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1912, after more than forty years of faithful service, he resigned this position to assume the duties of secre- tary of the Concord Building Ass'n, which office he still holds; Republi- can; alderman from Ward 7, Concord; four years; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1893; in this year he introduced a bill in the house which was passed in that body, but defeated in the senate, providing that "All money loaned upon real estate, in the
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state of New Hampshire, where the rate of interest does not exceed five per cent, shall be exempt from taxa- tion." (This measure, of which Mr. Quimby was the author, has recently become the law of the state.) Chair- man, Republican city committee, ten years; Past Master, Eureka Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; Past High Priest, Trinity Royal Arch Chapter; member Horace Chase Council, Mt. Horeb Commandery, K. T .; Past Potentate, Bektash Temple, Mystic Shrine; mem- ber and Worthy Patron, Epiphany Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star;
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HON. WILLIS G. BUXTON.
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charter member of the Wonolancet Club, Concord; m., May 6, 1880, Millie B. Smith, d. July 29, 1899; one dau., Marie B., b. March 13, 1893. Residence, Concord, N. H.
Buxton, Willis George
Lawyer and insurance agent; b., Henniker, N. H., Aug. 22, 1856; s. Daniel M. and Abbie A. (Whittaker) Buxton; ed. Clinton Grove and New London academies, Boston University Law School, 1879; admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Hillsborough, remaining till 1882, when he removed to Penacook (Boscawen side); partner one year with the late Judge Nehemiah Butler; since in practice alone; Congregationalist; Re- publican till 1912, since then Pro- gressive; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1895, serving as chair- man of committee on elections, and member committee on revision of statutes; member, N. H. Senate, 1897, serving as chairman judiciary com- mittee; delegate in N. H. constitu- tional conventions, 1889, 1902, 1912; delegate to Progressive national con- ventions of 1912 and 1916; served twenty-two years as member of Re- publican state committee and five years as member of Progressive state committee; associate justice of the Concord district court two years, and since justice of the Boscawen munici- pal court; many years town treasurer, library trustee, member of local board of health and board of education; treasurer and superintendent, Penacook and Bos- cawen water precinct; Knight Templar Mason and Odd Fellow; member, N. H. Historical Soc., Union Club; trustee, Merrimack Co. Savings Bank; trustee and secretary, N. H. Orphans' Home, Franklin, since 1895; m., June 4, 1884, Martha J. Flanders; a daughter, Grace H., died in childhood. Residence, Bos- cawen (Penacook P. O.), N. H.
Barton, Jesse Morton
Lawyer; b., Newport, N. H., Jan. 21, 1870; s. Levi W. and Elizabeth F. (Jewett) Barton; ed. public schools,
Kimball Union Academy, 1888, Dart- mouth College, 1892; principal, Pena- cook grammar school, 1892-3; principal, Simonds free high school, Warner, 1903-6; studied law with his father, with the late Albert S. Wait of Newport, and at the Boston University Law School; was admitted to the bai, March, 1899, and has since practiced in New- port; Methodist; Republican; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1901-2; member, N. H. constitutional conven-
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tions, 1902, 1912; judge of probate for Sullivan County, 1906-17; trustee, N. H. Industrial School, appointed by Gov. Henry B. Quinby; member and president, N. H. state senate, 1917-18; chairman, Republican state committee, May, 1912 to Oct., 1914; Mason, Odd Fellow; trustee, Newport Savings Bank, Richards Free Library, Method- ist church; president, Newport board of trade; m., Sept. 29, 1911, Emma Byars; one dau., Jean Elizabeth, b. March 4, 1914. Residence, Newport, N. H.
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Hatch, Albert Ruyter
Lawyer; b., Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 10, 1882; s. John and Alice Spencer (Benton) Hatch; ed. Ports- mouth High School, 1900, Dartmouth College, A.B., 1904; Harvard Law
School, LL.B., 1907; admitted to the bar June 27, 1907; commenced practice with John W. Kelley, and remained with him, under firm names of Kelley, Harding & Hatch and Kelley & Hatch until his death in 1912, since when he has practiced himself under the firm name of Kelley & Hatch; Episcopalian, member and vestryman, St. John's Episcopal church, Portsmouth; Re- publican; solicitor for Rockingham County, 1915-17; chairman, Greenland Republican town committee, 1912 -; member, St. John's Lodge, A. F. & A. M., B. P. O. E., K. of P., Warwick Club, Portsmouth Athletic Club, Portsmouth Country Club, treasurer and director, Emery Rubber Heel Co .; director, Southern N. H. Agricultural Ass'n; m. Rosalie F. Littlefield, Jan. 10, 1905; children, Harris and Francis
March Hatch, 2d. Office, 45 Pleasant St., Portsmouth; home, Greenland, N. H.
Willis, Eben Marston
Manufacturer; b., Claremont, N. H., May 11, 1871; s. Algernon and Susan L. (Marston) Willis; ed. Concord public schools, high school class of 1889; entered employ of Page Belting Co., of Concord immediately after grad- uation and has been connected there- with ever since in one capacity or another, having been treasurer and general manager since 1914; Universa- list (grandson of Rev. Lemuel Willis, a prominent Universalist clergyman seventy-five years ago); Republican; member, Concord common council, 1897-8, board of aldermen, 1899-1900, 1901-2; member, N. H. house of rep-
resentatives, 1903-4, 1905-6; director, Page Belting Co., Mechanicks Na- tional Bank, Capital Fire Insurance Co .; trustee, Merrimack Co. Savings Bank; vice-president and director, Northern Securities Co .; Mason, 32d
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degree; member, Wonolancet and Snow- shoe clubs; m., Oct. 2, 1895, Lena Vira George; one dau., Mary Elizabeth, b. July 25, 1899 (Wellesley, 1920). Residence, Concord, N. H.
Dutton, Samuel Train
Educator; b., Hillsborough, N. H., Oct. 16, 1849; s. Jeremiah and Rebecca (Train) Dutton; ed. Yale College, A.B., 1873; A.M., 1890; LL.D., Baylor Uni- versity, 1912; Superintendent schools, South Norwalk, Conn., 1872-8; princi- pal, Eaton School, New Haven, 1878- 82; Superintendent schools, New Haven, 1882-90, Brookline, Mass., 1890-1900; professor of school admin- istration, Teachers College (Columbia University), 1900-1915; professor emeritus since 1915; lecturer on Peda- gogy, Harvard, 1896-7, University of Chicago, 1897-8, Boston University, 1898; secretary, N. Y. Peace Soc .; chairman, Nat'l Arbitration and Peace Congress, 1907; trustee, Constanti- nople College for Women, Canton, China, Christian College, World Peace Foundation, American Scandinavian Foundation; honorary secretary, Japan Soc .; member, International Commis- sion on the Balkan War, 1913; member, Yale and Authors clubs, New York; author, "Social Phases of Education,' "School Management," etc .; associate editor, Christian Work; m., Oct. 8, 1874, Cornelia North, New Haven, Conn. Residence, Hartsdale, N. Y .; address, 70 Fifth Ave., New York.
Emerson, Charles Franklin
Educator; b., Chelmsford, Mass., Sept. 28, 1843; s. Owen and Louisa (Butterfield) Emerson; ed. Westford, Mass., Academy, Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H. and Dartmouth College, 1868, having taught school in Massachusetts a part of three years before entering college; upon gradua- tion appointed instructor in gymnastics in Dartmouth College, and instructor in mathematics in the N. H. College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts,
then connected with Dartmouth; also tutor in mathematics in Dartmouth, 1868-72; associate professor of natural philosophy and mathematics, 1872-78; Appleton professor of natural philoso- phy, 1878-99; dean of the college, 1893- 1913, retiring in the latter year, after forty-five years of continuous service -the longest record held at that time by any person connected with the in- stitution; Congregationalist; member, Church of Christ, at Dartmouth; Republican; served fifteen years as chairman of supervisors of check lists
for Hanover; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1915-16, 1917-18; member, Alpha Delta Chi, and Phi Beta Kappa societies; life member, American Ass'n for Advancement of Science; m., Jan. 20, 1875, Caroline Flagg; two daus., Martha Flagg, librarian of the State College at Dur- ham, and Emily Sophia, wife of Prof. Edmund E. Day of Harvard Univer- sity. Residence, Hanover, N. H.
HON. EDGAR J. KNOWLTON.
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Knowlton, Edgar Jay
Journalist; b., Sutton, N. H., Aug. 8, 1856; s. James and Mary F. (Mar- shall) Knowlton; ed. common schools; entered office of the Manchester Union, under Campbell & Hanscom, as an apprentice to learn the printer's trade, when sixteen years of age; later be- came a reporter and soon promoted to city editor, which position he held when Stilson Hutchins purchased the Union in 1879 and made it a morning paper, and in which he continued till June, 1880, when he became editor of the Daily Union at Lockport, N. Y., but returned to Manchester the follow- ing year to become city editor of the Mirror and American, continuing till 1884, when he became city editor of the Union, serving till Feb., 1890, when he resigned to accept the posi- tion of secretary of the Manchester board of trade; elected mayor of Manchester in Nov., 1890, and re- elected, two years later by the largest majority that had ever been given a candidate for the office; resigned in May, 1894, to accept the office of post- master of Manchester, to which he had been appointed by President Cleve- land, and which he held till July 1898; previously, in 1886, elected to the N. H. house of representatives from Ward 6, Manchester. When not in office he has been connected with one or the other of the Manchester daily newspapers; is now and has been for several years past, on the staff of the Mirror; also many years correspondent of the Boston Globe; Universalist; Democrat; ap- pointed by Governor Keyes, in 1917, a member of the State Board of Trus- tees of State Institutions; member for twenty years of the Manchester board of water commissioners and many years clerk of the board; author, city garden plan of 1917, utilized by 1500 people; member, P. of H., K. P., I. O. R. M .; m., Nov. 2, 1880, Genevieve I. Blan- chard, Nicholville, N. Y., d. April 28, 1912; two daughters, Bessie Genevieve (Mrs. Arthur O. Friel, Brooklyn, N. Y.) and Belle Frances. Residence, Man- chester, N. H. .
Mitchell, John Louis
Lawyer; b., Hooksett, N. H., Feb. 1, 1873; s. Abram and Angeline D. (Eastman) Mitchell; ed. Pembroke Academy, 1890, Dartmouth, 1895; studied law in the office of Page & Bartlett of Portsmouth while serving as principal of the Whipple grammar school, 1896 to 1901; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1901; member, firm of Page, Bartlett & Mitchell; Unitarian; Democrat; city
solicitor, Portsmouth, 1905-6; mem- ber, board of instruction, 1905-8, 1916 -; N. H. constitutional convention, 1912; legal representative of the government in appeal cases from exemption board in 1st Rockingham district, 1917; member, Warwick Club; m., Dec. 19, 1907, Alma Natalie Kirsch; one son, John S., b. April 15, 1911. Residence, Portsmouth, N. H.
Blaisdell, Carlyle W.
Violinist, musical instructor and conductor; b., Concord, N. H., Nov. 11, 1878; s. Henri G. and Lilla D.
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(Leonard) Blaisdell; ed. public and private schools, Concord and Laconia. He is of the third generation of one of New England's best known musical families, personally ranking among its leading violinists; leader of the famous Blaisdell Orchestra for twenty years; conductor of the New England Sym- phony Orchestra, and violin instructor of long experience; prominent in musi- cal festival, concert and general orches- tral work, playing and conducting in
different parts of the country; asso- ciated in concerts with the most noted singers, and offered a position with the famous Boston Symphony Orchestra; his experience in orchestral work com- pares favorably with that of any man of his age; member, St. Paul's Episco- pal church, Concord, B. P. O. E., Wonolancet Club, American Federa- tion of Musicians, and Lake Winnipe- saukee Club; motor boating is his diversion; won the New England championship for speed boat racing in 1916 after ten years of winning; m. Florence M. Toof, Sept. 1, 1899;
one son, Paul Henry, b. May 9, 1908. Residence, Concord, N. H .; summer, Weirs, N. H.
Sanborn, Alden F.
Farmer and lumberman; b., Fre- mont, N. H., Aug. 20, 1855; s. Aloah and Nancy (Page) Sanborn; ed. public schools and New Hampton Literary Institution, 1877; Congre- gationalist; Republican; · chairman, board of selectmen, fourteen years; member, board of education, twelve years; member, N. H. house of repre- sentatives, 1895-6; member, state board of agriculture, 1902-13; member and treasurer, Rockingham County Farmers' Ass'n since its organization; Mason; Patron of Husbandry, past master Fremont Grange; owns and occupies the old homestead which has been held in the family for over 150 years, and has also been extensively engaged in lumbering; m., Jan. 26, 1882, Luna A. Gove, of Raymond; two sons, Moses Hermon (N. H. Col- ·lege, 1908) and Edson Dana (N. H. College, 1910), president, N. H. C. Alumni Association, 1917. Residence, Fremont, N. H.
Burnham, William Henry
Educator; b., Dunbarton, N. H., Dec. 3, 1855; s. Samuel and Hannah. (Dane) Burnham; ed. Harvard College, A.B., 1882, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1888; instructor, Wittenberg College, 1882-3, State Normal School, Pots- dam, N. Y., 1882-5, Johns Hopkins, 1892-1900; assistant professor peda- gogy, 1900-06; pedagogy and school hygiene, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., since 1906; member, American Psychological Ass'n, Soc. College Teachers of Edn .; member, permanent com., International Congress, Schools of Hygiene; member Council, American School of Hygiene Ass'n; assistant editor, Pedagogical Seminary; author, articles on Hygiene in Universal Cyclo- pedia; departmental editor (Hygiene), Cyclopedia of Education. Home, Dun- barton, N. H .; address, Worcester, Mass.
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Day, Arthur Kehew
Physician; b., Dover, N. H., Sept. 12, 1862; s. Warren Kelsey and Martha Shackford (Brooks) Day; ed. Concord high school, 1881, Harvard University, A.B., 1886, Harvard Medical School,
M.D., 1889; attending
Concord, twenty-five years; state bac- Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital, physician,
teriologist, April, 1901 to Oct., 1903; pathologist, N. H. Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, Concord, 1895 -; examining surgeon, U. S. Pen- sion Bureau, 1897 -; member, N. H. Medical Soc., Merrimack County Med- ical Soc. (president, 1911); first lieuten- ant and assistant surgeon, 1st N. H. Vols., during the Spanish War (1898), following three years' service as assist- ant surgeon, N. H. N. G .; Unitarian; Republican; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1907-8; author, "Pul- monary Tuberculosis-Its Early Diag-
nosis and Treatment," "Modified Milk as a Food for Infants"; m., March 23, 1892, Annie Butler Stevens, Boston, Mass .; children, Helen Downing, b.
July 19, 1893; Philip Stevens, b. Sept. 8, 1894 (West Point Military Academy, 1917); Robert Brooks, b. March 9, 1896, sergeant, 101st U. S. Engineers. Residence, Concord, N. H.
Pender, John
Insurance; b., Sturbridge, Mass., June 7, 1843; s. Hugh and Margaret Lenox (Paton) Pender; ed. public schools and private tutors; Congrega- tionalist; Republican; alderman, Portsmouth, N. H., 1869-70; mayor, 1902; member, N. H. house of repre- sentatives, 1871, 1872, 1897, 1915-17; N. H. senate, 1911; sheriff, Rocking- ham County, 1898-99-1900; member, staff of Gov. Samuel W. Hale; chair- man, N. H. Ocean Boulevard Comm .; secretary and treasurer, Portsmouth Building and Loan Ass'n; member,
N. H. Historical Soc., St. Andrew's Lodge, A. F. & A. M. (Grand Master, Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, 1892-3), Damon Lodge, K. of P., N. H. Lodge, I. O. O. F., Portsmouth Lodge, B. P. O. E., Warwick Club; has
HON. WM. F. WHITCHER.
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conducted a large and successful in- surance business in Portsmouth since 1885; has contributed extensively to the Metropolitan press, and for several year's successfully conducted the Ports- mouth Evening Post; m., Nov. 20, 1863, Ellen S. Ryan, Newton, Mass., who d. Jan. 26, 1907; children, George E. (Dartmouth, 1893, N. Y. University Med. Col., 1896), medical referee for Rockingham Co .; Horace G. (Dart- mouth, 1897, Harvard Law School, 1900), graduate manager of athletics at Dartmouth College; John L. of the Boston Globe staff, and Helen P., wife of Harry E. Boynton, treasurer of the Portsmouth Savings Bank. Residence, Portsmouth, N. H.
Whitcher, William Frederick
Clergyman and journalist; b., Ben- ton, N. H., Aug. 10, 1845; s. Ira and Lucy (Royce) Whitcher; ed. public schools, N. H. Conference Seminary, Tilton and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., graduating from the latter, with honors, in 1871; from the Theological Department of Boston University in 1873, and was for nine years a member of the Southern N. E. Methodist Episcopal Confer- ence, holding pastorates in Provi- dence and Newport, R. I., and New Bedford, Mass. Abandoning the min- istry he was for eighteen years en- gaged in journalistic work in Boston, as reporter and editor, first with the Traveler, and later with the Adver- tiser, with residence in Malden, where he served several years as member and chairman of the school board; re- moved to Woodsville, N. H., in 1898, where he purchased the Woodsville News and conducted the same till 1916; Republican; moderator for the town of Haverhill sixteen years; mem- ber of N. H. house of representatives, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1911; member of the judiciary committee each year; trustee, N. H. state library, nine years; earnest advocate of the measure providing for the erection by the state of a statue of Gen. Franklin Pierce, and one of the speakers at the dedica-
tion of the same, Nov., 1914; mem- ber, N. H. constitutional convention, 1912; has served as director and clerk of trustees of Woodsville Savings Bank and clerk and treasurer of Opera Block Ass'n; member and president, N. H. Soc. S. A. R .; Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Chi, A. F. & A. M., R. A., A. O. U .; deeply interested in his- torical matters; has written "Some Things about Coventry, Benton" and Descendants of Chase Whitcher, and numerous genealogical works, and is engaged in the preparation of a "His- tory of Haverhill"; m., 1st, Dec. 4, 1872, Jeannette Marie Burr, Middle- town, Conn., d. Sept. 22, 1894; 2d, Nov. 4, 1896, Marietta H. Hadley, Stoneham, Mass .; one son, Burr Royce Whitcher (Dartmouth, 1902), a practicing physician in West Somer- ville, Mass. Residence, Woodsville, N. H.
Parks, Isabel Merial
Educator; b., Davenport, Iowa, Nov. 13, 1857; dau. Milo Kent and Althera M. (Hosmer) Parks; ed., Davenport high school, 1876, Salem, Mass., Normal School, 1880 (four years' course), special student, Rad- cliffe College, 1894-5; teacher, St. Agnes' Hall, Bellows Falls, Vt., 1880-1, 1882-3; first assistant, Littleton, N. H., high school, 1883-93; head instructor, Miss Comegys and Miss Bell's School, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1895-8; instructor, St. Mary's School for Girls, Concord, N. H., 1893-4; assistant prin- cipal, 1898-1900; head mistress, 1900 -; Episcopalian; Republican; member, Concord Woman's Club, Friendly Club, Woman's College Club, N. H. Conference of Charities and Corrections, N. H. Children's Aid and Protective Soc., Concord Charity Organization Soc., Concord S. P. C. A., District Nursing Ass'n, American Red Cross, N. E. Ass'n of Teachers of English, Nat. Home Economics Ass'n, N. H. State Teachers' Ass'n, Woman's Aux. to Board of Missions of the P. E. Church of America. Residence, Con- cord, N. H.
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Rand, John Prentice
Physician; b., Francestown, N. H., Nov. 8, 1857; s. Thomas Prentice and Lydia (Wheeler) Rand; descendant of Robert Rand, immigrant ancestor, who settled at Charlestown, Mass., in 1635; engaged on his father's farm in youth, and taught school to obtain money for preparatory education; graduated from Francestown Academy in 1880 and N. Y. Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, M.D., 1883;
associated in practice in Monson, Mass., with his elder brother, Dr. N. W. Rand, till 1888, when he took a post-graduate course at the New York Polyclinic and removed to Worcester, Mass., practic- ing there ten years, then returning to Monson, on account of his brother's death, and continuing practice till 1905, then again locating in Worces- ter, where he now resides; member, savings bank and public library cor- porations while in Monson, also mem- ber school committee; now consulting physician, Westborough state hospital, attending physician, Worcester Hahne-
mann hospital; member, American Inst. of Homeopathy, National Ass'n for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- culosis, Alumni Ass'n, N. Y. Homeo- pathic Medical College and Flower Hospital (president, 1908), Mass. Homeopathic Medical Soc. (president, 1907), Mass. Surgical and Gynecolog- ical Soc. (president, 1899), Sons of the American Revolution, Worcester Cor- poration, Sons and Daughters of New Hampshire (president, 1891-2); asso- ciate editor, North American Journal of Homeopathy, 1910-12; trustee, Mass. State Sanatorium, 1903-10; lecturer for ten years, from 1906, upon the "History of Medicine" and "Hom- eopathic Therapeutics" in Boston Uni- versity School of Medicine; author, with N. W. Rand, of "Random Rimes," volume of original verse (1897), three editions; has also published occasional poems and medical papers; member, A. F. & A. M., and Economic Club; Congregationalist; Independent; m., 1st, Jan. 17, 1889, Harriet M. Ander- son, of Monson, Mass. (Mt. Holyoke), d. May 6, 1892; one child, Frank Prentice Rand, teacher of English, Mass. Agricultural College; 2d, Sept. 3, 1904, Lena M. Adams (Wesleyan, A.M.), of Weathersfield, Conn. Ad- dress, 5 Benefit St., Worcester, Mass.
Wood, Leonard
Major general, U. S. A .; b., Winches- ter, N. H., Oct. 9, 1860; s. Charles J. and Caroline E. (Hagar) Wood; ed. Pierce Academy, Middleboro, Mass., Harvard Medical College, M.D., 1884; LL.D, Harvard, 1899, Williams, 1902, University of Pennsylvania, 1903; ap- pointed assistant surgeon, U. S. A., Jan. 5, 1886; captain and assistant. surgeon, Jan. 5, 1891; colonel, 1st U. S. Vols. (Rough Riders), May 8, 1898; brigadier general, July 8, 1898,. for services at Las Guasimas and San Juan Hill; major general, Dec. 7, 1898; honorably discharged from volunteer service April 12, 1899; military gov- ernor of Cuba, Dec. 12, 1899 to April 20, 1902; brigadier general, U. S. A. Feb. 4, 1901; major general, Aug. 8,
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1902; governor Moro province, Philip- pine Islands, July, 1903 to April, 1906; commander, Philippine Division, U. S. A., 1906-8; commander, Depart- ment of the East, 1908-9; special ambas- sador to Argentine Republic, 1910; chief of staff, U. S. A., 1910-14; com- mander, Department of the East, 1914-17, Southeastern Department, 1917 -; awarded Congressional medal of honor, March 29, 1898, "for distin- guished conduct in campaign against the Apache Indians, while serving as medical and line officer"; m. Louisa A. Condit Smith, Washington, D. C., Nov. 18, 1890.
Perley, Mary Elizabeth
Educator; b., Lempster, N. H., July 2, 1863; dau. Asbury F. and Sarah J. (Dodge) Perley; ed. N. H. Conference Seminary, Tilton, Boston schools (high), Washington State University, A.B .; University of Wisconsin (master's degree in German; special advanced study in Hanover, Berlin and Paris); teacher of modern languages in Tilton Seminary six years; professor of mod- ern languages at Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa; professor of German at Fargo College, Fargo, N. D., since 1906; as an avocation writes occasional Sunday newspaper articles and short stories. She has also written German playlets, adapted to high school or college dra- matics, several of which have been pre- sented in the schools of North Dakota and Wisconsin. Residence, Fargo, N. D.
Carter, Solon Augustus
Ex-state treasurer; b., Leominster, Mass., June 22, 1837; s. Solon and Lu- cretia (Joslin) Carter; ed. public schools of Leominster; taught district schools in youth; removed to Keene, N. H., where he became superintendent of the gas works in 1859; Aug., 1862, enlisted in 14th Regiment, N. H. Vols., in the Union service, continuing till July, 1863; commissioned by President Lin- coln assistant adjutant general of vol- unteers, with rank of captain, July 25, 1864, and served with a division of
colored troops till close of war; bre- vetted lieutenant colonel; Unitarian; many years moderator of the Concord Unitarian Soc. and past president, N. H. Unitarian Ass'n; Republican; member, N. H. house of representa- tives, 1869-70; state treasurer of New Hampshire, 1872-1913-the longest term ever filled by any incumbent; past commander, Keene Post, G. A. R .; past president, N. H. Veterans' Ass'n; member (senior vice commander),
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