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Doctor Ferguson took this position and afterwards became Post-Mortem Examiner for the Coroners of New York. He remained in this capacity until the Civil War began, when he became Surgeon of a New York regiment and went to the front. Later
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he served in the same capacity in the Tenth New Hampshire Regiment. His health partially failing in a year or more, he resigned and removing to Manchester, he commenced the practice of his pro- fession in that city and has since remained there. Dr. Ferguson was married in 1861 to Elenora Hughes of New York city.
GALLINGER, JACOB H., United States Sena- tor, Concord, was born in Cornwall, Ontario, March 28, 1837, son of Jacob and Catherine (Cook) Gallinger. On the paternal side he is of Dutch descent, his grandfather having emigrated from Holland, first to the United States, and then to C'anada. His mother was of American stock. He was educated in the common schools and academies, and studied with private tutors. He learned the printing trade in early life, and for a time published a newspaper. He has never lost his interest in journalism, and has contributed more or less to the newspapers all through his life. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in C'in- cinnati, Ohio, and was graduated in 1858. He
received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dart- mouth College in 1879. Doctor Gallinger began the practice of medicine and surgery in Keene, where he remained from October. 1861, until April, 1862. when he removed to Concord. There he was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1885, when he was elected to Congress. Since he entered the public service, he has gradually dis- continued his practice. He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1872, 1873, and 1891; of the Constitutional Convention in 1876 ; of the State Senate in 1878-'79-'So, being Presi- dent of that body for the last two years. He was Surgeon-General of New Hampshire, with the rank of Brigadier-General, in 1879-80. From 1882 to 1890 he was Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and was Chairman of the delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1888. He was a member of the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con- gresses, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1891, and re-elected in 1897. He is at present Chairman of the Senate Committee on Pensions, and is also a prominent member of the
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Committees on Commerce, District of Columbia, Public Health and National Quarantine. In Wash- ington, as he was in Concord. Senator Gallin- ger is always a busy man. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Order of Knights
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of Honor, of the Golden Cross, and other fraternal orders ; and he is also a member of various social clubs. In politics he has always been a stalwart Republican. He was married August 13, 1860, to Mary Anna Bailey of Salisbury, New Hampshire. They have had six children : Alice M., Harry B., Katharine C., Annie B., William H., and Ralph E. Gallinger, of whom Alice, Harry, and Annie are dead. William H. and Ralph E. have adopted the profession of medicine, and Katharine C. is the wife of Harry B. Norton, Esq., of North Cambridge, Massachusetts.
GREELEY, ARTHUR PHILIP, Assistant Commis- sioner of Patents, Washington, District of Colum- ยท bia, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, son of the Reverend Edward H. and Louisa M. (Ware) Greeley. He comes of substantial English stock, being a descendant of Andrew Greeley, who came
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to this country about 1630, and who was one of the original proprietors of Salisbury, Massachu- setts, where the family lived until 1735, when Jona- than, great-grandson of Andrew, moved to East Kingston. Since that time, the family has resided in New Hampshire. Philip, son of Jonathan, born in East Kingston in 1750, married Dolly Tilton in 1774, and moved to Hopkinton, where he became a prominent citizen. He was Ensign in the Conti-
nental Army, Colonel of Militia and Justice of the Peace. His son Edward moved to Claremont in 1822. The Reverend Edward H. Greeley, father of the subject of this sketch, was long connected with the New Hampshire Missionary Society, and well known throughout the state. He died in Con- cord in 1890. Mr. Greeley was graduated from the Concord High School in the class of 1876, and from Dartmouth College, with the degree of A. B., in the class of 1883. He took his degree of LL. B. from the Columbian University in 1886, and the degree of LL. M. in 1887. In the latter year, he was admitted to the Bar in the District of Colum- bia. He was appointed Assistant Examiner in the Patent Office in 1884; Principal Examiner in 1891 ; Examiner-in-Chief in 1895, and Assistant Commis- sioner in 1897. His appointment as Examiner-in- Chief was made by President Cleveland without solicitation, and although in his politics he was opposed to the administration, he was confirmed by the Senate without opposition. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Patents in 1897 at the request of Commissioner Butterworth, by President McKinley, and was again confirmed by the Senate without opposition. On the death of Mr. Butter- worth in January, 1898, Mr. Greeley was strongly urged for Commissioner, receiving the support of the most prominent Republican Senators. Mr. Greeley's appointment to the Patent Office was a result of high standing in the first examination held under the present Civil Service Law, and his pro- motion has been solely upon merit. As Assistant Examiner, he served in the division of metal work- ing B and electricity B, in the latter division having charge of the class of electric railways. When he was appointed Principal Examiner, he was assigned to a newly formed division comprising packing and storing vessels, advertising, etc. He was trans- ferred in 1894 to the division of instruments of precision, and while in charge of this division for a number of months was Examiner of Trade Marks. From 1891-'93 he was a member of the committee in charge of preparation, arrangement, and instal- lation of the exhibit of the Patent Office at the World's Fair, in Chicago, this task involving an extended consideration of the development of nearly every important art represented in the Patent Office. He was also a member of the Com- mittee in charge of the preparation and installation of the Patent Office exhibit at Atlanta. During the summer of 1897 he conducted an investigation into abuses of Patent Office practice in a masterly and
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effective way, displaying judicial ability of a high order. Mr. Greeley is a member of the Psi Upsi- lon College Fraternity ; of the B. B. French Lodge. No. 15. Free and Accepted Masons : of Lafayette Chapter, No. 5, Royal Arch, and Columbia Com- mandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. District of Columbia. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married November 16, 1892. to Helene H. M. Herzog. They have two chil- dren : Arthur Edward, born September 23. 1894, and Philip Herzog Greeley. born December 29, 1896.
GROGAN. FRANK WILLIS, Naval Architect. Washington, District of Columbia, was born May 21. 1857, in Portsmouth. New Hampshire, son of John J. and Sarah A. (Shapleigh) Grogan. He attended the public schools of Portsmouth, and was afterwards instructed by private tutors. At the age of sixteen, he began to learn ship building, and served. until he was twenty-one, as regular Government apprentice in the Kittery Navy Yard, during which time he passed through various stages, such as handling and use of tools in ship construction. launching and docking vessels, the making of ships' models, lying down of vessels on the mould loft floor, designing and calculations. When he was twenty-one, he was appointed Naval Draughtsman in the Kittery Navy Yard. In 1881 he was ordered to report to the Committee of Naval Construction. having charge of the new vessels of the navy, in connection with the Advisory Board, when he was given charge of the design and calcu- lations for a type of wooden gun-boat for Chinese waters. In March, 1883, he was ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to report to the Chief Con- structor for temporary duty in the Bureau of Con- struction and Repair in the Navy Department at Washington, his labors being directed to the design of the first of the well-known White Squadron. When the contracts of these vessels had been awarded, he received orders to return to the Kit- tery Navy Yard, to prepare for permanent duty at the New York Navy Yard, where he remained two years, then being called to the Navy Department in December. 1885. In the course of his connection with the Bureau of Construction and Repair, he was intrusted with the most intricate work of that bureau. and upon legislation for the first battle-ships being secured, the Chief Constructor placed him in charge of the designing, calculating, and preparation of the plans of the coast line battle-ships Massachusetts,
Indiana, and Oregon, under the direction of the Bureau. Mr. Grogan resigned from this position in April, 1891, and, with the approval and concur- rence of the late Commodore Theodore D. Wilson, United States Navy, Chief Constructor and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and his successor, Commodore Philip Hichborn, and on the recommendation of the late Rear Admiral Richard W. Meade, United States Navy, he was appointed as Assistant of the Board of Manage-
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ment of the United States Government Exhibits at the World's Columbian Exposition, and ordered to report for duty as Naval Architect and Chief Tech- nical Assistant to the representative of the Navy Department (Admiral Meade) on the Board, sery- ing until its termination, in 1894. Among his other duties was the designing of the full-sized model battleship, Illinois, the conception of Admiral Meade, and famous as the "brick ship," as an exhibit for the Navy Department at the World's Fair. In the summer of 1891, Mr. Grogan was ordered to Chicago, personally, to supervise the construction of the Illinois, and also was placed in charge of the exhibits of the Bureau of Construc- tion and Repair, and Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department. At the dedication of the World's Fair, in October, 1892, he was pre- sented by the Directory with a medal, as one of
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the designers of the Exposition. He also designed and superintended the building of the structure for the exhibit of the International Navigation Com- pany in the Transportation Building, consisting of the amidships portion (full size) of the trans-Atlan- tic liners, St. Louis and St. Paul, by which were shown the passenger accommodations. He also designed the buildings for the Naval Observatory exhibit, and built by contract the sixteen and twelve-inch cement guns for the Pennsylvania rail- road to complete the exhibit for showing their method of transporting heavy ordnance across the continent. Mr. Grogan was a member of the Gen- eral Committee, World's Congress Auxiliary on Engineering Congresses of the World's Exposition of 1893, of which E. L. Corthell was chairman, and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Divi- sion of Marine and Naval Engineering and Naval .Architecture, of which Commodore George W. Melville, Engineer-in-Chief, United States Navy, was Chairman, which was held under the direction of the World's Congress Auxiliary ; he was also an honorary member of the Illinois Naval Reserve Association. Mr. Grogan after the termination of his work at the World's Fair, was again employed by the Navy Department at Washington upon de- signs for vessels for the Navy, and in connection with this duty is acting in advisory manner to the Hydrographic Inspector's office in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, his duties pertaining to the de- sign and construction of the Coast Survey vessels. He is now detailed to Elizabeth, New Jersey, to superintend the construction of a steel coast survey steamer for service in Alaska and the Alleutian Islands. Mr. Grogan has been an active Odd Fel- low. At the age of twenty-two he was made a Noble Grand of Osgood Lodge, No. 48, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, and the following year was made a Right Worthy Grand of New Hamp- shire, and with one exception (in California) was the youngest member of any Grand Lodge in the country. In the same year he was chosen Dictator of Governor Goodwin Lodge, No. 1,661, Knights of Honor. He was a member of the Portsmouth City Council in 1882, and was re-elected in the fol- lowing year. Mr. Grogan married Helen Thurs- ton Joy of Portsmouth, and has four children : Harley Hichborn, Fred Potter, Marian Willis, and Earl Sullivan Grogan.
HANSON, DOMINICUS, a Wealthy Land Owner and one of the oldest and best known citizens of
Rochester, Strafford county, New Hampshire, re- sides in the house in which he was born, August 23, 1813, and is the son of Joseph and Charity (Dame) Hanson. His father was born in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1764, son of Humphrey Han- son. He went when a young man to Rochester, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued until a few years before his death in 1832. His wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Rochester, September 1, 1775, and died February 3, 1833. They had ten chil- dren, of whom only two sons are now living : Do- minicus and Asa P. Hanson, now a resident of Newton, Iowa. Joseph Hanson was a staunch
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Whig, but though often urged to accept public office he invariably declined. Dominicus was edu- cated in the Rochester common schools and Acad- emy, Parsonfield Seminary of Maine, and in the Hopkinton and Pembroke Academies. In 1830, when he was seventeen years old, he became an apprentice of his brother-in-law, Doctor Smith, who conducted a drug store, and in this employ he remained two years, at the end of the time buying out Doctor Smith, and afterwards managing the business with the exception of a few years when he was in school, until the fire of December, 1880, in in which his store was burned. He subsequently erected the fine building on the same site, now
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occupied by R. DeWitt Burnham, and he did not personally take up the business, since then practi- cally living in retirement. His residence was built over one hundred years ago. the erection of which was celebrated in the good old way of those days in which the products of the West Indies and of France were much in evidence at the time of lay- ing the ridge pole, after which verses composed for the occasion were read and the frame named and christened the "General Washington." a cele- bration in which all became most gloriously inter- ested. The house then boasted of a fine balustrade around the roof, which has since been removed. When the railroads were built through Rochester, he opened the thoroughfare known as Hanson street through his garden and has always main- tained it at his own expense, spending many thou- sands of dollars to keep it in proper condition. Hle also owns valuable real estate in and around Central Square. Mr. Hanson married. September 19. 1839, Betsey S. Chase, daughter of Simon C'hase of Milton, who conducted a mercantile busi- ness in Rochester. Two sons were born to them : Charles A. C., born August 18, 1844, and George Washington Hanson, born July 6, 1854. and died January 6. 1856. The elder son has always kept a residence in Rochester, although for several years he has been in business in New York city, first in a drug store and later establishing a lithographic plant. He has now severed his business connec- tions there, and spends the greater part of his time in Rochester. It is to this son that the credit is due for the establishment of the Old Cemetery Conservation Fund - Perpetua-for the perpetual care and improvement of the old cemetery. He bore the original expense of over three hundred dollars from his own pocket, and raised a fund of about five thousand dollars, which he turned over to the town for the purpose specified. While engaged in making final arrangements for the com- pletion of this work. he was severely injured by an elevator and crippled for life. Dominicus Hanson was an earnest supporter of General Jackson for President at the time of his candidacy for the sec- ond term, though he was not old enough to vote, Ilis first ballot was east for Martin Van Buren, and he has voted at every election since that time. Before attaining his majority he was appointed Postmaster by General Jackson, and he continued to hold the office under the administrations of Van Buren and Harrison. He was a Director of the Norway Plains Savings Bank for a number of
years. In religious views Mr. Hanson is a Liberal. Although specially interested in the Universalist faith, he is kindly disposed to all, believing in the Fatherhood of God, and the Brotherhood of Man, and a higher and better life for all. No man is more highly esteemed and universally respected by his many friends.
HASKELL, PEARL TENNEV. Physician, San- bornville, was born in Deering, Maine, March 10, 1868, son of William Henry and Ellen Maria (Cary) Haskell. He received his early education at the Newtonville, Massachusetts, Grammar School, and was graduated at Phillips Academy. Ando-
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ver, Massachusetts, in 1888. After taking a short course in the Sheffield School, at Yale, he attended the Portland School of Medical Instruction and the Medical School of Maine at Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1893. Later he took a course at the New York Post Graduate School. He was Chair- man of the Wakefield, New Hampshire, Board of Health, and a member of the School Board. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Yale. Doctor Haskell married, October 28. 1896, Marietta A. Blake of Wakefield, New Hamp- shire.
HARRIMAN, ALPHA IWEN, Physician, Laco- ni, was born in Albany, New Hampshire, October
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14, 1857, son of Nathaniel G. and Rhoda B. (Allard) Harriman. He is of English descent, tracing his ancestry back to John and Leonard Harriman, who came to this country from Rowley in 1638. He received his education in the com-
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mon school, in a private High School in Lovell, Maine, and in the academies in Fryeburg and Bridgton, Maine. His professional studies were pursued at Bowdoin College Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1883. He commenced practice in Mercer, Maine, but after eight months removed to Sandwich, New Hampshire, where he remained for three years and a half. In November, 1887, he settled in Laconia, and has remained there up to the present time. He has attained a promi- nent position in his profession, and has been most successful in the management of difficult cases, both surgical and medical, where skill and accurate knowledge are requisite. He is an active member of New Hampshire Medical Society and the Winni- pesaukee Academy of Medicine. A contributor to periodical medical literature and to " The Refer- ence Hand-Book of Medical Sciences." He was a member of the School Board of Laconia for four years, and for three years was President of the Board. He is a dimitted member of Delta Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Lovell, Maine ; of Union Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he
was High Priest in 1897-'98; of Pythagorian Coun- cil, Royal and Select Masters; and of Pilgrim Com- mandery, Knights Templar, Laconia. He was Emi- nent Commander of the latter in 1896-'98. Doctor Harriman has always been a Democrat, though he never took an active part in politics. He was mar- ried February 10, 1884, to Katherine E. Walker of Lovell, Maine. They have two sons: Haven Walker and Nathaniel Joy Harriman.
HEFFENGER, ARTHUR COWTON, Physician, Retired Navy Surgeon, Portsmouth, was born at Cumberland, Maryland, December 12, 1852, son of J. Alexander and Catherine Lane Heffenger. He
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was prepared for college by private tutors, entered the University of Virginia, and was graduated in 1874, and took a medical course in the University of Maryland, in 1875. After leaving college, he entered the navy as Assistant Surgeon, and was promoted in March, 1878. After a term of service of sixteen years, he retired. For over three years of that time he was in South America, during the Peru-Chili war, following the armies, and acquired most of his wide experience as a Surgeon during that time. He spent five years on special duty under the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, during which time he designed and built the United States Naval Quarantine Hospital, at Widow's Island,
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Maine. He retired on account of ill health acquired by exposure in a tropical climate, and since this time has been in practice in the city of Portsmouth. Doctor Heffenger has always been a Republican. He is a member of the Board of Water Commissioners, also of the Board of Instruc- tion of the city of Portsmouth, and of the State Board of Medical Examiners, besides numerous societies. He was married in 1878 to Fanny C .. daughter of Commodore Charles W. Pickering. United States Navy. They have six children : Mary Stearns, Katharine, Constance, Priscilla Stearns, Francesca, and Charles Pickering Hef- fenger.
HOBBS. JOSEPH OLIVER. Member of Governor's Council and Real Estate Dealer, North Hamp- ton, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 1855. son of Joseph Stacey and Mary Dearborn (Andrews) Hobbs. On the paternal side he is descended from Morris Hobbs, who settled in Hampton in 1637, coming to this country from England. One of Joseph's ancestors was John
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Dearborn, at one time Commander-in-Chief of the American Army ; and his great-nele, John W. F. Hobbs, was the originator of the Old Red Line coaches that ran from Dock Square to Canton Street, Boston, for many years. Mr. Hobbs
attended the Brimmer School in Boston, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College. For five years he was in the employ of Wadley, Spurr & Com- pany, wholesale grocers, in Boston, leaving them to go into the commission business with his father, with whom he remained twelve years. This enter- prise Mr. Hobbs gave up upon coming to New Hampshire. His present business is farming, but he devotes much time to real estate in Boston, Som- erville, Rye Beach, and other places. He is part owner of the Forest Hill Hotel, Franconia. He is a Director of the Stovene Manufacturing Com- pany, of the Granite State Fire Insurance Com- pany, and the First National Bank : and a Trustee of the Piscataqua Savings Bank, and of the Hamp- ton Academy, which was organized in 1808. He is a member of Rockingham Lodge, No. 22, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; Hunto Encamp- ment of Hampton, and Canton Senter, Patriarchs Militant, of Portsmouth ; Derryfield Club of Man- chester ; Wonolancet Club of Concord ; Portsmouth Athletic Club and Warwick Club of Portsmouth ; Piscataqua Boat Club of Kittery, Maine; Rocking- ham Congregational Club: the Venus Mutual Relief Association of North Hampton, and the Grange. He now holds the position of Republi- can Councillor for the First district, and is on the State Prison Committee and on the Committee on State House and Grounds. He married December 19, 1893, Annie F. Hobbs. They have four chil- dren : Joseph Harold, John William French, Lemira Mae. and Leon Pickering Hobbs.
HUNT. WILLIAM PRESCOTT, Manufacturer, Bos- ton. was born in Bath, New Hampshire, January 14. 1827, son of Caleb and Rebecca (Pool) Hunt. He belongs to the Amesbury branch of the Hunt family ; his grandfather Pool was a Surgeon in the Revolutionary Army and married a sister of Doctor John Hale of Hollis, New Hampshire, and sister of the wife of Colonel Prescott who fought at Bunker Hill. His father was a woolen manufacturer at Bath and imported the first carding machine used in that state, and his mother, a native of Hollis, New Hampshire, was a consin of W. HI. Prescott, the historian. Mr. Hunt attended the Academy at Haverhill, New Hampshire, and was fitted for Dartmouth, but receiving an offer from the South Boston Iron Company. he entered the service of that corporation in Angust, 1817. He was elected Treasurer of the company in 1863, and President and Treasmer in 1876, and has held the same
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offices in the corporations succeeding that com- pany. He has been President of the Forbes Lith- ographic Manufacturing Company from 1875 to the present time ; President of the Boston Machine
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Company from 1864 to 1884 ; he has been a Direc- tor in the Boston Lead Manufacturing Company since 1880, and was a Director in the Canver Cotton-gin Company from 1860 to 1888. He was elected a Director of the Atlas National Bank of Boston in 1872, President in 1878, serving until 1882. He is a member of the Commercial Club of Boston. Mr. Hunt married in 1856, Kath- erine Muller of New York city, who died in 1869. September 28, 1871, he married Helen S. Cum- mings of New Bedford. He has five children : Mary E., William Prescott, Henry M., and John Cummings Hunt.
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