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FAULKNER, FRANCIS Cun.D. Lawyer, Keene, was born in Keene, November 23. 1852. son of l'rancis Augustus and Caroline ( Handerson) Faulk- ner. He is descended, in the eighth generation, from Edward Faulkner, who came from Kingselere. England, and purchased the town of Andover from the Indians about 1643, and was one of the two founders of the church there in 1645. Edmund's son, Francis, married Abigail Dane of Andover, who was tried, and condemned to death, as a witch, His son, Anmiruhanmah, moved to Acton, Massa- chusetts, in 1735. and bought the Faulkner home- stead, which still stands near the South Acton railroad station. Hle built the mills there, and
was a clothier. His son, Francis, was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War ; and his grandson, Francis, was a manufacturer who, moving to North Billerica in IS11, founded the Faulkner Mills, which are still operated. The fourth Francis was a manufac- turer at Acton, and, moving to Keene in 1817. began the manufacture of woolens, forming, with Josiah Colony, the firm of Faulkner & Colony. This business is still carried on by members of both families. His son, Francis A., lived in Keene, and was a lawyer in active practice from 1849 until his death, in 1879. The subject of this sketch received his education in the schools of Keene, and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1874. He was admitted to the Bar in August, 1877, and has practiced in Keene ever since that time. He served as Judge Advocate General on the Staff of Governor 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 member of the Governor's Council for the Third District in 1895-'96. In politics he has always been a Re-
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publican. Mr. Faulkner was married, June 30, 188o, to Martha Barrett Ripley ; they have three children : Francis Barrett, born July 13. 6881 ; Philip Handerson, born May 30, 1883. and Katha- rine Ripley Faulkner, born Jannary 30, 1889.
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CHRISTIE, MORRIS, Physician, Antrim, was born in that town, August 29, 1832, son of Josiah Warren and Mary (Bell) Christie. He comes of Scotch-Irish stock. He received an academical training in this state. He attended the University
MORRIS CHRISTIE.
of New York, and was graduated in March, 1859. For nearly a year after graduation he was Assistant Physician in a charity hospital in New York. May 1, 1860, he removed to his native town, where he has since remained. He has taken a keen interest in the educational affairs of the town, and has been Superintendent of the Schools, and later a member of the School Board. He is a member of the Board of Water Commissioners of the precinct, and a Trustee of the Town Library. He married July 22, 1863, Susan S. Hill of Johnson, Vermont.
CURRIER, FRANK DUNKLER, Lawyer, Canaan, was born in that town, October 30, 1853, son of Horace S. and Emma C. (Plastridge) Currier. His paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Currier, and his maternal grandfather Caleb Plastridge, M. D., of East Lebanon. Mr. Currier was educated in the common schools and at the academy in his native town, in the Concord (New Hampshire) High School, in Kimball Academy, at Meriden, New Hampshire, and at Doctor Hixon's school in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied law, was
admitted to the Bar in November, 1875, at Ply- mouth, and the following year began practice in Canaan. He was a member of the Legislature in 1879, Clerk of the State Senate in 1883 and 1885, and President of the latter body in 1887. He was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884, and Secretary of the Republican State Committee from 1882 to 1888, inclusive. In 1890- '94 he was Naval Officer of Customs at the Port of Boston. Mr. Currier is a Mason, a member of Social Lodge of Enfield, of St. Andrew's Chapter at Lebanon, and of Sullivan Commandery at Clare- mont, New Hampshire. He also belongs to Mt. Cardigan Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Canaan,
F. D. CURRIER.
and is a member of the Massachusetts Club. He has been very active in politics, and in the cam- paigns of 1888, 1892, 1894, and 1896, took the stump for weeks in the interests of his party. Mr. Currier was married, May 31, 1890, to Adelaide Rollins Sargent.
FOWLER, EDWIN HORATIO, Architect and Chief Draughtsman of the United States Coast and Geo- detic Survey, Washington, District of Columbia, was born in South Newbury, New Hampshire, October 20, 1856, son of George Franklin and Mahala Jane (Messer) Fowler. He traces his descent in the paternal line from Philip Fowler, who came
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over from England in the Mary and John in 1634. The line being. Philip, who married Mary Norton ; Joseph, married Martha Kimball ; Joseph, married Elizabeth Hutton : Joseph, married Susannah Den- nis : Richard, married Ruth Chever ; Joshua Chever. married Lydia Stearns: Thomas, married Betsey Stiles, and George Franklin, married Mahala Jane Messer. Mr. Fowler received his early education in the common schools of Bradford and Washing- ton, New Hampshire. He attended Tubbs Union Academy of Washington, and the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, New Hampshire. He was a graduate from the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1878 ; he was early in life ambitious to become a Civil Engineer. and he had a thorough education in his father's machine shops in the use of machinery for both wood and iron work. in which he found it of great service in all his undertakings. In his college course, his studies brought out the specialty of depot and bridge construction, and this led him into the study of architecture, which he has continued both in the study and practice to the present time.
EDWIN H. FOWLER.
some of the finest houses in the city of Washington having been erected from his plans. In 1879 after a competition of nearly a year, he was appointed a topographical draughtsman in the United States Coast Geodetic Survey, and in a continuons compe-
tition has advanced step by step, until in 1897 he was made Chief Draughtsman of the United States Coast Geodetic Survey, a position created for him. In 1895 and 1896 he was Assistant Professor in Columbia University, 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 Geographic Society, the East Washington Citizens' Association, in which he was Chairman of one of i's most im- portant committees, as well as a member of vari- ous fraternal societies. Mr. Fowler was mar- ried November 2, 1882, to Martha Jane Crockett, daughter of Arthur Crockett of Sanbornton, New Hampshire.
HALL, DANIEL, Lawyer, Dover. was born in Barrington, New Hampshire. February 28. 1832. son of Gilman and Eliza (Tuttle) Hall. On the paternal side he is descended from John Hall, who came to Dover in 1649, and who was the first Dea- con of the First Church established in New Hamp- shire. He was a farmer, Surveyor of Lands, Town Clerk, and Trial Justice. On the maternal side Mr. Hall traces his descent from John Tuttle, a resi- dlent of Dover, and Judge of the Superior Court for many years prior to 1700. Gilman Hall. father of the subject of this sketch, was in the fifth genera- tion in direct lineal descent from John Hall. Daniel Hall attended the common schools at Bar- rington, the Strafford Academy, and the Northfield Conference Seminary. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1854. In May, 1860, he was admitted to the Strafford County Bar. Is a boy he had worked on his father's farm, and a little later taught the district school. His law studies were carried on in the office of the Hon. Daniel M. Christie of Dover. Mr. Hall's life has been one of activity. He engaged in the practice of law, saw much service in the war, and was fre- quently called upon in the political campaigns. He was School Commissioner of Strafford county in 1859- 60. was Secretary of the Committee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate, 1861-62, was Cap- tain in the United States Army in the War of the Rebellion, 1862-64; was Provost Marshal, First District of New Hampshire, 186 4-65 ; was Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Strafford county. 1865-74: Judge of the Police Court in Dover, 1868-74. 1876-77 : Chairman of the New Hamp- shire Delegation to the Republican National Con-
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vention at Cincinnati, 1876 ; State Reporter of Judi- cial Decisions, 1876-'77 ; Naval Officer of the Port of Boston, 1877-'86; Trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank, from 1883 to date ; Trustee and Secretary of the Soldiers' Home from 1889 to date ; Department
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Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1892-'93 ; Trustee of the Dover Public Library, 1895 to date ; Trustee of Berwick Academy from 1895 to date, and Director of the Strafford National Bank from 1897 to date. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of the New Hampshire Histo- rical Society, and the Bar Association of Southern New Hampshire. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Hall has made many public addresses on sub- jects political, military, literary, and miscellaneous. A volume entitled "Occasional Addresses " was published by him in 1892. He was married Janu- ary 25, 1877, to Sophia Dodge of Rochester, New Hampshire. They have one son, Arthur Welles- ley Hall, born August 30, 1878.
GARLAND, BENJAMIN CUMMINGS, Lumberman, Whitefield, was born in Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire, April 12, 1845, son of Alexis and Nancy (Cummings) Garland. He received his early education in the public schools of Carroll county. He began the study of law, but was called
home in consequence of his father's illness and death, terminating his studies in this direction and thus frustrating his lifelong ambition. He went in- to the war while a very young man, enlisting in the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment, November 8, 1862, and served under General Banks for nine months, being mustered out of service August, 1863. After the war he went to Jefferson and engaged in farming on the slopes of Cherry Mountain, and was also engaged in lumbering, and buying and selling horses and cattle. He has been a Selectman of Jefferson and also represented that town in the Gen- eral Court. In October, 1889, he removed from Jefferson to Whitefield, still maintaining his farm, and in the latter place has served as County Com- missioner for four years. Mr. Garland is a Direc- tor of the Whitefield Bank and Trust Company, of the Maine Condensed Milk Company, and one of the owners of the Whitefield Manufacturing Com- pany. He is an influential member and Manager of the Saco Valley Lumber Company, one of the largest concerns operating in the state, possessing a mountain railroad and conducting three stores at
BENJAMIN C. GARLAND.
Bartlett, and one at Hart's Location. Mr. Garland in politics is a Democrat. On March 11, 1869, he was married to Emily Damon, of Carroll, New Hampshire. They have one daughter, Emma A. Garland, born July 19, 1883.
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ELDER, CHARLES BROWN, Pastor of the Unita- rian Church at Keene, was born in Portland. Maine, February 16, 1856, son of Samuel and Sarah Smith (Kimball) Elder. He traces his descent. on his mother's side, from Augustine Jean.
CHARLES B. ELDER.
better known as John Gustin, supposed to have been a French Huguenot. His father was a builder, and served on the School Committee of Portland, and also as Overseer of the Poor. Mr. Elder was educated in the Primary, Grammar, and High schools of his native place, graduating from the latter in 1873. He entered Brown University and was graduated in 1877. He then spent three years at Harvard Divinity School, from which he was graduated in 1880. He was Pastor of the Unitarian Church at Neponset. Massachusetts, and at South Boston, Massachusetts, before settling in Keene, in October, 1889. During Mr. Elder's ministry in Keene, a new church has been built by the society, with a seating capacity of five hundred. The church is one of the largest Unitarian bodies in the state, and is in a most prosperous condition. While in South Boston, Mr. Elder interested him- self in the work of the Associated Charities, being for several years President of the local branch. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. He has enjoyed two trips to Europe, visiting Eng- land, Scotland, Holland, Germany, and France.
On October 27, 188o, he married Almira Adie Brown, of Providence, Rhode Island. Three chil- dren have been born to them : Marion, Christine, and Marjorie Elder.
GILMAN, CHARLES SLEEPER. Physician. Sun- cook, was born at Lake Village, Gilford, New Hampshire, October 23. 1873, son of Noah C. and Ellen Mary (Sleeper) Gilman. He is descended in the paternal line from Edward Gilman, who came from Norfolk county. England, in May, 1670. and settled in Hingham. and from him most of the Gil- mans of this section are descended. The line is traced. Edward, Sr., John, John Sommerbee, Som- merbee, Lieutenant John, Noah W., Noah C. and Charles S. Gilman. Dr. Gilman attended the public schools of Lake Village and Laconia, and Tilton Seminary. After graduating at Tilton Sem- inary, he did reportorial work on Manchester Union and New Hampshire Republican (now defunct), and worked in various stores in Lakeport, to get funds to enable a pursuance of the study of medicine. He studied in the University of Ver-
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mont at Burlington, at Tufts College Medical School at Boston, and graduated from the Balti- more Medical College April 22. 1896. He gained practical experience in his profession at the Mary- land General Hospital at Baltimore, and with Dr.
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W. T. Slayton in Boston. After taking his degree, he settled in Lakeport, removing to Suncook in February, 1897, and taking the office of the late Dr. G. H. Larrabee. He has been successful in his new field and is enjoying a steadily increasing practice. While in his junior year at Tufts Col- lege, Dr. Gilman was editor from the Medical Col- lege of the Brown and Blue, the Tufts Junior class annual. Dr. Gilman is Examining Physician for the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York, and the Phoenix Mutual of Connecticut. He is a member of the Winnipesaukee Academy of Medicine, of the New Hampshire Medical Society and Pembroke Grange. A member of the Gamma Chapter of Alpha Kappa Kappa of Tufts College.
HAYES, CHARLES CARROLL, Dealer in Real Es- tate and Fire Insurance Agent, Manchester, was born in New London, New Hampshire, May 31, 1855, son of John M. and Susan E. (Carr) Hayes. In the paternal line he is of Scottish descent, and in the maternal, of English. The Hayes family have resided in New London for a great number of
CHARLES C. HAVES.
years. Mr. Hayes attended the district schools of New London and Salisbury and the High School of Manchester, to which city he removed when he was fourteen years old. Upon leaving the High School he entered the employ of John M. Chandler &
Company, who conducted a general store, and re- mained with them about three years. He then went into business for himself, buying a grocery and meat store, which he conducted for between three and four years, and sold out in November, 1884. At that time he took up the real estate and insurance business, which he has continued ever since. He has been very active in promoting the commercial interests of the city, and for two years was President of the Manchester Board of Trade. He is a Thirty-third degree Mason, has held all the offices in his lodge, council, and commandery, and has been Grand Master and Grand Commander of the state. In politics Mr. Hayes is a Democrat. He has long been a member of the Granite State Club, and has served as its Treasurer and Presi- dent. For many years he has been Treasurer of the Democratic City committee. He was twice given his party's nomination for Mayor of Man- chester, and made a gallant fight against long odds. Mr. Hayes was married January 1, 1885, to Belle J. Kennard, daughter of John and Hannah B. Ken- nard of Manchester, who died July 31, 1890. He has three children, John Carroll, Louise K. and Annie Belle Hayes.
HILDRETH, DAVID MERRILL, Draughtsman of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in Washington, District of Columbia, was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, January 15, 1862, son of Sylvester Lyman and Teressa Verona (Nelson) Hildreth. In the paternal line he is descended from Richard Hildreth, the line being: Richard, Joseph, Ephraim, Simeon, Ephraim, Simeon, and Sylvester Hildreth, who came from England about 1635, and settled first in Cambridge and afterwards in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Simeon (first) set- tled in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, in 1758. Ephraim (second) was a soldier in the Revolution- ary War, and took an active part in the Battle of Saratoga and in the capture of Burgoyne. He, with his son, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled in Haverhill about 1810. In the maternal line he is descended from Thomas and Joan Nelson, who came from Yorkshire, England, in 1638, with Reverend Ezekiel Rogers, and set- tled in Rowley, Massachusetts. The line in this case being : Thomas, Philip, Joseph, Joseph, Ste- phen, Jonathan, and Teressa Nelson. Stephen settled in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1773. Mr. Hildreth attended the common schools and Haverhill Academy, from which he was graduated
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in the class of 1883. He took the degree of B. S. from Dartmouth in the class of 1887. and received the degree of M. S. from Dartmouth in 1894. His early life was spent on a farm, and he taught school to secure the means to attend the academy
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and college. He studied for the profession of a civil engineer. and after leaving college he was with the late Professor E. T. Quimby about a year. on the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bound- ary Survey. Besides doing field work, he executed the maps of that survey. Then for a time he was with the Putnam Machine Company of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Ile went to Washington and took the Civil Service Examination in October. 1888. for a position as Draughtsman (C'artographical) in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, this being the first examination held after this Bureau was put under the United States Civil Service. Hle was successful and received the appointment a month later, November 30, 1888. This position he has held ever since. In addition to the work of this department. he studied law, being graduated from the National University Law School in 1895. He took the degree of 1.L. M. from the Columbian University Law School in 1896, and was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia July 2 of that year. It is his intention in later years to return to New Hampshire, either
going into law or business. Mr. Hildreth is a member of the Beta Theta Pi, a College Greek Letter Fraternity, and of the Association of Ameri- can Draughtsmen. He is a Republican and has taken an active interest in New Hampshire affairs. and maintains a legal residence in Hanover, going there to vote. On January 1, 1889, he was married to Cleora Helena, daughter of Vernaus and Louisa (Thompson) DeCoster of Buckfield, Maine. Among her ancestors are Francis Cook of the Mayflower. and John Thomson, who came to Plymouth in 1622. They have one child : Ruth Cleora Hildreth, born October 13. 1892.
HERSEY, FRED E., Lumber Merchant, Wolf- boro, was born in that town. September 23, 1862, son of Winthrop D. and Georgiana (Guptill) Hersey. Ilis father was a son of Jonathan Hersey who set- tled in Wolfboro about 1785, where Winthrop D. Hersey was born. His mother was a daughter of Abram Guptill of Berwick, Maine. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of his native place. After leaving school he became
FRED E. HERSEV.
an employee in a shoe factory, and later engaged in the lumber business in Wolfboro, in partnership with Frank E. Hersey, under the firm name of Hersey Brothers. In 1882 they bought the water mill at Wolfboro Falls and ran it until 1895, when
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they sold it and built a steam plant on Rocky Point, between the old mill and Wolfboro proper. This latter mill is still in operation, making general building material. Mr. Hersey was elected one of the Selectmen of Wolfboro, in 1892, and since 1894 has been Chairman of the board of Selectmen. He was previous to his being Selectman for four years Supervisor of the checklist of the town. In politics he is a Republican and is active in the in- terests of the party. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 17, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Hersey was married January 1, 1890, to Anna M., daughter of Edward Macdonald of Boston. They have one daughter: Etta M. Hersey, born August 31, 1897.
MINER, FRANCIS HANNIBAL, Physician, Wash- ington, District of Columbia, was born in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1864, son of John Hannibal and Mary Thomas (Jacobs) Miner. On the paternal side he is of French-German descent, and on the maternal of Scotch-German. Although a native of Pennsylvania, and now a resident of
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Washington, a very large share of Doctor Miner's life has been spent in this state. His early educa- tion was gained in the public schools of Philadel- phia, and in 1877 he began his career as a printer in the office of Henry C. Coates of that city. He
removed to Concord, this state, some years later, and went to work as compositor in the office of the Monitor and Statesman in 1886. Three years later he became Foreman in the news room of the People and Patriot. This position he resigned to accept the Foremanship of the news room of the Monitor and Statesman, March 25, 1890. About two years later he began the study of medicine with Dr. Clark of Concord. In October, 1892, he went to Washington, completing the regular course in medicine in the Georgetown Medical College, being graduated in May, 1895. Since that time he has been successfully engaged in private practice in Washington. He is Vice-President of the Wash- ington Medical and Surgical Society. In politics, Doctor Miner is a Republican. He is unmarried.
JEWELL, DAVID LYMAN, Agent of the Three Corporations, Suncook, was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, January 26, 1837, son of Brad- bury and Lucinda (Chapman) Jewell. His great- grandfather, Mark Jewell, was born in England in 1724, came to this country in 1743, settling in Dur- ham, and died in Sandwich, February 19, 1787. His eldest son, Mark, was the first white man to settle in Tamworth, in 1772. He was called " Priest " and " Elder" Jewell. He married Ruth Vittum and they had sixteen children, one of whom, Bradbury, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. When the latter was about two years of age, his parents removed to Newmarket, and his father dying there, his mother again removed to Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts. Here he attended the common schools and Wilbraham Academy, and later entered the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in February, 1855. He taught school in Westfield, New Jersey, at Freehold (New Jersey) Academy, and in Barstow's private school, Newton, Massachusetts. He studied engineering with R. Morris Copeland and Charles H. Folsom in Boston, but gave up practicing his profession when the war broke out. While at Newton he was draughtsman for the mills at Suncook and Pembroke, New Hampshire, and in 1868 removed to the former place as Superintendent of the mills. Upon the death of the Agent, he was given charge, and when the China mill was started he took the same position there, and since 1870 has been Agent of the three corporations. He is a member of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Asso- ciation and of the Norfolk (Massachusetts) Club.
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He was Aide-de-Camp with the rank of Colonel on Governor Head's Staff, and is a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos- ton. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a mem- ber of Jewell Lodge, Suncook, which was named for
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him; of Trinity Chapter ; Horace Chase Council ; Mt. Horeb Commandery : Boston Lodge of Per- fection : Giles F. Yates Council ; Princes of Jeru- salem ; Mt. Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix ; Massa- chusetts Consistory, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In August, 1860, Mr. Jewell married Mary A., daugh- ter of Ephraim Grocer of Newton, Massachusetts, who died October 16. 1862. He married, May 31. 1865. Ella Louise, daughter of Lewis Sumner of Needham, Massachusetts.
NORRIS, TRIE LIVINGSTON, Editor of the Times, Portsmouth, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, May 4, 1848, son of Arthur F. L. and Olive W. (Wallace) Norris. For more than two and one-half centuries the Norris family has been prominent in the social, political and business life of New Hampshire, several of the ancestors of the subject of this sketch serving in the French and Indian Wars, the War of the Revolution, and the War of 1812. Mr. Norris attended the public
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