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Clough, Clarence Edward
Coal and lumber merchant; b., Dan- bury, N. H., Feb. 25, 1872; s. George B. and Phoebe R. (Wiggin) Clough; .ed. Colby Academy, New London, N. H., 1891, Yale University, 1895, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1898; Baptist; entered the ministry and served five years as pastor of the church at Bloomington, Ind., during which time a new stone church edifice was built and the membership doubled; subsequently retired, and for the last fifteen years has been engaged in the
coal and lumber business in Lebanon, taking an active interest in church and public affairs, serving as deacon of the Baptist church and member of the Lebanon board of education; ex-presi- dent, N. H. Baptist State Convention; treasurer and chairman executive com- mittee, trustees of Colby Academy; Republican; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1909-10, and a leader of the progressive Republicans in that body; member, A. F. & A. M., and
Langdon Club (chairman executive committee); trustee, Mascoma Sav- ings Bank of Lebanon; m., Sept. 25, 1897, Mary E. Shepard of New Lon- don (Colby Academy, 1891, Smith College, 1897); children, Dorothy, b. Sept. 2, 1898; Shepard Bancroft, b. Dec. 6, 1901; Nathaniel Paul, b. Sept. 30, 1906; Barbara May, b. March 11, 1910; Reginald Theodore, b. Oct. 28, 1914. Residence, Lebanon, N. H.
Jackman, Charles Lyman.
Insurance; b., Concord, N. H., Aug. 4, 1871; s. Capt. Lyman and Sarah
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Freese (Tilton) Jackman; direct de- scendant of James Jackman, an original settler of Newbury, Mass .; his great- grandfather served in the Revolution, his grandfather, Maj. Royal Jackman, with two brothers, served in the war of 1812, and his father, Capt. Lyman Jackman, who wrote the history of the Sixth N. H. Volunteers, served during the Civil War, was wounded in the second battle of Bull Run, and was confined for a time in Libby prison; ed. Concord public schools, high school, 1890; Congregationalist; Republican; engaged in fire insurance, with his father, after leaving school, and has continued, developing an extensive business, and is connected with various corporations in other lines; president, Capital Fire Insurance Co., Concord, N. H., First Investment Co., Contoo- cook Valley Paper Co., Henniker, N. H., Underwriters Fire Insurance Co., Concord, Eastern Fire Insurance Co., Phenix Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Page Belting Co., Northern Securities Co .; vice-president, Manu- facturers & Merchants' Mutual Insur- ance Co., Concord, Concord Real Estate Co .; manager, New England Underwriters Agency (Inc.), Concord; treasurer, Concord Building Co., Con- cord, Concord Y. M. C. A., Jackman & Lang (Inc.); assistant treasurer, United Life and Accident Insurance Co., Concord; director, State Capital Co., Concord, Concord & Claremont R. R., Concord Shoe Factory, National State Capital Bank, Home Realty Co., F. G. Guilds Co., Pittsfield, Mass .; member South Congregational Church, Cemetery Commission, Wonolancet, Kancamagus, Passaconaway, Beaver Meadow Golf and Bow Brook Squash clubs, Concord; A. F. & A. M., Knight Templar and Shriner; member, N. H. Historical Soc. and American Geo- graphical Soc., New York; m., 1st, Oct. 11, 1893, Minnie M. Day, Con- cord, d. Sept. 13, 1898; 2d, May 17, 1900, Mary E. Rolfe; children, Mar- garet Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1904; Roma A., b. Aug. 2, 1909, d. Jan. 11, 1912; Ruth I. Lemmon (adopted). Resi-
dence, Concord, N. H. and Jacksland Farm, Riverhill, Concord, N. H.
Gordon, George Henry
Railroad employee; b., Canaan, N. H., Sept. 27, 1859; s. William and Augusta (Sleeper) Gordon; ed. public schools, Canaan, N. H., and Washing- ton, D. C., Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H .; served as station agent for the Northern R. R., at Danbury, N. H., several years after leaving school, and
five years as postmaster; removed to Canaan in 1886, and has been railroad station agent there since that time; Baptist; Republican; town clerk of Canaan since 1888; member, high school board, seven years; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1893- 4, 1905-6; N. H. senate, 1899-1900; A. F. & A. M., Knight Templar and Shriner; K. of P .; New England Rail- road Agents Ass'n; B. & M. Railroad Veterans Ass'n; m., Sept. 25, 1880, Emma F. Noyes; children, Ralph W., b. Feb. 25, 1882; Earle C., Dec. 12, 1887 (clerk, N. H. senate); Harold G.,
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b. Dec. 31, 1889; Vaughn L., b. May 7, 1892; Mamie G., b. Oct. 7, 1893; Ethelyn A., b. July 1, 1899; Ruth C., b. Jan. 10, 1902. Residence, Canaan, N. H.
Wells, Christopher Henry
Lawyer, journalist, Judge of Pro- bate; b., Somersworth, N. H., July 6, 1853; s. Nathaniel and Eliza (Thom) Wells; ed. Somersworth high school, 1871, Bowdoin College, 1875; studied law and admitted to the N. H. bar,
Aug. 16, 1878; practiced some years in company with his father's old partner, William R. Burleigh, and in 1883, pur- chased the Free Press newspaper and printing establishment, devoting his attention largely, thereafter, to journal- ism; Congregationalist; Republican; member, N. H. house of representa- tives, 1881-3; N. H. constitutional convention, 1889; aide-de-camp, with rank of colonel, staff of Gov. Charles H. Sawyer, 1887-8; mayor of Somers- worth, 1894-8; justice, Somersworth police court, Jan., 1900 to July, 1914; Judge of Probate for Strafford County
since March 15, 1898; chairman com- mittee appointed by Gov. Chester B. Jordon to prepare rules of procedure, and uniform blanks for use in probate courts of the state, 1901-3; president, First National Bank of Somersworth; vice-president and trustee, Somers- worth Savings Bank; owner and treas- urer, since 1883, Somersworth Free Press; member, Strafford County and New Hampshire Bar Ass'ns, N. H. Historical Soc., N. H. Soc. Laws of the American Revolution; N. H. Weekly Publishers Ass'n, Scottish Rite Mason (32d degree), Knight of Pythia, Patron of Husbandry, etc .; m., June 15, 1887, Oriana Hartford, Dover; no children. Residence, Somersworth, N. H.
Brooks, John Graham
Author, lecturer; b., Acworth, N. H., July 19, 1846; s. Chapin Kidder and Parmelia (Graham) Brooks; S.T.B. Harvard Divinity School, 1875; stud- ied three years at the Universities of Berlin, Jena and Freidburg, and be- came a lecturer on economical subjects; instructor two years, in Harvard University; several years lecturer, extension dept., University of Chicago; two years expert, U. S. Dept. of Labor, at Washington, making report of 1893, upon Workingmen's Insurance in Ger- many; lecturer, University of Cali- fornia; president, National Consumers' League; author, "The Social Unrest," 1903; "As Others See Us," 1908; "An American Citizen," 1910; "American Syndicalism," 1913. Address, 8 Fran- cis Ave., Cambridge, Mass.
Morrill, Osma Cornelia Baker
(Mrs. Shadrach C. Morrill); b., Concord, N. H., March 7, 1855, dau. Bishop Osman C. and Mehitable (Perley) Baker. (In 1847 Bishop Baker was a prime mover in organiz- ing the Biblical Institute at Concord, N. H., the first Methodist Theological school in this country, which in 1868 became the nucleus of Boston Univer- sity.) Ed. Concord High School, 1872 (valedictorian); member, Baker Me- morial M. E. Church; first president for
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N. H. of Nat. Fed. of Musical Clubs, 1909-15; chairman of first Music Committee in N. H. Federation of Woman's Clubs; Conference president of the Woman's Home Missionary Soc. of the M. E. Church; member, Concord board of education, 1915 -; trustee of Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital, 1906 -; member, Stratford (Shakes- speare) Club (president, 1892-5), Con- cord Woman's Club (charter member, chairman of Household Economics, also of Music Committee), Concord Music Club (president, 1908-10); Dis- trict Nursing Ass'n, Concord Female Charitable Soc. and Red Cross; m., May 22, 1883, Dr. Shadrach Cate Morrill, who d. Oct. 9, 1904; children, Ashley Baker, b. Sept. 6, 1884, B.S. Harvard University, 1908, M.D. Har- vard Medical School, 1911, studied Vienna, Paris and London, 1912, physi- cian, Chicago, Ill., 1912-17, captain, Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, U. S. A., 1917 -; Margaret, b. Jan. 28, 1886, Concord High School, 1906, Garland Training School, Boston, 1908, kindergartner in the Concord schools, d. Sept. 2, 1917; Gladys, b. June 28, 1887; Mary Stearns, b. June 22, 1892, d. Dec. 4, 1903. Residence, Concord, N. H.
Evans, Alfred Randall
Lawyer; b., Shelburne, N. H., March 21, 1849; s. Otis and Martha (Pinkham) Evans; grandson of Daniel Evans, an early settler of Shelburne; ed. public schools, Lancaster Academy, Lewiston, Me., Latin School, Dartmouth Col- lege, 1872; studied law and admitted to the Coos County bar in 1875, also to the bar of U. S. Circuit Court in 1880; Congregationalist; Republican; repre- sented Shelburne in N. H. house of representatives in 1874-5, and 1878; Removed to Gorham in 1880; served as chairman of the board of selectmen and of the superintending school com- mittee; appointed Judge of Probate for Coos County in 1895 and has held the office since that time; delegate in N. H. constitutional convention, 1902 and 1912; quartermaster-general on
staff of Gov. Charles M. Floyd, 1907- 8, and on staffs of Governors Quinby and Bass, as quartermaster-general of N. H. N. G .; president, Berlin and Gorham Bar Ass'n, since organization; organizer, trustee and for many years main supporter of Gorham Public Library; president, Gorham Savings Bank, and of the Berlin National Bank for ten years after organization; member, A. F. & A. M. (32d degree); secretary, Gorham Lodge, No. 73, more
than thirty years; honorary member, N. H. Veterans Ass'n; m., 1st, June 1, 1880, Dora J. Briggs, d. May 10, 1908; 2d, Dec. 14, 1911, at Lisbon, N. H., Mrs. Marion J. (Bowles) Ald- rich, of Colebrook. Residence, Gor- ham, N. H.
Morris, George Franklin
Lawyer; b., Vershire, Vt., April 13, 1866; s. Josiah S. and Lucina C. (Mer- rill) Morris, and grandson of William M. and Esther P. (Southworth) Morris; ed. common schools of Corinth, Vt., Corinth Academy and State Normal
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School, Randolph, Vt., 1885; taught for some years in the schools of Vershire, Newbury and Concord, Vt., and in the high schools of Wells River, Vt., and Woodsville, N. H., for two seasons in a summer school for instruction of teachers, at Wells River, and was for four years examiner of teachers for Orange County, Vt .; read law during vacations with Smith & Sloane, at Wells River, was admitted to the Vermont bar at Montpelier, Oct., 1891, subsequently to the New Hampshire bar, and at once commenced the prac- tice of law at Lisbon, N. H., where he remained till March 19, 1906 when he became a member of the firm of Drew, Jordan, Shurtleff & Morris at Lan- caster (now Drew, Shurtleff, Morris & Oakes) where he has since resided. As a member of the leading law firm in northern New Hampshire, for the last dozen years he has had a wide pro- fessional experience. Since 1914 he has been a member of the board of State bár examiners, succeeding Judge Wil- liam M. Chase. In 1917 he was chosen president of the N. H. Bar Ass'n. Republican; delegate from Lisbon in the N. H. constitutional convention of 1902, and member of the N. H. house of representatives from that town in 1905; solicitor for Grafton County, 1899-1903; several years member of Lisbon board of education and has served the last ten years in Lancaster in the same capacity. Mr. Morris is much interested in botany, and has a large collection of the flora of northern New Hampshire; also extensively engaged in agriculture, being the owner of one of the finest farms in Coos County, and is president of the Coös County Farm Bureau; m., May 16, 1894, Lula J. Aldrich of Lisbon (see sketch of Mrs. Morris); one son, Robert Hall, b. Aug. 21, 1907. Residence, Lancaster, N. H.
Morris, Lula J. Aldrich
(Mrs. George F. Morris); club- woman; b., Libson, N. H., Aug. 4, 1872; dau. Charles and Persis (Hall) Aldrich; ed. public schools, Lisbon
high school, 1891; resided in Lisbon, except for a year's absence, in Creston, Ia., until removal with her husband to Lancaster in 1906; assistant post-mis- tress in Lisbon for six years after graduation from high school. Mrs. Morris has always been interested in the social life and events of the towns where she has resided, and is widely known among the club-women of the state; served as president of Friends in Council in Lisbon, 1905-6, and of Unity
Club, Lancaster, 1911-12; treasurer, N. H. State Federation of Women's Clubs, 1913-14; auditor of the same, 1915-16; prominent in the Order of the Eastern Star, serving as Worthy Ma- tron, Lafayette Chapter, Lisbon, in 1901, and as Grand Matron of the order in New Hampshire in 1909; at present, a director of N. H. Division, Women's Committee, Council of Na- tional Defense, and chairman, Lan- caster Branch of the Red Cross, and active in both positions. From 1899 to 1906 Mrs. Morris worked in her hus- band's office, making a study of law in
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the meantime, and while never applying for admission to the bar, the knowledge of law and familiarity with court pro- cedure acquired made her a valuable assistant in his work.
Keyes, Henry Wilder
Farmer, Governor of New Hamp- shire; b., Newbury, Vt., May 23, 1863; s. Henry and Emma F. (Pierce) Keyes; great-grandson of Col. Danforth Keyes, a soldier of the Revolution and personal friend of General Washington; ed. Bos- ton public schools, Adams Academy, Harvard College, A.B., 1887; promi- nent in athletics in college, and captain of a crew which defeated Yale; marshal of his class, for commencement week, at graduation; traveled in Europe after leaving college, visiting Friesland, the home of Holstein cattle where he made personal selection of superior stock for the celebrated "Pine Grove Farm," at North Haverhill, of which his father had been the owner, and which he has since conducted, with great success, breeding fine cattle, horses, sheep and swine, and taking deep interest in all lines of agricultural progress; Episco- palian; Republican; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1891-2, 1893 -4, 1915-16; N. H. senate, 1903-4; trustee, N. H. College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1893-6; mem- ber, N. H. board of license commission- ers, 1903-13; excise commission (chair- man), 1915-16; Governor of New Hampshire, 1917-18; member, board of selectmen of Haverhill, eighteen years, most of the time chairman of the board; director and president of the Passumpsic and Connecticut Rivers R. R .; director, N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co .; president, Woodsville National Bank; vice-president, Nashua River Paper Co., Pepperell, Mass .; member, A. F. & A. M. and P. of H .; m., June 8, 1904, Frances Parkinson, dau. John H. and Louise (Johnson) Wheeler, Newbury, Vt .; children, Henry Wilder, Jr., b. March 22, 1905; John Parkinson, b. March 26, 1907; Francis, b. Dec. 4, 1912. Residence, North Haverhill, N. H.
Stickney, Edward Huntington
Clergyman; b., Campton, N. H., Oct .. 10, 1853; s. Benjamin and Phebe (Pul- sifer) Stickney; ed. Kimball Union Academy, Dartmouth College, 1878,. Andover Theological Seminary, 1881; went West in 1881, and was settled as: a home missionary, at Detroit, Mich., remaining till 1885, when he removed to Harwood, N. D., then a part of the. territory of Dakota, where he was mis- sionary pastor till April, 1889, when he
entered the general work as a mission- ary for the Congregational S. S. and Pub. Soc .; in 1891 was made superin- tendent for the entire state, and has continued since, having also, for a number of years, worked in northern Minnesota, and for three years had the whole of Montana in his care. In Aug., 1909, he was made joint mis- sionary and S. S. superintendent for North Dakota, and has since continued in that position; one of the founders of Fargo College, Fargo, N. D., and for many years secretary of its board of trustees; received the honorary degree
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of D.D. from Fargo in 1910 and from Dartmouth in 1915; m., Sept. 6, 1881, Laura Hewitt Washburn; children, Bertha Campbell; Park Washburn (Dartmouth, 1908, Thayer School, 1909), civil engineer, N. P. R. R .; George Edwin (Fargo, 1914, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1917), pastor, Congregational church, Burlington, Wis., now in Army Y. M. C. A. work. Residence, Fargo, N. D.
Farnum, Charles Henry
Farmer; b., West Concord, N. H.,
Dec. 30, 1837; s. Dea. Benjamin and Emily (Farnum) Farnum; ed. Con- cord schools and Colby Academy, New London, N. H .; in Jan., 1860, went to California by way of the Isthmus, remaining there till June, 1868, since when he has been engaged in agricul- ture at West Concord, on ancestral land, belonging to his great-great- grandfather, Ephraim Farnum, one of the first settlers of Concord. He represents one of three families in Concord, living on land directly de-
scended from the original proprietors of "Pennycook," settled in 1725, the others being Mr. Andrew J. Abbott, of West Concord, his neighbor, and Miss Eliza L. Walker, of 276 No. Main St., who lives in the very house of her great- great-grandfather, Rev. Timothy Walker, the first minister; Republican; Congregationalist, member, West Concord Congregational Church; life member, N. E. Agricultural Soc .; mem- ber, N. H. Dairymen's Ass'n; Merri- mack County Grange Fair Ass'n; m., Nov. 29, 1870, Annie E. Farnum, d. March 31, 1917; a daughter died in infancy. Residence, West Concord, N. H.
Farnum, Lewis Calvin
Railway official; b., West Concord, N. H., Sept. 28, 1846; s. Dea. Benja- min and Emily (Farnum) Farnum; ed. West Concord schools and New Lon- don Academy; went West in 1868; conductor on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R. forty-three years; Republican; Christian Scientist; mem- ber, A. F. and A. M., Blue Lodge Chapter and Commandery, McGregor, Iowa, Wisconsin Consistory, Milwau- kee, Wis .; m., Aug. 9, 1874, Jennie Amelia Tiffany, Mason City, Iowa; one child, Emma Fay, b. Oct. 28, 1875, grad. McGregor high school, also N. E. Conservatory of Music, Bos- ton, Mass .; m., 1894, Fred G. Bell of McGregor, manager and owner of the oldest grain house in Iowa, known as Gilchrist & Co., founded by his father, Dea. Colin Bell, who started the business at McGregor in 1854, coming from West Charlton, N. Y. Residence, McGregor, Iowa.
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Jones, William Safford
Clergyman; b., Exeter, N. H., March 10, 1879; s. Daniel Smith and Harriet Maria (Smith) Jones; ed. . Boston public schools, private tutor, Meadville (Pa.) Theological School, 1896, Divinity School, Harvard Uni- versity, resident graduate, 1896-7, 1899-1900; Unitarian; Minister, Chan- ning Memorial Church, Newport,
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R. I., since November, 1905; member, A. F. & A. M., Chaplain, St. Paul's Lodge, No. 14, Newport; Board of Reference, Charity Organization Soc., Newport; trustee, Natural History Soc .; visiting committee, Woman's College, Brown University; historian, R. I. Soc. Sons of the Revolution; life member, American Unitarian Ass'n and Boston Young Men's Christian Union; American Soc. for Psychical Research; Meadville Alumni Ass'n; Harvard Divinity Alumni Ass'n; Har- vard Club of R. I .; author of many printed sermons and articles; collab- orator, "Getting Together: Essays by Friends in Council, on the Regulative Ideas of Religious Thought"; speaker for the U. S. government under the authority of the Committee on Public Information as a "Four Minute Man"; m., June 30, 1902, Edith Adams Nichols; one son, Edward Nichols Jones, b. July 16, 1904. Residence, "The Parsonage," 29 Kay St., New- port, R. I.
Shepard, Annie Bartlett
(Mrs. Frederick Johnson Shepard); home-maker and club-woman; b., Not- tingham, N. H., Feb. 18, 1861; dau. Thomas Bradbury and Victoria (Cilley) Bartlett, granddaughter Judge Brad- bury Bartlett and Col. Joseph Cilley of Nottingham, both serving in the War of 1812 and the latter wounded at Lundy's Lane, also great-granddaugh- ter Gen. Thomas Bartlett and Gen. Joseph Cilley, officers in the American Revolution; ed. public schools, Haver- hill, Mass., and Lasell Seminary, Au- burndale, Mass .; state regent, N. H. D. A. R., 1907-9; president, N. H. Federation of Woman's Clubs, 1915- 17; director in General Federation of Woman's Clubs, 1916-18; member, Derry Woman's Club, Molly Reid Chapter, D. A. R., N. H. Soc. Colonial Dames, N. H. Historical Soc., N. E. Historic Genealogical Soc., N. H. Woman's Dept. Nat. Civic Fed., State Advisory Com. on Food Conservation (Chairman Derry District), Derry Parent-Teacher Ass'n, Derry Red
Cross (Chairman East Derry Auxiliary) Congregationalist, anti-suffragist; m., Sept. 27, 1887, Frederick Johnson Shepard, banker, Derry, N. H .; chil- dren, (1) Frederick Johnson, Jr., b. Dec. 10, 1889, Mass. Inst. Tech., 1912; m. Jan. 27, 1915, Caroline Rothwell Clark of Boston; one child, Helen Rothwell; commissioned First Lieu- tenant Ordnance Dept., U. S. A., Oct., 1917; (2) Alan Bartlett, b. Sept. 5, 1891, Dartmouth College, 1913, Tuck
School, 1914; commissioned First Lieutenant, Infantry Reserve at Platts- burg, Nov., 1917; (3) Henry Bradbury, b. Nov. 23, 1893, Phillips Andover, 1912, Mass. Inst. Tech., 1916; com- missioned, Ensign, Naval Reserve Ordnance Dept., Oct., 1917. Resi- dence, East Derry, N. H.
Brown, Frank Parker
Merchant and lumberman; b., Bow, N. H., March 24, 1847; s. Parker and Clara A. (Gault) Brown; ed. public schools, Colby Academy, New Lon- don, N. H., Concord Business College;
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removed to Whitefield in 1870, where he was long engaged in lumbering and mercantile business, but for some time past has been a grain dealer; Baptist; Republican, and for many years active in party affairs; member, N. H. house of representatives from Whitefield, 1876-7; Commissary General on the staff of Gov. Moody Currier; delegate, Republic National Convention, Phila- delphia; member, N. H. senate, 1899; executive council, 1907, fish and game commissioner 1908-13; Mason (32d degree); I. O. O. F .; m., Aug. 20, 1874, Kate Howard Crockett, Boston, Mass. (Mrs. Brown has been active and prominent in charitable and benevo- lent work, and has long served as a member of the State Board of Chari- ties and Correction); one son, Forest Gault, b. Aug. 7, 1885, a graduate of the Whitefield high school, has a wife and two children, Gault and Ruth, and is associated with his father in the grain business. Residence, White- field, N. H.
Hartford, Fernando Wood
Publisher; b., Chateaugay, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1876; s. Mark and Eliza J. (Silver) Hartford; ed. public schools and Morse Business College, Manches- ter, N. H .; his first newspaper work was done at the age of ten years, as a carrier for the Manchester Morning Union; at thirteen engaged with the Union as an office boy, subsequently serving as a bookkeeper and general utility man until at sixteen, he was sent to Portsmouth, at $9.00 per week, to establish a circulation in that part of the State; subsequently he served for fifteen years in various clerical capacities, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, attaining the position of chief clerk to the purchasing paymaster- this early connection accounting for the deep interest he has ever since taken in the Navy Yard and its work; publisher, Portsmouth Herald, since 1891, acquiring the Daily Chronicle and N. H. Gazette (weekly) in 1893, all of which he has since published; Congregationalist; Republican; mem-
ber, Portsmouth city council, 1892, school board six years; member, N. H. house of representatives 1895; dele- gate to Republican national conven- tion, Chicago, 1912; N. E. Railroad Conference, 1914; president and treas- urer, Chronicle and Gazette Publishing Co .; president, Portsmouth Theatre Co .; director, Citizens Material Ry. Co .; member and organizer of the Portsmouth Board of Trade; member, N. H. Press Ass'n (ex-president), Pil-
grim Publicity Ass'n; Knights of the Golden Eagle, Knights of Pythias, Elks and Grange; Warwick, Ports- mouth Athletic, Country and City clubs, and Boston Press club; ac- tively instrumental in the inauguration and establishment of the new ship- building plant at Newington, and secretary of the corporation; m., June 7, 1890, Lizzie Hill Downing of Eliot, Me .; children, Beatrice Elizabeth (Mrs. A. W. Scarborough), b. Aug. 21, 1891 (Bradford Academy, 1912); Emma Helen (Mrs. William A. Nelson), b. Sept. 18, 1893 (Smith College, 1916);
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Justin Downing, b. July 21, 1900, now in U. S. Naval Academy. Resi- dence, Miller Ave .; office, 23 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, N. H.
Hannaford, Mary Elisabeth Neal
Historian, club woman; b., Mere- dith, N. H., Oct. 2, 1853; dau. and only child of Smith and Sarah Elisa- beth (Smith) Neal; ed. public schools, Sanbornton, N. H., and Tilton Semi- nary; resided in Sanbornton, N. H., till 1898 when she removed to Illinois; m., Jan. 1, 1890, John P. Hannaford, native of New Hampton; joined sec- ond Baptist Church, Sanbornton Bay, N. H., with her mother, in 1870, and retains membership there; member, board of directors, Farmers State Bank, of Chadwick, Ill., where she re- sided a few years before removal to Rockford, Ill., their present home; has devoted much time to historical and genealogical work; published in 1915, 'Family Records of Branches of Sev- eral New Hampshire Families," and is still collecting data along this line; active in club work and has served on the Illinois Federation Board of Women's Clubs; member, Chicago chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Colony of New England Women, Chicago Chapter; N. H. Historical Soc. and N. E. Historic- Genealogical Soc., Boston, Mass. Resi- dence, 514 N. Winnebago St., Rockford, Ill.
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