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Charles B. Mann. Co. G, mustered Aug. 13, 1862; wounded May 31, 1864; transferred to V. R. C. May 1, 1865; mustered out July 1, 1865; lives in Clare- mont; pensioner.
Franklin G. Nevers. Co. G, mustered Aug. 13, 1862; captured Aug. 30, 1864 ; paroled March 2, 1865 ; mustered out June 2, 1865 ; lives at Gilsum.
John H. Rugg. Co. G, mustered Aug. 19, 1862; discharged June 26, 1863; enlisted in V. R. C. Feb. 18, 1864; died in Claremont Feb. 20, 1893; pensioner.
Lyman N. Sargent. Co. G, mustered Aug. 13, 1862; wounded in right ankle at the battle of Cold Harbor, May 31, 1864; foot amputated above ankle joint . same day upon the field ; discharged July 1, 1865 ; lives at Grantham ; pensioner.
Harvey H. Sargent. Co. G, mustered Aug. 13, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. Jan. 16, 1864; mustered out July 13, 1865; lives at Aurora, Ill. ; pensioner.
Samuel C. Towne. Co. G, mustered Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out June 10, 1865 ; lives at Richmond ; pensioner.
Corporal Lorenzo M. Upham. Co. G, mustered Aug. 13, 1862; wounded in hand by accidental discharge of his own gun Sept. 17, 1862; discharged on account of wound Oct. 30, 1862; residence unknown.
Sergeant George L. Wakefield. Co. G, mustered Aug. 13, 1862; wounded in right arm and missing Sept. 30, 1864; gained from missing; mustered out June 10, 1865; lives in Manchester; pensioner.
TENTH REGIMENT.
This was a three years regiment, Michael T. Donohoe, colonel. It was organized at Manchester, and left the state on the twenty- second of September, 1862, and was mustered out of the service at Concord on the twenty-fifth of June, 1865.
Alfred W. Burrill. Co. A, mustered Aug. 20, 1862; wounded at the battle of Fort Harrison, Va., Sept. 29, 1864; mustered out with his regiment; lives at Warner; pensioner.
John Herrin. Co. F, mustered Aug. 24, 1864; captured at Fair Oaks Oct. 27, 1864; exchanged March 23, 1865; transferred to Second regiment June 21, 1865; mustered out July 7, 1865; residence unknown.
Patrick O'Connell. Co. F, mustered Sept. 1, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. Aug. 20, 1863; discharged for disability; died at Philadelphia Sept. 3, 1864.
ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
This was a three years regiment, Walter Harriman, colonel. It was organized at Concord, left the state on the eleventh of
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September, 1862, and was mustered out of the service at Con- cord on the tenth of June, 1865. Claremont had but one man in this regiment, Sergeant George E. Rowell, who died of disease at Baltimore, Md., April 10, 1864.
The Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth regiments were raised by congressional districts -the Twelfth in the first district; the Thirteenth in the second, and the Fourteenth in the third, com- prising the counties of Cheshire, Sullivan, Grafton, and Coös. There were no Claremont men in the Twelfth regiment, and but one in the Thirteenth.
Henry V. Freeman. Co. E, mustered Sept. 26, 1862; mustered out June 9, 1865 ; lives in North Ashburnham, Mass .; pensioner.
FOURTEENTH REGIMENT.
This was the last of the full three years regiments sent to the war from New Hampshire. The men composing seven compa- nies were enlisted from the four western counties - Cheshire county furnished four companies, while Sullivan, Grafton, Coös, Carroll, Merrimack, and Hillsborough, each furnished one com- pany. Robert Wilson was colonel. The regiment was organized at Concord, left the state the first part of October, 1862, and was mustered out at Concord on the twenty-sixth of July, 1865.
John Bowler. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24, 1862; discharged for disability July 9, 1863 ; residence unknown.
Charles S. Bowker. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24, 1862; mustered out with the regiment; dead in 1892.
Fred. L. Barker. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24; mustered out with the regiment; lives at Bellows Falls, Vt. ; pensioner.
Joseph A. Dickey. Co. I, mustered Oct. 6, 1862; mustered out with the regiment; residence unknown.
Sergeant Charles E. Foster. Co. I, mustered Oct. 6, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. Dec. 27, 1865 ; mustered out June 26, 1865 ; residence unknown.
Oliver P. Gillingham. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24, 1862; discharged for disa- bility Feb. 5, 1863 ; died April 22, 1863.
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Levi D. Hall, Jr. Co. I, mustered Jan. 14, 1864; mustered out Aug. 14, 1865 ; lives at Cambridge, Mass.
Martin V. B. Hurley. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24, 1862; mustered out June 12, 1865 ; died at Cornish in 1892; pensioner.
Patrick Hoban. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24, 1862; mustered out June 8, 1865 ; lives in Claremont ; pensioner.
Levi Leet. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24, 1862; discharged for disability June 26, 1863; died July 17, 1863.
Mitchell Oliver. Co. I, mustered Dec. 29, 1863; wounded in both egs at the battle of Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864; died Nov. 12, 1890; pensioner.
Sergeant George H. Stowell, 2d. Co. I, mustered Sept. 24, 1862; slightly wounded in the battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864; died in Claremont Nov. 21, 1888; pensioner.
In response to the call of the president, in July, 1862, for three hundred thousand nine months troops, the Fifteenth and Six- teenth regiments were organized at Concord, sent to the field, and mustered out after the expiration of their term of enlistment. John W. Kingman was colonel of the Fifteenth, and James Pike of the Sixteenth. The Seventeenth regiment was not fully organ- ized, but the men enlisted for it were transferred to fill the de- pleted ranks of the Second regiment. No Claremont men were enlisted for the first two named regiments, and for the last only one.
Harrison Fillmore Hawkes. Co. I, mustered Dec. 5, 1862; transferred to Sec- ond regiment; mustered out Oct. 9, 1863; lives in Boston ; pensioner.
Under a call issued in July, 1864, for five hundred thousand vol- unteers, six companies were enlisted for the Eighteenth regiment, and sent forward as a battalion, which completed the quota of the state. Under a call for troops in December, 1864, four other companies were enlisted, and Thomas L. Livermore was commis- sioned colonel. The last company of this regiment was mustered out August 8, 1865.
NEW HAMPSHIRE CAVALRY.
In the autumn of 1861 the governors of the six New England states were authorized to raise a cavalry regiment of twelve com-
EDWIN VAUGHAN.
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panies - two from each state - to be called the New England Cav- alry. All these states except Rhode Island and New Hampshire, raised each a full regiment; and Rhode Island raised eight and New Hampshire four companies, making another regiment. In January, 1864, the four New Hampshire companies were detached, and subsequently three more companies were enlisted, and these, John L. Thompson, colonel, were called the New Hampshire Cav- alry. This organization was discharged at Concord, July 21, 1865.
Corporal Henry G. Ayer. Troop K, mustered Oct. 24, 1861; mustered out Oct. 24, 1864; lives at Washington, D. C.
Charles S. Allen. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; mustered out with his regiment ; lives in Claremont ; pensioner.
Ethan A. Ballou. Troop I, mustered Dec. 27, 1861 ; discharged for disability April 19, 1862; enlisted in V. R. C. Jan. 21, 1865 ; mustered out Nov. 7, 1865.
William H. Briggs. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; wounded at the bat- tle of Chantilly, Sept. 1, 1862; discharged on account of injuries received in battle, Jan. 16, 1862 ; lives at Cambridge, Mass. ; pensioner.
Francis Clark. Troop L, mustered Jan. 8, 1862 ; transferred to V. R. C. Nov. 15, 1863 ; died in Claremont.
William H. Farwell. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861 ; discharged for disa- bility Dec. 5, 1862; died in Claremont, Oct. 24, 1888.
Lewis W. Laducer. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861 ; sent to Lincoln hospi- tal, Washington, D. C., since which time nothing has been known of him.
William H. H. Moody. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; discharged by or- der Jan. 18, 1862; lives in Claremont.
Sergeant Eli C. Marsh. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; transferred to V. R. C. March 4, 1863; died at Nashua, Oct. 7, 1882.
Henry H. Niles. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; discharged for disability June 16, 1862; enlisted in V. R. C. Aug. 25, 1864; mustered out Nov. 7, 1865; lives at Cambridge, Mass.
Captain John J. Prentiss. Troop L, commissioned captain Dec. 3, 1861 ; dis- missed Dec. 3, 1863; died at Chicago in 1890.
Captain William P. Prentiss. Troop L, commissioned second lieutenant Dec. 3, 1861 ; first lieutenant, Aug. 4, 1862; captain, April 21, 1864; resigned Jan. 18, 1865 ; lives in Chicago.
Captain Charles E. Patrick. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; promoted to Sergeant ; to first lieutenant, April 15, 1864; captain, June 19, 1865 ; mustered out as first lieutenant July 15, 1865; died Feb. 4, 1875.
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Sergeant Otis G. Robinson. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861 ; discharged for disability Sept. 14, 1862; died in Claremont, July 8, 1880.
Samuel J. Sawyer. Troop L, mustered Oct. 4, 1862; mustered out with his regiment ; residence unknown.
Corporal George W. Sleeper. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; wounded March 17, 1863; mustered out Dec. 27, 1864; lives in Vermont.
Benjamin W. Still. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; severely injured by his horse falling upon him ; discharged in consequence June 4, 1862 ; died at Alstead in 1890.
Corporal James M. Southwick. Troop L, mustered Dec. 27, 1861; mustered out with his regiment; lives in Claremont.
Captain Edwin Vaughan. Troop L, mustered Dec. 13, 1861; appointed ser- geant; second lieutenant, Aug. 14, 1862; first lieutenant, Jan 1, 1863; captain, March 31, 1864, and assigned to Troop A; discharged June 7, 1865; died at Claremont, Dec. 18, 1890 ; pensioner.
HEAVY ARTILLERY.
In the summer of 1863, under special order of the War Depart- ment, two companies of heavy artillery were raised to garrison the defenses of Portsmouth harbor. In August a full regiment was raised and Charles H. Long was commissioned colonel of it. It served in the defense of Washington, D. C., and was mustered out on the nineteenth of June, 1865.
Oscar Booth. Co. A, mustered Nov. 26, 1864; mustered out with regiment ; lives in Iowa ; pensioner.
Alvaro L. Chaffin. Co. A, mustered Aug. 5, 1864; mustered out with regi- ment ; lives at county farm ; insane ; pensioner.
Gilbert F. Colby. Co. A, mustered Sept. 24, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865 ; lives at Hanover; pensioner.
George E. Ford. Co. A, mustered May 26, 1863 ; deserted March 27, 1864.
Warren H. Gould. Co. B, mustered Sept. 7, 1863; mustered out with regi- ment ; lives at Manchester.
Thomas Hart. Co. H, mustered Sept. 13, 1864; discharged for disability May 4, 1865 ; lives in Claremont ; pensioner.
Albert Newcomb. Co. A, mustered Aug. 3, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865.
William L. Parkhurst. Co. A, mustered July 2, 1863; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865.
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Corporal Francis Rafferty. Co. A, mustered Dec. 26, 1863; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865; lives at Athol, Mass. ; pensioner.
Daniel B. Smith. Co. A, mustered May 26, 1863; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865.
Harvey D. Stone. Co. A, mustered Sept. 15, 1865; mustered out Sept. 11, 1885 ; lives at Laconia.
George H. Waldron. Co. B, mustered Sept. 15, 1863 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865 ; lives at Chester, Vt. ; pensioner.
SHARPSHOOTERS.
In the summer of 1861 three full companies of sharpshooters were raised in New Hampshire and attached to a regiment known as Berdan's Sharpshooters.
Captain William P. Austin. Commissioned first lieutenant of Co. E Aug. 17, 1861; captain, Dec. 20, 1861; wounded Aug. 30, 1862; discharged on account of wounds May 16, 1863 ; captain of Invalid Corps Aug. 13, 1863 ; acting assist- ant quartermaster and ordnance officer, which position he held until March, 1866 ; died at Lewiston, Va., July 9, 1889 ; pensioner.
Charles M. Judd. Co. E, mustered Sept. 9, 1861; discharged for disability Nov. 1, 1862; enlisted in V. R. C. Sept. 9, 1864; mustered out Nov. 7, 1865 ; lives in Claremont; pensioner.
William H. Nichols. Co. E, mustered Sept. 9, 1861 ; mustered out at the end of his term of enlistment; died in Claremont, March 15, 1884; he received a pension.
Ruel G. Osgood. Co. G, mustered Dec. 12, 1861; discharged for disability April 27, 1862; residence unknown.
Henry S. Parmalee. Co. E, mustered Sept. 9, 1861 ; discharged for disability Jan. 21, 1862; died in Claremont, June 6, 1882 ; received pension.
Henry A. Redfield. Co. G, mustered Dec. 12, 1861; discharged for disability Dec. 22, 1862; lives at Dover; pensioner.
Chester P. Smith. Co. G, mustered Dec. 12, 1861; discharged for disability May 12, 1862; died at Togus, Me., Soldiers' Home, April 8, 1884.
George W. Straw. Co. E, mustered Sept. 9, 1861; taken prisoner May 8, 1864; paroled Dec., 1864; discharged Jan. 25, 1865; lives in Claremont.
Corporal Horace W. Whitney. Co. E, mustered Sept. 9. 1861; discharged March 14, 1862; lives at Cambridge, Mass.
Charles H. Baker, Ebenezer E. Cummings, Anson M. Sperry, and Sylvester E. H. Wakefield enlisted for three months, in April, 1861, declined to enlist for
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three years; were sent to garrison Fort Constitution, Portsmouth harbor; there served out their three months term of enlistment, and were honorably discharged.
CLAREMONT MEN SERVING IN OTHER THAN NEW HAMPSHIRE ORGAN- IZATIONS.
COMPANY D, NINTH VERMONT VOLUNTEERS.
This regiment was a part of the eleven thousand five hundred troops disgracefully, and it was feared treacherously, surrendered by Colonel Miles, an experienced regular army officer, to Stonewall Jackson, at Harper's Ferry, on the fifteenth of September, 1862.
George W. Davis. Mustered July 9, 1862; mustered out June 13, 1864 ; lives at Lebanon ; pensioner.
Albert E. Parmelee. Mustered July 9, 1862; taken prisoner Sept. 2, 1862; discharged Oct. 31, 1862; lives in Claremont ; pensioner.
Sergeant Albert F. Russell. Mustered July 9, 1862; mustered out June 13, 1865 ; died in New York state about 1888.
George W. Spaulding. Mustered July 9, 1862; mustered out June 13, 1865; lives at Keene ; pensioner.
Leonard M. Stevens. Mustered July 9, 1862; mustered out June 13, 1865 ; lives at Little Falls, Minn.
Algernon M. Squier. Mustered July 9, 1862; appointed hospital steward; discharged Jan. 25, 1865; assistant surgeon U. S. Army; died of cholera at Fort Larned, July 29, 1867 .
OTHER VERMONT REGIMENTS.
Asher S. Burbank. Co. A, 4th Infantry, mustered July 8, 1863; taken pris- oner June 12, 1864, with about two thousand others; paroled in Feb., 1865; mustered out July 13, 1865; lives in Boston.
Charles R. Bardwell. Co. B, 16th, mustered Oct. 23, 1862, for nine months ; mustered out Aug. 10, 1863; lives at Pleasanton, Kan. ; pensioner.
Henry S. Blanchard. Co. A, 12th, mustered Oct. 4, 1862, for nine months ; mustered out July 14, 1863 ; died in Claremont, of cancer, Dec. 19, 1867.
Wallace Dane. Co. F, 4th, mustered Sept. 26, 1861; discharged for disability Jan., 1863; residence unknown.
Lewis Henry Dutton. Co. C, 3d, mustered July 16, 1861; wounded in foot at the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862; discharged on account of wound March 24, 1863 ; lives in Boston; pensioner.
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Ethan A. Gile. Co. A, 12th ; mustered in and mustered out Oct. 4, 1862.
Captain Calvin A. Laws. Co. B, 12th, mustered Oct. 4, 1862, for nine months ; mustered out with the regiment; in May, 1864, he raised a company of one hundred days men in Illinois, and was commissioned captain of it, which was mustered out Oct. 17, 1864 ; he died in Florida several years ago.
Benjamin L. Meader. Co. E, 2d, mustered June 20, 1861; mustered out July 15, 1865 ; residence unknown.
MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENTS.
Oliver A. Bond. Co. A, 4th, mustered Sept. 28, 1862, for nine months; mus- tered out at the end of his term of enlistment; lives at Cambridge, Mass.
Samuel W. Chapman. Co. E, Heavy Artillery, mustered Aug. 7, 1864; taken prisoner Oct. 3, 1864 ; paroled in March, 1865; died in Claremont, April 5, 1865, from the effects of exposure and starvation while a prisoner.
Horace W. Cook. Co. F, 24th, mustered Jan., 1864; mustered out at the end of the war; supposed to be dead.
Captain Homer G. Gilmore. Co. F, 10th, enlisted June 21, 1861; first ser- geant ; promoted to second lieutenant Nov. 6, 1861 ; first lieutenant, Aug. 9, 1862 ;. captain, Nov. 26, 1862; brevet major, Feb. 13, 1865; wounded at Spottsyl -- vania Court House; mustered out July 6, 1864; resides at Springfield, Mass. ;. pensioner.
Henry W. Mace. 53d, nine months regiment ; served his term and again en -. listed for a hundred days and did garrison duty ; lives at Fitchburg, Mass.
Thomas D. Parrish. Co. F, 26th, mustered Sept. 18, 1861 ; mustered out Sept.,. 1865 ; residence unknown.
Henry Scott. Co. H, 4th, mustered Aug., 1861, for nine months; mustered' out Oct., 1862; died at Lawrence, Mass., in Nov., 1875 ; was a pensioner.
Dennis Taylor. 5th, but for what time is not known; died in Claremont, Aug .. 18, 1892.
REGIMENTS FROM OTHER STATES.
Captain James E. Ainsworth. Captain in the 13th Iowa regiment; after about a year's service he resigned on account of disability, and returned to his home at Dubuque, Ia.
Lieutenant C. Edward Bingham. First lieutenant of Co. H, Second Rhode Island Cavalry, Feb., 1863; adjutant, May, 1863; mustered out July, 1863; died at Brooklyn, N. Y., April 28, 1876.
George Colby. 24th Illinois regiment, mustered in July, 1861; captured by Morgan in 1862, soon paroled and subsequently exchanged; discharged at the end of his term of enlistment; re-enlisted in the 15th Kentucky regiment Sept. 4, 1864; discharged June 23, 1865; his legal residence during the war was Claremont; now lives at Shelby, Ia.
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James B. Ford. Co. K, 1st Maine regiment, mustered April 20, 1861, for three months; subsequently mustered in Co. E, 7th Maine regiment ; discharged for disability Sept. 26, 1861.
Lieutenant Charles P. Ford. Co. I, 75th New York Volunteers, mustered Sept., 1861 ; promoted to first lieutenant ; after about three years service he resigned.
William H. Redfield. 14th Connecticut, drafted; wounded at Bristo, Va., Oct., 1863, also in the battle of the Wilderness, and also at Petersburg.
Henry Grannis. Heavy Artillery, Minnesota Vols .; enlisted Feb. 7, 1865 ; died at Chattanooga, Tenn., June 1, 1865.
Samuel H. Grannis. Heavy Artillery, Minnesota Vols. ; enlisted Feb. 7, 1865 ; discharged Oct. 8, 1865; resides at Mankato, Minn.
George Hills. Co. A, 2d Regt. Wisconsin Vols .; enlisted June 1, 1861 ; pro- moted to sergeant ; wounded in right arm at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 ; mustered out June 30, 1864; inmate of Soldiers' Home, Togus, Me. ; pensioner.
John Mathews. Co. H, 31st Regt. Iowa Vols .; enlisted Oct., 1864; mustered out June, 1865; resides at Monticello, Ia. ; pensioner.
John McConnon. Co. H, 31st Regt. Iowa Vols .; enlisted Oct., 1864; mus- tered out June, 1865 ; resides at Monticello, Ia .; pensioner.
NAVY.
Dr. Jeffrey Thornton Adams. Appointed acting assistant surgeon in the navy in Dec., 1861 ; was assigned to duty on board the U. S. armed ship Pursuit; for a time was in charge of the U. S. military hospital at Key West; resigned in March, 1863 ; after partial recovery he took the position of assistant surgeon in the U. S. military hospital at Brattleboro, Vt., which he relinquished on ac- count of a return of his old difficulty, in the winter of 1864-65; he died in Claremont on the 17th of June, 1865.
George W. Fitch. Enlisted as carpenter, Nov. 22, 1861; assigned to ship Morning Light; discharged March 7, 1862; lives in Claremont; pensioner.
Dr. Emery G. Judkins. Appointed acting assistant surgeon Nov. 21, 1861, and assigned to ship Morning Light; resigned April, 1862; died of diphtheria June 29, 1863, at Waitsfield, Vt.
George E. Judkins. Appointed surgeon's steward on board the ship Morning Light, Nov., 1861 ; resigned, April, 1862; lives in Claremont ; pensioner.
Charles C. Philbrook. Enlisted as marine Aug., 1861, and assigned to ship Pawnee; in July, 1864, promoted to orderly sergeant on board supply steamer Union ; honorably discharged at the end of the war; lives in Massachusetts.
Sebastian D. Norrington. Enlisted March 29, 1864; transferred to navy; steward on steamer Agawam; discharged Nov. 13, 1865; lives in Claremont ; pensioner.
MISCELLANEOUS.
CHAPTER XX.
NATIONAL, STATE, COUNTY, AND TOWN OFFICERS. REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
George B. Upham, 1801, one term. Caleb Ellis, 1805, one term. Hosea W. Parker, 1871, two terms.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
Caleb Ellis, 1812. Thomas Woolson, 1828. Nathaniel Tolles, 1860. Edward L. Goddard, 1868.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
Russell Jarvis, from 1865 to 1869.
MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL.
Sanford Kingsbury, 1789. Caleb Ellis, 1809. Milon C. McClure, 1855 and 1856. Charles H. Eastman, 1863 and 1864. William E. Tutherly, 1867 and 1868. George H. Stowell, 1881 and 1882. John M. Whipple, 1891 and 1892.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER.
Edward J. Tenney, from 1880 to 1887.
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.
Otis F. R. Waite, 1858, 1859, and 1860.
STATE SENATORS.
Sanford Kingsbury, 1790 and 1791. Caleb Ellis, 1811. George B. Upham, 1814. Samuel Fiske, 1815. Jonathan Nye, 1827. Thomas Woolson, 1828. John Gove, Jr., 1837 and 1839. Austin Tyler, 1838. Alonzo B. Williamson, 1852 and 1853. Ira Colby, Jr., 1869 and 1870. Samuel P. Thrasher was elected in March, 1871, died April 12, and the vacancy was filled by the election by the legislature of Alvah Smith, of Lempster. George H. Stowell, 1874 and 1875. George L. Balcom, 1889 and 1890.
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SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE.
George B. Upham, 1809 and 1815. John J. Prentiss, 1855.
CLERK OF THE HOUSE.
Thomas J. Harris, 1846.
ENGROSSING CLERK OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Otis F. R. Waite, 1856 and 1857.
JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Caleb Ellis, from 1813 until his death, in 1816. William H. H. Allen, from 1876 to 1893.
JUDGES OF PROBATE.
Sanford Kingsbury, from 1797 to 1798. William H. H. Allen, from 1866 to 1874. William Clark, from 1876 to 1883. Edwin Vaughan, from 1883 to 1891. Edward J. Tenney, from 1891.
REGISTER OF PROBATE.
Uriel Dean, from 1840 to 1845.
COUNTY TREASURERS.
Albro Blodgett, 1861 and 1862. Charles H. Long, 1879 and 1880. Charles H. Weed, 1888 and 1889.
SHERIFFS.
James Holt, from 1875 to 1880. Edwin W. Tolles, from 1889 to 1895.
COUNTY SOLICITORS.
Alonzo B. Williamson, from 1854 to 1859. George Ticknor, from 1859 to 1864. Ira Colby, from 1864 to 1888, with the exception of two years. Burt Chellis, from 1891.
ROAD COMMISSIONERS.
Fred. A. Henry, 1846. John F. Cossit, 1850. Sylvanus F. Redfield, 1855.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Nathaniel Tolles, from 1857 to 1858. William Clark, from 1864 to 1867. Aurelius Dickinson, from 1868 to 1871. Albert H. Danforth, from 1872 to 1875. William E. Tutherly, from 1876 to 1885. Stephen F. Rossiter, from 1886 to 1892. Isaac H. Long, from 1892.
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TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1768 TO 1894. MODERATORS - ANNUAL MEETINGS.
1768, '70, '71, '73, Benjamin Brooks.
1769, William Sumner.
1772, Thomas Gustin.
1774, '77, '79, '81, Matthias Stone.
1778, Joseph Ives.
1780, '88, Elihu Stevens.
1782, Oliver Ashley.
1783, no record of annual meeting. 1784, '85, Benjamin Sumner. 1786, '87, '89, '92, '95, '96, Sanford Kingsbury. 1793, '94, from '97 to 1803, and 1809, Ezra Jones. 1804 to '08, '10, and '18, George B. Upham.
1811 to '17, Josiah Stevens.
1819 to '24, and '26, '28, '29, Rufus Handerson.
1825, Jonathan Nye.
1827, Josiah Richards.
1830 to '35, Austin Tyler.
1836 to '42, Godfrey Stevens.
1843, '44, '48, '50, '53, '55 to '68, '70, '71, Charles M. Bingham.
1845, '49, '52, '54, Nathan Waldo. 1851, George W. Blodgett.
1869, '83 to '86, Edwin Vaughan.
1872 to '76, William H. H. Allen.
1877, '82, '89, Osmon B. Way.
1887, '91, '93 to '95, Burt Chellis.
1880, '90, Frank H. Brown.
1892, Hosea W. Parker.
1893, '94, Burt Chellis.
TOWN CLERKS.
1768, Joseph Ives. 1769, '74, '75, Benjamin Sumner. 1770, '88 to '91, Ebenezer Rice. 1771 to '73, Samuel Cole. 1776 to '86, David Bates. 1783, no report of annual meeting. 1787, Oliver Ashley. 1792 to '97, Ambrose Cossit.
1798 to 1816, Samuel Fiske. 1817 to '24, George Fiske.
1825 to '27, Asa Holton. 1828 to '38, James H. Bingham.
1839 to '41, Newton Whittlesey. 1842, '43, Charles Williams. 1844 to '53, Josiah Stevens. 1854, Sylvanus F. Redfield.
1855, James Goodwin. 1856, '57, Alexander V. Hitchcock. 1858 to '70, Thomas R. Gowdey.
1871, Charles O. Eastman.
1872, '73, William Clark.
1874 to '76, Henry C. Sanders. 1877 to '94, Francis F. Haskell.
SELECTMEN.
1768. Benjamin Brooks. Ebenezer Skinner. Benjamin Tyler. Thomas Jones.
1768. Amos York. 1769. Jeremiah Spencer. Benjamin Tyler. Benjamin Sumner.
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1770. Benjamin Brooks. Benjamin Sumner. Jacob Rice. Joseph Ives. Asa Jones.
1771. Thomas Gustin.
Benjamin Brooks. Asa Jones.
1772. Thomas Gustin.
Asa Jones. Joseph Taylor.
1773. Asa Jones. Benjamin Brooks. Joseph Taylor.
1774. Thomas Gustin.
Matthias Stone. Stephen Higbee.
1775. Thomas Gustin. Matthias Stone. Oliver Ashley.
1776. Matthias Stone. Asa Jones. Elihu Stevens.
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