lexington in .season to meet the British troops in their retreat. He en- gaged at once in the fight and was among the first to fall. There were six others, brothers or near kinspeople of this family, in the War of the Revo- lution from the town of Lynn. Captain William Ramsdell, the grandfather of Governor Ramsdell, settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in early life and engaged in East Indian trade. The prominent po- sition of the merchants and " seafaring " men from Salem in the ])eriod succeeding the Revolution is historic. Their ships " went down to the sea," and visited the Indias and returned laden with the val- uable and varied products of that " wonderland of spices and silks, of ivory and gold." For two gen- erations certainly and perhaps three the ancestors of Governor Ramsdell were extensively engaged in the East Indian and Mediterranean traffic, sailing their own vessels and those of other merchants. It was a life of peril and hardship and those who fol- lowed it were possessed of fortitude, strength and endurance such as the modern mariner knows not of. Captain William Ramsdell moved from Salem MKN OF PROGRESS. 2 Of) to IMilford, New Hnmpshire. in 1S15. He then purchased the well-known farm situated u|5on tlie main thoroughfare between that town and W'iUon, which has been the family homestead ever since and is now owned by the (;o\ernor and iiis brother. 'I'he father of Governor Ramsdell, the second Cap- tain VA'illiam Ramsdell, was bom in Salem and came to Milford when about twehe years old. He became a leading and prominent citizen and was largely influential in controlling the affairs of the town and to a considerable extent throughout the county and state. He was conservative and hrmly fixed in his views in different departments of life, social, religious, business and political, and his strong personality was a potent influence in the community where he li\ed. In early life he fol- lowed the same calling as his ancestors and for several years was engaged in foreign trade, but in 1830 he settled down in the more quiet and less eventful life of farming upon the old homestead. Governor Ramsdell's mother w-as Maria Antoinette, eldest daughter of Reverend Humphrey Moore, one of the celebrated ministers of his time. Pastor of the First Congregational church in Milford for about forty years and well and widely known for his ability and a rigid adherence to his orthodox views. Her maternal ancestry is in lineal descent from Lieutenant Francis Peabody, the progenitor of the distinguished Peabody family in this coun- try, containing so many names of honor and re- nown. Lieutenant Peabody was born in Hertford- shire, England, and came to this country in 1635. He first lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, then Hampton, New' Hampshire, and finally settled in Topsfield, Massachusetts, where he died in 1697. The maternal grandmother of Governor Ramsdell was Hannah Peabody, the lineal descendant of William, the third son of Lieutenant Francis Pea- body. No more honored name has been written in the history of our country, in the annals of war, in the halls of legislation, in the courts of justice, than the name of this distinguished family, and well may those take a pardonable pride who can claim kin- ship with so noble and worthy a man as George Peabody, the philanthropist, whose fame for princely charities is world-wide. In these brief traces of ancestry we find those enduring traits of character which from their positive and indestruc- tible nature transmit themselves through successive generations. George Allen Ramsdell was born in Milford, New Hampshire, March 11, 1S34, and lived the unc\entful childhocid and bn\ho(nl da\s upon the old farm. He attended the public and High Schools in that town and acciuired a good English education before he was eighteen vears of age. He was then intending to adopt the profes- sion of Civil Engineering but the depression in the business of railroad building which occurred in i852-'53 caused him to ch.uige his purpose and adopt a different plan, and he ilcciiled to take a clas- sical course of study with a view of entering some college. He completed his preparatory course in McCollom Institute at Mont Vernon, New Hamp- shire, and entered Amherst College in 18^3, where he remained one year, but having in the meantime concluded to begin the stud)- of law immediately instead of remaining to complete the collegiate term he entered the office of Hon. liainbridge Wad- leigh in Milford, where he remained two years and then went to Manchester to continue the study in the office of Hon. Daniel Clark and Hon. Isaac W. Smith. In the fall of 1857 he was admitted to the Ijar and soon after commenced business in Peter- borough, New Hampshire. He was engaged in ac- tive practice there about six years, when the resig- nation of Hon. E. S. Cutter, Clerk of the Supreme Court, caused a vacancy in that office. Mr. Rams- dell had already established the reputation through- out the county as a trustworthy and efficient law- yer and had developed the qualifications which that important position required. The universal opin- ion of the Par seemed to fix u|)on him with one accord and the appointment was made. He then moved to Amherst, where the county records were located, but in 1866 they were transferred to Nashua, where he removed and has since resided. He held the office for twent\-three years, and be- came widely known as one of the most thoroughly informed and accomplished clerks in the country. While the position of the Clerk of oiu- Supreme Court in many ways is one of a clerical character it has gradually grown to include a much broader if not more important class of duties. Its intimate connection with the varied practice of the law by the whole body of the profession makes a thorough knowledge of the system in all its details of inesti- mable value and it has come to be regarded by the Court as well as the memljeis of the liar as of great importance. His term of olfice was nuiinly during that period when such men as Hon. (George W. Morrison, Judge C. W. St.iuley, Chief Justice Lewis W. Clark, Hon. George \'. Sawyer, Judge A. \\'. Sawyer, General A. h'. Stevens, Attorney Generals Win. C. ('lark .ind Mason W. Ta|i|i,ni, I'nitcd MEN Ol- rRU(JRESS. States Senators Daniel Clark and Bainbridge Wad- leigh, Hon. S. N. Hell and other eminent lawyers were in full practice : and the court had such emi- nent Chief Justices as Samuel 1). 15ell, Ira Perley, Henry A. Hellows. J. Everett Sargent, Edmund L. Cushing and Charles IJoe, with Associate Justices whose honored names upon the pages of our Judi- cial History have given our court rank among the ablest and most distingushed tribunals in the coun- try. Constantly surrounded by such men and dis- charging the varied duties which devolved upon him under such circumstances afforded the means of an education and a discipline rarely enjoyed. He was often appointed to act as Auditor. Keferee or Master i.Lu. A. K.\MSDELL. in Chancery, frequently in other counties, and prob- ably tried more causes than any other lawyer excepting Judges of the court, in the history of the state. His eminent fairness and correct application of the rules of law was universally conceded and the integrity of his decisions was never cjuestioned. His high reputation and acknowledged qualifications for those important duties followed him after his retirement from the office of Clerk and in 1893 he was tendered the office of Associate justice of the Supreme Court, but owing to important interests in other directions which he had become connected with, he was obliged to decline the office, unfortu- nately we believe, for he would easily have taken high rank as a jurist and been able to have ren- dered signal service in the place where above all others the welfare of the people and the permanency of our institutions can best be preserved. During the time he has resided in Nashua Governor Rams- dell has held many places of both public and priv- ate trust and importance. For ten years he was a member of the Board of Education and for twice that time has been a Trustee of the Public Eibrary. In i869-"7o-'7i he was a member of the Legisla- ture; in 1S76 a member of the Constitutional Convention and in i89i-'92 a member of the Executive Council. For five years he was President of the ]5oard of Trustees of the State Industrial School at Manchester and has been for many years a Trustee of the New Hampshire Orphans' Home at Franklin. While residing in Peterborough he became a member of the Masonic Fraternity and after moving to Nashua received the grades of the Scottish Rite to the Thirty-second degree inclusive. He is a member of the First Congregational Church in Nashua and has always been identified with the Orthodox denomination although he is regarded as very liberal in his views. He rendered that society valuable service in building the stone church of the parisii, which is one of the best in the state, (gover- nor Ramsclell is a pronounced advocate of the cause of temperance and has been during his whole life a total abstinent. He has always upheld the prohibitory system in force in the state and whether in private or public life has brought to bear upon the condition of alTairs concerning that most trou- blesome and important question an intelligent and tlecided influence. He -is a staunch Republican and although he has done less of the party work than many others with whom he has been associated his conservative and well-defined views, emphasized always by great sincerity and strong convictions, have made him a potent factor in the control and general direction of the policy of the Republican people in the state ; and while he has not sought to interfere with the details of party management to any great extent, his influence has been brougiit to bear in favor of its more important propositions, and his determined stand has frequently made its impression upon party measures. He has never engaged to any considerable extent in political can- vassing but has occasionally made public addresses. His style as a speaker is logical and argumentative and always characterized by fairness and an une.x- aggerated presentation of facts, and, emphasized by his high character and personal merit, his efforts MKN OF PR()(;RESS. have always been received with faxnr and respect. Among the positions of ]:ri\ate triist wiiich he liolds may be enumerated President of the First National Bank and Treasurer of the City Guaranty Savings Bank in Nashua, Director in the Nashua Manufac- turing Company and the Jackson Company, the leading industries of his city, lie is also a Director in the Wilton and Peterborough railroads. Cover- nor Ramsdell married November 29, i860, Eliza D. Wilson, daughter of David W'ilson of Deciing, New Hampshire, a descendant of one of the Fondon- dcrr}- emigrants. Her mother was Margaret Dins- more, also a descendant of one of the Fondonderry settlers. They have four children, three of whom reside in Nashua, and one is engaged in business in Texas. Although he has been continuously in business for over fort}- years it is a remarkable fact that he has never been incapacitated for a single day by sickness from the discharge of any duty, or prevented from attending to whatever the occasion required. Governor Ramsdell is not possessed of great wealth but has a fair competency. He has ne\er engaged in speculations or taken the chances li\' which men sometimes become rich and some- times poor. What he has accpiired has been by honest ways and reputable business methods. According" tn usual partv methods his name was suggested in connection with nomination for (Gover- nor in the convention of 1S92, and in 189 ; he was one of the most prominent candidates. \n i.Si^d he was made the party nominee with substantially no opposition and was elected in November hx a larger majority than ever before received by any candi- date, and by a larger vote than ever received in the state by any candidate e.xcept President McKinle)'. He was inaugurated January 6, 1S97. Cio\eni(ir Ramsdell was peculiarly well fitted to enter upon the discharge of the duties of Chief Magistrate. His long and active service in the Fegislature, his term as member of the Council and his thdi'ough study of the affairs of the state, qualilietl him in an unusual degree for the position and he was enabled to take up the work as with a hand nf hmg experi- ence and familiarity. The first year of his admini- stration was characterized by no unusual occurrence but the present period is marked with events of an important character. 'I'he war with .S|)ain suddenly coming ujkju the country has brought the various states face to face with stern realities and called upon the people to march to the front. Puit al- though without reason to anticipate the situation New Hampshire has in the (|uickest possible time been brought to a "war footing;'" and more than tilled her quota and been amon^ the lirst to get her troops to the front. In the eail\- days of the great rebellion New Hampshire had a "War Governor " who gained high reputation for his energy and patriotism, and we of this day are ecjually fortunate in having a Chief AFigistrate entitled to a stand among the "War Governors" who liy their executive ability, prompt action and unllinching discharge of duty, enabled the (Government to prosecute the War with success and etticiency and which make certain ultimate success. .SH)E.S, WiLLi.AM ()., Postmaster of Ports- mouth, was born in Fxeter, New Hampshire, January 17, 1831, son of Nathaniel ]!. and Eliza- lieth (York) Sides. He is of Fnglish descent on the paternal side, his grandfather having come to this country from Great Britain. (In the maternal side the family has been American for many gen- erations. FFs parents remi:)ved from Fxeter to Kittery in his infanc\', whence a few years later they came to Portsmouth, where he acc|uired his early education in the conuuon schools. He com- menced active life as a mule spinner in a cotton mill, at which occupation he was employed for several years, and then entered into business for himself as a li\ery stable keeper in Portsmouth. 'Phis business he followed successfully for four or live years, until he abandoned it to enter the army. ( )n the breaking out of the Ci\il War. Mr. Sides was the hrst man to enlist in the state of New ff ampshire. and was appointed by the Go\'ernor as Recruiting Officer for the city of Portsmouth. In this capacity he enlisted one hundred and five men in five days. Although he had enlisted as a private, he was promptly connnissioned ( 'aptain of the company thus raised, which became Company K, Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. He went to the front in mmmand of his company, and participated in the first battle of Bull Run. On tlie retreat following that disastrous engagement, he met with (piite a severe injury, on account of which he soon after resigned his commission. .Sub- sequently he was appointed by the President t(.) a Captaincy in the Veteran Keserxe Coips, and assigned to the command of a Company that was sent to Albany, New Ndik, to enforce the draft. From there he was sent to I'.lmira, New \drk, and thence to Alexandria, \'irginia, where he was detailed in connnand of the patrol guard. He was in service there for tw(j months, when his condition MF.X OF PR()(;RESS. of health requiring n change, he was relieved from his company at Alexandria and sent to Fortress Monroe, and took charge of five companies where he attended to the unloading from transports and removing to the hospitnk some five thousand sick W. O. SIDES. and wounded soldiers, shipping them North when well enough to be removed to their homes. Resigned and reappointed as First Lieutenant and transferred to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, where he remained until December, 1865, mustered out, June 30, 1866. Altogether he was in the service thirty- four months. After a brief period of inactivity and recuperation following his return home, Mr. Sides went to Washington and served for a time as Messenger in the House of Representatives. While engaged in this capacity he received an appointment as Inspector in the Boston Custom House, where he served for three years, and was then transferred to a similar position in the Ports- mouth (New Hampshire) Custom House, in which he continued for twelve years. On the nomination of James G. Hlaine for the Presidency, Mr. Sides, always a strong Republican in politics, in association with another gentleman, started a small daily paper, the Penny-Post, in the interest of Mr. Blaine's can- didacy. 'I'he subsecjuent defeat of the Republican ticket and tiie accession of the Cleveland regime resulted in the removal of Mr. Sides from his gov- ernment office, and he at once turned all his atten- tion and energies to his newspaper, which he greatly enlarged and ran successfully throughout the whole term of the Cleveland administration, and the campaign that resulted in the election of Harrison. \\'hen President Harrison came into office. Mr. Sides was appointed Postmaster of Portsmouth, which position he filled until a change of administration wiien he was again removed from office by President Cleveland on the ground of " offensive partisanship." Lender the McKinley administration he was promptly reappointed to the Postmastership. taking office for the second time in September, 1897. and in this capacity he continues to serve with signal ability and satisfaction to the general public. Mr. Sides cast his first Presiden- tial vote for John P. Hale, the Free-Soil candidate, and he has been a consistent and ardent Repub- lican from the organization of the party. He has been active and prominent in state and local politics, and has served his city as Representative to the General Court. He has also served as Chairman of the Police C'ommission of the City of Portsmouth, resigning this office to accept his post- mastership reappointment. Mr. Sides is a member of the Independent Order of Odd F'ellows and the Knights of P3thias, in which latter organization he has served as Vice-Grand Chancellor, Grand Chan- cellor and Past Grand Chancellor. He was mar- ried in 1858 to Margaret A. Badger; they have four children: Antoinette C, Annie B., (now Mrs. Garrett.) Grace A., and Walter Herman Sides. TO\^'LE, Elias Irvinc, Merchant, F'reedom, was born in that town, April 16, 1845, ^°n °^ Elias and Lois (Swett) Towle. His grand-parents, Amos Towle and Stephen Swett. came from Hampton, New Hampshire, and were among the first settlers of the town of Freedom. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and in the sem- inaries at Parsonsfield and Center Effingham, and was graduated April i, 1866, from Bryant and Stratton's Commercial College. Portland, Maine. At an early age he entered his father's store as clerk, also taking charge of his farm and general business. May i, 1866, he commenced business for himself, purchasing his father's store and stock of goods. His father had been engaged in business in the same place for thirty-live years, April i, 1878, George I. Philbrick became his partner, forming the company of E, I. Towle & Company, which still con- tinues, and at the same time adding the manufacture MEN OF PROGRESS. 213 of clotliiiig'. Since 1S80 hu has dealt quite exten- sively in fancy steers and oxen, and has done a large farming; business. His father had been in the lumber business for several years and on accoimt of ill-health gave up the business to him in 1874. The company is known as Towle cS; Keneson, and does a business of from tliirt)' to lift)' thousand dollars yearly. Mr. Towle was chosen Trustee of the Ossipee Vallev Ten Cent Savings bank of Free- dom, May 1 1, 1S70. and four \-eais later was chosen Assistant Treasurer, and December 29, 1S81 , he was elected Treasurer. He has been Town Clerk and was a member of the General Court in 1893. He is a member of Carroll Lodge of Masons, No. 56 ; Carroll Chapter, No. 23, Royal Arch Masons; Cal- \in Toplili Chapter. ( )rder of Eastern Star; is an Odd Fellow, member of Prospect Lodge, No. 81 ; Mt. Chocorua Encampment, No. ;^2 ; Sunset Rebekah Lodge, No. 52, and Freedom (irange and Carroll County Pomona Grange. He is a member of the First Christian Society of Freedom. In K. I. 'roWI.E. politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Towle was married February 22, 1872, to \'esta Marcia Merrill. They have one son: Harold hving Towle. Ijorn April 3, 1887. 17, 1 868, son of Benajah P. and Ann Lizzie (Moul- ton) Varney. He attended the public schools of Dover, and began his business career in banking in this city in 1887. hi May, 1897, he was appoint- ed Cashier of the Great Falls Xational liank at F. M. VARNEY. Somersworth. succeeding ]. H. Sticknev. who Avas murdered by Joseph E. Kelley, April 16, 1S97. Mr. Varney is prominent in INLisonry, and is a member of the .Straftord Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of lielknap Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Orphan Coimcil, Royal and Select AListers ; of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Tem- plar. He is a member of Olive liranch Lodge, Knights of Pythias ; the Penevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Ancient Essenic Order, all of Dover. He was marrietl December 12, 1893, to Rosalind IS. Johnson. They have one child: Harold Johnson Varney. \'ARNEY, F"rei:> Moui.ton, I'.ankcr, Somers- worth, was born in Dover, New I hinipsliiic. Inly P>ARTLETT, John Pai(;k, Manchester, was born in W'eare, February 4, 1841, son of John and Lurena (Bailey) Bartlett. lie attended the Acad- emies of Francestown, Meriden, and Mont Ver- non, and subsequently was a student at Dartmouth ('oUege, being graduated in the (lass of 1S64. He .studied law with Mfirrison, .St.mk'y cS: Clark at Man- chester. Flis lirst active practice was in the West, where he was Connnissioner ol the I'nited States 214 MEN OF PKOCRESS. Circuit Couit in l);iiiUleton. Under his charge the schools of the town have progressed steadily, and the numlier of pupils from other places has increased. The schools have lieen regraded and the High School curriculum now meets the maximum rec|uirements of all colleges. F. I!. PELTON. This school has graduates in 1 )arlminitii. Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Boston University, lloston I, aw School, and Buffalo I'liiversity. Through I'ro- fessor Pelton's efforts it has one of the best school laboratories in the state. Littleton has twice shown its a|)preciation of his wurk l)\' substantial and unsolicited increases in salary. He was Bresidenl of the Grafton County Teachers' Association in i896-'97. and a member of the Slate lli>aid of Examiners of 'I'eachers in 1897. He is a mend)cr of the Kappa Kappa Kappa Society, the Masons, and the C'oashauke Club. In pohtics he is a Republican. He is utnnarried. STONE, CiiARi.KS v., Ex-Naval ( )fticer of Port of lioston. Lawyer, Laconia and Manchester, was born ALiv 21. 1843, son of Levi H. and Clarissa (Os- good) Stone. He is a great-grandsun of Deacon ALathias Stone, one of the early settlers of the town of Claremont, whence his grandfather, John Stone, with three of his brothers emigrated in 1794 to Northern Vermont, being among the first settlers of the town of Cabot, where they cleared up farms and reared large families. John Stone had ten children and of his seven sons, four became Congregational ministers, Levi H., the second son, being one of the number. Charles E. Stone was the youngest of eight children by the first wife of Le\i H. Stone, and his mother dying at his birth, he was innnediately taken to the home of his grandfather, John .Stone, where he re- mained until he reached manhood. His father was a very able preacher and pulpit orator of the first rank. He held a nund)er of pastorates, the last being at Paw let. I'or two sessions he was Chap- lain of the ^'ermonl State .Senate. He was a strong Union man at the lime of the war and spoke at many war meetings for the encouragement of en- listments, his efforts lieing rewarded Ijy the direct results in ralhing volunteers. The Re\erencr Levi .Stone was a Chaplain of the l^'irst \'erinont Kegi- ineiit, and fijur of his S(ins were in the I'nion ser- vice during the war, — two of them were taken pris- oners of war, one being confmed at Lif)l:)v and the other at Andersonville. I'or se\eral \ears after the close of his last pastorate Mr. Stone was Agent for the \'ermont Temperance .Society. He tiled at Castleton, in 1891, at the age of eight\'-fi\e Aears. The boyhood of llie subject of this sketch was passed upon his grandfather's farm, where though his educational advantages weie necessarily lim- ited, he won a vigorous physique and where there sprang up a delerminalion to make a mark in the world. At the age of twenty iie started oul strong in the determination to accpiire an education to enter upon a profession. He attended the academy of Barre, Vermont, and for two years fitted for col- lege, entering Middlebuiv in 18(15, being graduated in the class of i86(). lie paid his own \\a\ ,it the college, as he paid it at th(,' .u,uleni\. In the win- ter he lauglit in the district school ,md also in sing- ing schools. He was an excellent musician, natur- ally, and from his nineteenth year until his \-oice was weakened by an atl.u k of pneumonia, a ])eriod of twent\'-five years, he was Direrlor of a choir in 224 MEN OF PROGRESS. one place or another. After liis graduation from college, he became a law student in the office of Ex-Governor John W. Stewart of Middlebur}-, and at the same time served for a )-ear as Principal of a graded school of that place. In 1870 he went to Laconia, continuing the study of his profession in the office of Hon. I'^llery A. llihbard. He was ad- mitted to the Har in 1872 and was taken into part- nership by the late George W. Stevens, a connec- tion which continued for a year. For the ne.xt seven years, Mr. Stone practiced alone, meeting with much success, and devoting himself to his pro- fessional labors. He formed a partnership with Erastus P. Jewell in i.SSo. untler the name of Jew- \ C. I'. STONli. ell & Stone, which still continues. Mr. Stone was reared as a Republican in politics. He was an anti-sla\ery man, and all through the reconstruc- tion period and some years later, he continued in alliance with this party, although he took no active part in the political afTairs beyond the town organi- zation. About twenty years ago, however, he be- came dissatisfied with the Republican policy in connection with financial and revenue matters, and ceased his affiliations with the organization. I'pon the opening of the Presidential campaign in 1880, Mr. Stone took the .stump for Hancock and Eng- lish, and proved a most effective campaign orator. He w^as made Chairman of the Democratic State Committee in 18S.'. tf) which position he was twice re-elected. During all these years he continued one of the most acti\e members of the party cam- paigners. He was a member of the State Legisla- ture from Laconia in i883-"84, and again in 1887- '88. At the former session he served upon the Committees on National Affairs and Railroads, and in the latter upon the Judiciary and State Normal School Committees. In railroad fights of these sessions, Mr. Stone took a prominent part. He was commissioned Naval Officer at Boston, July 3, 1894, and upon the expiration of his term in the spring of 189S, he resumed the practice of law in this state, and opened a branch office of his law lirm in Manchester. At all times, Mr. Stone has been greatly interested in educational affairs in Laconia, and was a member of the Poard of Edu- cation and served as President of the Board ; for two years he was a member of the Board of Trus- tees of the State Normal School. Mr. Stone be- came a Mason at the age of twenty-one. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and belongs to Laconia Grange, and I5elknap County Pomona (Jrange. He married, July 7, 1870, Minnie A. Nichols of Sudbury, Vermont, who died September 22, 1875, leaving one daughter. Flora I\L Stone. Mr. Stone married September 12, 1896, Mrs. Isa- bel Smith Munsey of Laconia. In religious mat- ters, Mr. Stone is of the progressive and liberal tvpe and has long been connected actively with the Laconia I'nitarian church. AMSDEN, Ch.vri.es Huhhard, was born in Bos- cawen. New Hampshire, July 8, 1848, son of Henry H. and Mary (Muzzey) Amsden. After completing his course in the public schools he attended .Apple- ton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and upon the completion of his studies he entered the employ of his father in the furniture manufacturing business, being placed in charge of his office. During the vacation season of his early school-days, and subsequently, he passed his time in the factory, where he became familiar with the trade in all its branches, as well as with the difficulties and annoy- ances under which the workmen labored, an experi- ence which afterwards served him in good stead, enabling him to fully .sympathize with them and understand their position. In a short time a co-partnership was formed under the finn name of H. H. Amsden (.V Sons. 'I'he father and brother, George H., died soon after, leaving Charles H. as MEN OF PROGRESS. 225 the sole survivor of the name. He iiKide extensive additions to the property from time to time as the needs of the business required, and for more than twenty years conducted the most extensive furni- ture manufacturing business in New England. He was also largely interested in the lumber business, the latter being conducted under tlie firm name of John \Miitaker & Company. He was one of the organizers of the Concord Axle Company, and for a time its President and largest stockholder. He is at the present time a member of the Hoard of Directors of the Granite State Fire Insurance C'om- pany, and the Portland & Ogdensburgh Railroad. ]3v reason of a combination of circumstances, tHARI.ES H. Y\MS])EN. reverses overtook him in the panic of i