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Towle, Fred Scates
Physician; b., Boston, Mass., Dec. 28, 1863; s. Charles A. and Maria (Scates) Towle; ed. Boston high school and Columbian Medical College, 1893; pursued post-graduate studies in New York hospitals; practiced a short time in Boston, and located in Portsmouth in 1894, where he has since continued, establishing an extensive practice; Baptist; Republican; has served as city physician, chairman, Portsmouth Board of Health, surgeon for B. &. M. R. R .; member of staff of the Cottage Hospital, surgeon-general on staff of Gov. George A. Ramsdell; member,
N. H. Executive Council for District No. 1, 1905-6; chairman, Medical Ad- visory Draft Board; member, N. H. Medical Soc. (president, 1917-18), N. H. Surgical Club, Portsmouth, Strafford County, and Rockingham County medical societies, and American Medical Ass'n; Mason (32d degree), I. O. O. F., R. A. (State Medical Ex- aminer); S. A. R .; m., March, 1885, Martha Horne Perry, Boston; one son, Charles Augustus, educated at Ports-
mouth High School, and New York Military Academy, Cornwall-on-the- Hudson; married Marion G. Roby, daughter C. A. Roby, Nashua, N. H., died Oct. 2, 1916, aged 30 years. Resi- dence, Portsmouth, N. H.
Folsom, Channing
Educator, farmer; b., Newmarket, N. H., June 1, 1848; s. Dr. William and Irena (Lamprey) Folsom; ed. public schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1866, Dartmouth College, 1870 (A.M. 1885); taught school in Durham and Newmarket while in college; later
HON. CHANNING FOLSOM
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taught two years in Amesbury, Mass., and four years in Portsmouth; became principal of the Belknap Grammar school in Dover in 1874 continuing till 1877, when he went to the Eliot School in Boston, remaining till April, 1882, when he was made superintendent of schools in Dover, continuing until appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of New Hamp- shire, in Oct., 1898, which latter office he held till 1904; Methodist; Republi- can; member, A. F. & A. M., Rising Star Lodge, Newmarket (past master, Moses Paul Lodge, Dover), Belknap Chapter and St. Paul Commandery, Dover, N. H. Consistory, 32d degree; prominent for a time in Patrons of Husbandry, and first master of Dover Grange; m., Nov. 12, 1870, Ruth F. Sawyer of Newmarket; children, Henry H., b. 1871, d. 1914 (Dartmouth, 1892); Alice Irene, b. 1873, m. George G. Towle, Dover; Arthur Channing, b. 1875, in business in San Francisco, Cal .; Emily S., b. 1876, m. Perley A. Young, Newmarket; Mary H., b. 1881, m. Edward J. Ackroyd, Somerville, Mass. Residence, Newmarket, N. H .; address, Newfields, R. F. D.
Sargent, Orison Clark
Clergyman; b., Pittsford, Vt., Oct. 1, 1849; s. Leonard and Sophia (Allen) Sargent, grandson of Junia Sargent, a "Green Mountain" boy who fought at Ticonderoga under Ethan Allen; ed. Fairfax Literary and Scientific Insti- tute, Vt., Colgate Academy, Colgate University, A.B., 1875, A.M. and B.D., 1878; Phi Beta Kappa; filled Baptist pulpit at Delhi, Delaware Co., N. Y., one year while theological student; or- dained. Jewett City, Conn., July, 1878, preached there till 1884; Randolph, Mass., 1884-8; asst. pastor, Second Ave. Baptist Church, New York City, 1888 -9; Claremont, N. H., 1889-1901; gen- eral secretary and superintendent of N. H. Baptist Convention, 1901-14; Re- publican; member, Am. Baptist Foreign Miss. Soc. (life), Am. Baptist Home Miss. Soc. (life), N. H. Bible Soc.
(director), Ministers' Conference of Boston, Concord Ministers' Confer- ence, N. H. Historical Soc., Concord Equal Suffrage League, Anti-Saloon League, N. H. Y. M. C. A. (hon.), W. C. T. U. (hon.), Nat. Geographic Soc .; president, N. H. Y. P. S. C. E. three years during Claremont pastor- ate; owner and editor of the N. H. Evangel, a Baptist State paper, 1907- 14; contributor to the Watchman and Examiner (Boston), including letters from Europe, California and Jamaica;
also to Zion's Advocate of Maine; m., Anne Phidelia Sears of Delhi, N. Y., June 25, 1878; children, Clark Sears, b. Dec. 2, 1879, d. Aug. 11, 1880; Elizabeth Sears, b. Oct. 1, 1881, A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 1903, teacher in high schools, Woodstock, Vt., 1904- 6, Franklin, N. H., 1906-7, Concord, N. H., 1907 -; president, Concord Woman's College Club, 1917 -. Resi- dence, Concord, N. H.
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Hobbs, Frank Pierce
Railroading, hotel and livery busi- ness, lumbering, real estate and fire insurance; b., Winona, Minn., Sept. 6, 1855; s. Ezra T. and Hannah M. (Cogswell) Hobbs; ed. public schools of Ossipee and Tamworth, N. H .; em- ployed by the Eastern R. R. in youth, serving successively as brakeman, bag- gage master, telegraph operator and station agent at Wolfeboro, until 1888, when he resigned, and engaged in hotel and livery business, conducting first the "Lake Shore" and later the Wolfeboro Hotel, which he remodelled and named "Hobbs-is-Inn," continuing till June, 1907, when he retired to go into real estate, lumbering and insurance; Uni- tarian; Democrat; he served forty years as a member of the N. H. Demo- cratic state committee; sheriff of Car- roll County, 1899, 1900; deputy sheriff, Carroll, Belknap and Strafford Coun- ties, many years; postmaster Wolfe- boro, 1894-8, 1913 and since; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1911- 12, 1913-14; member, N. H. constitu- tional convention, 1912; justice, Wolfe- boro District Court, 1913-15; chair- man, Carroll County War Savings Committee, 1918; member, Morning Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Fidelity Lodge, No. 71, I. O. O. F., and Carroll Lodge, No. 7, A. O. U. W., of Wolfe- boro; m., Dec. 6, 1882, Emily S., dau. Otis and Shua (Libbey) Evans, of Wolfeboro; two daughters, Shua and Mary. Residence, Wolfeboro, N. H.
Robbins, Joseph Henry
Clergyman; b., Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Aug. 21, 1846; s. Chandler and Hannah (Holmes) Robbins, great- grandson of Joseph Robbins who fought under Washington at battle of Princeton and in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton; also descended from Isaac Allerton and John Howland, both Mayflower Pilgrims; Acadia Uni- versity, Nova Scotia, B.A. 1873, M.A. 1883; ordained Baptist minister, Raw- don, Nova Scotia, 1873; pastorates, 1873-1902, Rawdon, Cambridge, Bear River and Middleton, N. S., Spring-
field, Saxton's River and Chester, Vt., Claremont and Concord, N. H .; Superintendent, N. H. Anti-Saloon League and editor, N. H. Issue, 1902 -; Independent; member, N. E. Evange- listic Ass'n, Lord's Day League of N. E., Salisbury Baptist Ass'n, N. H. Baptist United Convention, Good Will Farm Home Ass'n, Franklin, N. H. (trustee), Concord Ministers' Confer- ence, Concord Equal Suffrage League, Capital Grange, P. of H .; author of
N. H. Prohibitory law passed in 1917; m., Dec. 24, 1872, Yarmouth, N. S., Mary Gould Scott; children: (1) Joseph Chandler, b. March 20, 1874, Brown University, A.B. 1897, Newton Theological Seminary, 1901; served in Spanish-American War, Co. E, 1st N. H. Vols. 1898; seven years mission- ary in the Philippines, foreign secretary Am. Bapt. For. Miss. Soc., 1916-, m. Effie Starkey of Troy, N. H .; children: Mary, d. in the Philippines, Ruth Margaret, Joseph Chandler, Louise Mary; (2) Louise May, b. April 14, 1875, ed. Leland Stanford University, California, d. Jan. 17, 1917. Resi- dence, Concord, N. H.
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Henderson, James William
Printer, lawyer, real estate operator; b., Rochester, N. H., Feb. 18, 1840; s. William Millet and Maria (Diman) Henderson; ed. public schools, Roches- ter Academy and Franklin Academy, Dover; taught school in Rochester and Farmington in youth; learned the printer's trade in the office of the Dover Enquirer, and was subsequently employed in the Mass. State printing office, on the Boston Journal and
Dover newspapers; member, Dover board of education, 1870-5; read law in the office of George W. Stevens of Dover; went to St. Augustine, Fla., in 1877, where he continued the study of law, was admitted to the Florida bar, and subsequently to the U. S. District and Supreme Courts; appointed acting state's attorney for St. John's Co., by Judge J. M. Baker of the Fourth Judi- cial District; meanwhile he was also engaged in extensive real estate opera- tions in St. Augustine, including the proprietorship of a big hotel, upon the site of which, after its destruction
by fire, he erected a large brick block, now the home of the Masons, Odd Fel- lows and other fraternal orders. He also purchased at a special Master's sale, the St. Augustine & South Beach Railway & Bridge Co.'s property, con- sisting of half a dozen miles of railroad and a drawbridge, spanning the Mal- ansas River, which some two years later was disposed of to a Boston syndicate. Methodist; Democrat; served several years as a member of the N. H. Demo- cratic state committee, and was active in local and state politics; in the state convention of 1875, presented the name of Capt. Daniel Marcy of Portsmouth, for the gubernatorial nomination, in a forceful and convincing speech; m., May 18, 1878, Ellen Compton, dau. Jacob Compton of Chicago, an accom- plished woman of fine artistic tastes, who d. April 26, 1909. (Just previous to marriage he had purchased in Dover, the fine old residence of the late Judge Dur- rell of Louisiana fame, which he occu- pied as a summer home.) Two sons: William H., b. New York City, May 27, 1879, d. St. Augustine, Fla., March 14, 1880; J. Compton, b. Clifton House, Niagara Falls, July 8, 1880; ed. Dover, St. Augustine and Chicago public schools, South Division high school, Chicago, Phillips Exeter Academy, and South Western Univ., Jackson, Tenn., LL.B .; admitted to the bar of Tennes- see and Florida, and became a partner with his father in the firm of Hender- son & Henderson, St. Augustine and Chicago. Mr. Henderson has impor- tant real estate interests in Dover, St. Augustine and Chicago, and divides his time between the three cities.
Hall, Newton Marshall
Clergyman; b., Manchester, N. H., Jan. 10, 1865; s. Marshall Parker and Susan Marice (James) Hall; ed. Man- chester high school, Dartmouth Col- lege, A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891, D.D. 1908, Andover Theological Seminary, 1891; professor, English Language and Liter- ature, Iowa College, 1891-3; pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Owonta, N. Y., 1894-9; pastor, North Congre-
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gational Church, Springfield, Mass., 1899 -; Congregationalist; Republican; member-at-large, Springfield board of education, 1912 -; chairman, board, 1916; Vice-president, Mass. Soc. S. A. R., 1913-15; president, George Washington Chapter, S. A. R., 1910- 12, Chaplain, 1900-10; president, Springfield Congregational Union, 1914-17; president, Connecticut Val- ley Congregational Club, 1913-14; director, Mass. Home Miss. Soc., 1912- 18; member, Nat'l Municipal League, Springfield Country Club, Reality Club, Conn. Valley Congregational Club, OAX; author, "Civic Righteousness and Civic Pride," "The Golden Book," "The Bible Story," "Biblical Dramas," "Early Days of Israel," "Days of the Kings of Israel," "Adult Bible Classes," "The Critical Study of the Bible"; m., Aug. 20, 1891, Louise Buffum Varney, d. 1914; one daughter, Louise Marshall Hall. Residence, Springfield, Mass.
Erskine, James Buddington
Physician and surgeon; b. South Scituate, R. I., May 15, 1855; s. James and Ellen (Cromwell) Erskine; ed. common schools, Jencks Mowry Mt. Pleasant high school, at Mt. Pleasant, R. I., M.D., University of New York, 1885; spent the following year in study in hospitals of Great Britain and Paris; on return located in practice at Bristol, R. I., but, two years later, removed to Colebrook, N. H., where he continued ten years, meanwhile attending the New York Post Graduate School and. visiting the hospitals of that city; studied in the Metropolitan schools of London in 1898, and upon his return to America, located in Tilton, N. H., where he has since remained, having established a much-needed private hospital and conducted it with much success; has specialized in surgery, suc- cessfully performing nearly every known operation in that line. Resi- dence, Tilton; N. H.
Metcalf, Harry Bingham
Journalist; b., Concord, N. H., Jan. 25, 1871; s. Henry Harrison and Mary
Jane (Jackson) Metcalf; ed. public schools of Manchester and Concord (Concord high school, 1889); Dart- mouth College, B.S. 1893, M.S. 1896; in high school, founder and first editor of The Volunteer; in senior college year, editor of The Dartmouth; on editorial staff of the Boston American since its foundation; previously on Boston Her- ald and various New Hampshire papers; Unitarian; Independent Democrat; au- thor, "Stray Notes of Song" (volume
of verse), 1906; m., Dec. 18, 1899, Katherine A. Sheehan of Lebanon, N. H. Residence, 87 Brantwood Rd., Arlington, Mass.
Hoyt, Charles Burleigh
Farmer; b., Sandwich, N. H., Dec. 12, 1859; s. Benjamin Burleigh and Caroline Elizabeth (Quimby) Hoyt; ed. public schools and New Hampton Literary Institution; Methodist; Republican; moderator and chairman, selectmen of Sandwich many years (now serving on the latter board); member, school board, several terms;
REV. ROLAND D. SAWYER
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member, N. H. house of representa- tives, 1903, 1915; member, N. H. con- stitutional convention, 1918; colonel on staff of Gov. N. J. Bachelder; member, A. F. & A. M., Eastern Star, Patrons of Husbandry, past master, Mt. Israel Grange, Sandwich, and Carroll County Pomona Grange; past general deputy, N. H. State Grange; past master, South Dakota State Grange; m., Oct. 23, 1903, Miss Florence Webster of Sandwich. Resi- dence, Center Sandwich, N. H.
Sawyer, Roland Douglas
Clergyman, publicist, writer; b., Kensington, N. H., Jan. 8, 1874; s. Stephen and Phoebe (Blake) Sawyer; Congregationalist; Fundamental Dem- ocrat; educated for the ministry at Revere Lay College and Boston Uni- versity; has held pastorates at Brock- ton, Hanson, Haverhill and Ware (all in Massachusetts); instructor, Revere Lay College, 1900-04; organized Anti- Profanity League, 1902, conducting work until 1907, when the League had 30,000 members; helped organize Popu- list party in New Hampshire, 1894; delegate to various political conven- tions in Massachusetts, 1904 to 1907; delegate to national convention, Inde- pendence League, 1908; became Social- ist in 1908; national lecturer and con- tributor to the Socialist press till 1913; candidate for Governor of Massachu- setts, 1912; Democratic-Labor mem- ber of Mass. house of representatives, 1914-18; delegate Mass. constitutional convention, 1917-18; author, "Making' of a Socialist," "Walt Whitman, the Prophet-Poet," "Summer Days at Kensington," and various pamphlets on political and economic subjects; contributor, Arena Magazine, New York Call and Hearst newspapers; affiliated with Patrons of Husbandry, Odd Fellows and Moose; m., June 29, 1898, Mary L. Palmer of Kensington; children, Ruth, b. June 22, 1899; Rachel, b. May 12, 1901; Roland, b. Dec. 26, 1902; Robert b. Aug. 24, 1904; Rosalind, b. June 17, 1906; Ramona,
b. Sept. 16, 1911. Residence, Ware, Mass .; summer home, Mother-Earth Camp, Kensington, N. H.
Morrison, Obe Gray
Manufacturer; b., Northfield, N. H., Oct. 15, 1851; s. Thomas L. and Susan (Cappen) Morrison; ed. Tilton public schools; in youth entered employ of the Elm Mills Co. on Northfield side of the Winnipesaukee River, where he continued twenty years, mastering the
details of woolen manufacturing; later engaged in business for himself, in a new plant, with modern equipment, but under the old name, and is today, president and treasurer of the Elm Mills Woolen Co., Tilton; Congrega- tionalist; Republican; member, school board, fifteen years (chairman, six years); member, N. H. house of repre- sentatives, 1885-6 and 1915-16; state senator, 1917-18; member, Doric Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Tilton; Knight Templar; m., Jan. 1, 1874, Mary F. Munsey; one dau., Edith (Mrs. Walter
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Booth), b. May 8, 1877. Residence, Northfield; P. O. Address, Tilton, N. H.
Goss, Winifred Lane
(Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss); bank cashier and club-woman; b., Pittsfield, N. H., April 30, 1875; dau. Charles Henry and Almira Lovena (Perkins) Lane; ed. Pittsfield schools, K. U. A., Meriden, N. H., 1894; asst. cashier, Merchants' National Bank
(Dover, N. H.), founded by her hus- band; director, Merchants' National Bank, trustee, Farmers' Savings Bank, Pittsfield, N. H .; member of Congre- gational Church, Pittsfield, the church of her forbears, whose first clerk was her maternal great-grandfather, Deacon Jonathan Perkins, who also served as deacon from the organization of the church, 1789, till his death, forty years later; her esteemed father was warden and treasurer of this church many years and bequeathed a trust fund whose income is to be used for the repair of the church buildings. Mrs.
Goss is superintendent of Junior Sun- day-school and member of Religious Education committee, First Parish Church, Dover; member Margery Sullivan Chapter, D. A. R. (regent, 1905-7 and member, board of mana- gers, 1907-); state regent, N. H. D. A. R., and member, National Board, 1913-15; regent, D. A. R. Chapter, S. S. Rotterdam, Mediter- ranean cruise, 1914; member, state executive board, D. A. R., 1917-18, state executive board, Am. Red Cross; treasurer, Dover Chapter, Am. Red Cross, Dover Branch Woman's Civic Fed., Dover Musical . Soc., also of N. H. Y. W. C. A. War Fund; several years director and corresponding-sec- retary, Dover Children's Home; di- rector, N. H. Children's Aid and Pro- tective Ass'n; member, N. H. Soc. of Colonial Dames of America, Tuesday Study Club and Middlebrook Golf Club (Dover), Dist. Nursing Ass'n and other local missionary, philan- thropic and social clubs; m., June 26, 1895, Pittsfield, N. H., Charles Car- penter Goss; one child, Charles Lane Goss, b. Feb. 24, 1903, member of Dover High School, 1921. Residence, 74 Silver St .. , Dover, N.H.
Clarke, Olive Rand
(Mrs. John B. Clarke); newspaper and club-woman; b. Warner, N. H., May 26, 1841; dau. Joseph Noyes and Olive (Whittier) Rand; ed. Warner and Contoocook schools, Hopkinton Academy, Contocook Academy, 1858; taught school for several years; con- nected with the Manchester Mirror, 1864-86; has written extensively for the press; letters from California and the Northwest, 1884, afterwards published in book form under the title of "A Vacation Excursion"; letters from Mexico, 1886; letters from Spain, France, Italy, Central Europe and the Near East, 1894; trustee of the N. H. State Industrial School, 1888-1911, originally appointed by Governor Sawyer; secretary of the Manchester Woman's Aid and Relief Soc. since its organization, 1873 -; first correspond-
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ing secretary of N. H. Federation of Woman's Clubs (declined presidency of the Federation in 1899 and 1901); chairman of Forestry committee, N. H. Federation, 1905-7; chairman, Press committee, N. H. Federation, 1907-17; founded New Century Club of Manchester (men and women), 1898 -; president of Manchester City Federation, 1896-8; president, Man- chester Equal Suffrage Ass'n, 1907 -; vice-president, Warner Equal Suffrage League; on advisory board of N. H. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, 1917 -; member, Manchester Shakespeare Club, several years; member, Molly Stark chapter, D. A. R. (charter), Children's Aid and Protective Ass'n, Soc. for Protection of N. H. Forests, N. H. Peace Soc .; m., July 1, 1886, Col. John Badger Clarke, editor and proprietor of the Manchester Mirror (d. Oct. 29, 1891). Residence, Manchester and Warner, N. H.
Tufts, Edith Souther
Registrar of Wellesley College; b., Dover, N. H., Jan. 29, 1862, dau. Charles Augustus and Anne Blanchard (Souther) Tufts; ed. public schools of Dover, N. H., Wellesley College, B.A. 1885, M.A. 1895, studied at Yale University, 1894-5; teacher at Dana Hall School, Wellesley, 1885-94, 1895- 8, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Conn., 1898-1900, Commonwealth Avenue School, Boston, 1900-02; in- structor in Greek at Wellesley College, 1902-3; registrar, Wellesley College, 1903 -; Episcopalian; member, Boston College Club, Boston Wellesley College Club. Residence, Dover, N. H.
Stearns, Edward Roland
Clergyman; b., Biddeford, Me., Nov. 10, 1867; s. John Frye and Mary (Emmons) Stearns; ed. Thornton Aca- demy, Saco, Me., 1885, A.B., Bowdoin College, 1889, Andover Theological Seminary, 1892; minister, Congrega- tional church, New Vineyard, Me., 1892-6, Warren, Me., 1896-1902, Lancaster, N. H., 1902-12; field secre- tary of the N. H. Congregational Min-
isters and Widows' Fund, 1912-15; secretary of the General Conference of Congregational Churches of N. H. and N. H. Home Missionary Soc., 1915 -; editor, N. H. Congregational Record, 1914 -; Independent; member, South Congregational Church, Concord, N. H., VY fraternity, Mason, 32d degree, N. H. Consistory, North Star Lodge, Lancaster, Nat. Council Con- gregational Churches, Concord Min-
isters' Union, Merrimack Ministers' Ass'n, Central Congregational Club, N. H. Historical Soc., N. H. Bible Soc. (director), Y. M. C. A., Council of Nat. Defense; trustee, Euphrates Col- lege, Harpoot, Turkey; m., Frances Alice Voter, Sept. 15, 1896, New Vine- yard, Me., children, Mary Everett, b. March 10, 1898, Mt. Holyoke College, 1921; John Frye, b. Jan. 14, 1900, Phillips Andover Academy, 1918; Elisabeth, b. July 29, 1901. Residence, Concord, N. H.
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Kimball, Benjamin Ames
Railway official, banker; b., Bos- cawen, N. H., Aug. 22, 1833; s. Ben- jamin and Ruth (Ames) Kimball; his father dying soon after his birth, re- moved with his mother to Concord when sixteen years of age; ed. Concord high school, Hildreth's Preparatory School, Derry, Dartmouth College Scientific Dept., graduating B.S., with highest honors in 1854; immediately after graduation entered the service of the Concord R. R., as a draftsman; two years later became superintendent of the locomotive department; after eleven years' service resigned as master mechanic to attend to private business; has been a partner in the firm of Ford & Kimball, manufacturers of brass and iron castings, car wheels, etc., since 1865; founder, director and president of the Cushman Electric Co., Concord; Congregationalist; Republican; mem- ber, N. H. house of representatives, 1872; delegate in N. H. constitutional conventions of 1876, 1889 and 1902; member, N. H. executive council, 1884; alternate delegate, Republican national convention, 1880; delgate at large, 1892; commissioner from New Hamp- shire in a convention of commissioners from the several states arranging for the celebration of the 100th anniver- sary of the promulgation of the Con- stitution of the United States, Sept. 15, 16 and 17, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa .; member of the Commission to erect the N. H. State Library building, 1889 -; trustee and president of the old Con- cord Savings Bank; trustee Merrimack Co. Savings Bank; director, Mechan- icks National Bank, Concord, since organization, and president since 1884; chosen director of the Manchester & North Weare R. R., in 1873; succeeded Gov. Onslow Stearns as a director of the Concord R. R., Jan., 1879, and since annually elected in the corpora- tion and its successor, the Concord & Montreal R. R., and president of the same, and many leased roads, since 1895; incorporator and director, Man- ufacturers & Merchants Mutual Fire Ins. Co .; member and trustee, N. H.
Historical Soc., and chairman of the committee having in charge the erec- tion of its elegant new building, the gift of Edward Tuck of Paris, to which work he gave much time and care; member, Alpha Omega Chapter, Dart- mouth; member, board of visitors, Chandler Scientific School, 1890-5; trustee, Dartmouth College, since 1895 and chairman finance committee; member, American Social Science Ass'n, since 1890; member, I. O. O. F., and South Congregational 'Soc. of Concord; m., Jan. 9, 1861, Myra Tilton Elliott of Canterbury; one son Henry Ames (see page 141). Resi- dence, 44 So. Main St., Concord, N. H .; summer home, "The Broads," Lake Winnepesaukee.
Keyes, Arthur Louis
Banker, insurance; b., Wilton, N. H., Dec. 2, 1862; s. George H. and Abby A. (Gutterson) Keyes; ed. public schools, Francestown Academy (grad- uate), Tufts College; Unitarian; Re- publican; member, Milford school board, six years, and has held various other minor town offices; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1897-9 and 1899-1900; N. H. constitutional convention, 1912 and 1918; trustee and treasurer, Granite Savings Bank of Milford, since organization in 1899; director and clerk, Milford Home for Aged Women; member, I. O. R. M .; has been engaged in fire insurance busi- ness in Milford since 1894, when he bought out the long established agency of the late Judge Robert M. Wallace; m., Dec. 12, 1894, Marion H. Robbe of Peterborough. Residence, Milford, N. H.
Jones, Elgin Alonzo
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