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Nathan Appleton was born in New Ipswich, October 6, 1779. Studied at Dartmouth College but did not finish the course. He was one of the founders of the cotton mills at Wal- tham and at Lowell, Mass. For several years he was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts. He was a member of the 22nd and 27th congresses as a Whig. He died in Boston July 14, 1861. A daughter married the poet, Henry W. Longfellow.
Henry Ashley was born in Winchester, February 19, 1778. He removed to Catskill, New York, where he became a wealthy manufacturer of leather. He served in the 19th congress, 1825-7. He died in Catskill, February 14, 1829.
Charles Humphrey Atherton was born in Amherst, August 14, 1773; graduated from Harvard in 1794. He practiced law in Amherst, was register of probate, 1798-1807, and was elected as a Federalist to the 14th congress, 1815-17. He declined a re- election and was a member of the state legislature, 1823-39. He died in Amherst, January 8, 1853.
David Atwood, representative from Wisconsin, was born at Bedford, N. H., December 15, 1815; for twenty-three years was editor and publisher of the State Journal, Madison, Wis .; United States assessor four years; mayor of Madison in 1868; member of the state legislature in 1861 ; elected as a Republican to the 4Ist congress ; died in Madison, December 1I, 1889.
Clinton Babbitt was born in Westmoreland, November 16, 1831. He graduated at Keene Academy and removed to Wis-
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consin in 1853; was one of the first aldermen of Beloit and was appointed postmaster of that city by President Cleveland in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the 52nd congress, 1891-93.
Goldsmith Fox Bailey was born in Westmoreland, July 17, 1823. He edited a country newspaper, studied law and begun practice in Fitchburg, Mass .; served in both house and senate of Massachusetts and was elected to the 37th congress and served from March 4, 1861, till his death in Fitchburg, May 8, 1862.
Henry M. Baker was born in Bow, January II, 1841. He graduated at New Hampshire Conference Seminary in 1859, at Dartmouth College in 1863 and at Columbia College Law School in 1866; became a clerk in the war and treasury departments at Washington and later practiced law there. He was judge advo- cate-general of the national guard of New Hampshire, 1886-7, with rank of brigadier-general; member of the State Senate, 1891-2 ; member of congress, 1893-7; member of the state house of representatives, 1905-9. He then resumed the practice of law in Washington until his death, May 30, 1912.
Ichabod Bartlett was born in Salisbury July 24, 1786. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1808 he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Durham in 18II. In 1816 he removed to Portsmouth. He was a member of the state house of representatives seven terms, and speaker in 1821. He was elected to the 19th and 20th congresses, 1823-27. He declined the ap- pointment as chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1825. Again he served as a member of the house of representatives in his native state, in 1832, 1851 and 1852. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850 and died at Ports- mouth, October 19, 1853.
Josiah Bartlett, Jr., born in Kingston, December 16, 1788, studied medicine and began practice in Stratham. He was presi- dential elector on the Washington ticket in 1793 and again on the John Quincy Adams ticket in 1825. He served in the 12th congress, 1811-13. He died in Stratham, April 14, 1838.
Benning Moulton Bean was born in Moultonborough Jan- uary 9, 1782. He served in the state house of representatives 1815-23, and 1826, and in the state senate 1824-26, 1831-32, being president in the last year. He was a member of the governor's council in 1829, and was elected to the 23rd and 24th congresses, 1833-37. He died in Moultonborough, February 9, 1866.
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Curtis Coe Bean was born in Tamworth, January 4, 1828. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, studied law and was admitted to the bar in Tennessee in 1865. In that state he was attorney-general of a judicial district and a member of the legislature. He removed to Arizona in 1869 and was a member of the upper house in the legislative assembly of 1879. He was elected as a Republican a delegate to the 49th congress, 1885-87. He died in New York City February 1, 1904.
Samuel Newell Bell was born in Chester, March 25, 1829. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1847 he studied law and practiced in Manchester. He was elected as a Democrat to the 42nd congress and re-elected to the 44th. The governor and council appointed him chief justice of the superior court of New Hampshire, but he declined the honor. He died at Wood- stock, February 8, 1889.
Jacob Benton was born in Waterford, Vermont, August 19, 1814. He removed to Lancaster in 1842, where he was admitted to the bar, and here was his home through the remainder of his life. He served three terms in the state legislature and was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1860. Of the state volunteers he was brigadier-general. He served as a Re- publican in the 40th and 4Ist congresses, 1867-71. Then he resumed the practice of law and died at Lancaster September 29, 1892.
Silas Betton was born in Londonderry, August 26, 1768. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1787 and was elected to the 8th and 9th congresses, 1803-7. He was high sheriff of Rocking- ham county for several years. Died at Salem, January 22, 1822.
Jonathan Blanchard was born in Dunstable, September 18, 1738. He took an active part in the Revolution and sat in the Continental Congress, 1783-4. He died in Dunstable, July 16, 1788.
James Franklin Briggs was born in Bury, Lancashire, Eng- land, October 23, 1827; came to America when young and was educated in the common schools; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced at Hillsborough; removed to Manchester in 1871. He was a member of the state legislature in 1856-8 and 1874, and of the State Senate in 1876. He was Quartermaster of the Eleventh New Hampshire regiment in the Civil War; elected to the 45th, 46th and 47th congresses, 1877-83, as a Re-
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publican ; again elected to state legislature in 1883, and 1891-97, the last year being Speaker of the House. Member of the constitutional convention of 1889. He died at Manchester, Jan- uary 21, 1905.
John Brodhead was born in Lower Smithfield, Pa., October 2, 1770. He moved to New Hampshire in 1796. He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church forty-four years and chaplain of New Hampshire legislature, 1817-27. He repre- sented New Hampshire in the 21st and 22nd congresses, 1829-33. He died in Newmarket, April 7, 1838.
Titus Brown was born in Cheshire county, February II, 1786. Middlebury College was his alma mater. He practiced law in Francestown. Was a member of the state legislature, 1820-25, and solicitor for Hillsborough county seven years. He was elected to the 19th and 20th congresses, 1825-29, and was president of the state senate in 1842. He died in Francestown, January 29, 1849.
Edmund Burke was born in Westminster, Vermont, January 23, 1809. He began the practice of law in Newport, N. H., in 1833; established the New Hampshire Argus and edited it for several years; commissioned as adjutant in the militia in 1837 and as brigade inspector in 1838; elected as a Democrat to the 26th, 27th and 28th congresses, 1839-45 ; appointed commissioner of patents by President Polk and served four years. Then he resumed the practice of law in Newport, and died there January 25, 1882. He was regarded as a leader in the Democratic party, presiding at the state conventions and acting as delegate to the national conventions that nominated Presidents Polk and Pierce, and he is said to have exerted more influence than any other to secure the nomination of President Pierce. As a lawyer he was among the foremost of his profession.
Henry Gordon Burleigh was born in Canaan, June 2, 1832. Removed to Ticonderoga, Essex County, N. Y., and there en- gaged in business. He was a member of the assembly for Washington county in 1876 and was elected to the 48th and 49th congresses, 1883-87; removed to Whitehall, N. Y., and died there August 10, 1900.
William Burleigh was born in Rockingham county October 24, 1785. He studied law and practiced in South Berwick,
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Maine; was elected to the 18th and 19th congresses, 1823-27. Died in South Berwick, July 2, 1827.
Josiah Butler, born in Pelham in 1779, graduated at Harvard College in 1803. Commenced practice of law in South Deerfield. He was representative in the state legislature for several terms and was sheriff of Rockingham county 1810-13. He was elected as a Democrat to the 15th, 16th and 17th congresses, 1818-23; associate justice of the state court of common pleas, 1825-33. He died in Deerfield, November 8, 1854.
Martin Butterfield was born in Westmoreland, December 8, 1790. Removed to Palmyra, N. Y., in 1828 and engaged in hard- ware business and manufacture of rope and cordage. Was presidential elector in 1848; elected as a Republican to the 36th congress, 1859-61. He died in Palmyra, N. Y., August 6, 1866.
Peter Carleton was born in Haverhill, Mass., September 19, 1755. He served in a Massachusetts regiment in the Revolution, moved to Landaff about 1789, served in both branches of the state legislature and was elected to the 10th congress as a Dem- ocrat, 1807-09. He died in Landaff, April 29, 1828.
Davis Carpenter, a representative from New York, was born in Walpole, N. H., December 25, 1799; studied medicine and was graduated from Middlebury College in 1823; commenced practice in Brockport, N. Y .; elected as a Whig to the 33rd congress, to fill vacancy caused by rsignation of Azariah Boody, and served from December 5, 1854, to March 3, 1855; died at Brockport, October 22, 1878.
John Curtis Chamberlain was born in Worcester, Mass., June 5, 1772; was graduated at Harvard College in 1793, and practiced law at Alstead, N. H. He was elected as a Federalist to the IIth congress, 1809-II. He died at Utica, N. Y., December 8, 1834.
Thomas Chandler was born in Bedford, August 10, 1772. He was justice of the peace in 1808 and captain in the militia in 1815. His town sent him as representative to the legislature in 1818 and again in 1827, and he was elected as a Democrat to the 21st and 22nd congresses, 1829-33. He died in Bedford, January 28, 1866.
Clifton Claggett, born in Portsmouth, December 3, 1762, began the practice of law in Litchfield in 1787. He was appointed judge of probate for Hillsborough county in 1810 and moved
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to Amherst. Both towns were represented by him in the legis- lature. He was elected to the 8th congress, 1803-05; was judge of the supreme court in 1812; again elected to the 15th and 16th congresses, 1817-21 ; appointed judge of probate in 1823 and held that office till his death in Amherst, January 29, 1829.
Frank Gay Clarke was born in Wilton, September 10, 1850; was educated at Kimball Union Academy and Dartmouth Col- lege; practiced law at Peterboro; served in both branches of the state legislature and was speaker of the house in 1891 ; was colonel on the military staff of Governor Hale; elected as a Republican to the 55th and 56th congresses, 1897-1901. He died in Peterboro, January 9, 1901.
Clark Beaton Cochrane was born in New Boston, May 31, 1815; moved to Montgomery county, N. Y .; was a member of the New York house of representatives in 1844-45; elected as a Republican to the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61 ; moved to Albany, where he continued the practice of law. He was a member of the Republican national convention of 1864 and of the state house of representatives in 1866. He died in Albany, N. Y., March 5, 1867.
Charles Carter Comstock was born in Sullivan, March 5, 1818; moved to Grand Rapids in 1853; was farmer, lumberman and manufacturer of furniture; mayor of Grand Rapids in 1863- 64; elected as a Fusion Democrat to the 49th congress, 1885-87. He died in Grand Rapids, Mich., February 20, 1900.
Frank Dunklee Currier was born in Canaan, October 30, 1853; was admitted to the bar in 1874; member of the state house of representatives in 1879; secretary of the Republican state committee, 1882-90; clerk of the state senate, 1883-87; delegate in the Republican national convention of 1884; president of the state senate in 1887; naval officer of customs at the port of Boston, Mass., 1890-94; speaker of the state house of representa- tives in 1899; elected as a Republican to the 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 6Ist and 62nd congresses, 1901-13.
Samuel Cushman was born in Portsmouth, June 8, 1783; practiced law in Portsmouth; county treasurer 1823-28; member of the state council, 1833-35 ; elected as a Democrat to the 24th and 25th congresses, 1835-39; United States naval officer at Portsmouth, 1845-49. He died at Portsmouth, May 20, 1851.
William Shapleigh Damrell, representative from Massachu-
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setts, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., November 29, 1809; became the proprietor of a large printing establishment in Bos- ton ; elected as an American to the 34th and as a Republican to the 35th congress, 1855-59; died in Dedham, Mass., May 17, 1860.
Noah Davis was born in Haverhill, N. H., September 10, 1818; moved with his parents to Albion, N. Y., in 1825; practiced law in Gainesville, Buffalo, and Albion; judge of the supreme court, 1857-68; moved to New York City and practiced law ; elected as a Republican to the 4Ist congress, 1868-69; resigned and appointed by President Grant United States attorney for the southern district of New York, serving from 1870 to 1872, when he resigned, having been elected a judge of the supreme court of the state; served till 1887; member of council of the university of New York City. He died in New York City, March 20, 1902.
Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn was born in Exeter, March 3, 1783; graduated from William and Mary College in 1803; practiced law in Salem, Mass .; was collector of customs in Boston, 1812-29; served in the War of 1812 as brigadier- general commanding the volunteers in the defense of Boston harbor; member of the state constitutional convention of 1820; served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature ; elected to the 22nd congress, 1831-33, from Massachusetts, adjutant general of Massachusetts, 1834-43; mayor of Roxbury, 1847-51. He died at Portland, Maine, July 29, 1851.
Daniel Meserve Durell was born in Lee, July 20, 1769; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1794; was admitted to the bar in Dover in 1797, where he practiced; elected to the 10th congress, 1807-09; member of the state legislature in 1816; chief justice of the district court of common pleas 1816-21; United States attorney, district of New Hampshire, 1820-34. He died at Dover, April 29, 1841.
Experience Esterbrook was born in Lebanon, April 30, 1813; began the practice of law at Geneva, Wisconsin, in 1840; member of the state house of representatives in 1851 ; attorney-general of Wisconsin in 1852; moved to Nebraska territory and served as district attorney, 1856-59; elected to 36th congress, 1859, but his election was contested and a year later he was succeeded by Samuel G. Daily ; moved to Chicago in 1894. He died in Omaha, Nebraska, March 26, 1894.
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Ira Allen Eastman was born in Gilmanton, January 1, 1809; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829; practiced law in Gilmanton ; served several years in both branches of the State legislature; speaker of the house 1837-39; register of probate; elected as a Democrat to the 26th and 27th congresses, 1839-43; judge of the common pleas, superior and supreme courts, 1844-59. He died at Manchester, March 21, 1881.
Nehemiah Eastman was born in Gilmanton, June 16, 1782; practiced law in Farmington; served in both branches of the state legislature; elected to the 19th congress, 1825-27. He died in Farmington, January II, 1856.
Thomas McKey Edwards was born in Cheshire county, December 16, 1795; graduated from Dartmouth College; admit- ted to the bar and practiced law; served several terms in the state legislature; presidential elector on the Fremont ticket in 1856; elected as a Republican to the 36th and 37th congresses, 1859-63. He died in Keene, May 1, 1875.
Jacob H. Ela was born in Rochester, July 18, 1820; printer and farmer; member of the state legislature, 1857-8; United States Marshal, 1861-66; elected as a Republican to the 40th and 4Ist congresses, 1867-71; appointed by President Grant fifth auditor of the treasury. Died August 21, 1884.
Caleb Ellis was born at Walpole, Mass., April 16, 1767; graduated from Harvard in 1793; practiced law in Newport and Claremont, N. H .; elected to 9th congress, 1805-7; member of New Hampshire house of representatives in 1803; on the gov- ernor's council 1809-10; elected state senator in 1811; judge of the superior court of New Hampshire from 1813 to his death in Claremont, May 6, 1816.
Evarts Worcester Farr was born in Littleton, October 10, 1840; educated at Dartmouth College; major in the Union Army in the Civil War; admitted to the bar in 1867; member of the executive council in 1876; assistant assessor of internal revenue in 1865-69; assessor 1869-73; elected to the 46th congress and served from March 4, 1879, till his death in Littleton, November 30, 1880.
James Farrington was born in Conway, July 26, 1789; grad- uated from Fryeburg academy; studied medicine and began practice in Rochester; served in both branches of the state legis-
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lature ; elected as a Democrat to the 25th congress, 1837-38. Died in Rochester October 29, 1859.
John Fisher was born in Londonderry, March 13, 1806; farmer and merchant; for twenty-one years had charge of an iron manufacturing establishment in Hamilton, Canada, where he was mayor of the city; settled in Batavia, N. Y., in 1856; elected as a Republican to the 4Ist congress, 1869-71. He died at Batavia, March 28, 1882.
Jonathan Fish was born in Amherst, September 26, 1773; elected as a Democrat to the IIth congress, 1809-II, and again to the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813-15. He resigned his seat to accept the position of United States attorney for the southern district of New York and served till June, 1819. He died near Newburgh, N. Y., July 13, 1832.
Alvan Flanders was born in Hopkinton, August 2, 1825; learned the machinist trade in Boston; moved to California in 1851; engaged in lumber business; one of the projectors and proprietors of the San Francisco Daily Times; member of the state legislature in 1861; moved to Washington territory and engaged in business; elected as a Republican to the 4Ist con- gress, 1869-71 ; appointed by President Grant governor of Wash- ington Territory and served one year.
Benjamin Franklin Flanders was born in Bristol, January 26, 1816; educated at New Hampton Academy and Dartmouth College, 1842; studied law but was never admitted to the bar ; edited the New Orleans Tropic in 1845; alderman of New Or- leans in 1847; superintendent of public schools of Louisiana, 1850; elected as a Unionist to the 37th congress, and served a few months in 1863; military governor of Louisiana, 1867-8; mayor of New Orleans, 1870; assistant United States treasurer in New Orleans, 1873-82. Died near Youngsville, La., March 13, 1896.
Nathaniel Folsom was born in Exeter, September 18, 1726; served as captain in the French and Indian War; colonel of the fourth regiment at the beginning of the Revolution; brigadier- general of troops sent to Boston; major general of New Hamp- shire militia; delegate in the Continental Congress, 1774-5 and 1777-80; executive councilor in 1778; delegate to the constitu- tional convention of 1783 and its president ; chief justice of the court of common pleas. He died in Exeter, May 26, 1790.
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Ezra Bartlett French was born in Landaff, September 23, 1810; moved to Damariscotta, Maine; Secretary of State of Maine; elected to the 36th congress, 1859-61; appointed second auditor of the treasury, in 1861, by President Lincoln and con- tinued through the administrations of Presidents Johnson, Grant and Hayes. He died in Washington, D. C., April 24, 1881.
John R. French was born in Gilmanton, May 28, 1819; learned the printer's trade; for five years was associate editor of the New Hampshire Statesman at Concord; two years editor of the Eastern Journal at Biddeford; moved to Lake county, Ohio, in 1854; editor of the Telegraph, the Press, and in 1856 the Cleveland Morning Leader; member of the state legislature, 1858-9; in the treasury department at Washington in 1861 ; appointed by President Lincoln in 1864 on the board of direct tax commissioners for North Carolina; delegate to the constitu- tional convention of N. C., in 1867; elected as a Republican to the 40th congress, 1868-9; elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States senate in December, 1870, and held the office nine years; appointed secretary of the Ute commission in July, 1880; moved to Boise City, Idaho, and was editor of the Boise Sun. He died in Boise, October 2, 1890.
Rufus Smith Frost was born in Marlboro, July 18, 1826; moved to Boston in 1833; merchant; mayor of Chelsea, 1867-8; member of the Massachusetts senate, 1871-2, and of the gov- ernor's council, 1873-4; election to the 44th congress contested by Josiah G. Abbott, after sitting one year in the house; presi- dent of the woolen manufacturers' national association for seven years, of the Boston board of trade for two years, and of the New England conservatory of music for eight years; delegate in the Republican national convention of 1892. He died in Chicago, Ill., March 6, 1894.
Thomas Gallagher was born in Concord in 1850; moved to Chicago in 1856; learned the trade of an iron moulder; entered the hat business in Chicago in 1878; twice a member of the city council of Chicago and six years a member of the board of education ; prominent in the leadership of the Democratic party ; elected to the 6Ist and 62nd congresses, 1909-13.
Charles Jervis Gilman was born in Exeter, February 26, 1824; member of the legislature of New Hampshire in 1850; practiced law in Brunswick, Maine; member of the legislature
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of Maine in 1854; elected as a Republican to the 35th congress, 1857-9; delegate to the Republican national convention in 1860. He died in Brunswick, Maine, February 5, 1901.
Robert Goodenow was born in Farmington, June 10, 1800; admitted to the bar in 1821 and practiced in Farmington ; county attorney, 1828-34 and 1841 ; removed to Maine and practiced in Paris; elected as Whig to the 32nd congress, 1851-53. He was appointed state bank commissioner in 1857. He died in Farm- ington, Maine, May 15, 1874.
Rufus K. Goodenow, brother to the one last named, was born in Henniker, April 24, 1790; settled in Brownfield, Maine; farmer ; captain in the War of 1812; moved to Paris, Maine, and became clerk of Oxford county court, 1821-37; member of State legislature; elector on the Harrison ticket, 1840; elected as Whig to the 3Ist congress, 1849-51. He died in Paris, Maine, March 24, 1863.
William Gordon was born April 12, 1763; graduated from Harvard in 1779; lawyer; elected to the 5th and 6th congresses to represent New Hampshire, served from 1797 to 1800, when he resigned. He died in Boston, Mass., May 8, 1802.
Salma Hale was born in Alstead, March 7, 1787; editor of the Walpole Political Observatory; studied law; clerk of Cheshire county court of common pleas; moved to Keene in 1813; elected as a Democrat to the 15th congress, 1817-19; clerk of the supreme court of New Hampshire, 1817-34; admitted to the bar, 1834; secretary to the boundary commission appointed under the treaty of Ghent ; several years a member of the state legislature. He died in Somerville, Mass., November 19, 1866.
William Hale was born in Portsmouth, August 6, 1765; merchant and shipowner ; member of both branches of the legis- lature and of the governor's council; elected as a Federalist to the IIth congress, 1809-II; elected on the peace ticket to the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813-17. He died in Dover, November 8, 1848.
Joshua Gilman Hall was born in Wakefield, November 5, 1828; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1851 ; admitted to the bar in 1855 and practiced in Wakefield and Dover ; solicitor of Strafford county, 1862-74; mayor of Dover, 1866-7; member of the state senate, 1871-2, and of the state house of representa- tives, 1874; attorney of the United States for the district of
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New Hampshire, 1874-79; elected as a Republican to the 46th and 47th congresses, 1879-83. He died in Dover, October 31, 1898.
Obed Hall was elected to the 12th congress, 1811-13, to represent New Hampshire. He died in Bartlett, April 1, 1828.
Joseph Hammons, a representative from New Hampshire, was born in Cornish, Maine, March 3, 1737; studied medicine and began practice in Farmington, N. H .; elected to the 21st and 22nd congresses, 1829-33; postmaster at Dover, 1833-36. He died in Farmington, March 29, 1836.
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