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DANIEL. J. DALEY.
People's Building and Loan Association, a position he has held since the organization of the associa- tion six years ago. He is a Director and Presi- dent of the Berlin Heights Addition Land Com- pany, and President and Director of the Berlin
Water Company. He is Director and legal advisor of the Berlin Street Railway, now being organized. and also a Director of the Northern Electric Com- pany of Auburn, Maine. To the energy and per- severance of Mr. Daley is due the construction and equipment in Berlin, in 1896, of one of the largest shoe factory plants in New England, and the loca- tion therein of Chick Brothers of Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, a very successful manufacturing firm. He is a member of the Maynesboro Club of Berlin. Mr. Daley married, May 8, 1886. Ardell A. Cowan
DORT, OBED GILMAN, Banker. Keene, was born in Surry, New Hampshire, January 25, 1828, son of Eliphalet and Lois (Bemis) Dort. He is descended from Richard Dort, or Dart, as the name was then spelled. who came from England in 1633, settled in Connecticut, and founded a family whose members have filled most useful positions in the community. The subject of this sketch attended the common schools and academy in Keene. He left home at fifteen, and learned the trade of carriage and sign painter, and at the age of twenty-two began business in Keene, dealing in drugs, paints, and paper hangings. He continued in this business as druggist until 1875. He was active in the organization of the Keene Five-cent Savings Bank in 1869, and was its Treasurer until 1875, when he resigned and accepted the Cashier- ship of the Citizens' National Bank, in the organ- ization of which he has taken an active part. In 1878 he was elected President of the bank. and has held the office ever since. He was also prom- inent in establishing the Keene Guaranty Savings Bank, and was Treasurer of that institution until 1892. In his younger years he was a member of the Keene Light Infantry, and held a commission as Lieutenant when the old military system was abolished. When the Rebellion broke out, Mr. Dort took a heartfelt interest in the safety of the U'nion, and in the fall of 1861, enlisting a company of three years' men, was commissioned Captain of Company E, Sixth Regiment. New Hampshire Volunteers, afterwards being promoted to Major. The regiment was assigned to the Ninth Army Corps under General Burnside. The regiment accompanied the famous Burnside expedition to North Carolina, which suffered severely in the great storm off Hatteras. In the summer of 1862 it was ordered to aid General Mcclellan, and upon the arrival at Fortress Monroe en-
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camped at Newport News. At this time Major Dort's wife and son Arthur, aged six years, in company with the wives of Colonel Scott and Captain Cummings visited the camp. The regiment was suddenly ordered away and the ladies started for home, taking the steamer West Point for Washington. On the trip up the Potomac on the evening of August 13th, the West Point collided with the steamer George Peabody, and almost imme- diately sank, Major Dort's wife and son, with both the other ladies losing their lives in this terrible dis- aster. Among other victims were many wounded and sick soldiers. When the collision occurred the Captain attempted to beach the boat but was unsuc- cessful. Colonel Scott and Dr. Newell of a Penn- sylvania regiment directed their energies to saving the ladies, but as soon as a boat was lowered fran- tic men leaped in in such numbers that boat after boat went down until all were carried away. Then Colonel Scott and Dr. Newell lifted the ladies upon the hurricane deck and supported them until the water was above their waists. In this moment of agony and despair Colonel Scott saw a capsized
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boat drifting by and swam towards it with the hope of rescuing the ladies. The boat drifted by him and at the same time the steamer's deck gave way, and all upon it were thrown into the water. He endeavored to return to the wreck, and finally
caught an iron rod which braced the smoke stack, to which he clung until he was rescued. Dr. New- ell, the ladies, and the child were swept away and lost their lives in the flood. When Major Dort enlisted in the service he had left a well-organized business in the charge of his wife, but after this terrible disaster on the Potomac, with no one to whom he could entrust the business while he remained at the front, and with the care of his one surviving child, left motherless at the age of four years, he felt it his duty to leave the service. Therefore, in the fall of 1862, he regretfully resigned his commission. To leave the service from no bodily disability, when every surrounding was sat- isfactory and the country was in need of every man's aid, might seem unjustifiable to the superfi- cial observer who stayed at home to make money, but he has considered that perhaps it will be agreed that one year's service is better than none at all. While Major Dort was at the front with his regi- ment he participated in the battle of Elizabeth City, Camden, North Carolina, Second Bull Run, Chan- tilly, South Mountain, and Antietam. In his younger days Major Dort was active in the clubs and societies, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, but of later years he has regarded his own home as the best club house. He was for many years Vestry- man and Warden in St. James's Episcopal Church. In politics he has always been a . Democrat, believ- ing the end and aim of government should be the greatest good for the greatest number. He has held very few political offices, for in Keene the tide is very strongly Republican. In October 1851, he was married to Julia N. Wakefield, daughter of James Wakefield of Marlborough. Of the children born of this marriage, Arthur Wakefield, born February 25, 1856, perished with his mother in the sad disaster to the West Point ; Frank Gilman, born December 17, 1857, now lives in Keene; Mary Ellen Dort, born February 15, 1861, died November 27 of the same year. On December 17, 1863, Major Dort was married to Sarah Jane, daughter of Governor William Haile of Hinsdale.
CUTLER, GEORGE INGERSOLL, Physician, West Swanzey, was born in Keene, New Hampshire, December 10, 1833, son of Gardner C. and Olive H. (Watts) Cutler. On the paternal side, he traces his descent from James Cutler, who came to this country and settled in Watertown, Massachu- setts, in 1634. Dr. Cutler's father was a farmer and was born in Hinsdale in 1807. The son
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attended schools in Keene and Charlestown, New Hampshire, and Alstead and Brattleboro, Vermont. For ten years before taking up his profession he was a teacher. He was graduated from the Medi- cal Department of the University of Vermont in
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1864. and soon after began practice in West Swan- zey, where he has since remained. He has been Town Clerk for thirty-two years, and has served on the Board of Education every year but one during his residence in the town. He is a mem- ber of the Cheshire County Medical Society, of which he has been President, and of the State and Connecticut River Medical societies. Ile is a Mason and a member of the Lodge of Social Friends, Keene. For eight years he has been a member of the Board of Pension Examiners. In politics, he is a Democrat, but has never taken an active part. nor sought office. Dr. Cutler was mar- ried. February 14, 0866. to E. Jennie Aldrich of Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
DUDLEY, HARRY HUBBARD, Banker, Concord. was born in that city, June 11. 1859. son of Hub- bard Thomas and Antoinette (Gordon) Dudley. He belongs to the Governor Thomas Dudley family. being a lineal descendant in the eighth generation from the Elder Governor of the Massa- chusetts Puritan Commonwealth. He attended the
public schools of Concord and was graduated from the High School. His first employment was in the freight office of the Concord Railroad as clerk ; then for several years he was a clerk in the First National Bank, a position he left to become book- keeper for E. H. Rollins & Son, Investment Bank- ers, subsequently becoming a partner, and Treas- urer of the company upon its incorporation under the old firm name. He was elected Cashier and Clerk of the Board of Directors of the Mechanicks National Bank in January, 1894. He is now sery- ing as Treasurer of a number of societies and cor- porations. being Treasurer and Director of the Beecher Falls Company, manufacturers of furniture and hardwood flooring; of La Concordia Cam- pania, a company formed to grow coffee in Mexico ; of St. Paul's Parish, Concord ; of the Guild of St. Paul's ; of the Board of Managers of Diocesan Missions for New Hampshire ; of the Prayer Book Distribution Committee ; and of the Home Realty Company, a corporation having thirty thousand dollars invested in real estate in Concord. He is a Director of the Young Men's Christian Association,
HARRY IL, DUDLEV.
and of the Profile & Franconia Notch Railroad Company, as well as Director in E. H. Rollins & Sons (incorporated bankers, Milk street, Boston). Hle isa Vestryman of St. Paul's Church of Concord ; Second Vice-President and Director of the Word-
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lancet Club ; a Director of the Passaconaway Out- ing Club, and a member of the Snow Shoe Club, all of Concord. Mr. Dudley married October 30, 1883, Anne Bartlett Minot, daughter of the late Charles Minot, of the banking firm of Minot & Company, which firm was dissolved about 1880, when the Mechanicks Bank was chartered. He has three children : Dorothea Minot, Charles Hubbard, and Thomas Minot Dudley.
EASTMAN, EDWIN GAMAGE, Attorney-General of New Hampshire, Exeter, was born in Grantham, November 22, 1847, son of William Henry and Paulina (Winter) Eastman. He was educated in the common schools of the town, at Kimball Union Academy, and at Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1874. He studied law in the office of Judge A. P. Carpenter at Bath, and was admitted to the Bar in 1876. In Septem- ber of that year he began the practice of his profes- sion in Exeter, becoming the partner of the late General Gilman Marston. In 1876 he was Repre- sentative from the town of Grantham in the lower
EDWIN G. EASTMAN.
branch of the State Legislature, and in 1889 was a member of the State Senate. He was County So- licitor of Rockingham county from 1883 to 1888. Upon the death of the Hon. Daniel Barnard in 1892, Mr. Eastman was appointed Attorney-General
of the state, and this position he still holds. He has earned for himself a leading position at the Bar of the state, having served in many important and famous cases, again and again proving his ability to deal with weighty legal questions. In his legisla- tive service he occupied a prominent position and has always given strong support to the best inter- ests of the community in which he lives.
EMERSON, CHARLES FRANKLIN, Appleton Pro- fessor of Natural Philosophy and Dean of the Fac- ulty, Dartmouth College, Hanover, was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, September 28, 1843, son of Owen and Louisa (Butterfield) Emerson. The genealogy of the Emerson family has not been fully traced, but the subject of this sketch is descended from the Reading, Massachusetts, branch, his father being a distant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His maternal grandfather was Captain John Butter- field. Mr. Emerson attended the district schools of his native town, and also a private academy for three terms. He was fitted for college at Westford (Massachusetts) Academy, under John D. Long, now Secretary of the Navy, and at Appleton Acad- emy, under Professor E. T. Quimby. He entered Dartmouth College in the class of '68, and although while in college he had little spare time, yet, then as now, he was very much interested in all branches of athletics. He stood second at the junior exhibition, giving a Greek oration. At graduation he was salutatorian of his class, and it is recorded of him, during his college course, that he had not a single cut in college exercises until the spring term of his senior year, when sickness kept him in the house for a few days. Before entering college he had worked on his father's farm. In 1859 he had full charge of this farm of two hundred acres during his father's absence. He was much in- terested in farming, and took an active part in Lyceums, holding offices in town and school meetings, but his career was fated to lie in other lines than those of a farmer. His first experience in teaching was gained in the winter of 1861, and he has been a teacher ever since. Immediately upon graduation, he was an Instructor at Dartmouth, and he has been continuously connected with the college since. He was a Tutor in Mathematics until 1872, when he was appointed Associate Professor of Nat- ural Philosophy and Mathematics. He was made Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and In- structor in Astronomy in 1878, on the withdrawal of Professor C. A. Young to Princeton College ;
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he carried on the work of the two chairs of Physics and Astronomy, with little assistance for fifteen years, when in 1892. he was relieved of the Astron- omy by the appointment of Professor E. B. Frost to that chair, and his title became Appleton Pro-
C. F. EMERSON.
fessor of Natural Philosophy which he now retains. In 1893. when Dr. Wm. J. Tucker became Presi- cent of the College. the office of Dean was created and Professor Emerson was elected by the Trustees to the office, which position he still holds; and Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1892. He was Instructor in Mathematics in the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1868 '74. Ile heard the first recitation in the Agricultural College in September, 1868, and assisted Professor Dimond in organizing the col- lege and arranging schedules of recitations. Ilis life has been an active one. In Dartmouth, he has served on almost every kind of committee known to the college world, and has advanced through all the grades of instructorship, from Tutor to Dean, under three administrations, those of Doctors Smith, Bartlett, and Tucker. He is well acquainted with the working of the college and has an unusually large acquaintance with members of the Alumni. Ile is popular with the students, and takes a keen interest in the progress of the college and town. From November, 1883. to Sep-
tember, 1884, he was abroad, visiting universities in England, France, Germany, and Italy. In col- lege, he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and also of the Phi Beta Kappa. Ile has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1884, and was one of the original seven members who formed the Dartmouth Scientific Association in 1871. For several years he was a member of the Appala- chian Mountain Club of Boston. In politics he is a Republican. Professor Emerson married Janu- ary 20, 1875. Caroline Flagg of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He has two daughters: Martha Flagg and Emily Sophia Emerson.
EVERETT. GEORGE HENRY, Justice of the La- conia Police Court, was born in Boston, Massachu- setts, September 5, 1833, son of George and Sarah (Elms) Everett. He is of the stock of the late Edward Everett of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended the public schools in Boston and Chester, New Hampshire, and was a graduate of the Brighton, Massachusetts, High School. He spent several
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GEORGE H. EVEREEL.
years in the grocery and provision business in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, and for twelve years was a traveling salesman of the house of 1 .. S. Leonard. stationers and book-binders. In 1860 he purchased the Willard Hotel, at Laconia, New Hampshire,
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which he successfully managed for fifteen years, when he converted it into a private residence where he now resides. In 1876 he was appointed High Sheriff by Governor P. C. Cheney, his term of office expiring at the end of three years. . In 1892 he was appointed Associate Justice of Laconia Police Court by Governor Hiram A. Tuttle, and in 1895 he was made Chief Justice by Governor Charles A. Busiel. He also conducts a large and successful insurance business, his principal office being Room No. 10, Masonic Temple. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, and has filled all the chairs in Mt. Lebanon Lodge, No. 32, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, and Pythagoria Council, No. 3, Royal and Select Mas- ters. In politics he has been a lifelong Republi- can. In 1872 Mr. Everett was married to Sarah F. Gray of Jackson, New Hampshire.
ELDREDGE, HEMAN FISHER, President and Treasurer of the Eldredge Brewing Company of Portsmouth, was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, April 13, 1852, son of Hleman and Mary (Harding)
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11. FISHER ELDREDGE.
Eldredge. His early education was received in the schools of Chatham and Portsmouth. He became identified with the brewing industry in connection with his brother, Hon. Marcellus Eldredge. This industry was started in a moderate way in 1858;
and now has an annual product of one hundred thousand barrels. It was organized in 1875, as a stock company, with Marcellus Eldredge, as Presi- dent and Treasurer, and was continued under this management until 1891, when he disposed of his interest to H. Fisher Eldredge, the present Presi- dent and Treasurer, as well as proprietor. Mr. Eldredge was elected to the Legislature from his ward in 1889, and made a creditable record. He is a Director of the New Hampshire National Bank of Portsmouth, and of the Portsmouth Gas Light Com- pany. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and other secret orders. In politics he is a Demo- crat. Although he resides in Portsmouth, he has a summer residence in his native town of Chatham. Mr. Eldredge was married April 22, 1873, to Addie Eliza Young of Chatham. They have two children : Nettie E., now the wife of James F. Shaw, and Sadie Eveline Eldredge.
FRENCH, LEONARD, for many years one of the leading physicians of Manchester, where he died February 14, 1892, was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, November 11, 1817, son of Leonard C. and Nancy (Hutchinson) French. His father was a prominent town officer of Bedford. The son attended the common schools of his native town and was fitted for college at Gilmanton Acad- emy. He entered Dartmouth in 1839, and was graduated in the class of 1843, among his class- mates being Professor Alvah Hovey of Newton Theological Seminary, Hon. Harry Bingham of Littleton, and John Newton Putnam, wno became Professor of Greek at Dartmouth, all of whom attained to great eminence. Dr. French's parents were in moderate circumstances, his father being a farmer, and he was obliged to teach school winters in order to procure the means with which to defray the expenses of his education. On leaving college he taught a select school in Bedford for three months, and then the Academy at Piscataquog, now known as West Manchester, for four months. Deciding to embrace the medical profession he studied with Doctors Josiah and Thomas R. Crosby at Man- chester, and attended lecture courses at Dartmouth. He took his degree in 1846, and began practice in his native town, but in April, 1847, entered into partnership with Dr. Alfred Hitchcock in Ashby, Massachusetts, where he remained three years, and then removed with Dr. Hitchcock to Fitchburg, Massachusetts. His stay in Fitchburg was short, however, for at the expiration of three months he
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returned to AAshby where he did a large and most prosperous business. Desirous of giving his chil- dren better educational advantages than were to be had at Ashby, he removed to Manchester in 1861. and at once entered upon an extensive practice.
LEONARD FRENCH.
In 1866-'67. he was City Physician; in 1872, President of the Manchester Medical Society; in 1873, a delegate to Dartmouth Medical College. where he made the address to the graduating class. He was also Consulting Physician to the Elliot Hospital, Counsellor of both the Manchester and New Hampshire Medical Societies, and a Director in the Amoskeag Savings Bank. Possessed of a vigorous constitution that was never impaired by excesses of any kind. he was enabled to follow his calling actively late in life when many others younger than he were obliged to shrink from its active duties and responsibilities. It was as an obstetrician that he was most widely known. He performed all the operations incident to this de- partment with signal success. He was at all times kindly, patient, and genial, a friend to his patients as well as a skillful physician. The influence of his upright living and his Christian character did not fail to make its impress upon the communities wherein he resided. He was a consistent member of the Hanover Street Congregational church, and a Deacon in the organization until his death. In
1846. he married Sarah M., daughter of Henry and Lydia (Whitney) Melville of Nelson, by whom he had one son : Leonard Melville French, born July 26, 1849, and at present a prominent physician of Manchester. His wife dying in 1849. he mar- ried her sister, Ann Maria, in 1850, having by her one son : Henry Minot French, who became a successful physician at Concord, and died June 13. 1893. His second wife died in January, 1866, and June 25. 1867, he married Mrs. Mary D. Moore, daughter of Dr. John Ramsey of Greenfield, and widow of Dr. George W. Moore of Amherst, who survives him.
GOSS, HERBERT IRVIN, County Solicitor, Ber- lin, was born in Waterford, Vermont, December 4. 1857, son of Abel B. and Lucy S. (Ross) Goss. Hle was educated at the common schools of his native town and at St. Johnsbury Academy, from which he was graduated in 1880. After teaching school for one year, he commenced the study of law in the office of Bates & May of St. Johnsbury, continuing for two years, when he was admitted to
HERBERT I. GOSS.
the Bar of Caledonia county in 1883. In October of the same year he removed to Minneapolis, Min- nesota, and entered into a law partnership with F. B. Wright, which continued but a short time. In 188; he returned to Vermont, and opened an
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office in Guildhall, but in a few months removed to Lancaster, New Hampshire, to form a partnership with Hon. Jacob Benton, one of the leading attor- neys of the state. He was admitted to the Bar of New Hampshire in July, 1885. After two years he severed his connection with Mr. Benton, removed to Gorham, and formed a partnership with Hon. A. S. Twitchell, which continued until November, 1888. He then went to Berlin, which place had been growing rapidly and had become an important town, practiced alone until 1891, when he entered into partnership with Daniel J. Daley, under the firm name of Daley & Goss. This firm still con- tinues. Mr. Goss is an able lawyer, and the firm has an extensive practice in this and other states. He also takes an active interest in all matters relat- ing to the improvement of Berlin. In politics he is an ardent Republican, and is a successful leader in the councils of that party. In 1894 he was elected County Solicitor, and was re-elected in 1896. He has given great satisfaction in this office. October 8, 1886, he married Agnes Rooney, and has a family of four children.
GRAVES, RUFUS EDWARD, State Senator, Pro- prietor of the Rockingham Junction Railway Res- taurant, and a Farmer, was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire, December 8, 1855, son of Joseph B. T. and Harriet N. (Wood) Graves. His early educa- tion was gained in the common schools and at Kingston Academy. He entered the railway mail service in July, 1879, and served continuously for sixteen years, having rapidly advanced to the posi- tion of Chief Clerk of the First Division, embracing Maine, New Hampshire, and parts of Massachu- setts and Vermont, with headquarters at Portland, . Maine. Ile was extremely popular with one hun- dred and seventy men who served under him in this division. When he retired they gave practical evidence of their appreciation for his kindness and courtesy by presenting him with valuable tokens of esteem. Mr. Graves resigned his position in the Railway Mail Service to buy and conduct the Rockingham Junction Railway Restaurant. He is an enthusiastic and practical farmer and owns a large herd of thoroughbred Jerseys, and is also an extensive breeder of Berkshire hogs. He was a member of the State Senate from the Twenty-first District, embracing the towns of Atkinson, Brent- wood, Chester, Danville, East Kingston, Exeter, Fremont, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, Kingston, Newfields, Newton, Plais-
tow, Sandown, Seabrook, and South Hampton. He has never accepted any other office. In the Senate he was appointed Chairman of Committees on Towns and Parishes, and served on Committees of Revision of Laws, Finance, and State Prison and
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Industrial Schools. He is a Mason, belonging to Gideon Lodge of Kingston.
GRIFFIN, SIMON GOODELL, was born in Nel- son, New Hampshire, August 9, 1824, son of Nathan and Sally (Wright) Griffin. His ancestry as far back as they have been traced, were men of prominence in the communities where they lived, and more than ordinary strength of intellect and force of character. His grandfather, "Squire " Samuel Griffin, went, when a lad, from Bradford, Massachusetts, to Temple, New Hampshire, and before the close of the Revolutionary War to Packersfield, as the town of Nelson was then called. He married the daughter of the settled minister, the Reverend Jacob Foster, and made his residence there. His superior abilities were soon recognized by his election to the Legislature and other offices. Both he and Nehemiah Wright, the General's maternal grandfather, were patriotic sol- diers in the Continental Army, and both took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Nathan Griffin, the General's father, was a man of high ability, but not
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