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Gile, John Martin
Surgeon; b. Pembroke, N. H., March 8, 1864; s. Brainerd and Mary A. (Kimball) Gile; ed. Pembroke Acad- emy, Dartmouth College, 1887, Dart-
mouth Medical School, 1891; com- menced practice at Tewksbury, Mass .; Professor of Practice of Medicine, 1896 -1910; Dean and Professor of Clinical Surgery, 1910 -. , Dartmouth Medi- cal School; Republican; president, N.
H. Republican state convention, 1910; member, N. H. executive council, Fourth District, 1911-12; member, American Medical Ass'n, N. H. and Mass. Medical Socs .; trustee, Dart- mouth College; trustee, Mary Hitch- cock Memorial Hospital; Mason; member, Graduates Club, Kappa Kappa Kappa, Hanover Country Club; director, Lake Tarleton Club; m., June 8, 1892, Vesta Fowler; children, John F., Archie B., Madelain, Dorothy. Residence, Hanover, N. H.
Woodbury, Gordon
Lawyer, farmer, journalist; b., New York City, Sept. 17, 1863; s. Freeman Perkins and Harriet A. (McGaw) Woodbury, his father being a descend- ant of John Woodbury (Beverly, Mass., 1624) and his mother a granddaughter
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of Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration of Independence; ed Phillips Exeter Academy, 1882, Har- vard College, 1886, Columbia Univer- sity Law School, 1888; located in Bedford, N. H., in 1889, upon the old
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McGaw homestead, his mother's birth- place, where he has continued his legal residence, engaging extensively in agri- culture; Presbyterian; Democrat; rep- resentative from Bedford in N. H. house of representatives, 1891, serving on committee on revision of the stat- utes; candidate for senator in District No. 19, 1892; member, N. H. delega- tion in Democratic national convention, 1896; delegate in N. H. constitutional convention, 1902; member, advisory council, N. H. Dept. of Agriculture; 1913-15; Democratic candidate for Con- gress, First N. H. District, 1916; editor and publisher, Manchester Daily and Weekly Union, 1896-1906; ed. History of Bedford, 1903; Mason; member, Derryfield Club, Manchester; m. April 18, 1894, Charlotte E., dau. Geo. E. Woodbury, Methuen, Mass .; chil- dren, Eliza Gordon (Bryn Mawr), Peter, George. Residence, Bedford, N. H., Manchester P. O.
Baynes, Ernest Harold
Naturalist, lecturer; b., Calcutta, India, May 1, 1868; s. John and Helen Augusta (Nowill) Baynes; ed. College of the City of New York; re- porter for N. Y. Times, 1891-2; assistant to his father in photographic . modeling, 1893-1900; has written and lectured extensively on natural history since 1900; contributed series of ar- ticles on "Wild Life in the Blue Moun- tain Forest" to Boston Transcript in 1904; member, American Bison Soc., Harvard Travelers Club, Tavern Club, Boston, Meriden, N. H., Bird Club, general manager; chairman, Sullivan Co. Boy Scout Commission. Resi- dence, Plainfield, N. H.
Haynes, Martin Alonzo
Printer and editor; b., Springfield, N. H., July 30, 1842; s. Elbridge Gerry and Caroline R. (Knowlton) Haynes; ed. public schools, Manchester, N. H .; learned the printer's trade, also served on reportorial staff of both the Union and Mirror in Manchester; served three years as a volunteer private in the Second N. H. regiment in the Civil War; established the Lake Vil-
lage Times, at Lake Village (Gilford), N. H., now Lakeport (Ward 6, Laco- nia), in 1868 and conducted the same for twenty years; Universalist; Repub- lican; member, N. H. house of repre- sentatives, from Gilford, 1872-3; clerk, N. H. supreme court for Belknap County, 1876-83; member, U. S. house of representatives (First N. H. Dis- trict) in 48th and 49th Congresses,
1883 to 1887; U. S. Internal Revenue agent many years, serving in different sections of the country, and for a time transferred from the Treasury to the War Department, and, under commis- sion of Elihu Root, Secretary of War, established the Internal Revenue in the Philippines; holds membership. with the Odd Fellows and G. A. R., department Commander for the latter, 1881-2; as president of the N. H. Veterans Ass'n' in 1882, made the an- nual reunions at Weirs a fixture; m., March 9, 1863, Cornelia T. Lane; children, Mary Addie (Mrs. Eugene S. Daniell), Cornelia A., adopted. Resi- dence, Lakeport, N. H.
HON. JOHN B. NASH
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Nash, John Barzillia
Lawyer; b., Windham, Me., May 17, 1848; s. Barzillia and Lovina (Hick) Nash; ed. common and private schools and Gorham, Me., Academy; studied law and located in practice in Conway, N. H .; admitted to the N. H. bar in 1878; Universalist; Democrat; delegate in N. H. constitutional convention, 1889; representative in N. H. house of representatives, 1891, 1893; solicitor for Carroll county, four years; Demo- cratic nominee for Congress 1894, 1896; president, N. H. Democratic state convention, 1896; delegate in Demo- cratic national convention at Kansas City in 1900, and elected to the Denver convention in 1908, but unable to attend; appointed U. S. naval officer of customs, port of Boston and Charles- town, by President Wilson in 1913, and still in that office; has spoken exten- sively on the stump for the Democratic party in many campaigns; m., Nov., 1871, Susan J. Libby; children, Nathan G., Jessie (Mrs. Clifford H. Craig). Residence, Conway, N. H., P. O. ad- dress, Intervale.
Porter, Eleanor Hodgman
Musician and author; b., Littleton, N. H., Dec. 19, 1868; dau. Francis F. and Llewella (Woolson) Hodgman; ed. public schools, N. E. Conservatory of Music, and by private teachers; m., May 3, 1892, John Lyman Porter of Corinth, Vt .; Congregationalist; en- gaged for several years as choir and concert singer, and music teacher; since 1901 devoted to authorship; has written several published volumes that have attracted wide attention, "Polly- anna" being the most notable, as well as a great number of short stories for magazines and newspapers. Resi- dence, Cambridge, Mass.
Tufts, James Arthur
Educator; b., Alstead, N. H., April 26, 1855; s. Timothy and Sophia P. (Kingsbury) Tufts; ed. Phillips Exeter Academy, 1874, Harvard College, A.B., 1878, A.M. Dartmouth, 1914; Pro- fessor of English, Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy, since 1878; Unitarian; Pro- gressive Republican; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1905, 1907 and chairman committee on education each year; trustee, N. H. College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Robin- son Seminary, Exeter, Exeter Public library, Kensington Social Library; member, Modern Language Ass'n of
America, American Dialect Soc., Amer- ican Philological Ass'n, N. E. Ass'n Colleges and Preparatory Schools; honorary member, Cliosophic Soc., Princeton Univ., associate member, N. H. Soc. Cincinnati; m., Dec. 21, 1878, Effie Locke; children, Effie Mir- iam (d.), Irving Elting, Theodora, Del- mont Locke, James Arthur, Jr., Helen. Residence, Exeter, N. H.
Minot, Fanny Elizabeth Pickering
(Mrs. James); b., Barnstead, N. H .; dau. Hazen and Martha Ann (Drew) Pickering; ed. Concord high school, 1865, Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass., 1867 (valedictorian of each class); m., Capt. James Minot, cashier
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Mechanicks National Bank, May 13, 1874 (d. Nov. 15, 1911); member, South Congregational church; national president, Woman's Relief Corps, 1904
-5; member, Concord board of educa- tion, since 1908 (secretary); Woman's Club of Concord (president, 1904-5); president, N. H. Female Cent Inst., 1901-8; president, Concord Female Charitable Soc., 1911-15; member, educational committee, General Fed- eration Women's Clubs, 1912-14; regent, Rumford Chapter, D. A R., 1905-8; president, Federation of Women's Missionary Societies, Con- cord; member, . Woman's Board of Missions (life), Avon (Shakespeare) Club, Friendly Club, Charity Organ- ization Soc., District Nursing Ass'n, Red Cross, Nat. League for Woman's Service, Wheaton Seminary Alumnae Ass'n, N. H. Historical Soc. Resi- dence, 23 S. State St., Concord, N. H.
Perley, George Edmund
Lawyer, loans, real estate; b., Lemp- ster, N. H., Aug. 19, 1853; s. Asbury
F. and Sarah J. (Dodge) Perley; ed. Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, 1873, Dartmouth College, 1878; teacher, 1878
to 1883-principal Charlestown, N. H., high school; studied law with Hon. Ira Colby of Claremont, N. H .; admitted to the N. H. bar in 1883, Mass. bar, 1883, Minn. bar in 1884, having removed to the latter state and located at Moor- head, Clay co., opposite Fargo, N. D., where he has continued in legal practice and also engaged extensively in the handling of loans and real estate, con- ducting the "George E. Perley Farm Loan and Land Agency;" Christian Scientist; Progressive Republican; alderman, city of Moorhead, four years; member, Minn. house of representa- tives, 1903, 1905, chairman, committee on education, the latter year; member, Moorhead board of education, fifteen years; trustee, Fargo College, Fargo,
N. D., twenty-five years; Royal Arca- num; m., May 9, 1884, M. Etta Jones; one daughter, Grace Perley Hess, Min- neapolis. Residence, Moorhead, Minn.
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Jackson, James Robert
Lawyer, writer; b., Barnet, Vt., Oct. 5, 1838; s. William and Prucia (Mor- rill) Jackson; removed with his par- ents to Littleton, N. H., in childhood; ed. Littleton public schools and in the law office of Hon. Harry Bingham; Episcopalian; Democrat; clerk, N. H. house of representatives, 1871; U. S. Consul to Sherbrooke, 1893-7; author, History of Littleton; m. July 16, 1879, Lydia Drew, Dover, N. H .; children, Robert (Dartmouth, 1900), Andrew (Dartmouth, 1903), Harry B., William M., Elizabeth, Katharine (d.), Rachel. Residence, Littleton, N. H.
Brackett, John Q. A.
Lawyer; b., Bradford, N. H., June 8, 1842; s. Ambrose S. and Nancy (Brown) Brackett; ed. public schools, Colby Academy, New London, 1861, Harvard College, 1865 (class orator), Harvard Law School, 1868; located in practice in Boston and there continued; Unitarian; Republican; member, Bos- ton common council, 1873-6 inclusive (president, 1886); member, Mass. house of representatives, 1877-81 and 1884-6 inclusive, chairman judiciary committee, 1884, speaker, 1885, 1886; lieutenant governor, 1887-9 inclusive; governor of Massachusetts, 1890; dele- gate-at-large, Republican national convention, 1892 (member committee on resolutions); presidential elector- at-large, 1896, and chairman, Massa- chusetts electors; again, in 1900, elec- tor-at-large; president, Middlesex (Republican) Club, 1893-1901; de- clined a public dinner tendered by Governor Walsh and the living ex- governors of the state on the occasion of his seventy-second birthday anni- versary in June, 1914, but was made a special guest of the Middlesex Club at its annual meeting, June 6, in honor of his birthday and the twenty-first anni- versary of his election as president of the club, as well as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the movement resulting in his nomination for governor. In May, 1917, elected delegate from the Eighth Congressional district to the Massachusetts constitutional conven-
tion, and on the evening of June 5, the night before the meeting of the con- vention, in recognition of his seventy- fifth birthday, his election as a delegate, and as the senior living ex-governor of the state, he was given a public dinner at Hotel Somerset in Boston, by the Boston Club, largely attended by prominent men of both parties through- out the state; long prominent as a public speaker, delivering many nota- ble addresses on important occasions,
aside from political speeches in many campaigns, among them being those at the Bradford centennial in 1887, the dedication of the Pilgrims monument at Plymouth, Mass., and the centen- nial anniversary of the birth of Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks in Waltham, Mass., Jan. 30, 1916; member, Joseph Warren Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Middle- sex Club, Boston Club, Arlington Boat Club; director, Exchange Trust Co., Boston; vice-president, Mass. Real Estate Exchange; m., June 20, 1878, Angeline M. Peck; children, John Gay- lord (Harvard, 1901, Law School, 1904) and Beatrice. Residence, Arlington, Mass.
MARILLA M. RICKER
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Ricker, Marilla Marks Young
Lawyer, author, humanitarian; b., New Durham, N. H., March 18, 1840; dau. Jonathan B. and Hannah D. (Stevens) Young; ed. public schools, Colby Academy, New London, N. H., 1861; m., 1863, John Ricker of Mad- bury, N. H., who died Oct. 6, 1868; went abroad in 1872, spending some years in study in Germany, thoroughly mastering the language of that coun- try; returning home took up the study of law in Washington, D. C., with Al- bert G. Riddle and Arthur B. Williams; admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1882, taking the examination with eighteen men, all of whom she outranked; practiced in Washington for many years, where she became known as "the prisoners' friend," from her custom of aiding poor and friend- less prisoners; associated with Col. Robert G. Ingersoll in the famous "Star Route" trials; appointed exami- ner in chancery by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, 1884, also U. S. commissioner, in which capacity she heard many cases; admitted to the N. H. bar in 1890, being the first woman admitted; admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States, 1891. Woman suffragist and pioneer worker and speaker for the cause; first woman in New Hampshire to demand the right to vote, and paying taxes under protest since refusal. Republi- can; offered herself as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination of the party in 1910; Free Thinker, writing much and strongly in championship of Free Thought doctrines; author of "The Four Gospels," 1911, "I Don't Know, Do You?" 1915, and "I Am Not Afraid, Are You?" 1917. An early abolitionist, pioneer suffragist, and ardent disciple of Paine and Inger- soll, she has traveled widely and spoken much and forcefully, as well as written, in advocacy of her principles. Resi- dence, Dover, N. H.
Felch, Albert Dustin
General business; b., Sunapee, N. H., March 23, 1863; s. John and Sarah
J. (Bartlett) Felch; ed. Sunapee pub- lic schools; Progressive; Republican ;: justice of the peace, notary public, health officer, trial justice, member, school board, six years, tax collector, 1892, member, N. H. house of repre- sentatives, 1911, chosen by the largest. majority ever given a candidate in the town with a single exception, and serv- ing as chairman of committee on roads, bridges and canals, and as a member
of the rate committee investigating B. & M. R. R. fares and freights; Pro- gressive candidate for state senator in Seventh district in 1912; secretary,. Sunapee Mutual Fire Ins. Co .; secre- tary and treasurer, Lake Sunapee Pro- tective Corporation; treasurer, town trust fund; local examiner, state au- tomobile department; treasurer, Trow Lumber Co., several years previous to 1916; Methodist; superintendent of Sunday school five years; treasurer, board of trustees, Sunapee M. E. church; m., May 2, 1888, Lilla Ingalls;
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children, Ruth A., serving in state auto- mobile department, as stenographer and notary public, Rose C., trained nurse. Residence, "Pleasant Place," Sunapee, N. H.
Hutchins, John Corbin
Druggist and jeweller, lumberman; b., Wolcott, Vt., Feb. 3, 1864; s. Lewis S. and Marcia M. (Aiken) Hutchins, and grandson of Parley Hutchins of Edinburgh, Scotland, who settled in this country immediately after the
Revolution; ed. public schools and Hardwick, Vt., academy, graduating in 1883; taught school and pursued post- graduate course; removed to North Stratford, N. H., in 1884, where he ·entered a drug and jewelry establish- ment, learned the business, and two years later purchased, and has since conducted the same, while for the last few years engaging extensively in lum- bering operations; attends Baptist church; Democrat; has held all town offices; member, N. H. house of rep- resentatives, 1899, state senate, 1913,
serving on education (chairman), banks, manufactures and revision of the laws committees, and recognized minority leader; delegate in National Democratic Conventions of 1908 and 1916; candidate for Democratic guber- natorial nomination in 1914 and de- feated by only two votes, and nomi- nated by a large majority in 1916; president, Farmers Guaranty Savings bank of Colebrook; director, Farmers and Traders National bank; trustee, Guaranty Trust Co., Berlin; director and vice-president, Coos Telephone Co .; affiliated with the Odd Fellows, Elks, Knights of Pythias (Grand Chancellor, New Hampshire, 1900), Masons, 32d degree and Knight Tem- plar; m., Oct. 24, 1889, Saidee H. Mayo; children, Ralph M., Paul A. Residence, North Stratford, N. H.
Dearborn, Josiah Greene
Teacher, lawyer; b., Weare, N. H., March 20, 1829; s. Josiah and Sarah (Greene) Dearborn; descendant in seventh generation from Godfrey Dearborn, one of the company from Exeter, England, who, under the leader- ship of Rev. John Wheelock, founded Exeter, N. H., in' 1639; ed. public schools, Francestown Academy, New Britain, Conn., Normal School; taught . several years in Manchester schools; submaster in Lyman Grammar School, Boston, 1865 to 1870, meanwhile enter- ing senior class at Dartmouth College and graduating in 1867; master in Boston Latin School, 1870 to 1874; Liberal; Democrat; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1854, 1855, and oldest surviving member present at the "Legislative Reunion" in Con- cord in 1915; register of probate for Hillsborough County, 1860-5; N. H. state treasurer, 1874-5; postmaster of Manchester, 1889-93; member, N. H. Bar Ass'n; member, Manchester board of education, 1885; auditor for Hills- borough County many years; trustee, Merrimack River Savings bank, twen- ty-five years; m., Oct. 16, 1851, Sabrina L. Hayden, who d. Aug. 14, 1880; children, Julia A. (Mrs. Luther C.
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Baldwin), Cora M., Josephine G. (Mrs. G. F. Russell). Residence, South Weare, N. H.
Sanborn, Jeremiah Wilson
Farmer, educator, publicist; b., Gil- manton, N. H., Feb. 4, 1847; s. George W. and Mary A. (Brown) Sanborn; ed., Pittsfield and Gilmanton acade- mies and private library; Congrega- tionalist; Republican; superintendent of schools, Gilmanton, 1868, 1869; member, N. H. board of agriculture, 1873-82; member, N. H. house of rep- resentatives, 1875 and 1876, serving as chairman of committee on Agricul- tural college; appointed superintend- ent of the State college farm at Han- over, 1876, and in that year began publication of monthly bulletins of re- search work which were continued dur- ing the six years of his connection there; these covered various fields, including plant and animal nutrition, and were the first regular publications of the kind in the country; in Sept., 1882, made dean of the agricultural depart- ment of the University of Missouri, and while there continued elaborate investi- gations of various problems, and car- ried on many important experiments; served as secretary of the Missouri board of agriculture, 1882-6, and gath- ered the material for the state's agri- cultural exhibit at the World's Fair in New Orleans; secretary of the Kansas City Fat Stock Show, and state statis- tician for Missouri for U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, 1884-7; in 1889 became president of and organized the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Utah, and was director of the expe- riment station; during five years here organized the faculty, its courses of study, its extensive research work, and Utah's agricultural exhibit at the Co- lumbian Exposition at Chicago; re- turned to New Hampshire in 1894 to become agricultural editor of the Mir- ror and Farmer, and to resume tem- porarily suspended work of organizing on a large scale extensive and intensive farming on his estate in Gilmanton, where he has redeemed and added to
the machine tillage area 170 acres, so that about 500 acres are included in one body out of the hill estate of 2,000 acres; served three years as trustee of the State College, and again in the legislature in 1909, being chairman of committee on national affairs; trustee of Gilmanton Academy; chairman, town school board; an officer of the N. E. Milk Producers' Union, and, since 1911, member of the advisory council of the State Department of
Agriculture; Patron of Husbandry and past master, Catamount Grange, Pitts- field; has lectured extensively before farmers' institutes and other organiza- tions, in New England, New York and the West, and written much for the press; author of the section on agricul- ture in Gateley's great work on the World's Progress. The New Hampshire and Utah state colleges have conferred on him the degree of B.S., M.S. and LL.D .; he is now elaborating his youth's dream of a fine hill estate around the site first deeded to his ancestor for colonial services; m., June 4, 1872,
HON. CLARENCE E. CARR
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Belle Grayham Osborne; children, Harry Wilson, b. July 14, 1875; Alice, b. Dec. 13, 1878; Carl J., b. Aug. 9, 1887. Residence, Gilmanton, N. H., Pittsfield P. O.
Carr, Clarence Edgar
Lawyer, manufacturer, publicist; b., Enfield, N. H., Jan. 31, 1853; s. John P. and Emily A. (Cochran) Carr; re- moved with his parents to Andover, when ten years of age, where he has since resided; ed. public schools, Ando- ver, New London and Kimball Union academies and Dartmouth College, 1875; studied law with the late Hon. John M. Shirley of Andover; ad- mitted to the bar in 1878 and prac- ticed several years in partnership with Mr. Shirley, but abandoned practice on account of health and in 1883, en- gaged in hame manufacturing business with father and elder brother, retiring therefrom in 1912; Democrat; mem- ber, N. H. house of representatives, 1878, 1879, serving on normal school and judiciary committees and chair- man of special railroad committee; sev- eral years member Democratic state committee; president, Democratic state convention, 1902; Democratic candidate for governor, 1908, 1910, making a vigorous campaign each year; Unitarian; president, N. H. Unitarian Conference, twelve years; director, American Unitarian Ass'n, 1906-12, a vice-president since 1912; trustee and treasurer, Proctor Academy, formerly N. H. Unitarian Educational Society; president, N. H. Defense League, 1916; chairman, executive committee, N. H. League to Provide for National De- fense and to Enforce International Peace, 1916 -; member, executive com- mittee, N. H. Committee on Public Safety, also of executive committee, N. H. Red Cross Ass'n; first president, United Life and Accident Insurance Co., Concord, now chairman board of directors and executive committee; a trustee of John H. Pearson fund, also of Franklin Savings Bank; member Kearsarge Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and Blackwater Grange, P. of H., Andover;
m., 1st., Ella, daughter of Rev. Thomp- son Barron, who d. in 1876 leaving one daughter, Ella, educated at Wellesley and Radcliffe colleges and in Germany, now living in Andover; 2d, Carrie E., daughter of Amos H. and Emeline M. Proctor-two sons, Proctor (Harvard, 1904), general sales agent, U. S. Hame Co., Buffalo, N. Y. (married, one daughter), and John P. (Harvard, 1911, Law, 1914), now a lawyer in Boston, Mass. Residence, Andover, N. H.
Hening, Crawford Dawes
Lawyer, supreme court reporter; b., Philadelphia, Pa., June 19, 1866; s. Edmund W. and Mary (Dawes) Hen- ing; ed. Episcopal Academy, Philadel- phia, Pa .; studied law in the office of Charles Biddle, Philadelphia; ad- mitted to the bar in 1894, and com- menced practice in Lancaster the same year; subsequently practiced for a time in Berlin, N. H .; later returned to Philadelphia, where he served as as- sistant city solicitor, 1911-14; again took up his residence in Lancaster, and engaged in the work of preparing a digest of the N. H. law reports; ap- pointed reporter for the N. H. supreme court, 1916; Episcopalian; m., in 1896, Mabel Thompson; children, Sally F., Edmund W., Alice C. Residence, Lan- caster, N. H.
Morrison, Henry Clinton
Educator; b., Oldtown, Me., Oct. 7, 1871; s. John H. and Mary Louise (Ham) Morrison; great-grandson of John Morrison of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, who settled at St. James, N. B., in 1803; ed. public schools and Dartmouth College, A.B. 1895, being valedictorian of his class; principal, high school, Milford, N. H., 1895-9; superintendent schools, Portsmouth, N. H., 1899-1905; state superintend- ent of public instruction since Oct. 25, 1905; a consistent and presistent ad- vocate of all measures calculated to promote the efficiency of the state's educational system, especially state su- pervision of the public schools, which has been extended under his adminis-
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tration till it covers nearly the entire state; member, N. H. Teachers' Ass'n (president, 1903); many years director, National Educational Ass'n; member,
American Institute of Instruction (pres- ident, 1908-9); Mason, Patron of Husbandry, member, N. H. Historical Soc., Concord Board of Trade, Wono- lancet Club, Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon fraternities and Casque and Gauntlet Soc. at Dartmouth; received degree of M. Sc. from the New Hamp- shire College in 1906; Episcopalian; Independent in politics; m., July 29, 1902, Marion Locke, Andover, Mass .; children, John A., Hugh S., Robert D. Residence, Concord, N. H.
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