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HON. JOSHUA P. ABBOTT.
TOSHUA P. ABBOTT, though far away from his native town, yet )retains a warm affection for New Hampshire. He was born in Bos- cawen, March 3, 1840, and until eighteen years of age he assisted his father on the farm, and attended the public schools. He fitted for college at Boscawen academy, and entered Dartmouth college. In 1863 he went to California, where he taught school one year, and in 1864 engaged in a speculative enterprise which called him to Idaho, the trip being made on horseback, though not completed, an Indian war com- pelling him to return after six months in the hostile country, he being the only one of five companions who escaped alive. He read law in the office of Thomas J. Tucker in Napa City, and was admitted to the bar in 1866, and the year after removed to Antioch, Cal., where he has since resided. For ten years he was editor and proprietor of the Antioch Ledger. He is now a member of the law firm of Hartley & Abbott, and enjoys a lucrative practice. He is the owner of one fourth interest in the Antioch Land and Lumber company, doing a business of $100,000 a year, and for twenty years has been prominent in political affairs- always as a Republican. He was elected state senator from the Fifteenth senatorial district in 1887, and has held, besides other positions, the office of deputy collector of internal revenue. For twenty years he was a delegate to every state convention, and has frequently appeared on the stump during political campaigns, where he ranks among the foremost of platform speakers in California.
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LUCIAN M. KILBURN.
L. M. KILBURN was born in Webster in 1842, and received the usual education of the New Ilampshire farmer's boy, viz .. the advantages of the district school in winter, supplemented by a few terms at the excellent New Hampshire academies, with plenty of hard work interspersed between terms. This is the school which has developed the manhood of the Granite state. He taught a few terms of district school in winter, and while a student at Elmwood institute enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth New Hampshire volunteer infantry, for service in the War of the Rebellion ; was with the regiment during its full term of service. He emigrated to lowa in 1868, and located in the sparsely settled new county of Adair, where, after teaching for a couple of terms. he settled upon a farm, and engaged in the business of stock-raising and general farming, to which he has closely given his attention ever since. He has seen his adopted county and state rapidly develop into a country of beautiful farms and happy homes of a progressive and intelligent people. He has helped plant and maintain the standard of New Eng- land morality and virtue, which have so much to do in moulding character among the plastic materials, from all the world, which go to make up the society of our new states. He has been prominent in local circles, in temperance, alliance, and Grand Army work, and helped to organize and make successful an insurance association which is doing good work in that community. Born of a race of reformers, he has kept abreast of all the progress of the age in reform movements. In his home relations he has been very fortunate. He was married, in 1870, to Elizabeth H. Peet, daughter of a New England minister then engaged in church work in Iowa, and has three children, who will take up his work when he leaves it, and carry it on to higher and better planes when he " shall rest from his labors."
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WARREN ABBOTT.
W ARREN ABBOTT, of Webster, was born in that town March 20, 1838, and was educated in the public schools and at Elm- wood institute. Until twenty-six years of age he lived upon the farm, beginning at the age of eighteen as a school teacher, and thus occupying his winters. In February, 1864, he went to California and was a teacher in that state for eighteen years, where his success was very great, receiv- ing from the state department of public instruction a life diploma. So pronounced was his ability that he was nominated by the Republican party for county superintendent of schools in Contra Costa county and was defeated, although he received a full party vote. On account of ill health and for private reasons, he returned to the old homestead in Webster in 1882, where he has since resided. He early became a mem- ber of the grange in this state, and has held the offices of lecturer, treas- urer, and master of the sub-grange, and for two years was lecturer, and for the same length of time master, of the Merrimack County Pomona grange. For several terms he was superintendent of schools in his town and was selectman for three years. In 1891 he was a member of the house of representatives and was one of the most prominent legisla- tors of that session, being especially active in the formation of the farmers' council and equally prominent in the championship of all meas- ures looking toward the betterment of the agricultural condition of the state. Mr. Abbott was married, October 12, 1891, to Mrs. Jennie A. Abbott of Anoka, Minnesota. He is one of the most prominent agriculturists in New Hampshire, being well versed in both theory and practice. A man of wide experience, of broad culture, and far- seeing views, he has been enabled to seize upon and to hold and to improve each point of vantage as it has appeared in his life.
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WILLIAM WIRT BURBANK.
W TILLIAM WIRT BURBANK was born in West Boscawen, now Webster, September 13, 1842, and has spent the whole of a useful and successful life in his rative place. He succeeded his father, the late Friend L. Burbank, in the general manufacture of him- ber, and has extended the business until it has become the chief indus- try in the town. Mr. Burbank has not let his business cares interfere with his duties as a publie-spirited citizen, and his fellow-townsmen have shown their appreciation of his ability and integrity by repeatedly eleeting him moderator, making him a member of the board of select- men for ten years, and sending him as their representative in the legis- lature in 1881. He is deeply interested in the work of the grange, and at the organization of Daniel Webster grange was chosen worthy master, serving for four years. For one year he was the master of Merrimack County Pomona grange, and for five years served on the executive com- mittee of the New Hampshire state grange. He assisted in the institu- tion of the New Hampshire Grange Fair association ; for four years was its general superintendent, and for two years was its president. He is a director in the Merrimack County Fire Insurance company, and in the Blackwater Valley railroad. Mr. Burbank's usefulness has been mani- fested in other ways than in those enumerated. As a friend of good schools, and as a member of the Congregational church and superinten- dent of its Sunday-school, his influence has always been along the lines of highest endeavor. He was married, in 1865, to Ellen M. Dow of Concord.
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WILLIAM O. TUTTLE.
W TILLIAM O. TUTTLE was born in Meredith, October 21, 1837, the son of Bradbury C. Tuttle and Betsey C. (Wallace ) Tuttle. He was educated in the common schools and in the high school of his native town, and worked with his father at home until he was twenty-one years of age, during which time he learned the mason's trade. He then went to Lowell, and served as a clerk in a dry goods store, and after- wards engaged in the dry goods business at Lakeport, in partnership with H. J. Odell. For four years this partnership existed. Mr. Tuttle then went to Boston and went into the real estate and building business, where he remained for two years. He next entered the employ of G. D. Dows & Company, manufacturers of soda apparatus and bottlers, with whom he served as cashier for nine years. Then, in company with O. A. Atkins, he went to Reading, Penn., where he embarked in the extract business, and until 1885 resided in that state. In the latter year he returned to Boston where, with the same partner, under the firm name of W. O. Tuttle & Company, he established himself in business as a bottler and extract manufacturer. Mr. Tuttle's business training had been such as to give him the lead at once, and the knowledge that he brought to his new relation served him in good stead. The business of the firm has been built up to large proportions. In the prosperity that it shares, and which he shares, New Hampshire, as the state of his birth and education, may claim no small part, for the affection for his home is still strong within him.
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WELCOME JENCKS.
W TELCOME JENCKS, one of the prominent young business mer of the Spindle city, was born at Providence, R. I., December 11, 1854. He is the son of Welcome Jencks. for many years prom- inently identified with the manufacturing interests of Manchester. From his father, who was a successful inventor, and his mother, Clarissa Billington, Mr. Jencks inherited the sterling qualities, so characteristic in his personal make-up, and to these in no small degree is due his pres- ent standing in the business and commercial world in which he moves to-day. Early removing with his parents to the Queen city of the Granite state, he was placed in the public schools of that city, and there his education was acquired, for following his graduation from the higher grades of the same he entered the mill business with his father, learning the same in all of its many details. His education in his chosen line of labor was a thorough one, and becoming thoroughly conversant with the business in all its many details, he went upon the road in 1879. looking after the patent business which his father had established, and in this particular line he has followed up to the present time. Early in life he took an active interest in political affairs, and has been for many years a prominent figure in both city and state conventions. Taking his business and political career together, it can well be said that of the New Hampshire men of to-day, few are better known the length and breadth of the state, and he is rated among the enterprising and pushing men of the city, for whose welfare he is always solicitous. January 4, 1880. he married Georgie W., the daughter of Lafayette Robinson, and one child, Bessie, now twelve years of age, is the result of this union. lle can well be claimed among the leading men of the state, for there are none who know him but who are pleased to class him within the circle of their business and social acquaintance.
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GUSTAVUS WALKER.
G USTAVUS WALKER was born May 7, 1830, at Amoskeag, T where his father, William Walker, was a tavern-keeper of renown, keeping three different hotels, two in Amoskeag and one in Piscataquog. When he was an infant, his family removed to Andover Centre, where he lived until December, 1835, when his father removed to Concord and became proprietor of the Washington tavern, and a year later of the famous Eagle Coffee House, where the Eagle hotel now stands, which he kept until the fall of 1849, when he retired from business. Gus- tavus was educated in the schools of Concord, at Hopkinton under the tuition of John O. Ballard, at Portsmouth under Master Harris, at Phil- lips Andover academy, under " Uncle Sam " Taylor, and at Northfield seminary. His familiarity in boyhood with the guests at his father's hotels, gave him an extensive acquaintance, and he added to this while express messenger for Cheney & Co. from 1846 to 1849 and clerk of the steamer Lady of the Lake during the seasons of 1850 and 1851. March r, 1852, he engaged with the late Hon. David A. Warde in the hardware business in Concord, under the firm name of Warde & Walker, and in 1855 he embarked in the same business in Phenix block under his own name, and for twenty-eight years thereafter was one of Con- cord's most honored and active merchants. Since his retirement from mercantile life, on account of sickness in his family, Mr. Walker has devoted himself to the care of his own and his brother William's es- tates, which embrace some of the most desirable pieces of property in Concord. He is deeply interested in giving his city the best possible
. railroad connections ; was largely instrumental in securing the building of the Peterborough & Hillsborough, and is an ardent advocate of the building of the Concord & Rochester railroad, of which he is president. Mr. Walker's life has been an active one, and to him is accorded a rep- utation for honor, unsurpassed by any. Mr. Walker's wife is a daugh- ter of the late John D. and Mary C. B. Butler of Bennington.
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WILLIAM WALKER. JR.
W ILLIAM WALKER, JR., the son of William and Betsey (Gay) Walker, was born in Chester, September 18, 1810, and was educated in the public schools of that town, and at Amoskeag village. to which place, when William, Jr., was twelve years of age, his father moved, becoming proprietor of a famous old-time stage tavern. The subject of this sketch was for a time employed in the Amoskeag mill. meeting there the young lady whom he subsequently married,-and was next engaged in driving a stage between Hopkinton and Piscataquog. In 1830 the family moved to Andover, and young Walker drove a large freight team for a time, a little later resuming staging, and driving between Wilmot and Concord, Concord and Lowell, and Concord and Nashua, respectively. As a stage-driver he was noted for his courtesy, and the good condition in which his fine horses were kept was often remarked. Forming ideas of the express business through his acquaintance with Harnden, the pioneer, Mr. Walker embarked in a similar enterprise, with B. P. Cheney and Nathaniel White as partners, under the name of Walker & Co.'s express, which in turn became Cheney & Co., United States & Can- ada, and finally a part of the American system. Mr. Walker was one of the pioneers in the navigation of Lake Winnipiseogee, and a projector and builder of the Lady of the Lake, and for several years its popular com- mander, his first experience having been gained on a steamer plying be- tween Haverhill and Newburyport. Mr. Walker married Mary E. Goss, November 22, 1831, and the celebration of their golden wedding in Concord in 1881 was an important social event. Mr. Walker died on the following anniversary of his marriage, in 1882. His widow sur- vives, at the age of eighty-four years.
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WILLIAM AUGUSTUS GILE.
W TILLIAM AUGUSTUS GILE, now residing and practising his profession at Worcester, Mass., was born at Franklin, June 5, 1843. His father, Alfred A. Gile, was a native of Northfield, in which town the family had lived for two generations, the original home- stead having been built by Jonathan Guile (which was the former way of spelling the family name). The family first came from England to Dedham, Mass., about 1630. The subject of this sketch, Maj. William A. Gile, was reared upon the farm in that part of Franklin on the east side of the Merrimack river, nearly opposite the Webster place, which was formerly a part of Northfield, and which became a part of Franklin before the Civil War, and the homestead has always been the place of rest and recreation for Major Gile and his family, since he has lived in Massachusetts. His family consists of Mrs. Gile, formerly Clara A. Dewing, of North Brookfield, Mass., whom he married in 1878, and five children-William Waitt Gile, the eldest son, and Minnie Helen Gile, the eldest daughter, whose mother was Major Gile's first wife, and whose maiden name was Mary Green Waitt; Alfred Dewing Gile, eld- est son of Clara A. Gile, Margaret Lucinda Gile, her eldest daughter, and Lawrence Bliss Gile, the youngest son, and two infant sons who died, constitute the rest of the children. Major Gile went to the war when nineteen years of age, with his brother Frank, who is now a phy- sician in East Orange, N. J., serving in the Sixteenth and Eighteenth New Hampshire volunteers, being captain of Company E in the latter regiment. After the war he studied law with Hon. Austin F. Pike and Hon. Isaac N. Blodgett, then co-partners in law at Franklin. There- after he finished his studies for the legal profession at Harvard Law school, and, having been admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1869, began the practice of law at Greenfield, Mass., as a co-partner with the Hon. Whiting Griswold, of that town, and since 1871 has been practis- ing law in Worcester, Mass.
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HON. HENRY H. HUSE.
H ON. HENRY H. HUSE was born in West Fairlee, Vt., May 30, 1839 : died in Concord, September 7, 1890. Early in life he removed to Barnstead, where he was residing when the Civil War broke out. On the formation of the Eighth New Hampshire volun- teers, he was elected and commissioned captain of Company G, on De- cember 20, 1861. For gallant conduct during the siege of Port Hud- son he was promoted to major of the Eighth regiment. He was with the regiment up to September 22, 1863, when, broken down by the hardships of two years' service in the malarious districts of Louisiana, he was obliged to resign his commission, and received an honorable discharge. Major Huse read law at Pittsfield and Manchester, and was for a time in partnership with Hon. Lewis W. Clark. When Mr. Clark went upon the bench Major Huse went into partnership with Hon. James F. Briggs. He represented his ward three terms in the legislature, serving as speaker of the house in 1879. He was for a time chairman of the state committee of the Republican party. He was commander of the Amoskeag Veterans in 1876. Major Huse was appointed insurance commissioner by Governor Sawyer in March, 1888. He gave his best endeavors to the duties of his office, and made an honorablerecord. As a public offi- cer he was "faithful and efficient, ever discharging all public duties with signal ability ; a lawyer of large experience in his profession, of well balanced judgment and discretion, well grounded in the fundamental principles of the law, faithful alike to the court and his client : a citizen patriotic and public-spirited, and in private life a pleasant, kind. and genial companion." Major Huse was a man of fine presence, and in a marked degree possessed unmistakable traits as an organizer, being sys- tematic and decisive in all his actions.
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AARON YOUNG.
A ARON YOUNG was born in Barrington, N. H., June 16, 1827. His father was Aaron Young, a man of uncommon natural ability, and very prominent in the affairs of the town and party to which he belonged. The subject of this sketch spent his early years on his father's farm and in the public schools of the town. In 1851 he went to Manchester, where, in 1853, he married Miss Louisa B. Paige, daughter of Deacon Osgood Paige, and for a few years following was engaged in business in Manchester and Dover. Mr. Young was by birth and family traditions a Whig, and became an earnest Republican at the birth of the party. He held a position eight years in the custom house at Portsmouth, and was deputy collector of internal revenue 13 years. In 1889 he was appointed a special agent of the treasury department for New England. He is still engaged in that business, and has the reputation of a vigilant, painstaking, and capable officer, whom violators of the law find it hard to deceive or evade. Mr. Young has a natural taste for politics, and no man is better known as an unswerving Republican and skilful manager of party affairs. He generally knows what is going on, and nothing of importance escapes his attention and influence. His shrewdness as a manager and thorough understanding of the currents and cross-currents of human nature cause his counsels and advice to be held in the highest respect by all who aspire to office or influence in the party. Of amiable disposition, agreeable address, great fidelity to friends, and wide acquaintance with public men and political history, he is always an important factor in New Hampshire calculations. Mr. Young is a brother of Hon. Jacob D. Young, of Madbury, and George W. Young, Esq., of Dover, and a twin of the late Col. Andrew H. Young. He resides in Portsmouth, and has a daughter, Alice R., who presides over his house, and a son, Philip, of Dartmouth college. Mrs. Young, a most estimable woman, died March 14, 1893, greatly lamented by a large circle of friends.
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COL. ANDREW H. YOUNG.
A NDREW H. YOUNG was born in Barrington, June 16, 1827. He was a son of Aaron Young, a man of ability and prominence in town affairs. He spent his early years on his father's farm, gaining a good prac- tical education in the town schools, of which he was superintendent when only twenty-three years of age. He took an early interest in politics, and was one of the leaders of the movement which made New Hampshire a Republican state in 1855, and has kept it so till this day. He was reg- ister of deeds and clerk of the supreme court in Strafford county till 1861, when he entered the military service as quartermaster of the Seventh New Hampshire volunteers, was promoted to captain and as- sistant-quartermaster United States volunteers in 1862, to major and pay- master United States army in 1864, and to lieutenant-colonel by brevet in 1866. Appointed internal revenue collector for New Hampshire by President Grant in 1869, he served till 1881, collecting and disbursing large sums of money. In 1885 he was appointed quartermaster in the regular army, and in that capacity rendered valuable service to the gov- ernment, especially in constructing the new United States barracks at Newport, Ky. In that malarious climate he contracted a heart disease, and died at his home in Dover, December 10, 1890. Colonel Young was a man of uncommon ability and public spirit, and exerted a strong influence in the affairs of the state and nation. He will long be remem- bered by hosts of friends for noble qualities of head and heart, for his genial presence, agreeable manners, and a fund of information, wit, and anecdote which made him a delightful associate. He married Miss Susan E. Miles, of Madbury, in 1854. Mrs. Young survives him, as do also a daughter, Mary Hale, and two sons, Haldimand Putnam and Richard Batchelder, both actively engaged in business.
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MAJOR CHARLES A. YOUNG.
M AJOR CHARLES A. YOUNG was born at Barrington, Septem- ber 22, 1842, the son of William Hale Young and Sarah (Daniels) Young. He was educated in the private and public schools of his native town, and remaining on the home farm until twenty years of age, in 1862 removing to Boston, where he became identified with a large and successful business. For more than thirty years he has held his resi- dence in one locality, where the impress of his character, both in public and private life, has been markedly beneficial. He possesses a genial and social nature, and is a member of many organizations. For three years he was commander of the Roxbury Horse Guards, and for three years commander of the First battalion of cavalry, and for many years com- mander of the "Old Guard " of Massachusetts. He stands high in military circles. He was the originator and first president of the Harvard Improvement association at Dorchester. He has an at- tractive and impressive manner, and occupies a position in whatever circle he enters, flattering to himself and enviable to his associates. As a citizen he is a recognized leader; he is graceful and winning in debate, courteous to his opponent, and pronounced in his convic- tions. A New Hampshire Republican, he holds the respect and esteem of the men of all parties, and has frequently come before the people as a candidate for public office. Although loyally attached to the city of his adoption, his love for his native state has never dimin- ished, and among the sons of New Hampshire who have gone forth to win for themselves success in neighboring states, none turns more fondly to the home of his birth than Major Young.
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WILLIAM H. H. YOUNG.
W ILLIAM HENRY HARRISON YOUNG, of Boston, Mass .. son of William Hall and Sarah (Daniels) Young, was born in Barrington, May 15, 1837. After receiving his education at the town schools and at South Berwick academy, he taught school in Great Falls and Rollinsford till 1858, when he went to Boston and engaged in contract work. In 1862 he returned to his native town to enlist as a private in a company then forming. Shortly after he was appointed recruiting officer for the state, and September 27, 1862, was commis- sioned first lieutenant in the Thirteenth New Hampshire regiment. which he helped to organize, and was appointed judge advocate. Dur- ing the Fredericksburg campaign and General Dix expedition up the peninsular, he was disabled, and although recommended for promotion to captain, was obliged to resign after spending five months in a hospi- tal, receiving his discharge February 2, 1864 He returned to Boston, where he has since resided. His wife, Susan Tappan, was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Cook of Boston, a native of Milton, N. H. Mr. Young is a member of the New Hampshire club and of the Loyal Le- gion. In politics a staunch Republican, he has never missed a chance to vote. In business he has always been held in high esteem by those who know him for his sound and practical sagacity. As a representa- tive of one of the most noted families of the state, and coming from one of the most noted towns, he has ever been true to his birthright, and the honor and integrity of each have been well maintained.
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