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Naturally few men from the North ever came to the front in public life in the Southern States; but occasionally a son of the Granite State has secured recognition in that direction. Ira H. Evans, a native of Piermont, was at one time Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives; while sev- eral New Hampshire men have been prom-
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inent in Louisiana, where Charles A. Pea- body, native of Sandwich, was Chief Jus- tice, and Henry M. Spofford, born in Gil- manton, an Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court, Benjamin F. Flanders, native of Bristol, was Military Governor, and a Representative in Congress, which latter position was also held by George L. Smith, born in Hillsboro, and Ebenezer W. Ripley, a son of Hanover. Edward H. Durell, na- tive of Portsmouth, was a mayor of New Orleans and a Judge of the U. S. District Court.
While many New Hampshire people have made their homes in recent years in the State of Florida, where the census of 1850 returned fifty New Hampshire born men and women among the permanent residents, and hundreds more pass the winter months in the state, not many Gran- ite State men have come into public promi- nence there. One of them, however, George F. Drew, a native of the town of Alton, who was one of the most extensive lumber manufacturers in the South, took an active part in political affairs, and serv- ed as Governor, 1876 to 1880, with great ef- ficiency, bringing the condition of the State's finances up to a high standard, from one bordering on bankruptcy. Ar- thur F. Odlin, a native of Concord, who
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had served as Attorney General of Porto Rico, and a Judge in the Philippines, set- tled at Arcadia, Fla., some years since and has attained high rank at the bar of the state, to which James W. Henderson of Do- ver was admitted forty years ago, then a resident of St. Augustine, and for a time prosecuting attorney of St. John's county, and extensively engaged in real estate op- erations.
Nedom L. Angier, native of Acworth, was for a time State Treasurer of Geor- gia; while Joseph C. Abbott, born in Con- cord, was a United States Senator from North Carolina, and John C. French of Gilmanton served in the House of Repre- sentatives from the same state, as did Harry Libbey, native of Wakefield, from Virginia.
While many New Hampshire men have made their home on the Pacific Coast, they have generally been more prominent in business and industrial operations than in public and political life; yet John Swett, native of Pittsfield, was the first Superin- tendent of Public Instruction in the State of California and laid the foundation for its splendid educational system, and was succeeded in office by another son of New Hampshire, Ira G. Hoitt, native of Lee. Frederic T. Woodman, native of Concord,
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was the mayor of Los Angeles, the largest city in the state in 1917-18. There are many colonies of New Hampshire people in different sections of California, notably in the south, where they are extensively en- gaged in fruit culture. Frank E. and War- ren C. Kimball, natives of Hopkinton, who purchased a large tract of land in San Diego county, and laid out National City, some 40 years ago, also planted the largest olive orchard in the world. They also or- ganized the Southern California R. R. Harry Chandler, native of Lisbon, is the proprietor of the Los Angeles Times, one of the greatest newspapers of the Pacific Coast and has extensive interests in other directions. Dartmouth College conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M. at the last commencement. Robert Judkins, native of Laconia, who went to California in the employ of E. H. Rollins & Sons, bankers, who had a branch establishment in San Francisco, is now president of the First National Bank of Long Beach, while Edward N. Pearson, Jr., native of Concord, who went there in a similar capacity, is now the head of a large private banking concern in San Francisco and extensively engaged in promoting irrigation enter- prises.
Many New Hampshire people have set --
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tled in the new State of Washington, whose first territorial governor was Alvin Flan- ders, a native of the town of Bristol, who also served as its delegate in Congress. The city of Spokane has been built up, largely by New Hampshire capital and en- terprise, the late Daniel C. Corbin, a native of the town of Newport, having contribut- ed more to its growth and prosperity, and the development of the surrounding coun- try than any other man, through the pro- jection and construction of numerous rail- way systems centering in that city, and the promotion of other great enterprises. George B. Lane, a native of Epping, was for some time Mayor of the city of Olym- pia.
Charles F. Caswell, native of Strafford, was for some years a Justice of the Su- perior Court of Colorado.
But it is impracticable to particularize farther in this direction. There is scarce- ly a state in the Union where New Hamp- shire men have not been leaders in public, as well as in professional, business and in- dustrial life.
The Dominion of Canada, even, has drawn to no little extent upon New Hamp- shire for men in public affairs as well as in private enterprise, notable examples in the former line, being John F. Sanborn, na-
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tive of Gilmanton, member of Parliament and a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, and Sir George Halsey Perley, born in Lebanon, who has not only been a member of Parliament, but served as High Com- missioner for the Canadian government in London during the World War.
Especially prominent have sons of New Hampshire been in the Christian ministry. A large octavo volume, entitled "The Na- tive Ministry of New Hampshire" compiled by the late Rev. Nathan H. Carter of Con- cord, contains the record of 2,500 clergy- men, born in this state, to which several hundred more might now be added, since this book was published a dozen years ago. Of these over 200 had received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. A most remarkable record, which probably cannot be parallelled anywhere in the world is that of the Foster family of Han- over, seven brothers, sons of Richard Fos- ter, all having been prominent ministers- three of them Doctors of Divinity.
There have been leading representatives of nearly all denominations among New Hampshire's native Ministry, but compara- tively few of whom can be mentioned, by way of illustration. Congregationalism, long time known as the "Standing order," and practically the state religion, until
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within a century past, from the fact that all were taxed for its support, has natural- ly had more adherents in the State in the past than any other branch of the church, and its native born clergy have been most numerous. Among them may be named Henry Wood, native of Loudon, many years Chaplain in the U. S. Navy, who es- tablished the first Protestant Mission in Japan and preached the first sermon in English in that country; Samuel J. Spauld- ing, born in Lyndeboro, for 33 years pastor of the Whitefield church, Newburyport, Mass .; Edward L. Clark, native of Nashua, for 20 years pastor of the Church of the Puritans in New York, later of the Central Church, Boston; Samuel Swain, native of Concord, pastor Central Church, Provi-
dence, R I .; Alonzo H. Quint, born in
Dover, pastor of various churches, last and best, chairman of the Committee which called the convention to form the National Council, and later Moderator of the Coun- cil; Arthur Little, Webster, pastor in Fon Du Lac, Wis., Chicago, Ill., and Boston, Mass .; Henry Little of the same town, who held pastorates in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, and is credited with having organized more churches and Sunday Schools than any other man; Charles H. Richards of Plainfield, pastor First Church
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in Madison, Wis., 23 years and of Central Church, Philadelphia, 13 years; Ephraim Peabody of Wilton, long preacher at King's Chapel, Boston; David L. Furber, Sand- wich for 35 years pastor at Newton Center, Mass .; Willard L. Gage, of Loudon, long time pastor of Pearl St. Church, Hartford, Conn .; and many of more recent time in- cluding, among others, such talented sons of Manchester as Dr. Newton M. Hall of the old North Church, Springfield, Mass .; and Allen Eastman Cross, at one time As- sistant pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, and later pastor at Milford, Mass. The Episcopalians, with whom the earli- est settlers of the State were numbered, so far as they had any religious affiliation, but who were overshadowed by the Con- gregationalists under Massachusetts as- cendency, have been ably represented in the ministry by such men as Samuel Par- ker, native of Portsmouth, ordained in
England by the Lord Bishop of London, who was the rector of Trinity church from 1774 to 1804, was the only clergyman re- maining at his post in Boston during the Revolution and was for some time Bishop of the Eastern District; Asa Eaton, native of Plaistow, for 25 years rector of Christ Church, Boston, who established the first Sunday School in that city; Charles B.
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Dana, native of Orford, rector Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. (George Washing- ton's old church) for 26 years, later at Trinity Church, Natchez, Miss .; and Charles Mason, native of Portsmouth, for 15 years rector of Grace Church, Boston; Philander Chase, native of Cornish, emi- nent in the service of the Episcopal church in the Central West, both in the establish- ment of churches and educational institu- tions. He was the first Bishop of Ohio, and afterward of Illinois, while Carlton Chase, native of Claremont, was the first Bishop of this diocese, serving for many years. William B. Howe, also of Clare- mont, was the sixth Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina, and Walter T. Sumner, a son of Manchester, is now the Bishop of Oregon.
Among eminent representatives of the Baptist faith, New Hampshire born, may be named Baron Stow, native of Croydon, for 35 years the leading Baptist preacher in Boston, where Adoniram J. Gordon, of New Hampton birth, also served with dis- tinction for a quarter of a century. Fran- cis R. Morse, native of Salisbury, was in the same ministry in Albany, Brooklyn, and New York City for a long period, his last and most important pastorate being with Calvary Church, New York and
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covering a period of 14 years. Moses H. Bixby, native of Warren, after ten years of missionary work in Burmah, was for 32 years pastor of the Cranston St., Baptist Church in Providence, R. I.
New Hampshire has made large contri- bution to Methodism, both as regards its preaching service and its educational work. One of the most noted exponents of that faith and a pioneer preacher of great ability, was John Brodhead of New- market, who also sat four years, from 1829 to 1833, in th National House of Repre- sentatives from this State, as did also James Pike another Methodist clergyman, who married his daughter, for a similar term, commencing in 1855. Mrs. Pike, by the way, lived to be 106 years of age, dying on the 15th day of May last. Jared Per- kins of Winchester, another able minister of the same faith, also served a term in Congress. The most eminent contribution to Methodism which the State has fur- nished was undoubtedly in the person of the distinguished Bishop, Osman C. Baker, native of the town of Marlow, who, after serving as Principal of Newbury, Vt.,
Seminary, as pastor in Rochester and Manchester, as Presiding Elder of the Do- ver District, as a professor in the Metho- dist Biblical Institute in Concord and,
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later, as President of that Institution, was created a Bishop in 1852, serving with dis- tinction for 19 years in that capacity, till his death in 1871. In his honor Baker Uni- versity at Baldwin, Kansas, was named. Here it may be said that the Methodist Biblical Institute at Concord, which oc- cupied the famous old North Church edi- fice, on the site of the present Walker School in that city, was removed to Boston in 1852 and was the basis upon which Bos- ton University, the greatest Methodist ed- ucational institution in the country was es- tablished.
Among numerous other Methodist
preachers of notable service, from this state, may be named John A. M. Chapman, native of Greenland, who preached in Bos- ton, New York and Philadelphia; Laban Clark, born in Haverhill, long prominent in the service in Connecticut, and presiding elder in several districts; Carlos Gould, native of Newport, pioneer preacher in Western New York and a presiding elder in the Genessee Conference; John H. Twombly, native of Rochester, who serv- ed in and around Boston, was chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representa- tatives, and an overseer of Harvard Col- lege; John L. Dearborn, born in Thornton who did great missionary and educational
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work in Kansas, for thirty years; Lorenzo R. Thayer, native of Winchester, preacher in many large parishes in the Boston dis- trict; Calvin Holman, native of Hopkinton, eminent in this State and in Kansas; George J. Judkins, native of Kingston, and Willis P. Odell, born in Lakeport, well known throughout New England.
Universalism is indebted to New Hamp- shire for many of its earliest, ablest and most distinguished preachers. Here in the town of Richmond, was born Hosea Ballou, one of the first disciples of John Murray and the first strong champion of the faith in New England, preacher in Lowell and Boston from 1807 till 1852; who was followed as pastor of the School St. Church in Boston, by Alonzo A. Miner, na- tive of Lempster, long the ablest of Boston preachers, president of Tufts College for many years, overseer of Harvard and preacher of the last "election sermon" ever given before the Massachusetts legislature. Willard Spaulding, born in the same town with Dr. Miner, preached with great ac- ceptance for 40 years, in different Massa- chusetts parishes. Sullivan H. McColles- ter, native of Marlboro, was not only an able preacher, but distinguished educator as well as a traveler and author. John G. Adams, born in Portsmouth, held impor-
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tant pastorates in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Ohio, and was the author of various doctrinal works. He was the father of the distinguished Dr. John Cole- man Adams, of Hartford, Conn., one of the ablest preachers of the present day, who died recently. Henry I. Cushman, native of Orford was for 30 years pastor of the First Universalist Church of Providence, R. I. Enoch Morrill Pingree, native of Littleton, carried the Universalist gospel into the West and South, preaching many years in Cincinnati, O., and Louisville, Ky. Charles H. Leonard, born in Northwood, was for 23 years pastor in Chelsea, Mass., where he instituted "Children's Sunday" in the Church, since adopted in nearly all churches throughout the country. He was for 30 years dean of the Crane Divinity School at Tufts College, in which position he was succeeded by Lee S. McCollester, native of Westmoreland, who had served many years as pastor of the Universalist Church at Detroit, Mich., following a pas- torate at Claremont in this State. Cyrus H. Fay, native of Lebanon, after an eleven years pastorate in the First Church at Providence, in which he was succeeded by Dr. Cushman, was for 24 years a pastor in Brooklyn, N. Y. Harold Marshall, native of Kingston, an able preacher, is now edi-
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tor of the Universalist Leader at Boston.
Unitarianism, which came to the front, shortly after Universalism got a foothold in the country, each being an organized protest against the Calvinistic doctrines of the Congregational and other "orthodox" churches, so called, has, like Universalism, a more limited following in the State than other denominations, previously mention- ed, and New Hampshire has not furnished so many distinguished preachers of this faith as it has of the Universalist, but the one man, whose name stands out most con- spicuously among the leaders of the de- nomination-James Freeman Clarke-for 47 years pastor of the Church of the Dis- ciples in Boston, was born in Hanover, N. H., while his successor in that pastorate, Charles G. Ames, though born in Massachu- setts, was reared in the town of Canter- bury, and was to all intents and purposes, a New Hampshire man. Other Unitarian preachers of more or less eminence, na- tives of the State, include William B. O. Peabody, born in Exeter, for 27 years pastor in Springfield, Mass .; Nathaniel Thayer, native of Hampton, pastor at Lan- caster, Mass. for 45 years; George W. Bur- nap, born in Merrimack, long time pastor of the First Independent Church of Balti- more, Md .; John Clark, native of Ports-
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mouth, for twenty years pastor of the First Church in Boston, in which he was succeeded by Edward Cummings, the pre- sent distinguished pastor, who is a native of Colebrook. Samuel C. Beane, native of Candia and Josiah L. Steward born in Sullivan, both attained distinction as preachers in this state and Massachusetts; and William Safford Jones, native of Exe- ter, has recently ended a brilliant pastorate in the Channing Memorial Church, New- port, R. I., to accept a call to the Unitarian church in Portsmouth.
Presbyterianism, which is not essential- ly different from Congregationalism, so far as matters of faith are concerned, has had small hold in New Hampshire, and few churches of that denomination are found in the State; but among its distin- guished representatives have been John Chase Lord, native of the town of Wash- ington, nearly 40 years pastor of the Cen- tral church in Buffalo, N Y., and Thomas Marshall, born in Weare, who filled pas- torates in Minnesota, Missouri and Illinois, and was for thirteen years Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
Benjamin Randall, the founder of the Free Will Baptist Church (now united with the Baptists), was a native of the town of Newcastle, later removing to New Dur- 6
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ham, and had a personal following probably larger than any other religious leader in the state. Joseph Badger, native of Gil- manton, was the founder of the denomina- tion specifically known as "Christian," which has a very considerable membership in some parts of the country, whose larg- est church in the state is at Franklin, and one of whose ablest preachers was the late Alvah H. Morrill, native of Danbury.
While the Roman Catholic Church has to-day more adherents in the State than has any Protestant denomination, and many native sons of New Hampshire have undoubtedly rendered efficient service in its priesthood, the two whose names stand out conspicuously are those of George A. Guertin, Bishop of Manchester, native of Nashua and Thomas M. O'Leary, native of Dover, recently consecrated Bishop of Springfield.
The Medical profession in the country at large has also had large contribution from the little State of New Hampshire, men- tion of a few only of prominent representa- tives, in addition to those already named as Boston practitioners, can be made here. Aside from such eminent members of the Dartmouth Medical faculty, as Drs. Dixi Crosby and Carlton P. Frost, with others scarcely less eminent, such distinguished
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practitioners as Dr. Willard Parker, native of Hillsboro, a leader of his profession in the city of New York, Professor of Surgery in the N. Y. College of Physicians and Sur- geons, in whose honor the Willard Parker Hospital for Contagious Diseases was named, and Dr. Reuben D. Mussey, native of Pelham, professor of Surgery in the Ohio Medical College, and lecturer in many other colleges, who is credited with being the first to successfully tie both carotid arteries, should have first mention. Others of note include Dr. Thomas R. Crosby, na- tive of Sandwich, in charge of the Colum- bian College hospital during the Civil War; Dr. Lyman Spaulding, native of Cornish, president of Western N. Y. College of
Physicians and Surgeons; Dr. James F.
Dana, born in Amherst, professor of
Chemistry in New York College of
Physicians and Surgeons; Dr. Charles E.
Quimby, native of New Ipswich, for 30 years professor of Medical practice in the University of New York; Dr. Jesse Smith, native of Peterboro, long professor of Anatomy in Cincinnati Medical College; Dr. Jabez B. Upham, born in Claremont, physician to Boston City Hospital, also a noted patron of music, who secured for Boston the great organ in Music Hall; Dr. Edwin B. Harvey, born in Deerfield, origi-
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nator and Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and father of the measure providing free text- books in the schools of that State; Dr. William B. Hills, native of Plaistow, pro- fessor of Chemistry in Harvard Medical School; Dr. Gilman Kimball, born in Hill, eminent practitioner in Lowell for many years, and professor of Surgery in Berk- shire Medical Institute; Dr. Luther I. Bell, native of Chester, expert alienist and sup- erintendent McLean Hospital, Somerville, Mass .; Dr. George H. Whipple, born in Ashland, professor of Medical Research, and Dr Henry G. Branierd, native of Lon- donderry, professor of Nervous and Men- tal Diseases in the University of Califor- nia; Dr. Uranus O. B. Wingate, native of Rochester, professor in the Wisconsin Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and Sec- retary of the Wisconsin Board of Health; Dr. William W. Watkins, native of Warner, prominent in practice in St. Louis, and later founder and first president of the Idaho Medical Society, and Dr. W. H. H. Pollard, born in Brentwood, professor of Hygiene and Physical Education, in Wash- ington-Lee University, Va.
In dentistry, as in medicine, with which it is closely allied, New Hampshire men have been active and efficient, all over the -
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country, and in goodly numbers. It is needless to designate individual examples, but a conspicuous illustration is furnished in the fact that out of a single school dis- trict in the little town of Lempster, went three men who became prominent in this
profession. Ozias M. George was for forty years in successful practice at Bel- lows Falls, Vt., with a wide reputation for skill in his profession; Levi C. Taylor, for some years located at Holyoke, Mass., but later, for many years, in practice in Hart- He was ford, Conn., gained high rank.
the first president of the Hartford Dental Association, was also president of the Connecticut Valley Dental Association, and for some time lecturer on Oral Prophy- laxis and Orthodontia in the N. Y. College of Dental and Oral Surgery; while Charles A. Brackett, who has been an in- structor and professor in the Harvard Den- tal School for 48 years, the last 32 years as professor of Dental Pathology, in practice in Newport, R. I., since 1873, has a reputa- tion in the profession second to that of no man in the country.
Most New Hampshire born lawyers of prominence in other states, have already been mentioned in connection with vari- ous important public offices which they have held, or as members of the bar in
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Boston. Among those who have been in successful practice in New York, not here- tofore mentioned, are Henry Howland, na- tive of Walpole; Nathaniel Holmes Clem- ent, native of Tilton; Albert E. Hadlock, native of Amherst; George W. Burleigh and Daniel G. Rollins, natives of Somers- worth; Philip Carpenter, native of Bath; William D. Sawyer, native of Dover; Henry Cole Quimby, native of Lakeport; and Harry D. Nims, native of Keene. Ben- jamin F. Ayer, native of Kingston, after practice in this state, had a most success- full career at the Chicago bar. Among
the most important contributions to legal science and learning has been the service in the Dane Law School at Harvard, of Joel Parker, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of N. H., and Jeremiah Smith, Associate Justice, each for an ex- tended term, and of Nathaniel Holmes, na- tive of Peterboro, as Royal Professor of Law, and of Christopher C. Langdell, a na- tive of New Boston, long time dean of the School, for whom Landell Hall, the main law building was named.
No other state in the Union has contrib- uted as extensively as has New Hampshire to the educational life of the nation. Dartmouth College ranks with Harvard, Yale and Princeton in potent influence for
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good, upon the national character; while the State College, comparatively young as it is, has been sending out young men, for years, who are taking high rank in the scientific world. It would be impracticable to attempt to name here, all the sons of New Hampshire who have been presidents of colleges and universities throughout the country, or held
their faculties.
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