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HATCH, RILEY BURNHAM, Lawyer, Peter- borough, was born in Williamstown, Vermont, October 19, 1832, son of Alvah and Laura (Burn- ham) Hatch. He comes of good old New England stock, his descent in the paternal line being traced to the Hatch, who settled in Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, about 1630, and one branch of whose descendants are the Hatches of Falmouth, Massa- chusetts. One of his sons, or grandsons, removed to Tolland, Connecticut, and from that town, Joseph Hatch, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, made his way into the New Hamp- shire wilderness and became one of the pioneers in Alstead. Asa Hatch, son of Joseph, served in the Revolutionary War, for which service he subse- quently received a pension, and was one of the first settlers of Williamstown. His wife was Jane Black of Alstead. Alvah Hatch, son of Asa, was born in Williamstown, August 6, 1798. His wife, who was born April 19, 1805, was a daughter of Rufus and T. C. (Bass) Burnham, both of whom were natives of Windham, Connecticut, whence the families removed to Williamstown in the early days of that place's history. Riley B. Hatch attended the public schools, was fitted for college at New Salem (Massachusetts) Academy and Saxton's River (Vermont) Seminary, entered Middlebury College, and was graduated in 1857. For three years he taught in the academies at Swanzey and
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Peterborough, beginning the study of the law in the latter town. Being admitted to the Bar in Septem- ber, 1862, he began the practice of his profession in Peterborough. In addition to his legal business Mr. Hatch has had a number of important and
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lucrative interests, in insurance, banking, and rail- roads, and for nearly ten years (from 1864 to 1873) he was Treasurer of the Peterborough Savings Bank. He has been honored with a number of town offices, and has been concerned in the man- agement of school and library affairs. He was a Member of the Legislature in 1868-'69 and in 1893-'94; and was a Member of the Constitutional Convention of ISS9. In politics he is a Republi- can. He is a member of the Altamont Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a Past Master, and of Peterborough Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Mr. Hatch married, April 3, 1860, Ellen Maria Nichols. On November 26, 1863, he married Ellen Maria Barber. He has two daugh- ters : Ida Frances and Ellen Maria Hatch.
HILL, ALMON WARD, Physician, Concord, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 27, 1864, son of Hosea B. and Rachel O. (Norris) Hill. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of Low- ell, at Brown University, graduating in 1884, and at the Boston University Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1887. He began prac-
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tice in Lowell in that year, and remained until October, 1896, when he removed to Concord, where he now resides. He was a member of the School Board of Lowell from 1887 to 1891. He is a member of Pawtucket Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons of Lowell, Massachusetts. In politics he is a Republican. Doctor Hill was married October 29, 1890, to Grace Wright Gerrish.
HOPKINS, CHARLES BURTON, Agent of the Brightwood Mills, Hinsdale, was born in Chester- field Factory, New Hampshire, May 16, 1855, son of Richard Henry and Ellen Merrill (Newton) Hop-
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kins. He traces his ancestry back to Richard Hopkins, who went to Chesterfield in 1787. His father removed from that town in 1870, going to Hinsdale, where he engaged in the manufacture of paper. Charles Hopkins was educated in the schools in his native town and in Hinsdale; at Powers Institute, Bernardston, Massachusetts; at Leland and Gray Seminary, Townshend, Vermont ; and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire. He was for a time in the paper manufacturing business, and in July, 1877, became Agent for the Brightwood Mills, which position he has held ever since. He has been a member of the Board of Education for six years, and was a member of the last Constitutional Convention in New Hampshire. He is a Mason, a member of Aleppo Temple, Boston, Massachusetts ; of Hugh De Payens Commandery, Keene, New Hampshire ; and an Odd Fellow, a member of the Order of Red Men, and of the Foresters, in Hinsdale. He is a member of the Republican State Committee.
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HAZELTON, GEORGE COCHRANE, Lawyer, Wash- ington, District of Columbia, was born in Chester, Rockingham county, son of William and Mercy J. (Cochrane) Hazelton. He is in the seventh gen- eration from Robert Hazelton, who came to Salem,
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Massachusetts, in 1637, and in 1649 settled in Bradford, Massachusetts, on the Merrimack river. His descendants followed the march of civilization into New Hampshire. He was educated in the common schools and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, and Dummer Academy, Oldtown, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Union College, Schenec- tady, New York, in 1858, with the degree of A. B. The same year he was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York, began practice in Schenectady, removing to Wisconsin in 1863, where he prac- ticed until 1882 in all the State and United States Courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Since 1883 he has been in practice in Washington, District of Columbia, and is now in the Washing- ton Loan and Trust Building with his son, John H. Hazelton. He was District Attorney for Grant county, Wisconsin ; State Senator for four years, being President pro tempore of the Senate during his second term. He was elected to Congress in 1876, from the Third Congressional District of Wisconsin, and was twice re-elected, making six years' service. He was Chairman of the Com-
mittee of Pacific Railroads, a member of the Com- mittee of Elections, and also of the Committee of Private Land Claims. He was Attorney for the District of Columbia during the administration of Harrison. In politics he has always been a Repub- lican. Mr. Hazelton married, November, 1863, Ellen Van Antwerp of Schenectady, New York, who was born at Mobile, Alabama, September 19, 1845. They have two children living : George C., Jr., and John Hampden Hazelton. The former is at the head of the Keystone Law & Patent Company of Philadelphia, and the latter is engaged in the practice of law with his father at Washington. Two children died in infancy: Henry Maurice, born January 17, 1866, who died October 4, 1867, and Alice Hazelton, born July 22, 1873, who died July 8, 1875. Mr. Hazelton cherishes an abiding love for New England and yearly comes back to visit the scenes of his childhood and the many relatives and friends who never fail to greet his return with a warm and generous welcome.
JEWETT, STEPHEN SHANNON, Lawyer, Laconia, was born in Gilford, now Laconia, September 18, 1858, son of John G. and Carrie E. (Shannon) Jewett. In the paternal line he is descended in the ninth generation from Maximillian Jewett who came from England to Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639. His great-grandfather was one of the first settlers of what is now Laconia, having gone there in 1780, after his service in the War of the Revolu- tion and having fought at the battle of Bunker Hill. Stephen S. Jewett attended the public schools of Laconia and Gilford Academy and also received private instruction from his father who for many years was a school teacher. During his boy- hood and youth Mr. Jewett had some experience in a variety of occupations, working in a woolen mill, printing office, dry goods store, machine shop, paint shop, on the farm and keeping school. At the age of seventeen he began to read law in the office of Charles F. Stone of Laconia, who was sub- sequently Naval Officer at the Port of Boston, and continued in this office until his first Bar examina- tion when he was admitted, March 17, 1880. Mr. Jewett began active practice of law at Laconia im- mediately upon his admission to the Bar and there he has remained ever since. His practice has been large and lucrative. He is a member of the Bar of the United States Circuit, District, and Supreme Courts as well as of the State Courts. He practiced alone until September 1, 1889, when he was associ-
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ated with William A. Plummer who has remained with him ever since, the firm name being Jewett & Plummer. He is interested in many of the most important enterprises in his city ; is a Director of the Laconia National Bank, a Trustee of the City Savings Bank, a Di- rector and Solicitor for the Laconia Building & Loan Association, a Director of the Masonic Tem- ple Association, and a Director of several local cor- porations. In politics Colonel Jewett is a strong Republican and for many years he has been an active worker, both in and out of the state ; was Secretary of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee from 1890 to 1892: Chairman of the same committee from 1892 to 1896 ; was Sergeant- at-Arms of the New Hampshire Delegation to the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis, in 1892 ; Delegate at Large and Chairman of the New Hampshire Delegation to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis, in 1896: and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Republi- can League. He has been City Solicitor of Laco- nia since its incorporation as a city, in the spring
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of 1893. He was Engrossing Clerk of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1883, and was Clerk of Belknap County Supreme Court, in 188 ;. From 1887 to 1889 he was Assistant Clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and from
1891 to 1893 was Clerk of the same body. He was a member of the Legislature from January, 1895, to January, 1899. being Speaker of the House in 1895, and a member of the Judiciary Committee in the session of 1897. Ile is a member of the Home Market Club of Boston, of the New Hamp- shire Club, of the New Hampshire Historical Soci- ety, and of the Sons of the Revolution. For many years he was a member of the New Hampshire Militia, Company K of Laconia. He was a mem- ber with the rank of Colonel of the Staff of Gov- ernor Goodell. Colonel Jewett is actively inter- ested in legitimate sport with rod and gun, and is Secretary of the Belknap County Fish and Game League, and a member of the League of American Sportsmen. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a member and Past Master of Mt. Lebanon Lodge of Laconia, member and Past High Priest of Union Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Laconia ; member and Past Master of Pythagorian Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Laconia ; member and Past Commander of Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Tem- plar, of Laconia ; Past Grand Master of the Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters of New Hamp- shire, and member of Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias; of the Red Men ; United Order of Pilgrim Fathers; United Order of Work- men, and of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Franklin Pierce Statue Commission. He married June 30, 1880, Annie L. Bray. They have one child : Theo Stephen Jewett, born December 24, 1891.
JONES, EDWIN EMERY, Physician, Concord, was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, January 3, 1870, son of John and Martha L. (Wales) Jones. He received his early education at the town schools and Pembroke Academy, graduating in the class of 1888. He attended Dartmouth College in 1888 and 1889, in business '89 to '91, entered Dart- mouth Medical College '91, and was graduated from the Medical Department of that College in the class of 1894; played on the foot-ball teams of '91-'92, and Captained the team of '93 when the championship over Amherst and Williams was ob- tained. He was House Physician of the Mary Hitch- cock Memorial Hospital in 1893-'94 ; began practice in Norwich, Vermont, May, 1894. In 1896-'97 he was Chairman of the Board of School Directors of Norwich, Vermont, and Trustee of the Public Library of that town during the same year. He is a mem-
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ber of the Sigma Chi and Alpha Kappa Kappa fra- ternities, the Odd Fellows, and Junior Order, Order United American Mechanics. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Jones joined the Methodist church in Suncook, New Hampshire, 1890, and is
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now a member of First Methodist church, Concord, New Hampshire, and Secretary and Treasurer of Board of Trustees. Mr. Jones was married July 3, 1894, to Maude E. Northrup, and has one son : Ralph Northrup Jones.
KIMBALL, EDWARD PAYSON, Banker, Ports- mouth, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, July 4, 1834, son of the Reverend Reuben and Judith (Colby) Kimball. On the paternal side he comes of English stock, being descended from Richard Kimball, who came to this country from Suffolk county in 1634, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts ; his descendants made their homes in Ipswich and Amesbury, Massachusetts, and Hopkinton and Warner, New Hampshire; on the maternal side (Colby) also English, who came to this country about 1630. Mr. Kimball was edu- cated in the common schools at Kittery, Maine, and Hampton and Andover Academies. He was engaged in the mercantile business in Kittery from 1855 till 1857, when he removed to Portsmouth, where he has since been engaged in practical bank-
ing. He was, first, Clerk in the Piscataqua Ex- change, and Portsmouth Savings Banks. In 1871 he was elected Cashier of the First National Bank, and in 1882 was promoted to the Presidency of the same bank, and also of the Piscataqua Savings Bank. In addition, he has several business inter- ests in the West. He has been a member of the City Government ; of the School Board, and of the State Legislature, in which he served in 1885-'86. He is a Trustee of the Piscataqua Lodge of Odd Fellows ; of the Cottage Hospital; of the Chase Home for Children, and the Portsmouth Seaman's
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Friend Society. He is President of the Howard Benevolent Society, and of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association. Since 1871 he has been a Dea- con of the North Congregational Church of Ports- mouth, and has held office as Clerk and Treasurer of the church since 1867. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Kimball married September 13, 1864, Martha Jane Thompson, daughter of Colonel Samuel and Anna True (Smith) Thompson, of Wilmot, New Hampshire. They have had three children : Elizabeth Colby, born January 29, 1866, died March 7, 1880; Martha Smith, born Feb- ruary 28, 1870, who graduated from Smith College in class of '92 ; and Edward Thompson Kimball, born September 29, 1873, a graduate of Amherst College in the class of '96.
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LOCKHART, BURTON WELLESLEY, Pastor of the Franklin-Street Congregational Church, Man- chester, was born in Lockhartville, King's county, Nova Scotia, January 24, 1855, son of Nathan A. and Elizabeth Ann (Bezanson) Lockhart. His ancestry on his father's side is Scotch-English, and on his mother's, Scotch-Huguenot. He attended the public schools of Nova Scotia, entered Arcadia College at Wolfville, and was graduated in June, 1878. Four years later he was graduated from the Theological Seminary at Newton Centre, Massa- chusetts. His first charge was the Lockport (Nova Scotia) Baptist Church, from July 1, 1878, to Sep- tember 1, 1879. He was Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Suffield, Connecticut, from Sep- tember 1, 1882, to October 1, ISSS, when he be-
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came Pastor of the Third Congregational Church at Chicopee, Massachusetts. In December, 1893, he began his pastorate in Manchester. Mr. Lock- hart married, December 24. 1883, Frances Mary Upson.
LEACH, EDWARD. GILES, City Solicitor, Frank- lin, was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, Janu- ary 28, 1849, son of Levi and Susan Catherine (Sanborn) Leach. He attended the common schools of Meredith and spent one term at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton,
and for two years studied at Kimball Union Acad- emy, being graduated in 1867. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1871. Mr. Leach paid his own way through college, teaching in winter and acting as clerk in the Crawford House and Memphremagog House at Newport, Vermont, in the summer. After his graduation he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in Sep- tember, 1874, since which time he has been in practice at Franklin and Concord. He was in partnership with the Hon. Daniel Barnard at Franklin until 1879. Since then his office has been in Concord, where he has been a member of the firm of Leach & Stevens, his partner being Henry W. Stevens. He was Solicitor of Merri- mack county from ISSo-1SS4, and has been City Solicitor of Franklin since its organization as a city. He served in the Legislature at the sessions of 1893 and 1895, being Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in the latter year. Mr. Leach has been President of the Franklin Board of Trade ; of the Franklin Building and Loan Association ; of the Franklin Park Association ; of the Manufac-
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turers and Merchants Mutual Insurance Company, since the organization of each. Ile has been Trustee and Clerk of the Unitarian Church since 1880. He is a Director in the Light and Power Company ; of the Franklin Falls Company ; and
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the Franklin Electric Railroad. He drafted the charter of the city of Franklin, and was active in securing its passage by the Legislature and its adoption by the vote of the city. He was a lead- ing advocate of the city owning its water-works, and of the system of control by a non-partisan Board of Water Commissioners, under which the plant has been managed ; and he has been one of the Board of Commissioners since the system was established. He was also active in advocating the system of parks for the city under control of a non-partisan Board without pay, and has been one of the Park Commissioners since the Board was established. In politics Mr. Leach is a Republi- can, and has been a member of the Republican State Committee from Franklin since 1878. He was one of the leaders in the movement which changed the political control of the town in 1893. He had been frequently nominated for office before that year, but had been unable to overcome the Democratic majority. Mr. Leach married, Decem- ber 24, 1874, Agnes A. Robinson. He has two sons : Eugene W. and Robert M. Leach, of the Dartmouth classes of 1901 and 1902 respectively.
LEONARD, WILLIAM SMITH, Physician, Hins- dale, was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, Octo- ber 13, 1832, son of Reverend Levi W. and Eliza- beth Morison (Smith) Leonard. He belongs to the " Bridgewater Branch " of the Leonard family and is of the seventh generation in line of descent from Solomon Leonard, who was born in the vicin- ity of Monmouthshire, England, about 1610, came to America about 1630, and settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1633. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Leonard, was a Revolutionary soldier, whose son, Levi W. Leonard, D. D., was thirty-five years the Pastor of the Unitarian Con- gregational Church in Dublin, later removing to Exeter, where he was the editor of the News Letter. He was a man of extensive learning and influence, was identified with the cause of common school education in New Hampshire, and was the author of some valuable text-books. To him rightfully belongs the honor of establishing the first free library in the United States, and this was at Dub- lin in 1825. On the maternal side, Doctor William S. Leonard is descended from the Hon. Samuel Smith, founder of the village of Peterborough. He was prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Acad- emy, and entered Dartmouth College in 1852, being graduated in 1856. Among his classmates
were the late Ex-Governor B. F. Prescott of Ep- ping, Ex-Lieutenant-Governor William H. Haile of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Judge Caleb Blod- gett of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied medi- cine with the late Professor Albert Smith, M. D.,
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of Peterborough, attended three courses of lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, and was graduated in May, 1860. For a short time in the summer and autumn of that year he practiced in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and in October settled in Hinsdale, where he has been a practicing physician for thirty- seven years. For ten years he was associated with the late Doctor Frederic Boyden. Doctor Leon- ard's practice has been large and lucrative, cover- ing a wide territory. For several years between 1860 and 1870 he held the office of School Com- mittee, and also served subsequently as a member of the Board of Education for three years. He has been identified with the Hinsdale Public Li- brary ever since its foundation, as one of the Li- brary Committee. In 1897 he was appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons at Keene. He is a mem- ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, but belongs to no secret society or organization what- ever. He has never been active in politics. He formerly voted with the Democratic party, but parted from it on the silver issue in the Presi- dential elcction of 1896. He married, April 30,
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1861, Martha Elmira Greenwood, daughter of Jack- son Greenwood of Dublin. They have had seven children : Annie, Walter, Cora, and Dolly, who died in infancy and early childhood; Frederick Smith, a member of the firm of Barrett & Leon- ard, printers, Springfield, Massachusetts ; Margaret Elizabeth, a graduate of Radcliffe College, class of '98. and William Jackson Leonard, an artist who studied at Cowles Art School in Boston and for two years abroad, a large portion of his time being spent at Julien's Art School in Paris. In private life Doctor Leonard is genial, companionable, and full of mirth ; one who heartily enjoys a good joke. and has the faculty of adapting himself to old and young alike. He inherited from his father a taste for literature, and has devoted more time to such pursuits than the average physician in active prac- tice. Among his published writings may be men- tioned a paper read before the New Hampshire Medical Society, entitled " The Confidence of the Public in Non-professional Prescriptions," and an address delivered at the Medical Commencement at Dartmouth College in 1887, as Delegate from the New Hampshire Medical Society, entitled " Rambles in the Highways and By-ways of a Doc- tor's Life," also two Fourth of July orations of a humorous and patriotic character delivered at Hinsdale. He has written much for the news- papers, and has been for several years a regular correspondent to the Springfield Republican. He has the faculty of touching with playful satire upon the follies and foibles of the time without inflicting wounds or making enemies.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Laconia, Mer- chant, was born in Hanover, Grafton county, New Hampshire, October 13, 1847, son of Edwin Perry and Elizabeth W. T. (Vaughn) Knight. He comes of patriotic ancestry, his great-grandfather, William Knight, serving in the Revolutionary War. A brother of William Knight received a Captain's commission on the field of Bennington for gal- lantry in action. Mr. Knight was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at West Randolph Academy. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of Parker Brothers, general merchants, Laconia, and in 1867 was, practically, in charge of the business. He eventually bought out the concern, conducting the business for ten years. In 1873 he became a member of the furni- ture house of Mansur & Knight, which in 1887
became Knight & Robinson. Mr. Knight was elected Town Clerk of Laconia in 1875, and served two years. In 1883 he was elected County Treasurer, and was re-elected in 1885. He served in the State Legislature of 1889, and was elected
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to the State Senate from the Sixth District in 1894. Two years later he was made Quartermaster- General on the staff of Governor Busiel. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, has filled all the chairs in Chapter and Council and Grand Council, and is Grand High Priest of the last-named body. In politics he is a Republican. In 1872, Mr. Knight married Fannie E. Taylor.
MACKEY, EDWARD D., Berlin, is one of the best known of the Catholic Clergy of New Hamp- shire. He is a native of Ireland, where he was educated in one of the leading colleges. He came to this country when a young man, and after his ordination became connected with St. Joseph's Cathedral, Manchester, serving first as Assistant and then as Rector. He took a whole- souled interest in the welfare of the parish, de- voting much of his attention to the development of its schools, and being active Principal of the girls' school. In Manchester he was Director of the Holy Name Society and the Rosary Society.
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Father Mackey was the first Chaplain of the An- cient Order of Hibernians in Manchester. He had long been identified with the career of Home Rule for Ireland ; and during his residence in Manches- ter he was influential in bringing about the visit to
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the city of the Hon. William O'Brien and the Hon. T. D. Sullivan, an event which led to one of the greatest demonstrations, and the raising of a sub- scription of three thousand dollars to aid the cause they represented. Father Mackey in his clerical labors at St. Joseph's proved himself an indefatiga- ble worker, and one possessed of the true apos- tolic spirit. In December, 1893, he was assigned to Berlin, and in that rapidly growing city his labors have again been crowned with deserved success. Here he has erected a magnificent brick church of Gothic design, a commodious parochial residence, the whole costing about thirty-five thousand dollars, the greater part of which, through his untiring efforts, has already been cleared of debt. The church property in his parish is the most beautiful and most valuable in northern New Hampshire. During his adminis- tration of the parish, numerous converts have been received into the church. He takes a warm interest in the upbuilding of the new city, and in everything tending to the material and social well- being of its residents.
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