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BELLOWS, Josiw GRMIME, Lawyer and Rail- road Commissioner, Walpole, was born in that town, July 24. 1841, son of Josiah Bellows, 3d. He is sixth in descent from John Bellows, who embarked for this country in the Hopewell, of London, April 1, 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 Bellows, passed his entire life in Walpole as a farm- er, managing with prudence and success his consid- erable landed estate, which he inherited from his
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father. Josiah Bellows, 3d, who also spent his en- tire life in Walpole, was a merchant and did a large and successful business ; was interested to a consid- erable extent in the fur trade in connection with John Jacob Astor. As Josiah Grahme Bellows has passed practically his whole lifetime in Walpole, the family thus presents the unusual fact of three gen- erations living out their lives in the village, covering a period of one hundred and forty-six years. On the maternal side, Mr. Bellows is descended from the Newmans, an old Boston family, through his great-grandmother, Margaret Newman, who married just before the breaking out of the Revolution, Cap- tain William Henry Milliquet, then a Captain in the English Army which garrisoned Boston under Gen- eral Gage. The Captain left the army on his mar- riage, and died soon after the Revolution in Eng- land, where he was making a visit. His family was one of considerable consequence in that country. A daughter, Mary, the maternal grandmother of Mr. Bellows, married Richard Grahme, an Englishman of Scotch ancestry. Mr. Bellows was delicate in boyhood, but by following the advice of the family
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physician, and living as much as possible in the open air, he gradually strengthened his constitution until he is able to do more than the average amount of work. He was prepared for college in the Wal- pole High School, and in the private school of E.
H. Barstow in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He entered Harvard College in 1859, and after remain- ing three months removed to Williams College and for a year was a member of the class of 1863. His health not being sufficiently established to bear close confinement, he gave up the plan of complet- ing a college course. About the beginning of 1862, he began the study of law in the office of Hon. Frederick Vose of Walpole. In March, 1863, he entered Harvard Law School, and was graduated in 1865, when he entered the office of George, Fos- ter & Sanborn, of Concord, being admitted to the Bar of New Hampshire in the same year, at the December law term of Merrimack county. Mr. Bellows began the practice of law in Walpole about January, 1866, but soon after his marriage in the summer of that year he opened an office in Boston, and remained there in business most of the time until 1872. For a year and a half of this time he was Chief Clerk in the United States Pension Office in Boston, and afterwards was located in the office of Charles S. Lincoln, a native of Walpole. Six months of 1871 he spent in European travel. Upon the death of Mr. Vose, November 16, 1871, Mr. Bellows purchased Mr. Vose's law office in Walpole and succeeded him in practice. He was appointed Judge of Probate for Cheshire county, July 25, 1876, and held the position until January 1, 1894, resigning to accept the appointment as Railroad Commissioner of the State of New Hampshire. He was re-appointed for three years by Governor Ramsdell, and is Clerk of the Board. Governor Smith in 1894 appointed him a member of the com- mission to ascertain and establish the true jurisdic- tional line between Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire. In 1895, as Chairman of the Board, he pre- pared an able report, which was duly submitted to the Legislature. The plan of settlement which was proposed was adopted by Massachusetts and New Hampshire and thus a long dispute was ended. Mr. Bellows was a leader in the establishing of the Savings Bank of Walpole, and he has been its Clerk and Treasurer from its formation in 1875 to the present time. He is a Director in the Keene National Bank, and for many years a Trustee of the Cheshire Provident Association of Keene. He was Judge Advocate General on the staff of Gov- ernor Sawyer from 1887-'89, and was President of the State Republican Convention in 1890. He has delivered many addresses on important occa- sions, among them, one to the citizens of Walpole in memory of General Grant; another and very
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highly interesting sketch of Roger and Frederick Vose at the annual meeting of the Southern New Hampshire Bar Association in 1894. Mr. Bellows married in Concord. June 26, 1866, Annie E. Mor- rill who died in Cambridge, April 2, 1867. He married in Walpole, November 21. 1877, Catherine Hurd Walley, daughter of Aaron Prentiss and Hul- clah (Burke) Howland. Mrs. Bellows comes from old New England stock, and is a member of the Colonial Dames of the State of New Hampshire. and one of the Board of Managers. He has one child : Mary Howland Bellows, born in Walpole. September 18, 1878, now a member of the class of 1901 of Smith's College. Northampton, Massachu- setts.
BRIGGS, JAMES FRANKLAND, Lawyer, Manches- ter. Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Repre- sentatives, was born in Bury, Lancashire, England. October 23. 1827, son of John and Nancy (Frank- land) Briggs. When he was less than two years old. the family removed to this country and became residents of Ashland. New Hampshire. In this town the boy spent his early boyhood at work in the mill. When he was fourteen years old. how- ever, he attended the school at Newbury. Vermont, afterwards studying at Tilton until 1848. He took up the study of law with William C. Thompson of Plymouth. then with Joseph Burrows of Holder- ness, and afterwards with Judge Nehemiah Butler of Boscawen. He was admitted to the Bar in 1851, and immediately began practice at Hillsborough Bridge, where he soon became one of the most successful lawyers of the town. In 1857-'58 and '59. he was a member of the Legislature from Hills- borough. When the war broke out he entered the army, becoming Quartermaster of New Hampshire Volunteers. In 1871, he removed to Manchester, where he built up a lucrative business. He was again elected a member of the House of Represen- tatives in 1874. In 1876, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention, and also the State Senate. A year later he was nominated for Con- gress and was three times elected, each time by an increasing majority and serving with conspicuous ability. He was again elected to the Legislature in 1883 ; in 1889 was a member of the Constitu- tional Convention, and in 1891 was returned to the Legislature. He served once more in this body at the session of 1897, and was elected Speaker of the House. Besides caring for the duties of his pro- fessional work. Mr. Briggs has been active as a
projector of a number of enterprises. Among the offices he has held are: President of the Hillsbor- ough National Bank: President of the Granite State Trust Company ; President of the Queen City Land and Building Association ; Director of the
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Citizens' Building and Loan Association, and of the People's Gas Light Company. Mr. Briggs was married in 1850, to Roxanna Smith of Holderness. They have had three children, two of whom are now living.
CARVELLE, HENRY DEWOLFE, a Specialist in Diseases of the Eye and Ear. Manchester, was born in Richmond, New Brunswick. May 26, 1852, son of James S. and Elizabeth (Porter) Carvell. In the paternal line he is of Dutch descent. the family having been long resident in England. One of his ancestors fought with William the Conqueror in the Battle of Hastings. The name is prominent in English history. The first Carvell to come to this country settled in New Jersey, in the last half of the seventeenth century. The family was strongly loyal in its sentiments, and the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Jacob Carvell, was noted for his staunch adherence to the Crown, and was imprisoned by the Revolutionary party, but he escaped, and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. At the close of the wai, he, with
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other loyalists, went to New Brunswick, and settled there. Doctor Carvelle began his early education in the public schools. In 1873 he became Medical Attendant at the Boston Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he remained two years. He pursued his studies through the guidance of Doctor Albert N.
Blodgett. Superintendent of the Institution. He was graduated from the Harvard Medical College in 1878, after a three years' course. He has at various times taken special courses at New York, Moorfields' Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England, and the Eye and Ear Clinics of Paris. After leav- ing college, he settled in Boston for a short time, but soon moved to Manchester. He continued in
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general practice until 1884, when he devoted him- self to the treatment of the eye and ear. As a specialist he ranks high, being the first ophthalmic and aural surgeon in New Hampshire, and is fre- quently called to all parts of the state in difficult cases. During his last year at Harvard College he assisted Doctor Edward Waldo Emerson in his practice for a month, residing at the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, where his associations with the distinguished family were exceedingly delightful. He is Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon at the Elliott Hospital, Manchester, and Medical Examiner for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the Calumet Club
of Manchester; of the New Hampshire Medical Society; of the New England Ophthalmological Society of Boston ; a Censor of the Medico-Chirur- gical College of Philadelphia; an honorary mem- ber of L. Webster Fox Ophthalmological Society of Philadelphia, of the Ophthalmological section of the American Medical Association, and of the Pan- American Medical Congress. In politics he is a Republican. Doctor Carvelle was married May 5, 1893, to Anna Brewster Sullivan, of Suncook, New Hampshire. They have one child : Euphro- syne P. Carvelle, born May 16, 1894.
CHASE, WILLIAM MARTIN, Justice of the Su- preme Court of New Hampshire, Concord, was born in Canaan, New Hampshire, December 28, 1837, son of Horace and Abigail (Martin) Chase. His father was the son of Joseph, the third child of Moody, the tenth child of Joseph, the eighth child of Moses, the eleventh child of Acquilla Chase, who came from England to Hampton, New Hamp- shire, and settled about 1639, taking an important part in the development of the young community. Judge Chase's mother was the daughter of William Martin, son of Robert, son of William, son of Nathaniel, who came from Raphoe Parish, Donegal county, Ireland, to Londonderry, New Hampshire. William, son of Nathaniel, removed from London- derry to Pembroke, New Hampshire, about 1763. The subject of this sketch attended the common schools, Canaan Union Academy, and, in the fall of 1852, Kimball Union Academy. He was gradu- ated from Dartmouth College, Chandler Depart- ment, in 1848, and received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth in 1879. During his col- lege course he taught district schools, and after graduation he taught mathematics and the sciences in Henniker Academy. He was admitted to the Bar in Merrimack county, on August 21, 1862, hav- ing studied law with Anson S. Marshall, whose partner he was from January, 1863, until the death of Mr. Marshall, July 4, 1874, under the firm name of Marshall & Chase. For the next five years he was a partner of the late Chief Justice J. Everett Sargent, under the firm name of Sargent & Chase ; and from 1879 he was a partner of Frank S. Strceter, under the firm name of Chase & Streeter, until March, 1891, when he was appointed Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. During all these years his practice was carried on in Concord. He was Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 1871; Trustee of the State Library, 1874-'88;
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Trustee of the State Normal School, 1876-'79; one of the Commissioners to revise the Public Laws under the act of July 30, 1889. resulting in the adoption of the " Public Statutes;" member of the Board of Education of the Union School Dis- trict at Concord in 1869-'75, and 1883-'96. hold- ing the office of President of the Board for four or five years of the latter term : member of the Board of Water Commissioners of Concord. 1877-91; Trustee of Dartmouth College from 1890 to the present time ; Director of the First National Bank at Concord from 1875 to the present time, being President of the Bank in 1883 and 1884 ; member of the Committee for Examination of Students for
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admission to the Bar, 1878-'91. He is an hono- rary member of Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dart- mouth College; member of the New Hampshire Historical Society; member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, and a member of the Society of Sons of the American Revolution. In politics he is a Democrat. He married, March 18, 1863, Ellen S. Abbott, danghter of Aaron and Nancy (Badger) Abbott of Concord. He has one son : Arthur H. Chase, born February 16, 1864.
CLARK, LEWIS WHITEHOUSE. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Manches- ter, was born in Barnstead. New Hampshire, Au-
gust 19. 1828, son of Jeremiah and Hannah (White- house) Clark. He was educated in Pittsfield and Atkinson Academies and at Dartmouth College. from which he was graduated in the class of 1850. He immediately began his special preparation for his chosen profession and at the same time was Principal of the Pittsfield Academy, from August, 1850, to December. 1852. with eminent success. He began his law studies with Moses Norris, con- tinuing them under the direction of the Hon. A. F. L. Norris, and on September 3, 1852. was ad- mitted to the Bar of New Hampshire to commence a career of professional service that has been alike honorable to himself and creditable to the common- wealth of which he is a citizen. He practiced law in Pittsfield until April 1, 1860, but his abilities were such as soon to call him to the metropolis of the state, where he has since resided. one of its best beloved citizens. He became a member of the firm of Morrison, Stanley & 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. The firm of Clark & Huse continued until May 24, 1872. when Mr. Clark was appointed Attorney-General of the state, a position he held with great credit to himself 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 ability pointed to him as the man to fill the vacancy which had oc- curred on the Supreme Bench, and on August 13. 1877, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, an appointment which was highly satisfactory to the Bar of the state. Politically, Judge Clark is a Democrat and while not a partisan. has been a wise and honored leader of the Democratic party. In 1865 he was the nominee of his party for Congress, in the Second Congressional District. He served as a member of the Legislature from Pittsfield in 1856 and 1857. Upon his elevation to the Supreme Bench, in accordance with his high sense of honor, he with- drew from active participation in politics, while he still remained profoundly interested in all questions relating to his country's weal. On the death of Chief Justice Carpenter in May, 1898, Judge Clark was appointed by Governor Ramsdell to fill his place as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. 'The private character of Judge ('lark is one of stainless integrity. His mind is
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eminently one of self-poise and unusually perfect adjustment. He possesses in an unusual degree the power to grasp all sides of the questions that come under his notice, and deal with them with calmness. He is preeminently a lawyer ; he loves
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his profession, and whether at the bar pleading, or on the bench deciding, he is always the searching, candid, judicial-minded lawyer. Socially, Judge Clark is cheerful, cordial, of great amiability, and in all his bearing, through all, is marked by a large-hearted kindness and perfect simplicity. His whole character is permeated by profound religious conviction. Personally he is a Baptist, being one of the staunchest supporters of the People's Taber- nacle of Manchester. He is prominently identified with the McAuley Mission. As a citizen, his large influence is eminently depended upon in behalf of the public well being. In December, 1852, Judge Clark married Helen M., daughter of Captain Wil- liam Knowlton of Pittsfield. He has two children now living : Mary Helen and John Lew Clark.
DAVENPORT, JAMES LEROY, First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, District of Columbia. was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, January 27, 1845, son of Lockhart and Mary C. (Merrill) Davenport. The history of his paternal line has been traced back to 1086, when the name
was spelled de Daunporte; the de was dropped from the name about 1288, since which time the name has been spelled as at present. In this country, the history of the family dates from 1640, when there is a record of Thomas Davenport unit- ing with the church of Dorchester, Massachusetts. The subject of this sketch is descended in the fifth generation from this Thomas, his grand- father having been James Hart Davenport, and his great-grandfather Charles Davenport. Charles Davenport settled in Dummerston, Vermont, early in the eighteenth century, and his descendants are still living in the valley of the Connec- ticut. James Hart Davenport settled in Hinsdale before 1800, and his farm remained in the owner- ship of the family until a recent date. On the maternal side, Mr. Davenport is descended from the Taylor and Stebbins families, both of which were prominent in the early days of the country, and his ancestors, on both sides, took an active part in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Davenport attended the common schools, and for two terms studied at the Harris Academy, near Brattleboro, Vermont. His father being engaged in the lumber
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business, he was brought up to hard manual labor. He was extremely anxious to enter the army when the war broke out, but his youth and his father's objections stood in the way until the spring of 1864, when he was nineteen. He left home, and
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immediately enlisted in Company B. Fortieth Wis- consin Infantry. After his discharge from the ser- vice, he returned to his native town, but removed to Keene in 1866, and this has ever since been his legal residence. He was employed from 1866-'70 in a clerical capacity in a large store in Keene : from 1870-'Si he was travelling salesman for a Boston wholesale and importing house. April 7. ISSI, he was appointed clerk. class 4. in the Pen- sion Bureau, and held various positions in the Bureau until April 4. 1897. when he was appointed by the President, First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions. Mr. Davenport is a member of the James A. Garfield Post, No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Union Soldiers' and Sailors' Alliance. He has always maintained his deep interest in New Hampshire, and he says. although he has been in many states and met many 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 Central Committee for many years, prior to April. 1881. and has always been an ardent supporter of his party. He prides himself upon the fact that he has not missed voting in Keene at any important election since 1866, when he attained the age of twenty-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 30, 1864. son of Ira and Lucy A. L. (Crary) Davis. 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. until 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. Il. Currier. Leaving Vermont he spent another year at the Tewksbury Hospital and then removed to Bedford, New Hampshire. He practiced in that town and in Merrimack for some years, but
January 1, 1896, he removed to Manchester. He served as hospital steward on the staff of Brigadier- General D. M. White. He is a member of the State Medical Society. Lafayette Lodge of Masons. Royal Arch Chapter : also of the Royal Arcanum
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and United Workmen. Member of staff of Sacred Heart Hospital. He married February 24, 1891, Mabel Lena, daughter of Reuben and Minerva Maxham Davis, of Norwich. They have two chil- dren : Hilda Lena and Harold Irving Davis.
DILLON, MICHAEL AUGUSTUS, Clerk in the United 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 Cappoquin, Ireland, and Johannah Dencane, of Tallagh, Ire- land. He traces his descent from Irish and Nor- man stocks. In 1852 the family moved from Lowell, Massachusetts, to Wilton. New Hamp- shire, where Mr. Dillon still has his legal resi- dence. Mr. Dillon attended the common schools in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Wilton, New Hamp- shire; Bryant and Stratton's Commercial College, and the National University of Washington. He studied law, and was graduated from the National University Law School, May 28, 1873. and on the following day was admitted to the Bar. He had
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had an early training as a youth in business in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, but gave up his employment to enter the Volunteer Army on April 22, 1861, at the first call for troops. He served from April 22, 1861, to October 18, 1862, in Company G, 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. The 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, "Get down ! You are drawing the enemy's fire." Young 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 battery was rescued. Dillon was stricken in the leg by a ball, which felled him, but a moment before the recapture, and was check- ing the flow of blood from the wound, while he was venting his wrath in forcible language at the cruelty of fate, which had wrested his musket from his grasp by an exploding 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 18th 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. Young Dillon was the first to respond, by stepping to the front. His Lieutenant ordered him to fall back, remarking as he did so, "We cannot spare you.
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